Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — MILTON WESTON PARDONED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MILTON WESTON PARDONED.

The Long Struggle to Free the Capitalist from Prison Successful. A Harrisburg (Pa.) special is as follows: Milton Weston, the Chicago millionaire who was serving a five-year sentence in the Western Penitentiary for contributory murder in causing the death of a man named Haymaker during a fight between the employes of. the two

men over the possession of a piece of land in western Pennsylvania about four years ago, has been i>ardoned. In giving their reasons for the pardon the hoard review the case, going into many details of the trial. There was nothing in tho evidence to controvert the allegation of Weston that in all he did he believed he was conforming to the strict letter of the law in his efforts to maintain what he believed to be his rights. It was difficult, says the Board, to see wherein Weston was more guilty than others who were present and concerned with him. Weston’s pardon was strongly recommended by many prominent people, all of whom declared he was a law-abiding and peaceable citizen. Weston at once returned to his home in Chicago. HEADED FOR THE CAPITAL. Prominent Congressional Nominations Recently Made, Tho Second District Democrats of Illinois renominated Frank Lawler, and the Third District Democrats nominated M. R. Freshwater. The Eighth Massachusetts District Republicans have nominated the Hon. Frederick L. Greenhalge. Tho Republicans of the Tenth Ohio District have renominated Congressman Jacob Romeis. Congressman Charles S. Barker, Republican, has been renominated in the Thirtieth New York District. Congressman Asher G. Caruth (Dem.), of Louisville, Ky., has been renominated. The First District Democratic Congressional Convention of Massachusetts resulted in a split, the Delano faction (sixty-nine delegates) nominating George Delano, and tho Cummings faction (sixty-one delegates) nominating John W. Cummings for Congress. Massachusetts—First District, Charles R. Randall (Rep.); Ninth, Edward Burnett (Dem.), renominated; Tenth, John E. Russell (Dem.) , renominated. Nebraska—First District, J. Sterling Morton (Dem.). New York—Thirty-third Districts John Wiley (Dem.); Twenty-first, J. ol Sawyer (Rep.), renominated on the 237th ballot; Thirty-second, J. M. Farquhar (Rep,), renominated. South Carolina—Seventh District, William Elliott (Dem.), renominated, Texas—Eleventh District, S. W. T. Lanham (Lem.), renominated. New Jersey—Third District, J. A. Geissonheimer (Dem.) > Pennsylvania Democrats—First District, George McGowan; Second. D. W. Dougherty; Third, S. J,. Randall; Fifth, F. A. Herwig. Michigan—l. M. Stephenson, of Menominee (Rep.). Kentucky—Seventh District, A. M. Swope (Rep.). Pennsylvania Twenty-fourth District, Jefferson Duncan (Dem.), of Washington.

TRADE AND CROPS. The Agricultural Outlook Most FlatteringLarge Increase of Values. In their review for last week, Dun & Co. say: Doubt about the corn crop has vanished. Estimates vary, but it is doubtless the largest crop ever raised. The increase of more than 550,000,000 bushels in this crop far outweighs in value any loss in tho yield of wheat, and also any possible loss in the yield of cotton. But the yield of oats is also the largest on record, and the yield of hay and potatoes excellent. It is safe to say that this year's agricultural produce will represent at least one hundred millions more money than last year's, at average prices for both. Trade was slightly checked by artificial prices. In pork products prices have yielded but little, and packing falls much behind last year. Corn has fallen but one cent, notwithstanding the great yield. At Kansas City the market for cattle Is overstocked, and prices are so low as to check movement. The boot and shoe trade is large. Tho iron market is stronger at Philadelphia, but weaker at Pittsburg. The reports from interior points are uniformly hopeful. The cotton crop is about three weeks late, and forwarding is delayed by the stoppage of traffic. At all Western points beyond the danger of fever business is reported good or improving, though more complaint of slow collections is heard. Money is generally in ample supply, but the stringency increases at Cleveland and the demand is strong at St. Louis and Milwaukee. Kansas City reports loons paid with unusual regularity, and money is easy at Omaha. August imports exceeded exports by $11,671,352, and the excess for eight months was $87,420,928. From New York the exports for the last four weeks hove been 4 per cent, below laßt year’s, with imports equal to those of 1887. The business failures for the week are 220. For the corresponding week of 1887 the figures were 195. ADVERSE TO MORMONISM. Utah Should Not Be Admitted to Statehood Until Polygjamy Is Abolished. The majority report of tho Utah Commission, signed by G. L. D. Godtrey, A. B. Williams, and Arthur L. Thomas, has been filed in Washington, as follows; It recommends that Utah ho not admitfed to the Union until such time as the Mormon people shall manifest by their future acts that they have abandoned polygamy in good faith, und not then until an amendment shall have been made to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the practice of polygamy. It says the convention which a .opted the proposed constitution upon which an appeal was made to Congress for admission to the Union was held without authority from any proper source. It is further asserted that the proposed , constitution is Bilent with respect to the crime of polygamy, and the Commissioners are of the opinion that the Govern- - meat cannot afford to surrender the great advan7t* Sfc’.J;* t \ 4 ‘.•

