Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — CALLS HIM A DONKEY. [ARTICLE]

CALLS HIM A DONKEY.

AN AMERICAN'S OPINION OF THE KAISER. Paul Knaak la Placed Under Arrest for Lese Majesty in Berlin -English Firm Wants an Interest in an Amer* lean Shipyard. Claims He Was Drunk. A correspondent cables: “If I had the Kaiser here I would tell him he is a schaffskopf” (literally a sheepshead, but colloquially synonymous with donkey), is the one offensive remark for which Paul Knaak, an American citizen, is confined in Moabit prison, Berlin, on the charge of lese majesty, according to mail advices, rigorous press censorship rendering it impossible to send full details by telegraph from Berlin. Knaak was in a restaurant with a girl named Loewe, and in a loud voice drew a contrast between the German and American governments, greatly to the advantage of the latter. When warned by neighbors that the slighting remarks about the Kaiser were dangerous, he replied as stated above and continued: “For the old Kaiser I had every respect, but I would box the present Kaiser’s ears, just as I would any one else’s. The Kaiser is lehman.” This last term is of peculiar opprobrium in Berlin, meaning vulgar or low. Thereupon the police were called and Knaak was taken to the station. De Schwindt, an able, painstaking lawyer, says Knaak’s defense will be an absolute denial of all knowledge of the remarks ascribed to him, as he was drunk. It is expected he will get six months and be banished on release from prison. ENGLISH FIRM COMING. Vickers’ Sons & Maxim Seeks an Interest in Newport News Shipyard. It was reported in May this year that the noted shipbuilding firm of Vickers’ Sous & Maxim of Barrow-in-Furness, England, was about to purchase an interest in the Cramp & Sons’ Ship and Engine Building Company of Philadelphia. The alliance, if any had been in contemplation, did not take place. But it developed quite recently that there was, after all, a strong probability that the famous English shipbuilding and gunmaking firm would extend its operations to this country, acquiring a large interest in the great Newport News shipyard, where, if the negotiations now in progress are brought to a successful conclusion, a big plant for the manufacture of cannon will also be established. INDIANS WILL RECONSIDER. Creeks and Cherokees May Yet Accept the Dawes Treaty. Secretary Bliss at Washington has received some important official dispatches from the' Indian territory indicating a change of sentiment on the part of some of the Indian tribes with whom the Dawes commission has been negotiating treaties. These dispatches were at a late cabinet meeting. They state that the Creek Indian council is to consider the holding of a new election looking to the adoption of the Dawes treaty, which has been once rejected at the polls. The dispatches also state that the Cherokee nation has just provided for a commission to treat with the Dawes commission.

Start In Search of Andree. The steamer Dingo arrived at Vancouver, B. C., from the north, bringing the report that Dr. Turwange and party had started on a search for Andree, going by balloon. J. Mangold of Vancouver was assisting ih the search for Andree. A Klondike-detective- named Franks. disco v- - 4ifed that Mangold was with the balloon party. He traced them to a point near Mount White; when the rigorous Alaska winter compelled him to turn back. Indian guides told him that the party had an immense bag with them that took fifteen Indian packers to carry, evidently the balloon. Check-Raiser Becker Confesses. At San Francisco, Carl Becker, one of a quartet of forgers who raised a check for $22,000 on the Nevada Bank, the original check calling for but sl2, has confessed. His accomplices have all turned State’s evidence, and it is believed that Becker confessed so that Creegan, who has been his particular partner in crime, could not benefit by his confession. Lazar Settles for $38,000. Max A. Lazar, a New York diamond dealer, who was tried on the charge of smuggling diamonds, has settled with the Government by payment through the United States District Attorney of $38,000. The indictments pending against Lazar and his brother, Edmund J. Lazar, and the brother's wife were dismissed. Death Sentence Affirmed. Division No. 2 of the Supreme Court, at Jefferson City, Mo., affirmed the death sentence of O. H. Baker of Shannon County, who whs convicted of the murder of his wife, whom he beat to death last March. He will be hanged Jan. 10. Landslide Causes a Wreck. A landslide brought on by the rain and snow melting caused a bad wreck on the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad near Swartwood, N. J. Three trainmen were badly injured and the road was blocked to traffic. Seven Persons Burned to Death. Seven persons were burned to death in a fire which broke out in the small hamlet of Exenthal, near Sonnebcrgh, SaxeMeiningen, about twelve miles northeast of Coburg. Princeton Defeated by Yale. Yale won the debate from Princeton at New Haven. A large audience was in attendance. The Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell of Hartford presided. The question debated was “Resolved, That the United States Should Annex Cuba.” Princeton took the affirmative. Otis Law Is Sustained. The Supreme Court of Ohio has sustained the Otis law, under which a Republican board of city affairs was ousted in Cincinnati and a bi-partisan board appointed in its place by a Democratic Mayor.. Terrible Concussion at Baltimore. One of the immense supply tanks of the Consolidated Gas Company at Baltimore exploded during a storm, and the concussion caused people to think an earthquake had struck that city. The damage is estimated at about $20,000. Street Railway Ordered Fold. Justice Wright has granted the motion of the attorneys for the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York to foreclose bonds against the Oswego, N. Y., Electric Street Railway for $125,000 and ordered its sale a few weeks hence. University Destroyed. Fire totally destroyed the main building of the Lincoln, Neb., Normal University, three miles from that city. It was a fourstory structure, costing slightly over SIOO,OOO. Insurance, $25,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. Acquit Haldeman of Marder. At Cincinnati, the jury acquitted W. J Haldeman of the murder of ex-State Senator J. C. Richardson Sept. 23 last. The men were business associates, and the killing was in the office of their mills at Lockland, Ohio. Novelty Works Destroyed. The Bloomsburg novelty works were destroyed by fire. The loss will reach $60,000, dusurance $25,000.

