Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — NO CHICAGO PAPERS. [ARTICLE]

NO CHICAGO PAPERS.

STEREOTYPERS* STRIKE TIES UP THE BIG DAILIES. Publishers Refuse to Accede to the Demand* Made by the Men and No Papers Are Issued for Four Days— Mews In Brief. . C ty Without N^ws. None of the English papers were p«blishcdMn Chicago, owing to a strike among the stereotypers. The stereotypers demanded a reduction in the hours of labor and an increase in wages. It was refused, and as a result the stereotypers refused to go to work. The following newspapers entirely suspended publication pending a settlement of the issue: Times-Herald, Record, Tribune, Chronicle, Inter Ocean, Evening Post, Daily News, Evening Jonrnal and the Dispatch. A meeting of the publishers was held to arrange a plan of campaign and to provide for the resuming of publication at the earliest possible moment. The publishers acted together. They received a large number of applications from stereotypers in other cities. An immediate influx of stereotypers began. The intense interest in the battle of Santiago rendered the situation a peculiar one, and this fact was undoubtedly seized upon by the operatives. Something like 200 employes were directly involved. CIVIL SERVICE CONFERENCE. O >mmis»lonera Consult with th« President Concerning Chinge In Ru'es. Commissioners Harlow and Brewer, of the civil service commission, had a long conference at the White House with the President, Attorney General Griggs and Secretary Bliss in regard to a number of proposed changes in the civil service rules. It ifi understood that the heads of a number of the executive departments had recommended the extension of the rules so as to include certain specified places in the service and that other places be exempted. No definite decision was reached on all of the questions involved, but it is expected that a conclusion will have been arrived at within a few days, when the" President will issue an order covering the cases under discussion. SURPLUS TO BE DIV.DED UP. E ghtaen Million Dsllari to B» D stributad to Pullman Pataca Car Stoc’-tholdar*. The board of directors of the Pullman Palace Car Company has adopted resolutions for a quarterly dividend of $2 per share, payable on and after Aug. 15, and also a special dividend of S2O per share. The board recommends that the surplus assets of the company to the extent of $18,000,000 existing at the end of the current fiscal year should be distributed to the stockholders of the company, and that for such purpose the capital stock should be increased to the sum of $54,000,000, and that increase on stock should be iseued to shareholders in the ratio of one share for each two held by them. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati.. .44 23 New York.. ..30 30 Cleveland ...38 24 Philadelphia. 28 31 Boston 38 25 Brooklyn ....20 33 Baltimore .. .35 25 Washington. 25 38 Chicago 37 28 Louisville ...22 44 Pittsburg .. .33 30 St. Louis 22 45 Following Is the standing of the clubs lu the Western league: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 37 23 Milwaukee ..36 28 St. Paul 38 25 Omaha 21 35 Columbus ...35 23 Detroit 21 42 Kansas City. 37 27 Minneapolis. 21 43 British Members of Joint Commission. It is officially announced that Queen Victoria has appointed the following to bo high commissioners, in pursuance of the agreement signed at Washington on May 30, for a joint commission to adjust the Canadian-American differences: Baron Herschell, lord high chancellor; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada; Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis Henry Davies and John Charlton. , Fire In a Dwelling House. One life was lost and two persons are lying at the point of death as a result of a fire in the dwelling house of Patrick H. Flannery, 3602 Locust street, West Philadelphia. The fire was started by the ignition of coal oil, with which Mrs. Flannery was bathing her arm to relieve rheumatic pain. The flames spread rapidly and a child was burned to death before it could be rescued. Wind Plays Hsvoc In OaLfornla. A severe north wind did considerable damage to grain and fruit in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Cal. The greatest loss will fall upon the growers of wheat. Some conservative farmers estimate that 40 per cent, of the wheat has been thrashed out by the storm in certain localities. Awarded Forty Years Wages. Miss Sarah Logan got judgment at Kokomo, Ind., for $4,115 against the estate of Isaac Crane, the wealthy Miami County eccentric who died a year ago, aged 86. Miss Logan was his housekeeper for forty years. W. H. Eustls Nominated In Minnesota. William Henry Eustis was nominated tof Governor of Minnesota by the Repub* lican State convention. Nine Negroes Drowned. Nine negroes were drowner near New Orleans by the upsetting of a skiff. Expscte Extra Session. Henry C. Payne, who returned from Washington to Milwaukee, gave it as his opinion that an extra session of Congress would be called for next March tof the purpose of financial legislation, providing there was a Republican majdlity In both houses. 