Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — WESTERN SUGAR WORKS [ARTICLE]

WESTERN SUGAR WORKS

THEY WILL TURN OUT 27,000,000 POUNDS. How They Deal with Usurious Moneyiemlers In China—A Terrible Deathbed Confession—Bloody KeTOlt In the Republic of Guatemala—The Ball Clubs. Got Second Place and Died. Marion Gadd took tho second prize at an oratorical contest at Lincoln, Neb., hastily left the room, and blew his brains out. Young Gadd was deeply in love with the daughter of one of tho wealthiest citizens of Lincoln and she promised to marry him in case he won the first prize in the oratorical contest, otherwise she would have nothing to do with him. lie accepted the proposition with the above sad result. WESTERN SUGAR FACTORIES. Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, and California Expect to Make 27,000,000 Puunds. From statistics on file in the Government Laboratory in Fort Scott, Kus., there has been manufactured at tho sorghum sugar works at Medicine Lodge, Topeka, and Fort Scott during the month of September 500,000 pounds of sugar entitled to the bounty of 2 cents per pound awarded by the General Government. From accurate estimates it is ascertained that the output of the State of Kansas will slightly exceed a,000,000 pounds. The beet-sugar output in Nebraska will double that of the sorghum-sugar output of Kansas. The factory at Norfolk, Neb, as well as that at Grand Island will make this season 0,000,003 pounds of sugar graded at 0J per cent, sucrose. All beet .sugar is refined In the process of manufacture and is as fine as the best granulated sugar. At Lehigh, Utah, wliero a beet-sugar factory is in active operation, it is estimated the yield will reach 7,000,000 pounds. It is now confidently holieyed by the officials that the output of sorghum sugar in Kansas and beet sugar in Nebraska, Utah, and California will reach fully 27,000,000 pounds the present seas >n.

NEARLY TWO SCORE BIUtEAUKI). Terrible Tragedy ill North China, Caused by a Money-Lender. A leltor from Shanghai gives (lie details of a tragic and sensational occurrence in a northern province of China. A native known as a Shensi man. one of tho Jews of China, had for years'conducted a sort of banking-house at Hupoo. lie had accumulated an immense fortune, malting large sums of money by lending money at usurious rales Unfortunately for him, at the wrong time lie pressed his creditors, who were all Mohammedans, with too much severity. They held a mass-meeting and threatened him. This had no effect, and iinaily a few weeks since they armed themselves, seized tho usurious Jew, and put him to death in a most brutal manner. Along with him the mob killed and butchered no loss than thirty-eight Chinese who were followers and friends of the Shensi man. Tho hoads of the victims’ were afterward placed on bamboo poles and exposed to view. WAS A TRIPLE MURDERER. Terrible Deathbed Confession of Join Girock at Sltainokln. Just before his death, John Girock, of Sharaokin, Pa., made a confession in which he said that seven years ago, whilo working at Sunbury, he and. Charles Ward murdered Oscar Oluck. When asked next day about Oscar’s absence they said he had left for his home in l’oiand. Richard, a brother of Oscar, suspecting foul play, instituted a searching investigation, and fearful of being discovered the assassins lured him into thecountry and killed him. Soon after tho pair wont to fihamokin and worked in tho mines. A peddler stopped at their homo one night for shelter, and mentioned that he had Sl5O. He was shot dead and robbed.

