Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — NOTABLE CUBAN VICTORY. [ARTICLE]

NOTABLE CUBAN VICTORY.

Spaniard* Badly Worsted in Pinar Del Rio Fight. The Cuban insurgents have dealt Spain a crushing blow. Trustworthy information has been received at New York from Havana that the battle fought a few days ago in, Pinar del Rio, which the dispatches sent out with the sanction of the press censor described as a Spanish victory, was in reality a lamentable defeat for the forces of Gen. Weyler. This news reached Havana Thursday and was sent to New York in a brief cipher cablegram. The source of the information leaves no doubt of its reliability. The Spanish officials will not permit the report of insurgent success to be sent out of Havana. It is expected that the details of the battle will be smuggled over to Tampa and there put on the wires. The late press dispatches from Havana say that officials now admit that the battle was a fiercely contested one and that it was attended with serious consequences to the Spanish. It is the firm opinion in New York among persons informed of events in Cuba that the Spanish cause is lost. It is also believed, despite denials, that this last defeat will so add to the dissatisfaction against Gen. Weyler that either his resignation or recall will soon follow. REFUSE TO FOLLOW EVA. Fifty Chicago Salvationists Desert the Old Organization. Fifty members of the Salvation army at Chicago proclaimed Sunday at Princess Rink their desertion of the old organization. At the afternoon meeting, instead of marching to the platform and taking seats behind Commissioners Eva Booth and John A. Carleton, they smoothed out the little white bows they had pinned on the lapels of their coats as tire badge of rebellion and seated themselves with the general audience. The lassies still wore their blue uniforms and poke bonnets, but the seceding men appeared in plain clothes. It is conceded by both sides there wall be two organizations in Chicago un--less something causes Commander Ballington Booth to falter. Those who wore the white ribbon Sunday say a large number of officers and privates will throw off all reserve and flock to nis standard. The white ribbon people say they are sixtyfive strong in Corps No. 1 alone. This corps numbers over 150. The adherents of Gen. Booth declare there are not more than thirty revolters in Corps No. 1, and say the new organization will be shortlived.

NO RAINBOW IN SIGHT. Trade Skies Continue to Be Dark and Lowering. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Movement toward better things is still the exception. There is better business in shoes and small industries and there has been a squeezing of short sellers in cotton. But the general tendency of industries and prices is not encouraging, and those who were most hopeful a month ago are still waiting, not so hopefully, for the expected recovery. Causes of continued depression are nol wanting. Bad weather lias cut off much business, especially in country districts. Some failures of consequence have caused especial caution. The root of the business is that in many departments men bought more and produced more when prices Were mounting aud everything was rushing to buy last year than they have yet been able to sell. That the buying was of a nature to anticipate actual consumption many months they were fully warned, but they had more hope than observation and went on piling up goods. Some are engaged to-day in the same hopeful anticipation of a demand which has not yet appeared.” WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS Oppose Free Silver and Favor MrMcKinley for President. Wisconsin Republicans, in State convention Wednesday at Milwaukee, chose the following national delegates: Dele-gates-at-large, Philetus Sawyer, Willium D. Hoard, Eugene S. Elliott, James S. Stout; alternates, H. B. Smith, W. S. Heine, James R. Lyon, Judge Plummer. The conventiou declared specifically for sound money in national finance and against free coinage of silver, and said that William McKinley is the presidential choice of the whole State. This action was taken in the biggest convention ever held in the State. These principles were presented to a convention of ÜBl delegates, and were adopted by a unanimous rote. Then delegates and crowded galleries joined in cheering the completed work.

LIVED TO BE 111 YEARS OF AGE. Mrs. Mary A. Mosely, Who Knew Daniel Boone, Dies in Missouri. The oldest inhabitant of Boone County, Mo., Mrs. Mary Ann Mosely, died in Columbia Friday, at the age of 111 years. She lived in Boone County for over ninety years, and during recent years lived with her son, Warren Mosely. Her other five children all died of old age. Until lust fall Mrs. Mosely was in remarkably good health, but during the last few months her strength steadily failed. She was born in Clark County, Ky., in 1785, and" at the age of HI went to Columbia. On her way the party with which she traveled stopped for awhile in St. Charles County, Mo., with Daniel Boone, the famous pioneer, after whom Boone County was named. REV. C. O, BROWN CENSURED. San Francisco Council Acquits Him of Charge of Immorality. The Congregational council at San Francisco has declared Rev. C. O. Brown not guilty of immortality, but has censured him for unministerial conduct. As the council apologizes for the censure, Dr. Brown considers his vindication complete. Dr. Brown’s explanation of the payment of SSOO to Mrs. Davidson is regarded as weak and Miss Overton’s strange story of love and blackmail is given passing mention. The report of the council says the Dr. Brown is afflicted with certain infirmities of temper which must modify any judgment of his actions. THE POWDER CAUGHT FIRE. Explosion in a Mine in Northwest Territory Kills Four Men. Word has been received of a terrible explosion at the gold mines at Roseland, in the remote Northwest country. As a result four men are dead and two others so seriously hurt that they will probably die. Two boxes of gunpowder were being thawed out in hot water. The only man who knows how it became ignited lies at the point of death in the hospital. He came running out of the tunnel crying, “The powder is on fire,” but before he could reach a place of safety the explosion occurred. Eight men were working in the mine and only two escaped death of serious injury. Asks for Seeds. The Secretary of Agriculture, in accordance with the mandate of Congress, has prepared a circular letter to be sent immediately to all known reputable growers of and dealers in seeds throughout the United States asking them to furnish at reasonable prices to the department 10,000,000 packets of garden, field and flower seeds, beginning with asparagus and ending with wheat. This number of packets will give to each member and delegate in the House of Representatives and to each United States Senator 15,000 packets for

