Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — GIVE UP THE EFFORT. [ARTICLE]

GIVE UP THE EFFORT.

RAILWAY RECEIVERS TIRE OF A TASK. To Protect Fourth-Class Postmasters —American Heirs Wanted in Guate-mala-Chinamen Solve a ProblemChinese Bride with a Big Dowry. Can’t Serve Two Masters. Henry C. Payne, Thomas F. Oakes and H. C. Rouse, receivers of the Northern Pacific Road, tendered their resignations to Judge Jenkins at Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon. The resignation gives a complete history of the appointment of the receivers and dwells upon subsequent litigation. Reference is made to the attack made upon the receivers by President Ives in the Washington courts. The proceedings are set forth and excerpts made from the opinions of Judges Gilbert and Hanford. The receivers then proceed: “Your receivers manifestly cannot administer the trust with justice to the parties interested or themselves if subject to the orders and instructions as to the general administration from two or more independent tribunfils. We cannot abide, nor can we ask our sureties to abide, the danger of differences of opinion between courts, each assuming to be controlling as to the expenditures of the receivership in the general administration in view of the immensity of the sums involved.” ESTATE MAY GO TO THE HOSPITAL Jamea McCormack, a Wealthy American, Dies in a Guatemala Hospital. United States Consul General Pringle, at Guatemala, in a report to the State Department, announces the death in a hospital there on July 10 of James McCormack. a carpenter, said to have been an American citizen. He had about $150,000 or $200,000 on his person and about SBOO in the International Bank. The courts appointed Javier Arroyo administrator. The law of the country obliges the legal representatives of anyone who dies in the hospital intestate to present themselves within thirty days, otherwise the estate reverts to the hospital. As the Consul General was told that McCormack left a wife and some children, supposed to be in England, He procured an extension to three months of the time allowed for the appearance of the heirs, the furthest limit permitted by law, but he expresses fear that the time will elapse before the widow gets the notice FOURTH CLASS POSTOFFICES. Officials Planning to Bring Them Under Civil Service Regulations. Both the Postoffice Department and Civil Service Commission are taking interest in the movement to place fourthclass postmasters under the protection of the civil service laws. While nothing is likely to be done at present, it is probable that before the end of this administration the looked-for action will be taken. There are over 05,000 fourth-class postoffices in the country, and the number is constantly increasing. About 20,000 carry salaries of less than SSO per annum, and at, least half are in places where there is much greater difficulty in finding a competent and reliable person who is willing to serve than in choosing between competitors. It is obvious that there can be no question of examination and certification in the usual civil service methods in these offices. Several plans have been suggested and a combination of them will probably be adopted.

Broke the Corpse. i Monday afternoon the remains of four Chinamen were exhumed at Columbus, Ohio, and packed in zinc boxes to be shipped to China. Great consternation was caused when it was found that the body of one of them, that of Me Lung, who embraced the Christian religion before he died, had turned to stone. As the box provided for it was not half as long as the body, it became necessary to break the petrified corpse. To do this the Chinamen indulged in a tug-of-war with the corpse, breaking the legs, arms and head off. Peary Has Returned. After six months of suffering, trials and danger; after having seen gaunt starvation staring them in.the face more than once and after having preserved their lives by eating thd.fleshhf seals, Lieut. Peary and his companions in his Arctic travels are safe once more off St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will soon set foot on the soil of the United States. Wants a Hubby. Hip Sing Lee, a wealthy Chinese merchant of San Jose, Cal., offers a half interest in his extensive merchandise business and $5,000 in cash to any reputable young American who will marry his daughter, Moi Lee. Hip Sing Lee is the wealthiest Chinaman in the valley, and his fortune is estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. .1 £*' No Hope for Barney Lantry. Dispatches from Strong City, Kan., state that Barney Lantry, the well-known millionaire railroad contractor, is suffering from paralysis of the lower limbs, and that he cannot recover. He is one of the most prominent men in Kansas, and was the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer last year.

Fickle Maid Finally Caught. Miss Annie Bolligh, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., on two occasions left town on the day set for the marriage. Monday she tried to elude Michael Zilbiski, but she was watched, and when she attempted to run away was escorted to church and the marriage ceremony was gone through with. Frozen to Death in September. William Cheeney was frozen to death in the mountains of the Natural Bridge mining district, thirty miles east of Livingston, Mont., Friday night. He was a gray-haired prospector, and with three companions was overtaken in the East Boulder basin by a howling blizzard. Patriots Badly Defeated. Dispatches received by officials at Havana report a defeat of insurgents in the mountains of Seborucal, between Paila and Mazantini. Gale Ends tbe Heat. The extreme heat which for two weeiw had scorched a wide area was dispelled Sunday night by a gale which swooped out of the West. The change was phenomenal. Within an hour the mercury dropped from 90 degrees to 70. By morning it registered 52. To Atlanta In a Wagon. Milton H. Barr, Edward J. Clifford and Cliff B. Ruhmer, members of Company G,'First Regiment, N. G. C., of San Francisco, started out from Oakland on • trip across the continent, their destination being Atlanta. They are going tp »ake v the tour in a wagon.

