Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — SCORES ARE DROWNED. [ARTICLE]

SCORES ARE DROWNED.

LOSS OF THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP BOKHARA. Michigan's Electoral Vote Will Be Divided -lows Cattle Snfltertng from a Strange and Fatal Disease—Race War in a Mining Town. ! Death of a Valuable Stallion. The valuable stallion Alamont Star, the property of Fred Elms, of Washington County, New York, died. Alamont Star was foaled in 1891, by Alamont, dam Blanche Star, He was bred by W. T. Withers, of Lexington. Ky., of whom he was bought by E. D. Vaughn, of Washington County. He was sold to Mr. Elms last spring for (3.800. although Mr. Vaughn was at one time offered 810.000 for him. Alamont Star was the sire of many fast horses. BATTLE TO THE DEATH. Italians and Hungarians Engage In a Conflict of Extermination. The little mining town of Milnesvllle, Ba., was. Sunday, the scene of a race war, and as a result one man lies dead, three fatally injured, and there are thought to be about twenty seriously wounded. Milnesvllle is situated on the mountain to the north of Hazleton and Is surrounded by numerous mining patches, mostly populated by Hungarians and Italians. For years trouble has existed between these two factions. Numerous fights have taken place from time to time and a number of deaths resulted, but never before did they rise in a body to face each other. Sunday the mines were idle and the men were all at home or lounging about the woods. To enjoy this rest they usually provide themselves with beer and whisky. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon while a party of Hungarians were chatting among themselves they were approached by several Italians. All were feeling hilarious and exchanged greetings with the Hungarians. A short discussion ensued, when It is alleged one of the Italians stabbed a Hungarian. This was the signal for hostilities to begin, and Immediately there followed a short but furious battle.

MINER LAW IS UPHELD. Pronounced Valid by the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the so-called Miner law. The court decided that the act dividing the Wolverine State intj districts for the election of Presidential electors Is not obnoxious to the provisions of the Constitution conferring upon the State Legislature the power to fix the manner of choosing electors. nor of the fourteenth amendment, and the judgment of the Michigan Supreme Court upholding the law Is affirmed. The act is held to be invalid, however, in one unimportant detail—so far as it conflicts with the act of Congress of 1887 relating to the time of meeting of the electors. The opinion was rendered by Chief Justice Fuller. The Miner law provides for the election of Presidential electors by Congressional districts Instead of by the State at large. Instead of securing fourteen electors from Michigan, as they naturally expected, the Republicans will, as a result, get only ten. and possibly not more than nine votes. The Democrats are certain of four, and they claim they will get five of them. The decision is one of the most Important delivered by the Supreme Court BUT TWENTY-THREE SAVED. Bears Regarding the Fate of the Steamship Bokhara Confirmed. Intelligence has been received confirming the worst feats entertained regarding the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamer Bokhara, reported as being several days overdue at Hong Kong from Shanghai. The Bokhara sailed from Shanghai for Hong Kong, and should bare arrived seme time ago. It was known that a typhoon had swept over the China Sea, and the agents of the steamer thought £t>at her machinery had become disabled In the gale and that she was proceeding under salt The steamer Bombay and the British cruiser Porpoise wore sent to search ‘■for ter, and news has been received that the Bokhara was fcunl a total wrack on Sand Island, eno of the Phong- Hoc or Pescadores group, lying In the channel of FoKlen. between the Island of Formosa and the Chinese mainland. Only twenty-three persons on board were saved, the lost including the commander of the steamer and the greater part of her officers and crew. The number of passengers she had on board Is not yet known. Fho carried the mails, and these, without doubt, are lost.

