Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1894 — Page 6

ffi MW fate; Super lilious- Theory For the Retirement of Holman. ‘ THIRTY YEARS THE LIMIT. Tradition Given Increased Respect by the Result of the Election—Other Old Meiu* ben of the House—Good Demand For New Government Bonds—General Wallington News. Washington, Nov. 21. — It was fate which defeated Representative Holman. The venerable Indianian essayed to'do what no ono Ixifore him had accomplished. The tradition that limits service in the house of representatives to 30 years will receive increased respect from Mr. Holman’s defeat. At the beginning of the present congress Mr. Holman and Mr. O’Neil of Philadelphia had a conversation about this tradition. Mr. O’Neil asked Mr. Holman what he. thought of it. Mr. Holman smiled at j the man who was the “father of the , house"’and told him he was all right , for half a dozen terms. Mr. O’Neil ' shook his head and reminded Mr. Holman of the fate which had overtaken I Kelley, Randall and others just when it seemed that they were sure to break the record. Mr. Holman afterward told of this conversation and added: “I guess O’Neil will break the record. He is strong and, hearty.” Before the year was out Mr. O’ Neil was dead, and the tradition had received one more prMtf of its weird power. Mr. Holman then became the “father of the house.” Had he been elected this tiui i he would have exceeded the traditional 30 years' limit as soon as he passed the 3d of next March. But he was defeated. It will be a long time before the tradition v.ill be tested again. With Mr. Holman rhe last of the members nearing the limit disappears. Mr. Bland goes out of congress with' 22 years to his credit. Mr. Cannon of Illinois and Mr. Culberson of Texas will have served 20 years each on the 3d of next March. DEMAND FOR BONDS. Every Indication That the New Loan Will Be Promptly Taken. Washington, Nov. 21.—The indications are that the present government loan of $50,000,000 will not only prove a complete success, but that the aggregate of bids will be far in excess of the amount of bonds to be sold. As fast asreceived the bids are immediately placed unopened in the treasury vaults, so that it is impossible to know in advance the names of the bidders, the amounts bid for or the prices offered. The number of envelopes bearing the legend “prcfposals for the purchase of 5 per cent bonds” which is being received at the treasury is far in excess of the number, received- for the February issue. The amount of gold withdrawn yesterday from the subtreasury at New York in • exchange for currency, presumably for the purpose of purchasing bonds, was $1,600,000. , “lon Know What Napoleon Said.*’ Washington, Nov. 21.—Colonel Lee Crandall, who ran for congress on the Kolb ticket against General Wheeler in the Eighth Alabama district, is at Pophlist headquarters here. He says of Kolb’s intention to become governor: _■ “The Oates men have the militia to back them and the support of the administration, while we have not many arms;’ but you know what Napoleon said about the right.” President’* Ankle Sprained. Washington, Nov. 21.—The regular Tuesday cabinet meeting did not occur yesterday owing to the absence of President Cleveland. The president trod on a small round stone the evening before at Woodley, which rolled away, causing a sprain of one ankle. The sprain was slight, but because it was sustained by the foot which has been afflicted by gout it was so painful that walking was not easy. k Financial Legislation Not Expected. Washington, Nov. 21. — Senator Jones of Arkansas, a member of the senate finance committee, says he. does not expect any financial legislation during the present session of congress. One of his Democratic colleagues expressed the same opinion. ROYAL WALLS FALL. Fatal Result of the Collapse of an Austrian Governor’s Palace. Fiume. Nov. 21. —The walls of the governor’s new palace, which is being erected here, collapsed yesterday and buried a number of workmen in the ruins. Five dead bodies have been recovered and 12 wounded persons extricated from the ruins. In Danger From a Carbuncle. Springfield, His., Nov. 21.—General John T. McClernand, a well known soldie" and for several terms between 1843 an 1862 a member of congress, is dan geroosly ill. He has been suffering for 10 days with a carbuncle in the neck. It has developed malignant features and .. if blood-poisoning sets in, which his physicians fear, there will be no hope , for recovery, owing to his advanced age, 82 years. Panic on an Elevated Road. Chicago, Nov. 21.—A cylinder head blew out of a locomotive on the Alley elevated road last evening and caused a lively panic among passengers, although none was hurt. William Ullrich, the nreman,' jumped to the ground, 30 feet, escaping with a broken leg. George Warde, the engineer, has not yet been found. It is thought that he also jumped and fled. Chased and Killed a Burglar. Memphis, Nov. 21. —Henry Fitzgerald, a clerk at Friar’s Point, Miss., was shot and fatally wounded by two burglars, who escaped in a canoe down the river. Citizens chartered a steamboat and gave chase. The robbers were overhauled 40 miles below and one of the bandits was instantly killed. The other escaped to the Arkansas shore. 4