NOTBrtdM ANMMB. mm* LtHar In a Bottle le Picked Up Neat' Hie Ural Range. . An eflgihe driver named Detke has written to the Swedish-Norwegian minister at St Petersburg a letter in which he says that he found in the vicinity of the Ural mountains a bottle containing two papers, one of which bore the following message, written in French: “Andree’s balloon bas crossed the Ural mountains. Andree.” The other paper, inscribed in Russian, was as follows: “Give this letter to the consul or to the police.” The balloon, with Prof. Andree and two companions, Strindeberg and Frenkel, in the car, left Danes Island of the Spitsbergen group July 11, 1897, in an attempt to cross the pole. Since then no definite news of the aeronauts has been received beyond a message attached to a carrier pigeon found by the whaling ship Falken, which arrived at Copenhagen Sept. 2. The message read: “July 13, 12:30 p. m., lat. 82.2 north, long. 12.5 east. Good voyage eastward. All well.” HAWAIIAN CROPS SOLD. American Trust Secures Sugar Output for Two Years, Honolulu advices say that Hawaiian planters have contracted with the American Sugar Refinery for the sale of the entire sugar output of the island for the next two years. Excepting only about 75.000 tons, which will be shipped to the refinery at Crockett. Cal., an amount sufficient for the American companies at San Francisco will be held at that place. The rest will be forwarded to New York to be used there in competition with the independent refineries. “We have sold out to the trust,*’ said a leading planter, “but it was a case of could not help ourselves. Our first overtures were to the Arbuckles. We wanted to patronize the independent refineries and were open in our opposition to the trust, but the Arbuckles would not buy, and the American Sugar Refinery held out inducements which no one else was prepared to meet.” MAKE WEDDING TRIP ON FOOT. Hard Luck Befalls a Young Runaway Conple in Missouri. One of the most remarkable wedding journeys on record was made to St. Louis and back to Norwood, Kan., by Austin W. Dunbar and Miss Lizzie Hay of Norwood. The couple arrived at St. Louis, secured a marriage license and were wed. When they left Norwood on their eloping expedition they traveled in a buggy. At Lee’s Summit, their money gave out and the groom sold the rig, using the proceeds to ride on a train to St. Louis and thence to Jefferson City, on the return trip. At the latter town they were again stalled, but nothing daunted they managed to get on a freight train and deadhead their way to Sedalia. Then they were penniless, and the only way they could continue home was to walk, which they did, all the way to Norwood, a distance of 250 miles, the trip taking them thirty days. EXPRESS OFFICE IS ROBBED. Cowboys Are Blamed for a Bold Burglary at Almena, Kan. Officials of the United States Express Company in Denver have been notified that its office at Almena, Kan., was robbed one night recently. The safe was opened and its valuable contents taken. The officials will not give the amount of the loss, but it is known the robbers got a package containing $3,000 in greenbacks that had been sent by the Standard Meat and Live Stock Company of Denver to its agent at Almena. It is believed the robbery was committed by cowboys.

