Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — STEVENS IS REMOVED. [ARTICLE]

STEVENS IS REMOVED.

BLOUNT IS MADE MINISTER TO HAWAII. Five Lives Lost at the Burning of an Indian Village—A World's Fair Swindler Caught Early I —Curtailment of the Soft Snap of Naval Officers. Stevens to Return, Blount to Stay. Officials of the State Department confirm the report* that ex-Representative Blount Is appointed Minister Resident to the Hawaiian Islands. It has been supposed that Minister Stevens would remain In charge of the legation until the 24tb of this month, at which time he has announced bis Intention of sailing for San Francisco. It Is now known that Mr. Stevens has been instructed to forthwith turn over the legation to Commissioner Blount, who has been appointed his successor. There is reason to believe that Mr. Stevens was not allowed to remain In charge of the legation until the 24th Inst because of his activity In behalf of annexation. It Is further Btated at the department that Messrs. Bowen and Sewall. who went to Honolulu shortly after Commissioner Blount’s arrival, have been active In their efforts to stimulate sentiment on the Islands in favor of annexation, and are thought to have created the impression that In so doing they were representing the President, Secretary Gresham has informed Mr. Blount that the President repudiates everything said and done by tbeso gentlemen. MUST SERVE UNCLE SAM. Naval Officers Will Not Be Allowed to Enter Emplov of Private Concerns. Secretary Herbert has determined that he will not grant any leaves of absence to naval officers to engage in private enterprises or accept employment outside of the navy. This rule applies to explorers like Lieutenant Peary as well as to officers who are employed by manufacturing firms. Existing leaves of this kind will not he Interfered with or curtailed, but they will not be extended under any circumstances. One naval officer on leave Is drawing 86,000 per annum salary from the Cramps. Commander Folger is in the employ of the Harvey Nickel-I’late Company at a large salary. Secretary Herbert says that some of these officers are using their talents and the education and experience they acquired at government expense In direct competition with the interests of the government and that the practice must be stopped. The Secretary of War is considering the propriety of making a similar rule as to army officers.

IKON AND STEEL REPORT. Last Year YVas Not Prosperous, and a Gloomy View of the Future Taken. The statistical report of the American Iron and Steel Association for 1892 has just been Issued. Reviewing the domestic Iron trade, for 1892, the report says that prices utterly failed to respond to the very great demand for consumption. and it can not, therefore, be truly said that our iron and steel Industries were prosperous in 1892. It was a year of good profits for very few iron and steel manufacturers, of small profits for many, and of no profits at all for a large number. Seeking for the cause of the depression the opinion Is advanced that while other influences have had their part, the principal cause Is to be found In our capacity to produce much more iron and steel than the country could consume, notwithstanding the enormous consumption the last few years. A somewhat gloomy view of the future is taken. LOCHREN BEGINS HIS LABORS. New Commissioner of Pensions Has Not Vet Outlined a Policy. The new Commissioner of Pensions, Judge William Lochren, of Minnesota, has arrived in Washington and entered for the first time Tuesday morning the big building over which he is to proside during the next four years. “I have not been in a position to give* any time to the consideration of pension matters or any Government affairs except In the most cursory way, owing to the exacting nature of my judicial duties,” 6aid Judge Lochren. “Consequently I have outlined no policy and formulated no theories. All I have to do Is to carry out existing lawa”

Murderers to Be Shot. Nearly a year ago au Englishman named AlcKellar was shot down from ambush and killed near Saltillo, Mexico. The murder attracted attention throughout Mexico and England owing to the woalth and prominence of the victim. Adolfo Villareal, a wealthy Mexican,whose ranch adjoined McKellar’s, and his servant, Dionzlo Galan, were arrested on suspicion, convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. The Supreme Court has just revised the sentence and sentenced both murderers to be shot. Entire family Burned to Death. The village of North Galveston. Ind., was almost totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning. The residence of J. J. Jackson, among others, wss consumed, and the entire family, consisting of himself, wife, two sons and a daughter, perished in the flames. Several other persons were badly burned. The loss is estimated at 973,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Catlin as a Scalper. A conspiracy to defraud the World’s Columbian Exposition was unearthed at Jackson Park. The chief mover in the enterprise confessed his guilt and is now locked up. His name is J. M. Catlin, a member of the Columbian guard. Hi; plan was to share with a ticket taker in the sales of tickets which the latter was to hold out; but the BCheme was given away.

