Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — WOULD CORNER GOLD. [ARTICLE]

WOULD CORNER GOLD.

SCHEME OF MORGAN-ROTHS-CHILD CROWD. Death Grins nt a Royal Pair—Big Strike Starts with Rioting—Cleveland Preparing to Work with Comfort This Summer. Buying Up the Gold. A Washington dispatch says the treasury officials are greatly excited over the discovery that there is an actual basis for the report that the Morgan-Rothschild bond syndicate is conspiring to corner the gold market. The story has been circulating in a semi-confidcntial manner for some- days past and was at first regarded as a foolish canard. It is a fact, however, given out by, the very best authority, that brokers representing this syndicate of money “sharps*’ have lieeii paying a premium for the refined gold output of the private refineries throughout the West during the last two months and that they are accumulating fine gold at the rate of $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 per month, which represents fully two-thirds of the entire gold output of the United States. The attention of officials of the Treasury Department was first attracted to this peculiar business by the sharp falling oft in the deposits of gold at the mints, and inquiry very soon developed the fact that private parties were buying the product of the refineries. Further inquiry revealed the additional and very suspicious fact that the metal thus purchased was drifting to New York, where it is being put in store to the credit of the Morgan-Roths-child syndicate. FURNACE MEN QUIT. Twelve Hundred Illinois Steel Works Men Go Out-Dispute Over Wages. About 1,200 men employed in various capacities at the blast furnaces of the Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago went on strike Tuesday. The laborers, greasers and helpers at the same company’s tjhops in Joliet are on strike. Altogether 4,500 to S.O<M) men are affected by the strike. The strikers of South Chicago demand a reduction in their hours of labor and an increase of pay. They have been working twelve hours a day and their pay has been $1.60 per day. They demand a ten-hour day and the restoration of the former schedule by which they were able to earn $2.10 a day. The Joliet men ask for an advance of pay ranging from 10 per cent up. The laborers, who have been paid 11 cents an hour, or sl.lO a day, ask $1.35 to $1.50 a day, but it is expected they would be satisfied with $1.25. Thus far there has been no sign ttat the company will accede to the men’s demands, and the strike may prove a serious setback to the revival of business which seemed to have begun. Men in other industries are said to be infected with the same desire for more pay, and the strike may spread both in South Chicago and Joliet. A serious riot occurred Tuesday afternoon at South Chicago, in which ten police and forty or fifty strikers were hurt.

TO WORK AT GRAY GABLES, Preßident Fitting Up an Executive Office at His Summer Home. A complete executive office will be established at Gray Gables for the President’s use this summer, and as arrangements have been made for the transaction of all public business that will come before him, it is probable that his departure for Buzzard’s Bay will be made as soon as the weather becomes oppressive in Washington. Private Secretary Thurber will be near enough so that he can work with the President every day. No appointments that may be made or other business transacted by the President will be furnished to the public at Buzzard's Bay, but will be sent to the White House in Washington for announcement. All communication with the departments will be through the clerks in charge of the White House. This method is taken in order to avoid any necessity for the officials to be in attendance at Gray Gables.

ROYAL LIVES IN PERIL. King Humbert and Queen Margaret Barely Escape Death. King Humbert and Queen Margaret of Italy had a narrow escape from death Tuesday. They were on their way by rail in a special train from Florence to Rome, attended by their suites. Suddenly, near Incisa Lake, there was a violent shock, one of the carriages was derailed and everybody on board the train received more or less serious concussions. An obstruction of some description, it appears, either fell across the track or was placed there by evil-minded persons. Several members of the royal suite sustained slight injuries, but the King and Queen escaped with nothing more serious than a bad shaking up. Six New Gunboats. The six gunboats, for which plans have recently been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, will be known by number until they are named by the Secretary. It is the intention of the construction bureau in preparing the specifications to have the new boats completed in the least possible time, and it is considered that they should be ready to go into commission within fifteen months. Many Adulterations Discovered The annual report of State Food Commissioner McNeal to Gov. McKinley, filed st Columbus, 0., reflects severely upon the commercial honesty of the day. Out of 1,329 samples of foods analyzed 846 were adulterations. Death in the Water. Five out of seven occupants of a leaky old boat, which the party had taken to go for a fishing trip on Carsrude Lake, Colo., were drowned. Badger, one of the party had become frightened and overturned the boat while attempting to paddle it to the shore. Hovae Lost Three Hundred Killed. Additional advices received from Majunga regarding the victory of the French on the Betaiboka river show that the Hovas lost 300 men, including several important chiefs. Swindled Workingmen. An indictment has been drawn in Cleveland, Ohio, against Charles W. Rogers, now in jail in Toledo. Rogers advertised for stationary, engineers and charged applicants $lO each for finding them employment, when, it is claimed, he had no ritnations to offer, those that he named being fictitious. Victims of a Woman Dentist. At Hiattsville, Kan., over half a dozen people, including the Methodist minister, Bare been poisoned, some of them perhaps fatally, by medicine administered by a traveling woman dentist. Dr. Alberta Oberlin. from St. Jxmia.

POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP. Five Persons Killed by an Explosion at South Acton, Maas. Friday morning one of the powder mills of the American Powder Company at South Acttm, Mass., blew up.* A few minutes later a second mill, situated 100 yards away, also exploded. Fire, caused by the explosion, spread to the third mill, known asfirerCorning mill, and in a few minutes it blew up and was also destroyed. Five persons are believed to have been killed. The woods close by the mills were set on fire and burned fiercely, threatening the big storehouse of the company, containing 20,000 pounds of powder, and preventing the saving of property. Fifty men were employed in the tnills, and when the noise of the first explosion was heard those in the Corning hifllsjsbout thirty in number, nisbed from the building and escaped before the flames Siax ad to the mill. The mills, ten in number, are separated from one another and inclosed by high board fences. The explosion of the first mill set lire to the surrounding fence and the flames soon spread to the second mill. In fifteen minutes after the first explosion three of the'mills bad been destroyed. INTERESTING COTTON FIGURES. Movement Is Already Larger than Ever Before Known. Secretary Hester’s monthly cotton statement, issued from New Orleans, shows the l'?gest April movement on record, 324.000 bales, against 249,000 last year. The movement from Sept. 1 to April 30 includes total receipts at all United States delivery’ ports, 7,730,153 bales, against 5,682,842 lust year. Net overland movement by railroads across the Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers, 046,706 bales, against 788,714 last year. Southern mill takings, exclusive of quantity consumed at Southern outports, 586.109 bales, against 500,054 last year. Interior stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the season, 114,309 bales, against 103,891 last year. These make the total amount of the cotton crop brought into sight during the eight months to close of April, 9,377,358 bales, against 7,166,401 last year (the year of the 9,000,000 bale crop).

CRITICISES OUR ARMY. Observations of a Swiss Officer- Military Affairs Here Arc Dormant. Consul Germain, of Zurich, Switzerland, furnishes the State Department at Washington an account of the impressions of an officer of the Swiss army who recently made a tour of the world and is now lectwring on what he has seen. The officer declares that the United States is dormant so far as its military affairs are concerned; that although it has on paper an army of 7,852,718 men, 7,695,000 have never seen service, 120,600 of tbem are the National Guards and 25,707 men from the regular army are doing police duty and fighting unruly Indians. Comparing the military systems of Japan and China, he says that Japan’s compares favorably with European organizations, and Cliinu’S is the worst existing.

DIES AT HIS POST. —I Alton Engineer Killed by Masked Bandits, Near Carlinville, 111. Alton mail and express train No. 3 wap held up about half a mile north of Carlinville, 111., at midnight Wednesday by a gang of five men. The train had just stopped for the crossing when the men began firing and jumped into the cab and commanded the engineer and fireman to hold up their hands. They were scared away by the train ’crew, but not before they had killed the engineer. The gang ran in all directions, but three of them were captured and are now in jail. The sheriff and posse, armed with shotguns, have started on the trail of the rest of the men and hope to have them soon. The dead engineer was Frank Holmes, one of the oldest and best engineers on the Alton road. JUDGE’S HEART IS SOFTENED. Reducesa Prisoner's Sentence Because of a Child’s Letter. In the United States District Court at St. Louis Judge 'Priest sentenced Ira G. Cook to four years in the Missouri penitentiary for counterfeiting. Judge Priest at first gavefiCook seven years. Cook said that he had two little girls and his mother was also living. He drew from bis<pqcket a letter from one of the girls and handed it to the judge. The girl is 10 years old and wrote that she hoped her father would soon be with them, and said She and her little sister were going to write to the court to let their papa come home. Judge Priest read the letter and told Cook that bis sentence was reduced to four years.

GLASS IN MASHED POTATOES. William Hersinger Almost Killed by a Strange Accident. For the first time in eight days William Hersinger, a young man living at 621 Bush street, San Francisco, slept Thursday. He had a narrow escape from death and suffered intense agony, and all because he was indiscreet enough to eat mashed potatoes in a cheap restaurant. The potatoes contained some bits of glass, which cut his throat so that it became terribly swollen and inflamed. He was unable to eat or sleep for many days. Physicians say he may recover. Bread Will Rise in Price. Flour is to follow oil, beef and wheat in a plunge for higher prices if certain millers have their way. The United Millers’ Association was to have held a conference in Chicago Friday. While the conference was not held in Chicago—unless the meeting was in the office of one of the trust companies where complete ignorance of such a conference was claimed—the meeting is yet to come off. There are 18,000 millers of all classes in the United States, and of these 750 are merchant millers. To combine nil would be an impossibility, but the Pillsbury contingent of Minneapolis, all the Milwaukee millers but two, and a few from Buffalo and Rochester, would like to bring the Duluth mills within their organization and go in for a general rise in prices. The situation in rye flour is deemed phenomenal. The visible supply in the country is 150,000 bushels. The visible supply a year ago was 386,000 bushels. In New York rye patent flour has been advanced to $4 per barrel. Some advance has already taken place in Chicago. An advance in the price of bread would probably be the first effective notice the public would receive of the successful formation of the combination. The organization, if perfeeted, would* it is estimated, directly control fifty mills, indirectly 100 more, and have some 200,000,000 bushels of spring wheat to keep out of the hands of the speculators and 17,850 other mills not in the combine.

