Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 5 November 1891 — Page 2

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a themselves a fright: Daniel Webster was once on a night journey from Baltimore to Washington, when he man who drove the wagon was such an ill-looking fellow, and told so many stories of robberies and murders, that before they had gone far Mr. Webster was almost frightened out of his wits. At last, the wagon stopped in the midst of a dense wood, when the man, turning suddenly round to his passenger, exclaimed, fiercely, "Now, sir, tell me who you are

JVlr. Webster replied, in a faltering voice, and ready to spring from the vehicle. "I am Daniel Webster, member of Congress, of Massachusetts." •'What rejoined the driver, grasping him warmily by the hand, "are you Webster? Thank heaven! you are such a duced ugly chap that I took you tor some cut-throat or highwayman.''

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THE NEWS 0F_THE WEEK.

Fire did $200,000 damage at Beverly, Mass., Sunday. Ex-Congressman H. F. Page died at Circleville, O.. on the 28th.

A powder mlil at Youngstown, Ohio, exploded on the 28th killing two men. The Dakota prohibition law has been sustained by the State Supreme Court.

Elliott King, the noted leader of the greenback movement in Maine, is dead. A court martial is busy at the Annapolis Naval Academy trying alleged *4hazers."

It has been decided to hold a national military encampment in Chicago during the World's fair.

The prairie fires in Oklahoma are destroying much property, and several lives are reported lost.

Fx-Mayor Carter Harrison and a syndicate have purchased the Chicago Times Consideration 300,000.

Burglars chloroformed Mrs. Mary E. .T. Dow, of Dover, Ji. H., and took 55,700 worth of diamonds and $2,000 in securities.

Two hundred more convicts were released by striking miners at the mines at Oliver Springs, Tenn., oil the morning of the 2d. "Rain King" Melbourne denies that be has .sold his invention and says that he will furnish Kansas with raia at 10 cents per acre.

Gold in paying quantities was struck by men drilling for the water-works tunnel under the Missouri river at Kansas City.

At Raleigh, N.C., Anthony Jordan, col,ored. was caught in the ropes of a balloon and carried upward sixty feet. Falling, he was killed.

The big strike of the coal miners in the Pittsburg district has been declared off. Nearly twelve thousand men have been idle for three months.

Senator Quay has brought suit against the Pittsburg Post and otherpapers for implicating him [in Hardsiey's crooked financial transactions.

The schooner L. B. Hatch, bound for Boston from Newfoundland, has been abandoned at sea. The crew was rescued by a passing steamer.

As the result of the forest, fires near Evansville, in the so-called Cypress bottoms, Robert Johnson's farm house was destroyed, with nearly all its contents. Loss Ki.CCO.

Dr. Sioiinski. on entering his office at Ottumwa, la., found L.

A. Stevens, a stu­

dent, dead. Investigation showed that he had been killed bv burglars and a valuable diamond pin stolen.

Representatives from colleges of seven Southern States met at Charleston, S. on cheSOth. for the purpose of organizing a, Southern Monumental Coll ego to erect a monument to Jefferson Davis.

It is not believed that any resident of Oklahoma will be appointed to the gov ernoiship of that Territory, all residents having more or less prejudice on the location of the Capital question.

The Maverick National Bank of Boston suspended payments Monday. The liabilities are very large, The failure was precipitated by the withdrawal of large amounts of State and trust funds.

At the meeting of the trades and labor Essembly at Chicago a committee was ap pointed to co-operate with other organized labor bodies to circulate petitions and agitate for the release of Oscar Neebe, the Anarchist.

Mrs. Maria Kallburg, of Boston, has sued Father O'Donnell, a Catholic priest, for boycotting Ikt business. She would not send her children to the parochial school. She says he ruined her trade, and wants $5,0.X) damages.

Henry Wuerder. a patient at the Baltimore city hospital, leaped from a fourthstory window and landed on the head of Neal Cook, colored. Cook was temporarily stunned. Wuergler bounded off unharmed and ran away.

ANew Brunswick prodigy in the per son of a six-year-old boy, four feet high blonde mustache, weighing 142 poundo and capable of easily lifting 200 pounds, was recently sent t.j the reform school on account of incorrigibility.

