Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — BATTLE OF MILLIONS. [ARTICLE]

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.