Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — Page 3

FACES GRAVE CRISIS.

ENGLAND NOW TO TAKE HEROIC WAR MEASURES. Whole Available Strength of British Em pire to Be Flung Into Booth Africa -Mobilisation Will Take Five Weeks —Flrat Plan of Campaign Abandoned. England is aroused indeed. All her reserves, a strong force of yeomanry, other mounted volunteers, all her available colonial troops, and a strong division of militia are ordered to the seat of war. Field Marshal Lord Roberts will go as commander-in-chief, and Gen. Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum fame, will accompany him as second in command. *-hese startling orders have been issued by the war office. They mean that almost the whole strength of the British, empire will be flung into South Africa. The mobilisation of the troops will be pushed with the greatest possible speed, and the fastest ships from the British merchant marine will be used to hurry the fprces to the Cape. It is calculated that these re-enforcements will begin to reach South Africa in about five weeks. Meantime the original campaign will be abandoned, and a general policy of mark tfane will be adopted by the commanders of the forces now in the field. The news of Great Britain’s tremendous preparations may spur the Boers into serious aggression before the fresh British troops arrive, but thus far they have shown no desire to attack intrenched forces, while the British disasters have been caused by just that thing. Besieged Towns Must Wait. All the indications now point to the beginning of a great campaign late in January. Meantime Ladysmith, Kimbeney and Mafeking must wait. Their situation is perilous, but according to all accounts there is no serious danger that famine will be added to their other sufferings. The chief interest in the new campaign centers in the Government’s decision to use as volunteer forces the yeomanry and militia. For active service the yeomanry should supply a useful contingent. They, as the London Telegraph editorially says, “like the rest of the volunteers, are drawn from the great middle and lower middle classes in England, Scotland and Wales. They may not possess the mechanical perfection of drill of the regulars, but there are no fetter cross-country riders in the world than the British yeoman.” Section D of the reserve, which has been called out, consists of men who have

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completed the term of their original enlistment and who engage to serve an additional four years. The militia are the same class of men as the regulars, and are in camp a month annually. These, together with the reserves, number 113,000 men. Their chief lack is officers. The yeomanry, the backbone of which is young farmers, are well officered, often by men retired from the regular cavalry, who, marrying young, settle on their country estates. They number 10,207. All are well mounted on their own horses.

In the militia are 14,734 artillerymen and 1,804 engineers. Of the militia only 14,000 are over 35 years of age. Similar numbers are aged 30 and 35, and the remainder are under 30. Over 32,000 are agricultural laborers, 13,000 miners, and 10,000 artisans. The volunteer infantry contains some regiments that- are considered the equal of any of the regular regiments. It also includes the best shots, but their average shooting is lower than that of the regulars. The Government indicates the number of volunteers that will be permitted to serve, but*Lord Roberts’ grand, army will probably reach a total of rather over 180,000 of all arms.

PANIC IN STOCKS.

Third Serious Defeat of British in Africa Benda Values Crashing Down. The third defeat of the British in* the Transvaal made a second panic on the stock exchanges Monday. Twice within a week securities in England and the United States suffered severely. Monday values receded as precipitously and almost as far as in the slump of the previous week, when the industrials were the shining mark of the professionals and their backers, who were working for “a December drop to make room for the January rise.” In the present instance the rushing depredations bore particularly on railroad certificates, especially on ( those in which Boston, the /Flowers and the Rockefeller* were interested. Both the Rockefeller party and the Gotham syndicate found too late that too much pressure has been utilized. The markets slumped beyond their control. The artificial scard was made a reality by the battles in the Transvaal. London, instead of buying here on the breaks, was compelled to liquidate, and London’s liquids tfo'n became Inductive. Houses with foreign connections were forced to relinquish stocks that had been carried to the time the English began to sell. Th* pressure spread until it was reported that the Rockefeller party, the Whitney syndicate and the Flower combine were forced to yield in their pet properties. Banks refused to advance more money and brokers became insistent in the matter of margins. Computed at Monday's lAel, the losses in the value of stocks and bonds amount's to more than all the gold ever taken out of the Transvaal. __ Patronize those whojldyertirr

BALLOON SEARCH LIGHT USED BY THE BRITISH.

