Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — Page 2

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MANIFESTO ISSUED

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CUBAN INSURGENTS. The Revolutionists Hare Not Burned Country’s Dwellings Kxcept Those Used by Spanish Troops as Forts and Garrisons. No Bandits or Outlaws. A manifesto signed by Salvador Cisneros, president of the insurgent Cuban Government, has just reached the United States. In it Cisneros says the sugar estates, which, in the eastern division of the island, have been permitted to grind, while all others in the west have, as he says, been prevented, do so simply because at the beginning of the war arrangements were made between the proprietors of said estates and some of the Cuban leaders whereby the former, in consideration of a “war tax" paid into the Cuban treasury, were granted the privilege of grinding under the protection of those leaders. The manifesto also says the insurgent armies have not burned country dwellings except when used by Spanish troops as forts or garrisons, and for the sake of the families, wives and children of non-combatants food is now allowed to enter towns and cities at present held by the armies of Spain on the payment of an import duty. Cisneros emphatically denies that bandits or outlaws form any part of or have any connection with the Cuban army, and proclaims that, notwithstanding the course being pursued by Spain toward captured insurgent soldiers and political prisoners, the Cuban Government will not retaliate.

ENGLAND’S DILEMMA. Larks Men and Ammunition in Her South African Work. It is difficult to obtain accurate information regarding the progress of the rebellion of the natives of Matabeleland. The Cape Town authorities, naturally, are withholding all the information possible, It is not denied, however, that the situation becomes darker every day. Advices received from Buluwayo show that the work of placing that town in a state of defense has been completed so far as the means at hand permit. But there is a lack of arms and ammunition there with which to supply the many settlers who have gathered from outlying districts since the uprising eommeneed. These men, in many cases, have rifles, hut they are of all kinds and makes, and the stock of ammunition procurable for them is small. Consequently it has been found desirable to replace these weapons as far as possible with the Martini-Henry rifles served out to the police, the stock of ammunition for the latter being fairly adequate. But the number of Martini-Hen-rys available is small, and it is now an open secret that nearly every good rifle procurable had been gathered up and smuggled into the Transvaal previous to the Jameson raid. Had matters at Johannesburg turned out as the manipulators of the expedition and uprising contemplated, things would have assumed a different aspect But certain persons there and elsewhere are now in the position of hunters caught in their own traps, with the additional mortification of the knowledge that the Boers have by the seizures made in the mines, etc., of many thousands of rifles, bayonets, revolvers and Maxim guns, completely turned the tables on the British. The Boers are aware of the predicament in which the British find themselves. CLEARLY AN OUTRAGE. Spaniard Fired Upon an American Schooner Without Cause. The American schooner William Todd lay becalmed six miles south of the Isle of Pines, her captain reports to United States Consul Eckford, when she was fired on by Spanish gunboats. Captain Campbell, her master, did not at first realize the importance of the incident and only reported the outrage when the consul drew the facts out of him by inquiries regarding his voyage. His vessel was fired on March 1G in latitude 21.12, longitude 82.42. First a blank cartridge was fired. Then came three solid shot, while the American flag was being hoisted. Two Spanish gunboats were engaged in the affair. The Todd was searched by men, the warship being held two hours for the purpose. The schooner had nothing contraband aboard.

