Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — MARTIN IS TO BLAME. [ARTICLE]

MARTIN IS TO BLAME.

-PENNSYLVANIA SHERIFF IS SEVERELY CENSURED. Coroner’s Jury Decides the Killing of Miners at Lattimer Was Unjustifiable—Planned to Kill Nicholas —Big Wire Combine Formed. Verdict on the Deaths. The coroner’s jnfy which investigated the death of the striking miners at Latti*ner, Pa., after an hour’s deliberation rendered the following verdict: “That from the circumstances of the case and the evidence offered, the said Clement Platock and others came to their death by gunshot wounds on Sept. 10, 1897, at the hands of Sheriff James Martin and his deputies, and in this way we the jury do all agree; nnd we, Phil J. Boyle, Thomas T. Thomas, Barton Preas and Peter McKiernan, of this jury, do further say that the said Clement Platoek, with others, was marching peaceably and unarmed on the public highway, that they were intercepted by said Sheriff Martin and his deputies nnd mercilessly shot to death; »nd we do further find that the killing was unnecessary and could have been •voided without serious injury to either person or property, and we find finally that the killing was wanton and unjustifiable; but in this we, George Maue and F. J. Mac Neal of this jury, do not concur; and we the jury do further say that there was such strong suspicion of unlawful violence at the hands of person or persons unknown to this jury as to make this inquest necessary.”

PLOT TO KILL THE CZAR. Socialists Tunneled Under a Street in Warsaw. It has leaked out from official circles in Warsaw, Poland, in such a manner ns leaves no room for doubt that there was a deliberate nnd determined plot against Emperor Nicholas at the time of his recent visit to that city. Its success was only frustrated by accident. Before the •rrival of the imperial party a number of persons supposed to belong to the German socialist party undermined Norvy (Sviat, the principal street in Warsaw, between the governor general’s palace and the royal castle. The work had approachfed completion when the conspirators became apprehensive of a collapse of the Toadway, and called in several Polish masons to build supports. The masons, whose suspicions were aroused, notified the police, and 130 arrests followed. SAGE MADE HIM A MURDERER. Double Crime Due to Ungovernable Tem per. Wallace J. Christian, a contractor at Middletown, N. Y., in a fit of rage over « slight misunderstanding, shot and instantly killed Horace F. Pritchard of New York. Then Christian turned his pistol on Thomas Manning, a constable of "Wurtsboro, and shot him twice, mortally wounding him. The crime took place in front of Christian's cottage in the grounds of the Sullivan County Club, near Wurtsboro, and before the eyes of his wife. The murderer escaped to the woods and has not been arrested.

BIG WIRK COMBINE. Corporation with $30,000,000 Capitul About to Be Listed. A $30,000,000 corporation for the control of the manufacture of plain awl barb wire and wire nails is on the point of completion in New York, if it has not already been completed. The stock of this gigantic corporation is to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where it promises to become one of the leading industrial properties, taking rank next to *ogar and tobacco. Won’t Use Gold Seals. Got. Leedy and other Kansas State officers refuse to longer use gold seals on cflfeial documents. A full supply of silver aeals was ordered, because they would be more in harmony with the principles of last year's campaign. The seal in which the impression of the official or great seal of state has been made on public docuJments has for years been of gold leaf ■bout two inches in diameter. Heretofore white ribbon has been used, but this, too, la abolished and gold ribbon is used in connection with the silver seals, making « 16 to 1 contrast. Sent by the Vatican. Archbishop Charles Hryniewieski, deposed and exiled metropolitan of Wilna, in Russian Poland, has been appointed an apostolic visitor to the United States, and is charged with the special mission of examining into and adjusting the relations of the Polish Catholics in the United States to the church at large. The importance of this appointment is only second to that of Cardinal Satolli in 1892.

