Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — AN OLD BOY AGAIN. [ARTICLE]

AN OLD BOY AGAIN.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES’ 84TH BIRTHDAY. Germany at War with East Africans— France Not Yet Through Plucking Siam —Colorado's Roster of Idle Men—Ann Arbor Case Settled. Cong Life to Holmes. At Beverly Farms, Mass, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the autocrat of the breakfast table, Tuesday celebratod his 84th birthday. He was In the best of health, and as ho sat in his study, surrounded by tokens of love and friendship, he opened letters and telegrams and received all calleM with a cordiality of manner and elegance of stately old-school breeding. “I believe that if a wild Indian should call to-day I would invite him to enter and smoke his calumet,” suld Mr. Holmes, with a twinkle in his eye. He talked for an hour, easily leading the conversation upon many topics. He spoke of Sarah time Jewett and exhibited a volume of her stories that he had received from her as a birthday gift lie spoke decidedly of the old Julian Haw-thorne-Russell Lowell controversy, but “would not have the opinion ho expressed printed for SSOO. ” He referred touchingly to old Harvard days, and that spirit was stronger in those days than now. A cablegram was brought in dated London. England, from the three sisters of John Lotiirop Motley-Lady Harcourt, Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Mjldray. A wild storm raged till noon, when the sun came out and with it a stream of callers that lasted till night

FRANCE THREATENS SIAM. Gunboats to Re Returned to Bangkok to Force Compliance with New Remands. In. order to exerclso greater pressure upon the Siamese government and compel compliance with their latest demands the French are threatening a return of their gunboats The foreign residents are loud in tbolr indignation at the policy pursued b/ the French government A report received to the effect that the French are fortifying Chantilun tends to increase the anxiety with which the situation is viewed in Bangkok. The German gunboat Wolf, sailing thence, will leave tho port w ithout a single foreign gunboat, causing serious alarm on tho part of the foreign contingent

. Outwits n Lynching Party. A mob of 100 men from Wlngo, ro-en-forced by 100 more, arrived at Mlddlesboro, Ky., Monday night on time lo lynch tlio Marler Brothers, who fired into tlio Belt Lino train, but Sheriff Colson and Chief Conway had left with the prisoners. The mob began a systematic search. A more determined and orderly sot 6f men could not he found. Every hiding place was searched. Tho mob went through the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville train and also searched tho Louisville and Nashville train which arrived from Norton, but the ofileors outgeneraled them. The prisoners wero hid in the woods and guarded by a poss”. Finding their endeavors fruitless Iheniobruietly dispersed at daylight War in German East Africa. A telegram received in Berlin from Dar-es-Salaal, the chief seaport of German East Africa, announces that active hostilities have been begun between tho German forces and tho natives. r J ho dispatch states that a German contingent commanded by Gov. Scheole stormed a fortified camp of the Sultan under command of Chief Meli at Kilimanjaro. Foiir hours of severe fighting followed. The Gprmamloss WHB a lieutenant and four native troops killed and a sergeant and twenty-three natives wounded. Meli is tho chief who in June, 1882, defeated a German force under Baron Bulow, who was killed In tho engagement. - Army of L'nemployed. State Labor Commissioner Brentllnger, of Colorado, estimates from returns received front leading points in the State that there are 35,000 unemployed men in Colorado as the direct result of the recent closing of tho mines. Not all are miners, or course. He estimates that ihe army of unemployed will bo augmented by 15.000 ipen within thirty or sixty days Many of these men are now employed by farmers or fruit raisers. The work of discharging tho farm laborers has already begun. Chief Arthur to Settle. Judge Ricks has made an order allowing the receiver of the Ann Arbor Railroad Company and Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to settle the $300,000 damage suit brought by the railroad company against Chief Arthur during the late trouble Arthur agrees to pay $2,500 and the cost in this case, and also the costs In the case of the Ann Arbor against the Pennsylvania and other connecting lines that were brought into the affair.

Freight Traffic Falls OJT. Freight traffic into Chicago does not increase in volume as time goes on and the roads are lamenting its lightness. Eastbound shipments show a still further tailing ofT for last week as compared with the previous one and for the corresponding week last year. Last week they aggregated 43,903 tons against 14,832 tons for the previous week and 54,948 for the corresponding week last year. Lumber. Destroyed by Fire. Bllnka & Sackla’s sash and door factory at 49th and Paulina streets, Chicago, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $22,000 to the owners. Marie Prescott Dies in New York. Mrs. B. D. Ehepherd, known on the stage as Miss Marie Prescott, died at the. Hospital of the Good Samaritan in New York. She had undergone an operation for the removal of a tumor, and was not able to recover from the effects. Sho went to New York with her husband, whose stage name is R. D. McLeanJoseph Haworth Dangerously 111. Joseph Haworth is lying dangerously ill in Boston, suffering with softening of the brain, as alleged. He was taken with the hallucination that a picture of himself in the lobby of the Grand Opera House was Lester Wallack’a Since then he imagines that he is constantly playing “Hamlet." Oyster Crop Uninjured. Oysterruen have Just completed the examination of the beds near Bridgeport, Conn., and find a very promising crop, larger than usual It was thought that the entire crop was a- loss. j Harried a Street-Car Conductor. The facte In connection with a romantic St. Louie elopement that took place laet Saturday havo just become public. The groom is William Bull, a street-car conductor on the Broadway Line, and the bride is the daughter of Ferdinand Meyer, the millionaire bank president James Ayars Is Dead. James Ayars, president of the Chicago Fir« Underwriters’ Association, and head of the firm of Ayars A Mag LI, died saddens ly at Devil's Lake, Wia, from a complication of diseases arising from inflamatory rheumatism, with which bo hsd suffered