Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — WAR BEGUN IN EGYPT [ARTICLE]

WAR BEGUN IN EGYPT

FRIENDLY ARABS SKIRMISH WITH DERVISHES English Brigade of Arabs Meet the E»emy Near Khartoum and Capture Vive Men and a Boat-Sutro Will to Be Contested. . First Brush with ths Enemy. A brigade of friendly Arabs, commanded by Maj. Stuart Wortley, it is announced in a dispatch from Wad-El-Obeid to Cairo, Egypt, which has been pushing around Omduran, the Dervish camp near Khartoum, with the view of cutting off the retreat of the forces of the Khalifa, had its first brush with the enemy on the east bank of the Nile and captured five men and a grain-laden boat. The Dervish scouts, the dispatch continues, are now frequently sighted, and the whole Anglo-Egyptian army has reached Omteriff, thirty miles from Omduran. It will move into a new camp, ten miles further south. The gunboat Melik has been wrecked while reconnoitering ten miles up the river in a terrific sand storm. CONTEST OF THE SUTRO WILL, Heirs of the Deceased Ex-Mayor Begin Fro* ceedlngs. In San Francisco, four heirs of the Adolph Sutro estate have begun a contest of the will on the ground that the exMayor was mentally incompetent to execute a valid instrument at the date mentioned in the document. Those who challenge the probate of their father’s will are Mrs. 11. V. Morbio, Mrs. K. Neusbaum, Edgar Sutro and Miss Clara Sutro. Their attorneys will attack the wHi'on all the legal grounds allowed by the statutes of California. Two of the heirs, Mrs. Dr. Emma Merritt and Charles Sutro, have not joined in the contest RECENCY ENDS IN HOLLAND. Wilhelmina Take* Up the Scepter In that Ltte Nit lon. The Queen Regent of Holland, in a proclamation just issued, upon the occasion of the end of het regency, her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, coming of age, expresses warm pleasure at seeing the whole nation “ranged joyously around the throne of the young queen,” thanks God that her dearest wish has been heard, and, after thanking the people for their loving and faithful support of herself, invokes God’s blessing upon the youthful sovereign and concludes: “May our country become great in everything in which a small nation can be great.” National League Standing. Fallowing la the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 71 40Pittsburg ... .56 59 Cincinnati ..72 43 Philadelphia. 52 56 Baltimore .. .67 40 Cleveland ...65 46Brooklyn ....42 65 Chicago .... .64 50Washington. 40 71 New Y0rk...62 49St. Louis 32 82 Following Is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 71 45 St. Paul 64 52 Milwaukee ..74 47 Detroit 45 72 Kansas City. j 2 47 St. Joseph.,. .38 76 Columbus .. .64 46 Minneapolis. 40 83 Smallpox at Put-in-Bay. For several days smallpox has existed at Put-in-Bay Island, Lake Erie, and thousands of people who have visited the island have been exposed and thousands more will be exposed by contact with the people who managed to escape the quarantine established there by the State Board of Health. The State Board of Health took the matter in hand and made the startling discovery that there had been two deaths and that there were now six eases of smallpox in an improvised pesthouse near the hotel. Potato Famine in Birbadoes. Advices received from the island of Barbadoes, belonging to Great Britain, report widespread potato riots. Riotous gangs of men have been looting the produce of the plantations during the night. Following the recent shooting of the speaker of the house of assembly, these demonstrations are considered to be of a serious nature and more troubles are anticipated.

