Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — LATER NEWS IETMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Louis Riel was hanged at Begina at 8:23 o’clock on the morning of the 17th, and died almost without a struggle. His executioner was one Jack Henderson, who was a prisoner of Riel in 1870. The body was temporarily buried at the foot of the scaffold, but will be removed in a few days to St Boniface Cemetery at Winnipeg, there to rest by the side of his father. The execution caused great excitement in the Province of Quebec. At Quebec and Montreal men were seen on the streets wearing crape on their hats and on their coat-sleeves, and incendiary hand-bills calling for meetings were distributed. Flags bearing signs of mourning were hung at halfmast, and special pictures and decorations in windows attracted large crowds. Students paraded the streets execrating Orangemen, but no breaches of the peace are reported. Iu Ontario the feeling appeared to obtain that Riel got his deserts. Eleven hangings are to take place in the Dominion of Canada within the next six weeks. * Dispatches from Belgrade state that the Servian troops have captured four Bulgarian redoubts. The Servians are marching on Sofia, but the Bulgarians are contesting every inch of ground. Turkey refuses to interfere in the quarrel. The London press severely criticises Servia for issuing the declaration of war. The Bussian press, in commenting on the Balkin question, abuse Austria equally with England. The steamer Doowoon, recently sent to Mandalay, the capital of Burmali, to bring away the European residents detained there by the Burmese Government, has escaped from there and reached the British lines. A ward in chancery, heiress to an estate worth £BO,OOO, eloped recently with the steward of her guardian. Her lover was a middle-aged man, with a wife and six children. The guilty pair wero captured in Ireland and taken back to the place in Scotland whence they fled. The man is locked up on a charge of abduction. Judge Durham, First Comptroller of the Currency, has decided that each United States Marshal is entitled to compensation amounting to $6,000 a year, provided tho fees of his office amount to that sum after paying his deputies and all other office expenses. Deputy Marshals, ho decides, are entitled to three-fourths of their earnings after deducting necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties. The issue of the standard silver dollars from the mints during the week ending Nov. 14 was 628,117; during tho corresponding period last year, 448,991. The shipment of fractional silver coin from Nov. 2 to Nov. 14 amounted to $317,446. At Pittsburg on Monday the National Rabbinical Convention of the Reformed Hebrew Church was called to order to consider the propriety of abolishing many of the traditional features of the Jewish religion, such, for example, as the belief of the orthodox Hebrews that they are all to go back to Jerusalem. A public school-house at Kittanning, Fa., valued at $30,000, was destroyed by flames arising from natural gas. A fire in the Springfield School at Pittsburg was extinguished with a loss of $5,000. Three hundred children were moved out uninjured. 001. H. W. Bogers, a United States Deputy Marshal, was shot and fatally wounded by some one on the street while standing near tho window in the court house at Harlan, Ky. His assassin is supposed to he a moonshiner. A negro named Noah Cherry, who murdered a white school girl in Princess Anne County, Va., was lynched by residents of the vicinity. Ten converts made by the Salvation Army were on Sunday baptized in the Merrimao River at Lowell, a crowd of five thousand throwing stones and howling like wild beasts. Engineers and firemen on the Rock Island Road report seeing apparitions and hearing groans at the tunnel near La Salle, where no less than forty persons have lost their lives.