Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — Page 3

NEWS IS HARD TO GET

•■_ ' ~ BOERS CUT TELEGRAPH LINES IN BCUTH AFRICA. //■' /I fevcre Censorship Important Battle* at Lady •mlth on ttib Kutand Klmbsrlejr on the West of tli* Tranavaak Cable companies hare notified the Stdte Department at Washington of the intfr- \ ruption of communication with the 'Transvaal.* Severe censorship interferes with the sending of war news from Soijth Africa, but advices received indicate early battles at several points. On Tuesday Kimberley was still besieged by BoerS, attd therc were rumors of an attack on Vryburg. Dutch forces meting south fin Natal have been delayed by the difficulties met with in transporting supplies and equipments. , . The disposition of the Boer forces at the outset of the war iu South Africa makes it manifest that the Boer generals, instead of contenting themselves with defensive or guerrilla warfare, mean for a time to act systematically on the aggressive. The four military expeditions thus far put under way from the Transvaal and the Orange Free State have moved directly to the Important strongholds on the enemy’s frontier. These movements, while apparently independent, give evid-rnee of concerted action At the time this is written the northern commandos of the Transvaal under Commandant Cronje are investing Ma%)iing, which is defended by Col. Baden-Bowell and a relatively small force. The same expedition is known to have seized the railroad to the south of Mafeking. The southern commandos of the Transvaal, under Gen. Koch, at the same time have moved into Natal, with Ladysmith, apparently, for an objective. The troops ■of the Orange Free State have been aimilarly divided, the commandos of the southern part of the republic striking for Kimberley, which they are now besieging in force, meantime destroying the railway to the south. A fourth column, also made up of Boors from the Orange.Jfrpe’

TYTES OF BOER SOLDIEKS.

•State, has struck into Natal, where it will be in»a position to co-operate with the Transvaal force iu front of Ladyemith against Gen. Sir George Stewart White and his formidable army of 15,•000 men. The opening of the campaign thus finds the Boers making simultaneous attacks upon three of the most important British strongholds—the points which naturally •would be the bases of supply and communication for the invading army. That the defense of these strongholds will be stubborn and very likely effective need

hardly be said. But n is evident that the policy of the Boer leaders thus far promises to give them advantages which will obstruct the British advance materially and greatly prolong the war. The 'Boer forces arc mounted. They are operating on interior lines and are able to maneuver over long distances on ground with which they are familiar. They at-, ready control all the passes igtjp- 4fie

GEN. CRONJ[?]. COL BADEN-POWELL.

Transvaal. With Mafeking and Kimberley under siege and two columns operating on the offensive in Nataly they, for a time at least, will be able to devastate a considerable territory, catting telegraph wires, destroying railways and bridges and seising stores of ammunition and sunnlies.

ROBBERY OP THE NORTHWESTERN FAST MAIL TRAIN NEAR ELBURN, ILL.

- Three bandits terrorize the railway m cn, wreck the express car and escape, > to be pursued by a posse and bloodhounds.

ESTIMATE OF YEAR’S WHEAT.

I eduction of 327,000,000rua’iel* from LMtVe ir’a World's Crop. In a bulletin issued by the Agricultural Department a careful analysis is given of the wheat crop of the world for 1899 based upon the estimates of recognized conservative authorities. The production was.estimated by the Department of Agriculture in 1898 at 2,907,700,000 bushels. Beerbohm estimates the production the la£f J season at 2.445,000.000 bushels, the BuTMttin des Hailes at 2,510,000,000 and tbe'Hungariau minister of agriculture at from 2,453,000,000 to 2,477,000,000 bushels. tit a carefully tabulated statement it is shown that these estimates do not cover the same field; that some of them include ’epphtrfes omitted by others. Setting differences and taking the Coub tries which are included in ail four tff’the estimates the following result is Stained: Estimate of Department of Agriculture, 1898, 2,798,000,000 bushels; estimate Beerbohm’s Corn-Trade List, 1899, 2,393,000,000 bushels; estimate Bulletin des Halles, 1599, 2.489,000,000 bushels; estimate Hungarian ministry, 1899, 2,453,000,000 to 2,477,000,000. It has already been seen by the report of the Agricultural Department that supplementing the estimates for 1899 by the additions for omitted countries which are included in the estimate of the Department of Agriculture for 1898 and then comparing the latter with the mean of the three estimates as so modified, we get 327.000,000 bushels as the quantity by which this year’s wheat crop falls below that of last year. On the whole a reduction of more than 300,000,000 bushels is pretty safely inferred, and it would seem that during the current crop year the farmer should obtain satisfactory prices for his wheat.

FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES.

More than 70,000 Men Will Be There in December. The combined military and naval forces of the United States in the Philippines,

SCENE OP THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.

when all the troops and ships now under orders reach their destination, will aggregate more than 7Q.000 men and forty-five war vessels. The last of these forces will arrive in Manila early in December. This statement shows the strength in detail of the military and naval forces assigned to duty in the Philippines: 1 ArmyCombatants 03,872 Non-combatants 1,500 ' NavyBlue jackets.... 4,907 SEMrta 1,184

FOR A CORNER.

Beef Trust Paring * hlckens to Bol> ster Meat Price*. -.Telegraphic advices received in Chicago Srom Kansas City, Omaha and St. Lonis ft re to the effect that Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and the other big packers are baying poultry upon a scale they never attempted before. The motive is that the members of the so-called "beef ring” are desirous of avoiding the effect upon the beef market usual at this time/of year, owing to the low prices of poultry. By cornering the chicken market it ia reported the beef interests intend Jo bol--ster the«pre!:ent high price of-their principal oradacb - - ..

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

Opium eating is increasing in England. Rome may have a world's fair in 1910. China's first sawmill has just been built. H Melodramas are returning to fashion in London. Chrysanthemum salad is a popular delicacy in Japan. 1 Melbourne, Australia, has just had its first fall of snow. Great Britain may have a permanent census department. Congo natives are making seat covers of the skins of Belgians. German authorities are trying to check an epidemic of typhus at Metz. Revolutionary organizations for almost every object now exist in Paris. The maintenance of the siege of Fort Cbambrol cost Paris 820,000 francs. Uganda is to be made a base of supplies for the British in central Africa. What was once the palace of Queen Hortense in Paris is being demolished. Germany expects to have a share in Delagoa Bay if England obtains control. Delagoa Bay officials, being,.underpaid, resort to bribery on every a - B* - not-xl Near Hastings, lilies, aa eccentric old man who daib’<'ima4'*:to the sun at noon. r.'cim >•>« if* L A writer in an English magazine declares that the average Englishman is a workingman earning $0 a week. Irish newspapers are criticising the English press for their attacks on French

justice. The Irish say that it is a case of the pot aud the kettle. Ex-Premier Meliue demands the immediate reconvening of the French Parliament. The King of Corea has presented a fan to every soldier and policeman in his kingdom. There are now twenty-three stations in all parts of the world for registering earthquakes. ’ Buddhiat priests are endeavoring to have their religion adopted as the state religion of Japan. ’■* ’ Viennese youngsters are fishing in the main thoroughfares of their city, the Danube having flooded. A naval review is to be held in Japanese waters next year in which’ 100 of the Mikado's ships will take part. The inhabitants of Wlnton. England, believe that with the close of the century the world will como to an end. Japan wiH not restore captured ships to China, but will aril her new ally ?40,000 Manser rifles and 24,000,000 .rounds of ammunition at adow price. So many Chinese officials are resigning that the Empress Dowager has ordered the punishment of those who apply for leave without pressing necessity.

LO SS UNDER $10,000.

l'xpress Officials fay Robbery Proceeds Here Exaggerated. The statements priuted in the various Chieago newspapers regandiug the amount of money secured byJthe- robbers who held up the Northwesternotrain at Tower W Friday night are nbsplutely denied by the officials of the American Express Company. Robert E. N. Cowie, confidential secretary to President Antisdel, said: “It can be stated as official that the amount of money lost by the express company will fall considerably short of SIO,OOO. The amount of the reward has nothing to do with the loss. We offer the reward in order to secure the

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apprehension and punishment of the robbers, not with reference to the loss in this particular case, but to stop any future recurrence of the robbery.” The clews thus far secured by the secret service men of the express and .railway companies, the city, and the Pinkerton agency, and all the county sheriffs anil the individuals attracted by the rewards offered, are very vague. William A. Pinkerton said yesterday: “There is no clew that is promising enough to take up as a key to the case. The robbers will be caught. Some of the most notorious robbers we have caught have been taken two or three mouths after the crime.

