Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — Page 2

®tje Jemocrotic Sentinel J. W. McEWES, PublUher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

BATTLE OF MILLIONS.

GIGANTIC COMBINE IS FORMED BY YERKES. Chinese Outrages Receive Attention from the State Department—Possible Effect of Chicago’s Drainage Canal—Small-Pox in Texas. i A Stupendous Scheme. New York dispatch: A gigantic electric combine has just been formed to fight the new Westinghouse-Baldwin combination. It includes the Yerkes railroad people and all their millions, and the Siemens & Halske Electrical Company. The combination means the entry into the American market of a big foreign electric supply manufacturing concern, in affliliation with the Widener-Elkins syndicate, which controls most of the street car lines in New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburg and Chicago. It is said that knowledge of the Yerkes-Siemens combination was the real reason for the alliance of the Westinghouse-Baldwin concerns for the manufacture of electric motors. Charles T. Yerkes, the head of the new combine, is associated in cable and electric street railways in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York with the Whitney-Elkins-Wid-ener traction syndicate. His son was recently elected vice president of the Siemens & Halske Electric Company. This company is the largest and most powerful electric manufacturing company in Europe. The parent house is in Berlin, with branches in all the principal European cities. Its founder, Dr. Siemens, was known as the Edison of Europe. The company has built about three-fourths of the private electric light plants in use in New York. Abroad it has built all sorts of electric motors and manufactured every kind of electric machinery and supplies.

EXAMINED DRAINAGE CANAL. F. W. Hawley Gives the Result of His Inspection. Frank W. Hawley has just returned to New York from Chicago, where he has been for the past few weeks examining the drainage canal in an attempt to determine whether the construction of this improvement is likely to lower the waters of .the greqt lakes, and whether also it is likely appreciably to divert traffic frohr the East down the Mississippi. Mr. Hawley has presented his report both to his business associates and to the committee of the Produce Exchange and other associations, -which are about to W'gin the campaign for the appropriation of $!),- 000,000 for the Erie Canal. The most Important information given by Mr. Hawley was an estimate as to the probable effect upon the great lakes of the diversion of a great body of water through this canal. His report was that there can be no question that an enormous quantity of water will be taken from Lake Michigan for the filling of this canal. The best estimates that ho could obtain were that this volume will be constantly equal to one-third that contained in the Mississippi River above the mouth of the Missouri, or throe times that of the Ohio River. Mr. Hawley’s report upon the suggestion that the Chicago ship canal might seriously divert traffic from the Erie was very brief. For it is all a matter of conjecture. In Chicago it is looked upon as a certainty that considerable lake commerce will seek the sea through the Mississippi Valley as soon as this canal is completed. On the other hand, Mr. Hawley says that in the West it is thought that the canal will bring traffic to the Erie as well as take it away, and that new and distant localities in the West would use the canal as an economical rouie to the East.

AFTER THE RIOTERS. United States Minister Denby Watching American Interests in China. Advices have been received at the State Department that Minister Denby is consulting with the British and Chinese authorities relative to the full and complete investigation of the riots at Ku-Cheng. This commission had not yet been appointed, but it was being formed. There is no doubt expressed at the State Department that United States interests will be carefully looked after when this commission is appointed. It is stated also that Minister Denby, so far, has done all that was possible for a representative of the Government to do to bring about reparation and redress. The State Department has given such instructions as will cause the Minister to neglect nothing that will insure better protection of the interests qf Americans at Ku-Cheng, fie will also', with the co-operation of Admiral Carpenter, take steps to prevent further riots and to protect American interests should any new cases of outrage arise. , ————■ MANY DIE OF SMALLPOX. Negroes Confined at Eagle Pass Are Afflicted with the Pest. Of the 340 negroes confined in the government quarantine camp at Eagle Pass, Tex., 120 are afflicted with small-pox. The deaths average about four daily. The balance of the 1,500 rations furnished by the United States Government to Consul Sparks for the use of the refugees has been turned over to Dr. Evans, State quarantine officer of the quarantine camp, for use there, it being found impracticable to forward them to the starving negroes in Mexico.

