Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — Page 3

KING OF ITALY SHOT

Humbert Dies at the Hands of an Assassin. V 7 -— - - - THREE SHOTS FIRED. Victim la Entering His. Carriage After a Distribution of Prizes. Cheers of the Great Crowd Are Stilled Suddenly by the Report of the Pistol —ReglcMe Is Arrested and with Difficulty Saved from Fury of Populace —Gives His Name as Angelo Bressi, of Prato, in Tuscany. King Humbert of Italy has been assassinated. He was shot at Monza Sunday evening by Angelo Bressi of Prato and expired in a few minutes. The king had been attending a distribution of prizes in connection with a gymnastic cotflbetition. He hnd just entered his carriage with his aid-de-camp amid the cheers of the crowd when he was struck by throe revolver shots, fired in quick'succession. One pierced the heart of his majesty, who fell back and expired in a few minutes. : The assassin was immediately arrested and with some difficulty saved from the fury of the populace. He gave bis name as Angelo Bressi, describing himself as of Prato, in Tuscany. Died Without a Word. The King had distributed the prizes, laying a few complimentary words to each of the recipients, had made a brief speech encouraging the practice of ath-

KING HUMBERT.

letics and had entered his carriage, accompanied by his aid-de-camp. The street was crowded with people, who were vociferously cheering the King when a shot startled everybody as it rang out. It came from the crowd close to the royal carriage. It was followed immediately by two other shots. The King was seated? At the first shot he arose and turned toward the direction from which the bullet came. At she second shot Humbert raised his hands and started to say something. Then the third shot came, he pressed bis hands to his breast and fell back into the arms of his aid. It is not known which of the shots killed him. The King lived only a few minutes. The assassin was less than thirty feet frtrtn the King nnd used a steady aim in his handling of the revolver with which he killed the King. He tried to fire a fourth shot, but the surrounding crowd had recovered from its stupefaction and he was seized and disarmed. The populace immediately attempted to mob the assassin, but the police nnd soldiers, in large numbers, kept, the angered people back and conveyed the murderer to prison. The assassin gave his name as Angelo Bressi, nnd declared that he was a native of Tuscany. He admitted, in fact looked, that he was an anarchist nnd a member of the International Society, the same association to which Cnserio. who assassinated President Carnot, of Prance, and Luccheni, who assassinated the Empress of Austria, belonged. Bressi had been a worker in the Serpentine mines at Prato, Titsenny, where tjfe miners are nearly all members of anarchistic societies. l>res»ii Cannot Be I'.scecuted. Unless on especial punishment of King Humbert’s assassin is ordered either by legislation ot by a royal decree, his sen-

QUEEN MARGHERITA

tone© can be no worse tbnn that of Luigi Lucchcni, the Assassin of the Empress of Austria. Like that of Switzerland, the Italian code does not permit of capital punishment for nny crime, no matter how heinous and horrible it may be. The assassin of the King of Italy can be imprisoned for life, bnt he cannot suffer the death penalty. Sketch of the Queen. Queen Margherita, the wife of Humbert, is his first cousin, n daughter of Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa, brother of Victor Emmanuel, nnd who died before Humbert came to the throne. Iler mother wns Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King John of Rnxony nnd Dnchess of Genoa, who after Ferdinand's death married the Marquis Itnpelio. Queen Margherita was born in November, 1851. and was married to Prince Humbert in 1808. Their first child. Victor Emmannel, was <>orti in 18(10. Queen Margherita is beloved by the Italian people.

SCENE OF THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA.

