Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — Page 2

Sljc democratic Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publishes.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The will of the millionaire Tracy, of Buffalo, husband of Agnes Ethel, the actress, is being contested by a daughter of his first -wife, who was bequeathed but SIOO,OOO. Herr Most, the anarchist, was brought to court at New York handcuffed to a thief. His associates, Schenck and Braunschweig, were with him. The court-room was crowded Most looked very savage, and scowled viciously at every person his eyes fell upon. After listening to the testimony of witnesses, Most, at the request of his counsel, was permitted to say a word in his defense. “1 cannot speak very well English,” said he. “You have heard a great deal about me; I suppose that you expected a great deal of witnesses for the prosecution and a lot of black devil lies about me. But what has come off? I have seen prosecuting officers in Austria and Germany going against me and my associates, but they were slaves of the kings and princes. I didn’t expect that here. This is the first step to bring the republic down to a monarchy. The next will be stopping the freedom of the press. Then'we will only want an emperor.” After arguments by counsel and the charge by the Recorder the jury retired, and after seventy minutes returned with a verdict of guilty for all three of the prisoners, but recommending Schenck to the mercy of the court.

John H. Deane, of New York City, for years counsel for the American Baptist Missionary Union, is represented to be $150,000 short in his accounts with that society. Andrew Carnegie, the steel manufacturer, has given to Allegheny City $250,000 for the erection of a free library and music hall The Eev. T. C. Jerome, pastor of the Congregational Church at Wolfboro, N. H., his two sons and daughter, and a young man named Davis went on a fishing excursion in Lake Wnmipisiogee; their boat was overturned and the whole party was drowned

WESTERN.

A fire in Brannan street, San Francisco, destroyed the furniture factory of Kragen & Geist, and a number of dwellings, the loss aggregating $75,000. A dispatch from Miles City, M. T., says that many of the most extensive stockgrowers of the Territory have leased ranges of the Canadian Government for terms of twentyone years, and are driving the cattle to the new pasture, much to the disgust of the Canadian stock-growers. Over twelve thousand acres of lanjl belonging to the estate of Jay Cooke & Co., and located in Minnesota and Wisconsin, were sold at auction in Chicago. Low prices ruled throughout The recent mysterious assassination of Wayne Anderson, a wealthy farmer, near Mountain Grove, Mo., has been solved by the confession of his sons that they murdered him. A letter from Sierra County, New Mexico, gives the details of the discovery of a wonderfully rich deposit of silver ore, averaging over one thousand dollars per ton. Six car-loads have already been shipped to a smelter. The immense publishing house of Belford, Clarke <fc Co., Chicago, connected with which were Donohue & Henneberry, It S. Peale, Peale & Co., and Van Antwerp & Co., publishers, and the Central Lithographing Company, was burned. The loss will approximate $1,000,000.

The belief is expressed that the Wisconsin Central’s new line to Chicago will bo opened July 1. Contributions received at the Chicago police headquarters for the victims of the Haymarket riot have reached $47,500, in addition to $13,000 subscribed by members of the Board of Trade. John C. Henning was hanged at Crawfordsville, Ind., for murdering Lottie Vollmer at Rockville, Oct 24, 1885. Henning spoke for half an hour from the scaffold in a calm and self-possessed manner, smiling and nodding to acquaintances below him. He reviewed his life and trouble, and said lie was ready to die for the murder. A Chicago dispatch says: “A receiver in this city has just forwarded to a shipper in Nebraska exactly five cents per bushel as his share on a consignment of corn. The property bad been sold in store here at twenty-seven cents per bushel, twenty-two of which went to pay railroad cost of transportation, the storage, and commission. Iu another case this week the Nebraska shipper received the magnificent sum of twenty-six dollars and fifty cents, being the whole amount coming to him from the salo of a car-load of some five hundred and fifty bushels of corn, the railroad freight on which to this city was one hundred and forty- _ seven dollars and fifty cents. The average of charges on these two parcels was five times, and the warehouse charges alone, one quarter, the sum remitted to the country shipper of the corn. ”

