Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 29 August 1895 — Page 6

DIGGING FOR DEAD. BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE DENVER HOTEL RUINS. Engineer Pierce, Whose Negligence CauM-j the Horror, Himself a Victim of His Own Carelessness Fire in Milwaukee Outrages by the Chinese. Twenty-five the Death Roll. A portion of the Gumry Hotel. Denver, the serene of the frightful disaster, is still standing, gaunt and sinister, constantly threatening to crash down at any moment upon those delving in the ruins The search for victims has been carried on •rith the utmost energy constantly, with the aid of twenty are lights. The list of dead and missing now numbers twentyfive, making the disaster the worst that ever occurred in the city. It is clearly proved that the tragedy was due to the carelessness of the engineer, who turned water into the boilers which had become overheated Pierce, the engineer, it is said, was intoxicated. Some of the victims were instantly killed; others were buried in the ruins where they slowly burned to death, the building having taken fire after the explosion; others were rescued after suffering horrible tortures only to die in hospital or on the way to it. while others still suffered injuries that will seriously affect them during life. For several hours after the disaster the scenes amid the ruins of the hotel were such that men turned pale and sto••<! help-

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less with sorrow and horror. Several per-1 sons were scon slowly burning to doath. I but they were so weighted down with de- ‘ bris and encompassed by flame that no aid could be given then., S.»me of them begged piteously to be killed. that they might not be forced to endure the torture of fire, while others, needing only the chopping off of a limb to be free, implored the firemen to ent off a leg or an arm. Most of the victims were persons prominent in the affairs of the State. The total L>ss caused by the explosion fir.. 7- Tb*- Gnmry ll- tel --- ' ■ ■" - J 'Z~T~ -—— — *HOTEL THAT I Rl) ED A DEATH-TRAP. worth of furniture. It is a total wreck, but was famurad for $25,000. The MoMann Bl ok. which stands nest to the Gumry. was <u> heavily damaged. It is owned by Cole:.,’. E. A. Bishop and was built ■: 1890 ~ " I brick and is occupied throughout by the A. Lilliblade Furniture Company. The whole rear end of this block was ruined. The I- -s on the I-:.’.ding :s s’.-o-.t $25,000, as the building will hare to be tern down. Tills I -k > ms- rod f S ‘ The stock of A T-illiblade. valued at $30.)«».'. is only partly lost. FIRE IN MILWAUKEE. Valuable Railroad and Steamboat Property Swept Away. Fire burned over a d-.-eu blocks in Milws Tin rod iv ar I • - yed ;r ; erty w rth It . sre: :: t - river front at the Water street bridge and before it was stopped it had burned a swath from -.ce to three b ks wide to See ■ the flames and sent them traveling west over the yards of the Ciucag Milwaukee a■ I S ■ startling rapidity, destroying in th, :r path the freight wareh. uses of railroad and steamship companies, valusl-le freight ,n storage and railway -ars For so -.r !: -:ro th.-' fire apparatus, firemen and emt loves of the railroad company in the city fought the progress of the flan.es before they were under ,-oatr'l. When the lighters finished work two companies of firemen w- re left to guard half

victims of the outrage on msssonaries in china. rifV-fTi Cl — "SMsk aSjiw — pr ■ ■ ByW ■ ;Jf MISS CORDOX. MRS. STEW aKT. REV. R. W. STEWART, MISS COD RIX GTQX, MISS BESSIE NEWCOMB*, Sreared Burned .n »*<* M.s&tea Burntxi in U*e Senoosly winded. Speared bd ’ th rami dowa H. sa W .Asaug. House bc inred;.-A

a square mH? of glowing embers. During the exciting scenes incident to fire-fight-ing a boy was run over by a fire engine and killed. The losses are divided as follows: Buildings in the freight yard, all owned by the C., M. & St. P. R. IL Co ..SIOO,OOO Union Steamboat Company 40,0)0 Anchor line (Pennsylvania C 0.).. 40.000 Sixty freight cars (C., M. & St. P. Co.) 50.000 Wisconsin Central, freight 30,000 C . M A- St. P. Co. freight 70.000 Franklin refiners of Philadelphia. 37,000 Delaney warehouse, damaged... 5,000 Pritzlaff warehouse, damaged... 2,000 P. F. Doyne’s factory 2.000 Twelve frame houses, damaged.. 6,000 Total $382,000 Insurance companies, however, will stand the greater portion of the loss. The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, by far the heaviest loser, is fully protected by insurance, as are the steamship and manufacturing concerns. The dozen frame cottages that stand on the north edge of the burned district, and were all more or less damaged by the blaze, are owned by workingmen. who must stand their own losses. Tiny suffered not only by damage done to their homes by the fire, but in the excitement the house furnishings were thrown into the street and nearly destroyed. Ashes from the pipe of a careless longshoreman at work on the docks of the Union S:oai. ' : Ompar-y are believed to have caused the expensive bteze. No one knows just how it started. When first seen it was burning on the planking of the dock close to the south end of the building at a point where there is a bend

