Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — FOR ILLINOIS’ EXHIBIT. [ARTICLE]

FOR ILLINOIS’ EXHIBIT.

SENATORS VOTE FORA MILLION DOLLARS. Indian Tribes Cede 1,500,000 Acres— Death of Ur. Van Dyke—Meeting of the Peace Society—Slayer of lapt. Couch Granted a New Trial—Journalism in Africa. LANDS FOR SETTLERS. One and One-Half Million Acres Ceded by Indian Tribes. The commissioners appointed by an act' of Congress to negotiate with the various tribes of Indians now occupying the Great Colville Reservation north of Spokane Falls, Wash., have returned to that city after a month of negotiations. Their efforts have resulted In an agreement with the Indians by which 1.500,000 acres of the reservation. or a little more than one-half, are to be sold to the Government for SI an acre and thrown open to settlement. The land ceded will constitute one of the richest and most attractive portions of the State. It is good for farming aud grazing, has fine streams and mountains of minerals. The territory ceded is larger than the State of Delaware and more than twice as large as Rhode Island. DEATH OF DR. VAN DYKE. The Noted Presbyterian Divine Expires Suddenly at Hi< Home in Brooklyn. Dr. Henry J. Van Dyke, the prominent Presbyterian divine, died suddenly at his home in Brooklyn, aged 66, of angina pectoris. He was a member of the faculty of Union Theological Seminary and one of Dr. Briggs’ ardent supporters. He was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, at Yale and at Princeton. His sermon on “The Character and Influence of Abolitionism,” preached just before the breaking out of the war, created a sensation and had a marked influence In strengthening the Union sentiment.

ON THE DIAMOND. Dow the Clubs Ergaged in the Nutlonal Game Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of tho different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. pc.! W. L. pc. Chicagos....lß 9 ,i;o7] Bostons H 16 .183 Pittsburge..ls 12 ,556|New Yorks.. 13 14 .481 Clevelands ..16 14 .fS'lißrooklvne.i.ll 17 .393 Pnllidelp’s .15 14 ,ol7|Cincinhatis.ll 18 .379 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. 1,. Pc.. W. L. Po. Bostons 26 11 ,7i*3 Cincinnati B.la 22 .463 liftltiniores .23 12 .G)7Louißvilleß..lß 23 .439 fct. Louis... .22 17 .511 [Columbus.. .1S 23 .410 l'hlladelp's .17 Id .486'Washlngt's.. 9 24 .273 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. W. Ij pC.. W. It. po. Omahas 20 12 ,oa> Pen vers I*s 17 ',*-61 IJncolns....]'.) 12 .613 Sioux Cftvs.l4 18 .433 Vilwßukees.lß 16 .515 Kansas O’ya. 14 19 .424 Mluneap’lis.lo 16 .500 St. Pauls... .12 10 .337 CORBETT APPEARS ANUUY. He Will Not Fight Again in the California Athletic Club. Tho Directors of the California Athletic Club held a meeting at San Francisco at which the award lu the Corbett-Jackson contest was again under consideration. They refused to amend tho resolution adopted after the fight, by which tho men were each awarded $2,50U. They offered, however, to give a purse for another contest between Corbett and Jackson. Jackson expressed his willingness to fight again and offered to cancel his arrangements for a match with Goddard in Australia if necessary. Corbett refused the offer and said he did not want to fight again under the auspices of the California Athletic Club. , Timber-Culture Entries. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has received a telegram from tho local land officers at Salt Lake City asking the price per acre of land within railroad limits covered by a timber-culture entry under the old law, and commuted and sold under tiie new law. “If the law was complied with for four years from tho date of entry,” ask the officers, “can wo accept commutation proof if it has not been complied with to date of proof?” To these inquiries the Commissioner replied that parties may commute timber-culture entries at 51.25 per acre under tho act of March 3,1891, whether within railroad limits or not, on proof of compliance with the law for four years, when the entry is valid and not forfeited by subsequent failure! to comply with the law. Journalism Invading Africa, Mr. James Gordon Bennett is about to start a hand-written Journal at Kafumbile, on tho Congo, to be known as the Congo Mirror. Its purpose is to reform the government of the Congo Free State, which Is described as now a mere despotism. King Leopold of the Belgians, who controls tho destinies of the state, is denounced as a clever dictator, playing at skittles with the lickspittles and fossils who hang around him.

