Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — VICTIMS OF THE GALLOWS. [ARTICLE]

VICTIMS OF THE GALLOWS.

.Southern Murderers Expiate Their Crimes on the Scaffold. Ed Fry, alias Ed Williams (colored), was hanged in Marietta. Ga., for the murder of his wife. A negro named James Seames was hanged at Eutaw, Ala., for murdering Deputy Sheriff Autrey of Tuscaloosa about six months ago. Charles McGill was hanged at Cameron, Texas, for the murder of Willie Leonard. It was the first legal hanging in Milan County in thirty years. John Yancey, colored, was hanged at Yanceysville, N. C.. for murdering Bob Oliver, colored. Two thousand people witnessed the execution. Yancey confessed the crime and said his punishment was just. Charles Blackman (colored) was hanged in the presence of an immense crowd, at Ellaville, Ga., foi- murdering Stonewall Tondee (white) in 1885. Blackman had been convicted of the.murder three times, and each time his lawyer secured a new trial. The people of Senley County were so afraid

Governor Gordon would interfere and stay Blackman’s execution that the telegraph wires were cut in order to prevent the transmission of a message from Atlanta, the State capital. DOING PENANCE FOR SINS. Strange Story of an Old Mw Who Must Travel 2,000 Miles on Foot. An old man halted in Louisville, Ky., recently. to get a ghave. While the stranger was undergoing the operation he told a very remarkable story about himself. He said that five months ago he started out from a distant point in Eastern Canada to walk to the Abbey of Gethsemane, near Bardstown. So far he had safely accomplished his journey, which, he said, was a distance of 2.000 miles. In his long tramp he had worn out nine pair of shoes. "I am very weary,” he said, “and wish I w’ere at my journey’s end. where I I will find sweet, rest for the remainder of my already numbered days.” These words, spoken in a very earnest and pious tone, aroused the curiosity of the barber naturally. “Why did you not ride?” “I belong to a certain holy order of the. Catholics, and this is the penance imposed upon me for my sins.”

SOME FIGURES ON CORN. The Illinois Crop of 1888 Vai tied at Nearly 980,000,000 —Acreage and Prices, The Illinois corn crop of 1888 has been reported to the State Board of Agriculture as yielding in the aggregate 277,726,451 bushels, valued at $79,241,114. The acreage for 1888, reported by the assessors, is 7,470,813 acres. The statistics are not all prepared for the crop report of the Board, but from the tables as far as completed it is ascertained that the average yield per acre is thirty-nine bushels. Greene County reports the largest average yield, fifty-nine bushels to the acre, and the yield of fifteen bushels per acre in Jefferson County is the smallest. The average price of corn where raised was 28 cents per bushel. Cook and Alexander Counties report the highest average price of 36 cents per bushel, aud the lowest price is 24 cents, which is the value of corn in Lawrence County.

HARRISON HGGAN ARRESTED. The Aged Indiana Desperado Finally Captured by a Sheriff’s Posse. Sheriff Hay and posse, of Jeffersonville, Ind., went to Bull Creek and arrested Harrison Hogan. They ran the steamer Minnie Bay up to his shanty and threw the electriclight rays upon it. Hogan went out to give battle, but seeing the od'ds retreated Inside. The excitement among the Bay’s fifty passengers was intense. Hogan’s hired man begged him to surrender. The old man then bared his breast and asked the Sheriff to shoot him. He had no friends, had been beaten out of his wealth, and did not want to be further abused. Finally he surrendered. The arrest caused a sensation. Hogan had hitherto successfully resisted arrest, giving battle a number of times and putting the officers to flight, though he is seventy-five years old.

OHIO ADOPTS A NEW LAW. Executions Will Be by Electricity After Jan. 1, 1890—Disposition of the Remains. The General Assembly of Ohio, at Columbus. has passed the Rannells bill, providing that after Jan. 1,1890, all criminals in Ohio sentenced to death, shall be executed by electricity at the Ohio Penitentiary. The bodies are to be immediately destroyed by the quick lime process, unless friends make a demand upon the authorities for the rePolitical Doings. The Senate deadlock has been broken at Charleston, W. Va.. by the election of R. S. Carr, Union Labor Senator from Charleston, as President of the Senate, on the 126th ballot. He received sixteen votes, nine of them being cast by the Democrats, who claim that it was their victory. The New Jersey Democratic legislative caucus renominated Senator McPherson for United States Senator. The Republican caucus nominated Hon. William J. Sewell, of Camden. The Arkansas Senate has passed the House resolution instructing Senators and requesting Representatives from Arkansas in Congress to use their utmost efforts to defeat the Blair educational bill. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors has been passed by the Legislature by a vote of 132 to 55. The Hudson bill creating a labor bureau has been recommended for passage in the Indiana Senate. y The Kansas House has passed the Senate resolution favoring the opening of Oklahoma for settlement. The Arkansas Senate has denied to grant C. M. Norwood’s petition for permission to contest the election of Gov. Eagle until he gives a sufficient bond for costs.

Arizona Politics. A Prescott. Arizona, telegram says that the deadlock in the House has been broken by Mr. Jordan (Dem.) joining the Republicans, who elected J. T. T. Smith, of Phoenix, Speaker. The Governor’s message was presented. He advocated memorializing Congress for admission as a State. The bill to remove the capital from Prescott to Phoenix passed the House. In Religious Circles. The Bev. Milton Merle Smith, associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland, Ohio, has accepted a call to the Central Presbyterian Church of New York; salary, $7,000. The Rev. I. A. Crandall, of the Twenty-third Baptist Church of New York, has been called to the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church of Cleveland; salary, $5,000. He Was Insane. Thomas Conway, of New Suffolk, L. 1., who disappeared Jau. 2, the day he was to have been married, was found in a barn near that eity. He was insand and nearly starved, having lived in the shed without food since his disappearance. On receiving

medical treatment he recovered. He can give no explanation of his action. Women Elect Officers. The Woman’s Suffrage Association at Washington, D. C., elected the following officers for 1889: President. Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Vice President-at-large. Susan B. Anthony; Secretary. Rachael F. Avery; Treasurer. Mrs. Jane H. Spofford; Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mrs. Mary W. Sowell, Wants to Be Governor. A petition has been filed by C. M. Norwood in the General Assembly of Arkansas preliminary to contesting the election of James P. Eagle as Governor. Norwood, the Labor candidate, charges fraud, and claims that a fair count will elect him by over 5.000 majority. He Assisted Lincoln. Samuel M. Felton, President of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, died in his residence at Philadelphia, aged 79 years. He will chiefly be remembered as having enabled President Lincoln to pass unrecognized through Baltimore on his way to his inauguration at Washington.

Headless Bodies Found. Two headless bodies were found on the beach near Scituate, Mass., by James Ward, of the United States Life-Saving Station. They are evidently the remains of sailors of the wrecked schooner Norton, which went down in a recent gale. Sold to the Vanderbilts. It is stated that all of the interests of the late Dr. Hostetter in the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad have been sold to the Vanderbilts, and that some important changes in the management of the road w ill soon take place. A New Trial Refused. At Geneva, 111., Judge Wilson has refused a new trial to Bauereisen, the alleged Q dynamiter, who was recently sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. His friends were much disappointed, and Bauereisen paled when the Judge read his decision. A Large Judgment. Judge Wheeler, in the United States Circuit Court at New York, decided that the car trust was entitled to a judgment in its suit against the Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad for $580,003 for breach of contract.

Charged with Murder. Thomas Pritchard and Sydney Murray, well-known citizens of Jonesboro, Tenn., are charged with causing the death of William Patton, of Telford Depot, Tenn., by forcing a large quantity of crotou oil down his throat. Steel Works Close Down. The Glasgow Iron Company has closed down its steel plant near Pottstown. Pa., discharging 250 workmen. There was no demand for the kind of steel manufactured at the works. Probably Only a Rumor. Information comes from Nebraska that John M. Thurston, the prominent railroad attorney, has been tendered and has accepted the position of Secretary of the Interior. G'rls on a Strike. Eight hundred girls employed by the feather manufacturers of New York have struck because the firms receded from their agreement to pay the wages demanded by the Workingwomen’s Union. In Big Luck. John E. Sheneman and Mrs. A. W. Sayles, living near Cheboygan, Mich., have fallen heirs to $2,000,000 by the death of their greatgrandfather in Berlin, Germany.

Consecrated as Bishop. In St. Paul’s P. E. Church, at Cincinnati, Ohio, the Rev. J. Boyd Vincent was consecrated as Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Ohio with solemn services. Liabilities of W 30.000. George and William Kepler, proprietors of Kepler’s Hotel, at Cincinnati, have assigned. with liabilities of $3J,000. Committed Suicide. At Newton, Mass., Rev. Thomas Marcy, aged 72, committed suicide by shooting.