Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — Page 3

AN INHUMAN BRUTE.

The Diabolical Deed for Which Samuel Purple of Kansas Was Lynched. .Killed His Wire and Children —A New-Born Infant Blown to Pieces. LLameil (Kan.) telegram.) Intelligence has been received here from 'Hodgeman County of a crime which rivals in inhumanity and brutality the butchery •of his family by Willie Sells, the boy murderer. The scene of the tragedy is near Marine, in the extreme south comer of Hodgeman County. About seven years ago a beautiful young lady named Lowber fell desperately in love with Samuel Purple, a man whose reputation for sobriety and mildness of nature was not by any means enviable. Against the wishes of all to whom the young lady was in any way connected, they were married and settled down near Marine. They never lived happily together, and Purple’s vicious.ness culminated Friday morning last in the murder of part of his family and in his own death at the hands of an enraged mob three days later. At the time of the murder his family consisted of seven persons—himself, his wife, his wife’s sister, and four little children, the youngest of whom was only three weeks old. Friday morning his wife arose as usual and prepared breakfast. She then went to awaken her husband, which so enraged him as to incite him to the heinous crime which soon followed. He sprang violently from his bed, and, seizing his shot his wife through the body, from which wound she died at once. The new-born babe was next fired at, with the same result. He next shot and killed another one of his children. His sister-in-law, Miss Lowber, was then selected and fired at, the ball passing through the arm aud lodging somewhere in the shoulder. As this emptied his revolver, he proceeded to load his shotgun in order to complete the work. A slight mistake in this was the only thing that stopped the deadly proceedings. The Eowder was poured into one barrel, and, y error, the shot into the other. With this he endeavored to blow off the head of another child, but as there was nothing except powder in the barrel the child’s face was only severely burned by the explosion. A heavy blanket was seized and wound around the suffering child and this securely wrapped with a heavy wire, in the hope that he'might accomplish by suffocation what he had failed in doing by the use of the shotgun. The child will recover, although fearfully disfigured about the face. The murderer then mounted a horse and started across the field to Marine, with the avowed purpose of murdering his wife’s father and mother. Before he could accomplish this, however, the wounded young lady had made her way to the village and notified the inhabitants of what had happened, and they had congregated ' for resistance. (Seeing that his plan was frustrated, the murderer hastened to Jetmore and surrendered himself to the authorities, where he was placed in jail, surrounded by a heavy guard. That night a mob of about one hundred men went quietly to the jail and demanded the prisoner, who was delivered up with little ceremony. He was then taken back to the scene of his crime and hanged to a tree. Only one member of the family escaped serious injury, and that was the murderer’s little boy, who had hid under his bed when he heard his father coming.

INTEREST IN ADVANCE.

The United States Treasury Offering to Prepay Interest on Bonds Without Rebate. [Washington dispatch.) The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the following circular in regard to prepayment of interest on the public debt: “By virtue of the authority conferred by law upon the Secretary of the Treasury, notice is hereby given that the interest due December 1, 1886, on United States coupon bonds of the funded loan of 1831 will be paid without rebate on the presentation of the proper coupons at the Treasury in Washington, D. C., and at the various subtreasuries. The checks for registered interest of that loan will be forwarded to holders as soon as prepared, aud may be presented ior payment without rebate on or about the 20th inst. Coupons of the 4-per-cent, consols of 1907, falling due January 1, 1887, will be paid on presentation before maturity upon a rebate of interest lit the rate of 3 per cent, per annum. The interest on registered stock of that loan will also be paid on and after Dec. 1, 1886, upon receipt from the Treasurer of the United States of application, accompanied by power of attorney authorizing that officer to collect the interest for the quarter ending Dec. 31,1886, and to retain the propprtionato amount of rebate, remitting balance to applicant.” Treasurer Jordan said to a reporter that the effect of the offer to prepay interest on the public debt would be to distribute almost immediately about $10,000,060 among about two thousand banks and individuals in every section of the country, and would, in his opinion, be of great advantage in the moving of crops and in other branches of business. The Secretary’s action, said he, was entirely for the benefit of business interests.

