Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — Page 2

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NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Political Gossip, Railroad Rumbling*, Personal Mention, Conflagrations, Accidents. Crimes and Criminals, Minor Occuri Fences and Events. IN HONOR OF THE “MARTYRS.” New York Anarchist* Hold an Immense Meeting In Cooper Union. “Take that inscription down; you can't keep it up here,” exclaimed Police Capt. McCullough at the anarchistic demonstration at Cooper Union, New York. The Captain pointed with his club to a red banner under the speaker’s desk, on which in white letters was inscribed, “If you assault us with gatlingguns we will use dynamite on you.” A number of anarchists protested against the order and made some hisses, but the Captain remained firm and the banner came down. The meeting was to keep fresh the memory of the Chicago Anarchists. It was the largest ever held in New York. Ten sergeants and 100 policemen were on hand. The platform was crowded with the leading red lights of anarchy. Lucy Parsons was introduced and made her usual speech. John Most gave one of his characteristic yawps, which was wildly applauded. MORE IRISH EVICTIONS. Tenants Driven from Their Homes by tho Landlord—Pitiful Keenes. Dispatches from the. scene of the evictions at Ardsberg, on the Olphert estates, in County Donegal, describe many pitiful occurrences. Sixteen families, comprising 100 persons, were evicted, and the process will go on until about fifty families are dispossessed. There was a squabble during the proceedings, caused by the activity of J. G. S. Mac Neill, M. P. for South Donegal, in championing the interests of the tenants. Mr. Mac Neill chalked the sleeves of policemen who were particularly rough iii handling the tenants, and warned them that he would cause them to be prosecuted for misbehavior. The marking was done in order to identify the officers, as tho authorities refused to make them wear badges. The numerous English visitors who were present to witness the evictions held a meeting afterward at which resolutions were adopted expressing their Indignation over the affair. The London Timex correspondent In his account of the proceedings alleges that, though in the houses where eviction was anticipated no food was found, »wo tons of excellent potatoes were discovered in one dwelling whose occupants had not expected to bo disturbed. , Threatened by the Mafia. Joseph Gazzolo and A. Capestro. of St. Louis, are in a state of great excitement over the receipt of two . letters from New Orleans. The letter to Gazzolo was headed “By order of the Mafia, notification or condemnation.” It then set forth that Gazzolo had been convicted of many crimes by the judicial tribune Of the order, and unless restitution was made at once lie would be assassinated. Capestro, who is a nephew of Gazzolo, was told he had better advise his uncle to do what was right or the sentence ■would be carried out. Gazzolo says he lelieves the threats are the result of a Saloon deal with a Sicilian, in which the Sicilian claims he was defrauded. The letters were turned over to the postoffice authorities, and Gazzolo will place the matter in tho hands of the police. i » Highbinders at PeaceDetectives in San Francisco's Chinatown think the highbinders’ war is settled. The rival societies have been fighting for a week, two men being killed and three badly hurt. The Chinese Consul vainly tried to stop the bloodshed, but now die Chinese Six Companies have got the highbinders together and arranged a peace, the Suey Ong Society paying the Hop Sing Society several thousand dollars for an extra man they had killed. The detectives ai;e afraid that some treacherous highbinders will break tho compact, which wirl lead to more murders, The police could not get any clue to the criminals. j Just S 14,000 Loser. Solomon Richpi-dson. the negro porter of the Wells-Fargo Expicss Company of Dallas, Tex., lias been rearrested and Iddged in jail. Last spring a box of tlio company containing 814,000 disappeared mysteriously, and Richardson was arrested charged with the theft and kept in jail until two weeks apo. when he was released on the grounds of insufficient evidence to convict. Shortly after his release the express box was found, minus the money, near tlie electric light works, and tho negro was rearrested, the detectives claiming that tl e? have ample evidence to convict him of tho crime. | Conservatives Exult. The leading Conservative newspapers of England comment on the withdrawal of the appeal for funds by the American Committee on the Irish Famine as a confession that no famine exists, and that there is no real fear of any want that cannot be met by local and imperial authority. They say that the Parnellltes over-reached themselves ip creating the apprehension of famine, and are now compelled to virtually acknowledge that they have been duping the public at home and abroad. Conv’cts at Anamosa. The Warden of the Anamosa (Iowa) Penitentiary has made his report for October to the State Auditor. It shows tho average number of convicts to be 210 and the amount expended for support to be $2,100. The salaries of officers and guards is $2,007.50. | Election Riots in South America. Several persons have been killed at Rosario, in Argentine, in fierce riots that t x)k place at the elections. Troops were called out to restore peace. "Where 11111 the Capital Be? House bill Nd. 49, providing for the removal of the capital of Oklahoma Territory from Guthrie to Kingfisher, has passed ixith houses and is now in the hands of Gov. Steele for his signature or veto. The Governor has vetoed one bill providing for the removal of the capital from Guthrie, and it Is the opinion of all that ho will veto tho present bill on the same ground that he vetoed the first one, that there are Incoming lands that should have a voice in the location of a permanent capital. Boodle Md bribery is the cry. 1

