Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1890 — BREEZY BRIEELETS. [ARTICLE]

BREEZY BRIEELETS.

INTELLIGENCE GATHERED BY WIKR FROM FAR AND NEAR. An Entertaining and Instructive Summary of the Doings in the Old and New World, Embracing Politics, Labor, Accidents, Crime, Industry, Ew. MR. BLAINE’S DAUGHTER DEAD. Mrs. Alice Coppinger Succumbs at Washington to an Attack of Brain Fever. Mrs. Coppinger, the oldest daughter of Secreta y Blaine, died in Washington on the 2d inst The Secretary and his family are completely prostrated with grief. The President and Mrs. Harrison were apprised of her death as soon as it occurred and at once called upon Mr. Blaine, and were followed in a short time by the other members of the Cabinet crcl •. Mrs. Coppinger was married to Major, now Lieutenant Colonel. Coppinger, of the United States army, in 1881, at her father's residence in Washington, and one child survives her. In December last she was attacked by Influenza in New York and before being fully recovered was summon id to the bedside of her dying brother. Walker. Pneumonia followed and then congestion of the brain, which proved fatal. POSTAL CLERKS ASK RELIEF. Representatives of Seventy-two Offices to Swoop Down on Congress. A New York dispatch says: Asub-com-mittee of the Postoffice Clerks' Association of New York City have gone to Washington to present to the House committee the claims of the clerks for a modification of the hours of labor and other measures in which they are interested. This move is the outcome of the conference of clerks from Eastern offices hel I about two weeks ago in.that city. The representatives of the New York clerks will meet at Washington those of at least seventy-two other offices, who have agreed to send not less than two delegates each, and will co-oper-ate with them in their work. All ttyi first and second class offices in the East will be represented. The clerks are looking to secure a uniform eight-hour day, a vacation of fifteen days in summer with - pay, and a more equitable arrangement of the scale of salaries. ENGLISH MONEY IN BEER. The Syndicate Said to Have Paid $3,000,000 for Four Toledo Breweries. A Toledo (Ohio) dispatch says: There is every reason to believe that the sale of four Toledo breweries to the English brewery syndicate is an accomplished fact. The breweries are: Grasser & Brands, Leaks, Buckeye, and the Findlay. The money for the first payment has been deposited in the Second National Bank and the papers have been forwarded to London. These sales embrace the entire plant, not merely a controlling interest, and the price, while not yet definitely announced, is understood to be over $3,003,009. MENINGITIS EPIDEMIC IN TEXAS. Thirty Persons in the Vicinity of Belchqr Die of This Disease. • " Nows has reached Gainesville, Texas, from the Belcher District, twenty miles west of there, that the meningitis epidemic, which broke out there a week ago, is spreading with alarming rapidity. More than thirty persons have died during the week and many others are beyond the hope of recovery. Out of the whole number attacked by the disease not a single person has recovered. Everything that midical skill could suggest has been done to save life, but to no avail. DR. M’GLYNN VERY ILL. His Physical Condition Said by His Physicians to Be Serious. A New York dispatch says Dr. McGlynn is a very ill man. He is not able to leave house. Dr. Schrady has ordered complete rest and quiet. The Doctor’s illness is due to hea-1 trouble. His condition is very favorable, but he is not permitted to spe or sneak to any one but his attendants. ACCIDENT IN A FRENCH DUEL. M. Dreyfus Shot in the Ann in His Encounter with the Marquis de Mores. A Paris cable says: “M. Dreyftis, editoi of the Nation, sou iht a duel with the Marquis de Mores on the Belgian f ontier. M Dreyfus was shot in the right arm. Ths ball has been extracted.” Young Abe Lincoln Dying. It is stated in London that Master Abraham Lincoln, son of United State# Minister Lincoln, is slowly dying of blood poi soning, the result of the drastic treatment to which he has been subjected by -the French physicians who attended him at Versailles. The assertion is made upon indisputable authority. Something of a Miser. Joseph Silver, an old resident of Beverly’ Mass., died the other day. and since his death $5,000 in gold and greenbacks have been found stored away in his room. He was supposed to have been poor. Death of Georgia’s Secretary of State. Nathan C. Barnett, Secretary of Sta#e of Georgia, died |at Atlanta in the 90th year of his age. Col. Barnett had been one of the notable figures in Georgia’s history since 184 G. _ Indignant South Dakota Legislators. The members of the South Dakota Legis loture are indignant at the, reports pub= lished in the papers regarding the alleged starvation in that State. Cremated in a Boarding House* Fourteen people were burned to death and a number were injured by a fire which broke out early on Sunday morning in a Boston boarding house.

