Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1897 — AN IMPORTANT POINT [ARTICLE]

AN IMPORTANT POINT

f ILIBUSTERS WIN THE FIRST ROUND. May Escape Became of a Legal Techn'cality—Sensational I p'sode In a Chicago Theater —Our Trade with the World—A F e d Confesses. Chance for Filibuster*. At Jacksonville, Fla., in the Three Friends filibustering ease, the j»oiut was raised by counsel for the defense that inasmuch as the Cuban insurgents had not been recognized by the T'nited States government they were neither a people nor a body politic as defined by section 5.2X3, under which the libel was drawn. This was sustained by Judge Locke. The officials of the Department of Justice at Washington state that if the Judge at the final hearing sustains the decision an appeal will likely be taken to the I’nited State Supreme Court. Should Judge Istcke’s decision be sustained by the court of last resort it would appear that every inhibition in the act against fitting out hostile expeditions of every character against a foreign state with which the Fnited States are at peace becomes of no effect. HIS3ED THE HIGH HAT. Indignant Audience at a Chicago Theater Exorcise the Nuisance. Hundreds of excited and indignant the-ater-goers took the high hat question into their own hands Sunday night at the Columbia Theater, in Chicago, by hisses and yells that amounted to a tumult. They compelled every woman who was present at the fitikt night of Sousa's ‘‘El Capitan to sit bareheaded through the performance—all but those in the boxes and one woman in the parquet, who, in spite of the yells and catcalls that came down at her from the balcony and gallery, kepi her wide-brimmed headgear on all through the opera. The noisy demonstration began before the curtain went up for the first act, and continued til! after the opera had begun, drowning (Ait the music and for a few minutes threatening to break up the performance altogether. Nobody knows who started the demoustra tion. From the suddenness of the outburst it might have suggested itself to a hundred persons at the same instant. It began with yells of “Huts off,” that were interspersed- with hisses and groans as some of the women showed a disposition not to obey. When the hisses came the hats in the parquet and dress circle went off as if they had been caught by u gale from behind. Every woman who entered the theater with her lmt on made a nervous grab at the hat pins as soon as she divined the import of the demonstration. Never did hats come off so quickly from feminine heads as they (lid for the five minutes before the performance begun. Women came down the aisle with hair disordered front the quick withdrawal of hat pins, and with faces more red than the plush upholstery of the seats.

BALANCE OF TRADE IN 1890. Excess of Our Expirts Over Imports $323,322,184. The figures of the Bureau of Statistics, > for the calendar year 1896, show that the excess of exports of merchandise from this country over the imports for that period amounted to the sum of $325,322,184. This breaks the record of this country's excess of exports over imports. The year that came nearest to it was 1878, when the excess of exports over imports was $305,279,590. Coming at the same time with other conditions uimlagous to those obtaining in early days at the time of prosperity that began in 1879, the figures of the Bureau of Statistics cause many persons to believe that a similar era of good times is beginning. EMBEZZLED CHURCH FUNDS. Enem'eaof Father Mooron Make Eerious Charges Airalnat Him. For two years there has bten war in the parish of St. Peter and St. Paul, at St. Joseph, Mo. One faction favored the priest. Rev. Father Mooron. while the other opposed him. The trouble recently resulted in a riot. Now enemies of the priest say he has embezzled church funds Sent Two Score to Death. Sam Palatka has confessed at Atlanta, Ga., that he caused the great Caliabn (Ala.) bridge disaster, which sent thirtyfive persous to death and wounded and maimed a score more. “1 did it,” said Palatka. “I wanted niouey. It’s nobody’s business what I wanted it for. There were plenty of dead folks with money—one man had ssoo—but before 1 could get at it the live oues got up and the crowds came. I skipped out then.” Shot by a Peacemaker. Frank Cornwall, son of the superintendent of public schools of Taylor County. West Virginia, shot Tom Hazltpp. a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad brakeman. at Grafton. Young Cornwall found Hazlipp beating another railroader. Interfering, the boy was knocked down, when, drawing a revolver, he placed it at Hazlipp's right side and fired two shots, inflicting fatal wounds. Cornwall was arrested. Wm. E. Mason Wins. William Ernest Mason, of Chicago, won the Illinois Senatorial battle at Springfield Tuesday night, after a sternly contested effort in which fourteen candidates participated. He was finally nominated by acclamation. Martin B. Madden having withdrawn several days before, and William Lorimer withdrawing when he saw his case was hopeless. Insnrsrents Sink a Gunboat. The Cubans have destroyed and sunk the Spanish warship Relnmpago by torpedoes. The explosion killed the commander, assistant engineer, gunner, and three marines, and wounded the chief officer, paymaster, and engineer seriously. Spanish officers confirm the news. Inspection la llte-at. The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that portion of the South Carolina dispensary law providing for the Inspection of liquors imported into the State, to be unconstitutional. " : j - Five Chl’dren Drown. Five children were drowned in St. Louis while skating. At Kossuth avenue and Ashland place a crowd of childreu were skating ou the ice in an old quarry. The lee gave way and the childreu were precipitated into the water and drowned before help could reach them. Flawies In an Orphans’ Hour. A portion <rf the Buckners Orphan , Home, in the suburbs of Dallas, Tex., burned at midnight Friday. Five boys perished Aid a number of others were injured. The buijdiag. with all of its furniture, was entirely destroyed. The loss

