Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — FAIL IN THEIR DUTY. [ARTICLE]

FAIL IN THEIR DUTY.

THE RESPECTABLE CITIZENS DESERVE CENSURE. •.ratified His Spite and Died—Trouble Between Chinese Heathen and French Missionaries—British Soldiers Are Not Welcome in Cairo. Egypt. Plain Words to Chicago. Franklin MacVeagh startle! 300 members of the Union League Club at Chicago ‘Tuesday night. He told them In a speech on municipal reform at the quarterly dinner of the club that they, as factors in the legion known as the army of “good citizens,” who refuse to vote and “neglect the opportunities of city life.” are more criminally responsible than “the bad citizens known as the practical politicians who pick off the pavement what their betters cast away. ” Mr. MacVeagh did not say these and other cutting things in an offensive way. He spoke smilingly but earnestly ; his remarks were at first received with ill-concealed wonderment, but be did not abandon the thread that he took up at the beginning and sentiments that at the outset of his apeech caused evident astonishment were, differently worded, heartily cheered at the close of bis discourse The speaker advised his hearers not to make the mistake of most reformers, now that they were starting out, as be bad been civen to understand. on a municipal reform crusade, namely, “that they were the people”

TROUBLE IN CAIRO, EGYPT. Collisions Occur Between the Khedive’s Troops and British Soldiers. Much uneasiness is felt in Cairo, Egypt, regarding the outcome of two collisions which occurred there one Saturday night, and the other Sunday night, between the British soldiers and Egyptian troops. The fight was the result of the intense hatred felt by the Egyptians for the British, and bnt for timely interference of English officers of high rank a scene of carnage would have ensued. To add to the unhappy situation of affairs precipitated by the soldiers of Egypt, the civilians of Cairo did all they could to aggravate the trouble by aiding the native soldiers. It is reported that several were killed on both sides, with a number wounded, but the story cannot easily be verified, as a strong and temporarily successful effort was at once made to suppress the news and minute circumstances The city was patrolled Monday night by strong pickets under direction of English officers, MOBBED BY CHINESE. French Missions Are Burned anil Priests Severely Maltreated. The French missions at Hsianfu, in the province of Shen Si, have been burned by a riotous mob The priests in charge of the missions, after having been severely maltreated by the mob, were thrown ;lnto prison. The French government, through Its minister to China, has demanded redress for the outrago and has threatened to take energetic measures to obtain satisfaction should there be any delay in according justice to the missionaries, punishing the offenders and granting compensation for the loss incurred.

HORSE DISFIUUKER KILLED. Rejected by an Ohio Widow, He Bail Resorted to Spite Work. At Cameron, Monroe County, Ohio, John Bolon was shot by Bernhardt Martin. Bolon was a suitor for the hand of Widow Barbara Mellott, but was rejected by her. He continued to annoy her with attentions. Martin, who resides with Mrs. Mellott, ills mother-in-law. heard a noise, and, going out with bis gun, saw a man leaving the barn. He called to him to stop, but he kept on, when Martin fired a heavy load of buckshot into his stomach. He proved to be Bolon, and he had disfigured three horses In the barn by cutting their tails off. Bolon died. SIX OF THE CREW LOST. Bark Belmont, of Boston, Ashore Near Chatham, Mass. The bark Belmont of Boston, from Trinidad for Boston, with 4,837 bags of sugar to the American irugar Refining Company, ■went ashore on Beacon Hill bar, near Chatham, Mass., during Sunday night’s storm, and Is a total wreck. Six of the crew are lost, and three drifted ashore on a spar. The vessel was owned by John S. Emery, of Boston, and was valued at 910,000. She was insured for halt her value. The cargo was fully covered by Insurance. Last December she was extensively repaired and redressed. Pension Scandals In Minnesota. One of the thirty-four pension indictments turned In by the Federal Grand Jury was against Capt. Charles E. Thurber, of Rochester. Minn., for perjury. He appeared to give bail, which was fixed at 9LOOO. He is accused in the Indictment of having sworn falsely to the disabilities of Thomas M. Newell, a claimant for a pension. This Is the first time an old soldier has been indicted in the Northwest for perjury in pension mattera Purdue Commencement. The ninth annual graduating exercises of the school of pharmacy of Purdue University took place at Lafayette, Ind. Thirty-seven received diplomas. Crashed to Death. John Figley, a brakeman on the Zanesville and Ohio River Road, was crushed to death a short distance below Merriam Station. , Train Wreckers Foiled. An attempt was made made Monday at Huron, Ohio, to wreck the Atlantic express on the Lake Shore road, A large number of ties were piled between the rails on the bridge across the river. They were discovered by a young man who reported to the telegraph operator in time to stop the train before it reached the bridge. Woman Wants to Be Town Marshal. As one result of the franchise being extended to women in Colorado Mrs. O. a Hahen, of Newcastle, Is a candidate for Town Marshal and has three masculine opponents. After the town board had taken . forty ballots the board adjourned without making a selection. LoSt la N6rth China Sea. News Is brought by the steamer Belgic of the wreck of the B itlsh barkent ine Case City In the North china Sea, while on her way from Cheefoo to Amoy. The vessel B A total lots And- half her crew perished, including Capt. T. A. Rodney. UCtJ? rV >• ..• Centenarian Killed by the Cars. An east-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania Road struck Abram Felter in Warsaw, Ind.. Friday, mangling hb body terribly. One of his arms was lodged In the telegraph wires and his bead was carried on the pilot of the engine several miles before it was discovered. He was more than 100 years old. Kaur Buildings Burned. A most disastrous fire visited Lancaster, N. Y„ and wiped out a great portion of the business sec Urn of the town before it was checked. Over a dozen business blocks and private houses were destroyed, and the total ioes is estimated at over 910),000. Jirobably not one-third insured.

