People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — Page 3

HAS NO FEAR OF WAR.

MORET THINKS DELAY WILL OBVIATE CHANCB OF STRIFE. Ex-Minuter of Foreign Affairs for Spain Takas an OptlmUtie View of the Spanish-American Difficulties Other Foreign News Madrid, Spain, cable: v Senor Moret, formerly liberal minister of foreign affaire, said today: “I don’t believe now that the Competitor case is likely to lead to an unpleasant tension in the relations of the United States, as months must elapse before a new trial can be had. The American government raised its objections under the treaty of 1795, made when we still possessed Florida, and which ought to have been formally abrogated, since it hardly applies to our insular position in Cuba. America invokes the protocol of 1877 also, which our parliament never ratified, so that I ignored its existence, though I held office several times as minister of state. This protocol is an absolute contradiction with our civil and military codes. I doubt if our tribunals in the peninsula could recoznize it. The incident might have been avoided In several ways—first, by hanging the pirates at the yard-arm, as all other nations have done. This could be done by international law if the execution were done on the spot by summary court-martial on deck, the pirate being caught in flagrante delictu. Secondly, by sending the case to an ordinary court-martial with the assistance of counsel and the right of appeal to the Spanish supreme courts, in which case the American government itself signified officially that it would not object to the application of the laws of Spain to foreign citizens. “Such incidents are regrettable chiefly because they give Americans a pretext to interfere, and our anti-monar-chical opposition to create agitation. “I believe President Cleveland has (suite justified the confidence we have shown in his serious character, sense of justice, and friendly disposition. He has to act cautiously and warily in or-

DAVID M. GEETING. WOODFIN D. ROBINSON. URIC Z. WILEY. COL. JAMES B. BLACK.

Jataes A. Mount, who has been named to head the ticket, is the third candidate Indiana has had for governor drawn from the farming classes. The other two “Blue Jeans” Williams and Claude Matthews. Mr. Mount’s family moved to Indiana as long ago as 1828. Hr. Mount was born on a farm in 1823, and spent his early life among the hardships attendant on getting'up early and tugging at the prosaic work to be done on “the place.” His scholastic opportunities were limited to a few weeks during the comparatively idle winter season. In 1862 he enlisted in the Seventy-second Indiana regiment, and served with the famous Wilder brigade, which furnished the skirmishers that were the first to cross the Tennessee river at Chattanooga. * * * In 1867 Mr. Mount married Miss Kate Boyd, who had just graduated from the Lebanon academy. Although unused to a country life, the young woman joined enthusiastically in her husband’s plans, and from this humble beginning their fortune grew

der not to awaken American popular feeling. “I consider the declarations made in the royal speech yesterday important, as I must sincere, and that he means to carry out some day the reform policy he announces when he asks parliament for full powers, and says the reforms voted in 1895 are no longer sufficient to please the colonial parties or to meet the new requirements of the situation. I consider the royal speech chiefly calculated to produce a good effect abroad and in America and Cuba, and that Canovas must intend to grant local councils to both islands with legislative autonomy, otherwise his promises of administrative and economic autonomy would be meaningless.” The ministerial press has so clearly expressed this novel aspect of the affair and has so plainly insisted upon the friendly way in which the American government insisted on the execution of the treaties, without challenging'the right of Spain to chastise foreign offenders by her ordinary courts of justice, that the excitement has subsided despite the efforts of the jingo press. London, May 13.—The Daily Courier Tuesday confirms the report that Dr. jameson’fe rMd into the Transvaal failed because Cecil Rhodes wished the reformers td revolt under the union jack, while the latter ineistod upon the Transvaal flag. . It also appears to bfe confirmed that all arrangements were ififcde to proclaim Charles Leonard president and John Hays Hammond state’s attorney, but they refused to alter their plans,

PERSONNEL OF THE INDIANA REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

and consequently left Dr. Jameson in the lurch. Constantinople, May 13. —Mr. Wheeler, the missionary, and family, and the Gates fagaily, consisting altogether of nine persons, have left Kharpoot, Armenia, on their way to America. Among the missionaries of the American board at Kharpoot are the Rev. C. Frank Gates and Mrs. Mary E. Gates, of Chicago. Presumably these are the ones referred to. '

VETS PARADE AT CAIRO.

