Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 6 January 1890 — Page 1

VOLUME Y—NO. 71

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ROUNTREE'S

ANNUAL

This week will be a

LINEN SALE

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Underwear, Muslin, Calicos

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degrees of heat in the oven to bake bread, where any other stove takes

or more degrees. So no wonder you burn up everything you attempt to cook. It speaks for itself. No other stove in the world will do what the Charter Oak Stove will do. Burns wood, soft and hard coal. If youwill call in and see it we will show it to 3'0U with pleasure. An elegant line of furniture carried in connection with our stoves.

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DRIVEN INSANE.

A Now York Physician Goes Mad from Influenza.

ALARMING DEATH-RATE IN GOTHAM.

Other American and Bnropoan Cltle* Alarmed at tlio Steady Spread of the Malady—A Milwaukee Suffurer Kill* IIluiHoIf.

IN'SAN'K FltOM IXKI.UESZA.

NEW YOIIK, .Tan. 0.—Dr. Paul Hoffman, of Now York, assistant superintendent of schools, has been taken to a hospital a raving maniac from tho )ffocts of influonza. Friday night ho patrolled tho corridors of the flat in which ho resides, firing off a revolver. Later on ho went out into tho street and was arrested by sin officer while recklessly flourishing tho weapon.

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—The rocord of deaths for the last week, prepared by thoe sanitary bureau of the health board, exhibits a frightful increase of mortality from pneumonia, bronchitis, phthisis, and heart diseases, as well as from influenza. More than thirty-nine out of every 1,000 poople in New York City perished this week, making a grand total of registered doatlis exceeding 1,200, against 708 in the preceding week. The average number for the week corresponding to last week during a series of years is 700. The epidemic with its various complications has in seven days made a clean sweep on its own account of about 370 poople. But the deadly contributor to these figures is insidious pneumonia. The death-rate from this malady increased last week more than 110 per cent. in New York.

In Newark the city mail delivery is badly delayed because so many Carriers are attacked by influenza. Extra carriers have been put on. Newburg, it is stated, has 1,500 victims. Several post-office employes have the influenza, and all the newspaper offices are shorthanded on account of the malady. Physicians say that nine-tenths of the cases on their lists are those of persons suffering with the prevailing disease.

MILWAVKEE, Jan. 6.—The influenza has taken a firm grip on Milwaukee. For at least three or four days men and women on every side and in every walk of life have been sneezing and coughing and showing all the premonitory signs of la grippe.

George Rumer, a driver for T. Kriz & Co., on Sunday effectually checked the premonitory symptoms of influenza. He sent a pistol ball through his head and died half an hour later. He was 40 years of ago and unmarried. His body is at the morgue.- A dispatch from Madison says Governor Hoard and his entire family are afflicted with the grip. The Governor is kept a prisoner in his room.

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Within the past two days Russian influenza, or la grippe, which is epidemic in Chicago, has developed into a far more pronounced and dangorous type. Twenty persons are affiicted in one house alone on the West side. Conservative estimates place the number of afflicted in the city at 40,000. The police and fire departments are suffering from the ravages of the malady fully 100 members of each are off duty through sickness. Thousands of schoolchildren are sick, and it is likely that not more than two-thirds of the full number will be in attendance when the schools reopen on Monday.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 0.—Tho influenza is spreading very rapidly at Jefferson City, tho State capital. Secretary of State Fanning and liis wife "aro both very ill. The Governor lias been 111 for two days and several clerks a. tho capitol aro confined to their rooms. Doctors ostimato that there are at least 100 oasos of grip in this city. There havo boon no deaths thus far.

MAHSIIALI.TOWN, La., Jan. 0.—Superintendent Miles, of tho State Industrial School at Kldora, roports.that thoro are twenty-five well-defined cases of la grippo in tho hospital of that institution.

