Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — Page 6

StjeHemocraticSenfinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, . . . Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week, EASTERN. Ex-Aiderman Duffy, of New York, who informed on his fellow-boodlers, has been surrendered by his Robert Boy 1. Frank Roe, a young citizen of Buffalo, who refused to testify against his mother, who is accused of murder, was found guilty of contempt of court James W. Foshay, late President of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railway Company of New York City, is dead. An indictment is on file against Foshay for being a party to the giving of bribes to members of the Board of Aidermen of 1884, in connection with the passage of the Broadway franchise. At a religious meeting in Erie County, Pa., John Lewis, aged 17, was suddenly attacked with hydrophobia, and began snarling .... and biting at persons in his vicinity. Lewis, who was bitten five years ago, was secured with difficulty. Captain Unger, who murdered Edward Bohle, cut up his body, and shipped it in a trunk to Baltimore, was found guilty of manslau r in the first degree, at New York, and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment at hard labor. Miss Sarah Reed, of Erie, has sold to a syndicate the track and franchises of the Ohio River and Lake Erie Road, which will be expanded into a through line from Erie to Pittsburgh. An agent in New York purchased 200,C00 bushels of oats for the German Governm mt. The Pinkertons have commenced a suit for libel against the Mayor of Jersey City, claiming $250,000 damages on account of a letter he recently published reflecting on them. The personal effects of the late Mrs. A T. Stewart are to bo sold at private auction in the Thirty-fourth street mansion in New York.

WESTERN.

The police of San Francisco captured J. E. Stiles almost in the act of placing a dynamite bomb on the cable railway track. They fired ten shots at him, but none of them took effect H. C. Dean was soon afterward taken into custody. Both are striking car men. In their houses were found dynamite and caps. One hundred and thirty-one persons were killed on railroads in lowa last year. Eight were passengers, sixty-one were employes, and there were sixty-two others—a decrease of twenty-five over the previous year. A band of Apaches recently left their reservation in Southern New Mexico, and at last accounts were heading for their old reservation in Southwestern Colorado. Trouble between the Indians and settlers is anticipated. Warden Andrew J. Howard of the Indiana Southern prison has been found from $50,000 to SBO,OOO short in his accounts with ■ the State. He has sent in his resignation. A very heavy shock of earthquake passed through the Frederickstown (Mo.) section of the country last week. The force was severe enough to overthrow furniture and displace plastering on the walls. A band of Mormons, under command of the notorious Lot Smith, have taken possession of the store and ranch of Edward Stone, near Tula City, Arizona, and driven out the owner and his family. The aid of the Governor has been invoked to dispossess the invaders.

The court at Sioux City, lowa, imposed fines ranging from $353 to st>JO against the saloon-keepers of that place, ordered them committed until the amounts were paid, and also that their places be sealed by the Sheriff. Only one saloon remains. The storm which has just subsided along the Rocky Mountain range, from the British line to New Mexico, says a Denver dispatch, is believed to have caused the death of 25 per cent of the cattle. Passengers traveling from Denver to Lincoln saw beeves buried to their heads in the snow. At Bethany, 111., Moses Hatfield shot his wife in the back and killed himself. For some time they had been estranged. Sister Genevieve, who recently left the convent at Newark, Ohio, is living with a former nun at Chillicothe, and has applied to the Pope for permission to retract her vows. Dairymen of Elgin, 111., find that the oleomargarine law has largely diminished the demand by Chicago manufacturers for creamery butter. It is thought that the genuine article will not bring over 33 cents per pound for years to came.

SOUTHERN.

The Grand Jury of Rowan County, Kentucky, has indie el Harry S. Logan and others for confederating to kill Judge A. E. Cole and County Attorney Young. An assignment has been made by the dry goods firm of Block, Oppenheimer & Co., of Galveston, to secure local debts of $225,009. The rest of their $759,000 liabilities is due in New York, and is unsecured. A Lynchburg dispatch announces the suspension of the Virginian, established in 18.8. Professor E. E. Barnard, of Vanderbilt University Observatory at Nashville, has discovered another comet The Brasfield sale of trotters at Lexington, Ky., shows that 188 head have changed bands for $76,63V. J. C. Pendergrass’ residence, near Roseville, 'Ark., was destroyed by fire, burning to death his five sons, who slept up-stairs and could not be rescued.

