Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — AIM OF AN ASSASSIN. [ARTICLE]

AIM OF AN ASSASSIN.

ATTEMPT TO KILL THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE. Wo eld-Be Murderer Is Fromptly Arrested—Saye He Merely Fired a Blank Cartridge—Great Excitement Among tie People Follows the Shooting. Bnllct Misses Its Mark. President Friix Faure, President of France, narrowly escaped death at the Iwnds of a wou'd-be assassin. The President had gone to I-iongchamps to review the troops. He had no sooner entered the field than a n.'in in the crowd stepped forward and tired a revolver at him. The •hot did not take effect. The would-be assassin was at once arrested, lie declared that he hr.d only a blank cartridge and that he hi d no intention of killing ■the President. When it became known in the crowd at i. .ngchamps that the President had not been hurt by the pistol shot the greatest enthusiasm was manifested. Cheer after cheer was sent up. and the people could sCmccly lie restrained by the guards from crowding aliout the- place where the President and his suite were standing. NEW DANGER FOR FARMERS. Tumbling Mustard Reported from Nine Localities in the United States. American tamers may be- confronted with another troublesome wee-el somewhat similar to the Russian thistle in iss do•tractive extent unless) immediate steps •re taken to efteck the further progress of tumbling mustard. Tumbling mustard has be-en most obnoxious in the Canadian Northwest provinces during the last fi vc year., and recent!y has liee-n reported front nine eliffi-ri-nt localities in the United States. So far the- netel has been confined to a small area in this country. It is especially likely to lie con tain enl in timothy seed. a large proportion of which is grown in the- Sioux Valley of the eastern part of South Dakota. The weed has not yet infested this valley, but the statement is made that if it should spread ::i these fields for two consecutive years .! would probably ruin the timothy seed industry of the entire section.

TORTURED BY THE SUN. Chicago People Experience Day of Most Enervating Heat. Chicago heat was 94 degrees Tuesday. Humidity, arch-oppressor, joined hands with high temperature and prostrated man and beait in the- streets, inereaseel the death rate* among infants and old persons and torture-el those who labored, under the sun's glare in stuffv factories. While no deaths from sunstroke were reported, there were many prostrations, and some of the victims are said to be in a serious condition. National League. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W L. W. L. Cincinnati .. .">2 24PhiIailolphia. 154 158 Baltimore ...47 23BrookIvu ~..:t4 .'{it Cleveland ...45 215 Washington. 11l flti Boston . ... . .40 UOXew York. . .US . 40 Pittsburg ’.. .15N H2S;. laims. .. .‘Jo .Vi Chicago 41 150 Louisville ... Hi 7*l Western Leagnc. Following is the standing of the clubs Is the Western League: W. L. W. L.. Indianapolis. 45 22Dotroit 155 Vi Bt. Paul 441 Lit Milwaukee . ~‘E! 41 Minneapolis. 40 HOG'nd Rapiels.27 40 Kansas City.4o fflGolninbus ...20 51 Wants Bird Day Observed. An appeal for the observance of a "bird ' day” in the schools throughout the- country has been made by the Agricultural Department. The object is.to.devote the day. to be set apart once a year or to be combined with Arbor day. to instruction in the value of our native birds and the means of prote-ctiug them from wanton destruction. The department, in its published protest against attacks on birds, suggests that it is as important to timber, game and fish as it is to teach students how to develop the agricultural wealth of the State. Cats Off Commisnions. An order has been issued by the Board of Mannge-rs of the Joint Traffic Association that the payment of freight conuuissioas to ste-a.nship companies shall be discontinued after Sept. 1. Another order requires that, beginning with the same date, the uumbe-r Of import agents shall l>e limited to one fur each railroad' at each Atlantic port.

