Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — FEWERCATTLE FOUND [ARTICLE]

FEWERCATTLE FOUND

SHRINKAGEOF NEARLY2,OOO,OOO HEAD IS SHOWN. Farmers to the Rescue —Buy Animals from Ranchmen and Feed Them in the Corn Belt for the MarketaSecond Grand Forks Fire. Latest Cattle Census. V'lie latest cattle census showed that the hoviiie population of the country had undergone a shrinkage of nearly 2,000,000 head. It is also well known that a heavy percentage of tlrat shrinkage has taken plaie in the so-called corn licit States, which is l>etter understood as Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, lowa and Illinois. The prime cause of the shrinkage in beef cattle was the very low figures for the same lieginuing two years ago, and only ending about the middle of this year. Then farmers and feeders began to skirmish for ‘ young cattle to feed: to find something to consume the big corn crops of the past two years. Every inch of territory in this country and Canada was searched for the young steers ready to go on grass and corn afterwards: prices were run up to the highest range known in the trade, and yet the farmers wanted more. The ranchmen saw here their way to get out of the misfortune they had met on account of a destructive winter and a disappointing spring season; their cattle coming in in an emaciated condition to meet a scant and wasted pasturage: the season for feediug going out rapidly, so that they were unfit to send to.market for beeves. Especially were these the conditions in the British Northwest, Montana and North Dakota. However, by selling their thin rattle to Kansas and Nebraska, also to the feeders at the big distilleries of Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, realizing a steady demand at prices that seemed low, but at the same time doing better than if they had undertaken to crowd them on the barket ns beeves. ANOTHER GRAND FORKS BLAZE. Damaging Flames Again Appear in the North Dakota City. The business portion of Grand I-’orks, N. 1)., was threatened by another fire, which would have been more destructive than that of the day before, when the Hotel Dakotah and the Mercantile Company and Nash Brothers' buildings were burned. Smoke was seen issuing from the first floor of the big department store of Benner & Begg. In fifteen minutes the building was in flames and the fire had crept into the Stanchfield clothing house and the H. A. Stone jewelry store In buildings adjoining. After three hours' work, the fire was subdued. The damage to the building and stock of Benner & Begg reaches $55,000. Losses to the other firms are small. TO BURN COURT RFCORDB. The People in Indian Territory Are Alarmed—Detectives at Work. The people of South McALester, I. T., are aroused over what the United States marshal's office believes to be a plot of the Indians to circumvent impending legislation in Congress by the destruction-of all court houses and court records of the United States in the Indian territory. Detectives are now shadowing certain Indians who are suspected of being in the plot. They are suspected of having set fire to the United States court house at Ardmore. I. T., recently, and it is thought that the burning of that building was the prelude of the plot. Cleveland Poolroam Raided. The police made a raid on a horse race pool room in Cleveland, which the managers said was merely a branch of the Central Telegraph Company of Allegheny, Fa. They alleged that no bets were made in Cleveland, but were telegraphed to Allegheny. A police detective discovered that the wires supposed to connect with Allegheny went only as far as the second story window of the building. Locomotive Runs Away. A runaway engine on the Toledo and Ohio Central Railway ran from Shawnee to Kendville, Ohio, twenty-five miles, at a rate of forty-five miles an hour, phasing through two villages, Carrington and Drakes, but injured uo one, and came to a standstill finally from loss of steam without any injury to the engine. By use of the telegraph the track was kept clear before the machine. Shot as a Traitor. Minister de Lome at Washington claims that Col. Aranguren, the dashing Cuban guerrilla chief, has been slain as a traitor by his followers. Aranguren, it would seem, had promised safety to Ruiz. When Ruiz was condemned Aranguren protested, and the rebels thereupon took up Arauguren’s ease aud condemned him too. Earthquake in Virginia. Seismic disturbances