Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — SILVER MEN MUST WAIT [ARTICLE]

SILVER MEN MUST WAIT

THEY ARE OUTNUMBERED IN THE HOUSE. A Small Majority of the Members Are Against Unlimited Coinage, and tho Number Is More Likely to Ineroa.se than to Diminish. At Washington. In the Senate Mr. Sherman’s credentials were read and placed on file, on the 17th. Mr. Vance,-from the Finance Committee, reported buck adversely the bill introduced by Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, to provide an Income tax to pay pensions and the salaries of postmaster.-'. Mr. Pfeffer nnved to increase (lie item for the census work for the “division of farms, homes, and mortgages” from $50,000 to 8100,000. and the bill was passed. It adds to the 1200,000 deficiency for the census $."-0,000 for the “division of farms, homes and mortgages.” It Increases the item for subsistence of the Sioux from $115,514 to $143,914. The Senate from then passed the following bills: Appropriating SOO,OOO for the construction of a military store house and office for army purposes at the Omaha military department. Appropriating $500,000 for a public building at Salt Lake City, Utah. In the House, on motion of Mr. Montgomery of Kentucky, the Senate bill was passed extending to Sandusky, 0., the privilege of tho act for the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement

PASTOR HALL IN TROUBLE. A Council Bluffs Preacher Has a Row with His Congregation. Rev. L A. Hall is again in serious trouble at Council Bluffs. He called a meeting Sunday night and summarily bounced four influential members of the flock. They and their many friends met Monday evening and decided that those excluded should be reinstated, and Thursday evening after the regular prayer meeting was set as the time. The room was crowded. It was announced by one of the flock that In response to a petition a business meeting would be held! Hall was on his feet In a moment and loudly declared that no such meeting should be held. A chorus of voices responded that it should bo held. Hall announced a hymn and pronounced the benediction and said: “Let me urge all who love tho church to leave the room at once. Let the mob take charge of this place if it will. It will only be for a few moments, for we shall break up this meeting if there are any police to do it.” The janitor was ordered by the irate pastor to extinguish the lights, but they were relit at qnce by the opposition. Hall rushed out and called on the police, but they failed to Interfere. A council will be called at once to adjust matters, and it Is probable that Mr. Hall will be relieved. The affair Is creating much interest throughout the State.

PLOT TO WRECK A TRAIN". I Details of a Dastardly Conspiracy Overheard by a Fanner Boy. A dire plot to wreck a Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicigo passenger train was unearthed at Fort Wayne. Ind. The discovery was made by accident- The station at Areola is deserted at night. About four o’clock the other morning, while a farmer lad was in the waiting-room waiting for a train, two men entered. They did n)t see the boy owing to the darkness, and openly discussed the details of a plot to wreck the train which leaves Chicago at midnight. ' The deed was to be done on Thursday night near Areola, where the train Is due to arrive about 4:30. The boy slipped out of the station when his train came along, and reported the conversation to the railway officials. Portions of his story have been substantiated. The train carries many passengers, and had the conspiracy not been discovered many lives would undoubtedly have sacrificed. STVAM AsHORK WITH A LIFE-LINK. A Heroic Sailor Rescues the Crew of a Wrecked Schooner. A thrilling story comes from St. Johns, N. F., of the rescue of the crew of the Prince Edward Island schooner Avenger. Ehe was driven on the rocks twenty miles from St Johns in a blinding snowstorm. 'While she was pounding to pieces the boat was launched and Immediately swamped. Murdock Mills volunteered to swim ashoro with a life-line. He was carried ashore on a big wave, but could not land, the coast being so precipitous. He was drawn baqk on board the vesse', where he rested an hour, and then tried again and successfully. He drew himself up from one point of rock to another until he reached a place where he could fasten a line. Then ho drew ashore a larger line, by means o[ which the captain and crew all got safe'y to shore. C, Discussing Free Coinage. The possibility of killing free coinage upon a direct vote In the House is being discussed with a good deal of Interest among the Democratic opponents of tho measure, says a Washington dispatch. The fre9 coinage men keep tip such a noisy beating of tom-toms that It might appear to the avorag; observer that they had the House aud tbo country overwholmlngly with them. Tho opponents of free coinage say, however, that this is not the fact, and that the prevailing sentiment among the Northern members Is against any fooling with the currency at the present session. So strong is this feelinr. they say, that fully two- thirds of the votes of tho Northern Democrats, to say noth'n : of the Republican members, will be cast against free coinage. Got Away with •300,000. Gol. J. B. Simpson, who has been at the bead of a dozen business firms in Dallas. Tex., is missing and numbers of creditors are looking for him. The Grand Jury, it is reported, has found several Indictments against him. an 1 the air is filled with suxnors of crooked transactions. It Is believed that Siaipson is on the ocean cn route either to Europe or South America. It iscstlmated that he got away with at least 1300,090 in cool cash. Flames In a Lunatic Asylum. Ihe State Lunatic, Asylum, nearly two north of Jackson, Miss., burned. The fire originated in an attic room where a 'lunatic named Brown was confined. He escaped recently and was brought back, audit is sup; o-ed he set his bedding on ire. He was burned to death. About onethird of the immense building, besides the kitchen and store-room, was saved by the firemen. The inmates were all removed to the new addition for colored Insane. Dr. Mitchell, the superintendent, was injured l>y a falling ladder. The loss will be about 4300.000. The Leg tala' u re. which Is now in •ession, will provide for rebuilding. Is Not a Candidate. A tendon correspondent says: Cable dispatches from the United States having freely mentioned the name of Robert T. Lincoln In connection with the nomination for the Presidency, Mr. Line In denies in the most positive terms that he is or Intends to be a candidate. Violated Postal Laws. At Boston. Mass.. warrants bare been placed in the hands of Deputy United States Mnrehal Gallupe for the arrest of John A. Morris, Paul Conrad, and eleven other eAcinln of the Louisiana Lottery Company, who bar* been indicted by the United •bates Or cult Court Brand Jury.