Meeting of the Peace Socto'y. At the annual meeting of the American Peace Society, Corresponding Secretary Kowland B. Howard submitted an elaborate report, by which it is learned that there is to be held In Chicago during the World’s Fair a grand peace conference. Tt is proposed to make It the greatest gathering of the kind ever known. Special Agent. Michael Pigg&tt of Illinois has been appointed special Indian agent to make allotments of lands in severalty to nou-reserva-tioo Indians. . Granted a New Trial. . J. M. Adams, sentenced to hang for the murder of Captain Wi liarn Couch of Oklafcomo fame, has been granted a new “trial. I Senator* Vote 81,000,000. The World’s Fair appropriation ($1,000,000) bill passed the Illinois Senate by a vote of 00 to 11. Sentence of an Kiubezz^er. Fred C. Mehl, who in December last was discovered to have embezzled $70,000 to SBO,OOO from the Mueller Bros. Furniture Company, pleaded guilty on two counts In the Criminal Court at St. Louis, and wat sentenced to eight years in the penitentiary. Senator Cali Re-elected. At Tallahassee, Fla.. Senator Call was re-elected United States Senator by the Legislature in Joint see*lon. He received fifty-one votes, only fifty-four members teeing present. The anti-Call men absented themselves.

CAN ONLY PE TEMPORARY. Any Present Depression In Trade WUI He Short-Lived. Tho review of the week'stra'le by Dun & Co. contains the following: At most places trade seems healthy, and there Is not more than the usual complaint about collections. At Philadelphia collections are bad in groceries. Pittsburg notes that railroad orders are held hack waiting for crop results, and, while window glass does veil, flint glass has slack business. At Cleveland dry goods, groceries, hardware and shoes improve fairly, hut machinery, Iron ore• and clothing are dull. At Cincinnati the tobacco trade is brisk, hut the carriage trade is not quite up to lust year's. Detroit notes good prospects, though margins are dull. At Chicago drygoods Bales exceed last year's considerably, us do Bales of clothing, and there are fair country orders for shoes. Crop reports are very satisfactory, the recent rains having been of inestimable value. Tho business failures occurring throughout tho conntry during the last seven days number 254 failures as compared witli 237 last week. For tho corresponding week of last year the figures were 222. PRUSSIA’S INCOME TAX. The Rich Landed Nobility Clamoring for th- Kopeal of til- Law. Tho graduated tax on incomes adopted by the Prussian Parliament, much against tho will of the horrinhaus. which yielded only under the personal influence of the Kaiser, is already causing much discontent. The wealthier classes claim that at prevailing rates of interest tn the best securities tiie tax w 11 take a large part of their income, especially as officials show a disposition to enforce tiie law with severity. On the oilier band, the socialises are deiightr d ini aver that the measure is a di-tin t step in the directicn of the accomplishment of their ideas. To the rich landed nobility, who have sjtt’e i incomes, the law is especially opprtstlve, and they arc alieady clamoring for Us repeal. 8250,000 FOR A BALL-ROOM. Cornelius Vanderbilt Pays a Big Price for Filth Avenue Property. The purchase by Cornelius Vanderbilt of the house and lot on Fifth avenue north of his residence is significant for a number of reasons. In the first place Mr. Vanderbilt has probably paid for the property a much larger sum of money than lias ever before been paid for any Fifth avenue property of similar character and dimensions. The exact amount does not, seem 1o beucotnmonly known, hut it is learned on good authority that it was over $250,000. Tiie market prlco would probably he somewhere in tho neighborhood of $150,000. Mr. Vanderbilt intends to build the handsomest ball-room in New York.