WERE BROTHER AND SISTER. A Kansas City (Kan.)Couple Slake a Startling Discovery. A romance of unusually unfortunate and pathetic details was discovered when two detectives from Toronto discovered in Mr. and Mrs. Asa Harr, of Kansas City, Kan., the refationship of brother and sister and the heirs to fortunes left by a relative of their mother. Twenty-five years ago two waifs, mere babes, brother and sister, were abandoned by German immigrants at Castle Garden. They were legally adopted, one by Asa Barr, the other by a Mrs. Evans. Mrs. Evans moved soon afterward to Philadelphia, where she brought up her adopted daughter, giving her all the comforts of a home and a gcxxl education. Twenty years later the boy. grown to manhood and having taken his adopted father's name, moved also to Philadelphia, where he fallowed the trade of a painter. Chance drew the brother and sister together. Barr was captivated with the girl and wooed, won and married her. ho >n after they moved to Kansas City, Kan., where Barr continued in his trade as painter. Not long after Mrs. Evans died. Quickly following her death occurred that of a relative In London, Canada, who died rich and intestate. His fortune would have passed to Mrs. Evans as the nearest relative, but her death having occurred, her adopted daughter became the heir. The attorneys sent detectives to trace the heiress, and in their investigation of the case discovered the true relationship of Mr. and Mrs. Barr to be that of brother and sister. They revealed to the unfortunate couple the facts. The terrible knowledge prostrated Mrs. Barr, and her husband is grief-stricken. Legal proceedings will at once be instituted to sever the marriage bond, and Mrs. Harr will go to London, Canala, to claim her fortune.

SECRETARY KUJK'S REPORT. The Department «>t Agriculture Makes Some Interesting Statements. The Secretary of Agriculture has presented his annual report to the President. By comparing prices at Chicago for Oct. 1(1 of 1890 and of is.s t lie shows a marked increase in the values of agricultural products, especially of cereals. A tabular statement of agricultural exports of the last fiscal year, including live animals, barley, hay, potatoes, hops, cheese, eggs. flax, wtol, tobacco, wines, etc., the old and new tariff rates being given for each, indicates a material increase in the import duties on these articles and shows each to have been imported in considerable quantities. The Secretary says that without, ignoring the effects of natural cans s in enhancing values, it is evident that the economic legislation of the last session of C ingress has directly benefited the farmers; the improved value of cereals, as he believes, being largely due to the silver legislation, which, moreover, has lessened the influence of Rusda and India, our wheat competitors in British markets. Our increased export trade in cattle and animal products, another case of congratulation, he traces to the energetic and effective measure* adopted for the eradication of pleuro-pneumonia, and to the growing appreciation at home and abroad of the department's ability to suppress or effectually control contagious animal diseases. He declares that not a single case of contagious pleuro-pneiimonia has been alleged to exist among American cattle shipped to British ports since Marcli last. In the line of further precaution the department is now prepared to carry out the inspection of exp >rt cattle before shipment, provided for by the act of Aug. ; 3o. Similar energy lias been directed to our pork interests, tho department having already undertaken the inspection called for by the same act. The Secretary strongly recommends an inspection law still more comprehensive of all animals slaughterad for Interstate qr foreign trade.

THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION ISSUED. The President Feta Apart Thursday, Nov. 27, as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer. The following Is the Thanksgiving proclamation by the President of the United States: A pro-lama ion—By the grace and favor of Almighty God the people of this nation have been led to the closing days of the pa-sing year, which lias beer full of the blessings of peace and the comforts of plenty. Bountiful compensation lias come to us for the work of our minds and of our hands In every department of human Industry. Now, therefore. I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 27th day of the present month of November, to bo ol served as a day of prayer and thanksgiving; and Ido invito the people upon that day to cease from their labors to meet in their accustomed houses of worship and to join in rendering gratitude and praise to our beneficent Creator for the rich blessings He has granted us as a nation, and invoking tho continuance of His protection and grace for the future. I commend to my fellow-citizens the privilege of remembering the poor, the homeless, and the sorrowful. Lot us endeavor to merit the promised recompense of charity and the gracious acceptance of our praise. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this eighth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the independence of tho United States the one hundred and fifteenth. By the President. Benjamin Harrison. James G. Blaine. Secretary of State.

