Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — Page 6

PSPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. E. BaBCOCK. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - IWDUnI

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

to estimates made by exKiperts, the farmers of California will receire somethin?: like 515.W0.00Q this sea|,*ou for such products of their orchards S and vineyards as are canned or dri<«d. f This is au advance of about $3,500,000 over the total received last year, p- By a decree in the Federal Court at gilKausas City the noted Mastin case, : which has dragged along in the Federal for five years, was ended. The d<orders Thomas H. Mastin to pay jf Julia Mastin $31,900. and divides the e>tate of John J. Mastin equally between | them. | ! .At Short Creek, nine miles above Wheeling, W. Va.. a n >rth-bound pass-*n- -- geer train collided with a sp»*cial front Pittsburg. the latter bringing delegations £ from western Pennsylvania to the :riState encampment of the uniform rank Knights of Pythias. Eight persons w re h* injured, two fatally. I’ The Judge Company, publishers at New | York, has pledged its copyrights, |K*rso:iI ai properly, stocks, bunds, contracts, trade-marks, etc., for SS.H),UOO to the Knickerbocker Trust Company. The mortgage secures gold bonds for the ■ above sum due iu ten. twelve and fifteen : years, at 4 per cent. Ex-City Treasurer C. L. Funk was •hot and killed by a highwayman on El Paso avenue, Pueblo, Colo., when going ’ to the depot to take a train for Cripple l Creek, where lie was engaged iu mining. His pocket tank was taken, but it mataiued only a small amount of money. Mr. Funk was 38 years old. I The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as foDowa: \V. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...08 4<> Pittsburg ...75 72 Boston 94 55 Chicago 74 72 Philadelphia !l2 7*7 Louisville .. .73 70 .Baltimore ..85 359 New Y0rk...58 88 St. L0ui5....84 HU Washington. 52 SHS Cincinnati ..79 97 Cleveland .. .20 130 At Reynolds, Ind., the bank was robbed of S!MM*) and wrecked by ail explo- ■ sion. Several citizens were aroused by the sound of the expiosiou. and President J. C. Van Atta ami Cashier DehlIng, with a number of others, reached , the building in time to see four men run to two buggies and dash away with the : horses in full gallop. A desperate street duel was fought at New Orleans between Dominick O'Mal- - ley, proprietor of the Evening Item, and C. Harrison Parker, editor of the Delta. Both were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The trouble originated over a cartoon iu the Item representing Colonel Parker as a little dog led by a’ string by Gov. Foster and labeled "Me Too." The npi>el!ate court at Concordia, Kan., hnndcd down an opinion in the cases of Limboeker against McDowel ami Hoffman against Yoe, as regents of the State Agricultural College, holding that Gov. b Stanley illegally removed Limboeker ami f Hoffman from office as regents, and a £, writ of ouster was issued against Yoe i ; »nd McDowel, the present regents, and an order reinstating Limboeker and II off - ft man. The last-named are Populists, f Rev. AY. L. Woodward, one of the most I prominent ministers of Disciple Church | in ui*rthwestern Ohio, committed suicide | at his home iu Oak Harbor by shouting jy himself through the heart. lie had invitE'ed a numberof his congregation to spend I the evening with him. The last of the |. guests scarcely htul reached the gate to I go home before a pistol shot rang out. I?The minister was found prostrate on the I lioor with a bullet hole through his * breast. I One of the largest contracts for ships ; ever closed on the lakes was made at Cleveland when the American Shipbuild- * Ing Company secured tli ■ job of building i five steel freighters for the Cnrnegies Oliver steel interests. The steamers will f be duplicates. and nil! l*e 475 feet long, SO feet icam and 2b feet deep. The I total cost of each ship will be SSSS,t*UO. ■: The Carnegie Steel Company will furnish j§ all of the material for the boats, so they will be turned out by the opening of navigation next year. The engines will be r quadruple expansion.

