Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — Page 3

CHATSWORTH RIVALED.

Storj of the Collision on the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad at * Route, Ind. The Blame for the Wreck Lies Be* tween the Crews of the Two Trains. [Special telegram from Routs, Ind.l The worst horrors of Chatsworth were duplicated here Tuesday. A dozen bloodstained, smoke-begrimed, injured victims of railroad carelessness or blundering were brought into the village’s little stationhouse, and nine charred corpses, victims of the same blundering or carelessness, were laid upon the station platform, while three miles west, down the track of the Chicago and Atlantic Railway, near a lonely old water tank, piles of fearfully tangled debris marked the spot where a collision seldom equaled for terrible results had occurred. Boone Grove consists of a station building and a simple little store. It is fortynine miles out of Chicago ou the Chicago and Atlantic road. The roadbed enters on a heavy down grade, which runs two and a half miles west of the State ditch. On the north of the track is a large water tank. The country thereabouts is a wide prairie, relieved but infrequently by sparse growths of stunted trees. There is no habitation within a mile of the water tank, immediately in front of which Tuesday’s terrible accident occurred. Conductor Parks was in charge of the train when it left Chicago. The train proceeded without accident to Hulbert’s, six and one-half miles west of the scene of the accident. There one of the eccentric straps of engine 26 broke, and Engineer Barney Connors disconnected one side of the engine and ran, as it is termed in railway parlance, “on one leg,” or with only one piston rod. He pulled his engine into Boone Grove thus crippled. He telegraphed tidings of the accident to Huntington and then resumed his run, with half force. He passed the water tank on the prairie, then reversed his engine and went back for water. Half a mile back, as a warning to trains following, stand the semaphore lights, which were properly turned. At 8:15 o’clock a freight train composed of refrigator cars laden with dressed beef and fruits left Chicago. 'lt was due at Boone Grove at 11:08 o’clock. John Dorsey, the engineer, had instructions to “rush through.” The night was heavy and foggy as he pulled out of Boone Grove a few minutes late and started down the steep grade, unmindful of any danger until he had passed under the semaphore lights and caught a sudden glimpse of the danger signals dangling from the rear of the passenger train. He reversed the engine, sounding several piercing blasts of warning which sent the trainmen scurrying over the cars to set the brakes. But the impetus of the heavy train was beyond such trifling control. The engineer and fireman jumped for their lives only a few seconds before the engine crashed through the Pullman sleeper. The passenger train was driven its own length ahead and then the rear coach forced its way through and on top of the coaches in front. The freight engine was wrecked entirely. Its tender was thrown over the engine and onto the coaches, while eighteen refrigerator cars were strewn zig-zag across the track or piled in an indescribable mass —one within the debris of another. Dressed beef sufficient to feed an army was scattered in the adjacent fields, while fruits lay about as plentiful as though rich orchards had yielded their bounty to the earth and been spirited away. The ready and dangerous stove in the second coach responded at once to the deafening invitation the crash of the collision offered to join in the wreck of destruction and death, for the heavy Pullman had scarcely settled into position after its terrific plunge through the two coaches when fire added its horrors to the already terrible scene. All the fatalities were from the flames, which instantaneously enveloped the shattered cars. Conductor Parks, Engineer Connors, and all the trainmen escaped miraculously, and immediately set about the rescue of the doomed people imprisoned in the burning wreck. They worked in the face of the flames, drawing away from their grasp all within reach until they were compelled to desist by the fire’s dangerous advance. On either side of the tangled wreckage, reaching out from its midst, were the heads, arms, or feet of the passengers who begged piteously to be released before the flames took them in their fatal embrace. Little Herman Miller was found under the foremost coach, his arms extending above his head. Visible through the splintered timbers were the other members of his family, already in the throes of death from the breath of the hot flames encircling them. In broken English the boy begged of those endeavoring to save him to save his mother and sister. The boy’s head was split open, but he retained his consciousness until he, free himself from further danger, gazed back at the quivering forms of his father, mother, and sister encircled in flames.

A PALACE OF CORN.