Garcia Tender Suspicion. r Havana sympathizers with the Cuban lneurgent* express the belief that Antoni# Maeeo has been killed by the orders •f Gen. Oalixto Gareia, or by friends of the latter. The basis of this theory la the fact that Maeeo had openly refused <o acknowledge the authority of (Jen. Garcia. Bt*: Reward for a host Pearl. A. bona fide offer of S3OO ami positively ®o questions asked is made by Herman & Koch, New York jewelers, for the return of a gray blaek pearl, jtear-shaped, set as • gentleman's scarf pin. The owner is a prominent politician and a business man. Merchant Chnreed with Arson. John Biee, the well-known Lima, Ohio, •hoe manufacturer, was arrested, charged •with burning his store to obtain the insur•aoe money. The tire occurred a year ••go, and three buildings were destroyed. He was paid the amount of insurance. Vanderbilt la Stricken. Cornelius Vanderbilt was stricken with paralysis Monnay afternoon at his home la New York, and it is believed that his death is a niaiter of only n few hours. « days at the most. He was greatly worried over the projected marriage of his -son. Steamer Columbia on the Rocks. The Pacific mail steamship Columbia, from Acapulco for San Francisco, went •shore on the rocks pear Pigeon Point la a heavy fog Tuesday. She stuck fast the rocks apd could not lie moved. Argentina Faces a Deficit. At Buenos Ayres, Argentina, the fait 1a the premium on gold baa been so great that it is believed there will be a deficit fa the year's estimate of more than $19,<®o.<Wo in paper. If there should be a farther fall the deficit would be proportionately increased. Bomnlno Co tell Is Convicted. At Akron. Ohio,. Romulus Cotell, who waa accused of murdering AlvittN. Stone, fas w lie and their hired man, Ira Stillasa, at Tallmadge on the night of March ». was foond guilty of murder in the fast degree. The jury took only one

REWARDS FOR LYNCHERS. Governor Lowndes Determined }o Stop Mob Outrages in Maryland! In the last thirty days two men have been lynched in MarylaneL almost on the outskirts of the national capital. The lynehings have caused much feeling at Washington. Gov. Lowude-s of Maryland has offered a reward of SI,OOO for the apprehension of the lynchers of Joseph Cocking in Charles County, and an additional SI,OOO for the capture of the lynchers of the negro Randolph in Montgomery. In discussing the reward Gov. Lowndes expressed great indignation at the outrage*, and declared h'.s intention of doing all In his power lo bring the offenders to justice. lie jaid: “|f I only had the power to do so, I would remove the sheriffs of Charles and Montgomery Counties ut once, for I think the crimes would have been prevented had they properly performed their official duties. I cannot remove them, but their presence in office is a disgrace to the two counties."

REIGN OF TERROR IN TENNESSEE Moonshiners Threaten to Hong Men Giving Information. A state of a'arm amounting to ft panic prevails iu certain districts of the mountain county of Warren, Tenn. Acommunicarion signed “The Mob," printed at the county seat, McMinnville, made the startling declaration that fifteen citizens of the fourth, fifth and sixth civil districts were marked men and would soon meet the fate of Starling Miller, who was lately founr banging to a tree on the highway. His murderers were supposed to be moonshinirs, against whom he had lodged information. Four lynehings. the victims being generally farmers, have occurred in Warren in the last three months. DANA BOLTS. New York Snn Con.es Out Flat-footed for McKinley. Chas. A. Daua's pa[K-r, the New Y'ork Sun, which lets always styled itself, because of its faithfulness to its party interests, the most steadfast organ of the Democratic party in New York, in a triple-leaded editorial repudiates allegiance to th- Democratic convention at Chicago and unequivocally bolts the platform adopted Thursday. It lashes the party for the successive stops it has taken to its present attitude and says that until after election patriotism and the interests of the United States of America will rest with the candidacy of William McK.uley.

