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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
THE VETERANS.
Provisions Made for FIFTY thousand at
washington-Tree Quarters VIII Be Fur
nished In Barracks Made of Wood.

Provisions Made for FIFTY thousand at
washington-Tree Quarters VIII he Fur
nishcd In Barracks Made of Wood.
WAsHINaroN, Sept. 5.-Chairman
John JOY Edison, of the executive COM
mittee for the reception and entertain
ment of the G. A. r., has issued a state
ment which is of interest TO the grand
army men throughout the country.
Mr.. Edison says that the Washington
executive committee arranged early in
the summer to provide free quarters for
so, 600 men, total ranging from two to
five times in excess of the number pro-
vided with similar accommodations in
other cities at previous encampments.
Believing that the extraordinary limit
thus fixed would be entirely ample, but
anxious TO quarter all who applied, the
committee in the early part of last
month, notified every G. A. r. post in
the United States to communicate by
September 1, if it desired free accom-
modations Up to date free quarters
have been provided for $4,000 comrades
of the G. A. r., but even at this late
day, in disregard of the injunctions of
the circular, dilatory posts are making
applications.
The barracks which have been erected
are of wood, commodious and comfort
able, but the committee finds that it
it will be absolutely impossible to erect
additional quarters in time for the en-
campment. This decision has been
reached with regret, that the posts did
not make known their desires before
waiting until too late for the committee
to provide for accommodations There
are ample accommodations in hotels,
boarding houses and private residences
in the city for as many additional posts
or private individuals as may apply,
which can be obtained at reasonable
rates by applications to Col. l.. P.
Wright, chairman subcommittee on ac-
commodationS.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

VICToRIA, B. c., Sept 1.-The Amer
lean bark Majestic, from Petropaulov-
ski, reached here Tuesday evening, hav-
ing aboard the captains and crews of
four sealing schooners (Rosie, Olson,
Ariel and Willie McGowan) flying the
British flag, and the American schooner
c. II. White, of San Francisco.
These four were sealing off Copper
Island between 40 and 80 miles, during
the latter part of July, when the Rus
sian warship Zabraka, mounting 16
guns, and the fur company's steamer
Kodiak, bearing the governor of Bering
island, rounded them up one by one,
sent the schooners to be sold at Petrop-
aulovsli, and made the captain and
crew prisoners
The former objected to the seizure,
claiming they were free men on free
waters, whereupon the marines pricled
them with the points of their bayonets
and informed them there was such a
place as Siberia for those who spoke
too loudly of freedom. Both the Brit
ish and American shippers recognized
that it was no time for talking.
Still they ventured to protest that
they were away outside the three-mile
limit, and were met with the astound-
ing information from the officers of the
Zabraka: Russia is sovereign over the
water, a thousand miles from her
shore" The captain of the Russian
cruiser based his action on the ground
that Russia exercised jurisdiction over
all land and water westward of the line
of Demarcation.
After being taken aboard the Zabra-
ka, the master of each schooner was
ordered to sign a paper written in Rus
sian and interpreted by an interpreter
as an acknowledgement that he had
been sealing in Russian waters.
The shippers protested, and were told
that those who did not sign would be
sent to VladivostolS to be court
martialed and then sent to the Siberian
mines. Under compulsion, the captains
signed and they and the crews under
went a taste of Russian prison
life, two of them being kept
for days in a room eleven feet
by eleven, with a leaky roof and
broken floor, The men were finally
turned away, contract was entered
into for transportation to American or
British soil, and in the evening the pris-
oners were shipped away on board the
Majestic, no particular effort being
made by the guards to detain them.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
FOUR ROBBERS
Maltreat a Farmer and Set His
House on Fire,
After Ransacking the building From Top
60 Bottom-In the Scufile One of tho
Men Loses His Mask and is
Recognized as a Nelghb0r.

