Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — THE NEWS RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happen* lugs of a Week, as Reported by Telegraph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ANARCHY’S GRAVE. Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Linggi and Engel Laid to Rest at Waldheim Cemetery, Chicago. After lying in the vault at Waldheim Cem- | etery for five weeks, under the constant guard of those who knew them when living, sentient beings, says a Chicago special, the bodies of the five dead anarchists, August Spies, George Engel, Albert R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and Louis Lingg, were on Sunday consigned to the great Mother Earth. All of the most noted anarchists of the city were present on the train, and also a large number of equally prominent labor-leaders of unpronounced auarchist typo. The speakers of tho day were Captain William P. Black, Paul Grottkau, of Milwaukee; Albert Currlin, of St Louis; aud Joseph It Buchanan. The features of the dead all looked as if but little marred by the lapse of time since .life Bad departed from them, with the exception of Lingg’s, around whose eyes were broad purplish-red rings. Tho grave or vault was open at the top, its sides and floor being made of solid masonry. Its width is that of the length of a coffin, and its length just sufficient to contain the coffins packed close side by side. The five coffins having been lowered into this curious vault, an immense flag-stone was lowered down over it, covering the vault entirely, the stone being lowered down into its place with tho aid of a derrick. During all the ceremonies excollent order was preserved, and the only show of a want of reverence for tho occasion was tho use of the word “Bravo” by several of the auditors during the progress of Grottkau’s speech. STERLING P. ROUNDS DEAD. The Well-Known Printer and Newspaper Man Stricken Down at Omaha. Ah Omaha dispatch announces the death of & P. Rounds, President of the Omaha Republican Company. He was at first attacked with pneumonia, followed by pleurisy, but had so far recovered as to be considered out of danger, when he was seized with heart trouble, aa old affection, which was the direct cause of his death. Sterling Parker Rounds was a native of Vermont ana was born in June, 1828. He learned the printer’s trade in Buffalo, after which he went to Racine, Wis., where ho started a weekly paper. He was married in Racine Dec. 8, 1850, and has threo sons and two daughters living. One daughter is the wife of O. H. ltothakor, the journalist. After his marriage Mr. Rounds removed to Milwaukee and started the Neiua as a weekly paper. He afterward went to Cnicago aud opened a large job printing office on State street, in company with James J. Langdon, They were burned out by the tire, but opened an office soon after on Monroo street, where they continued business until their failure five years later. In 1882 Mr. Bounds was appointed public printer by President Garfield, and held the office until the incoming of the present administration. A year ago in Septembor.be bought the Omaha Iteimblican, and has lived there since. His father is ■till living at Eureka, Wis. He has a brother in Milwaukee and a sister at Aurora, 111. A WAITING GAME. Austria Decides to Make No Move Unless Russia Calls Out More Troops. A Viehxa dispatch says the military council la that city Sunday was presided over by Emperor Francis Joseph. The council resolved that the unexpended portion of the credit of 52,0( O,OOJ florins voted last spring shall bs applied *> the purchase of equipments and construction of huts for troops in Galicia. No increase of the forces in Galicia has yet been decided upon, and, if there is no further augmentation of Russian troops on tho frontier, Austria will adhero to the policy of observation. Higgins’ Successor. A Washington special says that Secretary Fairchild has decided to appoint Mr. Perry C. Bmith, at present Disbursing Clerk of the Postoffice Department, to the position of Appointment Clerk of the Treasury, to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of Mr. Biggins. Mr. Smith is a cousin of the Secretary. Secretary Vilas, in his annual report, ■peaks of him as a most efficient and economical officer.

Convention of Republican Clubs. The Convention of Republican Clubs at New York completed its labors on Saturday and adjourned. Mr. James P. Foster, President of the New York Republican Club, was elected President of the newly created National League. The resolution against the confirmation of Mr. Lamar was tabled. Telegraphic Brevities. Jacob F. Studebakeb, of the carriage manufacturing firm of Studebaker Brothers, died in Chicago of peritonitis. Aubertin, the man who attempted to assassinate M Ferry, has become violently insane and is now in a mad-house. The poet Whittier celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth at his home in Danvers, Mass., on the 17th inst Several thousand men have boen thrown out of employment by the closing of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Braddock, Pa. The last spike was driven m the construction of the California & Oregon railroad, which is completed to Ashland, Oregon. It had been building twenty-one years. Aa a result of the feud between the Adams «•! Caswell factions in Rock Castle County, Kentucky, seven men have been killed within a weak, many others wounded, and several hawses burned. • j