Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — A TURBULENT WORLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A TURBULENT WORLD.

important happenings of the DAY TOLD BY TELEGRAPH. Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Transmitted by Wire —A Kaleidoscope of Interesting Occurrences —Political, Criminal, Accidental, and Industrial. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. The Wilson Bill Passes the House with Only Four Dissenting Votes. Mb. Mason’s bill to pension Eliza N. Aiken, of Chicago, who was a nurse throughout the late war, which passed the House, has been favorably reported to the Senate. The House, the Bth, passed the retaliation bill after a long discussion by the following vote: Yeas 174, nays 4 —the negatives being Bayne, Dalzell, Lind, and White of New York. The House passed bills granting pensions to Lieut. Starkey R. Powell, late of the Third Regiment of Illinois Volunteers in the Blackhawk war; to Samuel A. Tate, late of Company I, Fortieth Regiment Illinois Calvary Volunteers ; to Rachel Rogers, dependent mother of Jeremiah T. Rogers, late of Company H, Fifty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry; and to Walter Watson of Company D, Fourteenth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. TWENTY-TWO VICTIMS. Four Persons Killed and Eighteen Injured in a Railway Collision. A Cincinnati, bound freight train, heavily laden, dashed at full speed into the John Robinson circus train, which was standing at Corwin Station, flfty-ono miles northeast from Cincinnati, on the Little Miami. The caboose at the rear of the circus train was split in two, and the four sleepers ahead of it were telescoped. No damage occurred to the animals or the circus property, which were in the long train ahead of the sleepers. Fourteen men. were killed and eighteen were wounded. Of these all were canvasmen, except Andy Smith, who ■was a contortionist. Smith was mortally wounded, and, strange to relate, the injuries to the other seventeen are all trifling. The killed are: John Churchill, of Starks, Mo.; Ben Cisbey, Grafton, W. Va.; Frank Smith. Richmond, Ind.; Jack Lacy, Chicago. The (injured are: Andy Smith, Petersburg, Ill.; William Edwards, Newark, Ohio; B. Brown, Holliday’s Cave, W. Va.; John Mott, Cincinnati; Frank Larkin, Jackson, Tenn.; William Wheeler, Elmore Fairbanks, Coolville, Ohio; Dave Harrison, Delaware, Ky.; William Hopkins, Franklin, W. Va.; John Gardiner, Martin County, Ind.; George 'Williams, Princeton. Ind.; Albert McCarthy, Tipton. Ind.; Samuel Wright, Level Valley, W. Va.; Louis Butler, Lexington, Ky.; Frank Moncreiff, LaPlatte, M o.; Ed Taylor, Louisville, Ky.; Dick Dow, Mount Sterling, Ky.; George Powell, Beverley, Ohio.

