Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — WAHBURN IS VICTOR. [ARTICLE]

WAHBURN IS VICTOR.

THE SENATE PASSES THE ANTIOPTION BILL. President Harrison's Views on the Hawaiian Question —European Paupers Coming Over as Second Cabin Passengers— Fatal Fire at West Newbury. Washburn's Bill Passes. 1 Mr. Washburn’s anti-option bill went through the Senate Tuesday by a vote of 40 to 29. The majority, though seemingly large, was much smaller than Mr. Washhum anticipated and considerably less than the measure would have received had the vote been .taken six weeks ago. The hill now goes to the House, and as the Hatch anti-option bill, already passed by that body, differs In several respec's frem Mr. Washburne’s measure, a conference will be necessary unless the House accepts the latter without change. Mr. Hatch, the author of the House hill, is perfectly willing to accept the Senate bill in order to make sure of the enactment of an anti-option law, but the opponents of both measures will insist upon certain amendments. If they succeed In getting the House to stand by a single one of the provisions of the Hatch hill not Included in the Washburn bill, a conference will be necessary. That would mean inu ‘h delay and the possible defeat of the whole anti-option scheme.

HARRISON SPEAKS OF HAWAII. Says No Foreign Power Shall Forestall the United States. “We cannot allow any other country to take possession of Hawaii, and so long as I am President of the United States we shall not do sa” President Harrison thus replied tj a close personal friend who called on him to discuss the all-absorbing topic of the day. The President has not fully made up his mind on the question of annexation. He has an opinion based on the telegraphic reports, but nations do not act on reports except they he official. He said further: “In settling this Hawaiian question this government has certain duties to discharge. It should discharge those duties without regard to the wishes of Great Britain or of any other power. In short, this government should act as if there were no other power in existence. My opinion is that wo should guarantee to the provisional government a protectorate until we can make a careful examination into the whole affair. If we should find that the natives are qualified, they should be allowed to vote en the question of annexation. I hear, however, that they are not qualified. If that be so, then we should, I think, endeavor to revive the old relations which ended with the dethronement of the Queen, but upon a permanent basis. If that be impractical or unsafe we should favor a permanent protectorate, with the Queen nominally roinstatad, and if that, too, be deemed unsafe, we should, without hesitation, annex the islands At all events we cannot allow any other country to take possession of them, and so long as I am Prosidentof the United States we shall not do so. ”

STRICT WATCH FOR PAUPERS. Officers Boarding Vessels Are Given New Instructions. An order has been posted In the Immigration Bureau at Ellis Island 1o the effect that boarding officers hereafter must exercise extreme care in the examination of second-class passengers on incoming steamships. This order is the outcome of the capture of paupers and contract laborers in the second cabin of the steamship Waesland a few days ago by Chief Gilhuly of the Contract Labor Bureau. Since the first of the year the association continental steamships h#e been carrying no immigrants, and, as a re* suit, the second cablDS are generally well filled. The association, which Includes the Hamburg-American line, the NetherlandsAmerican. the North German Lloyd, and the Red Star, decided to await the action of Congress in regard to Immigration, and in the meantime to cease bringing immigrants to this country. The English steamship companies followed the same course so far as the transportation of Immigrants from continental ports was concerned. This has made the registry of immigrants at Ellis Island very light during the last week and has also had the effect of increasing cabin passage on steamships. £ BURNED IN THEIR BEDS. r Father and Son Believed to Have Perished in a Fire at West Newbury, Mags. K The dwelling bouse of James Addison at West Mras., "was liurced early Tuesday morning. Mr. Addison, aged 40, and his son 'William, aged 16, probably perlsbed In the flames. The house was in settled with only a fetj neighbors near. How’ the fire" originated no one knows, as when first seen by a neighbor the house was all In flames. At Cincinnati the American Book Company’s plant was damaged by fire shortly after midnight to the extent of 870,001. The blaze was confined to the bindery, which occupies the upper floor* of the building, while the lower floors are filled with the finest of machinery used In the manufacture of books. The fire is supposed to have started from au explosion of chemicals In the bindery. Insured.

DAMAGE BY THE ICE GORGE. "Will Probably Go Over »200,000—Ohio Fall of Floating Ice and Snow. A conservative estimate places the damage caused by the Ice breakup at the Pumpkin Patch, near Jeffersonville, Ind., at (200.000, but It Is thought that It will be greater. Captain J. T. Duffy lost thirteen loaded barges and three boats are now sinking. At Cook & Hoffman's twelve loaded barges were lost and the remainder at that landing are badly crippled and sinking. At Howard’s ship yard logs and lines valued at 92,500 are a total loss. The steamer Hotspur was caught In the gorge and abandoned by her crew. Ship Calkers Killed Instantly. At the Chattanooga, Tenn., shipyard a barge fell from the skids supporting it. crushing three men, two of whom—Joseph Smith and Henry Anderson—wore instantly killed. Charles Divine was badly hurt They were at work calking the bottom of the barge. All leave families. Society Radies Are Indicted. A special from Catlettsburg, Ky., says the Grand Jury now in session there found indictments against a number of prominent society ladies of the to»n for playing pedro for prizes. General Donbleday Dead. General Abner Doubleday died Thursday evening at his home In Mendham, N. J. General Donbleday, who was 74 years of age, had been suffering for some time with Bright's disease. He leaves a widow, but no children. General Doubleday was a Lieutenant in the Mexican war. Left to Attend Tamar's Funeral. Chief Justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Asspclate Justices Blatcbford, Brewer and Brown, and Marshal Wright, Clerk McKinney and other attaches of the court went from Washington to Macon, Ga., to attend the

