Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — QUIT THE BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

QUIT THE BUSINESS.

EXPRESS COMPANIES DRIVEN OUT BY ROBBERS. Xa More Money to Be Curried Into or Oat of Indian Territory Cntil Better Protection Is Granted by the Government. Guards Cost Too Much. Bankers and business men living in the towns In the Indian Territory, as well as those living outside the Territory but doing business with Territory firms, are greatly worked up over the condition of affairs which has made it necessary for the Pacific Express Company to refuse money shipments either into or out of the Territory. “The situation in the Indian Territory,” said Superintendent 0. W. Case of the Pacific Company, “is worse than it ever was There is absolutely no protection for life or property except as we furnish it ourselves. This continual carrying of such an armed force makes the business too expensive to be profitable. Wo have lost more by the expense than we ever did by the actual robberies. Now this Saturday robbery, by it we lost just $417. This consisted of return G Q. Di’s, which we are still handling, and our own and the railroad’s remittancea But you can see that to protect even a small amount, what it would cost when such a gang as that attacked the train. The other companies are still carrying money, but I am informed by Me Simpson, of the Wells-Fargo, that he has asked the General Superintendent to issue an order similar to ours.” BOLD TALK BV JAPAN. Will Tolerate No Interference to Deprive Her of War Spoils. The special session of the Japaneso diet closed on Monday. Every measure presented was unanimously passed. A memorial was adopted urging the government to execute the desires of the Mikado with a view to the restoration of poace In the East the increaso of the glory of Japan, the punishment of China, and the prevention of future disturbances of Eastern peace. The memorial concludes with the declaration that Japan will not tolerate interference by any nation to prevent her obtaining the ultimate objects of the war which she has been waging against China. The taotai has requested the foreign consuls to warn the subjects of their governments to avoid localities where largo bodies of Chinese troops are stationed. Ho has also requested that all Japanese residents of China, to whom he refers as “fawning pigmies,” shall register at the city of 'i lenTsln by Nov. 20. Reports have been received that two boats connected with the torpedo service have been blown up at Takua, and that eight persons were killed and two wounded in the disaster.

FARMING AND FISHING. New Norway to lio Started on the Shore of British Columbia. The Rev. Simon Saagstadt, pioneer minister of the'Lutheran Church in Minnesota and a little band of eighty Norwegian farmers have gotten as far as Victoria, B. G, on their way to Bella Coolu, where thoy, with about 3,000 of their countrymen, purpose establishing a now Norway among the British Columbia mountains and fiords so like to those of their native land. Tho Norwegians purpose engaging in mixed farming and development of the deep sea fisheries. They are the first to take advantage of the British Columbia Government’s new terms to settlers. No Water to Drink. A serious problem Is confronting the clti®eus of New Orleans and suburban towns. They do uot know where they are to get drinking water unless it ralus soon, of which at present there Is no prospect The drouth has lasted now about two months. The cisterns are nearly all empty uod the wells dry. The people depend almost, entirely upon tho supply of water taught off the roofs of the houses lu cisterns, as the Mississippi River wator Is unfit to drink unless filtered. Stevenson in Missouri. Vice President Stevenson was accorded a hearty welcome by the people of Joplin, Ma He addressed a large crowd from a platform erected at the Intersection of two of the principal streets. He attributed the ills from which the country has been ■uffering to tho legislation of the Reed Congress, declared that the Democratic party has kept faith with the people, and predicted that prosperity will come under the adoption of the new tariff act.

