Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — SIOUX FINISH ON TOP. [ARTICLE]

SIOUX FINISH ON TOP.

LANDING THE WESTERN LEAGUE PENNANT. Illteol.’ Governor Talks of Pullman's Assessment Possibility of a General War In the East—lncendiaries Burn Erie's Big Car Works. Corn-Huskers at the Front. With Tuesday's games the season of the Western Base-ball League came to an end. The Sioux Citys landed the pennant. The Toledos, by a great spurt, managed to cut the Kansas Citys out of second place The Minneapolis Club failed to keep up its former good showing and Is credited with fourth. The Grand Rapids team is in fifth place, With Indianapolis sixth, Detroit and Milwaukee following in the order named. The detailed standing was as follows: WESTERN LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sioux City. 74 61 .6'32 Gr'd R'pids62 65 .488 Toledo 67 56 ,659 Indi’-n’p'lls.6O 66 .476 Kansas C'y.69 68 .643 Detroit 66 70 .444 Miune'p’llasa 62 .604 Milwaukee.6o 74 .407 AFTER MR. PULLMAN. Cor. Altgeld Says the Palace-Car Man Should Pay More Taxes. Governor Altgeld addressed the Illinois State Board of Equalization on the assessment of the Pullman Palace Car Company. He wants a higher assessment. He submitted the testimony of Mr. Pullman before the strike commission, in which Mr. Pullman said the company had always paid dividends, never less than 8 per cent; that Its capital stock is $36,000,000, and that its undivided profits amount to 825.000,000. Taking Mr. Pullman’s own figures, the Governor said that the Pullman Company’s stock was worth 861,000,000. As the result of letters recently sent by the Auditor of Public Accounts to all States of the Union and to the Dominion of Canada. It was developed that in sixteen States the company paid no taxes at all; in several other States and in Canada no assessment Is shown; in seventeen States the total ot the taxes paid is only $21,425. while in the aeven remain! ig States the estimated taxes (based on assessments) are $19,326, making the total taxes paid outside of Illinois $40,751 “In Chicago.” said the Governor, “this sum would pay taxes on less than $4,009,000 worth of property." In Illinois tbo assessment is $1,695,500, which at the average rate of assessment represents $7,629,750 worth of property. At the very highest,” the Governor said, •the Pullman company does not pay taxes on more than $20,000,000 worth of property in America.”

ORIENT JS LURID. New Alliance Likely to Increase the Field of Hostilities. News received from Toklo is that, despite her treaty with England, Japan has made an alliance embracing both Russia and France, and that, through Russian bankers, she has effected a loan of £5,000,000. Japan Is bidding high for munitions of war, and European firms are undertaking great contracts. '1 be opinion prevails In Japan that England, Russia, and France will all be drawn actively Into the controversy. The women of Japan seem to be quite as enthusiastic concerning the war as the men. Viscountess Tani, who is the wife of one of ggnera'a many ludjgj of rank are spending all their tTfiie making *wuraji.£ or straw sandals, for the'troois. The vlscountness has dismissed her retinue of _Bervants aqjJ performs nil the household duties herself. Many ciher titled lailes, in order to evince their patriotism, have followed this Illustrious example. So many •warajl” have already been contributed ty women, children and old men, who make them during every leisure moment, that the government is really embarrassed by the extraordinary number of these patriotic offerings. Up to the present time they have received over 1,005,000. office scandal. Novel Plot Develops After the Arrest ol Special Examiner Russell. - Maj. Alex. A. Russell, aspecial examiner In the Pension Office, was arrested charged with forgery by John O. Olberg, an Indian Bureau clerk. Oiberg’s wife is a clerk in the Pension Office, occupying a desk next to that of Russell. It Is charged that she borrowed money from her neighbor, executing deeds of trust against suburban property, valued at $?2,000, owned by her husband, and that Russell forged Oiberg’s name to these deeds. The accused claims that his arrest Is due to a plot of his wife, from whom he is seeking a divorce.