Six Injured by an Explosion. At Longmont, Colo., in an explosion at the Empson canning factory five men and one woman were badly injured. One of the steam vats used for boiling peas exploded. One man will die. Killed Wife and Child. Robert Hudson, a young and highly educated man, who had run through his own and his wife’s fortunes, was hanged at York, England, for the murder of his wife and child on Helmsley Moor, Yorkshire, last June. , Took Out Her Teeth. . Mrs. Amanda Carson, of Chicago, wants S6OO apiece for three teeth which she alleges, in a suit filed in the Superior Court against Dentist James B. McChesney, were taken out against her wishes. Adrift for Forty-six Honrs. The Dutch oil-tank steamer La Cam. pine, which arrived from Antwerp, picked up two French fishermen adrift in their dory on the Banks on Aug. 4. A dense fog prevented the men from returning to their vessel. They drifted about helplessly for over forty-six hours. State Their Pay as Firebngs. At Montreal Charles Jenks, under cross-examination, stated that his share for the burning of Boyd, Gillies & Co.’s warehouse was $4,200-5 per cent of the insurance and 5 per cent, on the lapse of the lease of eighteen months’ warehouse

.TO SAIL THE GREAT LAKES. Haje Steel Schooner for * Cleveland Syndicate. A boom in lake shipbuilding is on the cards for the coming fall and winter. Friday the Chicago Shipbuilding Company closed a contract with a Cleveland syndicate for the construction of a steel schooner of the 6,000-ton class. The new boat will be an exact duplicate of the two steel schooners which will be built at the Calumet shipyards for the Minnesota Steamship Company, the lake branch of the Great Minnesota Iron Company! The schooner will be 352 feet keeel, 365 feet over all, 44 feet beam and 26 feet depth of hold. Her cost will be about 1175,000, and the new boat will be ready for business at the opening of navigation next spring. “There will be no whale; back nor straight-back, nor any other kind of back,” Mr. Brown said, in speaking of the new boats, "but it will be a common everyday ship built on the old lines, after the models, with no newfangled ideas, except modern improvements in the way of towing engines, electric lights and that sort cf thing. The channel construction will be followed, of course.”

THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clulw In Their Race • for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs iu the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Cleveland9s 58 37 .611 Baltimoreß6 51 35 .593 Pittsburg .91 54 37 .593 Boston 86 50 36 .581 Cincinnati 88 50 38 .56S Chicago 96 54 42 .563 Philadelphia ~. .87 46 41 .529 Brooklyn >BB 46 42 .523 New Yorkßß 40 42 .523 Washingtonß2 28 54/ .341 St. Louis 93 29 64 .312 Louisville .88 22 66 .250 ——- • . WK«T«BX I.BABUB. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolisßß 54 34 .614 St. Pau1....90 52 38 .578 Kansas City 92 53 39 .576 Minneapolisß9 47 42 • .528 Detroit 92 47 45 .511 Milwaukeeß9 41 48 .461 Terre Haute9l 34 57 .374 Grand Rapids....9l 32 50 .352

DECOYED FROM HIS HOME. Kansas Farmer Called Out i|t Midnight and Assaulted by Three Men, B. F. Coswell, a farmer living seven miles northwest of Salina, Kan., was dl--coyed from his home about midnight by a stranger who said he had a sick horse and wanted assistance. When half a mile f roti? home the pair were met by two pals of the stranger, who covered Coswell with rifles. He tried to escape, when one of the men fired, the bullet striking him in the head, and the other man struck him twice over the head with his riffle, partially stunning him. The three then bound Coswell’s hands, gagged him, and forced him to walk a mile and a half, though he was nearly fainting from loss of blood. After terrorizing him for some time, they finally let him go, first threatening him with death if he told of the occurrence. There is no clew to his assailants, and no cause for the assault is known.

