Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — A DAY’S DOINGS. [ARTICLE]

A DAY’S DOINGS.

Eventful Happenings in Every Hemisphere, as Transmitted by Telegraph. Political. Social, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Criminal and Other News. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. MASONIC MONSTERS. A IxMlge of Colored Free Masons Evidently Organized for Murder. A special dispatch from Greenwood, Mies., reports that Eight negro Masons charged with the killing of Henry 'laylor and wife, after a hearing before Justice Harks, have been, with the exception of one who gave bonds, committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury, and have been taken to New Orleans for safe keeping. There is clear evidence against them and they will no doubt be-convicted. During the preliminary trial it was discovered that a resolution to kill Mr. Kowey, a white man, who in u fight hud broken the arm of one of their brothers, was passed during one of their meetings, but the time appointed for the deed has not yet come. Two days were consumed in taking testimony, and many other negroes have been implicated. There is ho doubt that a colored man, a mom-ber-of the Dry Bayou Lodge of negro Masons, was killed by Harry Taylor, and that both Harry Taylor and his wife have disappeared, a .body answering to Taylor’s having been found in the river with marks of violence upon it. The lodges in this county were organized by a negro who claims to be ■working under the authority of the Grand Orie .t of France. Several other lodg s have been founded iu this sec don. The comred Masons are not recognized by the white Masons at.all. and their order is not under autho. tty of the old York Onder of Masonry. It is hard t > say whether they have an obligation that teaches them to avenge, slay, etc., or whether they oonstiue the oblig .tlona they take to suit themselves. The white people of the county are determined to break up their lodges and to punish the guilty members of the death dealing order.

IN MINNESOTA. A aCor.lial Reception Tendered the Chief Magistrate by the People of St. Paul. President Cleveland and party left tho capital of Wisconsin on Monday morning at 9 delock. A stop of twenty minutes was made at La Crosse, where the party was oscortedithroughtho streets by the Governor’s Guard. St Paul, was reached at 5:30 p. m., and the crowd of 15,000 people assembled at the depot gave the distinguished visitors a hearty welcome. Mayor Smith made' a brief speech of welcome. The President in his response said, among .other things: My visit, to you-being a social one, and trusting that we have a sort of iriendly feeling for each other, I want to suggest to you a reason why 1 am particularly and personally interested in Mt. Paul and its people. Some years ago a youngjgirl dwelt among you and went to school. She has grown up to be a woman and is now my wife. If any one thinks a President ought not to mention things of this sort In public I hope Jho or she doos not live in St. Paul, for 1 dealt.want to shock anybody when I thank the good people of this city because they neither married nor spoiled my wife daughter and applause I, and when I tell them that they wre related to that.in my life bettor than all earthly honors and distinction. Hereafter you may be euro that her.pleasant recollection of schooldays will bo re-ouforcod by the no less pleasant memory-of our present visit, and thus will our present interest in St. Paul and its kind citixzuiß.be increased and perpetuated. A largely attended public reception was held at nigiht in the Hotel Ryan.

iFJBLD sEIiODUCTS. Crop UulfcwtAn.of the National A-gricultural Department. The statistical report, of the Department of Agriculture, says a .Washington dispatch, makes an increase of only half of 1 per cent in the condition of corn. The past month has been very generally favorable, but the status of a large part .of the crop was fixed.,at the date of the previous report. The general average condition is 1Z2.8 instead of 72.;!. 'J ho Average of the seven surplus States is. 64.9, instead of 64.2 in September. This is .a lower .condition than has ever been reported, -except in 1881, when the average .was .nearly seven points lower, and tho average yield 18.6 bushels. The indication :« now for a yield of a small fraction ever twenty bushels per acre. The test of threshing has not materially .enlarged the average rate of the wheat yield, which appears to be abo»i ,11.8 bushels, <or about four-tenths of a bissbel less than teat year. The yield of oats is slightly below an average, about twenty-five bushels per acre. The product is fully 610,000,000 bushels. The barley yield is nearly 20 per «ent less than a medium yield, or about twenty-five bushels per acre. The yield of rye is ih>.s bushels per acre, and the product about bushels. There has been a drop in the condition of buckwheat from 89 to nearly .7.7. The condition of potatoes has declined from 67.3 to 61.5. The condition of cotton Im further declined.

Mormon Affaire. WH.FOBD Woodruff was continaed as the President of the Twelve Apostles by the Mormon Conference that has just concluded its labors at Salt Lake City. George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. iSmith were continued as Apostles. No President of the chuneh was elected. John A McClernand and A. B. Carlion, of the Utah Commission, have submitted a minority report to the Secretary of the Interior, in which they express their dissent from some of the views advanced in the majority report recently submitted. They are of the opinion that the anti-polygamy movement in Utah has the support of the majority of the monogamous Mormons, who constitute more than three-fourths of the Mormon population. Heavy Bobbery. Publicity is given to the fact that several days ago the Pacific Express safe, on the Iron Mountain Hoad, was robbed between Little Rock Mid the Texas line of about $6 ',OOO. Au old and trusted messenger, J. B. Owens, is reported missing, and detectives, it is said, are unable to trace him. The peculiar combination of the safe was known only to agents at principal stations ...