The Unique Structure at Sioux City Made of Products of the Field. [Sioux City (la.) special.] The grand attraction of the Harvest Jubilee at Sioux City, lowa, is the com palace, an allegorical temple of Ceres, designed by a skilled architect, and made of corn and the other cereals of the Northwest. Within the palace is exhibited all the grain grown in lowa, Nebraska, and Dakota and all the other products of the farm. The Com Palace, as it stands, is in troth a revelation. It fronts on Fifth street 210 feet and on Jackson street 100 feet. Rising from the center of the structure, as at first planned, 100 by 100 feet, is the dome or cupola, surmounted by a spire 100 feet high. Each of the four comers rises boldly into square pavilions. The extension now includes on the Fifth street front Armory Hall also, and beyond that two additional pavilions, companions in form to the four pavilions of the original plan, making, as before stated, a frontage on Fifth street of 210 feet. Imagine such magnificent proportions, broken by the pavilion towers, by projecting minarets, by

arched openings and immense panels; behind them rising in relief the great roof; above all the towering cupola and spire, connected in relief with the pavilions with flying buttresses—imagine these proportions clothed all about with the products of the cornfield and decked out with these in a profusion of beauty—one grand, harmonious whole, a stately witness of the bursting bounty of the empire of the Northwest, the reilm of King Com. It is a spectacle to enchain attention, to command admiration. Take the great fronts of the structure on Fifth and Jackson streets, and none who have not seen would believe that such magical effects could be wrought out of the materials of the cornfield. Take the 210 feet frontage on Fifth street, and every square inch of it is wrought into some cunning and representative form of the king of products. The walls rise one harmonious, though variegated, mass of the stalk and leaf; at the base, wicker work, green as the rushes of the Nile, and here and there, pendent, in rich contrast, are the golden ears. The double arches of the openings in the pavilions are faced with rows of ears, sometimes richly fringed with the husk, sometimes of one color and sometimes of another. Then, the great panels in the body of the wall and the columns rising high to the battlement—here is one of the special marvels of the unique creation, or rather scores of marvels. In each of a score of these panels oi divisions there is wrought some design—here a diamond and there a checker, here a motto and there some other insciption—wrought from com of a dozeu kinds and a dozen hues—golden yellow, pure white, blood red, violet and so on. Against these ingenious forms of beauty stands the quiet but none the less effective beauty of the corn-clad columns, broken by the columns around which are bound the russet blades of the com plant and a graceful combination of grains and grasses. Along the upper line of the front runs a shiny hem of oats, interspersed in places by the dark seeds of the sorghum plant, corn ears o£ flaming red or some other relieving color. Still above, rise the graceful minarets, raimented in rich colors of native grasses, and crowned with tufts of millet and flying banners. In the background rises the root, a seeming solid mass of com almost, and from it towers the cupola, its arches wrought like those below, and here and there panels of curious forms of com, red, white, violet, yellow and all colors under the sun, surrounded and interw ven with the plant itself and other products in every conceivable shape. Passing to the interior of the great structure, amazement finds fresh stimulus at every turn. There hangs a sunflower, perfect in form and color, yet every fiber from the com plant. Yonder are the tiger lilies, of the same element, illusion perfect—who would have believed it? Everywhere, bouquets, panels, ceilings, mottoes, draperies, pendants, stars, statues of Ceres, bells, latticework, beaded curtains, all forms of farmers’ implements—every last one made of the corn or of the plants that grow with it. As you enter the wida portal, above will be the seal official of the city—every bar and coloring made of corn; beyond, a great spider and his web will be spread out above; still higher hangs a mammoth bell; to the left there is a tableau of “The Golden Stair;” further on, the figure of an Indian and an eagle—all made and dressed with the blade and grain and stalk of corn. One great marvel of the scene will be a landscape, “The Setting Sun,” the great orb itself made all of corn, the beams shot with the brilliancy of the grain, and the perspective executed with such skill as to deceive the keenest eye. These are but samples. A hundred other curious shapes and fantasies would weary the onlooker if all were not so new, so strangely made out of material so long thought common and despised, yet now found to outblush the rose and shame the lily.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

DEATH OF JUDGE MANNING.

