Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — Page 2

J-. W. JIIcEWEN, PubUsliar. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

WRECKED BY STORM.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN A MISSOURI TOWN. South St. Joseph Is Visited by a Destructive Tornado and Deluge— United States Gunboat Bennington Ordered to Pago Pago Bay. Ths Element* Work Havoc. A tornado struck South St. Joseph, Mo., the stock yards suburb, at 5:30 o’clock the other afternoon, and the damage is variously estimated at $25,000 and $50,000. Nearly every house in the town was more or less damaged. Roofs were blown off, corners were torn out and a number of buildings in course of construction were completely destroyed. The damage by water was also heavy, as the wind was followed by a perfect deluge. Much damage resulted to manufacturers and railroad shops in the south part of the city proper. Sewers were washed out and railroad washouts were numerous in all directions. VESSEL AND DREW GO DOWN. Nothing Knowi as to the Identity of the Sh p or Whence She Came. An unknown schooner, believed to ben fishing vessel, has been lost With all her crew at a place called East Lake, a mile north of East Point reef, Prince Edward’s Island. Men on shore saw the two topmasts of a vessel sticking out of the water only a short distance from the beach. They rowed out and ■ discovered that a schooner had foundered and was lying upright on the’bottom in five fathoms of water. Two days before a heavy thun- ■ derstorm and tierce gale raged at East ,Point and persons living near the shore state that while the tempest prevailed they heard the cries of people in distress, but nothing was learned of the disaster until next day. HUSBAND SHOOTS TO KILL. Wealthy Man of Warrensburg, Mo., Slain by O.ie He Wronged. W. H. Hartman, senior member of the firm of Hartman & Markward, proprietors of the Magnolia mills, and one of the wealthiest citizens of Johnson County, was shot and instantly killed by Adolph Lubrick at the home of the latter in Warrensburg, Mo. Lubrick forced his way into a room occupied by Hartman and Mrs. Lubrick and opened fire on the pair. Three shots took effect in Hartman’s body, killing him instantly. Mrs. Lubrick was uninjured. Lubrick was arrested.

National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 75 42 Pittsburg ... .01 62 Cincinnati ..78 44 Philadelphia. 56 58 Baltimore .. .71 43 Louisville ...51 70 Cleveland ...68 49 Brooklyn ....44 68 New York. .'.65 53 Washington. 40 77 Chicago 66 54 St. Louis 33 86 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 76 47 St. Paul 70 56 Kansas City. 77 48 Detroit 48 77 Milwaukee ..78 52 Minneapolis. 44 86 Columbus ...68 50 St. Joseph... .40 83 Eighteen People Killed at Oahoes, N. Y. Au appalling disaster occurred in Cohoes, N. Y. A trolley car of the Troy City Railroad Company was struck by I the night boat special of the Delaware and ' Hudson Railroad at a crossing at the west 1 end of the Hudson river bridge which connects the city with Lansingburg, and its load of human freight was hurled into the air. Eighteen of the thirty-five passengers are dead and at least ten of the remainder will die. Democratic Success In Arkansas. Arkansas elected a full set of State officers, 100 members of the lower house of the Legislature, sixteen State Senators and local officers in each of the seventyfive counties and voted on the adoption of two important constitutional amendments, , us well as the question of the liquor license in the different counties. The Democratic State ticket, headed by Dan W. Janes, was elected.

Uprising of ths Muisu'manj, Candia, Island of Crete, is in a state of anarchy. A collision between the Mussulmans, who were demonstrating against European control, and the British authorities, who have been installing Christians as revenue officials, culminated in bloody fighting between the Mussulmans and the British troops.- Riots took place in various parts of the city and many have been killed. Ordered to Samoa. The United States gunboat Bennington has been ordered to Pago Pago bay, Samoa, according to Mare Island reports, to make a survey for a coaling station. Upon finishing the survey she will proceed to Manila and relieve the Concord, which will go to Mare Island and go on dry dock, the English docks not being available. Colorado Town Scorched. Fire broke out in the paint and oil room of Fenton’s drug store, in the best built part of Rocky Ford, Colo. The entire block was consumed before the flames were controlled. The loss will exceed $50,000. Holland** Queen Crowned. The crown of the Netherlands was formally placed upon the brow of its young queen, Wilhelmina, at Amsterdam, amid general rejoicing. Burglars Kill a Man. 3 Arthur Middleton, proprietor of a tea store in West Seventh street, in St. Paul, died from a bullet wound in the left breast, which, he says, he received at the hands of one or two burglars who tried to break into his place. There is no clew to the murderer. Earthquake in Cuba. Two earthquake shocks were felt at Santiago de Cuba. The first was of unusual severity and shook every house in the city. The second shock, which was lighter, occurred just an hour later. Caatructidh of Rap □ River, Mich. Fourteen business buildings at Rapid River, Mich., were destroyed by fire, causing great losses. In John Caswell’s barn twenty-two horses were cremated. The village has nearly 2,000 population and is entirely without fire protection. The belief is general that the fire was of Incendiary origin. Codiei of Childre i Found. The dead bodies of Matilda Mullins, aged 14, and Isaac Mullins, aged 10 years, were found at Baker’s Fork creek, near Charleston, W. Va., and no clew can be secured to the double murder. Six murders have occurred in the same vicinity, all due to family feuds.

