Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — Page 6

im COUNTY DEMOCRAT P. E. BABCOCKrpubltsher. ' RENSSELAER, - 1 IfIOAWA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

At Guthrie, Ok., James Chapman filed suit against the Ancient Order of United Workmen for $40,000 damages. He alleges that while being initiated in the •rder his spine, shoulder and neck were Injured, and he was otherwise crippled for life. A party of Americans employed In the Construction of the Mexican Central Railroad near Tiajomuleo unearthed a big collection of prehistoric relics and an earthen jar containing $15,000 in old Spanish gold. The wealth was divided among the discoverers. The State Bank of Cambridge at Lincoln, Neb., was Closed oh prders of the State banking board and an examiner put In charge. The capital of the bank is $12,500 and its deposits $40,000. An accumulation of bad paper is given As (he cause of the failure. One hundred apd fifty masked men blew up two bridges and burned two tollhouses on the Logansport aud Burlington pike in Indiana at midnight on a recent night. The road is the only toll pike in the county, and those obliged to patronize it have been hostile for a year. A $500,000 tiro. occurred at Newport, Aris, The fire started in C. B. Best’s livery and feed store, which was quickly burned, as was also the plant of the Union Compress Company, valued at SIOO,OOO. Eight thousand bales of cotton valued at $350,000 is practically a total loss. It ig given out on good authority tbat the Carnegie company is to spend between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 in improvements at Conneaut, Ohio, harbor, the lake terminal of the Bessemer Railroad. This line was constructed to carry Iron ore from Conneaut to the Carnegie mills at Pittsburg. The Interoceanie Canal Company was Incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with an authorized capital of SIOO,OOO. The company is authorized to construct, own and operate a maritime canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceam* through the territory of Nicaragua or any other territory in Central or South America. Richard A. Canfield, proprietor of a number of gaming houses in New Vork State, filed suit in St. Louis against Jas. T. and Harrison I. Drummond, heirs of the great Drummond estate, to enforce the collection of $55,000, which he claims to have advanced to James T. Drummond in one of his gambling resorts in Mew York City in September, 1800. Dispatches received by Aeting Secretary Allen at Washington from Captain W. W. Meade, commanding the cruiser Philadelphia, aud Commander Duncan Kennedy, commanding the Detroit, report that no trouble exists iu either Nic aragua or Costa Rica. The news confirms information received by the State Department showing that Minister Merry lias been successful in the use of his good offices in averting war between the two republics. David S. Sanford of the Connecticut ehell fish commission, who is securing options on oyster grounds in Connecticut, •New York and Rhode Island for the formation of an oyster trust, says that the syndicate will be formed with a capital stock of $15,000,000. It will be known as the United States Oyster Company and will be organized under the laws of New Jersey. There oyster growers in the proposed syndicate, fifty of them being the very largest dealers in the States named.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Venezuelan rebel* under Hernandez bare suffered a decisive defeat. Walter Wataon, New York manager of the Bank of Montreal, died iu New York, •fed 70, Johu Arbuekle has asked that a receiver be appointed for the Woolaon Spice Company. \ Advices from Kobe are that Russia has •ecured the Masaupho grant and Japan is satisfied. In the Italian chamber of deputies the opposition walked out in a body as a mark of protest. Joseph Bertrand, eminent mathematician secretary of the Academy of Sciences, is dead at Paris. A mob at Sun Juan de Porto Kieo, forced carpenters to quit work until an cightfcour day shall be granted. Capt. Peter Astle Scott, a member of the Boss antarctic expedition of 1841, is dead in England, aged 84. The General. Electric Company of New York has secured control of the Siemens & Halske Electric Company of America. Mrs. Sarah Fracker Kauffmann, the wife of S. H. Kauffmann, president of the Washington Evening Star Newspaper Company, Is dead. Fire in a hat store filled the Hoffman House and Albemarle Hotel, New York, with smoke, aud caused a panic among the guests, in the midst of which Olga Nethersole fainted. At Winfield, Kan., robbers rifled the Banta Fe depot and shot and killed i). C. Coates, the night operator, in escaping. They secured only a few cents. The killing was evidently committed to prevent identification. The steamer Jenuie George, owned by the Catlettsburg and Piketown Packet Company of Catlettsburg, Ky„ sunk near Paintaville, Ky., with all her cargo. The boat waa worth SB,OOO. Thirty passenbers barely escaped. Reinhold Meyer, a patrol sergeant of the Central police station in Chicago, is undergoing hesoic treatment at a hospital for locomotor ataxia. He is suspended by the neck with a halter and left hanging several minutes every day. French Minister of War de Gallifet told the chamber Of deputies that France's ports and colonies are absolutely safe f row ci tt SCSI* • The New York World prints a dispatch from its Washington correspondent angbouncing that Admiral Dewey has reconsidered his former decision and is willing to become a candidate for President. Ewell Purdue was fatally shot and his brother Dee waa seriously wounded near Centerville, W. Va., by Arthur and A 1 MfFUniL brothers, while they were reftfrfdng' from church. The families had «n #6 Hw Cyrus boys escaped.

