Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1898 — REBEL CAMP TAKEN. [ARTICLE]

REBEL CAMP TAKEN.

EPANISH VICTORY REPORTED IN CUBA. t?access Said to Have Att nded General Aguirre's Operations Dynamite a Kailroad Bridge —Big Day’s Business in tbc Patent Office. Military Movements in Cuba. According to Havana announcements from Spanish sources the combined operations undertaken by Gen. Aguirre in the I rovince of Santa Clara have resulted in the capture of an insurgent camp, twenty of the enemy being killed and three captured. The Spanish loss was two men killed and seven wounded. It is further reported that the Spanish troops have been engaged with the insurgents Commanded by Napoles. In this case the insurgents are said to have lost several men killed, and the Spaniards say that after the engagement an insurgent captain and seven armed privates surrend ?red. Advices from Manzanillo say that Spanish troops have left there to relieve the garrison of Santa Cruz, which is threatened by the insurgents. A report is current here that the son of Calixto Garcia died recently from wounds received during the insurgent attack upon Guamo. The insurgents have dynamited a railroad bridge at San Rafael, between Minas and Campo Florida. Congressman William H. King has gone to Matan«as, Sagna La Grande and other towns in the interior, bearing letters from Jose Congosto, secretary general of the government, to the local authorities. OMAHA BANK SUED. Buit Due to the Defalcation of the ExState Treasurer. As a sequel to the half million shortage ©f ex-State Treasurer Bartley, of Nebraska, the Attorney General has brought suit to recover $200,000 from the Omaha National Bank. The suit grows out of the fact that the Omaha bank acted as agent in disposing of a State warrant for the amount to the Chemical National Bank of New York City and when the a arrant was paid by Bartley he drew a check on funds deposited in the local bank. The suit will amount to a test to determine the responsibility of banks transacting such business with officials Who afterward become defaulters. The theory of the Attorney General is that the withdrawing of the- funds was in the furtherance of the steal Bartley perpetrated on the State, and that the bank is, therefore, liable to the State for the sum. Indirectly the Chemical National is affected. The Omaha National is one of the strongest banks in the West.

PATENT OFFICE RUSH. Highest Number of Applications Ever Known. Three hundred and seventy-five applications for patents were received at the patent office at Washington, I). C., in •ne day recently—the highest on record for any one day in the history of the office. The fact that the new law requiring persons who have made applications • broad for patents to file their applications in this country within seven months of the filing of the application for foreign patent becomes operative Jan. 1 is accountable for the rush. Heretofore applications could be filed at auy time within the life of a patent issued in foreign countries. Canada’s Trade for the Year. The trades and navigation returns shortly to be issued at Ottawa, Ont., will •how the total imports entered for consumption to be $111,294,021, as against imports of $110,587,480 the preceding year. The duty collected amounted to $19,891,997, as against $20,219,037, a decrease of $327,040. Exports amounted Io $123,950,838, an increase of $17,581,('BO. There were exported to the United States Canadian products to the value of $43,991,485, as against $34,460,428 in 1895-0, while from the United States Canada imported to the value of $Ol,649,041, an increase of $3,075,023 over imports of American products of the year before.

Lies to Save His Friend. John Healey died in a New York hospital from the effects of stab wounds inflicted by George 11. Lincoln, a designer. The two men were the best of friends. Lincoln entered his home intoxicated •nd threatened to strike his wife. Healey pleaded for her. The wife ran into another room. When she returned, after bearing sounds of a struggle, she found Healey covered with blood. Her husband had gone to a hospital. Lincoln, who Was only slightly wounded, was arrested •nd taken to Healey’s bedside. Healey positively denied that he had ever seen Lincoln before, and died refusing to implicate his old-time friend in any way. Ship Loses Seven Seamen. A special dispatch from Bermuda reports accidents at sea on the ship Van 1.00 in which seven lives were lost. The an Loo, which is on a voyage from Cardiff to St. John, N. 8., has put in there tvith loss of sails. She reports that the foreyard suddenly parted and fell to the deck. Of nine men who were carried down by the falling yard or were struck tvhen it fell three were killed instantly •nd three others who took the chances ©f escaping by jumping into the sea were drowned. Recovered His Speech. Patrick Kelley, who for over a year has been dumb, suddenly recovered the use of (speech in Louisville, Ky„ during a fit of anger. He was greatly surprised to find himself talking and changed his curses to a fervent “Thank -God.” No Troth in It. A recently printed article alleging that the Lnited States Postofflce Department >as been robbed of millions of dollars by paeans of swindling schemes worked by •lie railways is now pronounced a groundless fake by the papers that fathered its publication. Big Cycle Firm Fails. The Overman Wheel Company of Chitopee Falls, Mass., made an assignment to President H. H. Bowman of the Springfield National Bank. Liabilities, £539,000; assets, $1,318,000. Philulc'Bank Closed. The Chestnut Street National Bank of fbiladelphia did not open its doors for business the other morning. The reason therefor was stated in a notice posted •n the door, which read that the bank was jn the hands of the national bank examiner. Dr. Drake Going to China. Dr. Noah Fields Drake, a graduate student in geology at Stanford Lniversity, i'al., since 1893, has been tendered and lias accepted a position in the Tien-Tsin L’nlversity, China, and will leavp for the