NICE PLACE FOR INDIANS. Government Preparing-to Allot Yuma Reservation to the Red Men. The United States Government is making preparations to allot the Yuma Indian reservation. There are 44,800 acres of land in the strip. It is estimated that 10,000 acres will cover all that may be called good land. The rest is rocks, sand, stretches of desert and brush that grows worse and worse till it pitches off into the Salton Sea, a stretch that blazes with heat at midnight. It is below the surface of the ocean and more desolate than the Sahara. Surveyor General Green is looking every day for the return of the surveyors from the reservation. When their report is made up he will forward it to Washington, and then the Government will proceed to make the allotments, based upon the number of Indians in reservation. BOGUS DOLLARS. Great Number of Counterfeits Unloaded in Delaware. Wilmington, Del., is fairly flooded with counterfeit silver dollars. About ten days ago one was presented at the Farmers’ Bank by a depositor and detected. Since then the banks have been on the lookout and dozens have been found. They were presented by innocent depositors, who had accepted them in the course of business. The spurious coins are thicker than the genuine dollars, but of lighter weight. The composition of which they are made is soft and can be readily cut .jvith a knife. ' r Financiers Are Startled. A New York paper says that the $30,000,000 of new United States 4 per cent, bonds sold abroad by the Belmont Morgan bond syndicate have been delivered in London to the individual subscribers, and a goodly portion of them will start back at once for the United States. This is a new danger which the syndicate will have to face. So long as the subscribers to the bonds abroad only had interestbearing scrip in their possession calling for the delivery of bonds on August 8, the syndicate was in control of the situation, as holders of scrip'could only sell contracts to drifter the bonds when released by the syndicate managers in London. The London price of the scrip has been below the New York price for the bonds for over two months, and the holders could not resist the temptation to negotiate sales for future delivery in New York. Considerable “arbitrage” business has also been done in the bonds. There have been small sales thus nafide, aggregating in all about $5,000,000 bauds. It is understood, in addition, riiafjjvegotiatipns have been consuinmattjd for the sale of one block of $5,000,900 bonds. " The return of $10,000,000 of the bonds to this country, or one-third of the entire amount placed abroad, within a week following the actual delivery of the bonds’ in' Lohdon, is startling. Every bond which is sold here by a foreign holder must be paid for either in gold or a bill of exchange, and the difficulty of controlling the foreign exchange market so as to prevent extensive exports of gold is correspondingly intensified. Shot from Ambnsh and Killed. Information comes of the killing from ambush of A. C. Grubb by Stephen Bales at Rose Hill, Va. The men had quarreled several times in the past six months. Bales has not been arrested. Grifbb had a reputation for being a desperate man. About ten years ago he killed a man at Middlesboro. He fled to Virginia and began teaching school. Forty Sailors Perish. The British ship Capac reached Philadelphia Thursday night with seventeen of the crew of the British steamer Prince Oscar. The latter was in collision July :18 with an unknown ship. Both vessels supk and forty lives were lost. Encouraging Reports. R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: Business continues unusually active for midsummer, and

though there is perceptible relaxation there* are no signs of reaction. The one change of great importance which thejast week has brought is eminently helpful--the amicable settlement between coal miners and employers in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. It is said that about 100.000 men will have their wages increased after Oct. 1 by this adjustment, and while the enlargement of purchasing power is of consequence it seems even more important that a chronic cause of controversy has been removed by the new agreement as to company stores. There is no important change in crop prospects and at this time no news is eminently good’news. KILLED A LUNATIC. Brutal Work of Two Attendants at Dunning. With his body racked and tom, his breast bone broken in two places, eight ribs fractured, three of them in two placed, his skin black and blue, a gash on his forehead and the cavities of his chest and abdomen filled with blood from internal hemorrhages, George Pucik, or Budizick as he was entered on the books, died at the Dunning, 1111., insane asylum. Before reaching there he had been a patient in the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, was sent by the physicians there to the detention hospital for the insane, where he was taken into court and committed to Dunning. All this time, covering a period of four days, not a single physician at any of the institutions discovered his condition. When he was dead an examination of his body was made, and the fearful bruises and broken bones were seen. Attendants George Goff and Anderson, of the Dunning asylum, after repeated denials, admitted to Supt.- Morgan that they had beaten Pucik in order to control him. They are alleged,, to have said that they did it to save their own lives, the patient first attacking them. President Healy, of the County Board, will call the attention of the Grand Jury to the charge.

