Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1888 — ELECTRIC FLASHES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ELECTRIC FLASHES.

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Political Gossip, Railroad Rumblings, Personal Mention, Conflagrations, Accidents, Crimes and Criminals, Minor Occurrences and Events. BAZAINE DEAD. A Prominent French Character Dies of Heart Trouble. Ex-Marshal Bazaine is dead, his demise occurring at Madrid, Spain, from heart trouble. He had been ill but a short time. J Francois Achille Bazaine.ex-Marshal of Fr.mce, •was born Feb. 13, 1811, and entered the French army as a private in 1831. He served in Algeria in 1832, and in Spain against the Carlists, where, for distinguished courage and ability, he was promoted to be a Lieutenant and then Captain, and also received the Cross of the Legion o Honor. In the Crimean war he was made a General of Brigade and General of Division. He was promoted to be a Commander of the Legion in 1856. In 1859 he served in the campaign against Austria. When the French invaded Mexico in 18 .2 he held high command, and succeeded Marshal Forey as head of the forces in 1863, when he received the Grand Cross. The neat year he was made a Marshal of. France. In 1869 the Emperor Napoleon promoted him to be Commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard. The war with Germany, 18,0-1, furnished the scene of Bazaine’s highest distinction and of his historic disgrace. At the outbreak of hostilities he Commanded the Third Army Corps, near Metz. When the battles of Worth and Forboch had been fought, disastrously to the French army, Marshal Bazaine took command of the main armies of the empire. On Aug. 14, 1870, he began a retreat from Metz, and fought and lost the bloody battles of Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte before being forced back into Metz, This stronghold was invested promptly by Prince Frederick Charles, and on Oct. 27, 1870, Bazaine surrendered. One hundred and seventy thousand private soldiers, over six thousand officers, fifty Generals, and three Marshals of France were made prisoners of war on this occasion, the largest number of men ever taken at one time. Bazaine fled to England. This awful blow to the military pride of the French people was followed in 1873 by the trial of Bazaine by court-martial for having failed to do his duty. He was sentenced to degradation and death. MacMahon. President of the French republic, commuted the sentence to imprisonment for twenty years in a fortress. Bazaine was taken to the Isle Sainte Marguerite, in the Mediterranean Sea, from whence he escaped after nine months’ imprisonment. He visited Germany and England, then removed to Spain, and made his residence at Madrid, where he had since resided.

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 Y0rk...,73 43 Chicago.... 69 52 Detroit 63 53 Boston 63 56 Philadelphia6o 55 Pittsburgs6 60 Indianapolis 44 ' 76 Washington 43 75 Western. Won.Tx)st.l American. Won. Lost. Des Moines6B 34 St. Louis..Bo 36 St. Paul. 67 ’ 36 Brooklyn 72 43 Kansas City.... 60 39 Athletic 69 44 0maha.....60 47 Cincinnati.6B 48 Milwaukees3 59 Cleveland 47 67 Chicago4o 69 Baltimore4B 71 Sioux City 22 40 Louisville 42 76 Davenport 23 59|Kansas City.... 36 72

BANDITS BAFFLED. Robbers Make an Unsuccessful Attempt on a Texas Train. A Schulenburg (Texas) telegram states that a passerfger train on the Southern Pacific was stopped near Harwood by masked men who compelled the engineer, at the muzzle of a revolver, to uncouple from the passenger coaches and pull out of the way. Conductor E. E. Shackelford was compelled to assist in uncoupling the engine. Anticipating robbery, the train was guarded by United States Marshals, and a fight ensued. Three of the escaping robbers were wounded, and they will bo pursued by aid of bloodhounds. A watery grave. A Yacht Sinks in a Gale in the St. Lawrence River Near Brookville. A terrible drowmlng accident happened five miles west of Brookville, Ont. H. A. Field. H. B. Wright, Henry Bagg, and Herbert and Fred Shepherd were drowned by the sinking of a sailing yaeht in mid-chan-nel. Frank Turner was the only one of the party saved. He was picked up by a yawlboat from a passing vessel. WAR SHIPS ORDERED. The Greeks Preparing for War —the Protest to Be Enforced. An Athens special says seven Greek war ships have been ordered to be ready to put to sea at once. The whole fleet will proceed to Turkish waters. The recent seizure of a Greek vessel at Chios has been the subject of protests by the Greet Government. The Porte refused to give a s titisfactory reply,

