Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — Page 3

BOERS TALK OF WAR.

HEATED SPEECHES IN TRANSVAAL LEGISLATURE.* * * • Concentration of British Troop* on the Republic** Frontier Considered •* a Menace—Temper of the English People la Plainly Shown in London. In the Volksraad at Pretoria Thursday Secretary of State Reitz read the reply of Sir Alfred Milner, British high commissioner in South Africa, to the Transvaal’s query as to why Great Britain was concentrating troops on the border of the Transvaal. It was to the effect that the British troops are being concentrated to guard British interests and as a preparation against contingencies. A debate followed, regarding the mobilization of the British troops. The speeches were bellicose, and were applauded by the members and by the people in the public galleries. President Kruger appealed to the orators to moderate their tone, Jonkherr Dutoit said that he had had experience in the past of British treachery. If there would be war the Afrikanders would stand together. The Transvaal could go no further than she had gone, and as the British were sending forces toward the frontier the Transvaal must do likewise. Jonkherr Wolmaraus asserted that Mr. Chamberlain was attempting coercion, and that troops were not necessary for peaceful negotiations. He urged an immediate counter move by the troops of the Transvaal. Jonkherr Van Rensburg attacked the British annexation proclivities. He declared that agitators of the Rhodes clique wanted to get possession of the Transvaal to cover their failure and fraud in Rhodesia. Jonkherr Tosen considered Sir Alfred Milner’s reply equivalent to a declaration of war by Great Britain. Jonkherr Wolmarens, who is a member of the executive council, here interrupted Jonkherr Tosen, saying: “It is nothing of the kind.” Jonkherr Tosen read a telegram from the Pietretief district, stating that the people there would rise in rebellion if President Kruger went to another conference. State Attorney Smutts said the burghers whom he represented had instructed him not to budge., but he would persuade them to allow him to do so if peace could thereby be preserved. He feared, however, that this was hopeless, as the independence of the Afrikanders was assailed. Jonkherr Botha insinuated that Mr. Chamberlain was influenced by his brother, who was chairman of the firm of Kynochs, ammunition manufacturers, which Was in opposition to Nobel’s ring in the dynamite matter. Other speakers declared that the Jameson raiders were robbers and murderers, and should have been hanged. The debate continued until late

COMMANDER OF THE BOERS.

In the afternoon and the Volksraad was worked into a pitch of patriotic fervor. In the course of the debate President Kruger said that aliens had been offered equal rights with the burghers, but would not take them. Mr. Chamberlain’ was striving to get a franchise, which the Uitlanders did not want. He feared that Mr. Chamberlain really aimed to get possession of the country. The burghers were willing to give much for the sake of peace, but they would not sacrifice their independence. He eulogized Mr. Gladstone’s retrocession in 1881 as a noble deed. The President added that if It now came to fighting the Alipighty would be the arbiter. The Volksraad rose without passing the resolution which had called forth the debate. Advices from the Transvaal show that the Boers have arranged everything so as to be able to cope with hostilities the Instant they are declared. The British cabinet council in London Friday attracted greater public interest than any meeting of the ministers for years past. Although the foreign office has not given out a statement, the general impression was that no ultimatum would be sent to the Transvaal at present and that a time limit will be placed for a conference at Cape Town.

COMMISSION FILES REPORT.

Telia of the Condition of Porto Rico and Snimeata Laws. Secretary Root received a report from the insular commission on the condition of the island of Porto Rico, which makes laws to be enforced on the island. The commission consists of Gen. Kennedy, Judge Curtis and Maj. Watkins, and has studied Porto Rico for the last six months. , Many improvements are to be made if the report satisfies the cabinet Public schools for both day and night, with the English language to .be used, will be opened, and all Spanish laws and courts will be abolished and in place will be the American system, with American judges. The Porto Ricans must have speedy relief, as the natives have allowed their coffee plantations to go to waste, and the plan of the commission is to get up trade In' the United States for the Porto Ricans. President of Creek Nation. ./ Final returns show that Pleasant Porter, the progressive candidate, has been elected president of the Creek Nation, I, T., by a majority of 1,000 votes, defeating ex-Chief Perryman and Second Mclntosh.

THIRTIETH REGIMENT STARTS FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

PLEADS FOR DREYFUS.

