Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — TARIFF FOR LUMBER. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF FOR LUMBER.

ITRADE DEMANDS CONSIDERA, TION IN FIXING DUTIES Delegates to Lnmbermen'i Conrent tion at Cincinnati Will Work Toward 'That End—Cuban Sympathizer* in ' Chicago Are Aroused. Convention at Cincinnati. j One hundred and fifty delegates, representing twenty-seven States, assembled in Cincinnati, when the national convention of lumber interests was called to order. Previous to perfecting a temporary ■organization, Messrs. Judson and Defebaugh made elaborate addresses, explaining the purpose of the convention, the requests for the call, and the present condition of the lumber business. They appealed t 6 the delegates from the Southern States, which section was largely represented. Most of the Southern delegates have been free-traders, but, in responding to the addresses of Judson and Defebaugh, these delegates insisted that, if there is to be a protective tariff, lumber should not be discriminated against, and said they would do all they could to secure a tariff on lumber. They stated that all other articles used in connection with lumber in all sorts of construction were protected, and that the lumber trade was now so depressed as to require relief. J. A. Freeman made a vigorous speech against the tariff of 1894 as discriminating against lumber and urging the convention to take such action as would secure just treatment to the lumber interests in the tariff bill to be enacted by the coming Congress. While the purpose of the convention was to secure a tariff on lumber, a permanent organization was also perfected for the general interests of lumbermen in the future. may take action. Caban Sympathizers in Chicago Are 'lhorouchly Aroused. Decided action in regard to the reported treachery resorted to by Spaniards in the murder of Gen. Maceo seems likely to be taken by Cuban sympathizers in Chicago. Leading members of the committee of 100, organized for the support of the Cuban cause, met in the rooms of the Union League Club and discussed the assassination with many expressions of regret and censure. Fearing, however, that the reports may not be confirmed, the committee decided to take no action until later. Chairman Edward F. "Cragin said that the committee would meet as soon ns fuller reports are received, and if the story is confirmed strong resolutions would be offered, and perhaps something more done in the way of stopping Spain’s career on the island.

WILL STOP BEET SHIPMENTS. Change in the Sugar Tariff Affects Hungarian Makers, Carl Hurst, United States Consul at Prague, reports to the. State Department that a marked change in the railroad tariff on shgar just made in Austria will probably stop altogether shipments of beet sugar from Bohemia to the United States via Trieste. The Hungarian sug-ar-makers have been greatly disappointed at the lack of orders for their sugar from the United States so far this year. But 18,889 tons have been exported via Fiume„to New York and Philadelphia, and no less than 25,000 tons remain in warehouses at Flume unsold. rAnge war revived. Colorado Cattle-Men Warn Wyoming Shcepraisers to Leave. The war between Colorado cattle-men and Wyoming sheepmen is again on. Gris W. Edwards, a leading sheepowner, has received two letters from the cattle-men, giving him six days in which to remove his sheep from the disputed strip. Edwards replies that as a taxpayer in Routt County, Colorado, for twentytwo years he proposes to make a stand, and refuses to be intimated or driven from the range. Trouble is anticipated. Colorado’s Cuban Army. It is claimed by the leaders in the movement to send troops from Colorado to fight for Cuban independence that more than 1,000 names have already been enrolled. John McAndrews, middle-of-the-road Populist candidate for Attorney General at the recent election, has been chosen commander, with the title of Colonel. Farm Fchool for Vagrants. Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, of New York, and the Committee on Vagrancy of the Conference of Charities, intend to use their influence toward the speedy establishment of a farm school for vagrants, where homeless men, detained for one or two years, shall receive a thorough course of industrial training.

Old Ohio Lawirait Decided. In the suit of the estate of Abraham Powers against the estate of C. H. Andrews, which was brought at Youngstown, Ohio, to recover 5 cents a ton for coal hauled over land of the plaintiff, the supreme Court finds in favor of Powers, the judgment amounting to nearly $50,000. Honor for Rev. J. M. Vanhorn. Rev. J. M. Vanhorn, of the Warren, Ohio, Disciple Church was tendered the pastorate of the West London Tabernacle in London, England. He has the call under consideration. The foreign missionary board had recommended him. Salvini Is Des.d. Alexander Salvini, noted actor and son of Tomaso Salvini, died at Florence, Italy, Tuesday, after a long illness. Seeley Offered the Place. William E. Seeley, President of the First National Bank of Bridgeport, * Conn., has been formally offered the position of United States Treasurer upon the incoming of the McKinley administration. He is 55 years old and a thirtythird degree Mason. Fourteen Pallors Drown. The French steanper Marie-Panny, from Bayonne for this port, has been totally lost off the Island of Alderney. The captain was saved, but fourteen members of the crew were drowned. Canadians Work for Liberty. The Independence Club of Canada, in existence in Montreal five months, the object of which is the attainment of Canadian independence, is gaining in strength, and a convention will be held with a view to federating all the groups and dubs having a like object. Old Insurance Company Fails. The Commercial Travelers’ Life Association of Syracuse, N. Y„ one of the oldest co-operative insurance companies, went Into the hands pf receivers. The order was upon the application of the attorney general's office ou the ground of fftoeivcftcy. ■-1