THE RESULT IN KANSAS. Senator Ingalls Will He Defeated by the I egis ature. An estimate of the result of the election in Kansas, so far as It affects the complexion of the Legislature, gives the following figures: Republicans, 75; antl-Rcpubli-cans, including Farmers’ Alliance and Democrats, 90. Of the 75 Republicans about 15 Senators pledged themselves to vote according to the will of the people of their districts as expressed in the vote for Representatives. Nine of these districts returned Alliance men. To secure re-election Mr. Ingalls must control 84 votes. The Legislature is now apparently against him by 15 votes at least and possibly 24. Chairman Buchanan of the Kansas State Central Committee telegraphs that Humphrey, R„ is elected Governor. All but eighteen counties give him a plurality of 4,989. These eighteen counties have a total vote of only 30.003, and they may be counted upon to increase his plurality, Mr. Buchanan says. In tlie Second District Broderick, R„ is elected to Congress over Moonlight. D. Mr. Ingalls cannot be re-elected. That seems pretty sure. His successor will probably be either Willets, Farmers’ Alliance candidate for Governor, or Robinson, the Democratic candidate. If Mr. Willetts is beaten for Governor he will probably be sent to the Senate. If Mr. Willets is elected Governor Mr. Robinson will be probably centered upon by the Democrats and Alliance men. LUCY in limbo. Mrs. Parsons, the Chicago Anarchist, in » New Jersey Jail. A week ago Saenger Hall, at Newark, N. J., was hired by people representing the International Workingmen's Society. The

proprietor of the hall did no: know that the people were anarchists until the bills were ported threugout the city announcing the celebration of the third anniversary of the hanging of the Chicago anarchists. Lucy Parsons, Herr Most, and Hugh O. Penteccst were advertised as speakers. . When the speakers appeared the proprietor refused to allow them to enter the hall. A big crowd had congregated In the street. Mrs. Parsons mounted the hall steps and began to harangue the crowd.- Police Captain Glori stepped up and warned her to desist. She defied him with strong lan-, guage, and several anarchists urged her to continue. The Captain gave a signal and the officers and detectives grabbed the ringleaders in short order and marched them to the Fourth Precinct Station. Those arrested are Jacob Dick. John Schmidt. Edward L. Klump. Engleltert Hummer, Simeon Gortman, Charles Yager, Adam Dasing, Sebastian Mohr, and Mrs. Parsons. Herr Most escaped in the crowd.

VOLUME OF BUSINESS lARGE. Dun’s Weekly Review Shows a Good Slate of Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The volume of business, both domestic and foreign, continues large beyond precedent, and in character prosperous. The elections interrupted business but little, and the result has no perceptible effect as yet upon trade, though some fear that the extension of manufactures may be checked by uncertainty. The monetary situation is substantially unchanged. The reports from all parts of the country show that business is large and healthy. Boston notes wool more quiet but firm; a good movement of heavy-weight go xls expected at Letter prices. Philadelphia finds the wool trade less active, the demand being checked by what manufacturers consider extreme prices: the Iron trade a shade weaker, but rolling-mills full of orders; and the coal trade hardly up to expectations, with October prices actually ruling. At Chicago grain receipts equal last year’s, cured meats, butter, and hides show decrease. but dressed beef, lard, cheese, and especially wool increase, and trade in dry goods, clothing, and shoes exceeds last year’s.

ILLINOIS IS DEMOCRATIC. Wilson Wins by Over 8,000, and Raab by Over 35,000. Latest returns show that the Democratic State ticket was elected In Illinois. The returns from Chicago were unusually late, and materially changed the totals. They show a surprising plurality in the county against Amberg of 5,600 votes, and. a plurality of 16,500 against Edwards. The figures Insure the defeat of both the Republican candidates for State offices. Wilson hax'ing more than 1,800 plurality over Amberg in the State outside of Cook, while in the outside counties Raab has about 19,000 over Edwards. Returns from 100 out of the 102 counties in Illinois on State Treasurer, nine-tenths of which are official and the remainder carefully estimated, show a plurality for Wilson, D., pver Amberg, IL. of 8,400. The counties from xvhich no returns have been received will not affect the general result materially. Returns and estimates from the same counties on Superintendent of Public Instruction indicate the election of Raab, D., over Edwards, IL, by a plurality of 35,445.

REPUBLICANS GET CALIFORNIA. They Have the Governor and a Majority of the Congressmen. Complete returns have been received from more than one-half the precincts in California outside of San Francisco and from about two-thirds of that city. These returns give Markham, R., for Governor more than 10,900 plurality over Pond, D., and also show that the Republicans have elected the entire State ticket by a similar plurality. The entire Republican ticket In that city, with the exception of one minor office, is undoubtedly elected by plu'ralltles ranging from a few hundred to 4.000. There seems to be no doubt that the Republicans have elected five out of the six Congressmen in the State and indications are that the entire Congressional delegation will be Republican, though the contest in tlie First District is close. Returns from a little less than half the pretlnets in the First District show that Barham, IL, is leading by 116 votes. The Legislature, which will elect a United States Senator, will have a large Republican majority in both branches.

