Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1899 — Page 6

NO STANDING Filipino Junta at Hong-Konz Declared to Be Irresponsible. Tacoma, June 6.—According to a declaration cf The China Mail, pubbshed at Hong-Kong, news given out by the Philippine junta at Hong-Kong is not entitled to any more credence than iufqrmation from Spanish sources during the late war. The China Mail declares the junta to be an irresponsible body, with no legal standing and no recognition beyond the Filipino refugees in Hong-Kong. To be* more explicit, the Filipino junta is understood to be a collection of Filipino refugees, aided by one or two British subjects. Ihe China Mail says further: •‘Judging from the extraordinary reports it has been circulating in England and America, the junta inns individual and collective capacity has a vivid imagination, which enables it to distort facts, or, if necessary, to misrepresent happenings at Manila in a fashion that would rupture an ordinary conscience. There is only one junta among us, for which heaven be thanked.” An important diamond deposit belonging to natives in Ichou Shantung has fallen into the bands of the Germans, who have long schemed to get it. The latter got anxious to buy mines in order to obviate suspicion. The mines supply the whole of China with diamond points for use in manufacturing pottery and cutting glass. MODERN WOODMEN Assembling at Kansas City—Officers on the Ground. Kansas City, June s.—Delegates from all directions arrived yesterday by thousands to attend the coming gathering of the Modern Woodmen of America. Head Consul William A. Northcott of Illinois, accompanied by the executive officers, arrived yesterday and opened headquarters at the Coates House. Headquarters have also been opened by Major C. W. Hawes, head clerk of the order, who is a candidate for re election; by F. R. Croker of lowa, who wants tc be head banker, and by other aspirants i for office, The caucuses today will probably settle the question of offices. The first business session will begin tomorrow and the great parade, when it is expected 10,000 Woodmen will march, will take plr -e Thursday. Missouri Congressman Suffering From Nervous Prostration. Lebanon, .do., June 6. —Congressman Richard Bland’s condition is very serious, and grave fears are entertained for his recovery. All the members of his family are at the congiessman’s bedside. The patient is suffering from nervous prostration, the result of an attack of grip shortly after his return from Washington. His extreme physical weakness is at or esent the most alarming 1 feature of tne case, and his inability to

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sleep without the use of opiates is another element of danger. Steal Box Containing 5,000 Sovereigns Taken From the Alameda. San Francisco, June B.—There was great excitement on board the steamer Alameda upon her arrival from Australia yesterday when it was discovered that a box containing 5,01 K) sovereigns was missing. Five hundred dollars in gold had been sent by the steamer from Sydney. The money wrs shipped in 30 steel boxes, each containing $5,000 in British gold. One of these boxes was abstracted from the steamer’s treasure room during the voyage. The theft is apparently shrouded in the deepest mystery. Dollar Banquet. Louisville, June 3.—At the -$1 banquet at Fountain Ferry yesterday 769 bimetallists from all parts of the United States broke bread with William Jennings Bryan. It was given by the executive committee having charge of the convention of Ohio A alley League of Bimetallic clubs. The supply of tickets, which were open to all, were exhausted long before the hour set for the banquet. Fountain Ferry park, the largest pleasure resort in the city, was thronged with those anxious to obtain admission. Advertising For Supplies. Chicago, June 6.—Bids were advertised for yesterday for furnishing the war department with $1,500,000 worth of supplies consisting chiefly of clothing and other manufactured articles, part of the regular supplies furnished the army every year. The bids will be opened in Chicago. Philadelphia and Boston June 20 and the contracts will be awarded by the war department at Washington. Toledo Pastors' Union. Toledo, June 6.—The Toledo Pastors’ union, at the request of the aunsaloon league, yesterday passed a resolution, stating that they had not officially indorsed the municipal ownership of saloons. The resolution created much discussion, but the majority of the pastors decided to waive their personal beliefs in the matter in order not to embarrass the work of the antisaloon league. Fatal Railroad Crossing Accident. Newark, 0., June s.—Harry Jones, aged 20, and Andrew Haines, aged 26, were killed yesterday at the Panhandle crossing, one mile east. The train struck the buggy, dashing it to atoms. Mercer, the third occupant, escaped by jumping. Mercer claims the engineer failed to blow the whistle on approaching the crossing. Killed In a Railway Accident. The Hague, June a, — Miss Roth, daughter of Dr. S. Rcth, Swiss minister at the court of Berlin and chief of the Swiss delegation to the peace conference. was killed in a railway accident last Thursday at Flushing, on the south side of the island of Walcheren, at the mouth of the western Scheldt.

