Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1888 — BREEZY BRIEFLETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BREEZY BRIEFLETS.

INTELLIGENCE GATHERED BY WIRE FROMFAR AND NEAR. An Entertaining’ and Instructive Summary of the Doings in the Old and New World, Embracing Politics, Labor, Accidents, Crime, Industry, Etc. LYNCHERS SHOT DOWN. An Alabama .Tail Besieged by a Mob —A Dozen Men Killed—The City Under Military Control. Richard Hawes, who had separated from his wife, was incarcerated in jail at Birmingham. Ahi., charged with her murder and that of his two children. The finding of the body of Mrs. Hawes at the bottom of a lake, heavily weighted down with iron and the back of the head split open with an ax. so incensed the citizens of Birmingham as to awaken them to extreme measures. A largo crowd gathered at the jail witli the avowed purpose of lynching Hawes, when the Sheriff's posse fired on the mob. throe men wore killed instantly, seven fatally wounded, and thirty others more or less seriously hurt. Following is a list of the killed and seriously wounded: M. B. Throckmorton, Postmaster and a prominent ami popular citizen, was killed, us was an unknown negro; J. R. McCoy fell at the first volley; A. B. Tarrant was shot in the back and died; Frank Childer and Charles Jenkins were fatally shot; Brandon died from wounds in the thigh and abdomen; A. I). Bryant was shot through the heart and died instantly; Colbert Smith (colored) shot through the right lung, died in a few hours. The wounded are: Lawrence Fitzhugh, badly wounded; Charles Bailey was shot through the head, it is thought fatally; C. C. Tate was shot through the hip, thigh, ami loin, and will die; A. J. Schiede, a mechanic, was shot in the left side, just under the shoulder; it is thought he will die. J. T. Montgomery received a slight wound in the left jaw; Mr. Berkley was shot through both legs below the knee; Charles Bailey, a brakeman on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was shot in the right side; John H. Merritt was shot through tho calf of the left log; Matt Kennedy, shot in both legs below the knee, the right leg being badly shattered; J. AV. Owen, shot entirely through the right thigh; J. AV. Gilmore, fatally wounded through the bowels; Albert Smith (colored), shot in the back seriously: AV. A. Byrd, shot in the right shoulder, the ball passing through him and coming out near the spinal eord. Sheriff Smith ami posse have been arrested, charged with murder. The town was placed under military control, and the wildest excitement prevailed.

WAR TROUBLES IN AFRICA. Th « Germans Are Defeated oil the Zanzibar Coast. Dispatches from Zanzibar fully confirm the report received in Berlin of the defeat of the Germans at Bagamoyo, their principal settlement on the Zanzibar coast of East Africa, and add the following details: The Germane and other Europeans who fled from Bagamoyo to the camp of the German East African Company are closely besieged by 3, 01 j natives under Bushiri, the chief,“who led the first attack. The German man-of-war, ■which opened fire on the town as soon as it fell into possession of the natives, did great damage. The loss of life as well as of property was very heavy. The bombardment failed to dislodge the enemy, who hold the ruins and prevent parties from landing to rescue the besieged whites, who are in great danger. The British have sent u steamer to Bagamoyo to protect the English and Indian settlers it will osier refuge to all Europeans and may succeed in inducing or compelling the enemy to let them embark. The English still maintain fair relations with the natives, but the latter have declared war against the Germans along the coast < n account of the bombardment of posts recently by the German squadron. The tribes are rising far in the interior and moving toward the coast. INSTANTLY KILLED. Two I*liila<lelphians Were on Gio Wrong Kailroad Track. William Elkins, a well-known carpenter and builder, and William H. Bulk, also a carpenter mid builder, both of Philadelphia, Pa., were struck and instantly killed by the Washington express on the New York division of the Pennsylvania Bailroad, near Bridesburg. The men stepped off the track on which they had been walking to avoid a freight train, and the express, coming in an opposite direction at a high rate of speed, struck them and hurled them high into the air, causing almost instant death. SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED. The Normal at Lock Haven, Pa., Destroyed by Eire. The Central State Normal School building. in Lock Haven. Pa., has been totally destroyed by fire. One hundred boarding students, most of whom were in the building at the time, were safbly removed. The building was of brick, four stories high, and cost $150,000. The amount of the insurance is said to be small, Tlte total number of students in attendance was over two hundred. Many of them lost their books, clothes, and valuables.

