Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1887 — Page 2

gtKlhiiiocratif Sentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. An arch in a furnace in the Edgar Thompson Steel Works at Braddocks, Pa., c >llap ed, burying a number of men in the red-hot debris. Five men were fatally burned, their flesh being literally cooked. Fire at Lebanon, N. H., destroyed over S3A),(MO worth of property, with an insurance of SIIO,OCO. A horrible accident occurred near McKpesport, Pa., which resulted in the burning to death of Airs. Cook and her two little children, and in the total destruction of the house. She was using petroleum oil to kindle a fire, when the contents of the can were ignited, and an explosion followed. The woman rushed out of the house with her clothing in fl lines, and perished in the yard. The house took fire and was consumed, and two little chi dren who were in it perished in the flames. A third child only escaped a similar fate by following her mother out of the house. The steamer Empire State was destroyed by fire at Bristol, R. L, with a loss of 9100,000. The West Side haymarket and adjacent buildings in New York City were burned. The k>s< is estimated at $165,000. An effort has been started at Boston to secure the pardon of F. J. Moses, ex-Gov-ernor of South Carolina, who is in the penitentiary there for forgery. His health is said to be broken down.

WESTERN.

Mr. James Smith, living near Freeport, HL, died last .week, aged 102. He waa a life-long Democrat; never rode on a railroad train; and never ate a meal at a hotel The planing mill, machinery, and a quantity of lumber at St Louis, the property of Schuelenberg & Boecheler, were burned. Loss, $60,003.

La Crosse (Wis.) special: “John Ake, second baseman of the Duluth Club, was drowned here while on the river rowing with Earle and Barnes of the same club. The boat got in the waves made by a steamer and was capsized. Earl and Barnes swam to shore, which was about two hundred yards off. Earle says they turned and saw Ake sitting on the boat They were about to go to his rescue with a skiff when they saw him leave the boat and attempt to swim ashore. He had covered only a small part of the distance when he held up his hands and shouted, “Save me,” and sunk. He did not come to the surface again. Ake came from Altoona, Pa. He was 24 years of age, and was released from the Indianapolis Club to play the present season with Duluth.” California has had another earthquake shock. Great forest fires are reported in Northern Wisconsin and the Northern Peninsula of Michigan. A skeleton was found in Dakota, and near by it a bag containing $5,000 in greenbacks and <!oin. Natural gas has been struck near Wabash, Ind., at a depth of 900 feet The well is pronounced the equal of any in the State. Judge Sloan, of Milwaukee, has granted a stay of proceedings in the Grottkau case, and fixed the bail at $2,000. A brother of Land Commissioner Sparks attempted suicide at Litchfield, 111, by sitting on the tracks in front of an approaching train. He was depressed over the road passing his property and tailing to pay him damages. Numerous citizens of Wellsville, Ohio, have devised a new plan to defeat the Dow liquor law. They have organized several private clubs to encourage drinking, elected officers, and purchased a large amount of liquor. St. Louis was visited by an electric storm Bunday afternoon. Iwo jiersons were killed, several were injured, and considerable damage was done to property. *

SOUTHERN.

Silas Stofer, the Police Justice of Mount Sterling, Ky., who recently released Corneilson on a writ of habeas corpus, has been arrested for aiding in the escape of a prisoner. Mrs. McWha, aged 70, and her daughter, Mrs. Van Baker, were murdered in their home, at Halliday’s Cave, W. Va, the assassins rob’iing the house of $350.

