Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1890 — A NEWSY MELANGE. [ARTICLE]

A NEWSY MELANGE.

DOINGS OF OUR NEIGHBORS AT HOMS AND ABROAD. Events of Interest and Importance la Every Quarter of the Globe, Religious Intelligence, Crimes and Casualties, Industrial Notes. Personal Mention. TREATED BY PASTE I’R'S PROCESS. Seven Illinois Eads Bitten by a Rabid Dog Inoculated in New York. A New York dispatch says: The seven persons who were bitten by a mad dog recently in St. Joseph. II!., have arrived here from that city. They were taken at once to the New York Pasteur Instiiute, at 178 West Tenth street, where they received prompt attention from Dr. Paul Gibler, the specialist in charge. The patients were all boys between the ages of 4 and 12. When Dr. Gibier was ready to proceed with the inoculating process live more boys were added to the list, swelling the number of patients to twelve. The course of treatment requires a daily inoculation for two weeks. This makes thirty-seven patients that have been treated at this institution since it was opened, and all have met with success. Dr. Gibier is certain that he will have satisfactory results from the work begun on these patients.

BASE-BALL, Relative Positions of the Various Clubs in the Reading Organizations. National. W. L. c.| Players’. W. L. c. Philad'phia2o 12 .625 Boston2l 11 .656 Brooklyn.. .18 12 .600 Brooklyn.. .21 13 .617 Cincinnati .18 12 .600 New York. .17 14 .548 Chicago.... 15 14 .517 Philad’phial7 15 .531 New York.. 16 16 . 500 Chicago....ls 14 .517 Bostonls 17 .468 Cleveland. .12 16 .428 Cleveland. .10 18 . 370{Pittsburg...l0 19 .344 Pittsburg.. 9 21 .300|Buffalo .... 9 18 .333 111.-lowa. W. L. c.i Interstate. W. L. <p c. Dubuque...l7 6 .727 Burlington. 22 7 .758 Monmouth. 15 8 .652 Evansville.l7 11 .607 Ottumwa.. 15 10 .600 Terre Ha’te. 14 13 .518 Ottawal4 11 .51X1 Peoiiall 14 .440 C’dr Bapidsl2 11 .521 Quincylo 18 .357 Aur0ra......11 13 .458 Galesburg.. 7 21 .250 Sterling.... 6 19 .2401 Joliets 18 .2171 American. W.» L. c.i Western. W. L. Athletic 23 9 ,718'Denver17 11 .607 Rochester. . .22 12 .645'Minneapolis.21 15 .583 Louisville... 17 15 .531 Sioux City.. 16 14 .533 St. Louis.... 18 16 .529 Des Moines. 15 16 .483 Syracuse.... 14 18 .439!Milwaukee.,L3 14 .481 Toledol3 17 433 Kansas Cityl2 15 .444 Columbus...l4 2) .4u!st. Paullo 16 .384 Brooklyn.... 8 22 ,266iOmaha12 17 .415

OUR SPANISH MINISTER. Ex-Congressman Kasson May Succeed Minister Palmer at Madrid. A Washington special says: Ex-Con-gressman John A. Kasson, of lowa, is talked of a successor to Minister Palmer at Madrid. Mr. Kasson has been talked of for a great variety of diplomatic positions under the administration, but his services so far have been limited to serving as oue of the Samoan Commissioners. It is also the talk that Minister Adams, who nas so ably represented the United States at Brazil, would like to be transferred to Spain. SOFIA STRUCK BY A HURRICANE. Many Lives Lost in the Bulgarian City Great Damage. The northern part of Sofia has been ■wrecked by a hurricane. The loss of life is •considerable. Among the soldiers the killed and wounded number eleven, but the loss among the inhabitants has not yet been ascertained. The damage to the palace •mounts to $£00,0)0. The Extra Session Call Rescinded. A Lincoln, Neb., special says: The proclamation of Gov. Thayer revoking his call for an extra session of the Legislatu-e has been made public. The reason assigned for this action is that the legality of the acts of the Legislature convened under his recent call would be questioned, and might be entirely nullified by the courts. The alleged illegality consists in calling a session without giving time to fill vacanies In the many legislative districts which will be without representatives on account of the removal of members by their election to other offices.

