Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — Page 2

SljeJJentocrAticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I W. AfcEWEN, - Pububhir

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Rev. J. G. Townsend, who has for eighteen years been pastor of the Asbury M. E. Church at Buffalo, has denied the dogma of eternal punishment, will resign his charge, and inten s to found a new church based upon his religious beliefs. A notable improvement has taken place in the iron and steel trade at Philadelphia, ana large orders for various kinds of material have been placed. Seven bur-mills resumed during tho past week, and the wroughtrpipe and bridge-iron mills are crowded with demands for supplies. The failure is announced of the Willowdaio Company, a Boston corporation having its manufactory at Meriden, Conn. The liabilities are sa d to bo about $100,060, of which about one-half is secured by merchandise pledged or hypothecated. The company has manufactured blankets exclusively, and has done its own sel.ing. The Dwyer Bros., the famous turfmen, announced that they are tired of horseracing and will sell out to the highest bidder. Adam Brabender, ex-President of the County Savings Bank at Erie, Pa., has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, the extreme penalty of the law, for fraud and conspiracy. The defendant, who is CO years old, implored mercy, claiming to have been tho victim of his cashier. In the annual regatta of the New York Yacht Club, the Genesta won the Douglas cup for cutters or sloops, and the Grayling the Bennett cup for schooners. The English team was defeated in the international cricket match at Philadelphia. The cotton-mills at Lawrence, Mass., whien have been closed for a year, aro to rosurne at onoe, giving employment to nearly 3,000 operatives. Seven hundred feet of an embankment thirty feet in height on the New York, Lake Shoro and Buffalo Kailway, near Glen Erie, has sunk suddenly, taking down the track. A new road will be built urouud the cavity. The pier of the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, in Jersey City, was partly destroyed by tire, involving a loss of *OO ,003. A large number of telegraph and telephone wires were burned. Advices from Philadelphia are to the effect that coal of all kind 3 will be advanced at an early day at the mines on account of the increasing demand for shipment.

WESTERN.

A compromise Las been effected between coal miners and operators in the Belleville (111.1 region, and no further trouble is apprehended. Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, was reopened last week, after having been closed for twelve years, and the was celebrated with fireworks, a procession, and a public meeting.

Bishop John Sharp, the Utah director of the Union Pacific, and one of the wealthiest and most influential Mormons living, appeared in court at Salt Lake City and pleaded guilty to unlawful cohabitation. He claimed that the plural marriage was entered into before there was any statute against it, and that the marriage was contracted in good faith according to the Mormon religion, but he recognized the supremacy of his adopted country’s laws, and would live within them henceforth. Ho would not advise any one else to break them. He was fined S3OO, and discharged on the payment.

Thorough investigations have been made by the Government Directors of the Union Paciflo Uailroad and by the representatives of the Chinese Legation at Washington into the causes of the recent antiChinese riots in Wyoming. The former telegraphed to Secretary Lamar that the existing condition of aflairs is critical and calls for prompt action. The Chinese Government will demand indemnity for the outrage. The bodies of twenty-five Chinamen Jiave been recovered, and it is believed the number of killed reached forty.

The Illinois State Fair was one of the most successful exhibitions of the kind ever held in Chicago. The gross receipts are estimated at $30,000, which will fully cover the expenses. Over 125,000 people attended the fair.

Rush & Sprague’s flouring mills, Leavenworth, were burned, the loss amounts ing to SSO,OJO. St. Louis has in one of its elevators 40,009 bushels of wcavllly wheat. A whisky war is imminent between Cine nnati and 1 eorin. The latter is sell ng spirits at $1.03 and the former at SI.OO, and an attempt to form a pool to tako Peoria’s product has faded.

St. Paul and Minneapolis have been raised by the Postolflco Department to tho first grade in the free-delivery service. The bones of the Chinamen found in a California cellar were turned over to the Chinese Consul, and by him shipped to China. A most singular death from bloodpoisoning Is reported from Appleton, Wis., the victim being B. T. Rogers, a leading citizen, who smashed one of his fingers in a piece of machinery.

