Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — NOT A SUMMER FOOD. [ARTICLE]

NOT A SUMMER FOOD.

UNPALATABLE FACTS ABOUT PORK. Spain Regrets tbe Firing on the Steamer Alliance—Big Trust Comes to Grief Our Columbian Bell Awakens Sentiment in Europe. Pork with Trichinosis. It is said at the Agricultural Department that there is no truth in the published reports that pork examined microscopically for export to Germany and France and found to contain trichinae is stamped by the inspectors as free from disease and eo transported and sold in interstate commerce trade. Early in February Secretary Morton ordered all pork found to be affected with trichinosis tanked, but-later it was decided that the present law did not give the Secretary this authority. The enforcement of the order was therefore postponed until July 1, when the new law goes into effect. It is doubtful if the new law will give the Secretary the necessary power, and it is probable the only relief must come through the local authorities unless the Secretary secures from the shippers of pork to Germany and France (the countries requiring the inspection for trichinae) voluntary agreements, such as have been made with shippers of beef, mutton, etc., by which the latter agree to tank such carcasses as do not pass the Federal inspection. If such a regulation is put in force, however, it is feared that the pork exportation to Germany and France will cease. ‘’The percentage of pork affected with trichinosis is so large,” said Mr. Salmon, “that if all the carcasses found to be affected went to the rendering vats the shippers' profits would all disappear.” The amount of pork exported to Germany and France averages from 5.000,000 to 7,000,000 pounds monthly.

SPAIN’S ANSWER RECEIVED. '■Jl'ull Disavowal of the Firing on the Steamer Allianca. The State Department has received from United States Minister Taylor at Madrid the complete and final answer of Spain to the demand of Secretary Gresham for a disavowal of the firing on the United States merchant ship Allianca. The document has been awaited for some time with interest, as it was one of the main subjects which Acting Secretary Uhl bronght to the attention of the cabinet at the meeting Tuesday. The answer is most cordial in tone and is expressive of the fullest disavowal of the course of the commander of the Spanish gunboat which fired on the Allianca. It is said to be entirely satisfactory to this Government, as it fully meets in letter and spirit the demands made. DUPLICATES OF COLUMBIAN BELL They Will Be Presented to Russia and the United States. The Columbian Liberty Bell Committee at New York is in receipt of a letter from Clifton It. Breckinridge, United States minister to Russia, in which he asks for a full description and photograph of the great Columbian liberty and peace bell for Mr. Berthauld, the Russian artist, who is charged with making a design of the “Bell of the Peace” that is to be presented, as the result of a popular move ment Of the people of Russia, to the people of France. MISSIONARY STATIONS RUINED. Chinese Rioters Destroy Much Property at Ching Too. Intelligence has been received that the French Catholic and English and American missionary property at Ching Too, capital of the province of Szeehuen, Western China, was destroyed by rioters. The missionaries are reported to be safe in the official Yamens. The province of Szechuen has been termed the “Texas of China.” Ching Too is the capita) city.

Taylor's Bondsmen Must Pay. At Pierre-, 8. I>., the defense in the •nit against ei-Treasurer Taylor's bondsmen attempted to show the defalcation to be in his first term by proving through his books that Taylor was charged with $250,000 in his own bank on Jan. 31,1893, and proving by a transcript of the bank account that he was credited with only $34,000 on that date, alleging that this constituted a shortage . Judge Gaffey ordered a verdict for the full amount claimed, $344,277.45. The defense asked a stay of sixty days to prepare an appeal. Millions for Public Works. The publishers of “Paving and Municipal Engineering" have gathered statistics from the city engineers of 300 cities of more than 10,000 population which show that more public work will be done during the summer of 1895 than ever before, the expenditures for paving, sewering, water works and bridges approximating $200,000,000, while last year less than ouefourth of this amount was expended.

Cordage Trust on the Hocks. In the United States Circuit Court at Boston, Judge Colt appointed John I. Waterbury, of Morristown, N. J., and William E. Strong, of Strong & Cadwalader, as receivers of the United States Cordage Company on petition of E. Rollins Morse, as representative of the creditors. It has been known for some time that the company was in financial difficulties. One Life Lost. The worst fire ever known in Freder* ickaburg, Va., occurred Tuesday morning. The Kingzie factory and Excelsior mill and six dwelling houses were burned. William Deshazo, epgineer at the Excelsior mill, was burned to death. Egan Is Formally Appointed. In the United States Circuit Court at Portland, Ore., Judge Gilbert signed an order appointing John M. Egan receiver of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway and also an order allowing the issue of Receivers’ certificates to the amount of $750,000. Wilde Said to Be Insane. It is reported in London that Oscai Wilde, who was recently sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Pentonville prison at hard labor, after having been convicted of gross indecency, has become insane Stands the Test. The new American Line steamer St. Louis left the Capes of the Delaware on her builder’s sea trial Monday morning at daylight. The result has been most satisfactory to builders and owners. The trip was for the purpose of putting everything in order for her initial trip. Hiot at Tallulah Falls, Ga. South Carolina excursionists to Tallulah Falls, Ga., engaged in a riot, and the town marshal’s throat was cut, the sheriff had his throat gashed and a deputy was seriously injured. At Cornelia a posse ran the rioters into a swamp and captured four of them.