Thd Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Maryland celebrated its centennial anniversary at Baltimore with imposing ceremonies. *The Kentucky Derby at Louisville was won by Montrose, with Jim Gore second and Jacobin thirl The odds against the winner Albert Turner, one of the murderers of Jennie Bowman, at Louisville, Ky., has been indicted, pleaded guilty, and sentenced to be hanged July 1. It is only three weeks since the crime was commit'ed. The “color line” occupied the attention of the Episcopal Diocesan Convention of South Carolina in session at Charleston. The question was the right of the colored clergy to admission to the floor as delegates. The discussion elicited much feeling and resulted in the secession of the lay delegates of fourteen parishes. A passenger train in South Carolina was stopped by the myriads of caterpillars on the tracks.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Fairchild has issued instructions for the rigid enforcement of the Jaw which forbids the slaughtering of any fur-

bearing animal within the limits of Alaska or the waters thereof, except as specially authorizod. Reports received at the Treasury Department show that 6,500,426 trade dollars have been redeemed to date. The principal redemption waa in Philadelphia The law authorizing the redemption of trade dollars has already been in operation over two months, and has nearly four months to run. It was originally estimated that there were about seven millions of these coins in this country, and the redemptions show that the estimate is nearly correct Importations from China and Japan may swell the amount to 8,001,030. James W. Hyatt, Bank Examiner of Connecticut, who has been appointed Treasurer of the United States, was a Republican until 1872, when he “Greeleyized. ” He is a man of large experience in affairs, reputed an able financier, and his appointment seems to be in every way’ creditable. A motion for reargument in the Maxwell land-grant case will be filed in the United B‘ates Supreme Court Gen. Butler will be engaged in the case. The Government receipts this month have been very heavy and the expenditures less than usual. Justice Woods, of the United States Supreme Court, died at Washington on the 14th inst of kidney troubles, from which he had been suffering over a year. It is reported that Attorney General Garland is likely to bp appointed his successor. The names of exGovernor Hoadly, Secretary Endicott, Speaker Carlisle, Senators Pugh and George, and Congressman Hammond are also mentioned in connection with the appointment

POLITICAL.

The Kentucky Republican State Convention, in session at Louisville, made the following nominations: For Governor, W. O. Bradley, of Lancaster; for Lieutenant Governor, M. O. Doherty, of Louisville; for Attorney General, John Felan, of Hopkinsville; for Auditor, R. D. Davis, of Carter. The platform favors Federal aid to education; a protective tariff, and national aid for the internal improvement of rivers and harbors. The President is condemned for refusing to sign the river and harbor bill, as well as for his veto of the pension bill New Orleans telegram: “The prohibition movement which has prevailed so strongly in Texas and Mississippi has reached Louisiana, and is receiving much encouragement from the negroes. A call has been read in all the negro churches in the city for a prohibition convention to meet in the St Charles Avenue Methodist Church May 31 and June 1, for the purpose of effecting a permanent organization of the colored people of Louisiana to break up the liquor traffic.” • Senator John Sherman has accepted an invitation from Republican members of the Illinois Legislature to deliver a political address at Springfield on June 1. The Michigan House of Representatives has passed a bill taxing liquor-sellers SSOO each without any discrimination between beer and whisky. The brewers’ tax remains as at present The bill passed by a narrow margin of 52 to 35, 51 votes being necessary to pass a bill A bill permitting pool-selling on race-tracks has passed the New York Senate.

REGULATING THE RAILROADS

Judge Cooley,. Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, has addressed the following letter to the other members of the commission for their approval: The Interstate Commerce Commission has had transmitted to it from the State Department, a communication from William 11. H. Washington, United States commercial agent at London, Ontario, in which that officer lays before the department the disastrous effects of the recent act to regulate commerce updn the trade of the United States with Cana la, and gives instances to prove their alarming nature. From the communication’s being sent to the commission 1 infer the department expects some notice to be taken of it, and, though the Commissioners are just now separated, I venture to express my own thoughts. Mr. Washington's fears of disastrous consequences are, lam well assured, excessive. They will not to any great extent be realized. Some inconveniences must necessarily arise from putting in force a law which attempts such considerable changes, but they will be greater at first than after the working of the law has become un lerstoo l, and greatest while parties are hesitating to act because of doubts of constructions. Probably no important act ever passed by Congress has elicited such a variety of opinions nnd with such radical differences as the one in question. The terms of the act are not as clear as they might have been; but it should also be said that the state of mind in which persons differently circumstanced have come to an examination of the law has not been conducive to harmonious views. A careful reading of Mr. Washington’s letter seems to show that the consequences which he attributes to the law flow from the construction railroad managers have put upon it, and which may or may not be correct In a recent visit of the Commissioners to the* Southwest it was made very apparent in the testimony taken that some persons were excited by fears of the destruction oi their business which had no other basis than views of the law which were so erroneous that it would seem they ought not to have been entertained by anyone. I cannot help thinking that equally unfounded views have had much to do with the disturbances of trade of which Mr. Washington speaks, and that as these are corrected the disturbances will become comparatively unimportant. 1 shall remain in that belief until further experience of the law snail shew its error. The Interstate Commission denies that it has discriminated against Northern roads, and says that if the Southern roads have been favored it is because the others have been backward in asking favors.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK

There are no indications of settlement of the coke-workers’ strike, which is causing a reduction of 34,003 tons per week in the output of pig iron in the Mahoning, Shenandoah, and Allegheny Valleys. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers will submit an entirely new scale, equivalent to an advance of 10 per cent all around in wages. Bishop Ireland, who has just returned from Rome, said in his sermon at St. Louis, last Sunday, that the church had neither approved nor condemned the Knights of Labor. It recognized the right of every workman to strike, but not to force others Io stop work. The Pope, he said, took a deep interest in American affairs, and considered America the hope of the world. The prospect of a speedy settlement

of the great strike in the building trades at Chicago is now wholly dispelled. Both employers and men have formally resolved to stand firm and fight it out, whatever be the cost A Chicago dispatch says: The representatives of the various building trades met and agreed to stand firmly together, and refuse any and all offers looking to compromising with the 'bricklayers. The materal men renewed their agreement not to sell material penning the strike, the architects, with some reluctance, determined to lend their influence to the employers in the fight, and the United Trades ton il met and concluded to antagonize the bricklayers in their fight, on the ground that tbev ha I dragged the other trades into a uoedless trouble to carry a trivial point in their own interest. On the other hand, the bricklayers agreed to stand by their demand for Saturday as pay-day, and to refuse to work on any other terms, and thus matters stand.

MISCELLANEOUS. R. G. Dun & Co. report 167 failures in the United States and Canada during the week, against 182 the previous week. In their weekly review they say: A great revolution in business is going on. With radically conflicting accounts of serious losses at some localities and in some branches, and of wonderful gains at other places, or in other departments of trade and industry, the difficulty of reaching just conclusions is much enhanced. The interstate act is but one of several causes which contribute to produce this revolution in commerce; expansion in the volume and change in the kind of currency is another not less important. Most unexpected results are pn duced; the interstate act clearly hcli>s those who bitterly opposed it, and as clearly injures others who expected great benefits’ from its operations. Thus the river business of the West is expanding under the influence of the law and the railroads are at the same time getting larger earnings from the pare of the traffic they retain, while not a few cities find, as Cincinnati does, that trade in many lines is greatly embarrassed. One general tendency is disclosed by the urgent demands for suspension or change of the law, especially from those who most favored its enactment. Serious diversion of trade from Western cities which have been chief centers of distribution is in progress and a multitude of smaller towns ace reaping the benefit. Western products do not, as a rule, gain anything in Eastern markets: wheat has advanced 5)4 cents since the act went into effect, corn and oats have declined a fraction, pork is about the same in price, lard )4@l cent lower, hogs % cent lower, and beef sells at the same price. Cotton has been advanced cent, but this change, like the rise in wheat, is clearly speculative, and therefore tnreatens reaction through curtailment of demand. Railroad building is not checked by the act as yet, and there is a probability that, by encouraging traffic at many instead of few centers of trade, the law may tend to the building of numerous local roads and parallel or rival lines. Editor William O’Brien of United Ireland wrote two long letters to his newspaper from Montreal. He praised the warmth and hospitality of the people of Canada, which, he said, astonished him more than anything else. A big anti-O’Brien mass-meet-ing, with over 10,000 people present, was held at Toronto. The Irish editor was roundly denounced, ringing resolutions were adopted, and the National anthem sung with the greatest enthusiasm. O’Brien made some informal speeches against Lansdowne at Montreal The Dominion Government is about to engage in the construction of an extensive system of (oast defenses. The matter has been under consideration in the Canadian Seriate, which holy seems to be deeply impressel with the wisdom of preparing for such possibilities as a rupture with the United States, or a war between France and Russia and England, which would expose Canada to an attack.

