Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — HOLD OUT FALSE HOPE [ARTICLE]

HOLD OUT FALSE HOPE

MANY ARd! SWINDLED IN THE CHEROKEE BOND SALE. Landsharks Sell Land at Ridiculously Low Prices When They Can't Give the Shadow of a Title—Militia Force of the United States. Dupe Many Victims. Chief Harris of the Cherokee Nation find United States District Attorney Bead had a conference at Fort Smith, Ark., the ether day relative to an extensive swindle that is beine perpetrated upon people in several States by uuscrupulous attorneys In Arkansas. These latter are sending out circulars announcing that any person having Indian blood In his veins can be admitted to citizenship in the Indian Territory in • time to share in the 16,000,000 from the sale of Cherokee bonds on payment of a good fee to the lawyers. Then there are 7.000 squatters on 100,000 acres of the best ljnd in the Territory who are also sending out announcements through these same lawyers •fferiqlg to sell the lands at ridiculously when they cannot give a shadow of title to an acre. Many people who have been victimized by this double swindle are flocking to the promised land only to find themselves deceived, and Chief Harris and Mr. Read are doinf ail they can to expose the swindle. , UNITED STATES MIEITIA FORCES. Figures from the Reports to the Adjutant General of the Army. Secretary Lemont, of the War Department, has transmitted to Congress an abstract of the militia force of the United States, according to the latest returns received by the Ad jutant General of the army. The returns show, that in all the States and Territories the aggregate of enlisted militiamen is 112,190—Alaska, Utah and" Oklahoma alone having no military organizations. The total number of men available for milltargfUuty in the United Stat&s, Is 8,223,997. This force, if organized, would make an army nearly five times as large as the famous army of Xerxes, Of the enlisted militiamen. 19,320 are non-com-missioned officers. The commissioned officers number 9,278; among whom are 93 generals and 1,212 staff officors New York lcad9 In the size of militia forces the enlisted men In that State numbering 12.819. Pennsylvania is noxt with 8,614, and Ohio ranks third with 6,125. Massachusetts has 5,566 militiamen and South Carolinla has 5,440. California stands sixth wijb 4,944, and Illinois ranks seventh, her militiamen numbering 4,777. There are 5 generals in the Illinois militia and 51 staff officers. The regimental and field officers number 68, and the company officers 223. The commissioned officers are 347 and the noncommissioned officers 767. There are 96 musicians and 3,567 privates. The number of men In the State available for military duty is estimated at 650,000.

LOSS BY FIRE OF #500,000, Blaze at Savannah, Ga., In Which Several Buildings Are Burned. Fire caused a loss at Savaunah, Ga., ol $500,000, Several valuable buildings are total wrecks. William Tilton was hurt by being run over by the hook and ladder truck. Arthur Tosback, a fireman, fell from a ladder, but was not badly injured. The fire started at 10 o'clock in the morning In the guano warehouse of Wilcox, Gibbs & Ca, and from there spread to the Savannah Grocery Company's six-story brick building, which was totally consumed. The store of the Savannah Grocery Company was worth $180,009. It was insured for $130,090. The firo next extended to M. Ferst’s wholesale grocery, three stories high. The stock Is worth $150,000; Insurance, $125,000. The building belongs to Wilcox, Gibbs & Ca, and is valued at $100,000; Insurance, $68,000. The guano warehouse Is valued at SIO,OOO. M.4RDI GRAS OPENS. Gorgeous Carnival Passes Through the Streets of New Orleans. The carnival procession In New Orloans was unusually beautiful and notably free from accidents and violence. It was 11 o’clock In the forenoon when Rex appeared. The King was greeted with the utmost enthusiasm on all sides. Rex this year has taken from the great poets and storytellers of ancient and modern times materia] to make up his theme of literature, and his pageant, glittering in color, shows the effect of many months of patient and artistic work. There were nineteen floats in the procession and probably ninety characters were necessary to assist In the telling of the story. The decorations were brilliant In the extreme, and the costumes most gorgeous and striking, and brought out In all their beauty by the rays of the sun. Threw Her Children Out. At midnight the other night In Cincinnati, 0., fire was discovered on the ground floor,of a tenement A man that discovered It threw a boulder through the secondstory window and awakened the occupants, who were Mrs. Combs, her son Marion, aged. 4. her daughter Stella, aged 6, and Miss Coleman, a friend. Mrs. Combs threw her two children out of the window on the stony pavement twenty feet below. The boy was fatally hurt; Mrs. Combs will die. Etella is unhurt and Miss Coleman jumped, escaping with slight injuries Did Fire on the British. The Governor of Sierra Leone has telegraphed a confirmation of the report received at Liverpool to the effect that there had been another engagement between the French and Britisu forces on the frontier of Sierra Leone and that six men had been killed. The governor In his report says that several men were killed on both sides and that the French attacked the British, whose force was entirely composed of natives. Farmers Meet at Topeka. * At the meeting of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union in Topeka, about forty delegates were present. Gov. Lewelling and John F. Willets delivered the addresses of welcome. “Farmer" Dean, of New York, and Mann Page, of Richmond, Va., responded.