French Kights at Newfoundland. A bill has been deposited in the French Chamber of Deputies extending the Ashing bounty system until June, 1891. M. Demond wilt offer an amendment that the bill ought to' be framed in such language as to Compel Newfoundland to accept the arrangement entered into between England and France. Two Killed by Lightning. James Truesdale’s barn at East Monroeville. Ohio, was struck and burned by lightning; loss, $2,500. A Chillicothe special reports a barn struck and burned by lightning in that city. The two sons of Charles Johnson, three miles south of Chillicothe, were killed by lightning. Slaughtered a Pair of Babes. , The dead bodies of two babes which had been born alive were found in a grass plot on the outskirts of Erie, Pa., by the authorities, and ' Mrs. William Abell, a young German woman, was arrested for the crime. The evidence against her is so strong that she has been held for a hearing. Connors and Weir to Meet in the King. Articles have been signed between James Connors, sparring teacher of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Athletic Club, and Ike Weir, the "Belfast Spider,” for a finish glove contest for $2,00.) a side. The fight will take place before the Arlington Club, near Buffalo June 8. A. Colliery Resumes. The Beading Company’s Monitor Colliery at Ashland. Pa,, has been started up, after «■ absence of three months. It gives employment to 400 men and boys.

SPRING PALACE BURNED. Many Hurt in a Panic at Fort Worth, Texas. A dispatch from Fort Worth. Tex., says: Just after the grand match had been completed and dancing had begun at 10:30 o’clock in the Texas Spring Palace here flames were discovered in the mammoth structure, and in a short time it was in ruins. The main floor was thronged almost to suffocation with the elite of the State’s society circles, and in the panicstricken rush which ensued as the dreaded cry of fire spread from mouth to mouth many people were injured, but loss of life was averted almost by a miracle. Men, women, and children rushed with the frenzy born of fear to the places of exit, and the weaker went down in the suffocating crash. Contractor Al Haynes received injuries which will undoubtedly cause death. Several children are missing. Others injured are: Mrs. Volney Hall, injured internally; Gip Hollingsworth, badly crushed; Judge L. N. Cooper, both legs broken; Geo. Loettler, seriously injured; M. R. Cruice, of New Orleans, badly hurt; James Davis, jumped from the upper story, badly crippled, Bissell Wilson, railway clerk, of St. Louis, feet burned. Many others were slightly hurt. The loss is estimated at $100,000.

FLOUR IS LIFELESS. Little Doing in the Minneapolis Market. The Northwestern Miller says: The flour outjut last week was 107.340 barrels, averaging 17.870 daily, against 120.740 the week befor e. 105,000 for the corresponding time in 1889, an 1 1G2.000 in 1888. Under the influence of the present lifeless flour market there is a growing tendency to curtail the output. This is true of the country as well as of Minneapolis. Middlemen appear to have no confidence in present values, and even if concessions are made it is doubtful if anv considerable increase in sales could be effected. Millers are therefore maintaining prices pretty well, asking perhaps s@lo cents less than a week ago. The direct export shipments for the week were 27,233 barrels, against 29,910 the preceding wook, batiirdav 284.000 barrels of flour were reported in store at Duluth, against 127,000 a year ago. Wheat received for the week ending May 27. <33,940 bushels. Shipments—Wheat, 101,200 bushels; flour, 113,498 barrels; millstuff, 3,029 tons."

TO MAKE BINDING TWINE. Senator Keller Sells His Machine to tho Met ormicks. A St. Cloud. Minn., dispatch says: The Keller binding-twine machine has been sold to the McCormicks. Senator Keller came down from Sauk Center prepared to meet Co!. Westerman from the McCormick Company, of Chicago, and ccn-ummate the sale of his machine. Both the McCormick and Deering people have made him an offer ot $100,003 cold cash for the |machine, and he lias linally decided to let the former company have it. Tile instrument is. of apparently simple construction and seems to do its work to perfection. A roll of over one thousand leet in one piece, made from slough grass, was exhibited, and it is put up at a eo-t of one-quarter of a cent a pound. 9 nose who have seen it say it is destined to revolutionize the binding business in the Northwest.

A LUMBER TRUST. A Conyjlnatlon to Put Up Prices. —A Minneapolis dispatch says: Representatives from about sixty of the most prominent lumber firms of the Mississippi Valley and Noithern Wisconsin met at Minneapolis to form a combination to raise the price of lumber. Capital to the amount of more than S15),000,000 was represented, The meeting resolved to call their traveling men off the road for sixty days from the time the agreement shall be signed by threefourths of the lumbermen of the secticn. A committee was appointed to draw up a price list. This committee is to report at a meeting to be held at the same place the second Wednesday in July. In the meantime an energetic effort will be made to secure the consent of as many manufacturers as possible to an agreement on a higher price. CRACKER-MAKERS COMBINE. Fonnaton of a Big Trust with a Capital of Ten Millions. A Minneapolis paper prints the particulars of the formation of a big cracker trust with a capital of $10,000,000, and including nearly every prominent cracker-maker in tie country. The negotiations have been conducted very quietly, and the facts have been so well concealed that very few persons outside of those directly interested know of it. There has been a pool in operation for some time, profits being divided on an agreed percentage, but this has proved unsatisfactory and the trust is the result. It is to conduct the entire business of the various concerns interested, stock to the amount of $10,000,000 being issued in return for the transferring of the individual properties. A goodly share of this SlO.ODO.obo is water.