were felt at Ashland, Ya. Most of the residents had sat down for supper when the earthquake was felt. Lamps swayed to and fro and some of the small buildings were cracked. The movement was from east to west and lasted for two or three seconds. The shock was felt in Richmond twenty minutes later. ' Murderer Takes Morphine. Jack McCune, a gambler, who killed William A. Albin Aug. 0, committed suicide in the St. Joseph, Mo., county jail by taking morphine. MeCune had frequently said he would never be tried for the crime, and his ease was to be called soon. Vicious Elk Killed. The big elk in Forest park paddock in St. Louis was killed. The animal had grown too cross for safety. It was brought from Chicago. At Lincoln Park it gored and killed two men, aud in the fall of 1895 it killed Henry Nelson, keeper of the Forest Park paddock. Missionary Funds hort. The American Missionary Association, in its fifty-first aunuui report, shows that during the last few mouths hundreds of students have been turned away from the schools for want of funds. Want Mr. Brown to Appear. The Bay conference of the Congregational Church at San Franciseo has decided to cite the Rev. Dr. C. O. Brown, now of Chicago, to appear before it on the fourth Monday in Jannary to show reason for his restoration to good standing the Guiana to Buenos Ayres, stopping at expelled from the conference. - ■ Desperate Fight at a Dance. A bloody fight occurred at Jeffersonville twenty-six miles from Macon, Ga. Three men are dead, and one woman and a little girl seriously injured. The trouble took atece at a dance held at the house of the .vails family. ■ ...o

PHILADELPHIA FIREMEN HURT. Touch a Lire Wire at a SIOO,OOO Fire - One May Die. While fighting a fire in the five-story brick building, 1025 Market street, Philadelphia, Foreman George Gaw of engine company No. 4 was struck by a live wire and fell from the third-floor landing of the fire escape to the ground, sustaining injuries from which he probably will die. I Foreman Robert Wilsey of company No. 1 was also struck by a live wire, but was not seriously injured. John Connors of engine company No. 20 was hurt by a falling brick. The loss on the building occupied by F. W. Klinger is SIOO,OO0 — insured. H. Hines, aged 35 years, was knocked down by an engine on its way to the fire and was so badly injured that he is not expected to live. Another engine struck and badly injured Valentine Hoffner, aged 39, and Hoseman John McCuen. aged 26, was thrown from a hose cart and severely bruised. TOO MUCH COTTON. Planters Are Trying to Devise a Remedy Against Cheap Prices. Southern cotton planters are very blue nowadays. The trouble is due to the fact that too much cotton is now raised. This has consequently lowered the value of the plant. When the Southern Cotton Growers’ convention met at Atlanta all sorts of plans were suggested as a remedy —to pool cotton, to reduce the acreage, to hold the product back —but each of these was rejected in turn. The one great difficulty is that when the people have their crop in hand they are in debt and must Bell. MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Ban Francisco Woman Is Killed with a Hammer. San Francisco has another murder mystery. Mrs. Mary C. Clute was assaulted and murdered in a flat at 803 Guerrero street She was a wealthy resident of Watsonville. Mrs. Clute rented the flat only the day before. A few hours later the people in the adjoining fiat heard screams, and found Mrs. Clute dead, with her head crushed in, apparently with a hammer. A carpenter had been Working in the flat, and he was seen to leave hurriedly by a side alley at the time of the screams. Want South American Trade. An expedition is to be sent to South America by United States manufacturers next April in a chartered vessel, the “Bon Voyage.” The itinerary of the seven months’ cruise of this floating expedition of samples of American goods, including almost everything, from cuff buttons to plows, has just been issued. The enterprising salesmen will travel down from the Guianas to Buenos Ayres, stopping at the large cities of each State and going to inland towns by rail to make seductive offers to merchants there. Georgetown, Paramaribo, Cayenne, Rio Janeiro, Bahia and adjacent cities are numbered among those scheduled to hear the broken Spanish of the wily Yankee “drummer.” Facts are set forth in the itinerary which seem surprising to