Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — JAP SHOWS FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

JAP SHOWS FIGHT.

RESENTS INTERFERENCE OF AN AMERICAN ADMIRAL. i ■ Covey's Army Soon to Mobilize Sensational Charge Against an Alabama Judge —Nicaraguan Troops Driven from Binefields—The Marion Worsted by Storms Onr Flagship Threatened. Passengers of the steamer Arawa, which has just arrived at Sydney, N. S. W„ assert that a subject of Japan was recentlyarrested In Honolulu for a trivial offense and placed in jail. He escaped and swam out to a Japanese war ship The authorities appealed to the American admiral, askiug that he demand the surrender of the Japanese The commander of the Japanese war ship refused to give the man up and threatened that if the American admiral boapded his ship he Would give him a half hour to leave, or if he refused the American flagship would be blown out of the water. According to the story of the passengers the escaped prisoner was unmolested. BRAZILIAN WAR ENDS. Rio Janeiro Wild with Joy at the End of the Long-drawn Strife. The Brazilian war is practically over and the Cause of the Insurgents is lost. There is much rejoicing in Rio de Janeiro at the culmination of the struggle which has continued so many months with no object seemingly but to hamper business and destroy property. The rebel forces, have surrendered unconditionally, almost without firing a shot. The officers of the in-urgent fleet have taken refuge on board French and Portuguese war ships One French vessel has put to sea with many of the rebel officers on board. It is said that Admiral da Gama Is on board the British war ship Sirius The Insurgent war ship Aquldiban Is not In harbor. Admiral de Mello. was salsa to the Emperor and to President Fonseca and President Peixota He now proves false to Admiral da Gama. Where he and his vessel are now is not known.

BRITISH IN CONTROL Collision Between Armed Bands in the Streets of Blueflelds. English troops have taken possession of Bluefields and patrol the streets at night Although affairs are quiet at present, they have taken a seriodS turn, and a speedy settlement Is doubtful. The British cruiser Cleopatra is still lying at anchor off the bluffs outside of the harbor, and will, within a few days, be •relieved by two smaller vessels The Nicaraguan Government has yielded to the demand of the commander of the British ship and ordered all the native troops out of Bluefields. Ever sluco the arrival of the Nicaraguan ships in the seaport town a bitter feeling has existed between them and the native Mosquito Indians. Whenever it was possible a fight would be brought about between the rival natives, and the other evening a street fight took place between several men of both sides TO MARCH ON THE CAPITAL. - • io .. California Unemployed Men Organize a Regiment for Lobby Purposes. „.3he Industrial army movement Is causing considerable of a sensation in Los Angeles Cal Over eight hundred unem--ployed have organized a regiment and expect to Join their comrades from throughout the Western States in March and march bn Washington with Coxey’s army. They sent a delegation to the city council Monday night to obtain railroad transportation to Washington. General Frye, commander of the army, has sent a notice to Secretary of War Lamont of the moving of the army. A demand is made that Lamont order rations issued to the army from various- posts and provide transportation. General Frye significantly says that the army will number 3,000,000 by the time It reaches Washington and Intimates that it will be just as well to accede to Its requests.

TO IMPEACH A JUDGE. M. B. Talley Is Accused of Aiding in the Boss Murder. The grand jury at Scottsbora Ala,, has reported a bill recommending the impeachment of Judge M. B. Talley, of the Ninth Alabama Circuit, accusing him of aiding and abetting the Skelton boys in murdering Banker R. a Boss on Feb. 4. When the Skeltons started In pursuit of Ross Judge Talley telegraphed to the operator at Stevenson, for which point Rost was destined, not to let Ross get away, and when the Skeltons had killed Boss they wired Talley that “Boss Is dead: none of us hurt” Ross’ friends had wired him from Scottsboro thathlslifo was In danger and Talley endeavor to Intercept the message. Failing in this he sent his dispatch. CAUGHT BY A TYPHOON. United States War Ship Marlon Laid Up as Yokohama. The United States man-of-war Marion, which should have been well on her way to San Francisco, is at Yokohama undergoing extensive repalra The steamer Gaelic, which arrived a few days ago, brought the news that the damage was very serious. Two days after the Marlon left Yokohama •he encountered a terrific typhoon in the China sea which nearly wrecked her. She rode safely through the storm and tailed back to Yokohama in a battered condition. It Is estimated that she will be in the dock for at least two months. Mrs. Stocking Burned. Mrs. Pattie Miller Stocking of Washington was so badly burned by the overturning of a lamp as she was lighting it that she can scarcely survive Mrs. Stocking was the widow, of Colonel Stocking, one of the heroes of Andersonville, and the daughter of the late Associate Justice Milter, of the United States Supreme Court. Express Trains Collide. The Montreal express, north bound, and the Quebec express met In a head-on collision at Capleton, near therbrooke, Que. The engineer of one of the trains and a train-hand, who Was in the cab with him, were killed. None of the passengers aas seriously injured, and none of the cars left the track. Q Shuts Down Its Works. At New Haven, Conn., the Candee Rubber Company has shut down its works. An overstock of goods is the eau.-a assigned. Fifteen hundred employes are thrown out of work. • Scalded to Death. * Thomas Lavin, a convlet sent from Rockford* to the penitentiary at Joliet, Hk, for one year, was scalded to death by the bursting of a new steam trap which was being tested. Lavin was a machinist and With another convict was standing beside the trap. The other convict was not hurt. Lavin had but three months more to serve. - i - Clear Water at St. Ignaoe. 1 Astrong gale Bunday morning carried •way the ice in the Straits of Mackinaw, and, at Might there was nothing in sight from St. Ignace, Mich., except open water. Several fish shanties and nets were destroyed, but no serious damage is reported.

