Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1898 — TEAMS FOR A TREATY [ARTICLE]

TEAMS FOR A TREATY

CORRESPONDENT SAYS AN ALLI* ANCE IS OUTLINED. It His Information Is Reliable Steps Hare Already Been Taken Toward an Ancle- American Agreement-Sal-vation Army to Plant a Colony. Unite Against the World. The Washington correspondent of the London Dally Telegraph says: "I have just learned from a high authority in the State Department that important preliminary steps toward an Anglo-American alliance have already been taken. How far these negotiations, if they can be called that, have proceeded it is not easy to ascertain, for, naturally, strict secrecy is maintained, but my information is that the preliminary suggestions have been made and that the subject of such an alliance is practically before the two governments in some shape. The recent visits paid by Sir Julian Panoeefote to the State Department have not, it seems, had reference altogether to the Canadian negotiations. According to my authority, the features of the proposed alliance now being considered are these: Great Britain is to recognise the Monroe doctrine, to attempt no increase of her territorial possessions in the western hemisphere and to indorse the American construction of that doctrine. The United States is to build the Nicaragua canal and Great Britain is to have the use of it in time of war. The United States is to have all the territory taken from Spain in the present Avar, and Great Britain is to protect the United States in the possession, if this should be threatened. The United States is to stand by England in her policy in China and the East, and ail the British ports in the East are to be opened to the United States under the most favored nation clause. . The main features of an arbitration treaty are to be incorporated.” LAND FOR THE POOR. Salvation Army Secures a Tract Near Mentor, 0., for Colonists. Commander Booth-Tucker, head of the Salvation army in America, announces that the army had purchased a tract of fine farm land of 285 acres near Mentor, Ohio. The property is to be used as a colonization farm, to be divided into tracts of five acres each, which needy people, stranded in the big cities, will be given an opportunity to buy on time and become comfortably self-supporting. Workmen will be sent out to the place at once to get it in shape, and within two or three weeks some of the colonists will.be locat-, ed. “We have on our books already 1,000 names,” said the commander, “representing 5,000 people, whom we will assist in this way as soon as we have land sufficient. We are already proceeding to get an option on more land in the neighborhood of this.”

BANK ROBBERS OVERTAKEN. Utah Citizens Kill One Bandit and Arrest Another. Two men entered the Springville, Utah, bank at 10 o’clock on a recent morning and at the point of a pistol compelled the cashier to hand over $4,000. The robbers then mounted their horses and disappeared. A large posse was immediately organized and started in pursuit. It overtook the robbers in a canyon some distance from the town and called upon them to surrender. The robbers fired, wounding a man by the name of Allen. The posse returned the fire, killing one of the robbers and compelling the other to surrender. Half of the stolen money was recovered. "Chicago Road Race Winners. Joseph Ringl, of the Plzen Cycling Club, is winner of the Chicago road race of 1898. The annals of the Associated Cycling Clubs will record the story of a novice leaving experienced competitors far behind in the muddy route from Wheeling to Garfield Park and securing coveted honors in the gamest finish of the historic event Twenty-five miles In 1:13:58 from the 9:00 mark, despite discouraging conditions, is the epitome of the contest. First time award went to Orlando A. Adams, who carried the colors of the Chicago Cycling Club to victory. Adams’ time was l:08:59-r-five minutes slower than the terrific clip of Henry O’Brien a year ago, but even more creditable. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati . .20 7 Chicagol7 17 Cleveland ...23 12 Philadelphia .13 17 Boston 22 13 Brooklyn .... 12 17 Baltimore ... 17 12 Louisville .... 12 24 New York... 19 14 St. Louis .... 9 22 Pittsburg ...18 17 Washington . 8 24 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis .24 7 Milwaukee ..18 17 St. Paul ... .22 13 Detroit 13 21 Columbus ... 19 13 Minneapolis .. 12 22 Kansas City. 17 16 Omaha .. Valuable Diamonds Sto’eiKFour thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds were stolen from the room of Mrs. Worthington, who is stopping with her son-in-law, George E. Pomeroy, in Toledo. No cue was heard entering the house, and the authorities believe it to have been the work of no common thief, but of an expert. Italian Cabinet Out. The Italian cabinet has resigned. King Humbert has instructed the Marquis Di Rudini to organize the new ministry. Railway Collision Kills Two. The Black Hills express on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Road, dashed into a freight train just west of Blair, Neb. The dead are: Lucien E. Cook, engineer; 'Fred Owens, fireman. The injured: Charles Gassard and James M. Mason, mail clerks. Shot Through the Heart. W. H. Coolidge went into the residence of his father-in-law at Oakesdale, Wash., lay down on a bed and shot himself through the heart. Financial reverses end family troubles were the motive. Bryan Steps Aside. At Lincoln, Neb., the election of company officers of the new militia company recruited by William J. Bryan was held. H. G. Whitmore was elected, Mr. Bryan stepping aside. Wife-Murder and Suicide. In New York, Mary Honorka was shot in the nose and left eye by her husband, a cigarmaker, who then shot himself. He died soon afterward. The woman wae fatally hurt. Bridge Jam per’s Big Dive. Kearney Speedy, the bridge jumper, dived from the merchants’ bridge at St. Louis into the Mississippi river and escaped unhurt. The distance was 128 feet. Beaten to Death. White cappers called at the home of B. A. Speere, near Quincy, Ohio, and demanded money. He refused and the masked men beat him so badly he died. Kills Wife and Pelf. At San Diego, Cal., Alfred Lamble, a Frenchman, shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide. Jealousy and drink were the causes of the crime. Fhot for Cowardice. The captain of the gunboat Callao, which was captured by Adimral Dewey’s flevvt, has been shot for not returning the