Mormon missionaries named Young and Smith are busily at work in Garrett County, Maryland, in a barn fixed up by a farmer.

WASHINGTON.

The Senate Committee on Printing, by a vote of two to one, has decided to report adversely the nomination of Public Printer Benedict, and he will probably be rejected. The fight against him, says a Washington special, has been made by the Typographical Union through its local representatives, and the objections advanced have been many. Mr. Benedict is not a practical printer in the meaning of the law, which requires that the man at the head of this great institution shall be one. He has been the publisher of a country newspaper, but never learned tho' trade and never worked at it, although in his business he has picked up a general knowledge of the art. He is not a member of the union. He has not recognized the union in the management of the office, and has got the whole labor element down on him because of some petty indiscretions. He has appointed to positions under h m as many as thirty persons from the town where he lived when he iot this office, a little village in New York, and has dismissed old and influential members of the union to give them places. He has had the big-head to an unlimited extent, and, coming from a little country weekly newspaper office to be the manager of the biggest printing institution in the world, he has an idea that he is as great a man as the President of the United States. He has treated the Senators like ordinary applicants for office, and they do not relish such conduct after the deferential manners of Rounds and hie staff. Another mistake Benedict has made is to attribute all the bad management at the printing office to the condition in which things were left by his predecessor. It could not be expected that a new man would come in and get on without friction, and complaint was natural, but Benedict tells every one, and wrote a letter to Congress, charging all the blame to Rounds, and the latter has a good many friends in the Senate, who have resented this sort of scapegoat business, and they are for rejection. The conferrees representing the Senate and the House have finally reached an agreement concerning the pending bill for the suppression of polygamy in Utah, says a Washington dispatch. The bill passed by the Senate provided that the Mormon Church should be governed by trustees appointed by the President That was an unwise provision, and in conference it has been • rejected. The requirement that all marriages in Utah shall be matters of public and official record will assist prosecutors in the performance of their duty. The most important paragraphs of the bill as it now stands are those which repeal the charters of the Mormon Church and the Mormon Immigration Society, and instruct the Attorney General to proceed in the courts for the recovery of all the church property which was not acquired in accordance with the laws of the 'United States. Section 1890 of the Revised Statutes is as follows: “No corporation or association for religious or charitable purposes shall acquire or hold real estate in any Territory during the existence of the Territorial Government of a greater value than $50,000; and all real estate acquired or held by such corporation or associat on contrary hereto shad be forfeited and escheat to the United States. ”

The first pension to a survivor of the Mexican war, under the recent law, was granted to Senator Williams, of Kentucky. The Secretary of the Interior, in recommending the establishment of an additional pension agency, in view of the passage of tho Mexican bill, points te New Orleans as the most suitable location. Vice Consul George H. Murphy will succeed Mr. George C. Tanner as United States Consul at Chemnitz, the latter’s resignation having been accepted by the President.

POLITICAL.

Public sentiment in Missouri caused the House to reconsider its vote re using to provide for the maintenance of the State militia. A country member of the New York Assembly has introduced a bill to prohibit the custom of treating to drinks in saloons. The Ohio House put through a measure for the abandonment and sale of the Wabash and Erie Canal, but the Senate promptly tabled it Walter and Turley, the Democratic members of the New Jersey Assembly whose, seats were contested by Republicans, were seated, after a furious and pro;racted struggle, by the close vote of 33 to 29 in each case. Major W. W. Armstrong, who has just been appointed Postmaster of Cleveland, to succeed Thomas Jones, Jr., was for years editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. J President Cleveland states that many members of the present Congress have been recommeded to him for places on the interstate commerce commission, and there is none of them whom he would so gladly nom nate as Colonel Morrison.

