Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — NEW NATIONAL PARK [ARTICLE]

NEW NATIONAL PARK

PROPOSITION TO MAKE ONE OF SHILOH. American Railway Union Precipitate* the Flffit-Mr. HUI Addresses the Senate on the Income Tax Colorado Spring;* Miners Are Angry. To Restore Shiloh's Field. One of the plans of this Congress In which war veterans are Interested Is the hill Introduced by Representative Henderson. for a national park on the battlefield of Shiloh, which was favorably reported by Representative Outhwaite, of Ohio, from the Committee on Military Affairs. Nearly one hundred thousand men participated in the two days’ fighting at Shiloh. The battleground embraces three thousand acres, over which the State of Tennessee will grant jurisdiction to the United States. The bill gives the Government authority to institute condemnation proceedings but to avoid entailing hardships upon residents who desire to retain their homes; they will be permitted to lease their lands at a nominal rent on condition that they keep the grounds In gold order. Land can be acquired for Sl2 an acre, the report states. The roads are unchanged since the battle was fought, and It Is proposed to restore the field as nearly as possible to Its former condition, the States co-operating by erecting tablets to mark the stands of their legiments.

WOULD INCREASE INTEREST. Senator Hill Argue* that Income Tax on Municipal Bond* Is a Detriment. In the Senate Tuesday morning Mr. lIiII withdre » his tariff bill amendment to exempt from taxation the income of United States bonds, so exempted by the law of their issuance, and he suggested to make the clause read “the principal and Interest of which are, by the law of their Issuance,” etc. That suggestion was accepted by Mr. Vest on the part of the Finance Committee, and the clause was so modified. Then Mr. Hill said he had offered his amendment last Saturday to call attention to the fact that $635,091,000 of property was by this clause taken out of the taxable property of the country. He then offered an amendment to Include within the exemption the bonds of a State, county, municipality, or town, and ha made an argument in support of that amendment Mr. Vest argued against it. The result of such legislation, he said, would be to put an enormous premium on thoso securities to the disadvantage of other securities of the country. Mr. Hill argued that with this new income tax on State and municipal bond* the people who buy them would insist on a higher rate of interest. Mr. Hill’s amendment was rejected by a vote of 23 to 20. --X

TO AVENGE TARSNEY. Cripple Creelc Miners Threaten Mine Owner* and Sheriff Bower*. Rumors of all sorts of contemplated outrages are In the air at Colorado Springs, Colo,, and the mails aro burdened with "thrilling letters. W. H. Brooks, who has mines at Cripple Creek, and was the first mine owner to require nine hours for a day’s work, received warning that a band of miners Intended to take him out and serve him as General Tarsney had been served. Bherlff Bowers received the following letter: “Unless the cowardly rascals who attacked General Tarsney are arrested by Monday, your city will be burned up” Boycott I* On. The great boycott of the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company was begun at noon Tuesday. Police are on guard in all railway yards at Chlcugo where Pullman cars are used, and the companies are making every preparation to run their trains despite the boycott. The railway companies, accorllng to General Manager St. John, of the Rock Island, are going to stand together and employ all possible means to secure the unhampered operation of trains. ~ . <k. ; Inspection at the Stock Yards. I)r. D. R Salmon, Chief of the Animal Bureau of the Department of the Interior. Is in Chicago inspecting the work of his department at the Stock Yards There has been some complaint that cattle rejected as unfit by the Inspectors have been resold to packers and abattoirs doing a purely local business Dr. Salmon said that he had not yet found anything of a tangible character to place the responsibility on any one bouse.