UNEXPECTED RESULTS. Experiments by Young Edison Explode a Bomb in Hi* Desk. A singular accident at the electrical exhibition at Madison Square Garden, New York, resulted in the partial demolishment of the desk of Thomas A. Edison, Jr., and a severe shock to the nerves of its owner. One of the most interesting features of the exhibition has been a demonstration of the Clarke - wireless telegraphy system, illustrating by means of a small tank of water and miniature gunboats how mines having no cable connection with a firing station on the shore may be exploded in a harbor. Mr. Edison was experimenting before the exhibition was open to the public the other day to find a method of exploding the mines one at a time. Some fifteen feet away from the tank was Mr. Edison’s desk, in a drawer of which one of the small bombs used as mines in the tank was stored. Through the divergence of the waves, as is supposed, the bomb in the desk was exploded, reducing the desk to kindling wood, and damaging a portable electric light set on it Splinters flew about Mr. Edison, but he was uninjured except for the shock of the explosion. In the desk a number of valuable papers belonging to Mr. Edison were blown to bits. STATUARY RUINED. Iconoclastic Feat of a Girl ht the Omaha Exposition. Because Miss Dorothy Mauer does not admire the nude in art, she secured an ax, climbed to a perilous height, and chopped to pieces a number of groups of Cupids which decorated the Fine Arts building of the exposition at Omaha. Incidentally the determined girl tried her weapon on several pieces of costly statuary. When she had done the work to her satisfaction the girl descended, again performing a feat Involving great danger. She was met by a big policeman and several exposition guards, who had been prancing around on the ground below begging the girl to desist in her work. Several times they attempted to reach her, but the work was too hazardous and the danger so apparent that the guardsmen waited the pleasure of the girl. Taken to the police station, Miss Mauer was composed and cool. She said she had accomplished her purpose and was satisfied. A charge of malicious destruction of property was placed against her. The groups of statuary destroyed were very valuable. MAY MEAN INDIAN OUTBREAK. One Man Killed and Another Wounded In Alaska. A special from Skaguay, Alaska, says: A tragedy that may be the forerunner of an Indian outbreak took place on McClintock river, which empties into the lower end of Lake Tagish. While poling a boat down the river two white men, Thomas Fox, formerly of Juneau, and William Meehan, an old-time Yukoner, were fired upon by Indians armed with rifles. At the first discharge Meehan toppled over with a bullet in his heart. A second bullet entered Fox’s left breast above the heart. It struck a bone, passing around his ribs, and found exit at the back. Badly wounded as he was, Fox reached the shore, making his way through the woods to the settlement by Lake Tagish. The Indians were the Hootalinqua river sticks, and Fox thinks there were about eighty in the band. Most of them appeared to be armed.

