Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — Page 6

THE RENSSELAER DEMOCRAT.- ; . J Ji V 7 RENSSELAER, INDIAN*.

RESTLESS RED MEN.

INDIAN OUTBREAKS FEARED IN THE WEST. Settlers Scent Danger in Growing Uneasiness in Arizona and Nebraska— Jersey City Policeman’s Life Knded by Action of a Celluloid Collar. Troops Sent to Protect Settlers. From the tenor of communications received by Col. Sumner at Denver, Colo., during the last few days it appears that the Indiana in the department of the Colorado and the Missouri, which are under liia comma ml, are displaying an unusual restlessness, which bodes no good for the settlers in the vicinity of the various reservations. The danger of an outbreak in Arizona has become so imminent that CoJ. Sumner has ordered two trooi>* of cavalry from Fort llu a chu.cn to the Mexican lKwiulary line, with orders to'move along that line from Nogales, Ariz., to the gulf of California, observing a strict patrol of the entire border. Another troop lies been ordered from Fort Grant to Fort Huaohucn to garrison the latter while the troops are in the field, and to be prepared to assist these troops in case of trouble. One troop of the Eighth cavalry recently was ordered from Fort Meade, S. I)., to Fort Washakie, Wyo., and there is a possibility that this force will be side-tracked and sent to Fort Niobrara, Neb., instead. Col. Sumner has received a petition for troops from a large number of settlors in the portion of Nebraska adjoining the Sioux reservation, who believe the Sioux aTe planning a wholesale massacre of whitesr Killed by His Collar. The almost olwolete celluloid collar question has been revived by the death of Policeman Enoch Perry in Jersey City, N. J. Policeman Perry expired from the effects of a carbuncle on his neck, caused, Ida relatives say, by a celluloid collar, which he was compelled to wear by order of the police authorities. Some time ago an order was issued from police headquarters in Jersey City requiring patrolmen to wear white gloves and collars. White cotton gloves were specified and a regulation collar made of celluloid was named ns the decoration for the police neck. A few days ago a carbuncle developed on Perry’s neck and he told his fellow policemen that it had been caused by the irritation of the celluloid collar. Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of ths clubs in ths National Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..17 4 Pittsburg .... 12 11 Cleveland ...1(5 1) Philadelphia . 9 10 Boston 15 9Brooklyn .... 9 10 New l’ork... 13 8 Bt. Louie 5 15 Baltimore .. .11 7 Louisville ... 6 19 Chicago ....11 10 Washington . 4 17 Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: • V W. L % w. L. Indianapolis .17 4 Milwaukee .. 9 14 St. Paul 19 5 Minneapolis . 7 15 Kansas City. 12 9 Detroit 0* 10 Columbus ...11 9 Omaha 5 10 Bin Elevator Deal. The Pacific Coast Elevator Company’s entire gystetn of warehouses and elevators In Oregon, Idaho and Washington parsed out of the control of A. E. I’eavey & Co., of Minneapolis, and is now the projierty of ’J'heodore B. Wilcox, W. M. and C. E. Ladd, well-known bankers of Portland and owners of the Portland Flouring Mills Company’s extensive plant. In the three States there are seventy warehouses amd elevators, und the entire plant has a capacity of about 6,000,000 bushels of wheat. The consideration is understood to hare been sl,000,000.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Tift block. Buffalo, N. I\, was damaged by tire to the extent of übout $75,(XXI. The plant of the Mitchell, S. I)...electric light company was destroyed by a tire originating in the engine room. Loss, SI,(XX) ; no insurance. An engine drawing a west-lwuind freight train at Grey Court, X. Y., blew up, killing Engineer William C-ronk and Firemau Benrack of Port Jervis. The warehouse of'Tlall Bros.’ big fruitjar glass works at Muncie, Ind., was destroyed by fire. The loss will he al>out $285,000. The warehouse contained fully one-half the year's product. Only nbout S2O,<XX> insurance will I>e available to cover the loss. Lewis It. Clifton, a prominent citizen of Lucerne, Mo., clasped Miss Cora Miller about the waist and shot himself dead because she would not make up a quarrel. Miss Miller was after ward found standing in the center ofthe room holding Clifthn’s dead body in her arms.’ Martin Enssley, the former society loader of Memphis, Tonn., who was charged with having murderously assaulted his companion, Charles 11. Collins, at Meramec Highlands last summer and robbing him of SO,OOO, has been discharged from custody. At Cluytou Collins, the prosecuting witness, wax not present to testify. Most extraordinary crop conditions prevail In Nebraska The acreage of winter and spring wheat is almost one-third : heavier thau last year's big acreage. Much more spring wheat than usual was | put in after the war became imminent and wheat took such a shot upward. About ‘ one-fourth more acres wall be devoted to corn than last year. Other grain is in similar proportion. .The plant of the Baltimore Biscuit ‘ Company was damaged SOO,OOO by fire. Three hundred men had worked all day on “rush” orders for the Government, and this stock, as well as a large quantity of flour, was consumed and the machinery practically ruined. It la thought that | the fire will seriously delay the orders of B&he Government lor the army and aavy. Many houses in the villages of BiancaL villa and Bemposso, on the slopea of | Mount Aetna, Sicily, were wrecked by* Pin earthquake. The most violent shock I* was felt southward from Aetna for thirty

