Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

An armed mob visited the Vicksburg (Miss.) jail, and after battering down the doors secured possession of Fred Villerosa, an Italian, charged with criminal assault The man was taken to a tree in front of the jail and hanged A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch states that Daniel Guthrie, a prominent citizen of Crockett County, Tenn., was murdered by Weakley Ridley and Tobe Williams,negroes, who were arrested and lodged in jail at Alamo. The crime excited the greatest indignation, and a few nights after their arrest a mob numbering several hundred persons appeared at the jail and demanded the prisoners. The jailer demurred, but was forced to give up the keys. ’ The mob entered the cell in which the negroes were confined, and, taking them outside, lynched them without ceremony. After the prisoners were pronounced dead the mob quietly dispersed. Charles St. Reuber, a prominent citizen of Erie, Pa., who had lately lost a large fortune, moved his family out of a costly mansion, and then hanged himself. ' Claiming that Alabama has defaulted in certain legal obligations, the Attorney General of New York decides that savings banks of the Empire State cannot invest in Alabama State bonds. “The great strike in the Southwest, contrary to general expectation, is not ended yet,” says a New York dispatch of the 3i)th ult. “Jay Gould read the papers yesterday morning and concluded that Mr. Powderly was laboring under a mistake in thinking that ho (Gould) had agreed to any scheme of arbitration. Gould accordingly addressed a note to Powderly to this effect. Thereupon the latter rescinded his order for the men to return to work. An appointment for a conference between the two men was made, but owing to the sickness of Mr. Powderly he was unable to appear.” Last year the deaths in the city of Chicago numbered 12,474, an increase of only three over the previous twelve months, despite the largely increased population. Chicago elevators contain 13,991,430 bushels of wheat, 3,435,704 bushels of corn, 500,482 bushels of oats, 230,505 bushels of rye, and 102,889 bushels of barley; total, 18,270,910 bushels of ail kinds of grain, against 18,272,010 bushels a year ago. It is stated that Dr. Luther C. Rose, of Palmyra, Ohio, has perfected a telephone transmitter which will render conversation between New York and Chicago an easy matter. A test of a circuit of 878 miles was made, resulting in the ticking of a watch being plainly hoard. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 49,774,300 and 16,797,073 bushels. Since last report wheat decreased 761,168 bushels, while corn increased 61,555 bushels. It is reported in London that the Queen has informed Mr. Gladstone that she will not sanction a dissolution of Parliament in tho event of tho defeat of the Premier’s Irish schemes. When the bill for the increase of the army came up in the Senate, on the 29th ult., Mr. Logan had the clerk read an indorsement of the measure by General Sheridan. Mr. Plumb argued that if the army were to be used to put down local troubles it was because public opinion had not done its perfect work. Mr. Logan aroused enthusiasm in tho galleries by defying the Powers of Europe. Mr. Teller' opposed the increase of the army. Violence in the States should be suppressed ’by the States, he said. In the House of Representatives, bills or resolutions were introduced direc ing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish artificial limbs to Confederate soldiers or sailors who lost legs or arms in the vr&r ; authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to take a conveyance of tho cottage at Mount McGregor, where Gen. Grunt died ; calling for information a 3 to tho money loaned by the Government to the Cotton Centennial at New Orleans, and whether any of tho sum has been repaid. Mr. Reagan objected to the introduction of a resolution for an investigation into the massacre of negroes at Carrollton, Miss. Mr. Belmont offered a joint resolution appropriating $147,748 to the Chinese Government for losses sustained by its subjects at Rock Springs, Wyoming. A new measure to aid in the establishment of common schools was referred to tho Committee on Labor. Four propositions were made for an investigation of the cause of tha labor troubles.