Sayings and Doings.

“The darky’s hour is just before day,” as Sambo remarked when he started out from his “Ole Kentucky Home” to find a chicken for breakfast. One colored preacher in the South prayed with great earnestness upon the revival of a well-known brother in the field. “O, Lord, ’noint dis yer dear brudder wid de kerosene ile ob salbashun and set him on fire.” Aunt Dinah— Uncle Pete, what did dev do wid dat nigger, Toothpick Ben, in de p’lice co’t dis mo’n’n? Uncle Pete—De Judge sed he would exonerate him dis time. Aunt Dinah—Yes, I s’pected dat; but fur how many days? Uncle Zeke —’Deed; Sophronia, I t’ink de pore boy am gwine fast! Aunt Sophronia—Wh—wh—what’s he talkin’ ’bout, Zekiel? Uncle Zeke—He’s a sayin’, —he’s a sayin’ Sophronia, dat de little whitewashed angels am a floatin’ by. Aunt Sophronia—Nuffin’ ’bout do hebbenly hen-roosts, Zekiel?

LABOR AND LABORERS.

An Encouraging Outlook in the Industrial World—The Utility of Water Power. A Healthy Stimulus in Manufacturing and Building Enterprise—lndustrial Notes. The great activity in business circles during the pact sixty days has stimulated manufacturing and building enterprise in nearly every State in the Union. The greatest activity is in the New England and Middle States. Large mills are to be built at Fall River, one with 20,000 spindles. One will cost $500,000, and run 40,000 spindles. Textile mills are to be erected at Lunenburg, Mass., at Danby, Vt., at Olneyville, R. 1., at West Paterson, N. J., and at several places in the South. New machinery is going into over half of the manufacturing establishments of these States. In fact, such active preparations for an increasing output were never before known. In consequence there is an increasing demand for improved engines, boilers, and machinery, besides electriclight appliances of every make in the market. Electricity is being generally adopted in factories and large shops. A discussion has been started over the relative merits of water-power and steampower. The water-power advocates figure out lhat steam-power, even in quantities—--500 to 000 horse-power—cannot be created or maintained at a cost of less than SSO per horse-power per annum, while waterpower will not ordinarily cost half that much. It is agreed that there are hundreds of places in the United States where valuable water-power can be conveniently utilized at little cost and confer important economic advantages on those who seek this but little used source of power. The makers of wood-working machinery have been encouraged during the past month by a large influx of orders for the latest improved machines for ordinary mill work because of the large amount of work they turn out at less cost than older machines. Several accidents have recently happened from the falling of elevators without safety appliances. The competition is very close between builders. The British boiler users have a system established by which they may consult an association responsible for its advice as to what boiler to buy. This association is responsible for accidents. An English mechanic has found a new steel, or rather a new process for making a better quality of steel than is in use at present. It is good when great toughness is required. The Fall River spinners, when they demanded higher w'ages the other day, were told that the mill had been operated for a year or more past at no profit. Then they asked why so many new mills were to be built. Two large New England worsted mills are using a newly invented German cord, but it is to be materially improved, and the foreign patent will then be purchased. Manufacturers are watching theso experiments with a keen eye, as textile margins are extremely light. Several reading-rooms are in successful operation in New England mills. Southern textile manufacturers are enticing managers of Northern mills into the South by offering them large salaries. The New’ York plumbers cannot start their contemplated co-operative shops because the manufacturers and dealers la plumbers’ materials are organized and will not sell to them. There are inquiries in English markets, so a recent English letter'states, for 100,000 tons of steel rails from the United States and the colonies. All branches of the iron trade are improving, and in consequence the mill-workers and miners are already beginning the discussion of the question of wages. The statement is made that American buyers have inquiries in English makers’ hands for 50,000 tons of blooms and billets. American plate-glass makers have so greatly improved the quality and decreased the price of their products that they have orders on hand for delivery six to twelve months ahead. Two glass-houses were destroyed by fire last week. Steel ties are to be made at Chattanooga, Tenn., for Southern roads. A Belgium firm has just ordered 1,200 feet of belting at St. Louis.

