Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1902 — Page 4

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE GLARE, Ed. and Pub. RENSSELAER, • INDIANA

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

According to the military commanders all the troops with the exception of the legation guards will be withdrawn from China next spring. The Anglo-Chinese commercial treaty has been signed at Shanghai, the Chinese commissioner having received the imperial sanction to do so. President Loubet returned the visit which the shah paid to him at Rambouillet and remained at the Persian monarch’s hotel for luncheon. Because of the refusal of the managers of the American Iron and Steel Company’s plant at Lebanon, Pa., to discharge nonunion men and take back the 800 men on strike, all the union employes remaining at work, about 1,800 men, quit work. James Craig, 76 years of age and a pioneer citizen of Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide by hanging. Clibe Bannister, aged 20, son of a Liberty township farmer, was crushed to death by a log he was unloading at Wabash, Ind. Recent friction in the Minnesota high court of United Foresters has resulted in a decision by Insurance Commissioner Dearth to investigate the order.

R. Ward, whose home is supposed to be at lowa City, lowa, was found dead in a stock car at Wymore, Neb. A companion who had been seen with him has disappeared. The concentrator of the Montana Ore Purchasing company at Butte, Mont., burned, causing a loss of $250,000, with insurance of $60,000. Police Officer J. J. Flowers was killed at Bessemer, Ala., by two tramps. If the men are caught a lynching is probable. A fire which at one time threatened all the principal buildings of Bethlehem, Conn., was stayed by a shift of the wind. Walter L. Payton of Mount Olive, Ind., was instantly killed at Rockledge quarries at Bedford, Ind., by a large slab of stone falling upon him. The body of an unknown woman which was found beside the tracks near Caney, I. T„ has been identified as that of Miss Barbara Bates of Knoxville, Tenn. Michael J. Murray, alias Walls, and John Davis, alias, “Sammy” Jamison, alias Bob Clark, two of the most noted confidence men in the country, were arrested in Indianapolis. William Hicks, a business man of Carthage, 111., committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. His wife ended her life in the same way two years ago.

The steamship Empress of China, which has arrived at Victoria, B. C., from China and Japan, reports having passed through a typhoon on the Chinese coast, but suffered no damage. George Pondexter, colored, a coal miner, working in mine No. 10 of the Central coal and coke company at Vevier, Mo., was killed in the mine by a large cave-in of rock and slate. ' While returning home from church Mrs. William Reinhart of Decatur, Ind., became frightened at the horses attempting to run away jumped from the buggy and was instantly killed, her neck being broken. At Reeves, Tenn., Mary, wife of John McCampbell, became angry at him over some small affair, and while he slept attempted to murder him by pouring hot lead in his eyes and ears. The man was made insane with pain, but will recover. Thieves blew open the safe at Copeland’s store at Dexter, Calloway county, Ky., and secured SSOO in cash and $1,500 in notes. Part of the money belonged to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad. Acting under instructions from federal officers, Deputy Marshal Wilkerson of Oklahoma seized about 1,800 gallons of wine of home manufacture and spilled it. The goods were supposed to be intoxicating. Postmaster Payne of Jeddo, N. Y., surprised two burglars in the postoffice. They ran, but Payne fired, filling the back of one of them with buckshot and fatally injuring him. The other surrendered, giving his name as Joseph M. Ryer and that of his wounded companion as George Clark. Nineteen prisoners in the county jail at Covington, Tenn., made an attempt to break out in the absence of the jaile., and nearly succeeded. They had bored through the top of the cage when the wife of Jailer Smith armed a negro trusty and, taking her busband’s shot gun, covered the prisoners until her husband returned. Mrs Anna Douglas died at Frankfort, Ind., aged l<fl years and 5 months. She was born in Virginia, but bad lived in Indiana the last sixty years. She was a charter member of the Presbyterian church of Frankfort. Her youngest child is 75 years of age.* Negotiations are pending between the Portland railway company and the city and suburban railway in Portland, Ore., which involve the expenditure of between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, and the consolidation of all the street railmrmwrrn of

