Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — DOINGS OF THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF THE DAY.

EVENTFUL HAPPENINGS IN EVERY KNOWN HEMISPHERE. An Interesting: Summary of the Latest News by Wire—Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Politics, Religion, Commerce and Crops, Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. GEN. ROBERT C. SCHENCK IS DEAD. The Veteran Soldier, Congressman, and Diplomat Passes Away at Washington. A dispatch from Washington says: Gera Robert C. Schenck, ex-Minister to England, died at his residence In Washington, of pneumonia, after a brief illness. He had been sick only a few days, and his condition was not considered dangerons until the day before his death, when a change for the worse took place. He was conscious until a few moments before his death. Gen, Schenck was born at Franklin, Ohio, Oct. 14. 18J9. He was a member of the Thirtieth Congressi and served almost continuously from 1843 to 1851. His rank and services during the civil war are well known, he having risen to the rank of Major General, which he won by brilliant and heroic achievments. He was again a member of Fortieth and Forty-first Cong •esses, and in 1870 was appointed Minister to the court of St, James. Arter the end of his ministerial term he returned to this city, wh trehe has since resided. Since he has been riving here he has been the recipient of many marked attentions and honors.

LIVES LOST THROUGH A BLUNDER. Three Persons Killed and Six Injured in a Wreck Near Portage Bridge, N. Y. A passenger train and a heavy freight train collided on the Western New York and Pennsylvania Road near Portage, on the Genesee River, forty miles from Olean. N. Y. The accident was caused by Operator D. C. Nell, at Rossburg, giving the wrong orders. The killed are: Philip Riley, of Rochestjr; George Ralston, of Portage; and James McKenkon, .of Nunda. The injured ae: Frank Ewart, fireman of passenger train; two unknown ialy passengers, Conductor Godfrey, Engineer W. A. Warner, of the passenger train, and John Stout, engineer of the freight train. Ewart will die. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN PERU. Five Persons Killed and Forty Hurt at a Mining Hamlet. During a severe electric storm that swept over the mining region at Huachca. in Peru, recently, the lightning struck the magazine, exploding 203 cases of dynamite and giant powder. The entire works were wrecked, while five persons were killed outright, and about forty more or less seriously injured. Fires immediately broke out in several places, but were extinguished before they had contributed much to the general damage. GERMAN FOKEIGN POLICY. # The Emperor Gives Assurances that It Will Not Be Changed. It is announced in Berlin upon good authority that the Kaiser has conveyed to Emperor Francis Josepfi of Austria and King Humbert of Italy the assurance that the foreign policy of Germany will not in any way be affected by the resignation of Prince Bismarck from the office of Chancellor. It is also stated that the Emperor will include among his ministers several of the most prominent leaders.

EXPLOSION IN A SAWMILL. Tha Building Wrecked, Engineer Killed and Others Badly Wounded. A fearful boiler explosion occurred in a sawmill at Jersey City, Wood County, Ohio, totally destroying the building and killing the-engineer, a piece! of iron having been driven through his brain. Altman Homan had his eyesight destroyed and Peter Gobble had his arm smashed. Several others were badly bruised and shocked. The damage to the sawmill will reach about $6,000. AN INDIAN MORE TBANISO YEARS OLD Death of “Old Gabriel,” the Most Remarkable Man on the Pacific Coast. A balinas. Cal., dispatch says: (The Indian known throughout this section of the State as “Old Gabriel” died at the County Hospital of old age. Authentic records fix his age at 151 years. Another Row in Bosnia. Dispatches received at Vienna say that a band of Servian militia tried to capture the Bosnian village of Cranj ■. but was repulsed after a sharp fight by Austrian gendarmes. During the engagement several were killed on both sides. The Austrian Government has demanded an explanation of the affair from Servia.

A Bounty Bill Introduced. Senator Ingalls, by. request, has introduced a bill to give to every soldier or sailor who served ninety days or longer in the late war a bounty of SSO a year for every year s service or part of a year. Another Siberian Exile. Tsehebrikova. author of a pamphlet on the subject of Siberian prisons, a copy of which was smuggled into the Czar’s apartments, has been exiled to Siberia. A Chemist in Treasury Department. Charles A. Crampton, of Illinois, has been appointed chemist of the Internal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department John Bull Want! the Whisky Mills. Options on nine large Kentucky distilleries have been secured by a British syndicate. Terrible Boiler Explosion. A boiler in a sawmill at Wickliffe. Ky., exploded, killing two men and badly injuring five. The St. Louis Trotting Meeting. It has been decided to hold this year’s trott'n r meeting of the St Louis Fair Association from Sept 2 to Sspt fi.finclusive.