Madame Fursch-Madi.

Below r we presept a life-like portrait of the new and famous dramatic soprano and directress of the National Conservatory, Madame Eursch-Madi, who is announced to appear in the second season of American grand opera, and will make a tour of the country under the management of Messrs. Zimmerman and Nixon.

Madame Fursoh-Madi has appeared before the public of the large citieß of this country several times, at the popular singing festivals, where she has assumed leading roles. She was bom in Bayonne, on the Spanish frontier of France,, "her family being of Alsatian origin, and she thus combines the French animation with the German musical talent. Her success has been phenomenal, both in Europe and this country, and another brilliant season is anticipated.

THE BAKER BOODLE.

Great Quantities Thrown Into the Eighteenth District to Defeat Morrison. Imperative Orders Given the Knights of Labor Assemblies to Vote Against Him. (Water'oo (Ill.) special to Chicago Times.) The Monroe County Democrats are in trouble over the defeat of Col. Morrison. Nobody would believe the fact until Friday or Saturday. Colonel Morrison does not seem to be much cast down over the knock-out. “It's all well enough,” he said yesterday. “I did not think it could be done, but it was all the same. The people around me—my friends, I mean—feel worse about the matter than I. The fight was made against tariff reform, but this defeat will only be sure to intensify future conflicts.” The Colonel is not disposed to be rebellious, nor does he make use of harsh, vindictive language toward the Knights, who defeated him. This contest is by all odds the most important political event in a Congressional way in the last ten years. It was not the ordinary threadbare fight of the nominee of one party as against that of another. It was the battle of the combined protection monopolists and anti-tariff reformers against the "recognized champion of revision. The gentleman for whom a seat in the Fiftieth Congress has been bought cut no figure in the premises. A wooden man, backed by the same influences, would have won just as easily aB he. Jehu Baker was but the dummy. So far as he personally is concerned the victory is a barren one. He was elected; when, however, the inside facts concerning the campaign of the protectionists are brought before the public. Jehu Baker will be in any but an enviable position. A fight of precisely the same character was two years ago made in the interest of Thomas B. Needles, whom Col. Morrison defeated by a majority of over 2,000. Tho Pennsylvania iron manufacturers gave the Needles campaign all the financial aid deemed necessary to insure the success of the Kepublican candidate. Money came into the district by the barrel. The Knights were not concentrated in 1884, and from one-half to two-thirds of their members belong to the Democracy. Col, Morrison, until the election of Tuesday last always received 50 per cent, of the vote of the members of the Assemblies, and had every reason to believe he would not be deserted by them at tnis time. Jehu Baker’s nomination signified nothing. He has been absent from the district for six or eight years. The gentleman was in perfect accord with the prohibitionists, and in the riots at East St. Louis and Belleville a year or two ago, joined a sheriff’s posse comitatus, aud is said to have carried a gun during the continuance of the troubles. No Democratic Knight of Labor in the Eighteentli District would, if left to himself, espouse tho cause of Jehu Baker, who is by every association an aristocrat, and not in sympathy with the workingmen. Morrison entered into the campaign with every assurance of success. The Democrats appeared to bo reasonably well united, and the laboring men of St. Clair, Bond, and Madison Counties were not disposed to unite in common war upon the Democratic cadidate. Morrison’s meetings were well attended ; many coal miners, rolling-mill men, glass-blowers, and toilers of other trades came long distances to listen to his speeches. His sentiments upon the questions of the day received the unqualified indorsement of a majority of the Knights. Tho masters of their lodges called upon him, and it looked, almost to the eve of election, as if Morrison would win with all ease. John Jarrett, the tin-maker, slipped into St. Louis, and opened headquarters at Hurst’t Hotel. He very quietly made stealthy visits to East St. Louis, interviewing tho officers and leading spirits of the lodges of Knights. Many of these men were induced to cross the river to St. Louis and consult with Jarrett at his rooms. He very shrewdly selected a number of men who were set at the task of sowing tho seed of discontent among the workingmen. Col. Morrison knew all about Jarrett’s actions, and