Robert Foy, the negro who shot and killed Dayton H. Miller, secretary and treasurer of the Crane’s Nest Coal and Coke Company, at Tom’s Creek last December, was hanged at Wise, Va. George Houghton, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., who was lost in the Wisconsin woods, was found near Stone Lake, in good condition, considering his trying experiences. Job Murray Williams, colored, has confessed at Bridgeton, N. J., that he set fire to the barn in which Farmer John S. Holmes and his housekeeper were burned to death, in order to rob their house to get money with which to marry. Mrs. Jack Frost, wife of a prominent business man of Blackwell, Ok., has been arrested charged with poisoning Mrs. Alice Combs and her son, with intent to kill the whole Combs family of seven persons. The alleged motive of the crime is a family quarrel. Hundreds of strikers and sympathizers gathered at the Capps & Sons’ woolen mills at Jacksonville, 111., when the non-union men quit work, and a riot was only averted by the efforts of cool-headed strikers. The Japanese govenft&ent has appointed Major General Yamani, who recently in command of the Japanese troops in China, to be military attache to the Japanese legation at Pekin. It is believed that General Yamani will direct the reorganization of the Chinese army. The passenger brakemen of the Chicago and Alton railroad have united in a formal demand on the management for an incerase in pay of from $55 to S6O monthly. Malcolm McNeil of Atlanta, Ga., suggests the establishment in Chi cago of a free permanent exposition of all the products of the southern states. Bishop Fallows of Chicago delivered the address at the dedication of the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument in memory of civil war veterans in Janesville, Wis. W. D. Stoner, aged 30, representing Sprague, Warner & Co„ of Chicago, committed suicide in Gerat Falls, Mont. His father, mother and sister are said to reside in Chicago. Twelve loaded freight cars on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad went through a bridge near Kemper, 111. The bodies of three tramps are believed to be under the wreckage. The North Carolina Republican convention, composed entirely of white men, met at Greensboro and indorsed the candidacy of Thomas H. Hill, independent, for chief justice of the supreme court. President Roosevelt has been asked to lay the cornerstone of the new courthouse at Hammond, Ind., on his western trip. George Osborne, supposed to be poor, just before he died at Little Rock, 111., disclosed the hiding place of over SB,OOO in gold. Judge Morse at Salt Lake City, Utah, denied a motion for a new trial for Peter Mortensen, the contractor convicted of the murder of James R. Hay, secretary of the Pacific Lumber Company. Officials of Oconee county, S. C., have taken into custody three men— Henry Love, John Howard and Thomas Howard—whom they charge are responsible for the wreck of the Southern railway’s limited near Toccoa. The new brewing plant of the Independent Brewing company at South Seattle, Wash., was burned. Loss, $60,000. It is said that the fire was of incendiary origin. Suit has been brought at Milwaukee by Mrs. Emma Lonstorf against her mother-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Lonstorf, for SIOO,OOO damages on the charge of alienating the affections of the plaintiff’s husband. Cyrus Townsend Brady, an Episcopal clergyman living in Philadelphia, but best known as a writer of fiction, is building a house in Brooklyn and will make his residence there. He will devote his time to writing. Eighty thousand men of the British army have left South Africa for their homes since June 6. Arrangements have been made for the return of 3< ,- 000 more before Sept. 17. Charles P. Olson of Lincoln, Neb., superintendent of bridges of the Burlington road, while stepping from a steamer at Burlington, lowa accidentally fell into the river and was drowned.

The comptroller of the currency has declared a dividend of 10 per cent in favor of the creditors of the insolvent Lemars National bank of Lemars, lowa.

Mrs. Anna E. Noleman, 71 years of age, the widow of Capt. Ropert. D. Noleman, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Oscar L. McMurray, 6441 Greenwood avenue, Chicago. She was the mother of Frank F. Noleman of Contralia, 111., and was stricken with heart trouble while visiting her daughter.