Near Greatorville, A. T., E. P.Wemple sup. rhitendent for a Chicago washer company, Was killed by Indians. Three of a band of Indians who attacked Jones Brothers’ ranch near Hooker’s Ilot Springs, A. T., were killed and sculped, ai d the others driven off. The Presbyterian General Assembly, in eestri >i at M liueapolis, changed the name of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of thy NvUlnv. st, of Chicago, to “The McCormick I biological Seminary of the Northwest.” Gioes extravagance of the board

managing the County Infirmary at Cincinnati has been unearthed. In ihe item of coal it in shown that the board paid for 275 tons more than were hauled there by the railroad. A constable of Sedalia, Mo., levied on the household goods of Martin Irons, the “agitator,” to satisfy a debt of $7 for rent A six-foot rotary saw in a shingle mill at Menominee, Wisconsin, flew to pieces while running at full speed. A large section cut through the iron roof, and another nearly severed a large cross-beam.

SOUTHERN.

Lewis A. Dodge, a brother of “Gail Hamilton,” who held an SI,BOO clerkship in the Boston Custom House, has been summarily removed. Extremely hot weather prevails in the South. A movement is on foot in Louisiana to remove the capital from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Specials from every section of Texas report a general drouth all over that State, causing much suffering and loss among cattle and other live stock and seriously damaging crops. The residents of three hamlets in Tennessee requested the Postoffice Department to suggest names for their new postoffices. They were accordingly christened Mikado, Yum-Yum, and Nanki-Poo.

WASHINGTON.

It is reported from Washington that the Senate Commerce Committee is dissatisfied with the river and harbor bill as it passed the House and will probably report a new measure. Gov. Swineford of Alaska, Mr. Turner of the Signal-service Bureau, and Mr. Dahl of the coast survey addressed the House Committee on Territories in advocacy of the right of Alaska to a full territorial form of government The House Committee on Indian Affairs has under consideration a bill to refer all claims for Indian depredations committed subsequent to 1848 to a commission to be appointed by the President It is estimated that the aggregate amount of these claims will be abput $14,000,000. Antonio Nardello was executed at Washington for the murder of Carmine Rotuno, from whose pockets he took S3O. A favorable report will be made to the House on the bill authorizing the incorporation of trades unions in the Territories and the District of Columbia. Relic-hunters are said to be cutting up fences about the country place recently purchased for the President’s use. The internal revenue receipts for the past ten months were $95,303,066, being an increase of $3,135,782 over the receipts for the corresponding period of last year. _ The State Department has ordered that no fines shall be exacted from the Canadian schooner Sisters, detained at Portland, Me., for alleged violation of customs regulations.

POLITICAL.

The Hon. Roswell P. Flower has been appointed Electrical Sub-way Commissioner for New York City. The Prohibitionists of Indiana held their State Convention at Indianapolis, and nominated a State ticket, the Rev. J. H. Hughes, of Wayne County, being named for Secretary of State. The State Central Committee organized by electing John Raeloff, of Grant County, Chairman. A State conference of anti-saloon Republicans was Held at Trenton, N. J., at which resolutions were adopted approving of a strict enforcement of the existing laws. The municipal election at Petersburg, Va., which is claimed as a victory for the Citizens’ ticket over the Republicans, will be contested, under the management of Senator Malione and Captain John S. Wise, who charge fraud in nearly every ward. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk has been nominated bv the Prohibition party for Governor of New Jersev.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Four hundred employes of the Pennsylvania Tube Works struck because a workman was discharged, and the mill was closed down. In the Knights of Labor Convention at Cleveland, a resolution was adopted giving Mr. Powderly power to recall the commissions of all organizers. The Executive Committee was increased from five to eleven members. Permanent headquarters will he opened in Philadelphia, and if necessary the board will sit throughout the year, instead of assembling at the call of the General Master Workman. A Cleveland dispatch states that “the Knights are courting an alliance with the National Grange, the indications pointing to the establishment of close relations botweeu those two organizations.”

