Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — FEARS OF CIVIL WAR. [ARTICLE]

FEARS OF CIVIL WAR.

MANITOBA BITTER AGAINST’tHE REMEDIAL MEASURE. People Wildly Excited and Warning: bent to Ottawa—Five Lives Crushed Out in a Wreck—“ Bat” Shea Ip Dead—French Victorious. Ominous Threats Made. The introduction of the remedial bill in Parliament caused the wildest excitement in Manitoba, the province most directlyinterested by the passage of the measure. Seditious mutteriugs are heard and ominous fhreats are conveyed to the Dominion Government, that the bill upon its passage or the endeavor to enforce it after its passage, will be bitterly resisted by its opiwnents of Manitoba. The Greenway Government openly announces that any attempt to coerce Manitoba into submission will bring on serious trouble. Rebellion is likely to follow, and a civil war is a possibility. The Conservatives of Manitoba, fearing a race and creed war following the passage of the bill, have gone so far as to warn the Dominion Government to consider the consequences of hasty action in the matter.

FIVE KILLED, THREE HURT. Disastrous Wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad. A disastrous wreck occurred near Dongoki, on the Illinois Central Railroad. 340 miles from Chicago, at 0:45 o’clock Tuesday morning, between a passenger train bound for Chicago and a south-bound freight train. Five of the passenger crew were killed and three hurt. None of -the passengers was killed, and, so far as known, none was injured. The damage to the railroad property is veryheavy, as the freight cal's were piled up in frightful confusion. Passenger coaches, also, were totally tvrdcked, and the track tom up for a great distance. The men killed had homes in Centralia. as did •those: who were wounded, that being the end of the division. It is said that Engineer Huntington had ample time to escape had he jumped when the light of the freight first appeared. But he seems to have stuck to his post and done all |»visible to reduce the force of the collision. The result is that he lost his life, though he undoubtedly saved the lives of his passengers. Had he abandoned liis engine in time to secure liis btvn safety, the shock must have been intensified to a tremendous degred," and, instead of slight injuries, scores of passengers must have been killed.

REPORTED REVOLT. Hovaa Lose .4,000 Killed in un Attack on the French. A French newspaper published on the Island of Reunion prints a message from its correspondent at Antananarivo, dated Jan. 24, declaring that a great conspiracy had been discovered there. The correspondent. asserts that 4,000 Ilovas attacked the French, but were repulsed wit'll a loss of .‘>,ooo killed. Continuing, the correspondent says a rumor has reached him that a number of French officers and soldiers have been murdered and flint fourteen Ilova chiefs' have boon condemned to death. He adds that the French resident ordered them to be shot immediately and that, sem-al other chiefs were sentenced to transportation. The news is not officially- confirmed.,

STEAM LIGHTER SUNK. One Report Soys All Were Saved* Another that Eight Men Perished, The steam lighter Lester, durjjig j a fierce storm Tuesday, sank off Rockaw'ay inlet. A New York tug went to the rescue of her crew of nine men. The men at the life-saving station at Itockaway Beach believe they were all saved. A report from Coney Island says that the life silvers ffrortt saw two men hanging to a yawl acid before help could reach them they sarik ont-hf sight. They also say they saw the Two Brothers pick up one man and that was all. Dies in the Electric Chair. Bartholomew Shea died in the electrical chair at Diumemora, N. Y., Tuesday, paying the penalty for the murder of Robert Ross at Troy in March, 1X94. When he was conducted into the death chamber he started as he came in sight of the electrical chair, but said nothing. The straps being adjusted, the priests in low tones read the service of the dead. While the priests read the first voltage was turned on. It was 9:50 when Shew entered the room and 9:58% when he was pronounced dead. Busy Buckeye Burglars. The safe of the Leesburg, Ohio, bank was opened with explosives and $(>,000 was stolen. Burglars opened the safe of Samuel A. Crocker & Co., Cincinnati, dealers in surgical instruments and dental supplies, and carried away $3,000 worth of gold loaf. Damages for Blacklisting. In the suit of Johnson, a discharged engineer, against the Iron Mountain Railway Company, at .Memphis, for $15,000 damages for breach of contract and blacklisting, the jury 4-eturued a verdict awarding the plaintiff $1,535 damages.