Soldier In Prison for Life. Private Alex La Duke, Company I, Second Wisconsin volunteers, was placed in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to remain for life, for the murder of Private Thomas Stafford of the Thirteenth ■United States infantry in a saloon row in Ponce, Porto Rico. Prom'nent Man an Embezzler. Ex-Mayor Fritz H. Twitehell, one of Bath’s most prominent citizens, a member of Gov. Power’s council and well known in business circles in Maine and Massachusetts, is a confessed embezzler. The amount of embezzlement is placed at $60,000,

dastardly work of tramps. They Wreck the Chicago Llmltsd and OiW« Two Death*. Train No. 5 on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, known as “The Chicago Limited,” was wrecked at Ingalls Crossing, four miles south of Fulton, N. Y., at 5 o’clock the other m»ning. The wreck was doubtless due to tie dastardly work of tramps, who open the switch at which the train was wrecked, as well as two switches to the north of-the wreck. The train was running nearly sixty miles an hour when it struck the switch and was thrown over to the side track. The engine was thrown twenty feet and blown to pieces. The tender was turned over. The trucks of the baggage car were torn off and the head coach telescoped the baggage car. A vestibule chair car and the sleeper Farragut were derailed, but neither was badly damaged. Engineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both jumped and were found under the wreckage of the tender by passengers from the sleeper. Dowd died in a few minutes and Hall three hours later. The body of Brakeman Osborn was torn in two. Several passengers were injured. SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN. Pac.fls Express Money Packages Mystoricusly Disappear at O/nahs. Pacific Express money packages containing $6,000 in George W. Archibald’s wagon shfe, while being delivered at the express office in the union depot at Omaha, Neb., were stolen most mysteriously. Archibald, the driver, discovered his loss shortly after the money disappeared and immediately reported it to officers of the company. He said the money was taken from the wagon at the express office in the depot. When asked if the safe was locked, he said he must have neglected to lock the safe before leaving the uptown express office. - He said the money was stolen either en route to the depot or during a few moments while he left the wagon to enter the express office at the depot.

FIVE KILLED BY A ELAST. Premiture Expoi on cf a Dy iarn te Ch'rge Doe* Deal y Wark. Five men were killed by a premature explosion of dynamite near Stinesville, Ind. The men were at work on the .Mount Tabor and Ellettsville turnpike and had prepared to blast rock for macadamizing. Fifteen men were working near the spot, but besides the killed only one was badly injured. All the dead were blackened and mangled almost* beyond recognition. They were all married men and all leave small children. All lived in or near Stinesville. The debris and broken stone from the explosion were carried over a mile and the earth was shaken as if by an earthquake. It is not known what caused the explosion.

RECORD FOR GOLD COINING. Output of Ban Franc sco Mint for August Aggregate $8,160,000. Daniel Cole has succeeded A. T. Spotts as coiner at the San Francisco mint. During the four years ended Aug. 31 this mint coined $153,697,834, of which over $125,000,000 was gold of Pacific coast production. The coinage for the month amounted to $8,160,000, breaking all previous records in the United States. September is expected to make a still better showing, as more gold from the Klondike and Australia is expected in the form of nuggets and sovereigns, which will rapidly be converted into United States money. • ANNEXATION NOT POPULAR. GaloreC Element in Jimi'ca Not Fayorable to th* New Movement, The annexation movement in Jamaica has not progressed favorably, owing to the opposition of the colored element of the population and the lack of support from the newspapers. Consequently Samuel Constantin Burke, Jamaica’s member of the Barbados conference, is not authorized to propose annexation as an alternative to the joint demand of the West Indies for fair treatment. Possibly British Guiana or Barbados may take the initiative, should the conference decide to adopt a decisive ultimatum attitude. NEEDLE TRUST BEING FORMED. English and Amir'cin Firms Perfecting a Big Combination. The St, James’ Gazette of London says it is reported on the stock exchange that an Anglo-American trust to control the output and sale of sewing machine, knitting machines and all other kinds of needles is being formed. Several American and two Midland firms are reported to have sold their business to the combination. The capital, it is further announced, will be £1,500,000 ($7,500,000), divided into preferred and ordinary stock. Dec slon Pending New Laws. T. H. Goodman of the Southern Pacific Company of San Francisco, Cal,, is in receipt of a ruling by the Treasury Department on the question of whether foreign vessels will be allowed a clearance for any ports in Hawaii, to enter and land their cargoes at such ports, now that the islands are American territory. The Southern Pacific Company is interested In the matter to the extent of its interest ip the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, which is operating the steamships Gaelic, Doric, Coptic and Belgle between San Francisco and the Orient, by way of Honolulu. AU are chartered British vessels, and, under the treasury regulations, cannot engage ip coasting business between porta. The ruling of the Treasury Department settles this question. The company will be allowed to continue running its vessels between San Francisco and Honolulu until new laws for the islands are enacted by Congress.

