Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — FIRE AT MELBOURNE. [ARTICLE]

FIRE AT MELBOURNE.

AUSTRALIA’S CAPITAL SWEPT BY A CONFLAGRATION. Larje Area ia the Heart of the City BarneA Over, and Mercantile Prop■ertjr Valued at $5,000,000 Destroyed —Britain Wants to Be Friendly. Blare at the Antipodes. A great fire broke out in Melbourne. Australia, and in a very short space of tine did enormous damage. It started in the very heart of the city. A strong ■wind vras blowing, and the fiercely fanned flames rapidly ingulfed building after building. Despite the efforts of the firemen the entire district bouAled by Elizabeth, Flinders and Swanston streets and Flinders lane, with the exception of two buildings, was destroyed within three hours. The burned section included many <t>f the largest business houses in Melbourne. The buildings were completely Butted, as most of them contained soft goods, the flames progressed with a rapidity which defied ail checking, and in the furious wind ashes and burning debris ■were curried into the suburbs a distance of twn miles. It is estimated that the loss will reach £1,000.000 ($5,000,000). while the trade in soft goods has received a serious setback. Hundreds of employes of ail sorts have been suddenly thrown out of employment. SEES BENEFITS FOR CANADA. Britain Favors Closer Trade Relations with America. There is good reason to Iteiieve that the British Government will view with favor the formation of a commission to dear up vexatious questions Itetwoen the United States and Canada. This attitude will be important in the consummation of the commission plan, for the best efforts of the United States and Canada toward" a general settlement would come to naught unless the imperial Government approved the efforts and stood ready to give them official execution in the form of a treaty. At first the sharp differences aroused by the recent Bering sea meeting led to the belief that Great Britain might stand in the way of a commission which would discuss, among other questions, such imperial subjects as the tariff. The home Government is now said to be fully conscious of the advantages which Canada may secure in the extensive American market lying alongside her, and there is understood to be every desire to aid Canada in the enjoyment of reciprocal trade with this country. CHILKOOT PASS RAILROAD. Portion of It Will Be of Aerial Tramway Construction. Henry L. Martens of New York, who represents Tacoma and New York capitalists interested in building a railroad from Dyea over the Ohilkoot pass to Crater Lake, says the first eight or nine miles of road out from Dyea will be the) usual railroad construction. Sixty men arc now engaged on this work at $3 a day. “The •econd division of our railroad,” he said, “will be an aerial tramway from the month of Dyea Canyon over the Ohilkoot pass. This tramway is now being built at the East.” Mr. Martens estimates that 75,000 people will go to the Klondike country next spring by the way of Dyea. About Indian Schools. Some interesting data as to the educational aspect of the Indian problem is given in the annual report of I)r. W. N. Hallman, superintendent of the Indian schools, which has just been made public sit Washington. The subject of students going back to their tribes after school life is token up, and Superintendent Huffman ■ays he is still collecting data bearing on this phase of the problem; but the information already obtained justifies the statement that the severe criticism made of both the Indians and schools on this •core if at all justifiable are so only in a limited degree. Wherever on reservations there has been marked progress in civilization it is traceable largely to the retained students. Delaying Nebraska's Count. Indications are that some time will elapse before the result of Nebraska’s recent election is officially decided. This condition is the result of a contest tiled by Republican leaders, protesting against the State canvassing board canvassing the returns. The basis of the protest is that Secretary of State Porter has opened a number of the envelopes containing the returns from the various county clerks, in violation of the law. The Secretary of State admits that he opened several envelopes and sent the certificates back to the county clerks for correction, he having evidence that clerical errors existed. Wanted to Hang Him. A lynching was narrowly avoided at Elk Point, S. D. Ed Stroud, who eloped with « 10-year-old girl, leaving his family in destitute circumstances, was discharged by Justice Smith owing to lack of evidence, and when the fact became known citizens were aroused. Ed Carter, father of the girl, procured a rope and started in search of Stroud. When he found Mm he proceeded to beat him, and in a short time the streets were thronged with excited people yelling “Lynch him!” Officers finally arrived on the scene and' rescued the victim just as he was about exhausted. Duluth Gets a Gas Plant. Mayor Truelson, for the city, has purchased the Duluth Gas and Water Company’s plant for $1,250,000. Jumped Bis Ball. WilHam Lockridge of Kansas City, whose sentence to five years in the penitentiary for robbing the Bank of Savannah at Savannah, Mo., two years ugo, ■was recently confirmed by the State Supreme Court, has disappeared. He was nut on a $3,000 bond. Anson to Quit the League. Capt. A. C. Anson, the well-known Chicago baseball player, wants to quit the National League, and has applied to the Western League for a position. Engulfed in a Night. The little village of Itozel, Kan., has completely disappeared from the face of the earth. The ground sank beneath it and the whole village sankjnto a chasm, which the next morning was found filled to within seventy feet of the surface with d«rk, stagnant-looking water. Peace in the Philippines. Two principal rebel chiefs in the Philiprees have agreed to submit Itizaff however, brother of the man shot still re--9 Hates intractable. This result was effected by ami of negotiations conducted ..%»« native* themselves, and also with mm • troop*.