Satisfactory Trip of the Maine. Captain Bunce. commanding the Maine, has made a report to the Navy Department on the trial trip of that vessel The trial lasted four hours. The contractors expressed themselves satisfied. The average speed was 15.05 knots and the highest speed 17.82: The twenty-five miles of the measured course was run against a strong head wind and tide estimated at 1.3 knots. The machinery worked splendidly. Ohio Swamp In Flames. Akron, Ohio, is shrouded In a thick cloud of smoke from the burning Copley swamp, and It Is Impossible to see more than fifty feet In any direction. The fire has been burning for moro than a month and has covered a territory embracing 600 acres. Killed by Gasoline. Miss Anna Nicholson, 18 years old, of Kites, Ohio, died after suffering intensely from burns sustained when the fumes from a gasoline can wore ignited by a match which she lighted in the cellar at her home. Big Four Shops Destroyed. The Big Four railway shops at Wabash, Ind., caught fire just after midnight on Tuesday and were completely destroyed, The loss Is over SIOO,OOO. Spoke at the Stock Yards. Thomas B. Heed, of Maine, stood on a pine board platform in front of the Exchange* Building at the Chicago Stock Yards and spoke to 2,000 stockmen and cattle herders. One-third of his audience were men on horseback, but men and ponies maintained a respectful silence and listened to the words of the Yankee statesman. Kansas Mayor Shot. i F. Marsh, Mayor of Kinsley. Ivan., ■was held up by highwaymen and probably fatally shot Gov. Lewelling has offered a reward of S3OO for the arreot and conviction of the assailants: Defaulter Crazy in Mexico. It Is learned that J. G Thompson, the absconding eashler of the defunct First National Bank of Sedalla. Mo., left the City of Mexico several days ago. His friends claim to have iufomhatlon that he Is demented, and the next news they ex« s>oct to hear Is that he is dead. Is Locate the Apaches. Major General Miles, accompanied by his aide-de-camp. Captain Francis Micbler, has gone to Forts Sill and Supply, Oklahoma Territory, to personally supervise the locating of the Apache Indians, who hare been confined at Monnt Vernon barracks, Alabama.

PULLMAN ANNUAL REPORT. ! Earnings for the Tear Show a Decided Decrease. Stockholders of the Pullman Palace Car Company held their annual meeting at Chicago, over 82S.UJD.000 of the capital I stock being represented. Directors George | M. Pullman. Marshall Field, J. W. Doane, Norman Williams and Ot S. A. Sprague, of Chicago, and Henry G Hulbert, of New York, and Henry R. Reed, of Boston, were t-e-elected. The usual quarterly dividend cf S 2 per share, payable Nov. 15, was declared. The financial statement for the year ending July 31 Is as follows: 1094. 1893. Revenue $9,69>,067 $U,:<89.896 Disbursements 7.274.6,0 ',.(*3.447 Surplus 2,320,416 4,006.448 The total number of cars owned or controlled by tho Pullman Company is 2.588, being an Increase of fifteen over tha previous year. The total assets of the company are $02.042,606. In spite of World’s Fair travel, the total number ot passengercarried for the year was but 5,282.323. against 5,673,219 the previous year. The total manufactured product of the company amounted 50 $4,025,331. against sl3, 414.708 the previous year. Total employes number 10,858, against 14.635 the previous year. Total wages paid were $4,968,548 and $7,751,644 respectively. The Pullman Savings Bank showed deposits July 31 of $356,361. a decrease of $256,740 as compared with the previous year. RIOT IN AN OHIO TOWN. Two of a Lynching Mob Shot Dead by the Militia. Scenes similar to those of the famous Clncincatl riols were enacted in Washington G H., Ohio, Wednesday. With the aid of the State troops the law was preserved and a negro saved from lynching at the hands of a mob of excited citizens, hut it was at the cost of two men killed and ten seriously wounded. William Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary Boyd, was the man uiion whom the mob wished to wreak its vengeance He was taken to town Tuesday night and there were rumors at once that an effort would be made to lynch him. A crowd gathered at the jail and the force of deputies was ulded by the local militia Wednesday morning the crowd increased in numbers and the Columbus militia wassent for. Before they arrived Dolby had been tried and convicted in a hurry and sentenced to twenty years in prison. lie was (taken to tho jail, which was soon stormed by the mob. The infuriated men listened to no warning, broke down the door and received a volley of bullets with fatal resulls.