PEBBLES, o., Sept. 3.-Thursday even
ing about o'clock occurred n crime
which among the many bloody deeds OF
Adams county stands without a paral-
lei.
John Crothers, well known farmer
who lives near Louisville, little ham,
let four miles northwest of this place,
was about to retire, when some one
called him to the window, saying his
brother was hurt, and asked him to
come at once. Before he could reply
the door was burst open with rail,
and he was seized by four
masked men. Crothers is large,
muscular man, and struggled fierce.
ly. He grabbed his shotgun,
but it was wreuched from his hands be-
fore he could use it. The men threw
him to the floor and stamped upon him
until he became insensiblc, after which
they robbed him of all the money on
his person, anout $50, and ransacked
the house from top to bottom, taking
every thing of value. The fends then
bound the helpless man, cut him in
several places and poured coal oil on
the bed clothes and set fire to the
house, leaving him to perish in the
flames.
Shortly after their departure he re-
gained consciousness and managed to
roll himself out into the yard, where
he lay watching his property burn. The
light was seen from the Louisville
church, where prayer meeting was be-
ing held, and a party set out for the
fire to render assistance. They stumbled
over Crothers, who was again uncon-
scious and carried him to the residence
of a neighbor near by, and medical as
sistance was rendered. The wounds
are serious, though not necessarily
fatal
In the scuffle one of the masks worn
by one of the men was torn from his
face, and Crothers recognized David
Matthews, farmer living near May
Hill. Matthews was arrested and
brought before Squire ]. W. Mason.
At the preliminary trial Crothers
swore positively as to the identity of
Matthews as one of his assailants, but
Matthews claims he is able to prove an
alibi.
Justice Mason bound him over to
court in the sum of $1,000, and bond
was given.
Excitement runs high at Louisville,
and there is every prospect of lynch
ing if any clew to the perpetrators Of
the crime is found. The residence of
Crothers, together with its contents,
was totally destroyed.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
THE PLAGUE.
Non-Intercourse With Infected Countries
the Only safety, Says the President.

Non-Intercourse with Infected Countries
the Only safety, Says the President.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Sept. While
waiting for the Washington train to
leave, President Harrison said in re-
ply to question about our danger from
cholora
ut is my duty to abandon all other
considerations and return Immediately
to Washington. | have had the situa-
ton before my mind. l thought
of it seriously on my way from
Loon lake. 1 have given the
subject much thought. 1 am
convinced that all the powers
which the general government have
conferred are being exercised. The only
absolute safety, though, in my opinion,
is entire non-intercourse with the in
fected countries.
There is no power, however, in the
general government to declare such an
act 1 will continue to give the situa-
tion the gravest consideration, and all
suggestions will be promptly acted
uDOQ,"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
SECRETARY FOSTER
On tho Che 'ra Situation-Requests for an
Ex.A SessIon of Congress.

On the enc 'ra aSituatlOn-heQueStS IOr an
Ex..a Session of Congress.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-Speaking of
the presidents return, Secretary Fos-
ter, of the treasury department, said:
1--WE have been in receipt of many
anxious kilograms from various state
boards of health, and in some cases
the request for an extra session of
congress has been made. So far
as l am concerned l do not see what
good could come of such a step. Con-
gress could not be convened without
thirty days notice, and in that time the
disease might have had time to have
spread over the whole country, but
am not at all alarmed. We have, in the
present quarantine law and immigra'
tion laws all the power that is need
ed in the case. We can hold immi
grants until it is certain that all danger
of contagion is over, and, if necessary,
we can send them back. The only
further action that congress could take
in the matter would be the prohibition
of immigration, and that would be of
no effect without the total crippling OF
commerce, for the infection is as likely
to arise through the crews of merchant
vessels as in any other way"
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
AROUSED.
British Columbians Excited over the
Seizure of Ono of Their Sealing Vessels
by tho Russian warship.

British Columbians Excited over the
Seizure of One of Their Sealing Vessels
by tho Russian warship.
VICTORIA, b. c., Sept. 2.-When the
complete story of an American and
three Canadian schooners being seized
off the Russian coast was read Wednes-
day, the excitement throughout the
city became intense. A meeting of the
British Columbia Sealers' association
was hurriedly called, and the case was
discussed in all its phases.
The meeting was held with closed
doors, and the only fact reported was
that the solicitors for the association
had been instructed to prepare full
statement of the details of the case to
be telegraphed to Sir John Abbott,
premier of the Dominion of Canada
Theodore Davie, provincial premier,
also took the matter up and has had
affdavits embodying the main facts
prepared for the use of the department
at Ottawa.
The British Columbia board of trade
also prepared memorial on the SUBJ
ject, which was forwarded by wire to
Ottawa. According to the records of
the sealing association, there are yet 43
sealing schooners out, all having had
instructions after getting the coast
catch to go over on the Russian and
Japan coast.
Certain it is that of these some will
be seized, and if the same course of ac-
tion is taken the others may be left to
perish on the barren shores of Bering
while the valuable SchOOnerS will un-
doubtedly meet the same fate as those
already seized and destroyed.
The loss shown eventually will be
enormous, each of the schooners being
valued at between $4,000 and 100000.
The worst of all is that the sealers have
no means of warning their schooners.
A request has been sent to Admiral
Hotham to send a warship to the
Russian coast to protect the British in
terest.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
RETALIATION TOLLS.
Figures Showing the Value of Commerce
That Passes Through the st. Mary
Fall Canal.