WALT WHITMAN’S END IS NBAR. The Good Gray Poet Falling Rapidly and His Will Prepared. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Walt Whitman is 71 years old and he is failing rapidly. He was never of a robust physique, and doctors admit that the famous man is nearing the end. Counselor Earned has at his office, in Camden. Whitman’s curious will. It was drafted by the poet a year ago, and no one, save the poet himself—not even the Counselor—knows what it contains. It is written on ordinary foolscap, one sheet pasted lengthwise on the other, and the whole tied with a piece of common wrapping yarn. TO SPEND SUMMER AT CAPE MAY. The President and Family to Be Quartered on the Jersey Seashore. It is nearly settled that the President and his family will summer at Cape May Point N. J„ either with the Postmaster General. Who has a cottage there, or in a cottage • . -r> 4 ‘ . ■ ' ' ■■

that is being specially constructed for that purpose. At all events Mrs. Harrison has come to the conclusion that she does not want to spend another summer at Deer Park, and she is known to be much impressed with the beauties of the Jersey seashore. A MURDERER IN COURT. Williamson Wears His Victim's Bloody . Hat. Thomas Williamson, the triple murderer, was arraigned before a Sedalia (Mo.) justice of the peace, charged with the murder of Jeff Moore. He being without an attorney, the case went over. Williamson wore from his cell to the court-room an old hat which several parties instantly recognized as having belonged to Charles Moore and worn by him just before his disappearance. This hat had in its side a dint to correspond with a wound found in the skull of the murdered man.

APPROVES OF POSTPONEMENT. Parnell Indorses the Action of President Fitzgerald. A Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch says: President John Fitzgerald, of the Irish National League, received the following cablegram: “Your action postponing convention has my entire approval, and it cablegram had reached me in time I should have advised recent meeting of council. Pabnell." WANT TO BE LIKE WHITE MEN. Choctaw Indians to Have a Lottery. It is announced that the Choctaw Lottery Company is about to begin business with a capital of $909,003. The charter was obtained from the last Legislature of the Choctaw Nation on condition that a large share of the profits be turned over to the Choctaw Orphan Asylum. Appointed to Office. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: B George C. Ginty, Marshal for the Western Distnct ot Wisconsin ; Levi A. Hughes, Collector of Internal Revenue for New Mexico; B. H. Sullivan. Surveyor General of South Dakota; T P Cheney, Pension Agent at Concord. N. H.; Anton Mehrlich, Register of the Ijind Office at Central City, Colo.; William R. Hoyt, of Wisconsin Commissioner for the District of Alaska- Receivers of Public Moneys—T. D. Meads at Marquette, Mich.; C. F. Augustin, at Menasha. Wis. Consuls general—Edmund W. I’. Smith, of the District ot Columbia, at Bogota; George H. Wallace, of Missouri, at Melbourne. Consuls —Aquilla J. Daugherty, of Illinois, at Callao, Peru; Rouncevilie Wildman, of Idaho, at Singapore; Samuel L. Gracey, ot Massachusetts, at Foo Chow, China. Withdrawn—Samuel W Gracey, Consul at Cardiff. To be Consuls of the United States—Byron G. Daniels, of the District of Columbia, at Hull, England; Laton S. Hunt, of New Y’ork, at Guelph, Ont.; Isaac C. Hall, of Massachusetts, at Chat lottestown, Prince Edward’s Island; Joseph O. Kerbev, of Pennsylvania, at Paia, Brszil; Alfred B. Keevil, of Tennessee, at Martinique, West Indies ; James F. McCaskey, of Ohio, at Acapulco, Mexico.

Shot Down by an Officer. A Punksutawney, Pa., dispatch says: Citizens broke up a fight between Italians and one of the Italians. Vincenzo Feraro, ran up the street, revolver in hand, threatening to shoot any one interfering with him. Policeman McGovern ordered him to put up his weapon, and was answered by a shot aimed lull at his breast. A i uniting exchange of shots followed. At the third shot Feraro fell dead with a bullet through the stomach. McGovern’s coat and vest were pietetd by a bullet, but he was unhurt. Carlisle’s Committee Assignments. The Democratic Senatorial caucus has adopted the report of the committee in charge of assignments to membership on Senate committees and placed Senator Carlisle on the Committees on Finance, Territory, and Woman Suffrage. He takes Senator Blackburn’s place on the Committee on Territories, who goes to the Committee on Appropriations to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Beck. Presbyterian Statistics. At the closing meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga the number of communicants was reported as over 856,00), a gain du Ing the year of 103,902. Notices of the death of 117 ministers were read. It was resolved that Congress be urged to pass laws permitting States to prohibit or restrict the liquor traffic. Spain Will Have a Columbian Exposition. A number of gentlemen prominent in political and literary circles of Madrid asembled the other day at the residence of Premier Sagasta and appointed a grand committee to arrange for a suitable observance by Spain of the Columbian centenary in 1892. It is proposed to hold an exhibition there and to invite the South American republics to participate.