Gen. Frederick Dubois, U. S. A., who died recently at Wimington, Del., bequeathed $100,000 worth of New York real estate to Bertha Ricci. the prima donna, as a token of appreciation for her kindness to his daughter, a fellow-pupil of Miss Ricci in Paris, during an illness that proved fatal.

Senator Quay has instructed his attorney to bring suit in Philadelphia against Jas. Kerr, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, for $100,000 damages for alleged libel regarding the publication of a fac-simile of that certificate of deposit.

Dr. W. A. Gal pin, of Goshen, while seated at the table sipping a cup of coffee complained of feeling unwell and died.

The Adjutant-General has decided that, all military colleges receiving arms and amunition from the national government for the purposes of instruction, and to which an ollicerof the United States Army has been detailed as professor of military tactics, must display the national flagon •all occasions when, under army regulations, the use of the flag is called for.

A dispatch from Denison, Tex., report8 the singular death of a little girl in the Choctaw nation on Blue River. Saturday last a Mrs. Decring carried her child into the front yard, placed her on the ground and returned to the house. Some time later the mother went for the child and found a large snake coiled around her neck. After uncoiling the snake and killing it. Mrs. Deering ipund that the child had been strangled to death.

Ignatius Donnelly has not had enough of the courts and libel suits. Saturday he served preliminary papers on the St. Paul Pioneer-Press in two new suits, aggregating $150,000 damages. The iirst ig based upon an editorial Sunday, commenting on the recent. one-dollar verdict. Donnelly says that the verdict was a legal vindication and the editorial reasserts the libel. For this be wants $50,000 damages. The second suit is for £100,000, and is based upon an editorial during the leg. islative session last winter, in which Donnelly was called an anarchist.

Superintendent of Immigration Owen has decided to proceed against the ButYalo Brass and Iron Bedstead Company, of

Buffalo, N. Y., for what is regarded as one of J.hemo8t-flagrant'-violations of the alien contract labor law that has come under the observation of the Treasury Department. Inspector Barry, of Buffalo, has apprehended nine contract laborer? who were brought over from Birmingham, England, to work for this firm. The Bureau of Immigration is in possession oi the written contracts entered into between the firm and the laborers, by which thu company paid the men's fares across the ocean, and there is a stipulation in the contract that, the laborers were to contribute $2 each out of their wages until, half the amount paid for their passage over was liquidated. The firm will be promptly prosecuted by the federal authorities.

FOREIGN.

Riots occurred at Cork, Ireland, again Sunday. Emperor Wiiliam's efforts at social reform form the leading topic at Berlin.

It is now feared that 10.000 lives were lost in the recent earthquake in Japan. England has been flooded with faise and sensational reports cabled from America about the Chilian imbroglio, tm

Sandingham hall, the residence in London of the Prince of Wales, was damaged $100,000 by fire Sunday.

The ravages of cholera in Damascus show an alarming increase. The record for the week past shows 180 cases and (.0 deaths. Owing to the prevalence of cholera llodeida is in nearly as bad a condition as Damascus, but at Aleppo the plague has subsided.

Mr. Patrick McDermott, the McCarthyite candidate, has been elected.without opposition to the seat in the House of Commons for North Kilkenny, left vacant by the death of Sir John PoDe Hennessey, The nomination was given to Mr. McDermott after it had been declined by Mr. cli ael Dav tt.

Advices from Melbourne state that the epidemic of influenza shows no signs of abating. Nearly every family in the city is afflicted. In one large establishment fifty employes were attacked, and one physician reports five hundred cases, Serious reports come from country districts, and deaths arc becoming alarmingly numerous.

Naval authorities at Plymouth do not express much sympathy for the fishermen who claim to have had their boats damaged by the firing practice of her Majesty's ships. They claim that the fishermen are in the habit of sneaking their boat8 into some locality in range of the firing so that the boats may be sunk by a stray shot and the fishermen be enriched by a literal recompense. It pays, the navy people say, better than fishing.

