Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — CUBANS TAKE A TOWN [ARTICLE]

CUBANS TAKE A TOWN

ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY FOR INSURGENTS. Atlanta’s Fete Is On—Man Hunt Started in Georgia —Knights of Honor at St. Louis—Lynching Mob in a Kansas Town. Mello to the Rescue. Cuban rebels hare pained * decisive Victory over the Spaniards. They captured and sacked the town of Banes on the northern coast, and now have possession of the seaport and fort. Fully 5,000 rebels are encamped within sight of the town, which is the most important port on the northern coast. This information was brought to Boston by thk, British steamer Tass. The Tass also brought information that there was a rumor at Banes and Gibara, when tiny Tass left those places, that the Brazilian rebel, Admiral Mello, was expected any day with a war vessel and 500 men to aid the Insurgents, and one of the officers of the Tass, who saw Mello bombnrd Rio, says that there is evidently some good ground for the rumor, and he further says that Mello can whip the Spanish guhboats with even an ordinary man-of-war. NOT BARRED. Knights and Ladies of Honor Still Admit Bartenders, Railway Men, Etc. The amendment to the constitution of the Supreme Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor, which was proposed by Dr. Witherill, barring from the society as engaged in hazardous occupations, bartenders, railroad men,. electric linemen, etc., was lost at St. Louis on a final vote. While a majority was in favor of its passage, it was not two-thirds of those present. An amendment was passed decreasing the maximum amount of insurance obtainable from $3,000 to $2,000. The question of selecting a new ritual for the Supreme Lodge was referred back to the committee on the state Of the order for further investigation. SHERIFF ROUTS LYNCHERS. Prisoner at Osage City, Kan., Rescued from a Mob. Osage City, Ivan., is in a fever of excitement over an attempted lynching. Lew Thomas, a dissolute character, was in jail charged with assault. About midnight the jnil was attacked by a mob of masked citizens. They made short work of the barriers and soon had the culprit put of the jail and were leading him to the outskirts of the town. The Sheriff meantime had organized a posse and gave chase. He and his mcji overhauled the mob and rescued the prisoner, who was hurriedly taken back to the jail.

GEORGIA FEUD STARTED. The Brown and Stephens Families Hunting Each Other. The male members of the Brown and Stephens families, living near Midville, Emanuel County, - t?a., among the most prominent people of that section of the State, and all well-known throughout Eastern Georgia, have begun a hunt for one another, armed with Winchesters. News of a bloody encounter and the probable killing of several of them is expected hourly. The trouble grew out of a horsewhipping affray between Thomas Brown and Benjamin Stevens, resulting from political matters. Great Day for the South, At 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon an electric impulse flashed into the grounds of the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition from Gray Gables and the pressure of President Cleveland's finger on an electric button set in motion the big engine in the machinery building. The fountains played, the flags unfurled, the great throngs of visitors cheered, nnd Atlanta’s big fair was formally opened for 102 days. Atlanta had made great preparations for the opening day. There were many handsome decorations in the business part of the city, and a general holiday had been declared. , Quickest Divorce on Record. Mrs. Julia A. Leonard secured a divorce in just ten minutes and two seconds in the district court at Wichita. Ivan., Monday. Judge Reed drew out his watch and timed the proceedings. They occupied nine minutes less than the recent divorce suit before Judge Jennings, which was heralded far and wide as the quickest divorce on record. Postmaster Is Murdered. Thursday morning at daybreak G. M. Singer, postmaster at Dunfee, Ind., was found murdered in bed. The postoffice was robbed and the grocery store plundered. Deceased was an old soldier and a widower and lived alone. The Fort Wayne police and the Sheriff are in pursuit of the murderers. /jjWgK'-' ■ -* -*- a Big Sum by Frond. A few weeks ago Sol Hughlett shot a lawyer and instantly killed himself at Wellsvjlle, Mo. He was preparing to go to the woods, and the people thought the killiug was purely accidental, but the developments indicate that he was a defaulter. Bogus deeds issued by him aggregate, it is said, $20,000.

Fights with the Court. When Judge Moon adjourned the Circuit Court at Chattanooga and stepped down from the bench. Deputy Sheriff Poe sprang forward from the crowd and hit him in the face with his fist. The trouble grew out of the Judge's action in disallowing a fee and lecturing the deputy on some alleged irregularity. 1 Struck an Open Switch. * South-bound passenger train No. 224, on the Erie and Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania Railway, ran into an open switch Thursday morning at Sharpsville.. The entire train was derailed and several of the passengers were slightly hurt, but all escaped serious injury. Overturf Is Indicted. John W. Qverturf, president of the defunct Citizens’ Savings Bank, Portsmouth; Ohio, was indicted for the embezzlement of city money deposited with him as city collector when the bank failed Syracuse Is All Ready. All the arrangements have been practically completed for the reception and entertainment of the delegates to the ninth triennial session of the National Council of Congregational Churches which commences at Syracuse. N. Y., during the second week in October. ? Rhode Island Storm-Swept. At Scituate, U. 1., a thunder storm destroyed $5,000 worth of property. The famous General Lafayette tree was split in two. The tree is the one under, which the General ate his dinner while the Continental armies were marching from Rhode Island to Connecticut.

