Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1889 — ABOUND THE WOULD. [ARTICLE]

ABOUND THE WOULD.

INTELLIGENCE FROM EVERY PART OF THE GLOBE. News from Foreign Shores—DomesticHappenings—Personal Pointers—Labor Notes Political Occurrences, Fires, Accidents, Crimes. Etc. CEDED MILLIONS OF ACRES. Success of the Chippewa Commission in the Northwest—Rights for Lumbermen. The Chippewa Commission have arrived At Brainerd, Minn., from Red Lake, where they secured the signatures of a large number in excess of that required. At White Earth the signing was almost unanimous. Thus far the Indians have ceded between three and four million acres, containing the most valuable as well as the most extensive pine forest in the Northwest. The commissioners also secured for the lumbermen the free use of all streams running through the diminished reservation. Some of the negotiations have been long and tedious, but universal satisfaction to the Indians has been the result. The commission is on its way to the Pillagers on the Luck Lake reservation.

BY FLOODS AND FIRE. Clrcat Disasters Reported in Japan and China. Advices by the steamer City of Pekin frprn Hong Kong and Yokohama are as follows: There is much suffering in Foo Chow, China, caused by a late lire which destroyed three-fifths of the city. It is difficult for many poor people to find means to sustain life. Fortunately, however, rice is exceedingly cheap this year. Heavy rains fell in certain districts of Japan last month. At Amagi and in the neighborhood on the 10th ult. 565 houses were either washed away or knocked down and twenty people drowned. At Hita. on the same date, 200 houses were washed away and nine people drowned. In celebration of 1,000 miles of railway in Japan a sumptuous banquet was* given on the 10th ult. One hundred and eighteen students were graduated from the Imperial University of Japan last month. TAKING THE CENSUS. An Expensive and Laborious Piece of Work Begun. Superintendent of the Census Porter has started the preliminary work for taking the eleventh census, and will soon be in his new quarters. To cover the vast territory of this country, which embraces 3,867,000 square miles and nearly 70.000,000 people, over 40,000 enumerators will be employed, and about 2,000 clerks to compile their returns. The last census was restricted to a cost of $3,000,000, but for the coming one Congress appropriated $6,400,000, exclusive of the cost of printing, engraving, and binding. There will be but thirteen volumes in tiio eleventh census, instead of twenty-two as in the lust, and it is hoped to have them all finished inside of five years, instead of eight vears, which it took for the previous census.

AROUND THE DIAMOND. Base-Ballists Competing for the League Champion ship. The official standing of the ball clubs that are in the race for the championship of the associations named is given below: National. W. L. |-‘c American. W. L. Bostons 9 27 .649 St." Louis... .58 30 .659 New Y0rk...46 29 .613 Brooklyn. ...55 29 .654 Philada43 36 .544;i:altiniore.. .48 35 .578 Cleveland... 44 37 .543 Athletic4s 34 .569 Chicago 42 40 .512|€incinnati.,.46 40 .534 Indianap ...33 49 .402 K'ns’s City.. 34 50 .404 Pittsburg. ...32 49 .395;Columbus.. .33 55 .375 Wash’gt’n. ..25 48 .342|Louisville.. .20 66 .232 Western. W. L. s>c.‘ Interstate. W. L. Omahas 2 24 .684; Springfield .42 34 .552 St. Paul.... .52 27 .6581 Du venport.. .40 36 .526 Minneapolis 41 37 ,525|Quincy4iJ 36 .526 St. Joseph. .32 39 .450 Peoria 39 37 .513 Sioux City.. 34 42 .447|Evansville. .34 42 .447 Denver 33 43 .434 Burlington. .34 44 .435 Des Moines.,29 44 .397 Milwaukee. .29 46 .386

POSTAGE STAMPS. The Number ami Value Used Annually by the Public. A statement prepared by the Postoffice Department shows that annually about 2.000,000,01X1 postage stamps are used in this country, for which the Government receives $40,000,000. These stamps cost the Government as follows: Common variety, a fraction over 6 cents, special delivery 18 cents, and postal cards 40 cents per thousand. As the lowest denomination sell for $lO per thousand, the Government reaps an enormous profit, which goes toward paying the expenses of carrying the mails, etc. THE DERVISHES ROUTED. General Grenfell' Scores a Great Victory in Egypt. Gen. Grenfell captured 1,000 prisoners and several thousand weapons in a recent Egyptian engagement. The dervish loss in killed and wounded was 1,700. The remnants of the dervish army have been driven into the desert, where the wretched men must die of hunger and thirst. It has been decided to occupy Sorras, already deserted by the dervishes. The troops are returning to Cairo, and the invasion Is ended. , Two Men Drowned While Boating. At Pembroke, Mass., a sailboat containing five persons was capsized on Silver Dake. Fred Allen, of Brockton, and Marcus Howe, of East Bridgewater, were drowned. The others were rescued in an exhausted condition, but will recover. A Man Boiled to Death in a Vat. At Kansas City, Mo., Frank Martin, an employe of the Kansas City Desiccating & lleflning Company, fell into a vat of boiling grease at the company’s works and was boiled to death. ’ \

THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. An Increase of 51,017,311.51 Since June 30, IXB9. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued Aug. 1: IXTEBEST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds fit 4'6 per centS 135,044,950 Bonds at 4 per cent 676,0X1.100 Refunding certificates at 4 j>er cent.. 118.740 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,517 Principal..-$ 889,868,302 Interest 5,523,584 Totals 895,391,886 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principals 1,904.255 Interest 153,484 Totals 2,057,739 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. .$ 346,737,458 Certificates of deposit 17,575,000 Gold certificates... 118,531,409 Silver certificates 259,557,125 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,916,690 Principals 749,227,632 TOTAL DEBT. Principalsl,64l,loo,24o Interest 5,677,069 T0ta151,646,777,309 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt'....s 403 256,286 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 S 503,256,286 Total debt less available cash item 551,143,521,023 Net cash in the Treasury 65,857,090 Debt less cash in Treasury Aug. 1, 1889 1,077,663,930 Debt less cash in Treasury July 1, 1889 $1,076,646,621 Increase of debt during the months 1,017,311 Increase of debt since June 30, 1889. 1,017,311 CO SH IN TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding§ 118,541,419 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 259,557,125 U. S. ’notes held for certificates of deposit 17,575,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid. 75,781,324 Fractional currency 1.437 Total available for reduction of the debts 403,256,286 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts June 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin 25,012 876 Minor coin 245,555 Total§ 25,258.432 Certificates held as cash 40,351,214 Total cash in the Treasury, as shown by Treasurer’s general acc0unt.......5634,723,023 NO IMPROVEMENT NOTED. General Review of Business and Traffic for the Past Week. Bradstreet's, in its review of the week’s trade, says: There is no improvement in the distribution of general merchandise as compared with the preceding fortnight. Two or three large failures, apparently not due to conditions underlying the state of trade, have brought a more careful scrutiny of credits, and unusually prolonged wet weather has retarded business in Eastern and adjoining States. The iron markets uro as firm as ever, and consumers are asking for early instead of delayed deliveries ou contracts. Steel is very firm. * Stock speculation displays a strong undertone on the crop and traffic outlook, but there is neither interest nor activity' in the trading. Money at New York is firmer in tone. Foreign exchange is irregular and firmer at an advance. News from the Northwest revives faith in a large domestic wheat crop. Wheat has been less active, with a bearish drift, notwithstanding stronger cables. The holders of raw sugar have been easier, but owing to the protracted sluggishness of the demand for refined, refiners have not bought freely, and sales were made’ a c off on the week. Speculation in Rio cotfee has not been especially active, vet prices have advanced about 4-5 c per pound. The distributing movement has improved. Business number 213 in the United States, against 221 the previous week and 180 the same week last year. The total failures in the United States Jan. 1 to date are 6,859, against 6,091 in 1888.

A SERIOUS BLOAV TO THE KNIGHTS. Fifteen Thousand Men Decide to Secede from Powderly’s Order. The New York Journeymen Plumbers and Gas and Steam Fitters’ Laborers’ Unions have decided to sever their connection with the Knights ot Labor. This means the desertion of about 15,090 men from the ranks of that organization. A new organization, national in scope and friendly to but independent of any other, is to be started. The constitution and by-laws are to be left to the decision of a creneral convention of the craft, which will be called in Washington in October. The new organization is expected to commence with a membership pf over 30,01)0, a great portion of whom belonged to unions which declined to assimilate with the Knights of Labor. '1 he secession of the plumbers en masse is said to be the hardest blow the Knights of Labor have yet received. OHIO DEMOCRATS. A Likelihood that Campbell Will Be Nominated for Governor. The Columbus (Ohio) 7:’ren imy Press publishes reports from Democratic editors in nearly all the counties in the State on the preference of the delegates to the Democratic State Convention for Governor. Ex-Congressman Campbell leads with 374 votes; Lawrence T. Neal is given 196, while \ irgil P. Kline, of Cuyahoga County, is conceded 82. Mr. Allen W. Thurman and other friends of Mr. Neal do not concede Mr. Campbell this number of delegates, and claim that Neal has been making inroads upon Campbell’s followers with considerable, effect. It Mr. Campbell is nominated Mr. Thurman says he will have ito go before the people on a tariff reform platform pure and simple or suffer defeat.