FOREIGN.

The stringent commercial regulations just adopted by Russia, which seem to ba directed chiefly at Germany, are bitterly denounced by the semi-official press of the latter country. The proposed increase of the German corn duty also causes much apprehension in Austria-Hungary. Advices from China say that the steamer Banton, plying between Singapore, Penang, and Malacca, was run into by the steamer Fair. Peqang and sank in half an hour. Of the 230 persons aboard only fifty are known to have been saved. Most of those lost were natives. A complete rupture is reported between the French Cabinet and the Budget Committee of the Chamber, of Deputies over a refusal to accept a reduction in the Government estimates of 13,0)0,000. The French Government has closed a factory near Luneville owned by a German who employed m>n belonging to the German imperial army. This actio’ll is supposed to be the forerunner of other reprisals against the Germane. The Russian Government persists in its refusal to abate any of its claims regarding the Afghan frontier. The Czar declined to receive the members of the British Commission while they were at St Petersburg. A commercial crisis prevails at Odessa, Russia, where the bankruptcy courts are said to be crowded with the cases of old-es-tablished and hitherto prosperous business firms. The London Times is printing another senes of sensational articles, entitled “Behind the Scenes in America,” intended to show that the policy of Mr. Parnell and Mr. Gladstone is “ultimately dictated” by Mr. Patrick Ford and other advocates of crime. The agreement between England and Turkey includes the British evacuation of Egypt in three years. The Queen made a triumphal journey through London on the 14th inst, from Paddington station to Mile End, at the extreme eastern limit, a distance of eight miles, where she formally opended the “People’s Palace.” The metropolis was brilliantly decorated in honor of the occasion, and great crowds lined the streets through which the royal procession passed. It was the first Majesty had visite l the East End in many years. The Marquis of Salisbury desires to send a note to Russia, intimating in vigorous language that no further negotiations will be entertained by England, and that any violation of the status quo of the boundary line of Afghanistan will be considered by England as a causus belli The American Exposition in London is daily gaining in public favor, and enormous crowds visit Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. When the Queen visited the show Sergeant Bates advanced and presented the American flag, whereupon the Queen stepped Airward and'ceremoniously bowed toward the flag as it was lowered.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Mexican Commission now examining into the recent seismic disturbance in the Sierra Madre Mountains, have sent the following dispatch to Gov. Torres, of Sonora: In the puebla of Babispe City seven persons were kil.ed and nineteen injured; in Oputo nine w ere killed, and both pueblaa were destroyed. The inhabitants of Babispe, Baceraca, Oputo, and Guaaabas are living in the fields under trees and in dug-outs. There have been repeated successions of shocks. A panic existed everywhere,and a number of women died from Iriglit. A wide extent of territory is seamed with crevices and immense chasms. The earth has sunk in many places and is flooded with water, making swamps where water never existed before. In many mountains are to be seen what appear to be eruptions, and continuous smoke indicates volcanic action. This region has not yet been explored, owing to continuous tremors and great chasms, making the approach thereto at present most difficult and dangerous. “Mr. Blaine, Gov. Bodwell, and others of his lieuteuante,” says an Augusta (Me.) dispatch, “are preparing for the summer at Bar Harbor. It is not believed that Blaine will go to Europe June 6as announced, since in that event he will lose his grip of the labor vote and will be unable to watch Sherman. A conference of Repub.ican leaders will be held at Bar Harbor this summer, when the pulse of the party will be felt By the time Mr. Blaine closes his cottage he expects to know whether it will be possible for him to get the nomination in 1888. In case his strength in the Presidential line fails him it is fully believe 1 he will conclude to go back to the Senate.”