OMASA'S PROGRESS IN TEN YEARS. The City Shows a Marked Advance in Bosiness and Population. The Census Bureau Issued preliminary reports on the manufacturing Industries of Omaha, Neb. The average wages for each worker Increased from 9431 in 1880 to $646 In 1890, or 40.88 per cent In 1800 the number of industries reported was seventy-seven and establishments 626, With a capital of $15,625,000; 7,707 workers were employed, receiving 84,707,000 In wages- The cost of materials need was 827,779,000. The products reached 835,961,000 tn value. Population, 140,455, an Increase of 109,934 during the last decade. The assessed valuation was $19,#89,000, and the municipal debt $1,816,000. QUEER DISEASE AMONG HERDS. Cattle in lowa Aet Queerly and They Die in a Short Time. News has been received in Council Bluffs, la., that there are large herds of cattle in Garner township afflicted with some strange, unknown disease, which is taking them off quite rapidly. The cattle appeared to be mad, frothed at the mouth, pawed the earth and dashed at persons who came near them. A number have died. Sheriff Hazen sent an officer to Garner township and several of the animals were killed. A telegram was sent to the State veterinary surgeon, and he is expected to make an examination. Horae Thieves Lynched. Outlaws who had stolen several hundred horses In Upper Idaho had a battle with a pursuing posse the other day. Three of the thieves were wounded and many horses were shot. Then the posse set tho prairie afire. Six others of the gang were shotdown while trying toescape. Enloe Used His Fist. Congressman Enloe knocked down John McDowell, candidate for United States Senator, at a meeting In Paris, Tenn., and a duel may grow out of the fracas, which arose out of the lie being passed in a joint debate. Want Judge Scott Removed. ’ A. committee of Burt County, Neb., lawyers ask the removal of Judge Scott from the bench of the judicial district on the ground of insanity. The trouble between Mm and the members of the bar at Tekamah, the county seat, culminated when the Jadge fined*a lawyer for contempt A wasplaint of insanity was filed, and warIkMiMoed for Scott’s apprehension. Jadge Botkin Resigns. Jadge Tboodius Botkin, who was promfa the recent ctrnnty seat war fa MeWMe OMUty. Kansas, has resigned.

CORN AND POTATO CROPS. The Farmers’ Review Reports Their Condition Generally Poor. The corn crop is in poor shape quite generally throughout the eleven States covered by our report, says the Farmers' Review for this weelf. In Illinois more than one-half of the correspondents report that the crop will, in their counties, fall below three-fourths of an average; the rest report from three-fourths to an average In Indiana and Michigan the condition is about the sama In Ohio half of the correspondents say that the crop will be a full average, while most of the others report two-thirds or three-fourths crop. Tn Kentucky half report a full average, while most of the others report above threefourths. In Missouri, lowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota the outlook is good for nearly a full crop In Kansas the condition is decidedly poor, and will fall a good deal below a three-fourths crop. The general condition in Nebraska is fair, and in Dakota the crop will bo nearl/ an average one. The potato crops, early and late, taken together, are very poor. In not one county in five of the States mentioned will there be an average crop In Illinois 90 percent of the correspondents report that the crop is very poor, in many cases almost a complete failure. A nearly similar state Of affairs exists in Indiana, Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska. lowa, and Wisconsin. In Ohio and Michigan the crops are slightly better, about two-thirds of the counties reporting from a three-fourtbs to a full crop Kentucky reports a full average prop In at out half of the countie l In Minnesota about one-third of the counties will yield an average crop, but in most of the others It is decidedly poor. More than half of the correspondents in Dakota report a full crop NIGHT EXPRESS HELD CP.

Two Masked Robbers Loot the Express Car Near Caney, Kan. The night express on the Denver branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway was held up and the express car robbed between Caney and Tyro, Kan., at midnight by two masked men. When the train stopped at Caney at 11 o’clock one of the robbers secreted himself on the forward platform of the combination express and baggage car. Shortly after leaving Caney the robber climbed over the tender, and, presenting a heavy revolver, ordered the engineer to stop the train. The engineer brought the train to a standstill, and the robber cut the combination car from the train and compelled the engineer to draw the car to a deep cut about half a mile farther east. Here the other robber made his appearance and both began firing their revolvers. The express messenger was ordered to open the door of the car and after several shots were fired through the panels he complied. One of the robbers entered the car while the other remained on guard outside. The messenger opened the safe, and the robber, hastily grabbing the packages and envelopes which it contained, placed them in a small sack and jumped from the car. They then ordered the engineer to back the car to where the train was left standing, and after firing a few more shots as a warning, disappeared in the darkness. Both robbers wore heavy black masks and their clothing was spattered with mud. indicating that they were mounted and bad rlddea hard.

