Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1888 — NUGGETS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NUGGETS OF GOLD.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN EVERT QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. The Latest Intelligence Received by Wire from Distant Lands and at Home—The Cream of the News Gathered from Ail Quarters of the World. ANARCHY WORSTED. John Hronek, the Chicago “ Bombist,” Sentenced for Twelve Years. John Hronek. the Chicago anarchist, who, it is alleged, sought to injure certain property and advised the assassination of certain Judges who ligured in the anarchist trials of Chicago, was found guilty in thirty minutes after retiring by the jury before

whom he was tried. The trial lasted several days and was replete with startling interest. Judge Collins, before whom he was tried, fixed his punishment at twelve years in the penitentiary. A friend announced the verdict and judgment of the court to Hronek in Bohemian, and the indifference which he constantly maintained during his trial did not change in the least.

NATIONAL DEBT STATEMENT. Report or tho Treasury Department for the Month of November. The following is a recapitulation of the publie debt statement issued by the Treasury Department at Washington for the month ot November: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4>j per cent $ 187,020.851 Bonds at 4 per cent 681,288.750 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 129,090 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14.010.C00 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,512 Principal $ 917,068,202 , Interest ...... 9,8.6,258 Total ......$ 956,964,460 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 2.151,745 Interest. 161,283 Total $ 2,315/131 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes.® 346,737,823 Certificates of deposit 11.360.000 Gold certificates 129,624,228 Silver certificates Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,919,918 Principal $ 731,697,758 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,680,917,706 Interest. 10,057.744 items amiable for reduction of debt.. .8333,350,787 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 8 430,250,787 Total debt less available cash „ items «f 1,2 6,724,463 Net cash in the Treasury 52,234,610 Debt less cash in Treasury Dec. 1, Debt less cash in Treasury Nov. 1. 1888 1.137,875,655 Increase of debt during the month $ 11,193,817 Decrease of debt since June 30. 1888. 17,091,803 CASH IN THE TREASURY, Available for reduction of the public debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding $ 129 264 2'B Silver held for silver certivicates actually outstanding ‘237,415 789 U. 8. .notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 11,360,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 12,203,289 Fractional currency I’4Bo Total available for reduction of debt $ 393,25 ,783 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12,1882.$ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of debt : Fractional silver coin . $ 2? ,801,676 Minor coin ,1, 31 _ Total $ 2 > w ,807 Certificates held as cash 4., i > ,417 Net cash balance on hand 52,234,610 Total cash in Treasury as shown by Treasurers general account.® 612,784,621 ftEATH OF COKPOKAL CHAMBERS. A. Will-Kitwn Irish Clip racier Fusses Away iu Bo ton. J homas Ch.mbcrs, known to Irishmen throughout the worl I us Corpo at Chambers. d cd in the Carney Hospital in Boston, Miss. Twenty-two and a half vears ago, in the city of Dublin, four men—Cha.les McCarthy, Tbcs Chambers, James Darragh. and John Boyle O Reilly—were sentenced to death for treason The sentence was commuted in all cases and Chambers was sentenced to imprisonment lor «ie. O’Reilly, who was a private dragoon, was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years. They were chained together and carried to England, and given one year of solitary confinement and another year in the dreadful swamp drains of Dartmoor. Chambers was removed to Portland Prison, and after fourteen years of imprisonment he. was released.

A WILD WOMAN CAPTUKKD. The Weird Story of an Indiana Female. A Singular capture was made near Boonville, Ind., of a demented woman, whose history and surroundings are a mystery. She had been; vfor several days roaming through the swamps and woods in an almost Siude condition, and would utter a shriek, and dart away like a frightened deer at the approach of a human being. A party was organized for her capture, and she was pursued to her hiding place and captured.

HURRIED TO DI’.ATH. Two Persons Instantly Killed and Others Injured by a Railroad Accident. A fatal accident occurred on the Denver & Rio Grande track ata little station named Husted, fifteen miles north of Colorado Springs, Col., by which two men were killed and several fatally injured. The Salt Lake express was thundering down the "divide" at a terrific speed, when, on turning a curve one mile south of Husted, the engineer was horrified to see the Rock Island express dashing toward him less than three hundred feet away. The engineers and firemen of both trains jumped, and a moment afterward the engines came together with a thundering crash, telescoping the cars of both trains and rendering them a mass of broken timber and iron. The upsetting of the stove in the Rio Grande baggage-car set fire to the train, and before the flames could be extinguished three cars were consumed. Fortunately no one was imprisoned in them, and but two men, both belonging to the crew, were killed. W. H. Phillipps, express messenger, and J. H. Flinn, both of the Rock Island, were killed. Martin Numee, engineer of the Rio Grande, had his skull fractured, and will die. Joseph Berry, engineer of the Rock Island, was badly hurt, and Harry Smith, fireman on the Rio Grande, was fatally injured. Scvenal others were injured, but not seriously.