LIFE OF KING HUMBERT I. Eventful Career of the Late Ruler of Italy. Humbert L, King of Italy, was third ruler in the line of monarchs of that country belonging to the house of SavoyCarignan, a younger branch of the first reigning house of Savoy. He was the eldest son and second child of King Victor Emmanuel, was born on March 14, 1844, and came to the throne on Jan. 19, 1878. The mother of Humbert was the Archduchess Adelaide of Austria. When the house of Savoy-Carignan came into power in 1831, on the failure of the older branch, the house of Savoy, and Charles Albert became King of Sardinia, his realm included the principality of Piedmont with the territory of Genoa and the hereditary Duchy of Savoy, besides the Island of Sardinia. In 1849 Charles Albert abdicated the throne after the defeat of Novnra. leaving his crown to bis son. Victor Emmanuel. The latter was enabled, by the remarkable political and military events of 1859 to 1870, to annex to his dominions all the other parts of Italy. He was proclaimed King of Italy in March, 1801, by a vote of the Italian Parliament at Turin. On the accession of Humbert to the throne. Italy bad a population of nearly 27.000,000, a revenue of over $230,000,900 annually, and a national debt of 82,000,000,000, so that, though the youngest

OUTSIDE THE SOUTH GATE OF TIEN-TSIN.

kingdom in Europe, it ranked fifth of the great powers. Humbert, like his father, was a soldier whose personal courage hnd been proved on the battlefield before he was made King. On Saturday, Jun. 19, 1878. when he took the oath of fidelity to the constitution before the united Senators and Deputies comprising the Italian Parliament, he declared the policy of his reign. On Nov. 17. 1878, shortly after he hnd been crowned, nn attempt wns made on Humbert’s life while lie was entering the city of Naples. Giovanni I’assnnantc, n cook, waving a flag, approached the royal carriage and stabbed the King in the arm. His majesty drew his. sword nml wounded tiie mnn. Members of the royal suite came to his assistance, but not until one of them had been severely wounded wus the would-be murderer secured. On the duj’ after this attempt at assassination demonstrations of loyalty to tiie King in Florence and Pisa were the occasion of riots nnd the throwing of Orsini bombs. The Government thereupon decided to net with more rigor against political Organizations that threateneil the peace of the kingdom. In Jhe following year, 1879, when political agitation and demonstrations in favor of a republican form of government still were rife In Italy, Giovanni Passnnanto, for his attempt to assassinate the King, wns sentenced to denth. Humbert he're evinced his policy of leniency, and at his instance a decree, signed by the ministry, wns Issued commuting the sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life. I’ussauante accordingly wns sent the sanic year to the Island of Elba. The Oregon’s hull and machinery cost $3,222,810. Fitted out for service this great ship represented an outlay of s(>,575,032. A decision the Supreme Court of Massachusetts Is to the effect that the bicycle is a machine rather than n carriage, nnd that bicyclers Injured from defects in the public roadway cannot recover damages. Over $3,500 has been raised nt Moscow to buy a silver punch bowl for Gen. Cronje, the chief Bber prisoner at St. Helena. , At Wilkesbnrrv, Pa., George Rosengrant soldjMis wife to ICiiiinond Miller for $lO. The Hoseugranbi were married eight years 11 go.

DEFIED BY CHINA. European Ministers Detained iu Pekin Pending Negotiations with Nations. An imperial edict saying that the European ministers at Pekin are held as hostages to deter the allies’ advance on the capital leaves no room to doubt that China has been deceiving the powers. The edict orders the viceroys to prepare to oppose the march on Pekin of the European army at Tien-Tsin. A Washington correspondent in summarizing the Chinese situation Saturday says that this government, while continuing to maintain the theory that the imperial government is in no way implicated in the anti-foreign uprisings in China, is prepared at any moment to abandon this position and regard the Chinese empire as an enemy. The army and navy are prepared to act with the forces of the other powers against all opposition in China, whether from Boxers and insurgents or from the army of the Chinese emperor. Secretary Hay returned from his conference with the President in Canton and called a conference of the cabinet. In this conference the whole situation was gone over in the light of dispatches received from Consul General Goodnow and Rear Admiral Remy. Mr. Goodnow’s dispatches gave the result of the conference he had with Li Hung Chang at the direction of the State Department.