LOST AT SEA. Only One of the Crew of Five of tlio Schooner Blossom Saved. The schooner Blossom struck Gull Island, off Newfoundland, in a heavy gale. There were live men on board. One of them jumped iuto the water and clung to a cliff against which ho was dashed. Ho passed a terrible night in a fierce struggle for life. The agonizing cries of tlioco who held to tho wreck, he says, are still ringing in his ears, but he could da nothing, and they were dashed into the sea and drowned. The schooner Neva reports at Halifax that she passed tho hull of a water-logged schooney, supposed to be tin schooner Maurice Wilson, that was abandoned. Ilow the crow fared is a mystery. ON THE DIAMOND. How the Clubs Eigageil in the National Game Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE, w. L. i?o.| w. L. |>c. Chicagos... .82 40 .620;Clevelands. .61 74 .452 Bostons 83 51 .l'.24;Brooklyn* . .57 75 .432 New Yorks..7o 57 .551 Pittsburgs. .55 70 .420 Pbird’lphlasG7 G 5 .5! 8 oincintiat.iß.C2 81 .£9l AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. „ , W. L. Vc.j - w. L. ®c. Bostons 89 31 .6951 Milwaukee!.6l 72 .459 Bt. Louis... .83 51 .619|Columbus . .61 74 .452 Baltimores..6t 61 .527|Louisvilles..54 81 .403 Philadclp’s.,69 03 .523; VVashing'ns. 42 87 .£2G ANOTHER UPROAR. Bloody Revolt Started In the Republic of Guatemala. Guatemala is in the midst of a bloody revolution, fighting has b;cn in progress at Guatemala City for several days, and hundreds on both sides have been killed ■ and wounded. Barillas Is said to have declared himself dictator and to have secured the assassination of Gen. Sanchez. The trouble arose over tho appointment by Barillas of orators for the celebration of national independence. A Fall- Horse Thief. Jennie Sadler was arrested near Valley Mills, Texas, With two stolen h rses in her possession. She is dressed in mal: uttirc and looks like a cowboy of 18 years She admits she was to turn her horses over to some men who were to meet her, but refuses to give their names. t : Headed by Russell. Massachusetts Democrats, in convention at Worcester, have again chosen Gov. Russel! as their nominee. They declared in favor Of the equality of gold and sliver, and honest civil service.

A CITY WITHOUT A SINGLE HOUSE, Four Thousand People at Chandler, O. T., but Not a Root. Chandler, O. T., is a city of 4,000 people located In the dense undergrowth of scrub -oak, without buildings, without water, and fifty miles away from the railway. No one pretends to understand the cause of the lush to Chandler, as It will in six months be but a village of 200 or 400 inhabitants. Groceries have been opened in wkgons and hardware and furniture stocks are exposed in wagons, with no purchasers. An enterprising woman exhibits a stock of millinery, although there are but seven or eight women In tho town. Water peddlers are plenty and arc the only ones making honest money. A Wichita man has a sign on the branches of a tree reading, “Salvation Is Free.” There are already four hotels, but no roof. Ihe “Bon Ton” Is a scrub oak tree where each guest spreads his own blanket, the culinary department comprising a coffee pot and two frying pans; no dishes, no napkins; meals, Si; “beds,” 50 cents. Bill of faro: Fried pork, coffee, and crackers. Another hotel is a wagon-cover spread over poles and bedding of brush, for which Si is charged. The outgoing trains are now carrying away disappointed homeseekers, who declare the opening the greatest fraud of the year, but they all say they will be on hand when tho Cherokee strip is opened.

MAY BRING THEIR OWN HELP. Foreign Nations Wi 11 Experience No Difficulty with tho Contract Labor Law, Assistant Secretary Nottleton, of the Treasury Department, has sent the following letter to Alexander D. Anderson, Special Commissioner of the World’s Columbian Exposition, stationed in New York City; In your recent communication addressed to the chief clerk of this department, you ask on behalf of the Consul General'of Great Britain for a copy of the regulations of this department in regard to contract labor to be employed in connection with foreign exhibits at the approaching exposition. While no formal regulations have been promulgated by the department in this connection, you are authorized to assure the Consul General of Great Britain and ail others with whom you have occasion to communicate in this connection that alien laborers, mechanics or experts In the employ of foreign exhibitors and coming to the United States in connection with foreign exhibits at the World's Columbian Exposition will be freely admitted nnd will he subjected to no delay or hindrance of any nature. Whatever regulations shall prove to be necessary in order to carry out this decision of tho department will be formulated in duo season and furnished to all interested parties through the proper channels. A MINNEAPOLIS FESTIVAL. Over a Thousand Floats in tho Grand Harvest Parade. Tho harvest festival at Minneapolis had an ideal fal] day for Us celebration. The buildings were buried in bunting, and many of them wore covered with sheaves of wheat bounl in fantastic forms. Arches of wheat spanned many of the streets. On Tenth street thousands of flour barrels formed the base of the display. On top of tkoso stood a sheaf of wheat, while stacks of grain wore placed upon tho supporting barrels. There were sixty of these pillars along the street. From pillar to pillar was suspended a festoon of white cloth, whilo similar festoons intersected the streets, and others were strung from pillar to pillar across the street. Tho procession contained over one thousand floats. Tho lumbermen had an immense affair showing their trade in all Its processes, from tho loggers at work In the forest to the sawmill which cuts tho lumber in operation on the flout.

