Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The case of The United States vs. The Bell Telephone Company was begun Sept 20 at Cincinnati, Circuit Judge Jackson and District Judges Sage and Walker occupying the bench. Argument was begun against the jurisdiction of the court Ex-Senator Thurman and ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald are opposing counsel in the case. Mr. Thurman was serenaded at Columbus, and in a speech said: “I shall never again hold office—never be able to reward friends or punish foes.” The Greenback Labor party of the Eleventh Illinois District indorsed the nomination of W. H. Neece, Democrat. The official returns of the Maine election for Governor, embracing all except a few small towns, are as follows: Bodwell, Republican, 68,837; Edwards, Democrat, 55,985; Clark, Prohibition, 3,872; scattering, 20. Bod well over Edwards, 12,850. Bowman Paxton, a druggist, was lynched near Maiden, Mo. He was being brought to Malden from Kennett, Mo., to be tried for the murder of a blacksmith, J. McGuilvery, and when within five miles of Malden a mob of seventy-five masked men met the sheriff’s posse and demanded the prisoner. He was given up, and they hanged him to a tree. Martin Irons, the leader of the late strike on the Missouri Pacific Road, will be tried at St. Louis on charge of complicity in tapping the telegraph wires runnmg to the residence of Vice President Hoxie. Over 3,000 cattle have been quarantined in the vicinity of Chicago on account of the existence of pleuro-pneumonia. A dozen or more head have been slaughtered. Editor C. S. Hayes, of the Traver (Cal.) Tidings, was shot dead by some person unknown as he was chatting with his betrothed in a residence at Lemoore, Cal. A man who was known to be jealous of Hayes has been arrested. A boat capsized at Cazenovia, N. Y., and three men perished. Philadelphia’s City Council has decided to impeach Mayor Smith on the charge of malfeasance in office.

Plans are ordered prepared for two sea-going, double-bottomed, 6,000 ton armored cruisers, authorized by the act of Aug. 3. The visible supply of grain in the United States and Canada last week increased 2,670,383 bushels of wheat, 142,3-12 bushels of corn, 31,308 bushels of rye, and 192,688 bushels of barley, but there was a decrease of 2,739 bushels of oats. Natchez, Miss., has voted to subscribe $323,000 to the capital stock of the New Orleans and Northwestern Road, which means the construction of the New Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott Line, and the early construction of the transcontinental bridge. Three hundred Spanish soldiers revolted in Madrid and created a great panic. In an encounter between the insurgents and the loyal troops several officers were killed and wounded. As a consequence of the outbreak martial law has boen proclaimed. A Belfast (Ireland) dispatch reports that on Monday last “a large body of Orange workmen from Queen’s Island ostentatiously marched through the streets as if to provoke a fight. At Carrick Hill they were attacked with volleys of stones and a desperate fight ensued, during which many on both sides were wounded. Desultory conflicts between mobs and police were kept up during the evening. Ono detachment of police being hard pressed, were obliged to flee, and were pursued by a howling mob armed with stones, but were rescued by a strong body of soldiers. Several houses near Listowel, Kerry County, were raided by moonlighters in search of arms. The moonlighters are described as well-dressed, polite gentlemen, the majority carrying watches and the newest kind of firearms. In broad daylight twenty armed men went out from Klanturk and raided several farm-houses in search of arms. They were successful in several instances. Two of them were arrested. ”