Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1902 — Page 4

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

Judge Phillips at Cleveland held Mayor Johnson’s tax bureau to be illegal. The steamer Minnetonka of Duluth, Minn., coal laden from England to Boston, is in distress 900 miles off Halifax. Justice of the Peace F. A. Truman, E. A. Maxfield, his client, and former Constable Philip Becht of Cleveland have been indicted on a charge of forgery. Aloysus J. ijchmidtbauer of Milwaukee, who was married to Miss Anna V. Faust of that city in San Antonia, Texas, died the day following the ceremony. Senator Jones of Arkansas offered a resolution in the senate calling for Immediate consideration of the charges by William R. Hearst that the railroads are violating the interstate commerce law. George D. Reynolds, recent Republican nominee in the Twelfth Missouri congressional district, has begun contest proceedings against James J. Butler, alleging fraudulent voting in the recent election. Former Police Captain Daniel C. Moynahan, who was dismissed by Police Commissioner Partridge, was placed on trial in New York charged with accepting bribes, in return for which it is alleged he refrained from enforcing the law against disorderly houses in his precinct. President Larry of the Lincoln Memorial university at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., announces he has secured from Northern sources an endowment of $200,000 for that institution and a number of scholarships. The benefactors are not made known. The Lincoln Memorial university was founded largely through the efforts of Gen. O. O. Howard. It is for the mountain people. A car heavily loaded with lumber on Mays’ siding, near Wetmore, on the Philadelphia & Erie railroad, ran away down a steep grade at Bradford, Pa, and crashed into a doubleheader freight going east. The lumber on the car shoved forward and pinned both engineers in the wreck, killing them Instantly and injuring three other* The dead engineers are James Mui* phy of Kane, Pa., and Charles Dleffenbach of Erie, Pa. John Powers, superintendent of a mine, was frozen to death in the Green horn district of Oregon. He was 64 years of age. Edmund Hauser has been arrested by United States officials at Canton, 0., on the charge of falsely representing himself as a government employe. Sitting in snow with back against a sleigh, Mrs. William E. Moore, quar-ter-breed squaw, was found dead at L’Anse, Mich. The woman lived alone on the bay shore, her husband being In the woods near Duluth. Joseph Johanek pleaded guilty at Wausau, Wis., to the charge of assault and was sentenced to ten years’ Imprisonment. His victim was the 6-year-old daughter of Charles Schials, a saloonkeeper near Athens. Frank Wylie, Jr., 28 years of age, committed suicide at Stevens Point, Wis., by shooting himself through the bead. The Madrid Heraldo stated that Don Carlos purposes to renounce his claim to the throne in favor of his son Don Jaime. The French authorities have become convinced that the death of Mrs. Ellen Gore was accidental and have decided to drop the case entirely against M. De Rydzewski. Believing she was becoming insane, Mrs. W. W. Jones of Rockport, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting. Fireman Morrell was killed in a collision between two freight trains on the Burlington road at Table Rock, Neb. Deputy Sheriff Richard Stone of Eagle. Pass, Tex., had his throat cut by Bilax Ford, whom he tried to arrest. Desperately wounded as he was, the officer captured Ford. Stone is likely to die. The new Episcopal church at Angleton, Tex., replacing the one destroyed In the great storm of 1900, was dedicated by Bishop Kinsolving, assisted by a number of clergymen from different towns in the coast country. The telegraphers of the Atlantic division of the Southern Pacific have made a demand for an increase of wages and a grievance committee is now in conference at Houston with Manager Van Vleck. Judge Ryan of St. Louis has overruled the motion for a new trial for Robert H. Snyder, the banker and promoter of New York and Kansas City, convicted of bribery, and sentenced to live years in the penitentiary. The hearing in the railroad merger case at St. Paul has been adjourned, to be resumed at New York Dec. 29. Miss Birdie Woodwaru, employed in a Metropolis, 111., basket factory, was seriously poisoned by swallowing strychnine mixed with tacks, which She held in her mouth while working. Jim PaUdHton shot and killed Eliza Bryant at Branehville, Tex. Both are MlOMd. There is an epidemic of diphtheria In the Greenville (Tex.) community, •nd there have been several deaths already. with a number of children 111.