SIX DEAD AT LOUISVILLE. Terrible Accident at the Grand Army Celebration. A horrible accident resulting in the death of aix and the wounding of aeveral members of the Louisville Legion ocshortly after 5:30 Wednesday morning by the explosion of a caisson. The dead are: Corporal A 1 Robinson, Private Charles Oestrich, Private Charles Woods, Private Mcßride, Private Hutchins, Private Howard Irwin, Private Driver William Adams (colored). The wounded are: Fred Cohn, William Hobbs. All the men excepting the colored driver were members of Battery A of the Kentucky National Guard and all resided in Louisville. The place where the accident occurred is one oj the finest residence districts in the city. Few people were on the street, owing to the early hour, or the list of killed would have been greatly increased. Every window in the block was blown out. Nearly every one in the neighborhood was asleep, and as half-clad men and terrified women came running from their homes a most horrible sight met their eyes. The body of the colored driver, mangled almost beyond recognition, fell on the front porch of a residence fully 300 feet from the' place where the accident occurred. Two of the bodies were blown over the house tops and were horribly mangled. The wounded have been removed to the hospitals. Two horses attached to the cannon were so horribly mangled that they will be killed. All the killed were members of the First Kentucky Artillery of Louisville, which has always been considered the finest in the State. THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clnbs in Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore ......117 73 39 .007 Cleveland 123 78 45 .034 Philadelphia . ...121 74 47 .012 Chicago 120 65 •55 .542 Brooklyn ......120 (55 55 .542 Pittsburg 120 65 55 .542 Boston 119 04 55 .538 NV.v York 120 03 57 .525 Cincinnati 117 60 57 .513 Washington ....117 38 79 .325 St. Louis. 118 30 82 .305 Louisville 120 30 90 .250 WESTERN' T.KAOUB. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per F. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ... .118 77 41 .653 St. Paul 118 09 49 .585 Knnsas City.... 120 09 51 .575 Minneapolis ... 120 02 58 .517 Detroit ........ 120 50 04 .407 Milwaukee 122 57 05 .407 Terre Haute... .119 52 07 .437 Grand Itapids. ..120 38 82 .317

LARGE MEMBERSHIP. Annual Report of Adjntant General Jones, G, A. R. The report of Adjutant General C. C. Jones, of the G. A. R., made at Louisville, shows tlmt on June 30, 1894, there were 0,432 posts, with a total membership of 353,038 The total amount expended for charity was $198,898. Ho recommended that the time for holding the department encampments be not before Jun. 1 nor later than May 15. The report of Inspector General C. V. It. Pond showed that the posts have $1,305,913 in securities und $1,949,007 in other property, a total of $3,254,570. The re-' port of Quartermaster General J. W. Burst showed receipts from all sources $33,427 and expenditures $29,493, leaving a balance of $12,333. The receipts from the per capita tax wore $9,154, a decrease of $293. _____ SAVED A TRAIN. Woman Prevents u Horrible Accident on the Union Pacific. Mrs. Oistrom, wife of a section foreman, Saved the west-bound fast mail train on the Union Pacific, consisting of two mailcars, a day coach and a Pullman sleeper, from n probable frightful wreck near Wolcott station, six, miles from Rawlins, Wyo. While alone at the section-house she discovered that a wooden bridge spanning a small gully crossed by the track was Ivruing. The fast mail, nearly an hour lute, was approaching at a high rate of speed, endeavoring to make up lost time. Mrs. Oistrom ran down the track and flagged the train, which was stopped within fifty feet of the burning bridge. The passengers made up a nurse for her. Now More Benrnble. Chicago will now have normal September weather. The feverish spasm of high temperature which afflicted that community in common with most of the area of the Mississippi Valley relnxed about 10 o’clock Thursday when, on a shift of the wind to the northeast, the mercury in the thermometers began to descend, and during a quarter of an hour declined at the rate of one degree a minute. So rapid a change in temperature has seldom been noted by the weather observers. The pronounced alterations of the temperature of the air may be accounted for on the theory that the unreasonable and unseasonable weather of the last three days was caused by unusual meteorological conditions held in such unstable relation that the return of the normal was jradden, once the tension was removed.