HOUSE PASSES CURRENCY BILL.

Vote la 190 to 150, Eight Democrats Favoring the Measure.

The debate on the currency bill was concluded Saturday, and Monday the House passed the bill by a vote of 190 yeas to 150 nays. The. following Democrats voted for the bill: Clayton of New York, Denny of Maryland, Driggs of New York, Fitzgerald of New York, Ruppert of New York, Scudder of New York, Thayer of Massachusetts and Wilson of New York. If passed without material amendmeats the House bill will provide for the posi-. tive recognition of the gold dollar as the sole unit and standard of value; for the redemption of all government obligations, including silver dollars, which are merely metallic promises to pay, in gold coin; for the payment of all time obligations or government bonds in the same coin; for the abolition of the tax On bank circulation and for the issuance by the national 'banks of notes up to the par value of the bonds deposited as security. This is the bill in a nutshell, the various remaining features being of minor importance.

The Senate will not discuss the House measure. It expects to proceed with the consideration of its own bill after - the holiday recess, and as that differs materially from the alternative bill a conference will eventually have to reconcile the two chambers and prepare a compromise measure.

BOER RIOT IN DUBLIN.

Police Break Up a Meeting Which la Called to Score England. Police suppressed'a mass meeting of Boer sympathizers in Dublin Sunday. Heads were broken, several Transvaal and Irish flags were destroyed, and many arrests made. Maud Gonne, the socalled “Irish Joan of Arc,” and James Connolly, the Irish republican, drove in a wagonette to the place appointed for the meeting, which was attended by a large crowd. Mr. Connolly tried to speak, but was prevented by the police, he wagonette then made a tour of the street, the crowd rapidly increasing, cheering for the Boers, singing “God Save Ireland” and “We’ll hang Joe Chamberlain on a sour apple tree,” and using insulting expressions against the queen, the empire and the army.

During the meeting Michael Davktt said: “All Irishmen rejoice in the triumphs of the Boers. No power in Europe would now fear Great Britain, except, perhaps, the prince of Monaco.” Mr. Redmond said: “Mr. Chamberlain deserves not doctors, but executioners.” Ultimately a resolution, proposed by Mr. Davitt, was carried denouncing the war and calling upon the powers, particularly the United States, to take steps to insure the independence of the Boer republic.

WAR NEAR AN END.

Communication of Gen. Otia to the War Department.

Information was received in Washington from Gen. Otis Friday which indicates that the Filipino people realize that the insurrectionary movement has gone to pieces, and are anxious that drastic measures be adopted to bring about normal conditions in the Philippines. Gen. Otis said in his dispatch that he had received a communication from prominent Filipinos saying that the remnants of Aguinaldo’s army had divided into small bands for the purpose of committing murder and robbery, and suggesting that they be classed as bandits and given the extreme punishment meted out to such desperados. They said, also, that, as it would be necessary to maintain a large number of American troops in the island tq garrison towns, it would be a good idea to utilize as many natives for this duty as possible. In his message Gen. Otis said that he sent the communication of the Filipinos as a sample of many received by him. He lessens its importance with faint praise, however, saying that the men who made the representations cited are not familiar with practices outside the islands, and have no idea of the way in which civilized nations deal with such conditions as they represent.

OTIS SEIZES DOCUMENTS.

Letters Are Said to Show Moral Support for Aguinaldo. Gen. Otia, it is stated, has forwarded to Washington a number of important letters found in the rebel, archives, which were recently captured by the American troops. The letters show, it is said, that Aguinaldo had tfie active moral support of prominent anti-expansionists in the United States.

BELIEVE NINE ARE LOST.

Barge Thought to Have Gone Down with All on Board. It was thought almost certain Monday that whaleback barge 115 was lost, together with her crew of nine men. Those of the cnew whose names are known were Capt. Arthur A. Boyce, Mate Michael Btynop and Cook William Buckner. - Search has been abandoned by the steamer Colgate Hoyt, which had the barge in tow. There was no insurance on vessel or cargo. The vessel was ownta Dy tvocKCteiw interests

Business Situation.