bayahd not coming home. Friends of the Ambassador Do Not Believe He Will Design. Friends of Ambassador Bayard in Washington scout the idea that'the vacating of his house in Wilmington, Del., is to be taken as evidence of an intention on his part to resign his office and return immediately to the United States. They say that Mr. Pyle, the lessee of the house, gave it up voluntarily at the expiration of the lease, and that so far from desiring to obtain possession now, Mr. Bayard was casting about for another tenant when he was last in the United States. KOYAXi WEDDING IN JULY. Marriage of Princess Mand and Prince Charles Will Cost $?i,000,000. 'Hie dressmakers and milliners of the aristocratic portion of London are in a flutter over the announcement that the marriage of Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Charles, second son of the crown prince of Denmark, has been definitely «et for the first Wednesday in July. The' wedding will be a state one in the chapel royal attached to St. James’ Palace, and it is calculated will involve an expenditure in all details of . not less than S - 000,000. Favor Heed. New Hampshire Republicans held their State convention at Concord and elected delegates to the national Republican convention at St. Louis. United States Sen*tor William E. Chandler presided. The convention endorsed the candidacy of Thomas B. Reed. Ten Railroads Sued. Suit has been filed in the United States Circuit Court at Denver by the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce its orders against ten Western railroads. Depositors Hun oh the Bank. The shortage of William Shipp and Charles W. Stone, cashier and assistant cashier of the Deposit Bank at Midway, Ky„ has grown to SOO,OOO. Friday the depositors made a run on the bank and forced it into an assignment. Shipp and Stone are still at their homes. « Surrounded by Troops. Constantinople advices say the outbreak at Killiz is more serious than had been supposed. The town is now surrounded by troops, and no one is allowed to leave or enter the place. The officials of Bitlis are preventing the American missionaries from distributing aid

RECONSTRUCTED BATTLE-FIELDS.

Dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. Representative Grosyeuor, of Ohio, h&a submitted to the House the report of the joint committee of Congress that participated in the dedicatory exercises of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park in September last. The report says the event proved to be without precedent in the history of wars and one which would not be possible in any other nation than our own, for there were found gathered in enthusiastic comradeship the most distinguished surviving leaders of both sides and many thousands of the rank and file of the once contending forces. The park itself was also, found to be without precedent, being an impartial reconstruction of great battlefields by the victorious side, in which, in every respect, the utmost impartiality was observed in marking lines of battle and in preserving upon monuments and tablets the accurate history of every organization engaged upon the extended fields which the immense park embraces. Twenty-six Stats commissions, it is shown, are at work co-op-erating with the national commission in ascertaining and assisting in making lines of battle and all other listorical points deemed worthy of preserving on the several fields. The committee says it finds the park project essentially national in all its leading features. Nearly every State'in the Union at the outbreak of the war had troops engaged within its limits. No greater facilities for the study of actual operations upon the field of battle could be devised than are presented in this national park.

HIPPOLYTE IS DEAD. Report Concerning Decease of the Huvtian President Is Confirmed. The State Department has received a cablegram from United States Minister Smythe at Port au Prince, Hayti, confirming the Paris report of the death of President Hippolyte of Hayti. The minister’s cablegram gave no details, simply reading: “President dead.” Louis Mondestin Florvil Hippolyte was born at Cape Haytien in 1827. Though black, he was the son of one of the ministers of the Emperor Faustin I. His mother was a French woman. He was educated in France and took up a military career. His defense of the fortress of Belair in the revolution of 1805 was a notable achievement. In 1888, when Gen. Salomon, who was president of the island of Hayti, was overthrown and Gen. Manigat and Senator Legitime returned from exile as candidates for the presidency of the island, Legitime was chosen provincial executive chief and almost his first official act was to again banish Manigat. A war followed which lasted ten months. It was strengthened by resources supplied by American merchants and aided by the decision of the United States, which refused, unlike the French and English Governments, to recognize the paper blockade proclaimed by Legitime. In December, 1800, Gen. Hippolyte proclaimed a general amnesty for all political offenders and since that time the internal affairs of the country have been going along very smoothly. Ilis term of office would have expired this year.