I in the river, several hundred feet west of I the West Water street bridge. A -."th- 1 - - • . K s. ,i -*- va >t- V I west gals blowing - ■>: tue city nt a thirty-mile-an-hour gait fanned it. and in ’ less time thrift it takes to. tell the story the flames were licking up 1,500 feet of ralu- * able river front property. L ST OF THE MISSIONARIES. Names of the Men and Women XV ho Are in Danger at Foo Chow. The riots at Foo Chow, reported in the I latest dispatches, are mueh more serious than ti:-.-e in tin interior and gi—? thj friends of the missionaries and missionary i work more concern. Foo Chow is near the coast, and is a city pf importance; disjChek to the Lendjji Ttjpes from Hong ’ j-w.firnis the di-plttoh aßnotwcit _ ■ the attack up-n the Amerjian m.s< ’ pear Foo Chow and a dangerous stale of a j gn ’important station of the Methodist - Episcopal church’s missionary work. The i missi-n was begun in 1547, and is now i under the general supervision of Bishop I Goodseil. assisted by the following mis- | si, naries and their wives: N. J. Plumb. , G. B. Sruvth. M. C. Wilcox. W. 11. Lacy. ; .1. J. Gregory. M. IE; J. H. Worley, W. N. I Brewster. G. S- Miner, and Miaa Sarah M. B- swe-th- I’here are also a number of wo«nen missionaries sent out by the Wo- . me s Foreign M:ss.-nary Society of the Methodist Church, who work in conjuac- » ith the > and his aids. These missionary s are locate,! in various towns and villages Foo Chow, and of course, in ease of such an uprising as reance could be sent to them or they could 1 assemble at the American school, near the | gates of Foo Chow. INSANE ASYLUM HORRORS. Patients Permitted to Mangla and Maim Eucb Other. The investigation of the Cook County ■ E: .< Commiss oners into the management of the Dunning Insane Asylum began Tr, s lay. Thirty thousand words of testimony were taken at the first sitting. Toward the end of the day’s sitting came a horrible story, that in detail was more bar than the story of the Pucik murder. It was 1 Id by Dr. McGrew, re-. ..-..t : ' - .•:: f Punt .:<< As;- It concerned a battle between two mad men. ho ha - in the corridor of ward 2 while An-i-ro a- os--ory to the murder .1 of Puck, was on wateh. These two pa .cuts -tuarreled over s- me silly, childish difference. They came to bk-ws. They tore at eat s other’s faces and rolled ■ about the floor. One of them, in the frenxy of a raving maniac, set his teeth ini; to the face of the other He bit off his ! 1 nose and spat it out on the stone floor of i i the corridor. The maniac with whom this i patient was battling sprang away from . i the death grip, fell bleeding and screwm--g - the ti saw the flesh torn from hi* own face, stuffed it into his mouth and hewed his own n-'se to a pulp and swal j lowed ir. He said that would make it : i grow again, and Anderson, the attemiau'