FIGHT WITH A NEGRO MOB. Desperate Conflict Between Officers and Colored Men : t Savannah, Ga. An attempt by the police to quell a disturbance among a crowd of disorderly negroes in Savannah, Ga., resulted in a riot in which a negro was killed, two policemen and a white man seriously injured, and several negroes wounded. Patrolman McMurray in dispersing the crowd was set upon and knocked down. The crowd closed in upon him, but he got up, and finding his club useless drew his revolver and began firing. Other officers heard the shooting and hastened to the place. Patrolman Cronan was knocked down and his skuH broken. McMurray was driven three or four blocks and escaped into a house, but the crowd broke through the windows and threw him into the street, where negro women beat him with bricks until insensible. The police were notified at headquarters, and a squad of mounted officers soon arrived. By this time 1,000 negroes were in the street yelling and crying “Kill them, kill them!” The police held the crowd back, and eight of the ringleaders were arrested. The crowd was finally dispersed. A negro with seven bullet-wounds in his body was found dead in that part of the city where the shooting occurred.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION. A Hung Jury in a Murder Trial Equivalent to a Discharge. Tho Supremo Court of Pennsylvania has rendered a remarkable decision relative to the trial of persons charged with murder. It was decided the disagreement of the jury in murder trials is equivalent to an acquittal, and that the accused person cannot be again arraigned for trial after one jury has failed to agree. The ground for the decision is the Constitution, which says that a man cannot more than once be put in jeopardy of “life and limb." The Supreme Court in its decision declares that the Constitution is clear on the point raised, and the fact makes it remarkable that the point was never raised before. Many men have been tried for murder a second time, convicted and hanged, and it would be interesting to know how many have been unconstitutionally hanged in Pennsylvania. The decision will have the effect of releasing several men who are now awaiting trial after juries in their first trial had disagreed. Hereafter it will bo much more difficult to convict a man of murder in Pennsylvania, since the lawyers need only work for a disagreement in order to save their clients.

DUN’S REVIEW OF TRADE. Lower Prices Obtain in Nearly All Branches. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for last week says: The outgo of gold and the situation in speculat ve markets caused lower prices in almost e\oi'y branch, but in stocks some recovery lollowed reports of new and important agreements between rail load managers. At Kansas C.ty trade was comparatively quiet, and at Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee improvement was noted, Wi.h more active demand for money. Collections did not improve at the South, but seemed fairly satisfactory at most Northern cities. The d,y-goods market was more healthy as to cottens, and with print cloths stronger at 3.94. Prices of other goods appear io be stiffening. No advance in prices of boots and shoes is now expected. The breadstuffs market, after sharp depression, recovered a little. Oil changed little; coffee was marked up half a cent, while pork was 25 cents per barrel lower, lard 17 cents and hogs It' cents lower per 100 pounds. The uncertainty of the iron business increased. More furnaces are going into blast; every furnace in the Pittsburg district la in operation, and the output larger than ever. Buyers look for lower prices. The anthracite coal trade suffered frnm recent overproduction, and it is proposed to work only three-quarters time. Monongahela mining ceased Dec. i, putting 6,UD persons out of work. T. e coke production is the largest on record. Th) exports of merchandise from New York was substantially the same in November as in the same'month last year, with a decrease of 2 per cent, in imports. The business failures number for the week 23?, as compared with a total of 296 lor the previous week, and 237 the week previous, kor the corresponding week of last year the figures were 244.