Members of the administration are reluctant to discuss the possibility of a general declaration of war by the powers against Chinn, but, at the same time, it cannot be concealed that matters nre drifting in that direction. If the other powers should declare war the President would at once call an extra session of Congress and the subsequent policy of the United States would be determined by tiie law-making department of the government It was admitted nt the State Department that there wns n missing copy of the department’s copy ot the code nnd thnt copy was in tiie possession of the Chinese government. This has led the officials to think thnt the proposition of the viceroy, Li Hung Chang, to deliver the ministers from their supposed danger in Pekin is merely a craftily concocted scheme to Iny the basis for an-, other story. Thnt will be to the effect thnt the ministers started in safety and with what seemed nt the time to be a sufficient guard, but nfter proceeding a short wny from the imperial city they wore besot by Boxers, the guards overpowered and the ministers and all with them slaughtered. Convinced that thte is the scheme, the administration has refused to sanction nny such proceedings. Its position is simply this: Should the ministers still live, which they doubt, any such journey would mean their denth, nnd to consent to such nn undertaking would be to connive nt their denth. If they are dead, then the government would bo aiding the Chinese officials in prepctrati'ng nn outrageous falsehood. Therefore the cabinet officers decided to stand aloof nnd insist upon the principnl clause in th* President’s nnswer to China's appeal foi mediation—the opening of communication with the envoy*

Sparks from the Wires.

The first Hebrew girl to receive the degree master of arts in England is Miss Dorn E. Yntes, at the University College, Liverpool. The Mnrquotte Monument Association of Chicago will build a $23,000 memorial to Father Marquette, on the Island of Mackinac. The California bop growers have formml nn nssociatlbn, the object of which la “to Improve the industry, regulate supply nnd demand and maintain fair price*.**

BOER ARMY IS TAKEN.

GENERAL PRINSL9O, WITH 5,000 MEN, SURRENDERS. British Grant Him No Terms—Roberta Declares the Captured Burghers Must Be Trested as Prisoners of War— Transvaal Struggle Nears Its End. Cape Town advices say that Gen. Priusloo, with 5,000 men. has surrendered unconditionally to the British. An official dispatch from Lord Roberts reads: “On July 2G MacDonald fought a rear guard action with the enemy from early morning until dark, nine miles outside of Nauuwpoort, in the Bethlehem hills, resulting iu bis effectually blocking Naauwpoort nek te the Boer wagons. "Hunter reports that the enemy twice cheeked his advance by holding strong positions on two neks, one of which was taken before dark by the Scots, the Royal Irish, the Wiltshire and the Leinster regiments. Our casualties were only five or six. The second nek was taken during the fight by the Scots and guards, without opposition, the enemy retiring closely to Nauuwpoort. “Prisoners taken stated that 1,200 burghers would surrender if guaranteed that they would be treated ns prisoners of war and not as rebels. To this I had .seuted. As a result of these operations Prinsloo, commanding the Boers, asked, under a flag of truce, a four days’ armistice for peace negotiations. “Hunter replied the only terms he could accept were unconditional surrender, and, until these were complied with, hostilities could not cease. I expressed my approval and told Hunter on no account to enter into negotiations. “As I am writing a telegram has come from Hunter saying that Prinsloo had written a second letter expressing willingness to hand ever himself, with his men, rifles.. ammunition and other fire, arm®, upon condition that the horses, saddles, bridles and other possessions ol the burghers be guaranteed them and they be free to return to their homes. “I' have replied that the surrender must be absolutely unconditional; that all rifles, ammunition, horses and other possessions must be given up. and that the burghers will be considered prisoners of war. I added that Prinsloo’s overtures will not be allowed in any way to interfere with Hunter's operations, which must be continued until the enemy is defeated or has surrendered."

