Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1890 — AROUND THE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD.

INTELLIGENCE FROM EVERY PART OF THE GLOBE. News from Foreign Shores—Domestic Happenings—Personal Pointers —Labor Notes Political Occurrences, Fires, Accidents, Crimes. Etc. SIX REPORTED DROWNED. The Steamer Handy Bo / Dashes Into a Bridge at East Saginaw. The steamer Handy Boy of the Bay line of river steamers, running between Saginaw* and Bav City, ran Into the flint and Pere Marquette Railroad bridge, at East Saginnw, Mich., carrying away all her upper works. She was sixty feet west of her proper course in the channel Carelessness on the part of those in charge is given as the cause of the accident. George Little, engineer, and Ed Trump, the man at the wheel, are in jaiL The following are reported drowned: May Haight, aged 22; Mrs. Catherine Kevins, an old lady; two unknown women and an unknown man. A number of passengers were slightly injured. J. W. Thompson was badly hurt and taken to the hospital. It is estimated that there were thirty people on the boat at the time of the accident and they were all swept into the river. The number of lost, therefore, as reported, is merely conjecture. Joseph Cassidy is reported among the missing, besides those already named; also two unknown men.

HE KNOCKED OUT SIX OF THEM. Some Tennessee Youths Try to Fool with a Wild Man and Get Into Trouble. The people, of Oakdale, Tenn., ure much excited over the coming and going of a veritable white wild man, u compound of Samson and Esau. A party of men in the street were surprised by the appearance of a tall, broad-shouldered man. naked from the waist up. with hair unusually long on his head, breast and arms. They began to guy him, when he threw one of them over an embankment, and in a pitched fight which followed whipped six of his persecutors. A dozon railroad men finally overpowered and bound Jiim and locked him in a fruit car. Within an hour he was free, having burst the rope with which he had been tied and crushed the side ot the oar as ir it had been paper. He subsequently escape! to the mountains and no anxiety to search for him is displayed.

ENFORCING THE SUNDAY LAW. Arrest of Seventy Saloo i and Restaurant Keepers at Denver. A Denve" (Col.) dijpatcii says; For several Sundays a great many saloons and restaurant keepers have been selling liquor on the sly contrary to law. On the 13th, the Sheriff male a raid on these places and arrested seventy proprietors, some of whom are tho most prominent in tho city. CLOSED ITS DOORS. A Kansas City Jewelry Finn Turns Over Its Stock to Its Creditors. Tho Joseph Schwartz Loan Office and Jewelry Company, of Kansas City, has closed its doors, turning over all the stock to the creditors. Schwartz failed last November for more than $50,000. Under Water. A New Orleans, La.. dispatch says: The in the Atehafalaya levee which occurred two miles south of Simmesport, in Point Coupee Parish, is now 600 feet wide and seven feet deep. The town of Simmesport is said to be about two feet under water. The Mason levee, on the west bank, about seventeen miles north of Nelville, has broken. This break is said to be 300 feet wide an 1 ten feet deep. Advioes have also been received that the Big Bend levee of Bayou des Glaisea, eight miles west of Simmesport. Is badly broken. Full Returns from Rhode Island. A Providenoe (R. I.) dispatch says: The returns from the eleotion are now all in. The Democrats have fifty-seven on joint ballot in the Legislature, and fifty-five is a majority. They will elect their Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, At orney General, and General Treasurer. Besides these the High Sheriffs of tho different counties, the clerks of the different State courts, and all the officers of the Legislature are to be chosen. The Democrats will get them all. Wreck of an Ocean Steamer. The schooner Ethel from Jacksonville, Fla., for Nassau with an assorted cargo, was wrecked near Cape Canaveral, and the crew of five are probably lost, viz.: Captain William D. Garvin, of Jacksonville; Dennis Starr and John Gibson, colored; Gibson’s wife who was acting as cook, and a colored boy named Cnarlie. Captain Garvin was an old sailor ana owned several vessels.

Measles Epidemic. Syracuse, N. Y„ is passing through an epidemic of measles. Nearly every physician in the city has a score of cases on hand. The epilemic is due to atmospherio conditions. Cabinet Crisis at Buenos Ayres. Advices from the Argentine Republic are to the effect that a political crisis has Caused the entire Cabinet to resign. Murder and Suicide. Young Will Beldin, of Way Cross. Ga., shot Patrolman H. T. Massey and Chief of Police Houston and then himself. Spain Beady for a Republic. It is said that Spain is ripe for a republic and will soon throw off the yoke of monarchy. A Steamer Burned. The steamer Chenango burned and •ank off Erie, Pa. No one was on board.

