Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. ————— An Interesting Summary of th«? More Important Doings of Oar Neighbors—We<l•ltngs and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Minor State Items. —Samuel Lamire, aged 16, was accidentally shot and killed by his brother, while out hunting near Jackson. —Jesse Miller an aged and wellknown citizen of Goshen, was struck and fatally injured by a railway engine. George Hardemeyer, a prominent man of Warwick County, dropped dead of apoplexy, in the court-room at Boonville, just after having testified in a case on trial. —J. T. Fethers, of Anderson, was caught between projecting saw-logs, while coupling cars, and his head was fatally crushed. —Miss Ella Tilford, a teacher in the Martinsville high school, who recently went to the Pacific coast fjr her health, died at Orange, Cal. —A barn belonging to Grafton Johnson, at Greenwood, Johnson County, was burned a few days ago. Loss, $1,200; no insurance. —Charles Schenck was badly burned about the head by the premature explosion of a charge, while blasting Btumps near Seymour. —Howard Green, of Kokomo, aged 18, was accidentally shot in the leg while out bunting, the wound rendering him a cripple for life. —Mrs. Ruth Phifer, of Dublin, went out to kill a chicken, and in five minutes was dead herself from the effects of a violent hemorrhage. —Mrs. David Fitzgibbon, of Franklin, ■was fatally injured by falling to the floor. A chair was pushed from under her as she was sitting down. —The Connersville Knights of Labor held their semi-annual election under the Australian system, as a means of teaching their members the new law. —Louis Peaß, a Corydon farmer, committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a pistol. No cause is assigned for the act. He leaves a wife and two children. —Berry Gwin, an old and well-known citizen, dropped dead of heart disease at Vincennes, aged 74 years. Deceased was an undo by marriage of Gen. W. Q. Gresham.

—Martin Edmunson, aged 60, an old soldier, of Hyatt, dropped dead at his home. He had just remarked to his sister that she had just come in time to see him die. —Lee Gray married a girl born wit hout hands at Indianapolis this week. He has since been arrested on a bastardy charge preferred by a woman who is aged 40, married, and the mother of ten children. —At Martinsville, Martin Hammons drove over his little boy Howard, thinking him in the wagon. The little fellow’s right arm and leg were broken, and he was dreadfully injured, from which be can scarcely recover. —Henry Messman, a brick-layer, and Henry Hilderman, a cutter, of Richmond, have received SB,OOO each in cash from the estate of a deceased relative in New York City. They were two of nine heirs to an estate of $85,000. —As Allen Sanderson, a well-to-do farmer, with his wife and two children, were going to Muncie in a wagon, a tree fell across the road on the vehicle, instantly killing the father and one of the children. The mother and other child were unharmed. —While curling her hair, Miss Mary Miles, daughter of Auditor John W. Miles, one of the prettiest young ladies of Marion, accidentally drew a hotcul-ing-iron across her eyes, scarring the eyes. The sight of the eyes isundoubtedly destroyed. —Fred Horn, aged 17, caught his right hand in a cording machine at the Muncie Bagging Company’s mills, and the member was slowly chopped to pieces by the sharp steel teeth. In attempting to free himself he pulled the muscles out of his arm to the shoulder. It was a horrible sight, and the boy suffered frightfully. Diphtheria is playing havoc among the children at Delaware, and the mortality is alarming. Nine deaths have occurred, and a frightful number are prostrated. Two little children of Alfred Doles were buried in the same coffin, and the deaths are averaging one a day. The physicians seem unable to control the disease. —Prof. J. M. Coulter, of Wabash College, has been appointed scientific head of the Botanical Department at Washington. The appointment was made when the Professor was at Washington a few weeks ago. His duties are such as pertain strictly to the scientific part of the Botanical Department, and will not necessitate his withdrawal from W abash. —Twelve years ago, when but a small boy, James Stewart, colored, left Martinsville for parts unknown. From that time nothing was heard of him, and his friends in Martinsville had given him up as dead. Imagine their surprise, the other evening, when James came back on a visit. The strangest part of the whole story is that the boy had been in Danville, Hendricks County, all the time, only twent An re miles awav. I

