Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — SAN DOMINGO PANIC. [ARTICLE]

SAN DOMINGO PANIC.

SERIOUS TROUBLE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT. Exchange Has Risen 100 Per Cent. and Commerce la Paralyzed—Nine bailors Drowned in a Collision of Vessels Off Martha's Vineyard. San Domingo Government Threatened. Serious results come from a widespread commercial panic iii San Domingo. Public discontent has attained such force that the situation of the present Government is critical. The trouble has been accumulating for more thnn a month, and it is laid at the door of the financial system of the country. Exchange on New York lias been gradually rising, and the increase in a month has been more than 100 per cent. This has caused great distress throughout the inland. Merchants have found their plans all upset and have been comiiellcd to cancel orders for goods. Cuts in wages have also been made in many instances, and these have caused strikes, which threaten to result in trouble for the Government. Every effort is being made by the banks and merchants to avert disaster, and the Government is being urged to take radical measures ,to relieve the people. TRUST BUXS A RAILROAD. Federal Steel Company Acquires Line in the Coal Regioitß. The acquisition of the Lorain and Wheeling Railway by the new Federal Steel Company is classed as one of the plans of this $200,000,000 corporation, which would go far to complete its system of transportation lines which are to play such an important part in its economies and profits. With the Lorain and Wheeling under its control the Federal could, with the other auxiliaries and at small cost for short connections, link its coke ovens with its furnaces and mills over its own tracks and by its own' watsr systems. A rumor that the Federal will absorb the Carnegie works was pronounced by those who should possess the best information as "possible, but certainly premature." NINE WERE DROWNED. Schooner Alice Jordan Run Down by the Steamship Gloucester. The steamship Gloucester of the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company, which arrived at Boston from Baltimore* reports that at 1:30 o’clock the other morning she collided with the Gloucester schooner Alice Jordan oft - Martha’s Vineyard, and that nine of the Jordan’s crew were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved and taken in on the Gloucester. Plot to Poison King and Crown Prince. At Seoul, Corea, it is reported that a high official of the palace, named Ivo, has made a confession that he ordered the cook of the royal household to poison food intended for the king and crown prince, both of whom became seriously ill. The official further confessed that the poisoning plot was*instigated by a former interpreter attached to the Russian legation there. Trouble at Indian Agency. Deputy United States Marshal Morrison arrested Pug Onary Iveshing and Shabon Dash King, pillagers, at the Leech Lake Indian agency, and while trying to get them on board a steamer to take them to Walker, Minn., they were rescued by their baud. The Indians refused to give up the criminals and are much excited. Disgrace for Paty du Clam. It is officially announced in Paris that Col. Paty du Clam has been placed on the inactive list and dismissed from his post in consequence of the general staff’s investigation into the Esterhazy -case. President Faure retired Col. Paty du Clam at the suggestion of the minister for war, Gen. Zurliuden. Injured in a Wreck. An accident occurred at Rockland, Cal., to the overland train. Three cars from a freight train broke loose nnd ran down grade, crashing into the overland, which was being pulled up the grade by two engines. No one was killed, but five persons were seriously injured. Receiver for a ferew Company. The Spaulding Machine Screw Company of Buffalo, N. Y„ went into the hands of a receiver preparatory to voluntary dissolution. The attorney for the company stated that the assets were about $150,000 nnd the liabilities, outside of the capital stock, $200,000. Made a Federal Judge. Judge A. <’. Thompson, member of Congress from Ohioui the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses, has been appointed United States district judge for the southern district of Ohio, to succeed Judge Sage, retired. Omaha Printing House Fire. Fire destroyed the extensive printing house of the Rees Printing Company at Omaha, Neb. Loss $05,000, fully insured. The plant has been running day and night and a large part of the loss is on work partially finished. Mormon Lender Chosen. At a s|K>cial meeting of the council of apostles held in Salt Lake Lorenzo Snow was chosen president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to till the vacancy caused by the death of President Woodruff. Banker Fulls to Dentil. George E. Cheney, n well-known hanker of Crete, Neb., walked into the elevator shaft at the Drexel Hotel at Omaha and was killed by the fall. The elevator conductor had gone up, neglecting to close the door. Earthquake in south Dukotn. An earthquake of iiiiitsual strength and duration aroused the people lit Hurley, S. I>. It caused houses to tremble and dishes to rattle on the shelves for about thirty seconds. It seemed to travel eastward. Wrecked on n Hock Slide. A train on the 1110 Grande Hallway ran into a rock elide six miles west of Saparino. Colo., and was thrown down an embankment into the Gunnison river. Three lives were hut. Jealousy Causes a Tragedy. Arthur Hoffman, a Pine Hill. N. Y., blacksmith, murdered Ills wife nnd killed himself. „ Jealousy is believed to have led to the double tragedy.

