Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — AROUND THE WORLD. [ARTICLE]

AROUND THE WORLD.

INTELLIGENCE FROM EVERY PART OF THE GLOBE. News from Foreign Shore*—Domestic Happenings— Personal Pointer*—Labor Motes Political Occurrences Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Etc. SENATORS ABSENT THEMSELVE *. The Sergeant-at-arms Has to Help Secure a Quorum. The small attendance of Senators on tho 22d attracted the attention of the Democrats, and Mr. Harris demanded a call of the roll. Thirty-two Senators responded to the call—twelve less than a quorum. The Bergeant-at-arms was directed, on motion of Mr. Hoar, to request the presence of absent Senators. In the course of half an hour a quorum made its appearance.' Mr. Cockru'l. from the Committee on Military Affairs, (sported, and the Senate passed, a bill to establish tho Record and Pension Office of the War Department. Mr. Dawes presented, and the Senate [adopted, the conference report on the Sioux Reservation bill. Mr. Cullom, by request, Introduced a bill to incorporate the Pan-American Transportation Company. Referred. Mr. Spooner submitted various conference reports on public building measures. The reports were agreed to. The bills authorize the construction of public buildings at Sioux City, Iowa; Kansas City, Mo.; and Stockton, Cal. As agreed upon In conference, the bills are left as they came from the House, which struck out tho clauses making appropriations. Nothing of Importance was done in the House.

GRANGER lOWA HEARD FROM. Significant Speech at a Banquet of New Fork Cap tallots. A significant speech was made by Mr. A. B. Cummins, of lowa, atthe New York banquet of the New England Society, In response to tho toast, “A Message from tho Grangers.” The society is composed mostly of the wealthy capitalists of New York. Mr. Cummins said: There have been times when the yeomanry of lowa were synonymous for honesty and fair dealing the world over; but In recent years confidence lias been withdrawn, ,$> and they are now the objects of cold distrust and severe displeasure. More than this; I speak to men who have closely observed tho ~ progress of affvirs during the last decade, and I but revive your memories in saying that It has witnessed a gradually deepening struggle between the great corporate interests and the people of the Granger States, between those who have money and those who have It not, which must always Lave been regarded with anxiety, but which has now grown to an Intensity that may well excite alarm. I may be, I hope lam In this instance, incapable of correctly estimating the importance or sequence of events; but 1 am driven to the bel*ef that the breach alreay opened may become so vast an abyss that inta it may fall the prosperity of tho whole country. We. may well beware of that evil day when the farmers of the West, Irritated by constant warfare, soured by reckloss Injustice and borne down by poverty, shall be seduced Into the ranks of those adventurers whose only hope Is anarchy, and who even now menace the stability of government, the supremacy of law and the orderly administration of .ristice. INDIANS GIVE IT UP. 1 Sitting Ball'* Band or Hostile* Finally Surrender. Sitting Bull’s band of 150 warriors, led by Big Foot, have surrendered to 001. Sumnor, who with 200 soldiers succeeded in surrounding them lu the vicinity of Standing Rock while they were making for the Bad Lands. The Bad Land leaders counted upon 800 Indians from Standing Rock including Sitting Bull’s band of 200 Indians from tho heyenne Agency, and Hump and Big • -i’oot’s braves at Cherry Creek, and accessions from northern agencies which would have swelled the hostile camps to over 1,000. “Had the conjunction been effected,” said Gen. Miles, “these Indians, In the absence of military protection, could have massacred as many whito settlers as the • Sioux did In the Minnesota troubles of 1862.” Col. Sumner In his dispatch announcing the capture of Big Foot, says: ‘‘This cleans up the Indians along the Cheyenne.” He has orders to take the Sitting Bull and Big Foot parties into Fort Meade, or if more practicable to Pierre. Gen. Brooke wires that Turning Bear with his band, the advance of the Pino Ridge delegation to the hostile camps, has arrived at the Bad Lands. Gen. Brooke has sent word of the surrender of the Bull people and Big Foot, and thinks this* 1 pews will aid his ambassadors In their work of hurrying In the recalcitrants.

