Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The New Jersey census has been completed, and shows that the total population of the ' Stato is 1,276,825. The net increase since 1880 is 142,709. Three counties in the State show a decrease—Huntordon, 1,150; Morris, 447; Sussex, 1,138. llevisod census returns show the population of Altany, N. Y., to be 90,334 At Utica, N. Y., a large number of corsets, smuggled from Canada, have been confiscated by revenue officials. The smuggling operations have been carried on for some time in an ingenious manner through the agency of women. The Hon. D. J. Morrell, ex-Presi-dent of the American Iron and Steel Association, died at Johnstown, I’a. The sailor found suffering from yellow fever in Battery Park, -New Vork, has sinco. died. No luars are ontertained that the disease will become epidemic in New York. Courtney and Conley defeated Hosmer und Gaudaur in a double-scull race on the Hudson, between Troy und Albany. The distance was three miles with a turn, and the time 17:57hi. The winners havo been challenged by Hunlan and Lee to a three mile-race for $1,600 a side and the double-scull championship of the world. A freight train on the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Kailroad was wrecked noar Moadville, Pa. Seventeen cars were wrecked, Jack Berry, a brakeman, killed, and other train hands seriously injured. Franz Josef Petmekey, a Prussian, was banged at Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of Mrs. Pauline Froitzheim, June 1, 1883. Mrs. Grant will be joined at New Ycrlc in the autumn by her family, with the exception of Mrs. Sartoris, who will return to England to remain. Twenty-five thousand people witnessed the rowing match between Hanlan and Leo at ltockaway Beach, the former winning by a length and a half. The afTuir was regarded as something of a “hippodrome.” The second of the series between the j uchts Puritan and Priscilla was won by the latter.

WESTERN.

Forest fires are raging among the Montana mountains, In the vicinity of Helena. The wife of ex-Governor B. Gi atz Brown, of Missouri, d ed at Lako Minnetonka, of apoplexy, By the first count of the census the population of South Dakota is given at 261,560. The official count of North Dakota places the population at 15:1,199, making the total of the Territory 413,759. against 135,177 In 1880. Three members of one family at Spencerville, Ohio, were poisoned by drinking impure well-water. Two of them are dead, and the third is in a critical condition. The comedy season at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, has been brought to a close, and this week William Gill’s latest production, “Bluff,” ferms tlio, attraction. The company comprises such popular and talented artists as Charles Bowser, one of the be3t comedians in the country; Miss Jean Del mar, a charming little soubrette, an excellent singer, actress and dancer; Mr. Charles Hayward, said to be the best female impersonator in the world, and a number of other well-known artists. The play, in addition to possessing an interesting and coherent plot, is full to the brim of all the most pronounced musical successes the day. A Detroit baby escaped premature Burial by crying in its coffin, to the great alarm of the mourning relatives, 'and is now in better health than for some time past. Maxwell, the supposed murderer of Preller, was arraigned for trial in St. Louis, tout the case was postponed to Sept. 2, to await the return of the Judge of the Criminal Court. Indians of the Devil’s Lake Agency have raised 60,000 bushels of wheat. George Wilson, a life convict in the State Prison at Waupun, Wis., was pardoned toy Gov. Busk. He had been under sentence for ton years, and was pardoned because it had turned out that he was innocent of the crime for which he had been convicted. All the iron mills in the Mahoning Valley resumed operations at the Amalgamated Association scale. The strike of the coal-miners at Danville, 111., is ended, the men returning to work at the wages offered them six months ago. Actiqg Mayoy Walkup, of Emporia, Kan., having died under circumstances showing that he was poisoned, his bride of a month, whom ho mot in New Orleans under somewhat romantic circumstances, has been held on circumstantial evidence to answer to the charge of causing her husband’s death. Leonard Gardner had been arrested at Springfield, 111., for beating his wife. He was released on bail, procured two revolvers, and started on a hunt for the two policemen who had arrested him—Officers Wi.liana J. Camp and Fred Gall. Gardner waylaid the officers and shot Gall in the groin and Camp in the head, fatally wounding the latter, but before his death he shot Gardner four times, killing him instantly. A negro woman was ulso wounded by a stray shot. Camp leav.es a wife and five small children almost destitute. At Alexandria, Mo., the large grain warehouse of Million & Mason was burned,

involving a loss of $35,000 on grain. The total loss was about $39,000; insured for $27,030. The Current, a literary periodical established in Chicago in 1883 by Edgar L. Wakornan, bus suspended publication. Life-saving stations will be established at Sturgeon Bay Canal, Wis., and Pentwater, Frankfort, White .River, and South Haven, Mich.