CRAZED BY RKLIGIOX Indiana Revivalist* Neither Preach Nor Sing, but Find Many Convert*. South- Putnam County. Indiana. In in the throes of the most remarkable revival ever held in the State Tbe meetings began about February 1, but until this week no great attention was attracted outside of tbe Immediate neighborhood ot the church. John and Charles Scott and Miss Anna Huffman are in charge of the meetings. Tbe former came from Harrodsburg, Indiana, and the lady from Illinois. They are very ignorant, and are operating in an Ignorant locality. They adhere to no denomination, but claim theirs is tbe only true religion. They neither preach nor sing, but pray long and loud. They cure the sick, heal the halt and lame and assist the blind. They operate by the laying on of hands, and claim they are the only true agents of the Lord. Whether they be Impostors or sincere, they have awakened a tremendous sensation in this vicinity. Their subjects, or victims as some term them, go into trances, in which they remain for hours with eyes set and arms extended over their heads, all the time muttering a sort of gibberish. ADRIFT AND STARVING. Forty Days Spent on the Ocean in a Helpless Vessel. St. Johns. N. F., dispatch: The steamer Briscoe, now nearly forty days out from Queenstown to New York, Iles about sixty miles off Cape Race in an utterly helpless condition with her crew of twenty-three men and four stowaways starving for lack of food and perishing from want of fuel. Such is the report made by her lifeboat crew, who arrived at Cape Race at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon In search of assistance after a twenty-four hours’ sail In the open boat. Tbe exposure nearly caused the death of those aboard, owing to the severe frost experienced Monday night The boat was manned by the chief officer and four seamen. They tell a gruesome tale of the condition of the unfortunate steamer. The vessel’s decks are nearly awash, and she can neither steam nor sail. Her rudder was carried away early In the battle with the sea, and for forty days the Briscoe has been the plaything of the elements.

CATTLE BARONS GONE. Opening of the Cherokee Strip Breaks Up the Last Stronghold. Twenty-five years ago Texas sent its first herd of cattle over the trail northward. Two decides ago 700,000 head came up from tbe great ranches of the Lone Star State to seek a shippin; station In Kansas, The ranch history of the prairies dates from that time, and a marvelous One it la With the coming spring It will end, for the opening of the Cherokee Strip last fall sent the cattle out of that richly grassed to stay. The ranch fences have been torn down, and all winter teams have been busy hauling the debris to the railway stations for shipment to the grass lands of New Mexico or the upland ranges of Wyoming. The cattle have been pushed on westward and southward and they will not go back. The cattle baron who ruled with a despotic power over tbe prairies has been defeated by “the man with a hoe,” and agriculture is usurping the dominions of the cowboy. SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT. More Business and Larger, Production by Industries. According to Dun. R. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Evidences of present improvement in business multiply, but confidence in future Improvement does not seem to increase. There Is more business and a larger production by industries, far the season has arrived when greater activity is necessary if dealers’ stocks are to be replenished, and those who cannot make calculations beyond a few months are the more anxious to crowd as much trade as they safely can into these months. Undertakings reaching beyond a short time are not made with greater freedom and, in spite of a larger present Remand, prices ot manufactured goods tend downward.

UNCLE SAM WAKES UP. United States Authorities Claim that a Treaty Was Violated. President Cleveland and his Cabinet, at their meeting Friday, gave their attention to the Blueflelds, Nicaragua, incident. It is said that no definite line of action was determined upon, owing to the absence of full details, but the Information from Minister Baker, the American representative in Nicaragua, is expected soon. - For the present the State Department wllL content Itself with gathering the full details of the alleged landing of the British troops at Bluefields. The diplomatic course will be to ask Great Britain, through her foreign office, why troops have been landed and by what authority a British force occupies any portion of the Mosquito coast Farmer Bums a Steer to Death. Anthony Beck, a wealthy farmer neat Lebanon, Ind., became enraged at a steer for tearing down a fence and driving it into a pen he poured coal oil all over it and set it on fire, burning the animal to death. The Grand Jury is investigating the affair. Will Not Found a ’Frisco School. Philip II Armour denies that he intends to give 1500,000 to found a school for manual training In San Francisco, similar to the Armour Institute in Chicago. Dyer Depot Robbed. It is reported that the Michigan Central depot at Dyer (Ind.) station was robbed of a large amount of money the other night. Louis Kossuth Very Weak. Turin advices say Louis Kossuth has suffered a relapse and is very weak.