A CITY OF DEAD AND DYING. Over Half Of the Inhsb tints of Bombay, li. dia, Have Fled. Over half the population of Bombay, estimated to amount to about 900.000. has fled from the plague, and the erstwhile crowded streets, docks and Lazaars are not recognizable. Business in piece geods. crockery and hardware is at a stauustil 1 . and the money lenders have vanished. The courts are deserted and the judge*, and officials have gone to a healthier clime. Many of the native doctors, graduates of the college, have fled, and those remaining refuse to attend plague cases,, or, when they do attend them, will not touch the sufferers, dreading contagion. Clerks and others whose vocations call them to the city daily have removed to suburban stations, where the pimple are mostly living in thatched huts, it is estimated that 800.000 persons are encamp ed at Andberi, from whence they will soon be forced to migrate owing to the lack of water and sanitation, threatening to breed cholera. The cemeteries are already filled to overflowing, and the wind is spreading the contagion. The nights are made hideous by cymbals and melancholy dirges. Often difficulty is experienced in burying the dead, friends and relatives refusing to carry the corpses. In some instances women have assisted in carrying the dead bodies. A large number of plague corpses at the Tower of Silence, the I'arsee burial place, have not been eaten by the vultures inhabiting it. Corpses have been found in the streets. The official returns show that up to Wednesday there were 3,394 cases of bnbonie plague and 2,356 deaths from that disease. NEW USE IO« CORN STALKS. E. 8, Cr mp tins a Scheme Which Will Benefit ti e Farmers. Edwin S. Cramp, the millionaire ship builder of Philadelphia, is now interested especially in the production of padding for warships and fodder for cattle from cornstulks. Thanksgiving Day last Edwin 8. Cramp was granted a patent for the new invention he bought from the inventor. Experiments have been made in the East for six or seven months and in every case they have been very success fnl. Now the scheme is to be introduced in the West, and next year a considerable portion of the cornstalk crop of Illinois and lowa is to he bought from the farmers and used in making both the fodder and the ship padding. The British Government has become interested in the new discovery of the Cramps. If it is pleased with the results of its investigation and decides.to. adopt the invention it will mean that a large additional demand will he created, and. of course, the corn raisers will be the beneficiaries. The process for manufacturing the two things—cattle food and ship padding—is simple, as explained by Mr. Crnmp. It consists in sepurnting (ho pith from the outer stalk and grinding each. The outer portion of the stalk is converted into coffer-dam. as the article used in the ships is called. The pith when ground and prepared is the food for cattle. A factory is to be esfab lished at Rockford. 111. GOV. ADAMs INVESTIGATING. Visits Lea I v.He in Hope to Find Mean* for Settling Strike. Alva Adams, new Governor of Colorado,arrived in Lendvilie Friday morning, in company with Maj. Gen. Brooks of the State militia. The Governor will personally investigate the strike situation in the hope that some arrangement may be made for the arbitration of the strike, which for seven months has practically paralyzed the great mining camp and cost the State nearly a quarter of a million dollars for the maintenance of a military guard for the miners. Adjt.-Gen. Moses has wired orders to a Columbus clothing firm for uniforms for the 500 citizens of Leadville who have enlisted in the State militia since the occupation of the camp by the troops. This is believed to mean that the non-resident militiamen are all to be withdrawn.

