Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A. J. McQuade, the convicted New York “boodle” Aiderman, has been sentenced to seven years in the Penitentiary anl to pay a fine of $5,000. The last actin the drama, says a New York dispatch, seemed to have even more interest for the public tnan the scenes of the trial: Chambers street and the approaches to the brown-stone Court-house of tue General Sestions were with hundreds of i>eople. The large court was densely packed. Th? mot.on lor a new mal was denied by Recorder Smythe. McQuad. was oidered to stand up, ana did so with his thumbs in his pantaloons pockets. The Recorder said in substance: "Arthur J. McQuade, you have been fairly and justly convicted of bribery. You were, elected to perforin a public duty and public trust. Instead of doing so you violated that trust. Your character as a business man, citizen, father, and husband is good. I have sympathy for your wife and family. You should have considered them before you did wrong. You did not add to the crime of which you have been convicted, as Jaenne, by taking the stand and committing p rjury. I have reason to believe that you received as much money as Duffy did—SIJ.aIJ. That money is not yours; it is not the property of your family. If it is left wit.i them it will worx the inevitable result ot ill-gotten gain. I would advise you to give up and pay back to the city the money which you receive !, and I have no donot it would work to your benefit. The sentence of the Court is that you be confined in State’s prison at hard labor for a term of seven years, aud th it you pay a fine of SS,iDO. ” During the sentence McQuade stood up, his arms so ded across his bosom in the manner habitual to him. His chin was a little elevated, his head inclined a little to ope side, aud his brow knitted, the whole poSo and the expression of the face being that of one listening to a voice difficult to hear At its close he sat down, turned immediately, and, with a business-like air, entered into conversation with Gen. Tracy, as if he were discussing a bargain just consummated. After the sentence was given the audience dispersed, McQua le going out with his keepers aud the faithful brotner who had stood by his side throughout bis trial.

President Cleveland has made the following appointment-: W. A. Walker, of Wisconsin, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ; D. H. Risley, of California, to be United States Marshal of the Southern District of Calilornia. Postmasters—Cairo, 111., Alexander H. Irvin; Decatur, 111., Samuel S. Jack; Edwardsville. Hi., James B. Dale; Fulton, 111. William O. Groeno ; Atlanta, 111., Richard T. Gill; Barry, 111., William F. White; Winona, 111., Reginald F. Beecher; Paris, 111., Thomas E. Garner; West Plains, Mo., Lemuel G. Ellen; Wellington, Kan., Edith Love; Brazil, Ind., John D. Sour wine ; Hartford City, Ind., Charles U. Timmunds; Hastings, Mi ni., Michael McHugh; Sauk Center, Minn., Ur el M. Tobey; Willianson, Mich , William P. Ainslee ; White Pigeon, Mich., humuel R. Robinson; Lowell, Mich., John M Mathewson; Black River Fails, Wis,, George W. Lev.s ; Belfast, Me , Henry L. Kilgore; Annapolis, Md , Richard Welsh; Valdosta, Ga., Willis Lang ; Bardstown, Ky., Mary McAtee ; Calvert, Tex., B. F. Church; East Liverpool, Ohio, Robert O. Abraham; Lorain, Ohio, C. S. Vorwerk; Mandan, Dakota, Joseph Hager; Seattle, Washington Territory, M.Lyon; Paris, Texas, C. B Pegues.

Barbara Elizabeth Grund, aged 16, daughter of a well-known citizen of St Lou.s, died from hydrophob.a. She had been slightly bit en some tints ago by a puppy two months old, but nothing was thought of the occurrence.

The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, December 20, authorizing the acceptance of the tract of land at Highwood, 111., donated by the Chicago Commercial Club fur a military post. A bill was intr >ducad for the extirpation of contagious diseases among cattle. It creates a commissio i of tares, whose s irvice shall end when the disease is eradicated, and appropriates SI,OOO, jJJ for the work proposed. Mr. Vest introduced a substitute for the oil! to incorporate the Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway Compan v, and stated that it simply provided for a naked incorporation of the company without any guarantee by the Government. It was made the special order for the second Tuesday in January. Among the petitions presented and referred in the Senate were several in favor of the reduction of the tax on oleomargarine. The House of Representatives refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill increasing the duties on Sumatra tobacco. Bills were introduced to appropriate SIOO,OOO for the erection of a monument to negro soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the rebellion, to forbid the sale of liquors within the limits of any soldiers’ home, aud to punish the ] assing of Confederate money. The Weaver resolution call.ng on Secretary Manning for certain information concerning canceled Treasury notes was adopted. Mr. Townshend introduced a resolution in the House that the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to ascertain whether any National Banking Association in New Tork City has during the present month loaned its suiplus funds to stock-jobbers without security, and merely upon receipt of interest on the same for the purpose of enabling the speculators to lock up and prevent the use of money in business transactions, and thereby produce a scarcity of money and greatly increase the rate of interest on loons.