BREVITIES.

jt . Frank M. Rrady, a well-known stock broker, killed himself at New York. ~ M. Levitzky nnimarchist front Chicago, hansel himself at San Francisco. | A dispatch to the London 1 Lilly To'.oifgrapli declares that war has Inna begun by the Boers in Natal, i Col. Andrew Schwartz, a well-known military and hotel man. died at Columbus, Ohio, aged .”>3 years. „ Bishop Rotter has acted promptly m the matter of the retirejm nt of R**v. Or. B. F. de-Costa from the Episcopal uiinand the latter has been formally deli posed. ' y. Ati operation is to be performed on t:te p Czar's brain to relieve him of the int d- | arable headaches from which he has -offered since he was struck <>u the head by * lunatic in Japan. IP. Joseph WuKiian, Republican. has been Pflected Mayor of Chattanooga by 117 plui rality. The Democrats had two camlie dates, hating split on the iiuestiou of J early closing of saloons. Ei Henry Hough, former assistant cashier Of the Cocheeo National Hank of Itowr, trras indicted by the Federal grand jury r st Concord. N. 11.. for embezzling $5,500, I‘sarraigned ami s< utenced to live years in S', Djarid Bey. Von of Khalil Uifaat | Pasha. the Grand Vizier, was assassinated on the Galatea bridge at Constau- ’ tinopb* by an Albanian, who find four Sabots from a revolver. The murderer was Davenport, 21 years old. and E|HamiC White. 22 years old, drank ear&B>Hc acid in ilcGnirk's Bowery dancing shall New York. Both women arc dead. E<J*mea Brady, a bridge jumper of Rittsppirg, traveling with a wild west show. Hras Injured in making a high dive at pStraaburg. Ohio. His head struck the phot tom of the tank. Brady is para ivy. -d. , While playing with a shotgun, the 11-Mfpar-old son of C. B. Johnson, who lives Igsro miles west of Columbia. Mo., shot |pnd killed hi* little sister, aged 8. The |llead of the child was blown almost cutnBwetely from her shoulders.

EASTERN.

Martha Moore .Avery ha* announced her candidacy for the socialist nomination for Mayor of Boston! Boston's gift to Admiral Dewey will he a jeweled gold watch with chain and charm, to cost from S7OO to SI,OOO. The steamship Pietpia, Captain Brown, from Mediterranean ports with a miscellaneous cargo, arrived at New York with her cargo on fire. The large steamship Leona of the Mallory line, with its entire cargo, was destroyed by tire at New York, causing a loss of nearly $3C0.000. Resolutions’condemning the civil service law as bring in op;*osition to free institutions bare been adopted by the Pennsylvania league of Republican Clubs. Walter Wellman, who has returned from an expedition to Franz Josef Land, arrived in New York from Liverpool on the Umbria Sunday, accompanied, by his wife. Freeman Strait, a well-known New York real estate dealer and insurance agent. ha> I>.- u arrested, charged with defrauding the Goviwumeat by selling war revenue stamps, chemically restored after cancellation. It is stated by treasury sihsn.il agents that Strait and his asx,whites have cheated the Government out of JIOO.lHltl. Mrs. Josephine Curtis Woodbury has begun seven libel suits in the Superior Court in Boston to recover damages front the leaders of the Christian Science cult, to establish her innocence of certain charges which, sin* avers. Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy made against her publicly. and to expose what she. alleges are the nefarious practices of the Christian Scientists. The Oxford Club was raided by the Boston police early Sunday morning and thrity members arrested charged with gambling. A wagnu loud of paraphernalia and S4.MU«I in poker chips were taken to the station. At the station the prisoners* among whom were twenty-seven of the mo>t prominent and wealthy business Then of the city, furnished cash bail, and superhuman efforts were made to sufe press the story. The raid is a climax to the "wide open” manner in which gambling has been conducted at the club. Only a few nights ago a well-known citi- * n, once wealthy, lost $7,000 at the club, the last of his fortune, and then committed suicide.

