Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — THE WIDE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE WIDE WORLD.

A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Concisely Summarized. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. PROHIBITION IN MISSOURI. Forty-nine Counties Vote “Wet” and Thirty-three Have Banished Liquor. Owing to the political excitement in Missouri over the approaching National Democratic Convention, the Prohibition leaders have decided to take a rest, and no more elections will be held for two months, says a St Louis dispatch. Eighty-two counties and twenty towns of more than 2,500 inhabitants have voted. Forty-nine counties have voted “wet” and thirty-three “dry.” The total vote cast in 1886 in these same counties and towns was 251,417. The total vote this year on the prohibition question was 193,781. The Democratic counties voting “dry” were 36; Republican, 13; Democratic counties voting “wet,” 22; Republican, 11. Thirteen of the twenty towns went “dry,” 7 “wet” Of the 13 “dry” 7 are Republican and 6 Democratic; of the 7 “wet” towns 5 are Democratic and 2 Republican. The aggregate “dry” majority is 21,092; aggregate “wet,” 14,072. Thirty counties have not voted.

APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE. Destructiveness of the Recent Earthquake in China Fifteen Thousaaid Persons Killed and Many Towns in Utter Ruin. Recent cable dispatches bring some further particulars of tha great earthquake in China just before Christmas, which proves to have peen of appalling magnitude. Fifteen thousand people perished in tho course of four days, during which at uncertain intervals the shock continued. This estimate is to some extent supposititious, because it was scarcely possible after so tremendous a visitation to ascertain the exact loss of life. How many have been injured appears to defy computation yet. The capital district of Yunnan is absolutely one mass of ruins. More than 5,000 persons were killed by the fall of houses at Lam. At other Chinese towns the effect on buildings was almost as terrible, with the additional horror of the earth yawning till a frightful chasm was produced, from which water of a red color was ejected. The shaking of the earth seems to have been followed by subterranean convulsions of the most fearful kind. Further north, at Lo Chan, where 10,000 met their doom, the aspect oi the country has been completely changed. Large tracts of land suddenly disappeared in the course of the visitation and in their place lakes formed.

CRISIS OF THE STRIKE. The Burlington Becomes Aggressive—A General Tie-up Apprehended. The phases of the great railroad striko have materially changed during the last fortyeight hours, says a Chicago telegram of Monday. Instead of being the attacked party the Burlington Company has assumed the aggressive and is bringing the troubles to a crisis by demanding an interchange of business with other roads. This policy, if continued, is atinost certain to precipitate strikes in more of the local yards, Fe.rs are expressed at Milwaukee, Wis„ that strikes will be ordered on Northern and Eastern railways. At St. Paul, Minn , night crews on the railroads are reporting for duty, but are liable to quit at any moment. Chief Arthur, of the Engineers’ Brotherhood, was interviewed at Cleveland, Ohio, and spoke of a harmonious prospect. At Pittsburg, Pa., the Pennsylvania Company’s officials are not handling "Q’’ freight, and every effort is being made to prevent the strike from spreading to their line as contemplated. At Omaha, Neb., there is a good deal of malicious interference ■with the Burlington and Missouri freight cars. Forty Burlington switchmen went out at Burlington, lowa, apparently without reason.

The Missorri Mine Horror. Twenty-two bodies have been recovered from the mine at Rich Hill, Mo. Among the heartrending incidents narrated is that of a very old man who stood at the mouth of the shaft hoping that his son and son-in-law would be brought up alive. They were the last two brought up, and when the old man saw their dead bodies he fell lifeless on the ground. A woman, who supposed her husband was among the rescued, walked six miles to the mine, only to see his charred corpse. Two Ministers of the Gospel Killed. Rev. Clayton Mumma and Rev. John Connard, while walking on the railroad track at Reading, Pa, were struck by a passing train and killed.