M. Demange Eloquently Aska Justice for Accused Officer. The court room at Rennes Friday was pervaded with an air of great solemnity when M. Demange began his plea in defense of Dreyfus. The prisoner entered the court looking unusually forlorn and piteously wretched. M. Demange stood silent for a moment before he spoke. Drawing himself together for the supreme effort of his life, he began by saying he was a Frenchman, and the son of a soldier. M. Demange’s gestures were frequent and he spoke in a tense voice, vibrant with emotion. Recalling the testimony of Detective Cochefort, M. Demange said: “I find this man was persecuted, trapped and pursued in an endeavor to find him guilty. At the time of the dictation test to which he was subjected by Du Paty de Olam a pistol was put before him for an obvious reason. Dreyfus did not use it Instead he cried: ‘I will not die. lam innocent and I will live to prove it’ On the day after his condemnation he proved the sincerity of his utterance by sending a letter to the war ministry in which he begged that, the truth of his case be sought. This purpose and this hope sustained him through his long years on Devil’s Island, and brings him here to-day.” Then fame a scene which will live forever in the memory of those present. M. Demange began reading from letters written by the prisoner while on Devil’s Island. These were wonderful human documents. They told of suffering which alternated with hope and despair. In them Dreyfus related how he lay in irons, and when the guards, more pitiful - than their officers, stole in to him during the darkness in order .to cleanse with rags the chafed sores upon his wrists and ankles. “Yet through all this ordeal,” said M. Demange, who with eloquence was now carrying his auditors with him, “there was always but one cry, ‘I am innocent.’ ” The emotion of the orator was contagious. First women in the court began to weep. There were few present but what paid a tribute to feeling as they listened to the moving words of the defense. Dreyfus, who sat without his usual erectness, seemed overwhelmed with the recollection of his sufferings. His lips trembled, and he frequently wiped his eyes. Six of the judges sat with a fixed expression, listening intently, but the seventh, Maj. Profilette, furtively removed unsoldierly tears from his cheeks. M. Demange told of the alleged confes-' sion of Dreyfus. He took the secret dossier in hand, piece by piece, telling of the origin and history of it, and sifting thk legal value of each document with its" re-’ lation to the accused. He dwelt on the fact that M. Cavaignac had withheld pieces favoring Dreyfus from the dossier. He controverted the conclusions of Maj. Carriere. He dwelt especially on the evidence of Maj. Cuignet, who had testified vehemently his belief in the prisoner’s guilt. M. Demange then discussed the moral proofs of the prisoner’s innocence, including the performances of Esterhazy and the late CoL Sandherr, who sought to maintain his guilt. The Henry forgery and its consequences was also dwelt upon by the speaker at length. The court adjourned until Saturday morning-

SETS OUT FOR LUZON.

Thirteenth Begiment Start* on Its Lon* Journey to the Philippine*. Col. Cornelius Gardener’s Thirtieth United States volunteer infantry left Fort Sheridan, near Chicago, Wednesday for the long and tedious journey to the Philippines. Thousands cheered the men as they quit the fort, and in Evanston, where the seven sections of the train turned westward for the run to Council Bluffs, thousands more lined up along the tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway to give them a parting salutation. All told, 1,307 men were in the regiment when they were roused before dawn. When the body boarded the train it had its full complement of 1,309. Two recruits who arrived on the first morning train asked leave to join and Col. Gardener had them mustered in at once. Sheridan was left desolate. The tents that had dotted the parade ground were missing and save for the well-trodden grass there was no evidence of the recent occupancy of the parade ground. Tclesvaphic Brevitle*. Henry Binkley, .70, Wooster, Ohio, and his son, David, 50, fought. The son is laid up for repairs. The bishop of Havana, Right Rev. Emanuel Santander y Fretos, has resigned. He is a Spaniard. Dangerous $5 counterfeit is in circulation at New Orleans, more than $6,Q00 worth being passer! in one day. Negro regiment will not be massed at Fort McPherson, Ga. Citizens protested, fearing whites and blacks would clash.

SAYS SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED.

Novel Defense in the Trial of a Nebraska loung Woman. A remarkably sensational, trial for at*tempted murder is about to begin at Hastings, Neb., when Miss Viola Honlocker will have to answer the charge of sending poisoned candy to Mrs. Morey, the wife of her employer. The alleged crime was committed last April and almost since then Miss Horlocker has been in a private sanitarium at 111. Miss Horlocker is a handsome girl of about 30 years of age. She was employed as a stenographer for the law firm of Tibbetts & Morey of Hastings. She belongs to a good family and had lived nearly all her life in the town. ‘Miss Horlocker was a good stenographer, and well posted on legal matters. She was on very pleasant terms with Mrs. Morey, the wife of one of the members of the firm. She often called at her house and frequently went bicycle riding with Mr. and Mrs. Morey. When the wife was away the girl and her employer frequently went wheeling together. This occasioned gossip, but Mrs. Morey never showed the least jealousy. , The talk was always more jocular than malicious. Mrs. Morey iq an artist and has a studio in the business part of the town of Hastings. On Tuesday, April 10 last, when she returned from hinch, she found a box of candy at the door. Tied to the box was a card of a young lady friend and a line added, hoping Mrs. Morey would enjoy the home-made sweets. Opening the box Mrs. Morey found bonbons and candied fruits. While she was eating a piece of the candy several friend* entered. Each took a piece of the candy, but all noticed a peculiar taste and did not eat any more. A few moments later' the young lady whose name was on the card entered, and Mrs. Morey thanked