ERIE HAS A 8300,000 FIRE. Largest Car Works in the Country Destroyed by Incendiaries. The plant of the Erie car wo/ka, the largest concern of its kind in the country, was almost wholly destroyed by tre. Several acres of buildings and a number of cars were burned. Toe works bad been used by the Lake Shore Railway for the past fifteen months as repair shops, and all cars destroyed v, ere the property of that company. The fire was incendiary in origin and the second attempt to burn the works within two weeks. The loss Will foot up 8300,090, upon which there Is small Insurance. Choctaw Is Shot for Murder. Jim Allen, a full-blooded Choctaw Indian, paid the death penalty at the Pushmataha court grounds, in Jackson County, 1 T., by being shot. Allen killed Dixon Hewter, a Choctaw, who was a witness against Allen on a charge of theft. Suicide of a Sioux City Man. The Coroner’s Inquest on the body of Charles P. Ibs, a Sioux City man found dead in a hotel, disclosed the fact that he committed suicide on account of financial reverses Ate Poisonous Toadstools. In the little home of Thomas Fluomehel, a Bohemian blacksmith employed In West Pullman, 111, He the remains of his wife and two sons, victims of poisonous mushrooms. Last Thursday members of the family found some of the poisonous stuff, and, mistaking It for the edible variety, ate a quantity for their supper. Will Be Electrocuted. Charles F. Wilson was sentenced at Syracuse, N. Y., to be electrocuted at Auburn State Prison during the week beginning Nov. 6 for the murder of Detective Jamss Harvey. ; Jld Veterans Meet. Soldiers’ reunions Wednesday: At Indianapolls, the Eeccond and Third Indiana Cavalry and the 'thirteen th, Thirtyseventh, Fifty-first and Seventy-ninth Regiments. At Columbus, Ind, the Twenty-second. Fifty-second end filxtyaeventh Regiments. At Ottawa, HL, the One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Infantry. At Ridge Farm, HL, the Seventy-ninth. Killed in a Railroad Wreck. Four freight train Na 63 dashed Ihte • witch engine Na 261 and a lot of cars Cour miles east of Pay ton. Ohio, Sunday morning, killing one man and injuring itvtnU others.

CORN CROP ESTIMATE. Reports from 200 Correspondents Fix the Yield at 1,300.000,000 Bushels. The New York World has published a detailed statement from hundreds ot Western towns, showing a heavy shortage In the corn crop The World says: The biggest crop raised by a single country is Indian corn, and the United States is the country :h»t raises It. In a good year the United States produces 2.005,000,000 bushels ot this staple, and has produced more. At the average market price, this quantity is worth $1,000,100,0 o, or about ten times as much as the gold production ot the whole world tor a year. The reports cover the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin/ Minnesota, lowa. Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The Government report makes the yield this year 1,109,000.000 bushels, but most all of the corn authorities say this is too low. These reports Indicate about two-thlrds of an average crop, or in the neighborhood of 1,390,000,000 bushels The greatest reduction has been in the States west of the Mississippi, and their loss has been heavy. Kansas, which raises more than 150,000,000 bushels In a good year, reports only 42,000,000 bushels But the States east of the Mississippi River, where rain is a more certain quantity, bring up the average. GOULDS BRANCH OUT, Edwin President of a New Match Company. Not satisfied with owning a large share of the railroads in the country and holding a virtual monopoly of the telegraph lines, the Goulds are preparing to enter the field of manufactures and compete with one of the biggest commercial monopolies In this country, the Diamond Match Trust. Edwin F. Gould's name appears In the articles of incorporation of a new company which were filed In Trenton. N. J. According to Its charter it Is formed “for the manufacture of matches nnd other wooden articles;” capital, $1,000,900; President, Edwlu F. Gould; Vice President, W. F. Hutchinson; Secretary and treasurer, Wallace A. Downs. New match-making machines will be used. Each Is slightly larger than a sewing machine, having a larger table. and all that seems necessary to make matches Is to feed a roll of veneered wood in one end of the machine and match splints, all cut, fly out of the other at the rate of 150,000 a minute. These match machines aro patented In every country of the globe and are fully protected. The highest speed attained by any other machine Is 8,000 matches a minute