Business failures in the United States and Canada for the week numbered 181, against 1(57 the preceding week. More than one-half of the disasters are reported ’ from the Pacific States. The total failures for the year to date in the United States are 4,636, against 5,352 in 18S5, a decline of 716 in twenty-one weeks, as compared with 4,505 in 1884, 4,421 iu 1883, and 3,021 in 1882. Bradstreet's, in its weekly review of the trade situation, says:

The industrial situation is no worse tlinn a week ago. and the outlook favors improvement. The wheat outlook favors an excellent crop. Brad street's San Francisco advices report 60,000, - 000 bushels probable on tlio Pacific coast, with 38,000,OX) bushels of barley. The wheat market is dominated by the bears on heavy stocks, probable go«l crops and light demand. The Louisiana rice crop promises to be a full one, while the sugar crop in that State looks less favorable than a week ago. The cotton crop in Texas needs rain badly. It has gained in the Atlantic States since the rains stopped. Increased beet sowing depresses sugar prices, and reduced coffee receipts have advanced quotations thereof. Tea stocks are large and prices weaker. There is a slight improvement in the movement of merchandise at many points. Cotton goods have impioved somewhat in demand at the East, mid prices are firm. At the interior there is no gain. Prints are steady. Wool is stronger, but sales aro no freer. Iron is dull and unchanged for best makes, fctoel is firm. Manufactured iron is in light demand, except in special cases. Petroleum is low, laboring under heavy bear pressure.

The third day’s session of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, at Cleveland, was devoted to discussion of the motion to refer the report of the Executive Board on the relations of the order to trades unions to the Committee on the State of the Order. The whole matter was finally so referred. Mrs. Sarah M. Perkins, on behalf of the Ohio Woman’s Suffrage Association, read an address to the convention. The proposition of the Committee on Laws, that, where practicable, unattached local assemblies should become part of district assemblies, and transact business with the general assembly through them, wai adopted. The Secretary read a letter from Galveston, Texas, relating to the hardships of strikers who are confined in the jail of that city for “constructive contempt,” and asking the General Assembly to do something to obtain for them privileges given persons similarly charged in other courts of the United States. The following resolution was presented and unanimously adopted: Whereas, The jails at Galveston, Balias and elsewhere in Texas are filled with brother Knights suffering for "contempt of court,” as issued ®y Judge Pardee ; be it Resolved, bv this General Assembly, That we petition Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, to exercise clemency in their behalf, as the United States Judges have erdered a release of all prisoners sentenced during the strikes on the Southwest system, and thus bo 'the means of causing better feelings between employers and employes. A committee of two was appointed to draft suitable documents to be forwarded to the President, asking him to exercise clemency toward the imprisoned members of the order.

The St. Louis sugar refinery lias started up with a full force of 500 hands employed. At a cost of several thousand dollars per month the Black Diamond Steel Company, of Pittsburgh, voluntarily made an advance of 10 per cent, in the wages of all its employes.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs. Riel, widow of. the Canadian rebel, died at St. Vital, Ont., last week. Nova Scotians are preparing to seize some of the American mackerel catchers when they arrive. A cablegram states that the council of the Clydesdale Horse Society of Great Britain and Ireland has decided to present valuaA mob at Toronto, Ont., stoned street-cars, wrecking between thirty and forty of those vehicles, and causing the wildest uproar. No person was dangerously hurt. The Knights of Labor helped in quieting the rioters, ble medals for competition at the show of horses to be held under the auspices of the American Clydesdale Association at Chicago next September. The publication at Halifax, N. S., of the opinions of public men at Portland, Me., in regard to the fishery dispute, has caused much ill-feeliug. A leadiug man at Halifax says the “barbarous” treaty of 1818 is in existence simply because the United States would not appoint a commission to modify it. Mexico has granted a concession to the Governor of the State of Durango for the construction of a railroad to unite the City of Durango with the Mexican Central Railroad. John R. Bartlett, a well-known American author, is dead. The American Baptist Home Mission Society finished its work at Asbury Park, New Jersey, and fixed Minneapolis as the next place for meeting. A great mass meeting was held in New Orleans in support of the cause of home rule in Ireland. Governor McEnery presided. Governor Dawes presided at a mass meeting at' Lincoln, Neb., favoring homo rule for Ireland

FOREIGN.