No Water in Schools. Owing to the pollution of Luke Michigan. the Chicago Board of Education passed au order directing that the supply of drinking water in all the public schools be shut off until further notice. It is likely that for son'*-' time tlie equipment of every Chicago school boy and girl will include, besides tlie time-honored bug and lunch box, a water bottle or two, slung over the shoulder and containing boiled water brought from home. Some of the principals anticipate much annoyance on account of the lack of water. Others think it will not occasion any inconvenience, believing the children will learn at once that they must quench tlicir thirst before leaving their homes. It is not likely that the schools will be deprived of water for any length of time. The members of the board will doubtless get together and arrange for boiling it, or introducing filters. Neither is it anticipated that any hardship will follow the operation of the order. The children are in school only three hours at u time, and can get along without water if mcessary. If it was at a different season of the year there might be some suffering. Eckels in Ch'cagn. Comptroller Eckels arrived in Chicago Friday morning, and thirty minutes later was closeted with Receiver McKeon and several directors of the National Bank of Illinois in the directory chamber. Before returning to Washington he disposed of a 50 per cent dividend to creditors of the defunct bank. He plunged into the work of distributing $4,500,000 without so much as combing his locks, and had buoyant smiles to spare for all callers at the bank. Comptroller Eckels defies all the precedents of his office in disengaging himself from his work at the capital to relieve creditors of the National Bank of Illinois. If he were hard-hearted the 2,800 checks and approved claims to be signed would first go to Washington and be delayed over a week. Comptroller Eckels volunteered to go iu person, however, and facilitate the work so that checks will be paid just thirty days after the failure of the bank.

Rich Strike at Hanged Top. The excitement at Ragged Top, four miles from Lead City, S. D. ( became more intense Friday morning over the discovery of additional rich ore bodies. A stampede toward the new camp has set in, and many miners are leaving claims generally considered very valuable to rush to the newfield, where fortunes are being daily made. Nova fcotla Bank Fails. The Dominion Savings Bank of Yarmouth, N. S., has been closed by order of the Government. The accounts will be transferred to the postoffice savings bank, a Government institution, end depositors will suffer no loss or inconvenience. Motor Car Kan A way. Five persons were seriously injured and about thirty others more or less cut and bruised by an accident in Pittsburg on the Tenu avenue branch of the Cousolidated Traction Company. Fhort In Their Accounts. Harry Ferguson, postmaster, and P. I’. Hoop, money order clerk, of Colorado Springs, Colo., have been arrested, charged with the embezzlement of government money. Thousands Want I mp'ovruent. Nearly 1,200. of Dayton, Ohio, unemployed workingmen, mechanics and laborers held a mass meeting, to which all

