Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1889 — DOINGS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF THE DAY.

KVENTFUL HAPPENINGS IN EVERT KNOWN HEMISPHERE. An Interesting Summary of the Latest News by Wire—Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Politics, Religion, Commerce and Crops, Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Extracts from the Annual Report of Secretary Noble. The annual report of the Secretary of the Interior deals extensively with the question of public lands. The number of agricultural patents issued for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, is 70,141. The following table shows she patents issued by the Land Office during the year: Acres. Agricultural, 70,14111,791,110 Coal, 155 17,096 Rai1r0ad425,046 Swamp ._ 259,721 State selections under educational' grants 132,350 Indian and miscellaneous 159,390 T0ta112,784,715 The final entries ma le during the year covered 9,088,592 acres; the original entries, 8,989,109 acres, and the railroad and other selections, 4,514,570 acres. The total amount of cash sales amounted to §8,379,410. The Secretary estimates that nearly §109,000,000 will be required for pension payments during the next fiscal year, and says: “It is recomigeuded that a pension be granted to every soldier and sailor who was honorably discharged, and who, being dependent on his daily labor for ids support, is now or may hereafter be disabled. There were on the rolls on the 30th of June 489,725 pensioners. The names of 51,921 pensioners were added and 1,755 dropped were restored, making 53,075 pensioners added during the year. The names of 16,507 were dropped, leaving the net increase 37,168. The amount paid for pensions during the year was §88,275,113, an increase of §9,499,251 over the previous year. The Secretary recommends that the law relating to disability be revised and that pensions to dishonorably discharged soldiers be prohibited. The Secretary says the Indians should be made self-supporting, and that this can be done only by educating their youth. The trust funds held for Indians amount to §22.751,402. The Secretary recommends that immediate action be taken relative to the debts of the Pacific railways. The value of the mines in the country is indicated by the following figures • Pig iron, §107,000,000; silver, §59,195,000; gold, §33,175,000; copper, §32,833,954; lend, §15,924,951; zinc, §5,500,855; quicksilver, §1,413,125; nickel, §115,518; aluminum. §65,000; antimony, §20,000; platinum, §2,000; total, §256,245,403. Non-metallic minerals were produced to the value of §328,914,528, making a total of §591,659,931. Oklahoma is estimated to contain 60,000 people, and it is recommended that Congress be asked to pass a law creating a Territorial Government. The total number of applications received for patents was 42,047, and of patents granted 22,941. The receipts were §1,186,557 and the expenditures §999,697. In addition to the topics considered above, the Secretary speaks of the work of the geological survey, the Government charitable institutions and Yellowstons Park, and concludes with the statement that the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua has commenced work on its charter. CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS. Important Measures that Demand Early Attention. Among the Important matters which will engage the present session of Congress are the following: Abolition or regulation of trusts ; establishment of postal savings banks ; organization of postoffices aboard transatlantic steamships; increase of the number of judicial circuits; to relieve the pressure of unfinished business on the Supreme Court; abolition of lotteries as far as Congress can accomplish that object; payment of Indian depredation claims of Western gioneers and the organization of a spesial tnunal to adjucate those claims; granting of subsidies to the American merchant marine; the Blair educational bill; an investigation of the affairs of the Pension Office and the CivilService Commission; settlement of the dispute over the seal fisheries; total exclusion of Chinese and other objectionable immigrants. FIRE IN A ST. PAUL HOTEL. Two Men Suffocated to Death by the Smoke. At St. Paul, Minn., at 4:30 in the morning fire broke out in the Washington House, opposite the Union depot, and it soon became apparent that there were several persons4ri