BESIEGED BY TRAMPS. Citizens of Oakland, California, Have an Exelting Night. The elty of Oakland, Cat. has had many exciting events In its history, but nothing has occurred to compare with the turmoil caused early Friday m rnlng by a regiment of 64) unemployed men, which left San Francbco Wednesday to join Coxey's army in its journey to Washington. All Thursday night every man, woman and child In Oakland was on the streets, the riot alarm was sounded, the Governor was asked to call out the National Guards, extra police and deputy sheriffs were sworn in and armed with rifles Only a rash word or an unlucky shot was required to precipitate a conflict which would have resulted in the extinction of this branch of the industrial army. But the word Wav not uttered, nor the shot fired. GOOD TIMES COMING. Mercantile Agency at Last Discerns Signs of Hope. R. & Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Improvement in business has continued since the President’s veto, whlcn has been sustained in the House, but the best news is the great decrease in the number and importance of the failures The number was 2.090 in January. 1.202 in February, and 1.0)5 in March. The commercial liabilities were 931.320,867 in January, $17.030.419 in February, and 814,736.893 in March. Wheat has been lifted about four cents by reports of serious injury to the plant, but the accounts are more than usually conflicting, and there is much uncertainty about the extent of the injury. Corn has declined Iji cents, with Western receipts of 2,596.139 bushels Fork illustrates the contrariness of the hog by rising half a dollar, with lard a shade better. The cotton market approaches stagnation.

NOT SUITED FOR WAR. Naval Board Report Upon the Feasibility of Using Whalebacks. The naval board appointed to investigate the feasibility of converting the whaleback type of ship Into auxiliary war cruisers has reported that these vessels do not present features which would make them useful as commerce destroyers or fighting ships, on account of the impossibility of mounting them with heavy ordnance. It would not be possible, to Install heavy ordnance on any part of the ship owing to their light construction ant} Jittle deck space. Only the lightest rapid fire and machine guns could be used at all, and for this reason the boar,) recommended that the whalebacks should not be counted upon for auxiliary cruisers in t me of war. COMPLEXION OF THE HOUSE. Reccnt Changes Give the Democrats a Plurality of Eighty-four. According to a Washington dispatch the seating of Messrs. O’Neill and English will not perceptibly affect ths relative political strength of the House of Representatives, yet the event affords an opportunity of presenting the figures. When the House met at noon Wednesday there were on the rolls 213 Democrats, 126 Republicans, and 12 Populists. Changes effected Wednesday and Thursday decreased the Republican vote by two and Increased that of the Democrats to the same extent. Assuming that Houk's successor will be a Democrat, the total strength of the several parties will then be: 'Democrats, 220; Republicans, 124; Popu. lists, 12.

THREE TRAIN ROBBERS HANGED. Triple Execution at Newport, Ark., for Last November’s Crime. The three train robbers. J. L. Wyrick. Thomas Brady and Albert Mansken. who killed Conductor W. P. McNally at Oliphant, Ark., Nov. 3 last, were hanged at Newport, Ark. All three necks were broken The men spent the night in prayer and preparation for death. When they found that all hope was gone they confessed that the story of the train robbery and murder told by George Padgett, who turned State's evidence, was true. All three united, howover, in asserting that Padgett planned the crime, drew the others into it, and then deserted them when his own neck was endangered. • Against the Charleston Militia. The scene of military operations in tht South Carolina dispensary war was transCharleston when Jerry D. Watts, the Assistant Adjutant General of the State, arrived with instructions from Gov. Tillman to disarm and disband the Fourth brigade, South Carolina Volunteers. The charges are that the brigade refused to obey the Governor’s order and repair to Darlington to suppress the insurrection. The Ad jutant General’s instructions are to take all the arms and accouterments back to Columbia.

Hurt by Falling Walls. At Elizabeth, N. J., a brick wall of a building on Broad street In process of erection fell upon a gang ot bricklayers who were at work on a scaffold on the opposite wait The wounded are: James Fury, head badly injired; William Headly, fractured skull; legs broken, taken to hospital; Robert Ifwln, one arm broken and skull frretured. Hot Punishment for Pupils. Northampton, Mass., is greatly aroused over the action of a grammar-school teacher who had placed Cayenne peppfe” on the tongues of disobedient pupils. The school commissioners uphold the action ot the teacher. A Big Fire In Shanghai. Tuesday night a Are broke out in, Shanghai and despite all the efforts made to check the flames they spread in every direction. The fire burned all night, destroying 1,000 houses.