Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1889 — AROUND THE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD.

LrUc. FROM EVERY PART % OF THE GLOBE. News from Foreign Shores—Domestic Happenings—Personal Pointers—Labor Notes Political Occurrences. Fires. Accidents. Crimes. Etc! THREE NEW CRUISERS. The Navy of the United States to Be Further Augmented. The Secretary of the Navy is about to advertise for proposals for the construction of three twin screw protected cruisers, authorized by the last Co egress and to cost not to exceed $700,000 each. A submarine torpedo boat is still to be contracted for, and when that is done some eighteen ships "will have been added to our naval force, each one embodying all the latest improvements. The three vessels for which bids are now to be invited are exactly alike. Their length is to bo 257 feet, beam 37 feet, depth 19.6, and draught 14.6. They will each be of 2,000 tons. displacement and 5,400 horse-power, with a guaranteed speed of eighteen knots, and carrying a crew of 185 officers and men. The motive power will be two triple expansion engines. Of coal 200 tons will be the load, although the bunkers will carry 435 tons. An oval-conning tower will be on the forecastle and forward of that a wooden pilot-house, and the vessel will also have an electric light plant. HUNDREDS OF NEGROES BAPTIZED. The Colored Population of Richmond, Va., Wit* janes a Grand Immersion. As a first result of the unprecedented revival going on in Richmond, Va., for three weeks in the colored churches 3'JO have bean baptized in tho rivor at one time. The crowd in attendance was estimated at from 20,000 to 30,000. The converts marched 4n procession through tho streets, many of the women wearing white robes and some of the more opulent attired in Directoire gowns. Tho three ministers stood in tho river, three linos of penitents moving to them at a time, and the groans and shouts, the ecstatic ejaculations that rolled over the vast multitude surpassed anything of the kind ever boforo hoard in Richmond.

THK CROP REPORT. -A Favorable Outlook In Xoi'tbweHtern States. The weather crop bulletin of the Agricultural Department at Washington, says tho season is twenty days in advance in the Northwest. The weather during the past week was favorable to improved crop conditions in Minnesota. Dakota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, northwest, Missouri, and portions of northern Illinois. Some replanting in that section will bo necessary, owing to the high winds, which uncovered and scattered seeds. The weather was favorable for corn planting throughout tho corn belt, Dakota reporting an unusually large acreage and planting well advanced. Tho condition of the fruit crop is encouraging in all sections. NEW GOER MINES FOUND. Thousands Rushing to the Newly Discovered Diggings in Dakota. Great excitement prevails over the discovery of new and rich placer diggings about forty miles from Deadwood, D. T. Prospecting these diggings for the last year on a small scale showed gold in quantities, which was kept quiet; but in renewing work this spring the secret got out, and now thousands of men are rushing to the new gold fields from all directions on horseback and with teams, taking tents, provisions and complete mining outfits. Parties from the diggings returning for provisions and supplies show plenty of gold dust, and state that the diggings are extensive and wo.th GO and 70 cents to the pan.