New Hospital at Honolulu. The steamer Miowera brings Honolulu advices. The steamer Australia was to leave Honolulu several days ago with 500 men of the New York regiment bound to San Francisco on the way to New York. A few days later 200 more were to follow ny the Alameda. The troops are supposed to have been recalled on account of the ravages of typhoid. There are said to have been 300 cases when the Miowera left. Permission has been received at Honolulu from Washington to abandon Independence Park as a hospital site as soon as other quarters can be fitted up. Surgeons of the camp and hospital are afraid the site is too low for health during the comparatively wet winter months. In obedience to instructions, Col. Ruhlin began the erection of the new hospital building in Nuanu valley. The structure will be 45 feet wide by 160 feet long. It will have side kitchens, surgeons’ and stewards’ quarters. This will give complete accommodation for all the sick soldiers in Honolulu. The new buildings will take 120 patients, Buena Vista proper about 100, and the convalescent hospital the remainder. Winter in the Klondike. Dr. W. D. Kinsloe and T. P. Eames, Denver mining men, who, with Col. Hughes of Rossland, have just returned from Alaska, report that a volcano is in active eruption about fifty miles from Atlin City. No name has yet been given to the volcano, but the officials of Atlin are preparing for a trip of inspection and will christen it. It is said to be the second in a string of four mountains lying fifty miles due south of Lake Gladys, all of which are more than 1,400 feet high. It will probably be the end of December or the beginning of January before any news is received from the men who have chosen to spend the winter on the rich gold-bearing creeks of the Klondike. The Yukon below White Horse Rapids Is frozen over. Norman D. Macauley, manager of the White Horse tramway, was nineteen days in making the trip from the rapids to Lake Bennett, a trip that under ordinary circumstances is made In two or three days. About 500 men will winter on the creeks in the Atlin River country. Blow Cars Up with Dynamite. One of the cars of the Dallas, Texas, Consolidated electric system was blown up by dynamite. Half an hour later another car was blown up. A stick of dynamite a foot long was found at the scene of the second explosion. No passengers were in the cars. The motormen were uniinured. The cars were badly wrecked, a wheel on each being blown to fragments. These are the first serious acts of violence since the strike of the motormen on the Consolidated system was inaugurated.

Gift for Harvard College. James Stillman of New York has given $50,000 to Harvard College to cover the cost of- land and buildings for a projected Harvard infirmary, which will bear the name of the donor. In addition Mr. Stillman will contribute $2,500 annually for four years. A new scholarship has just been conferred upon the scientific school of Harvard University by a gift of $lO,000 from J. R. Jenkins. German Army Bill. The details of the new German army bill show the Prussian peace contingent will be increased by 11,424 men and 2,850 horses. The Saxon contingent will be increased by 2,073 men. Herr Eugene Richter, the radical leader, calls this Germany’s answer to the Czar’s disarmament proposal. Killed His Rival. Joseph P. Gross, an assistant foreman of the San Francisco fire department, was shot and almost instantly killed by Joseph Clark, an upholsterer. The murderer accused his victim of having caused an estrangement between his wife and himself. Exercises Imperial Clemency. Emperor Francis Joseph, in celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his accession to the Austro-Hungarian throne, granted full pardon to all lese majeste prisoners and remitted the remainder of the sentences of 540 other prisoners. Fire In Spanish Dockyard. A fire which occurred in the Government dockyard at Ferrol, Spain, gutted several buildings and a number of bombshells exploded. The loss is estimated at 4,000,000 pesetas. Will Fight to a Finish. A great tobacco war, which will completely overshadow the conflict of miir»ns