Tho winter season is commencing in Europe with unusual severity. England has already been visited by sharp frosts* and a dispatch from Hamburg announces that, there has b'een a heavy snow fall, and that, the thermometer registers a temperature seven degrees below the freezing point. Advices from Greece state that torrents of rain have fallen throughout that, country, and that there have been heavy snow falls In the mountain districts, which is unprecedented at this period of the year.

The London Chroniclo Monday publishes a dispatch fromTiflis, in RilssfiJntransCaucasia, saying that the procurator oi the Russian synod has finished his career of persecution by the arrest of the chief leaders in the Protestant movement. Messrs. Bagdasarianz. the leader of the Protestant Armenians Kalreit. oi the German Baptists: Mavaycff, tho Russian and Leraslioff. a Methodist, were all torn from ther families and sent secretly for a term of five years to a mountain district on the Russian frontier. Hundreds of members of these sects have also been cruelly banished and reduced to the condition of paupers. Their friends are afraid to leave for fear that they will b? compelled to share tho same fate.

ANNEXATION.

The Feeling tor It Kapldly Growing In Canada—Recent Utterances.

A strong feeling in favor of independence is growing in Quebec, and it can safely be said thatat least two-thirdsof the people are favorable to it. There was a time wheu such sentiments as are beir.g openly expressed at present would have been met. with the cry of "traitor." That time is past. Not only tho French press advecates it. but a respectable portiou of the English press have lately come out in support, of it. The people are getting dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs, which is by no means encouraging. Again in Ontario, annexation meetings arc being held in different parts weekly, and Colonel White, Conservative member of Parliament, is about starting an annexation organ. Le National, a Quebec government organ, come out with a strong article in favor of independence. It says the efforts of Sir Charles Tupper to sell tho French-Canadians to the English people, with the only object of forcing trade to the Canadian Pacific railroad, and the adjournment of the reciprocity conference, are sure indications that Canada is no more a country, but a field of operation for all the monopolists and organizers of English plunderings. The article gets in a slap at the Governor.General, and goes on to say that the only reason for forcing us to exchange our products with Australia is to justify the Canadian Pacific in opening new lines of steamships and obtaining contracts at exhorbitant prices for the carriage of mails and British troops.

The Prohibition National Committee wil' meet in Cnicago at the Sherman House on December 17. Sylvester Johnson, of Indianapolis, member of tiie committee fat Indiana, has been notified and will attend The meeting will determine where the next, national Prohibition conference for the nomination of a candidate for President will be held. The last convention was held in Indianapolis.

A Sermon in Fire Linen.

takes so little to matce a child happy that it is a pity, in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely young hearts.— The Churchman.

DOES IT .MEAN TROUBLE?

Chili's Unsatisiactory May Cause War.

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Mnch Ado Created by the ChlHan Reply— Wh»t Naval Officers Say and Think of the Affair.

The President and members of the Cabinet were in secret consultation for several hours on the 29th over a cipher dispatch from Minister Egan, in which he gave the reply of the Chilian government to the President's telegram of October 23, asking reparation for the recent murder of American sailors in the streets of Valparaiso. Late on the night of the 29th a translation of Minister Egan's dispatch was made public. It is as follows:

The Chilian Minister of Foreign Affairs replied that the government of the United States formulates demands and advances threats that,without being cast back with acrimony, are not acceptable, nor could they be accepted in the present case, or in any other of like nature. He does not

doubt the sincerity, rectitude or expertness of investigation on board the Baltimore, but will recognize only the jurisdiction and authority of his own country to judge and punish the guilty in Chilian territory. He says the administrative and judicial authorities have been investigating afiairs that judicial investigation un der Chilian law is secret, and the time has not arrived to know the result. When that time does arrive he will communicate the result, although he does not rocognize any other authority competent te judge criminal cases than that established by the Chilian people. Until the time arrives to disclose the result of the investigation he can not admit that the disorders in Valparaiso or the silence of his department should appear as an expression of unfriendliness toward the government of the United States which might put in peril the friendly relations between the two countries.