SANTA FE TRAIN HELD UP. Express Safe Blown Open by New Mexican Bandits. Information received from Belen, N. M., is that the Santa Fe train No.- 21 had been held up by bandits, wjio boarded the train at Belen and compelled the engineer to bring it to a stop about five miles south of that station. They gained entrance to the express car and threw the through safe out into a ditch, where, with the aid of dynamite, they blew it open and pocketed the contents. Just how much money they got is not known. Then the robbers escaped on horses that were in waiting. So far as is known none of the passengers was molested. Spaniards Are Suspected. Richard Heard, who was probably murdered by Spaniards in Vera Cruz, Mexico, was an employe of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of St. Louis. The firm has a refinery at Vera Cruz. H. Clay Pierce, president of the company, says that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Heard April 21 is as deep as ever. His company has offered a reward of SI,OOO for his discovery, dead or alive, and the Mexican Government has been notified of his disappearance. There is a suspicion that Heard has been murdered and his body hid, for he was an intensely loyal American and frequently at Vera Cruz condemned the Spaniards and thereby incurred the enmity of them. Mr. Pierce, however, says that he does not believe that the Spaniards had anything to do with his disappearance. On the day of his disappearance he left the refinery at 1:45.in the afternoon. He has not since been seen. A search of his room revealed his clothes, but no clew as to probable whereabouts. Railway lines and ships and every byway leading out of Vera Cruz have been searched, but not the slightest clew can be found of the missing man. Heard formerly lived in Franklin, Pa. He has relatives in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but Mr. Pierce does not know their address. He was about 23 years old and unmarried.

English Capital Interested. Reports received in New York from London announce the consolidation of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia and Vickers’ Sons & Maxim of Barrow-in-Furness, England, into one great shipbuilding concern. This alliance, if perfected—and there is little doubt of its being accomplished—will make one of the most powerful corporations of its kind on either continent. The plan of consolidation provides for an increase in the capacity of the Cramps’ shipyards by the introduction of English capital, so as to increase the capital stock of the Cramp company from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, if not more. The additional capital is to be furnished by the Vickers’ company in return for stock in the enlarged corporation. Holders of common stock in the exsting corporation will receive new stock. It is expected that a meeting of the directors of the Cramp company will be held in Philadelphia soon, when the details of th* alliance will be submitted for adoption. The matter has been under consideration for several months, the first overtures having, it is said, come from the Vickers company. Fifty-three Drowned. A Calcutta dispatch says that while the British India Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Mecca was towing her sister ship, Lindula, whose shaft was broken, the hawser parted. The two vessels came into collision and the Mecca was sunk, her captain and fifty-two others being drowned. The Mecca had 300 persons, mostly Asiatics, on board. The Lindula brought the survivors of the Mecca to port. Strike Stops Building Work. Because the United Portable HodHoisting Engineers’ Union refused to the board of walking delegates strikes were ordered in New York on seventy-five buildings, involving 5,000 or 6,000 men. Sympathetic strikes of all the other building workmen were ordered wherever non-union engineers were put to work. ' Reformer Is Warned. Charles Evans Holt, the head of the reform movement that has kept the Duluth, Minn., administration in hot water on the saloon and gambling questions for the past year, has made public a letter informing him that he had better arrange his affairs, as he is not long for this world. Many Trampled Under Foot. Four thousand people gathered at Riverside Park, San Antonio, Tex., to hear a concert and to see Col. Roosevelt’s rough riders, In whose honor the concert was given, The park adjoins the camp and nearly nil the rough riders were there, the nunberg oa the program wm

the cavalry a feature of whftffi was the firing of a volley of guns. Prof. Beck, the leader of the band, had do trouble in getting volunteers from among the cow boys to perform this part of the piece, and a dozen of them were stationed atthe edge of the pavilion waiting for the signal. When this was given the rough riders, instead of firing one volley, as the music called for, continued in plain violation of the composer’s wishes. This somewhat disconcerted the musicians and distressed the thousands of women and children,, but it was as nothing to what followed. The cowboys selected for the part continued ’to fire gleefully, then they shouted to their comrades, who flocked about the place to join in and in a second not fewer than 560 six-shooters added to the noise. Women.and children in the big pavilion, thoroughly alarmed, tried to escape. Just as they had started every light in the park went out. The cowboys, frenzied with excitement, continued to fire, women screamed and children added their wails to the din. Meantime the attempt to get out of the pavilion continued. There was a stampede, women and children were knocked down and some were trampled. The firing continued until the ammunition wae exhausted and then nothing but the shrieks of women and children were to be heard. A number of women and children were injured, but none seriously.