BASE-BALL BATTERS. Standing of the Clubs That Are Contending for First Place. The relative position of the various clubs that are competing for the pennant is shown by the annexed table: National. W. L. cl American. W. L. c Boston 8 5 .015 St. Louis. ..18 0 .750 Philuda 8 5 .015|Baltimore. .12 8 .600 New Y0rk...8 6 .571 Brooklyn...ll 8 .579 Chicago 8 7 .533 Athletic... .11 9 .550 Cleveland... 9 8 .529 K’ns’s City.l2 10 .545 Pittsburgh. .8 8 .sUo:Cinciunati..lo.l2 .454 Indianap.. ..7 9 .437 Columbus.. 6 13 .315 Washington. 210 ,106| Louisville.. 4 18 .181 Western. W. L. c| Inter-St. W. L. St. Paul 12 2 ,857jEvanBville ..9 5 .042 Omaha 10 5' .000 Quincy 8 5 .615 Sioux City.. 8 6 .571 Davenport. .7 # 0 .538 Denver 7 6 .538 Peoria 6 0 .500 St. Joseph... 6 7 .461 Springfield..s 7 .307 Minneapolis 5 9 .357 Burlington. .4 10 .285 Des Moines. 410 .285 Milwaukee.. 412 .250 IFlames on an Ocean Steamship. The steamship Rugia. which sailed from New York May 2 for Hamburg, has put into Plymouth. While at sea the cotton, which was stowed in her after-hold, took fire from spontaneous combustion, and the flames spread rapidly. When the iron bulk head doors were opened many of the passengers were scorched. The cotton bales stowed around the passengers’ luggage-room jgnited, and the flames were fed by casks of lard near by. The cabins were flooded with water, and the passengers were compelled to remain on deck forty-eight hours. Finally volumes of stoam were turned into tho fire-stricken portion of the ship, with the result of extinguishing the flames and assuring the safety of all on board. Death of Cleveland’s Former Partner. Lyman K. Bass died in New York of heart failure. He was born in Erie County 54 years ago. and was a partner of ex-Presi-dent Cleveland in Buffalo in the law firm of Bhss, Cleveland & Bissell. They were warm friends, though bitter political enemies. Mr. Bass was a Republican Congressman from 1871 to 1875.

THE CHOSEN FEW, [ President Harrison Matos Known His Choice for Various Offices. The President has made the lollowing appointments: Frank W. Palmer of Illinois, to be Public Printer; Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Hugh 8. Thompson of South Carolina, to be Civil Service Commissioners ; Arthur L. Thomas of Salt Lake Cfty. Utah, to be Governor of Utah; Elijah Sells cf Salt Lake City, Utah, to be Secretary of Uiah ; Ellsworth Daggett, of Uiah, to be Surveyor Geneial of Utah ; Perry J. Auson of Idaho, to be Registrar of the Lahd Office at Black/oot, Idaho; William H. Danielson of Idaho, to he Receiver of Public Monevs at Blackfoot, Idaho; Michael A. Leaby of Wisconsin, to be Agent for the Indians of the La I’ointe Agency, in Wisconsin; Joseph F. Bennett, of New Mexico, to be Agent of the Indians of the Mescalero Agency, in New Mexico; James N. Beacon, of Kansas, to he Referee and Chairman of the Referees to he appointed under the act of March 2, 1887, entitled, “An act to grant the right of way through the Indian Teriitorv to the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway,” for tho purpose of appraising the compensation to Ire made by said railway company to the Cherokee Nation. George D. Reynolds, of Missouri, to he United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri ; Elbert E. Kimball, of Missouri, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri; Richard Farr, of Virginia, to bo United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia; Joseph P. Wilson, of Idaho Territory. to bo United States Marshal for the Territory of Idaho ; Samuel 1). Warmcastle, of Pennsylvania, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twenty-third District of Pennsylvania; Levi, 8. Wilcox, of Illinois, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eighth District of Illinois; James M. Townsend, of Richmond, Ind., Recorder of the General Laud Office; Lars K. Aaker, of Minnesota, Receiver of Public Moneys at Crookston. Minn. ; James A. Spradling, of New Mexico, Receiver of Public Moneys at Santa Fe, N. M. ; Robert S. Robertson, of Indiana, a member of the Board of Registration and Election in the Territory of Utah ; John B. Catliu, of Montana, Indian Agent at the Blackfoet Agency, M. T. The President hits appointed Asa Matthew's of Illinois to be First Comptroller of the Treasury, vice M. J. Durham, resigned. Mr. Matthews is the present Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. He w r as Colonel of an Illinois regiment during the war and subsequently held the office of Collector of Internal Revenue for the Peoria District. He lives at Pittsfield, 111. The President also appointed Frank C. Loveland to succeed Gen. Franz Sigel as Pension Agent at New York City, and Samuel C. Wright of Nevada to be Superintendent of the Carson City Mint. Irving G. Caldwell of Ohio and Richard W. De Lambert of Kansas have been appoint jd Special Agents of the Genoral Land Office.