DWARFS IN THE PYRENEES.

Tli ©pry of Their Origin Derived from Their Legendary History. There has long dwelt In the heart of Pyrenees, on the old Catalonian border of Spain, a race of dwarfs, supposed by some to be of Tartar origin. They inhabit the valley of the Jtlbas In the northwestern part of the Spanish province now called Gerona. They never exceed 51% Inches/in height, and have short, ill-formed legs, great bellies, small eyes, flat noses and pale, unwholesome complexions. They are usually stupid, often to the verge of Idiocy, and much subject to goitre and scrofulous affections.' The chief town »f the Ribas valley is Ribas, a place of 1,500 inhabitants, about 800 feet above jea level. The mountains rise about the town to a height of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, and command an amazingly beautiful panorama of mountain, plain and river, with Spanish cities visible upon the one side and French upon the other, l'he region is rich, both agriculturally and minerally, and is famous for its medical springs. In this paradise dwell the dwarfs, perhaps as degraded a race of men and women as may be found in any civilized community. They are almost without education, and inhabit wretched huts when they have any shelter. The most intelligent are employed as Shephards, and in summer they live for months at an elevation of more than 6,000 feet without shelter. Here they see no hllmrin creature Bave some of their own kind, often Idiots, who are sent up every ljfteen or twenty days with a supply of food. It is said that formal marriage is almost unknown among them. The women In some instances are employed in the village of Ribas as nurses for children, and as such are found tender and faithful. Before communication throughout the region was as easy as it Is now it was thought lucky to have one of these dwarfs in a family, and the dwarfs were hired out and even Bold to be used in beggarjr in neighboring cities. There are somewhat similar dwarfs in other valleys of the Pyrenees, but the number is decreasing, and those of the Ribas valley are reduced to a few individuals. The writer rejects the theory of a Chinese origin for the dwarfs, and believes that they are merely the degenerate descendants of the ordinary natives, ill-nour-ished for generations upon a diet of potatoes and black bread. The fact that with improved means of communication the dwarfs are decreasing helps to confirm the writer’s theory, and he believes that with proper nourishment and decent shelter their descendants woulcT gradually return to the normal type. Meanwhile the neighbors of the dwarfs look upon them with a curious mixture of feelings. The fact that the dwarfs drink much at a particular mineral spring lias given rise to a superstition that whoever drinks of It will become deformed, and the normal natives are horrified to see visitors experimenting with the dreaded waters. There is reason to believe that the waters of the spring are beneficial to the stomachs of well-nourished persons, but injurious to those who are accustomed to an unwholesome diet, and It Is entirely possible that the illfed dwarfs have been Injured by drinking of the spring.—Cosmos.