HONOR TO HEROES. Monuments 'to Soldiers Dedicated at Cbickamauga Parle. Nowhere and at no time has there been ! such fraternizing between the blue and | the gray as Wednesday on the battlefield ;of Chiekarpauga. At Brotherton's house, bwhiris murks the point where the Union ' oenter-wa-s-bfoken. the First and.Sixtyeighth Georgia Regiments, Confederate States of America, held a reunion. This ! was made the rallying point for nil the 1 Confederate veterans. Dinner was served for thousands, and Union veterans were nade as welcome as Confederate veterans. At the dedication of the Illinois monuments an ex-Con federate soldier spoke on Snodgrass Hill; at the dedication of the Ohio. Michigan and Minnesota monuments there were hundreds of ex-Coufed-erates in the throng. And so it was everywhere. All over the park parties composed of ex-l’nion and ex-Confederate veterans were hunting for relics or discussing the varying fortunes of the battle and the positions they respectively occupied at different times during it. It was a great day for the survivors of that famous field. It was a great day for the thousands of- the younger generation which can now realize so vividly the valor that was so conspicuously displayed, as it is enabled to do by the monuments and tablets that have been erected. It was a great day for Chattanooga. THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of tbr C'nbs In Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per I’. W. L. cent. Baltimore 124 82 42 .001 Cleveland 128 83 45 .048 Philadelphia ...120 77 4!> .GIL Chicago 12G 70 50 .550 Boston 120 70 50 .550 Brooklyn 120 07 50 .532 Pittsburg 127 07 00 .528 New York 125 04 01 .512 Cincinnati 123 02 01 .504 Washington ....123 40 83 .325 St. Louis 125 37 88 .290 Louisville 127 34 93 .208 WKSTF.HV I.KAOUB. The Western League sefison closed Monday with the teams in the following positions: W on. Lost. Per ct. Indianapolis 78 43 * .045 St. Paul.-. 74 50 .597 Kansas City......... 73 52 .584 Minneapolis 05 00 .520 Detroit 59 00 .472 Milwaukee 57 07 .400 Terre Haute 52 72 .427 Grand Rapids 38 80 .300 All the clubs made money.

DEVOURED BY FLAMES. Great Buniness Blocks in Indianapolis Burned Down. Half a million dollars in buildings and merchandise went up in flames and smoke Wednesday morning ns the result of one of the most disastrous and stubborn fires in the history of Indianapolis, and parts of several blocks, including some of the finest buildings in the city, are in ruins, or badly damaged. Valuable stocks had to be flooded with water, to :m enormous loss, to prevent their total destruction and a wider spread of the fire. Two million dollars in cash stored in the* vaults of the Indiana National Bank, whose building was totally destroyed, was in danger, but the vaults withstood the flames intact. The lire started at 0 o’clock ou tie third floor of the live-story stone and brick building on Washington street, between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, owned by A. B. Pettis and occupied by Eastman, Schleicher & Co. It soon had great headway, and all the resources of the city lire department were . at. once called into play to combat what was certain to prove a disastrous blaze. In spite of the quick work and hard fighting of the firemen the flames spread rapidly, aii4 it was several hours before they were sufficiently uuder control to quiet fears that the entire business district might bo burned. WITH POMP OF PEACE. Soldiers and Others Join in a Grand Street Pageant. Friday, the last day of the. exercises at Chickamauga Park, the most spectacular in its events of any during the dedication week. It was the first time that the center of interest has been in the city of Chattanooga itself, and so develoi>ed the first opportunity of getting some tangible idea of the crowds that have been attracted thither. It affeeded the first opportunity, the people of Chattanooga themselves have had of meeting their guests en masse, and neither guests nor hosts were disappointed in the meeting. The parade in the morning was witnessed by at least 100,000 people. So large a number were never before in the town at one time, not even during the military operations which' were being commemorated. The parade moved at 10 o’clock, and it bad all the elements of a pageant in the great number of military organizations, and the larger number of notables who took part in it. Vice President Stevenson presided over the closing exercises. Speeches wera made by Mayor Ochs, Senator Ball of Tennessee, Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, and others. Then the exodus began, and the celebration was over.

ON THE GRIDIRON. Awful Scorching Which Old Sol Gave the Northwest. Three deaths from heat were reported at Chicago Friday and several prostrations. The day was one of terrific heat throughout all the middle Northwest, at the same time snow was falling in Montana. In the corn belt ripening progressed phenomenally rapid; but pastures and stock suffered. Morton for President. For Secretary of State John Palmer For State Treasurer........A. B. Colvin For Attorney General... .F. E. Hancock For State Engineer C. W. Adams For Judge of the Court of Appeals, Celora E. Martin The New York Republican State convention met at Saratoga Tuesday and nominated the ticket prepared by the party leaders. Governor Morton’s candidacy for President of the United States was formally announced aud it secured the unanimous indorsement of the convention. The platform scores the administration for failing to defend the rights of American citlzeus in foreign countries, and for permitting foreign encroachments on tbe western hemisphere. The tariff and deficiency questions receive condemnation. A sound and stable currency is indorsed. Governor Morton’s administration is indorsed and his candidacy for President formally launched. Caban Arms Are Seized. A Belgian firm doing business in the West? Indies has received a cablegram from one of its employes saying an, immense quantity of rifles, swords and cartridges, intended for the Cuban insurgents, have been seized on the Island of Andros, where they had been secretly brought from New York. Andros lies about 150 miles north of the Island of Cuba. Henry Watibn Falla Deed. At Fort Scott, Kan., Henry Watson, one of the oldest and best-known hotel clerks in the West, dropped dead while standing before his dresser in the Tremont House. Rheumatism of the heart was the cause.