Stole th* Bank** Money. M. R. Todd, the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore County Bank at Preston, ' Minn., has confessed the theft of all the bank’s deposit funds to M. T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. He confessed that just prior to the bank’s assignment he had taken all the money on deposit and delivered it to a former partner, who is now in La Crosse, Wis. Killed by • Djipsraio. Ben Johnson of Middlesboro shot and killed Nathaniel Cloud, a deputy sheriff of Claiborne County, Tenn., as the latter was attempting to arrest Johnson at Tazewell, Tenn. John Cadle, a bystander, was also shot and killed. Pennsylvania Town Suffers. A fire at New Kensington, Pa., destroyed the opera house, Harmer’s block, Jacobin’s block and a number of dwellings. The Central Hotel was badly damaged. The loss is estimated at $50,000, partially insured. Drowned While Boating. Halyor Floren, aged 22, and Annie Dillnar, aged 18, were drowned while boating on Diamond lake, near Grove City, Minn. Morris Elofsen and Jennie Nelson, who were in the same boat, had narrow escapes. Wellman Back In Norway. The steam whaler Fridtjof, having on board Walter Wellman and members of his" expedition to Greenland, has returned to Tromsoe, Norway, after landing an expedition at Cape Tegathoff, on the southern point of Hall’s island. The search for Andree, the balloonist, has proved futile. Fira Lots in Auatln, Texas. A special from Austin, Tex., says the dry goods store of Phillip Hatzfield, the largest of its kind in that section of the State, was completely destroyed by fire. Lors about $135,000. Gunboat Zsflr Goes Dowi, A dispatch from Camp Hegiar, opposite the island of Gebel Rayan, says the Anglo-Egyptian expedition has suffered a father serious loss by the sinking of the gunboat Zafir. The boat ftprung a leak when near Shendy and within a few minutes went down. All on board were saved. Ice Cream Kills Three. At Middletown, N. Y., Ice cream prepared with lemon extract purchased from a traveling salesman a few days ago, has caused the death of three persons, and a score of others are sick, and more fatalities are expected. Bad Ending of Pleasure Trip. A railroad train on the Boston and Maine Railroad struck a buckboard at Whiting’s crossing at Ware, Mass., and killed five members of a pleasure party. Three others were serious# hurt. T. F. Bayard Is ll’. Thomas F. Bayard, ex-ambassador to England, is reported seriously ill at Karlstein, the summer home of his daughter, Mrs. 8. D. Warren, in Dedham, Mass. Ex-Governor of Indiana Dead. Claude Matthews, ex-Governor of Indiana and the leading candidate of the Indiana Democracy for the United States Senate, is dead at Crawfordsville.

LIGHTNING WA STREET CAR. tt Cause* a Panic Arning th* Passenger*— Several I Jural. An east-bound trolley car on the Second •venue line at Pittsburg, Pa., was nearing Hazlewood avenue lightning struck the car and set it afire. B. F. Fear, a real estate deafer, struck and stunned by the lightning, tried to jump from the car. He fell and fractured his skull. He was taken to the Mercy hospital, where he died. Mrs. Sarah Munhall and son John were hurt by falling from the car. Daniel Thomas, a merchant of Homestead, was burned and injured by being thrown against a building. Another man, whose name is not known, after he had been, burned, jumped off'in front of the car and one of his feet was crushed by the car running over it. KILLED THE WRONG PERSON. Man at Chandler, O. T., Mikes • M.stak* In H * Desire for Revenge. News comes from Chandler, O. T., of the killing of John Thompson by Leonard Bridge, the latter having mistaken hint for another man. Alexander Bridge was shot some time ago by a young man of the neighborhood of the name of Bryant, He was never arrested. Leonard Bridge threatened to kill Bryant if eVef thfe opportunity appeared. He suspected that Bryant was at home, and, with two companions, went to the Bryant barn to investigate. Thompson was asleep in the barn when Bridge entered. He awoke, and as he started to rise Bridge fired, thinking It was Bryant. Thompson was instantly killed. yellow fever in Texas. Euspected Case at Fort Point—Report from Dry Tartug t*. Dr. Wyman, surgeon general of the marine hospital service at Washington,-D; C., has received official information that a case of suspected yellow fever exists at the artillery post at Fort Point, near Galveston, Tex. The strictest isolation of the case will be enforced until the true character of the disease is disclosed. A telegram from the Dry Tortugas states that- the Vivian, from Havana, has four suspicious cases of yellow fever on board. The vessel has been quarantined. These isolated cases, Dr. Wyman says, are easily handled, and he expresses no fear that the disease will spread.