SENATOR ALLISON’S; VIEWS ON PROBABLE FINAN- j CIAL LEGISLATION. No Radical Action Anticipated—Favors the President’s Recommendations In Reference to the Greenbacks. Washington, June 6.—Senator Allison, of the senate finance committee, in an interview yesterday, said: "In my | judgment the next congress will pass a j financial measure. My judgment also is that the finance committee will take i up the financial question anew. The bid I agreed upon by the Republican committee of the house will no doubt be laid before us in the nature of suggestion, and we will consider it, as we will de ; other plans which represent commendable features. Perhaps in the future we will meet with the gentlemen of the house, but nothing definite in that direction has been arranged.” “Have you any idea along what fines | the currency legislation will be framed ’” | “I do not anticipate any very radical ; measures. We want to maintain our standard and at the same time give the country a safe and yet a flexible currency. It is said that we ought to declare for the gold standard, but wo are on the gold standard now. The recommendations of the president relative to the issue of national bank currency to the par value of bonds deposited with the United States treasurer, a decrease in the tax on national bank circulation, and the payment of gold for greenbacks when the latter are taken out of the treasury, are all worthy of enactment into law, and I should not be surprised to see them adopted. There may be some new suggestions, as, for instance, some legislation regarding our silver certificates whioh will remove them from the least degree of uncertainty. There are now about $380,000, 000 of silver notes in circulation, and while they are as good as gold and while there is not the slightest doubt ->f the ability of the country to sustain them, whether we legislate or not, there have been some suggestions that we ought to make their status certain.” BIMETALLISTS Committee Chosen to Assist National Democratic Committee.

Louisville, June 2.— When the afternoon session of the second day’s meeting of the Ohio Valley League of Bemetallic clubs convened at Macauley's theater yesterday almost every delegate was in his seat. There was also a marked increase in the attendance of visitors. The three gubernatorial aspirants, Hou. William Goebel, Hon. P. Wat Hardin and Hon. W. J. Stone, were on the afternoon programme for speeches. This fact lent considerable local interest to this session of the convention. Each candidate had his adherents in the audience ready to shout and show their appreciation of any word of wisdom. Following the outline of a plan which had been adopted at a meeting of the executive committee of the Ohio Valley league of bimetallic clubs the following resolution was introduced by General E. B. Finley of Ohio: Resolved That with a view of taking measures to thoroughly organize for the campaign of 1900. a committee De selected of which the president of this association shall be a member; That said committee be requested to cooperate with the national committee In perfecting a thorough organization of the Democratic party throughout all the states and territories of the United States, the president of this association to name the committee. Judge Tarvin, by virtue of the authority vested in him by this resolution, i accordingly handed in as his selection i for the committee, the following: John ' P. Altgeld. Illinois; George Fred Will- ; iams, Massachusetts: W. J. Overmeier, I Indiana; W. J. Semonin, Kentucky; Al- j len W. Clarke, Indiana, and James P. j Tarvin. Kentucky. The committee on resolutions made a ; report on a number of resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. Among I them were the following: ‘ We favor and recommend the adoption by the Democratic national conven- I tion in 190 G of the Chicago platform ol 1890 without change. •'We hereby express our continued confidence in William Jennings Bryan, and favor his nomination for the presinency of the United States in 1930.” CONFER AT MIDNIGHT At the White House Called by the President. Washington, June s.—Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn and Adjutant General Corbin had a conference with the president after midnight last night. They had been summoned by the president, it was understood. What the nature or result of the conference was can i only be conjectured, as the parties to it decline to discuss it. When Mr. Meiklejohn returned to his hotel he said the subject under consideration was not of a serious nature. Rye Whisky Combine a Failure. Cincinnati, June B.—The Enquirer says today: Prominent men of the Kentucky Distillers and Warehouse association of this city received definite information by letter yesterday that the attempt to make a combine of the rye distilleries of the east had been abandoned as a total failure. The promoters ! gave the matter up, sacrificing bonuses paid in cash to bind options. The reason assigned for this failure is the low prices of stocks of some of the existing i combines. Bob's Birthday. New York, June s.—Champion Bob Fitzsimmons was 37 years old yesterday. He celebrated the event quietly and after the ordinary manner in which he celebrates the Sabbath. On that day he usually rests.