HOLMES’JJFE STORY? Sensational Confessions Made by the Insurance Swindler. BEGINNING OF HIS ORIME& Other Companies Than the Fidelity Beat* en Ont of Large Sum. — Remarkable Dealings With Taxa. Girl*. Whom He I. Aocused of Murdering—lndiana Record as Howard. Philadelphia, Nov. 31. —H. H. Holmes, the insurance swindler, by his own sensational admissions is the archconspirator of the age. As he was being brought hero from Boston with Mrs. Pitzel and a pretty woman calling herself Mrs. Holmes, he made an offer of |SOO for a chanoe to escape by hypnotizing the officer. This failed, and while sitting in the car seat, his wrists manacled, he told his life story to Detective ( Caldwell, who'repeats it as follows: Holmes said he was raised in Burling-1 ton, Vt., and was so well educated in school that at 15 he was a teacher. For ( some time afterward he went to college there and later in Detroit. Here he formed the acquaintance of a medical . student who, he said, furnished the body | in New York in the present case. He | refused to divulge his name. During i vacations they worked oq farms to raise i their college expenses, but one summer they found themselves without means. First aud Subsequent Swindles. It was then that the medical man sug-1 gested the idea of getting a body and * beating an insurance company. This ’ was 12 years ago. The doctor got his j life insured for $12,500, then obtained a , body in Chicago, took it east, arranged I the details of identification and success- 1 fully* got the money. He refused to name the company swindled. They worked the scheme afterward with success, obtaining sums ranging from $lO,000 to $20,000. Once Holmes got his j own life insured for $20,000. He went to a hotel in Rhode Island. At that 1 time he wore a beard. He Secured a ' corpse in Chicago, cut off the head and ; took the body to a lonely spot not far I from the hotel. Then he shaved off his I beard, returned to the hotel, asked for ■ Holmes aud engaged a room to wait for him. He had brought the head with him and burned it beyond recognition in the fireplace of the hotel". This scheme, however, fell through. The mother of his wife discovered it and threatened to tell the police, and Holmes fled to the west. Protecting a Murderess. Holmes said that while living in Chicago about 18 months ago he fell in with ! a typewriter girl and furnished a house j on the outskirts, where they lived to- ■ gether. A younger sister came to visit|< them, and the woman grew so jealous j of her that in a quarrel one day she i struck her over the head with a stool j and killed her. To.save the woman with whom he was living, Holmes said, re prtt the body in a trunk, loaded it with stones and sunk it in the lake. > This girl had property in Texas aud he I and Pitzel took it off her hands and ; sent her abroad. It was worth, he said, i $40,000 and after getting it in their i hands they went through Texas, buying carloads of horses oh notes on this prop- ' erty, but as they never had legal title to the property the notes were worthless, j and it is for this affair that they are i wanted in f ort Worth. To save this i property Holmes said he and Pitzel formed the scheme of swindling the j Fidelity company. He told the detect- I ive that for the crimes he had committed he deserves to be hanged a dozen times. Has Plenty of Money. Holmes is not lacking for money, as he himself admitted that at the present time he is supporting nearly two Swen persons, including the girl murderess, her mother and an imbecile brother; two orphans in Chicago who live in one ' of his properties, three separate alleged wives and their children, and his own mother and father in Kankakee. He would not give the names of the women. He firmly maintained that Pitzel is alive ■ in San Salvador aud that he will hear from him through the personal column of a certain New York newspaper. Holmes* Indiana Record. Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—The above dispatch does not make it clear whether Holmes is the man Howard who married Miss Georgia* Yoke, a girl whose mother lives in Franklin, a year ago, [ and who was subsequently in this city I on business connected with an estate in i which his wife was interested. His ad- | mission of numerous marriages, however, does not remove such identity from among the possibilities. Money which he afeposited in the Merchants’ National bank has been attached by the Fidelity company, indicating a belief that he is the swindler. Texas Accusation. Fort Worth, Nov. 21.—There is every reason to believe that H. H. Holmes, who went by the name of O. C. Pratt in Fort Worth, is guilty of murdering Minnie R. Williams and her sister Anna Williams, the crime having probably been committed in Chicago, and in this crime a” man who claimed when here to be a citizen of Chicgo and calling himself Benton T. Lyman is an accomplice. “PATHFINDER” FREMONT. Hi* Remains to Bo Quietly Buried Tomorrow on the Hudson. . . New York, Nov. 21.—The body oT General John 0. Fremont, the "Pathfinder” and first candidate for the presidency on the Republican ticket, has never been interred, but has remained for several years in the receiving vaults of Rockland cemetery on the Hudson. Recently Mrs. Fremont, who lives in 1 Los Angeles, requested that the interment take place at once and as privately > as possible. As a result the body will ; be buried in Rookland cemetery Thursday afternoon, under the direction of Sa Associated Pioneers oftheTerritoil days of California. Several promipnt men have been invited.