Agents who ara representing William Rockefeller, it is said, have purchased for cash 1,000 acres in the Adirondacks, including Meacham Lake and the property of the Meacham Lake Hotel company. Including this purchase, Mr. Rockefeller will have a park of 00,000 acres. General Manager Dixon of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railroad states that the Btrike of the machinists in the company’s shopß at Clebourne, Tex., and other points has been declared ofT. About 700 men are involved. Captain Nelßon, formerly a member of Funston’s 20th Kansas regiment, and commander of company K, Kansas national guard, has resigned. 5 John Brice Butterworth, aged\ 11 years, was drowned in the Arnahsas river at Pins Bluff, Ark., while sailing a toy on a raft.

GREAT PROGRESS OF THE COUNTRY

Vast Growth of the Nation as Shown by the Statistics. BIG INCREASE IN ALL LINES Per Capita of Money In Circulation in 1902 Reaches the High Average of $28.40 —Phenomenal Gain in Value of Farm Property. During 3 the last century the expansion of the nation in area, population and wealth has been so vast that it is almost incredible. The wonderful growth of the United States is shown in a monograph issued by the bureau of statistics. It consists of a series of tables showing area, population, wealth, debt, money in circulation, banks and bank clearings and depositors, farms and farm values, manufactures and their value, revenues, expenditures, imports, exports, railways and their business, the shipping industry, and many other features of national development. In the census years from 1800 to 1850 and annually from 1850 to 1902. Phenomenal Growth. The figures presented regarding more than 100 subjects show an interesting and, in many cases, a phenomenal growth in the industries, finances, production and transportation of the country. The area has grown from 827,844 square miles In 1800 to 3.025,600 square miles in 1902, exclusive of Alaska and the islands belonging to the United States. The population per square mile, which was 3.6 in 1810, was 26.1 in 1902, notwithstanding the great increase in area meantime. The total wealth has grown from $7,000,000,000 in 1850 to an estimated $94,000,000,000 in 1900, and the per capita wealth from $307 in 1850 to $1,235 in 1900. Public Debt. In no feature has there been greater fluctuation, perhaps, than in the public debt and interest charge. In 1800 the public debt was sls per capita; in 1840 it had fallen to 21 cents per capita; in 1852 it was $2.67 per capita; in 1861, before the beginning of the war, $2.74; and then mounted rapidly until it became $76.98 per capita in 1865, gradually falling again after the war to $38.27 in 1880, $14.22 in 1890, $12.64 in 1893, $13.60 in 1896, and $12.97 in 1902.

Highest Per Capita. The money in circulation amounted to $13.85 per capita in 1860, touched $20.57 during the period of paper currency near the close of the war, but again fell below the S2O mark until 1881, when it reached $21.71 per capita. By 1892 it had reached $24.60 per capita; in 1896 it was $21.44; in 1900, $26.93; and in 1902, $28.40 per capita, the highest point that it has ever reached. Savings Bank Deposits. Deposits in savings banks amounted to $1,138,576 in -1820, $6,973,304 in 1830, $43,431,130 in 1850, $149,277,504 in 1860, $549,874,358 in 1870, $Bl9 106 - 973 in 1880, $1,524,844,506 in 1890, sl|810,597,023 in 1895, and $2,597,094,680 in 1901. Meantime the individual deposits in national banks had grown from $500,910,873 in 1863 to $3 111690,196 in 1902. Increase in Farms. Causes of these financial conditions, including the increase of currency! bank deposits, etc., is found in other tables showing the development of farms, manufactures, and of the various industries. The number of farms increased from 1,449,073 in 1850 to 5 - 739,657 in 1900; the value ofjarms and farm property from $4,000,000,000 in 1850 to $20,000,000,000 in 1900, and the value of their product, which was not measured until 1870, grew from $l- - in that year to $3,764 000 - 000 in 1900. Value of Farm Animals. The value of farm animals increased from $544,000,000 in 1850 to $2981,000,000 in 1900. The value of the product of the manufacturing industries grew from $1,000,000,000 in 1885 to $13,000,000,000 in 1900, while the number of people employed therein grew from less than 1,000,000 in 1850 to 6,750,000 in 1900.

UNVEIL SHAFT TO WAR HEROES

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Dedicated at Janesville, Wis. Janesville, Wisconsin, special: The Rock county soldiers’ and sailors’ monument, erected in memory of the soldiers and sailors of the civil war was dedicated with imposing ceremonies. Bishbp Fallows of Chicago delivered the dedication address. The monument was completed last March at a cost of SIO,OOO. It is of Barre granite, fifty-six feet two inches high and weighs 131 tons.