A VICTORY FOR DRESSED BEEF MEN. Minnesota’s Meat Eaw Declared Unconstitutional Fowers of States and Congress. William Fee, the Wisconsin farmer who ,sold dressed meats in Stillwater, Minn., which had not bean inspected under the State law. has been discharged by Judge Manwaring, on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the law, inasmuch as it infringes upon the domain of the United iStates Congress, which regulates the commerce between the States. EPIDEMICS AMONG CATTLE. Various Diseases Raging Among the Herds in the Southwest. There is a great deal of apprehension throughout the southern part ot the State of a Texas fever epidemic. A large number

of cattle haVe d el iu Texas, and the Territory and Colorado were quarantined several days ago against Texas fever. Reports of the disease in Sumner and Montgomery coun’ies caused a called meeting of the Live Stock Sanitary Board to be held at Kansas City, to consult with Kansas City cattlemen and take action. It is not improbable that the Board will quarantine against Texas and the Indian Territory. SUED FOR MOKE THAN A MILLION. Six Ejectment and Three Damage Cases Against the Philadelphia and Reading. The Robert Morris Land and Coal Company, s os New York, has filed six suits of ejectment in the United States Court against the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company et al. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant is in possession of 8,948 acres of coal land, the title of which is in the plaintiff. It asks in three of the cases possession, and in the others damages are claimed in amounts of $100,009, $500,000, and $500,000, respectively. BOULANGER DEFEATED. The Little Frenchman Overwhelmed at the Polls. The latest returns from the elections for Councilors-general in France show the following results: Republicans, 764; Conservatives, 419; Boulanger, 12. Second ballots will have to be taken in 149 cantons. It is certain that the Republican majority will only suffer in the Department of Ille-et-Yilaine. A Poor Woman’s Long Journey. A peculiar conveyance has lately passed through Cleveland, Ohio. A woman, plainly dressed, and a little girl about 15 years of age tugged along at a rickety and dust-covered handcart in which were seated two bright-looking children with sun-burned faces and ragged clothes. The woman said that her name was Mrs. Mary Johnson, and that she and her children had come all the way from Johnstown. Pa., with the little handcart. Mrs. Johnson said that her husband had been killed in the big flood. She was on her way to Lansing, Mich. Embezzled Over $30,000. Harry Seybold, teller of the Bank of Wheeling, at Wheeling, W. Va,, and George Henning, one of the book-keepers, have been arrested, charged with embezzling over SBO,OOO of the bank’s funds. The crookedness extends over a period of many months, the books having been ‘ fixed" so as to conceal the real state o: affairs. Seybold is a son of the cashier of the bank and belongs to one of the best families in Wheeling. He has made a full confession, exonerating Henning, and turned over about $14,000 of the.money which he had taken and placed in another bank.

Canadians Indignant. Great indignation has been aroused at Ottawa, Ontario, over the recent seizure of a Canadian sealer in Behring Sea by a United States revenue cirtter. A hastily summoned cabinet meeting had the matter under consideration. and the collector at Victoria has been telegraphed to forward a lull official report The Canadian Government will make strong representations to England, and, as a cabinet minister said, “If the imperial authorities have any resentment to show they will surely show it now.”

Shipwrecked Excursionists on an Island. A Watertown, N. Y., dispatch says: The steamer St. Lawrence, the finest of the Thousand Islands Steamboat Company’s line of boats, ran on a rock off Hog Island, in the Canadian Channel. She had on board an excursion party of about nine hundred people, all of whom were taken off without accident, and were compelled to encamp on the shores of the adjoining island until a steamer could be sent to take them off. West Point Cadets Appointed. The following have been appointed cadets of the United States Military Academy; Joseph C. Haskins, Brazil. Ind., and Charles A. Bowers, Alamo, Ind., alternate; Warren C. Cummings, Preston. Minn., and Walter T. Schmedt, Concord, Minn., alternate. Guy Beckham has been appointed a cadet at the Naval Academy from Kansas City, Mo. The Dervishes Steadily Advancing. Advices from Assouan state that the advance of the dervishes is continuous, though slow. A skirmish has occurred between Egyptian patrols and dervish outposts, during which sixty dervishes were killed. Gen. Grenfell, the commander of the Egyptians, is moving southward, and has reached. Johki.