city boards and public'officials were In* vited. The object waslto discuss the serious situation confronting the masse* and to devise ways aud'ineans to relieve the distress of several thousand families. No deinite plans were adopted, though it is confidently hoped that the situation will be adequately met and that none will suffer. It is known that at least 3.006 mechanics and workingmen are out of employment and that [lossibly more than 10,000 people are dependent upon them. Most of them have been out of work for three or four mouths, and as the winter sliows no improvement it is found necessary to appeal to public boards and charities. More than 1,000 of the unemployed signed a pa|>er expressing their willingness to work at any honest labor, and all . public boards will be petitioned to hasten the prosecution of city improvement. The water works department began work on several miles of street mains, having appropriated a considerable sum for the purpose. STEADY GAIN IN TRADE. Gradual I»i.t Certain Improvement Noted in Pus ness Circles. R. G. Dttu & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The greatest growth and prosperity the country had ever seen came suddenly in 1879, after several months of disappointment because specie resumption had not yet brought the benefits expected. It takes time for new confidence to reach through easier money markets, large orders, resuming mills, expanding employment and large distribution, to the results which make still greater and lasting gain possible. Such gradual and steady improvement lias been in progress for more than two mouths. Money markets feel a steady increase iu demand for commercial and manufacturing loans. Additional works went into operation each week in January and the working force is larger than at any other time for six mouths. Rest of all, there is so little crazy excitement that the gain may be ascribed to the deliberate judgment of the ablest and most prudent men in business. It is not a time of high prices. Many who are anxious to got early hold on the market are making for the moment lower prices than they could afford to maintain. Some have secured orders enough for months Income, and begin to be less keen in competition.” GIVES UP RACING FOR A WIFE. J. Rnb'nson Bear! Gives Up the Turf ami Becomes a Benedict. J. Robinson Beard, formerly one of the Beard brothers, who owned the celebrated Erie Stubles, which contained some of tlie best race horses iu the Eastern circuit, was married at New York to Miss Grace R. Benedict, duughtcr of the weilLnown Brooklyn hanker and broker. In taking a bride Mr. Beard lost his horses. When he asked for I he hand of Miss Benedict she told him that she would accept on condition that he give tip all his racing interests. Mr. Beard thereupon sold his interests to his brother, who will iu future conduct the business alone. Four Kt'lcd by Giant Fowler. A horrible accident occurred in the Adit Mining Company’s tunnel near Ward, Colo. John W. Glover and Harry Glover, contractors, and T. A. Degarmo and John W. Schreiver were killed by the explosion of thirty-five pounds of giant powder. The cause of the explosion is not known. The bodies of the men were terribly mutilated and identification was impossible, the walls of the tunnel being covered with shreds of human flesh for many yards. Sherman to Be Premier. At a conference Friday at Canton between President-elect McKinley nnd Senator John Sherman there was consummated that which Ims been foreshadowed by tile political incidents of several days past. Senator Sherman was formally tendered and accepted the premiership of the incoming administration. The conference was held at the Major's home iti Canton and at its conclusion Senator Sherman said: “I have been offered and have accepted the State portfolio.” Nominated Fairbanks. At tlie joint senatorial caucus in Indianapolis Charles W. Fairbanks was chosen as tlie Republican nominee by a vote of 60 to 25 for tlie other three, divided as follows: McKeeti, 11; Wallace, 0; Taylor, 3; Frank D. Posey, 3; Gen. Harrison, 1; Judge John 11. Baker, 1. Culls n Subject to His Frath. At St. Petersburg, the Czar beckoned to a gardener who was working in the park at Tsarskoeseio. The guard, seeing tlie man running toward the Czar, shot him dead, supposing that he was a would-be assailant. The Czar was deeply affected. Mine O vner M ss'nr. Millionaire Mine Owner George S Hammond, of the San Jnan mining district of New Mexico, is missing, and it is feared he has been foully dealt with iu Chicago. Arm.- to Be Ircr oscd, A plan for the reorganization of the line of 'the *army, which has been demanded repeatedly by the War Department, it is now believed, will lie presented to Congress and accepted before adjournment. Fentt'e Bank Goes Unler. The Seattle Savings Bank has closed its doors, owing to heavy withdrawals of county funds by newly installed officers.