A Heavy Soul.

A#Methodlst minister who has a keen sense of humor, and many good stories at his tongue’s end, tells one of a pray-er-meeting he attended during a revival in a Southern city. He was standing near a colored man, ■who Joined In the single g of stirring hymns with a fervor not at all lessened by the fact that he knew very few of the words and was unprovided with a book. The chorus of one hymn was: My soul is heaven bound! Glory, hallelujah! My soul is heaven bound! Praise ye the Lord! During the singing of the first verse and the chorus of the colored man listened, turning his head from side to side. When the chorus recurred at the end of the second verse, he joined in It with great vigor, singing, to the minister’s amusement and confusion: My soul weigh? seven pound! Glory, hallelujah! * My soul Weighs seven pound! Praise ye the Lord!

Had a White Congregation.

“I saw in the little town of Corydon, Henderson County, the other day, a most unusual sight,” said a gentleman Just from the Pennyrile district. “It was nothing more nor less than a negro minister delivering an eloquent sermon to a congregation composed entirely of whites. It was a thing I had never seen In the South, and I remarked on it at the time. The minister was an itinerant prsacher, a tall mulatto, dressed in a black suit, and with an earnestness of manner I have seldom seen in the colored men of the cloth. The traveling servant of the Lord had announced his intention of speaking on the public square, and he preached to a good-sized crowd'of respectful white listeners.”—Louisville Tost.

Skaters in Norway's Army.

The Norwegian corps of skaters, a force peculiar to the army of that country, Is a body of soldiers armed ■wltlh rifles who can be maneuvered m>on Ice or over snow fields of the mountains with a rapidity equal to that of the best trained cavalry.

Discovery of Alcohol.

Alcohol wai not discovered until the seventh century, and the distillation of spirit from wine was not discovered until the twelfth cpntury. The age of whales is ascertained by •dze and number of laminae of the whalebone, which Increases yearly. Ages of 800 and 400 years have been assigned to whales from these indications. ( _ , ,

UNCLE SAM'S FIGHTERS

THE War Department has made a new assignment of the volunteer army to camps of concentration. About 13,000 have been assigned to Tampa in order that they may become seasoned to the climate and improved by association with the regulars. They will be ready to go with the regulars ns the vanguard when the word comes. The t hies camp will be at Chickamauga, to which about 58,000 troops have been assigned. The camp near Washington will have about 20,000, und the reserves, numbering about 24,000, arerilkely to be sent to a camp to be established on Long Island at a point convenient for transportation either by lund or water. About 12,000 have been assigned to San Francisco for the expedition to the Philippines, but there Is a proposition under consideration to increase that number. Probably 1,500 regulars will go with the volunteers to Manila. 4 About 4,000 volunteers have been assigned to New Orleans, 1,000 to Mobile and 1,000 to Key West, but the forces at those points will be largely increased when the order “On to Cuba” is given. Movements of State volunteers to the points of concentration continue to go forward rapidly. Regiments from Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio have left their camps for Chickamauga. Also 200 of Illinois’ naval reserves have gone south for service on the warships of Admiral Sampson’s fleet. Minnesota sends one regiment to the Philippines and two to Chickamauga, while a regiment from Nebraska and one from Kansas have started for the Pacific coast for embarkation to the scene of Admiral Dewey’s victory.

ILLINOIS.

Springfield correspondence: The volunteers lately bivouacked at Camp Tanuer will soon be distributed at the several points designated by the War