MISS VIOLA HORLOCKER.

her for the gift. While the young lady was protesting that she had not sent th* candy, one of the guests dropped into a chair, deathly sick and pale. Doctor* were hurriedly summoned, and their in* vestigations showed that the candy had been poisoned with arsenic. All the ladies who had eaten the candy were mad* ill, and several narrowly escaped death. Suspicion at once fell upon Miss Horlocker. The purchase of the candy wa* traced to her and she was arrested. Her mother and sisters protested -that, she was ill and in no condition to appear at the trial. At the preliminary hearing she became nervous, broke down and made a scene and had to be taken in a carriage to her home. The hearing was adjourned, bail being fixed at $5,000. Soon after this she was placed in the retreat at Jacksonville. The chief interest in the case He* in the fact that the defense of the young woman will be hypnotism. Mis* Horlocker says that the sending of- the candy was under the influence of a will stronger than her own, but she ha* given no hint as to whom she suspects of exercising the hypnotic influence over her. There are many who scout the idea of hypnotic influence. They say Mies Horlocker was infatuated with her employer and therefore bad an object in wishing the “removal” of Mrs. Morey. Th* agent of Wm. W. Astor at London confirms the report that an English syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of Astor’s American property. * The amount offered is $150,000,000. A special from Victoria, B. C., says that Private McVeigh of the Wyoming infantry was court martialed and is now under sentence of death at Manila for **- •saulting an officer named Wrighter. Henry Ende, Chicago, shot and killed and hanged hlmashL

Bryan—Eh? Ah, excuse me; I didn’t see you.

Won’t Find the Issue. Bryan has indicated his purpose to make the big standing army the burden of his attack upon the administration in the campaigns of this year and next. He will try to make the people believe that this army was organized for the purpose of /oppressing them, and he will raise his hands in holy horror at the specter of militarism. But when Bryan takes the stump this fall he will find that Issue disposed of. The big standing army to which he expects to point will not be found in the United States as a menace to the liberty of the people. Every company of it will be In the Philippines or on the way there. The troops are being raised to fight the Philippine rebels and not to oppress the people of America, and Bryan and thd other Democratic demagogues know that. A story has been circulated to the effect that a big reserve of the new army was to be kept in this country. The story reached the ears of Secretary of War Root. That official denied it emphatically. Every one of the volunteers, he declares, will eat his Christmas dinner in Manila. Of course, it will be difficult to prove that a standing army engaged in putting down an insurrection on the other side of the Pacific ocean can be a menace to the people of the United States, and in view of the circumstances the Democrats will be foolish to try It.— Cleveland Leader. Hard Times for One Class. The effects of a protective tariff are probably felt nowhere In the country more than In Pittsburg. Consequently the following statistics, compiled by the New York World, are of more than passing Interest: Area of Pittsburg’s industrial Klondyke, 180 square miles; number of Industries being operated on full time, 118; number of men employed in these, embracing all classes, 270,000; average wages per day, $2.15; range of wages, $1.75 to $7 per day; number of idle men, none, except from sickness; number of mills and factories unable to run full time by reason of scarcity of labor, 60; railroads unable to move freight promptly because the traffic is 30 per cent, larger than all the freight cars in service; gross dally value of trade in Industrial Klondyke, $6,000,000. When it is remembered that the foregoing statements are published by a journal that has lost no opportunity for denouncing and ridiculing the Dingley tariff bill, they, form pretty good evidence that there is more comfort in the present situation for industrial toilers than for free-trade theorists. And It should also be remembered that most Industries throughout the country are nearly if not quite as active as those of Pittsburg. These are hard times only for those who are bunting antitariff .arguments.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.

