Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — SULTAN WILL NOT PAY [ARTICLE]

SULTAN WILL NOT PAY

REFUSES TO GIVE DAMAGES FOR ARMENIAN MASSACRES. Porte Bay* Turkey Is Npt Responsible for American Losses Young; Man Piles Ties on a Railway and Then Stops a Train. BOGUS HERO CONFBBEB. Piled Ties on a Railroad Track and Then Flagged a Train. A young man giving the name of Alexander Mummel of Shelby County, Illinois, flagged train No. 2 of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, near Monroe, Ohio, the other evening, and when the train stopped a lot of ties were found piled on the track. General Superintendent Itawn and Division Superintendent Brimson were on the train, but they took no stock in Mummel’s story of finding the obstruction accidentally, so he was taken to Chillicothe and turned over to Marshal Stanley, who succeeded in getting a confession from Mummel that he had placed the ties where found for thtu purpose of getting money from the comimny and passengers. Turkey Makes a Disclaimer. At Constantinople, the porte replied to the American demand for compensation for losses sustained by American subjects during the Armenian massacres. The reply is the same as that given to other powers, repudiating all responsibility for the losses. In the course of the farewell audience of Dr. James B_. Angell, the retiring American minister to Turkey, the Sultan referred to the war between the United States and Spain. He said he was much impressed with the naval operations, and the terrible execution of American guns and hud ordered the purchase of similar guns for Turkey. Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..05 32Pittsburg ... .50 43 Boston 58 35Philadelphia. 43 49 Cleveland ...58 35Brooklyn ....36 57 Baltimore .. .52 38 Louisville ...36 61 New Y0rk...52 42Washington. 32 58 Chicugo 54 44 St. Louis 28 69 Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L. Kansas City. 62 36Columbus ...48 43 Indianapolis. 57 36 Detroit 33 55 St. Paul 56 40St. Joseph... .33 58 Milwaukee ..57 43 Minneapolis. 31 68 Railway Wreck in Massachusetts. Three men were killed and a nupiber of mail clerks were severely injured on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at Canton Junction, Mass., by an express mail special from New York to Boston jumping the tracks. The accident was caused by a misplaced switch. The special was running at high speed on a down grade. At the bottom of the slope the switch at a siding failed to work and in an instant the cars were off the track. The engine and forward car were turned over on their sides, and the other three cars were thrown from their trucks. Two Killed, Many Injured. An accident which caused the death of two persons and seriously mangled and maimed seven others occurred twelve miles west of Cass Lake, Minn. A construction train with 100 bridgemen and laborers engaged in the extension line of the Great Northern Railway to Fosstoft struck an obstruction on the tracks. Four flat cars with their loads of human freight were derailed. Looking for a Boom, The London Statist predicts a great wave of American prosperity after the war and active European business in American securities. “Cuba,” it says, “will give employment to a vast amount of capital, and the stimulus to industry there will react upon the United States. The investments in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines will particularly benefit railways.” Anarchist Plot in Spain. El Epoea of Madrid states that the police are investigating an anarchist plot against the life of a high political personage which was to have been carried out upon the occasion of the anniversary of the assassination of Caiiovas del Castillo. Fire in a Packing Plant. The plant of the St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company at St. Louis, Mo., was damaged by fire. The cattle sheds, hidehouse, sausage room, pork cooler and fertilizer buildftg were destroyed, the total damage being $50,000. Lake Steamer Disabled. The passenger steamer Manitou of the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior Line was disabled by the breaking of the engine while abreast of Manistee, Mich. The disabled boat was picked up by the steamer Alcona and towed to Chicago.

