Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — CIRCLING THE GLOBE. [ARTICLE]

CIRCLING THE GLOBE.

A 'WEEK’S IMPORTANT OCC TERENCES CONCISELY BUMMAKI ZED. Intelligence by Electric Wire from Every Quarter of the Civilized World, Embracing Foreign Adairs and Home Happenings of an Important Nature. OVER A MILLION GONE. Louisiana “ Baby” lionds to the Amount of #400,000 Aliasing. Tiie statement is now made' upon what appears to be good authority that irregula ities have been discovered in what is known as "baby" bonds of Louisiana, commencing at No. 102.000. with some slight irregularity previous to that number. Nearly all of the "baby” bonds above 102,000 are fraudulent. The State Auditor and Treasurer will soon take up this branch of the investigation. Attorney General Rogers admits that the “baby” bonds have been abstracted or otherwise tampered with to the amount of $400,000. According to Judge Rogers’ figures the defalcation already in sight will reach more than $1,200,000. TENNESSEE’S WEALTH. Remarkable Increase in the Value of Real and Personal Property. Reports from seventy-five of the ninetysix counties comprising the State of Tennessee shows an increase in the value of real and personal property of $26,000,000 over tho assessment of 1883, and an inc ease of $100,000,000 over tho assessment of 188 G. The reports show the total value of taxable property for 1839. including $82,290,303 railroad property, aggregates $356,4.56,761. The State debt of Tennessee now aggregates $16,339,009—4 2-5 per cent of the taxable property of the State. The increased revenue will enable the State to pay its entire floating d'bt within fifteen months. BA§E-BALL RATTERS. Standing of the Clubs That Are Contending for First Place. The relative position of the various clubs that are contending for tho pennant is shown by the annexed table: National. Won. Lost. Perct. New lork 79 42 .053 Boston 79 43 .647 Chicago 63 04 .496 Philadelphia 01 02 .495 Cleveland 01 67 .470 Pittsburg 59 68 .464 Indianapoliß 50 73 .434 Washington 40 79 .330 Western. W. L. sc. American. W. L. $o Omaha 83 38 .085 Brooklyn. ...88 39 .692 St. Paul 75 47 .614 St. Louis... .78 45 .634 Minneapolis 66 50 .540, Athletic 68 52 .506 Sioux City. .00 00 .SOOlßaltirnore.. .60 67 .536 Milwaukee..s9 03 483 Cincinnati...o7 01 .523 Denver 51 70 .421 Columbus...ss 74 .425 St. Joseph..4l 06 .383 K.’ns’s City..s3 73 .420 Des Moines..4l 76 .350 Louisville.. .20 99 .208

A tOSS OF 850,000. A Minnesota Village a Frey to Destructive Flames. At Calodonia, Minn., Are destroyed property valued at $50,000. The conflagration started in the Sprague Bank Building and K. K. Dahl’s hardware store adjoining simultaneously. Both buildings were beyond saving when the Are apparatus reached them and were entirely consumed, together with the office of the Argus newspaper and the Sprague Bros.’ general stock of merchandise. Two buildings on the north side of the street were also burned —the jewelry store of Steenstrup & Tommerasen and the fruit house of Thomas Abbott. The insurance on the property is only $10,609. The lire was . of incendiary origin. BUTTE DEVASTATED. A Million Dollar Loss in the Montana City. Fire in Butte, Mont., supposed to be incendiary, destroyed the finest business block in that city. The fire started in the uncompleted building owned by J. M. Bowes, and owing to a high wind spread through the whole block, wiping out the most extensive stores in town and one bank. Three firemen were fatally injured and a number of others slightly. Before the firemen got the Are under control damage had been done to the amount of $1,000,000. killed a coloked bj^cte. Xo Save a Companion a Western Youth Slays His Drunken Tormentor. A boy named Egan shot and instantly killed Joseph Rose, colored, at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Rose was intoxicated, and, catching a boy named Ashby, he held his back against a hot stove. Egan tried to release Ashby, but failing, he ran out of the depot, procured a revolver, and shot Rose through the breast. Busk on Sorghum Sugar Making. Secretary Rusk has returned to Washington from inspecting the mills for the manufacture of sugar from sorghum cane by the new diffusion process. When asked if the new process had proved a success, he replied: I cannot say that it has as yet. The Government chemists stationed at the mills are at work to find ways of improving on the results which we now get, but unless that can he done I am very doubtful about the profit of making »ugar from sorghum cane. Three or four of the chemists, however, are stili hopeful of favorable results. Drowned While Boating. Four young mill operatives living near Pontoosuc Lake, Mass., wore rowing on the lake when their boat capsized. Alfred Ford, aged 24. and Firon Champine, aged 23, were drowned. Obituary. Th 9 Hon. B. B. Stiles, one of the flrst 3ettlers of Denver and twice Mayor of the aity, died suddenly at Denver of apoplexy. Archbi hop Potter Death The Most Rev. George Porter,B. J., the Catholic archbishop of Bombay, is dead.