Chicago Correspondence:

lowest points of the year. The selling was induced to some extent by fear of gold shipments. After a week of much apparent heaviness wheat at the close of the session Saturday was only %c a bushel lower than it was the Saturday previous, but the situation does not appear promising for any immediate or near-by advance in price, stocks in sight being adequate and prospects for future supplies more encouraging to consumers than to growers. The problem connected with the future value of corn is hotly debated by the speculators who make a specialty of dealing in that commodity. Estimates of the last crop generally agree in a generous total ol about 2,000,000,000 bushels, and there Is further concurrence in an opinion that irich quantity is an ample provision for all possible requirements. If farmers, however, in view of the small reserves of old corn, heavy export demand, great interior demand for feeding and uncertainty of the crop to follow, conclude to hold off the market any considerable proportion of their grain, the ample crop might be made to appear inadequate. Prices now ruling are moderately low, lut not so enticingly cheap as to attract buyers prepared to crib and hold in, the country any unusual quantity, and it is questionable if, in the present temper of the speculative community, any considerable addition to commercial stocks in sight would be posible without some material concession in price. • The natural conclusion from such premises is that the course of the market will follow the indications of the growers’ intenttons to accept current prices or to keep back supplies of any magnitude until they can make some calculation regarding the prospects for another crop. Receipts meantime are small, without any decided prospect of material enlargement. and with exporters still in the market for considerable quantities.

LIEUTENANT BRUM BY DEAD.

Dewey’s Flag Officer at tl»e Battle of ’Manila Passes Away.

Lieut. Thomas M. Brumby, flag secretary to Admiral Dewey, who had been ill with typhoid fever, died at Garfield hospital in Washington

Sunday evening. Lieut. Brumby went out to the Asiatic station with the a<Lmiral and remained there until both returned to the United States several months kgo. In his capacity as flag lieutenant to the admiral Lieut. Brumby was with his chief practically

all the time, and acted as his personal representative in many matters of detail. He was regarded by Admiral Dewey as a'bright, energetic and capable' assistant. The lieutenant’s illness dated from about Nov. 27, the first symptom being nothing more than a cold, which, how ever, failed to yield to treatment, and soon afterward he went to the Garfield hospital. The officer’a aged mother is living in Marietta, Ga. His father, who is dead, was a colonel of the Fourteenth Georgia regiment in the Confederate army. Lieut. Brumby was 44 years old and unmarried. In his report of the battle of Manila Admiral Dewey spoke in very complimentary terms of the services and gallantry of his flag lieutenant and rec-, ommended that he be advanced on the list of lieutenants. The lieutenant's death is the third among the officers associated with Dewey at the battle of Manila. The others were Capt. Gridley and Commander Wood. Lieut. Brumby was presented a sword by the Legislature of Georgia Oct. 26. He remained in Georgia some days after that and returned to Washington about the middle of November.

A 445 Million Gallon Renervoir. One of the largest reservoirs ever constructed is to be built by the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad for the purpose of supplying its engines and shops with water. It will be located five miles southeast of Galesburg, a division point on the main line, 163 miles from 20 feet deep, and will have a capacity Wolves destroy $6,000,000 worth of lite vtftck omiually in Russia.

TOCKS, because of excitement in London on account of British reverses, slumped to such an extent during the week as to bring on a semi-panic. An army of traders has been forced to liquidate its holdings. Prices for a number of the leading stocks have touched the