TWO ARKANSAS FAMILIES POISONED A Feast Upon Wild Turkey May Cause the Death of Twelve Person*. The poisoning of two whole families is reported from Browning Station. Franklin County. Ark. Sixteen persons were poisoned and at the latest accounts twelve of them were in a precarious condition and not expected to survive. William Browning shot a large wild turkey gobbler and invited the family of George Haines to dine with him. Sixteen persons belonging to the two families sat down to the table. Soon after they had'partaken of the turkey they were attacked with nausea, violent vomiting, and convulsions. One of the boys at the Browning family was the only one member not taken ill and "he gave the alarm to neighbors, who hastily summoned medical assistance. Four of the poisoned persons were relieved by vomiting. but the other twelve are reported to be In a dying condition. It is supposed the turkey had eaten meat poisoned with strychnine which had been set for wolves.

HOUSES BEING SWALLOWED. Structure In a Pennsylvania Village Settling Into a Mine Below. A cave-Inlhas occurred at Mayville, Fa., two miles from Carbondale. which swallowed up two houses in the heart of the village, and there are fears that it will continue and do great damage to the place. The mine underneath the village is owned by the Erie Railroad Company and operated under the name of the Hillside Coal and Lon Company. 'Jhe men had been in about an hour when the cave-in occurred, but luckily it happened in the old workings, where both vein* have been worked out. A space about sixty feet square sunk down a distance o' twenty ioet in the rear of the housps of Eaward Edmunds and Mrs. Elizabeth Edmunds, on the main street in the center of the town. One house has disappeared out of sight. Another building, used for the storing of oils, has gone down, and only the roof is to be seen. The people are greatly exoitod and many are moving out of their homes.

WILL MAKE US INDEPENDENT. Proposed American Ship Canal Around Niagara Falls. The House Committee on Railways and Cannl< has ordered a favorable report on Representative Payne’s bill providing for the construction by the United Statos of a ship canal around Niagara Falls. According to the plans submitted, the canal is to cost $23,600,009, which will bo less than the cost of the Welland Canal, with its thirteen ieet depth, while the new canal is to have a depth of twenty and one-half feet. The route is about twenty-three miles in length nnd the locks are to be 400 feet long by eighty feet in breadth. Otherwise the cunal is to be sufficiently largo to permit of the passage of vessels which can pass through tho St. Marie canuil when the locks ni'O completed. DEATH OF GEORGE B. STUART. Tlio Organizer of the Christian Co i;mission Expires. A Philadelphia (Pa.) dispatch says: Geo ge B. Stuart, for many years prominent in commercial, financial, and religious ci des, is dead, aged 74 years. He was the head of the extensive dry-’goods commission house of Stuart & Brother for a number of years. In 1880 the firm met with serious reverses, and finally closed. Mr. Stuart was the leading spirit in organizing the United States Christian Commi-sion in New York- in 1861. He was Chairman of the commission, and raised $6,000,009 for the purpose of supplying those temporal and spiritual comforts not furnished by the Government.

CHANGES IN THE GERMAN ARMY. A New Style of Uniforms Ordered for tlio Troops. Marked changes are about being made in the uniform of the German army. Conspicuous among them- will be the abolition of the famous Prussian military cap and the adoption of one made from an American pattern. The stand-up collar is also doomed. These and other innovations are to follow the introduction of smokeless powder, an 1 are intended to add still further to the invisibility of the soldiers in action. Even the pioturesque red hussars and other gayly dressed regiments will have to be reclothed. DAMAGE BY CYCLONE. The Storm at Prophets town Destroys Houses and Barns. The reports sent out about the storm at Prophetstown, 111., were grossly exaggerated. The area devastated was half a mile in width and a mile in length. Three houses, an elevator, and seven barns were wrecked, but there were no loss of life. Edward Hammond, his wife, and one child were slightly injured. Clark Reynolds’ family, who occupied one pf the demolished houses, were all slightly hurt, having been hit by flying splinters and brick. The damage to property of all kinds will not exceed $20,0J0. THEIR APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED. The Senate Confirms the President’s Selections for Office-Holders. The Senat > has confirmed the following n minarions: Lewis A. Grant, Assistant Secretary of War; Brig. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Major General; Cos. B. H. Grierson, Brigadier General; Maj. T. It. Stanton, Deputy Paymaster General; George Mackay, Civil Engineer in the Navy; Frank Buchanan, Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri; Robert Mills, Surveyor of Customs at Patchogue, N. Y.; B. O. Edmonds, Collector of Customs at Fairfield, Conn.; J. A. Cisney, of Indiana, Indian Inspector; Alton Angier, of Georgia, Consul at Rheims ; A. F. McMillan, of Michigan, Deputy First Auditor of the Treasury; G. F. Turrittin, Surveycr General of Nevada; C. C. Palfrey, Register of the Land Office at New Orleans; H. C. Olney, Register of the Land Office at Gunnison, Colo.: G. 0. Thaxter, Receiver of Public Moneys at Carson City, Nev. STEE LE’S SENTENCE. Three Months’ Confinement and a Reprimand. It has been announced at the War Department that the court martial whiob tried Lieut. Steele at Chicago for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman in striking Private Dell P. Wild found him guilty and sentenced him to bo reprimanded and

