Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1896 — FRENCHMEN FOOLED. [ARTICLE]

FRENCHMEN FOOLED.

JOHNNY CRAPAUD FULL OF CALIFORNIA PRUNES. They Feed U* Oar Own Bogus Sardine* —Connecticut Yankee Completes a Tour of the World on a Wheel— Mjrutery of the Sea. Tit for Tat. The French people, who hare for so long imposed upon a credulous American public by shipping back to them as the finest of French products Maine herring jmd Southern cotton seed oil in the shape of sardines and olive oil, are now suffering from a counter imposition which is brought to light by United States Consul Germain at Zurich. In the course of a report to the State Department on the subject of American dried fruits in Switzerland, he speaks of the success that has Attended the introduction in France last season of California prunes and then following out the prospect thus opened up, be says that French receivers are arranging to have all such fruit packed in cases, similar :o those used in France, using French marks, so that the goods may be Hold to the retailer as French fruit. CIRCLES THE GLOBE. An Interesting Itinerary Pursued by a Connecticut Man. John J. Brough, a well-known merchant of Manchester, Conn., aged 45 vest's, has returned from a trip around the world, which consumed exactly a year. Mr. Brough traveled on a bicycle wherever possible. Of tlie GO,OOO miles covered by liim 40,000 were by water, 111.000 on his wheel, and the rest by railroad in different countries. Mr. Brough sailed from New York Aug. 17.181)5.' He was accompanied on his start by his brother-in-law, ■Cyrus I’. Forsyth, of Black Creek, Out. The two lauded at Queenstown, Ireland, and while on a tour of the island Mr. Forsyth fell from Iris bicyele anil received a compound fracture of his arm. Ilis companion proceeded alone. He visited Scotland, North and South Wales, and many places in England. From Ixmdon lie went by water to Dieppe, in France, then wheeling to Holland, Germany. At Frankfort lie won a fifty-mile bicycle race and with it a prize of SIOO. In Italy lie rode liis wheel from Home to Naples. At Constantinople lie was in prison for three nighls and two days for being without a passport. Eater he went to Sicily. From Sicily he went to Egypt. Eater he found himself in Arabia, and then made his way by Bombay to Calcutta, From the latter city he made a journey to the Strait settlements. Then to Itango, oil the Bnrinah, and op to China. From China lie went to Japan and overland to Yokohama. Sailing from that Japanese port he reached San Francisco.

TEN ARE p: 09ABLY LOST. Boat’s Crew of Bark Flora Stafford Is Missing. According to private advices received in Philadelphia ten men of the crew of tweu-ty-one men of the British bark Flora Stafford, which was burned at sea several weeks ago. perished. She sailed l'i;om .Newcastle, N. S. W., April 22, for Manila, with about 2,000 tons of coal, and on June 8, in latitude 0 north, longitude 1.1 east, she took fire, presumably throughspontaneous combustion. The' flames soon got beyond control, and flic'brew was compelled to take to the boats, (.'apt. Oscar Smith, a brother to Capt. Smith «if this city, took to one boat with ten men, and the mate with nine .others of the crew got in the second boat. Capt. Smith, with his ten men, succeeded in being slaved; but nothing has ever been heard from the chief mate and his crew. National League. Following is the standing of the clubs •f the National Baseball League: \V. E. AV. 1,. Baltimore .. ,t!8 2J)Brooklyn .. .44 53 Cincinnati.. .08 301'hiladelphia ,43 54 Cleveland . . .5!) 37New Y'ork . . .43 56 Chicago 59 42Washington . ,3G 59 Pittsburg . . .55 4261. Louis . . . .29 till Boston 53 44 Louisville . . .24 OS) Western League. Following is the standing of the clubs 4n the Western League: W. L. AY. L. Minneapolis ..01 38Ivnnsas City .53 47 Indianapolis .00 44Milwaukee . .49 58 St Paul 58 44CoInmbus . . .38 71 Detroit 50 43Gr’d Itapids . .30 72 An Office in Gotham, It is semi-ofliciallv announced that the National Democratic Committee has decided to lutve a branch headquarters at the Hoffman House, in New York. The force at the headquarters will, it is said, consist of two members of the executive or campaign committee, and several members of the national committee from the New England States. The headquarters in New York will be the distributing point for campaign literature in the East, »nd its importance will depend largely upon the result of the Maine election. Baron Von Zedwitz Kilted. Baron von Zedwitz, the German statesman. received fatal injuries Tuesday in a collision between Emperor AViliiam's yacht Meteor, and his own yacht, the Isolde, during the races off South Sea ■coast. The entire crew of the Baron's yacht was thrown overboard, but his was The only life lost.

