Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — Sparks from the Wires. [ARTICLE]

Sparks from the Wires.

The death of Leopold Herz, of New lork. the father of Dr. Cornelius Herz of Panama Canal fame, occurred at Bournemouth, England, where Mr. Herz was visiting his son. The Government of the Cape of Good Hope and one of the recent, acquisitions of the I’niversal Postal 1 tiion is taking prompt steps to organize a well-equipped' postal system in its domains. Tin- Elgin (111.) sewing machine and bicycle factory closed indefinitely because it could not borrow money on good security with which to pay its hands. <)ne htin,dred and fifty men are thrown out of employment. At Pittsburg, a milling camp near Nelsonville. ().. is a scene of tho utmost excitement bordering upon fanaticism. The leaders claim to lie in pei'sonnl eommunieation with the Lord ami act under 'instructions from him. The annual reports of United States shipping conimissioners for the yenr ending June 30. 189 G, show,total shipments and discharges of seamen for American seagoing vessels to have been 129,485, compared with 118,493 for the previous year. John C. Merino, n portrait painter of reputation, died nt Kansas City, Mo., aged 75 years. Among his canvasses pre portraits of Abraham Lincoln, to whom lie was related. Henry Clay, ami other oldtime'statesmen. He had liv.ed iu Kansas City since 1569. “Operation of sealers in Behring Sen” forms tlie basis of ti report to the Secretary of the Treasury by Capt. Hooi»er, who is in command of the patrol fleet in those northern waters. Capt. Hooper says there are forty-five vessel* engaged in.sitaling, of winch,neve ij are American AVid thirty-eight Britisli. A gnest went into the Galt House at Cincinnati and registered as I). R. King, Philadelphia. He was found dead in his lied the next morning. His clofhing was marked “D. L. K.” ' A 1 viiTwith a few drops of morifliiue wait fotihd in hifc valise. He was about 45 years old cents was all the money found on him; Hard fighting is still going ori between the Ecuadorean Government and rebel forces in the vicinity of Cuenca/ 1 From Naranjal heavy cannonading eiitld be heard on the morning of Aug. 22.; Advices from Alamsi stale that Gen. Alfaro is now only-two miles from Cuenca,which Vega is preparing to defend. , Tertorst,ricken inhabitants are leaving ,by, hundreds. ‘ i Hryez Kozak, his wife and his four bright-eyed children,.* Austrian immigrants, can now go, to Texas to get, a, farm. For a week they had been gazing wistfully from Ellifl’lsland, where they Were-detained as pauper imtnigratits \ be-. cause they lucked $7(). Joe ftfckey/OT St. Louis, read the platnftve' story o : f the Kozaks’ hard Inck, snd advanced the money to send the family to Texas.

Science states that Lrt use of small pilot balloons would result In riving usjqpch valuable-information as to the air currents in and around clouds. These balloons, which are cheap, reach consideralrte altitudes, and are especially useful in Indicating the drift of the air currents when there are no clouds in the sky, the direction of the lower currents when only the upper currents are visible, etc.