for a time felt just a little uneasy. It cropped out, however, after a time that Jarrett was not meeting with much success. Many of the Knights refused to support Baker. They had always voted for Morrison, and were not disposed to leave him now. This fact served to reassure the Morrison men, and no Democrat in the district felt Morrison to be in danger until a day or two before the election. On Saturday a week ago Col. Morrison, in private consultation with one of his lifelong friends, said: “I don’t like the atmosphere. It is chilly, and I feel that something is wrong some place. Is it among the workingmen? ” “Oh, pshaw! "was the rejdy. “ Nothing is wrong. You will get the German vote and your usual support from the laborers. Jarreti cannot control tho Knights.” This assurance, coming, as it did, from one of the shrewdest politicians in the district, had the effect of allaying Col. Morrison’s fears. Subsequent events proved the Colonel’s suspicions to be well grounded. A member of one of the lodges of Knights in the district a few weeks ago changed his resilience, removing from this to an adjoining State. The night before the election he received a letter address il to him at his old home, and forwarded to him at his new place of abode. The envelope contained a letter from the master of the assembly to which ho belonged commanding him to vote a ticket which was inelosed therewith. The ticket read : “For Congressman, Eighteenth District, Jehu Baker.” Tho recipient of the letter, who had for years been a friend of Col. Morrison, made all haste to his old residence for the purpose of disclosing the scheme to Col. Morrison’s friends. The night before the election the Knights said: “We do not know who we shall support— Morrison or Baker; as yet we have received no orders.” Tho friendly Knight brought his warning late Tuesday afternoon. Colonel Morrison was in Waterloo election day, and during the evening received a dispatch announcing the vote of Washington County. Turning to his friends, he said : “I am beaten. ” He went to his house, and in less than half an hour was in bed sound asleep. ’there are about 2,500 Knights in the Eighteenth District, With few, very few, exceptions, every one of these men voted against Morrison. The story as to the means employed to secure the result is little by little coming to the surface. It is very long, hut quite interesting. In view of the close proximity of tho Presidential contest of 1888, and the control of the lvuights by the Republicans, by Indirection, at least, the contest in the Eighteenth will mako a living page of political history. As before intimated, Baker, in an individual sense, cut no figure in the case. A deaf-mute weald have been elected as well as he. The gentleman stumped the district, inveighing long and loud against debauching the ballot-box. He said he was opposed to tho use of money in elections, only desiring a free and full ballot. When asked by an indigent constituent for the loan of fifty cents, he shouted, with much show of indignation : “Half a dollar! No, sir. I will have you to understand this is no boodle campaign.” In a speech made here a night or two before the election Mr. Baker said Monroe County would give Morrison its usual majority, but be would carry fit. Clair, Madison, Bond, aud Washington. He then gave the figuros, and tho result of tho election proved conclusively that Mr. Baker knew exactly what he was talking about. He placod the vote of the Knights just whore it wont. And all this time Baker howled for an honest election! He must have known what Jarrett, as the agent of the protectionists, was doing in tbe district. Otherwise he could not have foretold the action of the Knights. Nor would he have declared himself so strongly in favor of a clean election, and against the use of money, unless he knew the district was by J arrett’s agents being flooded with money in his interest. He was evidently preparing himself for a contest in case of his election. Jarrett met with much opposition in his endeavors to capture the Knights. Koine of tho leaders were bought outright. Others, true to their friendship for Morrison, refused to yield to the blandishments of the protectionists. They declined all offers of employment at exorbitant figures, and tenders of large sums of money for campaign purposes. These men positively refused to support Baker. Jarrett saw something mqst bo done, and that quickly. Ho played the highest trump, and tho night before the election there came from the East a telegraphic message, directing, yes, commanding, all Knights in the district to support Baker. The dispatch in question is said to have been signed by Mr. Powderly. Tho Morrison Knights were whipped into the traces, and Baker “triumphantly” elected.

