Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — ATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

ATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is considered certain that the men who robbed the express car on the Rock Island Railroad some time ago and murdered Kellogg Nichols, the messenger, will soon be in the custody of the authorities. The fugitives have been located in a small village not far from Joliet, and have been fully identified by Orrin Austin,* a farmer living in Kendall County, HL, a few miles from Morris, w-here they took breakfast on the Sunday after the crime was committed. Bloodstained clothing, supposed to have been worn by the Crouch murderers, was found buried on the farm of Jacob Hutchins, near Jackson, Mich. The identification of the garments may lead to new arrests. Judge Rogers, of Chicago, in charging the Grand Jury authorized to take charge of the cases of the murderous anarchists, told them that no public speaker had a right to advise murder or arson, and that one could be held responsible for the result of incendiary language. Said he: * * * I refer to these constitutional rights because some men who are s > inconsistent as to say that there should bo no law and no such rights as that, yet claim the protection of that right in its broadest sense—and, indeed, interpret to suit their own mind—that a man ma/get up in a public speech and advise murder, arson, the destruction of property, and the injury of people and their lives. That is a wild license that the Constitution of this country has never recognized, any more than it has been recognized in the worst despotisms of old monarchical Europe, and I hope and you hope never will recognize. A man must be held responsible for his acts, and he must as well be held responsible for his speech. Another of the wounded police officers has died at Chicago, making the sixth policeman murdered by the bomb on the 4th of May. The Canadian authorities have seized the American fishing-schooner Ella M. Doughty at Englishtown, Cape Breton, for purchasing bait within the three-mile limit Capt Jesse Lewis, owner of the schooner David J. Adams, which was seized a few days before the Doughty, being unable to fight his case in the Admiralty Court at Halifax, the American Fishing Union of Gloucester, Mass., has taken hold of the matter and will fight it to the bitter end. There was a perceptible falling off n the number of hands employed in the lumber district, at Chicago, on account of groundless rumors of interference. The Typographical Union of Washington ordered an increase of from 49 to 59 cents per 1,000 ems from the daily papers of Washington. The matter was laid before a board of arbitration, which decided that the demand was not warranted. The printers will abide by the decision. Most of the Chicago metal-workers have returned to work. Nearly all the foundries are running with a reduced force. The hat finishers at Reading, Pa., were locked out rather than grant their demands. The pottery establishments at Akron, 0., also closed, and the shoe factories at Stoneham, Mass., shut up rather than grant any advances to their men. At Louisville, Ky., Davis, Trabue & Co., wholesale cotton dealers; Trabue, Davis & Co., cotton factors, and Davis, Mallory & Co., wholesalers of dry goods and notions, made assignments. The three firms are connected, and owe in the neighborhood of $500,000, principally to Eastern houses. Senator Frye’s bill authorizing retaliation for the recent action of the Dominion of Canada in excluding United States vessels from certain privileges in Canadian ports passed the Senate on the 17th inst. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mrs. Thompson, Postmistress at Louisville, Ky., after debating over it for an hour. Senator Blackburn made a long speech against confirmation, but secured only five negative votes besides his own. The House passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, and by a vote of 203 to 8 the Senate bill providing for the study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, by the pupils in the public schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia, and in the Military and Naval Academies and Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States. Mr. Boutelle introduced in the House a bill appropriating s>o,ooo for the erection in Washington of a bronze monument to the late Edwin M. Stanton.