NATIONAL WAR ON CIGARETTES. Petitions for Congress to Tax Them Too High for Children to Afford Them. A Washington dispatch says: Representatives Cockran, Cummings, and Stablnecker of New York all have in their possession bills providing for tho suppression of cigarette manufacture by imposing an internal revenue tax of $lO per 1,000 on all imported or domestic cigarettes sold in this country. Accompanying the memorial is a statement whlcjt says; Clippings taken front papers throughout the United States show that during the last year there have been about one hundred deaths of young men, mostly nnder sixteen years of ago. from the effects of smoking paper-wrapped cigarettes: in some cases there lias betn an analysis of the stomach, and in most instances there have been found acid, phorphorns, and arsenic, which are largely used in the manufacture of cigarette paper. Also the same clip- ings will show that about one hundred men have been consigned to insane asylnms from tho same oanse. The internal revenue tax Is now 20 cents per I.COO on paper-wrapped cigarettes. To accomplish wlmt the different States have been and are attempting to do-prohibiting young people from smoking paper-wrapped cig-arettes-a law should be passed by this Congress making the internal revenue tax 810 per 1,0 0 on all paper-wrapped imi>orted or domestic cigarettes. This would place th mat a price that children could not pay, and go further than any State legislation cau do, and meet with tho approval of every man ami woman in the country. Following the statement are the names and former addresses of over two hundred people of the United States who have during the last year died or grown helplessly insane as the effects of their pernicious habit

R. G. DUN & CO.’S REVIEW OF TRADE. Fair Trade Throughout the Country—Business Failures on tho Decline. R. G. Dun & Ca’s Weekly Trado Review says: Reports from cities indicate a general improvement in trade. At Boston trade Is on the whole satisfactory. Jobbing trado is active et Cincinnati, especially in provisions, and at Cleveland business compares favorably on the whole with that of last year, though reaction and a light demand appear in iron ore. At Chicago the volume of merchandise sales Is greater than a year ago, and diminished receipts appear in cured meats only, a fair increase in lard, cheese, and butter, a third in flour, corn, oats, barley,, and hides, 50 per cent, in wool, while receipts of rye are double last year’s, and wheat and dressed beef four times'last year’s. Trade at Milwaukee Is good, although collections are retarded because farmers hold back their crops. At St. Paul prospects are brighter, and at Minneapolis business has increased, as also at Kansas City, while trade is fair for the season at Omaha and Denver. At St. Louis It is also stronger, and there Is much confidence as to the future, though the depression in the cotton regions is still felt. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 276, as compared with totals of 319 last week; for the corresponding week of last year the figures were 297.