According to such information as can be obtained the course urged by the more moderate members of the Cabinet was to take no decisive action until the permanent goverment which has just been chosen in Chili shall take the place of the present provisional government. The Cabinet meeting last week and the meeting held since, at which the subject has been discussed, decided that. Chili should be allowed a reasonable time to investigate the bloody work in the streets of Valparaiso and tender reparation for it. If the demand is not promptly mot by a suitabl6 apology, the punishment of the criminals and an indemnity in money, American vessels will begin to concentrate on the Chilian coast and every preparation made for the bombardment of Valparaiso, if such a course be deemed necessary. Tho President and Secretary Blaine are very much in earnest in tho feeling that we should allow no trifling in so serious a matter, and that we should not allow it to appear that we are indifferent to the sufferings which have been inflicted on the families of our sailors by their causeless murder, nor to the dignity of our uniform by the outrage put upon it. The Chilians believe that the English would come to their assistance in order to protect the hitrate beds, in Avhich English capital i9 heavily invested. They apparently imagine that the opening of American guns on the defenses of Valparaiso would be the signal for counter fire from English ironclads.

Naval officers are confident that the dispute with Ch'li can only be settled by a display of force by this government. The talk about available vessels and the possibility of assembling a sufficient fleet before Valparaiso to compel Chilian respect Is animated amotrg naval man, and officers are beginning to think of active duty on board ship. Secretary Tracy will, no doubt, in a few days, if tho dispatches from Chili are not more courteous and reassuring. send the Chicago and the NewOi after the Yorktown and the Boston' which have started for Valparaiso, and later on will support the vessels already under orders for Chili by others, including, if necessary, the ships of the North Atlantic squadron, now almost ready to sail. Admiral Gherhardi has unofficially suggested to theNavy Department thathe be ordered to sail for Valparaiso at once with the Philedelphia and Concord. It seems probable that his suggestion will be acted upon, though no orders have yet been issued. But the presence of the U. S. fleet would probably bring to Valparaiso a large fleet of British war vessels. British interests in Chili are large, and it is assumed that any demonstration by th0 United States would be watched with concern by the British fleet, and that if a determination to shell the city was reached by this Government, tho lives and property of the subjects of Great Britain would have to be considered. The suggestion of British intervention is not likely, however to deter the United States from following a course that will compell respect for our flag, and an expression of respect for taking the lives of men wearing the uniform of the United States. If Great Britain is influential in Chili, it is believed that its power could be exercised beneficially to bring the Chilian authorities to their senses. The Government can not take any immediate action at Valparaiso to enforce its demand. The Baltimore alone would not be equal to the task of compelling Chili to make a speedy and satisfactory answer. Several weeks must pass before the fleet can be greatly increased. The Interim may be used to reach an amicable settlement, and it is possible that it will be employed by Chili in preparation for sustaining its attitude of defianco and apparent hostility.

The greatest ferment exists in the South American trade in London, over the news from South America. Tho general impression is that Chili will fight and that the United States is now in a position '.where it must fight or retreat with dishonor. No person of responsibility has yet been found who doubts that America will come out foremost in the end, but the .^general impression Is that Chili will have 'for the present a decided advantago. The 'sentiment of the merchantile houses trading with Chili is strongly against war, and

the nitrate Interests are opposed to it on the grounds that the United States might, through an arrangement with Peru, get possession of the nitrate beds. The change of feeling since Wednesday is most significant. Then the idea of war was poohpoohed. Thursday the South American opinion in London was exactly the reverse and war is regarded as almost inevitable*

Dispatches of Saturday, from Santiago, say: An official account of the fight closes as follows: "Of the combatants, thirty Americans and eleven Chilians were committed before the judicial authorities. They fought with knives, stones and everything they could lay their hands on. There was one killed and several wounded. It is estimated that there were 160 American sailors from the Baltimore on shore at the time of the tumult."

It is suggested by a Chilian friend of Senor Mentt that the disparity between the numbers of the arrests of Americans and Chilians was, perhaps, duo to the readiness with which the latter would find* concealment, whereas the American sailors, wearing uniforms and being strangers, were readily apprehended.