CROP REPORTS. They Are Very Favorable—The Average Yield of Wheat. The following summary of the springwheat crop, and the condition of corn, appears in the .Farmers’ Review: The reports from correspondents have been full and definite on threshing returns for spring wheat. Illinois shows a higher average than any other State. The average yield, as reported, is 16% bushels per acre. The highest average yield reported from anyone county is 25 bushels, and the lowest 8 bushels. lowa, 9 1-7 bushels ; highest average yield, 14 bushels. Kansas, 3 4-5 bushels; highest average yield, 20 bushels. Missouri, 13 2-5 bushels ; highest average yield, 23 bushels. Michigan, 12 3-5 bushels; highest average yield, 16 bushels. Michigan, 9J4 bushels; highest average yield, 15 bushels. Nebraska, 14}$ bushels; highest average yield, 24 bushels. Wisconsin, 10 6-7 bushels; highest average yield, 25 bushels. Dakota, 14 bushels ; highest average yield, 20 bushels (four counties). Reports on com continue favorable. Condition is reported as follows : Illinois, 106 per cent.; Wisconsin, 95 per cent.; lowa, 100 per cent.; Kansas, 78 per cent.; Minnesota, 87 per cent.; Nebraska, 105 per cent.: Missouri, 10J per cent.; Dakota, 93'5 per cent.; Michigan, 90 1-5 per cent.; Indiana, 106 per cent.; Kentucky, 103 per cent.; Ohio, 110% per cent. BASE-BALL BATTERS. Struggling for the Championship The Record. The official standing of the various ball clubs in the race for the pennant is given below: League. Won. Lost. New York 69 36 Chicago6l 47 Detroits6 49 Bostons 7 60 Philadelphia 52 51 Pittsburgso 55 Washington 39 67 Indianapolis 40 70 Western. Won. Lost. American. Won. Lost. Des Moines6o 31 St. Louis 63 32 St. Paul6l 36 Athletic 63 36 Omahass 39 Brooklyn 63 40 Kansas City.... 51 39 Cincinnati6l 43 Milwaukee4s 56 Cleveland 44 59 Sioux City 22 30; Baltimore 43 63 Chicago 39 61 39 67 Davenport 23 so]Konsas City.... 30 66 A SAN FRANCISCO BLAZE. Fire Destroys Over a Million Dollars’ Worth of Property. A disastrous fire occurred in the sash and door factory of Day, Huber & Cracker, on Main street, San Francisco. The burned district embraces two whole blocks, which were entirely burned over, and three blocks • which are almost a total loss. The fir,e started from a spark which dropped among the shavings. The loss is estimated at $1,250,000. One person perished in the flames. Brutally Butchered. The fourth of a series of mysterious murders has Occurred In Londoh, England. In every ease the victim has been a woman, whom the assassin has waylaid at night and butchered in a most fiendish manner. The police have been unable to discover who is the author of the crimes, but he is believed to be some insane person. A cobbler living in the vicinity and known as “Leather Apron” is suspected. The President’s Letter. President Cleveland has made public his letter of acceptance. In it he indorses the Democratic platform and discusses campaign issues.

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY. General Bualnens Reported by Dun A Co. as Stimulated by Good Crop Prospects. The trade review of R. G. Dun A Co., for last week, is as follows: Wool and iron industries respmd at last, though with some hesitation yet, to the stimulus afforded by good crop prospects. In the iron trade, also, an improving demand is felt in all directions, excepting in the market for steel rails. The speculative markets are higher, wheat nearly one cent, with sales of 34,000,000 bushels, and corn about a cent, in spite of excellent reports as to the probable yield. Cotton has risen nearly one-half cent, though the best recent reports from Texas as to the yield are confirmed. The coffee market is half a cent higher, with a better demand. Oil is one and three-quarter cents stronger, and foreign hides one-half a cent higher. Sugar has advanced a sixteenth and lard nearly one-half a cent, though other pork products are steady, and hogs 10 cents per 100 pounds lower. The stock market has shared th? upward tendency, showing an advance of about one-half a dollar per share since a week ago. Exports from New York fall $1,200,000 behind last year’s for the week rei>orted and 14 per cent, behind for the last five weeks. The accounts for interior cities continue d cidedly favorable. As to collections also, while some complaints appear, the general tenor of reports is more favorable. The business failures number 224, as compared with 226 last week and 214 the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 174, and 22 in the Dominion of Canada.

MINNESOTA REPUBLICANS. They Place in the Field a State Ticket, at Minneapolis. The Republicans of Minnesota met in State convention at Minneapolis, and nominated this ticket: Governor, William R. Merriam; Lieutenant Governor, Albert E. Rice; Secretary of State, Hans Mattson; Auditor, William W. Braden; Treasurer, Joseph Bobletter ; Attorney General, Moses E. Clapp; Judges of the Supreme Court, James Gilfillan, Loren W. Collins. The platform adopted by the convention indorses the national candidates and a protective tariff, but favors a readjustment and cautious reduction of tariff duties; promises to continue efforts to regulate the sale of liquor; favors honest civil-service laws; commends Gov. McGill’s administration; demands the enforcement of the interstate railroad law; denounces the fisheries treaty and the failure to admit Dakota to the Union; favors liberal pensions; declares hostility to trusts; indorses the Australian system of voting; demands a thorough revision of the naturalization laws; condemns political outrages in the South, and sympathizes with the Irish homerulers.