Ptandinsr of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 91 38 Washington. 59 G 9 Baltimore .. .88 38 Pittsburg ... .57 71 New Y0rk...81 47 Chicago 57 72 Cincinnati . .74 55 Philadelphia. 54 75 Cleveland ...69 59 Louisville ...51 7G Brooklyn ...60 69 St. Louis... .28 100 Farmer’s Awful Deed. John Becker, aged 44 years, attended tservices at the church in Breda, lowa, Sunday afternoon with his family, spent the evening brooding over some financial affairs, althongh he was a wealthy farmer, as farm wealth goes, and some time in the night shot and killed his wife, his nx little children and himself. Moustapha Bey Goes Home. Officials at the State Department at Washington have been surprised to learn through private sources that Moustapha Bey, the recently recalled Turkish minister, sailed for ‘Constantinople from New York. Riedy Locked Up. Kx-Polieeman John Riedy of St. Louis, the defaulting treasurer of the Police Relief Association, who has been missing lor three weeks, has surrendered to the authorities. Telegraph Operators. Marcus Mullen and Claude Hurd, who, as telegraph operators, transmitted fictitious mining stock quotations from Kansas City, Kan., to two “dynamite” bucket •hops in Kansas City, Mo., have been arrested on bench warrants and placed under SSOO bonds each. Gold Found in Arizona. Authentic information is at hand that Ithere hi a great discovery of free milling gold ore in the Chocolate Mountains of Yuma County, A. T. The rush there is atarted and tents, stamp miffs and people are arriving at Yuma from up the river bound for there. , v ,, ■££ji£& 4 * “ ~i ß**-,

TROUBLE BREWING IN HAYTI. Malcontents Threaten the Peace of the Black Republic. The political horizon in the black republic (Hayti) is again becoming very cloudy. Under the regime of Hyppolyte, the late president, who ruled with a firm but brutal hand, the uneasy spirits were kept to some extent in check, and suspects were either punished by imprisonment or at once exiled. The new president, Tiresias Augustine Simon Sam, is not a man of the same caliber, either mentally or physically, as his predecessor, and the constant disagreements with his ministers, the unjust and corrupt administration of his dependents, and, above all, the terrible depression from which the country has been suffering during the last twelve months, have combined to rouse the populace into a state of ferment, which unless promptly quelled will have serious results. WRECKED SAILORS RETURN. Crew of Lost Whaler Brought Back from Japan. The American schooner Progress arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., thirtytwo days from Yokohama, having on board nine members of the crew of the American whaler bark Cape Horn Pigeon, which was wrecked on a rocky coast eighteen miles from Hakodate the night of July 13. The Cape Horn Pigeon, Captain Scullion, left San Francisco early in the season for a whaling voyage in Japanese waters. The first part of the season was successful, and when the bark was wrecked she had 1,000 barrels of sperm oil and a lot of whalebone in her hold. Her officers and crew escaped in small boats, with no effects save the clothes on their backs.

SHORTAGE OF RUSSIAN WHEAT. So Small Is the Crop that There Will Be None for Export. But little wheat will be shipped from Russia during the season of 1897-98 for the simple reason that there is little available for export. The failure of the wheat crops in Austro-Hungary, Roumania and Bulgaria has brought buyers into Russia from those countries and the wheat will go to them by rail. How much of this wheat Russia can afford to let go is a question now being discussed. While hints are thrown out that the export of cereals may be altogether prohibited, it is believed these have n<J foundation and that the Russian Government will never again make the Mistake it did in the famine year of prohibiting exports. FORMING A WINDOW GLASS TRUST Organization with a Capital of $20,000,000 Being Perfected. Representatives of window glass manufacturers from all parts of the country have been in session at Pittsburg for the purpose of completing a plan by which the window glass manufacturers of the country will be formed into one orgunizution, which will be known as the American Window Glass Association. The new combination represents a capital of $20,000, and includes all of the principal plants of the United States. The output of the consolidated concern is estimated at $10,000,000 worth of glass a year.