The Distinguished Southerner Dies Suddenly at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. [New York telegram.] Judge Thomas C. Manning, ex-United States Minister to Mexico, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Tuesday. He had been ill for about a week, and took sick shortly after his arrival in the city to attend the meeting of the Peabody Educational Fund, of which ho was one of the trustees. The cause of his death was au obstruction of the bowels. Judge Thomas Courtland Manning was aged about 60 years, and a native of Eden-

ton, N. C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, and after practicing in Edenton for several years removed to Alexandria, La., in 1855. In 1864 Mr. Manning was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After the war Judge Manning devoted himself to the law and declined the nomination for Governor of Louisiana. He served as a Tilden elector in 1876, and in 1877, when Governor Nicholls was installed, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Two years later he retired, but was again restored to the Supreme bench, and served with distinction until 1885. His next and last position, that of Minister to Mexico, was conferred by President Cleveland. Judge Manning was of massive figure and dignified, courtly bearing. He bore a great resemblance to Salmon P. Chase, and was always very highly regarded as a man and a jurist.

IN SPORTING CIRCLES.

Base-Ball—The League Season Closes with Detroit Leading the String. The Outlook for the Winter Season— Chicago Securing Young Talent for Next Year. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] The last games of the Base-Ball League championship season of 1887 have come and gone, and the questions that have been asked again and again by lovers of the national game in every city and hamlet in the country have been finally and irrevocably decided. Detroit now looks with pride and gratification at the silken championship emblem which will wave from the top of the tall flagstaff upon its League grounds, while the plucky and determined team which Harry Wright has commanded through the season’s campaign is fairly swelled with satisfaction and gratified pride as its players glanoe back over the season’s record, which gives them such honorable mention, and places them in so enviable a position in the race at the finish. In Pittsburgh’s nine the Chicago team has met its stumblingblock this year, and in the record of the last week of the season, which shows Chicago’s portion to have been four defeats and one tie game at the hands of the Smoky City lads, rests the secret of Chicago’s displacement from second position in the pennant race. However, Chicagoans are satisfied with the record of their team. With nines composed almost wholly of new talent, the White Stockings have given the oldest and most thoroughly organized teams in the race a great battle, and only retired to third place after it had fought a long, hard and determined fight against each and every one of the teams pitted against it. THE WINTER SEASON. Now that the race of 1887 is over and the question of club standing settled, the approaching winter season of base-ball will, doubtless, open up with legislation of a character 60 important as to make the coming fall a memorable one in the history of the game. The troubles between the league and the Ball-players’ Brotherhood, which have been seething and boiling ever since J ohnny Ward started the ball with the organization of the Brotherhood, will doubtless be at once brought forward, and if the players who form the backbone of the new organization adhere firmly to the policy they have so distinctly outlined, it is difficult to see how a bitter fight between clubs and players can be averted. HOW THEY STAND. The following table will show the complete record of all championship games won and lost by League clubs for the season of 1887, their standing in the race being determined by the percentages of games each club has won to the number of games played: THE LEAGUE, I.i s|Jtf Clubs. = I! g x 11! I § A 04 O 'A K a, 0 Detroit 110 810 11 13|13 14 79 Philadelphia 8| . 16 10 9 11113 17 75 Chicago 10 12 .. 11 9 511 13 71 New York 8 7 6. 10,H10;15 68 Boston 7 9 6 7 .. |ll 10 11 61 Pittsburgh 4 612 6 71.. 911155 Washington 4. 3 7 8 7 9 . 745 Indianapolis 4| ll 5 3 7| 7 1 ... 37 Games lost 45i4 -i 150155 |g0{gg 7b|Bß .. HERE AND THERE IN SPORTING CIRCLES GENERALLY. The season of duck-shooting, to which so many sportsmen in all sections of the country have looked forward for some weeks past, has now fairly arrived, and huntsmen only await the advent of a bit of cold weather to follow the generally rainy season that has prevailed throughout the country to enter upon a season that promises to be prolific of much fine sport. Ducks are reported in unusually large numbers in the far northern waters, and two or at least three weeks more must bring them southward to the feeding grounds in the marsh and lake districts of Wisconsin, lowa. Illiuois and Michigan. Squirrel are rep: rted in greater numbers this year than ever before, and fortunately for the bushytails, the fancy of the squirrel-hunter has this season turned to the small caliber rifle as a means of bringing down their game, instead of the shot-gun. “I don’t want any better fun.” said a squirrel shooter the other day, “than to spend an afternoon in a good squirrel district with a 32-caliber rifle and plenty of ammunition. I tried a smaller bore for a while—22-caliber—but prefer the 32. The bigger gun generally makes two holes in your squirrel—one where it enteis and one where it comes out —but your game drops every time he is hit. It beats shot-gun practice all to pieces.” Mr. Charles Willard, a prominent member of two or three of Chicago’s oldest shooting clubs, predicts an unusually good season for all kinds of game. “Ducks will be plenty,” he says, “while chicken, geese, and squirrel—judging from the advices I have received during the past week—are very numerous throughout lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. The demand for guns and sportsmen’s wear is heavier than I have known it to be at this time lor five years past. Our company has just mailed its fall catalogue of firearms and sportsmen’s goods, embracing about two car-loads of printed matter. If each one of these catalogues should supply one sportsman for a day’s hunt for ducks, and these sportsmen should bag the usual quantity of game, the supply of ducks would be just about exhausted.” Con Cregan.

An old grandma with a small boy boarded a Gratiot avenue car the other day, and the collector rang the register twice. “What’s that for?” she asked. “That’s two o’clock,” answered the boy. In a minute or two another passenger got on, and again the register rang. “Three o’clock!” exclaimed the >ld lady as she bobbed around on her ieat. “My stars! but how the time does fly in a city !”—Detroit Free Press.

ANDERSON’S HOT SHOT.

lowa's Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Opens the Campaign with a Speech at Knoxville. Particular Attention Paid to the Itspublican Position on the Tariff and Prohibition. [Knoxville (Iowa) cot. Chicago Times, i This is the residence of Major T. J. Andeisou, Democratic nominee for Governor. It is also the residence of ex-Governor William M. Stone, hence Knoxville fetls considerable dignity as having been twice thus honored. Major Anderson, who opened his campaign here last week, is very popular in thiß county. The Major is a native of Fulton County, Illinois, but came with his parents to Marion County when he was about 18 years old. Since then, like so many successful Western men, his occupations have been farming, teaching school, studying law, editing a Democratic paper, and practicing law. The meeting was a home approval of which any man oould be proud, a good many Republicans turning out and showing friendly attention. The Greenbackers here are to a man supporting him, and they vied with his Democratic neighbors in the enthusiastic applause. Major Anderson said: Mb. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens : Having been honored by the Democracy of this state with the nomination as its candidate for the offloe of Governor, I appear before you this evening for the purpose of discussing the issues involved in the present contest. It would be impossible in one evening or in a single speech to discuss all of these questions as fully as I should like to do, and hence will be compelled to select those which seem to me of greatest importance, and omit, wholly or partly, those in which the people ore not so directly interested. Our Republican friends ore attempting, as usual, to make the present campaign one of sectional feeling and hatred, and to ignore as far as possible the real questions of practical interests whioh should engage your atteutlon. The statistics of the elections in the south show the utter falsity of the assertion concerning the alleged suppression of votes. THE TARIFF. The resolution of the Republican Convention on the subject of the tariff shows how completely that party is under the control of tariff monopolists. The claim of the Republican party is that a high protective tariff enables the manufacturers to sell their products to us for enough more than they otherwise oould do to enable them to pay their employes good wages, which they say they oould not do If they had to compete in the open market, and also to furnish a home market to the former at a good profit for the products of his form. In other words, if the Government will shut out foreign competition and give our manufacturers a monopoly in supplying the consumers of the country by what they call protection, the manufacturers will protect the laborer by giving him good wages, and the farmer by giving him food prices. However plausible this may be in heory, the facts, as shown by experience, are that the protection the manufacturer gives the farmer and laborer is like the protection tho wolf gives the lamb. There is but one proper course to pursue, and that Is to revise the tariff as the Democrats propose, and reduce it so that the profits of manufacturers will bear some reasonable relation to the profits of other legitimate industries. With the farmer taxed by the tariff to support every manufacturing industry, and nobody taxed for his benefit, is it any wonder farming no longer pays, and that the farmers are becoming restive under the unequal burdens laid upon them by the Republican party? PENSIONS. Our Republican friends say this administration has discriminated against Union soldiers la appointments to office, and that it has been unjust to them in the matter of pensions. I say just the reverse of this is true. From July 1, 1883, to July 1, 1885, inclusive, there was disbursed on account of pensions #122,967,243.46. From July 1, 1885, to July 1, 1887, inclusive, a period of two years under Democratic rule, there was disbursed on account of pensions #139,584,270.45, being a gain of #16,617,026.99 in the amount paid on account of pensions during the first two years under Democratic rule over the last two years of Republican rule. This Bhowing is the answer we now make to the campaign cry of 1884 that if Cleveland should be elected no more pensions would be granted or paid. A curious feature of this pension business is the fact that the Republican party never knew that it had failed to do justice to the soldiers in the matter of pensions until after it was put out of power. THE LAND QUESTION. The Republican party inaugurated the policy of granting lands to railroads and corporations, and kept it up until there was granted in all about 200.000,000 acres of the public domain. Such an extent of territory was never before given by any government to corporations or to individuals. It is more than twice as large in extent as Great Britain and Ireland, and more than five times as large as tho State of lowa. Some of the railroad corporations to which the grants were made never built their roads, and others failed to do so within the time prescribed in their grants. When the Democratic party got possession of the House of Representatives it set to work at once to reclaim for the use of actual settlers all these unearned grxnts of land, as the party had pledged itsolf to do. The Democrats have succeeded in passing bills reclaiming and forfeiting 50,482,240 acres, or 78,878 square miles of land. Bills have also passed the Democratic House of Representatives forfeiting and reclaiming 38,430,991 acres more, but so far the Republican Senate has refused to pass them. A Clean and Statesmanlike Administration. It should be a matter of sincere congratulation to every thoughtful and patriotic citizen that the partisan critics of President Cleveland’s administration find so little just ground for their complaints against it. They can point to no violation of trust; to no positive dereliction of duty. The President has discharged his responsibilities courageously and intelligently. The honesty and disinterestedness of the man are almost universally conceded. He has tried to elevate the standard of official integrity and give the people a clean and statesmanlike administration of their governmental affairs. How well he has succeeded in these patriotic purposes is shown by a perusal of the Chicago News of October 5, which prints three pages of letters from some of the most distinguished publicists and representative business men of the country, giving their views in regard to the results of his first two years’ occupancy of the Presidency. —Lansing Journal. A Boston paper says: “The Republicans of New York have nominated James J. Belden, a notorious corruptionist, for Congress. It is within the memory of many in this generation that a Congressman of this same party, and not far from the same region, was expelled from Congress for taking a bribe.” With its leadership of Tom Platt, and its nominations of this kind, the Republican party of New York may be pat down as solid for Blaine. The President’s journey through the West makes the great Blaine circus of 1884 an insignificant affair by comparison. Blaine is fortunate if he is where he cannot hear the details. The story of tne President’s remarkably cordial and enthusiastic weloome would fall upon his ears like the knell of his political hopes. Chicago Times.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Louisville Times and other sensational papers compare Harrison County to the Kentucky counties of Bell and Rowan, and sajß that a reign of terror exists here on account of the depredations of the “White Caps." All such stuff is the sheerest nonsense, and is very ridiculous to those who are acquainted with the faots. It is true that there are "White Caps,” and that they have done many things which were calculated to bring reproach upon the county; but it is not true that a reign of terror exists, and that men, women, and children are flogged nntil they fall from exhaustion and that men are frequently shot down in their door-yards. Harrison is one of the best connties in the State, and her people are industrious and happy. It has about 150 public schools, nearly that number of churches, and stands at the head in the Sunday-school cause. The people protest against being compared to the bloody connties of Kentucky, and know that they do not deserve any such censure. —Complications have arisen in