United States Minister Egan, Captain Schley, of the Baltimore, and William B. McCreery. United States consul at Valparaiso, were in close consultation throughout the day, and though it is not possible to obtain any definite statement from them for publication regarding the nature of the result of their long deliberations, it can be said that they all consider the reply of the Junta to Minister Egan's note asking for proper explanation of the Valparaiso collision as decidedly insulting to tho United States government. It is also known they regard the situation at present as serious. The reply of the Junta they think means that Chili is indignant at the demands of the United States that she will take her own time to consider the matter, and that when the Junta reaches a conclusion that government will settle the matter without reference to the views of the United States on the subject.

It is generally admitted here by the supporters of the fcovernment and by the Americans and those in sympathy with them, that the situation of affairs as regards the dispute between the United States and Chili has not yet improved. In fact, the anti-American feoling is growing in bitterness, and all the American officials in Chill are apprehensive that further trouble is brewing. The exact nature of this trouble they are unable to define, but they see little prospact that an amicable settlement of the aiparaiso incident will soon be reached, and the signs of increasing popular animosity toward the United States Government give ground for apprehension and indignation.

CONVICTS RELEASED.

Sensational Culmination of the Tennessee Mining Troubles,

Two Thousand Five Hundred Men Heavily Armed Enforce Tholr Demand for the Release of the Convicts.

The convicts in the Briceville mining regions (Tennnessee) were released by miners Friday night. Particulars are given as follows:

The citizens in Briceville began to hear squads of men passing through the place on their way to the stockades between 8 and 9 o'clock Friday night. This was kept up for nearly an hour. It was abou* 9 30 when two hundred men descended Walden's ridge, approaching the stockada from the east.. They called upon warden Cross to deliver them the keys of the prison. While this was going on the magazine was blowed up and the stockade surrounded by 2,500 men. Cross gave up the keys, and when tho 141 convicts were released they assisted in burning and destroying the property.

The attacking party then moved on the Chumley or Coal Creek stockade, and a halt was made near there. Twenty-five men were seftt forward to demand the surrender of the conyicts. The men kept up continuous volleys from their Winchesters. Only one guard was on duty, and he lost no time in obeying. The convicts were told to go, and many of them, as at Briceville, were given citizens' clothes. When the convicts were liberated they plundered Chumley's store and destroyed the stockade furniture. The office building was set on fine by the overturning of a stove. The mob then descended to the valley, where they set off several dynamite bombs and fired a small cannon they had with them. The racket occasioned by these discharges, together with the explosion of the ammunition stored at Briceville stockade, which the fire touched off, created the impression ainoug non-parlic.-pants that a small war was in progress. This, however, was not the case, as there was not a single shot fired ut any man, br any personal violence.

The woods, fields and railroad tracks around the two stockades weregenerousl strewn with the striped suits of the released convicts. Convicts in gangs of tens and twenties were wandering all over the surrounding country. One convict arrived at a small settlement near Coal Creek who was still in his stripes, and he was quickly sent QB his way rejoicing. Several gangs were seen at various points along the K. & O. railroad. Whenever they asked for help it was freely given them by tho natives. A citizen of Coal Creek pointed out a group of men to the reporter, remarking: "Those men are not of this place," but when asked where they came from tho citizen shut, up like a clam. At another time they were told that one of the group he had been conversing with was an escaped conyict, but further information was refused.

A large number of conyicts who could not obtain citizen's clothes returned to Coal Creek during the day and surrendered to the guard.

Dispatches on the 2d say: The convicts are hiding in the mountains of Kentucky. The prison officials report that about 350 convicts havo been released. Governor Buchanan has ordered the militia to be ready for duty at a moment's notice, There is much uneasinoss at Briceville, and at Oliver Springs, Tracy City and Inman. where convicts are employed, over the rumors that the Miners there have organized with a view io liberating all convicts working at Oesv places.

The Governor has offered a rewa for the captu** of the convicts.

FASHION NOTES.

Figured silks are very fashionably shot silks are employed, but not for complete dresses, only for sleeves, plastrons, chemisettes, and so on, and also for the front width of a dress

The juxtaposition of fur with dainty evening silks and laces is a new Parisian departure. Narrow bor-« ders of mink and sable surround the bottom of skirts and edge the bodices of ball dresses.

The smartest thing to wear at a theater party is a cape of Irish point lace, which reaches to just below the shoulders. It, is round, like many of the styles of to-day, is a bit primlooking, but decidedly effective.