the building. A rescuing party forced its way into the building and soon reappeared, bringing the bodies of two men. Life was extinct in both cases, death having resulted from suffocation. The victims were Lorenzo Rinalde. an Italian, who arrived at St Paul Saturday from Butte, Mont., and was on ■his way to Italy. The other was a young Swiss, named Christopher Pult. The loss on the building is §25,000; insured for SIO,OOO. OCEAN STEAMERS COLLIDE. The lowa and the Ligurian Crash Together in tlie Mersey. A Liverpool cable says: The British steamer lowa, bound hence for Boston with freight and passengers, collided in the Mersey with the cotton-laden steamer Ligurian, from Alexandria, and also with the Spanish steamer Munin. The Ligurian was abandoned, but her cargo of cotton kept her afloat and she was subsequently beached. The lowa and the Munin were docked. The lowa was beached prior to docking. Her bows were seriously damaged. The Ligurian has cut her bulwark below the water line. Nineteen Sailors Drowned. Japan advices say that the American ship Cheeseborough was wrecked Oct. 30 by running on a rock off Sluchi-ri-Hama and nineteen of the crew drowned. The vessel was bound from Hokodate to San Fiancisco with a cargo of sulphur, “but of a crew of twenty-three only four were saved. Canadian Customs Order Suspended. A Victoria, B. C., dispatch savs: Tne customs order prohibiting the entry of Canadian bonded freight shipped over American lines into Victoria in American bottoms has been suspended until Dec. 21, pending a request by Victoria that the order be rescinded. Foreign Notes. Emperor Will am has sent to Count von Moltko a crown of brilliants and the decoration oi the Order of Merit. The Cambrian Flannel Company's factory at Llanidloes has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $250,000.

BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK GOOD. Probable Effect of the Two Heavy Fires— General Reports Most Encouraging. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Two heavy fires, with aggregate losses estimated at §15,009,(KM or more, may have an influence upon several branches of trade which can not ye: be estimated. Heavy concurrent losses may shake some insurance companies and affect the finances of firms burned out. But the general prosperity and the large accumulation of available capital will probably render the influence of these disasters comparatively narrow and brief. In other respects the situation is quite as encouraging as it lias been for some weeks past. The volume of business is unsurpassed and the pressure in money markets, though not ended here, has seemed to be abated elsewhere. The reports are, without exception, favorable on the whole. Western cities without • exception find trade good, though grain is moving slowly at Milwaukee, aud mild weather affects sales of winter clothing. Money is fairly active, but nowhere stringent at Western points reporting, and the accounts regarding collections are better than usual. Speculative markets have not been active. Wheat has I declined nearly a cent and corn about one-half 1 cent. Cotton is unchanged. Coffee has not, i moved, but oil has dropped nearly 4 cents. | Pork products are a little lower and sugar is ' stronger in tone. Rubber has advanced a little. I A great boom in iron abroad, with a speculative excitement rarely witnessed and rapid | fluctuations in prices, causes some apprehension, and yet prices are firm in Philadelphia. The business failures number 240, as compared with a total of 277 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 23-2.

NORTH DAKOTA’S SECOND SENATOR. Lyman It. Casey, of Jamestown, Elected for the Short Term. A Bismarck (N. D.) dispatch says: Lyman R. Casey, of Jamestown, a brother of T. H. Casey, the Minneapolis banker, has been elected United States Senator by the Legislature in joint session, and will be the short-term colleague of Senator “Gil” Pierce. There is great rejoicing among the peoule in the city over the election, as the successful man is popular with all classes. Lyman R. Casey was born at York, N. Y., in 1837 und moved to Ypsilanti, Mich, at an early age. He prepared lor the university at Ann Arbor, but failing health compelled him to give up his university course. For ten years he was engaged in the oyster trade at Buffalo, Baltimore and Detroit with Platt & Co., and then in the hardware trade at