KILLS ITS KEEPER. Elephant “Empress” Sates Its Mad Rage on Frank Scott. Empress, alias Gypsy, one of the largest and most vicious elephants in captivity, added a third murder to her record Wednesday afternoon by killing her keeper, Frank Scott, while taking her daily exercise at Chicago. Having sated her rage upon the helpless form of her victim, the huge beast forthwith inaugurated a reign of terror in the vicinity of Jackson boulevard and Ilobey street, that continued all the afternoon and called for the presence of scores of policemen from the Lake street aud Warren avenue stations. Darkness was setting in before the big brute’s temper calmed down, and she was once more safely confined in her quarters with a chain around her leg. Greater excitement could not have been produced among the residents of the .neighborhood had the killing been one that would come within the recognition of the law as a crime. From every window which the enraged elephant paraded, the that commanded a view of the alley in faces of scared spectators could be seen. Small boys, whose curiosity was stronger than their fears, watched the ponderous animal charge back and forth from the roofs of back sheds and the tops of fences. Women listened behind closed doors to the shrill trumpetings of the great beast,,and more than one officer deliberated on the efficiency of his revolver when he caught sight of the towering form. Empress was a star attraction with the W. H. Harris Nickel Plate Show.

CHOKED HIS WIFE TO DEATH. Hiram H. Morrison, Under Arrest at Boston, Makes a Confession. Hiram 11. Morrison, who was arrested in Boston, after his wife had been found dead in their home, with finger marks upon her throat and other bruises about her face and head, has confessed that he choked the woman to death while in a fit of jealous rage at her action in having a crowd of neighbors in the house drinking. He alleges that he also was drunk at the time. Protest from Turkey. As a result of the extraordinary cabinet council, which lasted throughout Saturday, the Turkish Government has issued an appeal, addressed to France and Russia, asking them to intervene with the object of regulating affairs in Egypt. Germany, it is added, was also requested by the porte to exercise her good offices in this sense. Instructions were also dispatched to the Turkish ambassador at London to make representations to the Marquis of Salisbury, but their tenor is not known. In well-informed circles it is declared that the action of the porte is due to the councils of France and Russia, the Governments of which countries, it is claimed, have submitted that the present is an opportune moment for Turkey to raise the question of her suzerainty over Egypt being practically usurped by Great Britain. The Governments indicated, it is alleged, promised Turkey their support iu the matter. There is no doubt that considerable annoyance is felt by the porte at the fact tout Turkey w,as not consulted in regard to the advisability of dispatching a British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile, and the feeling of irritation has been increased by the khedive also ignoring the porte entirely. Reproaches have, in consequence, been addressed to the Ottoman commissioners in Egypt for not taking steps to prevent the organization of the expedition, as It id feared that the effects of the advance up the Nile will be felt elsewhere than on the frontiers of Egypt and that the Arabs of Yemen may be encouraged to fresh hostility to the Turkish authorities. Peculiar Death at a Fire. George Austin, of Kingman County, Kansas, rushed to the home of his neighbor, which was on fire, to assist in saving the household effects. A shotgun in the house was discharged by the heat, the charges entering his head and body. Famine Reiens in Colon. In Colon, Colombia, there is neither flour nor bread. The situation is appalling. Emigration is impossible, because the distressed have no money. Foul Murder in Ohio. At an early hour Sunday morning a double murder—it may prove to be a triple murder— was committed on a farm seven

i miles cast of Akron, O. Alvin N. Stone, I aged 08, and his wife, Serena, aged 03, are the victims, and Ira Stillson, the hired man, is fatally injured. Two daughters,' Emma, aged 29, and Hattie, aged 23, are seriously injured, while a third daughter, Flora, is the only one of the entire household who escaped the assassin's murderous blows. The crime was committed about 1 o'clock by an unknown man wearing a mask. The crime is a mystery. : There is no possible motive for the murders so far as can be learned. Certainly the murderer was not bent on robbery, for in a bureau drawer in Mr. Stone’s room were two gold watches and some money and nothing had been taken apparently. PRISON FOR A YEAR. Meadowcroft Brothers’ Fate Sealed by Supreme Court, The Meadowcroft brothers, of Chicago, must go to the penitentiary. Wealth,*so-* eial position, the utmost efforts of the ablest lawyers have been at their service for almost three years, and the last legal expedient to save them from the disgrace of penal garb has been exhausted. Of all these the end is failure. This, in effect, is the dictum of the Supreme Court of Illinois. One year ago last December a jury in the Superior Court found Frank B. and Charles J. Meadowcroft, bankers, guilty as charged in the indictment of having received deposits when they knew their bank was insolvent, and fixed as the punishment for each imprisonment for one year at hard labor in the State prison at Joliet. Judge Brentano, who presided, refused a new trial, aud an appeal was taken to the State Supreme Court, the court of last resort. There the decision of the lower court is now affirmed, and the verdict of guilty as charged and the sentence to penal servitude stand. Only one step remains to he taken —execution of the verdict. Then will end the history of a case which has more than once supplied all the materials of a Chicago sensation.