Went to Meet Her Lover. At 2 o’clock one morning a Pittsburgh police officer saw a young girl dressed In her night-clothes and barefooted In the freezing air standing at the corner of Fifteenth and Carson - streets. She turned out to be Louise Llebenderfer, aged 19, who was sleep-walking. The girl had walked down the Knoxville incline on the Icy ties—a sheer 1,000 feet of almost perpendicular height. The girl acknowledged she was in love with a young man and ■was going to him. Her mother declares she swam the Kanawha River three times one winter night while asleep. Miss Louise is In hod suffering from exposure, but was not seiloasly Injured. An Outlaw’s Escapo* .Tohn Turlington, the condemned muderor of Sheriff Cramer of Booneville, Mo., who recently escape I and was recaptured, contrived to cut a hole in the top of his cell, which adjoins the roof, and by soaping his body crawled through and by means of a rope made of one of bis blankets reached the ground. He stole one of the Sheriff’s horses and rode off. Ho was discovered near Ottervllle coucea'cd in a corn-shock. Kobbotl by Masked Men. While a special train on the Peoria. Decatur and Evansville Railroad was stopping at Olney, 111., for the locomotive to take water, two masked men entered the caboose and robbed Conductor Hampton and the brakeman of their watches and considerable money. The robbers caught them dff their guard and covered them with their pistols. Driven Crazy by White Caps. The Rev. Milton Lee, of Danville, 111., has become violently insane. Last summer some unknown persons threw Into his dooryard a bunch of hickory switches, a white cap and a letter In which he was warned that If he did not treat his family better he would be tied up and whipped. Lee worried him - cel t crazy over this affair. I Spotted-Fever In Texas. Fairfield, Tex., is In a (state of Intense ex ’ rite merit over the scourge of spotted-fever or, perhaps, ncwingltls. Nearly all the Stores are defied.

THE BUSINESS WOULD UNSETTXJtD. Trade Continues Largo bat Thar* fa a Want of Confidence. ft. c. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade •Ays: Business continues large for the season, but there Is perceptibly less confidence. The causes appear to be: First, prospect of important monetary legislation, the effects of which arc not clearly foreseen; second, frequent failures and greater difficulties In making collections; and, third, less satisfactory conditions in some large branches of industry. Probably more people are affected as to business undertakings, often unconsciously, by uncertainly about financial legislation and its effects, than by any other cause. Though the rate for money on call is lower than a week ago, and money is easier at Boston and Philadelphia, there is still stringency at most points throughout the country. Complaints of slow collections have rarely been more general, and in many cases settlements can be made only with notes pr renewals. But In all quarters there Is hope that after Jan. 1 things may improve In this respect. If legislative prospects do not meanwhile cause greater shrinkage of credits and curtailment of purchases. At Chicago receipts of wheat and wool are a third below last year’s, of hides larger, and of other products about the same. Sales of merchandise exceed last year’s, money is firm but regular business supplied, and there Is confidence In the Immediate future. At Milwaukee and Detroit trade Is good, at Cleveland fair, and at Cincinnati quiet in wholesale lines.

FOUND A CUKE FOR LOCKJAW. Dr. Landos. of Philadelphia, Makes an Important Discovery. While the civilized world is ringing with praises of the Koch lymph cure for consumption, Dr. E. 11. Landes, of the Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania, has been making a number of successful experiments that leave no doubt in the minds of gentlemen of broad experience, that he bus discovered the bacillus of that always fatal and much-dreaded disease known us lockjaw or tetanus. The investigations of Dr. Landes date back to 1889, and were first brought about by the fact that in 1888 the Fourth of July toy pistol did so much to cause fatalities among the junior population of Philadelphia. It was during this period lockjaw prevailed to such an extent as to almost amount to an epidemic and there was no case cured, Dr. Zulll, one of the surgeons In chief of the veterinary school, said to a reporter; ‘•I have no doubt that Dr. Landes has found the bacillus that causes lockjaw, and I think his experiments, with which I am perfectly familiar, prove beyond a doubt that It Is the same germ that has been found by Dr. Parke, of Buffalo, N. Y., and who has demonstrated the fact that it Is the bacillus responsible for tetanus.”