DYING BY THOUSANDS. Horrors of the Russian Famine—Horses Killed for Food. A dispatch from Penza, capital of the Government of that name, in the southwestern part of what is known as Great Russia, says that tho thermometor registers 58 degrees below zero, and that there is terrible suffering among the peasants A number of men have been frozen to death on the high roads, and so intensely cold Is It that birds drop dead from the trees In which they had sought shelter. None of the children of Penza are allowed to go to school. A quantity of grain for the famine sufferers has arrived at Penza, but it Is im-po-sible to distribute it among the peasants in the surrounding country owing to the fact that nearly all the horses have been killed for food or sold to procure money with which to buy the absolute necessaries of life. Five thousand horses have been killed In Penza alone, and it is estimated that several million draft animals have been killed throughout the empire since autumn. Typhus fever, smallpox and diphtheria are decimating the Inhabitants. Around Penza 200 of the peasants have died from these diseases. The dispatch adds that in the Governments of Samara, Saratov un<l NlJni Novgorod, the condition Is far worse than In Penza. TYPHUS FEVER SCARE. Eight More Cases Discovered Among Immigrants at New York. Eight new cases of typhus fever have been discovered in various parts of New York, thus making, with the fifty-seven cases unearthed previously, sixty-five cases In aIL The victims are nearly all Russian and Polish Jews, who recently arrived on the steamship Massilu from Marseilles, and who on landing, although the ship was said to be Infected, found sleeping accommodations In some of the lowest tenement houses on the East Side. All the victims have been removed to North Brother Island, and the places they were taken from carefully fumigated and quarantined. Tho hospital on North Brother Island is filled to its utmost capacity, and the physicians there will erect a large wooden pavilion to accommodate a number of patients.

TURNED A GATLING ON THEM. Guards at a Convict Camp Return the Fire of Drunken Miners. It was learned at Knoxville, Tenn., that on Thursday night, about 10o’clock, a number of drunken men, thought to be miners, fired upon the pickets of the State troops at the Coal Creek convict camp. The Gatling was turned on the men and two of them were crippled. Several houses in Coal Creek were filled with leaden missiles, and the tenants wore badly frightened. Commander Anderson has telegraphed Gen. Carnes at Memphis for more ammunition and arms. Americans Found Dead. A Mexican, Francisco Mariano, In driving i herd of mules dowa from New Mexico Itopped at an old adobe building, near El Paso, to rest and on looking inside the door beheld the dead bodies of two Americans. The bodies were naked and covered with blood. Some believe the murdor to have been done by renegade Indians, who are reported off the Mescallero reservation. Will Invite Hatch. Members of the Chicago Board of Trade are thoroughly alarmed over the anti-op-tion hill, and the directors have decided on a master stroke of policy. An effort Is being made to get Congressman Hatch and some of his backers to spend a day or two In the Chicago wheat pit Whether the Congressman will fall in with the idea or not remains to be seen.

A Sew Rule Concerning: PokeT Deb s. The latest rule on poker was formulated by the Kansas City Court of Appeals, and It will surprise poker players the country over. The court held that if A, B and C sit down for a social game of poker, and A should lose all his money to B, who In turn should be skinned by C. then A can sue C and recover the money which he bet Emphatic Denial. On Secretary Blaine’s attention being called to the story telegraphed frjm Washington that he will shortly retire from the cabinet, he emphatically said: “The story is false There is not a word of truth in it » Guilty of Extortion. The verdict of the jury in the case of James Wyman, Mayor of Allegheny, Pa. charged with extortion, has been handed In. The Mayor is found guilty on two counts. Took a Big Tumble. Wheat tumbled 4 cents in Chicago the other day, caused by the report that Congress was likely to pass the anti-option bill. The market generally was shaken. A Northwestern Farmers’ Elevator The directors of the Northwestern Farmers’ Protective Association met at Grand Forks, N. IX, and Incorporated the North-

western Protective Elevator Compaoy. The purpose of the company Is to erect an elevator at West Superior or Duluth, to be controlled by Dakota men. The Railroad Commissioners and tho Alliance Prosklent, Bhortrldge.have been heretofore working for the same end through different channels. The company has $200,000 capital, continues twenty years, and no stockholder can own more than forty of the 8,003 shares. Officers were elected to serve until the annual meeting in June.