THE POSTAL SERVICE. Estimate of Cost for 1890 as Submitted by the Postmaster General. The Postmaster General has submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury his estimates for appropriations for the postal service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890. They aggregate 866,812,073, as against $60,233, the appropriation for the present fiscal year. In tho item of mail-bags and mail-bag catchers, the estimates are $60,000 less than the appropriation for the present year, and the sum for locks and keys is SIO,OOO less than for th® present year. These reductions. It is said, are occasioned by tho systematic repair of all defective pouches and bags and by the bringing into use of locks which have accumulated in the various postofflees throughout the country. The revenues of the department for the fiscal year ending

June 90. 1890, are estimated at $62,508,688. which is an increase of $9,813,482 over the revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888, and an increase of $4,544,324 over the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. This will leave an apparent deficiency for the year ending June 30, 1890, of $4,403,414.

[election returns. The Official Figures from Several States. | jThe official returns from the election in Wisconsin give these results: Total vote for President. 354.664; Harrison's plurality, 21,271; Hoard’s plurality. 20,265. The prohibition vote for President was 14,277, and the labor vote for President. 8,552. The official returns of the vote of Oregon give these results: Harrison. 33,293; Cleveland, 25.524; Fisk, 1.677; Streeter. 363; scattering, 61; total vote. 61,918; Harrison’s plurality, 6.769. Blaine’s plurality in 1884 was 2,256 on a total vote of 51,554. The electoral vote of California as announced by the Secretary of State is: Harrison, 124,809; Cleveland, 117.729; Fisk. 5.761; Curtis. 1,591. The official vote of Kentucky is: Cleveland. 183,800; Harrison. 155.134; Fisk, 5,225; Labor, 662; Belva Lockwood, 2; Cleveland's plurality. 28,666.

THE ÜBIQUITOUS TASCOTT. He Is Again Captured After Being Wounded in the Mountains of Kentucky. A man supposed to be Tascott, the murderer of Millionaire Snell, of Chicago, has been captured in Menifee County, Kentucky, by a posse under the leadership of Deputy Marshal John Day. The supposed Tascott for some weeks past has been staying about Owingsville, Bath Connty. He gave the name of Dickerson. Ho borrowed a fine shotgun at Owingsville, saying he was going to the mountains to prospect for mineral. Suspicion attached to Dickerson because he answers the description of the murderer most minutely. He was followed to the mountains, and after a fight in which he was wounded he was captured and lodged in Frenchburg jail. He had in his possession a large sum of money and refused to say where he got it. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A Mother Kills Her Two Children and Then Cuts Her Own Throat. A terrible triple tragedy occurred in the family of William Truitt, who lives in Taney County, Missouri, about sixteen miles south of Ozark. Truitt and his son left home the other day to assist a house-rais-ing in the neighborhood. When they returned in the evening they discovered the bodies of two children, Ellen, aged 13, and Maggie, aged 11, lying bloody and wounded on the floor. A hatchet was beside them. Maggie was dead and the other was mortally wounded. A trail of blood led from the house into the woods, where a quarter of a mile away the mother was found dead with her throat cut. Insanity is ascribed as the cause of the work. FOUND DEAD IN A CABIN. The Ghastly Discovery Made by Two Mountain Miners. H. J. Herrin, who reached Helena recently from Lincoln Gulch, a point sixty miles from Helena. Montana, told a story of a ghastly discovery there. Gus Lavelle and two miners went up the gulch to visit Jas. Robinson, who had been missing for three weeks. The men found his skeleton lying in a bed in the cabin. It was concluded that, as Robinson was known to be addicted opium, he had taken an overdose and died. Tracks of mountain lions showed that the wild beasts had discovered the unfortunate’s corpse and feasted themselves on human flesh, leaving nothing but the bare bones.

THE POPE AND IRELAND. A Secret Papal Rescript Sent to the Bishops in Ireland. A Dublin telegram says: “The report that a second Papal rescript had been sent to the Irish bishops is confirmed. It was intended that the receipt of the document should not be made known, but that the bishops should proceed to enforce the commands contained in the first rescript without alluding to the existence of the second one. But this plan was spoiled through the indiscretion of a servant of tho Bishop of Limerick, who divulged part of the contents of the rescript. It is probable that the publication of part of the document will force the Pope to reaffirm publicly his wishes regarding Ireland. IN A BURNING MINE. Several Lives Lost by an Incendiary Fire. Fire broke out in the eighth level of shaft No. 3of the Calumet and Heeia mine, near Calumet, Mich., while over one hundred men were at work, all of whom escaped • except eight, who are supposed to be dead. The names of the men imprisoned in the burning mine are: John Vanderbilt, Antony Kalski. Joe Mossogolie, Joe Rowe, John Flick. Andrew Hansen, Gustave Dana, and Antony Languin, The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin.