Aged Man’s f ilicide. At Dayton, Ohio, Coroner'. Hatcher haa found that John Schoen, aged 73, who shot himself four times with a revolver, did bo with suicidal intent. He grieved about his departed wife, and suffered with rheumatism. Messina Is Severely Shaken. There was a severe earthquake shock at Messina, Island of Sicily. The inhabitants were panic-stricken, but there was no damage done. , George M. Ebers Bead. A dispatch from the Villa Ebers, at Tatzing, Bavaria, announces the death of Georg Moritz Ebers, the Egyptologist and novelist. Catholic Inslitntion Destroyed. Fire broke out in the chapel of the Niagara university, a Catholic institution near Niagara Falls, N. Y. The chapel was almost entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated at $70,000. The fire is attributed to an incendiary. Bismarck, N. D., Destroyed. The best portion of the city of Bismarck, N. D., was consumed by fire, utterly destroying hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollar^ 1 worth of property. Mr. Cnrzon Accepts. George N. Curzon, the parliamentary secretary for the foreign office in London, has accepted the office of viceroy of India, in succession to the Earl of Elgin. Mr. Curzon married Miss Mary Leiter, the daughter of L. Z. Leiter of Chicago. He was formerly parliamentary under secretary for India. Better Trade with France. At Paris, Le Temps says the United States has notified the French minister of foreign affairs, M. Delcasse, that she desires to enlarge the reciprocity treaty by including new products. France, the paper adds, has accepted the suggestion, and the negotiations on the subject will be opened. Hurricane on Gulf Coast. A hurricane of unusual severity swept the gulf coast of Florida. The storm had all the characteristics of a genuine West Indian cyclone. It was first reported at Tampa, where it grazed the coast, but caused sufficient wind to detain steamers in port. ~ Two Convicts Arrested. Sam Smith and Tom Winn, both of whom escaped from the Kansas penitentiary two months ago, were arrested at .Nowata, I. T., charged with the hold-up of the St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train at Andover two weeks ago.

ODD FELLOWS IN TRAIN WRECK. Several Badly Hart, bat No Fatalities Are Reported. A serious accident happened to the big Odd Fellows’ picnic train composed of twelve sections on its retnrn trip from Idlewild to Pittsbnrg. No one was killed, and while quite a number were badly shaken up and bruised only seven needed medical attention. One woman, Mrs. McClelland of New Florence, Pa., is seriously hurt and may die. Miss Lad&ir of Apollo was badly injured, but will recover. The accident occurred at Blairsville intersection, where the West Penn section, consisting of sixteen coaches, was backed into a blind switch, knocking away the bumper and throwing the last car, which was crowded with excursionists, over an embankment. The passengers were thrown violently from their seats into a confused heap and pandemonium prevailed. The cries for help were quickly responded to by hundreds of willing rescuers, and all were soon taken from the wreck and cared for. GOLD-SEEKER KILLED. F. C. Fleming Falls 200 Feet to Dnnth in a Glacier Crevasse. Frank C. Fleming of Chicago is the last Easterner to lose bis life on the treacherous Valdez glacier in Alaska. While working his way back to Valdez across the Ice mountain he fell Into a crevasse and dropped to the bottom, a distance of over 200 feet. The body was recovered and taken to Valdez, where it was buried. Young Fleming and his father had worked their way across the glacier in the hope of finding gold in the Copper river country. They got discouraged with the trip upon reaching Copper river and turned back. They came to one of the numerous crevasses and were looking for a place to cross. The father advised the young man to be careful, but he insisted on going up to the edge of the crevasse. His feet slipped and he disappeared. With a great deal of difficulty and danger a volunteer was lowered with ropes and found the body, crushed and mangled. DISTILLERS’ TRUST FORMED. Organization of One of the Strongest Combines Ever Effected. The United States Spirits Association was permanently organized at Cincinnati, Ohio, by the election of the following seven members of the executive committee: Chairman, W. N. Hobart, Cincinnati; secretary, J. Walter Frey berg, Cincinnati; treasurer, F. T. Corning, Peoria, Ill.; P. J. Hennessy, Chicago; Samuel Woolner, New York; Frank Curtiss, New York; Charles A. Webb, New York. The plan comprehends control of the entire output of all distilleries in the country. These will not deal directly with the trade, and only with such distributors as are in the combine. The distributors are to buy from none other than those in the combine. These regulations were made strong in anticipation of new concerns. All existing ones are included in this, the strongest combine yet organized.

