Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — IS A REGULAR GEYSER [ARTICLE]

IS A REGULAR GEYSER

HOOSIER SPOUTER EMULATES THE BELLE PLAINE WELLI! Debe May Go Free —Great Work in Restocking the Lakes with Fish— The Dons Don’t Like to 'Have Rebels Feted. 1 HiII • Struck an Artesian Well. In drilling a well in Hamilton County, Ind., for oil, at a depth of 900 feet the drill apparently dropped through a crust of rock and a rush of water followed that submerged the derrick and drove off the workmen. The drill was finally removed, which gave the water an unobstructed vent, and ever since the water has been escaping at a rate that threatens to submerge the neighborhood. The water escapes through a G-iuch pipe and is thrown fifty feet above the top of the derrick, which is itself eighty feet high. The force of the water is such that the column as it has been swayed from side to side by the wind, has knocked the cross timbers from the upper part of the derrick, leaving nothing but the upright pieces. The roar can be heard for miles. The water is salty. A channel will be started to the nearest creek. FISH FOR THE GREAT LAKES. Government Commission Expects to Double Its Distribution. The Fish Commission expects this year to almost double the work of last year. In 1894 about four hundred million fish were distributed. This year the division of fish culture hopes to exceed that figure by at least two hundred million and probably three hundred million. The work of the spring distribution is now at it's height. From the < >hio and Michigan stations the commission has already taken about one hundred and twenty millions whitefish and about eight million or ten million ls±e trout will be taken in the next ten days, lx the ire-ighborhood of four hundred thdu®amc lircx.k tr ait will be taken from the Cukirca,. s-ation. These fish will be juaineC its the great lakes and the surMmuag mlaiid lakes. The Put-in-Bay stctkn. hastiest rep •rted the collection of «w tv ( hundre'; millb-n pike and perch cgps trim. Lake Er:?. These will be disin the lakes and also the public ■waters of K-utu-ky. Tennessee. Ohio and Uimois tine leva. Th'e work of distribuIwij will i«e begun at Duluth in ten days. A mt»nt± urn tie marine work of the Government was ■ •mpj.-ted. The total output of cue lot distribution along the Maine coasu was 7<U*X'.Oo(». The lobster and earths!, work is also in preparation in the East Last year the commission handled lobsters. This year it is believed the number will be almost doubled. Shad is now one of the most important food fish and the number distributed will be increased from 50,000,000 last year to 100,000,000 this se'as,on.

• COURT WITH DEBS. Belief that the Labor Reader Will Be Released. A report from Washington is to the effect that the Supreme Court will in its decision of the Debs contempt case reverse the decision of the lower court made by Judge Woods, and grant the writ of habeas corpus asked -for Debs and his associates, relieving them of imprisonment for contempt in disobeying the orders of the court. It is understood that the court stands either six to two or five to three in favor of Debs. It was the strongest argument used by the attorneys for Debs that a man cannot be punished twice for the same offense and not without trial by jury. In this instance Debs and his associates were enjoined by the court from interference with the mails, and on complaint that they had failed to obey this injunction they were notonly arrested and indicted under the statutes but hauled into court for contempt ahd sentenced to imprisonment on that ground. Judge Lyman Trumbull and Clarence S. Darrow, their attorneys, argued that this was a sort of double barreled shotgun justice—punishing a man for a crime for which he had been indicted but before he was tried. Senator Voorhees, of Indianapolis, says he is in possession of information which leads him to the conclusion thatdhe Supreme Court will reverse the decision of Judge Woods. SPAIN THINKS IT WRONG. Will Ask Americans*to Cease Dining; the Revolutionists. At a conference in Madrid between the premier, Senor Canovas Del Castillo, and the minister of the colonies, Senor Castellano, the reception accorded Sunday last in New York to Carlos M. de Cespedes, eon of the first president of the Cuban provisional republic, who arrived there on the steamer La Champagne from Havre, was discussed and it was decided to call the attention of the United States, as a friendly nation, to the work of the separatists within the United States.

Missouri Legislature. The Missouri Legislature has convened in extraofdinary session, in response to the proclamation issued a few weeks ago by Gov. Stone, in which he excoriated the lobby and declared that the time had come when it should be definitely determined whether the people or the lobby should rule in Missouri. Nyack Poetoffice Robbed. r. The Nyack, N. Y., post office was en« tered by burglars Monday night and robbed of nearly $1,500 in money and postage stamps. The safe was blown open. Pilot Was Not to Blame. The report of the Cincinnati inspectors to Chief Inspector Chancellor upon the wreck of the steamer Longfellow exonerates the officers of the vessel and says the disaster was caused by the smoke shutting off from the view of the pilot the bridge pier. Theoaophs at War. A London dispatch says that Annie Besant is to reopen her charge against W. Q. Judge, the vice-president of the Theosophical Society, alleging that Mr. Judge has manufactured and distributed forged messages of the Mahatmas. Bloody Battle of Chickasaws. Couriers arrived at Guthrie, O. T., from Tishomingo, the capital of the Chickasaw nation, and report a battle between Governor Moseley and 200 insurrectionists. Six people were killed and eight wounded. The trouble is of long standing log at the Chickasaw seat of government. Chinaman Convicted of Murder. At Philadelphia, Lee Gum You was convicted of murder in the first degree. On Nov. 26 last he killed Lee Hong Quong, who was known as the mayor of Chinatown. You is said to be the first Chinaman ever convicted of murder in this country. , ■