OPPOSES HONOR TO MILES. Mr. Steele Stands In Way of Latter Becoming Lieutenant-General. Congressman George W. Steele, of Indiana, a volunteer soldier of the war of the rebellion and for ten years afterward an officer in the regular army in command of frontier posts, at present one of the board of managers of national soldiers’ homes, is opposing the bill to confer the rank of lieutenant general on Gen. Miles. Said Major Steele: “The bill will not pass this Congress. It may be reported from the Committee on Military Affairs, but unanimous consent will be required for its consideration in the House, and I shall object. lam opposed to the bill because Gen. Miles is not more entitled to the honor than many others. We might as well throw down the bars and call up the dead and confer the honor on every man who has been a major general. Gen. Howard’s friends are now waiting for the bill to pass, when they would ask the same consideration for him. He is ns much entitled to the rank as Gen. Miles.” TRADE ABOUT THE SAME. It Is Worse in Some Respects and Better in Others. 11. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Ttade says: “No important change has occurred in the general condition of business during the week, and if trade in some respects looks worse, in other respects it looks better. Some failures of magnitude have occurred, which caused much apprehension and unwillingness to lend among bankers, and there have been somewhat less favorable features in the dry goods market, but in iron and steel conditions are slightly improved, aud in boots and shoes considerably more hope is felt. The labor controversies, mainly in the clothing trade, still cause much interruption of that business. Foreign trade is a little more satisfactory.”

EGYPT PAYS THE HILL. Debt Commissioners Vote $300,000 for British Advance. The commission of the Egyptian debt met in Cairo and decided to advance the £300,000 necessary to meet the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition against Dongola. Of the sum needed £200,000 is available immediately. The English, German, Italian and Austrian members of the commission voted to advance the money required. The Russian and French members voted against the proposition. Directly the action of the majority of the commissioners became known the representatives of the Paris syndicate of Egyptian bondholders took stops to institute proceedings before the Egyptian mixed tribunal against the debt commissioners and the ministers responsible for the reserve fund. Sues Queen Victoria for Debt. A strange case, coining out of the state funeral of Sir John Thompson, is up in the exchequer court at Montreal, Que. It is the case of W. B. Davidson vs. the queen, for flowers supplied on that occasion. Mr. Davidson claims $1,900, and the queen, as represented by the executive council, offers S9OO in full settlement First Installment Paid. The Egyptian debt commission have paid the first installment from the reserve fund, amounting to $1,000,000, of the money required for the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 01c to 62c; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2,18 c to 19c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 3Sc; butter, choice ereampry, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, Oc to 11c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25e; broom corn, S2O to $45 per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,08 cto 09c; corn, No. 1 white, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24a St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; pats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,37 c to 39c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to Sic; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 4ic to 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.’50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sHeep, $2.00 to $4.00; wlieat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; com. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to: 23c; rye, 37c to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21e to 23c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover Seed, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to 63e; corn, No. 3,28 cto 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley. No. 2,30 cto 32c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 310 c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffato—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35e; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $3.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25e to 26c) butter, creamery, 15c to 23e; eggs. Western, 10c to 12c.