George E. Reed, City Treasurer of Bismarck, D. T., has d sappeared, and his accounts are $9,000 short Reed, who is supposed to have gone to Canada, took his bond with him, thus relieving his sureties of obligation to pay the deficit A plan is on foot at Lima, Ohio, to organize a producers’ oil exchange to oppose the Standard Oil Company. The leaders claim that under the interstate commerce law they could obta n equal rates with the Standard and thus be able to enter into competition with the great monopoly. Some time ago New York paper published a sensational story of alleged hardships and indignities inflicted upon the Apache captives at Fort Pickens, Florida. A report just submitted to General Sheridan by the Inspector General of the Division of the Atlantic says the captives occupy clean and wholesome quarters, and are docile and obedient As to their treatment the report is silent Archbishop Corrigan, of New York, in a public address in that city, denounced Henry George’s land theory as “a fallacy against both philosophy and common sense, and as against the teachings of the Catholic Church.” He also stigmatized as “error” the idea that the Pope has the right to command and be obeyed only m matters of faith and morals. Henry George will, doubtless, fire another nine-column paragraph at the Archbishop. Gen. Boulanger’s plan for the mobilization of the French army causes uneasiness at Berlin. If France mobilizes Germany will mobilize also. , The boycott is still in vogue in Ireland. The latest victim is the agent of Lord Clanricardc’s estates in County Galwav. Extensive preparations are now being made for the great International Sunday School Convention which meets in Chicago on the night of May 31st, and continues June Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th. Battery D has been engaged, and will have chairs to accommodate 4,000 persons soon in place, and extensive decorations are in progress. Nearly all of the railroads in the United .States have made arrangements to return at one-tinrd fare all who pay full fare to the convention. Persons wishing to avail themselves of reduced rates must receive from Mr. B. F. Jacobs, Chairman of the Executive Committee, No. 99 Washington street, certificates, which will be furnished ou application. The prospects are that the attendanco will be very large. In order to accommodate those desiring to attend outside of Chicago, reserved seats will bo sold to others than regular delegates for $1.53, good for the entire convention.

THE MARKETS.