Stops Prize Fights. President Cleveland signed the Catron anti-prize fight bill Friday afternoon, making it a law in immediate effect. Killed in a Free Fight, In a free fight at Sugar Lake, Mo., Sunday, one man was killed and several others more or less seriously injured. Miniature Johnstown Flood. Bariy Tuesday morning an immense water main burst with terrific force in Franklin avenue hill, Cleveland, Qhio, and, with the great volume of water that poured oat, several hundred feet of the bill, on which were many small houses, was washed into the river. Loss by Fire. Fire gutted the three, upper stories of Jhe, .building occupied',by the Nebraska Goods Company, wholesalers, at Omaha, 1 Neb., Tuesday morning. Loss *4l ,000; insurance, $37,000. Estate Claimed by Two Widows. L. D. Wheeler, of Youngstown, Ohio, died recently, leaving a widow and two children. A sensation is caused by another woman appearing, claiming she was married to Mr. Wheeler at New Lebanon, Pa., in 1880, and demanding her dower interest in the estate. Astor’s Editors Desert Him. Henry J. C. Gust, editor of the LonAa Pall Mall Gazette, aini Mr. Muller, assistant editor, having declined to resigif Their positions, Mr. Astor has summarily dismissed them. The editorial staff, upon learning of the action of the chief, resigned in a body.

WHOLESALE MURDER. Despondent Chicago Carpenter Kill* * "Hia Family and Himself. Chloroform and a revolver were the agents with which Richard Klattke, a carpenter of Chicago, slew hia entire family of six; then, turning the revolver upon himself, he committed suicide. When residents in the vicinity burst into the home, early Wednesday morning, they found seven corpses, and a superficial examination showed that each of Klattke's victims had been shot through the brain, and that he himself had died iu a similar manner. No evidence of struggle existed, and an empty chloroform botIle would indicate use of that anestheticbefore the shootiug. Klattke was despondent. The members of his family were cold and hungry. Since Christmas he had been ont*of work and he-euded his troubles just as relief was in sight. Wednesday morning his next-door neighbor. Adolph Schmidt, called at the cottage with the joyful news that he had found a job for Klattke. At the same time Mr. Brown arrived on a similar errand; They came too late, just how much no one knows, for the bodies were cold when discovered. SURPASSED EXPECTATIONS. Bonds Realized an Average Price of 111 Per Cent. The amazing success of the bond issue is still the talk of Washington. As the fids are examined more closely the greater file success appears to be. A week before Secretary Carlisle would have been weir satisfied had some one assured an average price of 109. The loan will actually go ibout two points above that price. Unfiticial and approximate figures grade the fids iu the following magnificent column: Premium rate. Amount. 150 .$ 50 150 100 125 50 121 50 120 850 119 and fractions 110,850 118 5,050 117 3,500 110 and fractions 90,500 115 229,000 114 and fractions 1,510,750 113 and fractions 1,580,950 112 and fractions 10,959,100 111 and fractions 34,077,300 Below 111 and above 110.0877 0,507,000

Total above the Morgan bid. 555,012,900 G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. Railroads May Grant Demands of Commander-in-Chief Walker. The meeting of the National Executive Council of the Grand Army, which had been called to select a new location for the national encampment, owing to the refusal of the railroad lines centering in St. Paul to extend the ticket limitation to thirty days, us demanded by Commander-m-Chief Walker, has been postponed for two weeks iu order to await developments growing out of the notice given by the Chicago and Great Western that it will not abide by the decision of the Western Passenger Association, but will grant the Grand Army demands, even if it stands alone in so doing. It is thought the other roads will be compelled to meet this defection, and that consequently the encampment may be held at St. Paul, as designated by the Louisville gathering. BUILDING BLOWN UP.

