Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — THE NEWS RECORD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEWS RECORD.

A Summary of the Eventful Happenings of a Week, as Reported by Telegrpph. Political, Commercial, and Industrial News, Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Suicides, Etc., Etc. BINGHAM’S AMENDMENT DEFEATED. The House Insists on Disagreeing: with the Senate as to Aiding South American Mail Service. The first business in the House the morning of the 14th was the consideration of the Senate mail subsidy amendment to the postofiiee appropriation bill. After much discussion, the motion to concur in the Senate amendment as amended by Mr. Bingham was lost—yeas, 58; nays, 135. The House then, by a vote of 141 to 57, insisted upon its disagreement, and a new conference was ordered. The House then went into committee of the whole on the tariff bill, the pending section beine the wool clause, and a general debate occupied the time till adjournment. The night session was devoted to the consideration of private bills. MURDERED BY REDSKINS. Two Men Killed hy Indians and a War of Extermination of the Whites Threatened. There is great excitement at Victoria, B. C., over the reports from Skeena River. The steamer Caribou Fly has arrived at Victoria. Its officers say when the steamer left Skeena it was reported there that Mr. Clifford, in charge of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Hazelton, and ono of the special constables sent from Victoria had been murdered by Indians. The Indians are thoroughly excited and threaten to exterminate all whites in that part of the country. The Indians who are causing the trouble are the ivorst on the coast, are large, powerful fellow’s, and nearly all well armed. Troops have been sent to the scene. THE OBITUARY RECORD. Death of John Henry Brand, President of the Orange Free State. A London telegram says Sir John Henry Brand, President of the Orange Free State, is dead. Sir John Henry Brand was bom at Cape Town, Dec. 6,1823, being a son of Sir C. Brand, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Cape of Good Hope (who died in 1875). He received his education at the South African College under Dr. N. E. Changucon and Dr. J. K. Juner. He continued his studies at the University of Leyden, where he proceeded to the degree of D. C. L. in 1845. He was called to the English bar from the Inner Temple in 1849, and practiced as an advocate in the Supreme Court at the Cape of Good Hope from that year untill 1883. In lssß he was appointed Professor of Law in the South African College. He was elected President of the Orange Free State in 1863, and subsequently re-elected for periods of five years ill 1869, 1874, 1P79, and 1884. In March, 1882, he was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of SS. Michael and George.

GAS TANKS EXPLODE. your Men Killed and a Dozen Seriously Wounded. A battery of eight gas tanks in Ludlow, Ky., exploded and injured twelve men, four of them fatally. The gas was generated from naphtha for lighting the railroad shops and for use in tho Mann boudoir cars. The escape of a small quantity from one tank caused an explosion ■which exploded the other seven. The stockroom of the Mann Boudoir Company was wrecked. The fatally injured are: Frank Collins, Michael Welch, Georgo Madison, David Harris. Tho others injured were James Sullivan, Peter Litchenfleld, Charles Gould, ex-base-ball player, Richard Curran, George Goodwin, Griffin, and two others.

BASE-BALL BATTERS. How the Various Clubs Stand That Are Competing for First Place. The relative standing of the clubs that are competing for the championship of the associations named is shown by the annexed table: League. Won. Lost. Western. Won. Lost. Chicago 42 22 St. Paul 35 15 Detroit 39 23 lies Moines 29 19 New York 36 20 Kansas City 25 24 Boston. ....35 31 Omaha 24 24 Philadelphia... .31 31 Chicaeo 25 27 Pittsburgh 22 37 Milwaukee 25 28 Indianapoliß ....23 39 Sioux City 5 7 Washington 21 42 Minneapolis 19 32 American. Won. Loßt. Interstate. Won. Lost. Brooklyn 47 22 Davenport 30 12 St. Louis 40 21 Peoria 34 13 Cincinnati 40 26 Bloomington.... 20 20 Athletic 38 20 Terre Haute ... .22 24 Baltimore 31 34 Louisville 24 43 Cleveland 21 43 Kansas City 20 43 A SIX PERSONS DROWNED. A Party Returning from a Dance Meet Sudden Deaths. Six persons—three men and three women —were drowned while crossing the Arkansas River near Fort Smith, Ark. Their names were John Logan, Jess Morris, Tom Davis, Sallie Jackson, Mary Pettis, and Carrie Davis. The party had been attending a dance, and were on the way home. When in the middle of the stream the boat upset. MURDERED by a MEXI CAN. George Stevenson Killed by a Boy Whose Object I s Robbery. George Stevenson, who was postmaster, express agent, telegraph operator, and station agent at St. Glamio, Arizona, was murdered. Pedero Jones, a Mexican youth, aged about 15, has confessed to the crime. The deed was committed for the purpose of robbery, _____ Dr. Mackenzie Asked for a Report. A Berlin dispatch says that Empress Victoria has requested Dr. Mackenzie to prepare for her a true history of the late Emperor Frederick’s illness in order to correct the German doctors’ assertions. It is not known whether the Empress will make public the report:

