Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — RIGHT OF WAY WAR. [ARTICLE]

RIGHT OF WAY WAR.

SANTA RETRAIN GOES THROUGH • A KANSAS FENCE. Not Checked by Leg; al Red Tap;— Youth Inflates His Baby BrotherBig; Blaze in a Texas Town—Women Drawn for Jurors. Lesal Squabble in Sicht. Judge Myers of the Kansas District Court, having declared that the Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwestern Railway Company has forfeited its right of way. is having no little trouble in his efforts to restore the realty involved to the previous owners. This line of road, though in the hands of a receiver, is now operated by the Santa Fe system. In 1896 traffic on the line was abandoned for two months, and, owing to this fact, Judge Myers decided that J. G. Stone, a farmer, was entitled to possession and title to the right of way which was taken from him in the building of the line. Accordingly Judge Myers directed Sheriff Kothenberfter to place Mr. Stone in possession of the land. The sheriff sent out a number of deputies hnd fenced in the roadbed. At the same time the Santa Fe officials were notified that the right of way was closed and the postmaster of Leavenworth was notified to send his mails by another route. When the Topeka train went out from Leavenworth .Monday night a gang of thirty men went along to tear down the sheriff’s fence. This they did, standing by until the train hail passed, but the sheriff’s men stood by and took the names of the men, who were arrested. Later at night the Santa Fe agent at Topeka swore out a warrant charging Fanner Stone with the criminal offense of obstructing United States mails. lie is under arrest. All parties to the dispute declare that the matter will be fought to a finish. WOMEN DRAWN FOR JURORS. Newest Phase of Suffrage Movement in Kansas. In the drawing of the regular and additional jury panels for the September term of the District Court for Fort Scott, Kan., the names of three prominent women were among the list of jurors. The women are Mrs. A. Kaufman, Mrs. A. M. Douglass and Mrs. M. E. Ross. The women own property and pay taxes and the names were drawn in the same manner as men are drawn. The State law provides that ail taxpayers who are electors are eligible for jury service, and as women are electors in municipal elections they are no doubt eligible. Several prominent attorneys are of the opinion they will have to serve unless excused by the court.

KID FILLED WITH WIND. Boy Makes a Pneumatic Tire Out of Hi» Brother’s Stomach. Mrs. George Ruthman of Beaver Falls, l’a., heard a peculiar noise on the back porch of her residence. She found her two sons, one aged 7 and the other 1 year old, in a corner. The babe was on his back. The elder brother had inserted the tube of a bicycle pump in the baby’s, mouth and was tilling him full of wind as fast as he could work the pump handle. The infant was unconscious and its little stomach was inflated like a balloon. The mother pulled the tube from the child’s mouth and the air followed with a sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railway train. The baby recovered consciousness. PEARLS IN ARKANSAS LAKE. Property Near Bald Kttob Leased to Memphis Syndicate. For a month or more people living near Bald Knob, Ark., have been finding valuable pearls in a lake near that place. Hundreds of people have been opening mussel shells and many rare gems have been found, some being sold for as much as S3OO. A special from Bald Knob says that a syndicate of Memphis parties has leased the lake for five years for SIO,OOO. They will build a fence around the lake and begin work with a steam dredger. They will also erect an elegant clubhouse. The lake is said to be the richest pearl producer in the United States. Ftandinc of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs >n the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 01 28 Philadelphia. 42 49 Cincinnati ..57 30 Pittsburgh. .41 49 Baltimore .. .55 30 Brooklyn ... .38 49 New York.. .52 33 Louisville .. .41 53 Cleveland .. .40 43 Washington. 33 55 Chicago ... .45 48 St. Louis. .. .25 09 Th* showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. G 4 27 Detroit 49 50 Columbus .. .00 31 Minneapolis. 32 07 St. Paul 00 38 G’nd Rapids.3o 04 Milwaukee ..00 40 Kansas City.3o 08 Chicago's Fire Loes. Chicago’s loss by fire during the first six mouths of the present year was $359,749 greater than for the corresponding period of 1896. The loss on buildings was $445,198 and on contents $530,850. Total loss above insurance, $70,185. During the six months the department answered 2,915 alarms, or 28 more than for the same period of 1896.