ARMOR TO COST $3,000,000. Bids Made by the Carnegie and Bethlehem Com pa nice. Bids for supplying 7,700 tons of armor for the battleships Illinois, Alabama and Wisconsin have been opened at the Navy Department in Washington. It marked the ending of the controversy between the Government and the armor companies over the prices for armor plate. Congress fixed the limit of the price at S3OO a ton and the companies declined to furnish armor at that rate. In the last naval appropriation bill the limit was raised to S4OO a ton. There were only two bidders. They are the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburg and the Bethlehem steel works of Bethlehem, Pa. Neither company bid against the othes. The Bethlehem company submitted a proposal for furnishing all the armor for the Alabama, under construction at Cramps’ ship yards, and the Carnegie company for furnishing all the armor for the Wisconsin, being built at San Francisco. On the third ship, the Illinois, at Newport News, Va., the companies divided on the bids, each taking two of the four groups of armor. The companies did not go below the limit fit S4OO a ton for every ton wanted, making the contract price $3,080,000. DEADLY DUEL OVER A WOMAN. Dentist and Switchman Kill Each Other in a Quarrel. A comely young woman named Emma Walters, a stenographer for the Pullman Palace Car Company in St. Louis, was the cause of a pistol duel, which resulted in the death of Dr. John G. Ferguson, a dentist, and William M. Smith, a railway switchman. Dr. Ferguson was calling on Miss Walters in Adams street. They were sitting out in front of the house when Smith, who lived next door, came out. Ferguson immediately demanded an apology of Smith for alleged derogatory remarks made recently about Miss Walters, and both men drew revolvers and began shooting. Ferguson was shot through the heart and fell dead. Smith lived two hours. The woman has disappeared.

HANGED BY A MOB. Brakeman Responsible for a Boy’s Death Executed Without Trial. Joe Mitchell, colored, an Illinois Central brakeman, who lived at Paducah, was hanged by a mob at Rives, Tenn. The night before Mitchell had shoved a white boy tramp off a moving train at Rives and the boy fell on the track, his legs being cut off at the knees. He lived long enough to tell that Mitchell was his assailant. The murderer was arrested and while being held at the depot to be taken to jail at Union City, Tenn., a crowd gathered, and, securing him, hanged Mitchell in ten minutes. Chicago. Firm’s Big Purchase. One of the biggest transfers of packing house interests ever made in St. Louis was completed when D. L. Quirk turned over the plant and property of the East St. Louis Packing and Provision Company on the east side of the river to the Chicago Packing and Provision Company. The purchase was arranged for in Chicago, the price paid being in the neighborhood of $500,000. Political Parties Unite. A fusion of the Populist, silver Republicans. liberty, negro protective and socialist labor parties of Ohio has been practically agreed upon. Conferences looking to that end have been in progress for several days in Columbus, Ohio. Rioting and Destruction in China. There have been widespread food riots in the province of Chehkiang, in China. The yamens, or public buildings, have been destroyed at Wenchow, and many shops have been wrecked and plundered at Shamshing. Bodies Are Recovered. A force of troops has relieved the missionaries.. and others at Kwellu, Africa, whose lives were imperiled by the uprising of the natives. The bodies of the American missionaries have been recovered. Dockmen Go on Strike. The dockmen on the Duluth, Missabe and Northern ore dock at Duluth, Minn., have gone out on a strike for higher wages. They were receiving $1.35, and ask $1.50. Over 100 men went but. Beaten by Robbers. At Madera, Cal., County Treasurer Krohn was terribly beaten by robbers and the strong box of the county rifled of its contents by the robbers. Plug Tobacco Deal Fails. It i* understood that the deal for the consolidation of the plug tobacco factories in the United States has fallen through.