GREAT HEAVYWEIGHTS. Tho Corbett-Jackson Fight Ends in a Draw. No pugilistic event ever occurred on tiie Pacific coast that created more interest or excitement than tiie great heavyweight battle between Jim Corbett, of San Francisco, and Peter Jackson, of Australia, which was fougtit at the gymnasium of the California Athletic Club, San Francisco. Walking-match tactics marked the close of a prolonged combat, and at the end of tho sixty-first round Beferoo Cook said the men could light no longer, and declared the fight no contest. JUDGE HOl’K’i DEATH. It Was the Result of a Mistake in Taking Medicines. Judge L. C. Honk, Representative In Congress from tho Second Tenesseo District, died at, Knoxville. lie went to a drug store near his residence to got a prescription put up. The druggist compounded it for him and it was placed in a glass near another containing a strong solution of arsenic, which Judge Houk took by mistake. He had heart disease and tho poison and excitement following the incident affected that organ and was tiie cause of Ills death. EVIDENCE AGAINST CONWAY. Tho Suspected Liverpool Murderer Expected to Make a Conies lon. Johnson, the man who sold the knife and and saw found lu tho sailor’s b'g which contained the mutilated corpse of ahoy and which was found floating in Handon dock, Liverpool, has Identified the prisoner, John Conway, as the purchaser of the articles. Tiie proofs now lu possession of the police are complete and point very clearly to Conway as tho guilty man. It is considered probable that ho will make a confession. IT WAS NO CONTEST. Referee Cook Gives His Decision in tho Jack son-Corbett Fight. Referee Cook's decision in the JacksonCorbett meeting at Sun Francisco was that the fight was no contest. Ail the bets on the final result, of the fight are off. The directors of the California Athletic Club decided to givo Jim Corbett and Peter Jackson $2,500 apiece for their exhibition, and to offer the men a purse of $7,500 to fight before tiie club again.

DISASTROUS WINDSTORM. Vast Amount of I’roperty Laid Waste. One of tho most terrible cyclones that ever visited Missouri swept through the central portion of the State recently. The climax of Its destructiveness seems to have been reached in the neighborhood of Mexico, Scotland County. So far ten bodies have been found, and many people are missing. It is believed that when all are accounted for the nu rater of dead will run up to thirty or forty. I’ecnllar Financiering, Tiie Lon ion Financial Times gives an interesting piece of information about the result of the Government effort to rehabilitate the Provincial Bank In Buenos Ayres. It decreed a succession of holidays, which were devoted to raising an internal loan to replenish the treasury of that and another bank. Tho Provincial only got fourteen millions as its share, and when the bank reopened its doors, dopositois flocked to draw out their money to pay installments on the loan. The result was Jhe bank had to pay out sixteen millions, yfieing two millions worse off than if had not been made to aid it. { Ex-Soeretar.v Taft. Ex-Minister Alphpnso Taft, who had been critically ill for several weeks, died In San Diego, Cal. Jndve Taft wasbern in Townsend, Vt., in 1810. aud was the son of a farmer who served several terms in the State Legislature. After the resignation of General Belknap in March, 187 G, Judge Taft was made Secretary of War. which office ho held until the May following, when he became Attorney General. President Arthur appointed him successively Minister to Austria and Russia. Since 1885 Judge Taft has lived in retirement at his home In Cincinnati. Tragic Eml of a Fishing Party. Four Newark, (N. J.) mechanics went fishing in the Hackensack River and never returned alive. They wore Harry and James Gasser, brothers. 30 years old. Joseph Voss, aud Jacob llautenbeck. The men took a boat at the Passaic River bridge aud

j intended to fish all night. Next morning tlieir overturned boat was found. Harry Gasser’s body was also recovered, but the others could not lie found. .Mil of the men were married. Each ts Gassers had four children, and Hauteubeck, who is their brother-in-law, had four, while Voss was the father of eight, all of whom arc living. A Condomneci Cruiser. The trials of the Vesuvius are over, and i the fate of that vessel as a “dynamite” cruiser has been decided. She will undoubtedly be stripped of her pneumatic guns and converted into a first-class torpedo cruiser. It Is an open secret about ihe Navy Department that the present trials were ordered in o.rder to have an official pretext to dismantle the vessel. It has been known all the while that she was not capable of doing all that was claimed for her. and the prejudice of naval officers against serving in the ship has done much to bring about her prospective condemnation. Swindled Ten Thousand PeopleTen thousand people paid 50 cents each to witness the flight of the Chicago airship at the Omaha fair grounds. After the crowd bad gotten inside Profs. Bush and Dodd, of Chicago, securely locked the gates so that their audience could not get out. raked the pile of money into a ude, and jumping on horses already ari;ttiged for their escape were out of the city before their flight was discovered. When the crowd discovered the deceit the .case supposed to contain the airship was torn to pieces and only old paper was discovered. Col. Henry Lane Kenrtri'k Dead. Col. Henry Lane Kendrick, than whom no man was better known among the officers of the regular army, died at the Union League Club, in New York, where he , had lived since his retirement from the army in 1880. For thirty-five years, all told. Col. Kendrick served as an instructor at West Point, and he had under his tutelage many of the young men who afterward became famous as generals in the Mexican war aud the civil war. Grant, Sherman, Hancock, and Stonewall Jackson were his pupils. Guarded l>y Detectives. City Treasurer Bardsley was placed under $30,000 ball at Philadelphia for his appearance at a further hearing to answer two distinct, charges of embezzlement preferred by the city and State authorities, Bardsley is still seriously ill at his home in Germantown, and as no one appeared to enter tail for him the guard placed over hint was continued until such time as his physical condition will per.uU of his removal to jail.