SOUTHERN.

Special reports covering the entire South, from Virginia to Texas, show that the prospects for crops and the outiook for business in that -section are highly encouraging. The acreage of cotton, corn, and tobacco is the largest on record, and the yield of these and all other crops excepting wheat will be tbe heaviest ever known. Many new railroad and manufacturing enterprises are being projected, and the fall and winter trado promises to be better than for many years. A mob of masked men visited a number of disreputable houses in Dalton, Ga., late at night, beating the occupants and killing a man named Thomas Turner, who offered resistance. The affair is described as an effort to rid the town of bad characters of both colors and sexes. The Sheriff of Peeves County, Texas, died with his boots on and threa bullets in his body, after killing one man and wounding another who attempted to arrest him for drunkenness. A fire destroyed the most important buildings in Texarkana, on tbe Arkansas side, and two squares on tho Texas side, the loss aggregating $163,C00. Seven convicts escaped from the Penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark. The convicts secured, somehow, a number of guns and forced their way past the guards. During the week 199 business failures were reported in the United States and Canada, an increaso of six over the number for tho corresponding period of last year, 11Jacob Graup, owner of a mill near Morgantown, W. Va., was returning home from camp-meeting in a carriage, in which were also his wife and two grandchildren, when the horses ran away, dashing the vehicle to pieces, and all four of tho occupants were seriously injured. Secretary of State Bayard has applied to the President of Mexico for the extradition of Auldemorte, tho embezzling clerk of the New Orleans Sub-Treasury, now under arrest at Monterey.

WASHINGTON.

It is alleged that four distillers who it had been tfiscovei-ed were using the “thick-ened-staves” whisky barrels have compromised with the Government, the sum to be puid amounting to $80,0)0. The Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims will expiro by limitation Dec. 3b An enormous amount of business remains unsettled, and an effort will probably be made to induce Congress-to prolong the court’s existence. Chief Clerk John Tweedale, of the War Department, is acting as Secretary during the absence of Mr. Endicott on his vacation. The issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during tho week ending Aug. 15 was 360,461. The issue during the corresponding period of last year was 293,998. Commissioner Thoman gives it as his opinion that the messengers to be selected for tho immediate delivery of letters will bo appointed under the civil-servics law. The South American Commission appointed by President Arthur is preparing its final report, which will be submitted to Congress at the beginning of the next session. Since its creation the commission has traveled 3,200 miles and officially visited nine countries. The report will fill 2,000 or 3,000 closely printed pages.

POLITICAL.

Ex-Mayor Powderly, of Scranton, 'd)o well-known labor agitator, will be urged to accept the Democratic nomination for Stato Treasurer of Pennsylvania. The lowa Democratic State Convention, which met at Cedar Rapids on the 19 th of August, declared in favor of the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law and against the adulteration of intoxicants. A license fee, to range from $250 to SI,OOO, was recommended. President Cleveland’s administration and the Democratic policy m general were indorsed. Charles E. Whiting, of Monona County, was nominated for Governor; E. H. Gillette, of Les Moine3 (Greenbacker), for Lieutenant Governor; W. F. Brannon, of Muscatine County, for Justice of the Supreme Court; and F. W. Moore, of Davis County (Greenbacker), for Superintendent of Public Instruction. —Robert Lowry, the present Governor of Mississippi, was renominated by the Democratic Stato Convention, which met at Jackson. A banqpet was tendered Yice President Hendricks at Waukesha, Wis., which was nttendod by a number of conspicuous Democrats. Elias Doty, an lowa Greenbacker who repudiates the fusion of hi 3 pai ty with the Democrats, is out in a card announcing himself as a candidate for Governor. Ho “respectfully asks the support of all Greenbackers whose manhood and self-respect will not allow them to bo sold like a slave by their master devil.” The Ohio Democratic Convention at Columbus renominated Judge Hoadly for Governor, John G. Warwick, present incumbent, for Lieutenant Governor, Gibson Atherton for the Supreme Bench, Peterßrady for Treasurer, James Lawrence for Attorney General, and Henry Weible for member of the Board of Public Works. Gov. Hoadly made a speech defining his course in office. President Cleveland’s administration was strongly indorsed. Hoadly and Warwick were nominated by acclamation. Erastus J. Shepherd has been ar-

rested at Laredo. Tex., charged with complicity with Aufdemorte In the thefts irom the Sub-Treasury at New Orleans. Thirtyseven hundred dollars of the stolen money was found on his person. The official returns give Tate, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer of Kentucky, 67,597 majority. This is the tenth time be has been elected.

