Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — ADDITION IS URGED. [ARTICLE]

ADDITION IS URGED.

NATIONAL department of COMMERCE DEMANDED. Also Proposed to Establish a Tariff Bureau President Blacklisted Railway Brakeman. t. ' 1 Another Member for the Cabinet. President McKinley is receiving memorials and petitions from business men all over the country, urging the establishment of a department of commerce, to be a cabinet addition, and also asking him to create a tariff bureau for the competent consideration of the new and complex questions raised since the acquisition of colonial possessions. There seems to be a concerted movement in favor of the new cabinet department nnd the tariff bureau. The national “Business League,” which is strongly advocating both, is sending communications to the’White House, ami they are coming from various other sources. In his annual message the President will recommend the establishing of a department of commerce, the head of ■which shall be a member of the cabinet and appointed by the President just as other members are appointed. For the tariff bureau the President will urge legislation to authorize the naming of a nonpartisan commission, on the general plan of the industrial commission, the members to be experts in tariff intricacies. WILLING TO SWAP JAMAICA. Canadian Leader Sujrgesta a Trade for United *tatesTerritory. At Toronto, Sir J. I). Edgar, who has been speaker of the Dominion House of Commons for three years, has published a letter describing Senator Chandler’s scheme for exchange of territory between Great Britain and the United States as nonsensical. The speaker makes a suggestion that the island of Jamaica be ceded to the United States in exchange for some of the Eastern States of the Union, which should be allowc*! to enter the Canadian dominion as a province, retaining all local institutions. If Sir-Edgar is serious he has joined the Canadian party which desires to offer the United States a large sum for a port south of the New Brunswick coast. BRAKEMAN GETS $5,000. Verdict Against the Nickel-Plate for Blacklisting Is Upheld. The Circuit Court at Norwalk, Ohio, has affirmed the verdict rendered in the Common Pleas Court against the Nickel Plate Railway, awarding $5,000 damages to Frank Schaffer, a brakeman. Schaffer claims that he was blacklisted by the company in consequence of the latter refusing to give him a certificate of good character as an employe, so that he was unable to obtain employment on any other railroad. He brought suit against the company a short time ago in the Huron County Common Pleas Court and was awarded a verdict of $5,000. Treaty Between France nnd Italy. It was announced in Paris that a commercial treaty has been concluded between France and Italy granting mutually favored treatment except for silk goods. The Government also introduced a bill in the chamber modifying the wine duties favorable to Italy. The treaty, it is noticed, was concluded during the absence of Emperor William from Germany, and there is much speculation regarding its probable results upon the European alliance. Indians Reject the Treaty. Secretary Bliss has received a dispatch from Indian Inspector Wright in the Indian territory announcing the rejection of the Dawes commission treaty by the Creek Indian nation. Inspector Wright nays the count of the returns in the Creek elections has just been completed and that the treaty, instead of being ratified as has been believed, is defeated by a majority of 152 votes. Active Havana Thieves. The new police force of Havana, established by Gov. Fernandez de Castro, is very defective. Senor Gulis Menendez, inspector of police, who was severely wounded by thieves some days ago, died from the results of his wounds. One of the rooms in the audience chamber of Havana, where money and valuables were deposited, has been robbed. Hobson Aids His Parents. Lieut. Hobson has just lifted a mortgage of $6,000 on the home of his father. H»‘ earned the money by his pen. While Hobson ami his men were held prisoners of war in Morro Castle word was sent to his parents that the foreclosure of the mortgage would be av.erted and the money raised by popular subscription, but the offer was courteously declined. Poison in Frost-Bitten Outs, Information comes to the Kansas live stock sanitary board that cattle in many sections of mitral Kansas are dying from eating frost-bitten oats. The volunteer growth in the fields was very rank, and wherever stock was turned on the oats stubble death resulted. Scores of cattle have died from the poison. Killed Three and Himself. Four miles south of Paducah, KyZ Edward Ross shot his wife, their balA and John Walker, killing them all, i/ul then committed suicide, Ross was jJalous of ulket- and was led to tile shepting by finding his wife talking to Walker, Insurgents Capture Iloilo. It is reported that Iloilo, capital of the /.land of Punay, is in the hands of the insurgents. Three Hurt in n Wreck. A fast passenger on the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton crashed into the rear end of a freight near Toledo. Three persona on the passenger were seriously Injured. The engineer and tireman escaped injury by jumping from the train. Southall Is Found Guilty. J. 11. Southall, who secured some OOH in ten States on fraudulent Governinent time checks, was found guilty at St. Patil. Minn. He was sentenced to serve from six to ten years in State prison.

