Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — Page 2

®lje JletnocrottcSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - PUBUBHKB

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. - - ■■ EASTERN, Vice Chancellor George W. Clinton, son of Dewitt Clinton, died suddenly in a cemetery near Albany. ’ He was 78 years old, and a man of marked literary and scientific attainments. The National Retail Druggists’Association convened in annual session at Pittsburgh. with a small attendance. The President reported slow progress the past year, many of the members failing to pay their dues. The Hon. Edward A. Rollins, President of the Centennial Bank of Philadelphia, and formerly Commissioner of Internal Revenue, died at Hanover, N. H. Increased activity is reported in the Iron and steel trade at Pittsburgh. Orders are coming in freely, and prices generally are advancing. Sebastian Boughner, who fought at Lundy’s Lane and at the capture of Fort Erie, died at Sunbury, Pa., aged 90. A rock which had fallen upon the track overturned the locomotive, baggage, and smoking cars of the Montreal Express near Whitehall, N. ¥., the engineer being killed instantly, and five others severely injured. Christian Cooper of the Town of Livingston, Columbia County, New York, died last week aged 111 years, 10 months and 15 days. Mr. Anthony M. Keiley was for the thirteenth time elected and installed as President of the Catholic Union at New York. The next convention of the association will be held at Lancaster, Pa. The inventory and'schedules of Martin & Co., who failed recently at Buffalo, N. V., show that the assets are worth about $9,000, while the liabilities are over $260,000' The city of Concord,Mass..celebrated its 250th anniversary. Speeches were made by James Russell Lowell, W. M. Evarts, and George William Curtis. Twenty-five national banks in New York have begun suits against the city to resist taxation, on the ground that their stock is not legally Hable for taxes. Three members of the “Dry-Goods Clerks’ Equality Association," of New York, have been arrested for causing a dynamite explosion in the store of Garry Brothers, in that city, on Feb. I last.

WESTERN.

President Adams, of the Union Pacific Railroad, gays the Coating debt of the company lias been provided for, but declines to publish the terms of the agreement. It is rumored at New York that the company has sold a certain amount of bonds for cash, and placed another block of its securities as collateral for a loan. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroad will be completed Oct. 1 through from Kansas City to San Diego and San Francisco. Mrs. Dr. Marshall, Mrs. Paul, and a lady friend were drowned at Brown’s Valley, Minnesota, by a boat capsizing in Lake Traverse during a storm. One body was recovered. The individual losses from the recent cyclone at Washington Court House, Ohio, will exceed (250,003. About one hundred families are reported by the local relief committee to be in need of assistance. Samuel B. French, a private banker of Milwaukee, failed for 870,000; and J. C. Wessonbern, dry goods dealer of Appleton, Wis., was closed by the Sherltf, with liabilities of $20,000. The cases of treason against Capt. Couch and other Oklahoma boomers on trial before tho United States Court at Wichita, Kas., have been dismissed by Government counsel. Manager McVicker, of Chicago, has seoured some excellent attractions lor his fine theater during the Exposition season. Following Mr. Denman Thompson, who now hoi Js the boards with his delightful characterization of Uncle Joshua Whitcomb, the honest old New England iarmer, wiR appear in succession Lotta, Joseph Jellerson, C. W. Couldock, and a number of other brilliant stars. Muskegon, Mich., special: “Clarence and Herbert Morrison, of this city,went to South Haven in a small sa.lboat, and left that place forborne just before tho recent big storm set in. They were accompanied by two other young men. Nothing has been heard from them since. They were undoubtedly caught in the storm on Lake Michigan and lost.” Sedgwick, the banner corn county of Kansas, is expected to produce 9,030,CL0 bushels of that cereal this year. John L. Sullivan, who pitched in a game of base-ball at Clevelan J, last Sabbath, was subsequently arrested for violating the Sunday law. John D. Rockefeller, of the Stand rd Gil Company, procured the warrant. Near Seattle, Wash. Ter., a large building occupied by fifty Chinese laborers was at asked by a mob of masked men. The Chinese fled into the woods. C. H. Chamberlain has commenced a suit in St. Louis for $103,000 damages against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Hailroad on account of injuries received in an accident at Woodlawn, lowa, ten years ayo. The stage running from Fort Custer to Fort Maginnie was held up by three masked men near Forty-Mile Ranch and S6OO taken. Twelve thousand dollars in army tend* was tent through tyvo days before.

