Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE NEWS RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happenings of a Week, as Reported by Telegraph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc. jTHE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ♦talk of an extra session. Carlisle WaiitH One So. the Democrats Can Pass a Tariff Reform Bill. A Washington special to the Chicago Herald (Dem.) says: Speaker Carlisle is expected here soon, and it is believed his coming will be followed by the arrival of a number of prominent Democrats, who will confer with the President regarding the necessity of calling an extra session of Congress. Mr. Carlisle, it is said, favors an extra session, and will urge the President to call Congress together in October. ‘•Mr. Carlisle," said a friend of the Kentucky statesman, “is anxious to have the Democratic party pass a reform tariff bill before the next campaign. He thinks that if Congress does not meet before December the Republicans and other opponents of tariff reform may be able to delay matters by obstruction and prevent any legislation. Mr. Carlisle also believes that the rapidly increasing surplus in the Treasury is exceedingly dangerous, and may throw this country into a financial panic any day. lam informed that the President has intimated that he would call an extra session if the leaders of the opposing factions in the Democratic ranks •would meet and agree to pass some kind of a tariff bill before adjournment. I look for a compromise of some kind between the Randall and Carlisle men." JUDGE LYNCH'S COURT. Peter Betters Hanged in Ohio—“ Dago Joe” Taken from Officers in Mississippi and Suspended from a Tree. A Xenia (Ohio) telegram says that Peter Betters, colored, 35 years of age, formerly employed in Stinson Bros.’ livery stable, in Jamestown, was hanged by a mob. He was arrested on Sunday by Marshal Ballard, and placed in jail During the day the people of the village became very much excited. Sunday .night a mob invaded the town, attacked the city prison, broke in a window, and with a crowbar ‘pried open the cell in which Betters was confined. He was marched up the street about {half a mile to the Fair Grounds, where he was ■hanged to a tree which had been broken off isome feet from the ground in a recent storm, the top resting on the ground and forming an admirable gallows. It is supposed that the colored people did the hanging. The crime for which the scoundrel was strangled was a brutal assault upon Mrs. Martha Thomas, an aged colored woman. A desperado known as “Dago Joe” was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob near Austin, Mississippi. DROWNED. Four Victims Near Kalamazoo, Mich. A Kalamazoo (Mich.) special says: Four persons have been drowned in this section since Saturday morning—Samuel Wells, a boy, in Fenno’s Lake, Allegan County, while fishing; Frank Lee, aged 12, while bathing near Decatur; Willie Kellog, aged 16, while bathing in Horsey’s Lake, near Lawton; and Frank Morris, aged 45, in Pine Lake, near Plainwell. Morris was out boating with William Hubbard and fell overboard into three feet of water. Three bottles that had contained whisky led to the supposition that the men were drunk and unable to help each other or themselves. FIVE MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS. Terrible Result of an Accidental Dynamite Explosion in Tennessee. At South Pittsburg, a mining hamlet four miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., a horrible accident occurred Monday afternoon. While a chamber in the mine was crowded with workmen a box of dynamite in some mysterious manner was exploded, and five men were blown to atoms, while ten or twelve others were terribly injured. The Iron Workers. There is little prospect of an agreement between the iron manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association on the wage question at their approaching conference. The latter •will demand an increase in the pay of all skilled workmen averaging 11 per cent, while the employers, it is said, will refuse any advance upon last year’s scale. In the event of their failure to agree, the iron and steel workers throughout the country will go on strike. Russia in Asia. Str James Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, stated in the English House of Commons that the Russian railway toward Afghanistan was completed to within 125 miles of the frontier. He added that the rumor that the railway was completed to Sarrakhs, seventy-five miles from the frontier, was not confirmed. Big Failures in the Coffee Trade. The speculative boom in coffee culminated in a panic on the New York Coffee Exchange, on Monday, which carried down B. G. Arnold & Co. and Mackay & Small, two of the leading houses in the trade. The liabilities of the former are estimated at over $1,000,000, and of Mackay & Small at from $150,000 to $300,000. Many other failures are expected to follow. Telegraphic Sparks. An unprecedented wheat crop is predicted in Manitoba and the Northwest Territory. Stephen Poole (colored) shot his wife fatally at their home in Brooklyn, and then committed suicide. An assignment was made at New Orleans by Albert Cammack, of the firm of Renshaw, Cantmack & Co. He owes $67,000, and has but $562 in assets. James Buffum, a co-worker with Garrison and Phillips in the anti-slavery movement half a century ago, died at his home in Lynn, Nass., at the agetef 80,