Detroit, being one of the firm of Tefft, Casey & Kellogg. In 1872 he went abroad and traveled in Europe for five years. Ho married a Miss Platt, of Baltimore, and has tinea children, a daughter in school at Detroit, u son on the farm at Mellville, and one with Platt & Co., Baltimore. In 1882 he went to Dakota incbarge of the interests of the Carrington & Casey Land Company, making his headquarters at Jamestown, where ho has since resided. Senator Casey is a Farmers’ Alliance man, and is Chairman of the Farmers' Alliance Irrigation Committee. BAD FOR COUGHLIN. Two of Dr. Cronin’s Knives Found on the Ex-Detective When Arrested. To complete the chain of evidence against Daniel Coughlin for the murder of Dr. Cronin, the State produced the Doctor’s pocket knives in court. They were taken from Coughlin on the night of his arrest. When suspicion first pointed toward Coughlin, and he was arrested, Detective Barney Flynn searched Coughlin as all other prisoners aie searched, and found among other things two pocket knives, one containing two blades and the other four. Flynn made no report of the find, but put them in a box at headquarters. On Sept. 16 Flynn was transferred from the Central Station, and he placed the k nives and Coughlin’s revolver in the deposit vault of the Fidelity bank. It never occurred to him that the knives belonged to any other person but Coughlin, and he paid no attention to the matter. On Thanksgiving night Officer Flynn acquainted Captain Schuettler with the fact that he took two pocket-knives from Coughlin’s person when he searched him. The knives were shown T. T. Conklin and he identified them as Dr. Cronin’s. One of the knives Mr. Conklin carried himself for two years and he then presented it to Dr. Cronin. The other knife was also given to the Doctor by Mr. Conklin. CATCH OF THE ARCTIC FLEET. The Last Vessel Returns to ’Frisco —The Season’s Business Very Poor. The last of this season’s Arctic whaling fleet, the bark E. F. Herriman, has arrived at San Francisco. She had been reported lost, but made one of the best catches of the entire fleet, 1,009 barrels oil and 13,000 pounds bone. Arctic whalebone is now quoted at $4, and at this rate the bone is worth over §50,000, to say nothing of the oil. This season's fleet was composed of fifty-one vessels, fortysix sent from this port, including three tenders, and five direct from New Bedford. One of the tenders (the schooner J. A. Hamilton) was wrecked; also the steamer Lucretia and the big bark Ohio. The little bark Ohio was wrecked last year. Of the forty-eight vessels now returned, several came In ballast. Their total catch was 12,019 barrels of oil, and 216,755 pounds of bone. It was the poorest business in ten years.

A BIG MORTGAGE. The Oregon Improvement Company Provides lor an Issue of New Bonds. The Oregon Improvement Company has filed with the Recorder at San Francisco a consolidated mortgage, dated Nov. 1, 1889. of all its property to the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, of New York, for §15,000,000, to secure the payment of bonds of the first issue. The new bonds issued bear interest at 5 per cent., payable semiannually and mature in fifty years. Tne property mortgaged includes the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, Pacific Coast Steamship Company, Puget Sound Railroad, and real estate in California, Washington and Oregon, besides mining and other shares. LAW FOR NO MAN’S LAND. Judge Brewer Decides that It Is Under the Jurisdiction of the Texas Court. At Topeka, Kan., Judge Brewer, in the United States Circuit Court, has rendered a decision by which the Stevens County men under indictment for the murder of Sheriff Cross and his Deputies in No Man’s Land are to be sent to the United States Court for the eastern district of Texas for triaL Judge Brewer declared to be unconstitutional the act of Congress known as the Muskogee act, which placed No Man's Land under the jurisdiction of the Texas