AUNCH OF THE IOWA

BEFORE a distinguished gathering of representative citizens of the State bearing its name, the battleship lowa, the best fighter in this or any other navy, was launched at Cramps’ shipyard in Philadelphia Saturday. A fair daughter of the Hawkeye State, Miss Mary Lord Drake, christened the vessel, while the rest of the honors were borne by her father. Gov. F. M. Drake. Miss Drake is a typical lowa girl and a young

GOV. F. M. DRAKE.

lady of grace and dignity. Since the election of her father to me office of Governor she has occupied the position of “first lady of the State” in a manner that has gained for her the esteem of all who have met her. Nearly 300 persons attended from Washington. The party included Viee

LAUNCH OF THE BATTLESHIP IOWA.

President and Mrs. Stevenson, Secretary and Miss Herbert and Mrs. Micou, Secretary and Miss Morton, Attorney General and Mrs. Harmon, the naval committees from both houses of Congress, the lowa and Alabama Congressional delegations, Maj. Gen. Miles and staff, the chiefs of the naval bureaus and other army and naval officers. Most of the excursionists were accompanied by the ladies of their families. The lowa is intended solely for fighting purposes and is, the fourth battleship built for the new United States navy. It has been constructed with the idea of eea purposes and is to be far superior to the brag ships of the English and French navies. It is not easy to comprehend the potential power of this mighty fighting machine. Imagine, if you can, a monster of white aspect, 360 feet long, 72 feet broad, sitting 27 feet in the water, and weighing 11,410 tons. Down in the hold of this great craft an army of coal heavers and firemen will shovel fuel into thirty yawning, glaring mouths. The steam .-thus generated is used in almost innumerable ways. There will be no fewer than a hundred engines in the lowa when she is finished, electrical and hydraulic, used for the purposes of raising anchors, taking on and discharging stores, bringing ammunition from the magazines to the great guns, turning the turrets, swinging the rudder, discharging ashes

MISS MARY LORD DRAKE.

from the fireboxes, lifting and lowering the ship’s boats, heating and drying every nook and cranny of the hull, illuminating thousands of electric lamps, and the grekt searchlights as well, freezing tons of ice for daily use of crew, pumping cold air into the firerooms, where the stokers stand almost naked at their work—these are only a few of the wellnigh limitless purposes to which steam is put on a modern man-of-war and the energy of coal is used to facilitate the daily work. Cost $4,000,000. The lowa has been built in an almost incredibly short time, indicative of the facilities which this country is acquiring for turning out great battleships in short order. The contract for the lowa was awarded only a little more than three years ago, and her keel was not laid til'.

August, 1893. This ship cost the Government for hull and engines alone a little more than $3,000,000, and her guns and appurtenances will cost more than a million in addition. The lowa has a thousand tons greatei displacement than her prototypes, the Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon, which are already recognized as among the greatest naval vessels afloat. Her length on the water line will be 360 feet; beam, 72 feet 2% inches; draft, 26 feet 9 inches; displacement, 11,410 tons. Her guaranteed speed is to be 16 knots an hour. The main battery consists of four 12-ineh and eight 8-inch breech loading rifles and six 4-ineh rapid-fire guns, and the secondary battery of 24 rapid-fire guns, four Gatling guns and five torpedo tubes. Her sides will be protected by 14-inch armor. The lowa is fitted with a ram, and in a close engagement her commander will be able to drive her at a speed of about twenty statute miles per hour, with all the mighty rush of 11,410 tons of steel, pushed by engines having 11.000 horsepower, at the foe. It is almost impossible to estimate what would be the effect of such a blow. Nothing that floats could stand against it. The lowa, as the latest and finest example of American naval architecture and engineering, has attracted the attention of all the foreign experts and is already one of the most notable vessels in the world.

HE WAS HOLMES’ LAWYER.