BIG HALL IN RUINS.

THE KANSAS CITY CONVENTION BUILDING IS BURNED. Grcul Auditorium In Which the National Democratic Convention Was to Have Been Held Is a Total Loss— Will Pc Rebuilt Without Delay. The Kansas City convention hail, the largest auditorium in the United States, with perhaps orte exception, and in which the Democratic national convention was to brtve lieen held, caught tire shortly afler 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The fire started In the roar,, and, the be'autftfiil building was soon a muss ’of Haines. The firemen could do but little but to attempt to save surrounding property. Half an hour after the fire was discovered the roof fell in with a crash. The Second Presbyterian Church nearby caught fire, unit is almost a total loss. The fire next spread to a row of threestory fiats, and the Airline flats, an apartment, was threatened. The Lathrop school caught tire, but. the pupils were marehed out in safety. The convention hall cost about a quarter of a million, and is insured. Before the roof of the building fell $10,(100 had been subscribed by spectators to rebuild (he hall, and it is claimed the entire amount will be raised in a short time by public subscription. The directors of the burned building say it will be rebuilt, and be ready for the opening of the Democratic convention on July 4.

OVATION FOR THE QUEEN.

Victoria Seta Foot on Irish Soil After Nearly Forty Years. Queen Victoria set foot on Irish soil Wednesday for the first time in almost forty years. Dublin was resplendent. The decorations in the city and along the route which the Queen took from Kingstown were lavish and more magnificent than those of London at the time of the diamond jubilee. The streets were spanned in a hundred places by elaborate arches bearing mottoes of welcome and expressions of loyalty. The entrance to the city at Leeson street bridge was marked by a huge triumphal arch of flags, flowers and evergreen on which was emblazoned a welcome to Dublin in gold letters. The streets were jammed with people at an early hour, irishmen had gathered from the ends of the island, and hundreds of Englishmen were in the throng. The entire route from Kingstown to Dublia was lined with spectators. The Queen was received by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl Cadogan, the Duke of Connaught, commander of the forces in Ireland. Lord Mayor Talton of Dublin and a number of other nota-

KANSAS CITY'S CONVENTION HALL.

bles, all in full dress aud robes of state. The Queen drove the ten miles to Dublin in a carriage drawn by four horses with outriders and escorted by the Life Guards. The royal procession passed through a lane of thousands of people, who cheered her Majesty continuously. The Queen arrived at Leeson street bridge early in the afternoou. Here a platform had been erected for the ceremony of presenting Victoria with the keys of the city. The keys were presented to her Majesty on the same cushion that was used on the occasion of her previous visit.

FIRES AT WALES.

Attempt I* Made to Assassinate tbe Heir to the English Throne. An attempt to assassinate the Prince of Wales was made at Brussels Wednesday. Two shots were tired at him, but both went wide of the mark. The would-be assassin was arrested. The attempted assassination occurred iu the station du Nord. , The Prince, accompanied by bis wife, was descending from the train when a young fellow rushed forward and

THE TRINCE OF WALES.

fired two shots from u revolver at the Prince. Instantly there was great confusion in the station, and bystanders seized the man before he could fire again. Anxious officials surrounded the Prince when it was learned that the shots had gone wide and that he was unhurt. The Prince and Princess of Wales were in Brussels en route to Denmark.

telegraphic Brevities,

Captuin Chadwick, who commanded the New York during the war with Bpain, has filed a claim of prise money, for capturing five vessels. Attorney C. E. George, Chicago, guilty of fraud. He secvrncd $5,000 from persons by the name of McCormick, asserting that they were heir* to a big fortune. The British steamer Pawnee arrived at New York from Mediterranean ports via Bermuda, and was detained at quarantine, owing to the presence on board of three eases of smallpox.

CLEVER COUP OF BOERS.