HARRISON’S CHOICE. A Batch of Appointments Sent to the Senate. The President has sent to the senate the . following nominations. State —Augustin* Heard of Massachusetts to be Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States to Corea; Lewis Gottschalk of California, Consul at Stuttgart; John F. Winter of Illinois, Consul ar Mannheim; Richard | Guenther of Wisconsin, Consul General at the City of Mexico; Thomas Me Dermott of Ten- I neesee, Consul at bt. Thomas, West Indies; l George M. Pepper ot Ohio. Consul at Milan. ' Treasury—Samuel Bailey Jr. of Ohio, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Cincinnati. Justice—United States Marshal John E. Hoggart, District of North 1 akota. United States Attorneys -Elihu Colman, for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ; Benjamin F. Fowler, lor the Territory of Wyoming. Blanche K. Bruc?, of the District of Columbia, ' to be Rec<. rder of Deeds in the District of Co- ' luinbia. Supervisors of Census: California— ' Allen B. Ixnnmon, Third District; Hamilton Wallace, Fourth; William B. Mosher, Fifth. ' Indiana—Francis Scholz, First District ; Am- j brose E. Nowlin, Second ; Charles Harlev, Fifth; ; Samuel B. Beshore, Sixth. Texas—Hiram A. David, First; Jos. F. Pells, Second; John Nevins, Third; Thomas A. Pope, Fourth ; David Redfield, Sixth. Wisconsin—Ernst Demin, First; John C. Metcalf, Second; Andrew Jackson Turner, Third. Illinois—Frank Gilbert, First. Minne-sota—H.-rbert J. Miller, First; William M. Johnston, Third. Arkansas—Jacob Trieber, First; Otis G. Gulley, Second; John W. Howell, Third. Kansas—Thomas A. Hubbard. Fourth. Montana—William O. Spoor. WashingtonJohn M. Hill. Missouri—Eugene F. Weigel, First; Eugene C. Baugher, Second; Woolbridge J. Powell, Third; William M. Davis, Fourth; John M. McCall, Fifth; Arthur P. Morrev, Sixth; Hobart G. Orton, Seventh; William H. Miller, Eighth. Michigan—Harry C. Tillman, First; Charles H. Wisner, Second; Donald C. Henderson, Fourth; James Watson, Fifth; I George A. Newett, Sixth. Justice—William H. Taft, of Ohio, to be Solicitor General, vice Orlow Chapman, resigned. The appointee is now on the Su-perior Court bench of Cincinnati. Judge Taft is but 30 years of age. State—Robert Adams. Jr., of Pennsylvania, now accredited Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the empire of Brazil. to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil, interior—Thomas M. Beer, to be Supervisor of Census for the Sixth District of Ohio.