For Unprofessional Conduct Shoemaker Temporarily Disbarred. William A. Shoemaker, a brilliant young Philadelphia lawyer, who was senior counsel for the notorious Holmes

on his trial last fall, has been suspended from the privileges of the Pennsylvania courts for one year. He was found guilty of subornation of perjury in that case and was sentenced Saturday. Shoemaker got a woman to sign a false affidavit to the effect that Pitezel, the man mur-

LAWYER SHOEMAKER.

dered by Holmes, had in her presence expressed an intention to commit suicide.

Told in a Few Lines.

A parade of the Salvation Army at Malden, Mass., almost precipitated a riot Frederick Gruby was killed and his son fatally hurt under a building which collapsed. Birchwell’s warehouse at Chester, Pu.. containing 10,000 bales of cotton, burned Loss, $55,000. The body of Mrs. Jennie R. Kimball, the opera manager who died in St. Paul, was taken to Boston for burial. While kindling a fire with oil at Bingham, 111., Mrs. Ewing Seaton w\as burned to death. She was alone in the house at the time. ■ ; William Rose, of Frankfort, Ind., while suffering from the grip, escaped from his home and was found dead in a neighboring creek. \ Alfred L. Avery, clerk for Messmore, Garrett & Co., of St. Louis, who embezzled $30,000,. pleaded guilty. Judge Harvey reserved sentence. E. O. Hopkins and James H. Wilson were removed as receivers of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Road and George T. Jarvis appointed single receiver. Kearan Reed, a retired manufacturer of New York, aged 8? years, committed suicide at his apartments. Mr. Reed was possessed of a competency, but disease and old age madd his life unbearable. The principal evidence furnished in the attempt of the prosecution at London to prove that the Transvaal prisoners had violated the foreign enlistment act related to the cutting of the telegraph wires The examination was adjourned unfit April 28 to give time for the arrival in England of witnesses from Soath Africa

DUNKARDS IN EXODUS

TWENTY COLONtES GO FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. Members Are from Six Different States and They Pim Through Chicago on Their Way to Dakota—Britain to KscOgnize Cuban*. Seek New Homes. Twenty colonies of Dunkards from six different States passed through Chicago on their way to new homes in North Dakota. The colonists, numbered 1,500, and they expect to settle along the line of the Great Northern Railroad in North Dakota. The Dunkards arrived over the Baltimore and Ohio, Wabash, Nickel Plate, Pan-Handle and Monon roads. They are from colonies in half a hundred towns in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The special trains were slow in arriving. As fast as sufficient cars were on hand a new train was made up in the Wisconsin Central yards and started for the Northwest. In order to carry all the emigrants four trains were necessary. The composition of these trains was twenty passenger coaches and 102 freight cars. In the freight cars w T ere families moving their household goods, farm implements and live stock. In the coaches were families having sold out most of their goods, thinking it cheaper to pay cash for what will be needed in their new homes than to pay freight rates on the old. A number of women used the coaches while their husbands and elder sons looked after the goods in the freight cars. Their Second Exodus. The present is the second exodus of Dunkards from the East to North Dakota in the last three years. They come from old-established colonies which have been sending out members to the West for half a century. Often children grow np, have families of their own, and leave the parent colony much after the nature of bees, which swarm when their quarters become too crowded. Such is the' case in this instance. The fathers of large families have left their Eastern homes, where land is high, with a view to establishing large family estates in the West. These emigrants are not of the poorer class. Many are well-to-do and all are industrious, desirable citizens. For some time the elders of the church have been investigating the desirability for settlement on North Dakota lands. The reports have been favorable and the present emigration is the result. The fate of the present colonists will decide the future action of several times as many who have staid at home and are watching the venture with a view to following should it prove successful. The one great object of the movement is the desire to possess more land. In the country where they are going there remains a large tract of Government land open to settlement. This ready for such purposes until recent, when the Great Northern flushed \s road through what is known as the Devil’s Lake country. Within a few years many small towns have sprung up along the line and the country is rapidly being broken up into farms. Each head of a Dunkard family will homestead on 160 acres of land. His sons and sons-in-law over 21 years old will take a like amount. In this way families will absorb entire sections of land. Each family will also be a nucleus around which other Dunkards will settle. In a few generations the big farms wilt be divided and subdivided among the children, until finally no more land will remain and another exodus will be necessary.

