Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1887 — THE HEWS RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE HEWS 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. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Secretary Lainar's Revocation of the Withdrawal* of LandH by Railway Companion —A Vast Empire Restored to the People for Settlement and Improvement. A Washington dispatch says “the railroad indemnity lands have been restored to the public domain The step foreshadowed by the letter of the President last April to the Secretary of the Interior in the Guilford Miller case has been taken. The Secretary overrules all the special pleas tiiade by the railroad companies and throws these lauds open to settlers, from whom they have been withheld without warrant of law—indeel, iu violation of law—for periods varying from eight to ten up to twenty-iive or thirty vc-ars. The General Land Oltiee estimates that there have been withdrawn as indemnity lands in the interest of railroads 52,502,i 00 acres, an area very nearly the siza of Minnesota, and that there are now held apart from the public domain under these w.thdrawals about 25,000,00 J acres, or rather more land than there is in the State of Indiana. 'ibis, be it remembered, is entirely aside from the miglity empire that lias been given outright to the railroad companies. The opinions of Secretary Lamar give elTect to the maxim of the Supreme Court that land grants shall be construed strictly as against the grantee, and that nothing passes by them except just what Congress expressly or by necessary implication gives to the corporations. They affirm that tiio Department of the Interior is quite as much bound to consider the welfare of the people as the welfare of the railroad companies. MURDERED BY A CHILD. A Colored Iloy of Eight Years Shoots and Kills a Little Gill in South Carolina. A Columbia (8. C.) special says: “A peculiar murder was committed in Lancaster County by an 8-ycar-old colored boy. He and bis sister aud another girl about 3 years of ago were eating watermelon. They bad a dispute, and, the boy being angry, while the giris had their backs turned, reached down an "old double-barreled gun, cocked it, and approached them in an angry manner, saying be was going to kill them both. H 3 aimed the gun at the girls, but he was hardly able to bold it up, and before ho couid shoot Lis sister caught him by the arm and begged him not to kill her. Tlio little devil finally agreed to put the gun up, but while doing so, either by accident or purposely, ho Uncharged the weapon, which was heavily loaded with buckshot The charge passed through his sister’s arm and took effect in the breast of the other girl, killing her instantly. This makes the third murder in South Carolina in the past few months committed bv children under ten years of age.”

THE NATIONAL GAME. A Hot Eight for the Ease-Ball Championship. Oveb twenty thousand people attended the two Chicago-Detroit base-hall games in Chicago on Saturday and Monday last, both of ■which were won by the present champions by the respective scores of 8-2 and 6-4. By winning these games Chicago tied Detroit for first place. Ihe clubs in the league race occupy the positions shown in the following table: „ PercentClubs. Won. Lost. age. Chicago. 50 32 600 Detroit. 50 32 609 NewYoN; 47 37 .559 Boston 45 37 .548 Philadelphia 43 39 535 Washington 32 45 415 Pittsburg 34 48 414 Indianapolis 25 58 .301 Following is the standing of the American Association Clubs: PercentClubs. Won. Lost. age. St. Louis ...68 24 739 Louisville 53 40 *569 Baltimore 50 4) .555 Cincinnati 53 44 546 Brooklyn 44 40 .486 Athletic 44 48 .478 Metropolitan 31 58 348 Cleveland 23 69 .450 Small Bank Notes for Circulation. The United States Treasurer, having accumulated a supply of $1 and $2 silver certificates sufficient to meet the current heavy demand, ha 3 arranged for the prompt delivery of these notes to banks, bankers, and others I making the required deposit. The issue of these notes has been suspended since the Ist of May last. Telegraphic Brevities. A Washington telegram to a New York paper asserts that the Government is preparing to begin civil suits against Ihe Pacific Bailway people to recover the amounts they are alleged to have defrauded the Treasury of. Their plunder is said to aggregate $75,003,000. George W. Julian, Surveyor General of New Mexico, in his annual report declares that not less than 4,000,000 acres of public land in that Territory have been fraudulently appropriated, and denounces the Maxwell land grant as a colossal steal. Pbofebsob Talbebt, the balloonist, made an ascepsion at Cullom, 111., and when about 1,000 feet high the balloon took fire. Tho aeronaut descended in safety, however. United States Senatob Biddlebeegeb, was sent to jail at Woodstock, Va., for contempt of court, but was released the same night by a mob of his friends.