COMMEPCIAL FINANCIAL

New York—Trade reports are in the main more encouraging. Business, however. seems to lie confined largely to purchases of goods for quick delivery, and there is little evidence of any buying for future wants. A leading trade journal recently made a thorough canvass of the dry goods situation and found almost a general agreement among the jobbing houses that the season is undoubtedly backward. The conditions existing outside of tiie markets are, it is claimed, favorable to a good fall business. There lias been no important change in the speculative situation. Trading in stocks has been on a small scale, and the movement of prices confined, except in the case of a few specialties, to narrow limits. There is no demand for stocks, but on the other hand there is no pressure to sell. The prevailing opinion in trading circles is that on the basis of intrinsic values the better class of securities are worth all they are selling for now.

Chicago—Traide in speculative branches of the grain business during the week was governed chiefly by the prospects for tiie still unharvested crops. Fluctuations olw-yed for the most part the changing views of speculators, according as opinion veered from the acceptance of one and the rejection of another of the numerous estimates of crops of tills and other countries of the world that raise wheat or corn to nny considerable extent. Even the Nortbxwest varies from day to day in its estimate of its probable production from scant sufficiency for bread and seed witli in its own borders to a comparative!, generous yield of 149.909,000 bushel*. Only n rough approximation at best can be readied of either the home or foreign -production of wheat, nnd not thnt until much later in the season, so that more groping iu the dark will have to he submitted to for some time yet. Corn lost a little of its value ns it stood at the end of the previous week because of the almost ideal weather thnt has since then favored the growing crop, which is now conceded to promise ns large if not a larger yield than was ever before harvested.

PLANS TO BUY TWO ISLANDS.

United States May Pay Spain SIO3,(XX) for New Islands. * Arrangements have practically been completed by the United Stales government for the purchase from Spain of the islands of Cibitu nnd Cngayen, which were left in Spanish possession by the treaty of Paris. Although they are a part of the Philippine archipelago, they were not included in the treaty through the adoption of specific boundary lines, rather than describing the islands in a lump as the archipelago. The oversight was not discovered until a year later. The two Islands are Insignificant In area nnd thinly populated,probably containing from 0,000 to 8,000 people in nil. Both the (stands nre said to lie mninly valuable for their penrl and shell fisheries. The Board of Health of Hoboken, N. J., has made an ordinance requiring people who keep crowing cocks in their back Sards to pay a fl license fee.Jor cnch. This is in the interest of peace trnd quiet. Mrs. Mary Cuuninghnin of Bnngvr, Me., was 100 year* old on July 4, nnd she celebrated the dny by walking downtown to a newspaper office and giving a reporter n sketch of her long life. The wages of puddlen In nil Iron works hare Iwn advanced 12H cents per ton. Fifteen thousand njeu are affected.

MOB RULE IN IN NEW ORLEANS.

Four Negroes Killed and Many Other* Are Shot. A mob took possession of the streets of New Orleans Wednesday night and before it dispersed of its own accord had hilled four negroqa and wounded a dozen men, three of whom were white. The lawlessness grew out of the murder the day before of two policemen by Robert Charles, a negro. » The mob, several thousand strong, formed at Lee Circle and inarched out Charles avenue in a body. It was reported that the mob would march upon the parish prison and demand the negro Pierce, who was with Charles when ths police-, officers were killed. The police accordingly sent strong re-enforcements a the prison, and when the mob made appearance the leaders were told that an effort to secure the prisoner would be resisted to the end. The members of the mob slowly dispersed, small bands of men and boys forming and scattering to several parts of the city. Many negroes who were on the streets and riding in care were fired on. Just before midnight Acting Mayor Mehle Issued a proclamation calling on all good citizens to aid the authorities in preserving the peace and to let justice take its course. As a result of the night’s lawlessness four men are dead, a score severely wounded, a hundred bruised. Not since the lynching of the Italians several years ago has there been such excitement in New Orleans. The funerals of Captain Day and Patrolman Lamb took place Wednesday afternoon, and this served to intensify the feeling of their friends.

CUBA FRAUD REPORT.