To Oonneet British Colonial. The report of the committee of the New Zealand Legislature just issued recommends joining the Australian colonies with Canada and the mother country by a Pacific cable, on the basis that if Great Britain and Canada together would guarantee five-ninths of the cost of the work. New Zealand and the other colonies would contribute the remaining four-ninths, of which amount New Zealand will contribute one-ninth. The committee also recommends that Canada be intrusted with the construction, administration and maintenance of the cable on the understanding that the contributing colonies are to be ratified to representation and votes on matters of policy of the management and that the. cable is to be jointly ?wned and controlled by the contributors. The report concludes with advising that a conference of the colonies concerned in <,he new cable be held in New Zealand. Wa hid Ovirboard fr;m a Yacht By the accidental jibing of the sail of a pleasure yacht on Presque Isle Bay, near Erie, Pa., four young women were swept off into the water and drowned before assistance could be rendered them. Their mimes are Mary, Della and Ella Pardine, daughters of William Pardine, an Erie machinist, and Jessie Moore, daughter of John M. Moore, an engineer on the Erie and Pittsburg road. F vi Men Fall Th rty-fl/e Feet. A scaffolding in the tower of the union station at Kansas City, Mo., fell a distances of thirty feet, carry down with it five workmen and burying them beneath a shower of bricks, broken timber and plaster. It is thought none will die. Firs in Toronto thlp/ards. Fire broke out in Bertram’s shipyards at Toronto, Ont. The docks of the company and the large carpenter shop and «>me small buildings, together with a barge and a quantity of lumber, were destroyed. The loss will reach $200,000. Hotoital Sli p Qoei D-wi The hospital ship Olivette sank in thirty feet of water while near the quarantine station at Fernandina, Fla. No one was drowned. The cause of her going down is yet a mystery. Rumjr* of Eu-cpeaa Wari. War between France and Germany as a result of exposures to be made in the Dreyfus case and war betwosu Greet

Britain and Russia over complications in the far east are confidently predicted by well posted politicians in Europe. Paris is excited over the disclosures following Colonel Henry’s suicide and the wildest rumors are affoat. The people are demanding a retrial for the prisoner of Devil’s Island and the government faces the prospect of war with the Kaiser if this is granted and the whole truth told and a revolution at home if it is refused. Officers of the French army threaten to resign and tell all they know of the Dreyfus case, and many of the highest men in military circles are implicated in the promised exposures. No order for a revision of the Dreyfus .verdict can be secured until the cabinet meets, and the ministers are now scattered, apparently wishing to keep out of the way for the present. Zola, from his hiding place, has written Dreyfus’ wife congratulating her. HARD TIMES ARE FORGOTTEN. Nearly Every Line of Tradr Shows Improvement—Records Bretten. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The smallest failures ever recorded in any month for five years were those of August. No other month since the montly reports were commenced by Dun’s review exclusively has shown defaulted liabilities as small within $1,000,000, and the ratio of such defaults to solvent business, represented by exchanges through all clearing houses —only $108.70 to sloo,ooo—is smaller by 26.5 per cent, than in any previous month. The clearings have been the largest ever known in August, and 23 per cent, larger than in 1892. The enormous volume of business in a month usually one of the most inactive of the year demands attention. Postponement during the months of war of some contracts and purchases which have now come forward explain part of the increase, and the strong absorption of securities explains part, but there has also been a great decline in the average of prices for all commodities, so that it takes a much larger volume of business in tons or bushels to make up transactions amounting to a million more than in 1892. It is therefore strictly trua. that business is larger than in the very best of all past years, and yet there is every prospect of much further increase. Failures for the week have been 171 in the United States, against 191 last year, and 22 ip Canada, against 25 last year.”