Deny There Is Dessension.

Amsterdam cablegram: The Boer generals have issued a statement declaring there is no truth in the reports of differences between themselves and Mr. Kruger, Dr. Leyds and the Boer delegates to Europe.

Dies of Cancer.

Auburn, HI., dispatch: Dr. M. S. Wheeler, father of Representative Fred Wheeler and one of the most prominent physicians in Sangamon county, died of cancer of the stomach.

CROWDS GREET NATION'S CHIEF

President Speaks to Big Audiences in the State of Maine, MUST REACH TRADECOMBINES Subject Should Not Bo Approached In Spirit of Hostility, But With a Desire to Do What Is Best for the Whole People. Ellsworth, Me., dispatch: The President’s second day in the Pine Tree State was full of interest. Starting from the governor’s residence at an early hour, he was taken for a short drive about the city of Augusta, and at 9:30 o’clock left there for Bangor, where the principal speech of the day was delivered at the fair grounds in the presence of a large audience, which listened with marked attention to his address. The President confined himself to a discussion of the duties of good citizenship and did not touch upon national affairs. General Holiday. The same close attention was given him at Waterville, where from far and near came hundreds to see and hear the first President who had visited Maine in many years. In anticipation of his coming a general holiday was declared and all business was suspended. Senator Hale, Congressmen Littlefield, Powers and others were with the President during his stay in Bangor. On the drive through the city the President’s carriage was stopped in front of the portico of the orphans’ home, where the little ones were assembled, and they greeted him in song. Discusses Combines. At Ellsworth the President discussed the subject of industrial combines, saying in part: “I want to see the knife used to cut out any evil, but I want to see it used so that it will be more dangerous to the disease than to the patient. You can perfectly well reduce the prosperity of the trusts by reducing the prosperity of everybody. In 1893 no trusts flourished—nothing flourished. But we want to devise some methods by which we can minimize any evil they do without interfering with the general prosperity which is a benefit to all. We wish to avoid trying any solution of the problem which would involve us all in a common disaster — a disaster that would be felt most severely by those least well off in the world’s goods. Law Must Reach All. “On the one hand I believe that the men of great means should understand that when we demand some method of asserting the power of the nation over all corporations, we are acting not against their interest, but in their Interest. “When we make the law obeyed by the man of means we are not acting against him; we are acting for him. His safety lies in the law, and the worst of all possible lessons to teach would be to teach our people as p whole that the law did not reach him. It must reach him to make him obey it, exactly as it reaches him to protect him from the wrong-doing of others. Not Against Wealth. “On the one hand, let men of great wealth realize that in seeking for this remedy we are both unalterably bent upon finding it and are doing it in no spirit of hostility to them, but in a spirit to find out what is best for them and for all of us alike.” The President dined here at the home of Senator Hale, who accom panied the party from Bangor. At the depot when the train pulled in the President was escorted to a platform near by and delivered a short address. He left at 10 o’clock for Nashua, N. H., and other points in that state.

VACCINE POISON CAUSES DEATH

Girl Dies of Consumption Induced by Inoculation. St. Paul, Minn., dispatch: Gertrude Sullivan, 10 years old, is dead as the outcome of vaccine poisoning. The girl was vaccinated in January, 1899. Following this her arm began to swell. Six months ago she was compelled to remain at home from school. A month ago the case was pronounced general tuberculosis by several physicians. The child grew weaker until she died. The certificate of death wat made out giving the cause of death as general tuberculosis. Consumption is generally the last form of vaccine poisoning.

Texas Fever.

Monmouth, Illinois, dispatch: Texas fever has broken out here among a herd of cattle recently shipped from St. Louis by J. W. Killey. The disease was presumably contracted in infected cattle cars. Several deaths have occurred.

Will Ship Fair Bodies Secretly.

Paris cablegram: Mr. Ellis, manager of the Hotel Ritz. is now in sole control of the arrangements for forwarding the bodies of the late Charles L. Fair and his wife to the United States. He is observing the strictest secrecy.