J to be confined within the limits of his post 1 for a period of three months. The proceedI ings and findings of the court have been i approved by Maj. Gen. Schofield, as com.- ! mander of the Division of thp Missouri. GRAINMEN IN A HOLE. Myers’ Brothers, of Kansas City, Forced to Suspend. Great excitement has been occasioned in speculative circles in Kansas City by the announcement that Myers’ Brothers, grain commission men, had closed their doors. Mr. H. J. Myers said the firm was short $300,000. two-thirds of the amount being due to Col. Jack Haverly. Haverly says he is satisfied all will be made good. The firm announces that it will resume business. The suspension was caused by the refusal of creditors to grant an extension.

TWO CASHIERS GONE WRONG. One of Them File* with *3,000 and a Woman, the Other with 943,000. Fred Medhurst, cashier of the First National Rank at Mihot, S. D., has disappeared and $3,000 belonging to the bank is missing. A woman with whom he was greatly fascinated is said to have gone with him. Fred Kimball, 33 years old, teller of the People’s Savings Bank of Worcester,Mass., is missing and with him $43,000 of the bank’s funds. Running Fires in the West. A Kansas City dispatch says; A disastrous forest fire occurred on the banks of Creek, two miles south of this city. It started about noon in the underbrush and, fanned by a heavy wind, spread along the creek lor two or three miles before it could be .controlled. 'Jhe fire spread to the several fruit farms and did much damage to the trees. At midnight the fire was under cont 01, A Liberty, Mo., dispatch says: Forest fires are ranging in the Missouri River bottoms live miles below here. The fires spread rapidly before the fierce gale that is blowing, and are consuming everything in their path. The damage is confined to the river bank forest. Will Prepare a Silver Bill. Chairman Dingley has appointed the special committee ordered by the Republican caucus to prepare a, silver bill for the consideration of th ) caucus. The members ate the eight Republicans on the Coinage Committee, namely; Chairman Conger (Iowa), 'Wickham (Ohio). Walker (Mass.), Carter (Montana), Comstock (Mine.), Bartine (Xev.), Knapp (N. Y.) and Taylor (III.), and the following additional gentlemen: McKnley (Ohio). Cannon (III.), Payne (Pa.), McKenna ( al), Perkins (Kan.), Henderson (Iowa) and vtpComas (Md.) Appointed to Office. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: Deputy Collectors of Customs—At Sodus Point, N. Y., Charles H. Hill; at Fair Haven, N. Y., James Byer; at Port Ontario, N. Y., K. D. Ehlo; at Oswego, N. Y., Ed A. Waugh and D. J. Wilson. Inspectors of Customs—At Oswego, N. Y., John Leets, M. fl. Diuman, A. T. Campbell, Frank Winchell, George Glynn, John H. Summerville. Navigation Inspectors-At Oswogo, N. Y.. Joseph 11, Worden, Bryson P. Schiets, W. H. Chuncey.

Insects Destroying Wheat. Advices from Northern Texas state that 75 per cont. of the wheat crop in the coun : ties of Cook, Grayson, Collins. Denton, Wise and Montague has been destroyed by insects. One of these creatures is very similar to the Northern chinch bug and the other is tho common lady-bug. The latter is the most destructive, and is not only destroying wheat 1 ut is ravaging oats and corn, and even attacking cotton. Killed in an Old Mine. At Webb City, Mo., three boys were engaged in digging lead ore out of the wall of an old caved mine when a slab of rock fell in, burying them alive. Joe Wright, who was standing on the rock watching the work, was thrown to the bottom of the pit, his arm was broken in several places, and he received such internal injuries that ho died in two hours. The boys were about 14 years of age, Clianges in an Old Newspaper Office. Tue Boston Traveller is to pass under the control of its new proprietors on the 26th of this month. T. E. Wardner, of the Record, will be general manager. W. H. Webster, now cashier of the Traveller, will be business manager, and a Mr. King, of Kansas, will bo treaurer. A managing editor has not been selected. Pau-Americans Favor Reciprocity. The international conference has adopted the report of the committee on customs union, which recommends tnat reciprocity treaties be negotiated between the several republics of the American hemisphere, each making tariff concessions, so that the peculiar products of them all may be introduced free into each other’s territory.