BOSTON-, Jan. 0.—Tlio influonza and erratic character of tho weather havo wrought sad havoc tho last wook, as the extraordinary death rate reported by the Hoard of lioalth shows. Tho doatbs for tho week in iioston number 848, nearly 100 greater. than was ever reodrded before for a similar period. Tho influonza bus made its ofiocts folt in tho increased number of fatal oases of pneumonia, bronchitis, consumption and heart disease, itiaving served to intensify oaoh of those diseases. Reports from all parts of Now England—oven from the drier climate of the mountains, in Vermont—show that tho epidemic has laid low thousands upon thousands of victims.

CoNcoitik,N. H., Jan. 6.—Captain Rufus P. Stanlols, a prominent insurance and Grand Army man,, died Saturday, aged 58. Ho was attacked with la grippe Friday, which developed in to typhoid pneumonia, in tho ovening, and terminated fatally. -Nearly. ovory family in Portsmouth, this State, bas ono or moro cases of influonza. Over 300 hands in tho Portsmouth shoe faotory aro laid "up. La grippe has a strong hold upon tho people of Exoter and tho surrounding towns. Many are badly affliotod, including professors, olergymon and physicians and persons in all walks of llfo. Tho shoo faotory and other manufacturing concerns horo aro running very short-handed in consequence of tho epidemic.

BUKKAI.O, N. Y., Jan. 0..—So far two people havo died in this oity of influonza, which shows no signs of abatement. Twenty-nine members of tho poliee force aro laid up. Tho malady Is

CRAWFORDSV1LLE, INDIANA MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1890.

fast making its way along the Mohawk valley, in which thoro are believed to bo about 800 cases.

HAI.TI.MOUK, Md., Jan. -Two-thirds of tho students of Johns Hopkins University havo la grippe. The young mon from tho far South aro tho quickest and most seriously affectod. Physicians say the opidemic Is now at its hoight in Baltimoro, and tho total number of cases is said to oxceod 50,000. In some up-town neighborhoods overy family in every block is affected. Several fatal cases of pneumonia and bronchitis, traceable to influenza, have ocourred. The negroes are the least affected. Many physicians are victims. ]'AKKi:itsm nii, W. Va., Jan. 0.—The grip is spreading rapidly and several fatal cases are reported. Henry D. Winkler, a well-known banker connected with the Kanawha Valley Bank, died from influonza. Two hundrod casos aro reported at Wheeling. At Charleston several newspaper men have it. At Fairmount John S. McKinney. aged 80, was seized with it and died in a few hours. He was the oldest Mason in the State. At Cadiz, on the Ohio side, Charles Lynch, a young druggist, died with influenza after a day's illness.

LONDON, Jan. 0.—Tho Russian influenza has secured a firm grip in iiondon and is raging and spreading in tho provinces. The newspapers aro urging tho peoplo to bo calm and prudont, but in columns and joining editorials ono reads of Lord Salisbury's sufferings from tho foil disease, of Mrs. Bernard Heere's agonies, of stalwart policemen dropping on thoir rounds, of soldiers falling at thoir posts, and of tho threatened disorganization of 'ho postal and telegraphic sorvices. Tho hospitals aro beginning to fool tho pressure, and ordinary medical practitionersand druggists, although coining monoy, aro complaining of overwork. Tho disease has appeared In tho barracks, jails and orphanages. In ono public institution in tho East end of London thore are over 300 cases, and it has been established beyond a reasonable doubt that some ten or a dozen deaths in the metropolitan district last wook havo been due directly or indirectly to Influenza.

In France, Germany and Austria the epidemic, after showing signs of subsiding, has revived with almost its original vigor. According to an imaginative newspaper writer half of Paris is siok and the other half is running to and from the doctors and druggists. Vienna is not in much better condition. Berlin has had a bad relapse, and Rome is worse than ever. Everywhere the disease maintains its democratic impartiality, having attacked, besides tho unnamed, tens of thousands,, the dowager Empress Augusta, of Germany, the Queen of Saxony, the Belgian Crown Prince, Archduke Field Marshal Albrecht (the Austrian Moltke), Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and Archduke Frederick of Austria. Lord Salisbury has been .confined to his bed-room for twelve days past. The Austrian Premier, Count Taaffe, is also down with the disoaso, and there is not a Cabinet in Europe that lias not furnished two or more victims. The highest number of doaths caused by the opidomic is in Venice, where forty-throo deaths are reported in a singlo day. The lust nows from Milan is that thejtseaso is rapidly spreading.