Race for the Pennant. ±J Fallowing is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: •Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg ... .13 10 3 .769 Boston 10 7 3 .700 Cleveland ... .12 8 4 .667 Baltimore «... 9 5 4 .556 Chicago 13 7 6 .538 Brooklyn .... 10 5 5 .500 Cincinnati . ...14 7 7 .500 New York..., 11 5 6 .456 Philadelphia ..10 4 6 .400 Louisville ....12 4 8 .333 Washington ..10 3 7 .300 St Louis.

GEESHAM ts A SICK MAN. Too Many Visitors Are Admitted to the Bed-Chamber of the Secretary. Secretary Gresham is a sick man. He has not taken any nourishment for three days. He has lost his voice and is in a bad way. Several visitors were admitted during Thursday afternoon in violation of the physician’s orders, and they persisted in discussing pending diplomatic complications and left him in a feverish, semi-delirious state during the night. The ailment, neuralgia of the stomach, it is learned, is one of nearly a year’s standing and twice before in three months has compelled the Secretary to take to his bed. FELL DEAD ON THE LAWN. Mr. Burrough, of New Jersey, Expires After Making a Speech. Edward Burrough, of Merchantville, N. J., ex-president of the State Board of Agriculture, a member of the State Road Commission and ex-clerk of Camden County, made a speech on the lawn at the residence of Gen. E. Burd Grubb, exminister to Spain, Friday, and five minutes Inter fell dead at the feet of bis comrades, of the famous Twenty-third regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. Mt'. Burrough had charge of the New Jersey agricultural exhibit of the World's Fair. Statistics of Divorces. S'The London foreign office publishes a table giving the number of divorces in foreign countries yearly for the last ten years, the figures having been sjiecially gathered by members of the consular corps. In the whole of Great Britain during 1894 but 500 divorces were applied for, while in Germany the total was nearly 7,000, and in France 5,700. The State of Massachusetts shows up with one divorce to every twenty-two marriages. Slain by a Cyclone. A death-laden cyclone Saturday afternoon struck the town of St. Charles, twelve miles, south of Elgin, 111., leaving a corpse-strewn track. Four persons were killed, one person was fatally hurt, and two victims received serious injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Hattie E. Church, aged 30; Charles N. Thompson, aged 28; Miss Augusta Anderson, aged 18; Charles Anderson. The injured are: Miss Emma Johnson, fatally; Luke H. Caustin, dangerously; Andrew Johnson, severely. Wisconsin Storm Swept. An electric und wind storm in Wisconsin on Friday and the day before killed several people and damaged much property. The dead are: Joseph Anderla, aged 14, killed in his bed at Kellnerville; Jasper Chlup, killed at Lodi; John Kitchen meister, killed at Seymour; Mrs. Joseph Sutherland, killed in her cellar at York, where she had gone to get away from the storm.

Hottest on Record. In the twenty years' meteorological history of Chicago there are but seven years jn which the temperature rose as high in any time of May as it did Friday. In the quarter of a century no similar date ever equaled-the day in heat. The maximum temperature was 88, and the average for the twenty-four hours 73. One case of prostration by heat was reported. Two Men Killed in a Duel. Seth Stallcup, a Fuited States deputy marshal, and I. N. Taylor, old-time enemies, met in a duel at Sherer school bouse, Cherokee County, N. C. It was agreed to fight with naked fists, but Stallcup soon whipped Taylor, when each ran for his firearms. Stallcup's head was shot off. Taylor was mortally shot in the stomach and Reed's horse was killed. Will Not Lose Her Home. The pension department at Washington has sent orders to Special Examiner Davison at Parkersburg, W. Va., to go to Mrs. Ryan, the aged widow whose pension was suspended because the department made a mistake, and. withdraw the demand that was made on her to pay all money back that she Had received. Echo of an Ocean Murder. Herman Spars has been acquitted in the United States Circuit Court at San Francisco of the charge of assisting in the murder of Second Mate Marice Fitzgerald of the American bark Hesper. He was found guilty on a former trial Killed His Enemy in Court. In Judge Maye’s court at Tazewell, Tenn., Grant Poore, a notorious outlaw, while on trial for larceny, shot and killed Benjamin Carroll, a witness against him. The men were enemies for years and once arranged a jluel, which friends prevented. Must Use Some Other Fuel. The Standard Oil Company served notice on a number of Cleveland factories, which have been using petroleum for fuel, that it could no longer furuish them with fuel oil. ter Embarrasses the President. The position of San Salvador’s president is embarrassing, as Congress has decreed to itself almost absolute powers. The trouble may have to be settled by force. Duke of Orleans Very 111. The condition of the Duke of Orleans, who broke his leg on Friday last while out hunting, is serious. A slight attack of pneumonia is complicating matters.