Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — CANADA SHAKEN UP. [ARTICLE]

CANADA SHAKEN UP.

EARTHQUAKE CAUSES A MILD PANIC. New Tariff Rattles the Bulls and Bears of Wall Street—Final Figures of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Great Exposition. On Mother Earth’s Bosom. One of the worst shocks of earthquake ever experienced in Quebec occurred shortly before noon Monday, and created tremendous excitement. The shock was sudden and sharp, lasting several seconds. In factories the first thought of work people was that the boiler had burst, and a rush was made for the street by every means—fire escapes, windows and stairs. In the public schools children were panic-stricken and stampeded to the street along with the teachers and masters. The crockery in stores and restaurants got badly rattled and made fatal movements to the floor. In some cases windows were broken. In the City Hall, employes rushed out of their offices into the corridors with consternation on their countenances, massive walls shook, big iron safes rocked, and everything in the building took upon itself more or less the appearance of a ship at sea. Various part 3 of the province felt the shock, but no serious damage was done anywhere. finances of the fair. Auditor Ackerman’s Final Report on tlie Cost of the Exposition. Auditor Ackerman has submitted his final report on the finances of the World’s Fair, which shows that the total receipts of the Exposition wero $28,238,828.25, and the total expenditnres $25,540,537.85. 'i hero are outstanding obligations of $748,14 leaving the total net assets over liabilities $1,862,483,08. Following are tbe condensed figures on-receipts and expenditures: Construction expenditures $18,322,621 56 General and operating expenses... 7,127,240 32 Preliminary organization 00,674 J 7 Assets $2,098,291 01 Liabilities 87,GG0 11 Net assets 2,610.630 90 * Total $28,151,168 75 Gate receipts IS Concession receipts mSMvX IS Miscellaneous receipts ts(’, .0 i i Interest 6C . JSI 82 Souvenir edins and premium on same 2,448.032 28 Capital stock 5,604,171 97 City of Chicago 6,000,0*. 0 00 Total *28,151,168 75 The $748,147 of outstanding obligations must be deducted from the net assets. The gate receipts by months wero as follows: May $ 583.031 June 1,266, i50 July 1,325,370 August 1,194,318 September 2.263,038 October 3,196,670 The following table will show the expense pf operating tbe Exposition for the six months: Months. Receipts. Expenses. Not. May 1617,140 $693,757 $22,383 June 1,647,644 630.605 1,017,049 July 1.967,194 698,319 1,368,874 AugUßt 2,337,654) 669,798 1,768,038 September.. 3,109,‘.ran 637,566 2,632.372 October 4,402,467 610,000 3,792,407 T0ta1.... $14,141,242 $3,540,037 $10,601,205 Classified details of the expenditures In all departments of the Exposition are given in Auditor Ackerman's report The Fair still, owes $163,665 for construction and SIOO,OOO is still due from concessioners, the Ferris wheel owing $75,000 of this amount