A FAMOUS CASE. Judginentfor UM ,000 Keiulered in the lowa Calf Cjse. The jury in the celebrated Jones County (Iowa) calf case, after being out forty-eight hours, returned a verdict for plaintiff for SI,OOO. Robert Johnson, the plaintiff, says this will end the case. The trial has been pending in various courts for over fourteen years, and. has bankrupted several well-to-do people. The calf was worth about $45. Territorial Politics. A special from Beaver, "No Man’s Land,” Bays that the Oklahoma Territorial Convention nominated O. G. Chase for delegate to Congress and put a full ticket for the Territorial Council in the field. The platform asks that “No Man's Land” be placed under control of the fctate of Colorado until it perfects laws of its own, and calls upon Congress to drop political strife and legislate in the interest of ‘No Man's Land,” where t is badly needed. Ex-President Salomon Dead. Gen. Salomon, ex-President of Hayti, is dead. «, ,

GEN. NEWBERRY. He Is Appointed to the I’ostmaatership of Chicago. The President has appointed Gen. Walter C. Newberry Postmaster at Chicago, vice S. Corning Judd. Gen. Walter C. Newberry was born in Oneida County, New York, on Dec. 23, 1835. He lived on a farm until he was 17 years of age, with the exception of two years spent an Oneida Seminary, Cazenovia, and one year at Dr. Prentice’s school, Geneva. His father, Amasa 8. Newberry, was extensively engaged in the hop trade, and at the age of 17 years Walter was sent out on the road as an agent, a business in

Which he was very successful for four years. He spent a portion of each year in Chicago. In 1860 he entered the large lake shipping firm of Oliver, Newberry & Co., at Detroit. But when the call to arms came he hastened back to New York, and enlisted in August, 1861, in the Eightyfirst New York Infantry. A few months later found him an ambitious young private on the banks of the Potomac. He received his commission in November as First Lieutenant, in which rank he participated in the Penisular campaign, through which he rose to a Captancy. In 1863 he returned to New York and helped to organize the Twenty-fourth Cavalry, returning to the front as its Major. In autumn of that year he became Lieutenant Colonel and in 1864 Colonel of the regiment, succeeding its commander, who fell in the first action of the Wilderness. In March, 1865, he was brevetted Brigadier General “for gallant and distinguished services at Dinwiddie Court House,” whieh was the scene of the first day’s battle of Five Forks. Gen. Newberry was seriously wounded there, and on July 1 was mustered out of the service, a Brigadier General at the age of 30. In 1876 Gen. Newberry removed to Chicago, and with Col. Raulston engaged in the brewer's-supply business on Market street, and later at 79, 81, and 83 Kinzie street, where the firm is still located.

FUTURE STATESMEN. Nominees for Congress of Various Political Complexions. Francis W. Rockwell has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Twelfth Massachusetts District. Congressman George D. Tillman was nominated by the Democratic convention of the Second South Carolina District after two weeks’ session and several hundred ballots. Thomas H. Greevy, of Altoona, Pa., has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Twentieth Pennsylvania District The Republicans of the Second New Jersey Congressional District renominated James Buchanan by acclamation. The Republicans of Philadelphia renominated Congressman Henry I. Bingham in the First District. Charles O'Neil in the Second, William D. Kelley in the Fourth, and Alfred C. Hamer in the Fifth. No nomination was made in Randall's district, the Third.

