Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1899 — SWAP AT THE ALTAR. [ARTICLE]

SWAP AT THE ALTAR.

t PECULIAR ROMANCE AT A DOUF BLE WEDDING. pPour Ohio Tonne People Nonchalant- ; ly Exchange Partner* Juat Before the Ceremony—Twenty Buildings in % Brooklyn, N. Y., Destroyed by Fire. ’The double wedding of Frances and (Mary Dipcomb, sisters, and daughters of L Henry Dipcomb, a prominent citizen of L Malinta, Ohio, to Davis Rendice and Geo. Laflam, his chum, has brought out a little I romance which is decidedly out of the or- [ din ary run. Some weeks ago Miss Mary .Dipcomb became engaged to Davis Ren* dice. About that time her sister and Geo. Laflam also decided to marry, and it was proposed to have a double wedding. Great I preparations were made and numerous in- ■ citations sent out. The boys were almost ' daily visitors at the Dipcomb home, and •11 seemed to be going merry as the pro- ' verbial marriage bell when one afternoon | the young men found Miss Mary quite disconsolate. Her sister questioned her, and, ! to her amazement, learned that while she I was engaged to marry Rendice she loved .Laflam better. Mutual confidences were v passed, and Miss Frances also admitted that while she was engaged to Laflam she | loved Rendice better. A consultation be- | tween the four ensued, with the result K.that there were mutual releases and mu- •' tual pledges anew. The double wedding |/'came off at the Dipcomb home. The guests & were at a loss to understand the situation until the mother of the girls made full explanations. i. LIGHTNING’S WORK IN TEXAS. i One Man Killed in Erath County-The fe Wind Wrecks Buildings. L The severest electrical storm known in I many years created havoc in the northern b part of Erath County, Texas. Lightning J- struck Mount Pleasant Church, near Lin- ; gleville. The church was crowded with L .persons at the time, and a panic ensued. I William Kauffman was struck dead, and nine other persons were fatally injured. The church itself was partly wrecked. At f Stephenville many houses were damaged. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church 5 was unroof.ed. The Methodist Church at Alarm Creek was demolished. A report says that eight persons were killed or injured. Heavy damage was done all over the county. THIRD OF A MILLION BURNS. t Brisk Blaze in Brooklyn Destroys Twenty Buildings. Fire of unknown origin started in a building in Freeman street, Brooklyn, | used by Veils Brothers as a planing mill, ■ and spread rapidly until nearly an entire ' block was destroyed. The total loss is ■ estimated at $350,000. The flames exItended to Eagle and Kent streets, destroy- | ing a number of houses. 'The property ’'destroyed included four factories, a plang Ing mill, a blacksmith shop and fourteen | dwellings. Race for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the Na- ’ tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. BBrooklyn ... .22 9 Baltimore ...15 15 ■ St. L0ui5....21 9 Pittsburg ....11 18 i Chicago .....20 10 New Y0rk...10 18 Cincinnati ..17 10 Louisville ...10 19 Boston 18 11 Washington.. 8 22 Philadelphia. 17 12Cleveland ... 5 21 fc.Following is the standing of the clubs * hi the Western League: W. L. W. L. i St. Paul 13 9 Detroit 11 12 Indianapolis. 12 9 Buffalo 9 11 Milwaukee ..13 11 Columbus ...9 11 Minneapolis. 12 11 Kansas City.. 9 14 it.. Vessel Burns at Her Dock. Mg The German bark Ariadne caught fire / while lying at the Standard Oil Company’s pier No. 2at Bayonne, N. J. The spread to the pier, which was dei, Btroyed, together with about 600 barrels iof oil. The Ariadne was burned to the i water line. The loss on the Ariadne is esagminated at $25,000, on the pier SIO,OOO /'' And on the oil $2,500. End of Big Lake Strike. i, The grain shovelers’ strike at Buffalo fjias been settled. An agreement, signed | by a subcommittee representing the strikBers, of which President Keefe of the p*Longshoremen’s Association was a mem--1 ber. and by Contractor Conners, has been Approved by the full committee of the ■ Grain Shovelers’ Union. Stabs Because Denied Alms. f- John Englis, a millionaire shipbuilder, E who lives in Brooklyn, N. Y., was attack- | ed in the street by a beggar and stabbed in j the neck. His assailant, Christopher L'Daly, acknowledges that he made the as--5 sault because Englis had denied him help. gNitroglycerine Tank Explodes. 9 a nitroglycerin tank at the Aetna pow‘tder works, Aetna, Ind., exploded the other night, blowing the building in which it ®was located to pieces and killing three ginen. No trace of the bodies could be , Chicago Tailor Killed in Ohio. Slack, an itinerant tailor, was Skilled about two miles east of Avery, Ohio, [on the Nickel Plate bridge over the Huron -Ihiver. He was instantly killed. His home in Chicago. American Liner Wrecked. The American liner Paris, with many Ifenoted people on board, went ashore on the |«Manaeles, off the Cornwall shore of Engilknd. The passengers were all rescued Hrant injury. ifte Thousand in Quarantine. A ease of smallpox was discovered In nt Almshouse on Blackwell’s Island, New M[6rk harbor, and as a result of the subsefeent investigation by the Board of health officers the entire island, on which Kthere are about 10,000 persons, was put Carriage Factory Burned. A Co’s factory of carriage Mp t fiye-story building at the west rail of Eighth street, Cincinnati, burned. * over a 00 *; Tbt ‘" twet rai,w ®y