A MORTON RALLY.

Enthusiastic Gathering of Republicans in the Umpire State. Messrs. Depew, Miller, Platt and Lauterbach will be the four delegates-at-large to St Louis from New York State, and

they are instructed for Gov. Morton. The blot upon the indorsement which New York gave to Gov. Morton consist of 109 votes out of a total of 740, against the election of Messrs. Platt and Lauterbach as dele-gates-at-large to St. Louis. A correspondent says: In reality this vote was a pro-

LEVI P. MORTON.

test against the leadership of Mr. Platt rather than a protest against the candidacy of Gov. Morton, and in the convention those who at heart favored Major McKinley as second choice numbered at least 400. In the platform no mention is made of State issues, and the expected fight over the Raines excise tax law did not therefore materialize. The resolutions declare for a protective tariff, are unequivocally for a gold standard and against the free coinage of silver, and present Gov. Morton to the Republicans of the nation as New York’s choice for the presidency, lauding his public service, praising his ability, and declaring that notwithstanding his age he is still in the prime of his vigor.

BRITAIN TO AID CUBA.

To Follow America in Recognizing the Patriots. Aid for Cuba has come from an unexpected source. John Bull will pat Uncle Sam on the shoulder in any proposition to intervene to stop the butchery on the island. An informal intimation to this effect has been received at the State Department and the status of the Cuban question has changed at once owing to this sudden development. While Spain has been preparing for an appeal to European nations against the United States, Great Britain has quietly taken the other tack, and decided to join with the United States in helping the Cuban patriots. Naturally, such a communication w r as not conveyed in an official letter, but Secretary Oiney was given to understand by Sir Julian Pauneefore that Great Britain would not only not object to any action the United States might take in regard to Cuba, but would even welcome any reasonable interference which would tend to stop the butchery now going on in the island. That such an intiipation was given semi-officially was learAed positively, and the effect of the information when'it becomes generally known will be to render almost certain speedy action by this country. Dispatches from Spain within the last few days are authority for the statement that a definite policy has been agreed upon there. Spain proposed to pose as the champion of European nations holding possessions in America against the arrogance of the Yankees. The European nations were to be sounded in order to secure concert of action, and then Spain was to tell President Cleveland to go ahead if he dared in the face of a formidable alliance which would prevent active intervention by force if necessary. This plan has been blocked completely by the action of Great Britain, and President Cleveland’s hands have been strengthened immeasurably by Lord Salisbury’s government. Great Britain declared the inhuman Soanish warfare on

th* Island, and English commercial Interests could not look on nnmovad whlla the pries of sugar was moving upward aa tha result of tha destruction of Cubaa canefielda. Therefore came the Informal intimation that Great Britain would gladly stand aside and see the United States take the initiative in Cuba. No promises were made that could bind Great Britain in any way, and the Queen’s government was not put on record in any! way, but Secretary Olney has been gives to understand that if the President decides to recognise the patriots as belligerents Great Britain will not be far behind in doing the same thing.

MILLS IS FOR WAR.

Texas Senator Save the United Stetea* Duty Is to Free Cabs. Senator Mills spoke Tuesday In defense of the Cuban resolution introduced byi him. He said the resolutions heretofore before the Senate were steps in the right! direction, but very short steps. The people of Cuba had far greater claims on the United States than mere recognition of belligerency. If Ireland strnck for liberty to-day the hearts of the American people would beat in sympathy, and so 1£ Poland or Hungary asserted the right of liberty. But the United States hadmueh closer relations to Cuba than to Ireland or Poland or Hungary, for it was part of the Western Hemisphere over which tha

SENATOR MILLS.