The Republicans of the Tenth Michigan District have nominated Frank W. Wheeler for Congress. The Democrats of the Tenth Ohio District nominated Wm. E. Haynes for Congress on the 47th ballot.

The Bev. Charles T. Steck, of Williamsport, Pa., has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania District. The anti-Mahone men have nominated J. M. Langston for Congress in the Fourth Virginia District, and in the same district the Mahone men nominated Judge R. W. Arnold. Congressman Gear has been renominated by the Republicans of the First lowa District. The Republican Territorial Convention of Arizona nominated Gen. Thomas F. Wilson for Congress. The Prohibitionists of the Fifth Illinois District have nominated Rev. J. M. Strong, of Lake County, for Congress. George L. Yaple has been nominated by the Democrats of the Fourth Congressional District of Michigan for Congress. Congressional nominations have been made as follows: The Hon. Richard Crowley by the Thirty-third New York District Republicans; the Hon. P. J. Connell, by First Nebraska District Republicans, on the nineteenth ballot.

TRADE REVIEW. The Condition of Crops and Business as Reported by Dun & Co. The trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. for last week is as follows: The volume of legitimate business continues to improve. Crop reports are altogether favorable uh to corn. The general average of price* has again declined slightly. The yield of wheat ie 80,006,003 to 90,000,000 bushels short of a full crop. Official reports show that the money in circulation of all kinds was about $1,301,000,000 Sept. 1, against $1,321,000,000 a year ago, and the Treasury has put out this month about $2,200,100 more than it has taken in. besides adding to circulation the amount of gold and silver coinage. For the last week the addition to circulation was $3,200,000. The preliminary statements for August show that the exports of breadstuffs, provisions, cattle, cotton, and oil were $8,577,338, smaller than for the same month last year, or 23 per cent. Wheat has been moderately active, with sales of 297,000,010 bushels, and only one-qu?rter cent ad-, vance in price, while corn has declined one and three-quarter cents, oats one-half a cent, and oils three-quarters of a cent. Pork products are higher, dressed hogs 10 cents and lard 50 cents per 100 pounds. Exports of wheat from this country for July and August amount to 18,500,000 bushels, flour included, against 35,750,0u0 bushels last yen, and the supply remaining for export is probably about 24,000,000 bushels greater than last year’s exports for the rest of the crop year. The business failures number 228, as compared with 217 last week and 224 the week previous to the last. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 183.

ANNUAL ELECTION. The Society of the Anny of the Cumberland Choose Officers. At the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, held in Chicago, Gen. Rosecrans was elected President: Gen. Henry M. Cist, Corresponding Secretary; Col. John W. Steele, Recording Secretary; and Gen. Joseph S. Fullerton, Treasurer. A long list of Vice Presidents was chosen, among them being Gen. Harrison from In-

diana and Colonel A. F. Stevenson from Illinois. The society appointed a committee to co-operate with other organizations in the erection of a monument to Gen. Sheridan. Resolutions respecting his death were also adopted. A committee was appointed to'consider the propriety of asking Congress for an appropriation to purchase the battle-field of Chickamauga. Cob W. McMichael of New York was chosen for the next orator, with E. D. Meyer of Ohio as alternate.

INJURED IN A RAILWAY WRECK. A Bad Smashup Near East Washington, Wis.—Some Serious Injuries. By the derailing of a passenger train, in a collision, on the Burlington and Northern road, near East Winona. Wis., twentyone persons were hurt, some of them badly. The injured were taken to the hospital at La Crosse, and embrace the following; Mrs. Joanna Owl, internally hurt, her condition serious; Mrs. Sueelzer, Millston, wrist sprained and bruised; a Chicago man who refused to give his name was also sent to the hospital, but is not dangerously hurt; E. L. Dunlay, Chicago, bruised, but not seriously; Professor N. T. Hesselquist, President of Augustana College, Rock Island, badly bruised; the Rev. L. A. Johnson, Rockford, bruised on legs and back; Mrs. Sarah Hobbs, of Potosi, both arms hurt; W. H. bhaw, wife and three children, Trevino, Wis.; Mrs. Shaw was painfully bruised, the others badly shaken up. Miss Grace Bartlett of Leroy, N. Y., bruised, injuries not serious; Mrs. C. J. Huxham, Aurora, bruised; Louis Hartnell and daughter, Oregon, 111., both bruised, the lady also,being severely cut about the head; Mike Crawly, Kingsburg, lowa, cut on head and bruised on bcdy; Alice Woodbury and Marion Parker, Minneapolis, slight bruises; Taylor Kelly of Chillicothe, Mo., hurt on the head; Conductor I. B. Downer, shaken up badly.

