Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — DESTITUTE ’FRISCO. [ARTICLE]

DESTITUTE ’FRISCO.

OFFICIALS PUZZLED TO GET NEEDED SUPPLIES. Alleged Bank Wrecker Arrested—St. Louis Business Man Mulcted—Big Steamer Goes Down in an Ice FloeLeather Is Higher. Must Have Cash. In order to secure supplies for the city and county, now destitute, the Supervisors of San Francisco have announced their intention of providing a tax levy for the next fiscal year for the payment of supplies from now until July 1. The Supreme Court is to be asked to restrain the Supervisors from carrying out their intentions, and a speedy decision will be asked. But this will take time, and it is necessary that funds be supplied at once, so that contractors may be prevailed upon to furnish supplies. The heads of departments are trying to come to an agreement to postpone their claims for May and June salaries. If this were done, the current income would tide the city over.

BIG RISE IN LEATHER. Said to Result from Shortage in Live Cattle. Leather has risen in price and shoes will be dearer in consequence as much as 25 per cent., jobbers and manufacturers believe. Prices of certain grades have gone up from 6 to 9 cents a pound, a rise amounting to over GO per cent, in some instances. Lower grades of shoes have advanced in some cases 15 per.cent., and Boston agents of the manufacturers are notifying customers that they cannot duplicate orders at prices recently quoted. All this results from the shortage in the receipts of live cattle and consequent shortage in the supply of hides, though there is a suspicion that the leather trust has helped the matter along. One of the heaviest manufacturing houses in Chicago telegraphed for quotations and got. the following: No. 2 leather at 17 to 18 cents a pound, an advance of 4 to 6 cents since the rise began: on grain leather at 14 to 1G cents, against 8 to 9 cents three months ago, and on other grades in projection. »

FOLSOM UNDER ARREST. The Alleged Bank-Wrecker in Custody at Albuquerque Under Indictments. When S. M. Folsom, now of Chicago, the banker who is charged with wrecking the Albuquerque National Bank and the New Mexico Savings Bank and Trust Company, stepped from a passenger train at Albuquerque, N. M., Monday night from the east, Deputy United States Marshal Knight placed him under arrest on indictments recently found here by a United States grand jury. Folsom was tried and convicted Inst year and sentenced to the territorial penitentiary for five years, but owing to the persistent efforts of his lawyers he has never served his sentence. Folsom will have no trouble to give a bond. Lost on Lake Huron. The steamer A. Everett, Chicago to Ogdensburg with grain, was sunk by the ice on Lake Huron, twenty miles above Point Au Barques, Monday night. The crew were all successful in escaping from the wreck and were picked up by the steamer Eber Ward. The steamer was valued at $50,000, and is supposed to have been insured for about $38,000. She was owned by the Minch estate, of Cleveland. Two years ago the Everett came pear meeting her fate with ice on Lake Superior. Flour Mills Combine. Five large flouring milling plants ot Milwaukee were Tuesday merged into a ■combination or trust with the object of reducing expenses by doing away with eastern representatives ami traveling agents. The mills in the combine are the Sanderson Milling Company, Phoenix Mill, the Daisy Mill, owned by the Allis Company, Manegold Milling Company, B. Stern & Co.’s Jupiter Mills and the Magdeburg Company. Pottery Combine Shattered. The pottery combination known as the Akron-Canton stoneware agency, which has sold more than two-thirds of the pottery goods of the United States for the last ten years, has been broken. There has been considerable dissatisfaction among the thirteen members of the pool for several months past. It is said the immediate result of the disruption will be a sharp decline in prices on all kinds of pottery gtods. Chandler Is Convicted. At St. Louis, Judge Murphy, in the case against P. W. Chandler, a former well-knotyn member of the Merchants’ Exchange, charged by James F. Coyle, a prominent business man, with alienating his wife’s affections, sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of SSOO and serve six months in the workhouse.

Another Wreck on the Interocean ic. Another wreck on the Interoeeanic Railroad is reported at Temematla, Mex., the scene of the disaster by which nearly one hundred passengers lost their lives. A freight train jumped the track, and it is said the number killed is fourteen, with several more injured. jT Will Be a Royal Gift. King Humbert and Queen Margharita have given an order to a Turin jeweler for a magnificent diadem in pearls and diamonds to cost 110,000 francs. This will be their joint present to the Princess, d’Orleans on the occasion of her comin marriage with the Due d'Aosta. Three Americans Killed in Mexico. Word has reached Sierra Mojada, Mex., .of the killing of three Americans in a fight in the Carmen mining district, near the- Texas border, one of them being John F. Lemon, superintendent of one of the new mines At that place.. The cause of the trouble is not known. Terrible Double Tragedy. James Young, janitor of the Brazil, Ind., court house, shot and killed bis wife st Hoosierville. He then drove to Brazil, went to the court house and shot himself dead. i Suicide of a Painter. i At Springfield, Ohio, Robert Duszynski, a fresco painter, shot.himself while in bed and died instantly. He was well-to-do, having $3,000. in the bank, but was addicted to morphine and had a horror of death by Bright’s disease, of which he Was a sufferer. Belva Lockwood Again Defeated. The Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia has refused to grant the application of Belva Lockwood for permission to practice law in that State. Her application came up on appeal from the lower court, which decided against Iter several months ago.