CONFIRMATIONS. The Senate Approves a Large Batch of Appointments. The Senate in secret session has confirmed the following nominations: Samuel Bailey, Jr., of Ohio, Assistant Treasure r of the United States at Cincinnati; Frank W. Meal, of New York, Surgeon in the Marine Hospital; N. Wright Cuney, Collector of Customs ar. Galveston, Texas. United States Attorneys—Churl is S. Variun, Utah; Gj< rge D. Reynolds, Eastern District of Missouri; John M. Witcher, Nevada; John W. Harrou, Southern District of Ohio; Charles S. Johnson, of Nebraska. District of Alaska; J. A. Connolly, Southern Dis.riit of ILiuois; Lewis Miles, Southern DistciC; o Iowa; J. W. Ada, Kansas; G. W. J.) oily, Kentucky; George A, Neal, Western Distric.. of Missouri; Morris D. O’Connell, Northern District of lowa. United States Marshals—Charles I’. Hitch, Southern District of Illinois; Joseph P. Wilson, Idahj, District Judge s —Edward T. Green. New Jersey; John 8. Bugbee, California, District of Alaska. Associate Justice Supreme Court of Idaho—Willis Sweet. Registrars of Laud Offices —S. P. McCree, Las Cruces, N. M.; Lyman P. Hotchkiss, Eau Claire, Wis. ; Thomas V. Baldwin, Folsom, N. M. ; Julian H. Bingham, Montgomery, Ala. Indian Agems—Archer O. Simons, Fort Belknap Agency, Montana ; John Posner, Shoshone Agency, Wyoming; Moses P. Wyman, Crow Agency, Montana; warren D. Robbins, Nez Forces Agency, Idaho ; Everett W. Foster, Yankton (8. D.) Agency. Postmasters: Wisconsin Henry Beall. Hayward ;R.W. Cheever, Clinton ; !•'. It. Whitlesey, lloreuco ; J. B. Driver, 1 'ar.ington; C. F. P. Pullen, Evansville; G. E. Bryam, Madison. MORE PROSPEROUS THAN EXPECTED. The Canadian Pacific's Show!’ g for Last Year a Remarkable One. A Montreal dispatch says,: The Canadian Pacific Hailway has made a remarkable showing of its prcsperityby the publication of its gross and net eatnlngs for 1889. The gross earnings from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1889, were $15,030,000.38; operating expenses, $9,024,601.04; net profits. $0,000,601.04. The net earnings for 1888 were only $3,870,774.92. showing an increase during 1889 of $2,135,184,42, enabling it to declare a 1 percent. half-yearly bonus on its bonds, the interest of which is guaranteed by the Dominion Gove: nmont, and showing that during last year the road was prosperous beyond all expectations of its stockholders. FIENDISH WORK OF MA-KED BURGLARS. A Kansas City Woman Bound, Gagged, and Nearly Frightened to Death. A Kansas City (Mo.) dispatch says: During his absence from home masked burglars entered the house of Charles Roonah. Mrs. Boonan was alone, and the outlaws after they had bound and gauged her dragged the unconscious woman to the foot of the bed in one of the sleeping-rooms and bound her securely by the neck to one of the bedposts. After taking all the valuables in sight they escaped. Her condition is serious. > LINE OF STEAMERS TO SOUTH AMERICA. A Regular- Service Between I’ara and Providence, It. 1., to Be Established. A new line of steamers has been established between Providence. R. 1., and Para, South Americ i. This venture is the result of the rebellion in Brazil and the recently broken monopoly in the raw ruborr trade in South America. Joseph Banigan. Pres'dent of the Woonsocket Rubber Company, induced the Booth Line to inaugurate the new line by sending the steamer Basil, and another will soon follow. CABINET CRISIS IN BRAZIL. The Minister of Agriculture Resigns—Financial Reform the Cause. There is a ministerial crisis at Rio de Janeiro. The trouble has reference to the questions of financial reforms, which do not at present seem likely to be realized, Senhor Di Metris Ribeiro, the Minister of Agiicuiture, has retired from the cabinet and a new appointment has been made. Senhor l.ibeiro was not well known in Brazilian politics before he was called by General Da Fonseca to the ministry. THE EARTH SETTLED. Several Buildings in Plains. Pa„ Wrecked by a Sinking of the Gronnd. The bottom of a portion of the town of .♦iaina, Pa., about four miles fiom Wilkesbarre. dropped out, and with it three single houses and a double block, causing consternation among the tenants and excitement in the town. THE PLAGUE IN KHORABSAN. Three Thousand Deaths Reported The Nature of the Disease Unknown. A St Petersburg calJle reports that Persian Khorassan is ravaged by an intestinal