WRECKED BY WAR TORPEDO. Snag Boat Blown Up and Four of Her Grew KilledThe United States steamer John Meiggs of the snagboat service was blown up in the Mississippi river, near Fort St Philip, by a torpedo or mine placed there at the beginning of the war with Spain for the purpose of preventing any hostile vessels from ascending the river. Captain Starr, Sergeant John Needham of the engineer service, Ralph Rogers and Pat Corless, employed on the vessel, were instantly killed, and D. B. Reddick and Fritz Koch seriously wounded. The only other person on the boat at the time, Lieut. Jarvis, escaped unhurt, almost by a miracle. The boat is a total loss. Some seventy mines and torpedoes were placed in the Mississippi at the beginning of the war. Major Quinn was ordered to remove them. It was while in this work that the Meiggs was blown up. The lost steamer was built in St. Louis and cost $30,000. May Mean L.bsrly for Dreyfua. Lieut. Col. Henry, oue of the chief witnesses against Captain Albert Dreyfus, killed himself in the Mont Valerlen fortress, near Paris. He had made confession that the document which he offered at the trial had been forged to aid the army in the prosecution of Dreyfus. Upon hearing of the tragedy Gen. de Boisdeffre, chief of staff of the French army, resigned. Revenge of Treasure-Seekers. 'The schooner Sophia Sutherland, which left San Francisco eighteen months ago with a party of treasure seekers for the Sdlomon Islands, has returned with a cargo of cocoanuts. The men were deceived by the projector of the enterprise, L. P. Sorenson, who was put ashore on the island. The others sailed for Samoa. Big Lot of Flour Ruined by Fire. Fire, smoke and water ruined or damaged about $200,000 worth of flour in the New York Central freight house in Buffalo. The flour, which is owned by three Minneapolis companies, was fully insured. The freight house and dock were damaged to the extent of but a few dollars. Coffi i Game In Texas. Dr. Oscar J. Braun was instantly killed and E. St. Leon, a State ranger, fatally wounded by John Collier and other parties near Socorro, Texas, while Braux and St. Leon were trying to arrest Collier and others for shooting up the town. Collier is in jail. Allege 1 ! Murderers Are Arrested. The coroner’s jury in Watertown, S. D„ brought in a verdict that Lyman E. Moody, whose charred body was found in the burned ruins of his home the other pight, was murdered by Louis Montrol and Mike Andre, both of whom have been arrested. .Japan's New Oru ser. Paymaster K. Nakanama and Lieutenant Commander K. Tsuchiya of the Japanese navy have arrived at Seattle from St. Paul to meet the crew of the new Japanese cruiser Kasago Kan, just built at Philadelphia. Heavy 'Storm In Georgia. A heavy storm did $250,000. damage in Savannah, Ga., and vicinity. One man was drowned by the wrecking of a steamer in Calibogue sound. Stone for Governor. Democrats of New Hampshire have selected Charles F. Stone of Concord as their candidate for Governor. P:ot Against Banff/. The Budapest newspapers report the discovery of. ft plot to murder Baron Banffy, the Hungarian premier.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, SB.OO to $4,25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4,75; w'heat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2. 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 21c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5,50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No, 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. Bt. $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yeliiow,-29c to 30c; oats, No, 2,20 cto 21c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5,25; hogs, $3.00 to $4,25; sheep, $2-50 to $4.50; wheat, No, 2,65 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No, 2,44 cto 46c, Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, 44c to 45e, Toledo—Wheat, No, 2 mixed, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; oats, No, 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,43 c to 44c; clover seed, $3.15 to $3.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 3,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 25c; rye, No, 2,43 cto 44c; barley, No, 2,40 cto 44c; pork, mess, $8.50 to $9.00. Buffalo—Cattie, good Chapping atoers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3,50 to $4.25; sheep, fair to Aoice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.50. New York—Cattle, SB.OO to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 70 to 71c; com, No. 2,36 cto 87c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 80c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Western, 15c to 16c.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS. In Illinois the Republican party is split wide open. Its members are quarreling about the Allen bill, the schemes of Governor Tanner to defeat Senator Cullom and elect himself to the United States Senate in 1901, the condition of the state treasury in consequence of the candidacy of the deputy treasurer for two terms to be treasurer for what would be virtually a third term, the quarrels of local candidates in nearly every legislative district, and other troubles too numerous to mention. The Republicans who voted for McKinley In 1896, on the bimetallism platform, now see their error and will vote for the Democrats. In Wisconsin the success of the “doodle book” campaign in the renominatlon of Governor Scofield and the prospects of a silent bolt by at least onethird of the Republican voters illustrate Republican harmony in the Badger state. The silver forces are splendidly organized. In Michigan the open war made by Governor Pingree on Senator Burrows, the aspirations of Pingree for a renomination and to be elected senator, while Alger has designs to retire from the war department and to be elected senator, and political conditions Illustrating Republican “harmony” in the state. Michigan, always a silver state, will swing into the Democratic column without a doubt. In lowa and Minnesota the conditions are substantially the same. There is internal war In the Republican party from center. to circumference. The cause of gold monometallism has split the party everywhere in the Centra! West. In Indiana, the Republican situation is so bad that it could be hardly worse. The leaders know and acknowledge the fact. There will be a .gain of several Democratic congressmen on the financial Issues. A Democratic legislature will be elected and United States Senator Turple will be chiosen for another term. With all the facts in view the rosy description of Republican prospects at the west attributed to the secretary of the Republican congressional committee Is subject to large abatements in the brilliancy of its coloring. The West will send a largely increased silver delegation to congress this year, and will give an enormous Democratic electoral vote in 1900.

A Reckoning: Day. Hanna’s boast that he and the politicians of his party would make political campaign capital of the war, and the record made by the administration In its prosecution, is likely to turn to ashes and, like dead sea fruit, mock them In a most unprofitable investment. From every quarter, from every reliable source comes information arraigplng and Inculpating in the highest degree, and censuring without remorse or respect for the man or his position in any manner connected with the administration guilty of misofflelal conduct in the prosecution of the war. The severest arraignment of administration officials in the conduct of the war comes from journals either independently Republican or non-political; and If Mr. Hanna and his partisan compatriots can find solace or campaign capital Ln these bitter and scathing denunciations of the records made, surely they are legitimate for the purpose of the canvass. Harper’s publication and the Scientific American contain much that it would be profitable, if not entertaining, for Mr. Hanna to read; and now comes the Ledger, independent Republican, from the City of Brotherly Love, with a reputation established for it by Mr. Childs as the most reliable newspaper in all the States. “Reckoning Day” has this to say in the way of making campaign capital: For the direful misery, pain and death which the bravest and best of the country’s youth have been compelled to suffer by reason of the unprecedented incompetency and criminal indifference of the War Department there must surely come a reckoning day. It seems now impossible, in view of the daily revelations of the offenses of that department, that it can escape the penalty which the official conduct of its chief has invited. It is not only the wounded and the dead of the battlefield of Caney and Siboney who demand a reckoning; they are few' compared to those who were done to death by the cruel official neglect of the vital needs of our soldiers in the field, on the march, in the trenches, in the camp, on the transports, in the hospital, and everywhere. The mind revolts from the disclosures which are made of the youngest and best blood of the land poured out as a sacrifice to incompetency and indifference; the imagination can scarcely compass sueh horrors as are testified to by so many unimpeachable witnesses. Yet Russell A. Alger is still Secretary of War, and the evils which began with his administration continue. The record, of its acts of incompetency, of its blunders of head, its callousness of heart, daily grows longer and deeper.—Youngstown Vindicator.