SENATOR’S HARD LUCK. Has Much Trouble in Getting a Check Cashed in Sionx City. Senator Palmer, of Illinois, has as much difficulty in cashing drafts in a strange town as less distinguished people. The other day he arrived in Sioux City en route to Chicago, after a trip through the West. The trip had been longer fhaii the Senator expected, and when he started for home he did not notice that his transportation had expired. He got as far as Sioux City with what money he had, when he found himself broke nnd friendless. The only man he knew, Postmaster Nash, was away, and i,t was only after several hours' hard work that he induced the teller at the lowa State National Bank to cash a draft for SSO. ESTIMATE TOO LARGE. Hector Lane Thinks the New Orleans Expert’s Figures .Excessive. Hector Lane, president of the American Growers’ Association and also Commissioner of Agriculture for Alabama, has been investigating the cotton crop throughout the South. When asked as to the result of his investigation, Mr. Lane said: “July 1(1 a letter was published by Mr. Neil, of New Orleans, estimating the cotton crop of the United States between 8,000,000 and 9,0(X),000 bales. I have concluded after investigating the matter that the estimate of the expert from New Orleans is from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 above the real cotton crop that the South will produce this year.”

lowa Democratic Ticket. Following is the ticket nominated by the lowa Democratic convention at Marshalltown Wednesday: GovernorW. I. Babb, of Henry Lieutenant Governor S. L. Bestow, of Lucas Superintendent of Public Instruction.. L. B. Parshall, of Jackson Railway Commissioner .G. L. Jenkins, of Dubuque Judge of the Supreme Court .T. G. Harper, of Des Moines The platform advocates license for the liquor trade, reform in State charities, and opposes free silver. Work of Flames. At Lockport, 111., the postoffice, opera house, newspaper, jail, school house, K. P. Hall, and several residences were destroyed by fire Saturday. It was caused by a careless tinner upsetting his charcoal stove upon the roof of Mayor McDonald’s building. Joliet and Chicago sent aid, which saved the town. The’total loss was $200,000; insurance light. Fire in the plant of the General Stamping Company at Newark, N. J., Sunday, caused a loss of $530,000. Insurance, $200,000. Charged with Pension Swindles. At Rochester, N. Y., Deputy Sheriff Swain presented a requisition from Michigan for the arrest of W. W. 'Wilson, better known as “Slippery Jim,” who is charged with pension swindling in Wayne County. The Michigan officer's papers Charge Wilson with forgery. Three Trainmen Killed. In a head-on collision between the can-non-ball express, southbound, and a freight tl*ain. northbound, just south of Plymouth, N. H., three trainmen were killed.. Seventy-Five Houses Burn. Seventy-five buildings were destroyed by fire at Spring Hill, N. S.. Wednesday evening. Loss, SIOO,OOO.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, new, per barrel, SI.OO to $1.30; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 4c to 6Vjc pex lb. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime. $2.00 to $3.75: wheat, No. 2. 64c to 65c; corn, No. 1 white, 39c to 40e; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 36e to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,42 c to 44c. ‘ u Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs. $300.t0 $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2, mixed, 43c to 44e; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 4Sc. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, 45c to 47c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 41c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 52c. Buffalo —Catfle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 1 hard, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 217 c to 29c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 67c to 69c; corp, No. 3,40 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 2o<? to 26c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; rye, No. 1,44 cto 46c; pork, mess, $9.00 to $9.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; butter, creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c. i

OUTRAGES IN CHINA.