PRICES TENDING UPWARD. Business Indications for the Last Week Generally Favorable. R. G. Dun & Co,’s weekly review of trade savs: Business indications are generally favorably The exports from New York for four weeks exceed last year's by 25 per cent. The Bank of England has alsed its rate from 4to si>er cent., and that bank lost £*855,000 specie for the week, the Bank i f I ranoe also losing $2,275,009, and the Bank of Germany $2.124,000. These evidences of foreign demand, with the low state of reserves at New York, render the monetary future less clear, and the rates for money have advanced during the week fully 1 per cent., with increasing caution. Reports from interior points all indicate an an.pie supply of money for legitimate needs and no stringency. The demand has been more active at Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City and Milwaukee, but tho supply is still sufficient, and collections are on the whole improving. The volume of business is a little below last year’s at Boston, St. Louis and a few smaller places, but generally much larger. At Boston prices for wool have been about steady, and the demand is more active. At Philadelphia manufacturers are also buying. No present change is noted in the goods market. Tho demand for iron and steel still meets the large supply, and the changes in price are all upward. Wheat has risen 2 % cents during the week. Corn has fallen over half a cent and oats a quarter, with moderate trading. The Liverpool corner in cotton is threatened by general stoppage of mills and rapid movement from American plantations. Pork products are rather stronger and butter two cents higher. The general tendency of prices is upward. Signs of greater activity in all directions are encouraging. The business failures number 192 as compared with a total of 198 last week and 193 the week previous. For tho corresponding week of last year the figures were 220.

BOULANGER NOT SUSTAINED. Out of 560 Election Districts the Republicans Win in 244. Returns from the French election Indicate a Republican vietory. Official returns received from 560 election districts show that 244 Republicans have been returned and 159 members of the opposition. Among the Republicans elected there are sixteen Moderates and fifty-seven Radicals. The opposition members include eightysix Royalists, fifty-one Bonapartists, and twenty-two Bouiangists. Reballots will be necessary in 177 divisions. It is expected that 135 of these will return Republicans. In official circles a Governr ment majority is considered assured. Although the majority Will not be large it will be more compact and more homogeneous than that in the last chamber. M. Tlievenet, Minister of Justice, has been re-elected. Among the Republicans defeated are MM. Milude, Goblet, Jules Ferry, Milliard, and Joubert, while in the districts in which MM. Mkleraud, Passy, Lockroy, Floquet. and Barodot, Republicans, and MM. Andrieux, Laisant. Yergoin, Laur, De Susine and Naquet, anti-Republicans, were candidates a reballot will have to be had. Count Dillon was elected. Returns from the elections in Paris show that the Conservatives did not elect a singlo member, while the Republicans returned one and the Bouiangists four. Reballots will be necessary in thirty-seven divisions. Tho Bouiangists polled 192,300 votes in Paris against 244,070 recorded for Boulanger in January.

A TUMBLE IN BOOKS. Belibrd, Clarke V Co., the Groat Western Publishers, Fail for at Least 8400,000. Belford, Clurke & Co., of Chicago, one of the largest publishing Arms in the United States, have failed. Their assests, according to the best authority, will amount to not more than $200,000, while their liabilities will exceed $400,000. The failure was precipitated by the entering of judgments against the Arm in the Circuit Court in favor of the First National Bank and S. A. Maxwell & Co., for $29,885.32 and $13,000 respectively. Upon a bill flled in the Superior Court by Donohue & Henneberry, largo creditors of and stockholders in the company. Judge Shepard appointed Thos. C. Hammond, of the Arm of Walker, Oakley & Co., receiver, in bonds of SIOO,OOO. The receiver was directed to continue the business, and the . Court ordered that the Arm turn over to him all its property of every kind, including cash, books, accounts, etc. SKIPPED OUT WITH THE FUNDS. I. N. Morgenstern Buns Away with the Money of Several Polish Societies. Ignatz N. Morganstern is missing from Chicago and with him the funds of the Polish National Alliance of North America, of which, until week before last, he was General Secretary. Morgenstern was also Secretary of the Polish National Building and Loan Association, and flnancial manager of the Sgoda, a Polish weekly paper. Besides this he was an agent for real estate owners and did some business as a transportation and passage agent. It is believed he has embezzled funds from each of these connections. The total amount of his embezzlement is variously estimated at from $4,000 to $12,000. POLITICAL CONVENTIONS. Bepuhlican Tickets Placed ill the Field in Three States. The following tickets have been selected by the respective State conventions: New York Republicans—Secretary of State, John I. Gilbert; Comptroller, Martin W. Cook ; Treasurer, Ira W. Hedges ; Attorney General, Gen. J. M. Varnum; Engineer, W. P. Van Rensselaer; Judge Court Appeals, Judge A, Haight. Massachusetts Republicans—Governor, J. Q. A. Brackett; Lieutenant Governor, William H. Hale; Secretary of State, Henry B. Pierce; Treasurer, George A. Marden; Auditor, Charles R. Ladd; Attorney General, Andrew J. Waterman. Mississippi Republicans—Governor, James R. Chalmers; Lieutenant Governor, M. C. Mollison (colored); Secretary of State, John S. Jones; Auditor, Edward Young. UNDER TONS OF MOLTEN METAL. An Accident at Braddock, Pa., In Which Several Men Were Fatally Injured. The bottom dropped out of a furnace at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, at Braddock, Pa., badly injuring flve men. Captain Jones, the Superintendent, is reported as seriously hurt. Following is a list of the injured: Captain W. R. Jones, general manager of the works; recovery doubtful Michael Quinn, burned so terribly that his flesh peeled off as his clothing was removed; he will die. Patrick Burns, horribly burned. Capt. Edward Quinn and several others were severely burned. Capt. Jones is the man who took 300 men to Johnstown to aid the

