Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — IN BEHALF OF CHINESE. [ARTICLE]

IN BEHALF OF CHINESE.

Federal Authorities Informed of Violence Planned. As soon os Secretary of State Gresham returned to Washington he gave his attention to Important and somewhat startling reports from California. These reports were to the effect that an anti-Chinese outbreak was imminent in San Francisoo and through the Pacific country when the Chinese exclusion act takes effect, within the next few days. The information which came to Secretary Gresham was quite specific and wholly reliable, and it indicated danger of violence to the Chinese population, particularly through California. Within an hour after Judge Gresham left the Presidential train bringing him back from Chicago he was framing telegrams to Governors of the far Western States, appealing to them to maintain order and protect the Chinese against assault One of these telegrams was to Gov. Morrow at Sacramento, Cal. It wa9 quite Jengthy, and informed the Governor that the State Department hod reliable reports indicating danger of violence to the Chinese population wnen the Geary exclusion act takes effect Judge Gresham added that President Cleveland earnestly hoped that the Governor would employ all lawful means for the protection of the Chinese in California.

Hrleflet*. 0. E. Mink is the new Vice President of the Union Pacific. A. E. Orr is Chairman of the board of Directors. Tin mines, supposed to have been worked by the Aztecs, have been rediscovered in Mexico by an American prospector. A bock fell from an overhanging bank at Kansas City, crashing through the house of Rachel Lightfoot, and killing her as she lay in bed. Henry Villard is about to send an expedition (o South America at his own expense. What Villard means to do with the results is not known. The British budget has been submitted to Parliament. It estimates the expenditures for the ernrent fiscal year at £91,464,000 and the revenues at $89,830,000, leaving a deficit of £1,674,000, Mrs. Margaret Goodwin, of Indianapolis, at whose home have oocurred five cases of a disease resembling A6iatio cholera, is dead. Her husband and three children are still violently ill. The well water at the house has been analyzed and found to contain organio poison and animalculee. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has given his chateau and estates at Reichenau in the Styrian Alps to be used as a hospital for sufferers from lung diseases. He will make the necessary alterations in the chateau and place in it 500 beds for the use of patients. The value of the property in question is 5,000,000 florins.