FIFTY DAYS OF TERROR. British Garrison in Chitral Suffers Terrible Loss. Calcutta dispatch: A dispatch from Simla announce! that the contents of the diary of Dr. Robertson, the British political agent at Chitral, who was besieged in the fort there, and who was relieved on Saturday by the flying column commanded by Cot Kelly, has been received there, and gives an account of the siege. He says that on March 3 the British garrison made a reconhoisance in force and lost twenty-two officers and men killed*and had thirty-one wounded. The siege proper began oa March 4. On the Bth the enemy tried th set fire to the water tower, and on the besiegers attacked the east side fsftij but were repulsed. The enemy on ApV>,s -attempted to set fire to the citadgßJfc on the 11th the fort was attacfesSOeuU sides. The garrison made a «ril 17, recaptured the summer l b®W up th o enemy’s mine. The By. sortie was eight killed ano wounded. The enemy lost they es whom thirty-five were bayonet^o west ptroops engaged in the sortie. On .Asual ccthe siege was raised. NEW JERSEY BANK ROBBED. Thieves Make a Good Haul from a Plainfield Institution. The First National Bank of Plainfield, N. J., was robbed of $22,765 Monday. It is thought the theft was committed while there were but two clerks in the bank, when a stranger entered and engaged them in conversation while a confederate reached the vault through the directors’ room. The robbery was discovered when the cashier, Frank S. Runyon, was preparing to close the bank for the day. The money was in two packages. One contained $20,000 in new bills, ranging in value from $lO to SI,OOO. The other contained $2,705 in mutilated bills. AU of the bank employes were immediately questioned, and it was found that at the noon hour only two clerks had been at their posts. The bank officers believe that the robbery was the work of professionals. The affair was kept from the public for several days.

WANT THE STRIKE KEPT UP. Coal Mine Operators Think It Holds Up Prices. It is generally believed in Pittsburg that the operators will combine to tight the miners of the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio road. Non-union men have been brought in to take the places of the strikers and more are coming. This is expensive and the operators of the district will help bear the expense, believing that if the mines along that division are once put in operation at the reduced rate the backbone of the strike will be broken. An operator admitted that this was the plan decided upon. The report is also current that the benefits that are paid regularly to the strikers do not come wholly from the miners Who are employed. In fact, the Ohio operators are credited with liberal contributions to keep the strike going.

DENOUNCE SECRETARY MORTON. East St. Louis Live Stock Men Grow Indignant. The members of the East St. Louis Live Stock Exchange held an indignation meeting at the National Stock Exchange and denounced Secretary Morton. The proceedings were opened by a discussion of the advisability of replying to his statements in which he charged that the rise in the price of beef was extortion and the result of a beef ring or pool or combine. Resolutions were adopted calling upon him to appoint a commission for the purpose of making an investigation under oath as to the truth or falsity of his charges, the exchange to pay all expenses. BLESSING IN DISGUISE. December Cold Snap Saved Florida Orange Trees. First Assistant Secretary Sims of the Interior Department has returned to Washington from Florida, where he owns an orange grove. He says that the first cold snap of the past winter, which came in December, destroyed 2,500,000 of unpacked fruit. In spite of the great damage done this storm was a blessing in disguise, as it checked the growth of the trees and kept them from being in blossom when the second -cold snap came. Hundreds of trees escaped that would have been killed had it not been for the first cold wave. Of Value to Mail Men. N. M. Brooks, superintendent of the foreign mail service in Washington, has received copies of the universal postal guide, issued by the International Bureau of the Postal Union. This work was first projected at the World’s Postal Congress held in Vienna, in July, 1891, which instructed the international bureau under Director Hohn to carry out the work. Preliminary arrangements were made, and in October, 1891, requests were sent to all the countries of the world for lists of their post offices and information in regard to them. Responses were general, every country in and out of the postal union, except Colombia, Hayti, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominica, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and the Portuguese colonies, sending all that was asked. These countries were not omitted, however, from the guide, as the bureau obtained the information desired from other sources. The present volume is a huge one, printed in large, handsome type, containing the names of over 200,000 post offices. One third of the whole number are in this country. The guide is brought up to Oct. 1, 1894. Supplements will be issued each July and January hereafter, showing additions and changes. The volume is printed in French, but the names of the post offices are given in the language of the country in which they are located, except where the domestic and foreign names of a well-known city are different. Then both are given.