Bristow Says Rathbone Is Only Less Guilty than Neely. Official investigation of the Cuban postal frauds, made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow has resulted

in the declaration that Director General Rathbone is guilty of gross official neglect and also of fraudulent practices; that his guilt is only less than that of Charles F. W. Neely and the latter’s subordinate accomplices, and that deposed Postmaster Thompson of Havana is involved in the network of fraud. These findings are made publie in the report of

E. G. RATHBONE.

Mr. Bristow. Mr. Bristow finds that Neely’s embezzlements aggregated at least $131,713, and says he was justified in recommending the removal of Director General Rathbone. Whether or not the latter was guilty with Neely in the embezzlements, he says, there can doubt that in the matter of unauthorized per diem allowances, personal expenses and warrants cashed and unaccounted lor, he unlawfully appropriated to his own use money of the Cuban revenues. For this, Mr. Bristow says, he believes Mr. Rathbone should be required to answer.

"VANDERBILT OF CHINA."

Prince Sheng, One of the Leaders of the Celestial Empire. A Celestial who is playing a somewhat conspicuous part in the .present troubles in China is Prince Sheng, the director of

telegraphs of the empire, and who is said to be one of the most capable, intelligent and broad-minded of men in China. He has had charge not only of the telegraphs, but of the railways also. He is the head of the imperial bank, a position akin to the secretaryship of the treasury, and he is the principal

PRINCE SHENG.

director of the China Merchant Steamship Company and the leader of a dozen private enterprises. Sheng has shown a remarkable capacity for the absorption of the western business spirit and has been quick to realize the wealth that is to be created out of the undeveloped conditions and resources of China. He was first brought out by Li Hung Chang, who became his patron, but Sheng soon displayed talents which promised to enable him to surpass his eminent friend in modern enterprise if not in statecraft. He has been called the “Vanderbilt of China.”

The Politrical Pot.

Brynn was given the gavel that wt < used at Kansas City. New York Republicans will hold their State convention during the first week iu September. In West Virginia only sixty dajs’ residence in a county and one year iu the State Is required for suffrage. The Independent Democrats of the Fifth Assembly district in New York, who have maintained n separate organization since 1893, have organized for this year’s campaign. Delaware and Rhode Island nre usual ly regarded as the two small States, but they are by no means so in voting population. At the Inst presidential election the total vote of Rhode Island wns 53,009 and of Delaware 31,000. Idaho. Wyoming and Nevada cast a smaller vote. Croker snys Bryan will carry New York City nnd make a strong tight iu the State. He says Hill will do his part. Gov. McMillan of Tennessee has withdrawn from the senatorial contest. It is now between Carmack and Snodgrass. One of the most curious political situations In the country is to lie found in North Carolina. The Rcpuhlfcnns have not carried it In a national election sine* 1872, and still it has two United States Senators, one a*Republican and the other a Populist. The State administration la Republican, and a majority of the Stat* Supreme bench la of that faith.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY Decrease of Activity in Oil FieldsBlow with Fist Kills an Old Man —Train Taken by Tramps Fatal Powder Explosion in Brazil. The Indiana oil field report for July shows a marked decrease in the number of new wells being drilled. One reason given is that producers are beginning preparations for winter and another is the price of junk and other material used about a well is at least 50 per cent higherthanthe priceof oil justifies. There is a falling off of 44 per cent in drilling wells and 59 per cent in new derricks building, or, therefore, 103 less new wells in progress for the beginning of August than there was for July 1. This means that about 200 laborers are out of work. The decrease in new work is divided equally among all districts. Old Man Killed by a Blow. Rariden Meek, aged 77, a well known and highly respected citizen of Wayne County, met a violent death and George Jenkins and William Gates, residents of Richmond, and both married men, are now locked up in the local jail as a result. It seems that Gates and Jenkins were out in search of blackberries and while thus engaged went on to the land owned by Meek. The old man saw them and went out to order them off. A dispute followed and one ot the men struck Meek, his death following almost lyTramp* Flag a Train. A gang of tramps flagged a Chicago and Southeastern freight train at Lapel and when it stopped boarded the train and took possession. In a tight which ensued Conductor Lambert was badly beaten. A brakeman jumped from the train andwent to Lapel, where he telegraphed the Anderson police.. The tramps, to ayoi<i arrest, however, compelled the engineer to let them off near the city limits and escaped to the woods. Boys Play with Powder. In Brazil four boys, ranging in age from 15 to 19 years, were fearfully burned by an explosion of a keg of powder with which they, were playing.. The-in-jnred were John Mattri, John Scabber, Roily Forrester and James Ambrose. Mattri died of ins injuries nnd Scabber and Ambrose are hot expected to live, as they are burned so badly that flesh falls from portions of their bodies. State News in Brief. Epidemic of dysentery at Muncie. I’ink eye prevalent about Milford. Anderson has a “Jack, the hugger.” Smallpox in thirteen Indiana counties. Mrs. D. A. Julian, Muncie, died of measles. Fine crop of oats around Hagerstown 1 iiined by rain. Hereafter Muncie merchants will have to close on Sunday.

