Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1897 — ARE BLOWN TO ATOMS [ARTICLE]

ARE BLOWN TO ATOMS

DISASTROUS EXPLOSION OF A DYNAMITE MAGAZ NE. Pennsylvania Torpeio Company's Magazine at Shamokin, Pa., Destroys Life and Property-Priests in the Power of Philippine Rebels. Report Heard Thirty Miles. The magazine of the Columbia Dynamite Company, a branch of the Pennsylvania Torpedo Company, limited, at Shamokin, Pa., eighteen miles from Pittsburg, exploded Tuesday morning and four people were blown to death. Two men and two women were killed and one man Injured. The explosion took place about 10 o’clock and completely demolished the building and tore a large hole in the ground. Nothing is left of the victims. The concussion was felt severnl miles away and buildings in the immediate vicinity were badly shattered. At Shousetown the public school building was partly demolished and a panic among the pupils ensued, but fortunately no one was hurt. At Economy, Coraopolis and other towns the shock was so heavy that windows were broken. The cause of the explosion is not known and particulars are meager. The building, which was a two-story frame structure, was blown to atoms and the report was heard thirty miles away. PRIESTS ARE IN PERIL. Eighteen Carried Away or S’ain by Philippine Rebels, The papal delegate at Washington, Archbishop Martinelli, has received discouraging news from his vicar general, Koderiquez, in Rome, regarding the rebellion in the Philippine Islands. In an interview Mgr. Martinelli discussed the situation in both the Philippine Islands and in Cuba with considerable freedom. “Our order is very strong here,” said the Archbishop, “as we have several bishops aud 330 priests scattered all through the provinces. It was too much to expect that all of them had escaped, and the news I received is bad. I have two letters from my vicar general, and he informs me that five Augustinian priests in parishes übout Manilla have been carried off by the rebels, and no news whatever has been received from them. In the absence of information we believe that they are dead. Thirteen Dominican priests were also either carried away or slain by the rebels, and those who were taken off were afterward killed; so we suppose the same fute has befallen the members of our order. The rebellion in the Philippines is likely to prove a most horrible affair, as the natives are only semi-civilized. Spain, too, is handicapped to some extent by the fact that she maintains on the island only a scattered army of about four thousand men. Spain will have a difficult tusk to subdue the half-barbarous people of the Philippines.” COLORADO'S MINERALS Total Value of Last Year's Production Was $30,253 674. The total value of tipFininerul production of Colorado for the year 1893 is represented by the following figures: Gold $17,512,385 Bil ver (commercial value) .... 14.787,1811 Lead 2.887,109 Copper 1,067,000 Total $36,253,674 The output of gold during this period Tell $2,000,000 short of expectations, but, notwithstanding this disappointment, the State stands at the head of the list of producers of both gold and silver, California coming second with a gold record of $16,500,000 and silver $148,000, and Montana third, with $4,500,000 in gold and $lO,000,000 in silver.

GOOD YEAR ON 'CHANGE. Balls and Beara Claim Rnalness on the Board Has Been Good. At the thirtieth annual meeting of the Chicago Board of Trade a successful year was reported in spite of the fact that failures aud reverses had been frequent in other lines. In his speech to the board President William T. Baker took occasion to score the Western Union Telegraph Company for allowing its wires to furnish the markets to bucketshops. Mr. Baker spoke of the financial situation, and advocated the substitution of national hank notes redeemable in gold, after retiring the demand notes. The directors’ report showed an expenditure of $273,622.75 for the year, with total receipts amounting to $291,159.11. The present membership is 180. Clearances for 1896 were $81,614,059.63. Monetary Conference Meets, The national monetary conference was begun in Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Tuesday afternoon. The convention was called to order at 2 o’clock. Mr. Hanna, chairman of the executive committee, suggested ex-Gov. E. O. Stannard of Missouri for temporary chairman, and he was chosen. A noticeable feature of the register was the absence of Western delegates. The South showed, a fair proportion of delegates, while the East and Central West furnished the largest delegations. Stephens Is for Business. Gov. Stephens, in his inaugural address to the new Legislature of Missouri, declares his ambition is to make his administration distinctively a business administration, and calls upon the Legislature to make the present session a business one. “Partisanship,” he says, "should be moderated, if not suppressed, and unseemly strife should be avoided.” Job for Princess Clilmay. ■ The Princess de Chimay, who eloped last summer with Janos Rigo, a HnngaTian gypsy musician, has been engaged to appear:fc'tableaux vivantes at the winter gardes in Berlin immediately after her divorce from her husband. She will be pa id ,$730 a night. Rejoicing in Ban Francisco. An open air mass meeting was held at San Francisco to celebrate the defeat of the funding bill. Fireworks, oratory and pyrotechnics were the features of the jubilant celebration. CoL L. Severy Badly Injured. At Emporia, Kan., Colonel L. Severy fell on the ice in his yard Wednesday aud broke bis hip. He is so badly injured that his recovery is doubtful. He is one of the most prominent citizens of Kansas. For years he was a director of the Santa Fe Railroad. Australian Town Windswept. A hurricane has swept over Palmerston (Port Darwin), a seaport village of South Australia, at the junction of the overland telegraph with the ocean cable-..t0 Java., The place is almost wrecked and telegraphic communication with it is interWP