Rout of Broad wood** Force Prove* Skill in Preparing Ambuscade. The London correspondents with Gen. Roberts add little of importance to the coimnnndor-in-ehief's accduiit' of the di»uster to Col. Broad wood’s column. All the accounts of the fight front a British source concur in stating that Col. Broadwood’s force of about 1,000 men was outnumbered by’ the Boers eight or ten. to one, and the arrival of the infantry division and Gen. French's cavalry alone prevented the annihilation of Col. Broadwood’s command. As regards the details rtf the affair, (he stories differ considerably. The affair seems rather lo testify to the skill of the Boers in preparing ambuscades than to neglect of the British to reconnoiter the route of the convoy. It seems thati the scouts of the convoy must have passed close to the ambushers, who apparently were as invisible as partridges in cover.The correspondent of the London Morn-, ing Post, iu describing the working of the trap, says the convoy had scarcely- proceeded 300 yards, and the men were still eating breakfast, when the enemy opened tire from a dongu in front and eighty yards from the head of the convoy. 'The fife was deadly, and the men of the leading troops, Roberts' horse, were swept from theif saddles. A scene of confusion followed. The teams of four guns, their drivers having been shot', stampeded and carried the guns out of action. These and one other gun were saved. The teams of the other guns wore shot, and the guns, with the convoy, fell into the hands of the enemy. Meanwhile Gen. Alderson’s brigade held back a force of the enemy, estimated to number 7,000, with great gallantry, losing heavily, and falling back by degrees. The enemy in a donga in their rear pursued the flying guns until the approach of the Ninth division from Bloemfontein checked the pursuit.

CONDITION OF CROP 3.

Unfavorable Reports of Winter Wheat in the Middle West. The chief of the climate and crop division of the weather bureau reports the crop condition on the Ist of April. East of the Mississippi River, except in the Southern States, the season has been generally backward and unfavorable for farm work, with excessive rains in portions of the Gulf States, and heavy snows in portions of the lake region and New England. On the Pacific slope and in the Rocky Mountain districts exceptionally favorable conditions have prevailed, and farming operations are progressing rapidly. Unfavorable reports regarding winter wheat eoutinue from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and portions of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Maryland; elsewhere th*

crop looks favorable and enters spring In excellent condition. Outside of a limited area in Southern California, winter wheat on the Pacific coast is well advanced and promising. Some spring wheat has been sown over the southern portion of the spring-wheat region, and also in Montana, where the season is unusually advanced. Corn is being planted in the Southern States, some os far north as North Carolina. In Southern Texas the bulk of the crop has been planted. Oats are being sown in Kansas, Missouri, Ohio aud Kentucky, and are coining up to good stands in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. Reports of winter killing of the fall crop are received from Virginia and Georgia. Cotton planting has begun over the southern portion of the cotton region. The prospects for fruit are favorable, although peaches sustained some damage iu Missouri, Arkansas,* Illinois and Ohio. The soil is in good condition and considerable plowing has been done in' all except the more northerly sections, where frost still remains in the ground, aud in portions of Now Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, where this work has been delayed by wet weather.

CHURCH AND CLERGY.

One hundred and twelve pupils of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., have been received into the Catholic Church. The school has 102 pupils. The British Foreign Bible Society intends to provide all Boer prisoners with Bibles printed iu Dutch, and the plan will be carried out within a few weeks. Cardinal Vaughan received from the Pope a dispensation remitting the lenten fast on thirty-eight out of forty days of Lent. This ac| of his Holiness was owing to the prevalent influenza in Knp land. The queerest ehujrrh in the world is in Bergen, in Norway. It is completely made of paper, and rendered waterproof by an application of quicklime with curdled milk and white of eggs. Oyer 1,000 people may be seated iu its interior. The Rev. Francis Edward Carter, honorary canon of Canterbury, has been appointed dean of Grahamstown, South Africa. The Chttrchmau's Liberal league in Great Britain has issued a monthly journal in the interests of disestablishment of the Church of England. The First Batist Church in Dover, Pa., has converted a buHdhig heretofore used for church social affairs into a shirt factory, where cjmreh members are given preference in employment. Five per cent put of the wages is to revert to church work-in the town.