Veterans at a Barbecue. The twenty-ninth encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic ended at Louisville Friday night. A fitting finale to the encampment festivities was the brilliant ball given at the Auditorium by the ladies of Louisville and of Kentucky. The feature of the day, however, was the old-fashioned Kentucky barbecue and burgoo at Wilder Park. The attendance was about 150,000. The last business transacted was the adoption of a pension report protesting against the cutting of pensions, and the selection of the following council of administration: Illinois, T. W. Scott; Indiana, AV. H. Armstrong; lowa, A. W. Swalip; Kansas, D. B. Dornblaser; Michigan,- G. H. Hopkins; Minnesota, Albert Schaeffer; Missouri, F. M. Sterrett; Nebraska, T. J. Majors; Wisconsin, H. L. Thomas. Engineer Haines Blamed. The verdict of the coroner’s jury in the Melby, Minn., railroad wreck was as follows: “AVe find that the direct (,-ause of the accident is to be laid to Engineer Haines, in acting on wrong orders, AA'q further blame the company for ordering passenger trains to' theet at a blind sidig, where there is no agent, fttid Where no lights are kept; also in allowing a conductor to send two orders to the engineer when only one was-needed.” Officials Are Indicted. The Oakland, Cal., grand jury has presented nine indictments against County Auditor Myron A. AVhidden and one indictment against Ernest Maydrisch, - Jr., chief deputy under County Tax Collector Barber. The indictments grew out of the shortage in the tax collector’s office. Chili' Wants a Better NavV* ’ Chili intend sending several naval officers to Europe to buj; a new armored cruiser and four torpedo-catchers, to add to her navy. „ ■ ,;. War «n American Meat. Secretary Morton has received through the State Department a report from United States Consul General Mason at

Frankfort, Germany, on methods adopted in some of the German cities to obstruct and discourage the trade in American meat?. Investigation showed that local authorities at Freiburg had destroyed American -trade because they would neither accept our certificates nor inspect the meat, preferring to thus publicly discredit our meat products. Meats of precisely similar quality and origin continue to be sold in Frankfort, where they have frequently been examined by municipal -inspectors and have always been found wholesome and in good com dition. The matter was referred to the American ambassador at Berlin. PAID THE MORA CLAIM. Bpain at Last Satisfies a Claim Due Yearft Ago. Senor de Lome, the Spanish minister, at Washington, Saturday delivered to Mr. Adee, acting Secretary ot State, a draft for the equivalent of $1,449,000, drawn on the Spanish financial agent in London in settlement of the Mora claim. This marked the close of an international question that'has dragged along for twentysix years, giving rise to fiery debates in the Spanish cortes and protracted committee inquiries in both branches of our own Congress. Having settled the international feature of the case the State Department is now likely to encounter some difficulty at home in disbursing the money. Much litigation is threatened, as was evidenced by the taking out of an injunction by one of the assignees Saturday to restrain the State Department from paying over all the money to the claimant, Mora. During the years of the pendency of this great claim Mr. Mora has been obliged to make assignments of part of it, the larger items being on account of legal expenses. Some of these assignments have been recorded in the State Department. CIfOPS ARE MOVING. Will Offaet the Übuhl Period of Fall Dqllncsq. R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: A slight setback, which may mean much or nothing, according to the final outcome of the crops, is not unexpected at this seasqß. If the government crop reports were correct the situation would not be encouraging. But not much contide'toe is placed in the reduced estimate of corn, none at all in the estimate of wheat, and even the most enthusiastic bulls do not think it worth while to quote the government report as to cotton. The fact is that we are beginning to market not far from 2,200,000,000 bushels of corn (though only about 500,000,000 bushels will be moved from the counties where it is grown): about 460,000,000 bushels of wheat, qf which the farmers are unwisely holding hack a large proportion; and about 7,200,000 bales of cotton, if the later indications are not erroneous, as , they very easily may be, to add to the stocks carried over. PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY. Civil Service Exutniner at Washington Is Given Timely Warning. Replying to a recent communication charging that a member of a local civil service board of examiners for the international revenue service was guilty of improper partisan activity in connection with a recent political convention, the Washington civil service commission asked the accused for such reply to the charges us the facts may warrant, and in its letter to him added: “While attendance at a political convention ns a delegate is not in itself a violation of the civil service rules, the commission holds that partisan activity sufficient to impair usefulness as n representative of the civil service commission is sufficient cause for removal from membership in any of its board of examiners.” Valkyrie at Fault. Although it is almost universally agreed that the regatta committee of the New York Yacht Club could not have acted Wednesday other than it did in awarding Tuesday’s race to the Defender because of Vulkyrie’s fouling and crippling her right on the starting Hue, a good deal of regret Is expressed that there was not a way out of the difficulty which would have permitted the committee to call it “iio race” and order it to be run again. When the decision was announced, Dunraven did not sulk, but declared he would race to the end. Not a Line of, Advertising, Friday morning’# New York World was probably the only regular issue of a newspaper which contained not a litfe of advertising. The flooding of the pressroom during a fire Thursday night reduced the press capacity so that it was possible to print only eight pages instead of the eonsixteen. Eight solid pages of advertising were, therefor#, thrown away rather than cut the news down, nnd the eight available pages were devoted entirely to news. Great Fire at Gonaives, The officers of the Clyde Line steamer Delaware, at New York, firom Hayti, report that while they lay at Port de Paix a great fire raged at Gonaives. Passenger Trains Collide. Two passenger trains on the Consolidated Road collided at Smith’s Hill bridge, uear Providence, It. I. Several passengers were injured. Fr.st Time for a Train. The New York Central’s “flyer” ran from New York to Buffalo, 440 miles, in seven hours.