Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — SEALERS SHOW ANXIETY. [ARTICLE]

SEALERS SHOW ANXIETY.

Canadian Fishei s Expected More th,in President Cleveland Recommends. According to a Victoria, B. C., dispatch President Cleveland’s recommendction to Congress to pay $425,000, practically in full settlement of the claims of Canadian sealers against the United States, causes anxious speculation. When it was inofficially stated some months ago that that amount would be paid it was understood to be merely for claims presented to the Paris tribunal arising out of the seizures in Behring Sea during 1886, 1887, and 1889, there having been none in 1888. About $400,000 was the amount of claims on this account. Canadian sealers fully expect to receive large sums for the loss of prospective profits through exclusion under the modus vivendi, especially because for IS9I, the first year of the arrangement, England advanced about SIOO,OOO as indemnity. Claims of 1892 and 1893, which will be pressed against the Canadian and British Governments, amount to considerably more than SSOO - 000. Governor Flower has dismissed the charges against the Board of Managers of the Elmira (N. Y.) Reformatory, involving charges against Superintendent Brockway of cruelty to inmates. The Governor says the punishment inflicted caused no permanent injury. There is likely to be a strike of 10,000 coal miners in the Reynoldsville, Diibois and Punxsutawney fields, in Pennsylvania, owing to a reduction of 5 p<?r cent in wages. Passage of the Patterson amendmer< to the interstate commerce act h«.s been endangered by a breach of faith on the part of the railroad lobby. Harry Goodlee, a atndent of Central University at Richmond, Ky„ died of injuries sustained wU!i playing foot-bail.