GIVEN FEDERAL POSITIONS. The President’s Cbolee for Several Important Place . The President has made these nominations: United States Consuls—Win. S. Preston of New York, at Cognac; James S. Kellogg of Louisiana, at Stettin; Alfred W. Street of New York, at Coaticook ; Samuel B. Ziegler of lowa, at Aix-la-Chapelle ; Janies R. Danforth of Pennsylvania, at Venders and Liege. Withdrawn— James R. Doutoit i of r -niisylvania. for United States Consul at Kehl; Frans Burnett of Missouri, Supervising lnsi»vcior of Steam Vessels for the Fourth District (St. L iui«); Daniel Like, United States Maj-sbai Tor the I astern District of New York; William Van Bur.-n, United States Marshal lor the Eastern District of Michigan. James F. Ellis. Wisconsin, Consul at Brockrille, Canada. Registers of Land Offices—Harlan P. Wolcott, lAincd, Kan. ; Reuben N. Kratz, Mitchell, 8. D. Receiver of Public Money, Edmund W. Eakin. Pierre, S. D. Commodore E. K. Beckbam to be Bear Admiral. James W. Thompnon, of Jeffersonville, Ind., to be Chief of the Miscellaneous Division, Treasury Department; George B. Knapp, of Osceola, Wis., Inspector of Hulls, and Charles F. Yeager, of set. Paul, Inspector of Boilers for the Galena (Ill.) District, which incl cd :s the Mississippi Biver from below Dubuque to above St. Paul. 'Jhe late«ccuT«uts of these respective positions both died within the four weeks just past.

CONFIRMATIONS. FresWwt Harrlwn’s Appointees Apprwvwd by the Senate. The. following appointments have been confirmed by the Senate: Franklin Sweet, Register of the Land Office, Grand Island, Neb. Supervisors of Census— Pedro Sanchez, New Mexico; Theophilus F. Stirs th, Third District of Minnesota. Frank Burnett, Inspector of Steam Vessels at St. Louis; J, F. Patty, Naval Officer at New Orleans ; A. R. Mlninger, Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama ; E. A. Foske, Attorney for New Mexico; J. H. Hughes, Receiver of Public Money at Spokane Falls, W ash.; C. B. Wilson, Surveyor General of Louisiana; Registers of Land Offices—W. S. Cobeau, Roswell, N. M.; Reuben N. Krantz, Mitchell, S. D. Consuls—B. B. Ziegler, of lowa, at Aix-la-Chapelle; J. P. Danforth, of Pennsylvania, at Verviers and Liege. TO SUCCEED BISMARCK. Emperor William Selects the Commander of the Tenth Army Corps as Chancellor. A Berlin cable says: General von Caprivi, ■commander |of the Tenth Army Corps, has been appointed Chancellor of the Empire to succeed Prince Bismarck. Herr von Bo“tticher becomes President of the Prussian Ministry. Count Eulenberg. Governor of Hesse-Nassau, succeeds Herr von Boetticher as Minister of the Intel lor. Count Herbert Bismarck will receive an Ambassadorship. Ministers Herrfurth and Maybach have resigned, the latter because he, lost Prince Bismarck’s support against the demands for increased strategic communications. The National Gazette says that Gen. von Caprivi has also been appointed Piesident of the Prussian Ministry. The Gazette also says that Count Herbert Bismarck persists in resigning his position of Imperial Foreign Minister, and that he will be succeeded by either Herr von Radowitz, the German Ambassador®! Constantinople, or Count von Ilatz eldt, the German Ambassador at London.

MANY CHILDREN DYING. An Epidemic of Black Diphtheria Playing Havoc in Pennsylvania. An epidemic o' diphtheria in a mo-t aggravated form is raging in some of the country districts of Luzerne County. Pa. It is what is commonly known as black diphtheria in a majority of cases, and many deaths have already occurred. It seems to be located in the district about Lehman township, ten miles from Wilkesbarre. and is spreading. Photographer Roberts of Pike Creek has lost four of his little children within a short space of time. James Meeker of Lehman has buried three children. Barney Moss followed two of his children to the cemetery at almost the same time, while three more were lying at home seriously ill. Everything possible is being done to check the disease.