Figures Showing the Value of Commerce
That Passes Through the st. Mary's
Fall Canal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.--The presi-
dents proclamation, imposing a retalia-
ton toll of twenty cents ton on Cana
dian produce passing through st. Mary's
Fall canal, has been put into effect
smoothly and without friction, and the
treasury officials here have received no
advices from Marquette or from any
other point leading them to anticipate
trouble. The report of the chief of the
bureau of statistics on the internal
commerce of the United States during
the past fiscal year shows that the
value of the commerce through the st.
Mary's canal increased from s2s, 900, 900
in 1881 to over S12s, 600, 900 in 1891.
During the season of 225 days, during
which the canal remained open in 1891,
over TO- 900 vessels passed through it, of
which 1900 were steamers. The precise
number of Canadian vessels is not clear
ly shown. The shipment of wheat lin
cluding the crop for Manitoba) for 1891
amounted to 3s, SIG, 900 bushels, against
16,217O 900 bushels in the preceding year.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
THE DEATH LIST.
"A Big Day at Quarantine-yessels Tie
In

"A Big Day at Ouarantine-Nessels Tied
Up
QUARANTINE, $. l., Sept. 5.-The fol-
lowing is the official list of new cases
and new deaths:
On board the Normannia: Emma
Horn, steerage, aged s, died Sunday;
five days i'll. Heinrich hammers, aged
Al, one of the steerage stewards, died
while in transit to hospital.
He had been nursing the cholera pa
tients. No new cases on board the Nor
MAMMA.
On board the Rugia: Antonio Herlea,
aged II, steerage, died Sunday; taken
i'll Saturday. New cases on the Rugia:
Christine Hansen, aged 10, and Peter
Hausen, aged 8.
On board the Moravia: Abraham
Schneider, aged s, died in transit No
new cases. This has been big day
down at the quarantine steamers and
the islands. All the steerage passen-
gers from the Normannia were trans
ferred to the receiving house on Hoff-
man island. The sick from the Nor
MAMMA, five in number, were sent to
the Swineburne island hospital, which
is under the charge of Drs. Byron and
Abbott.
AT present the vessels in Upper Quar-
antine are the Stubbenhuk, released
from the Lower Anchorage after being
fumigated; La Bourgogne, Darmstadt,
Fulda and Brilliant.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
s,mple, Yet Marveloug oholera Cure.

HAMBURG, Sept. 8.-Great interest
has been aroused by the simple, but
seemingly effectual treatment recon-
mended by Profs. Northengale and
Kahler. 1t may be that the decrease
in the fearful mortality can be ascribed
to this treatment, which is nothing but
giving the patient enemas of warm
salt water. 1t is claimed by those
who have followed this course
of treatment that its result is
marvellous. In some cases where
the patients were in such a state of col
lapse that it was impossible to discern
the pulse recovery has followed the ap-
plication of the enemas. The claim is
made that the death rate of the city
has been reduced fully fifty per cent.
through this method.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
RUss1A's CHOLERA VICTIMS.
Over Six Thousand New Cases In One Day
Tho Pestilence Growing.