William Bedford, of Evansville, Ind., well-known in leading circles throughout the Union, was terribly Injured by a mad bull, and will probably die. Dr. JL W. Powers, 70 years old, ao-

cused of poisoning his neighbors’ cattle and burning property belonging to one of them, was hanged by a mob at Hollister, Cal. The Marquis de Mores was acquitted at Bismarck, D. T., of the murder of William A. Luffsey at Little Missouri June 26, 1883. Jacob Shipley, a Town Trustee of Morgan County, Indiana, has been Indicted for issuing fraudulent warrants. A. O. English, Trustee of another township in the 6ame county, who is charged with a similar offense, has disappeared, and is supposed to have gone to Canada. Enoch Norton and George W. Boyd, of Fountain County, have been indicted for complicity in the frauds. Thomas Hubbell, of Monclova, Lucas County, Chio, died—as was supposed—in that place thirteen years ago and was buried. Letters recently received by his wife from an inmate of a Michigan insane asylum, signed with his name, led to the opening of his grave, which was found to contain an empty casket. The theory is advanced that his body was stolen for a medical college; that while on the dlssecting-table life returned, but that the shock dethroned his reason, and he was then placed in the asylum of which he is now an inmate.

SOUTHERN.

An express train on the Kentucky Central Railroad was wrecked near Lexington, Kentucky, the engineer and fireman being killed and many passengers injured. A controversy between E. R. Murray, editor of the Anderson Intelligencer , and State Senator Moore culminated •in a personal encounter in the streets of Anderson, S. C. Each fired about five times. Senator Moore was 6light!y wounded in the right hip. The difficulty .originated in a difference of opinion on the prohibition question, which led Editor Murray to denounco in his paper Senator Moore as a liar. Louisville celebrated last week the sale of the one hundred thousandth hogshead of tobacco this season by a grand processional display of tho varied interests, the tobacco industry being given prominence in the pageant. The procession was eight miles in length, and after reaching the Exposition Building the selected hogshead, weighing 1,190 pounds, was sold to Finzer Brothers, of Louisville, for $2,023. There were 50,000 visitors in the city, and the assemblage at the Exposition was the largest in its history.

A coal barge was wrecked near Galveston, Texas, two of the lifeboat's crew and the crew of five on board tho barge perishing. Miss Sallie McDonald, of Boyle County, Kentucky, claims to have been cured of an obstinate spinal complaint through the prayers and laying on of bands of a Cincinnati parson. Nicholas Snowden, a negro who recently outraged a little colored girl, was taken from jail at Ellicott City, Maryland, and hanged, by a mob composed of members of his own race.

WASHINGTON.

Comptroller Durham, of the Treasury, announces that his decision holding up requisitions for the payment of officers and employes of the Alabama claims court is final. This ends the controversy so far as the executive branch of the Government is is concerned. Controller Durham has directed the Solicitor of the Treasury te bring suit against ex-Commissioner of Agriculture Loring to collect $30,000 alleged to have been expended improperly by him. The Irish-American citizens of the national capital, in mass-meeting assembled, unanimously adopted resolutions indorsing Parnell's programme. Worthington C. Ford, of Brooklyn, has been appointed Chief of the Statistical Division of the State Department, vloe Michael Scanlan, of Chicago, who remains in the bureau as a fourth-class clerk.

The Treasury Department has issued orders for the inspection of all vessels coming from ports infeoted with small-pox. A formal order has been made for tho immediate removal of all of the illegal fences on tho public domain in the Western States and Territories.

POLITICAL.

Tjnder the provisions of the liquor law of Wisconsin, elections were held throughout that State to determine the rate of license to be charged in the several‘cities and towns. Low lioenso ($100) was carried in Milwaukee, Madison, Oshkosh, Racine, Neenah, Oconomowoc, Green Ray, Portage, Janesville, Appleton, Fond du Lao, Mineral Point, Darlington, Watertown, Bnraboo, Eau Claire, and other Important towns. Among tho places which voted for high lioense ($500) were Kenosha, Fort Atklnsofi, Whitewater, Fort Howard, Beloit., Waupaca, Depere, and Wonewoo.