Disastrous Ending to Flashlight Powder Experiments. While experimenting with a new flashlight powder invented by George Lawrence, a Chicago photographer, P. T. Dunning, an employe, caused an explosion which wrecked the building, severely injured Dunning and Mrs. Lawrence, wife of the photographer, and shattered windows in several Structures adjacent to the studio. The explosion occurred in a room in the Second story, where Duuuing was engaged iu making powder'used iu tanking flashlight pictures. He had completed the work of compounding the material, and was putting it into small boxes, each calculated to contain two minces, when without apparent cause the powder exploded.

Britain Is Defiant. A dispatch sent by Joseph Chamberlain, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor if Cape Colony, reviews the history of “vents in the Transvaal since 1891, and points out that the mining interests, the mainstay of the country, are mainly in •ho hands of the IJitlanders, who are debarred by legislation from the rights of citizenship. It states that the whole direction of affairs and the right of taxation remain a monopoly in the hands of a decreasing majority of the population engaged in agriculture, while the majority, who raised the revenue from £75,000 to £2,000.000, are denied any voice in the government of the Transvaal and are unable to obtain redress for the formidable grievances hampering and injuring them incessantly. Mr. Chamberlain emphasized the pacific and above-board character of the Uitlander agitation, and recalls that the Uitlanders’ petitions were rejected by the volksraad amid scornful laughter, one member ,qf that body challenging the IJitlanders to take up arms and fight. He then proceeds to state the position of Great Britain and her claims toward the Transvaal, saying: “Since the convention of 1884 Great Britain has recognized the Transvaal as independent internally, hut its external relations are subject to the control of Great Britain. There is no reason to anticipate that a foreign state will dispute our rights, but it is necessary to state clearly that the Government intends to maintain them in their integrity. Internally Great Britain is justified, in the interests of South Afiea as a whole and for the peace and stability of the Transvaal, to tender friendly counsels regarding the newcomers, mainly British subjects.”

Rays Find a Bullet. A most successful experiment with cathode photography, or X rays, as Prof. Rontgen himself has named them, has been conducted at McGill University, Montreal, tjuobec. Prof. Cox experimented on a patient of Dr. Kilpatrick, Tolson Cunning, who had been shot in the “ft leg about Christmas. The bullet could not be located, and the man suffered intense pain. The wound had closed up. The leg was photographed, and, though it took forty-live minuses, the bullet was found. Young Forger Finds Victims. A bright, lively youth, professing to be employed in the office of ex-Mayor C. S. Denny at Indianapolis, has uttered forged checks in the name of Mr. Denny collectively amounting to considerable. The forger is described as 16 years old,' add answers to the name of Roy. Thomas. Failure Hastened by Death. J. Rush Ritter, of the Solicitors’ Loan and Trust Company, Philadelphia, whose speculations are alleged to have wrecked that company, died Friday.' The result of his speculations is believed to have hastened his death. Dropped Dead Through Fright. Benjamin Fowler, aged 60, employed as crossing flagman at Miincie, Ind„ died Friday of-fright. A cab filled with women had a miraculous escape at his crossing, and the man dropped dead Syndicate Is Selling. Morgan pool at New York was busy Friday selling bonds at the market rate of 116%. There were reports in Wall

that Mr. Morgan was also a boyei .of bonds, which was not unlikely, as they are regarded as sure to advance to 120 within a short time. It is said that the Morgan people, like many others, havi contracts for the delivery of many of the bonds, and find that they are short in the supply they expected to get. I .ate in the day, too, came a report from Washington saying that the Morgan syndicate was only to get $33,009,000 of the loan. This was a great surprise, as on Wednesday the general opinion of those who heard the reading of the bids was that Mr. Morgan wonld get at least $50,000,000, ami Mr. Morgah reported the treasury clerks had given him $57,000,000 as bis probablt allotment. At the subtreasury in New York the jo was an jurush of gold for examination, which means that those who Arc iu and above the Morgan bid ari placing tlieir gold for safe keeping in the treasury vaults until the arrival of the official notification that lsinds have been allotted to them.