Stung to Death. Miss May Holmes, aged 16 years, of Atwood. Ind., has been stuug to death by a seventeen-year locust. The insect alighted on the back of her neck. The wound Immediately began to swell and the young lady suffered excruciating pain and verY soon lost her power of locomotion. A physician was called, but failed to relieve the patient, who soon died In great .agony. Leprosy Discovered In Ontario. Dr. Brice. Secretary of the Provincial Board of Health, bas noticed a case of leprosy in Niagara Falls, Oat. The Medical Health Office In that place examined the man and found him tainted with the disease. The unfortunate man was at once Isolated. He will likely be sent to tbe Lazaretto in Traddle, N. B. This Is the first case In Ontario. Mrs. Lease to Visit England. Jdr* Mary R Lease announoes that she will visit England this fall for the purpose of settling up an estate there in which rfhe Is interested 6he also stated that she had an offer to make a lecture tour in Australia, which she was seriously considering. Smoke House SmokedFire did SIOO,OOO damage to Armour's big .smoke house at Chicaga Defranded an Insurance Company. Edward £. Christopher, of Newark, N. J., ad employe of the Prudential Insuiauce Company, was arrested for defrauding the company of a. sum between SIO,OOO anl SII,OOO. Christopher bas beeb in the employ of thp company for the last«eleven year* and daring most of that lime bas held,the position of audltoa Big Strike In Scotlan'd. About 65,000. Scotch miners have struck kgpfhst the proposed -reduction In wage* The ’strike, has also thrown $3,000 steelout of employment They are Idle on account of lack of fuel .< . ;• g- . ’ ~, •Mary I*©© Mine Fir© Yet Burning* Tho fire In .the Mary Lee Mine, at Birmingham. Ala, continues burnlnf furiously. In spite of all efforts to extinguish it Of tho fifty were overcome by the heat, four are dead, two more are' expected to die at any minute, and twenty others are in a critical condition. ’!!*, .. ! Cloudburst at Brooxvtllfe, Ind. Daring a cloudburst near Brookv Hie. Ind.. the Blue Crebk Bridge was washed •way. William Bender, wife and child were on It at the time with a Wagon and team. Me Bender wee taken off by a boatman one mile below, but the others were dfOWifd Vt; ‘

UNEARNED LAND GRANTS. Mr. Mcßae’* Bill Mill Restore 54.323,000 Acres to the Public Domain. Congressman Mcßae, of Arkansan, has Introduced a bill, which is under consideration by the Public Lauds Committee, providing for a forfeiture to the United State* of all land grants to the railroads opposite the portions of the lines as originally planned which were not constructed and completed within the time stipulated in the granting acts. A total of 155.504,904 acres of public lands were dispesed of In ibis way. Mr. Mcßae holds that It has been clearly the purpose of Congress to make the time within which railroads should be completed as essential t> government aid and that after the period of time had elapsed there was no- power to make sales except of ihe lands earned by building roads within the specified period* He thinks in many Instances construction of land grant roads has been purposely delayed until the surrounding country had become so thickly populated that they might have been built without aid. Twenty-five railroad corporations are affected by this bllL It is estimated by the Interior Department that they have failed to build 4,598 miles of road, according to the terms of tbeir charters and that their land holdings which would be forfeited amount to 54,323,000 acre* The Northern Pacific would be compelled to forfeit 86,037,000 acres, the Southern Pacific 4,147,000, the Oregon and California 2,084.000, the California and Oregon 1,740,000, the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba 1,118,000, the ChtCßgo, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha 1,446,000, and other roads would lose smaller holdings.

COAL FAMINE BROKEN. Fuel Being Shipped Into New York Rapidly, and Prices Have Fallen. When the coal strike first began to assume serious proportions several large operators In New York City, fearing that they would not have coal enough to fill their contracts, ordered from abroad, England, Wales and Nova Scotia being the principal sources of supply which they sought. Within the short space of ten days some 80.000 ton 9 were thus ordered. This was fully four weeks ago, and of this 80.000 tons there are yet to arrive about 20,000 ton* Some steamship companies have also been Importing coal at their own risk as a matter of speculation and are tald to have done fairly well at It At present however, no more foreign contracts are being made, for bituminous coal Is arriving from West Virginia at the rate of seventy to eighty cars per day. From the Cumberland section coal Is also coming freely. Last week and the week before coal was selling as high as SO per ton, but it was offered In New York Tuesday at $4. 50 per ton.

TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER. Six Slayers of Engineer Barr Indicted at Brazil, Ind. The grand Jury returned Indictments at Brazil, Ind., against James Booth, Robert Rankin, Ernest Poor. Charles Slack, Wm. Wilson and Wm. Worton, charging them with the crime of murder In the first degree lu killing William Barr June 6. The crime for which the Indicted men aro to be tried took place while the coal strike was at fever-heat. The defendants and others, forming a mob, attacked a coal train and killed Barr, the engineer, by striking his head with a stone. Barr was Instantly killed and another trainman was badly wounded. As tho offonse Is of an unball&ble nature the men were taken to jail, where they will be kept until the October term of court, when tbeir cases will come up for trial The court-room was crowded with friends of the prisoners and much excitement was created by the finding of the grand jury. BETRAYED BY HIS BUILD. Cleveland Smuggler Yields Up a Big Harvest to Customs Inspectors. Special Customs Inspectors Brown and Donahue saw a man come off the steamship Havel, which Just arrived at New York, who had an apparently abnormal stomach. He was met by a very pretty woman and started to leave the wharf. The Inspectors stopped him and began a search. This Is what they found: Eleven fine meerschaum pipes, two marquise rings set with rubles and diamonds, three rings set with tuvquots and pearls, seven ruby and pearl rings, six splendid turquols rings, two emerald and pearl rings, two diamond brooches, a diamond scarf-pin and a gold watch. This Is the banner personal seizure of the year. The would-be smuggler gave bis name os R Fruhoft, of 31 Youbelle avenue, Cleveland. He Is a tobacconist. The woman who met him was his wife She nearly fainted during the search of her husband. -r- cSTRUCK DEAF AND DUMB. Terrible Effect of a Surgeon’s Knife on a Young Texan. William Foster, 20 years old, went to the Eealy Hospital, Galveston, Tex., to have an abscess lanced upon one of bis elbows, caused by the sting of some poisonous Insect After being placed upon the operating table, Foster caught a glance of the surgeon’s operating knife and was seized with convulsion* He had seven In rapid succession, until his vitality ran down so that life had to be m&lntulned by artificial respiration. After he was resuscitated it was found he had lost the powers of speech and hearing. Foster, on leaving the hospital, gave notice that he was going to drown hiunelf. The police were notified of Foster's threat. Two mounted officers arrived in time to see Foster throw himself Into tho bay. He was fished out and taken boms

TROOPS ARE NEEDED. Serious Trouble Between the Rock Island and Round Pond Officials. Tbe situation at Round Pood, Q. T. t growing out of the between the Rock Island Railway and the city, is reported to be serious and an outbreak la anticipated at any moment Governor Renfrow especially commissioned Deputy Marshal Madsen to Investigate, and the latter has r*,orted that In his opinion United States troops will be needed to prevent a serious outbreak, which wIH undoubtedly result in bloodshed and damage *o property unless hipped in the bud. Big Blow at Omaha. Wednesday evening Omaha was visited by-oneol the strongest gales experienced In year* Much damage t<j buildings was done all over the city. Shud% trees and shrubbery werio blown down or broken off, and jlh some place traffic was blocked fey 1 ' trefes falling across the street. At Courtland Beach one man was caught In a bogt On the lake and drowned. At tho Ames ftveosje qtreet car bouse one of the electric blown into a tree and Foreman Parish climbed up to disentangle It. Be received a fatal shock from the wire. Tqe most serious reports come from Lincoln. The National Game. The clubs of tbe National and Western Leagues stand as follows In the championship rare: NATIONAL LEA GOB. Per, Per W. L. cent.j W. L. oent. ißsltlmere .34 is ViS.New 'Hbjk..2l 24 .629 Boston 35 18 .fifctfet. Lottie.. 24 29 .463 Plttsbntg. .32 2» 615 Cincinnati.l9 30 .388 (Brooklyn . .20 19 .cot Chicago ■. .17 34 .333 Phlladelp’a2B to .696 Washingt’me 36 .308 Cleveland. .27 19' .687 Louisville 12 39 .233 WESTERN LEAGUE GAME* Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Bioux Clty36 io .783 IndUn’pHs22 29 .431 Kansas C’y.7B It ,t»'. Grd Bs»pids22 so .<23 Toledo ... .48 21 AJl,Detroit ... J 6 32 ~333 lllinn’p’Hs..27 21 - qMilwa’kee..ll 28 .282 avt ” 1 „ „ 2ft o System. Earl Jtto . *8 years of age, caused the •wrest «'■' 'Woodford at Indianapolis and t*e\_ p wrought out the fact that a