one who has not recently studied South American geography. Some of the cities contain enormous population*; Rio Janeiro, 600,(MX); Buenos Ayres, 600,000, with nineteen stations on the 11,000 miles of Argentine railroads, which contain from 10,000 to 65,000 people each. Over 1,000,000 people are thus connected with Buenos Ayres in this fHrsway country that is said to be competing so vigorously for the wheat, cattle and pork business of the world. These cities make markets attractive to enterprise. Said A. L. Lowe of Chicago, who is in charge of this expedition: “The present method of traffic with South America, where so little is manufactured, is awkward and inefficient. The purpose of the visit is to create a demand for our American goods, that they may later be sold to the new customers through commission men, as in a small way is dpne at iffesent. We hope to plant the seeds for an enormous increase of trade.” Butchered an Invalid. According to a late Havana dispatch, Maj. Fernandez, better known as Pitirre, the insurgent leader, who, according to the official report, was slain in a combat with Spanish troops, was really killed while ill and helpless, awaiting an opportunity to surrender to Thomas Garcia, recently autonomist alcaide of Guines, an old friend. Pitirre, being dangerously ill, applied to him to arrange terms for his surrender. Senor Garcia caused Pitirre to be taken to the Cancio estate, near Guines, where lie made him comfortable and arranged to have a detail of Spanish troops sent to bring him to the hospital in the town. Instead, the troops went to the estate and butchered the ill man in his bed. Senor Garcia is infuriated at this breach of faith and has declared his intention of coming to Havana to lay the matter before Gen. Blanco and demand the punishment. of the officer responsible for the murder. Valuable Papers Destroyed. Fire, said to be the work of incendiaries, destroyed the court house at Ardmore, I. T., consuming the written testimony in Indian citizenship cases, affecting 1,500 persons, besides many valuable court records. The fire also destroyed the implement house of the K. A. Kime Company, causing an additional loss of $40,000, with $15,000 insurance. The loss on the court house cannot be estimated. Train Kills a Man. The Pittsburg special train bearing President McKinley, Mrs. McKinley, Abner McKinley and the members of the cabinet and a number of friends, en route from Canton, 0., to Washington, struck and instantly killed Lonis Moinet, a laborer, walking on the truck near Canton, O. His head was torn from his body. The President was much disturbed at the distressing accident so soon after the sad ordeal of the day. Joseph Ladue Takes a Bride. Joseph Ladue, founder and chief owner of Dawson City, Alaska, was married to Miss Katharine Mason of Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, N. Y. Sixteen years ago, the neighbors say, Mr. Ladue, then a poor young man, sought her hand, but her parents objected because of his poor worldly prospects. Thereupon he went West. He has returned reputed to be worth millions. Dying Alone in Cuba. A sheep herder near Livermore, Cal., found Chas. Martinez, once a prominent merchant of Oakland, Cal., dying of pneumonia in a lonely cabin on a cattle range. Martinez died a few hours afterward. No Jail for Waldorf Kirk. J. Waldorf Kirk, “king of the dudes,” who recently shot Richard Mandelbaum in a hotel in New York, was discharged from custody, Mandelbaum failing to appear in court to prosecute the case. Election in Switzerland. The federal assembly at Berne has elected Eugene Ruffy to be president of the confederation. M. Mueller was electid vice-president. Both president and vice-president elect are radicals. Merry Is in Cnstody. “Chris” Merry and James Smith, wanted for the murder of Mrs. Pauline Merry, “Chris” Merry’s wife, In Chicago, have been arrested at Eddyville, Ky. Married in Her Room. A Kansas City special states that Jesse Wall, a young man well known in Independence, killed himoelf a year ago because he could not marry Miss Leona