Opening Ceremonies of the State Encampment. Cairo, 111., special: The opening exercises of the Grand Army encampment began Tuesday when the grand procession started from the opera house in Commercial avenue, passing through a great triumphal arch. Fewer that 500 veterans were in line. The thermometer was nearly 100 degrees In the shade. The avenue was decorated with patriotic colors and portraits of Lincoln, Grant and Logan, and 20,000* persons, many of them ex-confed-erates from Missouri and Kentucky, lined the sides of the street and cheered the veterans. Capt. J. H. Robinson was grand marshal and had for his aids Prof. C. Clendenen, Capt. T. C. Watkins and Col. Louis KrughofT. Then came the Egyptian band of Cobden and Stephenson Post, of Springfield, the largest in the encampment. There were three companies of militia in the parade, two from Belleville and Carbondale, commanded by Capts. Rogers and Williams; and one from Wycliffe, Ky., commanded by Capt. Roth rock. The battalion was led by Maj. S. A. D. McWilliams, of the Illinois National Guard, whp also had a company of high school cadets of one week’s training in line. The distinguished guests in the carriages included Commodore Walker, of Indianapolis, Department Commander Powell, of Belleville, and Gen. John A. McClernand, of Springfield. After the parade the Illinois Central Railroad Company furnished the veterans a train of twelve coaches and carried them over into Kentucky to look at the spot where Fort Holt once stood. It is being plowed for corn.

JAMES A. MOUNT. (Nominee for the Governorship.)

nntil today Mr. Mount is one of the wealthiest farmers in Indiana. In 1888 he was elected to the state senate. Ift 1892 he might have been nominated for governor, but declined to let his name go before the convention. He is prominently identified with many farmers’ associations. William S. Haggard, of Lafayette, nominee for lieutenant governor, is an editor, who was a lawyer and had been a soldier. He fought through the war, went to college, studied law, was a legislator and for the past six years has been editor of the Lafayette Herald. William D. Owen, named for the state secretaryship is a native Indianian, who came out of the State University to study law at Benton. But he liked religious work better, and, although never regularly ordained, preached in the Christian church for ten years. He has been a member of congress for three terms, was commissioner of emigration under President Harrison and has been secretary of state. Americus C. Daily, named for state auditor, was elected to

Shoots His Wife.

.¶ Daniel McCarthy, a Chicago printer in the employ of the Poole Bros. Company, of 316 Dearborn street, Tuesday morning shot and instantly killed his wife Addie. The murder is said to be the outcome of a separation and quarrel which occurred May 3. McCarthy is 32 years old, while his murdered wife was but 20. McCarthy, so his friends state, returned to his home on the evening of May 3 in an intoxicated condition. His wife was the subject of his abuse and he concluded his evening’s carousal by beating her and turning her out of the house. Since that time she resided with her mother, seldom leaving the house, as McCarthy, so she stated to friends, had threatened to kill her. His threat was executed.

In Scott Jackson’s Defense.

There is a diminution in attendance at the Scott Jackson trial. Colonel Crawford began his argument for the defense, and will probably occupy the day if his .voice does not fail. The line of his defense so far has been to create sympathy for Jackson by dwelling upon the torturing inquisitorial treatment given him by the Cincinnati police. He also has tried to show that Will Wood, not Jackson, was responsible for Pearl Bryan’s condition.

Keeley Cure Law Invelid.

The supreme court Minnesota Monday morning filed a decision declaring the Keeley cure law to be unconstitutional. This is the law which authorizes county commissioners to pay tor inebriates taking the Keeley cure.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1896.

RUIN AT LINCOLN, NEB.

