Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — Page 2

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THE WORLD IN A WORD.

The Latest Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign, Transmitted Over the Electric Wires. Political, Railroad, and Commercial News, Accidents, Fires, Crimes, Etc., Etc. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. WINTER WEATHER. Snow In the Northwest—Eight Inches In Michigan—Six Degrees Below Zero lu Montana—Red River Frozen Over at Fargo. The thermometer at Billings, M. T., on Monday night, registered fifteen degrees below zero. Four inches of snow had fallen. Fargo (Dak.) dispatch: “The cold wave that struck this section last night sent the thermometer down to six above zero. Bed Biver was frozen so that persons cross on the ice. Oldest settlers do not remember a season when it froze over so early.” Mason City (Iowa) special: “The first heavy enow of the season in this section of the State fell Monday. It snowed almost continuously throughout the entire day. In tho morning it was accompanied by a heavy wind. Tho ground is frozen several inches, and it ends the plowing for this year. Farmers are well prepared and protected for the winter.” A Gaylord (Mich.) dispatch says: “A terrific snowstorm has beou raging here for two days, and the snow is now eight inches deep.” A Waupaca (Wis.) dispatch says snow fell thero to the depth of six inches.

STREWN WITH WRECKS. Take Shipping Has Suffered Terribly by the Recent Severe Storin. The storm that raged on tho lakes on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, says a Chicago spocial, caused some serious and many minor disasters. Word comes from Sand Beaoh, Mich., of the wreck of the barges Dolphin and Morris, and a dispatch from Cleveland states that the schooner Zach Chandler is broken in two on a bar off Noble Station, ten miles east of that city. A large vessel foundered near Port Dalhousie, Ontario, and five persons wore lost The propellor Delaware was driven ashore near Cheboygan, Mich. The schooner George Sherman went to pieces off Marquette, Mich. The schooner James F. Joy sunk in 100 feet of water off Ashtabula, Ohio. Numerous other craft were driven ashore by the tremendous force of the gale, and many of them will prove total wrecks. The losses will reach into tho millions.

WATCHING THE ANARCHISTS. Extra Police Precautions Taken in View of the Approaching Execution. A Chicago special says: “At each of the police stations throughout the city a number of officers are detailed to the sole duty of maintaining surveillance on the movements of auspected anarchists in their respective districts. A knowledge of the German tongue to a greater or less degree is incumbent upon a majority of the men in each detail. As tho critical date approaches and apprehensions increase, tho vigilance of the police is redoubled, and not a verein, bund, gesollschaft, or any society of dubious title or secret motives can hold a session without its quota or polioa agents in attendance. The heads of the department claim to be steadily informed of tho comings and goings, plans and projects, of every group and individual anarchist in the city, but how they do it is a professional secret.” disasters in the business world. Failure ot Rood & Maxwell, Lumbermen, of Washburn, AVls.—Other Assignments. The lumber firm of Hood & Maxwell, of Washburn, Wis., made an assignment after the Third National Bank of St Paul had attached over $35,000 worth of their property to satisfy a claim of $308,000. The liabilities Will reach $450,100. According to Maxwell’s statement he can wipe out every claim and still be worth SIOO,OOO. The schedules of Horace Webster & Co., wholesale liquor dealers in Now York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, Bhow liabilities of $705,730; the probable value of the assets, according to the assignee, about $250,000. Ashwobth & Downey, waste dealers, Philadelphia, have suspended, and their large mill in Chester, Pa., is in the hands of tho Sheriff. Their liabilities have been variously estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO, with the total nearer the latter figure.

MOB LAW. Two Negroes Lynched in Louisiana. Pebby King and Drew Green (colored) Mere lynched near Winnsborough, La. Two young ladies, daughters of Mrs. Barker, postmistress at Lamar, were awakened by a noise at their window and saw a negro entering their room. They screamed and assistance came, and the negroes made off, but left an ax behind by which they were identified. Perry King and Drew Green were accordingly arrested and were about to be conveyed to the parish jail when a mob of fifty men interfered, took the prisoners from the guard carried them a short distance, and lynched them. Minor Telegrams. Ik a venire of seventeen jurors, all of them Mormons, at Salt Lake, twelve refused to tako the oath required by the Tucker-Edmunds law. * The movement of Russian troops toward Afghanistan continues. The Czar is well prepared for any emergency that may arise in that part of the world.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