Von Thielniann le Promoted. The appointment of Baron von Thielman, the retiring German ambassador to the United States, as secretary of the imperial treasury, in succession to Count Posadowsky-Wehner, is gazetted at Berlin. Planing Mill in a Blaze. At Barnum,. Tex., fire destroyed the planing mill and dry kiln, luniber yard, lumber store and a number of tenement houses belonging to W. T. Carter & Bro., and a number of cars and three small bridges belonging to the Kansas and Texas Railroad. Loss, $250,000, Where Canovaa Met Death. The baths of Santa Agueda, where Senor Canovas was assassinated, arc well known to American travelers, as they are situated in one of the most attractive regions of Spain. Poisoned by a Mosquito Bite. Dorothy Dodworth is lying critically ill In the house of Mrs. M. F. Lyon of Elmhurst. L. 1., suffering from blood poisoning, caused by a mosquito bite received. It is feared that it may be necessary to amputate her right leg. She is delirious ind suffer* excruciating pain. Four Months' Grace Given. The Madrid Heraldo say* it underhand* tha t the United States Governnent ba* to wait four months '•rerfatJjH pacification of Cuba, and ® accomplished by that time , > Awili undertake the pro-

BIG GAME OF BULLS In Two Months They Netted a Profit of SOOO,OOO. ' Narratives of fabulous wealth taken from Kloudyke soil are eclipsed by stories of recent manipulations in the July wheat market. For two months a bull clique of New York, St. Ixiuis and Chicago brokers has been playing a fast and loose gaine with the wheat shorts, demauding tribute and creating fallacious hopes. George R. French, a brilliant young speculator, who was sent to Chicago from New York to guard the earthworks of the clique, affirms unhesitatingly the current statements that his backers have divided not less than $600,000 net profit during the last month. Thus it follows that the taeit impression on ’Change that July wheat was being manipulated is bolstered up by facts. Joseph Leiter, the Chicago dark horse, is oue of the men who have pocketed a part of the big “rake off." According to Mr. French the combine with which he figures controlled not less than 4,500,000 bushels of July wheat. An effort was male by certain Chicago commission merchants in June to run a tight corner in the wheat market at that time when the visible supply revealed only 4.000.000 bushels available wheat. The same firms identified with this attempt, which did not succeed, transferred their holdings to September. The final day for fulfilling July wheat contracts for delivery saw the Gotham shorts desperately scrambling for the clique's offerings, pushing the price up 4 cents within two hours and showering $400,000 worth of coin into the coffers of the bull combine. The manipulators again put their heads together, snatched 7,000,000 bushels of wheat at ebb-tide price and in three days sold out the line at a profit of $200,000, DEATH ENDS A FROLIC. Wedding Ends in the Suffocation of Three Men and a Woman. In Cincinnati, three men and a woman were suffocated and thirteen others slightly hurt by a fire Thursday morning. Seventeen men and women were gathered in the second story of a building occupied on the first floor by Otto Adler's all-night saloon. It seems that it was a wedding frolic, in which Guth, one of the dead men, was the bridegroom and the daughter of Landlord Adler was the bride. Still, there is some doubt about who was the bride, as there is about nearly all the particulars in the case, tlie occupants of the building refusing all information. None of the dead were burned. All were suffocated by smoke from the fire in adjacent rooms. The only exit for escape was blocked by a bathtub set up on end at the head of the stairway. The smoke came from an adjacent room, where .he fire was soon extinguished. Tn-j celebrants of the wedding used beer and cigarettes very freely, and it is now supposed cigarettes started the fire ami that beer caused the somnolence which, with the up-ended bathtub, were the indirect causes of so many fatalities.