A CALIFORNIA HANGING. J. H. Meyer Has to Be Carried to the Scaffold. John Henry Meyer was hanged at Placerville, Cal., for murdering John Lowell, a ranchman, last March. Meyer was so weak that the officers were compelled to almost carry him to the scaffold, and two deputies held him erect until the trap was swung. Meyer, William Drager, and Henry Olsen went to Lowell’s ranch last March and obtained employment. Meyer shot Lowell dead, and the three men, after throwing the body into the well, drove off several of Lowell’s horses and sold them. They weri all convicted of murder and sentenced to be hauged together, but Drager and Olsen have appealed to the Supreme Court, where the case is now pending, POWDERLY MAKES HIS SELECTIONS. The Philadelphia Office to Be Investigated —Place of Next Meeting Uncertain. The Knights of Labor General Assembly, in session at Indianapolis, Ind., adjourned without selecting a place for the next meet-

I ing, the question being referred to the General Executive Board. It will be either Atlanta, New Orleans, or Albany. The Blair educational bill and a recommendation to establish junior locals were indorsed. A resolution severely denouncing the Provisional Committee was referred back to the Committee on Resolutions without action. Mr. Powderly was given the privilege of appointing the committee to investigate the Philadelphia office, and he named Delegates McGee, Beaton, and Gannon. A TREASURER’S DISGRACE. A Trusted Dakota Official Absconds with County Funds. C. G. Winchell, Treasurer of Spink County, Dakota, is said to be a defaulter to the extent of SIO,OOO. The first intimation of the matter was received through a letter written by Winchell while in the East to his deputy. Winchell was highly respected in Spink County, and was deemed perfectly honest. He sent his family to Chicago some time ago to live, A curious feature of the case is that Winchell left $5,000 in his office safe and $20,000 in the bank. His bondsmen are reliable and will make goo«Ltho deficiency. Literally Annihilated. "Dock* Haggerty was unloading 1,040 pounds of nitro-glycerine from his wagon at Pleasantville, Pa., when it exploded, and Haggerty was literally annihilated. Frag ments of the flesh of his horses were found in neighboring trees, and a piece of the wagon was picked up half a mile away. The side of a house in the vicinity was blown in and Mrs. Gutschaw was thereby seriously injured. •The Yellow Fever. The Board of Health of Jacksonville, Fla. reported for the twenty-four hours ended at 6p. m., Tuesday. Nov. 27th, no new cases and no deaths. There were not more than twenty cases in that city and all were out of danger. Restrictions on travel will ba removed as soon as disinfection shall havs been completed, which will be as early aS possible. Failed to Agree. The State Board of Canvassers of Ten* nessee, to whom all returns are certified, failed to agree upon the contest for the certificate to Congress from the Third District, Governor Taylor indorsing the claim of H. C. Evans, Republican, and Secretary of State Allison, the other member, holding that Bates, Democrat, was legally elected. True Source of the Mississippi. The true source of the Mississippi has, as alleged, been discovered by persons living at Sauk Center, Minn., who say the Father of Waters flows from two small creek-fed lakes whose waters are emptied into Lake Glazier, recently discovered by Captain Willard Glazier. Rescued from Hanging. At Wytheville. Va.. a band of armed men stormed and broke into the jail, and rescused Wayman Sutton, sentenced to be hanged for murder. Sutton was taken by his friends to the west end of the county A Kansas Elopement. A. G. Staat, superintendent of the street railway at Hutchinson, Kan., has eloped with the wife of a prominent citizen, and besides carried off funds belonging to the railroad company. He Violated the Law. J. Tallman Rudd, manager of Wilkinson & Wells’ elevators at Buffalo, N. Y., was fined $250 for violating the new law against, charging more than % of a cent for elevating grain. Burned to the Ground. The canning house of McGaw Bros., near Spesutra Island, Md., has been destroyed by lire. There was an insurance of $28,000 on the structure. A Place of Honor. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has been tendered the position of Chief Marshal of the inaugural parade at Washington, March 4 next. Returns from Florida. The official vote of Florida is as follows: Cleveland, 39,561; Harrison, 26,659; Fisk, 403. Cleveland’s plurality, 12,902.

JOHN HRONEK.