The amount or fraudulent orders issued by township trustees in various parts of Indiana is estimated at $250,000. g, C. Fenton, Trustee of Adams Township, Warren County, is reported missing. Trustee Clawson, of Warren Township, who issued $19,000 of the fraudulent orders, is reported to be in Hamilton, Ontar o. Emery A. Storrs, the eminent Chicago lawyer, died at Ottawa. 111., after a short illness. He had been complaining of a difficulty in breatning. was taken to his bed, and telegraphed for his wife. She arrived and found him resting easier. He ordered cigars and smoked one of them in bed, and appeared so much improved that she retired, and awoke at 7 o’clock the next morning and found him dead, the supposition being that he died several hours before of heart trouble. His remains were taken to Chicago for burial. The deceased was born nt Hinsdale, N. Y., August 12, 1835.

SOUTHERN.

James B. Walton died at New Orleans aged 72 years. He commanded the Washington Artillery Battery of Louisiana during the war with Mexico and also through tne entire period of the civil war, serving on the Confederate side. John R. Shelton and Ida Maxwell eloped at Atlanta, Ga., and when the girl’s father and brother found them at Shelton’s mother’s house a snooting bee followed, in which the three men were wounded, young Shelton and the elder Maxwell probably fatally. Ellen Johnson, a negress, who was sold fifty years ago to New Orleans parties, returned to her daughter’s home at Louisville last week, being now 112 years old. The daughter is 60 years of age, and the same roof now shelters great-great-grandmother, great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and children. Dick Scales, a negro of bestial propensities, was taken from the jail at Burlington, Ky., by a mob, and lynched. The vigilantes were crazy with drink, and fought with pistols among themselves, besides having a little brush with the Sheriff’s posse, Several persons were wounded. Near Bell’s Mill, Ga., William Whitley and Cain Bell were suitors for the same woman. To settle the question they retired to a grove and clasped each other by the left hand and fought a terrible duel with knives held in their right hands. Bell was disembowled by his opponent and is dead. Whitley will also die. A fire at Dawson Springs, Ky., destroyed a hotel, two dwellings, and four stores, causing a loss of $40,000. A. M. Britton, President of the First .National Bank, Fort Worth, Texas, has began suit again st the Nichols estate to recover $30,000, the amount of Nichols’ defalcation.

WASHINGTON.

According to returns received by the Department of Agriculture the wheat crop this year will be below, and the corn crop above, the average. The harvest in Great Britain will not vary materially in yield from that of last year. The September cotton report of the Department of Agriculture shows the prevalence of hot and dry weather during August, except in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. The shedding of bolls and the decrease of vitality have resulted quite generally. Drought has teen serious in Texas and Arkansas, and quite general in Western Tennessee, Southern Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The caterpillar has caused much damage in fou|hern Texas, Arkansas, and in Central and Southern Alabama. Its prevalence is noted throughout Central and Southern Georgia, with small effect as yet. The bod worm is causing much dama.e in the black belt of Alabama and in Arkansas and Texas. Condition has declined in every State. The average is 87, against 96 in August. Last year it was (2 in September and 87 in August. The present is two points above the September average of ten years. The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has made a decis.on refusing to reopen the accounts of tho Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company for transportation of soldiers and supplies during the civil war. Congress will be asked for an appropriation of $:50,000 to improve the navigation of the Red River. A committee has been appointed to open negotiat ons vith the Choctaws, Seminoles, Creeks, and Cherokees with a view to opening their lands for settlement. A. M. Keiley tendered his resignation as United States Minister to Austria, which was accepted. It is believed in well informed circles at Washington that the mission will be left unfilled for an indefinite period.

POLITICAL.

“The National Anti-Monopoly party of the State of New York,” in convention in New York City, resolved to call itself by the above name, and appointed a committee to confer with other political bodies regarding the nomination of a State ticket. H. Clay Bascom, of Troy, was nominated for Governor by the New York Prohibitionists at Syracuse, and a lengthy platform was adopted demanding the suppression of the liquor traffic by the National Government and denouncing both the o d parties for subserviency to the whi'sky interests. lowa Greenbackers who are opposed to fusion will meet at Marshalltown Oct. 1, to nominate a State ti.ket. A Little Rock dispatch says that official and unofficial returns from the Third .Arkansas District give McHea, Democrat, for Congress, about f>,OJD majority— about double the majority given the Democratic cand date last November. Soon after the assembling of Congress, llepresentative Mills, of Toxas, will offer a bill, now in course of preparation, providing for large reductions in tariff taxes. Thomas J. Lathrop, of Taunton, has

been nominated for Governor of Massachusetts by the Prohibitionists of that State on a platform declaring “uncompromising opposition to the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage." Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, a colored man of North Carolina, and an ex-slave, has been appointed United states Minister to Liberia. Henry Ward Beecher strongly favors inserting a high-license plank in the New York Republican platform and “fighting it out on that line.”

MISCELLANEOUS.

When official intelligence of General Grant’s death was received at Lima, flags on the Government buildings were placed at half-mast. Lester & Allen, who have John L. Sullivan under engagement, having refused to sanction bis pending fight with Ryan, the contest has been declared off. During the week 206 business failures were reported in the United States and Canada, of which 83 per cent, were those of small traders. The numberfor the previous week was 183, and lor the corresponding week of last year 203. Bradstreet's Journal in its commercial summary says: The condition of general trade Is quite as favorable as that mentioned at any previous date within seven weeks past. The steadiness and strength manifested by the demand for dry goods and for woolen fabrics have encouraged many dealers at Eastern distributing centers to look for steadiness in the movement. It may be added that the gain in the demand tor pig iron tends in some degree to inspire the confidence manifested in various quarters that the turn in the tide has at last taken place, and that the increase in the consumption of staple commodities may present a steady growth It is a welcome sign that no boom is discernible in any direction. The increased distribution of goods is formed of a larger number of moderate-sized orders, and in many instances of unexpected duplicate demand, s

In accordance with the request of the United States postal authorities, all mails from Montreal destined for the United States will be fumigated prior to dispatch. It is now believed that $150,000 worth of the fraudulent Indiana township bonds are held in Washington. Civil Service Commissioner Thom an, who placed large lots of them, is held to be blameless, as Vice President Hendricks and Senator Voorhees both vouched for the legitimate character of the securities. Mr. A. E. Davis, of Cnicago, guarantees the full value of every bond disposed of by him in Washington. Diphtheria has caused the death of 160 children in a single parish of Soulanges County, Quebec, during the past three months. The mysterious malady prevailing in Clay County, West Virginia, has thus far attacked IUO persons, of whom twentyfive have died. A communistic uprisin g has occurred in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. The rebels demand a division of all property. A general curtailment of expenses has been agreed upon on the Pennsylvania lines. Time has becu reduced fourteen hours a week in all of the company’s shops. The Indian Chief, Big Bear, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for his participation in the recent rebellion in the Northwest Territory. The lacrosse championship of Canada was won by the Montreal Club. Fires destroyed a grape-sugar manufactory at Peoria, 111., involving a loss of $150,060; a winery and distillery at San Francisco, where the loss was $120,(0), and did some $50,000 worth of damage to an oil warehouse in New York, several fireman in the latter case severe injuries.

