Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

The attorney for Miss Hill, of San Francisco, has sued ex-Senator Sharon for $120,000, for alleged slanders For three days a severe snow-storm raged at Tellweide, Celo., and the mountain passes are now covered to a depth of four feet. The steamer Rio Janeiro took from San Francisco about 1,000 Chinamen, who carried $750,000 out of the country. The members of the bar of Salt Lake held a meeting to protest against the appointment of Sumner Howard, of Flint, Mich., as Chief Justice of the Territory, and passed resolutions to be transmitted to President Arthur. Patrick Egan, the Irish agitator and the late Treasurer of the Irish Land league, has filed in the District court at Lincoln, Neb., his intention of becoming an American citizen. He will locate and engage in buying grain in Lincoln. The national horse show was held in New York, last week, with 400 fine animals on exhibition. Gen. Grant entered his Arabian ponies, and J. R. Keene exhibited two thoroughbreds. The baggage and passenger coach of a Delaware and Hudson train fell through a trestle near Fort Edward, N. Y., killing three persons and wounding twenty, one fatally. A heavy gafle on Lake Ontario caused the loss of a barge named the John Marsh, off Charlotte, N. Y., with a.crew of five or six men. Reports were telegraphed te London and New York from Quebec that alleged dynamiters in Canada were ready to attack Lansdowne, the new Governor General, upon his arrival. Leading Irishmen of Quebec ridiculed the idea of any hostility. The death-roll of the day includes the names of Hon. Elisha Foote, of St. Louis, Commissioner of Patents under President Jonnson; tho wife of John Russell Young* Minister to China; Dr. David A. Wallace, for twenty-five years President of Monmouth college, and Mrs. Gen. Anson Stager, of Chicago. As the result of a difficulty growing out of a game of ball the previous day, there was a bloody fight after church, Sunday, between a number of farmers- near Mcßean church, Burke county, Ga., in which Thomas B. Syms was shot five times and killed, and his two sons mortally wounded. A large mass meeting of colored people was held at Indianapolis to consider tho civil-rights decision. Addresses were made by Senator Ben Harrison and other prominent Republicans. There was a great deal of feeling manifested, and, as a rule, tho resolutions were adopted unanimously, one of which declares that “we recognize in the decision a narrow and partisan view, entirely at variance with the great principles enunciated by Lincoln, Sumner, Morton and other Republican leaders, and of the 350,000 brave men who purchased it with their blood.” A massmeeting of colored men at Washington was addressed by Col. Ingersoll and Fred Douglass. Col. Ingersoll praised Justice Harlan, and placed the recent opinion of the Supreme court on a par with the Dred Scott and other ante-war decisions. At a similar meeting in Cincinnati resolutions acquiescing in the decision, and thanking Justice Harlan for his fidelity to the race and for his own convictions, were passed. The negroes of San Francisco, in public meeting assembled, passed resolutions condemning The decision. The following is the total vote of Ohio, for Governor, at the recent election, as tabulated by the Secretary of State: Foraker 347,004 Hoadly 350.593 Schumacher , 8,301 Jenkins..'. 2,785 Total vote 721.454 Hoadly’s majority 1,383 Majority for judicial amendment 33,413 The second amendment fell short of a majority 39,543. The regulation amendment received 98.050 votes.