ROOSEVELT IS NATIONS’ CHOICE

Great Britain, Germany and Venezuela Select Him to Arbitrate. STATESMEN DISLIKE THE MOVE Men of Affairs at Washington Feel It Simply Means European Monarchs Are Making a Collection Agency of the United States. In the name of Venezuela President Castro has signified acceptance of the appointment of President Roosevelt to arbitrate the Venezuelan difficulty. President Roosevelt practically agreed to act as arbitrator to the Venezuela dispute when he sent word to the European countries concerned saying that he was unwilling to act as arbitrator, but would do so if they insisted upon it. They have Insisted upon it, and the understanding is that when the president returns to Washington he will be confronted with the actual necessity of redeeming the implied pledge he made. Position Is Delicate. The situation is the cause of great anxiety to public men at Washington, and there is good ground for the belief that if the president does consent to act as arbitrator it will he against the strongly expressed opinions of his secretary of state, John Hay. The anxiety which is felt arises from the belief that if the president assumes to act as arbitrator he will be forced to provide a means of executing his own decree. This in turn would seem to involve coercive action in the part of the United States. In other words, it is felt that Venezuela has no resources at all now except its customs revenues. They must be

Uncle Sam—" That’s a Live Wire, Gentlemen!”

seized by someone and divided into shares, a part going to supply the hungry cormorants, who call themselves the government of Venezuela, and the remainder being distributed among the European money lenders. Reject The Hague Tribunal. President Roosevelt desired to have the whole dispute submitted to The Hague tribunal, and it is said he would have been successful in this except for two things. One was that The Hague tribunal could reach merely a finding of facts, and some way of collecting the claim would stilll have to be adopted. The other- difficulty lay in the fact that both Great Britain and Germany have laid great stress upon certain alleged diplomatic insults which constitute an offense against the dignity of nations, not entirely within the jurisdiction of The Hague court. Castro for Roosevelt. President Castro, it is understood, has communicated his belief thorugh Minister Bowen that The Hague court, being essentially a European tribunal dominated by the great powers, it could not be expected to give a fair hearing to the case of a little South American republic afflicted with a chronic case of revolutions. In fact, it 1b intimated that President Castro has declared he would not accept any other arbitrator except the president of the United States. Doesn’t Desire to Act. President Roosevelt sent to the European governments a strong letter through Secretary Hay, clearly indicating that he did not desire to act as arbitrator and asking the foreign governments merely as an act of friendliness to the United States not to press the matter. This identical note, for such it was, did not specifically say the president would consent to act if the blockading nations , insisted upon it, but the inference was so strong as to be almost irresistible. Will Btop Blockade. From the tone of the dispatches re-

Raised Alaskan Wheat.

Tacoma, Wash., dispatch: Two old Russian flour mills, built in Alaska over one hundred years ago, have been discovered, proving the claims that the Russians raised wheat in Alaska more than a century ago.

German Warship Runs Aground.

Copenhagen cable: The German turret ship Wittelsback Is ashore near Hosver. The German warships Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Prims Heinrich hare gone to her assistance.

celved by diplomats at Washington It seems probable that Great Britain and Germany have announced that they will withdraw their forces and abandon their alleged peaceful blockade provided President Roosevelt consents to act as arbitrator. If he does not consent they say there will be nothing left for them to do but to seize the customs houses and administer the revenues for their own benefit. This puts an awkward responsibility upon the president, because if he declines to act the disturbance of commerce with Venezuela continues indefinitely, and besides that there is always the possibility of a clash rSsulting in the loss of Ilf A Fear Diplomatic Blunder. On the other hand, many of the president’s warmest friends and admirers believe it would be a great diplomatic blunder for the United States to take a hand in the Venezuelan difficulty in any iyay except to prevent, by force if necessary, any violation of the Monroe doctrine. It is pointed out —and the president will be bombarded with such statements —that he cannot fail to decide in favor of the European governments, only the amount of the actual claims being in dispute. President Castro has admitted that he owes the money, or some of it, but pleads that he is unable to pay on account of the drain of the recent revolution, which came dangerously near landing him outside the breastworks. Savors of Collection Agency. As the customs revenues are the mainstay of the country that must be seized for the time being at least, and hence it is feared that the president ultimately would put this country in the position of being merely the collection agent for Europe. This, of course, would destroy our influence in Latin-America. Members of the cabinet, who are opposed to the president acting as arbitrator, say that if he does consent, he will sooner or later be forced to do the thing which Great Britain and Germany are now doing, which is to seize the only available revenue of the country. This would mean, It is

feared, a protectorate, either temporary or permanent. Many conservative men look upon this contingency as one to be avoided.