The Maryland Democratic convention at Baltimore adopted resolutions indorsing the administration and denouncing the existing civil-service law. Candidates for Comptroller and Clerk of the Court of Appeals were nominated. The Maryland Prohibit onists also met at Baltimore, and selected a candidate for Comptroller on a platform demanding the suppression of the liquor traffic in the State.

The President has appointed the following named Presidential Fostmasters: Edward H. Thayer, at Clinton, lowa, vice Charles Pell, resigned: Henry Williams, at Frederick, Md., vioe Charles W. Miller, resigned; J. Henry Bowers, at Ohloo, Cal., vice James M. Ormsby, suspended; Russell T. Dobson, at Bowling Green, Ohio, vice John D. Bowler, suspended: James Murray, at Fremont. Neb., vice H. O. Payne, resigned; William H. Evans, at Prinoeton, vice E. R. Pinney, suspended; John Crull, at Marietta, Pa., vice G. H. Etla, suspended. Surgeon General J. B. Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital Service, has tendered his resignation, to take effect Nov. L N. B. Bacon, a brother-in-law of the

President, has been appointed Superintendent of the Custom-House at Toledo.

A personal assault was committed by ex-Cnited States Marshal Lot M. Wright upon Gen. Durbin Ward, at Lebanon, Ohio, growing out of statements made by the latter in a recent speech. A member of the C abinet is authority for the statement that the administration will take no part in the New York and Ohio campaigns.

Dorman B. Eaton denies that he intend.’ to resign as Civil-Service Commissioner.

MISCELLANEOUS.

There is no perceptible abatement of the ravages of small-pox in Montreal. The cholera has practically disappeared from Marseilles. The yellow fever is abating at Vera Cruz. The Cincinnati Price Current estimates the corn crop of the country at 1,900,000,000 bushels, an increase of 77 per cent, over that of last year. The annual statement of the Northern Pacific Railroad shows a decrease In earnings of over $1,000,000 os compared with last year.

Twenty-nine deaths from yellow fever have occurred at Guaymas since Sept. 1, and the disease has appeared at Hermoslilo and Mazatlan. A yacht capsized in Lake St. Francis, Ontario, and two of the three occupants perished after a night of exposure. The schooner Edwin Post has been sunk off Bedioe’s Island, and its captain and steward drowned. In a Montreal restaurant six men were found eating, while a boy afflicted with a virulent case of small pox lay in an adjoining room. The lad’s father was serving as a juror in a murder trial, and the Judge, being informed of the circumstances, discharged the jury, after which the court was cleared and the building disinfected. The Montreal committee acting in behulf of Riel, the condemned rebel, have issued an appeal asking French-speaking people to assist in saving him from the gallows. Riel’s counsel has gone to England to intercede in his behalf.

The number of failures in the United States and Canada reported for the week was 166, of wh:c"h 82 per cent, were those of small traders. Tho number for the preceding week was 201, and for the corresponding week of 1884, 224. BrcuUstreet's Journal in its commercial summary says: No gain on the recently reported improvement in trade circles is recorded by the special telegrams to Jiradxtreei'x received yesterday. In most directions the full measure of the movement is m intained, but that is all. from Chicago, ht. Paul bt. Louis, Cincinnati, and Detroit at the West comes the word that interior purchases are as heavy as previously. Iron is b 1 ghtly firmer and in better demand. Prices are unchanged. There is no prospect of any boom, Steel rails are encouragingly in demand, but no more A sale of ;\ouo tons at S3O is reported. The movement of dry-goods from jobbers and agents contiuu s as active as heretofore noted, and the firmness in prices of p ints and of bleached and brown cottons is fully sustained.