| rtHW CROP REPORT SCHEME. Agricultural Department Organizing Correspondents in Every Township. A* scheme to make an important change in the system of crop reporting is about to be put into operation by the Agricultural Department. A correspondent will be located in every township, and he will be required to report promptly to the Department The plan will embrace only twenty States, ranging from New Y'ork to the innermost of the Central States, but these comprise 90 per cent of the wheat area. They include 1,389 counties, and the greatness of the scheme is apparent when it is taken into consideration that the number of townships in a county averages about fifteen. This will be used in conjunction with the system now in vogue, each set of reports acting as a check on the other. Steps looking to the organization of the new correspondents have been ‘taken, but the new plan cannot be put in operation before next year. The plan suggested by a committee of tbe Naplan was suggested by a committee of the National Board of Trade. Another plan, that of licensing all thrashers who are to be required to make the reports, has been under consideration, but it is not regarded as feasible by officials. The thrashers would have to be licensed by the State. This would cause a very material delay in transmittal. HONOR FOR A HERO. Funeral Services for the Departed Secretary of State. All honors there are for a dead soldier were accorded Wednesday at Washington to the remains of Walter Quinton Gresham. That surpassing tribute —a military funeral—all the nation can do for the very best of its sons in death, was paid him. The wheels of the Government at home and in the remote corners of the earth where it is represented by ministers and consuls, stopped still while the ceremonies of the burial progressed. Every official flag on the department buildings, on the far-away frontier posts, on post offices and on custom houses all over the United States fluttered at half-mast. The President and his ministers laid aside their duties and bore away the body to its last rest. The fondest wish of the statesman or soldier could ask no more. All through the ceremonies President Cleveland's gaze was riveted upon the ensket which contained tbe remains of his friend. Mr. Cleveland was greatly affected, and of all those in the great room hone showed, more clearly his depth of feeling. .* . , •:!'■ (i MEN OF PEACE NOW* Confederate and Union Ex-Officers Meet ut a Banquet. One of the most remarkable military reunions in the history of the world-oc-curred at Chicago Wednesday, when the most famous surviving generals of, the Confederacy met the most famous surviving generals of the Union armies at a banquet tendered by the Citizens’ Committee of Chicago. Two hundred and fifty men, many of them prominent in the nation’s history, sat down to the feast. Opposite Mayor Swift and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee sat Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet, the famous ex-Confederate chieftain. Gen. Wade Hampton chatted with Gen. John M. Palmer, and Geu. Butler, of South Carolina, pledged the health of Illinois’ faforite soldier, Gen. John C. Black. When the band payed “Sherman’s March to the Sea” the ex-Coufed-crate veterans led the applause, and when the inspiring strains of “Dixie” filled the hall the veterans of the Union responded with a hearty good will.

DEFIES THE GOVERNMENT. Dundy Will Not Permit Federal Interference in Nebraska. At Omaha, Judge Dundy declared himself to a certain extent on the Pender Indian troubles'when be dismissed Sheriff John Muilin in the Federal Court. Tbe Sheriff of Thurston County was recently indicted by the grand jury for alleged interfereuce with Captain Beck, of the Indian police on the Winnebago reservation. He had come down to surrender himself and have his trial at once. Judge Dundy told him to go home and stay there until be was sent for. The judge declared that he did not intend to sanction interference of Federal officers with Stnte authorities when the latter were doing their duty in serving legal papers. MAIL IN PNEUMATIC TUBES. New York Syndicate Proposes to Establish Rapid Transit. At New York, at a meeting of the rapid transit commission, a communication signed by J. P. Huntington, Henry Cews, Edward Lautcrbach and others was read. It set forth that they desired to form a corporation for the distribution of mail, parcels, etc., to various points of the city by means of pneumatic tubes, and wished to know what arrangements could be made to run the tubes through tbe tunnel on the proposed routes.

Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: . Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg 35 23 12 .057 Brooklyn 28 17 11 .007 Cleveland 34 20 14 .588 Cincinnati 34 20 14 .588 Chicago 30 21 15 .583 Philadelphia 31 18 13 .581 Baltimore 28 10 12 .571 Boston 28 15 13 .530 New York 32 15 17 .409 Washington 33 13 20 .394 St. Louis 35 12 23 .343 Louisville 31 0 25 .194 WESTEKN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs offhe Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 29 21 8 .724 Grand Rapids... .30 18 12 .000 Minneapolis 28 16 12 .571 Kansas City 30 -- 14 10 407 Milwaukee 31 14 17,. .432 Toledo 30 13 17 .433' Detroit 28 12 16 ,429 St. Paul 28 10 18 .387