8 x Din in the Water. At Cleveland, H. H. Frolick, Miss Jeanette Kaiser and Frank Shubeck lost their lives while bathing in the lake. Two unknown men were also drowned. One «f them had rocked the boat. To Bnitd Nicaragua Canal* The Government of Nicaragua, through President Zelaya, has granted to an English syndicate the control of all its steamship and railway lines. The concession carries with it the exclusive right to navigate Lake Nicaragua and the Rio’ San Juaa, which are a most important part of the proposed Nicaragua canal. Five Visitors Are Drowned. Five visitors at Thermopolis Hot Springs, Big Horn Basin, Wyo., were drowned by the overturning of their boat in the Big Horn river. The victims attempted to cross the river in a ferry drawn by a rope. The swift current capsized the boat as it left the shore. Die in Alaskan Gold Fields, A letter received from John Muldoon, a citizen of Johnsonville, Ohio, who is now in the Alaskan gold fields, says that of the 101 men who less Seattle with him in March only four survive. Two were drowned and the others perished from cold and hunger. Business Block Crumbles. By the collapse of a building in Lancaster, Texas, Birdy Nattles, daughter of Henry Nattles, was killed, and five others injured, two of them fatally. The building was in the White block and faulty construction is supposed to have caused ftf downfall.

SHOT BT A ROBBER. Station Agent at Sidney, Ohio, To Per* hope Fatally Injured. The other morning at about 4 o’clock T. J. Kratzman, operator and night ticket agent of the Big Four Railroad at Sidney, Ohio, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by a strange man, whose object was the robbery of the office. Kratzman was busy when the man entered the office and ordered him to open the safe. Kratzman first thought the intruder was some officer of the company who was taring his nerve. He refused, and, finding that the man was in earnest, he told him he would not open the safe, but would give him his watch. The robber came forward to secure the watch, when Kratzman grappled with him. In the straggle the stranger drew a revolver and shot Kratzman in the breast, the bullet entering bis lungs. The stranger escaped. Kratzman ran to a hotel, where he gave the alarm and fell unconscious from loss of blood. DEFRAUD THE WHOLESALER?. Government Detectives Discover a Band of Alleged Swindlers. United States secret service agents are on the track of a gang of men who are alleged to have systematically defrauded wholesale dealers throughout the country of from $150,000 to $200,000. The first move was made when Adolph Blau was arrested in Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the charge of using the mails for the purpose of fraud. It is alleged that the modus operandi of the combination was to establish small merchants in business in that and other cities and to obtain by some subterfuge a rating for them. After buying stocks of goods on credit the coworkers would step in and sell them out on a judgment note. AVENGE AFRICAN MASSACRES. British Expedition Pnnishes Natives Who Murdered Americans. A mail steamer from Sierra Leone, which arrived at Liverpool, reports that the British expedition which was dispatched to the Sherboro district of Sierra Leone, west coast of Africa, owing to the massacre of American missionaries by natives, fought its way to Rotifunk. The British force found the cremated bodies of the murdered missionaries, which, however, bore no trace of mutilation, as had previously been reported. The expedition severely punished the natives, but the search for Mrs. Cain, who fled to the bush at the time of the massacre, proved fruitless. SPANISH AGENTS CAUGHT.