A Kokomo canning factory has canned 1.900,000 quarts of peas. Mrs. A. E. Grove, Laporte, met an old lover and became insane. Two Marion women, infatuated with the same man. fought in a store. Residence of Ollie Frazier. Elwood, wrecked by natural gas explosion. Rev. Daniel Shively. Peru, a Dunkard minister of national reputation, is dead. Richard Boggs, 23, Patriot, eaught in belt in a planing mill ami instantly killed. D. M. Snyder, Peru, found his parents in Laporte, after twenty-five years' separation. Mrs. Mary B. Wilson. 81. Shelbyville, is dead. She was thi- mother of thirteen children. Andrew Carnegie has given a $3,000 pipe organ to St. Paul’s M. E. Church, laifnyette. Emmett Brown, aged 19, a prominent young man of Waterloo, was instantly killed by a Lake Shore fast train. After robbing the postotfiee at Young America, the thief hid $127 worth of stamps under a porch, while he entered a store, where he was frightened away. The stamps were found. In Evansville Louis Awenius. 27 years old. went home the other night and before retiring said to bis sister: "I have had three fights to-night anil don’t feel well.” At noon the next day his sister went to call him ami found him dead. Doctors say death resulted from blows on the body. John Franks, a Noble township farmer. was swindled out of $2,500. Two men. who registered as W. 11. Harris of Indiana and W. (’. Brown of Hamilton, Ohio, visited Franks for the ostensible purpose of buying his farm, telling him ho must produce $2,500 to prftve his responsibility. Franks put his money into a satchel. The men were to put $3,000 in another. They switched satchels and Franks got a bundle of paper. The lust few nights n stranger has been going to the home of the widow Lemasters, south of Shelbyville, nnd after knocking on the weather boarding with a club disappearing. Indignant residents have gathered each night nt the Lemasters home nnd watched with shotguns for the intruder, who defiantly continues his visits without harm. One night the neighbors encircled the house with wire on which was a bell that would ring on the mysterious visitor running ngainst it. This proved futile, as the man removed the bell, bombarded the house and disappeared. A few nights later Mrs. Lemnsters heard a noise in the rear yard nnd opening n door suddenly wns confronted by a mnn, who run behind a tree. The woman called to the men on watch on the inside, and ns she did so the intruder hurled a stone at her, knocking her senseless. Mary Miller. 2, Goshen, fell into a kettle of boiling .starch nnd was terribly burned. A number of Muncie people have been converted to the creed of the Chicago apostle, Dowie. Terre Haute thinks it bus n female house breaker. She was seen nt the open window of a house nt 3 a. in. No pupils will be allowed to enter the Frankfort schools until evidence of a successful vaccination is presented. Jeffersonville government depot received orders to make 150,000 flannel blouse* and JOO pain ot drawers.