He YFill Be Buried Alive. Nevada, Ohio, citizens have raised a fund of SSOO to pay a man named Levi Nye to be huAed alive in a state of insensibility similar to the practices of Indian fakirs. Some of the citizens are trying to stop the experiment To Babe Duty on Wheat. The French Customs Committee has adopteg the proposal of M. Mellne to raise the duty on wheat to 8 francs, rith the proviso that when the price .reaches 20 francs the duty is to be reduced by proKressive4diminutlons of 50 centime!, and tSie duty }s to be removed altogether when the price reaches 33 francs. Santa Fe’s Latest Hove. It is announced that the receiver? of the Atchison system and their legal representatives will, in the United States Court, apply for a receiver 'for the Colorado Midland Bailway and also for permission to receive and pay certain moneys in Kansas.

STATE BANK TAX TO STAY. Bill Is Killed in Committer on Majority of One Vote. The effort to repeal the tax on State bank circulations was beaten In the Committee on Banking by a vote of 8 yeas and 9 nays. The vote was taken on the bill of Representative Cox (Fern., Tenn.), which relieves State banks from any tax on their circulation, but does not extend the relief to circulation issued by private Individuals or corporations The vote in detail was as follows: For the bill—Cox (Tenn.), Cobb (Ala.). Hall (Mo.), Ellis (Ky.), Johnson (Ohio), Cobb (Ma), Black (Ga.). and Culberson (Texas), all Democrats. Against the bill— Springer (I1L), Sperry (Conn.), Warner (N. Y.), Democrats; and Johnson (Ind.), Brosius (Pena), Walker (Mass,), Bussell (Conn.), Henderson (Ill.), and Haugen (Wis.), Republicans. The favorable votes of Johnson, of Ohio, and Cobb, of Missouri, were given with the reservation that they would vote against the bill on the floor of the House. A second vote was taken on a motion to reconsider the motion to lay on the table. This time the lines were differently drawn, although the result was the same. Yeas— Sperry, Culberson, Walker, Brosius. Henderson, Bussell, Haugen, Johnson (Ind.), Springer. Nays—Cox, Cobb (Mo.), Cobb (Ala.), Ellis. Warner, Johnson (O.). Black, HalL Mr. Warner says that his new bill will be designed to securo repeal speedily and with it an elastic currency. Several other bills to secure repeal of the Slate hank tax. with various limitations, are before the committee, but may not be taken up