TEE EASTERN STATES. Lawyer De Lancet, of New York, counsel fc* tfie Kansas Pacific consolidated bondholders who have begun suit against Jay Gould and Bussell Sage for $0,000,003, says that criminal proceedings will also be begun against Gould and Sage under the provisions of the penal code in relation to trustees. He has requested the Pacific Investigation Committee to furnish him with a record of their proceedings, but Commissioner Anderson has replied that the act establishing the commission provides “that the evidence or testimony taken before us shall not be used against the person so testifying on the trial of any criminal proceeding.” Franz Miehof, one of the band of anarchists who have been setting fire to insured housos, their reward being a commission from the owners, has been convicted at New York. William Scharf, the leader of the incendiaries, has escaped. Woodman, True & Co., jobbers in dry goods, Portland, Me., have made an assignment The liabilities are stated at about $350,000. The stock of goods on hand is valued at about $125,000. Sir Bache Cunard claims that his agent, Charles G. Francklyn, whom he has had confined in jail in New York City, is in arrears in his accounts to the amount of 93,000,000. Francklyn’s counsel assert that the men were jointly interested in business ventures in this country, and that Sir Bache is now attempting to escape his sharo of the losses incurred. President Taylor, of the National Temperance League of Great Britain, who has arrived at New York, says that thirty years ago the advocates of temperance there could be counted on one’s fingers, whereas to-day tho movement excites intense interest, and is constantly gaining ground.

THE WESTERN STATES.

A Fargo (Dak.) special says: “Every train that comes in is crowded with men to file claims on the Northern Pacific Bailway limit The streets are thronged with people and the hotels are crowded. About fifteen hundred strangers are in tho city. Some skepticism is entertained as to the value of these filings, but the chance of winning valuable lands is a sufficient inducement ” The Excelsior Befining Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, has made an assignment Tho assets are estimated at 975,003; liabilities not given. Fire at San Francisco destroyed the Fulton Iron Works (loss, 9300,000), and the California Car Works (loss, about 950,000). The structures were well insured. Large numbers of Swedish colliers are being taken into the mines in the Springfield, 111, district, and the strikers there are liable to rise against them. The situation is serious. It is estimated the yield of wheat in Michigan will reach 22,815,153 bushels. Potatoes are about one-third crop; winter apples onehalf an average crop. A HUB of 200 men surrounded the jail a Delphi, lnd., and made a demand for Amer Green, confined there on the charge of murdering Luella Mabbitt. Greeu went out walking with Miss Mulbitt one evening in August, 1886, and tleycung lady was never seen alive afterward, a body found in the Wabash B.vor, near Lifayette, in the following February being identified as hers, and a Coroner’s jury pronounced Green her murderer. Tho mob, after being refused the keys of the jail by the Sheriff, battered in the door with a sledge, and soon encountered Green. The prisoner, who had preserved his coolness during the assault on the door, now pleaded piteously for mercy. His prayers were disregarded, and though he attempted to defend himself with a piece of piping hastily wrenched from tho wall, he was speedily overpowered, placed in a wagon, and driven away. The mob, in wagons and on foot, and greatly swelled by this time, started over the bridge and headed for Walnut Grove. The report was Boon afterward received that the purpose of the avengers had been carried out. When the Bun rose the following morning it disclosed tho body of Amer Green hanging in tho woods eight miles southeast of Delp hi A Des Moines dispatoh gives particulars of a shocking tragedy at Maxwell, Story County, Iowa: It appears that Perry Ackers, who committed the cowardly mprder, started out last evening about five o’clock, bent on destroying somebody. He borrowed a revolver from a hardware store on pretense that he wanted to shoot a dog, but he went straight to the office of Justice of the Peace Schmetzers, and, asking him if he was ready to take his medicine, administered it without further explanation, shooting him in the left lower jaw, the ball passing down and out by the shoulder blade. He next entered the office of Mayor French, and, stealing up behind him. sent a bullet into his brain. ; The Mayor never uttered a word, but died within an hour. The murderer then passed into the street, his crime as yet being unknown, and meeting several citizens, ho talked in a threat- ; ening manner about evening tip old scores, and brandishing his revolver freely. Passing on to the entrance to Odd Fellowe’ Hall, he said goodby to the Postmaster on the way, remaking that he was going to hell, and then shot himßelf, dying immediately. Ackers was a shiftless fellow, who had been for some time an object of suspicion, but no one suspected any such startling tragedy as came. Elihu B. Washburne, ex-Minister to France, died of congestion of the heart at the residence of his son in Chicago. He had been ill for some month?. His death was sudden and painless.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A storm in Louisiana is reported to have destroyed all the sugar-cane between Morgan City and New Orleans. In the latter city houses, fences, and trees were blown down, and many of the streets wore inundated. A dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., gives the following particulars of a serious wreck to a fast express on the Chesapeake and Ohio Bailroad: Bix coaches, going west, met with an accident twelve miles below this city, in which twentysix passengers were more or less injured. None were killed outright, but several were seriously injured. The accident was caused by a defective switch, over which the engine, baggage, express ana mail cars passed safely, but the three middle coaches, all well-filled with passengers, were thrown from the track, two of ■which were turned completely over, one turning twice. It was fortunate that the-fires had gone out in the stoves, or the loss of life would ave been great No blame is attached to the employes, and the company is doing all in its

