Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1889 — THE NEWS RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS RECORD.

A. SUMMARY OF THE EVENTFUL HAPPENINGS OF A WEEK. The Latest News as Flashed Over the Wires from All Farts of the World—Regarding Politics, Religion, Casualties, Commerce, and Industry, TASCOTT NOT CAUGHT YET. An Eight Thousand Mile Chase Af.er a Man Proves Fruitless. A. J. Sttino and party, who for three ■weeks scorned the Canadian dominion and a number of Western States and Territories in search of William B. Tascott, the alleged murderer of Amos J. Snell, have returned to Chicago empty-handed. The scouring party consisted of Mr. Stone, two detectives, and Frank Mills, an old schoolmate of Tascott, who went along to identify him. Mr. Stone said of his trip: Our information came first from Minn apolis, Minn. Wo were certain from descriptions tliao the young man was Tascott, and we lost no time in going to Winnipeg. Description of the young man working in a tile camp tallied exactly with Tascott. I was confident we were close on Tascott’s heels. I chartered a special train and went to the place where wo expected to find Tascott. To our chagrin wo found he had gone westward to the Pacific coast, and wo followed in hot pursuit, first through Alberta-in-Canada, then through British "Columbia, Canada, Washington Territory, Vancouver, Victor, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, and thence down to a small town in Southern California. There we found the young man, hut it wasn’t Tascott. The man’s writing, his mysterious movements, and in faci his every action strangely indicated that he wa. none other than Tascott. When we found him there wasn’t such a striking resemblance alto all. His height, weight, color of hair and eyes Were almost exactly those of Tascott, but the expression of his face and his complexion wera not. Whilo we wore on this man s track wi. ■would have followed him to the end of the earth and hail he chartered a steamer and gone to China I would have chartered tho nearesj steamer at band and followed him. Wo traveler over 8,000 miles and spent thousands of dollars I shall follow the young man as long a 3 I liVv and just as long as i have a dollar to spend.” WEATHER AND CROP BULLETIN. Seeding Conditions Favorable in Illinois, Missouri and Kanois. The national weather crop bulletin for the week ending Saturday, March 16, 1889, says: The conditions in Dakota and Minnesota have been about the average for plowing and seeding, hut work was interrupted in Dakota by blustering weather from the 13th to tho 10th. The weather has been favorable in Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. Seeding conditions are favorable in Nebraska. Wheat is reported as doing well Kansas, and the favorable elfects of fair weather havo ' been felt in Missouri and Indiana. High day temperature and freezing nights and a deficiency in rainfall should bo injurious to wheat in Michigan, in the southern portion of which State snow has disappeared. The crop prospects continue excellent In Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee, where the spring planting is well under way. The winter wheat is reported as looking very well throughout New York and Pennsylvania; the frost is out of the ground In Southern Massachusetts, and planting is in progress in Now Jersey. Favorable reports have been received from the South Atlantic and Gulf States, where the spring planting has mode excellent progress, tho cane planting being nearly completed in Louisiana. There have been throe light frosts in this State during the week, but they have resulted in no damage. No adverse reports have been received from any section, and the week has, in general, been favorable for farm work in most districts.

