Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — RECONSTRUCTED BATTLE-FIELDS. [ARTICLE]

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.