FOREIGN.

At a Cabinet council in Madrid, on the ICth inst., an elaborate reply to the German notes was prepared, presenting in courteous terms tl.e Spanish claims to the Caroline Islands, and demanding tl eir recognition. The Berlin Government insists that the annexation was made in good faith, and without knowledge that Spain claimed jurisdiction over tho archipelago. Senor Castelar advocates a union of the Latin races to combat tno German colonial policy, which is said to have been determined on by Prince Bismarck several months ago, after a long conference with members of German commercial houses having a large foreign trade. A patriotic demonstration has been held at Mala a, attended by 12,000 people. Letters from China state that France lost 15,000 men in tno Tonquin campaign, while the t hinose loss was 1.0, . 00. The report that Russia and England had sip-ned the protocol fixing tho RussoAfghan fronti r is confirmed. China has borrowed $70,000,000 in Berlin and London for railway construction. A terrific gale at Paris inflicted great damage upon property and caused numerous casualties. Cholera is dying out in France and Spain, but is causing great anxiety in Italy. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, is claiming American citizenship to shield himself from legal proceedings in connect on with the London scandals, but Americans conver ant with lhe facts in his case denounce him as a fraud and an impostor. Three German officers, who were arrested while taking plans of French fortifications in the department of Haute Rhine, were escorted to the frontier. German spies are reported to be numerous in Eastern Franco. The Russian Government is making extensive additions and repairs to the fortifications of Savastopol, to which it will transfer the Black Sea fleet. A new fleet wi.l be organized and stationed at Batoam, on the east coast of the Black Sea. Barracks for accommodating 30,0 0 troops are being constructed at Rostoff, twenty mi.es from the Sea of Azov. New batteries are also be ng erected in the Crimea. A naval commissloh is to be appointed to make an examination of the harbors on the Grecian and Turkish coasts.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

The mediation of the Italian Consul aving proved of no avail, hostilities have again broken out between the French and ovasin Madagascar. Maud S. htft been temporarily retired from the turf, and will be taken to New Fork to the stables of Mr. Donner, who will, be says, take pleasure in driving her on the roa 1. While temporarily insane, William H. Taylor, of Worcester, Massachusetts, shot cis wife and then himself. Both were fatally injured. Harrisburg, Pearsylvania, last week celebrated the centenn.ai anniver.-ary of its incur, oration, the venerable Simon Cameron presiding over the exercises. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the total valuesof the exports of domestic cattle and hogs, beef, pork, and dairy products as follows: 1885. 1884. August $ 7,313,147 $ 8,635,509 ■ ight munths ended August 31... 64,217.516 62,947,275 Beet and pork products for ten months ending Aug. 31 73,761,451 71,736,810 Da ry products tor four V months ending Aug. 31.. 5,289,504 7,733,619 John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, pleaded guilty at Cleveland to the charge of Sunday bal.-playing, uni was fined $1 and costs —a total of sl6. Miss Arvilla M. Bogart, aged 23, living near Oconomowoc, Wis., was stung on the head by a bee, and died in twenty minutes from the effects of the sting. A female horse-thief, giving the name of Mary L. Sheppard, aged 14 years, of Webster City, lowa, was captured at Dodgeville, Wis., while attempting to sell a stolen team. C. E. Cook, proprietor of the Jennings County Bank, at North Vernon, Ind., has made an assignment, having become involved by dealings in the warrants overissued by various township trustees in Indiana. Miss Dean, daughter of a wealthy lumber dealer of Chicago, began working in a spinning mill at Rockford last week for 60 cents per day. Her father, however, gives her a dollar for each cent earned.