BRUMS, Jan. 6.—Princess Bismarck and l'rincoss Rottenburg aro seriously ill with la grippe. Many deaths aro reported. Tho Dowagor Empress Augusta, who is suffering with influenza, had a bad night, being unable to sloop. Hor fevor, however, has rathor diminished.

Tho influenza is spreading in the provinces. Business is partially suspended, and in many places tho schoolbouses have been eouvorted into hospitals. llerr Patow, formorly Minister of Financo, has died from inflammation of the lungs.

Many of tho friendly societies in Vienna aro. suspending or curtailing payments in consequonco of tho heavy calls made upon them by vlotlms of tho influonza.

KILLED IN A FOQ.

Wreck on the Hock lalund Iload In.Which Two Lives Aro lxist. MALCOLM, la., Jan. 0.—Two eastbound froights on the Rock Island collided near this placo about 11 o'clock Saturday night William and Elmer Moyors, of Glover, Pocahontas County, who wero in tho forward oabooso, wore so soriously injured that they diod Sunday. A stockman named Rhodes, of Dallis Center, .was paralyzed and will probably die. A numbor of others wero more or less injured. Tho accident was caused by tho failure of tho roar train to soo the signal of tho forward train owing to tho denso fog.

Caucus Nominations In Ohio. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 0.—In tho House Legislative caucus of Democrats Saturday, Hysoll of Perry County, was nominated for Speaker Roboson, of Drake, for Speaker pro. torn., and Fisher, of Hardin, for Clerk. In the Senate! caucus Adams, of Soneca, was nominated for pwsidont pro tcm. Taylor, of Franklin, for Clerk, and Murtloy, of Coshooton, Sergoan (rat-Anna.

A Fortune Awaits 111m.

WINNEBAGO, 111., Jan. fl.—Albert Hartor, who disappeared recontly, has faUon heir to $500,000 by the-death of his mothor In New York. Tho attorneys and his family havo lookod for him in vain. He left a wifo horo.

Many-Victims «r .Diphtheria. OTTAWA, Ont., -Jan.-O.—Sf. Johns, N. F., in oiglitoen months has had 2,004 casos of diphtheria and 401 deaths by tho aajiiH.

TIRED OF LIFE.

A. Now Yorker and His Wlf« Agreo to Dio.

THEY DECIDE TO KILL THEIR .CHILD.

He Poisons and Shoots llor, Strangles thi Little Ono, and Alter Living In tho House with Their Iteuialus for

Two Days, Commits Suicide.

A HOItUllU.E STOHY.

NEW YOIIK, Jan. In Brooklyn Saturday tho discovery was made that Louis M. Franlcen, an Anarchist, had choked his child to death, poisoned and then shot his wiffi, and, when discovery mado tho law's retribution certain, sent a44-caliber bull»« through his heart. Death followed instantly. For two days and nights he had eaten and slept alongside the decomposing bodies of his wifo and child.