the arrangement for the transfer of the gift of Elijah Hayes and wife, of Warsaw, who last month gave an estate valued at $130,000 to the Mission Board of the M. E. Chnrch. The property consists of Hotel Hayes, a throe-story brick structure, several business blocks and about forty town lots, and two or three farms. Tho gift was hedged in with several conditions, which proved objectionable to the Mission Board. Among the stimulations made by Mr. Hayes was that the income only on the property be used for fifty years, tho estate remaining intact, after whioh time it is to be at the disposal of the Board. An annuity is to be paid Mr. and Mrs. Hayes during life. The income from the property amounts to $5,000 per year. —Peter Joyce, sentenced in 1884 to tho Southern Prison from Switzerland County, for a nine years’ term, on a charge of manslaughter, has been pardoned by the Governor. While returning from a hunting expedition with ’Squire Sanders, a friend, his gan was accidentally discharged, and the wad killed Sanders. Joyce gave himself up, was tried and convicted. The judge who tried him, the county officers, and the G. A. R. post at Vevny, with all his neighbors, petitioned for his release. Joyce was in the army three years, and his reputation was that of a good citizen. He has served nearly four years, and iB released on condition that he abstain from the use of intoxicants and lead a quiet and industrious life. —A carriage load of Reform School officers of Plainfield, started out recently to attempt the caplare of an escaped inmate. Going eaßt on the National road about two miles; all alighted except two officers. These two started to return to the institution with the carriage. When near town the horses became frightened and ran away. The officers remained in the cairiage and kept the horses in the road until the bridge crossing White Lick, just west of town, was reached, when Joseph Fagin, one of the officers, thinking the carriage was going to npset, jumped, striking his head npon the ground, fracturing his skull and sustaining other injuries, from which he died. —Patents have been issued to the fol-lowing-named Indiana inventors: Macajah C. Henley, Richmond, machine for boring, drilling, driving, and withdrawing screws, etc.; James A. McCormick, Indianapolis, game; Henry D. Merrill, Colnmbns, floodfence; Orlando Patricks, assignor of onehalf to V. Ross. Shelbyville, washing machine; Benjamin Roberts, Indianapolis, smoke consumer; William E. Shaffer, Carlisle, machine for building fences; Anna M. Shirk, Anderson, garmentfastener. —The agents of the drive-well monopoly are accused of resorting to many qnestionable plans for locating driven wells. It is Baid men are hired to go from house to house in Wabash County disguised os peddlers. While disposing of their wares they make an inspection of the premises, nnd if a driven well is found a repoit is made and the owner is soon notified to pay the royalty. —Mrs. Harrison Posey came toVincennes in September from Sweetwater, Texas. Her husband followed shortly after, but has not been heard from since. He had money and was 65 years old, and foul play is suspected. The old couple had been married but two years, and their union was the result of an early love romance, fortysix years before. The aged wife is griefstricken. —The most powerful gas well in the State is believed to be that at Groentown, Howard County. Owing to the noise made by the escaping gas it was found necessary to close the public schools, and no services coaid be held in the churches. The big well is generally voted a nuisance in its present condition. The roar of the well ean be heard eight miles away. —ln August, Frank Fagan, Marshal of Marion, was attacked by a savage ball-dog belonging to Samuel Clannin, and seriously bitten. He sned Clannin for SI,OOO. The case was tried and the jury brought in a verdict lor the plaintiff for SSOO. —Thomas Sicklen, aged 19 years, was kicked near the temple by a male at the residence of Georga Stearley, in Jackson Township, Clay County. His skull was crushed, and the brain is oozing from the fracture. He will die. —Benjamin Washnm, a bridge carpenter, residing at Connersville, while at work on the Hanna Ccreek railroad bridge, fell a distance of thirty feet, receiving internal injuries that it is feared will prove fatal. —Thomas Wilkerson, the richest man in Jennings County, died of apoplexy, aged. 88. He was worth aboot $1,000,000.