Thunderstorms raged in Germany for three days. Many persons and hundreds of cattle were killed. Damage to the extent of $200,000 was done to vineyards in the Rhine valley. Germany is about to change all the garrisons o her western frontier. The Prussian Landtag appropriatad 50,000,C00 marks for the north coast sea channel. There is good authority for stating that the financial troubles of the King of Bavaria will be setiled very soon. The French Chambers have voted urgency for a bill to expel the Princes. Important gold discoveries are reported from Kimberley, Australia. Austrian newspapers are stirred up over a remark recently made by the Russian Czar, at Moscow, which is interpreted to signify warlike designs on his part against Turkey. By the loss of the steamer Lydeemon, from Melbourne for Sidney, seventy persons were drowned. A Paris cablegram states that Prince Jerome Napoleon is about to visit the United States to meet bis son, who is returning from a trip around tlie world. In consequence of a protest by Prince Bismarck, the Belgian Government lias prohibited a labor demonstration of great magnitude which w f as to take place in Brussels. China has decided not to renew her contracts with the German officers now in her service. The Salvation Army congress opened in London last week. Two thousand officers and many thousand soldiers from all parts of the world were in attendance. The University of Cambridge has decided to confer upon Oliver Wendell Holmes tlie degree of Doctor of Letters, and will also tender him a banquet. Minister Phelps had an interview in London with Lord Rosebery on the fishery d spute, in which it appeared that tlie Government w-as rather glad that tlie trouble had occurred, for it believed it would hasten a lasting settlement of the questions involved. A Spanish revenue cutter fired upon and seized three trading boots at Gibraltar. The cutter was .subsequently captured by a British armed launch. The passage of Mr. Gladstone’s home-rule measure on second reading is assured. Lord Hartingtou and his Whig followers will vote against the bill, but Mr. Chamberlain and his Radical adherents will abstain from voting, thus assuring its success.

EATER NEWS IETMS.

At their fourth session in Cleveland, the Knights of Labor adopted a resolution requesting Congress to declare the national election day a legal holiday. It was resolved to appoint at once and send to Washington a special committee of three to look after the labor legislation now pending before Congress. The Committee on Legislation presented the following propositions, in the nature of demands of Congress, which were ratified by the convention:

First, that patents fer the public lands be given to actual settlers only; tecond. that all land owned by any individual or corporation in excess of 100 acres, whether improved or unimproved, shall be taxed to the full value of improve d land; third, calling for the immediate forfeiture of all lands where the conditions of the grant have not been complied with; fourth, asking that patents on lands where the conditions have been compiled with be issued forthwith, so that taxation may take effect at onfce ; fifth, calling for the removal of the fences from the public domain; sixth, that after 189 J the Government shall by purchase and right of eminent domain obtain possession of all lands now held by aliens ; seventh, that after 1835 aliens shall be prohibited from acquiring title to lands; eighth, asking the abolition of all laws requiring a property qualification for voters; n.nth, requesting the passage of a law levying a graduated income tax; tenth, protesting against the cutting down of the appropriation for the Labor Bureau; eleventn, asking for the passage of the bills approved by the Congressional Labor Committee; twelfth, asking for the passage of a law prohibiting the employment in mines, shops, factories, etc., of minor&’for more than eight hours a day. Congressmen who ignore these demands will be put “on the list.” The Knights of Labor at Reading, Pa., met and officially declared the strike of bat-fiuishers off. The proprietor of the Champion Machine Works at Springfield, Ohio, has been arrested at the instance of the Knights of Labor for ejecting objectionable characters from his premises. The Chicago Tribune's weekly review of the labor outlook in that city shows that the retail furniture dealers have returned to ten hours; that the evil effects of the eight-hour agitation are still felt in the building trade; and that in other industries the movement has about collapsed. Near Goose Lake, lowa, a train ran over three meu who had gone to sleep on the track. Two were killed, but the third escaped with slight injuries. In tlie Maxwell trial at St. Louis phys cians testified that the}' had made an examination of Preller’s bod}', which had been exhumed for the purpose, aud found the organs claimed by the prisoner to be diseased in a normal, healthy condition. The General Secretaries of the Young Men’s Christian Association have been holding their sixteenth annual conference at Harrisburg, Pa. The Dominion i'shing-cruiser Lansdowne has received orders to put to sea from St. Jolm. The police-boat L. Howiett is cruising in the neighborhood of Canso. Three American schooners have, been officially reported as having purchased bait within the Canadian line, and their captains fear seizure.

