Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1888 — THE WOULD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WOULD AT LARGE.

Two men were killed and four injured by the bursting of a boiler at Barnesville, Ohio. The Fisheries Comissioners have finished their labors and signed a treaty in which all concurred, says a Washington telegram. Before it can take effect it must have the ratification of the Queen of Great Britain, tho Dominion of Canada, and the Province of Newfoundland, as well as of the Senate of the United States. Although the treaty will not at present be made public, it can be said that it relates exclusively to the disputes concerning the fisheries of tho North Atlantic coast, and does not include any provisions concerning the Behring Sea trouble or commercial reciprocity. The newly negotiated fisheries treaty has been the subject of much speculation and discussion at the Capital, telegraphs the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune: While declining to give any specific information as to its provisions, Secretary Bayard said that for many years tho great contentions among American fishermen had been for a fair and just construction of the treaty of 1818, and that the present treaty had been framed by the American negotiators with a view to meet the needs and necessities of our fishermen, and he believed that if the treaty ■be ratified that end will have been accomplished. From a trustworthy source it is learned that to ohr fishermen are secured all the commercial privileges for which they have been contending, with the exception of the right to purchase bait in Canadian waters, which is expressly withheld. Their right to enter Canadian porta for fuel, water and repairs is conceded. Certain bays, which are specified, are to remain under the exclusive control of Canada. There is nothing in the provisions ot the treaty, it is said, which necessitates the removal of the duty on Canadian fish or in anyway changes our tariff system. In its important features the treaty, it is said, is favorable to the United States, and while new and valuable privileges have been acquired, this has been done without any costly sacrifice on our part.

A Washington dispatch says that Gen. Phil Sheridan has been greatly annoyed by the statement of his Milwaukee cousin, McCabe, that he was not born in this country, and he has'•authorized tho following statement: “I was born in Albany, N. Y., March 6, 1831. My parents landed from Ireland about six months previous to my birth. About a j ear and a half after my birth my parents moved to Somerset, O. ”