disease of excessive fatality. Three thousand deaths. are reported. At Noor, in Meshed, there were 10J deaths daily. The nature of the disease is unknown. As Western Persia was ravaged; with choi *ra in the autumn, and as thousands of people fled to the eastward in the hope to escape from the disease, it is regarded as possible that they ca-ried it with them, and that thlsgnay account for tne trouble in Khorassan. STOLE A SCHOONER AND CARGO. Pirates Seize a Vessel Laden with Pearls on the Cabs irnia Coast. A San Diego (Cal.) dispatch says: “The schooner John Hancock an 1 her valuable cargo of pearls have been stolen Irom the Chinese company which is operating on the Lower California coast, and she is now practically in the hands of pirates. The John Hancock left this port a few months ago under contract to be used in search for pearls.” EJECTED FROM OFFICE. The Ohio Senate Displaces Lieutenant Governor Lampson. At the conclusion ot the hearing in the Marquis-Lampson contest for the Lieutenant Governorship in the Ohio Senate, Lampson (Bep.) was ousted by a strict party vote. The Republican members filed a number of protests against the manner ot proceeding, and the conclusion was attended with stormy scenes. Lampson gave notice the case would be carried to the Supreme Court. Violated the Contract Labor Law. Judge Thayer, ot the United States District Court, at St. Louis, heard evidence the other day in a novel ease. Henry A. Schmidt, a merchant tailor, was convicted on twelve counts for violation ot the contract labor law in impoitinr tailors to this country to work in his shop. He was fined SI,OOO for each offense, and a total ot $12,000, and now seeks iemission of the penalties. Schmidt acknowledges his guilt, but plea Is Ignorance of the existence of such a law. Wrecked Two Banks. The Lenox Hill Bank and the Sixth National Bank of New York City have been closed, owing to the operations of President Clausen of the latter concern, who tried to dispose nfSiOJ.OOJ worth ot bonds belonging to the bank. Claasen and a broker named Tell, involved in the transactions, nave been arrested. It is believed that all losses caused by the failures will full on the stockholders. The Sale of Lottery Tickets in Kansas. It has been a mooted question for some time in Kansas whether the sale ot lottery tickets in that State was a violation of the stnlutj laws. The Attorney General in an opinion on the matter says tao Constitution forbids tne sale ot Ijtt iry tickets, but that the Legislature has never ,seen fit to enact any statute to en orce this constitutional provision. Formed a Cordage Trust. It is alleged that all the manufacturers of cordage and binding twine In the country have formed an association which is calculated to do away with former difference! between individual companies astd create more harmony of interests as well as to improve the general condition of the industry.

Canad an Knights Criticise Powderly. A Kingston (Ont.) dispatch says: "The district assembly of the Knights of Labor, ineluding western and eastern Ontario, have approved Taylor’s anti-alien bill shutting out American labor, and also expr<ssd dissatisfaction nt Powderly’s neglect of Canadian interests.” To Tax English Goods. The Chamber of Commerce at I isbon has intimated its readiness to assent to a tax on all English goods. Some merchants have proposed that a voluntai y 10 per cent, tax be paid by the consi.nees o’ English goods, those declining to pay to be regarded as traitors. Portugal Will Appeal to the Powers. The Cologne Gazette publishes an interview of its correspondent at Lisbon with Senhor Pimental. the 1 ortuguese Primo Minister. Senhor Pimental said that Portugal was preparing an appeal to the powers, including Great Brit du. based on the provisions of the Berlin Congo treaty. Secretary’ V. indom’s Selections. The Secretary of the Treasury has made the following appointments in the internal revenue service: R. V. Broxton, gauger. Seventh Indiana District; B. C. Brockerton, gauger, Seventh Indiana District; George H. Hetf, gauger. Seventh’ Indiana; H. F. Schmidt, gauger, Seventh Indiana ; A. F. Witt, gauger, Seventh Indiana: John Van Wote, storekeeper, First Ohio District. Minister PaTnei* Attacked by Dengue Fever. United States Minister Palmer is sick with dengue lever at Cadiz. The disease, which is prevalent in Spain, is ot a very malignant character, the death rate at Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville exceeding that caused by cholera when