LOST IN BIG HORN CANYON. Railroad Surveyor* Start Into tlio Gorge und Are Never Seen Afterward. Information has been received at Salt Intke City that several members of tho Burlington and Missouri River surveying party, which has been running lines through the Stinking Water country in tho Big Ilorn basin, between Buffalo and A ellowstone Park, separated from tho main body and undertook tho perilous enterprise of running a line through the Big Horn CaiTyon. This was nearly two months ago. Nothing has been heard from them since, and the other members of tho party have almost abandoned all hopes of over seeing them again. Except in winter, when tho river is frozen over, there is not, any ins'anco on record of any one traveling through this torriblo rent in the mountains and coming out alive. WRECK ON THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. Tvro Men and Sixteen Cars of •Cuttle Burned t > Death. A toirible accident happened on the Northern Pacific Road on a grade near Buffalo. N. D., which rosulted in Engineer J. C. Curtis and Fireman W. E. Dodge boing burned to death and iwo other persons being seriously burned, together with sixleen cars loaded with cattle. A car loaded with oil was accidentally slutted from the side track through a split switch onto the main track, and down the sfeap grade it had gained a velocity of thirty miles an hour, when it came in contact witti a stock train. Tho oil took fire and exploded. Burning, oil was scattered fifty yurd3 or more in all directions. The clothing of tiio men was saturated with oil and was entirely consumed.

HIS COSTLY MASQUERADE. A Californian Fined Heavily for Impersonating a Negro Woman. ' Edward J. Llvenasli, a country journalist. who claims to be the proprietor of the Livermore (Cab) Herald, was arrested in San Francisco while masquerading tlie streets in tho garb of a negro wench. He carried with him a small sachel, which when searched at the cltyjirison was found to contain a bunch of keys and two bottles, one containing chloroform and the other prussic acid. Ho was charged with wearing female attire and his bail placed at SSOO. Llvenash claimed that the wholo thing was a practical joke. He had dressed in woman's garb and blacked hi; face with cork, intending to present himself for service to a lady acquaintance. GARZA’S NARROW ESCAPE. Mexicans Preparing’to Lynch Him, When Ho Ts Rescued and Flees Into Texas. Centrina Garza, the revolutionist, by a narrow chance escaped lynching just across the border. From information at hand It is known that Garza had in some way separated himself from his followers. The Mexicans ran across and captured him and were making preparations to lynch him "he i his men came upon the scene and rescued him. Garza and his meu crossed to Texas during the night, and are now being pursued by United States troops. IDAHO INDIANS SLAKING TROUBLE. Settlers Ask Protection, and Troops Will Likely Be Ordered to the Scene. Settlers in the Calispel Valley in Northern Idaho are alarmed over the menacing attitude of tho Indians in that section.

Marsela, chief of the Callspels, it Is reported, has ordered all the white settlers out of the country, and the Indians are running off the settlers’ stock and otherwise annoying the whites. Gen. Carlin, in command of the Fourth Infantry, now is camp in Spokane, has been urged to take measures of precaution. A troop of cavalry, under tho command of Gen. Carlin, is ready for marching orders and may soon start for the scene of the disturbance. The Calispel Valley is isolated, and all supplies have to be sent in by pack train. WILL LIBERATE CONVICTS. Farmers to Take a Hand in the Tennessee Miners’ Trouble. The miners have abandoned Bricevllle, Tenn., and given it to the convicts. The farmers are Indignant at their market being destroyed. Across the ridge west of the town is a farm that was rented at $1,030 for next year that cannot be rented for S4OO now, and great is the falling off of tho market demand for farm products. When the miners were there with their families they had about five consumers to each cne employed In taking out coal. Now there is but cne. Thoy feel tho effects of It and have grown desperate. They sent delegates to Nashville to represent their interests in the Legislature, but that body derided them and they indignantly returned home. BLOODY HACE WAR.