HAVE TO KEEP THEIR WHEAT. Railroads in Minnesota and Dakota Unable to Furnish a Sufficient Number of Cars. There is imminent danger of a great grain blockade in the Red River Valley. The railroads are making extraordinary efforts to meet the demands of the shippers xvith a daily freight movement of 650 loaded cars on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads, but with the rapid Increase of farmers’ deliveries during this month and December it is feared that the elevatorsand railroads Will prove unequal to the movement of the wheat crop of 35.000,000 bushels in the twelve counties of the valley. It will take 58.000 cars of 600 bushelii each to move the wheat crop of the valley alone Irrespective of the demands for tonnage of tho other parts of Northern Minnesota and North Dakota. The formation of a company with $500,000 capital is being agitated for tlie purpose of erecting an elevator at Grand Forks, N. D., with a storage capacity of 5,000,000 bushels to store a part of the enormous surplus of the valley.

CONSCIENCELESS ROGUES. A Man and Woman Swindle Twelve Hundred School Children at Birmingham, Ala. _ A stranger giving his name as William Fountaine, accompanied by a young woman whom he introduced as his wife, visited all the public schools in Birmingham, Ala., and announced that he would give a show at Erswell’s Hall at 4 o'clock. A present was to be given every pupil who attended. Twelve hundred children paid ten cents admission, but in the hall they found'no show and no presents. Fountaine told them to pass out the back way and they would receive their presents there. They refused. Then he went into a dark corner, lighted a match and shouted: «Flre!” In a moment I there was a panic, and many children were trampled under foot and injured in getting out. Policemen sent up to arrest the swindlers found them locked in a room. The door was broken down, and Fountaine and his wife are in prison. The refuse to make any statement or give any account of themselves. A Schooner Seized for Smuggling. The French schooner Menegere, of St. Pierre, has been seized for smuggling at Codrey., N. F. An exciting struggle took place before the Frenchmen would surrender. The cargo of the schooner was mostly whisky. Over Seventy, but Still Gay. There is a lively scandal in connection with the suit for 830,003 which Arthur Hughes, of South Acton, Mass., brings against James Tuttle for alleged alienation of his wife’s affections. Mr. Tuttle is sev-enty-three years old and Mrs. Hughes is not yet thirty. In addition to his advanced