It was shortly after it o'clock in the morning that Edward Katsenstein reported to tho police that there was something wrong in the little shanty at tho rear of ISO Maujor stroet. Officers wont to tho spot and rapped at tho door of tho shanty, but received no responso. An officer raised tho front window and climbed in. As ho did so a maniac with matted hair and beard and wild, rolling eyes bounded from tho rear room. In his hand was a huge rovolvor. It was leveled at the officer's head. "Get out of horei" cried tho madman, at tho saino timo snapping the trigger. Tho officer retreated, but a pistolphot was hoard within tho shanty, and he returned. A terrible discovery was made. In the rear room—thore aro but two—lay tho bodies of the sulcido's wife and child. Ono—tho wifo—had boon killed by him at hor own request. The child ho had stranglod to death with a rope, noverbneo heeding its pitoous cries. •,

The shanty in which the family lived gave evidence that Mrs. Franken was a neat, thrifty housekeeper. She sympathized with her husband and when he said the entire family would be better off dead than alive she agreed with him, but she wanted to die easily. She suggested that he poison her. With this end in view he purchased paris green. He tells this in one of the letters he left. In it he also says his wife died at precisely 4 o'olock Tuesday afternoon. In another letter he says that he is insane, driven so by poverty and the prospect of never being able to bettor his condition. Franken and. his wife discussed this matter calmly, and finally agreed to go out of the world together. The child, a pretty blueeyed thing, not quite 8 yours old they decided to take with them. The husband and father becumo tho executioner. Tuesday tho wifo lay down upon the bod in tho roar room. She had previously cleaned up the rooms. Her liushund brought hor a doso of paris groon in water. She drank it. When sho bogan to' suffer, rolling on •the bod in intense agony, sho -begged piteously for relief. Franken hurriedly loaded his revolver and placed tho'muzzle against hor right tomplo. Another cry of agony from tho. woman and the report of tho pistol rang out simultaneously. Belief had oomo. Tho child was next called into tho room.- It had been frightened by tho noiso and was crying. Tho father out piece of clothos-line. Holding the child in his loft arm ho grasped both onds of tho rope in his right hand. He sat on. tho edge of tho bod. Placing .the rcpo around the child's neck ho drew it taut. Instinctlvoly tlio little one's chubbyhands raised in defonso of its lifo. But tho murderer's work wont on. Tighter and tighter tho ropo became, twisted by the muscular hand of tho father. The child gasped and struggled foobly. It was going fast. Tighter and tighter was the cruol ropo drawn, until it out into tho yielding flesh. Tying tho rope thus, tho father laid tjio now dead baby beside its mother. Horo tho ooward In Franken manifested itself. Ho failed to carry out tho contract, for ho did not kill himself. Sinco Tuesday night ho had remained in tho rooms with his murdered wifo and child. The last time he was seon by any of his neighbors was Tuesday. llo cooked his own meals and lived alono with death.

HIS TND GIVES WAY* Dom Podro, Hrazll's Uepo»«il KuleiySftld to Have Itccoine In*ano Umlor the AccamolatlOD of Misfortune.

OI'OUTO, Jfcn. 6.—Thoro is overy reason to fear that the mind of tho exEmperor of Brazil ligs given way under the great strain upon it resulting from tho death of tho Empress last week.

He has had fits of hysteria ever sinco that sad evont. Friday whon the body of tho ex-Empio9s was taken in state tho Lapa Church Dom Podro was not among the mourners. Every body remarked it butfewguossed the reason, namely, that tho mind of Dom Podro had gi von way. Ho sat halfsmiling all day on his couch muttering to himsolf and counting foolishly on his fingors. It is inferred from tho evasiveness of -the doctors that tho caso of tho old man is an oxtromcly critical ono,

Toliow Forer in Rio Jaqloro.

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Jan. 5.—The 'Timos' Lisbon

correspondent says that a Brazilian papor reports that the Governmont at Rio Janeiro intends to oxpcl tho Russian Envoy in consoquenco of .Russia^ .refusal to recognize tho,TOputlic. Private letters from Bio Janeiro say tbat.intensely hot weather prevails there'and that yollow fevor of tho most malignant typo has appeared in tho city.

WHOLE NO 1287

CROWDED TO THE WALL. rile Year's Itrcoril as to liail\ra.r Foreclosures ami Receiverships—Some Illff 1'lRiires.