—Wm. Cain, a butcher at Martinsville, killed three* hogs that averaged 650 pounds each. —Pendleton decided, by a vote of ten to one, to make the four pikes entering the city free in the future. The Commissioners have made the appraisement, and the old-fashioned \oll-gate will soon be a re lie of the past. —Joe Kerlin, himself poor enough, but the son of a well-to-do farmer, hanged himself with a halter in the barn at Richmond. He went to the barn, and, as it is found, curried his horses, and did up his work generally, before he did himself up. He was not yet cold when found. Unless it was debts, that need not have worried him, no cause is known. —William Hargrove, a colored barber, met his wife on the street in the upper portion of Evansville while on her way to spend the evening w'ith some friends, and, calling her into an alley, commenced slashing her with a razor. She received two horrible wounds,one in the neck and one in her left breast, from which her physicians say she cannot recover. Hargrove escaped. —Andrew Cain, while “snaking” a log off a hill on his father’s farm near Martinsville, was suriously hurt. The end of the log was dragged against a small stump and the horses were stopped. Andrew, while trying to disengage the log, was working on the lower side, when the horses started suddenly and the log rolled down on him mashing his legs and thighs in a severe manner. —Daniel Bowman, formerly proprietor of the Woodford (Ky.) Sun, and later a well-known business man of Chicago, was found dead on the Monon road, near Bloomington. He had fallen off the platform of a sleeper in some way, and was crushed to pieces. He waspreparing to commence the publication of a paper in Chicago in a few days. He was widely known tbroughoutthe South and West. —William Stilley, Lynn Smith, and Harley Moore, of New Castle, wore out hunting, when Moore was accidentally shot by StilJey. They were hunting in a thick woods, where they became separated. Stilley got up a covey of quails, which flew in the direction of young Moore, who was near by. He fired at the birds, the shot striking Moore in the face, inflicting serious wounds, and it is thought that one eye is permanently injured. Mrs. Mary Crane, aged 75 years, of Columbus, died at her residence of blood-poisoning. On the 28th inst., she was smoking to ease the toothache, when she suddenly became dizzy and fell to the floor in her residence in such a manner as to force the stem of her pipe through her tongue and into her throat. The nicotine from the pipe stem caused blood-poisoning, which caused her death. —A dog supposed to be afflicted with rabies bit Clarence, the 11-year-old son of James Wert, at Dillsboro, and alter biting several dogs and a number of cattle, the animal was shot. The lad was taken to Milton, and the famous madstone, which is kept in the safe of the County Treasurer, at Burlington, Ky., and owned by the Tanner heirs, was applied. The stone adhered to the wound for hours, and on falling off was dropped into a cup of milk, when green bubbles were seen to arise, and the boy was pronounced safe.

—The following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Louis Bell and W. H. P. Creighton, Lafayette, governor for steam-engines; Deloss Cornell, Boon Grove, grinding mill; Benjamin F. Heiney, Huntington, door check; Lorenzo Kushner, Terre Haute, pedal attachment; Albert L. North and H. Howe, Patriot, barrel-head holder; Lewis J. Rice, Indianapolis, hose coupling; Chas F. Walters, assignor to Richmond City mill works, Richmond, flour packer; Arsen S. Woods, assignor to H. E. Miseuer, Servia, gunpowder. —The Indiana State Teachers’ Association elected the following officers: President, W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal school; Vice Presidents, Miss Julia Bierbauer, of Evansville; W. S. Almond, of Salem; Miss Kittie E. Palmer, of Franklin; W. R. Nesbit, of Sullivan; Miss Mattie Lougb, of Lebanon, and L. O. Dale, of Wabash; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Annie E. Lemon, of Bloomington; Treasurer, D. E. Hunter, of Bloomington; Railroad Secretary, Nelson Yoke, of Indianapolis; with D. W. Thompson, of Elkhart, heading the Executive Committee. —John Hicks, the oldest convict in the United States, was released from the State Prison South, at Jeffersonville, last week. Hicks was bom in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1806, and came to this State with his brother when quite a young man, locating in Wnyne County. The first crime of which he gives any account was larceny, for which he was committed at Salem, this Stite, in 1809. He was sent to the Prison South, and served out his time. He has since served six terms in prison at Jeffersonville, one at the Michigan City prison and two in the Ohio penitentiary, making a total of forty-eight years, he has spent behind the bars. He left for Indianapolis, where the State Board of Charities has promised to provide him a home. His last term in prison, which has just ended, the old m in declares, winds up his career of crime, as he is determined to lead a better life and earn an honest living for Mm* elf.