Bonds, Always Bonds. When Democratic Congressmen suggested a plan for meeting the expenses 0f the war with Spain they were denounced as “obstructionists.” Rather than stand in the way, the Democrats yielded to the demands of the Republicans and aided them to pass such war revenue measures as the administration leaders had prepared. The conditions were such that the Democrats could do no more than make a dignified protest. But facts hayp demonstrated that the Democratic Congressmen Were right and the Republican Congressmen were wrong. Instead of a bond issue the Democrats suggested that the treasury isspe one-year certificates of indebtedness to the amount of $100,000,000 and coin the silver seigniorage, amounting to $54,000,000. This, with the income from the Internal revenue tax, would have been amply sufficient for the purpose intended. Thus }t appears that the issue of $200,000,000 worth of bonds was entirely unnecessary, entailing an enormous expense upon the Government and a debt that the people will have to pay. At the end of ten years the Interest on this bonded debt will have reached $60,000,000, and that is just so much entire ly needless expense. But the first resort of Republican financiers is to a bond Issue. Their only idea Is to borrow money and to make the people pay interest on the money they borrow. This is fun for the banks, bpt death to the people. The Democrats cannot be accused of devising this scheme, and the Republicans wijl be forced to bear the odium, Alger's Defense, If anybody Js to blame, says Alger, with characteristic impudence, it Js the Officers in the field. To blame for what, Mr. Secretary? Fur the conditions at

Santiago, perhaps. But who is to blame for the torture of the returning soldiers on the troop ships? Who is to blame for the horrible fact that at the end of a century, whose chief glory is the advance of sanitary science, and in a country that leads all others in sanitary progress, every camp has become a pest hole? Whose offense is it that has brought disease and death by starvation to soldiers within rifle shot of some of the richest communities in America? We know who is responsible for the blunders at Santiago, but whose is.the guilt at Montauk Point, Chicka--mauga and Jacksonville? If Alger had a scrap of decent selfrespect he would retire from an office which he has disgraced. As it is, he will not leave till the indignation of the people drives him back to private life. Force him out!—Chicago Journal. Chinese Cheap Labor. Republicans have claimed that Hawaii is the “key to the Pacific.” It is more likely to prove the key to a Pandora’s box of troubles. Possessing a large population of Chinese, who, by the annexation of the island, become residents of the United States territory, what law is there to prevent these Orientals from coming to this continent? But this is not the only menace. Information comes from Honolulu that the Japanese laborers on the islands are organizing labor unions, and that, With the consummation of annexation and extension of the laws of the Ujlted States to Hawaii, and the consequent

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abrogation of the laws authorizing pjnal enforcement of labor contracts, there will be a general demand for increase in pay, the demand to be enforced by a general strike, if necessary. This is all right, so far as it goes, but the pith of the atory lies in the fact that planters have applied to the Government for permission to import more cheap labor to the island. Indeed, it is stated that It is planned to bring in 3,000 of these pauper workers, 20 per cent, of that number to be Japanese, and, in all probability, the remaining 80 per cent, to be Chinese. With such an Influx of what may he truthfully called slave labor Hawaii will assuredly be overstocked and this country will be invaded by hordes Orientals. There can be no doubt that the Chinese and Japanese of Hawaii will soon turn their attention to thio continent, and it looks as though they would be in a position to land on thess shores and to ask the authorities coolly; “What are you going to do about it?”

Continues to "Die.” ' When a political Issue Is actually dead everybody knows it. There Is no occasion for one party to that issue to be continually trumpeting the fact. It is quite seldom that we glance over the columns of a gold paper without finding something irf the way of a reiteration of the claim that the silver issue is sleeping its eternal sleep. Why Is this? Can It be that they think It is like the corpse at Finnegan’s wake, not so very “dead” after all, and that a slight change of conditions will not only restore it to life, but bring it Into the most pronounced, vigorous and aggressive action? It looks suspiciously that way. In state after state three different parties, —the Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans—are declaring solidly for the free coinage of silver, and usually making it the first plank In their platform. What sort of evidence is that of the death of the silver issue? True, the people are not standing around in groups earnestly advocating free coinage. Nor are they strenuously proclaiming the excellence of the gold standard, or excitedly discussing the tariff. There Is no more proof that the free coinage idea is dead than there is of the death of the so-called “pound money” fanaticism. The people are thinking and talking chiefly of the war, as the Washington Post says in an article given elsewhere. But wait until the excitement of military events entirely dies away, and the gold men will see how “dead” the silver issue Is. The most of the silver men are readers and thinkers. They are “sliver men” because they understand the principles involved, and they know that absolutely nothing has occurred that has had the slightest tendency to prove that they are wrong and that the gold men are right. McKinley, Partisan. There are 6,500,000 citizens in the United States who have no representative on the peace commission. President McKinley has Ignored, and, by neglect to recognize, has insulted nearly one-half of all the voters In this country. Only one man (Justice E. D. White) of the five men appointed to decide the questions of vast importance which are to come before the commission has any claim to the name of Democrat, and that one man represents 137,600 voters who cast their ballots for the gold standard and Palmer and Buckner. Such partisanship is too small, narrow and bigoted to be the act of a man charged with the duty of protecting the interests of the people of this nation. It is the work of a politician, not the work of a patriot or of a Statesman. Democrats aided to make the victory over Spain complete. The candidate of the Democratic party for President in 1896 is an officer in the volunteer army; flip Democratic Congressmen voted for war measures; Democrats forced McKinley