DUN & CO.’S WEEKLY REPORT. Consistency of Commercial Action Lacking Throughout the Country. | fThe condition of trade for last week, as reviewed by R. G. Dun & Co., is as follows: It is the most prominent characteristic of the present situation throughout the country that the usual consistency of commercial action is lacking; transactions and results for some branches of business are highly satisfactory, and for others much the reverse. The approaching transition from one crop year to another, the rocent change of Administration, the changes in thej interstate law, and the rapid development of manufactures at the South are producing effects which cannot bo fully measured. Iron production has begun to decline. Prices are lower at Pittsburg, but there is a better feeling in finished bar iron there and at Philadelphia, and the demand for plate, pipe, sheet and structural iron continues satisfactory. The coal market is still unsettled. The wool market goes lower while waiting for adequate new supplies. Tho future depends upon the state of the dry goods market, which is not now encouraging. The cotton manufacture is active und healthy. The trade in drugs and chemicals has become quite active, with collections excellent, but dye stuffs are dull. A speculative movement, in bread stuffs has developed again. Wheat has advanced l'y cents, com cents, and oats 1% cents, with an advance of 15cents per 100 xtounds in hogs and lard. Oil has declined 3)-* cents, and cotton a sixteenth. Tho grocery trade has been active. In sugar the demand is confined to actual needs. In spite of some speculative advances the general average of prices for commodities is a little lower than it was May 2. The outlook in the Northwest is regarded much more confidently since the recent rains. Everywhere the crop prospects are encouraging, with the season more advanced than usual and the acreage in wheat considerably increased. The business failures numbored 227, as compared with 214 for the previous week.

HURLED TO DEATH. Ton Pennsylvania Miners Killed, in a Horrible. Manner. At Kaska William colliery, near Middleport, Pa., the cage containing ten miners was ascending the shait, and had reached a height of about sixteen feet from the bottom when an empty car was pushed over tho top of, the shaft by two Hungarian laborers. The car struck the ascending cage with awful momentum, shattering it to splinters and instantly killing every one of its occupants. The names of the victims are as f,ollows: Michael Boyle, assistant inside foreman; Hugh Carlin, Patrick McDonald, George Bendol, John Pottovisch, Prank Stratkovisch, John Moore, Albert Dwyer, Edward Kurtz, and Stephen Matson. The cage with the victims was hurled into the “sump.” a hole at the bottom of tho shaft where the water from tho workings accumulates, and the mangled bodies were not recovered for some time. The mine is operated by the Alliance Coal Company. It is an old working, and the shaft is 500 feet deep. CRUSHED IN A STREET CAR, Six AVomen Killed in an Accident at Kalamazoo, Mich, A shocking accident occurred at tho West Main street crossing of the Michigan Central Railroad, at Kalamazoo, Mich. A street-car, containing eight women and two men, was crossing the track when a switchengine dashed down upon it at a high rate of speed, and the driver, being unable to get tho car out of the way, the helpless passengers were hurled to a teriible death. The human freight was mangled in a terrible manner. The killed nud wounded are: Mrs. Alexander Haddock, killed and body horribly mangled; Mrs. M. E. Wateles, instantly killed and body badly mangled; Miss Gertrude Tillotson, Mrs. George Smiley, Mrs. Middleton, and Mrs. Van Antwerp, tilled ; Mrs. Gibson, injured in tho head and side ; Mrs. Barnes, badly cut and hr.uisf/ about the head. Roth of tho male passengers escaped, and the driver jumped from his seat in time to avoid anything but a lew bruises. A CHANCE FOR GENIUS. The State Grange ot Illinois Wants a Straw Binder. The State Grange of Illinois, through its Executive Committee, offers SIO,OOO to bo paid to any one who will invent a machine or device to attach to reapers that will bind wheat and oats with straw. Said device may work and twist its straw direct from the reaper, or it may be a separate /

machine that wiU twist the straw and wind on large spools that may be rereeled on smaller spools by the farmer and set in pi ice in the reaper when wanted. Said money to be paid as soon as tho device la proved to be a success. Should more than one person claim the above $10,003 on his invention the commtttoo reserve the right to choose the one that to them seems most practical. The sa d patent to be issued for tho use and benefit of the Illinois State Grange and legally transferred by the said patentee. This offer holds goods until July 8, 1889.