A recent dispatch from Denison, Texas, says: “The princip'.eof woman s rights sustained an ignoble defeat here alter an heroic onslaught. Three maiden sisters named Cash, of mature years, reside on a street that is being repaired and graded. They objected to any work being done in front of their premises, as they had no voice in ordering the improvement. This afternoon, while the street boss and his laborers were at work in front of the Cash res.dence, the throe maiden sisters came out and assaulted the workmen with rocks, put ting over a dozen brawny men to flight. The City Marshal and two policemen then essayed to protect the men while they returned to work, but the irate sisters were equal to the emergency, for this time they sallied forth with two old pistols and a garden hoe. The chivalric Marshal and his aids hastily retreated before the foe, and again the work men were severely pelted with rocks, and fled. Calling re-enforcements, the Marshal ral ied his men and finally captured the Amazons and landed them in the calaboose, where they are passing to-night singing hymns.” The first race between the yachts Puritan and the Genests, whieh was sailed on the 14th inst. over what is known as the inside course of the New York Yacht Club, a length of thirty-e ght miles, was won by the former in 6:04:30. The English cutter was beaten by a little more than a mile, and crossed the line in 6:10:30. The event excited great interest throughout the country and in England. The rich as often need societies for the amelioration of their condition as the poor. A very rich man was once hea d to say, “I worked like a slave till I was nearly fifty to make my fortune, and I have been watching it ever since like a detective 1”

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves. $4.50 @ 6.25 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White .91 @ .92 No. 2 Red 91J4® .9154 Coen—No. 2 48 & .49 Oa.s—White 38 @ .44 POBK—Mess 10.25 @10.75 CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Pri i e Steers. 5.50 @6.25 Good Shipping 5.00 @ 5.50 Common 4.00 @ 4.f>o Hogs 4.25 @4.75 vLOUß—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 5.00 @5.25 Prime to Choice Spring. 3.75 @4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 83 & .84 1 > UN—N O. 2 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 25 @ nYE—No. 2 55 @ .57 Baeley—No. 2 67 @ .69 BUiUEB—< hoice Creamery 20 @ .22 Fine Dairy 14 @ .18 Cheese—Full bream, new 09j-g@ .10 1 art Sk.mmed, new... .01 *@ .05 Eggs—Fresh..... it @ .15 I'otatoe \ew, per brl 90 @I.OO PoßK—Mess 8.25 @8.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 78 @ .80 CO.iN—No. 2 43 @ .44 Oat —No. 2 25 @ .26 GO E—No. 1 55 @ .57 PORK--Mess 8.25 @ 8.75 TO. EDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 @ .86& COEN—No. 2 44 @ .45 OATS—No. 26 @ .26J6 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 @ Corn—Mixed 42 @ .43 ” Oats—Mixed 24 @ .25 BOEK—Mess 9.00 @ 9.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 88 S .89 Corn—No 2 * .46 @ .47 gat-—Mixed .26 @ .27 Rye—No. 2 57 @ .59 Pon-.—Mess 9.00 31 9.t0 DETROIT. Beef Cattle > ...x. 3.50 @5.50 Wheat—No 1 White 84 @ ,h 6 Co N—No. 2 46 @ .47 Oat —No. 2 White 31 <«i .33 Pork—Mess 10.00 @ 10.50 INDIANAPOLIS Beef cattle 4.50 @ 6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 87 @ .88 Corn—Mixed 42 @ .43 Oats—No. 2 , 24 @ .25 EAST LIBERTY Cattle—Best 5.50 @ 6.00 lair 5.00 @ 5.50 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 4.25 @4.75 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.25 BUFFALO. Cattle 5.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.00 Sheep 4.50 @ 5.50