MISSIONARIES KILLED AND THE STATIONS BURNED. The Inmates, Most of Whom Were Ladies, Were Killed After Having Been Subjected to Fearful Atroci-ties-Situation is Critical. Officials Said to Be Implicated. A Shanghai dispatch to the London Times says that the mission and sanitarium at Wha Sang, near Ku-Cheng, province of Fukein, has been attacked, and ten British subjects killled. The Rev. Mr. Stewart, wife and child were burned in their house. The Misses Yellow and Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon, and Stettie Newcombe were murdered with spears and swords, bliss Codrington was seriously wounded about the head, and the Stewart’s eldest child had a kneecap badly injured, while the youngest had an eye gouged out. The Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Hartford, were wounded, but arrived safely at Fu-Chau-Fu. The prefect of Cheng-Tu, who was a member of the commission of inquiry which examined into the former outrages upon missionaries in that place, is himself seriously implicated in the Cheng-Tu outrages. Every day brings new accounts of violence done to American missionaries in China, and there is no longer a doubt that all foreigners in certain districts of the Chinese Empire are in hourly danger

CHINAMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD.

of losing their lives. Already enough violence has been done to Americans to warrant the speedy dispatch of gun-boats to Chinese waters. The massacre nt Ku Cheng, with the subsequent immunity of the perpetrators from punishment, has had the natural effect of stirring up anti-fbreign fanatics in other localities to similar exploits. A mob has looted the American mission at Inghok, fifty miles from Foo Chow. The mission buildings at Fat Shan, near Canton, have been demolished. From other points all over the disaffected province of Fukein come reports of hostile demonstrations and increasing danger for all who are guilty of the crime of being “foreign devils.” Miss Mabel C. Hartford, one of the survivors of the Ku Cheng outrage and the only American who witnessed it, has telegraphed a vivid description of the affair, which makes it clear that the Chinese authorities aided and abetted the murderers. Archdeacon Wolfe cables from Foo Chow that Chinese soldiers sent to protect the mission at Ku Cheng plundered it. He says no reliance can be placed on the Chinese authorities. The Shanghai correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette expresses the opinion that further outrages are inevitable unless Great Britain “takes swift and deadly vengeance.” Certain it is that the salutary influence of English and American warships cannot too quickly be applied to the authorities of the localities who refuse to protect the lives of foreign residents. Even the remote presence of a man-of-war has been found effective in cooling the ardor of the

WHERE THE MISSIONS ARE LOCATED.

murderous fanatics who have taken to braining women and children. The time has come for decisive action to convince the Chinese Government that the most healthful thing it can do is to put down these mobs and punish the murderers. United States Minister Denby to China has taken prompt and energetic steps for the protection of American missionaries. Mail advices from him show that he made sweeping and 1 peremptory demand on China for the fullest protedtion of all Amercans and for capital punishment of the perpetrators. What answer was received is not known. Advices to the department indicate that no Americans were killed or

injured in the recent outrages. Admiral Carpenter, commander of the naval forces in Chinese waters, was instructed to assist in protecting Americans. It is believed among Chinese officials in Washington that secret societies in Southern China are at the bottom of the present troubles.

CHARLES DENBY.

The Pekin Government is said to be anxious to keep these societies in check, but has difficulty in dealing with them owing to their remoteness from;the centers of Government. Henry A. Campbell, a colored political leader of Alabama, who has been serving under Secretary Herbert as a Navy Department messenger, fell dead while on duty in Washington.

SAYS SHE WEDDED GOULD.