TO THE CATHOLIC CLERGY OF QUEBEC. -- • Summary of Decrees Passed Condemning Bazaars, Theaters, and Excursions. Archbishop Fabre has issued a circular to his clergy in which he gives a summary of the decrees passed by the Seventh Council of Quebec and approved by his Holiness the Pope and comments thereon. This circular deals with the means adopted for raising money for religious purposes and condemns bazaars, concerts, excursions, and dinners, even when for charitable purposes. It urges the establishment for separate schools and commends temperance societies. It deals in the strongest terms with blasphemy and condemns theaters, circuses, amateur theatricals, snowshoe races, skating clubs, and excursions for pleasure. FLED WITH FIFTY THOUSAND. A Tacoma Contractor Victimizes a Friend and Decamps for the East. Contractor J. E. McCormick, of Tacoma, W. T.. has disappeared with about fifty thousand dollars secured from friends. He met William Squires, of Seattle, in Tacoma and asked him to indorse a note at the Paeifle National Bank for $37,503 for ten days until he could complete his contracts and get some money on them. Squires complied with the request. McCormick went to the bank, drew the money, and subsequently took a train for New York, where he formerly resided. His liabilities w r ill aggregate over forty thousand dollars besides the sso,ooo'in cash he took with him.

What Constitutes Timber Land. Secretary Noble has rendered an important decision in the case of James Hair, of Kirwin, Kansas, in which he reverses the rulings of the department during the last administration in relation to timber-culture land entries. Hair’s entry was not allowed because there were two cottonwood trees and four cottonwood sprouts on the land, the Land Commissioner holding that the words “devoid of timber” in the timberculture act necessarily meant “without timber” or “destituto of timber.” Secretary Noble says the intent of Congress in passing the act was to encourage timberculture, and that it was not the purpose to deprive the occupants of the vast prairies of the West of the benefits of the act if there happened to be a single tree upon the section. He holds that the words "prairie land or land devoid of timber” within the spirit of the act meant land practically so. An English Lucrelia Borgia. The body of Sydney Bolton, 11 years old, who died at Deptford, England, in February last, has been exhumed, and evidences of arsenical poisoning were found in the remains. The boy had boarded with a Mrs. Winter, a relative, who, upon his death, obtained £2O insurance by forging the name of the boy’s mother to the insurance receipt. It is learned that since 1885 Mrs. Winter has insured twenty-seven relatives and that five of them have died. It is believed that she poisoned the five and that she intended to poison all the others.

Faris’ Great Show. The great French exposition, the greatest tho world has ever seen, is open at Paris, France. The formal ceremony of giving to the people this magnificent show took place when President Carnot delivered an ad-, dress and touched the button that set the vast machinery in motion. Only 1,500 people were able to see the real ceremony inside the grand vestibule, or to hear President Carnot’s speech, which, however, was a very good effort. Probably 250,000 people went in on tickets. The scene was a magnificent one, and the crowd a prodigious one. Washington Paragraphs. George Dennison, of Illinois, has been appointed a special land agent. Assistant Attorney General Shields has decided that appointments to service under the census act arc not within the civil-* service rules. Maj. Georgp B. Davis has been selected to succeed 4pl. Lnselle as head of the commission in charge of the publication of the rebellion records. German Proposals for Samoa. It is stated that Germany will consent that Malietoa be reinstated as king of Samoa provided the United States Government purchases the German plantations or guarantees the payment if Samoans purchase them. Germany will further waive her demands for the punislimentof Mataafa if the relatives of the Germans who were slain are amply compensated. Germany will not claim political preponderance. A. Millionaire Dies in Poverty. —Andrew Mitchell died in the City Hospital at Baltimore, Md. He refused to send to his relatives for help, saying that he had led a roving life for many years and deserved no help. A few hours after Mitchell had been buried it was discovered that his parents had died at New Haven, Conn., two years ago and had left him 51,000,030. Plenty of Delicate Food. From Jamestown, Dakota, it is reported that after a peculiar-looking cloud had been hanging over the city had disappeared a precipitation of frogs occurred, hundreds of them hopping about in tho principal street of that city. It is believed that the cloud, which was of cyclonic formation, sucked the hoppers out of the pond. Doings of the .Santa Fe. 'At a meeting of tho stockholders of the Atchison, Topoka and Santa Fe Railroad, held at Topeka, Kan., 621,811 shares were represented. Wm. B. Strong, of Bos-