that disease is epidemic. Miners May Strike. A general adva ice of minera’ wages in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia has been declared for May 1, the miners in these States proposing to join issues and strike if any fail to get the advance. The Indiana operators have officially refused to pay it, and a strike is imminent. Big Rolling-Mill Strike in Alabama, The employes of the Birmingham (Ala.) rolling mill, 1,000 in number, have struck. The mill has been non-union for five years, although the union scale was paid, and tlje trouble grows out of an effort by the men to force the mill into the Amalgamated Association. Mangled and Cremated. A passenger train on the Monon route, which left Chicago at 11:55 o’clock Sunday night, was wrecked Monday morning, near Carmel, Ind., four coaches falling into a : creek. Three persons were killed, and a woman and two children were cremated in a fire that broke out in the wreck. The track had just been temporarily repaired

at that point, and spreading of the rails is said to have caused the disaster. Attorneys Assaulte 1 an Editor. Dr. J. C. Culbertson, editor o' the Lancet and Clinic, was assaulted with rawhides at Cincinnati by two attorneys. Burch and Johnson, for an article in the Lancet ana Clinic denouncing them for bringing a suit for malpractice against Dr. C. D. Palmer. Ths attorneys were arrested. A Nebraska German Paper Suspends. The Nebraska Volksfreund, the leading German paper ot Western Nebraska, published by a stock company at Hastings, has discontinued publication owing to financial embarrassment. The publishers hope to resume at an early day. The Base-Ball Imbroglio. Suit is to be brought by President Nimick. of the Pittsburg National League Baseball Club, against Mayor William McCallin and others charging them with conspiracy in the formation of the Pittsburg Players’ League Club, and claiming s4o,o9odamages. Powderly Not Seeking Office. General Master Workman Powderly denies that he is seeking office of any kind, and thinks that the report that he was to run for Governor ot Pennsylvania on the Democratic ticket was started by some wag. Fa'al Boyish Quarrel. Tony Wilson and Robert Miles, San Antonio (Texas) boys under twelve years ot uge, got into a dispute which resulted in the death of the latter. Wilson plunge 1 a pocket-knife into his antagonist’s heart. lowa’s First Deadlock Over. The deadlock in the lowa House was broken by a compromise by which Wilcox (Rep.) was chosen temporary Clerk. L. D. Hotchkiss (Dem.) temporary Speaker, and the minor offices were equally divided.

Alleged Negligence of Firemen. Reports from Cincinn iti say that losers by the recent $390,000 fire in the Nevada Block threaten to sue the city for damages, alleging negligent work on the part of the fire department. Asking England to Arbitrate. At Vienna it is semi-offlcialiy announced that several of the European powers have in a friendly manner invited England to submit her dispute with Portugal to arbitration. Failed for Several Millions. A St. Petersburg cabl i says: The Serguefeffs, an important firm of cotton spinners, havi just failed for several millions ot rubles. A Fatal Italia i Row. Eu ing a quarrel at Erie. Pa., tetween Italians, four persons were so badly cut w th s:ilet os that three of them will probably die. Ihe fourth it in jail. A Par'or Stove Explodes. At Dayton. N. J., a pailor stove in the house of W. H. Conover exploded, breaking furniture, bric-a-brac, and windows. No one was in the room lit the time. Shocking Treatment of the Insane. The renort of the New York State Commission on Lunacy details a number of shocking incidents in the treatment of insane in county institutions. Buying American Trotting Horses. An agent of Beerman BcO'*., of Berlin. Germany, is buying trotters in this country, and expects to expend $25,609 for blooded horses. Not a Rival of Ingalls. George R. Peek, of Topeka, Kan., has announced that in no case will he be a candidate for the Senatorship against Mr. Ingalls. Queen Victoria 111. A London cable says; The Queen is suddenly indisposed, and there is reason to fear influenza. A Mississippi Constitutional Convention. The lower house of the Mis issippi Legislature has passed the bill for a constitutional convention to meet next August. Death of Attorney Mason Brown. Mascn Erovn. a prominent lawver of Louisville. Ky., died of pneumonia. He was a leading Republican of the State.