THE FIELD OF HONOR. M. Floquet and Gen. Boulanger Fight a Duel with Sword*—The Latter Wounded. The insult offered to M. Floquet by Gen. Boulanger resulted in a duel, in which the latter was seriously wounded. The two men met at Count Dillon’s estate at Neuilly-Sur-Seine, not far from Paris, at 10 o’clock in the morning. The weapons used were swords, and the duel wms fiercely fought. Gen. Boulanger tried hard to kill M. Floquet, and threw himself upon the minister again and again. At the second encounter both men were slightly wounded.

bdt refused to stop. When the lighting was renewed for the third time. Gen. Boulanger made a lunge at M. Floquet’S left breast, but only slightly touched the mark. Gen. Boulanger then received a wound in the throat which put an end to the encounter. The wound is a severe one, but on account of hemorrhage the doctors are unable to decide whether it is likely to prove serious. M. Floquet received scratches on his hand, chest, and foot. M, Floquet in the evening presided at the unveiling of a statue to Gambetta. In his speech he extolled the patriotic firmness which Gambetta had shown during the war with Germany, and the invincible energy with which he afterward foiled the reactionary coalition against the repulJßSf

RIDER HANGS. The Slayer of R. P. Tallant Hung at Marshall, Mo. George M. Rider was hanged at Marshall, Mo., for the murder of R. P. Taliant. He exhibited a wonderful amount of courage and nerve to the last moment. The drop fell at 11 ;01 a. m., and Rider was pronounced dead in twenty-four minutes. The crime for which Rider waß executed occurred on the night of July 23, 1885, about nineteen miles north of Marshall, Mo., near the house of Tallant. It was about 9 o’clock at ni ht. Tallant was returning home and was met by Rider and killed with a shotgun. Rider was arrested the following day on suspicion and while the officers were returning with him he escaped, remaining in a cornfield until the evening of the next day, when he gave himself up to the authorties. There were no witnesses to the killing. Rider claimed that Tallant had been intimate with his (Rider’s) wife; that when upbraided about it Tallant rushed at him with an uplifted ax, and that the killing was done in self-defense. The case was tried twice. Rider was 44 years old. Ho entered the Confederate army at the age of 16 and participated in a number of battles in Missouri and Arkansas. He served nnder both Generals Shelby and Marmaduke. He married a widow named Woolsey at Springfield, Mo. They separated, and about six years ago he married a Mrß. Moore, Rider is credited with killing a man named Dolan at Rocky Comfort, Mo., in 1876. Both Rider and Tallant were among the most prominent fanners of southwest Missouri. On Tuesday last Rider professed conversion to religion, and since then has prayed and sung every day with leading church people. He protested to the last that he killed Tallant in self-defense.

WOE IN WEST VIRGINIA. Hundreds of Families Made Homeless by a Freshet Greater than Ever Before Known. The freshet in the vicinity of Wheeling, W. Va., was the greatest ever known. The destruction to property is beyond computation, but enough is known to warrant the declaration that nearly every house and most of the lowlands between that point and Clarksburg on the west, and as far at least as Grafton on the Valley River, have been swept away. Tho Monongahela continued to rise for twelve hours, and during that time the channel was constantly filled with houses, fencing-timber, sawlogs, shocks of wheat, parts of bridges, and other debris. From reports received from the flooded districts of West Virginia it looks as if the money loss would reach nearly $2,000,000, At least three lives have been lost. The flood at Pittsburgh, Pa., and 100 miles north, was most disastrous, thousands of acres of farm land being inundated, and portions of towns swept away.

