Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — HONOR TO PATRIOTS. [ARTICLE]

HONOR TO PATRIOTS.

MONUMENT TO BRAVE SONS OF MARYLAND. Another of Holmes* Victims Identified—Bad Man at Butte Bounded Up— The Mexican Muddle at Last Straightened—Duluth Family’s Loss. A granite shaft in memory of the sons of Maryland that died, in the battle of Long Island was dedicated Tuesday, the 119th anniversary of the victory of the British troops over the forces commanded by Gen. Washington Aug. 27, 1776. The shaft, which is the gift of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the Revolution, is placed on Lookout Hill, Prospect Park, which was drenched that day with patriot blood. Four hundred of the Maryland Regiment defended the rear of Gen. Stirling’s retreating columns, and though nearly wiped out by the English fire stood their ground and saved the Colonial troops. DEAD BOY IS FOUND. Charred Remains of Howard Pitzel Taken from a Chimney. The charred remains of Howard Pitzel were pulled out of a chimney in a house in Irvington, the college suburb of Indianapolis, Tuesday morning. H. H. Holmes occupied the house two or three days last October. The chain of circumstantial evidence connecting Holmes with this find is even more complete than that which was turned up in Toronto, where the bodies of the two Pitzel girls were dug up. There are several witnesses who saw Holmes and the little Pitzel boy at the house, and the child was never seen afterwards. The entire body, or what was left of it, was crowded into the stovehole. The body was evidently burned in the stove, and then the stove was cleaned out, the remains being thrown into the chimney. There were a great many cobs about the place, and it is evident that the fire that burned the child was made from cobs. Such a fire is one of the very hottest. Buttons from the clothing were identified.

A VALUABLE SHIRT. Family at Duluth Loses the Savings of Years. The idea that money tied up in n handkerchief and hidden in the sleeve of an old •hirt was safer than in a bank has just cost the family of Joseph Hnmil, of Dulnth, Minn., the savings of years. Mr. Hamil’s wife has for several years saved the money given her by her husband, and hidden it iu the sleeves of a shirt kept hanging in a closet. While Mrs. Hamil was taking her husband’s dinner to him the shirt was given by Mrs. Hamil’s sister to a Chinese laundryman to be washed. When Mrs. Hamil returned and found the garment gone, ditto the money, amounting, it is claimed, to several hundred dollars, there were lively times for a while. The police were called in and the laundryman visited, but he denied having seen any money. Mrs. Hnmil’s sister did not know that the garment was a bank. RANSOM IS REAPPOINTED. President Solves the Complications Regarding the Mexican Mission. The White House mail Tuesday morning bore the commission of Matt W. Ransom to be United States Minister to Mexico. This ends a legal complication by which Minister Ransom, after several months’ service at his post at the City of was _dfcljirc(J ineligible to fill the office to which he had Tleeri appointed prior to the expiration of his term as United States Senator. It was held by the treasury accounting officers that he fell within a Constitutjopal inhibition against the appointment of Congressmen to offices created, or whose emoluments had been increased, during their service in Congress. v THREE SHOT AND KILLED. Cowboy Named William Long Runs Amnck at Sweet Grass. Word was received at Butte, Mont., of a triple killing at Sweet Grass, on the international boundary. William Long, cowboy for the “F” outfit, who is also said to be a whisky smuggler, killed a mounted policeman named Richardson. The two men met near the middle butte of Sweet Grass, had several drinks, got into a row and the killing resulted. After the shooting of Richardson Long went to O. B. Toole’s ranch, where he is alleged to have killed Ira Brown, the foreman. The latter, before dying, shot Long, killing him almost instantly.

Yacht in a Crash. Robert W. Inman Jr.’s sloop yacht Adelaide was run into Monday night by the iron steamboat Perseus while cruising off Norton’s Point, New York. Young Inman was drowned and his guests and crew barely saved. It is said the steamer was solely to blame, and that in addition to her carelessness, no discipline prevailed aboard her. Eight Caught in a Cave. Deputy marshals made a raid on a counterfeiters’ den in a cave in the Kaw, country, Oklahoma Territory, and captured eight of a gang of fifteen, who were at work making counterfeits. Officers have been on the lookout for the gang for six months, spurious coin having been in circulation during that time. Is Killed by a Bee Sting. Near Hume, Mo., Walter Gibson was helping his father rob a beehive, when a bee alighted on his chin and stung him. The bee’s stinger penetrated the pneumogastric nerve, and Gibson suffered excrutiating pain until he died. Indians to Collect the Tax. Gov. P. I. Mosley, of the Chickasaw Nation, accompanied by a body of Indian police, arrived at Chickasaw, I. T., to collect the 1 per cent, tax of white intruders or put those who should refuse it out of the territory. There is considerable excitement over the matter. Outbreak of Texas' Fever. • . ( „ The Kansas igtate .Sanitary Board has . received police from Paola that Texas fever has broken out in a herd of cattle on a farm two miles west of that town. Continues His Wife's Work. Charles R. Bishop, first vice president of the Bank of California, has contribu- . ted SBOO,OOO to schools and societies in the Hawaiian Islands. The money is to > be used to promote the interests of a number of institutions sustained by the late Mrs. Bishop during her lifetime. Gaye Him the Mitten. Thomas 1 Wickersham, a young business man of Salina, Ivan., has brought suit for $5,i)00 damages against Miss Cora Ahart for breach of promise. Wickersham alleges that Miss Ahart, in February, 1894, promised to marry him, but later spurned his attentions. 1 ,