sufferers after the great flool. He draws a salary of $25,000 a year. Two workioi are missing and their bodies are suppose# to have been cremated in the molten metal

CHINA MAY RETALIATE. Tho Government Talks of Expelling American Workmen from the Land. The action of the United States Government in forbidding Chinese immigration is having its inevitable result. Iho Chinese Government is meditating measures o’ retaliation. According to telegrams from Pekin the Emperor ana his privy council are now deliberating upon a memorialfrom Censor Ru demanding the expulsion from the country of all Americans in Chinese employ. Not only is this drastic step in contemplation against Americans who occupy subordinate positions, but there is strong agitation in favor of greater restrictions upon the presence of American merchants and missionnrb s in treaty forts. SHERMAN AGAIN IN COMMAND. Presiding Over a Meeting of Veterans at Cincinnati. At Cincinnati the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, headed by Gen. Sherman and Gen. Howard, marched from the Bennett House to College Hall, where the former took the chair as President, with Gen. Hickenlooper as Secretary. Gen. Force was Treasurer. Gen. Rherman announced that none but members should vote, and then read the constitution of the society. It was decided to hold the next meeting at Chicago on tho occasion of the unveiling of the Grant monument, Gen. Hickenlooper was chosen orator for that occasion. FLAMES IN ELECTRIC WORKS. Tlio 4Vestingliou.se Building at Pittsburg Suiters a Logs of ."*IOO,OOO. The large building of the Westinghouse Electric Company, located almost In the heart of Pittsburg, Pa., has been partially destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,000. The building is a five-story brick and the laboratory is situated in the second story. The fire originated there and completely gutted the third and fourth floors, both of which were filled with fine electrical machinery, all of which is so badly injured that it will have to be replaced. The loss is fully covered by insurance. THOUGHT TO HAVE PERISHED. The Schooner Alpha, Bound for Sitka, Alaska, Supposed to Have Gone Down. A letter received at Port Townsend, W. T., from Edward H. Brown, Deputy Collector at Sitka, Alaska, says the schooner Bitka has arrived, fifteen days from Yakutal, and reports that the schooner Alpha, Captain Hamill, having on board Managing Owner Jeff J. Kuhn, formerly Special Deputy Collector; his son, and a crew of Indians, had sailed from the same port one week previous for Sitka, During that time a terrible gale had been experienced, and the schooner with all hands aboard is supposed to be lost.

