Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — INVOLVES 800,000 ACRES. [ARTICLE]

INVOLVES 800,000 ACRES.

Holte Smith Says Northern Pacific Does Not Run to Ashland. Secretary Smith has decided that the ! eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific j Railroad is at either Thomson. Minn., or j Superior, Wis., instead of Ashland, Wig., j as has always been claimed by the com- j pauy. About eight hundred thousand acres of land is involved, which is lost l>y the company. The secretary does not undertake to say whether the grant begins at Thomson or Superior, but directs all selections for indemnity between these points to be held for further consideration. He does declare that the grant of the Northern Pacific does not extend east of Superior City. He also says that he is aware that the lands east of Superior were the basis for the selection of a large quantity of lands from the indemnity belt of the company’s grant in North Dakota. These selections having been made some time ago, many, if not all, have perhaps been sold by the company. The secretary has directed thnt the company be allowed sixty days within which to specify a new basis for any of its indemnity selections voided by this decision. AMERICAN TRADE WITH ORIENT. Great Britain Only Has Trade Balance In Her Favor. In a report upon labor and wages in China, United States Consul General Jernigan strongly urges the merchants of America to be ready to seize upon the splendid opportunities for trade that are sure to follow the approaching awakening of China. He shows that nt present the trade is heavily against us in the case of both Japan and China. In the former the balance las year was $19,000,000 and in the latter $16,000,000, while Great Britain, several thousand miles farther away, had balances in her favor nbout equal to our losses. The consul general holds that the European merchant is much more favored than his American competitor by the government aid afford: ed to the great steamship lines. Mr. Jernuigan argues that the Nicaragua Canal will greatly benefit American commerce with the East, and, with an American bank in Chinn, and an American journal published there, the commercial prosperity of the United States would be great. DID NOT HEAR THE SIGNAL Conductor and Braketnan of a Freight Train Killed, A wreck on the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad at Warwick, fifteen miles south of Akron, Ohio, resulted in the death of two men. The engineer of a freight train stopped and whistled for a flagman to be sent out. The conductor, Charles Ernst, and brakeman. John Adams, were asleep in the caboose and did not hear the signal. A second section ran into the first at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Both Ernst and Adams were killed. The money loss will be $lO,000. Near Summit, four cars, which were being drawn up a steep grade on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway, broke away from the locomotive and ran back at great speed, crashing into the locomotive of a newspaper train which was moving forward at a good rate. Reuben Tindall, engineer of the newspaper train, was killed and his fireman, Hiram Rush, badly injured.

Route for the Big Ditch. Trustworthy information has been received as to the contents of the report of the commission which examined into the feasibility and cost and recommended a route for the Nicaraguan Canal. The report is in the hands of the President, who is using it in connection with his work on his annuul message to Congress. The report indicates that a canal across the Isthmus via tho Nicaraguan route is entirely feasible from an engineering point of view. The cost of the project as estimated is $110,000,000, but it is stated this sum is too small by some millions. The commission was nearly three months engaged in its survey work. The route as proposed by the commission is 173 miles long, or three or four miles longer than that which the canal company proposed. The commission made surveys to the right and left of the company’s route and has suggested some changes which it believes will be advantageous. The commission’s waterway will be supplied with locks. The San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua will be employed, but the former will require considerable dredging. The lake is 56>4 miles across, from the San Juan to the mouth of the Lajas. Some dredging will be required on the west coast of the lake which is shoal for a distance of something like 1,350 feet. Brito will be the western terminus of the canal pnd the distance from this port is a little more than seventeen miles. The estimate has been made that, in order to complete the canal which the commission proposes, six years will be required, and in order to finish it within that time, a force of 20,000 men will have to be constantly employed. The commission also went to Panama and made a survey of the route there, and also refers to this project in its report.

Morton on the Meat Question. Secretary Morton has his annual report about completed. The Secretary will take up the system of government inspection of meats and will point out some of the defects in it as it now exists. The fact that the system fails to protect American consumers while it guards the health of foreign purchasers of our beef has often been pointed out. The law permits the Federal authorities to condemn but not destroy, and thus stnuds in the way of an effectual interference on the part of government officials to prevent the consumption of diseased meat in this country. Mr. Morton acknowledges this imperfection in the law and says it is due to onr system of government, which leaves such matters largely to the State. He says, however, that there is a remedy for the defect, which is to be found in appealing to the owners of diseased stock or in co-operation with the State governments and he urges that steps be taken looking to the extension of the national government’s prerogative in this direction. Returns to Her Old Home. Mrs. Hubert Louis Stevenson, accompanied by her son, Lloyd Osborne, and Mrs. Isabel Strong, departed from San Francisco on the steamer Mariposa. Mrs. Stevenson will reside permanently at her old home in Valima, Samoa. Was Chased by Swordfish. A man giviug his name as Herman Hillyer and his home as in Missouri was taken in charge by the police at the White House in Washington. He said he was being chased by a swordfish and desired the President’s protection. Lives Lost. A steam launch belonging to the British cruiser Edgar is reported to have been lost in Japanese waters and forty-eight men who were on board of her are said to have been drowned. Black Damp Kills Three Men. News edmes of the death of three men by suffocation by foul gas in a well at Bristol, Ind. They are Judd Linden. Thomas Ellis and Frank Orr. They were found by Mrs. Orr, Eben B. Jordan Dead, Eben D. Jordan, senior member of the Boston firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co., died at his residence Friday morning. Mr. Jordan, the merchant prince of Boston, was born in Danville, Me., Oct. 13, 1822.