At the Philadelphia municipal election the Republican candidate received 99,497 votes, the Democratic candidate 62,204, and Henry George's candidate 1,664. Both houses of the Michigan Legislature Friday passed a resolution asking Congress to pass the dependent pension bill over the President’s veto. The Missouri Senate indefinitely postponed consideration-of the resolution for th 3 submission of a prohibitory amem mint Both houses of the Indiana Legislature have passed a bill appropriating $. 800,909 for the erection of a soldiers’ monument in Circle Park, at Indianapolis. Public Printer Benedict’s nomination has been acted on adversely by the Senate Printing Committee. A Washington special to the Chicago Times says: The immediate ground for deciding against him is that the law requires that the "office should be held by a practical printer, and Mr. Benedict is not a practical printer. His business is that of a publisher of a country paper. But. aside from this legal objection, he has not made a very good impression here. He went into tpp office with the idea, which he a red on every -possible occasion, that everybody who had been in the office before him was a rascal, and that he had come on to institute reform with a capital R. Ho discharged several hundred en ployes nt once, on the ground that the pay-roll had been run up far beyond what the appropriations warranted, but he has since been gradually filling up the office again, until it is said on good authority that there are more people employed in the office than there ever were before. When people have gone to him for employment and presented letters from Senators he has intimated with an.indiscreet degree of frankness that if they would get their Senatorial friends to confirm him he would see what hj could do,about making places forthem. It isn’t political etiquette to talk about swaping influence in this open and undisguised (manner, and Senators do pot like to be told that they must bustled round and vote for the Public Printer’s confirmation before he will treat their letters of recommendation with respect. These letters are sometimes given to really needy persons who are of no possible use to

Senators, but whom kind-hearted Senators are willing to help to find places where they can earn a dollar or two a day, are not exactly in position to go to Senators and make them vote for the Public Printer’s confirmation. The legislative committee appointed to investigate tho management of the West Virginia penitentiary, taking into consideration the growing sentiment against contact convict labor, recommends that the State purchase sufficient land near the prison to raise all vegetables.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

Negotiations are progressing for restarting the Meier Iron Works in Illinois, opposite South St Louis, which have been idle for several years. The striking employes of the Champion mine at Marquette, Mich., have resolved to go to work at the old rates. An increase of 25 per cent has been accorded to the men in the melting department of Hussey, Howe & Co.’s steel-mill at Pittsburgh. The St. Louis Council has passed an ordinance making eight hours a legal day’s work for city laborers.

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

The Union Pacific Road recently hauled a train-load of Chinese silk from Ogden to Council Bluffs inside of forty-four hours. The Lake Shore and Pennsylvania Roads are again at war over their yard rights at Erie. Ono hundred men employed by the former company tore up one of the Pennsylvania tracks. Miss Sarah Reed, of Erie, has sold to a syndicate the track and franchises of the Ohio River and Lake Erie Road, which will bo expanded into a through line from Erie to Pittsburg.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The government of Mexico has contracted with a firm in Hartford, Conn., for a steamship line between San Diego, California, and San Juse de Guatemala for twenty years. The boats will be subsidized by the trip and carry the Mexican flag. By a fall of earth in a mine at Lavant, Ontario, three men were killed and two others were serious'y injured. The steamer Indiana, which has arrived at Philadelphia from Liverpool, reports that she passed through field-ice for thirty miles and Within sight of a number of icebergs in latitude 45.40, longitude 48.12. Two of the icebergs were of immense size, being not less than 1,500 feet long. Looking to the northward from the Indiana as far as the eye cou'd reach nothing could be seen but a vast field of ice. The committee of Catholics on the McG ynn case has called on workingmen all over the country to hold mass meetings of their unions to rally around Dr. McGlynn and denounce political interference from Rome. The Canadian Pacific Company has purchased three Cunarders to put on the British Columbia and Australia route.

FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone has written a letter referring to Mr. John Bright’s recent communication, in which he says he is glad that Bright feels for the Irish people, whom he says he may hereafter trust Six natives of Tongu, one of the Friendly Islands, have been executed for complicity in the assau't on Missionary Baker and his family. Much uneasiness is felt in Constantinople in consequence of the activity of the Catholic Missionaries in Bulgaria. They are meeting with unexpected success in their religion s work. It is semi-officially stated in Russian Government circles that the conviction is gaining ground that war between France and Germany is inevitable. In addition, it is said, as a fresh defeat of France might inyolve disastrous results to Russ a, the Czar’s Government will, in the event of war, pre:erve entire liberty of action. It will not support France as an ally, but may, by a firm, reserved attitude, prevent Germany from sending her whole of her army west of the Rhine, and, even if France should be defeated, alleviate as much as possible the effects of the disaster. For these reasons, it is declared, Russia will await the outcome of the different phases of the Bulgarian crisis with the greatest calmness, and act in such a way as to avoid being involved with Austria or England at the moment when France and Germany commence hostilities.

A letter from Mr. Gladstone, appealing to Irish Protestants to favor home rule, has been made public. A Nihilistic printing-office and materials at Geneva, Switzerland, were seized by the authorities. * Bismarck will dismiss the new Reichstag to be elected, as soon as it meets, if it contains a majority against him. Archbishop Croke opposes the payment of taxe< in Ireland. He is more radical than Father McGlynn. The Gaulois of Paris prints an interview with a diplomata who confirms the statement that Prince Bismarck will demand the neutrality of France in the East The Duke of Argyll has just published a book on “Scotland, Past and Present,” in which he attempts to vindicate the Scotch landlords against the attacks of the crofter agitators. The municipal authorities of Strat-ford-on Avon have decided on the site and design for the drinking fountain which is the jubilee gift of Mr. George W. Childs to Shakspeare’s town, The budget committee of the Austrian lieichsrath has agreed to vote 12,099,600 florins for the equipment, of/the Landwehr and the Landstrum. The lower House of the Hungarian diet voted an extra, credit of $3,110,009 for the equipment of the Hungarian Landwehr. , ’Twenty thousand applications have been received for officers’ Commissions in the Hungarian Landstrum, and rich women are seeking positions in the ambulance service.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Acting Secretary of the Treasury Las issued a call for $10,000,000 3 per cent bonds. The call will mature April 1. Miss Catherine Augusta Patten was married at Washington to Congressman John M Glover, of St Louis, by the Rev. Father Chappelle, of St. Aloysios’ Roman Catholic Church. Those present included some of the most distinguished people, socially and politically. Washington special : “ Carlisle’s friends say that they think he will not accept the leadership of the Treasury Department It is generally believed the President is very much incaned to offer him the place, but will probably not formally do so without knowing Carlisle’s sentiments on the subject On the whole, it does not look as though Mr. Carlisle would become Secretary.” The business men of Minneapolis have tendered to the State of Minnesota a Capitol site and building, the latter to cost <2,003,000. The belief that the Union Pacific Road is about to build to Sioux City, lowa, has caused a boom there in real estate. The resignation of Judge Samuel Treat of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has been forwarded to the President. The cause of the resignation is understood to be that the Judge devotes his time to private business. He is 71 years of age, and was appo'nted by President Pierce. The first returns from the elections in Germany show that the Government suffered defeat in the six districts of Ber.in. The Government will probably hive a majority in the Reichstag. Surprise is expressed at the strength shown by the Socialists throughout the empire. A Berlin dispatch says: The elections in this city have resulted unfavorably for all the Government candidates. In four of the six divisions second ballots will be necessary, but in each of these divisions the anti-septenate candidate has at present a majority. The net result of the Berlin voting is as follows: Socialist, 90,107, a gain of 22,000; Septenist, 69,878; new German Liberal, 65,884. The Government “parties have gained 13,000 votes, and the new German Liberals have lost 5,000. An analysis of the polling shows that the contest was unprecedentedly stubborn. As the night advanced the excitement became intense. Thousands of people surrounded tne newspaper offices awaiting special editions giving eturns. It is stated that Singer and Hasenclevcr have each over 12,000 majority in this city. The result in Hamburg is a triumph for the Social Democrats, two of whose candidates are returned by large majorities. The steamer La Bourgogne made New York from Havre in seven days and eighteen hours, or six days and eighteen hours from Queenstown. The St. Paul Road has let the contract for the extension of its tracks this season from Merrill to Fairbank Lake, a distance of fifty-three miles, to reach the lumber region. Harvey E. Light, proprietor of the Eureka Steamboat Company, made an assignment at Rochester, N. Y. The assets are $45,000, wiih liabilities of $60,000. Mr. Beecher, in his Sunday sermon at Brooklyn, expressed his opinion that a m in who believes in hell is a candidate for a lunatic asylum.