REFUSED TO DISGORGE. Nervy Young Man Holds the Fort Against Masked Bank Robbers, Late Friday afternoon an excising scene was enacted in the office of the Home Savings and , Loan Society of Toronto, Out. Four masked men entered the office near closing time One covered the teller, who had 87,600 oh his desk, with a revolver and demanded the money, while the other three attempted to terrorize the clerks. The teUer, Mr. Wallace, who Is a powerful young man, absolutely refused to surrender the wealth, and the robber climbed on the top of the teller’s cage,, but could not force the bars. He then got behind the cage and to foecs the door, but failed, as Wallace held his . back against It. Meanwhile the other three men attempted to climb over the counter, but were foiled by the determined resistance of the clerks, though one of the latter wa9 seriously wounded by k blqw on the head from the butt end of a revolver. At length one of the clerks managed to get to the telephone room and rang for the police, on hearing which the"korglars made their escape.

big Steal on the santa fe. Conductors, Brakemen, and Agents Arrested for Many Extensive Robberies. At Raton, N. M., a gigantic system of robbery which has been carried on on the New Mexico division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for the pas. six months was brought to light Friday night, and the Implicated employes are being arrested by the wholesale. Engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen, and even agents are placed under arrest as fast as they can be found, many of them being taken from their trains and put in jail For many months the company has been missing large quantities of silks.velvets, cigars, tobacco, clothing, underwear, and almost every class of the most valuable merchandise, and the secret service department has been quietly at work accumulating evidence slncprthe beginning, and has succeeded Ip Setfcl r ki£'BVidi»nee that will convict at least twenty-five or thirty employes in all branches of the train service.

REVOLT IN HAWAII. Provisional Government Will Ask for Annexation to the United States. The Queen of the Sandwich Islands has been deposed, a provisional government formed, and Saturday morning a deputation arrived from there at San Francisco, en route to Washington, to negotiate with the United States for annexation. Ono United States war vessel was in Honolulu harbor when tho revolt took place, and landed 300 marines, taking such measures as were necessary lo protect American residents and prevent serious outbreak. Immediately upon receipt of the news at the State Department, two more United States war vessels were ordered to the scene, and the general impression, induced by utterances at Washington, is that the Hawaiian kingdom will soon be a part of the United States.

ROUVIER IN THE TOILS. True Bill of Accusation Found Against the Ex-Minister. Magistrate Franquevuille, of Paris, found a true hill of accusation against Deputy and ex-Minister of Finance Kouvler, Senator Albert Grevy, brother of the late President of the Republic: Senator Beral, Senator Dives, Senator Leon Renault and Deputies Fanconnia and Proust on charges of corruption in connection with the Panama Canal Company. Ho absolves from accusation Deputy and ex-Mlnister Jules Roche and Senator Theveuet and Deputy Emanuel Arene on tho ground that there Is no evidence warranting their prosecution. The proceedings against the above officials originated through the discovery of the so-called Thierre checks, which were supposed to have been burned. Money Easier, Future Uncertain. R. G. Dun Si Ca’a weekly review of trade says: There has been some increase in, the distribution of products during the last week, and the demand for manufactured goods is distinctly larger, so that business has perceptibly Improved at many points. Yet the outgo of gold, expected to exceed 83.000,000 this week, reduces treasury reserves, causes Increased nervousness about the future, and renders men more reluctant to engage in new undertakings. The liquidation of some great speculations has set free large amounts, so that money everywhere Is comparatively eapy and cheap, but nevertheless there is more sense of uncertainty about the future than appeared a month ago,

Burned lu the Car. The startling statement is made at Indianapolis by a railroad official, who claims to have the best authority for the story, that seven persons, including passengers and train crew, were burned to death In the case car on the Big Four Road at Alton Junction. The railroad official says that the seven deaths were caused by the original wreck and not from the subsequent explosion of gasoline, Excursionists in a Wreck. The Northwestern lumber dealers, who have been having a business and pleasure meeting in Chicago, were in a wreck at Kent, 111., in which many were seriously hurt, and oue probably fatally injured. Burglars Foiled by Locks. Wheo tho janitor of the Bank of Ottawa, at,Ottawa, Kan., opened the doors Thursday he found the outer safe blown open, but the luuer vault intact Dropped Dead in a Depot. A TO-year-old man dropped dead in the Union Depot at Terre Haute, Ind., Thursday. He is supposed to be I*. O. Saylor, of Tennessee.