MUST READ TO BE CITIZENS. A New York Judge Refuses to Naturalize Illiterate Applicants. Justice Stover, bolding the Circuit Court in Ballston, N. Y., refuses naturalization to aliens who cannot read aad write the English language, and has rejected six applicants. One of the applicants, a native Of County Kent, England, is more than 66 years of age, and has been a resident of this country twenty-five years. In denying the application of John Crlres for naturalization, the sixth deuied this term. Justice Stover said: “It’s no use to make such applications I will not admit to citizenship in courts at which I preside applicants who cannot read and write the English language Every citizen should be able to read and write. An alien asking naturalization must have these qualifications before I will grant to him a certificate of citizenship. He should be able to read the Constitution of the United States before he is asked or allowed to take the oath of citizenship, and I Intend to adhere to this rule, whether, as In this case, the applicant speaks the English language as his mother tongue or whether he is a subject of one of the continental nations, ignorant of our language, our customs or our Constitution and our laws’*

QUADRUPLE LYNCHING. Negro Fiends Are Hanged and Burned One Roasted Alive. Alabama reports the quadruple lynching, shooting and burning of four negroes who had confessed to the crime of murdering Blchard L. Johnston and his daughter. Miss Jeannette, after having assaulted the latter at their country home, near Davis Ferry, In Monroe County, on the Alabama Biver. A gentleman from Monroeville, the county seat, says that ever since the commission of the crime the people, both white and black, in that section, have not left a stone unturned to ferret out the perpetrators of the murders. Ten negroes were arrested and closely examined. The rage of the people was so Intense that those of the ten who were innocent, fearing lest their lives should be lost, began to talk. This resulted in a confession of four, Mose Johnson, Jim and John Packer, and Burrell Johnston. 7 hey were all boys between 18 and 23 and lived near the home of their victims.

RUMORED TRAIN ROBBERY. It Is Said to Have Taken Place Near Coffeyville, Kan. A dispatch from Wichita to the Pacific Express Company officials at Kansas City says that train 482 was held up between Tyro and Caney. Kan., Wednesday night No details as to the robbery are given, nor is the name of the road, which is probably the Missouri Pacific. Caney is the next station to Coffeyville, the scene of the recent battle in which the Dalton gang was partially exterminated. William and Ben Dalton and many of their sympathizers are known to be in the neighborhood, however. Estimated at *4,000,000. The committee of one hundred on the New York Columbus celebration have, as was to have been expected, exceeded the appropriations made by the city and State of $50,000 and $10,900 respectively, butthey have now on hand almost enough money to cover the expenses of the celebration to the city without counting the money coining from tne sale of programmes and of seats in the stands. The city expended in the celebration not less than $4,000,000. Gas Explodes In a Mine. Shamokin. Pa., dispatch: An explosion of gas at the Sterling mine probably killed nine men and Injured a number of others. Those dead and supposed to be dead are; Samuel Collins, Isaac Doney, Joe Ketchie, Joseph Mllnstock. Thomas O'Gara, Benjamin Thomas. Mike Wetcheck. The Injured are: Wm. Mack, Horace Price. Samuel Rogers, and Daniel Seed, who will likely die. To Blow Up the Czar. The Paris Dix-Neevfame Siecle alleges that an attempt has been made to assassinate the Czar by blowing up his train with a dynamite bomb, and that five people were killed and fourteen injured by the explosion. Gone Bask to the Pulpit. Bev. J. W. Arney, the Michigan parson who has won $5,000 fa racing premiums this season, has sold the laet horse fa his string of t rotten except a 2:20 roadster and baa *om back topfaaohlng. A cfauoh lame

of Minneapolis* suburbs has given him a call and he is now there candidatlng. The ■alary is SI,OOO, but the racing parson says be believes he likes the pulpit better than the sulky. The Michigan Methodist conference did not assign him work, not being able to reconcile his horse proclivities with the rituaL It Is said he will drive in no more meets.