lie was left fatherless and penniless at the age of 4 years, and, his mother being unable to maintain the large family left dependent upon her, yonng Eben was placed with a farmer’s family in the neighborhood. He remained in this home until he was 14 years old. At the age of 14. with just $2.75 in his possession, he started for Boston, his fare to the city being $1.50. The present firm of Jordan, Marsh & Co. was formed in 1851. FIFTEEN BODIES FOUND. Nineteen Believed to Have Perished in a Street Car Horror. The people of Cleveland, Ohio, stood appalled Sunday when they realized the full horror of a terrible accident which occurred Saturday evening on the big central viaduct. It was the worst accident that had ever happened in thnt city, and the story of how the motor car, loaded with men, women and children, had plunged through the open draw, straight down 100 feet into the river, was told over and over again. Fifteen bodies in all were recovered and identified. Thousands of people remained by the river bank all night, and thousands more were there earjy in the morning. August Rogers, the motorman, who has been held as a witness, wus charged with manslaughter. This action was taken by Chief of Police Hoehn after he had investigated the accident. After the charge had been placed against him nobody was permitted to see Rogers. The diver succeeded in fastening a chain to the trucks of the motor and they were raised from the river. The bed of the stream was then dragged, but no more bodies were found. Four persons are still missing, however, and it is probable that their bodies have floated down the river. TRADE NOT AFFECTED.

Gold Exports Do Not Retard the Btock Markets. It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The scare about gold exI«*rts had no reul significance, and although $2,250,000 more went out Saturday, the stock market continues stroug. There was and is a'substantial cause of difficulty in the fact that exports of products have been too small to meet the greatly increased imports of merchandise. The collapse of Kaffir speculations abroad has forced many to realize on Americans held, and the impression that our Government may have to borrow again also operates to our disadvantage. But there is no local disturbance of money markets.” SHIPPED HIMSELF IN A BOX. Worn-Out Scheme of a Young Man to Save Fare. A peculiar box left at a Columbus, Ohio, transfer company’s office for shipment, to San Antonio, Texas, aroused the suspicions of the manager, and the attention of the police was called to it. Investigation revealed that it contained John Schneider, a young German, who had arranged to have himself shipped in it to San Antonio. lie had it well stocked with provisions, and would have saved about $25 in railway fare. Schneider had S7O when arrested. He was released, as no charge could be made against him. TO ESTABLISH SCHOOLS IN COREA

First Result of the Wave of Civilization in the Hermit Kingdom. The first impulse of the move civilization in Corea resulting from the ChinaJapan war is noted in a dispatch to the State Department from United States Minister Sill, transmitting a royal decree establishing a system of schools In that country. The purpose, ns quaintly expressed in the decree, is: “Children shall be taught, in order that the people may be educated; that a general knowledge may be diffused anil that men of ability may be raised up to fill the various professions.” To Develop Wyoming. Colonel Bill Cody, General Manager Holdredge, of the Burlington, and eleven other capitalists, interested in the construction of the Shoshone Canal in tho Big Horn Basin, have left Billings, Mont., for the scene of the canal construction. The canal will cover 200,DU0 acres of exceptionally fertile land, will cost $1,000,000 and will carry with its construction an early building of a Burlington lino into the Big Horn Basin, with the erection of the new town and medical springs resort of Shoshone. Four syndicates, two in Chicago and two in New York, with nn aggregate capital of $20,000,(XX), organized for the purchase and development of Wyoming free gold and placer properties have a number of experts now in tho State looking for investments. Many Russians Die of Cholera. Between Oct. 13 and 20 there were 1,590 cases of cholera and 616 deaths recorded in the province of Volhynia, Russia, and thirty-eight cases and twelve deaths in the province of Ixieff. The report that cholera has broken out in St. Petersburg is not confirmed. Baron Fava Would Be Lenient. President Cleveland will soon be asked to pardon the venerable Celso Caesar Moreno, who is serving a ninety days’ sentence for libeling Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador. The Baron himself will sign the petition, or make a personal appeal. Eight Assassins Are Executed. Special dispatches from Yladivostock say that owing to the presence of the British fleet at Foo Chow the viceroy has executed eight assassins.