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RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Muncie Raort Wrecked with Dyna-mite-Work of a Bold ’Thief at Elwood—Man nnd Wife Successfully Seek Klondike Gold. The Maple Grove garden, owned by Bert Fqster, the ex-heavyweight champion of Indiana, was destroyed by fire at Muneie. Mr. Foster, his 7-year-old son and his housekeeper. Miss Myrtle Lynn, escaped with their lives in their night clothes. Three tramps, who were sleeping in the athletic garden, barely escaped being cremated, two of whom were horribly burned. At an investigation the next day it was learned that the building was blown up with dynamite, there having been for the last six months considerable opposition by the residents of that portion of the city against the garden. Steals Weekly Pay Eoll. The most daring robbery ever perpetrated in Madison County occurred at noon the other day in Elwood, when some upknown thief stole the pay roll of the Model Radiator factory, owned by C. M. Converse of Chicago. The local manager took the money, $450. out of the bank and stopped at his home en route to the factory to eat dinner. He hung his overcoat in the parlor and was only away from it about ten minutes, but during that time the thief entered the door, slit the pocket down the side, grabbed the sack of money and disappeared. Gain a Fortune in the Klondike. With several hundred thousand dollars Dr. add Mrs. W. F. Howe have just returned to their home in Indianapolis, after a year and a half in the Klondike. The husband and wife trudged together from Skaguay over the White Pass to Lake Tagish. There the doctor built an often boat and they crossed to the Dawson country. They lived for months with the mercury 56 degrees below zero. They declare the best days in the Klondike are yet to come. They hold fine claims adjoining, one of which has paid $250,000. Aged Engineer Dies. Davis Terrill, the oldest engineer in point of service on the Lake Shore Railroad, died at South Bend. He began railroading as a fireman in 184 G and was made an engineer in 1852. Since 1806 he has been with the Lake Shore road. He was 73 years old. Within Our Border* Steuben County has no saloon. A wolf was seen in the Kankakee valley. > Franklin is about to lose its pants factory. , The Hessian fly is in Fountain County wheat. Arcadia file works is arranging to use for fuel. Incendiaries are burning' barns in Ripley County. John Detrick. Greencastle, exhibits a six-pound turnip. Floyd County has a new asylum for the incurable insane. John Royer. New Albany, found dead in his room. Paralyzed. Voting machines are being tested at Crawfordsville. May buy. Milroy township is said to be the biggest crow roost in Indiana. Twelve-year-old son of Henry Yeager, Shelburn, drowned while skatin* Floyd Wilkins, 14, Summitvilß accidentally shot and killed Fred John Martin, Terre Haute, fell sixty feet from the new high school building at Linton and was fatally hurt. Fred Meier, 25, farmer near Evansville. was struck on the head by robbers, recently, and has become insane. » Scott County commissioners have offered a SSOO reward for the arrest and conviction of those who lynched Martin Tyler. A “county cistern” that' was started in the rear of the jail at Garnett has cost between $7,000 and SB,OOO and is not yet finished. Harry B. White, Terre Haute, licked four footpads the other night and went to work the next day as if nothing had happened. Two children of Mrs. Decker Stewart, near Sullivan, were left alone and played with fire. The house burned down. One escaped and the other was cremated. Mine workers of the Indiana bitumin ous district have been ordered to pay but 1 per cent of their earnings, instead of 2. as that is deemed sufficient to provide for the few men who are now idle. J. A. Buck, defaulting treasurer of Mid land lodge. Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers. Muncie, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sent north to do from two to fourteen years. x , Q Vincennes officers are investigating the death of Karl Wilson, 2, son of Farmer Thomas Wilson. The family are Christian scientists and the child, after a prolonged illness, died without medical attention. Indiana Dairymen's Association held its convention at Cambridge City. The new officers are: President, C. B. Benjamin Leßoy; vice-president. John Shugart; sec-retary-treasurer, H. E. Van Worman, Lafayette. Bert Julian, charged with murdering Michael Houlehan at Colfax Oct. 14, when he refused to give him a drink, was convicted of murder in the second degree on the first ballot, at Frankfort, and sentenced for life. Kokomo merchants say that they are being held up by church and charities organisation committees, who institute a boycott if they refuse to contribute all that Is asked. They have called a meeting to devise means to combat the evil. Mrs. George Bender of Laketon was found dead in bed. She was in her usual health the day before. Heart failure was the cause of her death. - A swindler is doing the north part of the State by “playing broke” and selling his gold wateh for $3, if can’t get more. He carries, a satchel full of them, and works one off at every opportunity. Boiler in the Greensburg Limestone Company’s plant, Harris City, blew up. It started from the basement and went through the roof, while the engineer, Nels Goodwin, was shot out at a window. Not hurt. Damage $1,200.