Department. The exodus commenced when the Third regiment, Col. Bennitt, and the Fifth, Col. Culver, left the camp eu route to Chickamungu. It is believed that it is the intention to move all the regiments now there to that point. There they can be brigaded with regiments of regulars and have the advantage of the experience of the regulars l>efore being taken to the front for actual service. The Third regiment left by way of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, nud the Fifth by way of the Illinois Central. The Third took the tents of the eavalr'y, and Col. Young’s men moved into the building vacated by Col. Bennitt. The Seventh surrendered its tents to the Fifth regiment and Gol. Kavanagh’s men are now Quartered in the sheep and swine sheds. Col. Kavanagh, however, still makes his headquarters in the field, as does Lieut. Col. Morinrity and Father Kelly. Orders for the First regiment to move to Cbickarnauga we sc received later and the fcommand was obeyed with due dispatch. Col. Henry L. Turner is in command of the regiment. WISCONSIN. Milwaukee correspondence: The Second Wisconsin volunteers, Col. Born in command, has left Milwaukee for Chickamuuga. The "badger” soldiers traveled on a special train of three seceach section having about fifteen coaches. Col. Born has 1,025 men under him, who will do honor to their State on the battle field. The regiment marched out of camp amid cheers of the men of the First and the few spectators who were drawn into camp through curiosity. This leaves the First the only regiment in fCHTBp, and it is expected that orders to move will come within a few days. The Third regiment of volunteers had preced* ed the Second by a few hours. A notable; feature of the departure of the Second from camp was a military mass, celebrated by Father Gerend, president of St. John’s institute. The mass took place at one of the exposition buildings, which was

filled with Catholic members of the First and Second regiments. The young soldiers appeiwed in military array, and the singing was by the of the Milwaukee choirs. In a rousing sermon Father Gerend urged the young soldiers to be true to their country. They then .took communion and were blessed for the .journey, from which many might not return. After the Second left matters caimed'down and Col. Sehadel had an opportunity to get his .command in shape without any trouble, from crowds of curiosity seekers. INDIANA. ‘ - i 'V' Indianapolis correspondence: < Amid the cheers of thousands of enthusiastic citizens, the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh regiment of Indiana volunteers and Twenty-seventh battery pf g*tillery ffbin Indianapolis, and the Twen-ty-eighth from .Fort Wayne, left Indianapolis for Chickamauga.. The troop left

over the J., M. & I. Railway, going South by way of Louisville. The regiment, formerly the Third of the National Guard, marched down Meridian street on their way from Camp Mount to the Union station. The streets were lined with people for six miles, who cheered lustily as the Indiana soldiers, in marching costume, loaded down with blankets and equipment, marched along with a step which showed that the two weeks in Camp Mount had not been wasted. At the station they were met by a crowd, and it was impossible for the officers to preserve order in the ranks. Good-bys were said, and the men were Joaded into the four long trains. Lieut. Col. May did not leave with his regiment, but will remain and attend the removal of the other troops. The One Hundred and Fifty-eighth left

COMPANY COOKS AT WORK.

the next day over the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, via Cincinnati, and the One Hundred and Sixtieth over the Big Four. The One Hundred and Fifty-ninth remains at Camp Mount until further orders. OHIO. Columbus correspondence: The Fourth regiment of Ohio volunteers, formerly the Fourteenth Ohio National Guard, headquarters at Columbus, left Camp Bushnell at Columbus for

Chickamauga. The start was heralded by many bells and whistles and the discharge of the cannon in the capitol grounds. Thousands of people thronged the strffets. The departure was made the patriotic display. Among' t» organizations preceding the regiment to,, the station were Wells and MdCgy posts, G. A'Cft, the Fourteenth regfeient Veterami’, the Catholic moftcfttriers i n uniform, the Epwottn Guards and a squad of police. The Columbus battalion Fourteenth regiment and Neddemeyers’ band were la

OHIO NATIONAL GUARD CAMP AT COMLUMBUS.

the procession. The regiment hat nearly 1,000 men, under command of Col. Alonzo B. Coh, and has seen much local service, including several mining riots, tb* defense of the court house at Washington Court House, where a mob attempted to lynch Jasper Dolby, and the famous Cincinnati riots, where fifty-two men were killed. lOWA. Des Moines correspondence: After related delays the Second regiment of the lowa National Guard has been nAistqred into the United States service as the Fiftieth lowa infantry. Every company in the regiment is full, but the hand is short ten members, who asked for and secured discharges. Much indignation is felt that members of the band should have retired from the service at this time. Much regret is felt by the State authorities that lowa was late in getting its first regiment ready, but the War Department is blamed for the delay. Surgeon George J. Newgardner was sixty miles from a railroad when the order was sent him to take charge of the physical examination of the lowa troops and he did not arrive here until late. All the 'officers have been determined upon and the examinations of the privates 6tf the