KILLS WIFE, BABES AND SELF. Jealoua Andrew Wasgo Shoota to Death His Whole Family. A volley of bullets from two revolvers in the hands of a jealous husband wiped out an entire family in the little mining town of Cleelum, Wash. Andrew Wasgo quarreled with is wife early the other morning over a young man she had flirted with at a dance. He succeeded in killing his wife after a desperate struggle, in which three sh*ts from his revolver passed through her body. He then directed his weapon at his two little girls, who lay screaming in their bed. He shot each of them twice and both are dead. As an end to the tragedy he turned the revolvers to his own head and two heavy bullets crashed through his brain. Talk of Hostile Demonstration. On the Panama liner Advance, which has reached New York, was Commodore Carlos Ferryros of the Peruvian navy, who is en route to Paris for the purpose, it is said, of purchasing warships for the Peruvian navy. Rumors had been current in Panama prior to July 21, those on the Advance said, when Commodore Ferryos arrived there on the steanaer Santiago from Callao, concerning a strong agitation throughout Peru against the United States, owing to differences between the two countries existing since 1885. There was therefore some significance in the utterances of President Pierola at the opening of the Peruvian congress at Lima. During his address President Pierola said that the national life of Peru was calm and prosperous, and that the foreign erlations of the Government were friendly, with the solitary exception of an issue raised between Peru and the United States, dating from 1885. During the height of the anti-United States feeling in Peru there was considerable talk about North America being unable to protect its Pacific coast line on account of the Spanish war, and that a Peruvian demonstration thereabouts might compel the United States to modify her demands. It was also hinted that secret agents had been sent to Europe for the purchase of .war vessels and that an important move might be made at an early day. These rumors were partially confirmed by Commodore Ferryros’ admission that he was on his way to Paris and that the object of his mission was to purchase warships for the Peruvian Government. No little excitement was caused in Central America when the information that Peru was taking steps to strengthen her navy became known.

Mayor Rescues Three Women, Greater New York’s Mayor, Robert A. Van Wyck, forgot his dignified position as executive of that municipality the other day and became a simple, energetic hero. Three young girls were drowning in the canal in front of the Woodcliff inn at Freeport, L. 1., where the Mayor was Bpending his vacation. They would certainly have lost their lives had not his honor, who was lounging easily on the piazza of the inn, vaulted over the rails, sprinted to the canal and jumped in with all his clothes oh, except his hat, which he discarded while on the run. The young women who owe their lives to the courage and presence of mind of Mr. Van Wyck are Miss Jennie Lownes, daughter of Rev. Arthur Lowdnes, assistant rector of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church of Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street; Miss Clara Pritz of Cincinnati and Miss Elsie Heinsheimer of the same place. Railroad Taxes Are Increased. The State Board of Equalization in North Dakota has raised the valuation of all railroad property in the State from $8,000,000 to $12,000,000, fixing the average value of roads at $5,000 a mile. The increased tax to be paid by the roads will be about $125,000. Jumped to His Death. George Tod, a wealthy resident of New York, committed suicide by Jumping from a tenth-story window in the Hotel Majestic. Mr. Tod had been a sufferer from melancholia for some time past. He was a brother of J. Kennedy Tod of that city. Teacher Kills a Negro. At Anadarka, Okla., a negro named Barrett was killed while trying to enter the room of Miss Phoebe Stokes, a school teacher at that place. Miss Stokes heard him opening a window and fired six shots into his body, killing him instantly. Many Woolen Mills Shut Down. At North Vassalboro, Me., the woolen mills owned by Samuel Williams of Boston and Thomas Sampson of Winslow have shut down for an unknown period, owing to poor markets. About 600 hands are thrown out of employment. Spanish Village Wrecked. The village of Mediana, Spain, has been wrecked by a cyclone which killed many persons. Several houses at Hornillos have been ingulfed by the floods and a number of people have perished. Indian Mints to Reopen to Silver. A special to the Denver Times from Washington says: “Information has been received here from London through private channels ,to the effect that the Indian mints are to be reopened to free coinage, and the assertion is made that this will

occur at an unexpectedly early date. The report of the Indian commission is to be published before Sept. 1, and this is expected to throw some light upon the details of. the matter. The announcement ’that the important step of reopening the mints will take place comes from a source which is usually reliable. There is a strong effort to have the ratio changed from 16 to 1 to 22 to 1, and it is asserted that a willingness to assent to this change has been evinced by both the United States and France. The establishment of a ratio of 22 to 1 would have the effect of increasing the present price of silver, but it would, on the other hand, probably prevent forever the restoration of the ratio of 16 to 1. There is some disposition to doubt the accuracy of the information, bnt this doubt appears to arise largely from the fact that it is unexpected.”