tage which it now bolds, and which has been secured at much expense and trouble. They also think that no harm can result from delay in the admission of the Territory It is also stated in the report that the Democratic and Republican parties of Utah, in their conventions recently held, indorsed the position taken in the ma ority report. The report concludes that the Mormon Church is committed to a policy which, if successful, will prove destructive to the pub-lic-school system in Utah. During tbe year there have been eight indictments for polygamy and four convictions, 304 indictments for unlaw ’ cohabitation, and 326 convictions. ONE THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Valparaiso, Chili, Flooded by the Breaking of an Artificial Pond. Advices from Valparaiso, Chili, tell of a terrible calamity which occurred there recently. An artificial pond. 800 feet above the level of the city, burst, flooding the valley Yungai and several streets with a wave twelve feet high. Shops were deluged and the contents destroyed, and houses were swept away and their inhabitants drowned or bruised to death. It is estimated that a thousand lives were lost and that the damage to property -will reach $1,000,000. Fifty-seven of the victims were buried in one day. The Chilian Congress has voted $300,000 for the relief of the sufferers, and the new hospital wards have been opened to shelter the homeless. The streets were impassable four day! after the disaster. A TEXAS MOB. A Turbulent Rabble Hold Possession of Rio Grande City. A telegram from the Collector of Customs at Brownsville, Texas, dated the 23d, and received in Washington by Acting Secretary Thompson, gave information that an armed mob had taken possession of Rio Grande City on account of the killing of a Mexican named Catrino Garza, by a customs officer, who went to Fort Ringgold for protection. The civil authorities of Star County were reported powerless and a request made for orders to bo telegraphed for the military at Ringgold to protect the Customs House and city. Secretary Thompson replied by asking if troops were still needed, but not receiving an answer did not take any action. NEW FAST MAIL. Twenty-seven Hours Only Between Chicago and New York, Postmaster General Dickinson, assisted by W. L. Bancroft, General Superintendent Railway Mail Service, has completed arrangements by which a new fast-mail train has been established between Chicago and New York. This train is known as tho “New York and Chicago Fast Mail East,” scheduled as follows: Leave Chicago 8:30 a. m.; arrive Buffalo, 11:45 p.m.; Albany, about 7 a.m.; Boston, about 3 p. rn.; reaching New York at 12:30 p. m., being twentyseven hours in transit from Chicago to New York. STOLE THOUSANDS. Tho Attorney of the New York Produce Exchange Accused of Grave Crimes. Another case of enormous forgeries on mortgages has been disclosed on the New York Produce Exchange, and the sum involved, so far as ascertained, is $168,000, or more than half the amount stolen by Bedell, The fraud was operated through the gratuity fund of tho Exchange, and the man supposed to bo tho perpetrator of the crime is William R. Foster, Jr., who has au office in the building and is an attorney for the Exchange. A TREMBLING OF THE EARTH. Shocks of Earthquake Felt in Ecuador and in Turkey. Two successive and severe shocks of earthquake were felt at Guayaquil, lasting about two minutes. The shocks were followed by.flashes of lightning. Tho people were panic-stricken. At Helena, Ecuador, .a sharp shock of earthquake was felt about the same time as at Guayaquil. A violent shock of earthquake occurred in the Gulf of Prevesa. Presidential Approval, The President has approved the act to change the time of the sessions of the United States courts in the Western District of Missouri; the act to amend section 1225, Revised Statutes, concerning details of army and navy officers to educational institutions; the joint resolution appropriating $200,000 to suppress infection in the interstate commerce of the United States; the act amendiitory of the act relating to postal crimes; the act to continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for tho expenditures of the Government, and the act amending the river and harbor bill. A Defect in the Electoral Law. Tlie Massachusetts Department of State has called the attention of Senator Hoar to the fact that the United States statutes provide that the messengers from the electoral colleges in the various States shall deliver their copies of the votes of their colleges to the President of the Senate before the first Wednesday in January, while the law passed by Congress in 1887 changes the time of the meeting of the electoral colleges to tho second Monday in January. New Cases Reported. A cold rain and drizzle, unfavorable to yellow-fever patients, continued all day and night at Jacksonville, Fla., the 24th, but only five deaths were reported. There were 113 new cases—Bs colored and 22' white persons. It is impossible to give tho number of cases not reported. One physician has had 130, cases—very few of which were reported. The Board of Health of Fernandina announces a case in that city, Narrowly Escaped Deatli. A crowded train on an elevated road in New York ran into an empty car on the rear of a train in front, and one of tho coaches loaded with passengers was thrown from the track, but the iron railing and a strong coupling prevented it from falling into the street. Several were slightly injured. Ives and Stayner Free. At Cincinnati, Judge Shroder granted the motion to dismiss the case against Ives and Stayner, on trial for embezzlement of property of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day-