SEMINOLE NATION TO BE PAID. It Will Not Be Affected by the Provisions of the Curtis Act. Secretary Bliss of the Interior Department at Washington, D. C., has decided that as the Seminole nation has signed a treaty with the United States they will not be affected by the provisions of the Curtis act, and money due them by the Government shall be paid as Usual. The funds due them will be deposited at St. Louis, to be drawn upon by the proper tribal officers. The Chickasaws and Choctaws, who have no ratified treaties, the Curtis act provides, shall be paid individually by officers of the Interior Department. MURDERED HIS FATHER. Explain* that Ha Would Not So* He Mother Abused. At Buffalo, N. Y., John Carrigan, about 60 years of age, a cartman, was brutally murdered by his son Frank, aged 33 years, while he slept. The old man’s head was nearly severed from the body by an ak, Carrigan was arrested and taken to the house and shown the result of his work, “I done it, I admit it,” he prisoner said. “I did it because he broke my Mother’s arm. He abused her and I wouldn’t stand it.” Germany Prop sees to Divide. Trouble is brewing over the Samoan islands, which, under the treaty of 1890, are governed under a joint protectorate by the United States, Great Britain and Germany. Germany had marked the islands for her owu before this treaty was negotiated, but her scheme for absorbing them was blocked chiefly by the United States, which, by the treaty of 1878, had acquired the right to establish a naval station at Pago Pago harbor, and had virtually established a protectorate over the islands. Mr. Cleveland favored withdrawing from the joint protectorate, but President McKinhy is determined to retain all the rights in Samoa guaranteed to this country by the treaty. He is now taking steps to improve and fortify Pago Pago harbor, and dispatches from Europe show that Germany does not like this action. Correspondence is now in progress by the United States and Germany that may lead to serious friction. The Germans wish to divide the islands, each nation taking a share. This the United States refuses to consider for an instant. Great Britain has always taken a rather passive interest in Samoan affairs, but there is no doubt that her influence will in the future, as in the past, be thrown on the side of the United States.

Thieves In a St. Louli Bank. A St. Louis bank, one of prominence throughout the West, has been for several months the victim of systematic robbery. By means of a hooked wire, reached through an orifice at the bottom of a steelwalled vault, the culprit or culprits have worked a highly lucrative game, until from the best information obtainable the authorities believe the bank’s losses will foot up into five figures. The cashier of the bank has no explanation to make. Detectives have the bank employes under surveillance. Burglars Mak) a R ch Hiu’, The safe in the Rosenthal clothing store at Deadwood, S. D., was cracked the other night and about $220 in cash, between SIO,OOO and $15,000 in notes and warrants, an old watch and other valuable jewelry were taken. The entrance to the room was effected by cutting a hole through the floor from the basement. A hole was drilled through the combination of the safe, which opened the door. Favors ths Panama Rou:«. R. C. Ward, the civil engineer and railway expert, whose opinion is backed by an extensive personal knowledge of Isthmus canal matters, contributes a series of articles to the Panama Star and Herald on the future of the Panama canal. He does not believe the canal will ever be completed without American assistance, and he strongly advocates a canal along the Panama route as against the Nicaraguan project. Serious Fire in Hammond. Damage to the extent of $15,000 was caused to the building and machinery of the Simplex Railway-Appliance Company at Hammond, Ind., by a fire which originated from an explosion of benzine in the paint room, where a workman placed an unguarded torch too near a cask of the fluid. One hundred men are temporarily out of work. Bank In Minnesota Falls.. A bank at New Richland, Minn., failed, claiming that the cause of their failure was the fact that the Fillmore County Bank had SIO,OOO of their money to loan for them. The liabilities are increasing all the time, now footing up to SBO,OOO, with but $75 cash and $250 in small notes as assets. Japs Ara Excited Over Gild. The Japanese colony in Tapachula, Mex., is excited over the gold discoveries, a mine of great richness having been opened, giving new industry to the colony, which bids fair to be one of the most flourishing in the country. An Explosion of Fireworks. At Minneapolis, Minn., six persons, one of whom may die, were injured in the explosion of nearly a ton of fireworks in the manufacturing plant of George W. Porter. For Governor of South Dakota. At Mitchell, S. D„ the Republicans of South Dakota nominated a full State ticket, with Kirk Phillips for Governor Wheat G-oi Down Three Cents. R. G. Dun & Co. in their weekly review of trade say: ‘'The volume of business in exchanges at the principal clearing houses