Oorder, the daughter of Jackson Cordar, one of the old settlers of the town. Mist Corder loved young Wall and they were j engaged, bat because they were first cous- | in# her parents would not consent to the : marriage. Her parents had always farI ored J. Garland Webb, a wealthy young ! man of Lafayette County. They insisted upon the marriage when Mr. Webb asked ! for Miss Corder’* hand, and finally she consented and the wedding day was set. Both families are largely connected and a houseful of guests ami relatives came to the wedding. It was to have been an elaborate affair. As the hour for the ceremony approached Mum Corder became hysterical. She declared that she could not forget Wall. Ten o’clock came and the wedding supper was served without the presence of the bride or groom, and it was finally announced that Miss Corder could not leave her room and the marriage ceremony would be performed there. So, in the presence of only her parents and the most immediate relatives -of both, Mr. Webb and Mine Corder were married in her room. TOIL FOR 25 CENTS A DAY. Japanese Workers Threatened by Cheap Labor from Corea. It is a curious fact that while Japan is making an effort to find outlet for her surplus labor by emigration, she i* being threatened at home with a competition of even cheaper labor. Horace Allen, United State consul general at Seoul, has sent to the State Department at Washington an extract from a native paper, allowing that the Corean laborers are much prized in Japan, and that considerable numbers of them are being taken there to work in the coal mines, at which work they are superior to the Japanese in many respects. It has also been found that in work upon the Seoul-Chemulpo Railroad, now being constructed by Americans, the Corean* arc superior to the Chinese and Japanese as laborers on earth works, and the engineer in charge reported that they were quite as good as the laboT in America, though they are paid only 25 cents gold per day and feed themselves. FIRE LOSS OF $1,000,000. Hotel and Two Wholesale House* Burned at Grand Forks, N. D. Fire caused a loos of nearly a million dollars at Grand Forks, N. R., the other morning. The Hotel Dakotah. a large five-story structure that cost $250,000, was completely destroyed, as were the two large wholesale stores adjoining of Nash Bros, and the Grand Fork* Mercantile Company. Nash Bros, were grocery and fruit aud cigar wholesalers, and the Mercantile Company dealt in groceries. Both occupied a brick building about one hundred feet square and four or five stories high. Bloody Affair in Arkansas. In Van Buren County, six miles from Clinton, Ark., on what is known as Culpepper mountain, the family of Farmer Patfhrson was at the supper table when two men heavily masked threw open the front door of the house, presented rifles and commanded those at the table to remain perfectly quiet under pain of death. One of the robbers tired point, blank at the head of the family, the ball entering his mouth. Patterson and his three son* returned the tire. The robbers kept up a fusillade until their ammunition was gone, when they drew bowie knives, cutting the old man's throat from ear to ear, knocking senseless two of his sons and mortally wounding the third son and his wife. PatteTson had acted as an informer on several occasions, giving the authorities information that led to the arrest and destruction of numerous illicit distilleries in the county. Millions Gone to Waste. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, has, at the request of the Senate at Washington, made an estimate of the saving that would have occurred in the compilation of the last census, had the census office at that time been under civil service rules. According to Mr. Wright, the work could have been done for $5,894,253, instead of $15,087,524. Thus a saving of nearly $10,000,000 could have been effected. Original George Harris Died. Lewis George Clark, 86 years old, the original George Hurris of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” died at Ky. In Norway for Reindeer. An agent of the United States Government named Kjertberg has arrived at Christiania, Norway, to buy reindeer for the Klondike relief expeditions. To Be Tried by Court-Martial. Lieut. La Favour of the gunboat Wheeling is to be tried by court martial at Mare Island Jan. 30. He is charged with being intoxicated while on duty. W’illiam Carr Hanged. William Carr, the chad murderer, was hanged at the Clay County court house at Liberty, Mo. Carr killed his 3-year-old child last October. Kansas Man Freezes to Death. J. H. Martindale of Scranton, Kan., was found in a pasture near that town frozen to death. French Novelist Dead. Alphonse Daudet, the famous author, died while at dinner in Paris the other day.