Was to Be Used for Patients. Efficient work by the New Orleans fire department in face of the attneks of a mob enabled the department to save the main portion of the Beauregard school building. Only the annexes of the structure were reduced to ashes. The alarm was sounded at 12:30 a. m. After a mass meeting of citizens held Wednesday night a riotous crowd gathered around the building and openly threatened that at the first opportunity they would fire it. Sister Agnes and a number of sisters of charity, together with help from the hospital, had been putting the building in order for the reception of yellow fever patients. The school board, meantime, had removed from the building every desk and other article of furniture and the hospital people had moved into the building cots and other necessary adjuncts. Surgeon Bloom of the hospital, the sisters and others had been warned that they would better leave the building. They did so, and threaded their way through n dense crowd of panic-stricken citizens. Then a small force of police was ordered to the scene. But the mob, bent on incendiarism, was sharper than the guards, and while the police were engaged in attempting to quell the riotous crowd in front of the building men with a five-gallon can of oil proceeded to the rear and soon had the building in flames. An Official Statement. An official statement has been issued in Madrid showing the numbers of men and the quantities of munitions of war sent to Cuba and the Philippine Islands during the insurrections which are in progress in those quarters. Between November, 1895, and May 1897, the Spanish Government sent to Cuba 181,738 soldiers and 0,261 officers, of whom forty were generals; 212,542 guns, 320,400 kilogrammes of powder, 92,088,070 cartridges, 10,712 swords, 91 cannons, 12 mitralleuses and 29,500 shells. Since the outbreak of the present revolution in the Philippines the government has sent 27,050 soldiers and 881 officers, of whom 9 were generals; 43,100 guns, 24 cannons, 24,910 kilogrammes of powder, 21,720,585 cartridges and 30,604 shells.

San Francisco Is Well Fortified. The United States engineers in charge of the fortifications of San Francisco are directing a survey of the shore line on the south side of the bay nnd Goldeu Gate from Black Point to Point Lobos. The purpose of the survey is to accurately locate the forts for the information of the War Department. Army and navy officers think the harbor defenses are now sufficiently well advanced to stand off any fleet that Spain or Japan could put into action and they are strong enough with the assistance of floating batteries of the Monterey and Monadnock type and with the aid of torpedoes to make a splendid fight against the best fleet England would be likely to send there. Seventy Drowned at Fiume. A special dispatch from Vienna says that seventy persons were drowned as a result of the collision at Fiume between the steamer Ika, a local passenger vessel, and the British steamer Tiria, which was leaving that port as the Ika was entering. The latter sunk in two minutes, and in full view of thousands of people who crowded to the piers. Great Surgical Operation. A wonderful surgical operation has been performed by Drs. Parsons and McCaughan of the Children’s Hospital at St. Louis upon 9-year-old Lillie Stamenius. They constructed for her a palate and a nose and upper lip. Her face was deformed and the surgeons saw but one way to remedy it; that was an operation, which was none. German Torpedo Boat Sinks. Torpedo boat No. 26 has capsized and sunk near the first lightship off Cuxhaven. Eight of her crew, including her commander, Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, were drowned. Had an Organ in Hia Clinrch. Rev. C. S. Sapulding of Franklin Grove, charged with the offense of having an organ in his church, was reprimanded by the Illinois Free Methodist conference. Peary’s New Plans. Lieut. Peary, the arctic explorer, while to Philadelphia said: “In addition to se-