HAWAIIAN CABLE CONTRACT. Colonel Spalding Wants the Co-Opera-t . tloo of the United State*. Colonel Z. S. Spalding, who was recently voted an annual subsidy of $40,000 by the Haw aiian Government If he would lay a cable from Honolulu to San Francisco, is anxious to secure the co-opera-tion of the United States in the undertaking. -To that end a special meeting of the San Francisco chamber of commerce was held to consider the best plan of laying the matter, before the government. Vice President Craig, of the chamber of commerce, has received private advices from the islands which say that Spalding is granted an exclusive franchise for twenty years, “to construct a land cable upon the shores of the Hawaiian group and a submarine telegraph cable or cables to or from any point or points ap the North American continent or any island or islands contingent thereto.” The first cable must, however, have its terminus in San Francisco and it is for the maintenance of this that the subsidy will be paid by the Hawaiian Government for twenty years. The agreement is hedged with further conditions, among them one that the United States shall join in the undertaking "by the grant of substantial assistance to the contractor.” If this assistance be not granted, or if the contractor fails to comply with the conditions of the agreement, then the Hawaiian Government will have the right of cancelling the contract sixty days after ing on the banking house of Bishop & Co. at Honolulu a notice of its intention. The contractor is required to give bonds to the amount of S2S,(XX) for faithful fulfillment of his contract. FEARS A CRISIS. ■ 111 ■ I London Paper Foresees Trouble Between America and England. The St. James Gazette of London publishes a scare article asking how England stands with the United States Government in the matter of the Nicaraguan Canal, and suys that it will be well if the Right Honorable George N. Curzon, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, is asked to give some explanation on the subject iu the House of Commons. Continuing, the St. James Gazette remarks: “As far as can be seen, we are heading you straight for a crisis, and there will be either a diplomatic deadlock between the two countries or the English will surrender important treaty rights. The deadlock can be avoided by discreet handling of the facts by the foreign office, and a surrender need never occur. Should a situation be brought about iu which the United States finds it can ignore the United States of Central America, then good-by to any hope of retaining, much less extending, our commercial hold of the republics of the Spanish main, a market in which we already suffer from uncommonly sharp competition from the Americans and Germans.” The St. James Gazette then proceeds to rehearse the history of the Nicaragua Canal, claiming that the accedence of the United States Govornmoat to the request of the American Canal Company to guarantee further capital for it would be an infraction of the Bulwer-Clayton treaty.

THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clnbn in Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 98 02 36 .633 Cleveland 107 67 40 .020 Pittsburg 103 50 44 .571} Boston 09 50 43 .500 Philadelphia ...100 50 44 .560 Brooklyn 101 50 45 .554 Cincinnati 00 54 45 .545 Chicago 103 56 47 ,5M New York 101 52 49 .515 Washington .... 94 31 63 .330 St. Louis 104 32 72 .308 Louisville 09 23 76 .232 ■WESTERN- LEAGUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: - . r Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ...100 66 34 .600 Kansas City.. . .104 62 42 .596 St. Paul 100 58 42 .580 Milwaukee 103 51 52 .495 Minneapolis ... .101 49 52 .485 Terre Haute... .103 44 59 .427 Detroit 110 45 -65 .409 Grand Rapids.. .105 34 71 .324 PARCEL-POST PACKAGES, Must Have a ** Customs Declaration** Posted on the Cover. Frequent complaints having, recently been made to the postofflee department of the return to the senders as unmailable under Postal Union regulations of packages of merchandise addressed for delivery in the countries or colonies with which the United States has parcels-post conventions, attention is now called by the department to the fact that to be entitled to transmission by parcels-post a package must conform to all of the prescribed requirements. One of these requirements is that a “customs declaration” must be pasted on the cover of the package, and if the package does not bear it the postal officials handling the package in transit must treat it as unmaiidble unless postage thereon is prepaid in full at the letter rate of 5 cents for each half ounce or fraction of half-ounce, or unless it conforms to the conditions prescribed for “samples” in international mails.