miscellaneous. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor on tbe 18tb instant ordered a strike of all members of the organization employed by the Gould railway lines west of the Mississippi River. The strike was of small dimensions, comparatively few members.of tbe Knights of Labor remaining in the service of that company. The Executive Board of the order resolved to employ counsel to defend Imprisoned members of the organization, prosecute the Wabash Company for conspiracy, and impeach Judges Treat, Bremer, and Kreke), of the Federal courts.— The drivers employed by the Memphis Street Railway Company struck against a reduction in wages, and cars were only moved under police protection and at irregular in torvals during the day. Several of the new drivers were assaulted and a number of strikers were arrested. —Employ ts of the Michigan nut and bolt works, at Detroit, went on a strike against a ten per cent, reduction in wages.—At Yonkers, New York, a number of striking weavers attacked four men working in the carpet-mill of Smith’s ions, when one of the latter drew his revolver, and a riot was only prevented by a pluclf y Catho ic priest, who, gun in hand, dispersed tho crowd and marched one of the men to the police station. The situation at the Marion coal mines in Alabama is threatening. Twenty-three of the Italian laborers have been arrested at the instance of the strikers for carrying concealed weapons, and serious trouble is feared. An employe of the Missouri Pacific shops at St. Louis, who was discharged for rbf using to handle a Wabash engine, was reinstated at the demand of the Knights of Labor, and paid fst lost time. Wages in the collieries along tho Monongahela River are lower than for years, and many miners regularly employed llnd it difficult to support their families. Five of tho striking coal-miners at Pana, 111., were arrested for intimidation. The striking miners at Massillon have offered to resumo work at 65 cents, the owners offering 60 cents. During the prevalence of a thunderstorm in St. Charles Parish, La., six negro farm-hands took refuge under a large tree. A bolt of lightning struck the tree, and five of the party were instantly killed and the sixth fatally Injured.—Lightning struck the residence of Samuel Chambers, of Titusville, Pa., instantly killing Mrs. Chambers and seriouqjy burning a one-year-old child. The husband was at work not three hundred feet distant, and knew nothing of the catastrophe until he went to his supper, flvo hours later, when he found his wife lifeless on the floor, and the creeping infant moaning piteously by thiS side of its mother.— Lightning struck the house of Farmer Gillingham, near Richland Center, Wi-’., instantly killing Mr. G.—At Canoe Camp, Tioga County, Fa., T. J. Jeliff, a station agent of tho Elmira and State Line Railroad at that place, was standing on the platform under the telegrapn wires, and a sudden storm coming up, he was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Since June 1 last $12,500,000 of gold coin has been transported from the San Francisco Sub-Treasury to the New York Sub-Treasury. Absolute secrecy has been enjoined for fear that the knowledge that many millions of dollars of hard cash were being moved in railroad cars across the continent would tempt the cupidity of desperate road-agents and train-wreckers. The Executive Committee of the Knights of Labor met at Washington, and after considering the Wabash strike, decided to go to New York to submit the grievances of thd strikers to Jay Gould. The apple crop in the New England and Middle States will fall below 75 per cent, of that of an average-bearing year. The yield in England will fall below the needs of that country.

FOREIGN.