Room for Improvement. In the very elaborate and costly menu provided for the distinguished company of statesmen and men of business present at the complimentary dinner tendered to Senator Frye of Maine in recognition of his successful efforts in behalf of New York’s marine commercial Interests there was much that appealed to the palate of the epicure. The eating and the drinking would class as Al, judged by the standards of gastronomy. But it might have been very much better, judged by the standards of practical patriotism and pride in our own country and its products. • The opportunity for Improvement lay in the accessories to the banquet. Out of six wines on the card not one was an American wine; out of an assortment of liqueurs not one was pn American liqueur; out of the cigars smoked not one was an American-made cigar; and the single table water furnished bore a foreign label. Everything in these lines of refreshment had a foreign trade-mark. The producers of American wines, waters and cigars of the highest grades of excellence justly complain of such discrimination. They rightly ask for a fair chance to compare their goods with those of foreign production, and it is full time their rights in this regard obtained some recognition. Bryan’s Soul Being Tried. Poor Bryan's soul is being tried In various ways these days. Even silver is going back on him. It is going up like all other things, especially wages, in these days of Republican prosperity. Bryan got a bad blow just after his defeat in 1896, when wheat and many other commodities advanced in price. The advance, as every one knew, was .largely due to his overthrow. A year or so afterward, wlen Republican legislation began to operate, wages started upward. Now silver has joined the procession. The consequence of this, last advance will be that if it continues much longer Bryan will have to drop talking about silver. When silves goes above the 50-cent dollar line, as it may do if the advance continues a little longer, he will have to abandon it. It is not a silver dollar primarily that he wants for the wage earners of the country, but a dishonest dollar. The moment that silver gets above the 50-cent dollar mark his faith in it will begin to wane. It will be getting too near the honest money line then to be of much use in his business. If we are to have the 16 to 1 trickery in the canvass of 1900 silver will have to start downward long before that time—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Tired from a Different Cause The Dingley tariff must go—there is no help for that. Here, while It is still in the most active state of operation, the Reading Iron Company announces its fiendish intention to reopen the old Reading Rolling Mill, which has been idle for some years, and to start operations at the new Keystone furnaces in the same city. Then the Chambersburg Repository comes in daily insisting that there never was such activity within manufacturing lines in Franklin County as there is at this very time, and proves what it says by figures from pay rolls and the tonnage reports of the shipping roads. And so it goes. People went to bed tired enough during the period of the Wilson act, but from another cause. Then they wore themselves out looking for work. Now they grow tired working.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Western Prosperity. —~ During the year 1898 Nebraska made a net reduction in its real estate mortgage indebtedness to the amount of $1,907,825.42. This does not include partial payments on mortgages that were not canceled. The total number of mortgages canceled during the year was 11,872, while only 934 of them were foreclosed. These are not the statistics of a ’year of sporadic or fraudulent prosperity.—Sioux City Journal. Anti-Expansion Issue Dead. Anti-expansion as an issue is dead. Expansion is here, and it will stay. Americans are not in the habit of fighting facts. Even its opponents will see that nothing can be accomplished by trying to put Agulnaldo in possession 1.. The dock » f dm. wm not

be turned backward at the bidding of Bryan or any other reactionary. American sovereignty over the Philippines, which was guaranteed by the peace trea'ty, will be agreed to by the Filipinos, who will have all the home rule they can stand with safety to the interests of the United States and of themselves. This self-government will from time to time be extended as the Filipinos become fitted to use it. All this can be promised with the utmost confidence. Long before the Democratic convention of 1900 meets Aguinaldo and his men will be so thoroughly satisfied with the American connection that they would fight against anybody who would want to end it. In every direction fate is hitting the doomed Bryanite. Protection and the Farmer. The report of the Agricultural Department showing the increasing extent to which foreign countries were in 1898 purchasers of the agricultural products of the United States presents some interesting facts illustrative of the wisdom of an economic policy which promotes the foreign trade and domestic trade at one and the same time. Domestic exports of all kinds in 1898 exceeded imports of all kinds by the enormous sum of $594,242,259, which was more than double the excess of the preceding year, the largest reported up to that time. Agricultural exports for 1898 amounted to 70.93 per cent, of the whole, being a gain of nearly 25 per cent, over 1897. There was, on the other hand, a marked decrease in 1898 of purchases of foreign agricultural products as contrasted with the fiscal year 1897, when under the free wool provisions of the Wilson law we imported $53,243,191 worth of foreign wool, against less than seventeen million dollars’ worth under the Dingley tariff in 1898. The American farmer had much the best of the situation in the first eleven months of restored protection, as his sales to foreign countries more than doubled the value of our imports of foreign agricultural products, the excess amounting to $544,216,146. Altogether, the agricultural export and import figures for 1898 show well for protection and its benefits to ’ the American farmer.