WEALTHY WIDOW MARRIES. Richest Woman in Canada Tackles Matrimony the Third Time. John Morrcw, one of the leading merchants of Montreal, and Mrs. Alexander Cameron, formerly of Windsor, were married at Toronto, Out. This is Mrs. Cameron's third matrimonial contract. She is known as the wealthiest woman in Canada, ami obtained her fortune of several millions from the estate of her first husband, lilies Ward, the wealthy capitalist and vessel owner of Detroit, whose heirs are making a contest in the courts. MURDER IN Sf. LOUIS?. Three Men Take n Woman to a Putoon nil 1 Kill licr. Tuesday night a phaeton containing three men ami a woman drove up lo a saloon at bt, Louis. One of the men and the woman alighted and entered the si s,u. While the waiter was gone to till an order, live shots tired In rapid succession were heard ami the strange man was seen rushing from the saloon. He rejoined hi- companions anu they drove rapidly away.

Laurier Accqpts. lion. Wilfrid Laurier on Friday visited Lord Aberdeen at Ottawa, Ons., when the formal odor o f the premiership of Canada was made him and accepted. The under*!:r-ding is that no attack will he made by Mr Laurier on the protective tariff left him as a legacy by his predecessors this ..esfiou. tine of the first steps to lie taken by the new government will be 11) the direction of reopening negotiations with Washington looking toward a treaty of reciprocity with the United States. An effort will also be made looking toward the admission of Newfoundland into the dominion. Parliament will meet about the middle of Angnst, mid after the estimates are put through an attempt will he made to cut legislation short till the January session and until the incoming government will have had time to get matters in ‘better •bape for leg. slut ire purposes than they can possibly be put in at such short notice. Of course the responsibility of dealing with the Manitoba school question falls upon Mr. Laurier and his government, but iu that direction nothing will he done this session, lie has promised that a commission will be at once appointed to Took into the merits of the and that the Manitoba government will be sounded jyith ji view to determining upon wnat linos that province would be willing to settle the question. A commission will also be appointed to investigate the manner in which the affairs of the country have beeu administered for the past eighteen years by the Tory government.

Alleged Swindlers in Custody. Two full-blooded Knglish cockneys, claiming London as home, went to Indianapolis a few days ago and advertise;! for assistants under the nume of C. M. Anderson & Co. Kach applicant for place was required to deposit slls ns n guarantee of good faith. They received several hundreu applications for employment. Friday evening they, were arrested, registering as Charles M. Anderson nnd Walter Woods. In business they posed as father and son, but neither is over 26 years old. The authorities know of S2OO which they reaped, and surmise that the amount will reach a much higher figure. The police have information that they are wanted at St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago. Well In Kansas Yields Gold. O. C. Jones, a merchant in Wathena 1 , Kan., discovered gold while cleaning out an old welt ir. the upper part of town. In digging the hole deeper he came upon a vein of black sand, and his attention was attracted to it, as it sparkled in the sun. Upon examining he found it contained mauy grains, nearly as large as flax seed. He has sent samples of the sand to different assayers, and is awaiting results. Sir Charles Tapper Is Oat. Sir Charles Tupper and his cabinet resigned aud the Governor General 1 of Canada sent for Mr. Laurior to form a government? The new nnuistryiwill likely be Blair, Fielding, Borden and Davies from the maratime provinces. From Quebec— Laurier, Turte, Fisher and Lange: lier, Ontario—Cart wrjght/ Mo wait, Patterson aud Mills or Muloek. * Missing Man" Who Mad $14,000. j ; The San Francisco police, fiave been notified of the disappearance of Curtii Gibson, of North Bangor, Franklin County, N. Y. Gibson arrived iii San Francisco recently aud when last seen htid $14,000 in his possess'on. It is feared that he has been murdered, i •' Dun & Co. on Cro^s. R. G. .Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The wheat market advanced a little,! while .other speculative markets' were •Ucnant or slightly declined, but its