Negroes Shot by the Whites In Lee County, —A Battle Expected. A dispatch says: Excitement in Lee Couf.ty, Ark., is running high over tho murder of Thomas Miller by negro strikers. Sheriff Werner, of Crittenden County, has beeu called upon for assistance and has dispatched thirty men with Winchesters, with instructions to shout if necessary. A largo squad of negroes now are surrounded near Peters’ Landing, Ark., by 100 armed men, and indications are that a battle will follow. The negroes are said to be well-arjncd. A number of the riotous negroes in Lee County were decoyed to a barbecue and were surrounded by the whites, and two of the negroes in attempting to escape v. ere shot. PAUPERS NOT WANTED. Destitute Jews Sent Hack to Canada May l?e Returned to Europe. The Government at Ottawa, Ontario, has received information that tho destitute Russian Jews who have boon pouring into the United States from Europe through Canada are to be returned to Canada. In view of tiiis the Dominion authorities have been urged to take Immediate steps to prevent, more of the pauper immigrants landing in Canada. The Minister of Agriculture drew attention to tho possibility of the Government's returning tlie-c destitute people to Europe if Ihey are sent hack to Canada by the United States. .STILL IMPROVING.

Trade Brisk in All Sections of the Country, aiul Money Easy. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Reports as to money markets are generally favorable. Collections are fairly good almost everywhere. Tlio great industries are doing well. The business failures occurring throughout the country during tlio past seven days number for the United States 210, and for Canada 34, or a total of 244, as compared with 239 last week and 214 the week previous. For the corresponding week of l ist year the figures wore 219, representing 192 failures in the United States and 27 in tlie Dominion of Canada. BONFIRE IN ST. LOUIS. Mansur Teb’ootts Big Warehouse with Adjoining Buildings Burned. At St. J.ouis the farm implement and machinery warehouse and salesroom of the Mansur Tebbotts Implement Company, occupying a six-story structure, and the storage-rooms of the Pacific Warehouse Company, a one-story building covering tho entile block between Ninth and Tenth streets and tho Chicago and Alton Railway yards and Spruce street, were completely destroyed by lire Tho loss will amount to $509,090. MURDERED BY A REJECTED SUITOR. Elijah Watt Shoots Miss Kate Hallor.in at Topeka and Then Kills Himself. As Miss Kate Ilalloran, a compositor on the Topeka. Kan., Capital, was on her way home, she was shot by Elijah Watt, a printer, who was lying in wait for her. Watt fled, running about a square, and then placing a revolver to his head blow out his brains, dying instantly. Several weeks ago Watt, asked Miss HalloraiV to marry him and she refused. He tried to shoot her then, hut a friend interfered. BIG FIRE AT SAVANNAH. A Warehouse Worth 8400,000 Destroyed —Chattanooga Suffers. At Savannah, Ga., S. Guckenheinjer & Sons’six-story wholesale grocery and liquor building and its entire stock borne I. The total less is @450,000, with estimated ?iOO,000 insurance on stuck and §40,000 on tho building. Halt a dozen adjoining buildings were damaged'. At Chattanooga, Tenn., S. G. Webster’s warehouse, the largest In tho. city, was burned. Loss estimated at $200,003. PLUNGED INTO THE DRAW, A Hansom Cab Driven Into the Chicago River—Two Persons Drowned. One man, one woman, and a horse were drowned in the river at the Washington street bridge, Chicago, one night recently. A reckless cab-driver drove his cab into the open draw, and the driver and one of liis passengers, a woman, were drowned. The woman's escort had a narrow escape.

Big Blast Furnace Leased. Charles Himrod & Co., Crearar & Clinch, and Major Bertolet. all iron and steel dealers and furnace men, have leased tho new blast furnace of the Duluth, Minn , Iron and Steel Company and will operate it for a term of years. The furnace has a capacity of about IJOO tons of pig-iron. It will be the first large coke furnaco on Lake Superior and the first one to u,o the Bessemer ores of the Vermillion range at home. Hunting a Pretext for War. A Paris dispatch says that the warlike utterances of tho Grand Duke of Baden have produced very little effect there, the French being already convinced that the Kaiser and his confidants are for war whenever they can find a pretext. The Paris papers express thorough satisfaction with th'o condition.of tho French army and its ability to cope with any foo. Gave Notice of Impeachment. In tho Canadian House of Commons, Mr. Lister, member for West Lambton, gave notice that he will move an impeachment of tlie Hon. S. G. Haggert, Postmaster General, in connection with tlie construction of Section B of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The charge will be that Mr. Haggert was interested In the contract given by the Government. Assays 810,000 to the Ton. Word comes to Lander, Wya, that Emile Grenier has made a wonderfully rich strike