looked on. This wa« the sworn testimony of Dr. McGrew, resident physician at Dunning Asylum. While it was being given one of the comfnissioners turned sick and pale. Julia Addama, one of the . committee, covered her face with her hauds and eluiched at the arm of her HOSPITAL FOP. THE INSANE ATIHX’NIXG. chair. Although the inquiry was only begun, enough was drawn out to show that great abuses have been practiced in the asylum. THE CROOK OF THE CENTURY. An Unsurpassed Counterfeiter Captured at Lust. !▼ was very efficient u rk on the part of the New York secret service men which succeeded in breaking up a gang of counterfeiters. seizing their plant at Hoboken. N. J., and capturing their head, William H. Bfik kway. It was long known that .‘er:- * _• >ld >'en ■ ares f r and ,SIOO were being issued, hut it was hard to track up the criminals. Valuable plates were taken and Canadian notes, half printed, for S2W).OiM). together with fibre plant of such magnitude and so complete in every feature has been secured by secret service men for years. Resi les Brockway, who is regarded as the most expert counterfeiter in the country. a:M wh. :s 73 years eld. O E. Bradford. Lil bi - p.-. d Sidney Smith and William E. Wagner were also taken. These others are comparatively little known, but Brockway has lived a life filled with deeds of crime and adventure. In many respects he is one of the most notorious criminals of thjs class this country has produced. Oidv one overshadowed him in p .-nt « f >kiiifnl v.-' . k as a counterfeiter. and be was Tom Ballard, who, it w as said, possesj-cti a better formula for making paper for greenbacks than the Government. Only : e man may be said to have been his peer as a forger, and he also bore the name of Brockway. Bro kway s-.:-"- i , •_ •_ - r ir. Nc w Haven about 1545. He was a Connecticut boy. and found employment as a printer. Later he learned engraving and. becoming an expert, he made good wages and saved sufficient money to pay for a special « .r?e in el< to-< m.srry in Yale. This technical knowledge he applied to the production of electrotypes. From almost the day he left Yale his career as a counterfeiter and rger dates His first trick, so far as any record was to take an impress! n in soft ipetaj s>f ? DSK i’- ’p - « had b;.* iglit into th-- in wb h he worked to have certificates struck fronx Really Lis firs: imp rraui qrime was committed soon after the war broke * When the Government began to issue bonds Brockway th- gb.t he saw his portunity. On the 7-3 D bond bis work was of such exceptional cleverness that S’ALOX* of the issue got into the G-«vem-inent vaults before any suspicion was aroused. Brockway was arrestee, but ■■■. .> p -iLUiKt-d :c g- cn s' T-’ ■> r.ng th-

v-' 'ifajt' ■ 1 WILLIAM t BSOCKWAT. plates. Brwkway was arrested in I'for counterfeiting and forgtug ’• per cent. Vnited States coupon b- r. Two crooks. Smith and I‘ y'.e. were also i arrested at the same time : — mpl: ;-y The finished bonds and plates were all i seized. Brockway wss sentenced, for thirty years and D y’.e for twelve. Brockway did not serve a day of this sentence. He managed to arrange a compromise with the Government By consent of Judge Benedi -t the sentence was suspended on condition ti.: • other j-ls>s be surrendered. It was said at the time that, if be were again auzkt tampering - - - tenee would stand. He was caught gga.x but for some reason l<st known to the auth-rities the senter. o f th ry years wss nor enforced. Bro-’kway was arrested this time in New Y -k. ir. November. : -c:::c M ” - .. Essex lii.lnad bonds. Two others were taken into custody at the same time. He pleaded guilty, and wss ed t - Sing Stag : r five y-..rs y IL ■ rr- r Smyth. He kn g. 4. 1 S*7 sm e then he has gone free until just new. The Finance Committee of the New Y rk Board of Aldermen has prepared the report on the tax rate for the y-ar r.x:ng it at 1.92. an in, -rase of 13 points ■ver the rate last year The total amount : “ vney to be rais,-d i* 535.47 d. • •’

NEW TAR IFF AT WORK SPLENDID RESULTS FROM THE WILSON MEASURE. Is a Better Revenue-Raiser than Any Tariff with lli&h —Protective Kates—Short Campaign Not Want* - ed—About Free Binding Twine. Revenue Increasing. The recent increase of the government’s reveottes from customs duties is a gratifying sign of returning pr"sperity ami affords a vivid demonstration of the superiority of the new tariff over its predecessor. “A grain of fact is worth more than i a bushel of argument." as saith an old proverb. And the public, long wearied by the puerile predictions of calamity howlers, will read in the solid facts now published by the Treasury Dejcirtmeat overwhelming proof that the Wilson "free trade" tariff ias Republican partisans so fondly call it) is. after all. ’

THE DOG STILL HOWLS AND THE MOON STILL SHINES. — ****“’‘ *‘firtx j ~~ - -*"-* ■ .TT 1 '7,7L "f I— ■jwacwL-zz--;rgg»-- - : - ' i '■ ~ T-- . . —■ ■ — Zi::■ ■ ------ —- -»■■ — ~ ~ ; ' ~TL:_ -—-- ~ f~ — == .-*-=• _u_-— r- -? - t i Z'Wpk z—- y*v ■ K A: . r . ... -.KhCK' ■■ ■ Business continues unusually active. The settlement of the mining troubles will bring an increase of wag< > ’ > 100,000 men.—Extracts from Dun’s Report. —Chicago Chronicle.

