Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1897 — DISPERSED BY MAYOR [ARTICLE]

DISPERSED BY MAYOR

SOVEREIGN NOT ALLOWED TO ADDRESS MINERS. Head of the Knighta of Labor Denied Free Speech—Spain Weary of the Cuban War—Surveying for a Railroad to the Yukon. Forbids All Public Meetings. J. R. Sovereign, head of the Knights of Labor, arrived in Columbus, 0., from Pocahontas, Ya., where he spoke ten minutes to miners when the Mayor, by proclamation, stopped “all public meetings or assemblages of more than three persons in any public place within the corporate limits,” alleging that such meetings were inimical to the public peace. President Ratchford copied the proclamation for future use. Mr. Sovereign reported to President Ratchford that 100 business men of Pocahontas apologized to him for the act of the Mayor, and that Col. J. S. Browning of the Browning company, coming away on the train with Mr. Sovereign, also apologized to him for the act of the Mayor. SAY SPAIN WEARIES OF WAR. Cost of Cuban Struggle in Men and Money Is L'nen lurable. Among the passengers who arrived in New York by the steamship Gascogne from Havre were Antonio Bravo, a Cuban provincial deputy, and Leandro G. Alsorta, editor of La Paz, a Madrid newspaper. Both men were political prisoners in Spain and together they escaped to France, where they boarded the steamer for America. Senor Bravo, speaking about public opinion in Spain regarding the Cuban war, said: "The mass of the Spanish people are disgusted with the outlook in Cuba. They begin to realize the uselessness of prolonging a war which has cost the Spanish nation about 50,000 men and over $200,000,000. Public men in Spain begin to voice the popular sentiment. Pi Margall, the venerable leader of the republicans, and Francisco Silveln, the leader of the conservatives, were frantically applauded in recent meetings when they pointed to the advisability of letting Cuba go. Those who have contributed a large share of blood and cash in the present struggle long fdr a conflict with the United States in the hope that it would afford Spain an opportunity to withdraw her troops from Cuba.” Senor Monet y Prendergast, the liberal leader and former minister, delivered a brilliant speech at Saragossa on the Cuban question. He violently attacked the policy of the Government, especially its methods of campaigning in Cuba, and declared that autonomy must be proclaimed. “Autonomy,” he said, “for Cuba is as much a necessity of Spain as of Cuba.”

YIELD WILL BE $10,000,000. Governor of Northwest Territory Indorses Klondike Reports. C. B. Mackintosh, Governor of the Northwest Territories, in which is included the far-famed Klondyke district, is in Seattle. The Governor freely subscribes to the truthfulness of the stories sent out as to the richness of the new diggings. He estimates that the Klondyke and its tributaries yielded over $3,000,000 in gold last winter. Of this amount he says $2,000,000 and upward came via the steamships Portland and Excelsior. Mbre than $1,000,000 in dust, he says, is now stored away in the cabins of miners along the creek. ‘‘The British Yukon yield of gold for 18117,” the-Governor resumed, “will not be less than $10,000,000.” He says surveyors are now at work trying to ascertain the feasibility of constructing a railroad into the Yukon. One route contemplates a line of steamers from Fort Wrangell up the Sty ken river.

Athletes of the Diamond. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 50 21 Philadelphia. 35 40 Cincinnati . .46 23 Chicago 32 42 Baltimore ... 45 24 Brooklyn ....31 41 New Y0rk...41 28 Louisville ...31 41 Cleveland ...40 31 Washington. 27 42 Pittsburg .. .33 37 St. Louis.. . .15 56 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 50 24 Detroit 30 39 Columbus .. .49 25 G’nd Rapids.2s 50 St. Paul 51 30 Minneapolis. 25 55 Milwaukee ..48 31 Kansas City. 23 56 Broadmoor Casino Burned. The famous Broadmoor Casino, the $100,600 pleasure resort of Colorado Springs, was burned to the ground Monday morning. Flames were discovered about 4 o’clock in the boiler-room, and in about one hour the site formerly occupied by one of the handsomest buildings devoted exclusively to pleasure in the West was covered only with a mass of ruins. There is scarcely any insurance. It is doubtful if the resort will be rebuilt. Now Without a Church. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage is again without a church. Practically he has been driven from the aristocratic First Presbyterian in Washington. When he went there he agreed to take simply what remained from the collections after all expenses had been deducted. But gradually the membership fell off, and Dr. Talmage never got a eent of salary. Bevtores Consular Fees. After a long period of hesitation the. President has consented to a restoration of those consular fees which were prohibited by President Cleveland during the latter part of his second administration. Killed by Lightning:. A succession of terrible electrical storms with heavy rainfall passed over Marion, 0., and vicinity. George Stout, while driving a mowing machine, was killed by lightning. Charles Seiter and William Sontag, mechanics, returning from work, were struck down in the. street. Heavy Snowstorm in A severe snowstorm is reported from ail the higher portions in the mountain district of Colorado. Three inches of snow is reported at Cripple Creek, Aspen and other i>oints, and one inch at Leadville. Crop Is a Corker. The fruit erop of Missouri this year is roughly estimated to be worth $20,000,000. The importance of this crop may be better understood when it is stated that it is worth more than the wheat crops of Missouri and Illinois combined, with the cotton crop of Missouri thrown in Polson for Her Rival. Miss Grace Allen of Fredonia, Kan., is under arrest, charged with poisoning Miss Phrouia Eches and her mother. The latter is dead. Jealousy prompted the deed, both women being in love with the same man. Before being arrested Miss Allen tried to commit suicide