STATE CAPITAL CHAT

A. W. Butler, secretary of the State Board of Charities, has been investigating the report of the Commissioner General of Immigration with the purpose of ascertaining how many and what kind of immigrants become residents of the State. He says that a comparison with other States shows conclusively that Indiana has fared better by receiving less and a better class of immigrants than any other State in the Union. Of the immigrants coming to this country for the year ending June 30, the destination of 1,335 was Indiana. How many others came into this State we do not know. The majority of these were from the races which are the more desirable immigrants. The greatest number from any one country were Germans. Of these there were 260. One hundred and ten were Welsh, 165 Irish and 98 Scandinavians. We also received in this State large additions from other races which are less desirable. Five hundred and fifty-six were Assyrians, fifty-three Slovak and 122 Italians. , While the present laws exclude certain classes of those who may become public burdens, many for whom there are no restrictions still gain admission and they soon become dependents. There are to be found in our insane hospitals, poor asylums and other institutions cases of those who are not our citizens—whose homes are in foreign lands, and these are public charges of our commonwealth. Neither those whose destination is Indiana nor those foreigners who become inmates of our institutions are so numerous as they are in some other States.

The annual agricultural report has been completed by the bureau of statistics. Including products on hand, listed at current Indianapolis market prices, the amount raided and values are thus summarized: '

Products. Quantity. Value. Wheat 31,357,090 $21,014,256 Corn 151,240.804 45,374,041 Oats 30,801,186 9,300,286 Barley and buckwheat 315,796 157,988 Rye 499,112 299,450 Timothy and clover hay 3,691,531 3,255,340 Flaxseed 8,486 13,880 Irish and sweet potatoes 5,577,237 3,255,340 Sorghum 791,135 \ 245,350 Wool clip 4.631,477 1,140,400 T0bacc0.......11,891,464 590,400 Tame grasses 6,500,000 Milk, butter and cheesj 17,180,000 Poultry and eggs 6,980,000 Slaughtered animals on farm. 4,795,639 Fruit and garden products, estimated 9,840,000 Honey Total $167,967,870 Domestic animals— Milch cows... 492.680 $15,210,000 Other eattle 665,478 19,964,340 Sheep and lambs.... 1,320.121 4,680,600 Swine and pigs 2,902,432 20,210,124 Horses and mules... 663,259 25,120,100 Grand total ..... $253,153,084

The members of the fee and salary commission are making experiments with systetos to equalize the salaries of county officers. William A. Wilkins, secretary; A. C. Daily and Timothy Howard are working on systems of their own, and will meet in January to compare notes. About June, 1900, a bill will be drawn up to recommend to the next Legislature for passage. No definite recommendations are yet decided on, as the matter is still in a purely experimental state. It is safe to say, however, that there will be no radical departure from present salaries recommended. In the progressive counties there will be no reduction whatever., Mr. Wilkins is basing his calculations on population, taxable valuation* of property, and on allowing officers a certain percentage of fees coliected. Mr. Wilkins thinks his plan would do away with 'all inequality in salaries. All but a few of the county officers have complied with the request of the commission for information. The commission will not mjnee matters with those who do not answer, but will send an officer, with full power to examine all books, to make a thorough examination. The State militia now numbers eleven companies of infantry and two batteries. The batteries are located at Indianapolis and Attica. One more battery, at Fort Wayne, is nearly ready so rorganizatlon. There is an average of 55 men in the infantry companies, but it is the wish to have 60 in each infantry company and 64 in the batteries. The law provides for 48 companies of infantry, or four regiments, but the appropriation has never been large enough to support so many. On the present appropriation three regiments could be maintained. Owing in some degree to the number of men which have enlisted in the volunteer* service, there is at presenhpo battalion or regimental organization of Indiana’s National Guard. One company, at Frankfort, has been mustered out because the captain and most of the men went into the volunteer service. Before the outbreak of the war the State had forty-two companies. There is an epidemic of hog cholera in Indiana. The report of the State Board of Health says the disease was carried to Wayne County from the Union stockyards, Indianapolis, and as a consequence forty thousand dollars’ worth of hogs died in that county alone during the month of November. Among the other counties affected are Jackson, Henry. Laporte. Shelby, Hancock,’ Adams and Franklin. ■ iThe State Board of Health has received word of the prevalence of anthrax near Switz City. The local health officer said that within five days one-half of a herd of sixty cattle died from the disease. Dr* Hurty said that the case at hand emphasized the need o$ a veterinarian in connection with the State Board of Health.