AVAR ON THE NAVAJOS. Fierce Battle Between Cowboys ami Indians In New Mexico. A dispatch from Albuquerque. N. M., says that the Navajo Indians opened fire upon live stock In sight of the cowboys near C'oolidge Station, on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, the other aftermon. Tho cowboys determined to stand the outrages uo longer and. gathering In as large a band as possible, attacked the redskins. The NaVajos greatly outnumbered the cowboys, but the latter were better armed. Four of tho Indians are said to have been killed, und many of the cowboys and ranchmen wounded. The telskins have been stealing cattle by wholesale. One <ommi-sary has lost 15,000 animals The Indians wander all over Western New Mexico In squads of twenty-five to fifty, killing cuttle wherever they fin l them, and leaving the carcasses on the plains The cattlemen are determined not to stand this without res stauce, and have taken aggressive measures. HE BOUGHT THE GOLD URICK. William Hendricks Mourns tile Nephew Who Took Him In on That Game. William Hendricks, a well-to-do farmer residing over the State line from Portland. Ind., has taken the bait In that old-time swindle, the gold brick racket, and In consequence thereof his bank account is short just SSOO and ho Is nursing a chunk of brass. A few days ago a smooth young fellow visited Hendricks and claimed lo be his nephew. Harry Owens, whom he had not seen for fifteen years. The latter told tho old man that he had been with a mining company in Colorado and that he was with Creede when he discovered his mine. He also said that Creede had given him a gold brick for his assistance, which lie claimed was worth $5,000. The yarn had worked Hendricks up, and wlion the brick was offered to hjm for SSOO he snappcl it up. After securing the money and remaining justlong enough to allay suspicion, Owens left.

CRAZED BY THE GOLD CURE. Frank Harthold Brought Home from Marysville a Maniac. Says a Steubenville. Ohio, dispatch: The bichloride of gold cure for inebriates has secured a black eye here since the return of a patient who lived In this city. Three weeks ago Frank Barthold, a p astcror by trade and a son of George Barthold, a wealthy resident of this city, was taken to the bichloride of gold institute at Marysville, Ohio. lie was treated three tirnos daily and was cured of any desire for Intoxicants, but as euch day wore along ho became bereft of reason, and recently was brought home and an application granted for his admission to the Central Insane Asylum at Columbus. Physicians here think that the cure was a failure in that it did not make up for the loss of liquor stimulants, and also because liquor stimulants were taken away from hint too suddenly. CHEER FOR GOVERNOR HOYD. Nebraska Democratic Celebration at tho State Capital. The Nebraska State capital was In possession of the Democrats Monday, delegations from every county being present to congratulate Governor Boyd on Ills resumption of the executive chair. Organizations with flying banners and brass bands paraded. Governor Boyd In his speech said: “lam Governor of Nebraska, put there by the sovereign will of the people, expressed by them through the ballotbox and vindicated from the highest tribnal In our glorious republic. The period of servlco remaining to ffke as an executive is limited, but I hope In the few months remaining to be still able tp do something to vindicate the expressions of your will.” HELD UP A STREET CAR.

A Fresno Driver Robbed and One of His Passengers Shot. In Fresno, Cal., a street car was held up by two men. One man stopped the horses and the other mounted the car, at the same time holding a revolver at the driver's head and demanding hts money. Driver Kerr showed fight, but was overpowerod by the second man and gave up what change he had, about $5. Throe pussengers were In the car, ono of whom, an Armenian, thrust his head out of the window to see what was going on. He had no so ner done so than one of the robbers placed a pistol to his head and fired, causing him to fall back Into the car. The wound Is thought to bo fatal. The robbers made their escape. Hedspelh in Custody. Marion C. Hedspeth, the leader of the gang that robbed the St. Louis and San Francisco train near St. Louis the night of Nov. 30,1891,was arrested at San Francisco. To Shut Out Typhus. The Senate has passed a resolution authorizing iromed'ate joint investigation of the Hebrew typhus-fever stricken immigrants. Died ot Heart Failure. James G. Fair, eldest son of ex-Senator Fair, died suddenly, at San Francisco, from heart failure. Colonel Grant Dead. Lieut. Col. James Augustus Grant, C. 8., C. S. 1., F. It. 8., F. L. S.. LL.D.. the African traveler, died at Nairn. Scotland.