BANDITS MAKE THEIR ESCAPE, Omaha Thugs Kinde Their Pursuers After an All Nicht’s Chase. Ode of the most extraordinary man hunts ever engaged in by Nebraska officers ended in the escape of two daring criminals that have bothered. Omaha police for many years. This is the sequel of the battle between four Omaha detectives and two highwaymen, George Vanhaller and Royal Geppner, in the suburbs of Omaha. After the bandits stood off the detectives with an exchange of more than 100 shots the men mounted their horses and escaped to the 'country. Twice they compelled farmers to change horses wiTh them. All night they were chased by over 100 men from Omaha and surrounding towns, who had orders td shoot them on sight. By a detour of fifty miles made before daylight the bandits went conipletely around the city to the river, rubbed a boatman of his skiff and made good their escape down the Missouri. DEMANDS RELEASE OF TEMPLE. Steps Taken to Recover the American from a Mexican Prison. At the instance of the Governor of Arizona the State Department at Washington has instructed United States Minister Clayton at 4he City of Mexico to demand the surrender, under extradition proceedings, of Temple, the American railroad conductor who is held under arrest by the Mexicans near Nogales on the charge of killing a Mexican in the United States. If the Mexican Government concedes the justice of this demand, which is not doubted. Temple will be tried in the United States, and once more the principle of extra-territorial jurisdiction claimed by Mexico will have escaped a test issue, although our government is on record as having, by its demand for Temifle’s release, repudiated that principle. IMMUNES FIGHT WITH CUBANS. Negro Foldiers Get Into Fracas at Santiago Over Hog Stealing. At San Luis, twenty-five miles north of Santiago, where all the colored American troops are quartered, an attempt was made by Cubans to arrest two of the soldiers belonging to the Ninth immunes for hog stealing. A fight ensued and Lieutenant Ferrera, a Cuban, was killed, as was also Antonia Roman, an old man, a boy and a baby. Two of the negro soldiers were shot to death by the Cubans. General Wood will discipline all the soldiers implicated and offers a reward of SI,OOO for the discovery of the officer who led the attack on the Cubans. OIL WELLS FILL WITH WATER. Operators Are Abandoning the Rich Portage Field in Ohio, Consternation prevails among the oil operators in the Portage field in Ohio over the appearance of fresh water in the wells west of the village. Nearly 100 of the best wells in Wood County have been rendered useless. This condition of affairs was caused by some reckless person pulling the casing and allowing the water to run down on the oil-bearing rock. Less than a year ago the Portage field was one of the most paying in Ohio, but now it is almost entirely abandoned on account of the watep which cannot be pumped off. Three Men Suffocated. Fumes of burning sugar in the cargo of the American ship Kenilworth, from Valparaiso, caused the death of three men and nearly that of a fourth. The men who were lost were Captain James D. Baker, Arthur W. Piper, chief mate, and an apprentice boy named Henry Hobson, said to be a relative of Lieutenant Hobson. The man who was nearly suffocated was George' Ernest Thrum, a passenger making the trip from Hilo to New York. The Kenilworth is owned by Arthur Sewall of Bath, Me. The fire was discovered when the Kenilworth was 2,500 miles from Valparaiso. The hatches were battered down and the vessel headed for Valparaiso. The men who lost their lives slept in the captain’s sitting-room, t» which the fumes of the burning sugar penetrated. Soldiers in a General Row. In a general row in the colored quarters of Cheyenne, Wyo., three soldiers were .shot —viz., L. Fontenough, in the leg: H. Mitchell, in the right leg, and William Saunders, through the stomach. All will recover. The shooting was done by Corporal Scott of Company E of the San Juan heroes, who was arrested. At the fort in a general fight with razors and knives several of the soldiers were badly slashed and were brought before a courtmartial and dismissed from the service. Kidnaps Her Little Child. Mrs. Barnes, who has figured much in the courts and afterward married exMayor Magowan of Trenton, N. J., came to Cleveland with her husband and kidnaped her 7-year-old daughter from the legal custody of her grandmother. Mrs. Barnes had got away on a Lake Shore train before the child's abduction was discovered. The abductors worn intercepted on a Lake Shore train at Erie, Pa., and placed under arrest. Killed with Billiard Cue. While interfering with James Rose, who was playing billiards, John Shanley, aged 52, machinist, from South Bend, Ind., was struck over the head with a cue at St. Paul. Minn., fracturing his skull and killing him. Shanley, who had been on a prolonged spree, knocked against the cue of Rose, spoiling a shot. Tried to Polson Her Son. Mrs. Rebecca Rosenberger was arrested nt Princeton, Ind., on the charge of attempted murder, entered against her by her 16-yenr-old son, Alva, who alleges that she attempted to poison him in order that she might receive the money on his life insurance jHilicy, which names her as the beneficiary. Wire Worm llniniigcs Wheat The wire worm is doing great damage to the new wheat in northwestern Kansas. Many fields have been totally destroyed. Farmers say the worm was in this year’s stubble nnd was a product of the rainy season in July nnd August. Ohio Htockniim Assigns. Aaron L. 8. Campbell, the wealthy Hamilton, Ohio, stockman, assigned to Linus P. Clawson. The personal property is $7,500 and the real estate $125,000. The assignee’s bond is $150,000. No statement of liabilities Ims been made. Ohio Town Hiiflvra. A Portsmouth ((thio) special says: "Fire destroyed Dice's livery stable, the Farmers’ Hotel and Frick’s (louring mill ami residence. The loss will reach $75,000, partly insured."