A VETERAN ACTOR DEAD, Lester Wallack Passes Away at Stamford, Conn. Lester Wallack, tho veteran actor, is dead. He was stricken with apoplexy while reading the paper at his country residence— South View—Stamford, Conn., and remained unconscious until he died. Lester Wallack

was born in New York in 1820, during one of his father’s visits to this country. He began his American career in 1847 at the old Broadway theater, and when iris father opened the old Wallack theater in 1861, [with Tom Taylor’s “The President,” he acted the part of IDo la Range. He inherited tho theater on the death of the elder

Waiiaek in 1864. Tne now Wallack theater was opened Jan. 3, 1882. The testimonial benefit to Mr. Wallack last winter, which netted $20,000, is well remembered. STARTED FOB CONGRESS. Recent Nominations by the Various Political Parties. The Republicans of the Tenth Virginia District have renominated Jacob Yost for Congress. Tho Sixth Mississippi District Democrats Lave nominated T. R. Stockdale for Congress. Silas Hare has been nominated for Congress by the Fifth Texas District Democrats at Gainesville.

The Republicans of the Thirteenth Missouri District have renominated Congressman Wade. Miguel 8. Otero has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of New Mexico at Socorro. Congressman Tarsney has been nominated by the Democrats of the Eight Michigan District. Manley D. Wilson, of Madison, has been named for Congress by the Republicans of the Fourth Indiana District. The Hon. James Cobb has been renominated by the Democrats of the Fifth Alabama District. The Fifth Texas District Democrats renominated Silas Hare. The Democrats of the Twelfth Ohio District have nominated L. T. Neal, of Chillicothe. James G. Beldin has been renominated by the Twenty-fifth New York District Republicans. Congressman Mark S. Brewer has been renominated by the Republicans of the Sixth Michigan District. H. R. Benjamin, a Tampa (Fla.) druggist, has been named for Congress by the Republicans of the First Florida District. lhe Democrats of the Third Michigan District have nominated Eugene Pringle for Congress.

WESTERN POLITICS. Colorado Republicans Nominate John A. Cooper for Governor. The Republican State Convention of Colorado met at Denver, and made the following nominations: Governor, Job A. Cooper, of Denver; Lieutenant Governor, William J. Smith ; Treasurer, W. H. Brisbane, of Lake; Secretary of State, Capt. Jones Rice of Pueblo; Auditor, Louis Schwaubeck, of Saguache; Attorney General, S. W. Jones, of Breckenridge; Superintendent of Schools, Prof. Fred Dick, of Trinidad; Supreme Judge dong term). Charles D. Hoyt, of Conejose ; Supreme Judge (short term), Victor A. Elliott, of Denver; Electors, Dr. David Moore of Denver, F. F. Obiston of Ch ar Crock, James Gallow of Montrose. A platform was adopted which indorses the national platform and candidates; favors pensions for Union veterans; advocates laws to protect labor; opposes Chinese immigration and that of contract labor; denounces Cleveland’s administration; approves the rejection of the fisheries treaty and condemns the President's retaliation message; demands an unlimited coinage of