Monroe doctrine extended the influenca of this country. Mr. Mills declared that the Monroe doctrine was a law of protection and that as such God was the author) of it. It was the same right of self-pro-tection which an individual exercises in • abating a nuisance or destroying a powder house near his premises. Jefferson had used plain words in' threatening to join England and sweep the French fleets from the seas if France persisted in holding the mouth of the Mississippi river. The same spirit bad ! brought forth President Cleveland’s Venezuela message. Cuba stood as the key] to the gulf, and our unvarying policy, said' Mr. Mills, has been to resist any transfer of Cuba to another monarchy. The United States has stood by as a jailer and prevented Cuba from going to Franca or England. And, if we insisted on keeping Cuba in the possession of Spain, was it not the moral obligation of the United* States to see that Spain gave Cuba fair] government, to see that the hell of all hellish despotism was lifted from the Cuban people? “The day will come,” said Mr. Mills,, “when the American conscience will be aroused to its guilt in permitting the oppression of Cuba, and when that con-t seiousness comes the American peopla will fill this chamber with Senators who will stop that oppression.” The Senator read of atrocities attributed to Gen. Weyler and added; “This is the work of that atrocious scoundrel.! He could not be in Cuba to-day if the United States would draw her sword., How the cheeks of our American women, must be suffused, how our children must blush to know that this government 1 stands idly by while Spain, with the keys l of her dungeons dangling at her side, permits such an atrocious villain to raise hie hand against defenseless women.”

HIGH THEATER HAT BILL PASSED

Ohio Legislators Have Fun with the 1 Measure. The Fosdick bill to prohibit the wearing; of high hats by women in theaters was passed in the Ohio House. The bill nearly passed two weeks ago, under suspen-j sion of the rules, but was prevented from! going through with a whirl by Mr. Stew-i art’s amendments adding six months’! imprisonment to the penalty of a fine. Mr.; Stewart withdrew this amendment. i Mr. Bosler thought the women ought] not to be fined for wearing the hats, but that the managers of theaters who per-i mitted his patrons to wear such obstruc-j tions should be fined, and, moreover, then) there would be some way of enforcing the| law. He accordingly offered an amend-j ment making that change, fining the mani ager of an opera house or theater sloj for permitting a person to wear an obj struction in the shape of a hat or head-! gear, and the amendment was agreed to.; Mr. Stewart of Clarke made an exceed-t ingly serious argument against the bill. He thought the bill ought to be fixed toi give women protection against men who go out between acts, to the great annoyance of the women. Mr. Stewart proposed to amend the bill, making it a mis-* demeanor for men to go out between the acts for drinks; also a chief inspector of hats, he to appoint deputies in all cities. They would seize all the hats worn ini violation of the law. These amendments! were disagreed to. Fosdick said his bill) was a temperance measure, as high hat® drive men to drink between acts.

BOOST FOR M’KINLEY.

Eighteen More Votes Go Into the Ohio Column. Just before the Minnesota State Repub-j lican convention was called to order it was announced that Senator Davis had

wired Congressman Tawney withdrawing from the presidential race. This action was due to the refusal of three of five Minnesota district conventions to indorse his candidacy. Before an adjournment the following resolutions were adopted by a rising vote: “Resolved, That

the well considered and pronounced preference of the Republicans of Minnesota for presidential standard bearer in 1896 ia William McKinley, and this convention expects the delegates and altera ates-at-large to-day to be elected by it to do all in thedr power honorably from now until that object is accomplished to bring about promptly the nomination of William McKinley for President of the United States.”

Telegraphic Brevities.

Col. Thomas I\ Ochiltree is seriously, ill at his home in New York. His valet says he is unable to see anyone and h'm physician has ordered absolute quiet. Capt. W. H. Bradbury, deputy warden of the Missouri penitentiary for thirty-six 1 years, is dead, aged 75. He had a re-< markable record for personal courage. John Jones, who is wanted by Gov. Alti geld for kicking Mrs. Susan Mendenhall to death while he was town marshal of Anna, 111., has been arrested in St. LouM

C. K. DAVIS.