Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — MUST BURY HATCHET [ARTICLE]

MUST BURY HATCHET

GEN. GOMEZ IMPRESSES LESSONS ON CUBANS. Declares He Made War on Spain, Not Against Spaniards—All Mast Now Join in Establishing a RepublicOutput of Precious Metals. Gomez Accepts Spanish Invitation. Both the Spanish and Cuban classes are giving great importance to the recent actions of Gen. Gomez. Particulars have been received in Havana of his recent utterances at Remedios and Caibarien. At the latter place he aud his staff were invited to a breakfast given by the Spanish colony. This Spanish colony is an organization of Spaniards all over the island, which sprang up almost spontaneously a few weeks before the Spanish sovereignty ended. Gen. Gomez had a twofold purpose in accepting the invitation, as he wanted to reassure the Spanish residents in Cuba that his promises, made during the insurrection, would be kept, and also wanted to impress on his insurgent followers that they must bury their animosities. At this dinner of the Spanish colony Gen. Gomez repeated that he had made war against Spain and not against the Spaniards, and that all classes should work together to secure payment of insurgent troops and the establishment of a Cuban republic. The American officials stationed at Caibarien were invited by the Spanish colony to assist in the reception to Gomez and accepted. All the newspapers attach extraordinary significance to Gomez's utterances. The leading Cuban papers fell into line and radical sheets, which have been advising a boycott of the Spaniards, moderate their violence. PRODUCTION OF GOLD. Colorado and California Lead the Klondike in the Year’s Output. John J. Valentine, president of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express, has issued a statement hf the production of precious metals in the States and territories west of the Missouri river, including British Columbia and the Northwest territory, for 1898. The aggregate valuations are shown as follows: Gold, $78,461,202; silver, $39,016,565; copper, $46,200,648; lead, $13,344,251. Of this total gold product California furnished $15,402,653; Alaska, $3,253,991; Colorado, $23,177,262; Dakota, $6,575,220; British Columbia aud Northwest territory, $11,975,000. The year’s combined product of the metals named is the greatest in the history of the United States, British Columbia and Northwest territory. The world’s output of gold for 1898 is $280,000,000, the most notable increases being in South Africa, $25,000,000; the British possessions of the Northwest, $6,000,000; Australasia, $6,000,000, and the United States, $3,000,000. _____ OFFICERS GET STOLEN GOODS. Letter Written by a Prisoner Reveals Hiding Place of Booty. A letter written by Delos Sargent, confined in the county jail at Toledo, Ohio, ou charges of swindling Keith & Co., Gage Brothers’ Company and other Chicago firms of large quantities of millinery, resulted in the finding of more than $5,000 worth of goods and $715. Sargent is the father of Charles Sargent and Mrs. Winlake, arrested on a swindling charge. He was taken in custody the day Mrs. Winlake escaped. Minister’s Son Killed. Robert Baldwin, aged 26, the son of Rev. Jarney Baldwin, pastor of the Baptist Church at Kitts Hill, Ohio, was shot and killed by Salmon Farrel. Baldwin had trouble with Charles Webb, who had been reprimanded by Rev. Baldwin for disturbing a meeting. Webb and Farrel waited at the church door until young Baldwin came out, when they assaulted him, aud Farrel shot him through the heart. China Mobilizing Troops. Hong Kong mail advices say the raising of large bodies of troops in China is taken to indicate that the empress dowager and her advisers are preparing some important movement next spring at the latest. So far, according to reliable statistics, there are some 130,000 men in and around Peking and Tien-Tsin. Conductor Breaks His Neck. Wilton P. Marchbank, a stenographer, was killed in a fight with Michael McGowan, a conductor on a Thirty-fourth street cross-town horse car in New York. Witnesses declare the conductor kicked him in the jaw, breaking his neck. The conductor says he pushed the man off and he fell, injuring himself. Has Slept for Twenty Days. An extraordinary case of lethargy, or catalepsy, is reported from St. Jean Baptiste ward, Montreal. It is that of Miss Eva Roch, a young lady of 20, the daughter of Antoine Roch, a corporation employe in the road department. She has been apparently asleep about twenty days. Coat Miners Go Out. At Leavenworth, Kan., three hundred miners in the Leavenworth Coal Company’s shaft went on a strike. They demand a reduction of the amount of waste deducted, which has been twenty pounds to the 100. The operators refuse to accede to the demand. Prisoners Explode Dynamite. Four desperate thieves who are held in jail at Columbus, Neb., for shooting an officer and wholesale robberies exploded dynamite in the jail. The attempt to obtain liberty failed, however, and two of the men were seriously if not fatally injured. .World’s Production of Gold. The Engineering and Mining Journal, in its compilation of mineral statistics for 1898, places the world’s production of gold in the year at $286,218,954. To this total the United States contributed $04,300,000 and Russia $25,136,000. Death of Nelson Dinglexi Jr. Nelson Dingiey of Maine, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, aud framer of the present tariff law, died at Washington, D. C. His death was due to heart failure following an attack of pneumonia. Great Battle in Arabia. A great battle has been fought in the Yemen division of Arabia. Tbfe Turkish troops stormed and captured the insurgent position at Shanel. About 4,000 insurgents and 2,0Q0 Turks were killed or wounded, v