MAINE ELECTION. The Official Returns Place the Republican Plurality at 18,495. An Augusta telegram says: Official returns of the Maine election have been received at the office of the Secretary of State from all voting places save a few remote and unimportant plantations. The result gives Burleigh (Rpp.), for Governor. 79,513; Putnam (Dem.), 61,018. Republican plurality on gubernatorial vote, 18,495; against 19,709 in 1884. The pluralities for Congressmen are: First District, Reed 2,437, against 2,915 in 1884; Second, Dingley 5,473, against 6,058 in 1884; Third. Milligan 6,533, against 6,217 in 1884; Fourth, Boutelle 4,810, against 5.580 in 1884. The Republicans have 31 Senators to none for the Democrats, as in 1884, and 125 Representatives to 26 for the Democrats, a Republican gain of 10 over 1884. Of ninety-nine county officers, sheriffs, probate judges, county attorneys, etc., the Republicans elected 96 and the Democrats 3. THE LONDON TIMES. The Investigating Committee at Work on Its Charges. Judges Hannen, Smith, and Day, the Parliamentary Commission appointed to investigate the charges of the London Times against Mr. Parnell and other Irish Nationalists, held a preliminary meeting, and. in opposition to the wishes of its counsel, decided that the Times must produce all its documents bearing on the case, but not necessarily for the inspection of the persons accused. Counsel for the Times said the evidence of certain persons in the United States and of two convicts would be necessary. Mr. John Dillon, imprisoned in Ireland under the coercion law, will be released at the proper time, so as to give evidence, but must give bond in £I,OOO. The commission adjourned until Oct. 22.

M’NALLY FOR PRESIDENT. The United Typothetae Select /Their Officers. The convention of the United Typothctae was held in New York City, and adjourned until Oct. 3, 1889, when the delegates will convene in St. Louis. Officers were elected as follows: President, Andrew McNally, of Chicago; Vice Presidents, L. L. Morgan, New Haven; Clayton McMichael, Philadelphia; W. E. Jones, Richmond; W. C. Wainc, Milwaukee; H.. R. Lewis, Portland; W. A. Shepard, Toronto, Thomas D. Parker, President of the Mutual Benefit Typothetae, of Chicago, the only organization of the kind in the country, addressed the convention upon the advisability of establishing similar societies in every town and city in the country.

MOONSHINERS KILLED. United States Officers Victors in a Battle with Illicit Distillers. A sanguinary conflict between two moonshiners and two Deputy United States Marshals, took place near the foot of Backbone Mountain, in Clark County. Arkansas, thirty miles from Hot Springs, in which both moonshiners were shot to death. Ted Bates and John Gressam were the moonshiners. They had been prosecuting their illicit business for some time about three miles north of Black Springs. The recent raids of Government officials had the effect of breaking up the organized gang, and Bates and Gressam were attempting to get out of the State when tracked from their haunts by deputies.