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The opening of the new Grand Opera House, at Madison, is set for Oct. 19. Capt. John Boyd, of Milroy, is the oldest person in Rush County. He will be 100 years ©ld next February. —S.< Bash A Co.’s warehouse, at Fort Wayne, was burned with its contents last week, the loss reaching $21,0 .0. —Thomas Burke, an inmate of the Indiana State Insane Asylum at Indianapolis, was fatally beaten by E. Stroble, a fellow patient —lrvin Preston, a farmer living about a mile and a half northeast of Terre Haute, in a fit of anger, ran a pitchfork through his horse’s heart The horse died without a struggle. —Two cows met on ths Hanover pike below Madison and pitched into each other, when they succeeded in get ing their horns so firmly locked that it became necessary to saw the ends.off one of the cow’s horns ■' to free them. —At Liberty, while swinging in a hammock, Nellie, daughter of A. E. Johnson. Cashier of the Union County National Bank, was thrown to the ground and seriously injured besides breaking an arm and dislocating her shoulder. —The owners of the old Erie Canal brought suit at Lafayette against the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Road for $10,0(10 damages for using the water of the canal since 1876, which the owners think is worth 9 cents per 1,000 gallons. —Wil iam Cherry, a well-to-do farmer living three miles west of Tipton, was plowing in his field the other day when he suddenly became blind. He has never had any trouble with his eyes before. It is supposed ha is suffering with paralysis of the optic nerve. He is about fifty years of age.

—Find’ng her husband in a buggy wi h a strange woman at Lafavette, Mrs. R. W. Stewart beat her rival and tore her hair in. a furious manner, the woman taking flight to escape further punishment. Mrs. Stewart then seated herself beside her s; ouse, and the horse's head was directed homeward. —At a meeting of the McKeen Rides, at Terre Hau e, it was decided to disband immediately, the,action of the Adjutant General leaving them no privileges as a military organization. C. E. Fuller, Jr., S. C. McKeen and J. H. O’Boyle were appointed a committee to sett'e up the company’s affairs. The company was organized June 1(5, 1879. Ed Friend being the first commander. —Woikmen in a sandpit on the edge of Terre Haute recent y found the skeletons of three human beings huddled together about three feet from the surface. One was the skeleton of a large man, another of 1 woman, and a third of a girl al out 14 years of age. The skull of the man is crushed, and the positions of the skeletons show th it they had been rudely thrown into the shallow grave. The last man to see the great s ake at Piercevil’.e, this State, modestly s iys that he does not think it was more than ten nches in diameter. In view of the fact that serpents even thirty feet long are seldom mo e than five or six inches in diameter, we think the Indiana mm is certainly right in declaring that the Hooser reptile is not core than twee that size. What this State has to fear about this thing is that Indi ma whisky will fall into disfavor.—lndiunapo,in Journal.

—A party of hunters discovered the remains of a man in the woods about two miles south of Logansport a few days ago. Ihe hogs had almost completely stripped the bo .es cf flesh. There was a bu’.lethole :n the skull, and a pistol son d close by led to the conclusion th it the unfortuate had suicided. From the clothing the remains were identified as those of Hoiaee L. Baker, a well-known railroad contractor, whose mysterious disappea ance two months ago created consider ble excitement a d speculat on. Baker was well known in railroad circles, and formerly lived at Terre Haute. —An interesting story is told of the runaway Daviess County trustees. While en route they stopped at Grimsey station, Canada, to pass another train, and while Mr. Grimsley and Clark were standing on. the platform of the depot a countryman jumped off the back end of the train and yelled out: “By G , here is Grimsey!” and Mr. Grimsley thought his name was called instead of the station, and the two made a sudden dash down a side street, endeavoring to escape. But upon looking at the sign they saw that he meant Grimsey station, consequently they boarded the train for their destination. —Claude G. Debruler, city editor of the E ansville Courier, died in that city, recently, as er a short illness, Mr. Debruler was formerly connected with the Cincinn ti Evening Chronicle, and mi de an exccllent reputation as a journdist. Heremoved to Evansville in 1875 and bought an interest in the Journal of th t city, and w.is editor-in-chief until last year, when he closed out his interest and became city editor of the Courier. Mr. Debruler, among his brethren of the profession, was highly esteemed, and his death in the prime of life (at the age of 38) will be sincirely mourned. He leaves a wife and two children.