WESTERN.

There are thirty-three cases of smallpox at the Children’s Home iu Dayton, Ohio. All the eases are said to be of a mild form.

Anyone in Missouri found guilty of placing arsenic, calomel, bismuth, ammonia or alum iu any kind of food may be fined not less than SIOO, After much wrangling and bloodshed the coal tuiue strike, which has disturbed the peace in southwestern Indiana for several weeks, has been amicably settled. In Burlington, lowa. Conrad Knopped Struck his wife during a dispute. Henry, their 15-year-old son, came to his mother's aid, sboeting his father in the right breast with a revolver.

The members of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, in session at Chicago, tabled a resolution praying for the repeal of the internal revenue tax on drugs, medicines and surgical appliances. W. 11. Oga n of Tipton, Ind., has secured options on every lime manufacturing plaut iu Ohio. Indiana aud Michigan. He will incorporate the new lime trust us soon as the inventories can be made out. A shower of grasshoppers visited New Albany. Ind.. covering to a depth of two inches a space of about three acres. They came in such a cloud that the citizens thought that a hard storm was approachiug.

James Harlan, former United States Senator, former Secretary of the Interior and father-in-law of Robert T. Lincoln, died at Mount Pleasant, lowa, Thursday morning. He was conscious to the last, but unable to speak.

The I'uited States agents of the British Government have just closed a contract with one of the large wagon manufactories in South Bend, 1 lid., for the entire supply of wagons to be used in the impending struggle in South Africa. At Reedville. Ark.. John J. Boles attempted to move a shed valued at $lO from the premises of his nephew, W. lidgar Reed. The latter remonstrated and was shot by the old man. Rind then drew a revolver and shot the old man. Moses Smith of St. Paul, Minn., and Miss Peru Thuniau of Evansville. Ind., were married Wednesday. The wedding was to have taken place Tuesday night, anel the bride' was overcome when the groom failed to appear. Mr: Smith was delayed on route. A statement of the eoudition of the 381 State and private banks of Kansas at the dost' of business Sept. 7. shows deposits exceeding $2(5.000,000, an increase in three mouths of $2.000.(N)0, more money than was ever in the State institutions at any preceding time. The window glass trust received a hard blow, when Judge, Rva.n of the Superior Court at Anderson, lud., held that the complaints tiled a few weeks ago asking for an injunction to prevent the window glass companies in the county from joining the trust are good and sufficient for cause of action. The judges of the Jackson County (Missourii Court have recognized the boycott started by the business men of Kansas City against the Burlington road, instructing the sheriff that so long as'the boycott is in force he must. not travel over that road in taking insane people to the State asylum at St. Joseph. Dr. J. E. Lowery died at his home in Cedarville. Ohio, the other night. His death, a dispatch says, is thought to be due to an alloy of copper or brass used iu tilling bis teeth. His system became filled with poison from the alloy, finally ending iu convulsions and death. The fillings were removed shortly before he died.

SOUTHERN.

Throe men were arrested at Pleasanton, Ky.. Wednesday charged with the murder of the Barber family. One confessed. All three are white farmers. A trust in Texas cattle is in process of formation, to comprehend 12.000.000 acres of graxiug 'land. 000,000 head of cattle and capital stock of $25,000,000. John Cook, who lives at the mining village of Helen, Ky., chopped George Latvia almost to pieces with an ax. because Davis insulted Cook' \ half-witted sister. William Hackney :pd John Thompson had a dispute over a chew of tobacco at

