Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — WANT TURKISH CASH [ARTICLE]

WANT TURKISH CASH

AMERICAN MISSIONARIES TO DE INDEMNIFIED. ;■"** a . tJ " T NewDs—tw-fa* Barnlngof alone—Horri d;Cr!l*ie «f a Kentucky Mob—Woman la Burned Alive-Ven-exaela Doesn't Lack Aid. ■ i CnfcleSam After on indemrity, _ Secretary Olney has.tKroclert Minist*r Terrell, at Constantinople, to dernnud an Indemnity of $190,000 from Turkey for the benefit of American missionaries wljq Buffered loss of property in the Klmrput outbreaks in November. Minister Terrell baa also been instructed to Inform the Sultan's Ministers that ail Indemnity will Ik* demanded for the belie-. Bt of Americans who suffered loss of property at Marash a few weeks later. This second demand will be formally made as soon as the exact losses, as sustained by Americans at Marash, can I>e officially detrained.- It is not expected that the sura of the indemnity will bet less than $100,009, and it may lie more. The Government does not expect that the Sultan will respond quickly to these demands, nod in that event, after a reasonable time for compliance is given. an ultimatum wo) be issued to the Turkish Government. Great Britain is said to be fc'rcqlty . incensed over this demand. . Mob Burns n Woman, Within two miles of I>bnnon, Kv.. early Sunday morning a relentless inch btirned a woman, who was to become a mother, and riddled her gray-haired paramour with bullets. The blackened and disfigured corpses of the victims, Mrs. Thomas West and William I>vvercs, were foutid in the ruins of the woman's home by the 14-year-old daughter of the murdered man. The murders were among the most brutal ever enacted under the gretvsome sway of drend .lodge Ljnflr." Despite the pleadings for her father's iife of a half clad, frightened child and the prayers and tears of the ill and helpless woman, the mob went throughwith its work in cold-blooded,' cruel del ilx-ration and only left when certain that both man and woman were dead. The affair was. the outgrowth of the old storv of faithless wife and vengeful husband. Devercs had himself killed the husband of the woman. . > : , All to Aid Venezuela. -; Caracas, Venezuela, dispatch: All (he Dattn-Ameriean republics are said to lie In a secret league and will aid Venezuela. It is expected, in case of a war against Kngland. Colombia has resixitided to Venezuela's request, it is w hjspcrvd, liy promising to contribute BO.QOO - troops a ml agreeing to give the British Minister his passports unless Kngland consents to submit the Guiana question to arbitration. Brazil is to scjtd 100,000 men. armed and equipped. Mexico is counted upon to aid withn fleet. By calling out Its militia Venezuela can place 230,000 pien in the field. The Venezuelan Foreign Office is active. It will scud immediately extra envoys to all parts of the world. New York’s Grant Monument. By Arder of Geti. Horace l’orter, who is president of the New York Grant M mument Association," alli work upon the great mausoleum on Riverside drive lias been suspended until the middle of March. This makes a hitch iu the for dedicating the monument on April 21 next, which is the anniversary of Urn great commander’s birthday, and it i* jr>w I improbable that the dedication will take' place until the'anniversary in ISO 7. Ta< j usual exercises, however, will lx> held at 1 the tomb next Appl. All the men- . necessary for the eoriipletion of the work has been subscribed, but it will in acssary to raise a new fund to provide f -r a caretaker and keeping the memorial in j repair. Wish a Carload of Hungry Cat*. For lack of a pied pip-r of Detroit ; . Bwart Brothers, proprietors of the Hotel j Cadillac, Detroit, Mich., desire a car- I load of cats. They desire them immediately. At present the visible supply of rats in tlie house is in excess of all demands. They don’t ant oy the guests so much as they seem to annoy one another The Back part of the house,, where the guests do not sleep—not the rats either—is filled by night with noises indicating that Rodent College and the University of Mus are playing a serial intercollegiate football match. What is chiefly desired are cats with a rat appetite. From 10 to 2d cents will be paid—the bigger the cat and his appetite the larger the price. ! Bond Bill Passes. Tlie House Saturday passed the bond bill by a vote of 170 to 130. The closing hours,-©*"' the debate were lacking in spirit and there was practically no .excitement. Forty-seven Republicans refused to su-t with the majvyity of their party. Tne Populists and Democrats, with the exception of Mr. Hutchinson, of Texas, who voted, for the bill, presented an unbroken front against the hill.