THIEVES GET THOUSANDS." Two Croekod Employe* Loot t Chicago Bank. Close on the heel* of Receiving Teller Van Bokkelen'e $35,000 defalcation from the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company of Chicago, comes the discovery that two | trusted employes of the National Bank of i Illinois have disappeared, leaving a shortage variously estimated from $20,000 to $40,000. Who the guilty men are President George Schneider and Cashier Carl Moll refuse to disclose. All they will say concerning the identity of the absconders is that one was receiving teller, the other a paying teller, and that the amount they have stolen is $19,000. They entered the bank's service ai the foot of the ladder and reached their positions step by step, as their merit warranted. The receiving teller had been with the bank seventeen years. The other had worked there twelve years, and was away on his vacation when the shortage was discovered. Whether he intended to return or not is not known. He was trusted implicitly by bis superiors, and it was only when glaring irregularities were discovered in bis accounts during his absence that the officials of the bank grew suspicious. TRADE OF THE WEEK. H. G. Dun & Co’s Review of Principal Market Items. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "In spite pf gold exports wheat advanced for some days, in all nearly 2 ceuts, mainly because a single speculator bought. Corn rose and fell in sympathy with as little reason. Good reports of foreign crops, weakness of flour .in Minnesota, and large exports of corn from this country all work against a rise in wheat, though scarcity of contract gTades may help a speculative advance. Pork products haye been reasonably yielding, with prospects of a large crop, hut before the dose had a stronger tone. The cotton market, lifting and falling a fraction each day alternately, shows no settled tendency. The surprising increase in production and advance in prices of iron seem to be bringing it natural check, ns prices have gone so high as to cause some purchases from Europe, both of pig and finished products, and have also caused a distinct shrinkage In home demand.”

TRUST LOSS $1,000,000. The Tobacco Manufacturers Have Squandered a Fortune. More than one million of dollars has been given away by the manufacturers of plug tobacco in the United States during the pnst three months. This nmouut will furnish some idea of the magnitude of the losses suffered by the warring factious of the tobacco trade since they be- _ gau to fight. The retail tobacco dealers liuve received the principal benefits from tills princely gift, which bus resulted from nothing else than the sharp competition between the American Tdbacc-o Company, comouly known as the trust, and the fifteen or twenty indc|>ondent manufacturers who met in New York recently, decided to see the trust in its cut in the price of plug tobacco and to go it one better by making cigarettes. Christians Fiercely Condemned. The London Times prints a dispatch from Hong Kong which says that at the annual examinations in Canton thousands of students were given copies of an imperial decree, in which the doctrines of the Christians were fiercely condemned. • The decree upes the following language: “A stupid, black-haired race is establishing sundry sects, and they regard not their own lives, but pretend to rise again ■as immortal man and woman. They congregate and, abandoning chastity, behave like obscene birds and beasts. Faithful Confueians must shoot and stone and behead them without mercy. I, the Emperor, command the authorities to eradicate these weeds and vermin. Kill the serpents. Throw them to the wolves and tigers, because thpre is no salvation for them either against heaven-sent calamities or misfortunes caused by human agencies." Death from a Fly Bite. A dispatch from Homburg announces that Mrs. H. A. Morgan, Jr., of Aurora, N. Y„ djed\there under unusual circumstances. A week before Mrs. Morgan was bitten on the lip by a fly. The Morgans belong to one of the oldest and richest families in Central New York. Under Falling Walls. At Nashville, Tenn., a portion of the walls of the old Colonnade Building, which is being torn down, fell. Six workmen were buried under the debris and all were more or less injured, but none ip thought to be fatally hurt. Fatal Boiler Explosion. A defective boiler, used in the. drilling of wells at Montgomery County Infirmary, six miles west of Dayton, Ohio, ploded, killing two inmates and seriously injuring three others. Skelton Brothers Freed. Robert S., Walter L., and James Skelton, brothers, have been acquitted at Birmingham, Ala., of the murder of Robert C. Ross, a banker, in February, 1893. Big Fire in Alder, Minn. A fire broke out Thursday at Alder, Minn., and burned fourteen stores,- a church, a newspaper office and several other buildings. J. C. Wilson Is Dead. J. C. Wilson, one of the receivers of thi Atchison Road, died suddenly at the Holland House, New York.