An Ent'i*e Family Poisoned. The entire family of Frank Kuhns and all the family servants have been poisoned at the family home, No. 48 Powell avenue, Chicago. The poison is thought to have been arsenic placed in some pie which was eaten at dinner. So far the only death is that of a man-servant named John, who came from Switzerland a month ago. Failed with Liabilities of 9200,000. The Waring Brothers’ Company, maw facturers of fertil zers and farming imple-' ments, incorporated in April last with a capital stock of $150,000 and with their principal office in Colora. Cec 1 County, Md„ have made an assignment for tho benefit of creditors. The liabilities are said to be $200,000; assets nominal. Menaced by a French Warship. A good deal of excitement prevails at Bay St. George, Newfoundland, owinsr to a French warship ordering British subjects there to remove their fishing garb, nets, etc., from the water, with the alternative of the commander of the vessel ordering his men to remove them. Fearing that these articles would be destroyed, tho fishermen promptly removed them. Wholesale Poisoning In India. A Calcutta cable says: A horrible discovery has been made on the Eastern Bengal Railway. At every station passengers are warned not to accept food or drink offered to them by straugers, as an organized band has been discovered whose plan it is to treat passengers io food, drink, and sweetmeats which have been poisoned and

decamp with their booty while the victim is dying. Widespread distress and many deaths have resulted from these crimes. Found Geld in Big Slices. A wonderful strike has been made in the Goleonda mine ot Colorado, which is owned by ex-Senator Bowen. Ore has been taken from the mine through which runs solid streaks or gold an meh thick. Ten days ago a pocket was opened from which $200,000 has been taken. The strike has created great excitement in the southern part ot Colorado.

To Pursue Hostile Indians. Gen. Miles has issued an order for United States troops to pursue the band of Indians who murdered Attorney Hardie near Tombstone. in the same manner that Geronimo was pursued. The band will be executed when captured, as they were before sentenced to be hanged, but escaped by murdering the sheriff. Iowa Indians Will Sell Their Land. The Iowa Indians have formally accepted the offer of the Government made by the Cherokee Commission to sell their land to the United States for $1.25 per acre, after having received in severalty eighty acres per capita. Twenty-two People Missing. The steamer Paching, plying on the Woosung Kiver in China, has been destroyed by fire. While it is not yet known how many persons have been lost, twenty-two of those who were on board the steamer are missing. Ex-Treasurer Noland Indicted. E. S. Noland, Missouri’s defaulting State Treasurer, has been indicted by the Grand Jury at Jeffersonville. He is charged with embezzlement and lending State funds to one of his bondsmen. The Kemmler Case Attorney General Tabor, of Albany. N. Y., says the Kemmler case will be argued at Buffalo, and unless new compfcations arise he thinks the sentence will be carried out shortly alter July 1. Epidemic Among Ohio Equines. A peculiar and fatal disease has broken out among the horses in different parts of Allen County. Ohio. The disease resembles la grippe. A large number of deathshave occuired. Carlisle’s Successor in the House. Governor Buckner of Kentucky has issued a proclamation calling for an election to be hold on June 21. in the Sixth District. to select a successor in Congress to John G. Carlisle. A Prussian Minister Resigns. Dr. Von Scholz. Piussian Minister of Finance. has resigned his position in theministry and suddenly taken his departure from Berlin. He was a prominent member of the Bismarck ministry.

Horace Speed’s Successor. Charles 8. King, of Guthrie, has been appointed Secretary and Special Agent of the Cherokee Commission, vice Horace Speed, resigned. To Reform German Spelling. Emperor William has called a conference of scholars to meet at Berlin to consider the question of a common German orthography. Accidentally Killed by His Brother. The little son. of Thomas Morrow, of Melton, Ohio, was shot and killed by h s brother. The boys were playing with a revolve-. Cretan Christians Want Protection. The Christian residents ot Crete have adopted resolutions calling Upon the foreign consuls for protection from Moslem outrages. An Ex-Pugilist Shpt. John P. Clow, ex-pugilist, and Garrett Hughes quarreled in Denver, and Clow was shot in the groin. Hughes gave himself up. An Irish Commoner Resigns. James E. O’Douzherty, member ot Parliament for North Donegal. Ireland, has resigned his seat in tho House of Commons. Deadly Boiler Explosion. By a boiler explosion at Buckhannon, Va, Bussell Hyre was killed and several other persons badly hurt.