GETS A SMALL FINE. Slayer of Judge Jennings Escapes with Light Punishment. Judge Jennings of Woodward, O. T., was shot and killed nearly a year ago by Senator Temple Houston, the son of Gen. Sam Houston, first president of the republic of Texas, at Wichita, Kan. Houston entered a plea of guilty to an offense less than murder, and was sentenced to pay a fine of S3OO and the costs of the prosecution. Houston first killed Ed Jennings in a saloon fight in Woodward nearly two years ago. Ed was a son of Judge Jennings, the first of the family to fall in front of Houston’s gun. and the father's death was the result of the feud then declared. John, another brother, was wounded in the fight, and he and Al Jennings—the West Point graduate and latest train robber who distinguished himself by the recent daylight nold-up—are left as avengers upon the trail of Houston. Houston is a lawyer of reputation and headed Oklahoma's silver forces in the Chicago convention. FIRE LOSS OF $500,000. The Power acd Wilshire Blocks in Cleveland, 0., Are Damaged. Fire broke out in the business eeater of Cleveland, 0., and, fanned by a high northwest wind, destroyed property worth more than $500,000. The Power block, on Frankfort street, owned by J. Bv Perkins, six stories high and made of brick, was consumed above the second story, and the rear of the brick Wilshire block, six stories high, owned by Mr. Peg - kins, and fronting on Superior street, was turned. The fire started by the explosion of a large can of benzine in the lithographing establishment of Johns & Co., in the Power block. Windows were blown out and several employes escaped with difficulty by the fire escape and a bridge leading to the Wilshire block.

NEWS WAS SUFI’S ESSED. Double Lynching Reported to Have Occurred at Colfax, Wash. Several persons who have gone to Spokane, Wash., from Colfax declare that notwithstanding all denials a lynching occurred there a few nights ago. It is asserted that Chadwick Marshall and John McDonald, the alleged murderers of Orville Hayden, a prominent citizen of Farmington, were taken from the county jail by a mob tyid hanged to a tree near the town. According to this story a press censorship prevails, and consequently the facts have been suppressed. APPEALS TO THE POPE. William Wants Help to Push Hie Navjil Bill Through. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat’s Rome special says: "Extraordinary pressure is at present being exercised upon Pope Leo by the kaiser to induce the Catholic party to support the emperor’s naval bill. The kaiser can't win without those votes. On the other hand, France and Russia are both urging the holy father not to yield to the kaiser's request. The pope hugely enjoys the situation. It is doubtful if he will help William.” West India Islands Wanted. Immediately upon the reassembling of Congress Senator Lodge of Massachusetts will make a vigorous effort to secure early action upon his scheme to obtain legislative authority for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix, which are in the West Indies group and belong to Denmark. A year ago the Senate passed a resolution requesting the State Department to ascertain whether the islands are in the market, nt what figure they were held, and whether any other country was after them. The reply has not been made public in its entirety, but it is known that the Danish Government intimated that the islands were for sale and that there had been preliminary negotiations to that end with two European Governments. These are supposed to be Great Britain and Germany. The figure asked for the two islands by Denmark has not been made public. The text of the reply has been transmitted by the State Department to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, but for diplomatic reasons it has been held for the present ns confidential. Senator Lodge is sanguine of securing an appropriation that will enable the islands to be*transferred to the jurisdiction of the Stars and Stripes.

For Sake of the Gold Diggers. The army pack train of the department of the Platte stationed at Cheyenne, Wyo., has departed for Alaska. The train is in charge of Chief Packer Tom Mooney. It consists of ten expert packers and eighty trained and drilled pack mules. The destination of the pack train is Dyea. At New York, the Red D steamship Curaeoa has been sold to go into the Alaska trade. The purchasers are said to be Pacific coast residents and the price paid SIBO,000. The Curaeoa was built by the Cramps of Philadelphia. The first essential required was a minimum draught with a maximum cargo capacity, owing to the fact that the vessel was intended to navigate the shallow waters of Lake Maracaibo. On account' of her light draught and large cargo capacity she is a valuable addition to the fleet of vessels now plying between San Francisco, Seattle, St. Michaels and other points along the coast of Alaska. She has gone to Baltimore, Md., to outfit for the long voyage around Cape Horn. James C. Ollard of Tacoma, Wash., has closed a contract for three [twin-screw steamers for use on Lake Teslin and the'Stickeen river trade. The boats are expected to make sixteen knots an hour. Banker Wightman Pardoned. Gov. Leedy has pardoned C. E. Wightman, the Tribune, Kan., banker sent to the penitentiary for having received deposits when the bank was in an insolvent condition and also for misappropriating the funds on deposit for personal use. Watchman Captured Burglars. At Canaan, Conn., four burglars of a gang of five were captured by Martin Rood in Jackson & Eggleston’s store. Rood fired on the men and wounded Percy St. Clair, J. C. Davis, Tommy McGraw and John White. Tube Mill to Start Bp, Preparations are being made to start the tube mill of the Oil Well Supply Company at Pittsburg. This has been idle for the last four years, and its starting means that 1,500 men will be given employment. Flour Mill at Fostoria, 0., Burned. The M. D. Harter Company’s flouring mill at Fostoria, one of the largest winter Wheat mills in the country, was destroyed by fire. The fire started in a bolting chest. The loss is $150,000, covered by insurance. Santa Fe Road Most Settle. At Wichita, Kan., Judge Dale, in a decision against the Santa Fe for refusing a return pass to I. P. Campbell, who shipped cattle, has given plaintiff judgment for fare, costs and an attorney’s fees. Minnesota’s Oldest Dead. Bazeille Snprent, the oldest man in Minnesota, died at Little Falls, aged 110.' New Move for Durrant. In San Francisco, the attorneys' for Theodore Durrant have filed notice that