EXTORTED A CONFESSION. Missouri Mob Secures Evidence from Two Prisoner*. A special from Lamar, Mo., reads as follows: Sheriff Livingstone and Marshal Rice went to Boston, Mo., with a warrant for W. L. Simpson and William Kaderly, charging them with aiding and hiring the parties who assaulted Mrs. Jacob Resh one night recently. On the way to this city at night their carriage was stopped about six miles south by a mob of about thirty masked and armed men. The officers were disarmed and taken to a nearby corn field by members of the mob. while the others blindfolded the prisoners, put a rope around their necks and strung them up to a tree. They were let down and in a few seconds pulled up again. This was repeated till the prisoners were too weak to stand, when they were called on by the mob for a statement as to the crime and the parties implicated. Kaderly admitted writing a letter to Harry Monkstar, employing him to commit the crime, for $25. Simpson admitted paying the money in gold to Monkstar. Officers and prisoners were then put in the carriage and ordered to drive to the county jail, which they did. The prisoners now deny haring made a confession. DISAR3IED THE OFFICER 5 . Alleged Cattle Thief Holds Up Three 51 cn and Escape*. A deputy sheriff, a Santa Fe deputy and a policeman, while attempting to arrest a cattle thief in the postofflee at Emporia, Kan., were all three disarmed by the single man, who escaped. Sheriff Gaughan had received a telegram asking that a man named Kooken be arrested. Deputy Sheriff Fred Wagner, Santa Fe Detective Laws and Policeman A 1 Randolph went to the postofflee and placed Kooken under arrest while he was reading a letter. "All right," said Kooken, “I’ll go with you in a minute,” and commenced placing his letter in hi* pocket Like a flash he pulled a revolver in each haud, shoved one into the face of Wagner and coolly said: “Cough up your guu,” and almost in the same breath covered the other two officers. In a moment the three men were disarmed. Shoving the pistols into his overcoat pocket the man rushed for the door and disappeared. A posse of deputy sheriffs and the entire police force are now out hunting him. Give the Race a Chance. Capt. Thomus H. McKee of Indiana, journal clerk of the House, in conversation at Washington presents some rather novel view* on the question of Hawaiian annexation. He said: “I favor the policy of annexing the Hawaiian islands, in addition to the ordinary reason of naval defense and protection of our Pacific seaboard, because I am so good a friend to the negroes of this country that I would want some place like Hawaii, with its pleasant climate and fruitful soil, set apart for the experiment of a self-sustain-ing community made up of our colored fellow citizens, where they would have the advantage of starting out with the civilization they have acquired as a race in this country, and where they could work out for themselves the problem of existence without leaning too much on the white people. I would not admit Hawaii into tlie Union as a State immediately. Indeed, a stipulation that it should remain in a territorial condition for, say, not less than thirty years should be inserted in the treaty of annexation or joint resolution as adopted by Congress. It is true that would uot bind any subsequent Congress desiring to undo the provision. The Islands will not be ready for statehood for many years to come.” Barn Mis* Jackson’* Home. Incendiaries burned the home of Mis* Ollie Jackson, on her claim eight miles east of Pine Creek, Kan. The claim was one for which Miss Jackson made the run with the boomers in 1893. George Adkins filed a contest on it soon after, but the brave girl stuck to her rights. After years of waiting, during which Miss Jackson built a substantial two-story house and broke part of the land, the contest was decided in her favor. She did not return home until the next morning, and found that in her absence the bouse had been burned to the ground. lasigi Get* a Stiff Sentence, Joseph A. lasigi, formerly Turkish consul in Boston, who was arrested in New York last summer charged with the embezzlement of large sums from trust funds held by him, and who was recently found guilty in the Suffolk County Superior Court, has been sentenced to serve a term of not more eighteen nor less than fourteen years in State’s prison, with one day solitary confinement and the rest of the term at hard labor. Injured in Arkansas Wreck, A train on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad wns derailed just west of Williford, Ark. The combination coach, chair ear and sleeper went over the bank, the combination ear going into Spring river. The chair car and sleeper were both consumed. One passenger was fatally injured and twenty-two others more or less seriously hurt. Lynched by Negro Vigilates. At the Allen farm, near Bryau, Texas, while gambling for pecans, a negro named General Chetham was stabbed twice and killed. Another negro, Tom Sweat, was arrested for the crime and while being conveyed to Millican by a posse was taken from his guards and strung up to the limb of a tree. The vigilantes are said to have been negroes. ’ To Fight for the Baker Claim, A. S. Baker of Tiffin, 0., and Iliehard Wadsworth of Castalia have been for several weeks investigating the Baker heirs’ claim in Philadelphia. They claim to have discovered evidence unknown to them before and will establish their case beyond n doubt. The property is valued at over $100,000,000 and lies in the heart of Philadelphia. Execution of A. J. Frantz. Albert J. Frantz, a Dayton murderer, was executed at the Columbus, 0., penitentiary in the electric chair. Frantz, 22 years old, and a bookkeeper for the Mathias Planing Mill Company at Daytou, killed Bessie Little, a sweetheart, in order that he might marry another girl. Car* Went Over the Bank. A passenger train on