DYNAMITE ON THE TRACK. Attempt to Wreck a Baltimore and Ohio Train Near Pittsburg. What is believed to have been a desperate attempt at train robbery was made Wednesday night on the Baltimore and Ohio Road. At 8 o’clock an east-bound accommodation train ran over a dynamite cartridge near Bissell, at a very lonely spot about fifteen miles from Pittsburg. 'Jho flange of one wheel was blown off and one end of a coach wreckod. As tho train had nearly reached the end of tho trip there were few passengers aboard and no one was injured. An examlnation.of the track disclosed two more powerful dynamite cartridges on the rails. Had the train been running fast it would huve exploded ull three cartridges and been totally wrecked. It Is pretty well known that the intention was to wreck the mall and express, a through train from the East due a few minutes lutor, but the robbers made a mistake and placed the cartridges on the east-bound truck Instead of the west-lound. TRIPPED BY REBATES. Federal Grand Jury Returns Bills Against Former Santa Fe Officials. The Federal grund jury returnod four Indictments against violators of the Interstate Commerce law at Chicago Friday afternoon. Five persons are Implicated, the names of two of them being suppressed until after their arrest. The names of the others are: Joseph W. Reinhart, ex-Pres-ident of the Santa Fe Railroad: John A. Hanley, ex-Traffic Manager of the Santa Fe, and Nelson Morris, packer. Tho indictments are the result of the Investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the charge that the books of the Santa Fe Railroad Company show thut millions of dollars were paid In rebates to shippers during the last four years. JUDICIAL WAR AT OMAHA Judge Scott Settles the Rosewater Libel Case by Dismissing It. A thousand people crowded the criminal branch of the District Court .at Omaha to witness the second chapter in tho conflict of authority between Judge Scott, of thut department, and the other five judges of the district, respecting the transfer of the libel case against Editor Rosewater, of tho Bee, to some other judge owing to tho allegation of prejudice made against Scott. After criticising the other judges for Interfering la the affair Judge Scntt, on motion of the county attorney, dismissed tho case, declaring that if ho could not try tho case it should not be tried. Preparations have been made by the other judges to secure Supreme Court mandamus to compel Judge Ecott to transfer the case.

Kills His Sweetheart and Himself. At Sea Cliff. L. 1., the bodies of Elliott L. 'Jitus, aged 24, and Mary S. Duff, aged 23, were found la the private bathhouse belonging to the girl’s father. Titus had shot himself in the head after killing the girl with chloroform. They were engaged to be married shortly, and on Tuesday night went tor a short walk, from which they did not return. A searching party was organized to find them, hut no trace could be found until Wednesday night. Both belong to prominent families and no reason can be ascribed for the murder and suicida Bribery by Sodawater Men. Charles H. Light. Treasurer of the New York Soda Water Manufacturers’ Association, before the Lexow police investigating committee, positively asserted that the 53,500 paid to John Brodsky was to have an ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen. ‘■lt was a common thing,” said he, “to get up collections and presents for the captain. We charged the stand-own-ers $5 rent besides, and this money went for the captains” Burglars Get 8700 at Attica. The store of Silcox & Rln lugger, at Attica, Ohio, was entered, the safe door blown off with dynamite, and S7OO in cash secured. An unsuccessful attempt was made to open the postoffice safe. It is supposed that Pat Disy. who escaped from the jail, and was prosecuted for burglary in Tiffin a year ago, and has been seen recently in Attica, was the leader of the gang. ■; Threw Them Over the Stone Wail. As J. Pierpont Morgan and Jacob C. Rogers, of Boston, were driving past the cadet barracks at West Point Thursday night, their hor3e ran away." Mr! Morgan headed the frightened animal for a stone wall and stopped him. The sudden shock threw both Mr. Rogers and Mr. Morgan across the wall, but beyond a few bruises they escaped serious injury. Banker Kortgaard Is Convicted. In the district criminal court at Minneapolis, the jury in the case of Kristian Kortgaard. ex-president of the State Bank, indicted on a charge of grand larceny In the first degree for stealing $23,000, gave a verdict of guilty of the theft of $13,000. The punishment is not less than five years nor more than ten. Officers May Be Arrested. A dispatch from Washington Court House, Ohio, says the father of Smith Welsh, one of the men killed by the tnillila