j court. The twelve indicted men will at 1 once be taken to Paris Texas, lor trial. APPOINTED as consuls. President Harrison’s Choice for Commercial Agents of the United Sta’et. President Harrison has appointed thefoling United States Consuls: ■ Beckford Mackey of South Carolina, to San Jose, Costa Hi .a. He was transferred from f Norte. Mexico. Hira.ii J. Dunlap of Illinois, to Breslau, Germany. • Mr. Dunlap is editor of the Champaign G izetl:. William E. Gardner of Wisconsin, u> Rotterdam. Mr. Gardner has been for several years connected with Milwaukee. Deloss H. Smith of Arizona, to Nogales, Mexico. John B. Osborne of Pennsylvania, to Ghent, where a vacancy exists. Mr. Usliorne is a son of the Congressman from Wilkesbarre. William Monaghan of Ohio, to Hamilton, Ont. Mr. Monaghan was appointed commercial agent at Chatham, Ont., last June. FRANK HITCHCOCK APPOINTED. ! United Spates Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois. The President has appointed Frank ■ Hitchcock, of Peoria, United States MarI shal for the Northern District of Illinois. | Mr. Hitchcock, the newly appointed Marshal, hails from Peoria. He served through the war, and upon its termination r< turned to his home, and at the first election thereafter was elected Sheriff of Peoria County. He served eight successive terms in this office, covering a period of sixteen years, and during that time gained an enviable reputation as a detective, his principal achievement being the capture of Frank Rande, a notorious desperado and murderer. He was subsequently elected Mayor of Peoria. WARRANTS FOR FREDERICKSEN. Th® Chicago Land Dealer Said to Have Flown—Bidgood Arrested. N. C. Frederiksen, a land agent who had an office at No. 181 Washington street, Chi- ' cago, is very much wanted by the police. He left Chicago six weeks ago and is now in Montreal. It is alleged that he has absconded with about $900,003. The largest creditor is ex-Governor J. A. Rice, of Hartland, Wis. There are several parties in Chicago who are also involved heavily. Frederiksen’s bookkeeper, H. W. Bidgood has been arrested for complicity in the frauds.

Must Explain a ISIS,OOO Shortage. In tho United States Circuit Court at Topeka, Kan., the Board of Commissioners of Hamilton County brought an action against David P. Doak, who was formerly Deputy County Treasurer, to recover §14,978.47, which sum, it is claimed, he collected in taxes and appropriated to his own use. He has refused to mako good the deficit in his accounts. Four Bittle Girls Blown to Atoms. At Eiliottsville, W. Va., four little girls, children of Hugh Dunn, a wealthy mine owner, found a keg of powder in an abandoned working. In some way they exploded it and were blown to atoms. Their mother lost her reason when told of the fate of her children. An Ocean Steamer Blown Up. A Marseilles cable says: Fire broke out on the steamer Ville de Marseilles, on which 3,000 tons of gunpowder were stored. When the Hames reached the powder a terrific explosion occurred. The crew succeeded in making its escape when the fire was discovered. The Proposed Labor Alliance. In regard to the proposed Knights of Labor federation with the Farmers’ Alliance, Mr. Powderly said at Philadelphia the other day that "it might mean that the two organizations, when combined, would wield such political power as to control the Presidential chair." Failure at York, Neb. J. S. McConaghy’s general store at York, Neb., has been closed. The Citizens’ State Bank, of which he was President, also closed its doors. He had a branch bank at Benedict, a small town in the same county, which is also said to have failed. MeConaghy was quoted at between 52J.000 and §30,000. An Appointment lor F. H. Wines. Mr. F. H. Wines, of Illinois, has been appointed by Supt. Porter a special agent in charge of the collection of statistics of pauperism and crime for the eleventh census. Mr. Wines was in charge of this work in the last census, and is an authority on this subject. English Capitalists Buy a Gun. The Driggs-Schroeder rapid-firing gun, invented by Lieutenants Driggs and Schroeder. of the United States navy, has been sold to English capitalists for §600,000. It is said the inventors received the amount of the purchase money in cash. Broke His Neck While Delirous. Edward J. Fornes, aged 26, a fever patient in the Hospital of the Holy Cross, Salt Lake, Utah, being left alone a short time, jumped out of a second-story window in a fit of delirium, and was found on the ground below with his neck broken. An Emigrant .