Over Six Thousand New Cases In One Day
Tho Pestilence Growing.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 5.-The sta
tistics of the cholera epidemic in this
country show that throughout the
whole of Russia on Thursday there
were 6,673 new cases of the disease re-
ported, and that 2,714 persons died
from the pestilence. In this city Sat-
urday 120 new cases and 81 deaths oc-
CURED.
These thirty-one deaths, however,
only comprise the mortality given in
the hospital returns. During the last
few days the number of unregistered
new cases and deaths, which are chiefly
confined to the people of the well-to-do
class, has increased, especially on the
islands in the River Neva, where
wealthy people reside in the summer.
Private dispatches received here re-
port that twelve deaths from cholera
have occurred in Riga, and that the
disease has also made its appearance in
Kieff, which up to Sunday has been
spared u visitation of the plague. Up
to Saturday forty-seven new cases and
eight deaths were reported in the gov
ernment of Kieff. On Thursday six
teen new cases and eight deaths oc-
CURED in Satatoff. On the same day
543 new cases and 237 deaths, and on
Friday 362 new cases and 1877 deaths
occurred in Kasan. On Thursday 176
new cases and seventy-four deaths oc-
Cured in orenburg, and 296 new cases
and l32 deaths in the Dom district. On
Wednesday 732 new cases and $50 deaths
occurred in Voronezh.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

with contrary winds, high seas and ter
rife storms, he reluctantly consented to
give up his efforts after struggle Of
sixty-two days. and returned to Ameri-
ca on q bark which kindly consented to
take him and his sea beaten boat back
to New York
The captain is very interesting char
acter. He is n man of fixed purposes,
very hard to turn from the object which
he has in view. He has made the SUBJ
ject of small boat sailing such study
that he is prepared to meet every argu-
ment against the risks which spring to
the minds of his critics, yet the New
York Herald put the case in nutshell
when it said: "The fact that Capt. An
drews can cross the ocean in cookie
shell merely proves that small boats are
safe when a Capt. Andrews sails them.
Amateurs should remember this when
the wind begins to sing"
The captain himself says that "hah
the people who are drowned lose their
lives because they do not realize that a.
boat cannot sink. An iron vessel might,
or ship loaded with heavy cargo,
but a row boat, sail boat or ordinary
NoouSh NSSsSl may cdpSlHc, puI Willy
nevertheless, float. The passengers on
the great ocean steamers run some risk
when they go to sea, but all around the
deck they see wooden boats hung up on
which they are taught to depend for
their lives if the big steamer goes down.
These boats are often crushed against
the great vessel or are capsized in
lowering. am alone in a wooden boat.
entirely under my own control, and, in
my opinion, far safer than Others" An.
ingenious theory but hardly fair one.
Capt. Andrews is by trade piano,
maker. He built the ''Sapolio" at At
lantic City in the presence of hundreds
of people, and exhibited it on the Long
Pier for several weeks. 1t is canvas
folding boat lined with half inch cedar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Possible Cholera Case in New York

New YORK, Sept. Capt Cross, OF
the Eldredge Street station, reported
Thursday night that he was informed
by DR.. IL. Beck, of Rivington street,
that he attended man named Etwanig,
who lived on the fourth floor of % Or
chard street, and that he found him
manifesting symptoms of cholera. Th'
man, he said, was Russian, and ar
rived on Sunday on the steamer Russia
The board of health was notified.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
A Hrad Mans Bloody Work.

STEUBENvILLE, o., Sept "A bloody
murder took place in Cross Creek town
ship, this county, three miles west of
this city. George Skinner, hired man,
shot and instantly killed his employer,
George Leather, and fatally wounded
Leatner's wife and her mother, and
then blew out his own brains Leather
was wealthy and well known farmer,
and the killing was the.result of quar-
rel with Skinner, which resulted in his
discharge by Leather.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Daughters of Liberty.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 1.-The
national council Daughters of Liberty,
which is an auxiliary degree of the
order of American Mechanics and the
junior order of the same body, has
opened it's annual convention here.
Nearly 400 delegates are present, of
which three-fifths are ladies. The re-
port of National Secretary N. O. Staples
announced the present number of coun-
ellis to be 1G5, an increase of 40 over last
year, and the membership to be: sisters,
7,S3S; brothers, 3,413
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
ABOUT MARS.
Prof. Pickering Sends an Account of His
Observations From Arequipa.