COMPANY DRILL.

other three regiments can be completed in a very few days. The delay in mustering in has been utilized by the State authorities in more fully equipping the men. All are rnjpvided with overcoats and woolen and rubber blankets so that they are in no danger of suffering hardship from exposure to the weather.

MICHIGAN. Island Lake correspondence: The Thirty-first regiment, Michigan volunteers, has left Camp Eaton for Chattanooga, Col. Gardener in command. The regiment consists of forty-seven officers and 980 men, and departed from camp in a train composed of three first-class Wagner toadies for the officers, thirty-seven tourist sleepers for the men, one horse car and five freight cars. They will travel over the Detroit, Grand Rapids and Western to West Detroit, thence over the Michigan Central and C.. H. & D. to Cincinnati, thence over the Queen and Crescent to Chattanooga. Early Sunday morning the necessary cars arrived as Camp Eaton and the task of loading then commenced. Supplies of all kinds were issued to the officers and the men left camp with everything except rifles and ammunition. More than half of the rifles used by the State are unfit for service; so Col. Gardener decided to take his men to camp without rifles, and secure new ones from the Government. Thousands of men and women visited the camp during the day and bade " farewell to their husbands, sons, brothers ami sweethearts. The Thirty-second infantry is awaiting orders to move, but it will be a week or more before the other two regiments are ready, ns the supply of clothing and equipments has run out.

NEBRASKA. Lincoln correspondence: The First battalion of the First regiment dropped its tents in response to the signal from a bugle at 8 o’clock the other morning, and the loading of the baggage on the Burlington and Missouri train that was to take it to San Francisco began. The Union Pacific was ready to receive the Second battalion, but as Col. Bratt and the headquarters officers were to go with this battalion it was held until the Third could be started. Shortly after 1) o’clock the four companies composing the First Iwttalion marched down to the train at the fair grounds. Each man carried his blanket in a roll slung over his left shoulder; his knapsack, canteen, tin plate and cup, besides the musket. As the battalion lined up alongside the train a large crowd came down to bill the “boys” goodby. There were many tearful relatives and friends in the throng. The Second regiment band marched down and played the “Semper Fidel is” march. The "trumpeters <4 the Second regiment joined in the chorus. Afterward the band played “America,” “Red. White and Blue,” and .“The Star-Spangled Banner,” and then the last good-bys were spoken. At the station downtown a crowd of. several thousand people gathered to get. a last glimpse of the departing soldiefs. The train \tas composed of one Pullman, nine tourist sleepers, one baggage and one box car. From the side door of the baggage car floated the flags of the United State* and Cuba. The crowd at the station waved hats, flags and handkerchiefs until the

train was out of sight.' The other trains carrying the rest of the regiment got away amid similar scenes. The Burlington, Elkhorn and Missouri Pacific railroads will transport the Second Nebraska regiment to Chickamauga from Omaha. The rate will be about sl9 a man. This will make the cost of transporting this regiment to the South about $20,000, while the cost of transporting the First regiment to the Pacific coast is approximated at $40,000. The cost of transporting the regulars from this department was about SBO,OOO.