The Des Moines. lowa, savings hank and a Cedar Rapids bank wore consignors of most of the money in the express safe blown on the Northwestern train. The Des Moines bank officials refused to give the amount of money consigned to their institution, but intimate that the stories about the loss being but SB,OOO is absurd. The bank depends on reimbursement tfofi express company.

TRIAL OF JESTER.

Prisoner Charged with Murder Committed in 1871. Alexander Jester is on trial at Paris, Mo., charged with the murder of Gilbert Gates many years ago. The aged pris-

oner sits like a stone; apparently unmoved, in the court worn from day to dnv, with his eyes intentlj fixed on the wit nesses. Nipt a rela tire, a friend or an acquaintance is by his side to comfort’ and console'him or to whom he can go for sympathy. At first he seemed to

cart* little for what the witness was saying, hut the trial is telling on him now. He looks haggard and worn and appears nervous and, excited. ‘I am all alone in die world," he said. ‘‘Eveiybody lias forsaken me. No one is interested in my behalf; it all looks very glpomy and dark now. Everything seems to he against me, blit ns sure as Cod lives aud rules 1 uni an innocent man.” Monday Mrs. Irene Delaney, aged 58, testified that she was living two and onehalf miles west of Middle Grove, on the Paris and Booneville road, in 1871. She said Jester and Gatos camped, about 100 yards from her home the might Of JrtU. 24 of that year. About' mplnight she heard three loud screams come from the camp, like those of a human, jicing in distress. Her husband. .T. B. Delaney, was then put on the stand. He corroborated his

THE JAIL AT PARIS, MO,

wife's statements, and further that he went down to the wagon in the morning and asked what that noise was tho night before. Jester replied that he was dreaming, and when he awoke he was choking young Gates. Gates did not hear this conversation, because he had goat to the nond for a bucket of water. •

A[?]XANDER JESTER.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Peacemaker fhjt anT Killed—>Hn »- band Imprisons His Wife in a Cellar for Several Weeks-Suicide of a Kicb Young Alan—Bobbed by Aiaskg^Mcn.

An attempttMl double murder took place at Colfax. Bert Julian, who W 4? recently discharged from the regular jirmy in the Philippines, entered a saloon and shot Milo Iloulehan, a discharged soldier. Julian had a grudge against Frank Gray, the proprietor of the saloon, and as he came into the place declared that he intended to kill Gray with a shotgun which he carried in his hands. Iloulehan: interfered, when Julian put .the of the gun against his head and discharged one barrel. Houlehan’s head was literally blown off. lie then fired the other barrel at Gray, but missed him. He was takeu in custody and hastened to Frankfort jail.

Wealthy Young Man Kills Himself. Leslie D. Sinclair committed suicide at Vincennes by shooting himself through the temple. He was worth SJ.OO, XM), and belonged to one of the most prominent families in southern Indiana. He was one of the principal heirs to the .$500,000 estate of the late William J. Wise., The coroner found a note Sinclair had written to his sister in which he said his life was a failure. Sinclair Was 28 years old, and unmarried. lie took his life in a restaurant. Woman Chained in a Cellar. Mrs. Herman Gays, who had been reported several weeks ago to have left her husband and gone to her mother in Montreal, was found the other evening to have been hidden in the cellar of her residence iu English, where her husband had fastened her with a trace chain less than five feet long. The discovery was made through Gays’ 12-year-old daughter by a previous wife. Gays learned of his possible arrest and fled, but every’ attempt will be made to capture and punish him.