CLRTIS ACCEPTS. The Candidate of the American Party Makes Public His Letter. James Langdon Curtis, of New York City, has issued his lettter of acceptance of the Presidential nomination tendered by the convention of the National American party. He says: The party was forced into being by the evils of .unlimited floods of bad immigrants. A foreigner should not vote until twenty-one years a citizen. Favors free technical schools, so that the American boy may acquire the skilled industries from which he hss been hitherto barred by the organized leagues and unions of organized labor from foreign lands. 1 freely concur in the sentiment that, except m the observance of international courtesy, none but the American flag shall be known to our people, and none but Americans shall fill the public offices of the country. America for America, now and forever.

PAYMASTER ROBBED. One of His Assailants Mortally Wounded. John Smith, stone contractor of the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad, with his bookkeeper, Mr. Shreiner, was driving froin Gordonville to Lancaster, Tenn., with SI,BOO to pay off the hands, when two former employes stopped them and demanded the money. Smith was knocked senseless, and

Shreiner fled, the highwaymen getting the money. But they had not gone far with it, when a posse of citizens overtook them. A man named Johnson wounded one of them fatally and the other severely. •Louisiana Negroes Shot by a Mob. A crowd of armed men rode to the houses of two negroes named Jean Pierre Salet and Dideare, at Ville Platte Praire, La., and after leading the negroes a short distance away riddled them with buckshot. The killing is supposed to have been brought about by incendiary language used by the negroes. The affair caused intense excitement.

It Was Loaded. Clare Keely. who died at Elkhart, Ind., and was supposed to have shot himself by accident, was shot by his brother Guy. who pointed a pistol at him that he supposed to be unloaded, and has just confessed. George Strealey’s little son stepped in front of a target at which his father was shooting and a bullet went through his head, but he is expected to live. Odd Fellows Elect Officers. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session at Los Angeles, Cal., elected officers, the only changes being the elevation of the Deputy Grand Sire, General Underwood, of Kentucky, to the office of Grand Sire, and the election of Charles M. Busbee, of Raleigh, N. C Deputy Grand Sire.

Railroad Officers Elected. The stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railroad held their annual meeting at New York and elected, directors, the only change being J. C. Bullitt in place of August Belmont. The net earnings for the year ended June 30 were $6,579,854, while the operating expenses aggregated $9,266,884. Engagement Announced. The engagement of Miss Virginia MacTavish, of Baltimore, the grand-daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and of General Winfield Scott, to the Duke of Norfolk, one of England’s wealthiest noblemen, has been announced. Ex-Delegate Cannon Sent to Prison. George Q. Cannon, ex-de legate to Congress, surrendered himself to the court at Salt Lake City, Utah, and was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary and fined $350 on two indictments for unlawful cohabitation.

Connolly Won’t Accept. Maj. James A. Connolly has declined to accept the Republican nomination for Congressman in the Thirtieth Illinois District. It is intimated that Capt. S. P. Mooney, of Springfield, is likely to be chosen in his stead. Disappointed in Politics. John Edwards, a prominent attorney of Maryville, Mo., shot himself, it is believed, because of his disappointment at not receiving the Democratic nomination for Judge of the Court of Appeals. Western Missouri District, at a recent convention. Death of an Actar. —William Warren, the veteran comedian, died at his home in Boston, aged 76 years. He retired from active life about six years ago. He was a native of Philadelphia and very popular with the profession and public. Must Go to Jail. Justice Fields, of the United States Supreme Court at San Francisco, has denied Judge Terry’s petition for a revocation of his sentence to six months’ imprisonment for contempt. Nominate a Ticket. The Delaware Republican State Convention met at Dover and nominated Charles H. Treat for Congress, and these electors: Gen. Henry Dupont, of Kent; James R. Hittaker, of Sussex, and Joshua Marvel.

Death of W. H. Robinson. William H. Robinson, candidate for Republican Eleetor-at-Large and Mayor of Fairfield, 111., is dead. His demise occurred suddenly from heart trouble. Died on a Reservation. Mrs. Mary Peeonga, widow of the last chief of the Miami tribe of Indians, died on the reservation near Marion, Ind., aged 60.

GEN. W. C. NEWBERRY.