RICH PLACER FIND. Miners Trying to Find the Bource of the Supply. A wonderfully rich placer find is reported on Gold Creek on the Continental divide at the south end of the Wind River range, Wyo. The dirt runs SSO to the yard. It is not a gravel bed and experts say the gold comes from some wonderfully rich lead back toward the mountains. The miners are fairly tumbling over each other in their efforts to discover the source of the gold. Report of Army Engineers. The report of the Board of Army Engineers appointed by the Secretary of W ar to exnmine'and report upon the effect the Chicago Drainage Canal would have upon the waters of Lake Michigan has been received at the War Department. Very little can be learned as to the contents of the report, although it is understood that the board tind.i that the canal probably would reduce the average level of Lake Michigan about six inches and possibly Lake Huron the"- same. This lower level no doubt would be objectionable to the shipping interests, but Worn the fact that the lake has varied from one cause or another, such as a lack of rainfall orjinusual evaporation, more than one foot in different years, ships have been 1 built with a view to accommodating themselves to this reduced level. It is understood that the position taken by the board is that the former variations are such as not to make this reduction of-six inches of very great importance. It is, therefore, probable that the building of the canal will not be stopped by the government, though certain restrictions may be determined upon so as to not create any great waste of w r ater. , A Sunday Tragedy. A hundred horrified people saw Albert Golden, tightly hugging his 2-yeax-oid Child in his arms, dragged half a block by a 61st street electric car Sunday afternoon at Chicago. The cars were crowdot} with pleasure seekers, and many were

forced to stand. Among these was Golds en, who held his child in his arms. As the car shot around the curve at Cottage Grove avenue the man was hurled from the platform. As he fell he grasped the footboard and vainly tried to lift his child to the outstretched hands of a dozen passengers. So rapidly was he dragged over the rough pavement that neither those who were soon running toward him nor those on the car were enabled to take the child from him. A dozen times it seemed as if both were under the wheels, bat by a desperate effort the father each time saved himself. At last the car was stopped. and the father and child were carried to the sidewalk. The child was unJjurt and smiled at the anxious women who were hugging it joyously. The balm nnd injured man were taken to thein home, where Dr. McManns found that Golden had several rib* broken nnd had sußtained internal injuries which it is thought will prove fatal. TO SWELL JAPANESE TRADE. Cases of Fish Sent to . Tacoma as an Experiment. The Japanese Government, through its consulates, has taken steps to increase the already large trade between Japan and the United States. The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce has received from Japan six cases of smoked and salted Japanase fish which the chamber is invited to sample and ascertain if -a. market for the-product is obtainable ui this country. The letter accompanying the fish states the packing of them has been only recently started under the guidance of the'Government, which is seeking to ascertain if there is a demand for them in American mhrjtets. It is understood the~Japanese will experiment with other food products in a similar way.

WORKB AN EASY GAME. Smooth Forger Catches Two Indianapolis Concerns. A forger, bareheaded and in his shirtsleeves, professing to be a clerk, caught the Indianapolis Brewing Company on a forged check for $65 to which Col. Eli Lilly’s name was fraudulently signed. Soon afterward the surae fellow swindled the Lieber Brewing Company out of a similar amount by making free with the name of Otto Stechlian. The city is overrun with the most daring gang of scoundrels noted for years. Burglaries are daily reported. Friday morning two policemen attempted to stop four men in an alley, but the Supposed burglars replied with their revolvers and escaped under the fire which was returned.* AUGUST TRADE GOOD. SomevVjhat Large Shrinkage Due to July Inflation. R. v G. fcuii & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The volume of business shrank, as is natural in August, and the shrinkage seems rather larger than usual, because transactions in July were somewhat inflated for that month. Some industries did more than ever before in August, and tho prospect for fall trade is good in others, although much depends on the crops, and the outcome is less dear than speculators on either side are disposed to admit. Industrial troubles have not entirely ceased, but have become much loss threatening. MUST RELEASE THE INDIANS. United States Interferes on Behalf of Bannocks. Attorney General Harmon Instructed United States District Attorney Clarke, of Wyoming, to sue out writs of habeas corpus for the Bannock and Shoshone Indians who are under arrest at Evanston, ■2& SI that the, hunting rights of the Indians, which were obtained by treaty with the ‘United States, cannot be abrogated by the passage of State game laws. It was for violation of the State laws that they were arrested. Declare War Upon Saloons. An important circular signed by every presiding elder of the Methodist church in Ohio has been sent to the members of that denomination throughout the Stnte. It calls for united political action on the part of all Methodists in an effort to elect to the next Legislature as many members as possible who will fight the saloons. • Tho circular states that “special services will be called for by tho elders in this connection in every Methodist church in Ohio.” i Driving Out Horses. Owing to the low price of horses incident to the general use of bicycles and electric power, large shipments of horses are being made from Baltimore to European markets. The Johnson Line has made five shipments to Antwerp and Havre. The steamship lines say this promises to compensate them for the falling off of cattle exports, owing to the foreign exclusion of American cattle. Followed Holmes’ Plan. At Minneapolis Mrs. Lora Perkins was arrested, charged with the murder of her sister, Mrq. Louise Hawkins, the supposed motive for the alleged crime being the fact tjiat Mrs. Hawkins had $7,000 insurance on her life. Cholera’s Work In Japan. Since the outbreak of cholera in Japan there have been 25,000 cases of that disease and 16,000 deaths.