LITTLE CASH FROM TAXES. Carlisle 'Estimates Income Revenue* for the Tear si »15,000,0-0. Washington special: Fifteen millions of dollars is the estimste now made by Secretary Carlisle of the total receipts from the income tax upon the figures furnished to the internal revenne bureau by the various collectors. The sum is just half the amount originally estimated by Mr. Carlisle. The lump of $30,000,000 prospective revenue which loomed up when the law passed paled when the Supreme Court knocked out the real estate and bond features, and it has again been dwarfed by the refusal of 20 per cent, of those liable under the law to report their incomes. In this class were many of the Government collectors, who, either by inadvertence or a premonition that the law would ultimately be overturned by the Supreme Court, failed to hand in their returns. Several if not all of the Vanderbilts have ignored the law, it is said. In every large city of the country there are many well-known men of wealth who hare made no returns. The law is so full of loopholes and incongruities that many palpable subjects for taxation have availed themselves of these defects and boldly met the issue. RIGHTS OF MERCHANT SHIPS. Secretary Gresham Says They Do Not Extend to Harboring Refugees. Secretary Gresham has laid down some doctrine touching the rights of merchant steamers in foreign ports to afford asylum to refugees. This was called out by a letter addressed to the State Department in December, 1893. by C. P. Huntington, president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, asking for an exact definition of the powers of captains of merchant steamers in this respect. The Secretary responded that the so-called doctrine of right of asylum having no application to merchant vessels in port, it follows that a shipmaster ean have no exercise of discretion on the character of offense charged against the refugee. While no general rule can be laid down as a comprehensive principle, a merchant vessel irt a foreign port is within the local jurisdiction of the country with respect to the offenses or offenders against the laws thereof, and an orderly demand for the surrender of a person accused of crime, by due process of Inw, with exhibition of a warrant of arrest in the hands of the regularly accredited officers of the Jaw, may not be disregarded or resisted by the master of the ship. '

MORTON NEEDS MONEY. Lack of Funds Prevents Adoption of Good Crop Information Plana. Secretary Morton and Statistician Robertson have not yet had an opportunity to consider the recommendations made by the various representatives of the commercial organization which recently presented plans looking to more accurate crop reports by the Department of Agriculture. While the suggestions of the commercial men may be taken into consideration, and some of them adopted, the department has already considered plans for improving the service and has found that the trouble lies in the fact that there is not sufficient money to carry out any method of reform that would greatly improve the service. Statistician Robertabolish the State agents while there are still but a limited number of reporters in each county. He thinks it well to increase the number of reporters, but this Is sortiething that the department had unfler consideration.

SHIP NOT HEARD FROM. Nearly Two Months Has Elapsed Without News of the Dud Hope. Nothing has been heard of the Dundee ship Dud Hope since Feb. 25, when she was boarded in midocean by a boat’s crew from the British ship Dortford. She was flying signals of distress, and the Hertford's sailors were told of a terrible experience in a hurricane. The Dud Hope was short of provisions, and the Dortford's skipper sent aboard a liberal supply. She sailed from Philadelphia on Nov. 4 for Hiogo, Japan, with 876,000 gallons of oil in cases, valued at $50,370. The vessel was commanded Ijy Captain McMillan, and carried a crew of twentytwo all told. She was owned by C. Barrie, of Dundee. SUGAR WORKS START UP. Spreckels’ Refinery and Others Resume Active Operations. Spreckels' sugar refinery at Philadelphia, Pa., which had been closed for about two weeks by order of the sugar trust, by which it is controlled, has started to run. The resumption of work is looked upon as a steady one. Th© plant is running on nearly full time, but with a reduced force. The other refinery, in Williamsburg, N. Y., which was closed by the trust at the same time that the Spreckels plant was shut down, has also resumed work. Oppressed People Will Rebel. London dispatch: Armenia is preparing for war. The revolutionary party has now both money and guns. During the past eight weeks money has poured into the revolutionary treasury in a steady stream from the Armenian colonies in Batoum, Tiflis, Baku, Erivan, Etchmiadzin and other places in Russia, and from Rescht, Kazvin, Teheran, Tebriz, Khoi and other cities in Persia. The central idea of the plan of campaign is a general uprising of Armenians throughout the Turkish empire some time during the month of May. The leaders have promised the people in the eastern part of Arpenia tlpt the jhief attack will be made in tne city of Constantinople itself, and that the brunt of the fighting will be done by the Armenian residents therein. The leaders have even gone so far as to declare that the first attack will be on the palace of the sultan. The younger Turks, particularly those who have traveled abroad, ardently wish that the present sultan was anywhere except on the throne. The Armenians have at least 3,000 Mar-tini-Henry rifles hidden in secret places in the mountains not a great distance from Lake Van.

Times-Herald Changes Hands. The controlling interest in the Chicago Times-Herald and Evening Post was purchased Saturday by H. H. Kohlsaat, who will direct the policy of the two papers hereafter. The new management says the policy of the Times-Herald will be wholly independent of party ties, striving for that which is best for the nation,heedless of the dictates of mere partisanship. In national affairs, while avoiding alliance with any party, it will always advocate the doctrine of protection to American industry. Medal for Benjamin Harrison. On the occasion of the semi-centennial celebration of the New Jersey Historical Society, to be held in Newark, N. J., on May 16, ex-President Harrison is to be preseirted with a gold medal, an exquisite production in miniature of the Houdon bust of Washington. Another copy in silver is tb be presented to Vice-Chan-cellor Robert S. Green, Governor of New Jersey in 1889. Both gentlemen will ad.dress the society on May 16. Elkins Not a Candidate. Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, father-in-law of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, while in New York declared' ’tbaei his son-in-law would positively not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency.