Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — Page 6

Stye 5 emocraticSentinei RENSSELAER, INDIANA. i. W. McEWEN, - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The engine and tender of a passenger tram fell through a trestle near Marietta, Ohio, the engineer and fireman being killed, and two other employes' badly scalded. Michael Early, a passenger, had his left leg crushed. A passenger train was wrecked near Parks Station, N. Y. The smoker turned upside down and caught fire from the stove, the clothing of some of the passengers being burned. Fifteen persons were more or less injured. Charles F. Freeman, of Sandwich, Mas?., who in May, lt>7ll, murdered his child, claiming that the act was performed in accordance with commands from heaven, will be discharged from an insane asylum, whither he was sent by a verdict of a jury. Nate Salsbury, the actor, and Miss Bay Samuels were married at New York by Judge Patterson, of the Supreme Court.

Lawton Bros., New York, dealers in phosphates, are in trouble. The Sheriff seized their establishment under attachments issued on creditors’ claims amounting to *245,000. It is alleged that W. R Lawton, the surviving member of the firm, has disappeared, and that his liabilities are $1,01X1,000. The father of General Daniel E. Sickles died in his home at Now Rochelle, N. Y. Six dead bodies were taken from the hotel ruins at Buffalo. I'.ve persons are doad or missing and twenty-one injured. Henry B. Rumsey, whose family lives at Fort Wayne, IndL, was among the killed, and ho came to his death by boldly attempting to rescue a little girl from the flames. The overhead wires in the streets prevented the fire department from working effectively and led to the loss of life, and at a meeting of citizens it was determined that all wiros would have to be put under ground. Rufus Y. Kirkland, the confidential associate of Walter E. Lawton, the fugitive embezzler of New York, has also disappeared. It is supposed that Lawton took with him one of two wealthy widows, to whom ho was recently paying his addresses. The New York (irapliic says that the National Opera Company is on the verge of dissolution, and wonders who is going to settle the debts of the American or National Opera Company, whose stupendous extravagance, recklessness, and inefficiency exceed anything over known in the history of theatrical management.

WESTERN.

The five “boodlers” indicted by the Grand Jury and arrested at Chicago were released on bail aggregating SBI,OOO. M. C. McDonald, E. J. Lehmann, and others furnished bonds of $31,000 for Warden McGariglo, $20,0 .0 for Warden Varnoll, and a like sum for Edward 8. McDonald, It O. Driscoll, and James T, Connolly. The remains of Captain James B. Eads were interred in Bellefontaino Cemetery at St Louis. The funeral sorvices wore held in Christ Church, and were attended by a large number of prominent citizens. A third gas well has been developed at Marion, Ind, at a depth of 910 feet. The contractor reports the volumo of illuminating material the strongest of the one hundred wells he has drilled Its roar is like that of an express train. Oscar Cook, who was involved in the “Jim Cummings” express robbery on tho St Louis and San Francisco Road, has been sentenced at Independence, Mo., to three years’ imprisonment St. Louis has been designated by the Acting Secretary of tho Treasury as a central reserve city for national banks, under the act passed at the lust session of Congress. The arguments in the anarchists’ case at Ottawa, 111., were concluded on the 18th inst, Attorney General Hunt closing for the State, and Captain Black making the final address for the defense. The matter was taken under advisement. “ One-Ear ” Dodge, a desperado and horse-thief, was hanged by vigilantes near Lordsburg, New Mexico. For a long time past the southern part of the Territory lia ? been infested with a gang of desperadoes, who made life and property unsafe, and the chief of tho gang was William Dodge, who was fond of calling himself “a bad man,” and exacted respect and drinks from tendorfeet at the point of tho pistol About a year ago Dodge tried the same game on a cowboy, who pulled a bowie-knife and lapped off the right ear of Dodge, giving him the name of “OneEar” Dodge. A fire at Mankato, Minn., damaged the barrel and tub factory of Charles March to the amount of $40,003. The Mormons sent from Idaho to the Detroit House of Correction on cumulative sentences were released by Judge Severns, in accordance with a recent decision by the Federal Supreme Court Winter wheat prospects in twentyfive Illinois counties are reported favorable, a-ad the general outlook in Missouri and Wisconsin is promising. The situation in Kansas is improved Wheat in some portions of Michigan is in bad condition.

SOUTHERN.

The imported stallion King Ban, valued at #35,000, died of spinal meningitis at Lexington, Ky. The drought committee appointed by the Legislature of Texas distributed #IOO,000 among 27,759 sufferers. At Morehead, Ky., J. T. Witcher playfully remarked to his friend, John Trumbo, that he eould cut his throat' before he

(Trumbo) could draw his revolver. Trumbo drew and leveled his revolver in an instant. It was discharged accidentally, and Witcher fell dead. In the prohibition county of Rock Castle, Ky., a band of knklux took from her house Eliza Fish, aged 70, aud began whipping her. Suddenly shots were fired and three of the kuklux fell dead. The woman persisted in selling liquor, notwithstanding that she had been warned several times to stop the traffic, resulting in the fatal visit of the vigilante*. A San Antonio (Texas) dispatch says that William Stone, employed by Henry Madison, a well-known stockman and contractor of that city, demanded money of Madison at a railroad camp near Boerne. Madison told him to wait until Saturday,, whereupon Stone shot him dead. Two Mexicans in the camp attemped to arrest the murderer, and Stone shot and killed both of them. Stone is at large. If caught he will be lynched. Summerville, S. C., was shaken Friday evening by the heaviest earthquake shock felt there in the last two months It caused some excitement A mob of masked men surrounded the County Jail at Troy, Tenn., and demanded admission of the Sheriff. Being refused, they broke down the outside door, went to the room of the jailer, aud, breaking down his room door, demanded the keys of the cells at the muzzles of pistols and guns. Compelling him to unlock the doors, they took out a negro murderer named William Hardy, aud hanged him to a tree one and one-half miles north of town. An explosion in the United Oil Company’s works aLßattimoro caused the death of four persons. Eastern capitalists have organized a company to work the recently discovered goldfields in Arkansas.

WASHINGTON.

Ex-Secretary Manning has sailed for Europe, with his wife and daughter, in the hope of regaining strength. The Attorney General has informed the Navy Department that the available balance of the appropriations, under the respective heads of “bureau of construction and repair,” and “bureau of steam engineering,” can be lawfully applied to completing the hulls and machinery of the cruisers Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta, provided the total expenditure shall not exceed the total cost of hulls and machinery as reported by the Naval Advisory Board. Work upon the vessels will be resumed at once. C. H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, has been appointed Minister to Liberia. The Navy Department is about to begin the preparation of plans for tbo two 1,700ton gunboats for which provi-ion was made by the last Congress. During the week ended March 12 there were received at Washington 0,855 applications for ponsious and 2,154 cases were disposed of during the week, leaving a total of 20(1,280 cases pending. President Cleveland was 50 years of ago on the 18th of March. The Secretary of the Treasury sent out a circular setting forth the action of Congress on the fishery question

POLITICAL.

The Virginia General Assembly met in extra session last week. The debt question will be the prominent subject for legislation. A Washington special to the Chicago Daily News rays: The President is disappointed at the failure of prominent men in the country to assist him in the enforcement of the interstate commerce act. At least a dozen of those who have been asked have declined, and he will be compelled to take the best timber be can get. He has written and urged and even implored those whom he believed wore best fitted for the duty to accept positions on the commission, and their refusal to do so has caused the dolay in making the appointments. The President considers this commission the most powerful political en r ;ino that has ever been creuted in this country. At least in the control of bad men he believes it could be mude so. To keep the commission out of politics and to prevent any interference with political movements he thinks is necessary, and to accomplish that purpose he must select men who are above partisan influences. When a candidate is recommended to him on strong political grounds he at once chocks him off the list as one not wanted. In the Wisconsin House of Representatives a bill prohibiting the leasing of convict labor was killed by a vote of (H to 23. A Senate joint resolution for an amendment to tlio Constitution on the same subject met a similar fate. The Republican State Convention of Rliodo Island nominated by acclamation all tho present incumbents of the State offices from tho Governor down for the party candidates. The Hon. George P. Wetmoro is the present Governor. The anti-discrimination railroad bill passed in the Pennsylvania Legislature by a vote of 3 J to 4. D. Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina, lias been commissioned by the President to be Consul General of the United States at Constantinople. The Missouri Senate defeated the bill for the regul ition of railroads which had been passed by the House. The special committee of the Nebraska Assembly appointed to investigate the charges preferred by Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee , against several members of that body has reported that the charges were unfounded. The report was sustained, and resolutions were adopted censuring Rosewater and excluding him from the privileges of the floor during the remainder of the session.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The demand of the Ohicago Typographical Union for 40 cents per l,ouo eras for book and weekly newspaper work has been acceded to by the employers. An expected strike or lockout was thus averted. The twenty-four coal-miners imprisoned in the Pittsburgh workhouse for conspiracy in preventing non-union men from working during the great strike of 1884, have just been released by the Pennsylvania Par-

don Board. The men were sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment and had served three months. The striking section hands of the Fort Wayne Railroad were paid off at Pittsburgh and discharged from the service of the company. Their places will be filled by Italians, who will be put to work at once. The journeymen shoemakers at Toronto, Canada, belonging to the Knights of Libor have demanded an increase of 10 per cent in wages. The negro miners who were taken to Peoria to fill the places of the strikers made a demand for an increase of wages, and upon it being refused they quit work. They had anticipated the strike by getting a month’s provisions from the truck stores on credit

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE.

A company has been mcorporated at Springfield, with a capital of *1,500,000, to build a railway from Danville to East St Louis. The following action taken by the Western States Passenger Association in session at Chicago, regarding the issue of mileage tickets will be read with interest by commercial travelers and others using such tickets: Whereas, The issue and use of mileage tickets have been demonstrated to be productive of much detriment to the railway companies and liable to much abuse, and many of the roads are opposed to their continuance, but inasmuch as they have been a convenience to some of the patrons of railways; therefore, resolved, that wo will for the present continue their issue as an experiment upon the following conditions: That each ticket shall be restricted to use by the person whose name shall be entered upon the ticket, and snail be non-transferable, and that they shall be sold at a uniform rate of not less than cents per mile and without rebate. That eacli book shall be good for 1,0)0 miles, no more nor less, and its validity shall be limited to one year from date of sale. Bag: age allowance to be the same as for regular travelers. This is scarcely a concession on the part of the railroads. Between most through points the regular fare is but little if any over 2)4 cents per mile, and, consequently, the passenger will save but little by buying thousandmile tickets.

MISCELLANEOUS. The committee of arrangements of the National G. A. R encampment, to be held at St. Louis next September, have sent a cordial invitation to President Cleveland and his wife to be present and sliju-e in the festivit es. The Cotton-Seed Oil Company recently organ,zed in New Jersey has made contracts for machinery for eight mills, to cost *250,000. Disappointed spectators at a bullfight at can Rafael, Mexico, attacked the performers. The mob was dispersed by soldiers. Many persons were hurt. In Buffa’o, early Friday morning, flames broke out in the Richmond Hotel, containing 175 persons. Not less than twelve lives wore lost, and about thirty persons were injured by dimes or by leaping from windows. SL James’ H ill, adjoining tlie hotel, was also burned. The total loss is estimated at *500,000. The business section of Rock Hill, S. C., was almost wiped out by fire. The loss is *140,000, with about *10,',000 insurance. Tho Durham distillery at Covington, Kv., with 2,020 barrels of bonded whisky, was also destroyed, and one employe fatally injured. Two stores at Flint, Mich., were? gutted by fire. Peter Burrell (colored) was suffocated, and his daughter dangeromly injured by leaping from a window. The first grand Scandinavian saengerfest m America will take place in Philadelphia the latter part of July, lasting tiiree days. The business failures during the week numbered for tho United States 187 and for Canada 33, or a total of 22 >, against 225 in the corresponding week of last year.

FOREIGN.

A feature of the observance of St. Patrick’s Day in England was the appearance of many Englishmen wearing shamrocks. Six per cent, gold bonds of the Mexican National Railway Company to the amount of $10,530,000 have been offered at public subscription in London at 92 per cent It is now supposed that the recent plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia was planned by Degaioff, alia3 Jablonski, tho famous Ninilist leader, who has thus far escaped arrest Father Keller, of Youghal, Ireland, was arrested for declining to receive summouses to court. When he reached Cork in custody be was met by the Mayor, municipal council, and a band of music, and greeted with loud cheers. Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to the editor of the Baptist, doclares in emphatic terms that all other quostions must wait upon the settlement of the Irish question. It was a question involving social order, and it was in the nature of questions involving such an issue lo push their claimi to precedence over other questions. The triple alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy is said to place each of these Powers on an equal i ooting. All will undertake Ihe protection of individual interests, the infringement of which might disturb tho peace of Europe. Father Keller, who was arrested at Youghal, Ireland, was driven to the court in Dublin in the Mayor’s carriage amid an enthusiastic demonstration. He refused to give any testimony as to his custody ot tenants’ moneys as trustee under the “plan of campaign,” and was committed to. prison for contempt of court The people marched with him to Kilmainham, singing national songs, and he entered the prison leaning on Archbishop Wa'sh’s arm. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that “arrests in connection with the attempt ba the Czar’s life continue. An institute for the higher education of women has been closed, and tho rector of the university threatens to stop his lectures. It is stated that two more officers were hanged at the barracks last Sunday. It is reported that the Czar received a letter, dated March 1, from tho executive of the Nihilist committee, informing him that at a sitting of the committee on Feb. 22 he was condemned to death, and that fifty members were appointed to execute the sentence. ■

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Treasury Department refusee free admission at San Francisco to the figure of a dragon 150 feet long, imported from China for use in a joss house. President Cleveland appointed as District Attorneys George E. Pritchett for Nebraska, Emery B. Sellers for Indiana, and Thomas Hayden for Nevada. It is said that W. W. Stewart, of Des Moines, will be given the vacant Revenue Collectorship. . Dr. Z. T. Sowers, one of the most prominent physicians of Washington, says there is danger that President Cleveland will not live through his term unless there is a change in his mode of living. Dr. Sowers, six months before Mr. Manning’s illness, made the same prediction with regard to the Secretary. During a game of base-ball last June at the Poio Gr.Muda at New York James S. Dolan was struck in the right eye by a foul ball, and the sight destroyed. Dolan has sued the Metropolitan Exposition Company for *25,000 damages. A year ago, at New Bedford, Mass., the tendons in one of Edward K. Russell’s legs were severed by accident The tendons from a dog were placed in Russell’s limb and united with the several tendons. For ten months the patient was not permitted to use the injured member, but has now resumed work, the operation having proved a complo e success The rubber-workers of New Brunswick and Milltown, N. J., threaten to abandon the Knights of Labor if they are not granted a charter for a national trade council. On what is claimed to be the very best authority, the Bait.more American states that the railroad deal is an accomplished fact; that Garrett will retain the management; and that Gould will have no hand in the arrangement The Governor of Missouri will soon call an extra session of the Legislature to pas 3 laws to enforce the constitutional provisions in reference to railroads. Archbishop Lynch of Toronto has sent an open letter to Lord Randolph Churchill, in which he begs him to join with Gladstone, justice to Ireland to form the basis of the proposed coalition. The Czar has sent Colonel Sassoulitch to command a regiment on the [Siberian frontier, on account of tbo spread of revolutionary ideas among his former comrades. It is believed that the ringleader in the recent plot to assassinate the Czar was Degaleff, the murderer of Lieut CoL Sudekitn.

Scientific Rewards.

The prizes which have been bestowed by the French Academy of Sciences form a long list, one of the most important of the number being that given a few years ago to Prof. Bell for his his work in connection with the telephone. Those offered for 1887 include 100,(300 francs for the discovery of an efficient remedy for Asiatic cholera; 10,000 francs each for the best works on physics, chemistry, and physiology; 7,500 for work on general embryology; 3,000 francs for.researches on the phosphorescence of animals; 3,000 francs for a comparative study of the hearing apparatus in mammals and birds; 3,Oi)U francs for a comparative study of the fresh-water animal life of Africa, south Asia and" Australasia; 2,500 francs for an improvement of the steam engine, or other invention contributing most to the progress of steam navigation; 2,000 francs for any valuable therapeutical discovery; 2,500 francs for work on the distribution of heat over the globe’s surface; 500 francs for a theoretical and practical study of progress in aerial navigation since 1880; besides many others, ranging from a set of Laplace’s works to 10,000 francs, for specified work in mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, botany, medicine, mechanics, and other sciences, and in aid of scientific students.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.50 @ 6.00 Hogs 5.50 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 92 @ .92'$ No. 2 Bed 91}$@ .92}$ Corn—No 2. 48>$<a .50 Oats—White 38 @ .42 Pork—New Mess 16.25 @16.75 CHICAGO. , Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.25 @ 5.75 Good Shipping 4.5) @ 5.25 Common 3.75 @ 4.25 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.53 @ 6.03 Flour—Extra Spring 4.25 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 77>$@ .78}$ Corn—No. 2 36}$@ .31 Oats—No. 2 25‘$@ .26}$ Butter—Choice Creamery 29 @ .31 Fine Dairy 23 @ .25 Cheese—Full Cream Ciieddar.. ,12 l 4@ .1294 Full Cream, new 13 & .13}$ Eggs—Fresh 13 @ .14 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 65 @ .75 Pork—Mess 20.00 @20.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 76 @ .77 Corn—No. 3 36 V@ .37V, Oats—No. 2 White 31 * @ .31)5 Rye—No. 1 56 @ 5 1~ Pork— Mess.. 16.75 @l7 25 Toledo. WpEAT—Cash R 3 @ .83}$ Corn—Cash 39 @ .40 ~ Oats—No. 2 30 & .30}$ DETROIT. Beef Cattle.' 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 4.00 ;«s 5.50 Sheep 4,00 @ 5.25 Wheat—Michigan Red 82V @ .83}$ Corn—No 2 39 ~@ .40 Oats—White 32 @ .32 V ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 80 @ .81 Cohn—Mixed A 35}$ d) .36 Oats—Mixed 28 & .28'$ ’Pork—Mess 18. 75 @19!oO ' CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .83 @ ,83V Corn—No. 2 39 @ .3914 Oats—No. 2. 29V <9 .30 * Pork—Mess. 17.50 18.00 Live Hogs 5.50 a, 6.00 1 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 2 Hard... 90}$@ .91 . Corn—No. 2 Yellow 44945) .4514 Cattle 4:25 @1 5.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3.75 @ 5.25 Hogs...< 5.00 (fit 6.00 Sheep 3.00 @4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 79. @ .80 Corn—No 2 36 @ .67 Oats 28 @ .28}$ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.00 @5.50 Fair 4.50 @ 5.00 Common ' '4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 6.25 @ 6.50 Sheep 4.75 @5.75

LIVES LOST BY FIRE.

Flames Speedily Destroy the Hotel and Other Buildings at Buffalo. Thirty Persons Believed to Have Been Burned to Death, and Many Badly Injured. (Buffalo special.] Another calamity has visited The splendid new Richmond Hotel, at thn comer of Main aud Eagle streets, was totally destroyed by fire early Friday morning,, together with St. James Hall and other adjacent property. The most distressful part of the disaster is the loss of several human lives. At this writing it is impossible to say just how many persons are killed and injured, but the number is large. The rapidity of the fire, cutting off all means of escape, led some persons to leap for life from the windows. Others got down the fire-escapes or on Hayes ladders raised by the fire department. The shrieks and cries of the poor people in the upper stories of the burning structure were heartrending. One man, mad with terror, leaped from a third-story window, and was picked up from the stone sidewalk on Main street a mangled and bleeding corpse. Several who succeeded in making their escape were badly injured and burned, and some of these will probably die. Others, more fortunate, escaped with slight injuries. Many of the wounded were taken to Carney’s saloon, and afterward to hospitals. Robert Stafford, Sr., proprietor of the hotel, with his wife, occupied rooms on the second floor, and had a narrow' escape. Terror overcame everybody, and even those who escaped in safety were in many cases prostrated by their awful experiences. There were 125 persons in the hotel, seventy of whom weretransient guests, eight boarders, and the remainder porters, bell-boys, the families of the proprietors, and clerks. Twentytwo of these were rescued from the windows by the firemen, twenty-two are at the hospitals, and a large number made their escape by other means. There is no doubt that at least thirty lives were sacrificed. The spread of the flames is said to have been frightful in their rapidity. The elevator shaft served as a flue for the flames, and they rushed up to the top floor in a very few moments. As the guests were roused and saw the interior exits cut off they turned to the windows. They could be seen in their night-clothes, standing out clear and vivid before (he lurid background of the flames. Their screams were horrible to hear, and they could be heard for blocks. The flames spread to the southeast side of the hotel first. The firemen did noble work and confined the fire to the narrow limits of the three buildings named. Their work of rescue had many exciting incidents. Perhaps the most thrilling escape of any was that of Pres Whittaker, step-son of Proprietor Stafford. He roomed in the fifth story, and when aroused stepped to the window and looked down for a few seconds. Then he deliberately dressed himself and, emerging from the window, stood on the stone capping above the window beneath. From this capping be stepSed to the next one along the front of the uilding, and proceeded in this manner to the Hayes truck ladder at the other extremity of the front. The nerve and coolness displayed were remarkable. Five girls who roomed on the fifth floor made a rope out of the bedclothes and hung it out of the window; but none of them seemed to have the courage to start. At last one of the five took hold and swung down to a window ledge, from which she was rescued. Three others came down in the same manner, and then the fifth girl started dowm. She had gone but a little distance when the rope parted, and down she went four stories. Strange to say, she W’as not killed. Her legs were terribly cut and bruised, her back badly injured, and her face and arms were in a frightful condition from burns. She lay moaning upon a lounge at the Spencer House, begging to be sent home. Her name is said to be Mary Connell.

SHIP-BUILDING.

Charles Cramp, of the Well-known Philadelphia Finn of Ship-builders. Charley Cramp, as he is familiarly called, of the firm of William Cramp & Sons, is adopting a policy in the American

ship-building line which is meeting with much success. He speaks very encouragingly in reference to the labor situation, and says the men will now be kept busy for an indefinite period. The firm, in connection with Other orders, has received one from the Government, through the agency of Secretary Whitney. Work on the vessel, which is to make not less than twenty knots an hour, is now in progress. Charley Cramp, in speaking of dull times, Bays: ‘‘English shipbuilders, when there is a lack of orders, build ships to be sold to chance purchasers in the future, but we find it better to shut down as soon as the work on hand is completed, but there seems to be no prospect of shutting down, as work usually comes in iu time to avoid this. ” The Cramps came before Eoach and if they had located on the banks of the Clyde instead of the Delaware they would have built up a village which would have spread their own name and almost assured them feudal service from the three generations that have worked in their yards.