| age Mr. Tuttle is handicapped by stiff kneejoints. which compel him to use crutches. , But he lias got a few hundred thousand I dollars in the bank and elsewhere and is one of the leading business men in the | town. He has a wife and two children. Republicans Ahead in South Dakota. In South Dakota the Independents have conceded the election of the Republican | State ticket, and the latest reports seem to I indicate the election of a Republican majority in the Legis.ature, insuring the rei election of Senator Moody. Pierre has won j the permanent Capital by from 8,000 to 10,00 0 majority, although Huron does not yet concede that fact. Chairman Peemiler of ! the Democratic Committee concedes the election of both Republican Congressmen and most of the State ticket, but claims the Governor and enough of the Legislature to give the majority to the Alliance and Democrats. Pearls In an Illinois River, Two boys residing at Kappa, 111., recently obtained about forty pearls from clamshells found in the Mackinaw river. Two of the pearls they took to Peoria, where they were offered 822 for them. It is believed that then* are many thousands of dollars’ worth of pearls in the mussels witli which the Mackinaw 1* profu-e’y stocked. This discovery of the boys has inaugurated a pearlhunting craze along the banks of the Mackinaw in McLean, Tazewell and Woodford counties. Republicans Save a Congressman. The official count of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, shows a majority for Stewart, R.. for Congress over Craig, D„ of 2,261. Tills gives Stewart a majority of 34 in the district (tlie Twenty-fourth) over Craig, whose election has heretofore been claimed. The district in 1888 gave Ray, IL, 4.338 majority. The delegation from the State in the next Congress will consist of eighteen Republicans and ten Democrats—a Democratic gain of three. Haim a Big Majority. “It has reached 35,009 already, and with the counties yet to hear from may go to 45,000.” is what the Democratic managers say of Governor-ele -t Peck’s plurality in the State of Wisconsin. The Republicans are content to await the official returns and have given up figuring, and so they are not prepared to dispute the Democratic claims. Complete returns have been received from less than one-half the counties of the State thus far. Alliance Men Win in Dakota. Independent Alliance information from eighteen counties in South Dakota shows Loucks. Independent, for Governor, to have 3,000 plurality over Mellette, Republican, and Taylor, Democrat. The Same returns elect ninety-two Alliance members of the Legislature. This insures the defeat of United States Senator Moody and the election of a Farmers’ Alliance man or a Democrat. Afraid of the Farmers. The loan companies of the Eastern cities have telegraphed their agents in Central and Western Kansas to place no more loans until the result of the election is determined. The Alliance members of the Legislature are pledged to oppose all high interest rates, and the loan companies will stop business if they organize the Legislature. No Hurry to Negotiate. The Spanish papers deny that the Spanish Minister at W ashington lias been instructed to l ogin negotiations for a special reciprocity treaty with the United States relative to the Spanish West Indies. On the contrary they say the Government will await events, as it cannot afford to injure home interests to please the colonists. No More Room for Old Soldiers. The trustees of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Home, at Quincy, 111., have issued a notice that after Dec. 1 it may be impossible to receive nexv members until additional accommodations are provided. There are now 1,220 members of the home. North Dakota Republican. The plurality of Johnson, Rep,, for Congress in North Dakota is about 6,000. That of Burke for Governor 5,185. Benton, Democratic Congressional candidate, says he will contest Johnson’s seat, and has already commenced securing affidavits. Mysteriously Disappeared. James W. Holder, a prominent banker and horse-importer of Genoa. 111., disappeared mysteriously on election evening, and has not been heard of since. He is a member of a prominent Bloomington family. He has been ill for over a week. The Denning Statue Unveiled. The statue to the memory of William Denning, the manufacturer of the cannons used by the Americans in the war of the revolution, has been unveiled at Newville, near Harrisburg, Pa. Desperado Shot. W. B. Cottrell, the notorious Cedar Keys desperado, was shot and instantly killed at Montgomery, Ala., by Chief of Police Gerald.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime § 3.25 @ 5.03 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.75 @ 4.00 Sheep... 3.00 & 52 s Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @ 9714 Oats—No 2 .43)’ Rye-No. 2 65 0 .67 Butter—Choice Creamery 24 & .27 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 08';. <n .09U Eggs—Fresh 20 .21 Potatoes—Western, per ba 75 80 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 @ 4/0 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep—Common to Prime 8.0 > @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.009>@ 1.01 v, Cobs—No. 1 White 53 0 .54 * Oats—No. 2 White 46’.',® .4714 ST. LOUIS. " Cattle 4.00 @ 5.00 g°M...... 3.50. @ 4.51 Wheat—No. zßed. 97 & ~714 Cons—No. 2 ; 52V> 0) .53 * Oais-No. 2 45 '& .46 Rye—No. 2 74 & .72 CINCINNATI. CATTLE 2.03 @ 4.00 Hogs 3.00 @4 25 5heep........ 8.03 & 473 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 Cobn- No. 2 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 50 @ 5014 MILWAUKEE. ' Wheat—No. 2 Spring 94 @ 95 Cobk-No. 2 53’.'.@ .5414 Oats—No. 2 White 46t>@ 47 14 Barley—No. 2 70 71 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.25 Bogs 3.00 & 8,75 Sheep 3.00 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 (ct> .98 Cobs—No. 2 Yellow -53 @ Oats—No. 2 White 49 @ 491,; TOLEDO. , Wheat.... 97 @ i.qj Corn—Cash 54 .5414 Oats—No. 2 While 4s «a '4BJ4 „ BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs—Medium and Heavy 3.50 @ 4.51 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.09 @l.lO Cobs—No. 2 57 g, EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @4.50 Hogs—Light ' 4.01 0 4.50 Sheep—Medium to Good 4.00 @ 5.(X? Lambs 4.01 @ 5)75 „ NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 4.25 Hogs 400 & 4 (60 Sheep 4.90 m 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.05 0 1.07 Cobn—No. 2 »» Oats—Mixed Western .38 @..'62

STANLEYS SIDE OF IT.