Clarksville, Tenu., and Hackney was brained with a shovel ns he was attacking Thompson with a knife. At Norfolk, Va., it is reported on trustworthy authority that the British Government has chartered seventy ocean steamers for transporting men and munitions of war to South Africa. D. E. Converse, founder of Converse College, died at Spartanburg, S. C. He was 72 years old and a man of great charity, his donations to Converse College alone amounting to $750,000. An old bear hunter named Amos Brown who lives in a cabin on the west fork of the Gila river. New Mexico, was attacked by a roving band of Apache Indians. Brown defended himself behind the heavy logs of his hut and succeeded iu driving the Indians off. As a result of the drouth in Central Texas, Austin was the other night without a single electric light. The city is dependent entirely upon water power from the river, both for its electric lights am! the force to pump water through the strtN t mains. The water supply is daily growing worse, and it is uot known how long the city will bo able to keep water iu its mains. -

IN GENERAL

The Dewey home fund to date amounts to $49,381. The Havana official yellow fever report for September announces fifty-three cases and sixteen deaths.

The Thirty-fifth regiment embarked Wednesday for Manila on tho transports Itio de Janeiro and Sikh.

Ex-Congressman and ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson is very dangerously ill with a chronic affection of the lungs. The old Dismal swamp canal, enlarged to meet all the requirements of modern tratfle, has been formally opened as a waterway. lMaus for the consolidation of the independent telephone lines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois have been practically completed. Dr. Nils Olof Parlander, a Finn, left Chicago on his wgy to Alaska, where he will look over locations suitable for the establishment of a Finnish colony. August Feigel, who hus for years been the German consul general at New York, has resigned and will not return to the United States in an official capacity. The name of John N. Stewart of Illinois has been presented to President McKinley for appointment as successor to Commissioner Calhoun on the interstate commerce commission.

Secretary of War Root has issued an order discontinuing the Department of the Gulf and transferring the territory heretofore in that department to the Department of the East. The Mayor of Havana, Perfecto Laeoate, issued an order directing that no Spanish flag be displayed iu tile city of Havana, except at the Spanish consulate. The order is causing much bitter feeling among the Spaniards. Two Cuban generals, Miro and Sanchez. have published their intention, if the Americans do not immediately evacuate the islands, to start a revolution the first of the year. They say American domination is intolerable to enlightened Cuba.

Prof. Amos E. Dolbear of Tufts College declares that he, not Marconi, invented the system of wireless telegraphy. In proof of the priority of his system over that of Marconi he shows a patent issued to him by the United States Government iu 188(5, Marconi’s patent not being issued by the Government until ten years later. The United States treasury statement issued Wednesday, based on an estimated population of 70,5(51.000, places the per capita circulation of the United States on Oet. 1 at $25.45. The total circulation of all kinds of United States money on Oct. 1 was $1,048,703,180, an increase since Sept. 1 of $(5,572,045, and since Oct. 1. 1808. $132,100,794. Bradstreet’s weekly review says that distributive trade, while smaller at some markets, is still of encouraging volume, industry is active, railway earnings heavy, prices still tend upward and hank clearings increase, while failures lessen. Fall festivals and other celebrations at several cities have exercised an appreciable effect upon retail trade and proved a stimulating factor in wholesale lines. In industrial' affairs activity is widespread and strikes are fewer an<f less costly than in most years. Business failures are apparently at a minimum and liabilities are certainly less costly than for many years past. Prices as a whole manifest aggressive strength.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $ll.OO to $7.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $ll.OO to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2,30 cto 31c; oats, No. 2. 22c to 24c; rye, Noi 2; 56c to 58c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 25c io 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $ll.OO to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.50; wheat, Xo. 2 red, 00c to 71c; corn. No. 2 white, 32c to 33e; oats, Xo. 2 white, 24e to 20c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $0.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25: wheat. Xo. 2,72 c: to 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, Xo. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, Xo. 2,59 cto 00c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, Xo. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 33c to 35c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye, Xo. 2,02 cto 04c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25; hogs, SO.OO to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50: wheat, Xo. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 34c to 30c; oats, Xo. 2 white, 20c to 27c; rye. 01c to 03c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, Xo. 2 mixed, 23c to 25e; rye, No. 2,59 c to Ole; clover seed. SO.OO to $0.70. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 Northern, 09c to 70c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 1,58 c to 00c; barley, No. 2,46 cto 47c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—Cnttle, $3.25 to $0.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 41c; to 42e; oats. No. 2 white, 80c to 32c; batter, creamery, 17c to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to 20c.