power to care for ttie injured, many of whom were able to continue their journey. An immense crowd was assembled in Montgomery, Ala, to greet the Chief Magistrate upon his arrival in that city on Thursday. The Presidential party breakfasted at the hotel with Governor and Mrs. Seay, Colonel ard Mrs Newman, Mayor Beese and daughter, ex-Govemor O’Neil, Senator Morgan, Senator Pugh, and a few others, after which they reviewed the troops from the balcony of the hotel. Mrs. Cleveland whs the surprised recipient of & unique and beautiful souvenir from the Mayor and City Council It is a solid silver jewel-case in the form of a bale of cotton, about eight inches in length and proportionate in depth and width.

A MASTER PIECE OF ART.

The finest product of American sculpture yet achieved has become an ornament of Chicago. Says a special from that city: The colossal bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, by Augustus Salnt-Gaudens, the foremost of American sculptors, was unveiled at Lincoln Park, on Saturday, the 21st inst., In the presence of a vast concourse of people. The veil was withdrawn by Abraham Lincoln, son of Hon. Bobert T. Lincoln, and Hon. Leonard Swett. the distinguished lawyer and a life-long friend of the great emancipator, delivered the oration. Mr. Salnt-Gaudens is a native of New York, and 35 years old. He devoted three years

THE STATUE UNVEILED.

to this magnificent work of art. He sought to embody in the figure the dignity and nobleness of the President’s character. His purity of artistic feeling made him scorn any accessories incongruous or inconsistent. Simple, lofty. Strong, kind, but plain, honest, ragged Lincoln — this was the ideal of the work. That it is faithfully effectuated in bronze all who have seen the statue affirm. The figure of the great War President, which is eleven feet in height, stands just a little to the front and left of a chair of state. The idea meant to be conveyed by the sculptor is that he has just arisen to receive a delegation which has waited upon him. The left leg is advanced, the weight of the body resting mainly on the right, while the head is thrown forward a little, bringing Lincoln’s stoop into prominence. The right arm is held at full length behind his back, while the left arm is thrown across his chest, the fingers grasping the lapel of the long, old-fashioned frock coat which Lincoln usually wore. The expression is thoughtful and what may strike many as melancholy. The chair from which the President is supposed to have risen is of large size, with a rounded back, and is highly ornamented with carvings of oak loaves, pine cones, and palms. On the back Is an eagle with outstretched pinions.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