Threaten the Judge. John C. Efcerwiir, Judge of tho Twelfth Judicial District of lowa, and J. J. Clark, State’s Attorney, have received the following threatening letter: “Please notice this. If either of you longer meddle with liquor cases or serve indictments against us we will burn you out of house and home. Beware; You have been repeatedly and fairly warned. Beware! Beware! “White Caps.” Headed ior South America. School Commissioner H. V. Kuhlntan, who disappeared from Milwaukee on the night of Wednesday, the 16th just.. Is traveling toward South America. His wife lias received a letter dated Chihuahua, Mexico, In which Kuhlmau says he is bound for Chili. Ho reported that he had only 5 cents in his pocket and expressed the opinion that the Soutli Americans would either feed or kill hint. Ho is undoubtedly demented. Crash at Lynn Responsible. Tho Hill Shoo Company failed at Memphis. Tenn., and Willia/,* Vilas Hill, the President of the company, Immediately thereafter committed sulcld.v Tiie failure of the firm was directly due to tho failure of the Lynn Davis Shoe Company, which owed the Hill Shoo Company between $300,000 and $400,000. Mr. Hill was thirty-two years old, prominent in social circles, and a nophew of ex-I’ostniaster General Villas. Kentucky Republicans. Kentucky Republicans have nominated the following ticket: Governor, T. A. Wood of Mount Sterling; Attorney General, L. J. Crawford of Newport; Treasurer, Eli Farmer of Somerset; Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. V. Dodge of Berea; Register of the Land Office, W. J. A. Hardin of Greenup; Clerk of Court of Appeals, E. R. Blaine of Lexington. Eleven Men Buried Alive. A cave-in on the improved sewerage work in Elmwood, a suburb of Providence, It. 1., hurled eleven Italians, Seven were saved, but the other four are still hurled and are undoubtedly dead. At Albuquerque, N. M., while a gang of men were digging a sower, the earth caved in, burying several of the workmen, killing J. A. Sanchez and Almino Cesto. Naval Officers Piomoted. The President has made the following appointments in the United States navy: Commodore John C. Irwin, to be Bear Admiral; Commander Louis Kempff, to he Captain; Captain Oscar F. Stanton, to he Commodore; Lieutenant Commander W. H. Brownson, to be Commander; Lieutenant Richardson Clover, to ho Lieutenant Commander. Poisoned Her Father. James Jarrett, one of the most prominent farmers of Northeast Georgia, is in a dying condition at Athens. He was poisoned by his pretty 16-year-old daughter Rosa because he whipped her for stealing away to a neighboring meadow and going to walk with Robert Mcßae, a suiter whom her father opposed. The next day the girl put rat poison In her father's soup plate. Wedded in Haste. Frank Turke, aged 40, who kept a small shoe store on Palisade avenue, Englewood, N. J., quarreled with his wife, to whom he had been married hut a few weeks, and finally shot and killed her anditben killed himself. Turke buried his first wife seven weeks ago and engaged his second wife as" 1 housekeeper from an agency ::i New York. To Restrict Immigrn'ion. Secretary Foster has appointed a commission composed of ex-Congressman Charles B. Grosvenor, of Ohio; Dr. Walker Kempstar, the noted expert on insanity; and Mr. l’owderly, a brother of T. V. Powderly, to proceed to Europe and Investigate the Immigration problem. The commission wdll sail about the middle of June. Thinks the Company Unsafe. The New York State Superintendent of the Banking Department, deeming it inexpedient and unsafe for the Amer.can Investment Company, of Ernmettsburg. lowa, to continue to transact business in his State, ias revoked and annulled the license heretofore Issued to said company. Special Agent. Miss Helen C ark, a Blackfoot Indian woman, has been appointed a special allotting agent by Secretary Nobla. i James C. Fogarty Deal. JamesjC. Fogarty, the well-known baseball player, died at Philadelphia of consumption. Fogarty contracted a heavy