The McKinley Policy. It is American first, last and all the time. It never halts, never hesitates, whether the question be the defense of American industries or the defense of American dignity. McKinleyism and Americanism are synonymous terms.” The one involves the other. Listen to ! what the President of the United States said in his address before the Catholic summer school at Plattsburg, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1899: “The flag symbolizes our purposes and our aspirations; it represents what we believe and what we mean to maintain, and wherever it floats it is the flag of the free, the hope of the oppressed; and wherever it is assailed, at any sacrifice It will be carried to a triumphant peace.” I This utterance was greeted with ringing cheers, all the reports agree in saying. Its lofty purport appealed instantly to the intelligent minds to I which it was addressed. It appeals to every true American throughout a country consecrated to freedom and progress. It ought to make the small coterie of “flre-in-the-rear” anti-Ameri-cars feel smaller and smaller. Nn-thwe»tern Harvest Hand*. The farmers of the Northwest are kicking again, but it Is a different kind of a kick from that of three years ago. In those days of ’96, when lamentations for the crime of ’73 filled the air . of the Northwest, the burden of comI plaint was scarcity of work, scarcity of dollars and the too large purchasing capacity of the dollar when acquired because of the cheapness of everything. This year the times ore I out of joint for the farmers because of the scarcity of men to work in the harvest fields. Wages are offered ranging from $2.50 a day and board for common harvest hands to $6 a day for | threshing machine engineers, and even at these figures it Is well nigh Impossible to get men enough to do the work. , Everybody abb to work seem* to be

having something else to do that is more congenial or more profitable than harvest field work. If Brother Bryan would make a tour of the Northwest at this time he could still expound 16 to 1 —l6 jobs looking for every idle man, and his explanation of the phenomenon would be interesting in view of ths doctrines he preached in the last campaign year.—Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald. Gloomy Day* for Copperhead*. The feelings of the copperheads as they read of the preparations in this country to stamp out the rebellion promptly must be about as gloomy as those of their friend Aguinaldo. The ten regiments already filled are rapidly getting into shape to aid the veterans of Otis’ army when the word for the general advance comes at the close of the rainy season. The ranks of the ten regiments authorized a few days ago will probably be filled by the latter part of September. Otis will have three times as many effective men with him by February next at the latest as he had at the opening of last February when the war began. These preparations to stamp out Aguinaldo are calculated to have a depressing influence on Atkinson, Bryan, Garrison and the rest of the Aguinaldists. “Antirlmperlalism” will begin to look sick when MacArthur, Wheaton and Lawton start out to round up the Tagals a few months hence.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Work the Man. The following advertisement appears conspicuously in a leading Northwestern newspaper of recent date: WANTED —Laborers are needed In the harvest fields of, Minnesota and especially in the Dakotas. Harvest will soon begin, to be followed by threshing. Good wage* are offered and low rates of transportation are offered by the railroads. Here is an opportunity for all that are unemployed.—St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press. This is a time when work seeks the man, and no man need search for work. It is a time of McKinley and prosperity. Cause for Chastened Satisfaction.