CYCLONE DOES ENORMOUS DAMAdE. Many Parson* Art Injured, but None. It I* Thought, Fatally Wild Scenes or Terror Throughout the City Minor Storm* at Various Points. A terrible cyclone visited Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday evening, and, after the disturbance, it was found that scarcely a building in the capital city of the state had come out of the struggle undamaged. While the ruin, in some instances, was complete, it varied in others from the loss of roofs to the demolition of chimneys. No loss of life has yet been reported, but the number of persons injured is

HANNIS TAYLOR. < (U. S. Minister to Madrid.)

large. The “twister” scooped down upon the city at 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon and in a short time the work of destruction had been done. Among the larger buildings that suffered were the Hotel Ideal and the structures of the State University. The buildings at

W. D. OWEN. WILLIAM S. HAGGARD. D. W. COMSTOCK. CHARLES F. REMY.

that position in 1862. From that post 'he went into the banking business in Lebanon, and has been in it ever since. Frederick J. Scholz, the nominee foi treasurer, is an Illinois man. He is in the marble business and his experience in politics is limited to city affairs in Evansville. He was elected state treasurer in 1894. William A. Ketcham, who is running for attorney general,has occupied that post ably since his election two years ago. He is one of the best lawyers in Indianapolis. Charles F. Remy, named for supreme court reporter, is a good lawyer and an able orator. He has been a legislator. For superintendent of public instruction, David M. Geeting is a capable man, thoroughly well up in modern pedagogy. He is familiar with the work of this office. The nominee for state statistician, Simeon J. Thompson, is a candidate for re-election. The nominees for appellate court judgeships, Woodfln D. Robinson, W’illiam J. Henley, James B. Black, Daniel W. Comstock and Uric Z. Wiley are all well known.

Lincoln Park, where races were about to be held, presented a sad scene of desolation, and much money will be necessary to restore them. A. 'is. Woodward was crushed under a falling church, and had a leg broken. It is not thought the crop damage will be great. The severely injured are: J. L. Workman, head cut by flying debris: A. L. Woodry, in a collapsing building; Mrs. J. B. Abbott, caught beneath a horse; Henry Meyer, J. T. Thorpe. The storm raged with unabated violence twenty-five minutes. During this period rain fell as from a cloudburst, accompanied by hail. The prevailing drift of the wind was from the southwest, but at times it seesfed to form in edies between the business blocks and was accompanied by cyclonic features. buildings were unroofed and torn down, cornices were swept from roofs into the streets, and the residence portion of the city was nearly denuded of trees. The greatest damage wasat the State Hospital for the Insane, where many of the larger buildings were unroofed. The damage will be heavy. In the city it probably will reach $40,000 and may be much heavier, as the suburban districts are yet cut off from communication. At the state asylum iron supports weighing 300 pounds were blown several hundred feet. There is scarcely a street in the town that is not strewn with large branches and whole trunks of trees unrooted by the storm. Thfe damage to the Kelly block will be about $2,000. The Bohemian Catholic church, a brick structure at the corner of Second and E

MEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE TO-DAY

streets, was destroyed. The loss is |4,5<N). .. —r» TERRIFIC TWIBTKR AT ELK HORN. Descend* to the Barth Twiee aad LmtM It* Mark of Ruin. Elkhorn, Neb., Special: A cyclone swept this region Tuesday. A funnelshaped cloud shot down from the storm center and'a general stampede of citizens for cellars and oaves ensued. At the school house the children fled pan-ic-striken to the furnace room, and several of them were hurt. The cyclone struck the ground north of the town. Its course was northwest. The path of the storm was from 200 to 300 yards wide, and everything in this path was razed to the ground, including several houses. Large trees along the highway adjacent were torn and twisted out of the ground. Carl Johnson, a farmer, was caught in the “twister.” He had a team attached to a wagon.

SENOR CANOVAS. (Spanish War Minister.)