silver; favors stringent State railroad legislation. and asks for national reservoirs in the West for irrigation purposes. RUSSELL AT THE HEAD. TUs Maasachusetts Democrats Name Their State Ticket. The Democrats of Massachusetts met in State convention at Springfield and nominated this ticket: Governor, William E. Russell, of Cambridge; Lieutenant Governor, John W. Corcoran; Secretary of State. William N. Osgood; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher; Attorney General, Samuel O. Lamb; Auditor, William A. Williams; Electors-at-Large, John J. O'Reilly of Boston, George M. Stearns of Chicopee. A long platform was adopted, which eulogizes Cleveland and Thurman, indorses the St. Louis platform, attacks the Republican party, declares for a reduction of taxes, and approves the Mills bill and the President’s tariff message, denounces trusts, indorses the President’s fisheries policy, sympathizes with Irish home-rulers, recommends more stringent anti-contract labor laws, demands the repeal of the State polltax qualification for suffrage, and liberal treatment of Union veterans and their widows, promising support of well-consid-ered temperance legislation, and declares hostility to legislation which violates the cardinal Democratic principles of personal liberty. MORGAN IS THE MAN. The Wisconsin Democrats Nominate a State Ticket. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met at Milwaukee and nominated the following ticket: Governor, James Morgan of Milwaukee; Lieutenant Governor, Andraw Kull of Walworth County; Secretary of State. A. C. Larson of Eau Claire; State Treasurer, Theodore Kersten of Calumet; Attorney General, T. E. Ryan of Waukesha; Railroad Commissioner, Herman Nabor of Shawano County; Insurance Commissioner, E. W. Evans of Sauk County; Superintendent of Schools, Amos Squire of Ripon. The platform adopted indorses the administration of Cleveland, reaffirms the platform of last May, indorses the St. Louis candidates and platform, declares tax reduction the issue of the campaign, and opposes sumptuary laws. REVOLT AT TANGA. Twenty Arabs Killed and Two German Officers Wounded. A dispatch to the Paris Temps from Zanzibar says: The Pangani natives resisted the landing of the German company’s officers and the Sultan’s troops. Shots were exchanged and two Germans were wounded. A German man-of-war afterward bombarded Tanga. The Germans, after effecting a landing, drove the Arabs and natives into the bush. Twenty Arabs were killed. The excitement is spreading.

TAKEN FROM JAIL AND HANGED. Three Negroes Imprisoned at Oxford, N. C., Lynched by a Mob. Henry Tanner, John Tanner, and Alonzo Smith, all colored, were taken from the jail at Oxford, N. C., and hanged by a crpwd of from seventy-five to one hundred masked men, white and black. The Tanners were charged with the murder of a negro and Smith with burglary and arson, the latter a capital crime in that State. Only one man was guarding the jail, and he was overpowered. NEBRASKA POLI TI OS. The Laboring Men Meet in State Convention and Name a Ticket. The Union Labor State Convention of Nebraska was held at Hastings, and this ticket nominated: Governor, David Butler of Pawnee County; Lieutenant Governor, B. Pattoe of Brown County; State Auditor, H. 8. Alley of Grand Island ; State Treasurer, D. C. Nush of Phelps County; Secretary of State, I. Hentharn of Buffalo County; Commissioner of Public Land, M. F. Wright of Nemaha County; Attorney General, F. M. Knox of Custer County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. M. H. Wood of Cass County. WILLIAMS FOR CONGRESS. ‘The 31 all one and Wise Factions Have a Contest in Virginia. A special dispatch from Norfolk, Ya., says: Republicans of the Second Virginia District, in convention in this city, renominated George F. Bowden for Congress, and appointed George A. Martin, who was elected by tne Mahone faction of the State Convention at Petersburg in May as Presidential elector from the district. There was an exciting contest between Martin and General V. D. Groner, appointed by the -Wise wing of the narty, and after the convention Groner’s supporters and contesting delegates who had not been admitted, forty-six in all, held a meeting, indorsed Groner as elector, and nominated Sandy Williams (colored) for Congress.