when tbe mob was fired upon, has made an affidavit upon which It Is proposed to cause the arrest of CoL A R. Colt and Mat John C. Speaks, of the Fourteenth Regiment, on the charge of murder. CoL Colt said he did not give the order to fire, for he was In another part of tbe court-house at the time, and Lieut. Oyler was in command, but It was the only thing to da The mob had broken down the doors of the courthouse and a shot had been fired at the militia from the mob before the soldiers bred. CoL Colt says the coroner has found that the bullet that entered Welsh’s skull was a 32-callber revolver ball, so he must have teeu killed by some one In the mob and not by the militia at all A number of reputable people at Washington Court House have openly chargod that CoL Colt was drunk, but all the newspaper correspondents who were with the troops unite in exonerating him of this charge COTTON BUSINESS IMPROVING. Hester’s Report Shows an Increased Movement Over Last Tear. Secretary Hester’s New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement shows an increase In round figures of the movement of cotton into sight for the week of 129,000 bules over the seven days ending Oct. ID last year, and 143,000 over the same days year before last, but a decrease for the same time In 1891 (the year of the 9.000,000 crop) of 32.000. The amount brought Into sight during the past week has been 486.803 bales. The movement in September shows receipt! at all United States ports of 1,398,233,again5t 1,080.274 lastyear. Foreign exports for the week have been 207,533, against 194.301 last year, making the total thus far for tho season 698,634, against 508,942 last year, or an increaso of 189,693. The total takings of American mills north and south and Canada thus far for the season have been 402,408, against 249,674 last year. Stocks at seaboard cities and tho twenty-nine leading southern interior centers havo increasel during the week 174,974 bales, against an increase during the period of last 49ason of 105,1J0, and are now 12,298 larger than at this date In 1893 Including stocks left over at ports and Interior towns from last crop and the number of bales brought Into sight thus far of tho raw crop, the supply to date Is 2,042.702 bales, against 1,686,977 for the same period last year.

ROBBERS ARE ROBBERS. Four or Five Persons Killed In a Hold-up ou the Missouri Pacific. The Missouri Pacific passengor train, Na 223, oa the Kansas and Arkansas Valley branch, was held up by four or five masked men at Coretta Siding, oast of Wagoner, I. at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. For days the gang has been represented as being at different points planning a robbery, and thorough preparations were made to meet the expected attack. ’1 he outlaws evidently anticipated a desperate resistance, and began their work with fierce fighting. All the cars excepting the sleeper were shot full of holes, and not a whoje window remains. The train struck an obstruction of curs across tho track after being shunted onto a siding, the outlaws having thrown a -Switch toy that purpose, The money secured was from the local safo, During tho fusillade Jack McHura, advance agent of the McHura Minstrel Eh >w, received a shot in the forehead, how serious it Is not known. He was in one of the passenger coaches at the time. Several others were shot, some fatally. PRICES STILL WEAKER. Not Yet Up to tho Murk to Sustain the Production. R. G. Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Cotton below 0 cents and wheat below 55 cents, ouch lower than ever since present classifications were known, export of gold Instead of products at such prices In October, are the salient features In business tho past wce.t. Distribution of goods to consumers goe3 on fairly, with gains at nearly all points in comparison with last year, hut uot yot at a rate to sustain the present volume of manufacturing production, ao that prices weaken a little. The domestic trado reported by railroad earnings in October is 3.4 per cent less than last year and 13 4 per cent less than In 1892. Tho payments through the principal eleariag-houses for the woek are 2.3 per cent, greater than last year, but 31.5 per cent, less than In 1892. 'ihe dally average for the month Is 5.0 per cent larger than lastyear, but 28.2 smaller than in 1892. With many foaturos of encouragement, business has not yet reached expectations, and it is evident that the loss ot part of the corn crop and the unnaturally low prices of other great staples affect the buying power of millions.

BURGLARS KILL A WATCHMAN. Charles Pearson Shot While Protecting a Wealthy Kansas City Man’s Home. At Kansas City, Mo., burglars forced the cellar door and were entering tbo home of A. A. Mosher, Vice President of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Trust Company w hen they were surprised by Charles l’earsou, a private watchman. The burglars shot and killed Pearson and escaped, leaving no clue. In Mosher’s house were valuable silver plate and the family jewels, but only a few hundred dollars Id cash. Collided During a Fog. Daring the heavy fog Friday morning a light ongine on tho Allegheny Valley Road ran into a hand-car at the West Pennsylvania junction. There were eight laborers o> the car. Seven of them jumped, all receiving serious Injuries, but the eighth, John O'Keefe, was struck by tho engine and picked up in a dying condition. Leveled 700 Houses. Advices from San Domingo say that a cyclone has leveled 700 houses there aud damaged the coffee crop In HaytL