Observations From Arequipa.
New YORK, Sept 2.-Prof. Pickering,
of Harvard, who has been making OBJ
servations of Mars at Arequipa, Peru,
cables the Herald as follows: "Mars
has two mountain ranges near the
south pole. Melted snow has collected
between them before flowing north
ward. In the equatorial mountain
range, to the north of the gray
regions, snow fell on two submits on
August and melted on August
Z, l have seen II lakes near Soils
Locus, varying in area from so to 100
miles to 40 by 40 miles. Branching dark
lines connect them with two large, dark
areas like seas, but not blue. There has
been much trouble since the snow melt
ed in the arean clouds. These clouds
are not white, but yellowish, and part
ly transparent. They now seem to be
breaking up, but they hang densely on
the south side of the mountain range.
The northern green spot has been pho-
tographed. Many of Schaiparelli's
canals have been seen single.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
A DARING ApvEMruRER.

Capt. William A. Andrews, already
famous for his daring adventures in
small boats on the stormy Atlantic, has
again set sail on a novel and interest
ing voyage.
Hecrossed the ocean twice before, first
In the Nautilus" when he was accom-
panied by his brother, who has since
died, and again in the Mermaid" both
of these trips being made to Lands End,
England. A few years ago he again at
tempted the passage in n boat called
the Ozark Secret" but, after battling
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
A Storm at Hamburg,

HAMBURG. Sept. 5.-A storm from the
southwest ragged Saturday in this city.
Torrents of rain fell, and the thermom-
eter did not indicate over 90 degrees. A
tumnltuous crowd assembled in front
of the residence of the president of po-
lice, in the suburb of St Paul's, and be-
gan rioting. The police were summoned
and succeeded in dispensing the mob.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Oldest Man In Indiana Dead

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept John w.
Hopkins, doubtless the oldest man in
Indiana, died at Brennan, southeast of
here, Wednesday morning, aged 1O4
gears. He was born in Charleston, S. c.,
in April, 1855. He moved to North Car
olina, then to Ohio, and about fifty
years since to Indiana. He helped or
ganize Stark county, Indiana.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. 2.-Texas is feel
ing the cholera scare as we'll as other
portions of the United States. Fears
are entertained that the pest will in
wade the state from Mexico, and as
preventive State Health Officer Swear
niger has placed the entire border under
police supervision, and the strictest dill
igence is being kept all along the coast,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
sensation Among steamshtp Arents.

New YORK, Sept. 3.-President Har-
rison's expected order caused sensa-
ton among the steamship agents in this
city. The presidents circular letter
will practically stop all immigration
while the cholera epidemic lasts. Steam
ship agents recognize the fact that they
will have to give up steerage traffic, to
the detriment of their business.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

New ORLEANS, Sept. 3. Excitement
over the three big fights is running
high. Betting is very lively, and
thousands of dollars nre going up daily
on the results The arrivals Friday of
sporting men, come to see the triple
events was very large, running up web
into the hundreds
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Russia's Awful Cholera Record.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 1.-The off,
cial statement of deaths from cholera
in Russia gives the total, up to August
90, as 100, 7G4. These figures are un-
doubtedly too conservative. In many
stricken districts no returns at all have
been made. and in others the returns
are incomplete. Complete returns would
have shown the number of deaths to
have been 125, 900, or perhaps more.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Laudanum and Ether for CHOLERA.

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-The Reichaan.
Eemer states that all guards on passen-
ger trains are to be provided with a
mixture of laudanum and ether, with
instructions to administer from 20 to 80
drops of the liquid to any person seized
with cholera symptoms while travelling.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Tennessee Miners Resume Firing,

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 5.-The
miners at Coal Creek and divers are
getting ugly again. Firing has been
going on at the piclSets at both places
ever since late Saturday night, Addi-
tional troops from Nashville and Harri-
man are now on their way to the mines.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10
Nine Were Killed.

BERLIN, Sept 2.-While the work of
repairing the royal castle in Konigs-
berg, city of East Prussia, was going
on Thursday the scaffolding suddenly
collapsed, precipitating a number of
the worlSmen to the ground. They fell
quite distance and nine of them were
instantly killed.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-09-10

TOPEKA, Kan, Sept S.-James f.
Ligate, the noted republican leader Of
Kansas, has joined the Farmers AL.
lance, and will take the stump for the
peoples party. He will be the chief
speaker at n peoples party rally next
Saturday, when he will explain why he
has left the republican party and why
he has joined the peoples party.