HOW BRAVE MEN DIE.

Story of the Execution of Leaders of the Expedition Against Honduras. [Now Orleans special.) The Times-Democrat publishes an account by an eye-witness of the exeention of Gen. E. Delgado, Lieut. Col. Indalecio Garcia, Commander Miguel Cortez, and Lieut. Gabriel Loyan, who were shot at Comayagua for leading au expedition against Honduras. Tho lour officers above uamed were lodged in a small prison at Comayagua when the news of their sentence reached them. Gen. Delgado’s wife was there to plead with a wife’s tears and a woman’s devotion for her husband’s life. It was the desire of President Bogran to spare Geu. Delgado’s life if possible, and any pretext would have been readily seized upon to give an opportunity of saving him and at the same tune vindicate the tribunal which had condemned him. The President sent a messenger to him to say that if he would promise never again to take up arms against Honduras he should receive a pardon. Tho soldier was too brave to accept even his life on these terms, and ho sent back word that he would'see Honduras in au oven more tropical climate than she now enjoyed before he would accept his pardon on suoh a pledge. When his answer was received, there was nothing loft but to prepare for the execution. In the countries south of this there are few preliminaries to such not uncommon events. A priest, a firing squad, and a coffin are soon obtained. On the morning of their execution the men were taken to a point near the church of Comayagua. Four coffins were placed near the wall and the four condemned men were led to them. They accepted their positions as easily and as gracefully as if they were in the boxes at the opera, and not a face was blanched, not a nerve quivered. Gen. Delgado asked and received permission to order the guard to fire, which he did, first requesting them uot to shoot him in the face but in the breast. There was no rattle, no spattering reports, but one sharp, stunning report. The four men for half a second remained in an upright position, as if still unhurt, and then rolled over limp and bloody, dead. The soldiers had complied with Gen. Delgado’s request, for three balls had penetrated his breast.

HENRY GEORGE.

His Admirers Announce They Will Run Him for President. Henry George, the Workingmen’s candidate for Mayor of New York Cily, polled nearly 70,000 votes, or within 23,000 of the number cast for Abram S. Ilowitt, the successful Democratic candidate, and nearly 8,000 more than were polled by Roosevelt, the Republican candidate. George’s friends are enthusiastic over this large following in the metropolis, and announce their intention of running him for President in 1888. A recent dispatch from

New York says: “Henry George, the defeated labor candidate for Mayor, was given a large reception at Cooper Union. James Repath and Jo~hn Swinton occupied seats on the platform. Resolutions were adopted calling on the district organizations to continue their work, throw open their doors to new members, and prepare by organization and education for future contests. The Central Labor Union is called upon to issue an address to organizations in other cities, asking their co-operation by similar movements that a national party might be formed. Henry George made an address, in which he predicted that the movement inaugurated here would spread throughout the country.”

BENJ. FOLSOM.

The New Consul at Sheffield, Eng. Benj. Folsom, recently appointed Consul at Sheffield, England, is a first cousin of Mrs. President Cleveland. He accompanied that lady on her travels through Eu-