DEMOCRATS WIN. The Election in Arkansas Results in a Victory for Democracy. A Little Rock, Ark., special states that the Democratic State ticket was elected by increased majorities. The amendment calling a convention to draft a new State Constitution was voted down. Both bl-anches of the Legislature are strongly Democratic. The ticket elected is as follows: Governor, John P. Eagle; Secretary of State, Benj. B. Chism ; Attorney General, W. E. Atkin- . son ; Treasurer, William E. Woodruff; Auditor, W. S. Dunlop; Land Commissioner, Paul M. Cobbs; Superintendent of Public Instruction WardE. Thompson; Chief Justice, S. R. Cockrill. A REPUBLICAN VICTORY. Returns from the Vermont Election Indicate Republican Gains. The Republican ticket was elected in Vermont by a majority of about 27,000. the returns indicating Republican gains. Congressmen Stewart and Grout are re-elected by good majorities. The Senate will be solidly Republican, while the House will show an increased Republican membership. The Republicans gained strength at Burlington and in Franklin' County. ( CLEVELAND INDORSED. The Democrats of Connecticut Nominate a State Ticket. The Connecticut Democratic State convention was held at New Haven, and the following ticket nominated: For Governor, Luzon B. Morris of New Haven, for Lieutenant Governor, Senator Kirkham of Newington, for Secretary of State, Henry Bishop, for Treasurer, James G. Martin, for ComptrolW; Staub of New Milford for Electors-at-Large, A. E. Burr of Hartford and E. B. Manning of Meriden. The platform adopted indorses the President and his tariff message; congratulates the Democrats of the House' upon the pas-

sage of the Mills bill; denounces any duty upon raw material as a burden upon both the manufacturer and the consumer, and devotes an entire plank to the evils of the duty on wool; indorses the President for “placing the commercial relations of the people of the United States and Canada upon an equality;” declares in favor of the secret ballot, and favors a revision of the Constitution so that State officers maybe elected by a plurality vote. TERRIBLE FLOODS. Fifteen Thousand Bohemians Fleeing for Their Lives. The floods in Bohemia have reached alarming proportions. At Budweis 15.000 persons are homeless. The inhabitants took refuge in the hills. The Danube rose steadily. Six villages in the valley of the Poprad were submerged. The villagers fled to the mountains. Crops and granaries were swept away. Goodsell for Governor. New Hampshire Republicans held their State convention at Concord, and nominated David H. Goodsell, of Antrim, for Governor. The resolutions indorse the Chicago platform; ask that patriotic citizens vote for protection and the tariff, and ratify the nominations of Harrison and Morton. The Hon. David H. Goodsell, the nominee for Governor, is a native of Hillsboro. He is about 50 years old, and an extensive manufacturer at Antrim. Ho has been a member of the Legislature, and also in the Governor’s Council. He is President of the New Hampshire State Temperance Union.

A Colored Conflict Imminent. The State Rangers and two local militarycompanies have been called Into service in Fort Benton County, Texas, where a body of 500 negroes and the whites are likely to come in conflict. The colored people are charged with an attempted assassination, and refuse to quit the county at the behest of the white residents. It is said that forty men. armed with Winchester rifles, threatened the negroes. Amsden for Governor. The Democrats of New Hampshire met in State Convention at Concord, and nominated Charles A. Amsden for Governor. Electors were chosen and the convention adopted a platform indorsing the national platform and nominees, declaring for tariff reform and free raw materials, favoring the regulation of the liquor traffic, and denouncing the Republican party as a conspiracy to protect trusts. Increase of Railroads in the South. The Manufacturers’ Record presents special statistics as to the development of the railroad interests of the South during the last eight years. In 1880 the South had 20,612 miles of railroad, costing with equipment $699,800,000, while at the present time it lias 39,000 miles, costing $1,450,000,000, a gain of 18.000 miles in track and $750,000,000 in the amount invested in railroads. A Life Prisoner Pardoned. Elmer B. Thomas, a veteran soldier and life prisoner in the Ohio Penitentiary, has been pardoned unconditionally, after serving fourteen years. He was very anxious to get out in time to take part in the Grand Army encampment and in the parade with his old company. John Shut Out. At Waterloo, lowa. Judge Lenehan denied the application of Fong Wing to be made a citizen, on the ground that, under the Constitution of the United States, the Chinese are not eligible to citizenship. Hawkeye Thieves. A gang of thieves are working around Mason City, lowa. Twenty head of cattle have been stolen and the express office at Plymouth robbed. Seriously 111. Daniel Agnew, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 'who is 80 years ofage. is seriously ill of erysipelas at his home in Beaver, Pa. A Mohawk Fanner Dead. John Leslie Voorhees, one of the famous Mohawk Valley farmers, died at Canajoharie, aged 85, and worth half a million.