to declare war; the army and navy art full of Democratic soldiers and sailors, yet Democracy has no representative on the peace commission. Is McKinley President simply of the Republican party of the United States?—Chicago Dispatch. Remember Montauk Point. The administration Is greatly agitated over, the revelations of incompetence, cruelty, greed and criminal carelessness which have come from Montauk. It will be necessary for McKinley to scheme deeply and to act promptly if he shall succeed in stemming the tide of public indignation. A plan is already on foot to get Alger, the corrupt and Inefficient secretary of war, out of the cabinet and to make of him a corrupt and Inefficient United States senator. Senator McMillan of Michigan is to be sent as ambassador to England, and Alger is to be appointed senator in McMillan’s place by Governor Pingree. This is the scheme that has been outlined by McKinley to save Alger from Impeachment and the Republican party from disgrace and defeat. It is a scheme worthy of the brain of a man who crowded Sherman out of the senate to give Boss Hanna a seat, but even though this plan be carried out it will fail of its desired effect Alger is already tried, convicted and sentenced by the people of the United States. He has been found corrupt and incompetent, and the Republican administration which is responsible for Alger has been condemned with him. So long as the American people love liberty, honesty, justice and patriotism, so long will they condemn the Republican administration for Its neglect, cruelty, Inhumanity—ln short, Its murder of the soldiers who fought for liberty honesty, justice and patriotism. Alger may be made senator, his incompetence may be covered up; the political plotting of McKinley may prevent as Investigation, or frustrate Its purposes should it be made, but above

THE ACCUSATION.

a?J tAe bland, hypocritical, platltudlnal, ptfltsjsts of the administration will be' h*ntd the terrible cry of the people; “Remember Montauk Point!” War Taxes Permanent Jt the Dingley law is to stand uncfttaged we do not doubt that some f«p of the war tax will have to rerfßtn p</i’manraitly. A prohibitory tariff cannot be a revenue raiser, and the mrte nearly it is prohibitive the less th/i revenue It yields. It does, however, efSlble monopolists at home to tax the people to line their own pockets, ajfirt that was the purpose of the Dingle r law. We get some revenue from pfoduats ve must import because they cSJaaot he found in this country. But tin moQpiJolists are given the opportunity tc exact tribute from the people as an additional burden. The latter support th! Government, and in additi<?o mafte millionaires of those whom thff tariff especially favors.—Manchester Union.

Lesson in Protection* It is ftstimated that 60,000 factories of <1 kinds |p Spain have, until the optldjpg of the war, been reveling in the beauties and feasting on the fat of high protection. «In order to secure to Fpeujtsh manufacturers the largest po>ftiU<- returns on their capital, the matket of the Philippines, Cuba, Porto Rico and the other colonies were forced wltlifln their extensive control by means of absolutely prohibitive duties placed up«y» the products of other nations. It do|» not require the exercise of very profound or intricate processes of reasoning to trace the relation of cause an£ effect between the loss of Spain’s collates In both hemispheres and th® lonj continued and grinding system of imposed upon her colonies. Louis Republic.

Thanks Due to Dingley. Bingley may have the consolation as long as be shall Jive of having done h(£ country a high service. He has demonstrated that a protective tariff cancel bo so contrived as to bring ip needed Revenue, This being the case, there is nt longer an excuse for a protective iaHff except as an undisguised implement of robbery. That Mr. Dingley did not know what he was doing, and produced the figures' to prove it, may srqnewhat diminish his satisfaction, bt.t H does not lessen the public benefaction.—Philadelphia Record. v F<r Humanity’s Sake.” How not to do It. This is the problem to the solution of which the true’ tone McKinley organ is now bending iits energias and warping Rs conscience. That ds, how not to fulfill the pledge made by Congress not to annex Cuba, but ito eUtaibllsh its independence. Its energies are now chiefly devoted to finding or forging grounds-smalnly the latiter—£o indicate that the Cubans are unfit tat independence, and that, therefore, t r '»e United States must, “in the serviqr of humanity,” annex the island. Impartiality of the Press. The course of the Democratic papers of this country in holding up the hands of the Preaident has been without precedent. It has been ao remarkable in this respect that it has led to high praise from Republican quarters. But there are questions of rewards now coming up, and in thia the Democratic press certainly has the right to criticise and commend, as the circumstances may show that one or the other is demanded by the circumstances.—-Peoria Herald. A Party of Plutocrats. Stephen A. Douglas, son of the famous man of that name, has formally renounced Republicanism and Joined the Democratic party. His reasons for this are that he regards the Republican party as “the party of the plutocrats,” and that it is longer a party of the people.

A WOMAN'S GRATITUDE.