THE AFRICAN EXPLORER TELLS HIS STORY. Major Bartt"lot’i Charge* Against Hun Amnered and the Horror* Hinted At by the Explorer Fully Explained—The Story of the Fated Bear Column—The Cannibal Incident. [New York dispatch.] Henry M. Stanley was seen by a correspondent at the Evere’t House, in this city, this afternoon, and from-2 until 5 o'clock he told the story of tne inner history of the ill-fated rear column, wnich story Mr. Stanley gave in the form of a personal statement, personally signed. Mr. Stanley said: “You must expect such attacks as have been made on me and many more, because I know from conversations I have had with the surviving officers that many of them are very sore. Mr. Barttelott’s book begins in this way, and it is no different to what others say. On page 2, introductory chapter. ‘Life and Diaries of Ma’or laittelot.’ M alter Bartt’ilot says: ‘Mr. Stanley has said that the rear column was wrecked by the irresolution of its officers, neglect of promises, and indifference to written orders. To a soldier of the Queen and a gentleman, this is a serlbus accusation and should not be allowed to pass.’ It is on that the book turn*; that is the reason for the book’s existence. That sentence. which Mr. Barttelot finds fault with, was written in August, 1888, two days after meeting Mr. Bonny and the emaciated remnant of the rear column, when I found 102 pien alive out of 271, and only one Jiving English officer ont of five. On learning then the details o’ what had transpired. I wrote that the irresolution of the officers, neglect of their promisee, and indifference to the written order caused this awful collapse. “You ask me to justify that censure which has been the cause of Barttelot’s book. “It is a very serious business, although I can quite understand that people should be answered. as I now propose io answer, in order to de'ermine the truth. It is absolutely immaterial to me what view the people take of this censure, as I had enlisted nil these men as my officers, and it was only to me they owed loyalty and obedience according to their contracts. I am a’one justified in reserving the right to condemn or to award praise. At the same time, everybody is at liberty to express his or her views on this conduct, but no one could possibly have the same interest as 1 have to forget a great many offenses and gloss over many things in order to avoid scandal. Probably the best way in order to satisfy any legitimate interest in this question would be to tell the story of the rear column as I heard it at Yambuya and then the public may understand the shocking effect it had on me when hastening to their relief I was met by this awful revelation. “First, as to Major Barttelot himself. In this book, his diaries, on page 169, you will find the following entry by Mr. Baritelot: ‘Bonny and I talked about our probable action in the event of Stanley doing certain tilings. I expressed mvs df openly.’ On page 170, under date of Dec. 6, Mr. Barttelot states: ‘After dinner Bonny and I walked again and referred to our conversation of Nov. 24. I made a determination never to partake of Stanley’s hospitality while out here, as we have a private medicine chest. Jameson, in reference to our conversation of Nov. 24, expressed his determination to act as I should and also refuse Stanley’s hospitality.’ Wondering what all this meant I asked Mr. Bonny to be frank and sav what it all meant He replied: ‘Well, sir, Ma or Barttelot asked me : “Don’t you think Stanley is a Pritchard—a poisoner,” and added that he had heard that one of your ways was to leave Africa alone, so that no one would know what hud transpired, and he had heard the story of your leaving an officer in some part of Africa and never going back for him.’

“This gives a little insight into the feeling of Maior Barttelot andlof Mr. Jameson’s clear comprehension of -what had been hinted at. It seems they had picked up a skit from one of the irresponsible newspapers, saying it was odd Stanley never returned from Africa except alone. I am told Major Barttelot had expressed great curiosity to learn the probable effect of a dose of cyanide of potassium, and at one time was caught testing it on his tongue in order to ascertain whether its taste would be likely to be detected in a cup of coffee. 1 was told that the person for whom this dose was intended was Salim de Mohammed, the nephew of Tippu Tib. I was told also that Major Barttelot's life was twice saved by Mr. Bonny. Once because Major Barttelot had suddenly seized a woman, who was passing near him, and buried his tee .h deep in her shoulder. 1 was told, also, that frequently Major Barttelot would cause his black followrrs to shrink bffore him by staudtng in their path, in front of the advancing natives, and grinning like a fiend—that is the expression that was used in describing it to me —wnile he would at the same moment brandish a long cypress staff that had upon it a sharp steel point. He was reported to mo to be often running about the camp, prodding his people and then flourishing his stick and hitting indiscriminately without any apparent cause. A Manyama chief complained to me that ho had been prodded seventeen times in one day with this steel-pointed slats, and that was two days before Ma). Barttelot was killed bv Sanga. the little boy Sondi, whose death I have recorded in Tn Darkest Africa,’ was a little fellow of 10 years. Maj. Barttelot refers to him in a general way as a clever little fellow. 1 have described him in my book as a wise-headed little fellow. Well. Maj. Barttelot was irritated at this little boy one morning and kicked him, and from the effects of that kick the boy died. John Henry, a mission lad, was flogged with 300 lashes and died very soon afier receiving them. “A Soudanese soldier was placed on guard while suffering the torments of hunger, and he stole a piece of the meat of a goat, for'wliich be was flogged 153 lashes. He was sentenced to receive 300. but ns he could not stand that at one time they left off at 1 0 for him to recover, with the threat that he would receive the other 150 as soon as he was in a fit condition. Meantime he was put under guard. One night he broke away, took his rifle, and ran into the bush. Search was made, and the next day or two he was caught, tried, and nt.-need to be shot, and the sentence was duly carried into execution. “There was scarcely one among the Zanzibtrswhohod not been n victim of this system of remorseless punishment They bore their wounds on baric and on limbs, and, of course, as Major Bantelot had sent the medicines away down the river—two full cases—the means to alleviate them w.as wanting. For the want of these medicines many of the men died. Major Barttelot told Mr. Bonny, I am informed, that he recommended his brother Walter to look after Mr. Troup on his arrival in England, in order that Mr. Troup might not be tempted to disclose wbat was going on at Yambuya with the rear column. lam told that when the deserters from the advance column reached Yambuya and told Major Barttelot the graphic tale of my being killed by seventeen arrows, he exclaimed : -Thank God, I shall be made Colonel now.’ That statement has been sworn to by a person who heard it in the presence of witnesses. “Soon after this Major Barttelot declared that he had a project to undertake in connection with Mr. Jameson to pay for the goods under his charge and t end the other three officers home, and s;art them on an expedition of his own. But he was kind enough, I am told, to tell Mr. Bonny confidentially that if he cared to join him and Mr. Jameson he might, and the other two fellows could shift for themselves, meaning Mr. Ward and Mr. Troup. Another project was that Major Barttelot proposed to leave the surplus goods at S'an lev Falls in charge of Mr. Troup, while he (Major Barttelot) and Mr. Jameson started on their own hook to explore. “I am told that Mr. Troup applied to Major Barttelot for medicine while he was ill. and Barttelot refused to give it to him. I also heard there were frequent quarrels among the officers in the camp, and upon one occasion, on account of a protest from Mr. Bonny, Major Barttelot ordered a guard of Soudanese to arrest him. In the log-book signed by Major Barttelot and Mr. Jameson there is one record after another, in each day's entry, how people were ill-treated by flogging going on day after day without anv intermission. He bought four slave chains from Tippu Tib for, I believe, £4B, in order to put these people in chains. It is said that Major Barttelot confessed to Mr. Bonny that if many of the things dohe at Yumbuya were known in England he would be instantly dismissed from the service. Upon which, it fs said, Mr. Bonny asked why did he commit these things, since he knew they would disgrace him in the eyes of “Now, coming to the day of the tragedy, Major Barttelot, during the hours that intervened between July 17 and tne morning of the 19th, had kept the camp in a state of uproar. Things had been going on pretty well during his absence at Stanley Falls, but whatever gcod feeling existed before his arrival was completely dissipated by his return. He first fostered a, quanel on the Arab who owned the station of Benalva and demanded sixtv slaves from the Arabs. I have reiected that word and put carriers in the log-book. The Arab complained that on account of such a large party of whites having come the natives had become frightened and had all run away and could not be induced to stay in the neighborhood. It was therefore impossible to catch any slaves but Major Barttelot was inexorable, and insisted on a supply being given to him. On the morning of the 19th, at dawn, he drumming and singing, and sent some Soudanese soldiers to B t‘ p u - As thlß no effect, he sent ms little boy. Still no use, and finally he want