I small advance was mainly due to report* lof foreign crop reports and need. There | ates mahys wh.» believe that the decrease ■isjUAdlhis year has been underestimated, and i»art of tje dispatches gathered by I Dun's Review last week tends to support | that view, though practically alt- the returns from nftat are now those chief wheat growuvs States were cheering, less favorable aerouuts a|ipear this week from Minnesota and Dakota, it is wise j on both sides to remember that In spring wheat States which have this year to make up for some loss ilsewhere. the crop will kit; be out of danger fur some weeks.” GREAT RaILRUVD FIELD. Minnesota f peculators to Investigate the Dakota Route. A large dt legal ion of St. Paul and MinliCulndia business men contemplate dririug over the proposed railroad route from the Missouri River to the Black Hills, asd investigating the resources of that region with a view to ascertaining the extent ami votarne of freight and passenger traffic that the proposed road would probably rec.-.ve ia the ivent that the line was constructed. Up to Feb. 1, 1890. the vast extea' of^ territory lying between the Missouri Liver and the Black Hills was included in the great Sioux reservation. but on that date IL<XK.I,OUO acres of the reservation was thrown open to white settlement. Early ia the 'Bl>s the Chi' eago, Milwaukee and Jit. Paul Railroad Company ext -mleil its main line to ChnmS. I> it Hoing clearly the intention of the company theu to push the road from that city across the Sioux reservation to the Black Hills. But nothing lias since been done, the management of iht* roail appearing content to have Cbamtierlniu remain as the Western terminus of the road. In the meantime two roads, the Mlkhorn and Missouri Valley ami lhr Burlington and Missouri, pushed their lines northward from Western Nebraska into the Black {tills, thereby securing conirol bt the traffic of that region. which has now assumed gigantic proportions.

TEACHERS DISCUSS SOCIOLOGY. Prof. Small’s Paper Causes a Breezy Debate. Sociology was a subject before the national educational convention at Buffalo, X. Y. The paper was by l’rof. Albion W. Small, of the University of Chicago, and created considerable discussion. I’rof. Karl Barnes, of tin- I.eland Stanford University, treated "The Pupil as a Social Factor. and President James H. Canfield, of the (>hio State University, Columbus, was absent on account of the death of liis la! her-in-law, and his paper on "The Teat her as a Social Factor” could not be rend. A paper on the late Norman A. Calkins, who died in New York last December, was read by Horace S. Tarbell. of Providence, and an interesting paper on “Country Roads and Country Schools” was read by Gen. Roy Stone, United States engineer for roads. Elks’ Big Jiectin-r. There were about 0,000 Elks in Cincinnati to participate in the grand lodge celebration, and the Grand Opera House was too small to hold those who were anxious to attend the public opening of the session. Eugene L Lewis, chairman of the reunion committee, presided. Addresses were made by Mayor Caldwell, Exulted Ruler John Galvin of Cincinnati Lodge, Grand Exalted Ruler William G. Myers of Philadelphia and Past Grand Exalted Rulei E. 15. Hay, Washington, D. C. Dreams* of u Rich Gold Mine. Dr. J. W. Davidson, of Cherokee County, Kan., had a vision in which he saw a rich gold mine The next day he started for Colorado Springs, following the way as he had seen it from the dream until he had reached the spot thirty-five miles northwest of .Mit niton. An expert examined the ground and tound a wonderfully rich lead-tri- gold-bearing rook. He returned to Kansas and reported his discovery, and now a dozen families are packing up to go to the new gold field. BcaieEeil Boers Released. A Salisbury, Matabelelnnd, dispatch says: Beal's column has arrived at EngeUloru, 105 miles from here, and fouud about 250 Boers in a laager. There were sixty-four men, foity-five women, 114 children, and they had forty-fiye l-ifies among them. They had been besieged and cut off i -om the outside world for months. They recently sallied from the laager, burned three kraals and'killed 100 insurgent natives. <t i ' Incendiary Fire at Lima. The rcsiden-. e of Harry Harper, Lima, Ohio, was partly destroyed by tire. Harper lost $2lO in cash. The chief of the fire department found that the carpets, floors and walls of tne house had been satniated With kerosene and the building fired. N . Strikes a Woman in Court. A sensation was caused in the Mobile, Ala.,- police court. Michael Barrett, a tough character under trial for assault on a woman, dealt her a fearful blow While she was testifying Helps Russian Jews to Emigrate. The Allgemeine Zoitung of Vienna announces that Boron Hirsch's widow has donated £4,000,000 to promote the emigration of Russian Jews to Argentina.