Very pale gray gloves are worn with entire-white costumes. The effect is a little odd, inasmuch as the hands look a shade darker than does the upper part of the arm, and consequently have what might be called a dusty look.

Black lace dresses will also be very popular during the fall and winter and reception. The Chantilly is the best, but many of the dotted and figured nets will be worn over silk slips, sometimes colored, but mora often black.

The zigzag pattern in dress material is decidedly the thing. The pattern is in all sides and shades, and fashionable whether in woollen, silk satin, or velvet. The .long waisi continues to be liked both for costumes and jackets except in the case of young women who prefer round waists and plain skirts.

Crape has never been worn to such an extent as now. Mourning gowns are nearly covered with it. and evea the smallest children will wear it when bereaved. Veils reach quite to the hem of the dress in the back, and are hemmed half a yard deep. Capes are made with a fall of crape, with an inset of Henrietta covered in turn with crape.

A beautiful costume at a recent afternoon reception was worn bv a well-known leader of society. She was attired in a black velvet sleeveless jacket, heavily beaded, over a black poplin gown spotted with velvet. The small bonnet worn with this costume was of a pale blue crepe flecked with gold and black and adorned with yellow wings, ths strings being of black velvet fastened with amber pins.

The George Washington jabots are the latest fancy accessories to th® wardrobe. They are made of crepe and chiffon, and form loose-flowing fronts from the neck to the waist., A high standing collar fits snuglyj around the throat and fastens at the neck with a bow. They are, ofl course, adjustable, and any dr.es whether new or old, can be feasil, adapted to them. Long cuffs of th same fall well over the hands.

NEEDED LEGISLATION.

Baking Powder Bill Passed by

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From the St. Paul Dispatch. The recent newspaper discussion of the dangerous qualities of ammonia comes from the alarming increase of its use in baking powders. People who absorb it in small quantities from day to day suffer frons slow ammonia poisoning. Taken in$ ternally in sufficient quantities it eats away the coating of the stomach and intestines and causes death.. Slow ammonia poisoning produces various forms of stomach trouble.

Tsot one woman in ten thousand would use an ammonia baking powW der if she knew it. Such powders' would not only undermine the health, but Ammonia imparts a sallow and blotched complexion.

Following is the bill recently passed by the Minnesota senate. It's the danger signal which the law throws out for the protection of the people: A. Bill for an Act to Regulate the Trafll* in Baking: Powder.

Section 1.—Any person who shall knowingly sell or procure the sale, or offer for, sale of any package or can of Baking Powder, containing any Ammonia, in it not distinctly, legibly and durably branded stamped or marked in a conspicuous place with the words in tho English language "This Baking Powder contains Ammonia' In letters of great, pica, or any letters equivalent thereto in length, shall be. guiltv of a misdemeanor, and punished by a line not less than $20 nor more than 150 shall be confined in the County Jail not less than ten or more than twenty days or by both fino ami imprisonment, at the diicretion of the court.

Section 3.—The sale or oiTcr for sale of the substance mentioned in the foregoing section in packages not stamped, marked, branded or labelled as therein required, shall be prima-facie evidence of knowledge of the character of said substance, on the part of the person selling or offering for sale and his employer.

Section 3,—This Act, shall be in force on and after its passage. NOTE.—An incident occurred in tho house when the senate bill came up for passage, in reference to an amendment proposed by Mr. Diment. This was opposed by several members. Mr. Feig said thfet if the bill as It came from the senate was alright then the amendment whs all wrong. The amendment compelling the printing of the irord "Ammonia" on the label only affected the Royal Baking Powder, and no wcader they felt the annate bill blow at them.

.The Annual Rest

Young Husband —"My dear, after a -ir of unremitting labor and closest ec-vomy we have, I find, suecceded in saving about $300. What shall we dfl vith it,?'1

Vo-.mjr Wife "Well my dear webotb '.(it's jio to a 8U miner resort -ok V-.rlr poldy.

Kerosene applications to the skin

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animals, are remedied for lice and skis ailmonts, are too severe. One gill ol kerosene added to a quart of cotton*., seed oil is better.