FATAL FIRE IN A SCHOOL

TWENTY-SIX YOUNG VICTIMS OF THE FLAMES. Scenes of Horror at an East London Institution A Destructive Fire in Havana A I’alace Burned Bismarck’s Blind Foreign News. A London cable says: Fire broke out during the night in the large building of the Industrial school, situated in East London. The budding was crowded and the alarm of fire produced an indescribable scene of confusion and disorder. The fire department promptly sent an efficient force to the scene of disaster, but despite their heroic efforts twenty-six children were suffocated by the dense smoke which filled the building. It is not yet fully known what the pecuniary loss is, nor has it been certainly ascertained whether or not any more lives were lost or how many persons were injured. The scenes in the death chamber, where relatives and schoolmates of the victims were viewing the bodies, was very pitiful. The school was filled with boys who had been committed to its care because of their incorrigible habits, and altogether the inmates were of a character from which little discipline or obedience might be expected in moments when both were imperatively demanded. As a rule, however, the boys yielded readily to the directions of their superiors, and to this fact is due the safety of scores who otherwise would have perished. Of the twenty-six who lost their lives only two were burned to death, the others being su located. Many of the latter were aroused, but became stupefied with smoke and crawled back to their cots to die. The hero of the occasion was a boy who acted in the capacity of monitor in the fatal ward, himself a boy whose vicious habits bad made him an inmate of the institution. Trough his efforts many boys were literally driven from the building, and ho ceased his work of rescuing his fellows only when he was himself driven out by the flames. He dragged several ot his companions, unconscious out of the windows, while others he carried into the air in his arms. Paris! cable: Friends of Mary Anderson characterize the story of her engagement to Antonio de Navarra, of New Yorn, which was sent from Nice, as absurd. They state that Miss Anderson has been'a member of the De Navarro family for many years, and that the report of her engagement is simply the revival of a rumor prevalent ten years ago. Much amusement has been caused in society circles in New York by the publication of a cable report from Nice, France, intimating that Mary Anderson, the actress, was engaged to Antonio de Navarro. Mr. De Navarro, who is the son of a wealthy real estate owner and elevated railroad capitalist, has been a devoted admirer of Miss Anderson for years, and their engagement has been frequently reported in consequence, but it is understood by friends of both young people that they will never be more than friends. Mr. De Navarro’s brother, who is here, says he has not been apprised of any such engagement, and places no faith in the story. A Havana cahle, via Tampa, says: The loss to the Spanish-American Light and Power company by the recent fire at their wharves here is much greater than was supposed. Nine thousand barrels of petroleum were burned. The company also lost one of their new wharves, several large barges loaded with petraJeum and several large buildings, one of which contained a great deal of valuable machinery. Four big petroleum tanks exploded, and to save the gasometers, which were located at some distance from the oil tanks, it was necessary to cut all communicating pipes. It is now believed that the loss will reach $250,000. There was no insurance. The origin of the fire is believed to be due to spontaneous combustion oUburred petroleum. A Bruseels cable reports that the Laeken palace caught fire, and Princess Clementine, second daughter of King Leopold, had a narrow escape. In the effort to rescue the princess her governess was burned to death. The splendid art gallery with its collection of paintings, was entirely- destroyed. The palace is a mass of ruins. Nothing but the Gobelin tapestry and the plate was saved. Princess Clementine, her governess and a lady attendant were tho only persons in the castle at the time of the discovery of the fire. King Leopold and Queen Clementine witnessed the burning. It is reported that the lire was of incendiary origin. The German military attaches at Paris and St Petersburg are at present in Berlin. They were present at an extended conference with the Emperor and Prince Bismarck. They submitted such evidence of the martial activity of Russia and France as warrants Bismarck in asking an increased appropriation for the German army.

WASHINGTON SOCIETY.

New Year’s Reception at the White House. * Washington dispatch: The drizzling rain which ushered in tbe new year did not affect the attondance at the White House reception. All the members of the cabinet were present except Mr. Blaine. The President was assist'd by Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Morton, and the ladies of the cabinet except Mrs. Blaine and Mrs. Proctor. The following order was observed: The Vice-President and members of the Cabinet, the Supreme court, members of Congress, army and navy, civilians. The presence of members of the pan-American congress and marine conference in court costumes added brilliancy to the scene At noon Vice-President and Mrs. Morton withdrew and were driven to their residence, where a reception was held.

WRECKED ON THE RAIL.