himself, taking with him his loaded revolver and that cypress staff with a steel point which* had already made sueh mischief, and with these weapons in his hands he walked, to the scene of the ringing. There he saw a woman beating adrum, accompanying it with her voice, as is the usua’ custom with the Manyemas at the dawn °‘,J h 9 which ’key always open with wild music. Major Barttelot, on Hewing the woman so engaged, ordered her to desist two or three times, accompanying each order with a prod of his steel-pointed staff then with a blow of the staff, and finally he began to kick her. Attracted by the woman’s shrieks her husband, Sanga. seeing Barttelot with a revolver in his hand, thrust his gun through the-loop-hole of a hut opnosite to where this was. taking place and shot Barttelot dead Jameson then went to Stanley Faile, where Sanga asproved to have killed Major Barttelot, and waa consequently sentenced to death. If Sanga had been brought before me, and if the story as reported to me personally and in writing was. shown to be true, I should have acquitted him, Suppose such an incident occurred id tha streets. . p.f any civilized city, would not any jury haveacquitted the husband who thus killed the assailant of his wile? “Since I have censured the whole, it is perhaps necessary if the foregoing does mt contain a sufficient explanation for me to say whyI censured them. It must be understood that ■ any one of these officers with a little firmness, could have arrested Major Barttelot’s proceedings without violence. A mere letter from any one of them protesting against such acts, and threatening to report the circumstance to'.he committee at home, would have stopped it It has been clearly shown from many accounts. ?. Ten .u ¥ rT *”’P a own narrative shows, it, that they disagreed with many things. Major Barttelot did, and it is probably true that they protested by word of mouth, but no amount of verbal protests would have the same effect as a written arraignment of these tyrannical proceedings. lam sure had Major Barttelot received such a letter he would never havedared to repeat them. Hence, as this was not. done— because I haxe never seen such written protest—l must needs censure their conduct for not doing the utmost thev could in order to stop them, inasmuch as each had declared his Intention to be loyal and obedient and think of the interests of the expedition. I will leave this to the judgment of every reader. “Assuming the facts uro as they are stated in the foregoing, can any man conscientiously say that my censure of the rear column was harsh or unjust, or undeserved, when I state this after heading all these horrible things, and after seeing the effects of those acts on the rear column —when I said, two da vs after being brought face to face with this misery, that the rear col- ' umn was wrecked by the irresolution of its officers, the neglect of their promises and their indifference to written orders?”