rope last year, and figured at the wedding in the White House as the only male representative of the bride’s family. Mr. Folsom is a citizen of Buffalo, and has alwaya been a Democrat.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, has returned from Clinton County, where the members of tho Board have been looking after the plenro-pneu-monia. The farmers throughout that section of the State, he reports, are badly frightened over the existence of the disease, and nothing the Board can do seems to pacify them. All tho imported cattle were killed, except nineteen head belonging to a Mr. Snider, who refused to kill his. The farmers killed the cattle themselves, on the advice of the Board, aud will petition tho coming Legislature for relief from their loss. The County of Clinton was quarantined for ninety days, aud orders were loft to see that the quarantine was rigidly enforced. Gov. Gray has telegraphed the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington to send immediately a competent veterinary surgeon to treat the disease. There are four cases of the disease in Jasper County, but the State Board has no fear of its spreading there, as the farms have been under quarantine for some lime. The cattle, Secretary Metcalf says, did not come directly from Ohio to this Stnte, as has been reported, but were shipped from Sherman, N. Y., to Steiner Brothers, of Blnffton, Ohio, where they wore not unloaded, but were sent on into this Slate and Illinois. —An accident occurred at Columbus that will likely cost two men their lives and injured three others. A gang of meu Were erecting a water tank for the railroad, and had a guy rope stretched across tho track to support a derrick. The rope was too low, and the smoke-stack of an incoming train struck and broke it while the meu were raising a heavy pieco of timber, and Ihe derrick fell, prostrating every one of the men. Milton Robinson, tho foreman, an old man, was injured in tho chest, shoulder, aud head; he has since been unconscious, and will scarcely recover. Jacob Weaver was struck on the head, and was supposed to bo dead, but revived and may possibly live. William Pennison had a shoulder dislocated, and William Elliott and Charles Whipker were knocked down, but not seriously injured. - —Don. John W. Holcombe, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at work upon his thirteenth biennuil report, and nearly 200 pages are now in type. Tho volume will bo an unusually interesting one, proßy statistics being eliminated as far as possible. Tho report shows a Rteady improvement in school mutters during the past two yours. Nearly four millions of the common school fund is invested in G per cent, bonds. Tho total amount of the fund is $0,455,085, and a portion is loaned at 8 per cent, interest, with real-estate security. The soveral colleges of Indiana are shown to be in a prosperous condition. The high standard of excellence attained by Indiana’s schools is recognized by many older slates. —Martha Duncan is nn old colored woman who lives near the government depot in Jeffersonville. The other day she found a bottle containing what she supposed to be medicine for rheumatism. In fact, it was labeled as such. Being it sufferer from that disease, alio applied the contents of the bottle, which proved to be nitrate of silver. Blood-poisoning set in, and she cannot possibly recover. The flesh is almost burned off her lower limbs, and she will live but a few days at the farthest. —The gas well at Fort Wayne still continues to keep its regular flow, and arrangements are now completed by which the gas is prevented from escaping. The projectors believe that they are on the edge of a gas belt, and are now making experiments for the purpose of sinking another woll. Tho new well will probably be sunk at some distance from tho present one, and tho company are confident they will yet strike a bonanza. —Michael Caniff, a Lafayette laborer, attempted to crawl under a freight train, that blocked his pathway. The train started up suddenly, and Caniff, unable to get through, lost his presence of mind, was thrown down, the train running over and crushing one of his legs to a jelly. The injured man was taken to the St. Elizabeth Hospital, where, upon examination, an amputation was performed, but the man sank and died. —Tho surviving members of the Twelfth Indian Infantry Volunteers will hold their flrst reunion since the war in Warsaw, on Thursday, Nov. 25—the anniversary of the battle of Missionary Ridge. M. D. Gage, tho beloved chaplain of the Regiment, will be present at the leunion, he now being in the State on a visit from his home in California. Every officer and enlisted man of the “old command” is urged and expected to attend. —ln the State Reform Sctool for boys there are 516 inmates, being much the largest number ever in the institution. During the year 211 were released on tickets. Since the opening in 1808 there have been admitted nearly 5,500. They have made 650,000 bricks during the past summer and added a great many improvements about tbe building. —ln transferring the remains of a child of Rev. A. Murine, buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, at Richmond, twenty-six years ago, to Earlham Cemetery, it was discovered that the features were still plainly recoguizuble, and the little lace collar about its neck was seemingly as perfect as ever. —Edward Morgan, who was slabbed by John Opp during a call upon the latter’s daughter, near Lafayette, has fled on learning the death of Miss Opp, to whom he had been paying atlentious while he had a wife and family in Maryland.