He endeavored to skirt the storm by driving in a meadow to the westward, but before he could lash his horses out of the path of the rapidly approaching hurricane he was caught, and man, horses and wagon were sent, through space, together with fences, boards, posts, wire and other debris. Johnson’s clothes were torn from his back, and he received several injuries. At times the wind would raise him high in the air aifd drop him back to the earth, only to catch him up again, and finally, when the storm passed over him, he was 150 yards or more from where the storm first struck him. The wagon was completely demolished.

SPAIN WILL WAIT.

Secretary of State Olney May Look Up Records. The secretary of state says that the Spanish government has acted very handsamely In yielding to the request of the United States to suspend Judgment In the case of the crew of the schooner Competitor until he can have an opportunity to submit reasons why the treaty stipulations have been violated by their trial by court-martial. In fact, every request and suggestion that has yet been made by the United States to the government of Spain has received the greatest consideration, and although the Spanish press and a portion of the people have made hostile demonstrations toward this country, the ministry has done everything possible to promote friendly feelings. On the other hand, the violation of the neutrality laws by citizens of the United States has been frequent and our courts nave not yet been able to convict a single offender. Nor have the officers of the United States been able to prevent the sailing of vessels laden with arms and ammunition which have been reported by the Spanish ministers and consuls in this country as carrying contrabands of war. Every day or two Borne vessel lands in Cuba with supplies for the insurgents from the United States, and, although the president and secretary of state have issued the most rigid instructions, local officers have shown themselves either or unwilling to carry them out. Therefore, if there is a row between the two countries ft will be our own fault. The president and the officials of the state department have been awaiting with interest the speech from the throne delivered by the queen to the Spanish cortes Monday afternoon, as it was expected to contain an outline of her policy regarding the reforms to be introduced into Cuba. When that plan is received in Washington the president will define his policy toward the Cuban revolution either in a message to congress or a letter from the secretary of state to the minister of Spain in Washington.

Rival Mayors at Peru, Ind.

Peru, Ind., special: The city council has five democrats and three republicans, but at the election last week the republicans gained three more and nowhave a three-fourths majority. The members qualified Friday. Saturday Mayor Jesse S. Zern died and that evening the old council, or the five democratic members of it, met and appointed Orson Durand, a democrat, as mayor. The six republicans of the new council claim the appointment Is not legal, and at the first meeting of the new boird they elected Charles A. Parsons, a republican, as mayor. Mr. Durand claims his sept and the affair will very likely have to be taken to the courts to decide.

Shot by His Own Brother.

Frank Pierce, of Huron, was shot and killed by his brother at Mitchell, Ind. Walter Pierce was married Tuesday. The young men of the neighborhood, led by his brother Frank, came to celebrate the event by a charivari. They met a shower of shot. Walter had warned the boys not to come

ARE WELL TREATED.