SECRETARY ELAINE'S DEMAND. Asking from Russia the Release of an Imprisoned American Citizen. Attorney J. B. Klein, of Bridgeport, Conn., had an interview with Secretary of State Blaine, and presented the case of Hermann Kempinski. the Bridgeport citizen who has , been cast into prison at Bowen, Bussia, while on a visit to his native place. Kempinski, although armed with passports and credentials of citizenship, lias been sentenced to banishment to Siberia, and, unless liberated by demands of Secretary Blaine, will be transported May 1. A number of lawyers at Washington tell Klein that ho has the strongest document to prove Kempinski's case, and they could not offer any further suggestions. Mr. Blaine has cabled to the authorities at Bowen, demanding the prisoner’s release. GONE UP IN SMOKE. A Forty Thousand Loss at Belmont, N. Y. —Other Ela/.es. Clark Bros’, machine Shop at Belmont, N. Y., was burned. Loss, $40,001); insurance, $25,000. The Northwest Davenport Furniture Factory, at Davenport, lowa, was totally consumed by Are, entailing a loss of SIO,OOO. The farm residence of H. W. Hinish and sisters, five miles west of Woostor, Ohio, was destroyed by Are tvhile the family were away from home. Loss, $1,000; partly insured. _____ Miss Anderson Yery Sick. A Philadelphia, Pa., telegram states that Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, is very sick from nervous prostration. All her engagements for the season have been cancelled, and her English company of Afty-> six people disbanded. Orders have been given by her doctors to positively exclude all persons from Miss Anderson’s room, with the exception of her maid and the professional nurse in attendance. As soon as able she will go to Europe to recuperate. Opium Shipped as Sauerkraut. The steamer Walla Walla, belonging to the PaeiAc Coast Steamship Company, was seized by the customs oAflcials at Port Townsend for failure to make proper entries in her coastwise manifest. Eecently opium to the value of SIO,OOO has been smuggled from Victoria, B. C v on the Walla Walla to Tacoma. W. T., by being placed in barrels marked “sauerkraut.” These barrels were not entered on the manifest. S oriii in the East. A severe storm prevailed in portions of Massachusetts and New Jersey on the ltth inst The wind reached a velocity of Afty miles an hour. In the vicinity of Asbury Park, N. J., $50,000 damage was done. ]

REVIEW OF TRADE. Business Improving, But Collections Generally Slow. B. G. Dun & Co., in their review of trade for last week, say: 'The great fall in price of copper from about £BO to £SO per ton at London appears to have come to stay. . Tin declined a little and lead was weaker. The monthly report of iron furnaces in blast, contrary to general f*pectatiou, shows a slight increase in February, the output reaching 149,775 tons weekly March 1, against about 106,500 last year. The- market for bar iron is pronounced the poorest for maify years. The Government report showing 112,000,000 bushels of wheat in farmers' hands is reported by operators as an argument for lower prices. With the visible supply 32,000,000 bushels there is thus in sight about 31,000,000 bushels more than will bo required for food and seed until July 1, and there is besides a large stock on the Paciffc coast, in country elevators, and in the hands of traders not included in the visible supply, and probably more than the ordinary stock of flour on hand, the winter having been open. When it is considered that the ordinary 6tock of flour would probably exceed 30,000,000 bushels of wheat, and that last year’s exports of wheat and flour, March 1 to July 1, cover but 28,000,000 bushels, tho prospect of scarcity seems remote. The price has fallen four cents for the week, with sales of 35,000,000 bushels in New York City. Corn is one cent lower and oats a quarter. Pork products are unchanged. No change appears in coffee and but a fraction in oil. The reports from the interior almost uniformly indicate some improvement in business, though the complaint of slow collections is about as general as before. There is improvement in leather, liquors, groceries, and cattle. Money remains in good supply. For the week the decline in average juices of commodities was nearly half of 1 j>er cent. The business failures numbered 261, as compared 'with a total Of 281 the previous week and 232 the week before. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 228.

SEEKING OFFICE. The Mad Rush for Office at the National Capital. A special telegram from Washington, D. C., says: There are no public activities in the capital that are not connected with office brokerage. The Federal City has become a mart Of public employments. From President down through Cabinet, Senate, House, chiefs, politicians, and all the grades of relative importance, even to janitor, granting office, helping others to office, or keeping office from somebody, is the single thought and the only cause of energy. Public policy, politics in its broad sense, party policy, finance, immigration, elections, foreign relations, the new 'navy, everything is obscured by tho business of office brokerage. For weeks, and even months, the President and his Cabinet will be able to think of little besides the distribution of spoils. The wheels of Government continue turning round and round in a perlunctory sort of way, but, with chiefs waiting the appointment of their successors, subordinates become lazy and struggle to kill time, and the sccno about the great departments has a lazy air and little is heard except office speculation. DRE.VEL'S PHILANTHROPY He Establishes an Institution for the Practical Education of Women. A. J. Drexel has purchased tho Louella mansion at AVayne, Delaware County, Pa.. arid selected trustees and managers for the Drexel Industrial College for AVomen. The institution is for tho instruction of females between tho ages of 13 and 19 years in all duties pertaining to the care of a household, and to teach such trades and business as will make them practical women, able to eurn a respectable livelihood. The benefits of the college will be extended, first, to the daughters of clergymen, and, second, to daughters of respectable parents who, through adverse circumstances, are unable to give their children proper training and education. The entiro oxpense of the purchase, new structures, and endowment will be met by Mr. Drexel, and the amount, it is said, will reach $1,500,090. In connection with the college instruction will be given upon the plan of tho Cooper Institute, by which pupils will receive tuition while residing at their own homes.