To Protect the Boys. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting the selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of cigarettes and cigarette papers to minors. Business Men Blackmailed. The St Louis Republic charges that the Vaster 6team and Hot Water Filters’ Association of the United States is a conspiracy, formed for the purpose of depriving the consumer of tbe benefit of competition and incidentally of blackmailing and browbeating all firms in business who refuse to enter the trust Killed by a Surprise Party. Mrs. Nicholas Hamer, of Burlington, la, on catching sight of a crowd of neighbors who had entered her house to give her husband a birthday surpr sc, fell to the floor dead from heart disease. Narrowly Escaped a Lynching. George Spencer, a Knoxville (Tenn.) painter over fifty years of age, committed an "assault on 4 9-year-old girl He was arrested and identified The jail was soon' surrounded toy 'a mob of 500 men determined to lynch Mb. but seventy-five deputies armed with. Winchesters defeated the plan. Drowned by the Swamping of Their Boat. .Captain Irving, well known ail the eastern provinces in connection with tbe ice boat service between Prince Edward J«l»sd r and tbe main land, and three others were drowned at Bell’s Point, Cape Traverse, by the swamping of their

CREEPING VINES LINED HIS STOMACH Lemon Tree Takes Growth In the Interior or a Negro. John Herry Leake, a stalwart negro living near Trimble. Teun., a week or two since ate a lemon and swallowed one of the seeds, which. It seems, lodged In his stomach, and, attracting to it a certain portion of the food subsequently eaten, was soon surrounded by a clot or mass of matter, which gradually grew larger. After a short time Leake began to suffer with acute pains in the region of the stomach, and applied to a physician. The pains increased and it soon became a matter of impossibility for the sufferer to retain any food except such as was administered in a liquid form and the doctor began to suspect that the cause of the trouble lay beyond the ordinary phases of Indigestion and declared an operation necessary. It was with a groat deal of difficulty that Leake was prevailed on to submit to this, but ho finally consented. The surgeons thoroughly explored the alidomeo :and Intestines, but without finding any disturbing object, though it was observed that the stomach was distended to nearly twice is normal size Leake finally died in great agony, with repeated efforts to vomit, which continued until death ensued. A post-mortem examination revealed the fact that the seed had sprouted from the mass surrounding it, and. putting out shoots, had actua lly attacked the wall of the stomach as a creeping plant does a wall, and so caused the man’s death.

RESERVOIR GOES OUT. The Huge Artificial Lake at Lewiston, 0., Cuts Through the I>ain. The break In the Lewiston reservoir. In Logan County, Ohio, which bad been expected for several days, came between 3 and 4 o’clock Wednesday morning. Much anxiety had been felt throughout the Miami Valley, and when a courier dashed through the country announcing the break and the news was spread by telegraph to all the cities and towns threatened, the people were aroused and hundreds fled at once to the elevations, fearing that a mighty torrent of water was on its way down the broad valley to sweep everything before it The great rush, however, did not come, and by dark the general alarm bad considerably subsided. The Lewiston reservoir Is a Miami canal feeder, and is a famous fishing resort It belongs to the State and contains 17,000 acres. The break is not complete, but is growing. Thousands of acres of farm lands have been submerged, and it Is yet possible that the whole basin will be emptied. If this happens, the loss of life will be great and damage to property will reach millions.

BABY HARRISON RECOVERS. Electricity Successfully Used In the Treatment of Paralysis. Mart hen a Harrison, the 5-year-old daughter of Russell B. Harrison, who has been under treatment for nervous prostration and paralysis, lias almost entirely reccskered and is now able to play with her companions. The child, with Its mother as nurse, was quarantined .for five weeks In the White House while suffering from a severe attack of scarlet fever. When that disease was conquered Martliena’s right arm, side and log were paralyzed. The paralysis affected her ;speoch so that she could not talk plainly, und her case seemed hopeless A few days before the Inauguration of President Cloveland they concluded to go to New Y’ork and jplace tho child under electrical treatment I Mrs Harrison, with Martnena in her lap, sat in an insulated chair while the electricity was being administered. The presence of the mother gave the child confidence to undergo the ordeal, so that she was not frightened even when the big sparks leaped from tho conductor to her arm. The doctors say tho treatment Is practically the spraying of electricity upon tho parts of tho body affected.