d-ing Its work admirably well, and , will, in all probability, ere long yield ; ample returns. During the whole month of July, if i we exclude Sundays and the national ‘ holiday, the national revenue from all i sources averaged the handsome sunt ! • I 51.127.i-*' a day. of which amount the customs duties furnished nearly ; ne-half. Yesterday August 1) the r»‘- i • i;cs were 51.22ft.954. of which the: -ms were s747.2'l2—considerably i more than one-half. And all present, indications favor the eonelusiou that ' thes- fine receipts are not exceptional or temporary, but are due to normal and ■■ •rtinuing eauses. which must es-I’e-t still fttrth r improvements in the autumn and winter revenues and probably carry the aggregate income of the government for the new fiscal y-ar aht-re s3»>•).’> ■ The customs duties collected in the eleven mon - - I ' i ' 1891 to July 31. IK*5 linelusivei. by the Wil---r, * f duty <>n ir.tr- ”< am tut S’4'-7"-2 12'But in the - tn-nths from Septeml<er 1.1598, to July 31. IK*4 -inelttsirei. in whi- L the M - K.r! -y ra'-s were f r the <-us: -st revenue collected was ■ nly $115.4«»5.”i' ’’. T -. • ; s : ■ available for coniparis->n the Wilson tariff pro-iuced : -r the Troastry £l2. . than the M Kit E-y tariff ;-rodt»-i. At . - -r; 'a- fr tr ■- ' — t—r. K-G—ti-r trot v- ■ - •_ . -f | exis-et wh-s all indnstrle* were in j of IS93—evea -ro ■ - Pkt.' ir ro !or hard times were f-l-—tn- M. HinJev | tariff y.-l led ; t. i» m re tLir .

I OVt*r T-ii*' ■j'WL IS *iu~ ’♦oiliT *<f T >?' »'-Uf’iir I i- -- t * e. tariff Xwmber. '.SI-r B • , | lKi<: .... . .1- - r ifi . » Aprit 2 Si*4 ..... IO TTc itU" '*»• I Mxy. 2*£-*4 VTissue*’ I 5-S • A • rar.. ZS— ' ' .xt -.,»... •■• Wiiwuj! iunf» j l<-*4 .fir.rH- ; K ; I Q.-. W. 1<44 . . 23 n j l*&u .. • j ! j t . k m>

January. If®." nd F. i raan, IW. IL 4 • :::::: July. IS‘5 U.OdV*M -b Total The following are the averagis ptr month: Under M< Kiiil. ) ia«. Vnder Wi!s->n law. $10,240,171 24 si:-52.-’.-l" .*• It is now as clear as a sunbeam that the Wilson tariff bill ’* a better reve-nue-raiser than McKinley’s or any tariff with high “protective’’ rates. It more revenue is w lx- raised by customs duties the Wilson rates must be rather lowered than raised. Exery economist and every merchant knows that high tariff rates act in a prohibitory wav on importations, and hence kill the revenue from customs. Had theorigit'.-.nvibon bill prescribing lower duties than those fixed in the bill by Senator Gorman and Ma < ■ ?r.:e. become a law. it would have brought in to the Government much larger revenues. ami the present deficit in the

I treasury would have been much less ! than it is. What. then, shall be said of the Re- • publican "protectionist" scheme to reopen the tariff question ami increase ; the present duties on the pretense of , increasing the Government revenue I from customs? No scheme couid be ; devised that would more surely cut j down the treasury receipts ami swell ■ its deficit. I’nder the Wilson tariff (which afi fords labor and manufacturers the inestimable boon of free wool anil other free raw materials) the wages of probably l,<«).i».i) workmen in our mills and factori-s have been increased, new mills are going up. and idle plants resuming work. For the first time in thirty-five years our decadent exisirt trade in American manufactured goods shows signs of returning vitality. And American merchants are beginning to look wistfully for a revival of' their once famous and lucrative ocean commere-. Any return to "protectionism" would dash their hopes and bring back the labor troubles which wore so niomora! de and multitudinous in the era *-f the McKinley tariff. The people are l»-gianing to see that every "protective tariff on imports is destructive of r foreign commenee. and is. be- - - the least economical and most tm.-ci-ievTous method of raising reveuu- It ts time, therefore, for all “pro-t-.tionh.ta~ to cease their vain advo-<-4 a return to high tariff.—New Y-.-rk Herald. A 'Vt Presidential Campaign. Soc.- sensational newspapers are adv E-- LA-l -t.al conventions by ’* "ti. next year for the nomina* tzci f p’e-.’i-ntial candidates and for —" ■-f platforms. They claim tiiat txe caaspaigns should not extend •-y t-3 till —ty vx> which is all ■ir- tixn*- rermred for toe discussion and i ■-*. -4 tie -sues between par-