ANGER OF THE TURK. Saltan Wants a Retraction from the President. Mustapha Bey, the Turkish Minister, has received peremptory instructions from his government to secure a retraction of the injurious statements made by President Cleveland in his message to Congress. A cable was received on Wednesday night which indicated that the Sublime Porte was in an awful stew over the matter, and the hint was given that unless this government did something the Minister would be expected to ask for his passport. In accordance with this peremptory dispatch from the home government the Turkish Minister sought an audience Thursday with Secretary Olney and read the riot act to him. He requested that the matter be presented to President Cleveland to the end that the President might, if possible, send in a supplemental message to Congress explaining the provocation which had been given the Turks to cause them to butcher so many defenseless people. The Turkish Minister does not deny the butchery, but he does attempt to justify it. The Minister, so it is said, almost went to the extent of making a charge of bad faith, for he claimed that the State Department was in full possession of all the facts which would go to show that the butcheries were committed under stress of great provocation. SMALLPOX AND YELLOW FEVER. Many Deaths in Cuba—Ten Thousand Spanish Soldiers Sick. The Marine hospital service has received reports of smallpox and yellow fever in Cuban seaports. Under date of Nov. 24 the United States consul at Cienfuegos reports that during the week ended Nov. 22 there were in that city 12 deaths from yellow fever and two from smallpox. The United States sanitary inspector at Havana reports 220 new cases and 87 deaths from yellow fever, and 54 deaths from smallpox during the week ended Nov. 20. The inspector says he is informed from what he believes credible sources that in the eight government military hospitals which are established in the city and its immediate suburbs there are over 10,000 sick and wounded Spanish soldiers. The scarcity of food is being felt among the poorer classes, hnd fruit and vegetables are sometimes a luxury on the rich man’s table; many people can get no work, and paupers and beggars people the streets.

DRAGGED BEHIND HIS CART. Kansas Farmer Held for Brutal Murder of His Daughter. After a long preliminary examination, Rudolph Brockman, a wealthy farmer living in Osage Township, Kan., has been held in the sum. of SIO,OOO to answer for the murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Mary. Four weeks ago Brockman gave the girl a terrible beating because she did not work to suit him in his cornfield. He then tied a rope around one of her ankles, fastened the other ond of thp rope to the rear axle of his wagon and drove to his barn, a quarter of a mile off, dragging the girl behind. Arriving there, he locked her up in the barn without sufficient clothing and without food. The girl was found by her uncle and another neighbor, who carried her away, but her injuries were so serious that she died Nov. 22. Brorknvan has long been an outcast among the farmers of Osage Township. His ranch joins the notorious Bender farm, and he was the neurest neighbor of the Bender, butchers.

AWFUL LOSS OF LIFE. North German Llovd Steamer Sailer Goes Down on Corrobedo Rocks. Vigo, Spain, dispatch: The North German Lloyd steamer Salier was lost off CorunnaS Corrobedo. All hands were drowned. There were 210 passengers on board. Her crew was composed of six-ty-five men. All on board, passengers and crew, perished. The Salier’s passengers consisted of 113 Russians, thirtyfive Galicians, sixty-one Spaniards, and one German. The Salier was bound from Bremen to Buenos Ayres, via Corunna and Villagarieu. The passengers were mostly in the steerage. The Corrobedo rocks, on which it is believed the Salier was lost, are situated off the southwest coast of Corunna and should have been given a wide berth before the steamer headed eastward, and then in n northeasterly direction for the bay leading up to Yillngariea. WHEAT FOR AUSTRALIA. American Merchants Will Ship Nearly 5,000,000 Bnshels. J. S. Larke, the Canadian Trade Commissioner in Australia, has furnished the Vancouver Board of Trade with a statement as to the condition of the Australian crops. He states that that country will have to import over 5,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, owing to the failure of the Australian harvest. He says that the bulk will come from America. Canadian merchants were late in the field, San Francisco merchants having secured a large number of orders.

Bold Deed of Robbers. The Iron Mountain fast express, outgoing, was held up by six masked men one mile from the union station, within the city limits of St. Louis, Wednesday night at 9:30 o’clock. Two robbers went to the express car and demanded admittance. Express Messenger W. J. Egan refused to let them in. They threatened to kill him, but he was inflexible. They then placed a stick of dynamite at the car door, and blew it to pieces. The explosion badly shattered one side of the car. When the robbers looked for the treasure they were told that the money was in a time-locked safe. Finding it useless to try to blow open the strongbox, the robbers jumped off and notified their companions on the engine that they had failed to £et anything. The robbers then disappeared, and Engineer William Green started ahead. As the train pulled away Express Messenger Egan came to the shattered door of his car, intending to shoot at the marauders. No sooner did they see him, however, than they opened fire and he fled behind a pile of boxes. The noise of the shooting attracted the clerks in the mail car and they opened the doors and a fusillade followed. Express Messenger Egan said the Pacific Express Company had lost nothing. Filigree in War Paint. Gov.-elect Pingree has said it. Michigan is to be battered this winter with the bullets of reform 1 , while the whole country looks on at the battle. The famous Mayor-Governor has outlined his plan of action and the coming fight between him and his Legislature will contribute the most intensely interesting chapter in the history of commonwealth government in the United States. Depositor* Must Help. The majority of the depositors of the Missouri National Bank, at Kansas City, which failed, hare agreed to a reorganization plan which calls for a contribution of 10 per cent, of their deposits to strengthen the impaired capital of the bank. Take The'ir Ow.n Lives. Mrs. Sarah B. Ingersoll Cooper and her daughter, Harriet Cooper, both widely known as workers in the cause of temperance, Christianity and philanthropy, committed suicide together in their home •) I'