POSTAL REPORTS ON GOLD. Statement of the Average Receipts Now Being Prepared. Postmaster General Wilson has received replies to all the 900 letters sent a few weeks ago to first and second-class postmasters asking for the percentage, of gold received at their offices. Ills clerks art now engaged in tabulating the percentages, and the complete statement wjl! soon be ready to give \o the press. It will show that a considerable percentage ol postoffice receipts is in gold Coin, or its actual equivalent. The Postmaster General will not gay what action will be taker as a result of this inquiry, but if may bt that postmasters whose receipts in gold are reasonably large will be instructed tc send the gold in future direct to tlie treasury, instead of depositing it iu local banks with other postoftiee receipts. By depos king the gold the Government, in nearly every instance, loses it, and it goes tc increase the hoard of gold held by bankers.- By sending it to the treasury or sub treasury, it could be used to replenish ths gold reserve.

BRIGHTER BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Unparalleled Success of Bond Sale Is the Cause. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review ol Trade says: “The wonderful success oi the jvopiilar loan alters the face of events The influence upon all manufacturing am all trade cannot lie lightly estimated. If puts tlie treasury on a safe basis for the time, whether Congress does anything useful or not. It notifies foreign nations that the United States has power as we! as purpose. It unlocks millions of gold which have been gathered in preparation brings directly- several millions of gold from Europe, and stimulates the anxiety of foreign investors to obtain American securities. With such a revolution in business suddenly effected, the eustomarj records of the last week and month arc of less Value than usual.”

• COLLIDE AT A CROSSING. Engine Runs Into Trolley Car at Rankin’s Crossing. A shifting engine on the Baltimore ant Ohio Railway ran ip to a 2d, avenue electric car at Rankin's Crossing, nine miles east of Pittsburg, killing Conductor W. H. Cooper and fatally injuring Motonpai: John Riddloy. There were eight passengers iu the car, of whom three work women They escaped with slight bruises. Al; were badly frightened and regarded tlieii escape from death as remarkable. The accident was caused by slippery rails. ' Answers the Senate. ill response to a resolution of inquiry the Secretary of War lias sent to the Senate a statement of the amount oi money which could be used advantageously in coast defenses. lie says that $25,078,800 could be so used by the department prior to July 1, 1897, of which amount $4,722,000 should he made available during the preseiit fiscal year. He recommends, that $15,807,000 be designated for fortifications, $1,000,000 foi sites, $2,500,000 for submarine defenses, $0,310,800 for guns, mortar projectiles, etc. The special advantage of the increased -appropriations as enumerated by the Secretary are: The utilization of the army gun factory to its full capacity; the more rapid armament of our fortifications; the addition of twelve mortars and carriages to those alreridy* estimated for; the purchase of an*.additional 500 deckpiercing shells and supply of heavy material for siege service.

Feud Ends in Wholesale Murder. Hungarians aud Poles of Whiting, lud., engaged in a riot at Joseph Maovitik’s saloon Thursday afternoon, in which three men were shot and killed and two seriously wounded. Many more were injured in the melee, l>ut not serious enough to Require medical attendance. The trouble was the culmination of a race war ol long standing between the,rival races emUloyed by the Standard Oil Company. Wrecked by Wind. In Brooklyn, N. Y’., a three-story brick building in Second avenue, between Thir-ty-ninth and Fortieth streets, was blown down during a storm. Three persons were buried in the ruins. Big Fnilure at New York. U. & H. Adams, manufacturers of cotton goods, New York, assigned without preferences, to Charles E. Shade. The failure is said to involve $500,000.