Dr. George Whitfield Fish, ex-Con-Bul to China and Tunis, died at Flint, Mich., of pneumonia. S. B. Waugh, the noted artist of Philadelphia, died at Janesville, Wis., of paralysis. Biel, the condemned insurgent leader, was hanged in effigy in Kingston, Canada. The scene was witnessed by thousands of people. Omana, the Mexican Congressman who recently killed the American, Hardie, will be tried for murder, it having been decided that he cannot claim immunity on aocount of his official position. A freight train on the Lake Shore Road was thrown from the traokat Fairview and completely wrecked. The engineer and fireman were thrown uuder the wreck, but managed to extricate themselves. The former, Michael Brocon, of Collingwood, Ont., signaled a coming passenger train, and succeeded in stopping it before it reached the wreck. The grateful passengers made up a purse of SSOO for him.

FOREIGN.

The populace cf Palermo, Sicily, are panic-stricken over the appearance of choleta in that town. There is still much suffering in Gibraltar because of the disease.

General von Hendrick Bucoeeds General Manteuffel, deceased, in command of the German forces in Alsace-Lorraine. Fourteen new peers have been created by the Emperor of Austria. The Mexican National Railway Company is negotiating a loan of $30,000,000 In London and Paris. Earl Granville hag grown so deaf from his recent channel oruise that It is said he will bo unable to again enter public life. The Cologne Gazette says that Ger--many Is willing to have Pope Leo act as arbitrator la the Caroline Islands dispute, and another dispatch states that Spain nas rooccupied Yap. A meeting of anarchists at Paris, Sunday, ended In a riot, in which many persons were wounded. Two men-of-war being built in England for the Japanese Government, and now nearly completed, have been purchased by Spain.

Mr. Parnell has invited all priests in Ireland 10 attend the county conventions of the National st party to elect candidates for seats in Parliament. Gen. W olseley is being attacked in Londcn In re ard to his conduct of the Nile campaign, and efforts will be made to bring about an official Inquiry. —The Governor General of Eastern Roumelia hn3 been deposed by the populace of tho capital city, Philippopolis, who have proclaimed a union with Bulgaria and established a provisional government. The revolution, which is believed to have been instigated by Russia, was accomplished without bloodshed. Eastern Roumelia was given an autonomous government by the Berlin Congress of 1678, although it has remained an Integral part of the Turkish Empire.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Postmaster Lounsberry, of Bismarck, Dakota, has sent his resignation to the department. In a drunken quarrel near Stanford, Ky., William Ball, a well-known distiller, was shot and Instantly killed by his son George. Fire destroyed Aukam & Co.’s shirt factory at Troy, N. T., valued at $75,003, and Jenks & Co.'s flouring mi Is at Sand Beach, Mich.; loss, $50,0.0. Small-pox has broken out in a tenement in Grand street. New York, four cases having already developed. The source of the malady is unknowu. During the week there were 216 deaths from small-pox in Montreal. The issue of standard silver dollars during the week was 664,443. In the case of Paymaster General Smith, defendant's counsel have applied to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for an injunction restraining the Secretary of the Navy from further proceedings against their client, on the ground that the court-martial had no jurisdiction.

China is said to be massing large bodies of troops on the Tonquin frontier. Disastrous rains and consequent floods are prevalent in Southeastern Spain. Eight persons who were arrested at the great Socialist meeting in London Sunday have been fined and sentenced .to brief terms of imprisonment for resisting officers. William Morris, the poet, is under arrest for assaulting the police during tho hearing of these cases. A distemper among hogs in the district of Shirland and Rockton, 111., and Newark, Wis., has resulted in. heavy losses to farmers. Tho disease swept away 2,000 hogs in tho past two weeks.

Several lumber mills in Northern Michigan have been closed owing to the tenhour law, the men refusing to work more than the statutory number of hours unless wages are proportionately increased. At Manistee alone 1.030 men are idle.

A Bismarck (Dak.) dispatch says: “The prairie fires continue in every direction, and unless rain comes soon the whole country will be burned over. Farmers who have escaped now have their grain well protected by plowed flro-breaks, and are busy hauling their hay to places of safety. At this time fires moving toward the woods in Washburn County and this county have run down Burt Creek to the timber on the Missouri bottomsin Emmons County, south. Most of the low meadows have been burned over in this anl Kidder Counties.”