THIS IS ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL BUT LABORDE. BIS Mend* Show Murk* of Bund* Worn When Brought Ashore After the Capture—Rngllah and German* Object to the Chefoo Occupattoa by Russia. Havana, May 13.—La Union, the inspired government newspaper, announces that the verdict of death pronounced against all five of the Competitor’s crew, tried on Friday by a £val court-martial, was promptly conmod by the admiral, and all preparations were being made to carry the sentence Into effect when orders came to remit the papers to Madrid, though the prisoners had not been formally sentenced and have not as yet even been notified of the court’s finding. The transfer of the case to Spain, the marquis of Palmerola, the secre-tary-general of the goyeimment, says amounts to a virtual suspension ol judgment for a month or six weeks. The Spanish authorities, the marquis says, have no desire to precipitate matters. If the superior military tribunal at Madrid should decide that ConsulGeneral Williams’ protest was wellbased, the case? of any members of the party whose American citizenship was clear may yet be transferred to the civil court, Spain having no desire to evade treaty stipulations. The American people, he continued, may rest assured that only justicq will be carried out, and that after due consideration of the diplomatic protest of the United Stales and careful revision ol the evidence by the ablest jurists in the Spanish courts. The prisoners wore well treated aftei their capture by Capt. Bruton of the Spanish warship Menzia, were eloquently defended by Lieut. Bai\lo and are now being well cared for by Capt. Eulate, chief of the arsenal where they are confined. It was Eulate who, when commanding the Spanish gunboat Jorge Juan at La Gliayra during the last Venezuelan revolution, placed hit vessel at the disposition of the United States consul at Caracas and landed marine. 6 to back up the latter’s demands that Gen. Pepper, who represented Men; doza’s short-lived dictatorship, should liberate the members of the foreign consular corps, held prisoners. When Mr. Hana requested Eulate’s co-opera-tion Eulate replied: “My ship is at your service. Spain, as one of the first European powers to recognize your government, is evei ready to give new proofs of friendly feeling toward your people.” Through his own government, it is understood, Eulat'’ afterward received the thanks of the Washington authorities for his courtesy. The Competitor’s crew themselves, except Laborde, acknowledged that they were not even handcuffed while aboard the Mensajera When brought on shore, enroute to the prison, however, their hands were heund with cords as a precaution, and Laborde is believed to have the marks on his wrists as the result of endeavoring to withdraw them from the bands. The two additional Competitor prisoners, Chprks Barnet and William Leavitt, brought from Bahia Benda by the Triton last night, are American citizens. The marquis of Palmerola says they will be tried by the ordinary courts. They were captured ashore after the filibustering party landed.

IIKITONH MAKE A PROTEST. Commercial Relieve* tim Affair in the Ei»t Merely n Himine** Deal. London, May 13. —A special dispatch received here from Shanghai says the British and German ministers at Pekin .have protested against the action ol Russia in occupying part of the foreshore at Chefoo, contrary to treatj rights. The dispatch adds that the entire Russian squadron in Chinese waters will rendezvous at Chefoo in readiness to occupy Port Arthur or Kiacho bay on receipt of instructions from St Petersburg. \ v In well-informed commercial quarters in London It is believed that the Gflefoo incident is nothing but an ordinary business deal, as Fergusson & Co. have been offering the land which is alleged to have been seized, for sale during years past. The only cau3o foi disquiet is found in the fact that the Russian Steam Navigation company through whoie agent, Mr. J. Smith, an American, the land has been occupied, Is a company subsidized by the Russian government.

Actor-Manager Dead.

New York, May 13.—William Tucker, a theatrical man, who came to this city from Chicago, with his family a short lime ago. died suddenly while witnessing •* performance in the Union Square theater. The cause of his ieath has not yet been determined but it is supposed to have been heart failure. He was 40 years of age and had been traveling actor and stage manager for a number of years. He recently traveled with Robert Gaylord’s “In a Big City” company and had acted as stage managet for “The Fortune-Teller” company.

Bank Will Resume Basiness.

Denver, May 13.—The American National Bank, which recently failed, will probably resume business at an early day, a majority of the depositors having agreed to accept certificates drawing 4 per cent Jnterest. Ten per cent of the deposits will be paid in cash when the bank resumes, and the remainder in six semi-annual payments of 15 per cent each. The bank’s liabilities have been reduced to $821,000.

HE FLIES LIKE A BIRD.