Woman Kobbfd l>jr M-uknl Men. Mrs. Louie Waudrel, wife of the landlord of the Columbian Hotel at Isigaii'port. was aroused from* sleep by a mdse in another room. Hastily arising, she suddenly found herself iu the grasp of three masked men. They bound and gagged her and then robbed the rooms of ail the valuables, consisting htostly’ of jewelry. Within Our Border* One hundred horses were shipped from Anderson for the Transvaal the bthe£ dav. • "iini. 1 i eio James \Ve-s. farmer near Viavg.onuffif was run down by a Big Four train- ami killed. Rush County commissioners decided to build five wooden bridges instead of steel ones. Mancie has grown until letter carriers cannot cover their routes in an eighthoiir work day. Franchise has been granted‘fd'Ti Lindsay Fitch. Louisville,- 'ih put in -Wat-r works at New Albany.'- - r --'d-t-unA 'tut -*, ~. .-la: ionic nsranyh Construction of the I.ogansporty. ester ami Northern Traction Company's road will begin at an early untie/ ~ ‘ *

Anderson came out first. Columbus second and Seymour third in the baud contest at the Greensburg street fair.

C. 11. Dale, superintendent of the Hartford City paper mills, has won the chess championship of Indiana and Ohio. Three Panhandle engines and tweuty freight e-ars were pile-el up in a wreck at Peoria junction, near Logauspoit. Noboely hurt. Thomas Bowers, who was found elcael in bed at Anderson, was buried by relatives, his wife and daughter refusing to claim the body. Mrs. Helen Shipley, Muneie, confessed that she was given SIOO to testify falsely in a trial three years ago. was conscience stricken.

At Etna Green. Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago east-bounil freight No. 00 was run into by freight No. 78. The colliding engine and fifteen ears were wrecked. G. L. White, a well-known traveling salesman for the Van Camp Packing Company of Indianapolis, who had been for several -days at the —TVm* -Haute House, suddenly went insane. A serious stabbing affray occurred at Knightstown. Waite Heaton, a banker, is alleged to have stabbed Joseph Alspaugh. The men are aged 00 and 55 years respectively. The trouble is alleged to have originated over a business deal. Dicing the noon hour, while the office force "was away ffrr a slmvt -time, the safe of Lytius & .Johnson. real estate dealers, in the most prominent building in Minnie, was Opened and S4OO stolen, it was done by experts, for the combination was worked and the inner drawers plied open, ai! in fifteen minutes’ time. It is stated in railroad circles that the Vandaiia northern terminal at South Bend will be extended to Michigan City. A corps of surveyors has been running a line to Michigan City which traverses the northern part of La Porte County, and V, T. Malott of Indianapolis, receiver ot the Vandaiia. is credited with being interested in building the Michigan City road.

Sheriff Klingler of Brazil received a telegram from the sheriff at Philadelphia stating that he had under arrest there Fred M. Chapin, wanted at Brazil for forgery', la 1897 Chnpin and Sterling It. Holt, the Indianapolis ice millionaire, bought the plant of the Brazil Ice and Cold Storage Company and Chapin was placed in charge. Soon he disappeared and it developed that he had forged Holt’s name to cheeks for $3,000 on ihe First National Bank of Brazil aud s2,<M>o on the Zeller & Riddell Bank. Ed Speioher, 15, Logarispoit, Went crazy studying flying machines. Window glass combine is taking in Hartford City plants. Labor organizations in Brazil are fining all members who trade at stores that do not recognize the clerks’ union and close at 7 p. tu. There is a man in Goshen whog wpeu he wa* -18, was of medium statute. fla the last nine years he has been afflicted, at different times, with a debilitating conii'.’aint, and each time that he got out of tod found that be had grown a test inches. He is now seven feet tall.