A dispatch from the West says that work has been resumed at the Rock Springs, Wyoming, coal mines, with a force of Chinese miners and a few white mechanics. The white miners refused to work, and were paid off. No violence was attempted, but the situation was threatening, and Gen. McCook advised the President to doolare martial law in Wyoming. It was believed that a teneral strike would be ordered along the line of the Union Pacific Railroad by the Knights of Labor.

Cable dispatches state that the deposed Governor of Roumelia is a prisoner at Sofia.

It is believed in diplomatic circles that the Porte will fight to restore the st atu quo, as possession of the Balkan frontier Is uecessary lor the detense of Constantinople. Representatives at Philippopolis of all the powers signatory to the treaty of Berlin have sent, dispatches to their respective governments approving the revolution. It Is rumorel that an insurrection is imminent in Macedonia, and that Austria contemplates an advance on Salonica simaltanoously with a Russian occupation of the Bosphorus. Anarchy prevails in Albania. A panicky feeling obtained on the continental bourses, and international securities declined sharply in London, on account of the disturbed condition of Eastern Europe.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves. $4.00 @ 6.60 Hogs 4.50 © 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White. 92 @ .94 No. 2 Red 90 @ .93 CORN—No. 2 49 @ .61 Oais—White. 36 @ .42 Poke—Mess 10.00 @IL6O CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. 6.76 @6.25 Good Shipping 6.00 @ 6.50 Common a 75 © 4.60 Hogs 4.26 © 4.75 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 6.00 @6.25 Prime to Choice Spring. 8.75 © 471 k) Wheat—No. 2 Spring 80 © .81 ColtN—No. 2 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 25 @ .27 Rye—No. 2 66 @ .67 Barley—No. 2 70 @ .72 Butter —< hoice Creamery...... .20 @ .22 Fine Dairy 17 @ .19 Cheese—Full Cream, new 09J£@ .10^ 1 art Skimmed, new... .01 @ .(5 Eggs —Fresh. 15 © .is Potatoes—Per bu 50 @ .56 Purr—Mess 8.60 © 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2. 81 @ .81W Corn—No. 2. 45 © .46 Oats—No. 2 23 @ .26 liYE—No. 1 56 @ .57 PoRK--Mess„ 8.60 @ 9.c0 TOLEDO. Wheat-No. 2 Red .87 fit .89 Corn—No. 2. .44 © .46 Oats—No. 2. 27 © .28 ST. LOUia Wheat—No. 2 Red 87 @ .90 Corn—Mixed 42 @ .44 Oats—Mixed. 24 @ .25 Pork—Mess. 9.00 @ 9. 60 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red. 90 @ .91 Corn—No 2. 46 @ .47 Oats—Mixed. 26 @ .28 Rye—No. 2 6.» @ .61 Pork—Mesa 8.76 & 9.25 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 3.50 @6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 86 © .147 CoiiN—No. 2 46 @ .47 Oat>—No. 8 White 32 .34 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.60 ' INDIANAPOLIS BEEF CATTLE 4.00 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 89 @ .91 Corn—MLxed 43 @ .45 Oats—No. 2.... 24 & 120 EAST LIBERTY Cattle—Best 6.60 @ 6.00 Fair 6.00 & 6.60 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs ... 4.50 @4.75 Sheep 3.60 @ 4.25 BUFFALO. Cattle 6.60 @ 6.00 Hogs 4.50 @ 4.75 Sheep aOO @ aSO

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The new workhouse at Indnnapolis is built to hold GO women and 240 men.

Cnpt. Andrew J. Bates, the tallest man in Indiana, G feet 10 inches, died last week, at Warsaw.

—Two prominent business men of Logan sport were swindled last week by Chicago sharpers by means of a gold brick. —At Marion a family quarrel resulted in the death of Andrew Owir.gs. One of the sons accuses his brother Ira, aged 10, of the murder.