. leev- - < me plausibility in the as- -.- < mat les» time i» required now ' ■- aisipa-gus than In the per' ’- -**■ *re tie- daily press went everyv ■■*•"' t ‘ , ' : ■’’■• "-be *eiegraph carried -.•_•. • -n-j» intelligence of 3 ey.,rer;esn as it progressed liui *"j'< Sjity years ago. when the ••’* ;. • t in- ona. ''inventions were “"■ '*'■ a f- "tn «■ more for 10-vs uui jua* <_» ’■-. rear-h all parts v ue * trt intelligence of each ;. .u-'f p. L? . . a<jW a]<>ne .in .e.-t-Tpt •/, -:e- neighborhoods ’. ,U» * !>■•>, -Jji’ cooveDtioii xt kiK-wn v» th- gr*-at ■ ’ - tk as - *>>n a* the <,l! rfui whether the fact Uii- d*-v f- w«ie rapidly now -m i i v ago is a Ivr the period of na-! e 'ut ~- -»-nttion wfesot) precede* a \ ,r-d ißteresai are at ,» .... -e - tii*- people m all their business unt -.--a.: are to be decided. - >•* »*- /?» vs Government uii'.e« ot’r iiiF*;tsm<..», - 2 f subject to ■ ■ -.-•- .* made it

should be’with sufficient forethought after a carpfnl atndy of all the elementa in the problem before the public and in cool blood. The plea for a short campaign on the ground that it takes less time to find out the names of the candidates and ths nature of the platforms is only partially sound. It is an argument in favor of holding the national conventions twoor three weeks later, not In favor of holding them two or three months later. It is a good reason for delaying the commencement of the campaign until about tiie average time of year when the | n s> pie fifty or sixty years ago were notified of the nominations. It is not a good reason for shortening the campaign to such an extent that all its events will be buddled into a few weeks' time. There is not much truth in the allegation that business is obstructed ami embarrassed in presidential years. The volume of trade and the exchanges in the years when presidents are elected does not vary much from the average of other years. Business men know that, whichever party may succeed. Congress

will not meet until more than a year after the election, and that no legislation affecting commercial interests can lie perfected in a year and a half. That will give them plenty of time to close out all their open transactions and to prepare for a change it one shall occur. The ieiiucncy fit rather to stimulate business in completing partial transactions than otherwise. Upon no ground is the sensational demand for a short campaign sustained in reason, it can be advocate)! only by the organs of a party fearing exposure and seeking to cover the misdeeds of its administration under the hurry, turbulence and confusion of a short and red-hot campaign. A party of principle ami with a clean record will ask the slow, deliberate, cautious judgment of the people when political enthusiasm is temia-red by prudence and when the sober second thought inspires voter* with wisdom.—Chicago Chronicle. XV hat Free Binder Twine Has Done. Under the McKinley tariff several million wheatgrowers wer- compelled to pay high prices for their binder twine, owing to the protection given the cordage trust by heavy duties. When the Democrats put binding twine on the free list the Republican agents in Congress protes’ed that without a tariff against foreign twine the American manufacturer would lie driven out of business. Elijah Adams Morse, the stove-polish statesman from Massachusetts, was especially indig nant against the free-twine ruin which he alleged was threatening his constituents in Plymouth, and implored Congress not to close up the cordage factories and throw out of work th ir i employes. But in spite of the Rising [ Sun’s tearful and ungrammatical do- ; quence, the Democrats gave the far - I mens free twine. A year's experience under the Wilson

tariff shows how unfounded were the Republican assertions. Instead of a ruined cordage industry, the demand fo r binder twine has been so great that the factories have in many cases been unable to till orders. The Cordage Trade Journal states in its issue of August Ist that not for many months lias the situation in the binder-twine market been so gratifying to manufacturers, jobbers and dealers as it is now. Most manufacturers have sold out their entire stocks, factories have been running on full time, and the various kinds of manila, sisal and hemp twines are yielding their manufacturers good profits. This condition of affairs in an imjiortant industry is exactly what was predicted by the Democrats, and clearly justifies their free-twine policy. farmers are getting their twine cheaper than under McKinleyism. and 'tin therefore afford to buy more. The cordage factories find that their bus.ness is Improving, and the demand for their goods increasing. The ■ uly P*» r " ties injured by free twine are the professional mourners over the corpse of McKinleyism. who find that their prophecies of ruin were false.