United States Judges Pardee and Billings rendered a decision at New Orleans in favor of the Bell Company in its suits against the National Improved Telephone Company ct aL The Porte claims that the Greeks are dilatory iu disarming. According to the Pall Mall Gazette, it is extremely doubtful whether the British army could be relied upon to force Ulster to submit to Parnell. James Whelan, a Nova Scot‘S seaman, was hanged in England for murder upon the high seas. His crime was the killing of the mate of the vessel. At a meeting of the Chamberlain party, held in London, forty-six Liberal members of the House of Commons resolved to vote against a second reading of the home-rule bill. The Conservative whips estimate the Conservative vote at 252, the Hartington and Chamberlain section at 96, the Liberal absentees at 25, and the vote of the Gladstonians and Parnellites at 297, making a majority against the bill of 51.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work at the Senate and Honea at Representatives. The resolutions of the Ohio Legislature asking an investigation into the alleged Payne bribery case were presented to the Senate May 25. After the passage of a bill to increase the pensions of soldiers or sailors who lost an arm or leg in the service, Mr. Ingalls took occasion to pronounce Commissioner Black an impostor, who had secured from Congress the highest pension rate as an intellectnal and physical wreck. Mr. Voorhees replied that at the present time the services of a physician were required to dress Gen. Black's wounds. Mr. Harrison reported favorably a bill to authorize the appointment of an additional Adjutant-General l of the army, with the rank of Major of the cavalry. The Senate passed the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad land forfeiture bill, as reported from the Committee on Public Lands. The bill forfeits all lends except the right of way adjacent and coterminous with the uncompleted portion of the road. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate : Collector of Customs for the district of Sandusky, Ohio, John Finch. Receivers of Public Moneys—AmosJ. Harris, at Kirwin, Kan.; Alexander H. Baker, at Grand Island, Neb.; Ezra W. Miller, at Huron, D. T. Miles J. Finlin, uponwhom a bitter fight has been made, was confirmed as Postmaster at Streator, 111. A lively debate took place in the House of Representatives on the oleomargarine bill, in which Frank Lawler appeared as the defender of Chicago against the sarcasm of an lowa member. An Arkansas representative warned the House not to choke the Democratic party to death with butter. The Ways and Means Committee adversely reported the bill to carry into effect the Mexican treaty. Mr. Springer, from the Committee on Territories,. firesented to the House the adverse report of ba" committee on the Senate bill to provide for the admission of the State of Dakota intothe Union, and for the organization of the Territory of Lincoln. Two minority reports were also presented. Mr. Van Wyck, chairman of the Commit’ee on the Improvement of the Mississippi, made a favorable report upon the bill to make Lake Borgne the outlet, to improve the low-water navigation of the river from New Orleans, La.,, to Cairo, 111., and to protect and reclaim the valley lands of the Mississippi and tributaries from overflow. Mr. Edmunds reported favorably from the Committee on Foreign Relations the bill directing the Attorney General to brin? suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against Benjamin Weil, or his legal representatives or assigns, to determine whether the award made by tho United States and Mexican mixed commission in respect to his claim was obtained by fraud and to recover any part of the money already paid to claimants. The House of Representatives spent the day debating the oleomargarine bill. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, offered a resolution im the Senate May 27 providing for an investigation of the matter of the appointment of Indian • tradors by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Eulogies were delivered on the life and character of the late Senator Miller, alter which the Senate adjourned. The House discussed the oleomargarine bill, and devoted the balance of the day to the reading of committee reports. A caucus of Republican Senators was held, atwhich it was agreed to push through the measure forfeiting most of the lands of the NorthernPacific Railroad Company in Oregon.