Silver Discovered in South Dakota. Silver ore has been discovered twelve miles southwest of Mitchell, S. D., in four different places at a depth of sixty feet. Assayers in Chicago who have tested the ore pronounce it genuine. The metal exists In large quantities. One fnrmer has been offered 56.00 J for his farm, which otherwise would not, sell for over fI.OJO. International Fisheries Conference. An international conference on fishery questions will be held in London next August. It has been called by the British Government, and the invitations to the various European powers have already been issued. The conference will deal mainly with questions of international boundaries in deep sea fishing. A 850,000 Picture Burned. A London cable reports the burning of the mansion of Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild at iJWaddesdon Manor, his country-seat in Aylesbury. Among the property burned was a picture by Gainsborough valued at £IO.OOO. and a large quantity of valuable tapestry. Huntington Takes Stanford's Place. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company held at San Francisco. C. P. Huntington was elected President in place of Leland Stan-

ford, resigned. The board created an executive committee, of which Senator Stanford was elected chairman. Progressive Euchre Is Gambling. Judgaßytand in his charge to the Grand jurors at Mo., instruct d them that-the- fashionable game of progressive euchre and church raffles are gambling and contrary to law, and charged them tc take cognizance of all such things. The Oldest Locomotive Engineer Dead William Galloway, who ran the first locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, ie dead. Mr. Galloway was probably the oldesl railroad engineer in the world. He was retired from the Baltimore and Ohio in 1877. He was born Sept. 21, 1809. Minister Lincoln Will Soon Return. A dispatch from London states that Minister Lincoln will sail for America nexf month, and that his son’s remains Will bt shipped at the same time for burial in tht family vault at Spiingfield. Shipping in Canadian Barley. Dealers at Kingston. Ontario, have shipped and are arranging for the shipment of large quantities of barley to the United States to forestall the new tariff, which materially increases tne duty. Shops and Buildings Burned. The buildings and shops whero the equipment for the Brooklyn City Railroad is made have been destroyed by fire. The loss is $200,000; largely insured. Four hundred men are thrown out of work. High License in Georgia. The liquor lie nse in Rome, Ga». has been put at SI,OOO pe" annum, the entire sum in advance. Ten dealers have paid for licenses and three have gone out of business.

Mobile and Ohio Brakeuien Strike. Fi eight conductors and brakemen on the St, Louis Division of the Mobile and Ohio Road have struck for overtime and standard wages. Trains are reported to be laid up along the Lne. A Diminished Flour Output. The flour output of Minneapolis for the week was but 111.640 barrels, against 137.450 barrels the previous week. An increased demand is noted, and prices have advance! 10(2)20 cents a barrel. Nominated for United States Attorney. President Harrison has sent to the Senate the nomination of Samuel M. Harper as United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin. Fatal Fight with Robbers. John Dansby and Martin Bird, ferrymen at Cerche Creek, Choctaw Nation, had a fight with two robbers. One of the robbers was killed and Dansby mortally wounded. An Indian Chopped to Pieces. Charles Goodwin, a Creek Indian, who lived near Tulsa, I. T., tvas chopped to pieces while he lay sleeping. His wife has been arrested for the murder. Named for Office. Howard A. Balridge has been appointed Assistant United States Attornoy for the District of Nobraska. and C. T. Howard for the District of South Dakota. Reduced ail Express Dividend. The semi-annual dividend of the United States Express Company has been reduced to 2 per cent., causing a fall in the stock of several points. A Probate Judge Dead. Frederick von Schlegel, Probate Judge of Hennepin County, Minnesota, for a number of years, died in Minneapolis oi cancer. Water Famine at Dallas. Tex. There is a water famine at Dallas, Tex., In consequence of the inundation of the city waterworks. Pledged to Fight No More. The Howard and Turner factions met at Harlan Court House in Kentucky aud took a pledge to cease fighting. Death of Edward Lloyd. Edward Lloyd, p roprietor of the London Daily Chronicle, is dead. A Pension for the Ex-Chancellor. Prince Bismarck has been granted a pension of $6,740.