WALL STREET IN A FUROR. Stocks Are Tremendously Affected by tlio New Tariff. The new tariff bill, as reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, was made public Monday. At New York sugar and whisky got mixed up In unequal proportions on the Stock Exchange. Stock values went tumbling up and down with llghtnlng-llke rapidity. The excitement following the announcementof the changes In the tariff on sugar reached tho proportions of a cyclone at times, and the stock of the trust was jostled about like a toy balloon In a blizzard. Over In another part of the room, In tho crowd trading In Distilling and Cattle Feeding stock, another equally severe storm was In progress. The latter was due to the Intimation that no Increase In the tax on whisky was considered likely. Both stocks have been alternately buoyant and weak for weeks on alleged straight Information from Washington given out by the manipulators of those stocks that the Ways and Means Committee would or would not bring In a bill favorable to the two properties. When the bald truth was definitely known sugar stock broke 3% points In the first ten minutes. Distillery slock, which has been very strong on reports that tho government would be compelled to raise the tax on whisky for revenue purposes, broke 4 points at the same time. BLOCK COAL CORNERED. Entire Product of Indiana Is Secured by a Chicago Concern. Negotiations which have just been completed place the control of all the block coal produced In Indiana for the next year In the hands of the Indiana Block Coal Company, of Chicago, says a Chicago dispatch. The president of the company Is Leslie Thomas, and Eugene M. Comas is secretary and treasurer. The production of block coal in Indiana Is about 1,000,000,000 tons a year, and there are a number of concerns engaged In mining it What it has cost the company to secure control of the output of these companies Is conjectural, but men well posted in the trade estimate It at 81,500,000. Indiana block coal is used exclusively for steam purposes, and Is superior to any other coal that can be obtained for that Object. Its price In Chicago is 83.26 a ton delivered, but with the entire control vested in one concern this price is likely to soon advance. Two More Desperadoes Wiped Out. Dispatches froln Durant, I. T., state that Tandy Folsom engaged In a duel with Will Durant and killed him imshort order. Bud Durant, a brother of Will, then drew his revolver and killed Folsom. The trouble was due to an old feud between the families. Some weeks ago Folsom shot and killed Key Durant In a fight at Caddo ■' » . . French Cabinet Resigns. After a vote of no confidence ihe entire French Cabinet tendered Its resignation Saturday, and It was promptly accepted by President Carnot M. Dupuy will probably reconstruct the cabinet Ended Three Lives. The most horrible crime ever committed in Kankakee, lIL, occurred at noon Friday, when Jess D. O. Smith murdered his divorced wife, Ellen Smith, and Mra Caroline Grayblll. The crime was a most coldblooded one. Smith and his wife had been living apart for almost a year. Made a Game Fight George Heib.of Clartagton, 0., while on hi* way to Woods field, capital of Monroe County, to p4y hi* taxes of S3OO. was attacked by robber*, who broke one of his legs and both of hi* arm* before they overpowered hint and obtained his money, j* ,« Inn im Aafiinal • CWWiuoB w erww

LOSS TWO HIIUOKS, Springfield, Mass., Visited by a Disastrous Conflagration. The fire at Springfield, Mass, proves to have been the most destructive fire the city ha 3 known for years It started shortly after midnight in the block owned by J. K. Dexter and Henry ?. Dickinson, at 93 Worthington street, and was not checked until 6 o’clock In tlie morning, when it was estimated that :he total loss would reach $2,000,000. The (lames when discovered had gained considerable headway, from the fact that the fire seems to have started In the center of the budding some time before it appeared ou the outside of the block. Tlie flames soon spread beyond the control of the firemen. John Doolan’s building, next to tbe Dickinson Block, went next and then the Mayo Block. The Abbe Block was then attacked and tbe Hotel Glendower was soon completely surrounded by fire an 1 speedily caught. The hotel burned ra- id y and at 4a m. its walls fell. The guests long before bad packed their bag age and loft tbo building. The attention of the department w'as then turned to saving the Fuller Block, where the fito was finally checked about 0 o'clock. While the fire was at Its height the fronts of tho Abbe and Worthy Blocks fell and the flames seemed to leap across tlicstreet, but fortunately the blocks opposite were low and exposed less surface. With tremendous energy the vast blaze was driven out tho front windows of tho three upper stories of the Glendower. The cloud of hunting cinders sweeping to tho west caught a house on Bridge street, pecessitating the diverting ot a lino of hose from tho main conflagration. Many thought that tho Van Norman studio was In for another experience such as that which It had a short time ago, for the low, flat roof was smoking an 1 steaming. The waves of the flame from the Glendower spread to the Wight Block, on Worthington street, and in a short time it was In ruins. Tho Glendower meanwhile had been destroyed and when Hie wall fell Chief Leshuro was si ruck on tho bead by a falling missile, but was not injured seriously enough to tako away his courage. No one else was found to have been hurt Steamer 5 from Hartford arrived at 4:30 a. m. and was put to work at the corner of Main and Lyman streets. Two companies arrived from Worcester at 6:30 o’clock.