Four Republican Senators—Cullom, Mandersou, Teller, and Van Wyck—voted with the Democrats in the Senate on the 28th ult., and killed the Northern Pacific forfeiture bill of Mr. Doiph, of Oregon. Mr. Conger presented the report of the Commerce Committee on the Eads ship-railway bill. In the report the committee says that the project is a practicable one, and that the net amount of annual revenue of the road will bo in excess of the amount guaranteed by Mexico and the United States. The opinion is expressed' that the aggregate amount ($7,500,000.1 will not have to be advanced by the Government. The committee reports back the accompanying bill as a substitute for Senate bill 584, with the recommendation that it do pass. The President vetoed bills for the relief of Rebecca Eldridge and Eleanor C. Baugham, widows of soldiers, aud bills granting pensions t»' Mrs. Anne C. Owen, Simmons W. Harden, aud J. D. Haworth. Approval is withheld ia these cases on the ground that the disability for which relief or a pension is asked had its origin in causes existing prior to the enlistment of the persons for whose services the claims are made. In the case of Mrs. Eldridge, the President says : “It is not a pleasant thing to interfere, but we are dealing with pensions, and not gratuities.” The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: C. R. Greathouse, of California, Consul General at Kanagawa;. Wm. H. Cleveland, to bo Appraiser of Customs for the district of Detroit, Mich. Adolph Lippraan, to be Commissioner for Alaska, at Junction City. During the debate in the House of Representatives on the oleomargarine bill, a Jerseyman proposed a tax of 75 cents on each dish of hash, every boarding-house,keeper to berequired to file a.statement of ingredients. All amendments to the bill presented were rejocted.

The House of Representatives only was in> session on tlie 29th ult. The day was devoted, in committee of tlie whole, to discussion of the oleomargarine bill. Every attempt to amend it was voted down, and its friends showed thatthey were determined to stand by it just as it came from the House Committee on Agriculture.

Big Things.

The greatest wall in the world is the Chinese wall, built by the Emperor of the Tsin dynasty, about 220 B. C., Its a protection against the Tartars. It traverses the northern boundary of China, and is carried over the highest hills, through the deepest valleys, across rivers, and every other natural obstacle. Among the most remarkable natural echoes are that of tlie Eagle’s Nest, on the banks of Killarney, Ireland, which repeats a bugle call until it seems to bo sounded from a hundred instruments, and that of the banks of the Naha, between Bingen and Coblentz, which repeats a sound seventeen times. The most remarkable artificial echoknown is that of the castle of Simonetta, about two miles from Milan. It is occasioned by the existence of two parallel walls of considerable length. It repeats the report of a pistol sixty times. The most remarkable whirlpool is the maelstrom oft - the northwest coast of Norway, and southwest of Moskentesol, the most southerly of the Lofoden Isles It was once supposed to be unfathomable, but the depth has been shown not to exceed twenty fathoms. The greatest cataract in the world ia that of Niagara. The Horseshoe Fall, on the Canadian side, has a perpendicular descent of 158 feet. The height of the American Fall is IG7- feet. The Horseshoe Fall, which carries a larger volume of water than the American Fall, is about GOO yards wide, and extends from the Canadian shore to Goat Island. The biggest diamond in the world, if indeed it be a diamond, is the Braganza, which forms a part of the Portuguese crown jewels. It weighs 1,860 carats. However, not a little doubt exists of its being a diamond, as the Government has never allowed it ta be tested. It was found in Brazil in 1741.