cold on bis arrival here from California la February last and has since that time been confined to his bed. He was 26 yeart of ago and hls'home was In Lot Angele;, Cat Cumberland Presbyter an Assembly. The delegates to the General Assembly of the Cumberland Congregational Church hc'.d their first session at Owensboro, Ky. Two hundred members were present. Tho annual reports give evidence of a great and rapidly Increasing growth. There are now 170,000 communicants. Ho Dug a Pit. Alexander King, a negro farmer living near Vicksburg. Miss., was shot and killed, lie had quarreled with his son and had secured a gun ti shoot him. He changed hla mind, however, and in sit ing the weapon down. sti : l coeked. it wi.s discharged, the shot entiling his breast. Served Like Depew. The Directors of the Maryland Central Railway have been Indicted for manslaughter. Tho Indictment was found in connection with the accident of April 16 last, when several lives were lost in consequence of the wrecking of a freight train. Heavy Loss in Jacksonville. Fire at Jacksonville. Fla., burned all the buildings In the block from Xownan to Market street on the south side of Bay street. The aggregate loss on buildings and stock is over §500,000; total insurance, §245,000. So Use for Them. The locked-out switchmen of the Northwestern Railway who applied for reinstatement in the service of that road at Chicago received very little encouragement. They were told that no switchmen were wanted, as all of the crews were full. , Crooked Financiering. President Francis M.. Kennedy and Cashier H. H. Kennedy, of the suspended Spring Garden National Bank, were arrested, at Philadelphia, charged with receiving deposits at a time tFoy knew the bank was Insolvent. To Elevate thgfaStage. It is rumored that EvajHkmilton, the alleged widow of Robert will go on the stage as an actress in a drama portraying the tragic death of her husband who is supposed to have been diowned in the Smoke River. Opened to Settlement. The President has issued a proclamation 'opening to public settlement under the homestead law about one million acres of land In the Fort flerthold Indian Reservation in the northwestern part of North Dakota.

Nebraska Prohibitionist*. The Prohibitionists of Nebraska assume that Governor Thayer can only retain his office until tho next State election, and possessed of that opinion propose to nominate and elect a Governor the coming fall. Liberal Farmers. The East Tennessee Farmers’ Convention at Knoxville passed a resolution requesting the governor to call a special session of tho Legislature for the purpose of making an appropriation for the World’s Fair. TVent to the Bottom. The steamships Vestris. bound to Rotterdam, and Mersey, from Barrow, came into collision In the Thamos River, and both sank in a few moments. Three men are missing. Brawling; in the Street. Albarigo Aruone. aged 22, was shot and Instantly killed, and John W. Remington, aged 26. was mortally wounded by Giuseppe Cangro, in New York City, during a quarrel. In Favor of Dr. Brooks. The standing committees of the Episcopal dioceses of Indiana, Michigan and Missouri have approved of the election of Dr. Phillips Brooks as Bishop of Massachusetts, Arrivals of a Month. The Bureau of Statistics reports the total arrivals of immigrants at the port* of the United States for the month of April were 85,001 against 64,212 last year. Exiled to Siberia. Five thousand prisoners in Russia are said to be waiting suitable weather for their transportation to Siberia. Found Gui ty. Thomas McNamee, a lawyer and politician of Omaha. Neb., was found guilty of the murder of Elsl Nichols Feb. 25. One in Ten Thousand. H. A. Piper, of Lead City, was elected Grand Master of the South Dakota Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., at Yankton. The Death Fonaltv. Albert E. Hnuenstine was hanged at Broken Bow, Neb., for the murder of Hiram lioten and William Ashley. Deal in Wheat. An English-German-Italian syndicate at Odessa has purchased 55,000,000 rubles’ worth of Russian wheat.