Martinelli the Man. Father Martlnelli has been appointed to ■succeed Cardinal Hatolli as apostolic deleB*te to the l'nited States. This fact has been contirnied by recent letters that Cuetlhaal Satoll' has received from the Vatican authorities. 1 Nat Goodwin Seeks a Divorce. Nat Goodwin, the actor, has at San Francisco commenced proceedings for a divorce from his wife, Goodwin. Jle charges her with habitual intemjiernnce. It is said that Goodwill and Max- , ine Elliott are to be married. Cabans Buy a Fast Steamer. The fast river steamer Unique. which has tween running between Fort Huron and ‘Detroit, has been sold to an agent of the Oaban Go-ribhiinent. ' It is intended td tarn her into.a blockade runner. Fatal Result of Collision. By the falling of a draw the caboosa Of a freight on the Ixmisville and Nashorflle Road, near Morris Station, Ky., was nhrawn down an embankment. Joshua Wright, a brakeman. was instantly kill *«. John Shieger, another htakemen, vm totally Injured. Levy Made oa a Hotel Dinner. Twenty-five guests waited half an hour i:, laagpr than* usual for their dinner at one rk,*k, Iwteis edpesda.y. A mm4m * few dohara in fayqr of A ® i?i

NEW KIND OF TELEGRAPH. Now Possible to lend Messages from Ship to Shore, T A description of a new electric telegraph has been forwarded to the Department of State by Robert Kirk, consul ;-.t Copenhagen. The apparatus was constructed by a young boatswain in the Danish navy, and makes it possible to communicate with a ship at a certain anchor ground without any direct line from the land. An electric battery is placed on the shore, with one pole in contact with water or moist earth, while the current from the other pole, through h telegraph key and a revolution interrupter, is conducted to a cable which is la*d out to the anchor ground and placed around the latter in a coil with a diameter of 1,000-1,200 feet. On board the ship at the anchor ground, or a short distance outside the coil, there is a small solenoid, with which a telephone is connected. When a message is sent from the land a bell sounds on the ship and the communication is sent by the telegraph key through the telephone instrument. The signals may be based on the Morse alphabet. The apparatus may also lx* so constructed that an answer can be sent from the ship.

DANGER OF AN ICE FAMINE. Stocks at St. Louis Running Low and Prices Are Advancing. St. Louis is seriously threatened with an ice famine. Prices have steadily advanced since the opening of the season, until now they are up to the highest point reached in the city for several years. This week there was an additional increase of $1.25 per ton to the trade, and another increase may he expected soon. The price to the trade now is $5 a ton, or more than double what it was at any time lust year. There are several reasons for this unusual increase in prices, but the principal one is that the stock of ice in nearly all of the local icehouses is almost exhausted. It lias already become necessary for the dealers to begin shipping in from remote northern points, and not a few of them have not been able to supply the demand. SLAIN BY THOUSANDS. Mohammedans Massacred in China by Imperial Orders. The steamer Empress of Japan brought mail advices from the orient as follows: The news from Kansu is that the famous Tung Fuhsiang, in obedience to the imperial command, has begun n massacre of all Mohammedans that he comes across. At Hsiuing-Fu he slew 3,000 business men and sold their wives and female children. Fears are entertained of a general rising, especially in Pintain-Fu and Haitien, which have hitherto remained faithful. 1' loods are doing terrible.damage in China. In uiatiy places entire towns and villages are submerged. All railroads have stopped running. Many deaths have taken place and hundreds of homeless men. women and children are starving to death.

