Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — THE WORLD TO-DAY. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD TO-DAY.

The Latest Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign, Transmitted Oyer the Electric Wires. Political, Railroad, and Commercial lews, Aoddents, Tires, Crimea, Etc., Etc. THE FREE LIST COMPLETED. C«n*4deratlo« of th« Amy Appropriation BUI. The Hon»e has ©otnpleted the free list «f the tariff, the only additional changes made the 29th being to strike out paintings in oil or water colors and statuary not otherwise provided for, and to insert primuline, a dye used in the manufacture of cotton goods end not produced in this country. After the dutiable portion of the bill had been read Mr. Reed (Me.) proceeded to criticise the majority of the Ways and Means Committee for attempting to mislead the country on the effect of the bill. A prolonged discussion followed. The House has ordered a further conference! on the District of Columbia bill, the previous oonferenoe having failed. At its evening session the House passed forty-seven pension bills. The Senate resumed consideration of the army appropriation bill, the pending question being an Mr. Hawley’s amendment to appropriate altogether *6,300,000 for the manufacture of steel guns and for various experiments with torpedoes. The Senate appointed conference committees on the legislative, the diplomatic and consnlar, and the District of Columbia appropriation bills.

STRIKE OF IROX-WORKERS. Over 100,000 Men Involved, and "Both Sides Seem Determined Contest . The iron-workers*strike at Pittsburg, Pa., is now on. The oonferenoe of the Wage Committees of the Amalgamated Association and Iron Manufacturers was short and decisive. The workers’ representatives stated that the lodges had voted upon the question of a redaction and had decided almost unanimously to reject it. The manufacturers then stated, in language just as positive, that they would not pay present wages. The members of the Amalgamated Association will have their scale presented to the manufacturers, to sign or reject as they see proper. News has been received to the effect that tho Laughlin and Junction Steel Companies, at Mingo, Ohio, have signed the steel scale. Should all the mills close down, fully 100,000 men will bo affected.

DEATH OF GEN. ELLIOTT. An Old Soldier Passes Away on the Pacific C'OUHt. Gen. Washington L. Elliott died suddenly of heart disease in the office of the Safe-De-posit and Trust Company of San Francisco, of which institution he was Vice President Gen. Elliott was born in Pennsylvania about €0 years ago. He entered the army from the United States Military Academy and served through the Mexican and civil wars. In the latter he attained the rank of Brevet Major General of volunteers. He re-enlisted in the regular service at the close of the war, and was placed on the retired list in March, 1879, being at that time Colonel of the Third Cavalry.

THE BATTERS. Relative Standing of the Prominent Ball Clubs. The annexed table shows the relative standing of the clubs competing for the championship of the associations named: League. Won. Lost. Western. Won. Lost. Chicago 85 16 St. Paul 26 12 Detroit 83 18 Des Moines 2 i 13 Boston 32 23 Omaha 18 17 New York 29 23 Milwaukee 20 19 Philadelphia.... 26 24 Kansas City 20 20 Washington 17 34 Chicago'. 19 21 Pittsburgh 16 32 Minneapolis 13 27 Indianapolis.... 16 34 American. Won. Loßt. Interstate. Won. Lost. St. Louis 34 15 Davenport 32 9 Brooklyn 88 18 Peoria. 29 9 Athletic 31 19 Dubuque 19 15 Cincinnati 31 22 Crawfordsville..2o 19 Baltimore 25 27 Bloomington.... 13 19 Cleveland 18 33 Danville 15 22 Louisville 16 37 Lafayette..' 0 7 Kansas City 14 84

lOWA’S LABOR PARTY. A State Ticket Nominated at Marshalltown —Mr. Streeter Present. The Union Labor State Convention nominated this ticket at Marshalltown, Iowa; For Secretary of State, J. B. Vincent; for Auditor, E. M. Farnsworth; for Treasurer. James Bice; for Attorney-General, J. M. Williamson. Presidential electors were named, and Congressmen Weaver and Anderson were indorsed as candidates for reelection. There were about fifty delegates present. Hon. A. J. Streeter, of Illinois,, candidate for the Presidency, addressed the convention. In Jail for Kitting Tetters. Justin O. Ford, aged 19. employed to carry thp mails from the postoffice to the depot at Macon, Mo,, is in jail in default of bail on a charge of rifling letters. Ho admits his guilt, and says that he was led to crime in order to obtain pocket money, as he was obliged to give his father his earnings. Mary A. Brooks, a publisher of College Mound, has lost from SSO to SIOO by Ford’s thefts, Crashed by it Caving Bank. •: ' John McCullough,, colored, was.„crushed by a caving clay-bank at South Bend, Ind, News Notes of Interest. The coal companies of New York have given notice of an advance of 25 cents a ton on interior and Western business. The*Republican State ,Central Committee of lowa have decided to call the State convention to nominate a State ticket and Presidential electors, to meet at Des Moines, Aug. 22. While firing at rats with a shot-gun at his home, near Marly, Tenn., Wendell Whitcomb accidentally shot his two young daughters, killing one instantly and fatally wounding the other.