PnfMtor Unfits Parfacta a M«a4i Flying Machine. , Washington, D. C.. May 13.—'The firs) public statement regarding the flying machine experiments conducted bfc Professor Samuel P. Langley, the seek retary of the Smithsonian Institution* for some months past were made day with the authority of ProfessoF Langley. Profeasor Alexander Graham BelL the inventor, reports on ProfessoJ Langley’s machine as follows: "On last Wednesday, May 6, I wife nessed a very remarkable experiment with Professor Langley’s aerodrome or the -Potomac river. “The aerodrome, or ‘flying machine/ in Question was ot steel, driven by » steam engine. It resembled an enormous bird, soaring In the air with exr treme regularity in large curves, sweeping steadily upward in a spiral path, the spirals with a diameter of perhaps 100 yards, until it reached a height of about 100 feet In the air at the end of a course of about huf a mile, when the steam gave out, the propellers which had moved It stopped, ang then, to my further surprise, the wholes instead of tumbling down, settled as slowly and gracefully as It 1b possible for any bird to do, touched the water without any damage, and was picked out immediately and ready to be tried again. “A second trial was like the first, except that the machine went in a different direction, moving In one continuous gentle ascent as it swung around in circles like a great soaring bird.” Prof. Langley says: “The aerodrome, or flying machine, has no gas to lift it as in the case of a balloon, but on the contrary is about 1,000 times heavier, bulk for bulk, than 1 the air on which it is made to run and which sustains It somewhat In the way in which thin. lee supports a swift skater. “The power 1b derived from a steam engine through the means of propellers, but owing to the Beale on which the actual aerodrome Is built, there has been no condensing apparatus to use the water over and over. “Enough can be carried for only a very brief flight, a difficulty which does not belong to larger machines than the present examples in which the supporting surfaces are but about fourteen feet from tip to tip.“The distance flown each time was about one-half mile. The rate of speed depends (as is the case of any vehicle on land) on whether it Is going on a level or up hill.”

Stocking Mourns His Cash.

St. Louis, Mo., May 13.—Ed Hogaboom, the Hot Springs banker and financier, has disappeared, leaving behind a multitude of creditors to wonder at their faith in the man. The biggest wonderer in the bunch is John B. Stocking of Eau Claire, Wls. He was in St. Louis Tuesday en route to Chicago. The last time he was here was on April 29, and that was the day, it is alleged, Mr. Hogaboom gave him the slip, carrying with him to lands unknown SIO,OOO of Mr. Stocking’s hard earned money. Last September the two friends were in Chicago together and Mr. Hogaboom told his companion of a scheme he had to make money; quickly. If Mr. Stocking would let Mr. Hogaboom have SIO,OOO until April 10, 1896, Mr. Hogaboom would make him a bonus of $3,333.33.

Mrs. Maybrick Stays in Prison.

London, May 13. —In the house of commons Tuesday Dr. G. B. Clark, liberal member for Calthnr#3hire, asked the home secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley, If the lard chief Justice, Baron Russell of Kilowen, had intimated to him that Mrs. Florence Maybrick ought to be released, and, if so, whether he would appoint a commission of inquiry. The home secretary replied that he had received such an Intimation from the lord chief justice, but, after careful consideration ift the matter, he was convinced that the right course had been adopted, and, therefore, he would' not appoint a commission of inquiry.

Light, on Miss Lnkens' Career.

Wabash, Ind;, May 13. — Miss Allle Lukens, the Boston artist who hanged herself to her bedpost in that city Monday night, was born in this county thirty-five years ago. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Lukens, who lived on a farm near Disko. Developing a taste for painting and music, she pursued her studies in Chicago. Since then she has traveled all over the country and won some distinction. Her father was found dead in the woods ten years ago, and last September her brother Judson, commissioner of Wabash county, died mysteriously on his return from Detroit to Roann.

Burglars at Elwood

Elwood, Ind., May 13. —Burglars entered the installment stare of W. C. Baker & Co. by means of a rear window arid ransacked the establishment, carrying off at least SIOO worth of goods. The store is situated on a main thoroughfare and the thieves appear to have spent the night in the store, but escaped without leaving any clew to their identity.

Anti- Negro Society Formed.

Areola, 111., May 13.—An anti-negro, or black-cap club, is said to have been formed here. Its object is to put a stop to the colored people becoming resi-, dents of the city or permitting stragglers from remaining any length of time within the limits. Areola is now without a colored inhabitant.

Nathaniel Pitkin Dies in a Mill.

Elkhorn, Wis., May 13.—Nathaniel Pitkin, whose relatives are prominent in Chicago society, died here Tueed&y in an old mill, where he haa lived a secluded life for many years. He was 80 years old.

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