DOLE STILL IN POWER. Lllluokalani lias Not Been Restored to the Hawaiian Throne. The steamship Alameda arrived from Honolulu Thursday bringing news that no change had been made In the government no to the time of sailing. Tbe United Press correspondent at Honolulu says: As yet Minister Willis has mado no intimation to this government of jiny special communication with which he may be chargol, nor Is it known that ho has any. Tho city is dally alive with strange rumors of the Minister's Intentions, all of which are traced to royalist s urces. Threo days ago tho ex-Queen mado a- brief call upon the American Minister merely to pay her respocts, as Mr. Willis subsequently stated. Up to this time Mr. Willis has not returned her visit. On tbo same day a committee of the American League tendered a reception to Minister Willis, at which he delivered an address In diplomatic but agroeable and encouraging terms. Mlniter Willis said: “I have my instructors which I cannot divulge. But this tfruch I can say: Tho policy ot the United States Is already formulated regurdlng those Islands and nothing which can bo said or done, either here or there, can avail anything now.” LEHIGH STRIKERS LOSING. Through Freight Trains Moving In Both Directions hi the Eastern Division. Jersey City special: The backbone of tho Lehigh Valley strlko In this division Is apparently shattered. Freight tralus. on which all tbe fight on both sldos has been concentrated, woro moved In both directions, and with crews complete. At noon twelve through freight trains, averaging twengy loaded cars In each train, were ready to pull out ot tho Lehigh yards at C'ommttnipaw, having been made up during the nighi by a crowd of fifty freight-handlers. All the drill engines were fully manned and made up tho trains without Interference from tho strikers. On every engine wore two State officers. The passenger trains are running more regulurly than usual. The company claims that there has been as much progress at other points along the line as In the yards here, but press dispatches do not bear out their claims, although the men admit that there are more engineers from the West* applying for work than tlioy expected. A force of 150 police was detailed to guard the yards and prevent the strikers Interfering with the running of trains.

FIGHTING AT MELILLA. Spanish Convicts Keeping Up Operations *! Against Rlffians. A dispatch from Mellila says that a hurricane had prevailed there for two days. The weather was so severe that It compelled a cessation of work at the forts being constructed by tbo Spaniards. 1 he tents occupied by the troops and workmen were blown down and tho camps were inundated by the floods that poured down from the mountains Iho mall steamer from Malaga was forced to put hack to Mellila and romain for forty-eight hours Notwithstanding the severity of the storm skirmishing proceeded between the Spanish forces and the Rlffians. During the fighting two Spaniards wore wounded by bullets falling Into the camp. The band of thirty convicts under command of Captain Arlga, who have heretofore done excellent work in fighting the Rlffians, continue to make trouble for the enemy. CRUSHED AND BURNED. Several Men Meet Their Death In the Big lire In Detroit, One of the worst fires that Detroit has had for many years completely destroyed the five-story building at Jefferson "TlYOnue and Bates street, occupied by Messrs. Edson, Moore & Ca, wholesale dry goods, and damaged several adjacent buildings, causing a total loss of $700,000. Three men employed by the dry goods firm lost their lives In the flames, and five others who are missing are also supposed to have perished. Spokane at the Mercy of a Mob. At Spokane, Wash., extra police were sworn In Wednesday night to be ready to be called to duty at any moment. A large crowd of laboring men paraded the streets and angry threats were heard on every corner, The crowd threatened to blow up several large buildings. Including the Morning Review Building. The leaders claimed that several prominent citizens would be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on rails, and the lives of quite a number wero threatened. The cause of the disturbance Is the Issuing of an Injunction forbidding the city officials from letting the contract to build the upriver waterworks. At a mass meeting A. M. Cannon, the President, and Simon Oppenheimer were denounced as traitors and murderers, aud it was insisted that tho fifty people who control the 20,000 population must be gotten rfd of at once to keep tbe rest from starving. Robbers Hold Up a Street Car. On Wednesday night, three masked men. with drawn revolvers, held up a Covington electric car Ky., and took two gold watches and 840 in money from the motorman aud conductor. There were no passengers. Colombo* Is Scorched. Fire broke out in the new Henrietta Theater. corner Spring and Front streets. Columbus, Ohio, at 8:16 Friday night, and In &