A resolution authorizing the Ordnance Committee to sit in Washington during the recess, and to associate with it three naval officers. was adopted by the Senate February 21. The Senate passed the river and harbor appropriation and the bill to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. A bill was introduced to locate at Columbus, Tenn., an arsenal for the manufacture of ordnance and ordnance stores. The President sent to the Senate messages vetoing bills granting pensions to John D. Fincher and Rachael Ann Pierpont. As to the first-named case, the President maintains that the disability for which the pension is asked was not incurred in the service, and as to the latter case the President says that since the bill was introduced a pension has been granted to the claimant by the Pension Office at the same rate authorized in the bill. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Amos M. Thayer, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. In the House of Representatives Mr. Henderson of North Carolina, from the Committee on Elections, submitted a report on the Indiana contested-election case of Kidd against Steele. The report, which is unanimous, confirms the right of the contestee (Steele) to the seat.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESSIONAL

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. A bill providing for an additional Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico, passed the Senate Feb. 17. Mr. Bale’s bill appropriating 815,400,030 for the construction of gun-boats, torpedo-boats, and heavily armored vessels for coast defense, and an act for the delivery to their rightful owners of certain boxes deposited in the Treasury Department by the Secretary of War, were also passed. Mr. Vest offered a substitute for the Eads Tehuantepec Ship-Railway bill, which provides for the incorporation by James B. Eads and some eighty other persons named of the Atlantic and Pacific Ship-Railway Company, with a capital stock not to exceed 8100,030,1X1). The substitute was passed—yeas 46, nays 7—with an amendment thereto offered by Senator Van Wyck providing that no certificate of stock shall be issued until it shall have been fully paid for in money at par value, and prohibiting the issuance of bonds in excess of the paid-in capital or the disposal of the same at less than their par value. Mr. Wilson presented a pet’tion from citizens of lowa in favor of a National Board of Arbitration. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Samuel N. Aldrich, of Massachusetts, to be assistant Treasurer of the United States at Boston; John M. Mercer, of lowa, to be Surveyor of Customs at Burlington, Iowa; Owen McGloughlin, of lowa, to be Surveyor of Customs, Dubuque, Iowa; Arthur K. Delaney, Of Wisconsin, to be Collector of Customs forth® District of Alaska; postmaster at Cleveland, William W. Armstrong; Charles E. Broyles, of Colorado, to be Register of the Land Office at Del Norte, CoL The House of Representatives passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. By a vote of 83 to 160 the Texas seed bill failed to pass over the President’s veto. The vote against consideration of the pension veto was 140 to 113. The conference report on the anti-Mormon bill was adopted by a vote of 202 to 40.