NO USE FOR MORTGAGES. How Kansas Fanner* Take Back Their Property on Which Creditors Havo Foreclosed. Thomas Guthrie, his wife and four children, and the father and mother of Guthrie, 75 and 71 years old. respectively, living on a, farm In Evans Township, Kingman County, Kan., were Sailed upon early one morning by masked Alliance men, about sixty In number, and forced out of their home, and without household goods were escorted flf teen miles southeast and left near where they resided for some years until recently. Guthrie was a tenant on a quarter section which fell Into the hands of Jarvis, Conklin & Co., by foreclosure proceedings last August. It had formerly been owned by John Cassidy, a prominent Alliance man, who soon after the Guthries were moved away was accompanied back by an Alliance crowd to his former home with his family and effects. Tire Alliance say they do not propose to allow any of their members to lose their homes just to benefit mortgage companies. L. W. Clapp, agent of tho mortgage company concern, said that he was getting the names of all those Interfering with his business and would give them the benefit of all the law that would apply to them. He says ho will have possession of the property soon, and hold it If ho Is compelled to maintain a military company.

ANOTHER BIG BANK FAILURE. S. A. Kean & Co.. One of the Oldest Banks in Chicago, Goes Under. S. A. Kean & Co., of Chicago, one of the best known banks in the Northwest, has failed, and Samuel A. Kean, head of the house, and George B. Warne, the cashier, are under arrest charged with receiving deposits only a few hours before the failure, and when they knew the bank was insolvent. This is a grave charge, and, if proved, constitutes the crime of embezzlement. The schedule of assets as estimated by the assignee foots up a total of $497,500. The liabilities are figured at $1,500,000. MEXICO IN HARD LUCK. It Is to Be the Future Home or «ie Mormon Church. A large real-estate deal, which also includes the transfer of the headquarters of the Mormon Church from Utah to Mexico, has been consummated by Mr. B. C. Faurot, President of the Lima (Ohio) National Bank, and John W. Young, elder son of Brigham Young. The deal comprises the sale of 8.000,030 acres of land in the northern part of Mexico.

Squatters on Reserved Lands. Nearly every valuable tract of reserved land In the Eau Claire, Wis., district has been occupied by squatters. In a few days they will come to the Land Office to make entry. The applications will, of course, be rejected in all cases where entry has already been made, and appeals will be taken. There were about forty entries accepted Saturday, and doubtless each will Involve a contest. Some of the squatters have occupied the land for years. Couldn’t Attend His Child's Funeral. The Rev. James Campbell, a Methodist preacher of Columbus, Ind., has been found guilty of committing a criminal operation upon Annie Huntsman, and was sentenced ta a term of three years In the State Prison. His child, a girl aged (5 years, died the day before he was sentenced to prison and the court ordered that Campbell should he permitted to attend the funeral, but the Sheriff positively refused to obey the Order. A motion will be made for a new trial. Murder and suicide. Dr. F. O. Vincent, Fresno, Cal., secured a a hack the other day and was driven to the residence of his wife, from whom he has been separated for some time. Shortly after he, entered the house three shots were heard by the neighbors, who rushed In and found Mrs. Vincent dead. Three wounds were discovered, one of which passed through heart. Dr. Vincent was arrested and tajten to Jail, where he soon fell Into unconsciousness, having apparently taken poison, Negroes Paying Their Poll-Tax. Two hundred negroes that have not heretofore paid their poll-tax have gone to the Sheriff’s office at Jackson, Miss., since the collection of taxes commenced and settled up. It Is estimated that this number will hie more than doubled Id that county alone.