CHICAGO CATTLE IN GERMANY. One Consignment Has Arrived, and Large Shipments Will Fallow in October. The flrst consignment of Chicago cattle has arrived at Mainz, and contracts have been made for the imnortation of 5,000 head more during October. The success of the plan for shipments to Interior cities of the continent is no longer doubtful. German farmers and cattle raisers are alarmed by the new movement, and the Reichstag will be urged to levy prohibitory duties on American animals. Warner Positively Declines. On arriving at Kansas City, Major Warner in an interview said: “I have positively and unconditionally declined the Coramisslonership of Pensions, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. I have wired the President, at Deer Park, of my arrival home and the fact that I absolutely declined to accept the position. My reasons for declining are purely business ones, and not because I differed from him in regard to the way the Pension Department should be conducted. Such reports are unauthorized and wholly false. ” Trade Relations with Mexico. Minister Ryan of Mexico will return to Washington to confer with the President and Secretary of State concerning the trade relations between Mexico and the United States. It is believed that his presence may help to clear up the misunderstanding that has arisen and result in a more friendly attitude between the two nations in their common commercial relations. A Cape May Hotel Burned. At Cape May, N. J., the new Columbia Hotel, owned by James Mooney, of Philadelphia, has been destroyed by Are. The house had been closed for about ten days. The property was valued at about $75,000. The amount of insurance is unknown. H. F. Hildreth, the proprietor, and his wife were in the house and narrowly escaped death. Denounce the Dehorning of Cattle. AtlLouisville. Ky„ the American Humane Association adopted resolutions denouncing the dehorning of cattle as an unnecessary cruelty, and requesting all State and local societies to endeavor to secure a law making it a penal offense to dehorn cattle, dock the tails of horses, or snoot pigeons and other live birds from traps. Will Furnish Postage Stamps. The contract for furnishing postage stamps for the next four years has been let to the American Bank-Note Company, of New York, the present contractors. The ordinary two-cent stamps cost the Government a little less than eight cents a 1,000. Hurt hy a Drunken Driver. At Erie, Pa., a party of thirty young people went into the country for a picnic. On their return the driver was drunk, and the party;down an embankment forty feet high. All were badly hurt, and two cannot live. Nelson Wins the Stallion Race. Balch’s national stallion race, 2:19 class, was contested at Boston, Nelson winning flrst money ($5,000) in three straight heats. Alcryon getting second ($2,500), Pilot Knox

third ($1,500), and Junemontfourth ($1,000). Granby also started. Silver in the Treasury, silver dollars in the Treasury against which certificates can be issued are now reduced to 8.000,005; silver certificates now in circulation are $275,Uj0,0J0; silver dollars in circuh.tion, 56.000,000. Army of the Tennessee Officers. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee at Cincinnati elected Gen. Sherman President, Col. L. M. Dayton Recording Secretary, Gen. M. F. Force Treasurer and Gen. A. Hickenlopur Corresponding Secretary. Chloroformed a Madman. Jacob Kuykendall, a farmer of Rossville, Kan., became suddenly insane a few nignts ago and fatally shot his wife. He defied all efforts to capture him until ehloroioimwas thrown upon him by a syringe, and he became stupefied. Capture of a Counterfeit Coiner. Chief Bell is advised of the arrest at Solomon City. Kas. of A. M. Miskinim, a manufacturer of counterfeit coin. Over $2,090 in counterfeit gold and silver coin was captured, aud all the paraphernalia for manufacturing the same. A Great stallion Race. At Louisville, Longiianco. Outbound, and Metal started for the treat American stallion stake, one and three-quarters miles. Outbound won easily in 3:11, defeating the favorite. Longdance, by three lengths. New Issue of Louisville and Nashville Stock At a meeting of the Directors of the Lousville and Nashville Railroad Company it was resolved to issue 513,C00,000 new stock, the proceeds to be used to retire tho $9,642,000 collateral trust 6 per cent, bonds at 110. For a New Navy Yard. The naval commission appointed to select a site for a navy yard on the Pacific coast has reported to the Secretary, of the Navy in favor of Port Orchard, on Puget Sound. Will Be Entertained hy an Indiana Man. E. W. P. Smith, of Indiana, has been appointed a special agent of the Treasury Department to assist in the entertainment of the delegates to the Three Americas Congress. Resigned an Office. Randolph McMahon, of West Virginia, Deputy Second Comptroller of the Treasury, has resigned, and will be succeeded by E. N. Hartshorn, of Ohio, now chief of the miscellaneous division.

Crookednesg in Louisiana. In addition to the bond frauds in Louisiana. crookedness in another direction is now suspected, a reissue of State warrants that had been paid having been discovered. A Fatal Epidemic. An epidemic of a disease resembling dysentery has been raging near Meado\vvill‘. W. Ya. Twelve persons have died. About twenty other cases are reported. Proposed Northern Pacific Extension. A Winnipeg. Man., dispatch says: The Northern Paciflo Railroad has decided to build into the Souris district at once. About foity-five miles will be built this year. Struck for Back Pay. Five hundred men employed upon the Bay des Chaleurs Railway, between Metapedia and Carleton, Quebec, have st. uck for several months’ back pav. amounting to $40,000. Maryland Democrats. The Maryland Democratic State Convention met at Baltimore and nominated L. Ylctor Baughman, of Frederick County, for Comptroller, by acclamation. Shattered the Record. Kingston, with Murphy up, landed a rich prize at Gravesend, lunning the special race of ten furlongs in 2:06%. liaceland had the second position. The Deadly Black Damp. Two miners, William Irvin and his helper, a Polander, were suffocated by black damp in Lawrence & Brown’s colliery, at Mahanoy Plane. Candle Works Burned. The wareroom and cooper shop of the Emery candle works at Cincinnati were destroyed by Are. Loss $60,000.