The anti-polygamy bill, which had previously gone through the House, passed the Senate February 18, by 377 yeas to 13 nays. The first six sections of the bill apply to prosecutions for bigamy, adultery, etc., and make the wile or husband a competent witness, but do not compel either to testify. Sections 7 and 8 give powers of Court Commissioners and of the Marshal and Deputy Marshals. Sections 9 and 10 apply to the marriage ceremony. They require a certificate, properly authenticated, to be recorded in the office ot the Probate Court. Section 11 annuls all Territorial laws recognizing the capacity of illegitimate children to inherit or be entitled to any distributive share in the estate of the father. Section 12 annuls territorial laws, conferring jurisdiction upon Probate courts (with certain exceptions). Sections 13 and 14 make it the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to institute proceedings to escheat to the United States the property of corporations obtained or held in violation of section 3 of the act of July, 1862, the pioceeds of such escheat to be applied’to the use and benefit of common, schools in the territory. Sections 15 and 16 annul the charter of the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company and dissolve that corporation, and forfeit all property and assets of the company in excess of debts and lawful claims to the benefit of common schools in the terr tory. Section 17 dissev/es the corporation of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and makes it the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to institute legal proceedings to wind up the affairs of the corporation. Section 18 provides for the endowment of widows, who are to have one-third of the income of the estate as their dower. Section 19 gives to the President the appointment of a Probate Judge in each county. Section 23 annuls the acts of the Legislative Assembly which permit female suffrage. The next four sections make provisions for elections, and require of voters an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution and obey the laws, especially the anti-polygamy act of March 22, 1882, and this act. Sect on 25 abolishes the office of Territorial Superintendent of District Schools, and makes it the duty of the Supreme Court of the Territory to appoint a Commissioner of Schools. Section 26 gives to all religious societies, sects, and congregations the right to hold, through trustees appointed by a Probate Court, property for houses of worship and parsonages. The 27th and last section annuls all Territorial laws for the organization of the militia, or for the creation of the Nauvoo Legion, and gives the Legislative Assembly of Utah power to pass laws for organizing tne militia, subject to the approval of Congress. General officers of the militia are to be appointed by the Governor of the territory with the advice and consent of the council. A bill appropriating 84.663,104 for the payment of Mexican and other pensions was favorably reported to the House. The House non-concurred in the Senate amendments to the invalid pension bill, and asked for a conference. The House refused—yeas, 142 ; nays, 98—to pass the pension bill of Simmons W. Hart over tho President's veto. An evening session of the House was held to consider pension bills, and a large number were passed.

At the session of the Senate on Saturday, Feb. 19, Senator Beck announced that he had a memorial to present on American shipping on which he wished to be heard before the Committee on Commerce. He had for years been presenting petitions for the repeal of the navigation laws, in the hope that Americans might be able to own steamship lines on the ocean. Senator Van vVyck, after moving the $300,009 appropriation for improvements on points on the Missouri River, accepted an amendment by his colleague, Mr. Manderson, appropriating SIOO,OOO for points north of the Missouri River. The Chaplain of the House of Representatives failed to appear, and for the first time iu six years business was commenced without prayer. The Senate amendment appropriating $25,000 for the education of children in Alaska was concurred in by the House, notwithstanding the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations to the contrary. The Senate amendment appropriating $2,000 for the erection of fences around the cemeteries in which Confederate dead are buried near Columbus and Johnson’s Island, Ohio, was non-concurred in by the House for the purpose of enabling the Committee of Conference to prepare a measure in accordance with the views of both sides of the House. Both Senate and House agreed to the conference report on the retirement of the trade dollar. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions submitted a unanimous report recommending the passage over the President's veto of the invalid pensions bill. The President vetoed the pension bills of Richard O’Neal, late Colonel of the Twentysixth Indiana Volunteers, and John Reed, whose son, John Reed, died in the service.

Boston Society Episode.

Introductions of strangers are apt to be at all times a trifle embarrassing, but particularly so at crowded receptions. where people are sprung on each other without the least preparation. One afternoon a man was walked up to a lady by the hostess, presented, and abandoned to his fate, the lady having caught only her own name, which certainly did her no good. A keenness for hearing one’s own patronymic is not natural, but in this instance it was the stranger’s name she desired to know, for his face was new, and evidently he was not of Boston, nor Bostonese. However, hoping it would dawn upon h<\r later on, she began to chat in the customary small-t ilk-i eception vein, and then, seeing Mlle. Hhea in the distance, she asked this handsome unknown: “Had he seen Mademoiselle play since she had been in town ?” In cold and haughty tones the gentleman responded: “I am her support!” Tableau !— Boston Herald. Experience has shown that a greater amount of work is accomplished by sewing machines when run by electromotors than by foot-power. There is also less wear and tear to the machine.