distribution among his constituents, after deducting one-third of the whole amount, in accordance with law, for'distribution by the Secretary of Agriculture. AH the seed# must be delivered on or before thirty days. Weyler Is Discouraged. Madrid dispatch: Gen. Weyler may have to abandon Cuba—that Is, he may be compelled to return to Spain without quelling the present determined and destructive rebellion in the island. Should this be the case, he will have to lay the blame of his military misfortune at the doors of the American Congress and the American people. There is no concealment in official circles in Madrid of the disagreeable fact that the friendliness of the United States for the Cubans has strengthened their resolution to fight to the last for freedom. Moreover, the merciful intervention of the American press, by the timely publication of outrages and executions in Cuba, hampers the work of Gen. Weyler. Ho knows that any atrocities committed by Spanish troops are at once published widespread to the world, aud that they draw down execrations on his head. Hence those bloodthirsty tactics, with which he confidently expected to weld the Spanish yoke on the Cuban people, have had practically to be abandoned, and measures and policies of comparative lenity have taken their place. It is these peculiar conditions that cause Madrid people to believe that there is considerable truth in an interview in which Gen. Weyler is alleged to have stated that, while he is confident of the eventual success of the Spanish cause, yet the “contradictory demands of prudence and extreme measures, combined with the difficulties arising from the question of belligerency and the elections,” may compel him to resign. Professor Crouch Dying. » Trof. Frederick Nicholas Crouch, the aged author of “Kathleen Mavournecn,” is suffering from an attack of heart trouble, aggravated by poverty aud want, and it is thought his end is near at hand. Prof. Crouch and family live in several back rooms of a house on West Lombard street, Baltimore, where on a sihall iron couch the old man is slowly wastilig, away. Often he is out of his mind, arid' then he talks of the old country, of the triumphs of his youth, and of the tiifie of the coronation of King William IV., when he directed the Royal Band. Then his mind wanders to Ireland, whose cause he has often championed in martial song. In his delirium he speaks of the cupidity of music publishers, who have obtained music from him and who hJve never paid him in return. Purifying the Mails. A very stringent bill to prevent the carrying of obscene literature aud articles for indecent and immoral use from one State or territory to another was ordered to be reported to the House by the Committee on Commerce. The hill makes it unlawful to deposit with any express company or other common carrier for interstate transportation any such matter or article or notice of how such article may be obtained. Penalty of not more than five years’ imprisonment aud $5,000 tine is provided.

Disorder in New York Conventions. There were scenes of disorder bordering on riot at the Republican district conventions held in New York city Wednesday evening. The Platt and anti-Platt forces locked horns and fought fiercely for the mastery. The outcome was the election of Platt and Morton national delegates from the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and fourteenth congressional districts. In the twelfth, thirteenth and fifteenth two sets of delegates were chosen. In the seventh district no' convention was held. Denver Brokers Arrested, John C. Rice, general manager of the Blue Jay Mining Company nt Denver, 'has caused the arrest of John H. Royer and A. Wilson King, two brokers who figured in the Blue Jay deal of last week, charging them with embezzlement. The complaint alleges that Royer and King were, March 10, 1890, acting as general agents of the Blue Jay company, nnd ns such had in their possession $5,700, the property of the Blue Jay company, which they embezzled. The Hawkins Did Not Sink. The Spanish detectives engaged in keeping watch on the movements of the Cubans in this country are very much exercised over the report that the steamer Hawkins did not sink on the morning of Jan. 28, but that she made her way to Cuba, landed her cargo and is now laid up at one of the Florida kess. Holy War Declared. A dispatch from Cairo says that the khalifa has proclaimed jehed (holy war) against Egypt and has called all the dervishes capable of bearing arms to enroll under his banners. The dispatch adds tliat it is said that Osman Digna is to leave Cassala and join the dervishes now mustering at Dongola. Mrs, William 8. Holman Dead. Mrs. Abigail Knapp Holman, the wife of ex-Itepresentative William S. Holman, of Indiana, died at Washington Wednesday. The family were spending the winter there on account of the feeble condition of Mrs. Holman. Gold Brick Swindler Guilty. O. M. Norton, who was arrested at New York while attempting to consummate a gold brick swindle, was arraigned in general sessions, where he pleaded guilty.