the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Railway was derailed on the approach to a bridge over the Pettibone brook. Two of the passenger coaches rolled over the embankment into the ditch. Sixty persons were aboard, but only three were injured. Hog Caused Hi* Death. At Milan, Mo., Thomas Epperson of Lancaster, while attempting to load hogs, was bitten through the thigh, severing an artery. He bled to death in thirty minutes. She Shot the Burglar Down. Mrs. Joseph Wilmont, the wife of a well-known farmer living near Hubble, Ivy., shot down a negro burglar who was forcing his way into the house. London Conflagration. The most serious fire of recent years raged in London, England. It was in the ' business district, and the damage done is enonnous. Weyler’s Satisfactory Explanation. The captain general of Galacia has telegraphed to the Government at Madrid, saying that in the interview which he had with Gen. Weyler, the former captain

general of Cuba, the latter completely exculpated himsel' of the statements attributed to him upon the occasion of his leaving Havana, and affirmed his devotion and adhesion to the Government. The following is a copy of an official note from the iutendente militaire to Gen. Blanco: “Your Excellency: The chief officer in charge of the provisions for this garrison notifies me that the amount of $1,200,000 is owed by the Government to the furnisher* of provisions, consisting principally of flour and biscuits, and that there is no possibility of the furnishers continuing furnishing provisions unless threetenths of the debt is paid, in order to enable them to purchase the necessary articles in the market and send the corresponding draft. The manufacturing of biscuits has stopped for the same cause, and as this is of the greatest importance 1 apply to your respectable authority and ask you to induce the intendente de hacienda, director of the finances of the island. to please pay the bill already presented by him, avoiding by this the aboTementioned conflict. OTTAWA HAS A SCARE. Tuberculosis in Dairy Cattle Prompt* Vigorous Action. The discovery of tuberculosis among dairy cattle has well nigh thrown the enthe community of Ottawa, Ont.. into a state of panic. Milk tests recently made have developed the same alarming condition. and now the city is threatened with a milk famine. There is scarcely a herd but is affevted by the disease. The Government will push the tests further and has asked the municipalities all otct Canada to make tests in their neighborhoods. Dominion Veterinary Surgeon McEachran says tuberculosis is easily transmitted to man. To Withold Spanish Correspondence. A special to the New York Herald from Washington says: “It is said to be the present intention of President McKinley uot to incorporate the recent Spanish correspondence in his annual message t* Congress. He does not deem it compatible with the public interest to publish the full text of the notes pending further correspondence, and the carrying 'out of the promise* made by the Spanish Government. The papers will be accessible to members of the committees on foreign affair* for their guidance in dealing with various resolutions which will come before them. It is reported that Spain asked to have the correspondence withheld for the present for political reasons. The new ministry fears that its conciliatory attitude toward the United States, as shown by its note, may cause embarrassment at home, and thereby make it impossible to carry out the proposed reforms.” Miner* Hurt in Indiana. Twenty-three men were hurt in an aceident on the Chicago and Indiana Coni Railroad nine miMa north of Brazil, Ind., near Coal Bluff. The miners’ train on its homeward journey, bearing about 500 miners, was wrecked on the Gladstone switch and two ears left the track, rolling down the embankment. The accident was Caused by running over a horse. Eighteen of the injured men live in Brazil and five in Coal Bluff. Three were fatally injured and live others seriously hurt. Texas Feud Ends in Death. J. \V. Harris, an editor, and his brother, W. A. Harris, attacked Judge G. B. Gerald in a crowded street at Waco, Tex. J. W. Harris shot Gerald in the side ami shattered his arm. The judge landed a bullet in his assailant’s neck, paralyzing him. Meantime W. A. Harris fired on Gerakl from behind, whereupon the judge calmly killed him. J. W. Harris will die. The fight was the result of an ancient feud. To Punish Ceri* Indiana. The steamer Ilio Yaqui, with seventyfive soldiers and a judge, has sailed from Guaymas, Mexico, for the scene of the recent reported killing of Americans on Tiburon Island by Ceris Indians, for the purpose of making an Investigation and punishing the offenders. A force of mounted soldiers has beeu sent across the coast of Sonora, Gulf of California, opposite Tiburon, with the view of co-operating if necessary. '' ' • New Rapid-Fire Pistol. A rapid-fire pistol constructed on the applied principles of the famous Mannlicher rifle will be shown to the War Department at Washington in a few days. A private exhibition of the new pistol has been given in New York. It is composed of twelve principal parts, which can be dissociated in less than a minute and put together in a brief space of time. Paint Factory Burned. Boydell Bros.’ paiut factory, on Fort street, Detroit, was gutted by fire. A member of the firm estimates the loss at $100,900 —$20,000 on stock and $40,000 each on machinery and building. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have been the cause. Poor Fishing Season. Report of the Canadian fisheries department indicates a total failure of the fall mackerel fishery on the Atlantic coast. Of the large United States fleet operating off the Cape Breton coast, most of the vessels have cleared for home “clean.” Cloakxuakers’ Strike I* Off. The strike of the New York eloakmaker ; has been called off.