[ brutal system of hazing Is in vogue at the ' Uslted States lounge factory. 3he day | Young Jackson went to work st the sacI tory Woodford and another employe stripped him of all his clothing and pslnted him from bead to foot with | turpentine, oil, and white lead, col- ! ored with yellow. The paint dried into the skin very rapidly and coaid not be removed from some parts of the body at all On the stand Woodford said that it was a common custom to treat all new ; bands Jn that way when they entered the shop and that It was done only in “fun.” Judge Stubbs denounced the practice as brutal and said that he would be “tempted to use a shotgun If it was ills boy who had been so treated. ” He then fined Woodford S3OO and sent him to tbe workhouse for six month*

TWENTY ARE DROWNED. Fearful Fate of Many New York Sundai Excursionist* The tug James D. Nlchol with sixty - three excursionists and a crew numbering ten or twelve, sunk 6unday afternoon three miles off New York harbor. Fiftyfour of those on board have been accounted for. The rest were drowned. The tug had been to the fishing ground* She had. It Is said, a license to carry fifty passengers, but sixty-three tickets were sold. The tug reached the banks on time, but tbo fishing was poor and the sea too rough for comfort and about noon she started back. The waves began to break heavily over her starboard ralL To dodge the water and wind the passengers began to run aronnd to tbe port side and to climb on top of tbe deck bouse The boat careened alarmingly to port and tbe water swept in over tbpralL The terror-stricken men rushed back to starboard and tbe tug swung deeply down on that side At the same moment three heavy breakers struck tho boat in quick succession. The captain, Wlilllam H. Yatt, sounded the whistle In a prolonged scream for help. Even as he did so she went down like a stone The water choked the cry of the whistle, but not before It had been heard and heeded. Boats near by responded and saved fifty-four people

LIBEL IN ADVERTISEMENTS. Bronner Brothers Sue the Buffalo Courier for SIOO.OOO Damage*. Two rival Buffalo clothing houses have been saying scandalous things of each other In tbe advertising columns of the local papers for several week* and now one of them, stung by a particularly bitter personal attack in display type, proposes to Invoke the courts to test the liability of a newspaper for a libel printed lu its advertising columns and paid for by a rival concern. Bronner Brothers have begun an action against the Buffalo Courier for SIOO,-000 damages for the publication of an alleged libelous article as tbe advertisement of Klelnhans & Co. The Bronners’ advertisements referred to tbeir rivals as “puppies” and threw mud at their business reputation. Besides the suit against the Courier. It is said the Bronners contemplate an action against their rivals for libel. BANKS TO THE RESCUE. New York Institutions to Replace Government Gold at Once. A long step forward wns taken Friday In the movement among the New York banks to stand between the Treasury Department and further depletion of the gold reserve. There had been no doubt since a recent conference of bank presidents that the relief needed would be furnished, although the conference took no binding action. Tbe latest movement amounted to a definite assurance that the gold which tbe Eubtreasury has lost ffould bo replaced within a day or twa It carried with it an implied promise that the banks would meet further demands In the same way, to carry the Treasury over tho period of July disbursement* From that time gold will be expected to flow back from Europe

CARNOT IS KILLED. Falls Under the Knife of an Anarchlstli Italian. President Carnot of the French Republic was stabbed Sunday evening In Lyons and died forty minutes past midnight. As the President was leaving the bnnqugt of the exposition at Lyons at 0:30 o’clock In order to go to the theater he was stabbed with knife In tie stomach in tiie region of the liver! The assassin was arrested and was recognized as an Italian who arrived in Lyons the previous afternoon. man’s name Is Cesare Giovanni Santa crowd that assembled as soon as the assassination of the President became known attacked nnd demolished three Italian cases lr Lyon* Mistaken fora Burglar. At Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, John Corrlga* was accidentally killed Friday morning. Corrigan had gone out of the house for some purpose, and on his return his daughter, not having heard him leave and thinking burglars were trying to enter, gave an alarm. One of the roffmqr* aroused by her brio* shot at the object he detected In the darkness. Corrigan was 03 years olf and highly esteemed. Mob Blows Up a Railroad Bridge. A mob at Round Pond, Kan., blew up the bridge of tho Rock Island Just outside of Wichita. When the train passed the city a short time before without stopping, according to the ordinance, the engineer was shot at twice. Bloodshed Is Imminent. Militia Owl e red Out. The Fifth and Sixteenth Regiments and the Sheridan Posts have been called out In Pennsylvania by Gov. Pattlson for service lu Jefferson County.