To Study American Methods.

Berlin cablegram: Count von Thiele Winckler, a mine owner and prominent German financier, is going to the United States "in September to study the United States Steel corporation.

TWENTY KILLED IN PHILIPPINES

Earthquakes on Island of Mindlnao Cause Serious Loss of Life. ALL THE DEAD WERE MOROS No Americans Are Reported as Having Sustained Injuries—Mountains and Streams Are Considerably Disturbed and Much Damage Has Resulted. Information was received at the war department from General ChafTee at Manila that a series of earthquakes had taken place on the island of Mindanao. Twenty persons were killed by falling walls, the victims all being Moros. The Americans in the vicinity escaped, and the dispatch says there were no reports that any of the soldiers occupying that portion of the island affected sustained any injuries. Streams Are Disturbed. The upheaval occurred in the country adjacent to the Lake of Lanao, In the Moro section of the island, near Camp Vickers, which 1b now the headquarters of the American forces stationed in Mindanao. General Chaffee’s cablegram says the mountains and rivers and other streams were considerably disturbed, and much damage was done. The extent of the damage, however, was not reported. It is presumed here that the seismic shocks occurred about Aug. 22, though the date is not mentioned in the dispatch. First in Years. This is the first serious earthquake reported from that country during American occupation of the Philippines. The most important previous seismic disturbance in Mindanao was the one that partly destroyed Palak, Kota-Batu and the village on the banks of the River Mindanao in 1872. This phenomenon closely followed the eruption of the volcano of Makaturin.

TRADE CONDITIONS ARE GOOD

Business Revival Holds Bway Except at the Strike Center. “Gradual resumption of anthracite coal mining is encouraging, although the output is not yet sufficient to have any commercial value. Business com ditions are unsatisfactory at the strike center, but reports from all other sections indicate unusually prompt revival after the summer vacation with exceptionally large operations among dealers in the agricultural regions. “Notwithstanding some bad weather, large crops are now practically assured, although the most sanguine results may not be attained. Manufacturing plants are now fully occupied as a rule, the least gratifying reports coming from furnaces that cannot secure coke, owing to railway blockades. The transportation problem is becoming serious, as a factor of crop moving is about to be added, and moreover, much coal must be moved •by rail that usually goes to consumers by lake and canal.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. “Failures for the week numbered 173 in the United States, against 202 last year, and 14 in Canada, against 21 a year ago.”

KEEP IN MIDDLE OF THE ROAD

Illinois People’s Party Repudiates Fusion and Names Full Ticket. Springfield, 111., dispatch: The people s party of Illinois, in state convention, nominated a full ticket and repudiated fusion with the Democrats. The corference was attended only by those who are interested in the People’s party movement and who have influence in their counties. A year ago 150 delegates came to the state conference from Chicago. This year Joseph A. Hopp and W. H. Baning alone represented Cook county. The platform adopted indorses the Omaha and Cincinnati platforms and indorses the Louisville convention as a means of bringing together all who are opposed to monopoly on natural resources. The platform denounces both old parties. The following ticket was nominated : For clerk of the supreme court— W. W. Scott, Centralia; treasurer, Dietrich Balster, Bethalto; superintendent of public instruction, W. C. Gullett, Marietta: trustees of the state university, L. H. Johnson, Danville, and Richard Standley, Jacksonville.

Three Roads Are Merged.

Indianapolis, Indiana, special: The stockholders of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis and the Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway companies have ratified the action of the directors of both companies, and these railways were merged into the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway Cpmpany.

Passion Play Actor Weds.

Munich, Bavaria, cablegram: Anton Lang, the Christus of the Oberammergua passion play, and Matilda Rutz, daughter of the blacksmith of the vil; lage of Oberammergau and a participant in the play, have been married.

Nominated for Congress.

18th Illinois h. C. Bell (D.) 21st 111in0i5.......8. F. Caldwell (D.) 26th Illinois J. Lingle (D.) 28th Pennsylvania.. J. B. Watson (D.) 14th Ohio. G. D. Neal (D.)