Startling Claim of Mrs. John Ansell, Now Living at Rouse's Point. .AjSjew York paper prints a long article setting forth the alleged claim of Mrs. John Angell, of Rouse’s Point, N. Y., on the Vast fortune left by the late Jay Gould. Mrs. Angell claims to have been married to Gould when he was only 17 years old, and declares that evidence to prove her allegation is. now in the hands of reputable lawyers in this city. Not only would the establishment of such a

MRS. JOHN ANGELL.

claim illegitimatize those who have for so many years been recognized as the heirs of Jay Gould, but it would upset theentire estate and throw into inextricable tangle the vast millions of the late millionaire. More than all this, if Mrs. Angell establishes her claim, every title, deed and conveyance made by Jay Gould is vitiated, according to the law of the State. It is

well known that the late millionaire’s real name was Jason Gould, and it is hinted that Mrs. Angell’s strange story discloses the reason why his name was changed to Jay.

$530,000 FIRE.

Destruction of the Central Stamping Plant at, Newark, N. J. The fiercest fire the department of Newark, N. J., has had to contend with in many years, with the possible exception of the big grain fire at the Ballentine brewery a couple of months ago, broke out in the plant of the Central Stamping Company Sunday afternoon. The front of the stamping company’s plant was on New Jersey street and Railroad avenue, and covered ten city lots on that street. On the south side of the main building on the avenue were five three-story brick buildings and on the north was a new twostory brick structure. All these were destroyed. The loss to the Central Stamping Company was estimated by State Senator Ketchnm, treasurer of the company, as upward of $500,000; insurance, $250,000. The other losses will reach $30,000.

The Comic Side The News

Banker Lewis, of Ohio, began life poor, but kept forging ahead until he was $400,000 ahead of the game. Before this thing goes any further we advise Grover to insert a “Boy Wanted” advertisement in “want” columns. At Lawrence, Kan., a Chinaman has sued an American girl for breach oil promise to marry. Whither are we drifting? Sol Smith Russell, who has just come home from Europe, says that “London is a wonderful place, but it isn’t Minneapolis.” Nor Oshkosh, Sol; nor St. Louee. Atlanta’s exposition has a board of lady managers, but no Colonel Phoebe Couzins. The outlook is pretty gloomy; but perhaps the Mexican bull fight may save the show. A St. Louis man has been forced to pay S2OO for putting a bent pin in the chair of a visitor. He tried to convince the jury that it was only a joke, but they couldn’t see the point. It has just been discovered that the Philadelphia City Council has expended SIO,OOO for “dictionaries.” The taxpayers are now saying a few words which cannot be found in them. An Indianapolis girl has sued a banker for $50,000 for breach of promise to marry. The “new woman” is every bit as eager to more the previous question as the old girl used to be. The city physician of Fergus Falls, S. D., recently analyzed the city drinking water and found it contained “monobranchiate zoophytes.” And the waterworks immediately raised its rates. A Pittsburg boy aged 64 eloped with a girl aged 56 and they were married in Cumberland, W. Va. But what are young folks to do when they are in love and can’t get their parents’ consent?

A Buffalo paper remarks editorially that “two former Rochester reporters now have their feet under a desk in our office.” Perhaps they left them there while they went out to see the town and forgot to call for them again. A new variety of watermelon containing a pint of whisky has been discovered in a prohibition town in Indiana. Some day a genius will hit upon the idea of loading a melon with Jamaica ginger and nothing can stop his march to immortality. Prof. Gallaudet, the Washington deaf mute teacher, celebrated his golden wedding the other day. Many of his pupils called and before leaving gave the Professor and his wife a substantial present. Prof. Gallaudet responded in a few happv. well-chosen motions.