POLITICAL POINTERS. Interesting Happenings of More orXess Importance in tlie World of Polities. The Catholic Total Abstinence News, issued at Philadelphia, Pa., comes out squarely against prohibition on tho ground that it will open the Aood-gates of illegal sale and take us back to the anti-liigh license period. General J. B. Weaver and the Hon. E. H. Giliette it is rumored will purchase the Northwestern News, of Davenport, lowa, and consolidate it with tho lowa Tribune, to be published at Des Moines as the organ of tho third and fourth parties. At Charleston. W. Va., on the 14th inst., the State Supremo Court decided against the claim of President Carr, of the Senate, to the Governorship. Wilson will continue to act until the Goff-Fleming contest is settled. The Hon. Moses Field, the original Greenback advocate in Michigan, died at his home in Detroit, from a stroke of apoplexy. EXCITED GOLD SEEKERS. Trouble Brewing in Lower California, and Bloodshed Possible. Great excitement exists in tne Lower California gold-mining camps, and thousands of desperate gold-hunters are breathing vengeance against tho international company of English capitalists whoso agents lay claims to the mines and are trying to shut out Americans and others. When it became known that the company had sent to San Francisco for 5.000 Chinamen to work the mines, tlie American and Mexican miners held a massmeeting and determined not to submit to the engaging of coolies. They also framed a petition to the American Congress asking protection. The situation looks threatening and a battle between the independent miners and tho English company’s men is imminent. Blood will certainly be shed if the company insists on taking coolies to the camps. “OLD ABE,” THE WAR EAGLE. Reminiscence« Brought Up by the Arrest of His Original Captor. Famous all over tho United States was ‘Old Abe,” the noble war eagle which on the march and in battle accompanied Company C, of the Eighth Wisconsin Volunteers, all through tho war. The other day his Indian captor, Ogo Ma

Ge Zek, who, while the bird was little more than a nestling, sqld him to a white man for a bushel of corn, was taken to Madison, AVis.. in charge of United States Marshal Ansley and lodged in jail, his arrest having been made for selling liquor to his fellow Flambeau red men. In the museum of Wisconsin war relics are perched the stuffed remains of the old bird, he having 1 died in 183 L His captor of over a quarter of a century ago was taken to see him, and in broken English gave a narrative of his capture. INCREASE OF COAL PRODUCTION. Report of Cilia. A. Ashburner to the Geological Survey. Charles A. Ashburner has submitted to the United States Geological Survey a preliminary statement showing that the total production of coal of all kinds has increased from 129.975.557 short tons in 1887 to 145,363,744 tons in 1888. The value in 1887 was $182,556,837, which increased to $208,129,806 in 1888. Pennsylvania anthracite, including colliery consumption, increased from 42,088,197 short tons in 1887 to 46,568.000 in 1888, with a corresponding increase in value to $88,714,600. Alabama, Kentucky, Colorado, W T yoming, AVashington Territory, and Montana show large percentage increases, while a slight decrease is noticed in Indiana, Georgia, and Michigan.

