Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1897 — GIVE UP THE BOUNTY [ARTICLE]

GIVE UP THE BOUNTY

REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO DROP THE AMENDMENT. General Agreement, However, to Take It Up aa Independent Measure Next December —Rhode Island's Girl Train Wrecker Arrested. Would Delay the Tariff Bill. The Republican Senatorial caucus Tuesday decided to not again present a beet sugar bounty amendment to the tariff bill, and Senator Allison was authorized to move to have the amendment offered by Senator Allen tabled. There was also a general agreement to take up the Thurston beet sugar bounty bill as an independent measure the first thing after Congress meets next December. With out any preliminary business the Senate Tuesday pr- -ceded with the consideration of the tariff bill. Mr. Bacon made a personal explanation of his vote for Mr. Mills' amendment to impose a tax of 5 per cent, on all manufactured products. Mr. Bate of Tennessee then took file floor and delivered a set speech against the bill. Senator Mason, at the request of the American Pharmaceutical Association, argued with the Senate I'inauee Committee against putting a duty on wood alcohol, as it would injure the retail druggists. When he finished the committee assured him that the contemplated duty would not be imposed.

CAUGHT AT HER SIXTH ATTEMPT. Rhode Island's Girl Train Wrecker Is Arrested by the Sheriff. After having made six attempts to wreck New York, New Haven and Hartford trains, Fanny Taylor a l.)-year-o'd colored girl, has been arrested near the hamlet of Slocumville, R. I. When the Sheriff and his men came upon her a freight train had just crushed into a rail which she had placed on the track. It is possible that the girl has made seven attempts to derail trains within half a mile of where she was caught. A pili of stones was found on the track ten dais ago; but nothing was thought <.f that. When the postal express from Bosun ran into a heap of ties and damaged tin engine, the railroad company put a patrol on the track. For two nights the trains were not disturbed. Then, five consecutive attempts were made to wreck trains ou the road. Had it not been for the barking of a dog that the girl had with her, it is doubtful whether the Sheriff’s men would have caught her. The girl was suspected of the attempted erime from being seen near the trucks at a late hour on the night after the postal train so nearly came to grief. A watch was put on her, and she was captured after a freight train had just crashed over a crosstie which she had placed on the* track. The girl, who is of rather light complexion and decidedly attractive appearance, is presumably insane. When she was taken to the Washington- Countyjail, in Kingston, she still refused to talk, beyond saying that she is 19 years of age. She also refused to eat, and attempted to escape whenever a chance offered. Since the girl’s arrest it has been learned that her father, who works as a laborer, Las a fancied grievance against the railroad company on account of a small bill which he says is due him from a railroad contractor. It is surmised that the girl may have heard her father complaining about this fancied wrong and set out to right matters by wrecking a train.

MUST FAIE THE LAW. United States Court Issues an Edict Against the Miners. An important step was taken at Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday in connection with the coal miners’ strike, which puts the power of the United States against all violence or unlawful acts in at least a portion of the territory in Ohio. An order of the United States Circuit Court was made by Judge Taft, upon a showing made by Myron T. Herrick and Robert Bliekensderfer, receivers of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Company and of the Wheeling, Lake Erie ano Pittsburg Coal Company, whereby the United States marshal is directed to protect their miners at work and ti> prevent unlawful interference with the operations of their railway. FEAR MUTINY IN INDIA. ' People of Hindustan Exasperated Against the British. London dispatch: Affairs in British India are critical. The belief in official circles, both here and in Calcutta, is that a mutinous conspiracy is being hatched. It is conceded by the newspapers that discontent with British rule in Hindustan is rapidly growing, caused principally by the terrible conditions resulting from the famine and the plague. There are some who openly say that a rebellion may be expected.

Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 14 Brooklyn ....28 32 Cincinnati . .38 18 Philadelphia .29 34 Baltimore ..38 20Louisville ...24 34 New Y0rk..35 23 Washington .23 35 Cleveland ...31 29 Chicago 24 37 Pittsburg ...29 30 St. Louis.... 11 49 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Columbus .. .42 21 Detroit 30 30 St. Pau1....46 23 Gr'd Rapids.. 24 42 Indianapolis .41 22 Minneapolis .21 47 Milwaukee .41 26 Kansas City .20 48 Wipes Out an Old Feul. Sam Mitchell, husband of the newlyappointed postmistress of Empire City, Kan., wiped out an old feud by shooting and killing Link Cole, ex-city marshal. The men met on the street and Mitchell shot without warning. Cole killed Mitchell’s brother a year ago. Canal for the Loire. Plans for building a lateral canal to the River Loire so as to make the river navigable have been taken up earnestly in France. The canal will be 150 miles long and will cost 120,000,000 frans. Many Policemen Injurel. In the fighting which took place in the suburb of Chilporo, India, between the police and the rioters many policemen were injured. A party of twenty-four members of the native police was surrounded by a mob and so roughly handled that all Of them aie expected to die. Eight Years’ Imprisonment. Judge Parlang, in the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans, sentenced ex-Preudent Henry Gardes and ex-Cash-ier Walter W. Girault each to serve eight y««n la the United States penitentiary. They were recently convicted of wrecking the American National Bank.