BABB FOR GOVERNOR.

lOWA DEMOCRATS CHOOSE THEIR CANDIDATE State Convention at Marshalltown Reaffirms the National Democratic Platform of 1892- Lively Conteat Over Silver. The Ticket. Governor Walter I. Babb Lieutenant GovernorS. L. Bestow Supt of InstructionL. B. Parshall Railroad CommissionerG. Jenkins Judge Supreme CourtT. G. Harper The lowa Democratic State convention was called to order by Chairman Howard at 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning in Marshalltown. The convention was held at the Odeon Theater, and the handsome auditorium had been prettily decorated with bunting. The delegates left little room for spectators. Prayer was offered by Rev. Father Leniman. F. G. Pierce, the youthful Mayor of Marshalltown, made a brief speech of welcome and put the convention in good humor by saying he extended the freedom of the city, especially to the Scott County delegation. Temporary Chairman French, who was received with applause, attributed the special invitation of the Mayor to the known modesty of the Davenport delegates, and then launched upon his speech. He dwelt fully upon the prohibition question and scored the mulct law unmercifully. He then took up the several vital State issues in detail, together with national questions, strongly approving President Cleveland’s course during the panic. Mr. French thought silver monometallism would cut wages worse than during the war and demonstrated how free coinage would decrease the value of the workingman’s earnings in savings banks fully 50 per cent. The volume of money, he declared, was sufficient for business demands. Low prices, including the decline in wheat, were next considered, and Mr. French closed with the hope that neither the gold nor silver monometalism would drive the other coin from circulation. The convention reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic national convention of 1892. The silver men made a strong fight, but they were beaten. They had been claiming from 700 to 800 of the 1,179 delegates, but when it came to the test they were able to muster few more than half the number claimed. They fought for the permanent chairman and were beaten by a vote of 660 to 417. They fought for a silver plauk in the platform and went down under an adverse vote of 652 to 420. Ex-Judge Walter I. Babb, of Mount Pleasant, was nominated for without opposition. Mr. Babb is a bimetallist and indicated his position in a short speech before the convention. There was no candiate for Lieutenant Governor. Mayor Vollmer was too young and Joseph Eiboeck, of Des Moines, would not permit the use of his name. W. A. Groneweg, of Council Bluffs, ex-State Senator, had been mentioned, but without consultation with him, as he was not present. It had been designed by the old party leaders to name a representaive German for the place, but when the silver men, smarting under their defeat, sprung the name of ex-Lieut. Gov. S. L. Bestow, of Chariton, the opposition saw a good opportunity to soften the asperities of the fight and heartily joined in nominating the man who had been beaten a few minutes before for permanent chairman of the convention.

Thomas G. Harper, of Burlington, was named for judge of the Supreme Court in a contest with E. E. Hasner, an old lawyer of Independence, but Lyman B. Parshall, of Maquoketa, for superintendent of public instruction, and George Jenkins, of Dubuque, were nominated without opposition. It was a large and enthusiastic convention, with a bitter fight on the silver question, but the result was accepted with a show of grace. The Platform. The Democratic party of lowa, In convention assembled, reaffirms the national platform of the party adopted In Chicago In 1892. points with satisfaction to evidences of the wisdom of that convention, In results accomplished according to promises, to evidences of returning prosperity, restoration of wages and the re-establlshment of Industry upon a prosperous basis—conditions which have extorted congratulations from even the Republicans of lowa. We declare the rescue of the finances of the country from the baleful effects of the Sherman law the repeal of the un-American Federal election law, and the uprooting of McKlnleylsm works worthy of the history and the prestige of the great Democratic party, and of a courageous Democratic administration. We reaffirm the following portion of the seventh plank of the last national Democratic convention: “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to coin both gold and sliver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted by International agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall Insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times, and we demand that paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable In such coin.” We Insist upon this policy as especially necessary for protection of farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency. We condemn the cowardice and trickery of the Republican party of lowa In falling to meet In Its last State platform any of the Issues Important and vital to the Interests of our State. We believe the mulct law falls to meet the requirements of a good excise statute. It Is unfair as between communities and Imposes hardship upon property owners, and compromises the honor of the State In declaring the sale of liquor a crime and condoning the offense for a money consideration. We repeat our demand of the last five years for a local option, high license law, and, on behalf of the commercial Interests of the State, we favor a law permitting the manufacture of liquor. We favor the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. We favor just and liberal pensions to all deserving veterans, reiterate our unflinching opposition to all monopolies and trusts ana call for enactments which will abolish combines of all kinds. We demand that State institutions be governed by a single nonpartisan board of control, which can intelligently comprehend their relative wants and economically and justly apportion among the whole that which their just requirements demand. We favor the speedy completion of the Hennepin canal and the deepening of the waterways from the great lakes to the ocean, to enable ocean vessels to pass through.