ROASTED TO DEATH. Terrific Explosion ol Mineral Paint Tanks at Armstrong & Co.’s Paint Factory. A terrific explosion, as of a hundred dynamite bombs,occurred in the vicinity of Haymarket Square, Chicago. The first report was followed by a second and a third one, which guided the excited thousands to the paint manufactory of D. R. Armstrong & Co., Nos. 105-7 Fulton street, a three-story frame building extending back -to Lydia street. Every few minutes a dull explosion occurred and immediately after huge sheets of flame shot skyward. In the rear of tne building, where the fires raged most fiercely, lay the body of Alexander Johnson, roasted to a crisp. The explosion occurred in a tank containing twenty-three barrels of naphtha, benzine and mineral paint. The building was completely gutted, causing a loss of over $60,000. AN ARTIST TAKES MORPHINE. Fred Remington, Said to Be Connected with “Harper’s Weekly,” Tired of Life. Fred Remington, a young man, an artist on Harper's Weekly, arrived in Trinidad, Colo., some days ago and employed himself sketching mountain scenery for his paper. Soon after his arrival there ho made the acquaintance and fell in love with a Miss White, a handsome milliner, and it is thought she jilted him, causing him to take morphine, from tho effects of which he died. Remington left a will bequeathing to Miss White $4,000 and to the Journalists’ Home S2OO. ON THE GALLOWS AT MIDNIGHT. Ebenezer Stangard, Murderer, Executed In the Columbus (Ohio) Prison. Ebenezer Stangard, the Mahoning County murderer, was executed* in the Ohio Penitentiary annex at Columbus at 1:15 o’clock in the morning. The crime for which he guttered death was the killing of his sweet-

heart, Alice Hancock, of Youngstown, March 24, 1887, because she received attentions from a rival, Wilbert Knox. He had two trials, his defense in each case being insanity. He met death with a sort of reckless bravado, and left a statement proclaiming his innocence of the crime. Stangard was an Ignorant man, and his demeanor on the scaffold was more in keeping with that of a brute than of an intelligent human being. Ho played a tune on his accordion before ascending the trap. SALOONS MUST BE CLOSED. A New Decision that Aids the lowa Prohibitory Law. A decision of more than ordinary importance and involving a new point under the prohibitory liquor law of lowa has been rendered by Judge Phelps, of the District Court at Burlington, the salient points being: Two years ago a saloon-keeper whose place of business was, enjoined as a nuisance, appealed to the lowa Supreme Court, and after filing a supersedeas bond continued the traffic. The injunction was sustained and the saloon-keeper again gave bond, carried his case to the United States Supreme Court, where It is not likely to be reached for a year or two yet. Recently proceedings were brought to have him arrested and fined for contempt of court in continuing the illegal traffic, notwithstanding the injunction. His defense was that, pen ing the decision of the Federal Court, the Injunction did not apply, but the District Court now decides that the injunction must stand, and that the saloon must close. The saloon-keeper at once closed up, and others will follow suit, as they admit that further resistance to the law is useless. HEAVY LOSS BY STORM. Damage Amounting to Hundreds of Thousands or Dollars Occasioned in Illinois. A disastrous flood prevailed through central Illinois the 9th, rain having fallen for thirty hours. There aro probably twenty thousand acres of corn under water in Douglas County, while the oat crop, which was almost ready to harvest, is damaged to such an extent that it will scarcely pay cutting. About fifteen families in the southern part of Tuscola were compelled to move to higher ground, as the water was three feet deep in their homes. Several miles of track on the St. Louis branch of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad were submerged, and its trains were being run over the Wabash to Westville Crossing. Hundreds of farms were submerged, bridges washed away, and the damage will reach 500,000. CAPTURED THE CATTLE-THIEF. A. L. Hunt, Arrested at McGregor, lowa, Makes a Confession. The cattle-thief, A. L. Hunt, alias John Hall, was arrested at McGregor, lowa, and at the time of his arrest had in his possession a shipping bill of a car-load of cattle he had stolen from William Smith, of Rockwell. When questioned as to the theft he finally acknowledged his guilt and gave evidence which led to the arrest of an entire gang of cattle-thieves which have been operating in the western part of lowa, Northern Kansas, and Eastern Nebraska. He gave as his immediate accomplice in this transaction W. J. Wright, who for several years has circulated between Marshalltown, Creston, and Sheffield.

DEACONS SENT TO ETERNITY. The Murderer of Mrs. Ada Stone Executed at Rochester, N. Y. Edward A. Deacons, murderer of Mrs. Ada Stone, was hanged at Rochester, N. Y. Ho showed no feeling, and protested his innocence, although he had confessed to the crime before his trial. The drop fell and Deacons was dead in ten minutes. Deacons was executed for the murder of Mrs. Ada Stone at East Rochester on tho evening of Auer. 16,1887. The husband of the victim, upon returning home, found the body of his wife in tho cellar, with a flour sack drawn tightly around her neck. Mrs. Stone was murdered because she would not give Deacons food. AVHITE VS. BLACK. Trouble Between Colored Officials and White Residents in Arkansas. The principal county officers (all colored) at Marion, Ark., were escorted to trains by white men, given tickets, and warned never to return. The County Judge fled the previous night, and the County Clerk was given twenty-four hours to arrange his books. The dispatch avers that the county has been under negro rule since 1870, and that as prominent white men had been warned to leave, the white citizens undertook to assume control of affairs. The negroes in the county outnumber the whites seven to one. QUAY PUT AT THE HELM. The Republican National Committee Chooses a Chairman. The Republican National Committee has elected M. S. Quay of Pennsylvania Chairman, and J. S. Fassett of New York Secretary. They were also appointed to hold the same offices on the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee has been chosen as follows: M. H. DeYoung of California, Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut, George R. Davis of Illinois. John. C. New of Indiana, J. S. Clarkson of lowa, W. C. Goodloe of Kentucky, J. Manchester Haynes of Maine, Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey, A. L. Conger of Ohio.