26.8 per cent larger than in 1892, heretofore the year of largest business Knd highest prosperity ever known. Part of this increase was due to speculatiofi at New York, but there remains a healthy increase over the best of previous years, and though in some branches business « not satisfactory in character; in nearly all it is in volume larger than ever before-. Wheat goes down 3 cents for the week; as if there were ho foreign demand coming, the obvious concert of farmers to keep back wheat; the crop beihg certainly very large, tending to encourage a conspiracy of traders against them, which thus far has entire control of the market; Atlantic exports for the week haVe been 2,731,594 bushels, against 3,508,369 last year, and for four weeks of August 13,101,079 bushels, against '3,387,638 last year, while Pacific ekports were 254,239 bushels for the week, against 770,819 last year, and haVe been for the month 1,863,794, against 1,405.333 last year. It is Wise to remember that the foreign demand oh account of last year’s shortage is still lapping over; white all reports shdw that foreign crops are about Average. Shipments of boots and shoes have been larger than in any previous year, amounting to 362,293 cases in four weeks of August this year, against 343,258 last year and 356,376 in 1895, much the largest for this month heretofore, and 323,394 in 1892. White leather is quite stiff, notwithstanding extremely light purchases by manufacturers, hides yield a little at Chicago. Failures for the week have been 179 ih the United States; against 223 last year, and 26 in Canada, against 34 last year.’*

SOLDIERS KILLED IN A WRECK; Distressing Accident on tha Louisville & Naahvl le Railway. While going at a rapid rate the tender of the engine pulling the first three sections of a train carrying the 69th New York regiment from Fernandina, Bia., to Huntsville, Ala.,, jumped the track ten miles above Birmingham, Ala., on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and five cars well filled with troops were piled down an embankment and on the side of the tracks. Two men were killed and about twenty-five others injured. CoL Edward Duffy, commander of the regiment, was on the train with his staff. As soon as possible the wrecked cars were broken into with axes and the injured men and others were assisted out. There is no telling what caused the tender df the engine to leave the track, CHARGE IS TAX DODGING. Prominent O.tiiin* df Wheeling; W. Va., In* forhisd On by Nonresident*. Suits haVe been entered against 474 of the foremost citizens of Wheeling, W, Va., to recover taxes alleged to be due from them. The information charges false returns, to which there is a Severe penalty, as it is Classed as felony, The informations were Made by non-residents; who expect the 5 per cent information fee allowed by the State. For this reason indignation is expressed and the cases will be taken to the highest courts. The informers worked the same plan in Ohio and Indiana.. If they succeed here they will make $30,000. Will Fight Ch dago Grain Interests. With $150,000,000 behind hiffi, young Thomas A. Mclntyre of Wall street; New York, is planning a flour trust. It will be a combination of all the great flour mills throughout the United States. Mr. McIntyre will go abroad in a few days to swing the London stockholders into line. “It is oUr intention,” said Mr. Mclntyre, “to fight the great eleVators controlled by the Chicago wheat pit. We will build elevators of our own.” Chicago Q rl Drowned In Europ}. Word has been received in Chicago of the drowning in Lake Geneva, at Lausanne, Switzerland, of Miss Jennie Baker, formerly of Chicago and late of Pasadena, Cal. The jacket and gloves of the young woman were found in the water near the spot where she had been rowing. Lost on the Colorado Desert George Englke and Peter Edmiston, who left Riverside, Cal., over a year ago to prospect on the Colorado desert, have not since been heard from. The men went to Santiago, and from there started on their perilous trip. The belief is general that both men have perished.

Amir can Flour M Xsd with Corn. The imperial ministry of the interior at Berlin, by a circular to the different German governments, calls attention to the fact that American wheat flour is fro* quently mixed with corn and asks that steps be taken to prevent the importation of .such flour. Exclude the WcrtUn'i B ble. After a discussion lasting a week the board of censors of the Topeka, Kam, Federation of Women’s Clubs has ex* eluded the woman’s bible from its library on the ground that it is “written in a flippant, coarse and inelegant style.” $23,009 F re In Maryland. A fire which originated in Milstead’s livery stable at Laurel, Md., destroyed that building' and spread to the Herbert House and a stable belonging to William Schaefer, both of which burned. The loss will not exceed $20,000. Disaster Off Grand Banks. The Thingvalla line steamer Norge sunk the ICrench fishing schooner Lacoquette of Bayonne, France, on the Grand Banks. The captain and eight seamen were saved. Sixteen went down with the unfortunate vessel. Fostoria Bione Company Asiigis. The Fostoria (Ohio) Stone and Lime Company assigned to William Jaeger. The property is bonded for $15,000 and has $3,000 additional indebtedness. Assets are considerably less. California Repub'icai* Choos* a Leader. The California State Republican convention nominated Henry Gage, a Los Angeles attorney, for Governor.