CHICAGO, Jan. 6,—Tho Railway Ago publishes a review of tho foreclosure sales and receiverships of 18S9. Tho year makes a loss favorable showing than its predecessor, although its rocord is not as discouraging as woro those of tho three yoars preceding 188S. During 18S9 twenty-flvo linos, with 2.1130 milos, woro sold on foreclosure. Theso roads had a total funded dobt of §S4,S04,000 and total capital stock of S5S,nM,000, making a grand total of 3i8?,81fi,000.

For tho fourteen years, which closed with 1880, 448 roads with a total of 40,700 miles and a combined funded debt and capital stock of $2,082,740,000, wero sold at foreclosure. Tho number of roads which passed into tho hands of receivers in 1880 is tho samo as in 18S8, with about tlio saino inileago and capital. Twenty-two companies, with 8,803 milos and a funded dobt of 884,702,000 and a capital stock of SW,004,000, went to tho wall.

Tho most important failures of 18S9 woro the St Louis, Arkansas «& Texas, 1,170 miles of road and 858,500,000 capital International & Great Northern, 775 miles and $21,755,000 Cincinnati, Jackson Mackinaw, !!23 miles and 820,340,000 Chicago & Atlantic, 248 miles and 819,017,000 Kentucky Central, 217 miles and 313,374,000, and Kanawha & Ohio, 120 miles and 813,354,000 capital.

AFTER THE OPERA.

Knd of tlio Four WcukV Scannu off Faltl and Tainagno at Chicago—ItpcrlptH of CS3!S,OA4.

CHICAGO, Jan. !l.—The season of Italian opera at the Auditorium closed with a matinee {Saturday at which "The Barber of Seville" was presented, with Patti in tho leading role. Kix thousand persons were present, tho receipts for tho performance reaching tho enormous .sum of 514,230. Tho gross receipts for the ontire season each woek wero as folfollows:

Flint week, nix performances MO.OS7 -ID Second week, five purlormauws BI.NU? 35 Tlilnl week, live porformnmrs fiWlfi S5 Fourth week, six iiurfoimit.ieus.-. .T

Total i...... S.'.iN.uVI 00 Financially, ut least, this is tho greatest operatic success that Chicago, New York, Boston or the American continent has over experienocd. During tho four weeks twenty-one performances, in addition to the dedication, woro givon, and the aggregate attendance was about 100,000.

The Abbey Company left Saturday night by special train for the City of Moxlca, where I'atti will open in "Semiramido" next Saturday night. After a season of fifteen performances, of which the advance sale already aggregates

$135,000, the company will proceed to San Francisco and open there on the evening of February 10, returning to Chicago in time to open March 10. From here the organization will go to Boston and thence to New York.

FEAR A WATER FAMINE.

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CltlEonR of Davenport, tu., Alurmori tho MlttNlR»!p|i*A liivor'K (Iroiil Pull. DAVENPORT, IA., Jan. 6.—The river at this point is one foot below low-water mark, and still falling. It has been almost impassable for some time, the ferry making trips with great difficulty and often becoming fast on bars in the stream. The inlet pipe, which is the source of supply to the city waterworks, has become exposed, and the mouth is almost entirely out of the water. Should this state of affairs continue there is great danger of a water famine, and should there be an unusual demand, such as a large fire would cause, the supply, it is believed, would prove insufficient The main trouble is in the gorge fifteen miles above here.

GALE IN GREAT BRITAIN.

dsn Wrecks and Much Damage Done Over the Country. LONDON, Jan. 6.—A galo has boon raging all over Great Britain. Much damago has bcon done throughout tho country and many wrecks are reported. The Protestant church at Birr, Ireland, was struck by lightning and badly damaged. Tho Cunard stoanior Umbrla is delayed at Quoenstown for repairs. Tho gale

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Bovere on tho Irish coast. At Klllarney two womon were killed by a failing tree. Floods are reported in Queens land. Apart of tho town of Normaa ton la submerged,' the water in many places being twenty foot deep. AU tha adjooent territory 1« under water. Vbt loods cover an area 800 mlloa.

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