Tascott in the Army. , An employe of a Chicago livery-stable has created a small sensation by disclosing the statement that W. B. Tascott, the alleged murderer of Millionaire Snell, enlisted in the regular army shortly after the murder, and is now stationed in Washington Territory. Steps have been taken to ascertain the truth or falsity of the statement ' Death of Prof. Shepard. Prof. Forest Shepard died in Norwich, Conn., of pneumonia, aged 88 years. He ■was born at Boscawen, N. H. He was graduated at Yale University in the class of 1827. Ho was Professor of Science in the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio.

THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERER. A Notorious Adventurer Susplcioned of the Crime. Believed to Be in Chicago. Dr. Tumbletey, who has become notorious through his detention in London,- under suspicion of being the AVhitechapel murderer. is thought to be somewhere in Chicago, He is known to be have friends there. He

was in terror of his life in New York because of tho bitter feeling against him among tho English residents of that city. Dr. Tumbletey was a well-known figure in Brooklyn, N. Y., between 1860 and 1864. At that time he posed as an herb doctor, and made a great deal of money. With him, as a friend and attendant, was the young man Harold, who subsequently attached himself to John Wilkes Booth, aided him to escape after the assassinaution of Lincoln, and was executed as an accomplice in that crime. After this Dr. Tumbletey made himself conspicuous about the Fifth Avenue Hotel, claiming to bo a prominent and wealthy English physician. At one time he was suspected of complicity in a plan to introduce yellow fever into New York by means of infected clothing. He is a very large man, about six feet four inches in height, and well built. According to bis picture, taken in 1876, he is a man of decidedly forbidding aspect; his face is very red and his whiskers deeply dyed. MATTERS FOR MERCHANTS. Trade Slightly Dull, but Confidence in the Future Remains Unshaken. The review of trade for last week, as given by R. G. Dun & Co,, is as follows: Repcrts of the condition of business note a confident feeling as to the future, but many causes in different sections produce Blackening for the present. Much uneasiness is felt in portions of the South, and collections are not above par, while failures in some ’Southern districts ara many. Memphis reports 50 per cent, more than last year. Open and mild weather in the Northwest causes uneasiness in some trades, particularly in clothing and boots and shoes at Kansas City and Milwaukee, and laek of snow delays logging in Wisconsin. The money markets are nowhere disturbed. Imports for five weeks at New York have been only 3.6 per cent, smaller and exports from New York only 2.5 per cent, smaller than last year. Yet exj>oits of wheat from Atlantic ports were only 299,888 bushels, against 3,170,763 in the sama weeks last year, and of flour 598,297 barrels, against 1,178,619, with an increase of 1,345,000 bushels in com. Wheat closes higher than a week ago, corn half a cent lower, pork five cents lower, and hogs 20 cents per 100 pounds ; oil has risen two cents, coffee three-quarters of a cent, and hides have declined ojie-half cent. The coal market is dull and actual prices 25 to 50 cents below the schedule. Wool has advanced, the finer grades more than a cent since the middle of November. The iron market is dull and waiting, with prices a shade weaker at Pittsburg. Nails are dull at 5>1.90, but bar iron is firmer. Want of confidence in arrangements of ra Irotul managers prevails, ami foreign holders appear to be selling gradually. The business failures number 305, as compared with 232 the previous week and 296 the w,ek previous. For the coiresponding week of last year the figures were 251.