TOO BIANT BANKS. Strained Condition in Financial Circles In Kansas. State Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal predicts the number of Kansas banking institutions will decrease materially within the next two years, if not be cut in two. He says there are too many banks in Kansas now for the amount of business transacted, and he is advising consolidation in every place where it is feasible. “It is simply a question of time whether many of these institutions shall go into voluntary liquidation or be forced to suspend,” said the Commissioner, “and in order to prevent the latter I have advised a general consolidation all over the State, especially in the smaller towns.” The oversupply of banks came into existence during booms, and. while capital has since diminished, there has been no perceptible decrease in the number of institutions. The deputy commissioners who have just returned from a tour of the State, examining ail banks, report that in nearly every town or city the bankers are figuring with each other on a plan of consolidation in accordance with the advice of the Commissioner. WHEAT SCARCE IN 'KRISLO. Coast Sb’ppers Will Willing Pay $1.60 for Good No. 1. Wheat in San Francisco has become a scarce article, and is daily advancing. Shippers would willingly pay $1.60 per cental for good No. 1 shipping wheat, and it is known among a few that they have paid as higli as $1.62)4 for something extra choice within the last three days. Owing to the growing scarcity of wheat in California, the San Francisco market possesses n firmness independent of the other leading markets. It is said thn* there is not more than 250,000 tons of wheat remaining rn the entire State to supply the exjKirt demand, and home requirements. before another crop is harvested. There has been a decrease.of 74,715 tons within one year. Freights are in oversupply and weak. Vessels are not quotable over 17s Od, United Kingdom. This is believed to favor a rise in wheat. The bulls believe that wheat will reach close on to $2 per cental before July 1. The daily receipts of wheat at Fort Costa and other tidal points of delivery are very small. —■ 1 DISPOSING OF SURPLUS CORN. lowa Man's Scheme Which Ii Indorsed by Railroad Men, Henry Wallace appeured before the lowa Board of Railroad Commissioners to present a plan for disposing of the surplus corn of lowa. Prominent railroad men were present. Mr. Wallace simply asks that the railroads grant feeding-hi-trunsit rates, so that stock cattle can he brought into lowa at low rates from the West and Southwest, fed on the cheap corn, and sent on when fattened to their destination. He shows that the State is short of all kinds of stock; half its hogs died of cholera; the number of cattle is lower than in many years, aud there is a larger umount of corn than ever known before, with no market in sight. The plan was promptly indorsed by the rnilroad men and commissioners. The former agreed to lay it before their companies, and the latter will use their luflueuee to have the rates put in. Mr. Wallace ami a number of lowa railroad men will go to Chicago Boon to present the matter to the general officers. BREAD STANDARD NEEDED. Report Shows the Nccesa’ty for Regulating the rlz: of the Loaf. An Agricultural Department report on the composition and cost of bukers’ bread in New Jersey cities, based on recent investigations, indicates the necessity of the adoption of a bread standard less variable than the loaf, so that a definite number of ounces may be found in each loaf. The increased cost of nutriment due to the transformations taking place between the producer and consumer is chargeable to the baker rather than to the miller, for the cost of bread made from a barrel of flour costing $4, to which was added 96 cents of Other ingredients, was $10.74, or a profit of 116 per cent for the baker's labor and the cost of distribution.

ESCAPES HARD LABOR. Lady Scott Sentenced to Eight Months’ Imprisonment. Lady Selina Scott, mother-in-law of Earl Rubscll, who pleaded guilty in the* central criminal court, Loudon, of criminally libeling his lordship in connection with John Cockerton, au engineer, nnd William Aylott, a valet, was seutecced to eight months’ imprisonment without hard labor. Cockerton and Aylott, who also pleaded guilty, received similar sentences. Confidential Clerk Accused. New and startling complications are forthcoming us the result of (be National Bank of Illinois failure at Chicago. Col. W. V. Jacobs, who conceived the Calumet Electric Railway and was forced out of control in 1893, is unable to push claims against the officers of the National Bank of Illinois because all papers and books relating to his connection with the Calumet Electric Railway have been stolen. According to Col. Jacobs, the crime was committed by one of his confidential clerks, against whom a charge is now pending in the United States Court. Claim is made that the theft of the papers in his possession was the sequel of a conspiracy which promises sensational develops ments. In addition to the significance attached to the stolen papers in relation to the failure of the National Bank of Illinois, the publication of a duplicate foreign exchange credit from the bank to Col. Jacobs places an entirely new face upon the suit which is now pending in regard to the sale of the Englewood and Chicago Electric Street Railway Company. The printing of two facsimiles of the credits is expected to lead to the conviction of the culprit who Is charged with the theft. Three Senators Nalncd. The contest at Harrisburg, Pa., for the succession to the seat In the United States Senate occupied by J. Donald Cameron, was finally settled in the joint party caucus of the Republican members of the Legislature, who chose State Senator Boig Penrose, of Philadelphia. At Sacramento, Cal., George C. Perkins was declared the nominee by the joint R* publican caucus. It is settled that Charles W. Fairbanks will be the next United States Senator from Indiana. Town Near Havana Captured. Havana dispatch: The sensation of the hour is that the town of Arroyo Naranjo, which is only seven miles from Havana, has been taken by the insurgents. The garrison and the authorities made no resistance. Immigrants for 1896. The number of steerage passengers landed at Ellis Island during the year 1890 was 252,350. There were 99,223 cabin passengers landed at the port of New York during the same period. Gold Coin Arrives from Eavtl. The first gold landed from a foreign port in several weeks was received Wednesday at New York from Port-au-Prince, Hayti—sloo,ooo in American ’coin. Unsonnd Ventures Burst. R. Q. Dun & Co.’a Weekly Review of Trade says: “The year 1897 begins with