CONGRESS

The Senate on Thursday agreed to the conference report on the diplomatic end consular appropriation bill. Heard an, extended speech by Mr. Beveridge In support of free trade with Porto Rico. By a tote of 13 yeas to 32 nay* refused to atriko out the committee amendment to the I*ort6 Rico bill imposing a duty of 5 cents a pound upon coffee imported into the island. By a vote of Id yeas to 33 nays refused to strike out the provision for a duty of 15 per cent of the Dingley law rates on products of Porto Rico imported into the United Btates. The House passed the army appropriation bill in a form only slightly modified from that in which ft came from the committee. One of the amendments adopted opens the soldiers’ homes to the officers and meq ot the volunteer and regular armies incapacitated by service during or since the Spanish war. An incident of the day was a defense of the War Department against the charge of reckless extravagance in the fitting up of the transport Sumner, made by Mr. Driggs of New York the previous day. Mr. Parker (N. J.) produced the itemized expenses furnished by the War Department to show there had been no extravagance. Vincent Boering’s right to his seat from the eleventh Kentucky district was confirmed without opposition. His seat was contested by Mr.-White, another Republican. On Saturday the Senate completed consideration of the Porto Rican bill with the exception of two amendments. Senator Fairbanks made a lengthy speech defending the 15 per cent tariff. Bills were passed granting lands to the -Stlte of Alabama for the education of colored students, and to establish a light and fog signal at Brown’s Point, Puget Sound.‘..The House passed the fortifications appropriation bill as it came from the committee. It carries $7,033,488. A three hours’ political debate was precipitated by a general political speech made by Mr. Shattuc of Ohio, many members on both sides being drawn into it. In the Senate on Monday seven hours were devoted to debate on Porto Rican tariff bill. The House adopted a resolution by Mr. Payne, Republican floor leader, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to the probable surplus existing revenue laws would create during this and the coming fiscal year. Under suspension of the rules bills were passed to open to settlement 418,000 acres in the Fort Hall Indian reservation and 2,500,000 acres in Oklahoma by ratifying the agreements with the Bannock and Shoshone Indians and the Kiowas, Comancbes aud Apaches to divide the northern judicial district of New York into two districts and to applroprinte SIOO,OOO for a military post at Sheridan, Wyo. The Senate passed the Porto Rican tariff bill on Tuesday by a vote of 40 to 31. The House entered upon consideration of the substitute for the Senate Hawaiian territorial bill under a special order. The debate was in committee of the whole, and only three of the six speeches were pertinent to the bill. Mr. Knox (.Mass,), chairman of the committee on territories, delivered a carefully prepared speech in advocacy of its passage. Mr. Robinson (Ind.) criticised a section in the bill, which, he said, continued in force labor eontrnets existing in Hawaii, denouncing it as legalizing a system of wage slavery. Mr. Mondell (Wyo.) spoke generally In support of the bill. Mr. »f the Republicans who opposed the Porto Rico tariff bill, made a vigorous speech, reaffirming his position, and warning his Republican associates that the country would not support an unfair policy toward the Porto Ricans. Mr. Thomas (N. C.), Mr. Williams (Miss.) and Mr. Boutell (Ill.) discussed imperialism. Peace was restored before the Senate convened on Wednesday aud during the proceedings of the session there was only a reminder of the harsh language used just before adjournment Tuesday. The session opened with a lively and interesting discussion of the status of the Quay case, in the course of which Mr. Woleot( apologized for the language he had used Tuesday, disclaiming any intention of being offensive to anybody, least of all to his friend Mr. Lodge. The Colorado Senator made a vehement and eloquent appeal for early action upon the Quay case. He was supported by other friends of Mr. Quay, and it was decided finally to take up the ease Thursday, under the unanimous consent agreement made on March 10. ' In accordance also with that agreement the Spooner bill was made the unfinished business, thereby bringing the Philippine question to a direct issue in the Senate. In the House there was an exciting scene as the climax of a discussion of the Keutncky situation when Air. Wheeler, a Kentucky Democrat,- aud Mr. Pugh, a Kentucky Republican, faced each other from opposite sides .of the main aisle aud indulged iu u wordy duel. Mr. Pugh charged Mr. Wheeler with misrepresenting certain faets. He was laboring under great excitement. Mr. Wheeler showed admirable temper, and, though quick to resent the fancied insult, awaited the explanation of Mr. Pugh, iu which he disclaimed any intention of imputing to hint person-; ally a desire to distort the facts. Throughout the debate, which was precipitated by Mr. Boering, the. other Republican member front Kentucky, there was an air of suppressed excitement. was the first time the subject had been broached in the House, aud intense interest was manifested. Mr. Lacey of lowa concluded the debate with a general denunciation of the Goebel election law. This incident overshadowed the other si»eeches on the Hawaiian bill, many of which were irrelevant.

National Capital Notes.

The system of registering letters by carriers is in operation in 307 cities. Leavenworth Federal penitentiary wauts $300,000 for improvements to be made by couvjft labor. . >■ A French commercial paper says Atner-’ lea will be able to supply to her jtutnlar. possessions $10,000,000 of products every year. Mexican scientists have decided that the maguey plant is to be the fiber plant of the future for American bagging. Aglicultural Department is investigating.

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