“Starvation and continued ill-treatment, caused the condition of the men to which I have referred, and produced the ulc rs which, ate away the flesh so that their bones were almost exposed. Their backs were entirely gone. They were unable to stand, and still rhe’y werepunished day after day. There is the log book, as it was given to me, with day after day theaccounts of the most horrible punishments. The records are signed by all the officers. They aid not appreciate the amount of it-, makingthe daily entries, but as I read it over, all together, th< T 3 it stares me in the faoe—a record of evils and a continuous story of horrors. “The reason why I was absent from the campfor fourteen months instead of five, as I expected, was this: I left Yambuya on June 28and arrived at Albert Nycmza on Dec. 13, 1887. Then I returned, siuce there was no news of Emin, a distance of 130 miles, where I built a fort, housed the sick, stored the goods and returned to the Albert NVanza. I Arrived there in April, 1838, and stayed there twenty-six days having found Emin. Then I started to hunt for the rear column, and found it only ninety miles from Yambuya. Emin’s own letters, published in‘ln Darkest Africa,’explain how he came tomy camp, and that he was not taken prisoner by me. as has been charged. “As to this story about Mr. Jameson. A witness to the incident, a man, drew up in his own handwriting an affidavit, wherein he swears in the presence of witnesses to the following: story: That Jameson, returning from Kasongo and conversing with Tippu Tib and another Arab about cannibalism, informed them that hedid not believe there was any such thing as. cannibalism, because, although he had heard much of it, he had never seen it, and no white mau had ever seen it done. In reply to this Tippu Tib is said to have said: 'lt is easy enough to prove it if you like.’ Upon which. Jamesonjisked how, ana Tippu Tib responded: ‘Pay for a slave and give it to those men. there. They will show you.’ Whereupon Mr. Jameson said he was very willing. Txvelvecotton handkerchiefs were then given, and with thorn a little girl aged some ton or twelve years was purchased. She was given to the men, and Mr. Jameson is said to have then told them : •Now let us see what you can do.’ Tho child, was tied so she could not move. Mr. Jameson took a sketch-book in hand, and when he was ready a knife was plunged into the child ’s heart,, and Mr. Jameson is said to nave stood there while the life blood spurted over the body. Heis said to have made six sketches descriptive of the various scenes that took place, the cutting’ up and the disposing of the body. “This appeared so itcredible at first that when, we expressed doubts a European came iorward and said he had seen the sketches. Another European, upon being asked what he knew of it, said Jameson showed the sketches to him also. This was reported to the authorities of the Congo Free State and they took evidenceregarding it." Mr. Stanley concluded by saying: “If necessary I shall be glad to go into a court of law where the whole matter can be ventilated.”

Items of Interest.

Railroad statistics show that no onecar on a train is safer than another. The Indian cotton crop of 1889-90 is. the largest ever known in that country. A colored girl is said by the New York artists to be their finest shaped! model. A torpedo net constructed of interlocking steel rings is soon to be put to a practical test. Ottawa, Kan., boasts of a rooster so large that it must be helped upon its roost every night. The largest bearskin in the world is in. Kansas City. It was taken from an animal weighing 2,800 pounds. Wabash, Ind., has a midget, Mrs. Frank Store’s girl babe, six inches la., height and weighing a pound and a half. Compressed paper is now used as a. substitute for wood* in the manufacture of shuttles and their wheels for looms. A snuff-box containing three good, rings was unearthed in the excavation for an annex to the Niles works at. Hamilton, Ohio. There is a tremendous activity in thetoy division of the Patent Office, especially in automatic toys that talk and walk. The largest cotton mill in the South is now being erected in Florence, Ala., by New England capitalists. It willi have 53,500 spindles. A Pullman palace car recently passed from St. Louis to New York, which was chartered especially for the transportation of two valuable dogs. An organization modeled after theAmerican Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, has been organized in Great Britain, under the name of the National Home Reading Union. The largest cotton planter in the world? is James S. Richardson, of New Orleans,, who owns 49,000 acres of cotton land anJ employs 9,000 negroes. He has re--1 fused an English syndicate’s offer of I §22,500,000 for his plantations. A brown or black bear would soon be- ! observed where the coyote makes itshome, but the latter, lying in the sides of hills covered with dried and sunburnt vegetation, is almost perfectly safe from* intrusion if ii but remains quiet. A newspaper at Newcastle, England, commemorated its centenary by republishing its first issue. During the day a. country couple called at the office to answer an advertisement for help on a farm. They were informed they were 100 years late; The receivable traditions of China goback to 3,000 years before Christ, and one of their sacred books, the Shu-kfng’ (treating of history and of the government and laws of the ancient monarchs), begins with the Emperor Yao, 2,3571 years B. C.