one dear advantage. The last year has swept out of the way a great number of unsound concerns which in any time of actirity would have been dangerooa to huainess. Of the 152186 commercial and banking failures in 1896, with liabilities of $276,815,749, a large share represented crippling losses in previous years, or the violence of speculative storms in 1895 or the first half of 1896, while thousands more resulted from the fury of the political tornado last fall. Banking failures amounting to $50,718,915 during the year averaged $156,156 each, and were 145 per cent larger than in 1895. Commercial failures amounted to $226,096,834, a little over $1,000,060 having been added by the last day of the year, but the average of liabilities, $14,992, was smaller than in some years of great prosperity. The failures of brokerage and ‘other’ commercial concerns averaged $58,418 each, increasing 183 per cent over 1895, while manufacturing failures averaged $28,808 each, and increased 34 per cent, and trading failures increased 18 per cent and averaged only $9,606 each. Over four-fifths of the increase in manufacturing and trading failures was in lumber manufacturing. While banking failures have not censed at the West, apprehension about them has almost wholly subsided and no serious influence upon general trade is now expected. Many sound concerns were doubtless caught by the epidemic, but practically all the important failures are traced to disregard of law and of banking sense at periods small distant. It is felt at the West that all business will be the sounder after its purging.” NO HOPE lOH SPAIN. f enutor-elect Mrney Says She Cannot Conquer Cuba. Senator-elect Money, in an interview given Sunday to the Associated I’ress, says: “I hnve just returned after a two weeks’ absence on a visit to Cuba. I went there to personally inform myself, for my own guidance as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as to the condition of things in the island. Accounts have been so conflicting and the reports from Havana ro diverse that I concluded to inuke some personal discovery in the matter for myself. At the very outset I will say that everything I saw and heard taught me that Spain is unable to cope with this insurrection. She will never put it down; Spaiu will never end this war with victory to herself.” This is also the opinion of Consul General Fitzhugh Lee, and he has heretofore expressed it to Secretary Gluey. He has told the Secretary of State that the insurrectionists, whether soon or luter, were bound to succeed. V* Goes Through the Hour',’ The Loud bill to amend the law relating to secoud-class mail matter was passed by the national House after two days of debate by a vote of 144 to 105. The opposition to the bill made a strong fight against it. The statements made on the floor as to its effect on certain particulars were very conflicting. The most important provision of the bill denies to serial publications admission to the mails at 1 cent a pound rates. It is as follows: “That nothing hpreiu .contained shall be so construed ns to admit to the secoud-class rate publications purporting to be issued periodically and to subscribers, but which nre merely books or reprints of books, whether they be issued complete or in parts, whether they be hound or unbound, whether they l>e sold by subscription or otherwise, or whether they purport to be premiums or supplements or parts of regular newspapers or periodicals.” The bill also denies to newspapers the “sample copy” privilege, and the privilege enjoyed by newsdealers of returning unsold publications at the second-class rate. Found a Watery Grave. News has been received of the drowning of five children as a result of the floods in Texas County, Missouri. Thos. Wilson, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Kinnery, and her five children, attempted to ford Prairie Creek, Which was very high as a result of recent rains. The horses became unmanageable, and soon lost their foothold. The wagon, weighted with its human freight, sank, and the sideboards floated away, throwing tbs entire party into the water. Married to a Turk. The wedding of Miss Edith Lyman Collins and Reschid Be.v, Count Czaykowski, councilor of state of the Turkish embassy at Rome, Italy, was celebrated in Paris Thursday. Miss Collins inherited the bulk of her wealth, reputed to be something like $7,000,000, from her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Robert Nivan, who died last June in Paris. She was a daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt. Century’s Worst Famine. A Bombay dispatch reports that all the leading journals there describe the famine as the most widespread of the present century. It is the general opinion that the Viceroy errs In refusing English aid. Mrs. Lease’s House Sold. Mrs. Lease’s house at Wichita, Kan., was sold Wednesday at Sheriff’s sale for S6OO. It cost about $3,000. It was bought in by J. Marsh, on Eastern mortgages. Rich Vein of Silver la Struck. On the Silver Mountain Lode, near Hill City, S. D., ore was struck Wednesday that assayed ninety-nine ounces of silver per ton.