PANTHER CREEK IN MOB’S HANDS

State Troops Are Holding the Angry Strikers From Acts of Violence. MORE SOLDIERS CALLED FOR Entire National Guard of Pennsylvania May Be Summoned to Defend the Property of the Mine Owners at Summit Hill and Lansford. Tamaqua, Pa., dispatch: Panther creek is in the hands of riotous and angry strikers. Mob law rules in Summit Hill and Lansford. Troops are holding the strikers in check and more are likely to be rushed into the district. Major Gearhart of the Twelfth regiment appealed to Gov. Stone to send the governor’s troop from Shenandoah to Lansford and the troop was rushed to the scene of trouble. The streets of Lansford and Summit Hill are crowded with strikers. They are in an ugly mood and an outbreak is feared at any time. The troops will be sent the length of the valley, and citizens here predict serious trouble. CLASH IS LIKELY. Attempt to Start Work in Shenandoah May Result Seriously. Shenandoah, Pa., dispatch: The governor’s troop has left for Panther -reek region. The Second City troop of Philadelphia, with Capt. Schermerhorn in command, will take the place of the governor’s troop. Everything is in a turmoil throughout the region and it is expected the entire National guard of the state will be called out before the strike grows much older. Shenandoah is still the hot bed of the strike, despite the presence of the troops, and if an attempt should be made to operate even a washery here a clash will be sure to occur. MITCHELL REPLIES. Says Mr. Hewitt’s Statements Are Not Founded on Fact. Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch: President Mitchell replied to Abram S. Hewitt’s statement regarding the arbitration of the coal strike. He states that he and Mr. Hewitt have on sev eral occasions discussed the policy of miners’ organizations and that it surprised him to find that Mr. Hewitt had given to the public statements neither founded on fact nor justified by any demand made by the miners’ union. The statements, he said, were repeated by John D. Crimmins, and he believes the intention was to obscure the real issues involved in the strike and divert the public attention from the unfortunate conditions under which boys and men have to labor in the coal regions. Fire on Constables. Hinton, W. Va„ dispatch: Forty families who were notified to leave the houses of the Red Ash Coal company refused to vacate, and when the constables began to remove their household goods a volley of shots was fired at the ofßcers from the opposite side of the river. They returned the fire.

THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS

Wheat. New York—No. 2 red, 76%c. Chicago—No. 2 red, 71%@72%c. St. Louis —No. 2 red, 65 %c. Kansas City—No. 2 hard, 65% @66c. Milwaukee —No. 1 northern, 74% @ 77c. Duluth—No. 1 hard, 74%c. Minneapolis—No. 1 northern, new 70%@70%c. Corn. New York —No. 2,68 c. Chicago—No. 2,60 c. St. Louis —No. 2,57 c. Kansas City—No. 2 mixed, 58%c. Peoria —No. 3, 59%c. Oats. New York —No. 2, new, 26c. Chicago—Standard, 35c. St. Louis —No. 2, 28%c. Kansas City—No. 2 white, 36c. Milwaukee—Standard, 33%@35%e Peoria —No. 3 white, 33@34%c. Cattle. Chicago—s2.so® 7.35. Kansas City—sl.7s@B. St. Louis —$1.75@8. Buffalo—s6@B. Omaha—s4.7s @B. Hogs. Chicago—[email protected]. Kansas City—[email protected]. St. Louis—s7.2s @7.90. Buffalo—ss @7.76. Omaha—s7.ls @ 7.50. Sheep and Lambs. Chicago—s2.6o @6.75. Kansas City—s2.3s@s. St. Louis—[email protected]. Buffalo —$1.76 @6.15. Omaha —$2.70@ 5.40.

Buying Steamships.

Hamburg cablegram: The Boersenhalle announces that the shipping firm of A. C. De Frelias & Co. of Hamburg is negotiating for the purchase of twenty-eight steamships of the Lloyd Brazileiro line of Rio Janerio, Brazil.

Capture Alleged Horse Thief.

La Crosse, Wis., dispatch: A man arrested at Sparta has been identified as Pat Ryan, said to be one of the most famous horse thieves and crooks in the country, and chief of a notorious band of criminals.