WHISKY TRUST CRISIS. Belief at Peoria that Officials Would Not Oppose a Receivership. A Peoria. Hl., dispatch is authority for the statement that It Is the belief of those who know something of the inside workings of the whisky trust that a crisis Is rapidly approaching and that some of Its officers would not caro much If it were thrown Into, the bands ot a receiver. This belief Is heightened by the presence there of tbe officers of the American Distributing Company, of New York, who have come to make an investigation of the safety of the rebate vouchers. They have been in consultation with Sam Woollier. whose new distillery, the largest in the world, will be ready for operation next month, and which alone can supply all tbe demand In the present condition of tbe trade. It is possible, the dispatch says, that a deal may bo made with him 1 and the trust left out

TO HAVE BATTLE IN KENTUCKY. Property-Owners Take Up Arms to Avoid Paying Taxes. A fresh shipment of firearms has been made to Union County, Ky., to arm the property-owners ot Llndlo and Caseyville precincts, who are resisting collection of taxes About 700 mon are now armed with Winchesters and dynamite, and they are patiently awaiting the arrival ot Collector Blackwell and his 100 armed deputies Caph Blackwell says that he will collect the tax it it takes military power to do It. Five Warships Destroyed. Dispatches received from Shanghai state that the total number of the Chinese fleet the battle fought off the mouth of the Yalu River was twelve warshipsand four torpedo boats. Tne Japanese fleet, ft Is added, was composed of seventeen ships, mo;t of which were small vessels The Chinese claim to have sunk the Japanese warships Abushima and Yosklna and a Japanese transport which had been couyer'ed jnto a cru/ser arid njj.ru£d tjio Falko. It Is reported tttet the Chinese transport Toonan was sunk after she had Jand?d her troops; but this is thought be probably 'incorrect An official dispatch received in Toklo from the headquarters of the Japanese fleet says that the latter met eleven Chinese warships and six torpedo boats thirty-five miles northeast of Hal Yan Tao with the result that four of the Chinese ships were sunk and one burned. The dispatch adds that the Japanese fleet sustained no damage. The particulars received In regard to the battle of Plug Yang show that the Japanese loss Is only about eleven officers wounded and 260 soldiers killed. The Japanese army Is marching on Wiju. Neither the Chinese nor Japanese Legation at Washington has received any advices as to the great naval engagement off Yalu. The Chinese Minister declines to discuss the recent battles or any phase of the war. In response to an Inquiry he sent word that no advices had been received and that he was very busy. Field Marshal Count Yamagata, commanding the forces In Corea, is marching with 15,000 troops on Moukdeu from the southeast. The treasure captured at Ping Yang amounted to 83,000,000. The National Game. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows in the championship race: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Baltimore..B6 38 .694 Pittsburg. .61 63 .496 New Y0rk..84 43 . 661 Chicago ....56 74 .431 Bostonßl 46 .638 Cincinnati.sl 73 .411 Phll’delpTa7l 61 .682 St. Louis. ..61 76 .402 Brooklyn ..68 68 .540 Washlngt’nH 81 .349 Cleveland. .66 69 .624 Louisville..3s Bo .280 WESTERN LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sioux City. 73 61 .689 Gr'd R'plds62 64 ,4»2 Kansas C'y.69 67 .548 Tndi’n'pTls.6o 66 ,476 Toledo 66 65 ,546:Detr01t56 69 .448 Mlnne'p’Us62 62 .tOo|Mllwaukee.6o 74 .407