curing the big meteorite I '«id .he plans for next year's expedition, and when 1 leave again, which will be about the end of next July, It will be to remain up there until I reach the pole or lose my life in the attempt if it takes five years to accomplish this object. Next summer I shall take my vessel up to Sherard Osborne fjord and make that place my base of supplies. On the last trip 1 made arrangements with the Arctic highlanders, a tribe of Eskimos,, consisting of 230 men, women and children, known as the most northerly tribe of human beings on the earth, to put in this coming winter obtaining bear, seal and deer skins for our clothing, and in securing all the walrus meat they can for dog food. I have singled out eight young men of the tribe, with their wives, canoes, dogs, sledges and tents, to accompany me to Sherard Osborne fjord, which is about 300 miles farther north than their present abode. My party will consist of a surgeon, possibly another white man and myself, the rest will be Eskimos. The latter know how to drive dogs; they can go hungry and know how to get food. The conditions under which I shall make the coming expedition are of the most satisfactory character. The American Geographical Society has assured $150,000 to meet all expenses and I have been given five years’ leave of absence. I shall probably buy a new ship for next year, though we may use the Hope again. Mrs. Peary will not accompany me. lam quite sure I shall succeed in reaching the pole.”

CHAOS IN GUATEMALA. Insurgents in Possession of Chomperico and San Felipe. A letter from the City of Guatemala lias been received. The writer declares that everything, at the time of writing, was in a state of chaos. Barrios, he says, has lost his head from fright, and in a delirium of terror is imprisoning and shooting all who evince the slightest leaning toward the insurgent cause. Loans are collected by force and death is the penalty for refusing financial assistance to the dictator. Barrios himself is in constant fear of assassination. Two hundred soldiers sleep in the palace day and night, and he is constantly attended by a guard of picked men. A Plucky Woman. The announcement that the widow of Dr. Rizal, the massacred leader of the Philippine revolt, was in Philadelphia arranging a filibustering expedition, created widespread interest among Cuban patriots. General Emilio Nunez, when seen a few hours after he arrived in the city, after leading a successful filibustering expedition to Cuba, spoke enthusiastically of the courageous woman who plans systematic patriotic support with a desire for revenge of her husband’s death. General Nunez said: “Dr. Rizal was a wonderful man, with great intellectual ability, combined with the highest courage and patriotism. He was the life and soul of the Philippine revolution. Its inception was his work and the active campaign was under his immediate direction. Grave mistakes were made at first from a mistaken idea that the Spaniards could be met in pitched open battle. Advices were sent from Cuba upon guerrilla warfare, and they are now in a fair way to win their struggle.”

Fatal Fire in Toronto. While fire was destroying the Musee Theater at Toronto, Ont., n team of horses attached to a large fire engine took fright and ran away with the engine, with fatal results. The engine was getting up steam and was thickly surrounded by people. The horses plunged madly into the crowd, killing one boy and injuring ten persons, some of them possibly fatally. The flames made rapid headway, and before the fire was got under control the Musee, or Bijou, Theater, where the actors were preparing to give nn entertainment, was completely destroyed. Rogers’ furniture warerooms and factory adjoining were damaged. The loss will be about $50,000. British Victory Assured. According to special dispatches from Simla, the British, who captured Badmanai pass, held by the Haddah Mullah, with a large force of Mohmands and Shlnwaris, have pushed on from the pass, and without opposition have occupied Jarobi, the village and headquarters of the Haddah Mullah, who hns fled. It is believed that the capture of the village and the flight of the priest will break the back of the opposition of the tribesmen to the further advance of the British. Steamer Ethelgonda Saved. News hns been received in New York of the saving of the British steel steamer Ethelgonda, which went u shore in the harbor of St. Luciti, West Indies, last June. The Ethelgonda is a 2,100-ton vessel, and at the time of the accident was bound from Buenos Ayres with 4,000 bnles of wool consigned to Boston merchants. The vessel was putting into St. Lucia for coal the afternoon of June 4, when she ran on the rocks and was abandoned. 'Washington Mortgage Law Ib Void, The Supreme Court of Washington State has handed down a most important decision, declaring that the new mortgage law passed by the last Legislature is unconstitutional. Will Wed Prince Esterhazy. The announcement that Mrs. Lily Langtry will marry Prince Esterhazy is confirmed.