Dr. Bichard, the German explorer, who had been reported as killed in Zanzibar, is alive and well. A St. Petersburg journal says that Russia has decided to yield her claim to Zulflcar Pass, and denies that she has made any agreement with Corea. A yacht was run down ,by a steamer and sunk off Abou, Scotland, several persons being drowned, including the owner, Mr. Crossman, and wife. A fearful massacre is reported from Berber. The population are said to be starving, and have seized the city treasure. The next outbreak, it is thougtit, will occur at Algeria. A letter written by O’Donovan Bossa to dynamiters at Havre and Antwerp, urging a speedy resumption of operations in England, is published by*a London journal. Dutch Mormons have just held a conference at Zwolle, at which it appeared that tho Dutch are losing faith in tho Lat-ter-Bay Saints’ teachings, and that the converts who go to Salt Lake are decreasing in number. A monster anti-German demonstration was held in Madrid last Sunday. The speeches were severely denunciatory of Prince Bismarck’s seizure of the Caroline Islands. An imposing “morality” demonstration took place last Saturday t*i Hyde Park, London. Many vehicles, draped in black, and filled with women dressed in deep mourning, were in the procession. One of the carts carried a largo fac-simlle of the Queen’s letter approving the work of tho Salvation Army in rescuing young girls from vice. Resolutions wore adopted pledging assistance in enforcing the criminal act.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Severe fronts have occurred ,in the extreme Northwest on the night of Aug. 24. At Minnedosa, Northwest Territory, the temperature fell to twenty-five degrees. The col l weather has hastened the exodus from the Northern laxe resorts. Adjuant General Drum received a dispatch from the officer commanding in New Mexico, saying the Southern Utes were starving, un 1 that unless food was immediately procure! for them they wou'd'go on the warpath. Frank P. Cass and A. P. Goodykountz, wealthy white citizens of the Cherokee Nation, were murdered while asleep in camp near the Sac and Fox agency, in Indian Territory. Plunder was the incentive to the crime. * Architect Bell of the Kansas City PostoJico building, is charged with illegally expending $18,600 of the public funds in placing a marble wainscoting in the Postoffice for which there was no warrant in the appropriation. • The Solicitor of the Treasury has given an opinion that disbursing officers in the payment of interest on United States coupon bonds must accept court records of administration, execution, etc., when verified according to tne law of the State, where the records are filed. There havo been filed at the Interior Department since March 4 9,000 applications for appointments—more than during eleven years preceding. The applications embrace one cranky petition for the position of Secretary and applications for every subordinate grade down to charwoman. The Scotch steam-dredge Beaufort, with a crew of twelve persons, was lost in a recent hurricane off the Bermudas. Officers and men are said to have been drunk. President Cardenas, of Nicaragua, denounces as a calumny the published charge that he has been subsidized by M. de Lesseps’ company to prevent the construction of the NLaraguan Canal, Recent heavy rains have done much damage to the New York hop crop. A naval lieutenant on the flag-ship Tennessee, at Bar Harbor, Maine, who spoke disparagingly of Gen. Grant In tho presence of a New York politician, was challenged by the latter to a duel. The lieutenant accepted the challenge, but tho Admiral refused to permit him to go ashore, and the duel is “off” for tho present. Boston papers publish an interview with Dr. Dewey, of that city, in which he says that Maxwell, or Brooks, the supposed murderer of Preller, when in Boston asked him to get him a human body, and that before he left the city he came to the Doctor and told him confidentially that he had gotten one. Dr. Dewey says that Maxwell seemed lo be possessed with the idea of getting hold of a “stiff,” but gave no hint why he wanted cne. The Doctor told him that it was impossible in that city. Maxwell then left town for a few weeks, and on his return surprised tho Doctor on tho street one day by saying that ho had gotten a body and Wished him to come to his room and inspect it. Dr. Dewey says that he did not accept the invitation, but in view of the developments in St. Louis he now wishes that he had done so. The invitation to see the body was given only two or three days prior to Maxwell’s departure for the West. Details of a remarkable religious movement in Central Africa has been reported to the State Department by tho Uuited States Consul at Sierra Loono. An army composed of over 100,000 Mohammedan youth, and divided ihto three divisions, is operating throughout an extensive territory under the command of a native named Samudu, who claims that he has been called of God to suppress paganism and open the roads to the coast. The achievements of this army have been highly important, and while It is spreading the Mohammedan faith in Africa it is also opening up to commerce a large and populous territory.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.50 @ 6.75 Hogs 4.75 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 1 White 94 @ .96 , No. 2 Red , 92 @ .94 Corn—No. 2 63 @ .54 Oats—White ..- 37 @ .42 Pork—Mess 10.25 @10.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.75 @ 6.25 Good Shipping 6.00 @ 6.60 Common. 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs.... 4.50 @5.00 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 6.00 @ 5.25 Prime to Choice Spring. 3.75 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 81 <g». .82 Corn—No. 2.... *45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 RYE—No. 2 56 @ .57 Barley—No. 3 49 & .51 Butter—Choice Creamery 18 @ .20 ’ Fine Dairy 13 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream, new. 09 @ .09)6 Light Skimmed 03 @ .04 Eggs—Fresh 10 @ .11 Potatoes—New, per brl • 1.00 @1.15 Pork—Mess 8.50 @9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 81 @ .82 Corn—No. 2 45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .27 Rye—No. 1 56 & .56 Yi Pork—Mess...., 8.25 @8.75 k TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red .' 88 @ .60V 3 Corn—No. 2 46 • @ .48 Oats—No. 2 26 & .28 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 @ .93 Corn—Mixed 42 @ .43 Oats—Mixed 23 @ .23)6 Pork—Mess ■ 9.00 @9.50 CINCINNATI. W’heat—No. 2 Red, New 92 @ .93 Corn—No. 2 45 m .46)6 Oats—Mixed 25 @ .26 Rye—No. 2 Fall 56 @ .58 Pork—Mess 9.00 @ 9.50 DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 86 @ ' .86)6 Corn—No. 2 46 @ .47 Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ .38 Pork—Mess.... 10.25 @10.50 Beef Cattle 4.25 @ 4.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 @ .89 Corn- Mixed 40 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 23 @ .25 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.50 @ 6.50 Fair 6.00 @5.50 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 -Hogs 4.50 @5.00 Sheep 4.00 @ 4.75 BUFFALO. Cattle 4.50 @ 6.00 Hogs \ 4.25 @ 6.00 SiiEJß*..; 6.00 @ 6.75