PENNOYER IS PEPPERY. An Exceedingly Short Reply to Secretary Gresham's Note. Tho following telegraphic correspondence Wednesday passed between Secretary of State Gresham and Gov. I’ennoyor: „ „ Washington, D. 0. Gov. Sylvester Pennoyer, Salem, Ore.: Apparently reliable reports Indicate danger of violence to Chinese when exclusion act takes effect, and the President earnestly hopes you employ all lawful means for their protection in Oregon. W. Q. Gresham. Gov. Pennoyer immediately sent the following reply: _ „ „ Salem, Ore. To W. Q. Gresham, Washington, D. C.: 1 will attend to my business; let the President attend to his. SYLVEfiTEB Pennoyer, Governor. Gov. Pennoyer, speaking of the correspondence, said; The Gresham telegram is an insult to Oregon. I will enforce the laws of the State and the President should enforce the laws of Conpress. It comes with poor grace for the President to ask me to enforce State law while he. without warrant, suspends the exclusion law.

NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. Senator McPherson Says the Financial Condition of the Country Is All Right. Senator McPherson, of New Jersey, who was in Washington for a few days prior to his departure for the summer, being a member of the Finance Committee, has watched the financial situation closely. “I do not believe.” said he, “that there is anything in the money situation that will necessitate the President calling an extra session of Congress earlier than ho Intended, probably Sept. 15. The financial condition of the country is all right if the people will only let it alone; . The Secretary of the Treasury has the confidence of the public and it is believed that he will be able to meot any contingency that may arise,"

Excited by Oil Finds. While drilling for water on the Shennati farm, at Nelson Ledges, Portage County, Ohio, the drillers struck sand at a depth of 200 feet bearing the finest grade of lubricating oil. The discovery has greatly excited the people of that vicinity, and land that would not bring ?50 an acre ten days ago cannot be had at any price now. Thorough tests of the oil show it to he of the same grade and quality as tho famous Mecca oiL The Mecca oilfield is only fifteen miles from Nelson Ledges, and, as that oil has sold as high as SSO a barrel, and the farms in that celebrated field have brought from $200,000 to $400,000 each, it is little wonder that tbe people of Nelson are greatly wrought up over the discovery. Oil men from Toledo and Cleveland have examined the valley between tbe two ledges and expressed tbe opinion that a vast reservoir of oil underlies It, as the formation is tbe same as at Mecca. Oil men from Pennsylvania and Weitern Ohio are making big offers for leases, but farmers will not negotiate until farther developments are made on the SbenDan farm. Cuban Troops Inadequate. A Madrid cable from the Governor of Cuba Is published, iu which he confesses that his forces are Inadequate to quell tbe uprislug. Instead of the 12,000 troops be was supposed to have he has less than 8,000, which, even under normal conditions, cannot be considered strong enough, tho cavalry, which are most required, being especially weak. He adds that several irisHtgemtsliave yielded, and repeats that the rebellion is not spreading, but is confined to the country around Holquin, 300 miles from Havana. The towns of Holquin and Santiago de Cuba remain loyal Scalded to Death. One of the worst river catastrophes which have occurred for years took place on the Mississippi River at the head of Wolf Island, twenty-four mbe9 below Cairo and four miles below Columbus. Ky., at 7:45 o’clock Sunday morning. A flue in