Texas Ranchers Suffer. The terrific hail storm which swept through Wilson, Bexar and Medina Counties, Texas, Wednesday night did much damage. The hail stones were the size of goose eggs and covered the ground to the depth of two feet. The towns of Lytle, Benton City and Castroville were greatly devastated by the storm, the houses being riddled like a sieve by the hail stones. The damages to residences and business houses in Lytle alone amount to about $50,000. Hundreds of head of live stock were killed. The track of the International and Great Northern Railroad was blockaded with hail stone A-and they had to be removed before •• trains could proceed. The cotton and corn crops in the path of the storm were completely destroyed. Two hundred thousand dollars, it is estimated, will hardly cover the amount of damage to crops and other property. A subscription was started for the relief of sufferers from the storm.I f Gold Mine in Tennessee. Gold has been discovered in the neighborhood of Raleigh, a suburb of Memphis. The examination has extended sufficiently far to give the assurance of gold being present in paying quantity, and the presence of platinum being even more strongly marked. Killed by the Recoil. The death of Coxswain John Johnson of the cruiser Olympia was not caused by the blowing of the breech plug of the five-inch rifle, as first reported, but by the recoil of the rifle itself, which struck the coxswain full in the face.

GOOD TONE TO TRADE. Fewer Signa of Hesitation in Productive Industries. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Neither the rising speculative markets nor tjie steady gain in industries has ceased, and it is wholesome that there are fewer signs of hesitation in the productive industries than in speculative prices. Wage strikes grow more numerous and cause some trouble, and retail demand lags behind wholesale and jobbing purchases behind production in some branches, but through many conflicting reports the fact shines out that the industries are gaining, not with a rush and a whirl but more safely. It is less clear that railroads are increasing their earnings. But revival of activity in other directions helps confidence to take the throne so long held by distrust.

CIVIL WAR LIKELY. Opposition Attempt the Overthrow of the Administration in Nicaragua. Corinto, Nicaragua, dispatch: Taking advantage of the uneasiness that is manifesting itself throughout the Nicaraguan republic in consequence of England’s occupation of Corinto, the opposition party is making an attempt to overthrow the present administration by force of arms. The Government is aware of the scheme and is adopting measures to nip it in the bud. Martial law has been proclaimed and recruits are being enrolled. It is said that the British consul has been handed his passports.

Largest Ever Known. Reports from all sections of Kansas show that the condition of the wheat crop is in a perilous condition in the eastern and southern section. In central Kansas the ground is very dry and thousands of acres of wheat has been plowed up and the fields planted in corn. Unless rain comes soon the corn crop in this section will also be a failure. With the most favorable condition there will not be over a half crop of wheat harvested in the State. Farmers are planting corn in the southern half of the State and in the southeastern sections it is growing rapidly. The fruit crop, peaches, apples and berries, will be the largest in the history of the State.

Matthews Would Accept. In an interview Gov. Matthews of Indiana was asked if he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered him. His reply was: “Of course I would. So would any citizen. If the Governor of a State says he would refuse to be so honored, you can put it down that his statement is pure and simple affectation. But 1 am not a candidate, not a candidate for anything—that is, in the sense of seeking the nomination.”

May Turn Convicts Loose. A peculiar situation has developed in the Nebraska State finances by which it may be necessary to close the penitentiary. The last Legislature abolished the contract system in vogue, but failed to appropriate funds to pay the institution’s expenses. No money is available. The Governor must call an extra session of the Legislature to have the appropriation made or make the penitentiary self-sup-porting. He will try the latter. Emigrants Steal a Child. Three emigrants encamped near Abilene, Kan., seized Mabel Clark, tho 14-year-old niece of a Rock Island engineer named Brunson, of Herington, Kan., knocked her senseless and took her several miles west. A searching party followed in a few hours and found her the following morning bruised and badly injured on the prairie. She had escaped after a hard struggle. Bicycles Hurt Street Cars. The Denver tramway cut wages from 25 cents an hour to 20. This is the result of the presence of the bicycle, which has made great inroads into the revenue of the company, receipts falling off 50 per cent, in fine weather, when the traffic was supposed to be heaviest. It is estimated that there are 10,000 wheels in Denver, an increase of 4,000 this spring. Cuban Rebels Are Beaten. The Spanish Government has received an official dispatch from Havana confirming the announcement that Gen. Bosch had defeated the insurgents near Guayabel, killing ten men and wounding many and capturing a quantity of arms and ammunition.

Stanford University Will Not Close. The financial strain on Stanford University has been fixed up so that it will continue to run as usual for at least one year. When the Federal Government filed its $15,000,000 railroad claim against the Stanford estate the university received a heavy blow. Time Was Extended. Upon representations that citizens of Nicaragua were making an honest effort to raise $75,000 to pay the Hatch indemnity, Great Britain granted art extension of time to make up the account. Drouth Broken in Oklahoma. The first rain in Oklahoma since Oct. 1 fell Wednesday morning. It is too late to help wheat, but will be invaluable to corn and oats. Big Booty for Thieves. The store of Noah Hertzler at Port Royal. Pa., was robbed of stocks, bonds and cash amounting to about $35,000.