BUILDERS LOCK OUT WORKMEN

Contractors Force 1,200 Men to Quit Work at Belleville. Belleville, 111., special: All building operations in Belleville have been suddenly suspended by order of the Builders’ Exchange, an organization of contractors and builders, and every painter, carpenter, tinner, bricklayer, hodcarrier, plasterer and brick hauler in the city, numbering upward of twelve hundred men, was thrown out of employment. The order is a lockout of all men engaged in building trades and paralyzes building and business interests. The lockout is the result of trouble between brick haulers and the contractors.

Death of a Dwarf.

New York dispatch: “General Peanuts," who for several years was one of the best known midgets and clowns connected with Barnum’s and Forepaugh’s and Sells’ circuses, was found .dead in bed. He was a Japanese, 38 yea. y old and two feet one inch high.

Chile’s Cabinet Resigns.

Santiago de Cuba cablegram: The coalition cabinet has resigned after having been ten days in' power. The resignation of the ministers was an outcome of a disagreement between the cabinet and President Riesco over election matters.

Palma Urges Early Action.

Havana cable: President Palma sent the Cuban-Amerlcan treaty to the senate with a message urging that early action on it be taken.

Don Carlos Resigns.

Madrid, cable: The Heraldo says Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, has resigned his claims in favor of his son, Don Jaime.

Challenges to Airship Race.

Paris c*-ble: M. Vero of the Aero Club announces that Santos-Dumont has challenged the Messrs. Le Baudy to an airship race for a prize of 100,000 franca. The race, he says, wiU take place In the Spring.

Falls Dead on Street.

New London, Conn., dispatch: Charles Chappell, age 51 years, of Chicago, who came here to attend the funeral of his mother, who was burned to death, fell dead on the street hera

A Lightess Lighthouse.

The most extraordinary of all British lighthouses Is to be found on Arnlsh rock, Stornoway bay—a rock which Is separated from the Island of Lewis by a channel over 600 feet wide. On this rock a conical beacon is erected, and on its summit a lantern is fixed, from which, night after night, shines a light which is seen by the fishermen far and wide.” The way in which the lighthouse is illuminated is this: On the island of Lewis is a ■ighthouse, and from a window in the tower a stream of light is projected onto a mirror in the lantern on the summit of Arnish rock. The consequence is that, to all intents and purposes, a lighthouse exists which has neither lantern nor lighthouse keeper.

Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh U a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure It you must take internal remedies. Hall’s catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians In this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined wltn the best blood purifiers acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful results In curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, a Bold by druggists, price 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best.

Billiard Balls From Potatoes.

A material that can be carved may be made out of peeled potatoes, which are prepared for this purpose by being first blackened for thirty-six hours in eight parts of sulphuric acid to one hundred of water; it is next dried with blotting-paper, and then pressed. The French now manufacture pipes, in close Imitation, it is said, of meerschaum, from this novel substance. A heavy pressure gives a material so hard that good billiard balls in imitation of ivory can be made from it. To the housewife wno has not yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old, we would suggest that a tri:.. of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made at once. Not alone because it is guaranteed by the manufacturers to be superior to any other brand, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but 12 ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity r ust win.

Rice In South Texas.

The Government report for 1902 shows that Texas holds the world's record for the production of rice. Some of the best rice lands in the State are along the line of the M. K. & T. Ry. An interesting book on Texas will be sent on request.— James Barker, Gen’l Pass. Agent, M. K. & T. Ry., 501 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis.

INSIST ON GETTING IT.

Some grocers say they don’t keep Defiance Starch because they have a stock in hand of 12 oz. brands, which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 16 oz. pkg. Defiance Starch for same money.

Defined.

“I say, father, what’s a crank?” “A crank, my son, is a specialist in any line in which you are not interested." Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. —Bovee. Ido not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 5,190 ft The misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come.—J. R. Lowell. EITC permanently cured. No fits or nervousness after ■ I I w tlrst day's use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Send for IrllßtS 92.00 trial bottle and treatise* X)B. R. H. Klink, Ltd., 031 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa The house of lords contains 590 peers, of whom twenty-two are dukes.

Stops the Cough anti

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Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.

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