TOBACCO SYNDICATE FORMED. Banker* Combine to Buy the Year** Crop of Havana Product. Plans have been made to buy the whole of this year’s crop of Havana tobacco. A syndicate of twenty-one bankers, including several that do an international business, has been formed in New York for the purpose. Its representatives have started for Cuba. The immediate scheme is to control the market for Havana tobacco, bat the whole plan involves the purchase of every Cuban tobacco plantation that can be bought at reasonable figures. The large sum of money required for such an operation has been subscribed. The managers of the syndicate say that if they succeed in buying the lands as well as the crop they will make bids for several factories which manufacture cigars from Havana tobacco. MEXICO’S CREDIT IS GOOD. Eight Million Dollar Issue of Bonds Subscribed in Full Abroad. Hugo Scherer & Co., bankers of Mexico City, have received a cablegram from Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, announcing that the Deutsche Effecten und Wechsel Bank of Frankfort has placed $8,112,400 Mexican's per cent redeemable international bonds of the third series, the amount having been subscribed in full. Subscriptions bad been opened simultaneously in Frankfort, Hanover, Carlsruhe, Leipsic, Dresden. Munich, Strasburg and Stuttgart, and the fact that the larger portion of the issue has been taken for private investment by conservative German capitalists is interpreted as indicating an uncommonly strong confidence abroad in the financial stability of the Mexican Government. Purchasers of the Alton. One of Chicago’s most prominent railroad men confirms the sale of the Chicago and Alton to a number of Western roads, to be used by all to secure an entrance to Chicago. According to this man, who refused to allow his name to be used, the roads which will use the Alton in common and control its destiny are the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, owned by the Rockefellers; the Missouri Pacific, controlled by the Goulds; the Union Pacific and the Illinois Central. St. Louis Store Damaged. Fire in the six-story brick building at St. Louis owned by the Ames estate and used by the Albert Acruman Mercantile Company as a wholesale department goods store, caused heavy loss. The Are originated in the fifth story and burned up through the roof and down into the second story, badly damaging the building. The contents of the sixth story were nearly destroyed and those in the stories below badly damaged. Wreck on the Lake Shore. The fast eastern express over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway collided with the rear end of an eastbound freight that failed to reach the siding at Whiting, Ind., in time. The engine of the fast train plowed through the caboose of the freight and wrecked a number of box cars ahead. The engineer and fireman remained at their posts and came out unscathed. Hurt in a Coasting Accident. As a result of a coasting accident on University Hill, at Ithaca, N. Y., R. Trautschold of Mont Clair, N. J.; E. G. Starr of San Francisco and F. D. Ray of Chicago, all Cornell students, were seriously injured. Trautschold sustained concussion of the brain and his recovery is not certain. Carnegie Offers a Library. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $250,000 to erect a building for a public library for Washington provided Congress would furnish a site aud provide suitable maintenance, not less than SIO,OOO perannum. i McCoy Knocked Ont. At the Lenox Athletic Club in New York “Kid” McCoy, legitimately a middleweight pugilist, was knocked out by Tom Sharkey, a heavyweight. Seven thousand spectators saw the fight. Stay for Two Murderers. Two negro murderers, Nolen and Bias, who had been sentenced to hang at Ardmore, I. T., have been granted a stay of execution until next June. The scaffold had been built. Ohio Steel Mill Burns. The continuous mill department of the Aetna Standard ' steel plant at Mingo Junction, near Steubenville, Ohio, burned, with a loss of $50,000. Suicide and Attempted Murder. At Hamilton, Ohio, Henry Bante, grocer and saloonkeeper, shot his wife and killed himself. She may recover.