. iron Bilinite i They Cry Out Against Allowances Made by the Court, , RECEIVERSHIP COMES HIGH. > Supporter* of Adam* For Speaker Trying > to Get Leedy Off the Track—Talk of State University Removal — Breckinridge Announced to Lecture In Indiana—Numerous State Dispatches. Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—There is no i J end to the indignation existing among | victims of the Iron Hall scheme and its ;' subsequent receivership. People have I just begun to warm to a criticism of the court which Monday made an allow- ' anoe to Receiver Failey of S3S,(XX) and j brought his personal receipts from the trust up to $50,000. In doing this the court talked at hmgth upon the extra- , ordinary work done by the receiver in the less than two years of service, but i his lengthy talk doesn’t promise to l>e half so long as that of the people who have begun an outcry against the so- ' called outrage. The receivership has not been wound up as yet, but-to date it has cost $157,34,5.04 —$50,00!) for the i receiver, $79,873.73 to attorneys eni- ' ployed in the case ($25,000 of which was j to one firm) and $27,461.81 for other expenses. The figures are pointed to as the most significant commentary ou the ] methods. Judge' Winters, who made , the latest allowances, retired from the I bench last night. INDIANA SPEAKERSHIP. ' Efforts Being Made to Reduce Candidates In Marlon County. Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—An effort is l being made to persuade W. H. Leedy to 1 withdraw from the race for speaker of the house of representatives. All of the members of the Marion county delegation, with the exception of Mr. Leedy, are inclined to support J. C. Adams for the place, and the friends of Mr. Adams, i as-well as most of the Republican poli- ■ ticians, believe that there should be only j one candidate from this county. PerI sons who have been talking with repre- ' sentatives from other counties say that ■ if Marion county persists in going into ■ the caucus with more than one candidate the speakership will not be likely to come to Indianapolis. It is presumed that Mr. Leedy would be equally pieced ' to have Mr.- Adams get out of the way. ARMSTRONG OCT OF PRISON. James K.’s Term Expires—Whereabouts of Cal and Mont. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 21.—James K. j Armstrong, the defaulting Tipton county : treasurer, has served his year and is out of prison. His son Calvin, for embezzle“ment of $43,000, has two years yet to ■ serve. Mont Armstrong, another son. ■ who helped Calvin squander the cash on I the racetrack, has been located in Mexii co with a string of horses, but .he will not be molested unless he should return. Tipton people want him to stay away. State University Removal. j Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—Friends of ; the State University learned that i a few of the members-elect of the legislature are not friendly to the institution; that others will favor the passage of a j bill providing for its removable Indiani apolis, and still others will favor coni solidation With Purdue. These who are opposed to taking the school away from j Bloomington say that it is not likely I that the coming legislature will take any steps looking toward the removal of ' the school. Woman Deputy. Muncie, Ind., Nov. 21.— The first woman to be appointed as deputy in a county office in Delaware county is Miss Ida Lockwood, who has been commissioned deputy county recorder under ' Reuben Thompson! Miss Lockwood has been clerking in the office for 11 years. Freight Agent 111. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 21.—George R. Knox, general freight agent of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, while on his way to Chicago, was taken so ill that he had. to stop off here for medial treatment. He is somewhat bettor now. Closed Gambling Place*. Hammond, Ind., Nov. 21.—Under instructions ffom the mayor the chief of I police yesterday afternoon closed the ■ gambling places just outside the Roby ! racetrack. There is talk of attacking ; Roby, backed by the local Civic Federation. Breckinridge Coming to Indiana. Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 21.