WATERY GRAVES. Fifteen Hundred Person* Lose Their Lives by High Water in Mexico. The particulars of the terrible disaster on the line of the Mexican Central Bailway, particularly at Leon and Silao. Mexico, are made known. During ten days the table lands between the City of Mexico and Zacatecas were visited by unprecedented rains. Every mountain rivulet along the Central Railway for more than two hundred miles was converted into a destructive torrent, and the valleys presented the appearance of lakes. Many cities and towns were inundated, aul Leon and Silao were partially destroyed. The rain raised the Silao river out of its banks, the water passing through the streets with irresistible force and volume. About 325 houses were destroyed. The station buildings were occupied by homeless people, who were unable to obtain anything to eat except watermelons and fruit found floating on the water. The flood was more-destructive in Leon then in Silao. The scene as the water rose beggared description. People believing themselves secure from the flood went to bed. The downfall of rain, with the extensive water-shed of the outlying country, increased the flow of the river and rapidly extended its channel until over half of Leon was under water. Houses tumbled in rapidly, having been worn away by the water, and the loss of life commenced. As the buildings fell the unfortunate sleepers -were either crushed to death or drowned. Men, women, and children fled to the streets in their night clothes, some to And shelter on higher ground, and others to be swept away by the flood. Fifteen hundred lives were lost by the inundation and 1,000 bodies have been recovered. Leon is a city of 100,000 inhabitants and a large part of it is in ruins. The destroyed houses are estimated at 2,000 and the loss at $2,000,000. LYNCHED FOR HIS CRIME. Wallace Mitchell, the Kansas Murderer, Hanged by a Mob. Wallace Mitchell was returned to Syracuse. Kan., from Trinidad, Col., whither he fled after murdering Oscar Johnson, aged 12, and wounding August Johnson, the boy's father, in an attempt to rob him. He was taken before a justice and pleaded guilty of the crime. He told the story of the murder with the utmost sang froid, and as ifit was an every-day occurrence. At the conclusion of the testimony he was remanded to jail until the September term of court. Tho coldblooded recital of his fiendish deed by the prisoner excited the people, and about midnight a hundred armed men succeeded in taking him from jail and hanging him to a telegraph pole.

CELEBRATED 100 YEARS OF LIFE. Daniel Bartlett of Ohio Advances to the Age of His Brothers. Daniel Bartlett, who is, so far as can be discovered, the oldest inhabitant in Crawford County, Ohio, has celebrated his 100th birthday. Mr. Bartlett is now living where he has lived for the last sixty-four years. He is quite supple and lively for one of his years. He does a few chores, feeds two pigs and one eow, and bids fair to attain the advanced years of some of his ancestry, who died at the age of 110 and 111. Two of Mr. Bartlett’s brothers died at the advanced ages of 105 and 108, and a sister in Maryland, if living, is near 102. Mr. Bartlett is in good health. SATED HIMSELF WITH MURDER. A Worthless Drunkard Shoots- His Wife, Her Friend, and Himself. A bloody triple tragedy is reported by telegraph from Minneapolis, Minn.: Silas Robinson is a big, 6ix-foot teamster, on account of whose drunkenness and general worthlessness he was lorsakeu by his wife some eight months ago. Mrs. Robinson has been maintaining herself by clerking in a confectionery store. Nick Weis is a young man of 22, employed as a collector, and had been keeping company with Mrs. Robinson, though nothing of an immoral nature existed between them. Robinson met the couple, and walking up to Wells said: “You have been going with my wife too much,” He then pulled a revolver and shot West in the head, inflicting a fatal wound. He then turned to his wife and fired again, killing her instantly. He then fired three shots into his body, and fell mortally wounded. SAD END OF A PLEASURE EXCURSION. A Steam Yacht Slruck and Sunk-Two Ladles Drowned. The small pleasure yacht Enid was struck by the steamer James W. Baldwin, a mile north of Newburg, N, Y. There wore eight persons in the small boat, and two of them. Miss Anna Miller and Mrs. Benjamin Odell, Jr., were drowned. The rest were rescued by the steamer. Miss Miller was the daughter of David Miller, of New York, anti Mrs. Odell the wife of the Republican Stats; committeeman in the Fifteenth Congressional District.