She Came to Regard the Gratuity as - a Right. There is no telling where ingratitude begins or ends; there would be fewer good deeds done if everyone had a chart of the beneficiaries’ hearts. Of course we are taught to do good for the sake of good itself, and are well aware (those of us who are not pagans) that the eternal reward is to be conferred some time upon those who yield unselfish ministrations to God’s poor. But our very education from childhood indulges that instinct to be good because So that when we have done we consider a trifle more than our duty, although when we are hard pressed we admit to our pastors and spiritual masters that the needy are really our charges and the main spiritual test of our charity, we are never quite ready to accept the rebuff of thanklessness and ingratitude that is usually the portion of the well-doer. Perhaps there is no fate sterner than that known as the cahritable man or woman; the being to whom absolute strangers repair with their request for advices, moneys, sustenance. There is no salary attached to this civil martyr, but his time is employed just as though there were, with other unsatisfactory conditions attached to the office. If the charitable man or woman, who has been so unfortunate as to wear the reputation he or she has earned, declines to assist a polite beggar he may count upon vituperation and an injured reputation within the s’ennlght; which points a moral to all benefactors, not to let the right hand know, etc., and impress upon your friends that you are not so good as you’re painted. No one will ever find you out from any reports originated by the recipients of your good deeds.

This little preamble was inspired by several stories that have come to the writer direct from one of the noblest women of God’s fashioning, whose life is devoted to the pursuance of all good. For some months she has been intermediary in a little matter of $5 which a worthy individual Instructed her to place each month where it would do most good. There had been for some time on her hands a woman with several children and a sick mother; so she appropriated the money to their use, that amount paying their rent. As usual, last month, Miss S mailed the $5 to the woman, but to her surprise received a call a few days later from this beneficiary, requesting the usual stipend. Miss S was surprised, and told the woman that as usual she had posted the amount “It’s very strange,” replied the Ingrate, “because I should have received it if you had mailed it. I think you must be mistaken.” Miss S“— assured her that she had done so. “Well, I’ve moved since last month, but I left word to have my letters forwarded to me; and they would certainly have done so had you sent me that money. I think that person who gives you the money for me ought to know about it.” Miss S almost choked with mortification, but (foolishly enough) gave her a $5 bill, which she could ill afford, and told her she would look into the other matter. The letter was found at the postoffice and delivered by the postman with an explanation, whereupon the woman called again upon her best friend. “I am glad the money was traced,” she said, “because it raises all suspicion against yourself. As to that $5 bill of yours, I needed something, so had it broken; but here is what is left.” The astonished Miss S saw the woman deposit the change on the table and walk out.— New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat

Poets at Inverary Castle.

Recent references to the visit of the late Lord Tennyson to the Duke of Argyll at Inverary castle recall the fact that two other poets, Burns and Keats, also visited the ducal town. The Scottish poet was rather unfortunate. Burns arrived at the local hostelry at a time when it was occupied by a large company of guests of the Duke’s, and he found himself neglected and unknown. So piqued was the poet that he scratched on a pane of glass in one of the inn windows some lines, four of which run: “There’s nothing here but Highland pride, And Highland cauld and hunger, If Providence has sent me here ’Twas surely in his anger.” His grace the Duke had the pane removed, and it now forms one of the curiosities at Inverary castle. Keats was more fortunate than the Scottish bard. At the beginning of the century he found himself invited to witness a play in an old hall on the castle, the players being ladies and gentlemen of title living at the castle. Keats was given a front place, and seemed to have enjoyed the performance of the hlstrlona until the Duke’s pipers were introduced to supply the entr’acte music. After listening for a little to the strains of the bagpipes, he could stand it no longer, and, having obtained the permission of the host, precipitately retired.— London Westminister Gazette.

World's Largest Orchard.

The largest fruit plantations in the world are in Jamaica. They are owned and operated by an American company, the area of whose fruit farm is 44,000 acres. They own 28,000 acres, and the other 16,000 acres are held by them under lease, Their principal crops an. bananas and cocoanuts, and last yea> they shipped 3,000,000 bunches of bananas and 5,000,000 cocoanuts, besides other fruits to America and elsewhere, employing 12 steamers belonging to the company. Near Olden, on the Ozark mountains, in southern Missouri, there is one of the largest and finest fruit farms in the world. It consists of 2,200 acres of land, owned by a syndicate formed of the members of the Missouri Horticultural society, and on which are planted 61,000 peach, 23,000 apple and 2,000 pear trees, with forty acres in small fruits. There is an orchard at Barbara, In California, belonging to Elwood Cooper, which has an area of 1,700 acres, and contains 10,000 olive trees, 3,000 English walnut trees, 4,500 Japanese persimmon trees, 10,000 almond trees and about 4,000 other nut and various fruit trees.—Buffalo Evening Times.

Queens Who Smoke.

Queen Marguerite of Italy is one of the royal ladles who see no harm in the use of tobacco. She is much occupied with literature and is strongly addicted to the cigarette, which she smokes in the privacy of her room. Her flashing black eyes look laughingly through odorous clouds of smoke and she is wont to declare that her cigarette is more essential to her comfort than anything else in life. Christina, queen regent of Spain, consumes a large quantity of Egyptian cigarettes, and his little majesty, Alphonso XIII., enjoys lighting them for her.

How They Spend Their Money.