“Banker’s” Failure. Susskind & Co., “bankers,” at New York have failed, and Susskind has disappeared, taking with him deposits made by poor Germans, Scandinavians and Polish Jews. Susskind did a large business in emigrant tickets for transatlantic lines. An Assignment Affects a Bank. D. A. Spragg has made an assignment at Waynesburg, Pa., which involves Dr. D. W. Braden and W. T. Lantz, the latter cashier of the Farmers and Drovers’ Bank. A small run was made on the bank, but it did not in any way affect its credit. A Kansas Bank Cashier Arrested. J. C. Gilliland, cashier of the Citizens’ State Bank, at Selden, Kansas, has been placed under arrest, charged with forging mortgages and thus obtainihg money from Eastern companies. He was making arrangements to leave for Pennsylvania when he was arrested. Cursed His God and Was Stricken Dumb. John Chama, of Pottstown, Pa,, recently cursed his Creator, and fell paralyzed and stricken dumb. Thus he had lain until Thanksgiving Day, when he was found dead with a strap about his neck, suicidally placed, it is believed. ■ A New Horsemen’s Society Proposed. A meeting to organize the American Hackney Horsemen’s Society will be held

at Youngstown. Ohio, Dec. 12 next. They propose to issue a stallion book and keep a | registry of that breed. Accidentally Shot Her Lover. Josephine Welsh, a young woman living at West Elizabeth, Pa., while carelessly handling a revolver, shot and instantly killed her lover, Charles Weite. The young couple were to have been married soon. Chicago Defeats Michigan. The University eleven of Chicago defeat- ' ed the University of Michigan at a game 1 of foot-ball at the Chicago Base-ball Park Thanksgiving day, before a fashionable au- ; dience of 2,000 peope. by a score of 20 to 0. Mexico Wants Manufactories. The legislature of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has authorized the Governor to grant new manufactories established in that State twenty years’ exemption from contributions and taxes. Canada Doesn’t Want the Mormons. The government organ at Ottawa, Ontario, fears that Mormon immigration into Canada will finally cause mischief, and urges hostile legislation against unwelcome visitors from Uncle Sam’s domain. The Sugar Trust Appeals. Notice of an appeal from the decision of the general term of the New York Supreme Court sustaining the order of Justice Barrett dissolving the North River Sugar Refining Company has been filed. Friends of Mormonism Excited. In Arizona the friends of Mormons are reported to be greatly excited over the recommendation of Governor Wolfley that the test-oath be reinstated in that Territory. Landslide in New York. A landslide on the New York Central Railroad near Troy, N. Y„ covered the tracks and stqpped travel. Four houses on the bank were moved and are in danger. Destructive Flames at Williamsburg, N.Y. Fire at Williamsburg, N. Y., destroyed five one-story buildings and two five-story. The damage was estimated at §250,000. covered by insurance in different companies. Miners Intombed by a Landslide. A tremendous landslide occurred at Senftenberg. Brandenburg, which has choked up two shafts and intombed a number of miners, whose rescue alive is doubtful. Re-Elected President of the Erie. John King has been re-elected President of the Erie Road. The annual report shows gross earnings of $27,004,406; net earnings, $7,817,352. Flint Glass Works Burned. The flint glass works of T. C. Wheaton, at Millville. N. J., have been destroyed by fire, causing a heavy loss. The insurance is but $6,300. Proposed Northern Pacific Extension. A Winnipeg. Man., dispatch says: The Northern Pacific Railroad has decided to build into the Souris district at once. About loity-five miles will be built this year. Another Position for Gen. Alger. General R. A. Alger has been elected a director of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in place of ex-Governor John C. Brown, deceased. Foot-Ball Contest In the championship foot-ball game between the University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan at the Berkley Oval, the latter was victorious by a score of 10 to 2. Fourteen Killed in a Colliery Explo-ion. An explosion took place In a colliery at Bochum, Germany, by which fourteen persons were killed and four injured. Princeton Defeats Yale. In the foot-ball game Thanksgiving Day, Princeton defeated Yale 10 to 0, thereby winning the inter-collegiate championship. A Failure in the Clothing Trade. Isador H. Sultzbach, a retail clothing dealer at Philadelphia, has failed, with liabilities between §150,003 and §200,000. Leaves Uncle Sam’s Employ. Miss Lydia J. Ray. of Illinois, a clerk in the Land Office at §I,OOO per annum, has resigned.