they will ask for a change of venue from the recent order of sentence by Judge Bahrs on the ground that the court is prejudiced. Another appeal to the Governor for commutation of sentence will be made on the ground that a view of the corelation of the Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams cases should be made. Another effort to get the case before the Federal courts will also be made. St. Louis Schoolgirl Weds. Miss Gertrude W. Lewis, 17 years old, whose home is at Crescent, is attending high school in St. Louis, Mo., as a paid scholar. Recently she eloped with and married Sam Frazieij a young medical student. She returned to school and when Principal Bryan found she was married he ordered her to leave ihe school, telling her that married people could not attend the public schools. Swell Fociety 1 turglar. Charles W. Felkens, v dio made his escape from a Los Angele* deputy sheriff on a north-bound train m *r Fresno, Cal., is a son of a well-known banker of New Haven, Conn. He was a i •eal estate agent in Los Angeles and very popular in society. A number of burg iaries in aristocratic quarters were final! y traced to him and he was sentenced to five years in prison. Fatal Fire in Go them. Mrs. Freda Schlintz, aged and crippled, was overcome by smoke and died within a few feet of safety duriiqg a fire which broke out in the house in which she lived in New York. Every effort was made to save her life by her two daughters, but their strength gave out and they were forged to abandon, their mother, barely escaping death thentselves. John Anderton Must Hang. At Norfolk, Va., John Anderson was convicted of the muitder of William Saunders, mate of the schooner Olive Pecker, on the high seas, on the 6th of August last, and under the sentence of the court must be hanged on the 18th day of March next, unless the Sujlreme Court of the United States in the meantime interposes. Hunters Perish in Arkansas. A party of four hunters were found frozen to death by the roadside near Dawes creek, Ark., the other morning. It is believed from descriptions of the dead hunters that they were W. H. Hughes, A. H. Dolphin, John W. Bright and Samuel Sevier, who outfitted nt IJttle Rock two weeks ago. Empty School Houses. A public auction of school houses is a novelty that will be witnessed in western Kansas. State officials decided that school houses in depopulated districts, which are not in use, may be fold to the highest bidder. There are more than 100 of these buildings scattered over the prairies.

Dakota Bank Closed. The First National Bank of Pembine, N. D., is closed and is in the hands of Unitied States Bank Examiner Ajiheler. The bank had accumulated $20,000 in valueless securities. President L. E. Booker is now a fugitive from justice. To Africa with Wheat. The mammoth tramp steamer Algoa sailed from Tacoma with the largest cargo of grain ever loaded in a single vessel, carrying 377,509 bushels of wheat, valued at $312,000. The Algoa is bound for the northwest coast of Africa.. Pardoned by President. William E. Burr, Jr., ex-cashier of the St. Louis National Bank, now serving a sentence of five years at the Jefferson City State penitentiary for the embezzlement of $20,000, has been pardoned by President McKinley. A Chicago Fire. Twenty-nine persons were injured and $225,000 worth of property destroyed in a fire at 104 and 106 Madieon street, Chicago. The blaze was startled by an explosion of natural gas in Tosetti’s restaurant. Loss of Texas Cattle. The sleet storm that recently prevailed in Texas has proved to be very disastrous in its effects on the stock interests of the west aud northwest portions of that State. Quincy's Plurality 4,09'1. Complete and revised returns from 191 voting precincts of Boston show that Mayor Josiah Quincy, Democrat, was re-elect-ed by a pluralitj’ of 4,079 votes. Murderer Pardoned. William Pool, who was sent to the Arkansas penitentiary in 1892 for twentyone years for the murder of John Evans, has been pardoned. New York Soldiers’ Monument. The soldiers and sailors’ monument to be erected by the city of New York will lie placed 1,000 feet from the tomb of Gen. Grant. Legacy for a Farmer. Joseph Leonard, a farmer residing near Zanesville, 0., by the death of an uncle in Green boro, N. C., inherits $50,000. Fell Under a Train. Mrs. Leora Carpe of Antwerp, 0., slipped on the ice and fell under a train at Cecil, 0., and died from the shock.