Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Intelligence Gathered In by Wire from Every Quarter of the Nation. Also a Few News Sandwiches from Lands Beyond the Broad Ocean. ~r THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, at BAOEAU AND THE GRANTS. CoL Fred Publishes a Lone Reply to the General’s Address. Col. F. D. Grant makes public a long statement in reply to Gen. Adam Badeau's address to the American people upon the controversy which has arisen between Gen. Badeau and the family of the late Gen. U. 8. Grant as to the services rendered by Gen. Badeau in connection with the writing of the “Personal Memoirs of U. 8. Grant” Colonel Grant says that it is his last word in the matter prior to the hearing of the case in court, and that for that reason he presents the history of the case in extenso. Under the circumstances, therefore, he goes over much ground which has already been covered by publication in the daily papers, and gives much space to correspondence participated in by himself and the lawyers in the case, chiefly in the negotiations with a view to the settlement of the case without resort to the courts; to personal denunciation of General Badeau, and to arguments going to show that Gen. Badeau’s services were of a much less important character than Badeau claims that they were. Col. Grant adds that the demand of Gen. Badeau was a source of grief and annoyance to his lather for the remainder of his life, a.nd adds that the letter of reply “was written eleven days before my father s death, at a period of keen personal Buffering, and when the memory, of Gen. Badeau's letter of May 2 made his mental anguish greater than that of the body,”

THE ROCK ISLAND’S ANSWER. It CliargeH the “Q” with Trying to Force All Western Roads Into a Trust. The answer of the Hock Island to the bill filed by the Burlington company in Judge Gresham’s court to compel the former to haul Burlington freight and cars is highly sensational in character, says a Chicago special. The charge made by the Rock Island is, In substance, that prior to the trouble with the Brotherhood engineers and tiremen, the Burlington had entered upon a systematic lowering of freight rates with the purpose of forcing all the competing roads, great and small, to form a gigantic railway trust, to be managed by three men vested with absolute power to make and alter rates and control the business of all the roads entering into the combination. It is also charged that the Burlington fomented and made use of the disaffection among its own employes for the purpose of coercing the other roads into joining the trust, and that it has, in pursuance of that purpose, attempted to involve the Rock Island in trouble with its own engineers and llremen. The Burlington officials deny these allegations and characterize them as baseless and absuid.l

The Peace of Europe. The situation between the Central allies and Russia remains, the same. Ihp visit of the King of Roumania to Vienna resulted in a definite treaty under which Austria pledges to resist any violation of Roumanian territory. Leading Roumanian army officers will be replaced by German and Austrian officers. The Emperor’s decree of March 21, authorizing Cjown Prince William td represent him in the transaction of state business, is now recognized as tantamount to the creation of a co-regency. Besides this decree another exists giving to the Prince fuller powers in he event of the Emperor growing worse.

The German Emperor Improving. A Berlin dispatch says that “a wooden walk is being constructed in the park at Charlottenburg to enable Emperor Frederick to take outdoor exercise. Dr. Bergmann ■visits the Emperor every Sunday in order to reassure Germans who are opposed to Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Mackenzie hopes to be able to pay a short visit to his London patients in a •week or two. The Emperor has countermanded the order for the spring review of the guards. ”

Base-Ball in Australia. Abeangements are in progress for taking a company of at least twenty of the leading ballplayers of America to Australia. Mr. a. G. Spalding, the President of the Chicago BaseBall Club, is at the head of the undertaking, and will accompany the party. Under his direction the great cities of the antipodes will be afforded a fine exhibition of the beauties of American base-ball, compared with which cricket is dull and lifeless sport The Burlington Road's Trouble. A Chicago dispatch of Monday says: “Not a wheel of a freight car turned in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy yards yesterday. For the second time within a month the freight business of this road is temporarily paralyzed, this time by the action of the switchmen.” Telegrams in Brief. John T. Hoffman, ex-Governor of New York, died last week in Germany, where he was staying for his health. Cold and sleet are thought to have done serious injury to fruit and other crops in Central and Northern Illinois. The Central Theater and the Theater Comique, an unused structure adjoining, in Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire. A justice at Clinton, lowa, ordered twelve barrels of beer destroyed, which was found in a wholesale house, in violation of the prohibition law. A new scheme tb pipe oil to Toledo, Ohio, and there refine it, has been floated by a syndicate that is determined to compete with the Standard Oil Company. Employees of unskilled labor in California having reached the conclusion that the wages demanded by the Chinese are extortionate, have sent agents to the South to engage negroes to take the place of the Mongolians. The first consignment of negro laborers passed through St Louis en route to the coast Jast week.