In order to expedite matters, Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, on Friday, Oct 21, refused to consider the application for a writ of error in the anarchist case alone, but directed counsel to bring the matter before the entire bench. The application was therefore made in open court by General Pryor, who stated the points upon which he relied to show that tho case involved Federal questions. After reciting briefly the history of the case, Gen. Pryor said he would call the attention of the court to only two points which he relied upon to show that the case at the bar presented Federal questions, and that such questions empowered this court to take jurisdiction of it, and to grant the writ of error prayed for. The first of these points related to the jury by which the prisoners were tried. The Legislature of the State of Illinois passed in Maroh, 1874—that is, after the adoption of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution—a law to regulate and govern the impanelment of juries in tho State courts. By virtue of that law a jury for the trial of a criminal case might be made up in part, at least, of jurors who had formed an opionion with regard to the guilt or innocence of the persons accused—jurors who wore partial and even prejudiced men. The law made it possible to put in the jury box men who had formed an opinion as to the prisoner s guilt which could not be removed except by strong evidence. This, he believed, hud been done in the case under consideration, and the petition asserts that this statute and the effect given to it in the courts below had deprived them of their rights and was about to deprive them of their lives without the “due process of law guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.” The Chief Justice remarked that the only question for this court was whether the statute was constitutional. If the Court erred in its administration of the statute that was a question for the State courts. Gen. Pryor replied that the action ot the State court was the action of the, State. If the statute was administered unfairly it was a State action, and that brought it within the jurisdiction of this court. Mr. Pryor s second point was that the petitioners had been compelled in the trial court to be witnesses against themselves. Sonia of them were on the stand, and in spite of the protests of their counsel they were compelled to submit to an unrestrained eross-examination and tqcriminate themselves. Compelling a man to testify against himself is not due process of law. Furthermore, after their arrest the police, without any process of law, broke open their private desks and extracted from them letters and other criminating evidence, and these letters, got without due process of law, were used against them. When their objection was raised it was overruled and an exception was taken. A Washington special of Sunday says: “The Supreme Court met yesterday afternoon in consultation, and took up the application made yesterday by the counsel of the condemned anarchists. The consultation was not a long one, but the agreement was reached that the earliest moment at which tho appeal could be argued would be Thursday next ' That will afford the State time to send its representatives here to be prepared to answer the arguments of Messrs. Butler, Pryor, Black and Tuckor. As soon as the court had reached its decision word was conveyed to the defendants’ counsel, and the clerk of the court was instructed to notify Attorney General Hunt, in order that he may attend. The general opinion among lawyers here is that the case, as presented by God. Pryor for the condemned, i 3 a weak one; that as presented it was wrapped up in a great deal of language that will be easily stripped off, and that the only point really to be decided is as to the constitutionality of the Illinois jury law.”

President Cleveland and party reached Washington, on Sunday, the 22d inst. The President expressed himself as heartily glad to get home,though as heartily glad that he went away. During the three weeks of his journey he traveled forty-five hundred miles, passed through seventeen States—crossing three of them twice—and saw and was seen by several millions of American citizens. There were no brass bands, no committeemen, no crowds at the station in Washington, and it is nothing uncomplimentary to the people whom the President has visited to say that every one of the tourists was glad of it After breakfast the President and Mrs. Cleveland drove out to their country home at Oak View, where they spent the day.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The charges agaiust M. Wilson, President Grevy’s eon-in-law, are reiterated by a Paris newspaper. General Caffarel. the French officer who was charged with selling decorations, and whose ease has excited general attention, has been removed from his post of Chief of Staff of the War Office, and his name has been stricken from the army list The death is announced of Jules de Lease ps, the famous Count’s brother, and of Baron Stern, a financier well known in Europe.

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

About seven thousand people saw the Detroit Base-Ball Club administer another drubbing to the 8L Louis Browns at Boston on Tuesday. The Wolverines took the lead in the second inning and held it to the end. Caruthers was hit safely seventeen times, and when the Detroiters didn’t hit safe the Browns blundered and the man was safe. Getzoin, on the other hand, held the St Louis batsmen at his mercy. Score—Detroits, 9; St Louis, 2. Eight games have thus far been played, of which Detroit has won six. The St Louis Base-Ball Club was defeated by the Detroits at Philadelphia, Wednesday, by a score of 4 to 2, making seven out of nine games tho Wolverines have captured The Carriage Builders’ National Association held its fifteenth annual session at Washington City, President Studebaker, of South Bend, Ind., in the chair. The Executive Committee suggested the advisability of advancing the pricos of many classes of vehicles. Valuable anthracite coal-fields have been discovered in Sonora, Mexico. The Great Eastern has been sold at auction for 9105,000. The re-election of President Diaz i 3 looked upon as certain in Mexico.

GENERAL MEADE IN BRONZE.

A Philadelphia dispatch of Wednesday says that— In the presence of a large concourse of people, among whom were numbered many of Philadelphia’s most prominent citizens and distinguished public men of the State and nation, the bronze equestrian statue of General George Gordon Meade, erected in lairmount Park, was unveiled with appropriate pomp and ceremony. A grand military parade, which proved one of the most imposing demonstrations of the kind ever given in this city, formed at

STATUE OF GEN. MEADE.

Broad and Spring Garden streets and marched to the monument in the park where the unveiling ceremonies took place. The memorial, which takes the shape of a bronze equestrian statue, is the work of the sculptor Calder. It is of heroic size, and is mounted on a pedestal of rough granite, about twenty feet in height. The statue represents General Meade reining in his horse sharply on the slope of a hill, while, hat in hand, he is returning a salute. The design is a spirited one, and the likeness is striking.

