Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — THE WIDE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized. Intelligence by Electric Wire frcm Every Quarter of the Civilized World. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. BEHIND THE BARS. Oscar Neebe, One of the Convicted Anarchists, Banded in the Penitentiary. Oscar Neebe, the only one of the eight Anarchists who escaped the death penalty, aays a Chicago special, was taken to Joliet Monday night to serve his sentence of fifteen years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. At 9:03 to-night a heavy train with every coach crowded pulled out of the Union Depot over the Chicago and Alton Railroad. In too first passenger car, the smoker, sat Neebe, with his right hand fastened to Deputy Sheriff fipears. Near by was Deputy Gleason, and scattered through the car were several detectives. Neebe looked sullen. He talked httle. and his sentences were short and pointed. He •wore a slouch hat pulled down over his eyes. When he removed it he exposed his short, black hair, brushed as usual carelessly back from his brow. He had donned a brand-new shirt, but he wore no collar. He was w illing, he said, to go down to Joliet, and he had always labored for the workingmen and had bettered their condition. The bakers and other trades owed much to his efforts, aud he was satisfied ■with the result. He claimed that he had rendered valuable service in the eight-hour movement. lie was asked if he thought that his anarchistic comrades would hang. “Time will tell,” he replied. SHOT ON THE FRONTIER. Details of the Latest Franco-German Incident—The Bourses Excited. Dispatches from Paris of Tuesday state that the latest details of the shooting affair near Raon-Sur-Plaiue are that the French party consisted of five sportsmen and four boaters. They were following a path on French territory, seven yards from the frontier, when a person standing behind a clump of trees on the German side, eighty yards from the frontier, fired three shots at them, one cf which killed a beater, and another wounded a pupil in the Saumur cavalry school named Wagner. The Gorman officials declare that a German soldier named Kaufmann, who was detailed to assist the forest guards in preventing poaching, fired the shots. Kaufmann affirms that he shouted three times for the party to halt before firing at them, and says they were on German territory. The sportsmen declare they heard nothing. Premier Bouvier conferred with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Justice in relation to the affair after the receipt of the official report, and it was decided to send a note to Berlin requesting the German Government, in the interest of a continuation of friendly relations, to institute an inquiry into the affair without delay. Count Von Munster, German ambassador, in an interview with Foreign Minister Flourens, expressed regret at the occurrence and gave assurance that justice would be done by the German Government. VICTORY FOR B ELL TELEPHONE. A United States Judge Sustains the Demurrer to the Government Suit. In the United States Circuit Court, at Boston, Judge Colt gave a decree sustaining the demurrer to the bill in equity brought by the United States against the American Bell Telephone Company and A. Graham Bell for the purpose of canceling two patents granted to Bell relating to the art of transmitting speech by electricity on the ground that they were obtained by fraud. As a necessary consequence the Judge dismisses the bill, and an appeal will undoubtedly be taken to the United States Supreme Court. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. Secretary Fairchild Says He Sees Nothing in It to Cause Alarm. A Washington reporter asked Secretary Fairchild about his financial policy. “My poeition was pretty clearly defined in the Treasury Department circular which was issued a few days ago,” was the reply, “and I do not see any reason to change my views.” The Secretary saw nothing in the financial situation at which people need be alarmed. There was a good outlook for fall and winter business. Merchants and manufacturers were hopeful The Green Diamond. The race for the championship of the League is becoming decidedly interesting, as will be seen by the appended record of the eight contesting clubs: Clubß. Won. Lost, P °™£ 74 41 .643 Philadelphia 68 48 £BS New York 65 50 .565 59 53 .£26 Washington 42 72 .368 Indianapolis 34 S 3 099 St Louis still maintains a long lead in the American Association pennant race. The following shows the record of won and lost games: ' PercentClubs . • Won. Lost age. St. Louis 99 35 799 Cincinnati....7B 50 *609 Louisville 71 53 .572 Baltimore 70 55 X6O Athletic...; 58 65 .471 Brooklyn 57 68 . 45(} . Metropolitan..4o 85 f£o Cleveland 35 88 284

Minor Telegrams. The mints sent out during the week ending Sept 21 $1,359,465 in standard dollars. In the corresponding week last year the issue was $872,993. 1 One of the Ameer’s generals has run away ■with two thousand of his soldiers ’and joined Ayoub, the pretender, in Northern Beloochis- . tan. In Dayton, Ohio, George Zeigler drank twenty-two glasses of whisky op a wager, walked two hundred yards toward hoiffe, eat down, and was found soon afterward waiting for the Coroner. The tobacco crop in the region around Lynchburg, Va., has suffered a loss of onefourth of its value from the recent frost