CORNER STONE LAID.

M’KINLEY PERFORMS IMPOSING CEREMONY AT CHICAGO. Wield* a Silver Trowel ill the Kxercise* at the New b ederal BuildingGreat Parade Follows—Soldier* of Three Wars in Line. Under a bright sky. in nn .atmosphere of Indian summer, with bags waving and the strains of the national anthem pealing forth and viewed by throngs at windows and on roofs, the corner stone of the new Chicago Federal building was laid by the President of the United States Monday morning. President McKinley spread u trowelful of gray mortar upon the foundation stone of the great Federal structure. He received it from a shovel handed him by a hod carrier. Workmen more experienced in the art of rearing mighty buildings spread other mortar upon the base. The -comer stone, white and massive in the sunlight, was lowered from a flag-entwined derrick upon the foundation stone, dropping upon and hermetically sealing the copper box containing documents and coins which may not see light for another century. Secretary of the Treasury Gage waved his hands to the multitude. Then, as a band played “The Star-Spangled Banner" and a battery on the lake front boomed the national salute 10,000 persons, standing with uncovered heads, cheered the uation's ruler and the nation’s anthem.

Thousands from the windows and tops of the high buildings about—from the flag-bedecked turret of the Union League Club, the dizzy cornices of the Great Northern, the massive heights of the Mouadnock building—took up the mighty refrain. These persons numbered fully 15.000. Following the example of those who had points of vantage, the tens of thousands who could not see, and had not heard a word, but held back from the proximity to the Federal building by lines of bluecoats, had patiently held their ground for hours, sent up a hoarse cheer. .Vs the stone was falling to its bed, and inch by inch closing the sunlight from the precious box, a member of the First artillery. 1. N. G., signal service, who stood in the presidential stand, wig-wagged his flag thrive. A man on a sky scraper in the vicinity wig-wagged another flag, ami a third man, farther east, waved his flag. And two seconds by the stop watch after the corner stone of the new Federal building was laid the deep-toned salute of the cruiser Michigan and Battery D echoed from the lake front and mingled with the acclamations of the populace. When silence reigned again Secretary Gage, white-haired and distinguished, stood over the huge block of Illinois limestone and said, with dignified emphasis:

“I now pronounce the laying of the corner stone complete. and ask Itev. Frank Gunsaulus to ask God’s blessing.” And the thousands and the tens of thousands bowed their heads as Rev. Gunsaulus called upoii the Supreme being to hold the great structure-to-be in his keeping. The trowel was an insignia of holiday Chicago. With the deft turn of the President’s wrist and the falling of the wet mortar upon the stone was completed that little act about which all other acts, great or small, of the fall festival centered. With the laying of the corner stone at the northeast corner of the structure which is to be Chicago’s magnificent postofflee —the most imposing building in all this city of giant structures—the clt-

GOVERNMENT BUILDING AND POSTOFFICE AT CHICAGO.

max of a week’s festivities bad been reached. Eloquence from jurists, statesmen and divines, the presence of the premiers of three great governments, and the representatives of a dozen other nations made the occasion one calculated to clinch the memory of every spectator. Without a hitch, without a blemish of faj sort, the ceremonies were performed

LED BY THE PRESIDENT.