r on some quartz ground that he has been prospecting for some time. The find is near j Lewiston, eleven miles below Atlantic. The lead uncovered is thought to bo an exton- ' sion from the Burd mine, a lode long con- , coded to carry the richest ore in the State. Assays from twenty-two Incites of the discovery return 810,000 to the ton. In spots ; the gold is so thick that there is not enough ; rock to hold it together. A Rebellious Convict. Superintendent Mclntyre and Clerk Bowers, at the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., went into the chair shop to investigate misconduct on the part of a big negro named Frank Wallace. He sprang at thorn with a knife, and when this was knocked from his hand lie felled Bowere to the floor with a hammer, seriously injuring him. Must Re-Lay the Track. The Kansas State Railroad Commission, after making a tour of inspection of the Lawrence and Burlington branches of the Santa Fe Road, have ordered the company to re-lay the tracks from Lawrence to Ottawa and from Ottawa to Burlington, substituting steel for the iron rails, which havo been in use twenty years. Loss of Three Ships. News is received of the loss of two schooners on the Labrador coast, the Pa,yslee, Capt John Kane, with all hands, and tho Amazon, Capt. John Noble, with the loss of three hands. The ship Camelia, it is supposed, is lost, with Capt. Harvey, wife and child and nine of the crew. Must Have Eaten Mince Fie. At Indianapolis, S. D. Pierson leaped from his bed while suffering from nightmare, dashed to the front window, and before his wife could reach him sprang to the ground, breaking his arm, severely bruising his face and chest, and, it is feared, receiving internal injuries. Who Did It? At the Inquest into the killing of the Carr family at Quincy, Ky., evidence was adduced leaning toward the fact that Thomas Carr did not kill his mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and wife, and then himself, but that all were killed by some one else. Convict Conspirators Confess. A dispatch from Warden Hale, of San Quentin Prison, California, says tho conspirators who have been in solitary confinement havo confessed at last, and the revolvers and cartridges concealed by them have all been surrendered.

His Skull Fractured. Channing Baker and Burt Miles, of Beatrice, Neb., both suitors of Miss Zalda Barclay, bad an altercation over their sweetheart, in which Milos’ skull was fractured. His recovery is considered doubtful. Diphtheria at Lafayette. There is an epidemic of diphtheria raging in Lafayette, Ind., three deaths having occurrod in as many days from tho disease, and the feasibility of closing the public schools is being seriously considered. Poor Fool. Alonzo Francisco, 19 years of age, suicided in tjie Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis depot at Wirt, Ind. lie was the company’s agent, and left a note saying that he was disappointed in love. Big Fly-Wheel Burst. At Cincinnati a fly-wheel twenty feet in diameter, weighing t . enty tons, burst In an electric power-house. Two men were slightly injurod and the building damaged to the extent of $33,030. Nebraska Nominations. The Republicans of Nebraska have nominated the following ticket: A. M. Post, Associate Justico Supreme Court; Charles Mar.ple, 11. P. Shurnway, Regents State University. Denied by Turkey. The Turkish Government denies that It has made any new arrangements with Russia regarding the passage of the warships of that nation through the Dardanelles. Assignment at Nashville. At Nashville, Tenp., the Terry Show Case Company made an assignment. The total liabilities are $43,161. The total assets exceed the liabilities. Esteo to Bo Invited. From a usually authentic sourco it is learned that. M. M. Estea is tho Californian whom the President expects to invito into his Cabinet. Wants the Custom Eradicated. The Pope has sent a letter to tho German and Austrian clergy urging them to endeavor to eradicate the custom of dueling. The Crew Saved. The ship Charles Dennis, sailing from New York for Sun Francisco, foundered near Cape Horn. Her crew was rescued. Murdered His Mother. W. n. Davis was hanged at Pueblo, Col., for tho murder of his mother and her alleged paramour, James Arnold.