SILVER ALMOST A DRUG. San Francisco Banks Decline to Receive It in Large Quantities. The agitation of the'financial question, which has resulted in sending gold up a fraction of 1 per cent above par in Now York, is causing San Francisco banks much trouble with people who wish to deposit silver and check out gold. Sooje of the banks refuse to take any considerable amount of silver on deposit. During the last two months the supply of gold chin in the San Francisco sub-treasury has decreased from about $15,000,000 to less than $9,000,000. The enormous shrinkage was one of the prime causes which stepped the redemption pt silver certificates in gold coin. Caused by a Cloudburst. Thursday morning the fast mail train hound eastward on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road dashed through a weak culvert near Otis, Ind., and the engineer and tiremau were instantly killed. The accident is one of the worst the Lake Shore has had in years, but fortunately the passengers on the train escaped injury. A washout, brought nbout by a heavy cloudburst, which suddenly struck that region Wednesday night, was .the cause of the. accident. The wrecked train was the fast mail for the east which leaves Chicago as 2:45 every morning, and Is known as No. 44. It does not, as a rule, carry many jiassengers this side of Cleveland. Those who were on board' were in the sleeper and coach at the rear. The train consisted of one of llic large nigines in use on the limited trains of the Lake Shore, two postal ears, a baggage car, day coach and Wagner sleeper. .All the cars with the exception of the day coach and the AA’agner sleeping car left the track, and for all those who were on the train it was an almost miraculous escape from the sudden death which the unfortunate engineer anil fireman iti the cab of the engine suffered. As it was the passengers were severely shaken up and their confusion, when they realized what had taken place, was great. Death came to James Griffin, the engineer, and Michael Roach, the fireman, almost instantly. \\ hen the crew and passengers on the train began a search for them with lanterns they found them at the side of the locomotive. Both were dead and their bodies were horribly mutilated, especially that of Grillin. Both of his legs were torn entirely from the body and were floating on the surface of the water in the pool. His chest was terribly crushed, and the remains are in such a condition ss to be almost unrecognizable.

Terrel’s Sharp Talk. The United states minister to Turkey, Alexander AV. Terrell, has demanded the immediate release of six Armenians, naturalized Americans, who are imprisoned at Aleppo. In so doing Mr. Terrell intimated that any further imprisonment of American citizens would not be tolerated. The State Department has received a dispatch from Minister Terrell saying that nine Armenians claiming to be naturalized Americans were arrested in Turkey. Six of them had passports, and on Minister Terrell’s demand they were immediately released, while investigation into the status of the other three are pending. Further than this the department has no details. It is not known in Washington whether or not Minister Terrell intimated to Turkey that the United States would not tolerate the further imprisonment of American citizens, meaning naturalized Armenians, but from the manner of the otlicials it is thought very likely that Mr. Terrell bus made such a statement’,' and that it meets with approval.,. What the nine men were arrested for the State Department does not know. Will Watoh the SoudaheAe War. , Uieut. Keuciim, of the regular army, at present, stationed, at, Fort Spelling, has been granted a lepvcvof absence and will at once proceed HV Egypt, where hk ex|»ects to join the British Soudanese expedition. It is his intention to join the Nile column. Dr. Nansen Has Returned. It is reported that Hr. Nanserictheanretie explorer, has arrived at Vardo Island, Norway, on. ,bqar4 the., steamer, AYindward, which .went to I'ranz Josef Land fn ( prder to ’ bring back the Jackson-Farnswbrth exdfedition. ‘ r -" ; < -■< b'Uil iron an Gploraflo Reps There are now in Colorado two Stole wmmjtteosoloiming torepfbient the publican party; “ahd two State conventions havfe been called—ode 'for'Sept. 1) •in Denver, hnd the''other' Sept. : SO in Colorado Springs. (