tbe larbo&nt boiler of the steamer Ohio, a Cincinnati and Memphis packet; caused the rear end of the boiler to be blown out, and filled the entire deck cabin with steam and water. Nearly all of the deck hands and deck passengers were sitting about eating breakfast, when the accident occurred, and several of them wero almost literally cooked alive, Seven were killed outright WILL TELL OF 'MB MURDERS. Startling Charges In a Texa9 Convict’s Application for Pardon. An application for pardon has been made to Gov. Hogg, of Texas, by Charles Luttrell. sentenced to hang for murder. Luttrell made a startling statement In regard to the terrible butchery of women at Deulsou last spring, that will probably secure him a pardon or Commutation of sentence to life Imprisonment It is alleged that Luttrcll confessed that since 1878 James Brown, John Carlisle aiid "friends had killed 24S men In order to destroy testimony against them in murder cases. In 1878 dames Browr killed a stableman. John Carlisle was induced to kill another man named Sparks, and Tom Shannon, their latest victim, was an eye witness to both murders. There were many other eye witnesses, and Brown and Carlisle, being wealthy, started In to kill witnesses against them, and Luttreli’s confession is but a glimpse of the awful reality of the unparalleled series of crimes that cost 248 men their lives and the perpetrators millions of dollars. It will be remembered that Captain .Tames Brown shot and killed two police officers a,t Garfield Park, in Chicago, about a year ago, and was himself killed. TEN KILLED IN A YVREK. Defective Air Brakes the Cause of the Disaster. The south-bound passenger train on the C., CL, C. & St L. Railway, a fast vestibule train, was wrecked Sunday morning just as it entered the sheds at the Union station at Lafayette, Ind, the accident endiug ten lives and injuring as many more people. People at the depot were appalled at the terrific speed at which the tbain dashed across the bridge over the Wabash River. The headlight of the engine glared at them for an Instant as it came Into view around a short curve at the east end of the bridge. Then there was an immense cloud of dust, the rumble and roar of a swiftly moving irain, a terrible crash, and iben the cries for help of the injured and dying. The track from the depot west is up grade, and a sharp curve reaches from the depot to the bridge The down grade begins a mile or more west of the city, and the air brakes are applied as soon as tho grade Is reachod. so as to slow up for the bridge and the curvo at the station. The doomed train could be heard as soon as It reached the grade The air brakes had refused to work.

OUTBREAK OF RAIUES FEARED. Mad Dog in a Missouri Community Rites Children and Cattle. Near Ivahoka, Mo., Joseph Britton’s three children were returning from school a few evenings ago when they met a dog that was suffering from rabies. The animal attacked the children, all girls, ranging from 14 years to 10 or 11 In age, and bit them terribly In several places. The dog was foaming at the mouth and, after biting the children, ran through a lot of farm stock, biting a number of the animals, which have since died in the most terrible agony. Mr. Britton at once sent for a man namod Merchant, living at Mnnticcllo, Mo., who claims to have a secret remedy for the bite of a mad dog. This lie applied to tho wounds of -the children, and they seemed to get along very well, but the eldest girl, whlls returning from school a day or two later, In crossing a little stream, was thrown into tho most violent convulsions, atwlkUed in a short time In horrible agony. F'AIR EMPLOYES TO GO. Plans Now Permit and Finances Demand Discharges for Economy’s Sake. During the next throe weoks hundreds of employes of the Exposition company will he dropped from the pay-rolls. General orders were issued Thursday for a sweeping reduction of tho force of clerks, stenographers, draughtsmen, and other employes who have been drawing comfortable salaries from the Exposition for several years. This order is to bo put into effect as soon as posslblo, certainly not later than June 1. Auditor Ackerman’s last report showed that nearly 3,500 persons were on the pay-rolls of the Exposition company, aDd that the monthly pay-roll was something like 8225,000. It Is probable that the list of employes will be cut to 2,000. and perhaps less than that Invalidates the Dlvoroe Law. ft has just been discovered that the compiled laws of 1887 of South Dakota have never been enacted. This invalidates many amendments to this code passed by tho last Legislature. Among the amend-, incuts made void Is the divorce law. which changes the period off residence from ninety days to six months. A test case will be made at once.

To Continue Prof. Smith. < The trusteos of Lane Theological Seminary, at Cincinnati, voted to continue Professor Smith another year, and at tho same time accepted tbe forced resignation of Professor Roberts, who had been selected on account of his anti-Smith sentiments as leading representative of Cincinnati Presbyterians in tbe general assembly. Victory for Miners. A dispatch from Bellalre, Ohio, says: The Heathtngton Coal Company,the largest operator In the valley, has signed tho miners’ scale.