ELECTION RETURNS. The Official Figures from Several States. A Charleston (W. Va.) special says: The recount in Kanawha County complete shows that Alderson (Dem.). candidate for Congress in the Third District, gained 25 votes in Charleston, which elects him by 17. Fleming (Dem.), for Governor, gained 28 votes. This will, it is believed, give the Democrats the Governor also. The official canvass of the vote of Washington Territory gives J. B. Allen (Bep.), for Congress. 20.291; Charles 8. Voorhees (Dem.). 18.920; R. 8. Greene (Pro.). 1.137. The Legislature is almost solidly Republican. The official vote of Delaware gives Harrison. 12.973 votes; Cleveland. 1(1,414; Fisk, 400. Cleveland’s plurality, 3,441. The Nebraska State Convention of the Woman’s Suffrage Association elected these officers for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. C. B. Colby, of Beatrice; Secretary, Miss Isabel Bond, of Lincoln; Treasurer, Mrs. M. J. Eldridge, of Lincoln. The official plurality for Harrison in Maine is 23,253. Harrison’s plurality in Illinois is 22,201, and Fifer’s plurality is 12,547. AN OUTLAW'S DEFIANCE OF LAW. The Quebec Provincial Government Powerless to Arrest a Murderer. A Montreal (Quebec) special says: Donald Morrison, with a cowboy like himself for a companion, holds the. entire Lake Megantic region in his control, and no Government officer dare make an attempt to arrest him, for fear of being shot down by his friends, who number over 2,000. Morrison in the meantime purchases supplies at the small towns and attends sociables and balls with a rifle and revolvers strapped to his waist. The people, most of whom are his countrymen, are deeply attached to him, and do not care for what the Government At last the Provincial Government, after trying various expedients to capture Morrison without bloodshed, has issued a proclamation which is to be placarded throughout the e’ntiro Lake region, ordering the arrest of any one pro'eeting, harboring, or conniving at the escape of Donald Morrison, the penaltybeing two years’ imprisonment as an accessory after the fact. Morrison’s crime was the murder of Bailed States Deputy Warren last June. WEARY OF LIVING. G. W. T. Adams of the Empire Freight Line Comm Mb Suicide. G. W. T. Adams, agent of the Empire Freight Line, at Lafayette, Ind., and formerly with, the freight department of the Cincinnati. Indianapolis. St. Louis and Chicago Railway, died from the effects of morphine taken with suicidal intent He lingered several hours and died unconscious, all efforts to arouse him being futile, He left a letter addressed to his brother-in-law, J. C. Tucker of Chicago, asking him to pay his debts with his life insurance, which would

be ample. He closed the letter by saying: "This letter will end my life." He had Jtalked to friesds of the easiest method of ending life, and hie act was not a surprise to them. He had drank hard for several months, and was a constant sufferer from asthma. It was also understood that he had been troubled much by a Circe, from whose toils he had been endeavoring to extricate himself for some time. FRIGHTENED WOMEN. “Jack the Ripper,” of AVhitecliapel Notoriety, Has an American Imitator. An Associated Press telegram from Whittonton, Mass., says: Excitement runs high here over several assaults on women by i.n unknown man, who. from hi* acts, has evidently been reading of the Whitechapel murders. Tita police are on the lookout for him, and a large number of young men patrol the ward in the hope of discovering him. A few nights ago he attacked a young woman in a field, but her screams brought some men to her aid and the fellow fled, carrying the girl’s umbrella with him. The next night a woman fell into his clutches, and later he attempted to assault another, and again still a third young girl. In each instance his victims either escaped or gave an alarm which frightened him away. A married woman, accompanied by her little children, was waylaid by the rascal. She described him as being about 30 years of age, of medium height, and wearing a brown mustache. He threw his arms about her neck and covered her mouth with one hand. One of the children commenced to scream and he knocked the child down. The woman made a hard struggle, scratched his hands and face, and he finally fled, leaving her in a fainting,condition. A feeling of terror has spead among the women an.i girls of Whittentoii, and they are afraid to go out unaccompanied after dark.