Noble Man’s Brilliant Career. A cablegram received at the British embassy at Washington announces the death of Lord Gough, the hero of India and father of Hugh Gough, first secretary of the embassy at Washington. General Gough entered the army March 20, 1&K8. He was made a lieutenant in 1849, a captain in 1857, a major iu ISSB, a lieutenant colonel in 1807, a colonel in 1875, a major general in 18S5 and a lieutenant general June 5, ISS9. Lord Gough was the most prominent military man England has produced in late years* He went to India as captain of the Grenadier Guards, but showed such marked ability that he was eventually made commander-in-chief of all the forces in India. Among some of the engagements in which he participated and for which he received honorable mention and medals may be mentioned the siege and capture of Lucknow. For his services in India parliament twice thanked him, raised him to the peerage and gave iiitn the unusual honor of a permanent annuity of £2,000 ($10,000), which should go not only to himself but to his sons and his sons’ sons. Further Resistance Useless. The four largest coal operators in West Virginia have resumed mining with good Sixty new men went to the fields FKdffj*/ahd the coal shipments from Bluefields aggregate 215 cars. It is stated

that tbe leaders. Lawless and Webb, are much disappointed by the action of the United Miners' convention at Columbus in refnsing to order a strike covering the entire region now supplying West Virginia orders. The old men are returning to work, feeling that further resistance is useless. Most of the Virginia soldiers have left Pocahontas.•» ”37 ' ' —* STILL ON THE, RISE. Trade Booms in Sympathy with Cotton and Wheat. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade “More far-reaching than any change during the past week, if really, warranted by facts, is the continued rise in prices of wheat and cotton. Real scarcity of either would affect all business. Happily there is still room to hope' that tales of injury are greatly exaggerated, although there has been some evidence, during the week that both the great crops have suffered more than at first appeared.. Other changes are almost all favorable ■ and some highly encouraging. Labor troubles are clearly less threatening. Monetary conditions are satisfactory, and the substantial increase in the commercial demand is a good sign. Exchanges through the clearing houses have been greatly inflated by speculation, and at this time last year were cut down by the coal strike and’ toward the end of May, 1893, greatly reduced by bank failures, but for the week exceed last year's by 19 per cent, and fall only 5.0 per cent below those of 1893, while the daily average for May is 26.9 per cent larger than last year, but 7.1 per cent less than in 1893."

SWEPT BY A FLOOD. Wall of Water Rushes Down a Nebraska Valley. A torrent of.roaring water swept down the Medicine valley in Frontier county, Neb., Sunday, carrying death and destruction In Us path. Curtis lake burst its banks, and the accumulated drainage of thirty miles of territory rushed over hamlets and farmJaflds lying in its path. It is believed several lives have been lost. StoOkville, seven miles down the Medicine creek, which is the outlet of Curtis lake, hud 250 inhabitants. The people nt Cambridge, where the Medicine flows into the Republican river, were far enough away to escape death, although'they may lose property. At Curtis a title roller mill was destroyed and much railroad property damaged. Heavy rains for several days were followed by a cloudburst, and the (jam nt the lake could not stand the pressure. Down tbe valley many farm dwellings and outbuildings were swept away. SEA SERPENT OUTCLASSED. New-Yorkers See a Hideous Thing with a Long Red Tongue. A strange animal is said to have made Us appearance in the May bog, six miles southwest of Palmyra, N. Y., and the neighborhood is greatly excited. Men who dnim to have seen it say it looks like an alligator, but has two long tusks. When excited the creature opens its mouth and shoots out a long red tongue with great rapidity like a snake. Twentysix men stayed up all night watching for it. They allege it came out from cover at 4 o’clock, uttering hideous noises. All of the men were armed, but only one had the courage to shoot. He says he hit it, but the bullet glanced off as if it had struck a hard shell or impenetrable bide. The animal makes its appearance only at night, retreating by day to the swamp. BIG WAR MAY BE RESUMED. French and Japanese Ships Cleared for Action—Alarm at Shanghai. A special dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from its correspondent at Shanghai says that alarming rumors are current at Shanghai. It is stated that a renewal of hostilities is imminent. The viceroy of Formosa is said to have rebelled against the Government of Peking. The Japanese ships are reported to have been cleared for action, and the French ships nt Tamsui. Formosa, are also said to have been prepared for fighting. In addition, rumors of Russian intervention are current at Shanghai, and steamers have been ordered to Tien-Tsin with provisions in view of the probability of Russian hostility.

FOUND DEAD IN THE ROAD. Major William Hardiman, of Kentucky, Killed by an Enemy. Maj. William Hardiman, one of the oldest and wealthiest men of Lewis County, Ky., was found dead in the road with three rifle balls in his body. Suspicion points to another wealthy resident of the county as his assassin, as the men had been deadly enemies for years, and the man under suspicion had openly declared years ago that some day he would kill Maj. Hardiman. Beck Indicted for Polygamy. At Salt Lake, Utah, John Beck, a prominent anil wealthy Mormon, was indicted by the United States grand jury for polygamy. Mr. Beck is president Of the Beck Bullion Mining Company. This is the first arrest since the manifesto against polygamy was issued by the church’s authorities four years ago. Many Inventions Patented. Nino hundred and eighty-seven patents were issued last week at Washington. This is the largest number, with two exceptions, issued in any week since 1891.