THE MARKETS.

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A BUSY LIFE ENDED.

Death at Chicago of Hon. Elihn B. Washburne, Ex-Minister to France. The Friend of Lincoln and Grant— Many Times Congressman—A Jiotable Figure. Hon, E. B. Washburne, ex-Minister to France, and a conspicuous figure in recent American history, is dead. He passed away at the residence of his son in Chicago. on Saturday, Oct. 22. He had been ill for several weeks, but was thought to be on the road to rapid recovery, and his death was a surprise to the community. He got up in the morning, as usual, and dressed himself, and while he was being

shaved by the barber who attended at the house he complained of feeling a pain in his heart, which he described as a cutting pain. The larber and Mr. Washburne’s body servant lifted him to the bed and bathed his feet, and after sitting there awhile he said he felt all right again, and then laid down. Some hours afterward he got up to get a drink of water. Mrs. Washburne, hearing him about, went to his room, and he was almost immediately attacked by the acute pain in his heart. His body servant led him to the bed, and on lying down he turned over on his side, and in a few minutes expired. The only member of the family present was Mrs. Hempstead Washburne, who was holding his hand when he died. Mr. Hempstead Washburne was at his office down town, and was at once summoned home by telephone. Elihn B. Washburne was born at Livermore, Oxford County, Me., in September, 1816. He entered the office of the Christian Intelligencer at Gardner, Me., in June, 1833. He afterward studied law, was admitted to the bar, went West and located at Galena, 111., in 1810. Being a Whig he did good electioneering work for his party during the Harrison campaign and was a delegate to the W i ig national convention which nominated Henry Clay in 1844. Mr. Washburn was a member of the National Whig Convention which nominated General Scott in 1852, and the same year was elected to Congress through the support of the Free-soilers. He was re-elected in 1854 by a majority of 5,000. He continued to represent the district term after term, his majority in 1860 rising to 13,511. Mr. Washburne acted as Chairman of the Committee on Commerce in the Congress of 1862, and later became Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. He occupied a conspicuous position in the councils of the nation during the troublous years of the rebellion. After repeated reelections he at length became the “father of the house,” and as such swore in as Speaker Schuyler Colfax and James G. Blame. He was the opponent of every kind of jobbery, receiving for his vigilance the sobriquet of “the watchdog of the treasury.” Mr. Washburne was a stanch personal and political friend and supporter of Abraham Lincoln. He was also one of Gen. Grant’s earliest and best patrons. Being Congressman of Grant’s district, he used his influence at every step of Grant’s career to secure the latter’s promotion. It was chiefly through his efforts that Grant was made a Lieutenant- General and afterward General of the armies of the United States. Mr. Washburne was an opponent of the practice of making grants of the public lands to railroad companies, and frequently voted against extravagant appropriations for public buildings. He was chairman of the committee of the whole which discussed the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and brought in the first postal-telegraph bill. The establishment of national cemeteries was also largely due to his efforts. Mr. Washburne was appointed Secretary of State by President Grant in 1839, and resigned his seat in Congress, which he had held for twenty consecutive years. After a brief tenure of office his health compelled him to resign. President Grant offered him the French mission, which he accepted. The Franco-Prussian war shortly afterward broke out, and the delicate questions of diplomacy and international law that arose taxed his abilities to the utmost. He succeeded in securing from the Foreign Department of France protection and safe conduct out of that empire for all Germans who felt it dangerous to remain. When the Commune raised its banner in Paris, Mr. Washburne was the only foreign Minister who stuck to his !>ost, and the foreigners of every nation ooked to him alone tor protection. He remained in Paris during all the carnage that followed in the wake of the Commune, and made a strong but ineffectual effort to save the life of Archbishop Darboy. He received the thanks and recognition of nearly every nation for his services to their subjects during the dark days of the siege of Paris. Shortly after the war the order of the Bed Eagle was conferred on him by the Emperor of Germany, who also presented him with his portrait in oil and a letter expressing the warmest affection and regard. After President Hayes’ election Mr. Washburne expressed a desire to resign, and soon returned to his native country, making his home in Chicago. He received 44 votes for President in the Republican National Convention in 1880. The same year he withdrew altogether from political life and devoted his leisure to literary pursuits. “Reinaert deVos,” or “Reynard the Fox,” a satirical poem, written about 1250 by William Yan Utenhoven, a priest of Aerdenburg, was for centuries the most popular work ever written. It was translated into many languages.