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

“Money Is C Republicans claim that a sign of prafc|] perity exists in the fact tEat “money I*l cheip.” They mean by this that cfata can get all the money be wants at 4 to 5 per cent, interest if the proper | collateral is given. But how mpny ar* f there compared with the total I citizenship who can furnish tha*iiece*i If sary collateral? The “ch: ap money” will not comeottl;! of the bank unless the security is sup- | plied. Real estate under the gold J standard has fallen in value from ISO to 75 per cent. In fact, every form Of property, except money and bonds, which bring a fixed income in money, lias fallen in value because the measure 3 of value, gold, has appreciated. Theres J fore, If the average worker on a salary or owning depreciated property, If he wants to borrow must do so on personal - property of from 5 to 10 per cent, interests month. But, even if’tha average man could borrow* this money at 5 per cent, a year he could not invest it in property, undfer the gold standard, so as to make a prof- I it over the interest. Therefore, piles up in the banks—becomes cheap*, and Ike most “cheap” things Is useless for the general good ; But, in reality, money is not cheap. *The ; i|se pf : moi)#T is cheap because there is nothing ,4hat will pay as nn investment, but th* money itself is dear—dearer every day. Try to purchase sl,ood> %itli a city lot. The result will bo the discovery of the fact that land is cheap, but that money is exceedingly dear. 'This U the kind of prosperity the Republicans prat* | about.— Chicago Democrat.

From “Coin to Gold.” The favorite proposition just now of g the money trust is that Congress as 1 soon as it assembles shall enact a law— | an irrevocable contract—that £he mon- . ey standard of the United States shall be gold. This looks like a very innocent proposition—a sort of stuixfp speech in a law—but it goes much farther. It proposes to change the contract of a thousand million of outstanding United States bonds from “coin” to “gpld” for no practical pujrpose of jgftVr i ernuieut but to advantage the inojfiesjj tpiis-t. Supplemented with this prppor skion Is the policy openly advocated by the leaders of the Republican party to withdraw the greenbacks ffonfit lotion—to substitute for a non-latc&st ; bearing debt an interest bearing debt 1 . It implies a monopoly of the ptfpef money supply of the government in ths national banks— a money trust, in fact, that will regu'ate the supply, and therefore the price of money. These are the money issues of the future. The people will not be fooled and intimidated by trusts, as they were in 1890. Theif eyes are open.— Pittsburg Post.

What I’aokera Want. The financial legislation desired by the money power in this country, arid which will be made effective by the next Congress, is pointed out in the following resolution adopted by the National Bankers’ Association just adjourned at Cleveland. Ohio: „ t “The lumbers of the United States most earnestly recommend that. the Congress of the Unite*] States, at Ra next session, enact a law toiinore flrritly and unequivocally establish the gold standard in the country by providing that the gold dollar, which, under existing law, is the unit of value, shall be the standard and measure of all values in the United States; that all tbj# obligations of the government and all paper money, Including the circulating notes of national banks, shall be redeemed in gold coin, and that the legal tender notes of the United States, when paid Into the treasury, shall not be reissued except upon the deposit Of an equivalent amount of [■ Follow .ns tlie Example of Necessity, A dispatch from Manila states that the Filipino government has issued piper money to the amount of $3,000,000. They are not the first fighters for liberty and independence who had to resort to t h ate Ox nedle nt. The American “insurgents'”— 1770 1782- we re obliged: to issue paper money, time after Until depreciation of value made it almost wor hit ss.—Los Angel s Herald. “*— ■ - iSS

Mighty Expensive.

Two old farmers sat talkiuglu a ppblie office, and any one who passed by might have heard the following highkeyed conversation: "Pm 72.” ..-dl *‘l can beat ye; I’m 75.”< „ J “I’ve had eleven children." n‘ “I’ve nad thirteen' and lost all but sour 1 . ' I’ve got more'-money t coffins and boards in Hickory Green graveyard than any other man in the township! Them last two caskets cost me $95 apiece, and that’s not saying anything about the price of graves and other et-cetters. I tell you, it comes mighty expensive on a man—buryln* a family!"

High Caste Widows.

There are In India alone 3,000,000 - high caste widows under 15 years old. In that country if a girl is not mar-:J rled at 10 or 12 years of age her par- J ents are looked down upon. They are, consequently, given" away in mqrrlagc as early ns possible to men of any age. f On the death of the husband the widow 1 cannot marry again, and she gets little support from her own rtf&*tlve#.‘ T Her future life is one of misery an J

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