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Will Clar’.c stabbed and killed Jacob B. Yaris at Yiucennes in a quarrel about a woman. George Johnson, colored, 111 years old, resides in Posey County Poor House, and Doily Fagan, also colored, r.gnl 107, lives four miles west.of Evansville. —At Blooming on, James Small, an old and influential citizen, was found dead, sitting against a tree in the University grouuds. Death is supposed to have been caused by heart disease. —The Indianapolis Journal, in answer to a coirespondent, says: “There is no salary attached to the office of Sheriff o' Marion County, his , recompense com ; ng in fees. These will amount to an annual income of not less than $25,C0 J. ” —Mrs. Louisa Zeigman 105 years of age, stopped in North Vernon recently for a few hours, on her way to visit her daughter in Vevay. She remembers well whom there was nothing but a small fort at Louisville and Cincinnati, and she says that her uncle, James Grimes, dug the first well in Cincinnati. She is the mother of ten children, all 1 ving, and has 110 grandchildren. —Charles George, of Lafayette, has commenced suit in the Circuit Court of Tippecanoe County for the sum of SIO,OOO against the Big Four Railroad Company. In July last plaintiff boarded a train of the company’s road for the purpose of stealing a ride. He was' ordered off, but refused to go, when an employe drew a revolver and shot him in the (high. The ball has never been extracted, and he is rendered a cripple for life. —A family named Lambert, consisting of man, wife, and a daughter about 13 years old, moved to Laurel about a month since, and by their outrageous conduct so enraged the citizens that about forty of the latter quietly organized, and, proceeding to the house Lambert lived in, 'quickly rendered it uninhabitable, and gave this family, as well as another of like reputation, twenty-four hours to leave town.— Indianapolis Keics. Gov. Gray is said to have indicated to the officers of the State militia daring the La Porte encampment that he would recommend tbe next General Assembly to make an appropriation for the mi ilia service, and he will also recommend that the companies be, as far as possible, more equally distributed over the State. He favors a consolidation of companies, and a. large allowance for the older and more.efficient organizations. —The financial statement of tbe Jeffersonville Penitentiary for July shows tho earnings of the institution for the month were $701,505; disbursements, $832,275. The Warden says that the prison is not self-sustaining because Jeffersonville and vicinity afford a poor market for the prison labor. He favors a removal to some other locality on that account. The prison now contains SGB inmates, only 85 per cent, of whom are profitably employed. The health of the inmates is good. The good-time law continues to work excellent results, and it has largely reduced the necessity for physical punishment. The use of the “cat” has been entirely abolished. Punishment is now by confinement and by the deprivation of privileges. A special from Lafayette says: “Through the instrumentality of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union a most infamous crime has just been unearthed in this community, that for fiendishness and brutality is almost without a parallel. A Constablehas been detected in serving bogus warrants on females, charging them with the commission of some petty offense, arresting them, and theD, on pretense of taking them before a magistrate, has conveyed them to his own private room, where they havo been compelled to submit to the basest indignities. The arrests are alwaysmade after dark, aud the victims have sometimes been detained for twenty-four hours in this vile den to which other men than the proprietor have access. Tlie fellow was confronted yesterday and charged with the crime, when he owned up and gloried in his villainy. The Indies of the W. C. T. U. are after the offender, and wilt, see meted out to him the fullest extent of the law." , —A convict while at work in the Indiana State Prison was injured through a defect iu one of his tools. He sued the State, and the Attorney General gave an opinion which is of general interest. He maintains that the State is not liable to an action in its courts for the recovery of damages. It may sue; but cannot be sued. He discusses the question at issue at some length, and makes numerous citations. The fact that the State cannot bo sued and coerced by action in its courts doe 3 not necessarily settle that a party has no claim against the State. It is proper to suppose the State will satisfy, by proper legislative action, any just claim agiiust it. The doctrine of respondent superio does not apply to the State, aud, if it did, a convict does not come within the rule of respondent superio,- because he is not a voluntary servant for hire and reward, nor is the State his master in any ordinary sense. The Attorney General also maintains the following propositions: Laches are never imputable to government. “The State is not affected by the misfeasance, willfulness, laches of or unauthorized exercise of power by its Officers ”