THE WORLD’S FAIR BILL. Tlio Chicago Measure Passes the Scrutiny of the House Committee. The World’s Fair Committee has adopted the Chicago bill and instructed Chairman Candler to report it to the House at the earliest opportunity. No amendments were made excepting one proposed by Mr. Wilson, of West Virginia, to the effect that not only the national commission but thtf President should be satisfied of the sufficiency of the resources of the Chicago corporation before the proclamation inviting other nations to participate be issued. This was promptly accepted by the Chicago men. and Mr. Belden's proposition to require Chicago to put up a guarantee fund of 410,100,100 was voted down. TWO ROBBERS KILLED. Th* Outcome of an Attempt to Fleece a Stranger in Sa't Lake City. At Salt Lake. U. T., J. B. Weston, of Colorado, who was visiting that city, formed the acquaintance of a couplo of strangers, who first gave him drugged whisky and then attempted to rob him. Weston fatally shot one of the named Warner, and, after an exchange of shots, killed the second of the ruffians, a man named Granville. Mr. Weston then gave himself up to the police.

HOPE TO HAVE A LOTTERY. The Choctaw Lottery Company Not Wiiliug to Giver Up. A Paris (Texas) dispatch say*: Notwithstanding the instructions of the Interior Depa tment to Indian Aaent Bennett, and his notice that it will not be permitted, the incorporators of the Choctaw Orphan Asylum Lottery Company say that they intend to go ahead and hold drawings, and if arrested will make a test case of it. They hold that they have a right to do this under treaties made with the Choctaws and Chickasaws. ALMOST WIPED OUT A WVVN. The Village of Maysville, Ga«. Heavily Visited by the Flames. Maysville, Ga.. a town of about 1,000 inhabitants, has been almost swept from the face of the earth by fire, the entire business portion of the village being laid low. Efforts to check the blaze were fruitless, and in a few hours the principal business square was in ashes. Only one store is left,

in the town. The extent of the loas is not definitely known. MUSTN’T READ THE BIBLEScripture Reading In Wisconsin Public J Schools Unconstitutional. In a case brought to compel a school board to prohibit the teachers from reading I the Bible to their pupils, the Wisconsin 8u- I preme Court has decided unanimously that , as Christians differ on doctrinal points evolved from the Scriptures, the reading of the Bible in the schools must be considered sectarian and repugnant to the constitution. BANK-WRECKER FAULKNER. Report that His Gardener's Body Was Interred as His Own. The Albany Evening Journal publishes a story to the effect that Lester B. Fauikne-, the wiecker of the Dansville, N. Y., bank, supposed to have died Jan. 27. is still living and in Mexico. He availed himself of the death of his gardener to have the body buried as his own and then quietly left the country. THE LABOR CONFERENCE. Decision of the Committee on Children’s and Sunday Work. The committee of tne Berlin Labor Conference appointed to consider the question of Sunday labor have reached a compromise. They will advise that the prohibition of labor on Sundays and church holidays apply only to women, young persons and children. The children’s committee has decided to forbid the employment of school children except in certain specified cases.

GEN. CROOK IS DEAD. The Famous Indian-Fighter Falls Unconscious and Expires. Maj. Gen. George Crook. U. 8. A., commanding the Division of the Missouri, died suddenly in his rooms at the Grand Pacific Hotel at Chicago. The cause of his death was heart failure, resulting from gastric catarrh. He was unconscious from the moment of the attack until he died, fifteen minutes later, fn his wife’s arms. The end appeared to be gentle and painless. An Old Man Robbed of 82,300. J. L. Steirett, of Sterrettania, Pa., left St. Louis on the Big Four Road with $2,300 in his inside pocket. On the train was an honest-appearing man who said he lived near Mr. Sterrett’s home. When the train arrived at Cleveland, Ohio, the strange man snatched Sterrett’s pocket-book and escaped with it. Sterrett is an oil man, and is left penniless by the theft. To Protect the Levees. Secretary Proctor has authorized the Mississippi River Commission to expend $100,003 for the protection of levees along the Mississippi River in the Fourth District, which uxtends from Warrenton, Miss., to the head of the passes, a distance o' 484 miles. This is in addition to the SIO,OOO allotted to the Morganza levee.

To Furnisli Dakotans Seed Grain. It is stated in St Paul. Minn., that the Minneapolis elevator men have agreed to furnish 330,000 bushels of seed grain at 75 cents a bushel for the needy farmers of North Dakota, but to guard against loss the relief committee of that Stata will charge the farmers $1 a bushel. Sugar Men Protest. The Louisiana t ugar Planters’ Association have adopted, resolutions protesting against the proposed reduction of the tariff on sugar, without a corresponding reduction of all other protected articles; against the duty being changed from specific to ad valorem, and against the standard being raised irom 13 to 1G Dutch standard, color test. New York’s Execution Law Legal. The judgments of the lower court in the Kemmler murder cass declaring the electrical-execution act constitutional have been afflrmei by the New York Cou t of Appeals. The court unan.mously decided that no error was committed on the trial of the accused. Opposed to Wyoming's Admission. Representatives Springer, Barnes, Kilgore, Mansur and Washington, the minority of the House Committee on Te ritories, have united in a report in opposition to the bill reported by the majority providing for the admission of Wyoming as a State.