A Big Receipt. Treasurer Huston has given a receipt to ex-Treasurer Hyatt for $771,500,000, representing the amount of money and securities in the United States Treasury turned over by the latter to the former. Of the above sum §237,208,402 is actual cash, the remainder including United States bonds and the reserve sand. Boulanger Issues a Manifesto. General Boulanger has issued a manifesto, in which he attributes his defeat in the elections for the councils general on Sunday last to the ambitions of local candidates. He declares that he is confident of the result of the elections in France for members of the Chamber of Deputies. Utes Leave Their Reservation. News is received from Gunnison. Colo,, that the Ute Indians have left their reservations and are intimidating ranchmen and slaughtering game. A war bf extermination is threatened if they do not cease their depredations. foreign Flashes. The British foreign office is negotiating a commercial treaty with Japan. By the terms of the treaty Great Britain surrenders the present judicial privileges of her subjects in Japan, in return for which concession the whole interior of Japan will be opened up to English trade. Seized a British Schooner. The schooner Triumph recently arrived at Westminster, B. C., reports the seizure %

in Behring Sea of the British sealing schooner Black Diamond by the United States revenue cutter Bush. The Triumph, not having caught any seals in Behring Sea, was allowed to depart. Nearly Ten Tliousand Saloons in Ohio. The Dow liquor-tax reports for the first half of 1889. which have been received by the Ohio Auditor of State, show 9.602 saloons in the Stale, an increase of 115. The receipt? to the revenue fund are $232,000, an increase of $6,000. Nicaragua’s New President. Official advices from Managua, Nicaragua, announce that Dr. Sacasa has succeeded to the Presidency in conformity with the Constitution of Nicaragua. The office became vacant by the death of President Car azo. A Few Places Filled. The following appointments have been made: Charles Kirchhoff, Jr., of New York, Special Agent of the Census Office to collect statistics of copper, lead, and ores; John Birkbine, of Pennsylvania, Special Agent to collect statistics of iron ores; H. K. Carroll, of New Jersey, Special Agent to collect church statistics. An Indian Family Murdered. A few months ago a family of Flat Head Indians went into the Sun River country, Montana, to hunt. Their charred remains have just been found. There is no doubt that they were robbed of their horses and outfit and murdered. Ugly Indians in Washington Territory. A telegram received at the Interior Department from Calispell, W. T., says the Indians have set fire to the hay and threaten the lives of the settlers there, and they ask for protection from the Government Work of the Fish Commission. During the fiscal year ending July 1 the United States Fish Commission distributed nearly 2’5,000,000 young fish or eggs throughout the whole country, every State and Territory receiving some. War on Canadian Jesuits. Six hundred Protestant petitions signed by 55,000 Canadians, asking for the disallowance of the Jesuit bill of incorporation, have been presented to the Governor General at Quebec, Canada. Railroad Sheds Burned. The sheds of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Mandan, D. T., with 500 cords of wood and 500 tons of coal and twelve freight cars have been destroyed by fire. The loss is $15,000. A British Steamer Wrecked. The British steamer Chancellor, 2,116 tons, 260 feet long, from Santiago for Baltimore, is a wreck in the Bahamas. Her cargo was 2.740 tons of iron ore. The crew was saved. Fire on Colorado Mountains. A fire started by sportsmen, a week ago in No-Name tanyon, Colorado, has spread and now covers an area of ten miles square, the entire face of the Grizzly and No-Name Mountains being one mass of fire. The Champion Slugger Arrested. Champion John L. Sullivan has been arrested at New York on a requisition, from Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, for participation in the recent prize-fight at Richburg, Miss.

Blaze at Wichita, Kan. - Fire at Wichita, Kan., destroyed the buildings occupied by the Cannon Fruit Commission Company and the Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company. Loss, $170,000; insurance, $75,009. Forest Fires in Indian Territory. Forest llres near Banner, I. T.. have destroyed the finest belt of timber in the State, and are liable to spread to a great extent. Gov. Shoup has telegraphed for aid. Chicago Wants the World’s Fair. Mayor Cregier of Chicago has appointed a committee, composed of several hundred citizens, to take charge of the matter of securing the world’s fair in Chicago. Conflagration in a Cuban City. San Luis, Cuba, was visited by a fire which destroyed sixty houses. Two children were burned to death.