WAR ON A WOMAN. Kansas Men Complain of a Bright Female Teacher. The young men of Kearney County, Kan., have waged war on Miss Tillie Davies, the county superintendent of schools, because in addition to her salary she is trying to make some money on the side by teaching. Miss Davies lives with her parents on a farm in a school district practically depopulated. Miss Davies, her father and mother compose the school voting population and they regularly meet in accordance with law and elect themselves as the three members of the school board. Then the board elects Miss Davies as the teacher of the school and votes a nine months’ term at S4O a month on the non-resident taxpayers of the district. Miss Davies’ school consists ol two pupils. The complaiut filed by the men of Kearney County with the Attorney General is based upon the proposition that the young woman cannot draw two salaries from the State at the same time.

TOO BASHFUL TO MARRY. Girl Who Caused Her Lover’a Suicide Cuts Her Own Throat. At Columbus, Mo., Cora Havens cut her throat with a butcher knife at the home of her father, a farmer, and the attending physicians say that she cannot live. She is the young girl who, because of her extreme bashfulness, several times refused to marry C. L. Fait, a young farmer living near her home. On their wedding day, July 5, she flatly refused to allow the ceremony to proceed after the guests were present, and Fait went home and killed himself by swallowing morphine. Trains Collide on a Bridge. West-bound way passenger train No. 59, leaving New Haven at 3 p. m. and due in South Norwalk, Conn., at 4:07 o’clock, collided head-on the other afternoon with a switching freight train from the Danbury division on the Washington street bridge. Isaac Davis, a freight brakeman, was killed and the engineers and firemen on both trains were more or less injured, but the passengers suffered only a severe jolting. Electrical Workers on Strike. About 400 linemen belonging to the Electrical Workers’ Union went on a strike at St. Louis for an advance iD wages from $2.50 for ten hours’ work tc $3 for the same time. Their demands had been presented and refused. The men were employed by the Missouri-Edison and Laclede Light and Power companies and the Bell and Kinloch Telephone companies. Chemist Under Bonds. The first arrest in connection with the Jernegan case was made at Lubec, Me., when William Arrington, the chemist ol the Electrolytic Mining Salts Company, was taken into custody, charged with being implicated in the fraud. He was arraigned before a trial justice and held in $25,000 for his appearance in the Supreme Court in October. Wire and Nail Men Strike. A strike was formally declared by the Federated Wire Trades at the works ol the H. P. Nail Company and the American Wire Company in Clevtdand, Ohio, both of which are now under control ol the recently formed wire and nail trust. The strike will throw about 2,100 out ol employment. Zola Wins a Libel Suit. The libel action of Emile Zola against the Paris Petit Journal has resulted in a fine of 2,000 francs upon M. Judet, the editor, and of 500 francs each upon hit two assistants. The three were mulcted in 5,000 francs each as damages. Fire Destroys a Whole Town. The town of Centre Ridge, a place ol about 500 population, in Conway County, Ark., has been entirely destroyed by fire, Only two dwellings were saved. The fire Is thought to have been the work ol inoendiaries. World’s Bicycle Record Broken. At Boston, Mass., McDuffee defeated Taylore by two-thirds of a lap in twenty miles. Time, 34:56. McDuffee breaks all world’s records for the twentieth mile by twenty-two and one-fifth seconds. Inquiring Into Durrant's Life. It has been learned at San Francisco that the national bureau of education is making an exhaustive inquiry into the life of Theodore Durrant, under the direction of specialists in criminology. Italy May Build Six Cruisers. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle says it is reported there that the Italian Government intends to propose the construction of six armored cruisers. Canadian Sealers Paid. The department of marine at Ottawa, Ont., received from Washington a check for $475,000, which is the amount of the award to the Canadian sealers in the Bering Sea. California Grape Crop. Serious injury has been done to the California grape crop by the intense heat. In the interior of the State the thermometer has registered from 100 to 112.