ton Railroad, finding no evidence of grand larceny or embezzlement, and directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. Prosecutor Pugh gave notice of appeal. Howard University Officers. The Board of Overseers of Howard University, at their meeting, elected as Dire<v tors William G. Russell, Samuel A. Green, Charles F. Adams, Charles C. Beaman, Augustus Hemenway, Robert T. Peabody, Stephen M. New and Henry W, Torrey. The Hon. Charles W. Codman was chosen President of the Board. Maine Election Returns. An Augusta (Me.) special dispatch of Sept. 28 says: “The full official returns of the late election now in the State Department cut down the Republican plurality from 18,495 to 18,055. The Democratic gain over 1884 was 3,279, or 5 7-10 per cent., and the Republican gain 1,625, or 2 1-10 per cent.” New Presidential Postofflces. Among the postoffices just raised to the Presidential class are the following: Dakota, Minot; Indiana, Huntingburgh, Spencer; lowa, Correctionville; Kansas, Baldwin, Coolidge, Horton, Leoti, Lyndon ; Michigan, Bangor; Minnesota, Warren, Winnebago City; Nebraska, Ponca; Ohio, Caldwel, Carey, Harbor, Middlebury ; Wisconsin, Rhinelander, Rioe Lake, West Superior. Trains Abandoned. Advices to the Postoffice Department at Washington say that, qwing to the yellowfever scare, tho running of trains in Alabama and Mississippi has been abandoned; that the whole region is panic-stricken; and that “the people along the Vicksburg and Shreveport Road seem to be one vast mob,” A Prominent Wedding. Miss Mary Campbell Schofield, daughter of General Schofield, .was married to Lieut. Avery L. Andrews, Fifth Artillery, U. S. A., at Governor’s Island, N. Y. Gen. Sherman was one of the notable guests and kissed the bride. « Three Boys Drowned. Joseph Barberie, son of H. C. Barberie, George Edward, son of Louis Edward, and Laurence McHugh, an orphan lad, wore drowned off Dalhousie, N. 8., by the upsetting of their boat. The bodies were recovered. Postponed on Account of Fever. On account of the yellow fever at the South the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the United Order of Odd Fellows of tlie United States and !Canada at Nashville, Tenn.,has been postponed from Oct. 2 to Nov. 27. Shot Himselfi William Syms, baggage master on the night express on the Fort Wayne Road which left Chicago the other morning, was found dead in his car at Alliance, having shot himself through the head. No cause for the suicide is known. Disappointed in Politics. John Edwards, a prominent uttoimey 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. A Bigamist Sentenced. J. W. Brown has been convicted of bigamy at Detroit, Mich., seven of his alleged thirtythree wives having testified against him. He has been sentenced to seven years and six months imprisonment. Impressive Ceremonies. Archbishop Ireland was invested with the pallium in the Roman Catholic Cathedral at St. Paul, Minn., recently, the ceremonies being of an impressive character. Asks #IO,OOO Damages. Jesse Miller, of Marion, Ind., Whose fouryear old son was run over and killed by a train on the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad, is suing that company for SIO,OOO. Lively Stepping. U-Bet, the pacer, is reported to have covered a quarter of a mile in 29 seconds at the fair grounds in Kansas City. Fatally Burned. By the explosion of a gasoline stove at Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Mary Sanford was fatally burned.

MILTON WESTON.