in San Francisco Thursday night. Mrs. Cooper’s will was discovered upon a table in the apartment, informing the world of the joint suicide and requesting that the bodies be not taken to the morgue. Mrs. Cooper and her daughter were foremost among the members of the Woman’s Suffrage Association. Mrs. Cooper was, in fact, president of the California Woman Suffrage Association and was prominently identified with church and kindergarten work. She taught the largest Bible class in the world and was a prominent officer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The suicide has made a profound sensation in the city, where Mrs. Cooper and her daughter had been until recently the leaders in church and Christian affairs generally. The tragedy is directly traceable to the recent scandal which culminated in the church trial and condemnation of Rev. Dr. Charles O. Brown, pastor of the First Congregational Church. Mrs. Cooper was one of his warmest supporters in the early part of the trial. Before the end of the trial, however, Mrs. Cooper and her daughter turned against him, and the part of the Coopers in the case was in violent disagreement with the elinrch element, which censured them for their activity against the accused clergyman. Since the trial the Coopers bad been snubbed by former friends and given the cold shoulder by their associates in church work. Harriet Cooper was so oppressed with the burden of the social boycott that was imposed upon herself and her mother that her health failed and she suffered from nervous prostration. She often spoke of taking her own life, but had been dissuaded by her mother.

LURED TO DEATH. Antonio Maceo the Victim of Spain’s Treachery. General Antonio Maceo, the famous Cuban leader, is really dead, having been treacherously murdered by Spaniards Dec. 7 while on his way to attend a conference to which he was invited by the of Ahumeda, acting captain general of Cuba, while General Weyler was in the field. Saturday a letter was received by Colonel J. A. De Huau, the hend of the Florida junta, at Jacksonville, Fla., from his secretary correspondent in Havana, giving a detailed account of the assassination of General Maceo and his entire staff, with the exception of Dr. Zertucha, who was Maceo’s physician. The letter came from a reliable source in Havana, but the correspondent’s name, of course, cannot be made public, for, as Mr. Huau said: “The writer would be shot within an hour by Spanish authorities if they knew who gave away details of one of the most horx-ible atrocities ever chronicled in modern warfare.” LEGAL WAR OVER BLOOD MONEY. Identity of "Dynamite Dick’s” Snpposed Corpse Is Disputed. A big row exists between the officers of Kay County, Oklahoma, and the United States marshals of the Territory over the identity of a bandit killed near Black well some days ago. The courts will have to decide the matter. In a fight with outlaws the sheriff’s posse killed a man whom they claim to be “Dynamite Dick,” for whose capture, dead or alive, there is a large reward. Half a dozen marshals who claim to know, say the man is not “Dynamite Dick,” but “Skeeter Dick,” a cuttle thief of note. The slayers of the outlaw assert the marshals are attempting to cheat them out of the refward.

Illinois' Big Corn Crop. The Illinois corn crop of 1890, ns reported to the State Board of Agriculture, was the largest ever raised in the State with a single exception—in 1879, when the total yield of the State was 305,000,000 bushels. In 1890 the yield was 288.500,000 bushels. The average yield per acre was the largest in the history of the State, forty-two bushels. The average price throughout the State is 18 cents per bushel. Pathetic Death of Mae Kelly. Miss Mae Kelly, prominent in musica, and social circles of Duluth, Minn., died suddenly Thursday night of heart failure She had volunteered her assistance at n concert given at a fair held to raise funds for a new Roman Catholic Hospital. Hers was the first number on the program, and she hud sung the opening bars of “He Giveth His Beloved Sleep,” when she fell backward dead. Steel to Be Cheap. War, fierce and to a finish, is to be fought within the cash-supported ranks of the steel billet pool. This grim determination was the outcome of the meeting held at Pittsburg Friday. The pool had under consideration the grave question of dissolving the powerful organization. Long and earnest was the discussion, and the men who had decided upon the wage of battle finally won. Jumped from a Fast Train. Near Columbia, Mo., an unknown man jumped from the eastbound train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road while going at the rate of forty miles an hour and was instantly killed. He had $3,000 in his possession. Over Five Score Buried. A dispatch from Jeres, Spain, announces that a large building has collapsed there, burying over 100 persons.