The Sugar Trust Victorious. At New York. Judge O’Brien has granted leave to the sugar trust to declare a dividend of 2% per cent, on $50,0(0,000. provided the portion due the North River Comoany is deposit ‘d in court pen ling the decision of the Court of Appeals. Censures the Railway Men. The verdict of the coroner’s jury at Buffalo that has been investigating the causes of the recent disaster on the Lake Shore severely censures Superintendent Couch, of the Lake Shore. Conductor Houghton, and other of the train hand*. American Steel Rails in Mexico. The State Department has received advices from the Consulate at Nuevo Laredo of the importation of 20,000 tons of American steel lails into Mexico. The Consul says that this is the first case in which American rails have b< en able to compete with the Ewopean aitlcle in that market. Frost in Florida. The recent cold snap did some damage to early vegetables in Florida. The Indian River section, whore the best orangegroves in the State are located, escaped injury. In the vicinity of Kissimee oranges were slightly injured. Cane is not hurt. Disappointed Boomers Returning. Disappointed boomers are returning in large numbers from the Cherokee Strip to Kansas towns. It is expected that a few will remain until drive* cut, but the military think they can clear the strip in less than two weeks. School for Young English Fanners. The Anglo-American Investment Company, owning 500.093 acres of Kansas farm lands, has bought the fdrm of Whitsed Laming, near Tonjanoxie, Kan., for $23,000. and will establish on it an agricultural training school for young Englishmen with

enough means to buy a company farm. The school will begin with one hundred students. Internal Revenue Collection*. The tot 1 collections of internal revenue during the first eight months of the fl-o&l year ending June 33. 1890. were $89,822,011, being an increase 0f6.458.801 as compared with the collections during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. Mississippi’* Treasurer Short 8315,612.19. The committee investigating the books of ex-Treasurer Hemingway, of Mississippi, has reported a shortage of $315.612.19. The committee says the shortage is there, and there is no way to get out of it.

Siam Students Sent to America. The Government oi Siam has sent six of its brightest young men to America to be educated at Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pa. All expenses are defrayed by the King. The Visible Supply- of Grain. The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively. 28.100.668 and 16,696.4’32 bushels. Wheat has decreased 213,926 bushels since last report, while corn has increased 2,178,708 bushels. Robbed the County Safe. The safe of the County Treasurer oi Sebastian County, Arkansas, has been blown open by burglars and robbed ol $6,000. Only SIOO of the money belonged to the county. Counsel in Courts-Martial. Secretary Proctor has ordered that prisoners before courti-martial shall have the benefit of counsel, and directs that on request of the accused a suitable officer be detailed for that duty.

The Miners’ Strike Ended. The British coal-miners’ strike is ended, the owners having agreed to make an immediate advance of 5 per cent. In the wages of the miners and a further advance of 5 per cent. July 1. Thirty Thousand Looms Idle. A London cable says: The Bolton cotton industry is paralyzed in consequence of the coal strike, and 39,000 looms are idle in Burnley. Work of the Labor Conference. The committee of the Berlin Labor Conference presided over by Jules Simon ha? agreed to the exclusion of children under 12 years of age from factories. Iron Works Destroyed. The shop of T. H. Brooks & Co., architectural iron woiks, Cleveland, Ohio, has been partially destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000; cove: ed by insurance. Approved by the Senate. The Senate has confirmed James C. Kellogg of Louisiana Consul at Stettin and James F. Ellis of Wisconsin Consul at Biockvllle, Ont.

Escaped from a Kansas Jail. John Burk and Fred Tulip, grand larcenists, escaped from the jail at Hiawatha, Kan., cutting through the steel cage, the corridor walls, and t ie outer walls. Snow Blockade Raised. The snow blockade on the southern branch of the Rio Grande Road over the Cumbers Range. 503 miles south of Denver, has been raised. A Hardware Failure. Josh Day. wholesale and retail hardware dealer, at Lewiston, Me., has assigned to W. H. White and Charles H. Miller. The liabilities are about $40,001 No Destitution in Nebraska. Governor Thayer denies that there is destitution among farmers in Western Nebraska. A Member of Parliament Dead. Edmund Swetenam. member of Parliament for the Carnarvon district, is dead. He was a Conservative. Fears of Great Avalanches. lu many parti of Switzerland the villagers are retreating to the valleys, enormous avalanches being imminent. May J’e Arrested for Embezzement. It is thought that ex-State Treasurer Hemingway of Mississippi will be arrested for embezzlement.