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GARFIELD IN BRONZE

Sculptor Ward’s Statue of the Dead Statesman and Soldier Unveiled. Many Distinguished People Present— The President’s Eloquent Tribute. Reunion of the Army of the Cumberland—The Next Meeting to Be Held at Chicago. [Washington special.] The Army of the Cumberland could not have had a more perfect day for their dedication exercises. Promptly at 11:30 o'clock General Baird, Chief Marshal of the parade, gave the signal for marching, and the procession started. A platoon of mounted police led the way, followed by General Baird and his aids, who preceded a carriage in which was seated Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and Rogeorans, three of the four living commanders of the Army of the Cumberland. On a grand stand near the statue seats had been arranged for 1,500 persons. Just before 1 o’clock the invited guests began to arrive. James and Harr.y Garfield were escorted to seats by Gen. Mussey, while Col. Wilson performed a similar officefor the aged W. W. Corcoran. Secretary Bayaid and Attorney General Garland were among the early arrivals. The members of the Supreme Court of the United States came in a body. The District Judiciary, members o’ the Court of Claims, and District Commissioners were also present. At 1 o’clock Gens. Sherman, Sheridan, and Rosecrans and Gov. Curtin arrived in a carriage, just after the head of the procession made its appearance. They were soon followed by President Cleveland, escorted by Gen. Anderson, and Secretary and Mrs. Fairchild, Secretary and Mrs. Lamar, Postmaster General Visas, and Col. Lamont. Ex-Secretary Windom and exAttomey General MacVeagh of President Garfield's Cabinet were among the guests present. At 1:10 o’clock Marshal Wilson, taking his place on the stand, said: Ladies and Gentlemen—The Society of the Army of the Cumberland, with these distinguished guests, are assembled here to-day for the purpose of unveiling the statue of that eminent statesman and soldier, James A. Garfield. The exercises will be opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Giesy. There was a short lull in the proceedings while a battery of artillery fired a national salute. Gen. Sheridan then introduced, the orator of the day, Gen. J. Warren Keifer, who, on the part of the Monument Committee, delivered an address transferring the statue to Gen. Sheridan. At its conclusion Gen. Sheridan, in behalf of the society, transferred the statue to the President in the following words: Mn. President—This statue which has been unveiled in your presence to-day was erected, by the comrades of Gen. Garfield belonging to the Army of the Cumberland. They recognized his merit as a soldier and tuey wished to pay some testimony to that merit and to his worth as a man. I have the honor, sir, on behalf of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, to ask you as the representative of the .American people to accept the statue from their hands as it was given to,me. [Applause.] The President, who arose as Gen. Sheridan began speaking, then began his address, accepting the statue as a gift to the nation. Fellow-citizens—ln performance of the duty assigned to me on this occasion. I hereby accept, on behalf of the people of the United States, this complete and beautiful statue. Amid the interchange of fraternal greetings between the survivors of the Army of the Cumberland and their former foes upon the battlefield, and while the Union General and the people’s President await burial, the common grief of these magnanimous survivors and mourning citizens found expression in the determination, to erect this tribute to American greatness ; and thus to-day, in its symmetry and beauty, it. presents a sign of animosities forgotten, an emblem of a brotherhood redeemed, and a token of a nation restored. Monuments and statuesmultiply throughout the land, fittingly illustrative of the love and affection of our grateful people, and commemorating brave and patriotic sacrifices in war, fame in peaceful pin suits, or honor in public station. But from this day forth there shall stand at our seat of government this statue of a distinguished citizen, who in his life and services combined all these things and more which challenge admiration in American character—loving tenderness in every domestic relation, bravery on the field of battle, fame and distinction in our halls of legislation, and the highest honor and dignity in the chief magistracy of the nation. This stately effigy shall not fail to teach every beholder that the source of American greatness is confined to no condition nor dependent alone for its growth and development upon favorable surroundings. The genius of our national life beckons to usefulness and honor those in every sphere and offers the highest preferment to manly hopes and sturdy, honest effort, chastened and consecrated by patriotic hopes and aspirations. As long as this statue stands let it be proudly remembered that to every American citizen the way is opento fame and station, until he—- “ Moving up from high to higher, Becomes on fortune’s crowning slope ' The pillar of a people’s hope, The center of a world’s desire.” Nor can we forget that it also teaches our people a sad and distressing lesson, and the thoughtful citizen who views its fair proportions cannot fail to recall the tragedy of a death, which brought grief and mourning to everv household in the land. But, while American citizenship stands aghast and affrighted that murder and assassination should lurk in the midst of a free people and strike down the head, of their Government, a fearless search and the discovery of the origin and hiding-place of these hateful and unnatural things should be followed by a solemn resolve to purge forever from ounmolitical methods and from the operation of our Government the perversions and misconceptions which gave birth to passionate and bloody thoughts. If from this hour our admiration of the bravery and nobility of American manhood and our faith in the possibilities and opportunities of American-citizenship be renewed; if our appreciation of the blessing of a restored Union and love for our Government be strengthened, and if our watchfulness against the dangers of a mad chase after partisan spoils be quickened, the dedication of this statue to the people of the United States will not be in vain. The President was frequently interrupted by outburst of applause. When he had concluded the band played “Hail, Columbia,” and the Rev. F. D. Power, whowas the pastor of General Garfield’s church in this city, pronounced the benediction. The troops were then dismissed and theceremonies came to an end. At the buinesss meeting this morning of the society Colonel Hemy Stone, of Boston, was selected afl the orator, and Colonel Wm. McMichael of New York, as alternateof the next reunion. Chicago was selected as the place, and Chickamauga week in. September, 1888, as the time for holding, the next reunion. <