WANTED TO STRIKE THE KING. Oscar of Sweden Almost Assaulted by an Angry Laborer. A special cable to the New- York Journal from Berlin says that King Oscar of Gwedeu. while traveling through Norway, left the trqin at Stoeren. Most of the •lien on the station platform removed their hats. Several of, them, however, kept covered, and the King was in a great rage. He strode up to Ole Foste, a had kept his hat on, and knocked the head covering off. Foste lost his temper and started to attack the King, but ilia friends in the crowd held him back. Mdst of the men in the crowd ho had rPtooved their hats promptly put them on again. Opposed to Haziiur. President Cleveland, as commander-in-chief of the army, has put his foot down forcibly on the practice of hazing at AA'est Point Military Academy. Two cases of hazing have just been before him for consideration and in both he has approved the sentence of dismissal imposed by the court martial. Cadet Giles Bishop was found guilty recently of requiring Cadet C. J. Harris to stand on one foot in a constrained and painful position. Though in- pleaded not guilty before the court, he was convicted. In approving his dismissal f:oni the service of the United States President Cleveland says: “The offense of maltreating and abusing new cadets by upper class men is so mean and cowardly and so opposed to every trait that should characterize a gentleman and a true soldier, that severe punishment should not be necessary to its prevention. If. however, punishment must beYesort-<-d to to effect a discontinuance of this disgraceful practice I can do no less than to resist all appeals for clemency. 1 am determined in all cases of this description, when the proof is clear, to refuse relief to tnose cadets who, in violation of a wholesome regulation of the military academy, indulge in the brutal, cowardly treatment of beginners, cqmmonly culled hazing.” Since the famous case of ten years ago, when the ears of a colored cadet at AVcst Point were cut off, there have been no serious cases qf hazing. The cadets in their idleness this summer, however, have resorted again to hazing to occupy their time and several young men have been severely punished.

Split Up the Ticket. The Ottumwa, la., convention AA’cdnesday resulted in a fusion of the interests of (he parties represented, and the nomination of the following ticket: For eiec-tors-nt-large. Horace Boies, Gen. .Tamos B. AVeaver; district electors, A. F. Kulilemeier, Thomas Stapleton. C. AA'. Green, A. L. Kiinle, Louis Metzgar, Perry Engle, C. 0. Lumis, D. C. Bradley. J. J. Shea, J. B. Butler, F. F. Rose; Secretary of State, L. H. Karr; Auditor of State, G. W. Davis; Attorney General, AA’illiam D. Boies; Treasurer, Charles liuegniiz; Supreme judge, Senator Bolter; Railroad Commissioner (long term), Amos Steckol; Railroad Commissioner (short term), Thomas J. Denson. Hard to Got Into the Army. The tabulation of the enlistments in the United States army for July show that Capt. Palmer, in charge of the Chicago recruiting station, enlisted only twentyseven men out of 4.85 who. applied. The army standard has been raised until it is more difficult to enter it as a private, for the pay of sl4 a month and board, than it is to secure admission into any other department of the Government, since an applicant’s recommendations have to be certified to by two of more responsible citizens and a record for industry must be shown. The total enlistments during the month were 430 and the rejections 2,933. - - -• Entire Family Are Drowned. Thirty lives are reported lost by a cloudburst in Pine Creek Valley, Pa. The whole valley, eight, miles in length, is devastated. I)e Haven, a small town in AA'ildwood dll field, was swept by the mad rush of the flood and an. entire family named Appleton was drowned. How many were in the family is not known. ‘ " —“** J Wreck in Virginia. The F. F. A', train, limited, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, which left AVasliingfou at 11:57 p. • m.A Friday, ran info anopihi Stviteh at Ravens worth. Va., about 12:15 a. m. and four of the six Tnssenger coaches were badly, wrecked. Several Jives are reported lost, aud fifteen or twenty passengers injured. Supposed Murder of \V. F, Kvster. AV. F." Easier, a prominent' man of Chambersburg, Pa., was found dead in an alley at Lincoln, Neb., having been drugged and robtied. He left liis hotel early in the evening with a rough character. Eyster was a director of the B. and C. A'. R. R. Fred Vance and five women are held for the crime. Newspaper on a Railroad. The Burlington road is making arrangements to print a newspaper on one of its trains. The station agents will act as reporters and light, heat and power to run the typesetting machines will be obtained from the engine. M, Hanotaux and “Uncle Sam.” M. Hanotaux, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has announced to the French Cabinet that the United States has recognized the French annexation of Madagascar.