Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1898 — CONFUSION IN HAYTI. [ARTICLE]

CONFUSION IN HAYTI.

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS ARE BAD. Fuucbard, Late Minister of Finance Is Plotting to Wrest the Presidency from Fimon Sum Child Frozen While Hiding from Her Mother. President May Be Superseded. Calisthene Font-hard, late Haytiau minister of finance, is back in Huyti, conspiring against the Government. He has formed a eonueetion with the party of the late Boisraud Canal, and this combination is likely to cause trouble for the present administration. Fouchard is popular in Hayti. and is regarded by all parties as a good financier and an exceedingly able man. His competitor for the presidency will probably be Mauigat, at present minister to France. His accession would lie a serious blow to foreign interests in Hayti. as he has been noted for his hatred of foreigners. President Augustus Simon Sain lias proved himself weak and vacillating in the extreme, and his administration has lost favor in the country from its cowardly policy over the Emile Lueders incident and its inability to remedy the present deplorable financial condition. Fouchard was a candidate for the presidency at the death of liippolyte. The party of the late president, which controlled political matters at the time, nominated instead Simon Sam. who has been merely a puppet ia the hands of the wire pullers. Fouchard became minister of finance, lint was eventually dismissed on charges of peculation. The financial and commercial condition of the island could scarcely be worse. The heavy premium on gold practically prohibits trade transactions. The recent (ire at Port an Prince has caused the greatest suffering among the lower classes. The crops have been poor and the prices obtained for the island’s products are lower than for many years. Salaries of Government officials are months in arrears, and constant disputes are arising in consequence.

CRIDLEK TAKES HANDY’S PLACE.

He Sails for Paris In the Interest of American Exhibitors. Thomas W. Cridler, third assistant Secretary of State and commissioner to the Paris exposition, sailed for Paris on the American liner New York. He goes to Paris to take up the work left unfinished by rne death of Major Moses P. Handy. Lieut. A. C. Baker, U. S. N., will accompany Mr. Cridler us attache. “Our business men are opening their eyes to theopportunity afforded them by the coming exposition,” Mr. Cridler said before his departure. “A perfect flood of applications for exhibit space has been and is still pouring in. This demand comes from every class of business. When Major Handy made application for space lie based liis requisition upon what at that time seemed to be the needs of this country. He got 280,000 feet. The applications have multiplied so heavily that three times that area would hardly accommodate intending exhibitors. I shall apply for a generous increase and believe it will be granted.”

FROZEN WHILE IN HIDING. Child Runs Away Because She Is Whipped by Her Mother. Katie Wishman, a 14-year-old girl of Corning, 0., left home because her mother whipped her. She registered a vow that she would never look her parents in the face again. She crawled under the house for shelter when night came on and remained there a week. A searching party found the little girl in her strange hiding place. She was in a pitiable condition. Both of her feet were frozen and she was almost dead from hunger. Physicians were sent for, doing all they possibly could to alleviate the sufferings of the girl, but it was thought best to semi her to the hospital, where it is thought both limbs will have to he amputated. Loss by Fire $2,000,000. The new wharf at Tampico, Mexico, constructed by the Central Railroad under Government supervision, was destroyed by fire. The custom house, under construction and nearly completed, was damaged to the extent of about $8(X),000. The total loss on wharf, custom house and merchandise is nearly $2,000,(XX), fully insured. Costly Blaze in Dulnth. The Chamber of Commerce building, one of the principal business blocks in Duluth, Minn., was partially destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at $50,000, and it will he somewhere near as lunch on the contents. The building was erected eight years ago, and was valued at $200,000. New Torpedo Boat Launched. The twenty-knot torpedo boat, No. 10, known as the Guenu, was launched, all completed, at Herreslioff’s yard, Bristol, R. I. The boat was launched unfinished several months ago and then hauled out again to be completed. As soon as she was put over her engines were set at frork.

Hurricane in Honolnln. One of the worst storms ever experienced in Honolulu took place recently. The wind developed into a hurricane and the rain came down in torrents. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted and other damage done. Overproduction in Oil Fields. It is stated that the overproduction of oil in the Los Angeles, Cal, oil fields at the present time is nearly five hundred barrels a day. Work of a White Mob. The most revolting crime ever perpetrated by white men in South Carolina was committed at Lake City, when Postmaster Baker, a negro, and his family were burned out of their home, the postmaster and a babe killed and the wife and three daughters maimed for life. Died by Asphyxiation. Jacob Dillenburg, 01 years old, mid his wife, Annie, 70, were found dead in a little room behind their plumbing shop at 121 Chrystie street, New York. They had been asphyxiated. Death of William J. Scanlan, William J. Scanlan, Irish comedian, died from paresis in the Bloomingdale asylum in White Plains, N. Y. The last six years of his life were spent in the institution, which to him was merely' a hotel where he was remaining until he should be ready to go again on the road. Eastern Miners Strike. The first official announcement of a bituminous coal miners’ strike in the Eastern competitive fields —West Virginia, Maryland and Hocking valley, Ohio—has been made in the Pennsylvania miners’ State convention. A ten per cent advance and eight-hour day will be asked for.