Grand Civic and Military Pageant follows Nation’* Chief. The ceremonies attending th£ laying of the corner stone of Chicago’s new postoffice building were followed in the afternoon by a pageant which surpassed all similar civic and military displuys in the history of the city. It was viewed by thousands who formed two compact walls of humanity miles in length. There were no threatening skies to mar or conceal the lavish decorations of the Court of Honor or to dampen the patriotic ardor of the hosts of people. Veterans of three wars received their proper measure of applause. Gray beards of the Mexican war and the aged warriors of the civil conflict heard echoes of the bugle, fife and drum which fired their heroism at Buena Vista, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and Itich-

CHICAGO DAY PARADE IN THE COURT OF HONOR.

moud; the veterans of the strife yet fresh iu nTefnory stTli showeil the scars of battle, while scores of semi-military and civic organizations gave additional weight to the significance of the parade. The distinguished visitors from Canada, Mexico and from this country’al! received and were made to realize that Chicago' has a heart iy proportion to its size. President McKinley’s appearance along the line of march was attended by a contiguous. waVe of applause, while with hared head he bowed to the throngs. From the appointed place through the maze of downtown streets to the reviewing stand the President looked into a sea of faces. Vice-President Mariscal of Mexico, sur-

rounded by a cavalcade of horsemen in brilliant colors; Sir Wilfred Laurier, premier of Canada, escorted by another cavalry guard; distinguished generals of the American army in their sashes and regimentals, members of the President’s cabinet in severe black, and scores of other distinguished guests were paid for their visit by greetings given them.

LAYING OF THE POST OFFICE CORNER STONE.

CHICAGO’S GREAT BUILDING.

It Will Be the Moat Dignified Public Structure in the We»t. The nation is spending more than $4.000,000 to provide quarters in Chicago for the Federal courts and for the transaction of its mammoth business in the district. The new United States Government building which will accommodate the several Federal departments is designed iu the form of a great granite cross, covering au area of 380 by 310 feet, and it will be the moat dignified public structure in the West. Throe of its floors —the basement and first and second stories—will cover the entire block bounded by Adams. Dearborn and Clark streets and Jackson boulevard. Upon this base the cross-like structure rises six storie9 higher, or 128 feet, in the air. Then comes the huge dome, a building in it-

self, reaching eight stories farther T«5 a height of 295% feet. Rising from each pavilion formed by the first three floors, and supporting each arm of the cross, are four massive monoliths, fifty feet high and five feet in diameter. The doorway will be arched, thirty-six feet high. From the immense rotunda, extending from the Basement nearly to the top of the dome, will run two granite stairways and six elevator.shafts. This rotunda is to be light and roomy, and will be sixty-five feet in diameter. The building will be constructed of rough granite from the quarries of Maine

Brief Paragraphs from Chicago Banquet Toasts.

I resident McKinley—Has patriotism'died out In the hearts of the people? Witness the hSO.WIO men springing to arms and In thirty days organized into regiments for the SpauUli war, and 1,0t*0,000 more ready to respond; and the more recent enlistment of 70,000 men. Has American heroism declined! The shattered and sinking fleets of the Spanish navy at Manila and Santiago, the charge of San Juan and El Caney, and the intrepid valor and determination of oun gallant troops in Luzon attest the fact that the American soldier and sailor have lost none of the qualities which made our earlier army and navy Illustrious and Invincible Premier Laurier—Between vour country and my country the relations have reached that degree of dignity and respect and affection that even the u-ord "war” is never to be mentioned In a British assembly-or an American assembly. Can we not hope that if ever the banners of England and the banners of the United States are again to meet on the battlefleld they shall meet entwined together In the defense of some holy cause. In the defense of holy Justice, for the defense of the oppressed, for the enfranchisement of the downtrodden, and for the advancement of liberty, progress and civilization. Minister Mariscal—Less than forty years ago we had to battle against Napoleonic Intervention, and in spite of our heroic resistance, prolonged for flve long years, we might have succumbed, yielding to force measure, had It not been for the powerful Influence of the United States, which promptly settled the matters In oiir favor. That historical fact has not been forgotten by any true Mexican, and we *ll keep it engraved In our hearts. .