DEATH AT THE CROSSING, "agon and Occupants Thrown Down Embankment by a Train. , Two children killed aud six persons injured, several piobably fatally, is the record of an accident on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad just north of Rockland, Sullivan County, N. Y'. A combined observation car and locomotive, bearing B. Canfield, the general superintendent, and Charles 11. Hopkins, superintendent of the southern division of the road, struck a wagon containing John Maulick and his wife and six children. The accident occurred at the Hollywood highway crossing. The wagon and occupants were hurled forty feet down an embankmem into the rocky bed of the Willowsmoe river. One of the children was instantly killed, another died soon after the accident, and other members of the family are not expected to survive. Crew Is Rescued. Twenty-one men, comprising the officers and crew of the British steamer Furtor, were brought to Boston by the steamer Sagamore. Their vessel bad become waterlogged through collision with an iceberg and was burned at sea, and they were picked up by Capt. Alexander Fenton and his crew after they had been forty-nine hours in open boats. The Furtor, under command of Capt. D. J. Jenkins, sailed from West Bay, N. S., on June 23, with a cargo of 1,000 standard of deals, consigned to parties in Barry, Wales. The Sagamore left Liverpool ou July 24, and when off Cape Race, N. F., about 1 a. m., July 29, the lookouts discerned rockets denoting that some vessel was in distiess. First Officer Tamliu ordered cne of the lifeboats launched and, manned by himself and five men, they rowed as rapidly as possible toward the scenj. Arriving near where the rockets were sent up the rescuers discovered four lifeboats, in which was the entire crew of the Furtor, which was lying close by, in a waterlogged condition and on fire. Reaching the Sagamore’s side the five boats were quickly hoisted on board and every attention was given to the suffering men, who had been adrift forty-nine hours with but a scanty supply of provisions and water. The day previous to the rescue the men suffered considerable hardship from the cold and rain, a heavy westerly gale with high seas having raged for nearly twenty-four hours. The Furtor ran into a towering iceberg, which stove in her boits, and it was necessary to take to the boats. A fire was built on the deck to attract the attention of steamers and this set fire to the ship and she burned to the water’s edge.

K. V. Debs Enjoined. Upon the application of James Sloan Jr., of Baltimore, a stockholder in the Monongah Coal and Coke Company, made by ex-Governor Fleming, bis counsel, Judge Jackson, in the United States court at Parkersburg, W. Va., Wednesday afternoon gianted a sweeping injunction restraining Eugene V. Debs and bis associates from in any way interfering with or molesting the management or the conducting of the property of the Monongah Coke and Coal Company or its employes. No Funds in the Bank. John Madden, treasurer of Modoc County, Cal., disappeared two weeks ago and District Attorney Baker, believing Madden to be a defaulter for at least $35,000, has asked the Board of Supervisors to declare the office vacant and appoint a new treasurer. Chemicals in a Blaze. In Philadelphia, fire broke out in the extensive chemical works of D. Jayne & Son. One of the assistant engineers or the fire department aud several of the firemen were injured by falling walls. The damage is estimated at $200,000. Spain’s Premier Killed. Senor Antonio Canovas del Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was assassinated by Michele Angiuo Golli, a Neapolitan anarchist, at Santa Agueda, Sunday afternoon. He was shot three times, and fell dying at his wife’s feet. To Keep Out American Wheels. Consul General de Kay at Berlin writes to the State Department at some length concerning the effort*'that are being made in Germany to prevent the importation and sale of American bicycles in that country. Cheering Commercial Outlook. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: ‘‘Four years ago failures in July amounted to over $00,000,000, while In last month failure* have been ouly

