Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1888 — THE WIDE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ATTACK ON A FIGHTING EDITOR. He Shoots Fatally a Man Who Objected to an Article. As James F. Rule, the city editor of the Journal (says a Knoxville, Tenn., special), was entering St James’ Episcopal Church on Sunday morning, accompanied by his wife, he was accosted by John West, William West, and a friend of theirs named Goodman. They attacked Rulo on account of a communication in the Journal reflecting upon Dr. T. A. West, father of John and William West Rulo refused to give the name of the author of the communication or to make any satisfactory answer to questions. John West struck Rule, and all the parties drew revolvers and opened fire. John West was shot through the body and - was carried home in a dying condition, while Rule received a bullet through the wrist and a slight scalp wound, besides seven cuts in the back from a knife in the hands of John West His injuries are not dangerous. Goodman received only slight injuries.

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Lawyer Goudy Thinks It Will Bo Held at Chicago About the sth of June. Mr Goudy has returned from Washington, says a Chicago telegram, bringing with him a large and sanguine hope that the Democratic National Convention will meet in Chicago. Mr, S. S. Gregory, chairman of the local committee on the national convention, says that the letters he has received from different members of tho national committee are very encouraging. He thinks tho chief obstacle in the way is the convenience of New York to members of Congress. Mr. Goudy says tbo national committee will probably call an early convention. The Democratic leaders want to get their ticket in the field and place their platform before the country before the Republican convention meets June 19. By a sort of unwritten law, a political custom, the dominant party for years past has held its convention first. The Democrats, propose to follow this custom. They will probably hold their convention a week or two before tho Republican convention. Mr. Goudy, who is a member of the committee, thinks June 5 will be the choice of that body.

INDIGNANT MANITOBANS. The Province on the Eve of the Greatest Agitation It Has Ever Had. A Winnipeg special says a perfect storm of indignation has been created among the independent members of the conservative party over the proposition for a compromise with the Dominion Government and the Canadian Pacific outlined in the conservative meeting at Brandon. This proposition condemns the selection of Norquay as the conservative leader, and declares that all agitation for the completion of the Bed River Valley Railroad should be abandoned if the Canadian Pacific makes certain concessions, among them that its monopoly shall be abandoned in 1891. It is the general belief that Manitoba is on the eve of an agitation far greater than any previous one. Fire Fosses. Fiee destroyed the Peoria Chamber of Commerce, entailing a loss of $200,000. The destruction by fire of a business block in Pittsburg caused a loss of $300,000, and Malone, N. Y., suffered a loss of $200,000 by a similar disaster. The printing establishment of H. W'. Bokker, State printer at Springfield, 111., was burned, and valuable documents and manuscripts destroyed; the loss is estimated at SIOI,OOO. The Chappell block at Eau Claire, Wis., was destroyed; loss, $60,000. The Chemical Paper Company’s mill at South Holyoke, Mass., burned; loss, $75,000. The Western Theological Seminary, Ridge avenue, Allegheny City, was damaged to the extent of $15,000, vhile many students lose their books and clothing. Tally-Sheet Forgers Convicted. The jury in the trial of the election-work-ers at Indianapolis returned a verdict, finding Simeon Coy and W. F. A. Bernharner guilty as charged, and declaring Stephen J. Mattier not guilty. Judge Claypool, one of the lawyers engaged in prosecuting the cases, was assaulted by John E. Sullivan, County Clerk, whom Claypool denounced in the trial as a villain.

Telegrams in Brief. German has bean excluded from the St Louis public schools. An explosion of natural gas at Indianapolis injured several persons The jury has declared the famous Cora Lee “not guilty,” and Springfield, Mo., is relieved. An order has been issued suspending the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Pennsylvania. Knoxville, Tenn., is wildly excited because a colored clergyman has been placed on the Board of Education. Gov. Wilson, of West Virginia, 'has been called upon by the authorities of Logan County to send troops to suppress the McCoyHatfield feud. An express train on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Road was derailed at Durand, Mich. One passenger was fatally and several badly injured. Three negroes were taken from jail at Plymouth, N. C., by a party of masked men and atari to death. The prisoners were charged vrib the murder of a peddler. A movement is on foot in Congress to supiM'As* lotteries of all kinds, and pass a bill prohibiting newspapers containing lottery from circulating through the .