CONGRESS

The House, by 184 to 11, on Wednesday passed a resolution for the election of Senators by popular vote, and refused, 48 to 90, to consider the Senate bill restricting immigration. Mr. Loud called up the postoflice appropriation bill as passed by the Senate and upon his motion the House refused to concur to the Senate amendments arid asked a conference. The House then went into committee of the whole to consider the Senate bill amending the revenue law providing fsr the disposal of abandoned imports turned over by '.mporters to the customs officials. The bill was passed. The Senate spent the afternoon in discussion of the so-called railway arbitration hill. A House joint resolution declaring the lands within the former Mille Lac Indian reservation in Minnesota to be subject to entry under the land laws of the United States was agreed to. After a prolonged discussion the Senate on Thursday evening passed the bill “concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce, and their employes”—popularly known as the railway arbitration bill. The most important amendment to the measure was that offered by Mr. Hoar (Mass.), which provides that courts shall issue no injunction against railway employes which shall compel them to give their personal, service to a company against their will. On the final vote only three Senators were recorded against the hill. A bill was passed removing all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment to the constitution on persons who were at one time engaged in rebellion against the United States. The debate on the war revenue measure was begun in the Senate on Monday. In the House the conference report upon the bill authorizing the sending of food and arms to Oubaus was adopted. A bill was passed providing for an increase in the force of the adjutant general’s office. The House joint resolution appointing William J. Sewell of New Jersey, Martin T. McMahon of New York, John L. Mitchell of Wisconsin and William H. Bonsall of California members of the board of managers of the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers was called up and passed. The President’s veto of a bill conferring upon the court of claims jurisdiction to retry the ease of the representatives of Isaac P. Tice against the United States, brought in 1873 to recover $25,000, the alleged value of certain meters to measure the quality and strength of distilled spirits, was sustained. The Senate bill to establish an assay office at Seattle, Wash., was passed. The House also {Kissed, with amendments, the House bill to ratify an agreement entered into in 1892 between United States Commissioners and the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians to open for settlement the reservation of these Indians in Oklahoma.

Considerable progress was made l»y the Senate on Tuesday in considering the war revenue measure. A bill was reported from the Military Affairs Committee and passed providing that the pay and allowance of the volunteers enlisted in the United States army shall In-gju on the day of their enrollment at the State camp. The latter jMirt of the day was devoted to eulogies upon the late Representative Seth L. Milliken of Maine. The House held a brief session. Two important lulls affecting labor were passed, one limiting the labor of persons employed upon government works and fn government service to eight hours daily, and the other providing for the equipment of a non-parti-san labor commission to consider legislative problems affecting labor. Mr. Corliss (Mich.) called up the House bill to repeal tfie law providing that transmission of the electoral veto of the States to M ushiugtom shall be by messengers. The bill proposes transmission by mud and express. The bill was defeated. Senate bWI providing an American registry for the ship Centennial, now at Seattle, was passed. The House passed a bill to authorize the appointment of a non-partisan commission to collate information and to recommend legislation to meet problems presented by labor, agriculture and capital.

Got No Results.

Old ladles from the East who come visiting In Montana, says an do not understand the complicated methods of getting ore transformed from mountains to silver spoons, or something like that, for here is what one of them said: “And that is silver ore. Is it?” said the old lady, as she examined a curiouslooking bit of mineral. “Yes,” said her husband. “And how do they get the Silver out?” “They smelt it.” • G “Well, that’s queer,” she said, applying her nose to the ore. “I smelt It, too,.but 1 didn’t get any silver.”

Animal Pests in New South Wales.

New South Wales has a choice lot of noxious animal pests for whose destruction the colony paid out SIBO,OOO In bounties last year. Among them are bandicoots, pademelons, wombats, wallabies, kangaroos, emus, native dogs, flying foxes, kangaroo rats, crows and hares.

The Only Monarch Wounded in War.

Humbert 1., King of Italy, is the only European inonarch of the present time who has been wounded In warfare. The occasion was the battle of Custozzd, which,’ for ttw Italians, ended so disastrously. The Austrians, under Archduke Albert, Wtarfe vletortous.

Odds and Ends.

Dyed furs should never be brushed by inexperienced hands. Mushrooms are. native to all temperate countries is short grass. Natural Kamchatka, or sea otters, have been sold for SI,OOO a skin. In Japan coins are generally of Iron, and in Siam they are chlgfly of pttrim lain. ' m I MggM wheal - . (a •