Brief State Happenings.

Burglary epidemic at Washington. Shelbyville is admiring a colt with six legs.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

The Roberts case has worked one wonderful reform. It has made a great number of Congressmen exceedingly careful as to the company they keep. Such things ought not to be, but it is true that about the Capitol there may be seen every day a good many women of unknown associations and intentions. Their great anxiety is to become acquainted with members of Congress, and in order to achieve this purpose they send their cards from the ladies’ reception room to the particular members upon whom they have designs more or less innocent. Heretofore members have amused themselves by responding freely to these calls, and have at times provided their callers with cards to the galleries, even going so far now and then as to sit down beside them. Now all is changed. Statesmen are very careful as to how they trot out to the reception room, and are surprisingly punctilious as to the identity of persons they sit beside in the public galleries. So the Roberts case has worked some good, after all. The country may breathe with a certain degree of freedom now that it knows exactly where Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. Miles stand in the social world. Mrs. Miles ranks Mrs. Dewey where the army and navy participate as a corps, but in every other respect Mrs. Dewey takes the precedence of Mrs. Miles. Hence at all army and navy functions a convenient headache will save Mrs. Dewey the humiliation of trailing along behind Mrs. Miles, but poor Mrs. Miles will be compelled to plead chronic illness in order to escape Mrs. Dewey’s assumption of su-

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periority in a season's run. These important details should be carefully committed to the intelligence of every hostess and every menial, for should a waiter carelessly pass the batte,r cakes to Mrs. Miles before Mrs. Dewey and her necessities are served the entire social system would be plunged into hopeless disorder. We cannot tie too careful of our etiquette in Washington public Vfe. The people of Washington are pleased that the Republican convention is to be held in the East. They believe that a great majority of the delegates and visitors to the convention will visit Washington either in going or returning from it. The last national convention Philadelphia had was in 1872, when President Grant was renominated. In 1876 the Re-, publicans went to Cincinnati and the Democrats to St. Ixniis. In 1880 the Republicans met at Chicago and the Democrats at Cincinnati. In 1884 both parties held their conventions at Chicago. In 1888 the Republicans met at Chicago and the Democrats at St. Louis. In 1892 the Republicans met at Minneapolis and the Democrats at Chicago. Again in 1896 the Republicans went to St. Louis for the first time and the Democrats to Chicago. Now the Republicans are going to the city where they held their first national nominating convention. The government has decided to increase the number of depository banks and the amount of deposits in such banks, with the hope of relieving the embarrassed monetary situation in New York, To this end the entire receipts of the government from internal revenue taxation for the next thirty days will be allowed to go to the depository institutions instead of into the suttreasnry. The amount to be derived by the money market from this step will be from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000. Thirty days will pass, of course, before the full extent of the relief can be realized. Speaker Henderson does not use the rosewood gavel that was presented to him by his friends in lowa. The confusion in the House makes it necessary for the Speaker to use a more substantial weapon. Speaker Reed used a large ivory hammer with a strong handle and pounded so hard that the top of the desk was reduced to slivers about every thrpe months and had to be replaced by an oaken plank at least twice and sometimes three times during the session. Congress will pfobably revive the grade of vice-admiral and authorise the appointment of Winfield Scott Schley and Admiral Sampson to fill two positions of thii rank. President McKinley has suggested that this would mollify the admirers of Schley and appease the friends of Sampson. Lilidokalani, ex-Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, still lives in a modest house in 15th street in Washington, but expects to return to her native country very soon. She has made no attempt to break into society. She never entertains, and accepts the hospitality of a few intimate friends only. ' President McKinley has made it known that he does not favor the idea of sending Federal office holders as delegates to the next llepuWican national convention.