REFUSE THIS V. First Counterfeit New $5 Silver Certificate Appears. The Hist counterfeit new §5 silver certificate has been discovered in Chicago. Chief of Secret Service Hazen says it is a very dangerous counterfeit. It is made by the lithographic process, and consists of pictures of the front and back of the genuine notes, being carefully pasted together. The paper is-Japanese, thinner than the legal note. Between the pieces silk fiber has been distributed. The note is of a series of 1896 and bears check letter B; plate No. 4 <to be found in the lower part of the large V at the lower right-hand corner face of the note); J. Fount Tillman, register; D. N. Morgan, treasuier; Nd. 370,670; small carmine seal. Much of the work on the note is blurred nnd indistinct; especially is this true of the face of the figure representing “America.” and the imprint of the bureau of engraving and printing, '/he seal is much darker red than the genuine and badly blurred. The numbering is too large and the dark outlines of the original num bers can be faintly discerned beneath those stamped on the counterfeit. ’J he back of the note has a dull, faded appearance. The green ink is a lighter shade than that used on the genuine. The portraits of “Grant” and “Sheridan” are flat, do not stand out in relief as in the genuine. The note has the appearance of having been circulated, owing in a degree to the soft, fibrous chajyctcr of the paper.

WHITE IS THE MAN, lowa Democrats Select Him ns a Gubernatorial Candidate. Following is the ticket named at Des Moines, lowa, Wednesday: For Governor Frederick E. White j For Lieutenant Governor, Benjamin A. Plummer For Supreme Court Justice. . L. G. Kiune ■ For Superintendent of Public InstructionG. F. Reinhardt ■ For Railroad Commissioner. .S. B. Crane ■ Frederick E. White and Judge Kinne are Democrats, Plumber and Reinhardt, silver Republicans, and S. B. Crane, candidate for Railroad Commissioner, is a Populist. The ticket really represents the combined work of three separate and distinct conventions, but on account of the provisions of the antifusion law which was passed by the State Legislature the Democratic convention had to nominate it primarily and the Populist and silver Republican conventions indorsed the action of the Democrats. Fifty-three middle of the road Populists, headed by Messrs. Weller and Weeks, bolted. chapman wins. Nominated for Governor of Ohio nt the Democrat'c Convention. Governor Horace L. Chapman Lieut. Gov Melville D. Shaw Supreme Judge J. P. Sp'.iggs Attorney GeneralW. 11. Dore State Treasurerlames F. Wi'son Board of Public Works. Peter 11. Degnon School Commissioner. .. .Byron H. Hard The foregoing ticket was placed in nomination Wednesday by the Ohio Democracy at Columbus, Ohio, after one of the most exciting contests in the history of Buckeye politics. The currency plank de elated for silver coinage at the ratio of 1G to 1, legal tender qualifications for the silver dollar, and legislation "to prevent demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract.” POPULATION OF RUSSIA Is Now 129,211,1 13, and Has Boubed in Forty-fl VC Years. For the first time in history a general census has been taken of the population of the Russian Empire, which is shown to number 129,211,113, of which total 64,616,286 are males and 64.594,833 fema'es. United States Consul General Karel at St. Petersburg says the figures show thiU in forty five years the population of Russia tins doubled, and during the last twelve j ears it has increased 20 per c->nt To take this census the Russian Government employed an army of 150,000 persons and its completion in three mouths is regarded as a great achievement in view of the vast expanse of territory covered and the illiteracy of the population.

Passengers in a Panic. The boiler of a locomotive on the Chicago and Northern Pacific road exploded early Thursday morning near Morgan Park, probably fatally injuring the fireman ami engineer and hurting three passengers on the train .he locomotive was drawing. There was a sudden erash and the triin came to a standstill before any of the passengers realized what had happened. Men and women were pitched forward from their seats and many received slight bruises. The greatest excitement prevailed. Those who were in the coa.-hes were panic-stricken, %nd all made a rush for the doorways. Women were pushed aside and trampled upon as the frightenei. passengers attempted to make their escape. Once outside they saw what had happened. The engine was a total wrrek. Pieces of iron were scattered about in every direction, and lying near the track were Engineer Fogg and Fireman Latshaw. No cause for the explosion has yet been ascertained. Engineer Fogg cannot account for the sudden mishap, everything having been in. perfect order during the trip he made, so far as he himself knows. The engine was not of a large pattern. It was one of the locomotives used in the suburban service of the Chicago and Northern Pacific system, running out of the Grand Central station. It was going at a slow rate of speed, having just left the station, when suddenly the boiler exploded and carried with it the men who ran it. Nothing is left of the engine except the scattered pieces of iron which compose the wreck that is left around the tracks.

