Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Lutheb Shaffeb, aged 22, was hanged at Lock Haven, Pa., for the murder Of Isaiah Colby and his wife last August Afteb an illness* of several months, Benjamin Harris Brewster, United States Attorney General during President Arthur’s administration, died in Philadelphia, aged 72 years. Jacob Shabp, notorious for his connection with New York street railway schemes, who was convicted of bribing Aidermen, is dead. A Wilkesbabbe (Pa.) dispatch says that “Mrs. Mary Sharp, of Wanemic, Pa., was engaged in the manufacture of whisky, when the pot containing the same toppled over into a hot fire. The fluid blazed up, setting fire to her clothing, and she was burned to death in a few moments. Three of her children who tried to save her were also burned, and will die. The husband and father, John Sharp, who was at work at the time, is reported to have become insane. ” The adoption of the Rhode Island suffrage amendment to the constitution is being vigorously discussed in all quarters, says a Providence dispatch. There can be found hardly three intelligent men who agree as to the meaning of its provisions, and it is certain to come before the Supreme Court for interpretation. The Democrats expect that 5,0C0 of the 6,000 naturalized citizens of the State will become qualified in December next for the election of 1889. The total number of aliens who will eventually come in under this law is upward of 36,000, there being 30,000 who will become naturalized as soon as possible. The corrected total vote on the amendment is: Approved, 20,167; rejected, 12,657. The Italian bank, the Banca Avellinese, at Na 72 Thompson street, New York, is broken and the manager, Aurelio de Yoanna, has decamped with <39,000. All the depositors are poor and ignorant Italians. The whereabouts of Yoanna are not known. Fbank L. Wilson, a clerk in the Boston and Providence freight office at Boston, has confessed to embezzlements of the company’s funds. His stealings may reach 510,000 Rev. Mb. Sutherland, the evangelist, better known to the theater-going public as Senator Bob Hart of the minstrel stage, which he quit to preach the gospel, was found dead in bed at New York. Ho had been on a spree. Ex-Senatob Roscoe Conkling is confined to his room in New York with an abscess in his right ear.