Van Wyck and the Tariff. Judge Augustus Van Wyck, who was put forward to make an exposition of Democratic principles and intentions at the $lO dinner in New York, attacked the present tariff as the first and chief offense of the party in power. Under this tariff the American farmer was able to export eight hundred millions of dollars’ worth of produce in the year 1898 and the American manufacturer more than three hundred millions of locomotives, machinery and other prod,ucts of the American mechanics. There has scarcely been a month since the Dingley law went into effect that the value of manufactures has not increased, despite the prophecies of Judge Van Wyck’s party. With nine-tenths of the Democratic party clamoring for a fight on the free silver platform and the other tenth basing their hopes of success on attacking the Dingley law, the election next year will be an easy triumph for President McKinley.—Philadelphia Press.

Hard to Get Over. A tribute to the effectiveness of the protective policy in adding to the general welfare of the United States Is paid in a recent report of the German imperial commissioner at Bremen, as follows: “The strong tendency toward the United States, in spite of immigration having been rendered more difficult, finds an explanation in the fact that American industry has largely developed in consequence of the Dingley tariff, and that the demand for experienced artisans has therefore greatly increased. Moreover, German manufacturers have, in order to save the customs duties, established branch houses of their works in the United States,” Facts like these are, like a barbed wire fence, “hard to get over." Free trade writers don’t attempt to get over them. They dodge and ignore them. Prod nd ng Expected Results. The Treasury Department of the government continues to sling unpleasant facts at the free-traders and ofljere who assert that the Dingley tart* is

a failure and the national expenditures beyond our Income. For instance. Id the month just ended, the ordinary receipts from all sources—customs, Internal taxation and miscellaneous ($46,030,224) were larger than those of any previous March in the .last ten years, the heaviest having amounted to $44,115,810, in March, 1893, under the operation of the tariff and internal revenue laws of 1890. The present tariff Is producing exactly the financial results expected of it by its framers. As for its stimulating effects on the country’s industries the condition of the nation today speaks with sufficient force.—St. Louis (Mo.) Watchman. Brine on Your Anti Issue. Republicans can well afford to bid defiance to such Democratic leaders as propose to frighten them with Threats of an anti-expansion issue. As Patrick Henry put it, “Let it come, and let it come quickly.” The more emphatic their declarations against the present policy of the administration, the more vicious their assaults upon the President, the larger will be' the majority rolled up against them. He is dull to the point of stupidity who cannot observe that the whole trend of public sentiment is in favor of the administration. We do not mean by this that the sentiment in favor of Federal possession of the Philippine islands as an abstract proposition is by any means unanimous. But as a concrete proposition the sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of such possession, and this sentiment is increasing every day. The country realizes more and more that the conditions now present are Inevitable conditions; that we could not have escaped from them with honor. Realizing that we are face to face with a difficulty which is at the same time a duty, the loyal people north and south are ready for this difficulty and this duty. Those who are opposing belong to one of two classes: They are either impractical men who ignore facts that do not suit their preconceived ideas, or else they belong to that element which is always found in opposition to prevailing tendencies and conditions. Old Mrs. Partington trying to back the tides with her broom cut a less ridiculous figure than the anti-expan-sionists who are attempting to stay destiny with their mouths and their arms.—Cedar Rapids Republican. Miles’ Censure l es-rved. The beef inquiry has ended, and the findings of the court leave Gen. Miles in the position of a commanding general who made serious allegations that are not sustained. This fact has been evident to the country for some time. There was no embalmed beef and no experiment in the supply of the beef ration. It is plain that Miles spoke withqut due consideration and regard to facts. The findings of the court end the beef question. The public have had quite enough of it. From the first It has been distorted fox' political effect. The administration is vindicated, and the censure of Miles is entirely deserved.—Exchange.

The Flag. O say, do you see it? Do you want it lowered? Any political party in the United States that shall go to the people with a platform demanding that that flag shall be hauled down anywhere, where it now floats, whether at home, or in Cuba, or in Porto Rico; or in the Philippines, or in Hawaii—well, do you know what will happen to such an unpatriotic, doctrinaire, mugwump party? Why, it will get everlastingly left, that’s all. The American people, south or north, east or west, are not cowards, are not chumps, are not blind bats. Let all parties beware how they copperheadIze.—Washington( Iowa) Press. The Effect of the Meeting. The malcontents who got together In Central Music Hall in Chicago to cheer Aguinaldo and denounce McKinley and set up a lot of scarecrows labeled Imperialism and militarism, probably thought to fire the popular heart. They have fired it but not with their kind of fire. The results of that meeting are plainly visible in increased manifestations of devotion to the flag and to the cause for which our soldiers are now fighting from every portion of the great West.—Cedar Rapids Republican. Always Reliable. The business and finances of the nar tion always have been in satisfactory shape when the management of Government affairs is intrusted to the Republican party, the only national organization which ever has demonstrated its capacity to conduct them successfully.—Springfield (Ill.) Journal.