KILLED BY AN EXPLODING BOILER. Fatal Accident In the Hammer Shop of the Cleveland Rolling-31111. A shocking accident occurred in the hammer shop of the Cleveland Rolling-Mill Company, the largest iron concern in Cleveland, Ohio. Four large boilers are used to generate steam for this department. One of them exploded with terrific force whilo thirty men were engaged within twenty yards of it. The boiler tore through the roof and broke into two parts, each flying in a different direction. Two of the workmen, James Barr, 26 years of age, and Thomas Dorsey, 30 years of age, lately from England, were killed. Anthony Badleski, Joseph Deneska, Frank Galopski, and Alexander Clark, were badly injured. DEATH OF A. S. WELCH, OF lOWA. The Well Known Educator Expires at Pasadena, Cal. A. S. Welch, of lowa, died at Pasadena, Cal. He was late President of the lowa Agricultural College at Ames, was a United States Senator from Florida soon after the war, and has since been prominently engaged in educational work. He was'at one time President of the Michigan State Normal School, and went from there to lowa and was President of the Agricultural College for'fourteen years, and after resigning remained as Professor of Physiology. He had been spending his winter vacation in California and died whilo there. The body was taken back to lowa for burial. DENIED BY THE SUPREME COURT. Fielden, Schwab, and Bfeebe’s Motion to Correct the Record. The Illinois Supreme Court has denied the motion in the case of Fieldm, Schawb, and Neebe, the anarchists now in the penitentiary, to correct the records of the court. The correction sought was that the accused were not present at the trial of the case in the Supreme Court. In denying the motion the court holds that it is the duty of the court to review the record of the trial court, but that they have no original jurisdiction over the accused.

DIAZ'S LIFE IN DANGER, Several Attempts to Kill tlie President of the Mexican Republic. A City of Mexico special says: Several arrests have been made of persons who attempted to throw off the track the train on which President Diaz was traveling. The affair is regarded as the result of a conspiracy to murder President Diaz" or to abduct him. —— • Against American Fishermen. It is reported that the Newfoundland government will issue no licenses to American Ashermon this season, because of alleged violations of tho licenses given them last season. Fishermen say that cutters are already patrolling the coast, and that every port is closely guarded. Austria’s Warlike Preparations. Tlie Buda-Pestli correspondent of the London Standard says: The Austrian Government has ordered the Danube Navigation Company to hold as many steamers as possible ready for an emergency. Numerous tugs and barges have been concentrated within the last few days to enable troops from Neusatz to be transported to tho Servian shore at a moment’s notice. Farmers’ Alliance. The business conference, of the National Farmers’ Alliance, in session recently at Des Moines, lowa, rocommended the organization of stock companies for the sale of farm products and purchase of machinery and supplies direct from manufacturers. A Busted Trust. The American Spool and Bobbin Association, a trust, organized in 1836, has gone to pieces. The principal cause of the dissolution was that no penalty was fixed for the cutting of rates, and members of the association would not keep faith. Axwortliy’s Vessels. Two vessels, the Keystone and the Master, belonging to Axworthy, the Cleveland defaulter. were sold at Sheriff’s sale at Duluth, Minn. They wore bought by a representative of the Ohio Boat Syndicate for $54,000. A Ferocious Bovine. Ole Hanson, a farmer of Norway. Wis., was fatally gored by an angry bull which he was taking to the barn. A hired man shot the animal before it could be induced to leave Hanson. Belligerent Editors. W. Harvey Willson, editor of the Daily Record at Bichmond, Va., lias been arrested, charged-with being abbut to fight a duel with Phil B. Shields, editor of the Law Journal, Has Meek Been Cliosen? Channing Frank Meek, General Manager of the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Eailway Company, while attending the General Managers’ meeting of ?he “Gentlemen’s" Association in Chicago, on the 15th inst., received a dis-

patch from Washington, which, ft is understood. was from First Assistant Postmaster General J. S. Clarkson, offering him the position of General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service, and requesting him to go to Washington at once, which he did. A Threat from Kansas City. A buyer for one of the largest Kansas City (Mo.) dressed-beef houses says that any hostile legislation to that industry will be resented by boycotting the State enacting such a law. A Marion (Ind.) Fire. Fire at Marion. Ind., destroyed Stewart, Estop & Co.’s window-class factory, causing a loss of $50,000; insurance, $37,000. Taken to the Asylum. Dr. J. S. Gregg, a leading surgeon and prominent Knight Templar, has been taken to the insane asylum at Logans port, Ind. Fire at Newman, Ga. Fire at Newman, Ga„ destroyed the principal business square, causing a loss of $54,000; insurance. $15,000. Heavy Liabilities. William Burgess, a canner at Mimico, Ontario, has disappeared, leaving liabilities estimated at $50,000. Sight Seeing in London. The American base-ball teams in London visited the House of Commons in a body.