Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1887 — THE CONTINENT AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

The barge Theodore Perry went to the bottom of Lake Erie in a storm, drowning five persons. The Captain and mate alone escaped. Congbessman Pateick A. Collins, of Boston, arrived at Belfast, Ireland, a few days ago, from Glasgow, Scotland, and the customs authorities caused a thorough search of his baggage to be made by detectives. No dynamite or other contraband substance was found, and the Boston statesman was permitted to follow the bent of his humor without further annoyance. A special telegram from Sarnia, Ontario, says: McGarigle, the Chicago boodler, who lav in the Chicago jail under a sentence of three years and leaked through a bath-tub from Sheriff Matson last Saturday night, July 23, was landed at Point Edward last Sunday morning about 8 o’clock from the schooner Edward Blake, on which he was suspected of having left Chicago. The schooners Marsh and Blake were in the same tow, the Blake being last. The tug Oriole had been on the lookout here, and ran alongside the Blake, and had some conversation with the officers there. The Oriole, having Chicago detectives and reporters on hoard, steamed up to the Marsh, apparently to have the captain of the Marsh let the Blake’s tow-line go while they were in American waters just opposite the Port Huron water-works, where the detectives could take McGarigle. The Blake's line was let go, but at that instant a yawl was lowered from the Blake and McGarigle and a sailor made lor tne Canada side, McGarigle being landed at Point Edward. He is now in Sarnia;. A special dispatch from Chicago says: Mr. McGarigle probab y regards his Canadian retreut as a safe one, hut Sheriff Matson has not given up the chase. Within a few hours after the news reached him that his man was in Canada a Deputy rheriff was started in pursuit of the fug tive. Before the alternoon had puss d a movement was set on foot by a committee of citizens interested in the prosecution of the "hoodlers" to secure MoGarigle's extradition. Governor Oglesby will be asked for the necessary papers at once. The grounds on which the issue of such documents will be asked is that the Queen’s subjects entered into a -conspiracy to procure the escape of a convicted criminal. Several lawyers have been consulted on the question, and have expressed the opinion that sufficient grounds exist for the extradition of the exwarden.

An Ottawa (Canada) special to the Chicago Times says: A sensation has been caused here, on good authority evidently, that the actual murderer of D’Arcy Mm ee escaped the penalty of the law, while Whalen, an innocent man, was made the victim of circumstantial evidence which cost him his life on the gallows. It will be remembered that when James Whalen was executed here for the murder of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, crave doubts were entertained (i sto his being the actual murderer. The victim of the cord denied the accusation to the last, and died an ignominious death, protesting his ; innocence. It was learned subsequently that a. son of Mrs. Trotter, where McGee lived, and who ha i since died in the,States, declared before death that Whalen was not the murderer. Young Trotter was attbe time of the murder in the Commons of Canada, and they left the house about the same time. Trotter was on the f round shortly after the shot was fired. A lawyer aud rapidly rising politician now ci nfirms his story. He states that he was 11 years of age and at Ottawa College. He had skipped out for tho night to hear the expected debate in the House, and on his way nomo saw two men in front of Trotter’s house, aud oue of them was a well-known criminal lawyer of Quebec, and the other, Whalen, had a pistol in liis hand, but funked with it when McGee came to the door. His comrade took the p stjl aud fired the Bhot which ended McGee’s life, sLoved it back into Whalen's hand, got into a rig close by, and drove rapidly away. Some sturtline developments are expected in connection with the matter in a few days. dhe week y Signal-Service bulletin says that the weather during the week was unfavorable to the crops in many sections. From Alabama eastward cotton is suffering from the drought. Dry and hot weather in the corn belt has affected this crop unfavorably. In the Northwest th 9 weather has been favorable, and harvesting is in progress as far north as the forty-seventh parallel.