THE TREASURY REPORT. The Secretary Makes His Estimates of Appropriations Required. The Secretary of tho Treasury has transmitted to Congress estimates of appropriations required for the Government service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890. They aggregate $323,467,488. which is $3,062,305 less than estimates for 1889, and $3,530,511 more than the appropriations for the current fiscal year. The estimates are as follows: Legislative establishment, $3,381,963; executive, $18,955,081; judicial, $436,000; foreign intercourse. $1,947,565; military. $25,293,372; naval, $25,162,028; Indian affairs, $5,475,410; pensions, $81,758,700; public, works, $21,204.909; postal service, $4,303,414; miscellaneous, $26,856,385; permanent annual appropriations, $108,691,055. The estimates include SIOO,OOO for the improvement of the Calumet River, $387,000 for Illinois River, $172,000 for Chicago harbor, $43,000 for Calumet harbor, and $30,000 for Waukegan.

LARGEST REWARD EVER OFFERED. The Widow of the Chicago Millionaire Offers 850,000 for the Capture of Tascott. The murder of Amos J. Snell has been again revived by the offer of an additional reward. Mrs?. Snell, the wife of the murdered millionaire, has sent the following letter to the Police Department of Chicago: Chicago, 111., Dec. 5,1888.—1, Henrietta Snell, widow of the late Amos J. Snell, -will pay ®SU,001 reward for the arrest and detention until identified by the authorities of the eity of Chicago, of William B. Tascott, the supposed murderer of my husband. The above reward is offered in lieu of all other rewards announced by me, and will hold good for four (4) months Irom this date. All communications to oe sent to George W. Hubbard, General Superintendent ot Police, or to Mr. A. J. Stone, 544 West Madison street, Chicago, 111. Henrietta Snell. In the history of crime this reward is the largest amount ever offered for the apprehension of any one person. GERMANS BEGIN FIGHTING. Coast Villages Destroyed by Hostile Ships of War. A dispatch from Zistzibar says: A French man-of-war is announced to arrive here in connection with the blockade. Coast villages oppositzo Zanzibar are constantly being burned by the Germans. It is reported that the German Admiral has gone to meet the English at Mombaisu. Bushiri, with 2,5u0 men armed with breech-loaders, and having two guns, forcibly occupied Bagamoyo. He intrenchedfiiiinself sjo yards from the German company’s fortified stronghold, cutting off retreat to the sea and preventing the landing of German boats. German meh-of-war then bombarded the town, destroying) the British Indians, houses. A decisive engagement is imminent FRANCE AND THE POPE; Leo Secretly Advised to Leave Italy if the Powers Become Hostile. The London Standard's correspondent at Rome says: “The French Government has secretly advised the Pope to leave Italy in the’event of a rupture between France and Italy, and has offered all possible assistance .3 the event of his deciding to go to France. The Tribune hears that the Pope has charged Mgr. Galimberti to visit the Duke of Lichtenstein and thank him for his generous offers. It says his Holiness has no present intention of leaving Rome, but if Italy became involved in a war he would willingly take refuge at Vaduz.” CHARGED WITH THE BRIGADE. A Survivor of the Famous Six Hundred 11l lit Indianapolis. There lies in the city hospital of Indianapolis. Ind., suffering witli fever, an aged Englishman named John Levick, who has an eventful history. He is one of the veryfew survivors of the immortal “six hundred” who made that awful charge at Balaklava “into the mouth ot hell,” celebrated by Tennyson’s poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” He has papers establishing his identity. Becoming a plumber, he fell sick while putting natural gas pipes in houses.