now golhf on In the sugar trade, is about to be fought between the American Tobacco Company, with its creature, the Continental Plug Tobacco Company, on the one Side and the UeW Union Tobacco Company, recently Incorporated at Albany by the WidenerEikins combine that owns the controlling interest in the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and other great traction interests throughout the United States. Associated with the new company in the conflict will be Liggett & Myers of St. Louis, Weissinger & Co. of Louisville, the Sorg and other tobacco concerns that refused to be absorbed by the trust organized by the American Tobacco Company. William Wilson, an agent of the Union Tobacco Company, it is said, has been dispatched to Louisville to buy a site for the greatest plug tobacco factory in the world. It is to employ 5,000 hands and have a capacity double that of the American Tobaco Company’s great Louisville plant.YEAR 1898 AS A TRADE BASIS. Bradstreet Says It Exceeds Former Favorable Periods. Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “The business world enters on the closing month of the year with so many favorable and so few depressing features in sight as to leave little doubt that the year 1898, as a whole, must hereafter furnish the basis for estimate when comparisons of large business are to be made. Nearly all obtainable statistics and reports as to the volume of business point to the present year having heavily exceeded any former year in the amount of business done. Wheat (including flour) shipments for this week aggregate 7,483,959 bushels, against 5,824,726 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,623,988 bushels, against 3,993,846 bushels last week.” KILLS AN UNKNOWN BURGLAR. Ohio Man Brings Down an Unwelcome Visitor with Buckshot. John D. Cummins, the wealthiest citizen of Conneaut, Ohio, shot and killed an unknown burglar about 1 o’clock the other morning. The Cummins home has been visited by thieves a number of times. Watch dogs and alarms failed of their purpose until this time. Mr. Cummins was awakened by the burglar alarm from the stable. Armed with a shotgun loaded with buckshot he met the burglar coming out of his stable and fired. The man staggered, exclaimed “Oh, God!” and fell back dead. The entire charge took effect in his heart and left side. The victim was about 65 years old, and wore two suits of army uniform. The coroner’s inquest exonerated Cummins. James H. Southall Sentenced. James H. Southall, the swindler and Government time check forger, was sentenced at St. Paul to the State’s prison for ten years at hard labor. Southall swindled various banking firms and individuals in the principal cities of the country out of sums aggregating $750,000. He was convicted of grand larceny—only one of six or more indictments. School Furniture Combine. The formation of the school furniture combine is now completed. All the big Grand Rapids companies, and, in fact, all the companies making school furniture, are represented in this newest pool, which is to have a capitalization of $8,500,000. A Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer is to be made the president and the headquarters will be in Chicago.

Killed In a Runaway. Mrs. Abbie L. Marble, the aged sister-in-law of the late James G. Blaine, met with a tragic death at San Leandro, Cal. She was driving in a light buggy when the horse took fright and ran away, going through an open gate into an orchard. A low-hanging limb struck Mrs. Marble in the breast, throwing her from the buggy and killing her instantly. To Be Held in Chicago. The quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church will be held in Chicago in May, 1900. A decision to that effect by the committee which has the location of the conference in charge was obtained by the Chicago Methodist Social Union subcommittee, in session at the Palmer House in that city. Attempt to Kill an Official. Under the house of Councilman-at-Large Edward Johnson, in Brigantine, N. J., a dynamite bomb was exploded, partially wrecking the building. There is no doubt that it was the intention of the perpetrators of the outrage to kill Mr. Johnson. Nobody was hurt.

Tin-Plate Companies Unite. The Consolidated Tin Plate Company, a corporation formed under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital stock of $50,000,000, was formally organized at Pittsburg, Pa. The combine will take hold of nearly all the mills in the country on Dec. 15. Had Premonition. Aubrey C. Taylor, a well-known newspaper writer of Zanesville, Ohio, had a premonition of his death, and the day that he was taken ill went to an Undertaking establishment and selected the coffin in which he wanted to be buried. Big Gasometer Is Biowq Up. One of the immense supply tanks of the Consolidated Gas Company at Baltimore exploded during a storm, and the concussion caused people to think an earthquake had struck that city. The damage is estimated at about $20,000. Brakeman Burns to Death. In a freight wreck near Royalston, Mass., a brakeman named Knight was caught between broken timbers in such a way that he could not extricate himself, and burned to death before the eyes of his horrified companions. President for Oberlin College. Dr. John Henry Barrows, the popular Chicago divine, has been elected president of Oberlin (Ohio) College.’ Ecuador In State of Siege. The republic of Ecuador bas proclaimed a state of siege.