$7,117,727. tfie smallest in any rpgnth since 1892. The statement of failures by classes of business for July aud for forty - six months shows that in manufacturing failures tevc been smaller than in any other mc-nth except one. and in many branches of each department smaller thau in most mouths of which records exist. Last month was the first for four years of which the volume of business reported by clearing houses was larger than in the same month of 1892. and the telegraphic dispatches from ail parts of the country given this week show a gratifying improvement. This is partly due to a large yield of wheat and good prices, though the crop is probably not as large nor are prices thus fains high as in 1892. but of cotton the price is higher, and the yield probably larger, than in that year. Other farm products are realizing good prices, and the possible decrease in yield cf corn may help to market the enormous surplus brought over from’ last year. It is the wrong season to expect much from industries, and yet there has been materia! increase in the number of hands employed in the iron manufacture because of the satisfactory adjustment of wages dispute; while the coal miners’ strike seems each day more likely to end in a permanent settlement beneficial to both parties. Meanwhile the demand for most finished products is steadily increasing. Manufacturers are buying but little, though they are rapidly increasing the output, and are able to obtain an advance of about 10 per cent in prices of goods with rapidly increasing orders.”

GREAT GAINS IN VALUES. • Secretary Wilson fays It Reaches Millions of Dollars. “The increase during the last year in the price of farm products, wheat and other cereals, vegetables and cattle for dairy use and slaughter, has amounted to hundreds of milii ■us of dollars, and may be as great as $500,000,000, as has been roughly estimated,” says James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, in an interview published in the Manufacturers’ Record, referring to the condition of American farm interests. “The increase in the value of the wheat crop alone is estimated at from $75,060,000 to SIOO,000.000 or more, as compared with last year.” , Not Standing nt the front. “The church of to-day has dagenerr.ted into a sort of a family social club.” This is the utterance with which Rev. G. J. Fowler, D. D., president of the Nation'll Association for the I’rojnotioh of Holiness, staitled the congregation assembled in the big tabernacle tent at the Desplaines, 111., camp meeting. Continuing, he said: “We are not standing at the front. We do not preach vital truth so necessary tor the spiritual salvition of the world. I know of a church in Chicago. a Methodist church, too, with a membership of 990 persons, and not a Single soul brought to the altar in three years. If the church had attended to her business there would be no need of the Salvation army. Shall not God avenge His own elect speedily? Shall there not be a day of reckoifing?” “God help them. God have njercy on them.” moaned the congregation, appalled by the fate which they conceived to await those who are careless of their responsibility. Then followed one of the most I'tmarkable revival services of the season. Stirred to the depths of their feeling by the sermon to which, they had listened and the sentiments which they had so fervently applauded, the assembled hundreds advanced in a body to the altar, imploring the mercy of their God upon their fellow-men and praying that any among them who were unconverted might see the light.

Ulis Is Rather a Damper. News from Dawson City tends to contradict seme of the boom reports sent from the gold flefcis or the Northwest. A dispatch from the Kloudyke metropolis says: “The reports sent out from here that claims have been sold for firtnilous sums is erroneous. Only five claims have changed hands recently. One claim did bring SIOO,OOO, but the others brought from $2,000 to SIO,OOO each.” Fait Trust to Invade Kansas. The Michigan Salt' Association, commonly known as the salt trust, has decided to invade the Kansas field, and will construct a manufacturing plant at Hutchinson with a capacity of 1,000 barrels daily. This move means a bitter fight between the salt trust and the Kansas manufacturers for supremacy in the territory west of the Missouri river. Blockade of Grain at Kansas City. The unusually heavy receipts of wheat from the West threaten a blockade at Kansas City, Mo. Thursday uight there werff 1,800 cars loaded with wheat ou side tracks in Kansas City. About half of these cars are billed through to Galveston, and the gulf roads are said to be unable to move the product as fast as it comes in from the West. Bailey Shoots Wife. H. A, Bailey, a well-to-do Jenison, Mich., man, shot his wife at midnight Thursday. In the morning he took poison and died while in charge of the officers. The woman may possibly recover. Umpire Under Arrest. Umpire Tin. Hurst was arrested in St. Louis after the ball game Thursday on a telegraphic request from Cincinnati asking that he be held on a charge for assault with intent to kill.