BIG WAREHOUSE DESTROYED. Cottages Crushed by Failing Brick Walls ill Chicago. The big five-story brick warehouse of Felix & Marston, wholesale dealers In wooden and willow ware, nt Henry street and Stewart avenue, Chicago, wsis totally destroyed by fire and a number of lives endangered. The building, which was 100 feet wide by 175 feet long, extending south half a block to West Fifteenth street, was valued at $60,000, and with the stock, estimated at $75,000, Is a complete loss. Felix & Marston’s loss, aggregating $135,000, Is covered 1 y Insurance Three or four frame cottages owned by poor people were Crushed to pieces by the falling walls of the warehouse, and, according to a dispatch, hard work by the firemen barely prevented the flames from spreading toward Canal street. Eleven employes were In tho warehouse when the fire broke out, and so quickly did the flames rush over tho dry stock of washtubs, towel-racks, but-ter-bowls, broom-handles, toothpicks and other woodenware that tho men scaraaly had time to escape. William (nooks. who was caught on the second floor, where it is supposed the fire started, leaped to tho street below and was Internally Injured. Including the loss sustained by the owners of the cottages which wero crushed by the falling walls, the fire destroyed nearly $140,000 worth of property. WILL CIRCLE THE GLOBE. Dr. Talmuge Planning a Five-Months' Trip Around the World. It has been announced that Rev. Dr. Talmage, the famous Brooklyn preacher, lyis completed arrangements for a tour of the world during the coming spring and Bummer. According to the programme. Dr. Talmage will go overland to San Francisco and will sail from that port the last week In May, taking tho steamer to the Hawaiian Islands. Ho will nlso visit New Zealand, Australia, China and India in the East, In China a large portion of his time will be spent In Amoy, where his brother, the late Bev. Dr. John Talmage, was for forty-two years a missionary. The daughters, well-known missionaries, still live in An oy and continue the work their father began. The journey homeward will bo made from Ceylon, through Europe and across tho Atlantic. Dr. Talmage will he accompanied by his wife and two daughters, and will bo absent about five months, Tho extended trip through Asia and Europe has no connection with the present crisis in the affairs of his church. It was practically determined upon in 1892 when he was in Russia. It Is his intention to preach and lecture In every place he visits while he Is away. An Envious Growl. The action of Admiral Benbam In firing on tho insurgents at Bio Janeiro seems. If we may judge from tho English press, to disturb John Bull. Ihe St James Gazette, commenting on the Associated Press Inter view with Admiral Benham, says: “The procious Monroe doctrine seems to ho construed Into allowing the United Statos alone to Interfere In South American affairs. ” The Globe remarks: “Admiral da Gama tried to bully Admiral Benham and got the worst of It Events show that Admiral Bonham does not tako tho same view of the affair as Lord Rosebery. Tho British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, roplying to a correspondent, wrote that he regretted the deplorable state of affairs in Brazil, but said that tho government cannot depart from Its general policy of non-intervontion In the affairs of a foreign state.” Continuing, the Globe says if the Washington authorities indorse Admiral Benham’s action, England will be at direct variance with the United States on a vitally Important provision of International law. Gets Under Cover. Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in America, and probably she most eccentric, has disappeared. For several weeks she had boarded at the residence of Mrs. A. E Bonta, Na 89 Pierrepont street, Brooklyn. She ’’paid $7 a week for a rear hall bedroom, and is said to have eaten her meals in the kitchen Last week Mrs. Bonta received an anonymous letter which Informed her there was a plot on foot toabduct Mrs. Green and hold ber for an enormous ransom. Mrs. Green, when shown the letter, hired a body guard and the next day left Mrs. Bonta's house very mysteriously. Whether she has merely sought another place of retirement or has been abducted no one is able to say. Mrs. Green Is worth $60,000,000.

To Limit Enlistments. The House Military Committee has ordered a favorable report on the biU introduced by Mr. Curtis. < f New York, limiting enlistment in the army to three years without any provision for three months’ extra pay. The bill further provides that no soldier shall be re-enllsted whose record is not good; who is not a citizen of the United States, or has not declared his intention of being such; who cannot speak and read the English language, and who is over thirty years of age. Eire Sweeps Fifty-two Farms. A disastrous conflazratlpn occurred near Neisse, in Prussian Silesia The fire burned over fifty-two farms, destroying the woodland and all the dwellings, outbuildings, barns, etc. Ihe people weTe forced to flee for their lives, the flames spreading with great rapidity, and were able to save but of their possessions. All thoir provisions, hay, grain and other products were consumed, and this loss has entailed great misery. The damage is placed at 2,000,*00 marks. Serious Blot at Bogota. A dispatch from Bogota says that serious riots have broken out In that city. They are a protest against the monopoly in tobacco. A mob of over seven thousand men attacked thtf government officers In spite of the efforts of the police. The troops were called out at last, and they charged the mob. Mnay persons were killed. * Bland’s Coinage BUI. Me Bland, of Missouri, chairman of the House Committee on Coinage. Weights and Measures, submitted to the House, accom-