It is calculated that on an average every person in Britain spends £4 a year on clothing, £ls in food and £2B to enjoying himself.

FISHING FOR BASS.

It Is Weird and Uncanny at Night# bat £ucceasfnl. Black bass fishing at night during the late fall months is a sport peculiar to Lake Keuka. Long experience has demonstrated that these capricious fish have entirely different ideas about eating In the day time and at night. In fishing for black bass by day on Lake Keuka the angler is obliged to have th< choicest of live bait—minnows being the best—or the brightest of flies. But at night, during the latter part of October, and all through November and December, too, if he can endure the weather, the fisherman seeks places where the water is from 40 to 50 feet in depth, and where the bottom is rocky. Instead of single hooks on his leader, baited with lively minnows, or trailing the fly, he uses a gang of from six to ten hooks, all small, tied in pairs an inch apart. They are tied to strong, gut. The regulation bait is a golden shiner, a fish caught In the lake. It Is hooked to the gang by the Up and tail, in a curve, so that when it Is trolled through the water it will spin. Where the leader, which is six feet long, is fastened to the line another line Is attached. This is let down to the bottom. The gang of hooks thus plays the shiner in the water free from the bottom of the lake and four or five feet.above It This rig is used at the end of 100 or 150 feet of line. The boat drifts or is rowed very slowly. This has always been the most killing bait for night-feeding black bass, although last fall, as a joke on an angler whose experience in night fishing was exceedingly limited, a wellknown sportsman rigged up a fly made of roosters’ feathers on an immense white body, tied to a hook the size of a codfish hook, the whole being more than four inches long and three Inches broad. This was given to the intended victim of the joke, with the assurance that it was the latest discovery as a killing night hire, and several expert anglers who were in the secret went out to enjoy his efforts with the nondescript fly. To the amazement and chagrin of the experts, the unsophisticated angler was the only one In th© party who killed any bass that night, and he landed half a dozen, the smallest of which weighed three pounds, all taken with the preposterous lure. The bass would take nothing else, and the angler would doubtless have landed more If the tremendous fly had not been torn to pieces by the assaults of the six big fellows he hooked. " The black bass caught at night are invariably of the largest size. It Is rare that one much under two pounds is killed. They range from that to four pounds. A catch of 20 by one angler is on record as having weighed 65 pounds. The gang of hooks and ths dead shiner have been tried time and time again in the daytime without success. The water about Bluff Point, a bold promontory rising from the lake at its junction with what is known as the west branch of the lake, is the favorite spot for night bass fishing. The shores are rocky and the water very deep. If a person is rugged and rough and likes a dash of the weird and uncanny mingled with his surroundings, he will surely enjoy black bass fishing at night on Lake Keuka. Hammondsport Special N. Y. Sun.

Topics of the Time

A deaf and dump corps of the Salva* don Army has been organized in Stockholm, Sweden. The members meet four times a week. The “curfew” idea is said to be getting very popular in Kansas towns, and, where tried, to have been effective of good results in the control of the young. Owing to the prejudice of the Chinese against railroads, great difficulty has been experienced in the laying out of the line between Peking and Hankow. Surveying by photography is gaining ground. Over 50,000 square miles have been photographically plotted and surveyed by the surveyor general of Canada. The cigarmakers at Tampa hire a man to read to them while they work. This is a revival of a New England shop custom prior to the introduction of machinery. The term “infantry” soldiers originated with the Spanish, and was first applied to the military force employed by an infante, or young prince of Spain, to rescue bls father from the Moors. Profanity is forbidden by both the army and navy regulations. Any soldier or sailor who does not like to be sworn at has a right to make a complaint, and the offending officer is- subject to trial by court-martial. In Europe physicians no longer prescribe medicines for their patients in the form of pills. All medicines which are not liquid are compounded into tablets or cachets. Capsules are also out of date on the continent. - -

There is near Ballina, In Ireland, a little stone on the brink of a creek upon which is carved this interesting inscription, intended as a warning to travelers: “When this stone is out of sight it is not safe to ford the river.” In Nagasaki, Japan, there is a flreworks maker who manufactures pyrotechnic birds of great size that, when exploded, sail in a lifelike manner through the air, and perform movements exactly like those of living birds. In New Orleans practically the whole of the street railway system has been converted during the past three years from mule haulage to election traction. Out of 170 miles of road 163 miles are now operated electrically. A fish in a bottle was captured by a Maryland oysterman, and it seemed to be content with its quarters. Apparently it had entered the bottle under favorable circumstances and found Itself unable to wriggle out. Although all the old British battleships wore elaborately carved figureheads on their bows, modem vessels are not allowed any such sort of decorations, by virtue of an order of the admiralty issued about three years ago. In 1897 the regular Liverpool lines brought into the Mersey over 251,000 head of cattle from the United States and Canada, and the total loss was not more than 454 head, or about one-sixth of 1 per cent. Of the total number above mentioned the White Star lino carried over one-elxth, or 42,738 head, and only lost twenty-four head. The municipal hospital of Moscow, which was founded in 1764, has accommodations for 7,000 persons, and in the course of a year it receives 15,000 patients. The institution has on its staff twenty-six physicians and over 900 nurses. In 1812, when Napoleon was retreating from Moscow, he gave special orders that this hospital should bj spared. *