ton. was re-elected President of the system. A resolution was passed transferring the President’s office from Boston to Chicago. Faith Didn’t AvalL Mrs. Royal E. Fox died at her home in Syracuse, N. Y., irom what outsiders believe to be "faith cure." She had been subject to bilious attacks for several years, and during her final illness her friends refused to call a physician, telling her that strong faith was all that was necessary. Charged with TVnbezzlijig *12,000. Lincoln Curtis, chief salesman lor Congdon &. Aylsworth, wholesale boot and shoe dealers of Providence, R. 1., has been arrested, charged with the embezzlement of $12,000. His method was to ship goods to houses in New York and other cities without entering the shipment on the books.

A Fatal Quarrel of Farmers. —Bud Tinnel and Theodore Redman, farmers at Woodford, Chickasaw Nation, quarreled, and Tinnel went to Redman's house and threatened to kill him before the end of the week. Redman took a gun loaded with buckshot and killed Tinnel instantly. Death of J. V. Saulsbury. John Pondur Saulsbury, Secretary of State of Eelawaro, died at his home in Dover. He was the eldest son of Chancellor W. Snulsbury, United States Senator from Delaware during the war. Killed by a Boiler Explosion. The boiler in the box factory of A. A. Foster at Racine, Wis.. exploded, wrecking the building and severely injuring Andrew Johnson. Mr. Foster was also slightly injured. Tho loss is about $10,000; no insurance. Inferior Tea. Consul Crowell, at Amoy China, reports that this year’s crop of Amoy oolong tea is very inferior, dirty, and adulterated, and tijat most of it is shipped to New York, where honest inspection would prevent its landing. Bad Mistake of a Druggist. A young druggist named Castle, at Evansville, Ind.. by mistake put belladonna in a prescription which he filled for an old lady. Her condition is very critical, and should she die Castle will be arrested. Burned to Death. Mrs. Catherine Harkins, of Holidayburg, Pa,, was burned to death by her night clothes taking fire from the explosion of a coal- oil lamp. In attempting to extinguish the flames her husband was fatally burned.

Burning of Valuable Stables. —The stables of Captain Moore, near Cyntliiana, Ky., were burned, fifteen valuablo horses, one valued at $15,000 and another at SIO,OOO perishing in the flames. No insurance. American Bible Society. At New York, lately, the seventy-third annual meeting of tho American Bible Society was held. The cash receipts were $499,823, and the disbursements $555,989. Railroad Earnings. At the annual meeting of tho stockholders of the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charles Railroad, the Secretary’s report showed net earnings of $242,002. Cowboys and Indians Fight. In a fight between cowboys and Indians, near Fort Wingate, N. M., three of the latter tvere killed. The cowboys were arrested. Death of an Old Hero. Gen. William Selby Harney, a hero of the Black Hawk ana Mexican wars, died at Orlands, Fla., in the 88th year of his age. Heavy Loss by Fire. Bender & Co.’s stave factors and five other buildings at Payne. Ohio,were burned, causing a loss of $12,000. A #60,000 Blaze. A $60,000 ■' occurred in the village ol Waldron, ..... .. The entire business portion of the toAvn was destroyed. A New Bridge Opened. The netv suspension bridge at Lockport, N. Y., has been opened.