panted by a report recommending tta passage, hls bill directing the coinage of allver bullion held In the Treasury. The report says that the measure provides for the Issue of silver certificates in amount equal to the gain or seigniorage that may accrue on the coinage of the silver bullion now in the Treasury purchased under the Sherman act of July, 1890. This aeigniorago Is stated by Secretary Carlisle In his last annual report to he $55,156,861. The object of the bill Is to make Immediately available for the current expenses of the Government this amount, "ihe certificates are authorized to be Issued on the bullion in advance of the coinage, should the exigencies of the treasury require it. It Is not likely, however. that this will be necessary, since the bullion may be coined at the rate of $8,000,000 or (10,000,000 per month if necessary. The bill In no respect alters the final result that would be obtained by the execution of the law of 1890, authorizing the purchase and disposition of the bullion bought under it. It does not change the terms of the law In this reapect, bnt simply hastens its execution. INDIANS ON THE WARPATH. An Outbreak Causes Much Excitement at Mammoth, Arizona. News comes from Mammoth, A T., that Indians in that vicinity are on the warpath. On Wednesday afternoon, Ilualpla Clark, a prospector, was attacked by four Indians. He easily evaded hls assailants. and at once started for Mammoth, twelve miles away, for re-enforce-ments. Coming In, he found the camp of William Emerson, another prospector. looted of valuables and food. Emerson was not found, and Clark believes him killed. He was a man 55 years old and unmarried. Clark got to Mammoth at 11 o’clock. He at once aroused the camp, and was soon at the head of a party bent on capturing tho Indians. About twenty men are now on the trail of the Indians, and a capture Is expected. Clark l9of the opinion there !s a general outbreak of Apaches from the reservation. Neither event would surprise him, He says the scene of the supposed killing of Emerson is where the “Kid’s” parents killed John Diehl six years aga

BURNED TO DEATH IN THEIR HOME. Terrible Fate of Two Little Children at Meadville, Pa. Two children wero cremated and their mother frightfully burnod at Meadville, Pa. Mrs. James Scanlon, of Atlantic avenue, had stepped to the street to call her little boy, leaving her babe tied In a rocking chair In the dining-room and hls 3-year-old sister at play In tho sittingroom. When she returned by way of the dining-room five minutes later sho was driven back by flames and terribly burned before she rail around to the front door, which was locked on the inside. Seeing her little girl trylng.to got out through a front window, the mother ran to'help* her, but just as she reached tho window Mrs. Scanlon Was overcome and fell In a swoon, and lh another moment the child fell hack Into the flames. Help was within fifty yards of the scene of the fire when the mother fell, but could not reach tho scene In time to be of service, and both children wero burned to a crisp. The mother will recover, but may lose her mind. The origin of the fire Is unknown. MINING OPERATORS IN DANGER. Arm Themselves In the Kanawha District and Fear the Worst. Montgomery. W. Va., dispatches say that (he situation the Kanawha mine district Is threaten in Three meetings w ere held, and on each occasion resolutions denouncing the operators were passed. At the last meeting the men agreed to do nothing to save the property of any coal oporator In case It was attacked by striking coal operatives. The latter are thoroughly alarmed and are arming themselves to repel attack. If made Several cases of Winchester rifles and ammunition have been shipped to the mines up the valley. Sheriff Sillman Is In communication with the operators and Is prepared to suppress any uprising. He will call upou the governor at once If any move Is made. Mexico's Gobi Coinage. The official report of the production and coinage -of gold aud silver in Mexico during the fiscal year of 1893 is out. It shows the production of $1,400,000 iu gold and (48,500,009 In sliver. The mintage for the year was $301,672 in gold urtd $27,160,876 In silver. The low amount of gold coined arises from the faci that the monetary system of Mexico is now operative practically on a silver basis People Starving In Spain. At Cadiz the Governor reports that thousands of people out of work and starving are tramping through the country and that In consequence he anticipates disturbances in the rural districts, a Passed the Houses By a vote of 204 to 140 the Wilson tariff hill passed tho House of Representatives after a three hours’ debate. Concerning the lee Crop. Wisconsin is expected to harvest 2,000, - 000 tons of Ice this season. Indiana’s crop is expected to fall short. » Killed the Peach Buds. Peach buds were killed In Southern Illinois by the recent cold wave. Less than one-twentieth escaped. To Prevent Prize Fighting. A bill to prevent and punish prize fighting in lowa was passed by the lower house of the Legislature Surrounded by Ruffians. The private car of Mrs. Leland Stanford was surrounded at Sacramento by ruffians,