The Good Citizenship League of Wichita, Kan., has taken steps to start a daily paper. Plows are being operated by electricity in Germany more cheaply than they could be by steam. Twenty-two prisoners were injured by a falling bridge in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. Lee Thomas was hanged at Corsicana, Texas, for the murder of J. M. Farley. The murder was the result of a game of cards. The proprietor of a family hotel in New York, who was arrested by Roosevelt’s minions, is going to test the excise law. The largest stockholder in the new bank at Guatemala, it is stated, is President Barrios, who is reported to have $250,000 invested in it. Two precocious burglars, May and Helen PeteVson, aged 11 and 7 years respectively, were arrested at Denver and a houseful of plunder recovered. The work of the assistant attorney general’s office of the Interior Department !s about a year behind in the laud cases to be decided. There are about 1,700 sendiiur.

Notes of Current Events.

EGGS ARE A BIG ITEM.

World Owes ■ Large Debt to tha Modest but Industrious Hen. The magnitude of the egg produet of the United States is vaguely understood by those not directly in the trade. The leading cities of the country sonsumed 600,000,000 dozens last year. Laying them end to end, they would form a line 170,454 miles long. In other words, they would stretch around the world over seven times, and would go around it once forming a band fourteen inches wide. The product handled for daily consumption last year, at an average price of 17 cents a dozen, makes a total

of over $100,000,000, while the value of the wheat crop was less than $300,000,000. Eggs are used in many ways that the general public seldom thinks of. If the hen should stop laying, not only would the gourmand suffer, but the arts would come in for a large share of hardship. The number of eggs used by photographers, artists, painters and paper-hangers, bookbinders, and chemists, and in the mechanical arts in general, is something enormous. Even the poor, despised bad egg has come to be a necessity for certain uses other than those of the stage. A few years ago, it was discovered that the yolk and decayed parts made the finest preparations for finishing leather. When properly worked up, the bad egg is barreled and sent to France, Germany and other countries, to say nothing of large quantities used at home. It has become indispensable to morocco and kid dressers, as well as to glove manufacturers.

In the early days of the commercial history of eggs, farmers employed primitive methods for the preservation of eggs in store for the winter months, when the supply is almost cut off and the market price abnormally high. In January the price often used to run as high as 50 and 60 cents a dozen, while in the spring and early summer the supply was a drug and dear at from 4 to 8 cents. The eggs were packed in oats or sawdust and also in preserving fluids. This process was far from satisfactory. The preserving fluids had a tendency to weaken the shells. A process came into use by which the eggs were dried by artificial heat and ground up into the shape of meal for packing. Such egg meal ffiund favor with bakers and was practicable for use on ocean vessels. The cold storage system of preservation was hit upon, and it has assumed vast proportions, millions of dollars being expended In plants. Notwithstanding alleged discoveries by which eggs can be manufactured, no process has been found successful up to date. No egg has ever been manufactured except at a greater cost than the production of the natural one.

It May Come to This.

—American Wheelman.

Mrs. Fogg—Then there was a man who recited a poem or something. I couldn’t for the life of me make out what, but he was tremendously applauded. Mr. Fogg—Evidently one of our most talented elocutionists.—Boston Transcript