President Gives a Dinner. The President gave a dinner Thursday night to the members of his official family and a few invited guests. It was an entirely informal affair. The guests outside the cabinet were Vice-President Hobart, Assistant Secretary Day, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, who is a guest at the White House, and Secretary Porter. Drank Any Old Thine. Five Indians, including Chief Woe Fug. are dead at Malone’s Point, on Millo lake Minn., and several others are expected to die as the result of drinking pain killer, hair oil and other preparations containing alcohol. The Indian payment has been going jn there and the redskins goiged themselves with this stuff. Accident in Colorado. The first section of the Chicago Christian Endeavor train ran into a freight train six miles west of Akron, Colo. Fireman G. M. Cole of McCook, Neb., was slightly’ hurt, and Dave Maguer, engineer, of the same place, was seriously njured. One passenger was hurt. Half a Million Left Out. The new city directory of New York, ’ to be issued in about three weeks, will for the first time omit the names of hod- 1 carriers, street sweepers, and the poorer classes. Half a million persons will in this way be left out. j Farmers Should Be Careful. Words of warning to American farmers are given in a report on pure seed investigations submitted to Secretary Wilson. It says thousands of pounds, probably lons, of grass and clover seed are ship-.

I ped annnally into the United States which ; contain all sorts of vile weed seeds. In this way such pests as the Russian thistle, 1 Canada thistle, wild mustard, chess, dodder, wild daisy, trefoil and plantain were introduced here. A large amount of cheap seeds, it is said, are now being sold as novelties at fancy prices through manipulation of the name, and the report says that the "German coffee berry,” which many seedsmen are now advertising as a cheap substitute for cotfee, is really the common Soja bean, which can be bought cheaply almost anywhere. The lack of suitable places for impartial tests, by both the seed denier and the buyer, has been met in Europe for nearly fifty years by the establishment of “seed control stations,” now numbering about 100, and on whose tests guaranties are based. Several experiment stations in this country have Liken this matter up. and recently a committee from them had a conference nt the Agricultural Department concerning methods nnd apparatus. For three years the department has been investigating the quality of agricultural seeds. Already this year over half a million o* individual seeds have been counted out and tested, nnd a small trial ground has been started at Kensington. Md. Prominent seedsmen, it is stated, frequently sell five or six alleged different varieties of an article out of the same bin. The report urges careful selection by purchasers. and says if good seed cannot be obtained otherwise legislation will be necessary to shut out bad seeds. The report says most of the imported seed could be successfully raised here, opening new avenues of profit to American husbandmen, and it particularly points out sugar beet and hairy vetch seed as capable of being .made an important industry.

ROLLING MILLS SHUT DOWN. Owners Fail to Aj-ree with Amalgamated Association's Wage Scale. As the result of the failure of the joint wage tonfeience of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and manufacturers to agiee upon the scale at the Youngstown, 0., conferencb, every mill in the United States, with a few exception t, whose wage scales are under the jurisdiction of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, is shut down These mills altogether employ 25 (MX) men. who are members of the Amalgamated Association, besides those who are not. The Amalgamated Association scale committee and the manufacturers could not agree on a puddling rate. '1 he committee held out for $1.56a ton for puddling and the manufacturers refused to budge from their stand for ?4. An adjournment sine die was finally taken, each side to set the other know when it had experienced a change of heart. AIMS TO CRUSH GARCIA, Weyler Now Calls for 30,000 Re-eri-forcemeats. The receipt of a telegram from Weyler ordering 35,000 re-enforcemeats to be sent him at once, has set the Havana palace gossips at work. The officials begin to think that Weyler is appreciating Garcia’s worth a little, and that he will try to crush him with overwhelming numbers nt once. News was received that Garcia’s forces had raided the town of Juibaeon, near Manzanillo, and that Manzanillo itself was menaced. The town that was raided was partially burned, and the Cubans held it for two days, within a few hours’ march of n force triple their numbers. The insurgents are preparing lor Weyler’s reception, and doubtless the | next few days will be fraught with im- ! portant events if the .captain general at- ! tempts to try conclusions with Garcia. I nrtliqiioke in Ohio. Some subterranean phenomenon, not unlike an incipient volcano, disturbed a neighborhood near the junction of Ross, Pike and Highland counties, Ohio. It was attended by nil underground rumbling nnd the appearance of deep fissures in the ground, from which smoke or vapor issued. Daring people have attempted to fathom some of these fissures, but could find no bottom.

Married Nine Times. Abner Forsythe, 76 years old, has arrived in Portland from San Francisco, where he has been staying with the son of his eighth wife. He goes to Victoria to meet a son of his ninth wife whom he has not seen for seven years. While walking the streets he was bunkoed by two men out of .$9, leaving him only his ticket to Victoria. Eloped to Australia. Mrs. John Bradbury, Los Angeles, Cal., wife of a well-known millionaire, and 11. Russell M ard, a young Englishman, have eloped. It is said their destination is .Aus tralia. Ward abandoned his wife and two children, who touring Europe. Army of Tramps In Kansas. An army of 15,900 tramps, now in Kansas, is moving westward. They infest the wheat and corn fields at night. The tramps are bound for the coast, where they say they will try to secure work in the irrigated valleys of the West. Eisrht Years for Gallot, Louis Gallot, the convicted Union Bank wrecker of New Orleans, was sentenced by Judge Parlange to eight years in the penitentiary at hard labor. The case will be appealed.