Reports from other portions at the State am to the same Effect. The rcasdn for this is that the new congtffutlon requires the production of a fiefl-tax receipt as a prerequisite to vote. Aa Old Man fine* for Damages. A novel divorce case came up in court at Dubuque the other day. Dr. William H. Seeley, a man over 80 years old, wants separation from his wife, who is 10 years old. He alleges adultery and cruelty, bu tthe strongest claim made by him Is that they never were legally married. The woman coaxed him to marry her while her husband was on his dying bed and the ceremony was performed two weeks before he died. Heir to a Million Dollar*. Nina Stark, who registered at the Benison House, Indianapolis, the other night has inherited by the death of her fatheb-in-law an estate valued at nearly a million. She and her husband went to Colorado for tho benefit of his health, and a couple of months ago he sent her home,evidently with the intention of deserting her, as she heard from him no more. He has since died and his portion of his father's estate.falls to her.

Man-Hunt in Indiana. The Sheriff and posse of Madison, tnd., with many Hanover students, were out nearly all Sunday night, scouring the country In search of the two tramps who assaulted Miss Morse at nanover. A skiff was stolen below the city and abandoned on the Kentucky side of the river. It is supposed the perpetrators of the outrage thus escaped A posse is now In Trimble County, Kentucky, endeavoring to flud their traU. Showed How to Kill a Chicken. James Hannon, while showing a funeral party at Peoria, 111., how to kill a chicken, broke the neck of Patrick Lyons, a man 60 years of age. The entire party were sitting in a saloon after the funeral, and Hannon gave tho old man’s neck a slight twist. The fact that the old man was dead did not develop until several hours later when the party rose to go home. The practical illustration had broken his neck. Shot by Hi* Brother-ia-Law. Philip Maloney, a farmer living near Antlgo, Wls., was shot by his brother-in-law, Walter Mosher. Maloney and Mosher had some trouble over property, and Maloney stopped at Mosher’s house to talk the matter over, and as he left the house Mosher fired through tho window. The ball passed through Maloney’s abdomen. He cannot live.

A Strange Disappearance. Searching parties from Bearsdale, Macon County, 111., are looking for Jesse Cowgtll, a farmer who has been missing since Monday morning, when ho started for Decatur to make Christmas purchases. It is believed that Cowgill has been murdered for his money. Boy* Sentenced for Stealing Liquor. Ingwald Bakkcn and Frank Giroux, for stealing a case of liquor, were sentenced by Justice Hoffman, of Black River Falls, Wls. Bakken goes to tho State Reform School till he attains his majority, and Giroux is to pay SSO and costs or go to tho county jail for sixty days. Capture of a Counterfeiter. The St. Louis police have made a good capture of a counterfeiter. They arrested John Edwards, who has served several terms for counterfeiting, and on his premises found all the implements, dies, plasters, etc., needed for the counterfeiting of silver dollars. Plot to Munlir the Czar. The Paris Figaro publishes Russian advices stating that another plot to murder the Czar has been discovered. The conspirators are members of a noblemen’s club. Several Polos have been arrested for complicity in the plot and the club-house has been closed. a v, An Independent Refinery Gone. The Standard 071 Company has gobbled another independent company, the concern being the Delaware Oil Company, who sold Its refinery, tank-oars, etc., to the big monopoly. The sale of the Delaware leaves only two independent concerns in operation.

Decision in a Big Land Case. The Minnesota Supreme Court has handed down a decision settling tho celebrated swamp-land litigation which assures to tha Duluth and Iron Range Road the title to between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres of land in the northern part of the State. Trying the Lymph on Lepers. Two lepers have received injections of the Koch lymph at Berlin. The experiment is boing made at the request of the patients. Jumped in Front oi a Train. Thomas Plummer, a farmer living near Wichita, Kas., committed suicide by jumping In front of a rapidly moving passenger train. Found a Robbers' Cave. A genuine robbers’ cave has been discovered at South Haven, Mich., In which a quantity of goods stolon at the time of the d sastr»Bb fire in that place was found.