John Bull—We don’t worry about merchandise balances so long as our deficit is made good by returns on foreign investments and profits on our ocean carrying trade. Uncle Sam—Well, if you’re satisfied we are; but what is to becom& of British industries if your American debtors keep on increasing their payments to you in the shape of manufactured goods, in place of raw materials? ■ 1. The President** Policy. It makes the President’s meaning so plain that the dullest can take it in, and the most dishonest cannot any longer pretend to be in doubt about it— Hartford Courant As time goes on, the conviction has become stronger with all thinking men that the President took the only course possible in regard to the Philippines.— Springfield Union. The politicians seeking by intrigue and every other artifice to trap this sincere and mastetful man might jnst as well give up and save their credit and their reputation.—Cedar Rapids Republican. That is a brief statement of an enlarged and profound policy. It is the condensation of columns that have previously been written, and contains all the promises of the original proclamation to the FiHplnos.—Buffalo News. How much higher, and purer, and healthier is the tone of these exalted sentiments than the tricky and treacherous utterances of a Bryan who dares to slander the flag 'of his country by saying that it carries tyranny and oppression to the Filipinos instead of the light of liberty and civilization.—Leavenwortb Times. # There is nothing of equivocation here, and the candid, emphatic manner in which this declaration of the purpose of American loyalty and patriotism is made, coupled with the surrounding* and the circumstances in which it wa* made, should silence for all time the carping critics who were so sternly re* buked.—Baltimore American.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. — ■ 11. Temperance People Outwitted at Dal**i ville—Farmer Dig* Up Bi* Wife** Corpse Air-Ship Inventor Ha* * Close Call-Tragedy at a Charivari. ] Daleville temperance people are about, to be outwitted in their fight of long! standing to prevent saloon* from entering their town as a result of a trick. -Richard Reynolds made the regulation appif*j cation for a license and the publication, as was expected by him, brought the tomary majority remonstrances signed by 234 taxpayer*. In the meantime James. Brubaker applied for a license to servs drinks in the Reynolds room, making the advertisement required by law in a Muncie trade journal. The publication was overlooked by Daleville people until it i* now too late to remonstrate before the meeting of the commissioners’ court. J Insane Farmer** Weird Act. George Hendrixon, a prominent farmer; of Osgood, created a grewsome scene on a recent night by going to the grave of, his wife, who died a few months ago, disinterring her remains, and embracing the corpse. After getting the body -out of the casket Hendrixon went into a maniacal state. The man was almost unmanageable, when several friends attempted to take him away. The body was again buried and Hendrixon was turned over to the sheriff of the county a raving lunatic. Flying Machine 1* Wrecked. Aridas Fanner of Evansville had a close call for his life at the Spencer County fair at Chrisney. He gave an exhibition of his flying machine, which wa* successful. In making his descent the machine struck a church steeple and wa* demolished. The inventor clung to the . steeple and was saved. ______ ' ’’■ -’H Charivari End* In a Tragedy. 'While a party of young men were giving a charivari serenade for John W. Canpady and his bride, Miss Lettie Boyd, at Odon, Floyd Kinman wa* fatally shot. The noise of drums and tin pan* was not enough for some one in the party, who fired a revolver. The bullet entered Kinman’s abdomen. Brazil Coal Miner* Strike. At Brazil, 300 miners employed by the Keeler Coal Company went out on a strike because the boss at the mine refused to allow them to use powder purchased at a store that did not belong to the coal company. The miner* say they bought the powdbr 50 cents cheaper on the keg than sold by the company. Within Our Border*. Ex-Chief of Police George W. NewitJ, Evansviye, is dead. Terre Haute car works, in the trust, is decreasing its force. Sixty acres of timber burned near Union City. Origin unknown. Knightstown official* are visiting other towns, studying municipal ownership. Seventeen persons have gone crazy in Cass County since the first, of the year.' Frank Blue, Delphi, accidentally shot his son, 18, through the forehead. Fatal. William Caddy, Lodi, found ground to pieces on the Big Four track, near Brazil. Fairmount academy, friends’ institution, will be placed under a new management. Mrs. Alonzo Miller, Kokomo, in draw- , ing a shotgun from under the bed, fatally shot herself. Joseph R. Padgett, 68, fell asleep on the B. & O. S. W. tracks near Mitchell and was killed. William McKenzie, Terre Haute, lineman, who fell twenty-five feet and wa* given up for dead, may recover. The plant of the sand mill at Rosedale was destroyed by fire. Los* $22,000,slight insurance. The mill ground sand rock for a Muncie glass manufactory. The large stock and storage barn owned ’ by Lou Evers, one mile south of Franklin, was fired by some unknown person. Loss estimated at $5,000, partially insured. The experts who have recently completed an examination into the affair* of the clerk, recorder and sheriff of Marion County find that the ex-recorders and sheriff owe the county nearly SIO,OOO, the amount being made up of fees illegally withheld. John Cragnor and Wayman Adams, a boy artist, who ran away from Mund* a short time ago, were seriously hurt at Decatur, 111. Pipes in a box car in which they were riding rolled on them. Albert Piety, Terre Haute, fired a blank cartridge in the face of Benjamin Adams during the Red Men’s pow-wow, putting bis eye out. Adams has now | brought suit against Piety for mayhem. Ex-Street Commissioner John Knauff, aged 60 years and married, committed suicide at Vincennes, shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. The cause is believed to Nb protracted ill health. Graham Earle, manager of a theatrical troupe playing in Decatur, met his sister, the wife of Rev. J. Q. Cline, whom he had not seen for twenty years, and a banquet followed, where pulpit and stage; talent mingled. The fourth attempt of Miss Lizzie Harris, a pretty 16-year-old girt, to wed Harry Moore, resulted in her apprehension and arrest by the authorities at Elwood. The girl achieved considerable notoriety some time ago by being disappointed at the altar three times by Moore, who would always fail to materialize. The parents of Miss Harris then resolved that their daughter should not many the man of whom she was enamored. She ran away with Moore, but was arrested on her arrival at Elwood. „ Fewer oil wells were drilled in Indian* during August than has been known since oil was discovered. 'ri: J An immense barn *t the edge of the property of the Shirk estate, was set on fire by unknown persons and was destroyed with all its contents, causing * ; loss of about $3,506. Two women in the plate glass of Kokomo, Mrs. Bassett and Mrs. GMO er, met on the near the «auu © • A