CHARGES AGAINST A CONDUCTOR. Marshall LalTerty Imprisoned for Embezzling: Ohio and Mississippi Tickets. Marshall Lafferty, a conductor on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, has been bound over to the Grand Jury, at Cineiunati, Ohio, in the sum of $5,000 on a charge of embezzling. It was in testimony that lie toot up tickets from passengers and appropriated them to his own use by failing to cancel them, or to return them to the proper officer. The amount of his embezzlement is considerable. HE TOOK ALL THERE WAS. A Providence Teller Cleans Out the Bank, Even to the Pennies. C. A. Pitcher, teller of the Union Bank, at Providence, R. 1., has absconded. He took about all the valuables he could lay his hands on, even to the pennies. It is said he took half a million dollars in bonds and all the cash in the vault. TEMPORARILY ENJOINED. The lowa Railroad Commission Cited to Appear in Court. The lowa Railroad Commissioners have been temporarily enjoined by Judge Brewer from carrying into effect the schedule of maximum freight rates recently promulgated by them, and cited to appear before the Federal Court and show cause why the

order should not be made permanent The Chicago and Northwestern. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Companies arc the plaintiffs. HOOSIERS BECOME GOLD-HCJfTEBS. Washing the Sands of Bean Blossom Creek for the Precious Metal. The citizens of Brown County, Ind., are considerably exeited over the discovery of gold in large quantities along Bean Blossom Creek, near Columbus. The And was made a few weeks ago, and is proving quite valuable. Though no active mining operations have been begun, hundreds of persons are engaged in washing the sand found along the stream, and are neglecting their crops to harvest the gold.

KILLED WHILE HUNTING. Tho Premature Explosion of a Gun Causes a Young Nimrod’s Death. Arthur Erskin, residing ten miles east of Marlon, Ind., met with a terrible death. Erskin, while out hunting, was standing on a piece of timber, his gun by his side and the muzzle leaning against his body. The gun was discharged by his slipping off rthe timber dhd catching on the lock. The load was discharged in the young man’s groin and bowels, and he expired after several hours of the most intense agony. DEATH OP JUDGE TRUNKEY. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Judge Passes Away In London. Judge Trunkey, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died in London recently. His wife and some of his friends were present when he died. June 17 the Judge attended church both morning and afternoon, and that night he was attacked by a heavy chill, which was followed by fever. He never arose after that night. His body was embalmed, and has been shipped to America.

Political Conventions. The Vermont Republicans met in State convention at Montpelier and nominated W. P. Dillingham for Governor, Urban Woodbury for Lieutenant Governor, W. H. Dubois for State Treasurer, Charles W. Porter for Secretary of State, and E. H. Powell for Auditor. The platform indorses that of the Chicago convention. The New York Prohibition State Convention, at Syracuse, was attended by 900 delegates. W. Martin Jones, of Rochester, was nominated for Governor, and a long radical platform adopted. Tho Michigan Stato Prohibition Convention organized at Detroit with 760 delegates. The platform indorsed the resolutions adopted by the National Convention. A. B. Cheney was nominated for Governor, Stewart B. Williams for Lieutenant Governor, Peter M. Hagel for Secretary of State, Alfred Wise for Treasurer, Samuel Clute for Attorney General, and D. A. Waterman for Auditor General. Murdered an Indiana Drummer. In a personal altercation at Seymour, Ind., between Bully Crabb, a notorious rough, and Elijah Jones, a traveling man from Indianapolis, growing out of a political discussion, Crabb shot Jones in the breast with fatal effect Crabb escaped, but if he is caught he will probably be lynched. '

Resisted Eviction.

A farmer named Mooney, living near Rathdrum, Ireland, was evicted by 100 constables. Mooney had barricaded bis house, and, with the assistance of some friends, offered a fierce resistance, throwing porridge and missiles of all kinds at the evicting force. Ten arrests were made. Burned to Death by Fireworks. Three explosions of fireworks occurred in tho variety store of Hemw Rico, in Rondout, N. Y., and the building was entirely gutted. Mr. Rice’s mother, aged 92, was unable to leave her room in tho upper part of the hx>use, and was burned to death, Oregon’s Official Returns, The official vote for Congressman at the recent election in Oregon is: For Hermann (Rep), 32,820; J. M. Gearin (Dem.), 25,413; G. M. Miller (Pro.), 1,974; Hermann’s plurality, 7,407.