^ Found Prowling Near the Magazine at Portsmouth, N. H. Two strange men were arrested in th? Portsmouth (N. H.) navy yard shortly before noon the other day, in the vicinity ot the magazine. The men were first seen by a sentry in a clump of bushes on a hill, back of the marine barracks, and as soon as he challenged them they walked toward him and gave themselves up. The men would give no information about themselves. They were confined in the guardhouse. Stong Combine in Whisky Trade. The Standard Distilling and Distributing Company has completed its organization under the laws of New Jersey, and will commence business at once. These concerns purchased represent the entire distilling and distributing business of this country not controlled by .the American Spirits Manufacturing Company. That company and the new company will act in entire harmony. The capitalization o< the new company is $24,000,000. The purchase by the new company of the different plants and business will, it is claimed by the new organization, work great economies and consequent savings in tho conduct and operation of the business. The fact that Levy Mayer, who is general counsel of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company, has also been elected general counsel of the new company, indicates that there will be no discord or friction between the two concerns. The makeup of the board of directors of the new company shows its tremendously strong financial backing. On the board are represented the Standard Oil interests in the person of Mr. Paget, Mr, Whitney’s son-in-law. Another director is Mr. F. O. Matthiessen, who is the vicepresident of the sugar trust and also of the glucose trust. Elkins and Wagner and other Philadelphia interests have their representatives on the board in the person of Mr. Dick. New Submarine Torpedo. R. Lee Fitzhugh, late of Lexington, Ky., whose home is now in Baltimore, has been in Lexington organizing a stock company for the manufacture of a submarine torpedo device for which he has applied for a patent. The plans and specifications have been submitted to experts and the machine has been pronounced a wonder. Prof. Paul Anderson of the me. clianical department of Kentucky State College has examined it in the interest of the people who propose to invest in the machine, and says it is of perfect mechanism. It is a thirteen-foot torpedo, which is to be sunk into the water and can be sent a distance of eight miles to whatever object desired, being controlled by electrical attachments. Its inventor also claims that it can be used to locate and destroy mines in harbors and to transport messages to and from ships through the water. A practical demonstration has been made with a model one-fourth the proposed size. Fitzhugh spent several years in the United States navy and was for years an expert in the Inventors’ Association at Washington. Distinguished Men Selected. It is officially announced that Queen Victoria has appointed the following to be high commissioners, in pursuance of the agreement signed at Washington on May 30, for a joint commission to adjust the Canadian-American differences: Baron Herschell, lord high chancellor; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Ohnada; Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis Henry Davies and John Charlton. Boy Globe Trotter Home. After four years of rambling, during which, he says, he has traveled and lived in first-class style, without money or credit, Richard J. Vincent, aged 16 years, the boy globe trotter, is home again in New York from a foreign shore with a large book full of press clippings and autographs of distinguished persons. The bey is proud of his achievements in the deadhead line. Chose an Awful Death. Miss Anne Forester of Cleveland committed suicide in a most tragic manner at Oakdale, a suburb, where she was visiting. She went into a barn, and saturating the interior of the building with coal oil, applied a match and knelt down in the midst of the flames, praying that her life might be taken away. She could not be rescued and died in terrible agony. Martiat Law in. Austria. Dispatches from Lembonrg, Austrian Galacia, announce that martial law has been proclaimed in the districts of Limanova and Neumbandeo, owing to the frequent cases of murder, robbery and incendiarism which have occurred there. Kansas Bank Is Closed. At Abilene, Kan., Thomas J. Kirby’s bank, a private institution and the oldest in the county, was taken in charge by State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal. It has $218,000 on deposit and $70,000 cash on hand. Hangs Himself in a Cell. In New York Edward Bender, a prisoner in the Tombs, awaiting trial for the killing of Richard Bennett, in April last, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. Drowned in the Potomac. Edward Dearth, a private of Company 8., Sixth Illinois volunteers, was drowned at Washington while bathing m the Potomac river. Bad News from Klondike. A special from Juneau, Alaska, says, “J. M. Thompkins, for fourteen years srain buyer for P. D. Armour of Qhicago,