leas than an hour and a half this elegant playhouse, the Chittenden Hotel and Auditorium and Park Theater were in ruins. Andrew Thompson, a state band, was burned to death. The “Paper Chase” and the Gray and Stephens companies lose all their properties, and the furnishings of tbe hotel were destroyed. Tbe guests saved much of their personal property. The theater audiences left in an orderly manner. The total loss exceeds $1,000,000. GIOLITTI STEFS DOWN. Italian Cabinet Tenders Its Resignation to the King. A meetlug of the Italian Cabinet was hold Friday morning. The situation arising from the reading Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies of the report of the committee appointed to investigate tho bank scandals was most thoroughly discussed and the ministers decided that their usefulness v,as at an end. In accordance with this dbcteibti Ihb cabinet tendered Its resignation as a whole to King Humbert. Among the many things contained in the report of the committee on the bank scandals is a statement that the charges mado by certain lie spapers that Prime Minister Glolitti used money of the Banco Romano to advance tho Interests of his party at the last elections are not proved by the evidence, but the committee declined to say thsy wero disproved. President ftauardolli, at tlie meeting of the Chamber of Deputies, declared the Chamber prorogued. This action was taken only after it was shown that personal violence would be offered to Sig. Glolitti. PASSENGERS' NARROW ESCAPE. Miscreants Place an Obstruction on a New Hampshire Road. An attempt was made to derail tho acconimodatioa train on tlie York Harbor and Beach Railroad. As the train approached Oakland Farms, a small flag station about midway between New York Harbor aud Kitterey Point, N. H. Engineer Emery discovered an obstruction on the track. He whistled “down brakes” and also applied the air brakes, and the train’s speed had been greatly reduced when tlie obstruction was encountered. Three sleepers and. a signpost bad been laid across the rails a short distance apart The placo where the obstruction was placed Is one of tho worst on tho road. Some think that the attempt was the work of tramps, while others think it was done by some one residing in the locality. A collision occurred on Keating Summit Hill between a push engine and a work train on tho Western New York and Pennsylvania road, resulting iti a smashup Theodoro Crane, the fireman, was killed, and three others injured.

MANY PERSONS HURT. West Michigan Passenger Train Runs Into an Open Switch. The Chicago and West Michigan eastbound passenger train, leaving Chicago at 4:55 p. m., struck a misplaced switch half a mllo north of Zeeland, Michigan, Thursday night. The baggage car, smoker, and day coach wont olf the track, and for a hundred yards plowed along the right of way, taking down a telegraph pole and stopping all communication. The smokor contained twenty passengers and the day coach was woll filled. Tho passengers wore piled up in heaps. Among thoso most seriously Injured are: Campbell, Francis, Grand Rapids, back hurt; F. H. Devendorff, Milwaukee, - badly bruised; G. G. Flynn, Macon, Ga., skull fractured: W. S. Gunn, Grand Rapids, internally injured; M. IClrby, Polo, badly bruised: Vovue Van Otte. baggage master, scalp wound; A. IL Wilson, Detroit, bruised about tlie body; Frank Worth, mall agent, leg fractured; Joseph Neftol, Cleveland, badly bruised. Cold Snap at St. Paul, Minn. The thermometers In various parts ot fit. Paul, Minn., Friday morning ranged from 5 degrees to 25 degrees below zero, and like roports aro received from all over tho State, North Dakota and Manitoba. There was little wind and the sky was free from clouds, the cold being tho quiet, emphatic sort. Sank Rapids, Mint}., roports 24 degrees below, and at Fargo, N. I)., 25 degrees below Is reported. Menage Escapes Into Honduras. Gautemala dispatch: The ' man calling himself Miller, but who Is alleged to be Menage, the Minneapolis embezzler, has given the American sleuth-hounds the slip, having got safely across into Honduras. The men who conducted him across tho line, among whom was one named Figuero, have returned here, but none of them will; fatk. about the matter; ' Brazil’s Now Warship. The new Brazilian cruiser America made her first movo toward the scene of future action by moving down to the East River the other morning to a point in the upper bay below Bedloe’s Island. All that remains Is to put the destructive gunpowder and dynamite aboard and to ship the two fifty-five-pound rifles which aro to arrive from Europe. Chicago Limited Wrecked. A costly wreck occurred at Vincennes, Ind., on the Evansville and Terre Haute. Passenger train No. 6—the Chicago limited—plunzod into the rear end of freight train No. 50. The freight'engine was taking water and the flagman fulled to do his duty. Into an Open Switch. Freight train No. 35, west-bound, on the fit Louis and San Francisco Road, ran into an open switch In the yards at Van Buren, Ark., and demolished two engines and five cars. Three men were killed and a fourth so badly Injured that he cannot live.