—A letter received in this city says that Colonel Breckinridge of Kentucky will lecture at Fort Wayne, South Bend and Elkhart on “Ten Years Among Tariff Reformers.” ' Civil Engineer Injured. - , Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 21.—A telegram from Chicago says that J. M. Griffin, one of the best known engineers on the Lake Shore road, was injured, probably fatally, by a wreck in the yards in that city yesterday. Killed by the Car*. Centerville, Ind., Nov. 21.—Barney Hoar, track watchman, who was struck by a passenger engine yesterday, died last evening. He had been in the employ of the road over 30 years. Back Broken by a FalL Salem, Ind., Nov. 21.—Woodfield Denbo, 76 years old, a resident of English, who came here as a witness, fell down the courthouse steps and broke his back. He will likely die. Aaron Jone* For Prlaon Warden. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 21.—A movement has had its inception in northern Indiana to make Hon. Aaron Joum of this city a candidate for the wardenbhip of the northern prison. FIVE HANDSOME LOTS for sale in Grant Railing’s addition. Enquire Btf Grant Railing.

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CULPABLE_OFFICIALS. Coroner’s Verdict on the Washington • Courthouse Riot. ' / — THE FIRING UNJUSTIFIABLE. . « Sheriff Cook and Colonel Colt, According te the-Coroner, Should Be Froaecuted For Murder—There Wan No Danger to Prisoner or Property at the Time of the Tragedy, He Concludes. Washington C. H., 0., Nov. 16.— The muddle into which affairs have drifted as a result of the shooting into a mob on the night of Oct. 17, when five persons were killed, "has been intensified by the verdict of Coroner Edwards, who holds Sheriff James F. Cook and Colonel A. B. Coit of the militia responsible for the murders. The report of the coroner created surprise, as its filing was unexpected, there being a controversy between he and Colonel Coit as to the latter giving testimony. Colonel Coit, however, steadfastly refused to oome here to give evidence, on the ground that his life would bo placed in jeopardy. He declared that he feared lynching or assassination and would not make the trip. Every means of bringing him here having failed, Coroner Edwards | filed this report late yesterday, having i 98 witnesses: I Coroner’* Verdict. After having ,iewed the Ixxiies and heard the evidence. I do find that the deceased. Smith Welch, Mac Johnson, Jessie Judy, Willitem A. Sams and Theodore Ammerman, came to their death from being struck while in front of the courthouse on the evening of Oct. 17, 1894, With leaden balls fired from the interior of the courthouse in Washington C. H., by Ohio State National Guards, who were under command of James E. Cook as sheriff of Fayette county and A B. Coit, colonel of the Fourteenth regigient, and I do find that at the time of the firing by the-guards there was no imminent danger of serious destruction of property or of harm to anyone inside the courthouse or the remotest danger to the prisoner, William Dolby (colored), being rescued from the custody of Sheriff Cook. Upto this time the common pleas court has not impaneled 5 special grand jury to consider the case. The regular term of the common pleas court will not be held till the first week in January, 1895, and it is not known whether the case will be deferred until then or be taken up at once. The coroner has ’turned over all testimony and his verdict to the prosecuting attorney and the action of the court is now awaited with interest. Held Without Ball. It is said in case indictments are found against Coit and Cook that there will be a change of venue. The widely circulated story that .Colonel Coit would have been in any manner mistreated in case he had come here to testify is absurd, as the city has long since resumed its normal condition. There has been no diaposit,inn among the citizens to interrupt the course of the inquest and Colonel Coit would receive respectful consideration just as any other witness. Os course it is well known that prisoners held on charges of murder in the first degree are not eligible to bail and Colonel Coit and Sheriff Cook will be compelled to Jxs locked up till they get their BRICK! BRICK!! BRICK!!! Mayer & Mann, are prepared to fur--1 nish first-class brick for any purpose, at

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