A COLORED LYNCHING. Wm. Smith, a Negro, Dies at the Hands of a Mob. Some days ago a negro, William Smith, committed a felonious assault on a respectable lady of Pulaski County, Virginia, of which she has since died. The feeling of the people in the neighborhood where the diabolical crime was committed has been of such a character that it was thought best to take the fiend to Lynchburg for safe keeping. Last night the Sheriff was overpowered and the prisoner taken to tho woods, where they hanged him to a tree and riddled his body with bullets. THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. Mr. Scott Appointed Chairman, Mr. Gorman Retaining His Membership. Hon. William H. Barnum, the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, has appointed the following named gentlemen as the campaign committee: William L. Scott of Pennsylvania, Chairman; Arthur P. 1

Gorman of Maryland, Matt W. Ransom of North Carolina, Calvin 8. Brice of Ohio, John 8. Barbour of Virginia, Hermann Oelrichs of New York. Miles Ross of New Jersey, Arthur Bewal of Maine, and Erskine M. Phelps of Illinois.

ANOTHER EASTERN EMBEZZLER SKIPS. William M. Morrissey Leaves with •35,000 of the Brinkerhotf Estate. A sensation has been caused at Syracuse. N.Y.,by the announcement that William M. Morrissey, a popular and well-known young attofney, had suddenly disappeared from that city on account of the complications in which he has become involved as administrator of the estate of the late Mary E. Brinkerhoff, who left a property valued at $300,000. There is an apparent deficiency in his accounts of about $35,000. The Dreaded Texas Fever. Farmers along the line of the Lake Erie and Western Railway in Indiana are greatly alarmed over the appearance among their cattle of the dreaded Texas fever. A carload of Texas cattle passed over the road a few days since; several of the animals died en route and were buried in Tipton County. The infection appears to have caught and is spreading rapidly. In one neighborhood near Tipton ten head of valuable cattle have since died, and a similar disease has made its appearance among the cows of Kokomo. Farmers fear that the scourge will become general. Killed Her Husband. A German named Bernard Krugg, living on a farm near the town of Chiowa, Neb., got into a quarrel with his wife, with whom ho had been working in the corn-field. The dispute ended in a pitched battle with hoes, in which Krugg was struck several times about the face and temple, and fell to the ground fatally wounded. Mrs. Krugg then returned to the house, leaving her husband lying in the field. She is now in jail. Wanted a Sensation: The man who committed suicide at Trinidad, Col., and gave his name as Mr. Remington, artist for Harper’s Weekly, was George F. Raymond, a confirmed morphine cater, whose former place of residence is unknown. He had but twenty cents in his possession, and had used Mr. Remington’s name for the purpose of creating a sensation. Good-By to America. Advices from Honolulu state that Rev. Alfred Snelling and wife, of Chicago, have arrived at Honolulu, and will soon take passage on a missionary steamer to Ruk islands, where they will devote the remainder of their lives to missionary work, never again expecting to set foot on American soil. Mrs. Norton Alleges Cruelty. Mrs. Norton, who eloped from St. Louis with Henry Moore, refuses to return to her husband. She charges Norton with cruelty. Mrs. Moore has returned to St. Louis, and is prostrated with grief and shame. She will go to her home in Philadelphia. Educators in Session. The National Council of the National Educational Association met at San Francisco, President J. L. Pickard, of lowa City, lowa, presiding. Minor Mention. An elevator with a capacity of 300,000 bushels will be erected by the Western Distillers’ Association at Omaha, Neb. At Alliance, Ohio, the first trial under the prohibition law resulted in a conviction and the closing of the last saloon. The body of an unknown man was found in the river near Louisville, Ky., the throat having boen cut from ear to ear, and weighted with a stone. Georgo William Stoddart, the well-known actor, brother of J. H. Stoddart, died at his residence, at the Highlands, Monmouth County, N. J. Frederick Fairbairn, of Plymouth, Pa., superintendent of gas and oil companies, has been missing since June 27 and is now in Canada. His shortage is figured at $5,000. He has a wife and two children.

PRIME MINISTER FLOQUET.