GEN. HARRISON'S CONTRIBUTION. The President-Eject Helps Buy- Bricks for a Connecticut Cliapel. A chapel is about to be built at Berlin Station, near New Haven, Conn. The money to pay for it has been raised by ladies who have gone about securing the names of persons who would pay for one brick or more which are to go into the chapel. One of the ladies wrote to Presi-dent-elect Harrison and asked him to buy some bricks. He did so, sending $2. Two bricks are to be marked with his name and put in the corner of the building. Chicago Theatricals. The promising young tragedian, Mr. Frederick Warde, began a two weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s Theater on Mondaynight. During his engagement "Virginius," "Richard III.,” "The Gladiator,” “Gaston

Cadol," and "William Teir’will be presented. The company includes Miss Adele Belgarde, Miss Ida A’ernon, Miss Emma Maddern, Messrs. L. J. Henderson. Henry Weaver, E. N. Hoyt, and William Stuart. Phil Daly Assaulted. At New York Phil Daly, a well-known sporting man, was decoyed by a letter to visit the house of Miss Abbie Stanton, a dressmaker. While there two men sprang from an inner room, demanded Daly's money, and in the struggle the latter was shot and slightly wounded. His assailants jthen escaped. Daly had on his person $3,000 in money and $30,000 in bonds. New Free-Delivery Postoffices. The Postmaster General has ordered the establishment of the free-delivery system at the following named postoffices: Chippewa Falls. Wis.; Crawfordsville. Ind.; Elyria, Ohio; Fremont. Ohio; Muncie, Ind.; Nebraska City, Neb.; Pine Bluffs, Ark.; Red AVing, Minn.; Spokane Falls, AV. T.; AValia Walla, AV. T.; and Warren, Ohio.

A Duluth Fur Dealer “Eights Out.” E. Grumback, a fur dealer, has left Duluth, Minn., leaving unpaid bills which run. up into the thousands. The largest single debt is $3,200, owed to C. Mieswa and others of Now Y'ork. Chicago and St. Paul fur dealers and Grumback’s employes are losers. Grumback’s stock has been seized by the Sheriff. A Fight with Two Catamounts. John Martin, while passing through the outskirts of a large forest in the extreme northern part of Madison County, Indiana, was attacked by two catamounts. He fought them off with a club, but not until the flesh of his shoulder and arm was torn into ribbons, and his leg terribly lacerated. His Hair Turned White. William Ladue and two friends, of Toledo, Ohio, watched the yacht race of Nov. 19 last from a skiff -which was upset. Ladue’s friends were drowned, but he was picked up after long exposure, which resulted in a severe sickness, from which he has just recovered with his hair turned from jet black to snow white. A “Hoggish” Trust, Rumors gained credence in St. Louis, Mo., lately that a combine of uH hog-pack-ing interests in the AVest was being engineered by a Chicago syndicate. The sale of the East St. Louis Packing Company’s plant, with a daily capacity of 2,500 head, to Crossman & Savage, said to represent the trust, was the basis for the story.

| He Won the Money. After his exhibition in a variety show at Washington. Sorakichi, the Japanese wrestler, made the usual offer of SSO to any one of the audience who would throw him. Henry W. Wenzel, a brewer, accepted the challenge and won the money. A Phenomenon.'' a The people of Wapella, DeWitt County. HI., witnessed a fine example of the phenomenon of the mirage, what seemed to be the town of Midland City, twelve miles distant, being plainly visible suspended high in the air. Bound and Robbed. At Lebanon, Ind., two masked men entered the house of Edward Sheridan, bound and gagged Mrs. Sheridan, who was alone, and took $75 that she was keeping for other persons, not touching other valuables. A 8100,000 Fire. Fire in Lyman, Sons & Co.’s wholesale drug house at Montreal, P. Q., caused a loss of SIOO,GOO. The insurance foots up $150,000. Four firemen were badly injured. S elf-Destruc lion. Ed Chamberlain, the murderer of Ida Wittenberg, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell in the jail at Logansport. Ind. Flooded Mines. The mines at Nesquehoming. Pa., were flooded, causing great damage, and Philip Stevens and William Fiteher were found drowned. Judge Warden Dead. Judge Robert G. Warden, a well known lawyer, died in the Providence Hospital, at Washington.

DR. TUMBLEREY IN 1876.