SCHOONER BLOWN UP. Naval Men Escape Miraculously With* out Injury. During a test of Cunningham torpedo? in Priest’s Cove, near New Bedford, Mass., the experiment schooner Freeman was blown up by an explosion of a projectile and sunk. A dozen men were oh board of her at the time, but till escaped serious injury. Only two or three received slight scratches. Lieut. Holman, one of the survivors of the battleship Maine disaster, and Lieuts. Oliver and Marshall, the Government board of survey from the Newport torpedo station, were on board the ship and had a miraculous escape. They were standing near the place where the explosion occurred and were in the midst of the crash of wreckage which followed. The men were rescued by a boat. The cause of the, explosion is a mystery. STRIKERS SHOOT TO KILL. St. Louis Plasterers in a Riot—Nonunion Man Fatally Hurt. Striking plasterers precipitated a riot at De Hodiamont, at the western limits of St. Louis, in which William Kane, a non-union worker, was fatally wounded and three others seriously hurt. Mounted police responded to a riot call and were met by a fusillade of bullets from the strikers. The police replied with a number of shots and a charge on the crowds, dispersing them and resulting in the arrest of Nat Brown and Joe Lee, who are thought to be the ringleaders. For some time there has been a strike on among the plasterers of that city and vicinity for higher wages, but until this occasion no serious trouble has resulted. Describes His Dying Sensations. The dead body of Fred Langsdorff, aged 40 years, a bookbinder and spiritualist, was found on the bank of the Kaw at a point near Armourdale, Kan. He had committed suicide after taking a drachm of morphine, a drachm of prussic acid in small quantities, covering a period of four days, and then opening the veins of his arm. During the four days he ate nothing and drank only about a pint of river water. Langsdorff’s suicide was a most wonderful show of nerve and determination. An ante-mortem statement of the suicide, found in a little note book beside the dead body, told how he had taken several grains of morphine and sat down under a tree to await death. In the note book is given a minute account of his feelings after swallowing the drug, and his happiness at being so near the "‘other side,” which he calmly dilates upon. When Langsdorff’s body was Anally found, where it had lain for hours, everything, indicated that he had gone through what his ghastly diary related. No cause for the act is known. Typhoid Fever in Ireland. A number of physicians and nurses have been sent from London to Belfast to aid in cheeking the typhoid epidemic in that city, which has got completely beyond the control of the medical and sanitary authorities. During August there were more than one thousand new cases reported, with a large percentage of deaths. The workhouses and hospitals are overcrowded with patients, one workhouse alone having 300 cases. Fortune Left to n Dead Woman. It has been learned in San Francisco that Mrs. Hattie Trundle, one of the beneAeiaries under the terms of the late Adolph Sutro’s will to the amount of $50,000, died near Washington, I). 0., about two years ago. An effort is being made to trace her heirs. Flee from Irate Kansans. The citizens of Canton, Ivan., who recently combined and drove colored people from the city, have inaugurated a crusade against the saloonkeepers, with the result that every one of them has been compelled to make a escape from the town to avoid violence. Klondike Output $8,000,000. F. C. Wade, crown attorney of the Klondike, estimates the gold output this season at $8,000,000. A recent census shows that there are 1(5,000 people in Dawson and .10,000 rivers and creeks in the district. Commander-in-Chief 8. O. V. Col. Frank L. Shepard of Chicago was chosen eonnnander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans at their national encampment in Omaha. Bpain Gives In. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has adopted the Ilispano-American protocol. fonth Carolina Election. Gov. Ellerbe has been re-elected in South Carolina by a safe majority.