—John Shutler, aged 54, went to the grave of his wife at Bloomington and there took a fatal dose of poison. He said he longed to meet his spouse, who died a year ago.

—Mrs. Ditz, who lives in Madison County, claims to have been cured by faith and Mrs. Woodworth’s prayers, and will joia that lady in her revival work as a living example.

—lt costs fifty cents in Indianapolis to have a barrel of flour taken from the mill to the dwelling of a citizen. Thirty-five cents more would land it on the wharf at Liverpool.

—lndiana should see to it that all tne mails from Canada i-hould be thoroughly fumigated. As she will likely have a large correspondence from over the border, the thing is important. —lnter Ocean. —John Webster, telegraph-line repairer of Vincennes, met with a horrible death at Fort Ititner, on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, by being crushed between the platform of the depot and a running train. He was literally smashed to a jelly. He carried an accident policy of $2,01.0 in the Equilable Life-Insurance Company of Cincinnati. He leaves a wife and two children.

—The lady acting as Sheriff of Greene County has, according to (he Bloomfield News, posted the following notice: “No admittance to sea prisoners. Thera is too much responsibility attached to their safe* keeping to permit indiscriminate visiting. I have my household work to do, and have no time to stand guard when parties come to see prisoners. And they do not care to be seen. Please do not intrude. Aurilla C. Qui len.”

—The old woman who was so neat that she whitewashed every stick of wood that she burned does not appear at all mythical in the light of the rage for whitewashing rocks, wh/ch has recently sprung up in our city. In one yard—“which no names being mentioned no offense can be took" —the rocks in the fountain, and even a large stump of former picturesqueness, have been offered at the altar of the god of kalsomine. Ahem! —lndianapolis Journal.

—A special from Huntingburg says: Three young boys, sons of Postmaster Fisher, Capt. Lemmon, and Alex. Barrowman, of the coal mines of this plaoe, ran away from home last night. They did rot want to attend school, which began last Monday, and together matured their plans to go West and fight Indians. The Lemmon boy took with him over one hundred dollars. The others had no money at all. * They boarded the midnight train for Kansas City. The oldest boy was not 14 years of age.

Some time ago a young woman named Mary Baymond died at the residence of a family named Robinson, in Indianapolis, and as there has been considerable ta.k about the matter the Coroner is investigating it, and has come to the conclusion that the cause was morphine poisoning, but whether the drug was taken with suicidal intent or an overdose he is as yet unable to determine. Mrs. Robinson says that the dead woman’s ghost comes back every night and worries her, and she is afraid that it will eventually choke her to death. —George Bell, who was fatally wounded at New Albany by his insane brother, had his share of trouble. He has three deaf-and-dumb children. A little over a year ago his house and all its contents were destroyed by fire. Within a year he has lost one of his eyes by accident. His wife is now a terrible sufferer from cancer of the mouth, which must soon prove fataL His A calamities culminated in the bloody tr tgedy mentioned. The telegrams sent out from New Providence that Elias Bell’s attack on his brother was the result of jealousy are wholly untrue. The insanity of Elias led to the fatal blows he gave his brother. The insane brother has been taken into custody and will be sent to the State Insane Asylum. —An Indianapolis attorney has received a letter from the southern part of the State say ng that Waltar Rodman, Trustee of Monroe Township, Washington County,, had been missing for several dnys, and was supposed to have gone to Canada. The same gentleman also stated that before going to Canada, Grisley, one of the absconding Trustees of Daviess County, had spent several days at the Occidental Hotel with Pollard, and that his entire time while there waß devoted to signing these orders, which the Pollards promptly shipped to all parts of the country. If they were really issued in such a who’esale way os this, there is good reason to be.ieve the sta ement made by a gentleman who is investigati g the mater. He said: “From what I have been able to learn I am fully convinced that more than $1,000,000 of these orders a e now in circulation, and when tho facts are alt known you will find that this is not an exaggerated estimate."