WILL BE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. Next Place of Meeting of the Congregation allSts. The Congregatlonallst council at Minneapolis relieved the soberer parts of its work by allowing the advocates of the different cities who wanted the next meeting to speak in favor of their respective cities The matter came up on the report of the committee on place and time of next meeting, which was in favor of the next meeting being held on the Pacific coast, either at fan Francisco or Tacoma. Dr. Brown, of San Francisco, took occasion ta say that the city of San Francisco had long waited for the z holding of this or some other body of tbe church, and he hoped now that the council would decide on his city. They had done well to come to this Eastern city of Minneapolis, falsely called a West-, ern city. It was 500 miles east of the center of the country. Die. Hallock, of Tacoma, made a speech In favor of his city, which, he said, would give SIO,OOO to entertain the council Grand Rapids, Mich., was represented by Rev. James E. Smith, but the council voted by a large majority to meet on the Pacific coast ata point to be decided upon by the Provisional Committee after further consideration. FIVE LIVES WERE LOST. All the Bodies Recovered at the Sterling Run Colliery. Late dispatches say the number of men killed and Injured by the explosion of gas at the Philadelphia and Reading Company's Sterling Run colliery at Shamokin Is now known to be eleven. Of these five are dead and the remaining six so badly burned and mutilated that small hopes for their recovery are entertained. When the explosion occurred it was accompanied by a very heavy fall of coal, rock and debris, which entombed five of the miners. A rescuing band was at once organized; but owing to the unsafe condition of that part of the mine In which the explosion occurred and the presence of black damp, their progress was necessarily slow. Relief parties were formed and early In the morning the last body was reached and brought to the surface. Many narrow escapes were made by miners working in parts of the mine near where the explosion occurred, but all the men are now out.

SEVENTEEN MEN KILLED. Chins, Concealed In Ambush, Firs on a Party of Native Officers. A special dispatch from Calcutta says that trouble has again broken out with the Chins in the Northern Chin hills. A body of Chins ameushed themselves at a point six miles from Fort White and fired upon the escort of a number of native officers, killing seventeen of them. A small force under command of Capt. Caulfield was sent to search for the bodies for the purpose of burying them. This force found that the Chins had deserted their village and were lying In ambush only two miles from Fort White. The knowledge prevented another massacre. The British force advanced cautiously with a skirmish line and succeeded in routing the Chins from their biding place. They made a stand further on. and a skirmish was In progress at the time of sending this dispatch. Reinforcements for the British have been dispatched from Mandalay. Big Strike Threatened. It Is expected that within the next few days a biz strike of switchmen will be Inaugurated at the Big Four yards at St. Louis. The officials of the road are aware that trouble Is brewing and have taken the necessary steps to prevent a strike, but so far their efforts to conciliate the men have teen of no avail The men will demand higher wages and shorter hours. The lodges of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Society at numerous points along the Big Four system have held meetings during tho last few days, and. It Is said, hage decided to Inaugurate a general strike If the company refuses to concede their demands

Life Lost fa the Storm. Between Colorado Springs and the Kansas line, near Falcon, the track-walker was frozen to death. Near Mattison a flock of 300 sheep were found dead, and the dead body of the herder was a hundred yards away. Engineer Leeman, running a snow plow, was seriously Injured by a piece of the plow crashing through the cab, striking him la the breast It Is reported that 300 head of cattle were frozen to death between Colorado Springs and Lindon. The Bock Island had two snow plows, one of them a rotary, disabled In the storm. Inauguration in Argentine. Dispatches from Buenos Ayres say that Senor Luis Saenz-Pena took the oath of bffice as President of the Republic. Everything was quiet fa the city, despite the fears of trouble. Police and soldiers were on guard about the halls of Congress, and the whole city was well guarded and preparations were taken to prevent any rioting. President Pena announces that the rights of local self-government In the provinces will not be Interfered with except in cases where grave troubles arise. Collision in a Fog. Near Anibcrtsburg, Ont, in a dense fog an unknown schooner collided with and sunk the steambarge Richard Martini at Bar Point. The Martini was bound up light. The crew were uninjured.