MATRIMONIAL ENIGMAS. Queer Relationship* Re»nlting From Some Recent Indiana Marriages. There are more freak matrimonial complications in Indiana to the square mile than in any other section of th ■ country. Cupid, in his operations through Indiana, seems to have been afflicted with a most aggravated case of blind staggers. Justice W. W. Strader has just united in marriage Russell Debusk and Miss Ella Bevars, and William Bevars and Miss Alphia Debusk. Miss Dehusk is the daughter of Russell Debusk, and William Bevars is a brother of Debusk’s bride. A queer relationship is the result. Bevars’ own sister is naturally bis mother-in-law, and his father-in-law is also his brother-in-law. Debusk's daughter becomes his sister-in-law. Mrs. Debusk is the stepmother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Bevars. Mrs. Bevars. being her father's sister, is consequently an aunt unto herself, while Debusk, being his daughter's brother, must necessarily be bis own father. In case there is issue the child might be its own grandparent or the grandparent of its own father, while if this was carried out another generation it might easily be deduced that the child was never born. But this case is hardly as remarkable as one which has come to light at Dillsboro. David Gray married his granddaughter by a former marriage. It would appear that the Grays believe in odd marriages, for Gray’s father married his stepdaughter, whose mother was an aunt of the present wife. Now the question of relationship comes up. These two queer matrimonial ventures encircle themselves so often when the pencil is applied to the problem that by tracing it out it is very easy to figure all parties off the earth.

Over the line, in Ohio county, a man named Miller married a widow who bad a grown up daughter. His father fell in love with the stepdaughter. The father became the son s son-in-law and the stepdaughter became his mother. Recently the son s wife had a child. The child was Miller's father’s brother-in-law and Miller's own uncle, for be was a brother cf bis stepdaughter. Miller's father’s wife—bis stepdaughter—also had a son, who was, of course, Miller's brother.and incidentally Miller's grandchild, for he was the son of Miller’s daughter. Thus Miller s own wife was his mother's mother and Miller became his wife’s grandchild at the same time. And then, to top the whole thing off. as the husband of bis grandmother he was his own grandfather. — St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. A HINDOO SACRIFICE. A Grewsome Story of the Superstition That Prevails In India. India is a country where the gross superstitions prevailing among the natives frequently produce the m«st horrible and inconceivable tragedies. Many of these are done in secret, but now and then they come to light and give a startling reminder to the Englishmen in India that “east is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet.” In the up country town of Hingoli. in the Deccan, is a cotton ginning mill owned by natives. One of the proprietors, a Parsee named Nowrojee, looks after the engines and machinery of the mill. Lately the machinery has not been working well, and the engine in particular has given considerable trouble. The native engineers seem to have got it into their heads that the engine was really driven by a gcd which took the form of steam. When it went wrong, they thought the god was angry and needed propitiating by the sacrifice of a human being. One night a Hindoo laborer named Gcvindah was passing the mill. Some workmen, sitting in the yard smoking, called out to him to join them. The gang had just been discussing the vagaries of the engine and the necessity for offering a sacrifice to it. The whole party walked toward the boiler, and some of the men seized Govindah. Others swung open the furnace door and the unfortunate man was crammed inside bead first. They bad to loose tbeir hold of his body in order to shut the furnace door, whereupon Govindah, who was a very powerful man. managed to get out and free himself. He was frenzied with pain and fear and had sustained ghastly injuries. The engineers did not make a second attempt to thrust him in the furnace, and he crawled away to his lint. His faithful wife tended him all night and took biin in the morning to the local hospital where it was found that he was horribly bnrned about the head, arms and chest, parts being absolutely charred. He died of tetanus. Nowrojee and one of the engineers have been arrested. — Bombay Letter to Chicago Record.

Two Williams. The German emperor has consented to stand as godfather to the twin sons of a coachman at Giesdorf. He has also made their parents a handsome present of money and has given permission for the babies to be christened William I and William 11. These names will appear in tbe church register The twiae are the seventh and eighth sons of their parents.

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