A Passenger Train Thrown Down an Embankment—Twenty People Hurt. A Little Rock lArk.) dispatch says: A passenger train was wrecked at Wabbaseca, fifteen miles north of Fine Bluff, on the Cotton Belt road. Engineer Apperson was killed and several passengers injured. Three coaches filled with passengers, a baggage car, and engine were thrown down a tweaty-foot bank. A wrecking train went from Pine Bluff, The wires qre down and no further information can be obtained. , Kaiser William bas sent a swoid to Vice-Admiral Commerell of England, as a souvenir of the late visit to Portsmouth.

BURNED IN THEIR BEDS

l FAMILY NEARLY WIPED OUT BY A NIGHT FIRE. Two Sons Narrowly Ear a pert the Awful Fate of Tlielr Parents. Eight Brothers and Sisters and a Guest of the Parents Given as tho Cause of the Cremation. A Hancock (Mich.) dispatch says: A talamity, the horrors of which have seldom seen equaled in this country, was that which occurred at the little village of Hurontown, when the family of Theodore Jross, consisting of the parents and eight children, with one visitor, were cremated ay the burning of the house in which they ived. It appears that the family attended i dance the previous night and did not return home until about 2 o’clock, being followed at 2:80 by their uon Theodore, Jr., who is employed in the Huron stamp-mills. Having prepared to retire, be, as lie supposed, blew out the lamp and went to bed. Boon after, however, his brother Nicholas awoke him and declared that he heard screams that seemed to come from a room next to theirs and which was occupied by three of their sisters and their little brothers. Running to the door, they were horrified to find the room a mass of flames and fire rapidly climbing the stairway. Finding it impossible to assist their brothers and sisters, who were being roasted alive in the now fiery furnace, and being warned by the stifling heat and smoke which encircled them that they must flee, if they would save their own lives, they rushed to the nearest window and leaped to the ground, having received serious cuts from the glass. One attempted to enter the house on the ground floor, where the father, mother and two children slept, but he was driven back by the roaring flames that now completely enveloped the ouilding. Many spectators had gathered by this time, but it was utterabiy impossible to render any assistance to the unfortunate prisoners, and the crowd was compelled to stand by and hear their agonizing cries. In the course of three hours a searching party went over the ruins and discovered the charred remains of the eleven bodies, which were distinguishable only by the size of the bones. They were gathered in a sleigh box and deposited in the public hall. The victims were: THEODORE GROSS. MRS. GROSS, his wife. JOHN GROSS. TONY GROSS. JOSEPH GROSS. MICHAEL GROSS. CATHERINE GROSS. MARY GROSS. LIZZIE GROSS. LENIE GROSS, all children. LENA ERBST. the guest. The apes of the children range from 2 to 22 years. There is no reliable information as to how the fire started. Theodore Gross, ,Jr., says that it might have originated from the lamp that he supposed be extinguished before he went to bed. One point is certain—it started on the inside of the house. There are rumors that the dreadful calamity occurred through the carelessness of the parents, who are alleged to have returned home intoxicated from tbe dance. The holocust is the second which hat occurred in the little village in the last two weeks. In tbe former three livel were lost

MURDERED IN THEIR BED.

Jerry o’Nell|and Wife, of Mount Sterling, Win.. Murdered While Asleep. A Boscobel (Wis.)dispatch says: A double murder was committed at Mt. Sterling by an assassin of whom not the slightest trace has been found. Between 8 and 4 o’clock two revolver shots rang out at the side of the house of Jerry O’Neil, two window panes were shattered and dropped to the floor, and O’Neil and his wife lay dead in their bed. Two of O’Neil’i daughters, who were sleeping in an adjoining room, were awakened by the shots. They ran immediately to their parents’ bedroom only to find them dead. The girls set up a cry that aroused the hired men on the place. They woke the neighbors and a search was instituted for the murderer. This availed nothing, as the murderer bad quite a start and made his escape through the woods. Sc far there is not the slightest clue to the perpetrqior of the terrible crime, but all the town! in this region have been notified of the murder and officers are on the lookout. There is no known reason why this cowardly murder should be committed. Mr. O’Neil was a wealthy farmer, who had long resided near Mount Sterling, and both he and his wife were highly respected. They had no known enemies and their children are well liked among all who know them. The people of the village ana the neighboring farmers are greatly excited over the crime, and should the murderer be found in the woods, where he is supposed to be in hiding, it is not improbable that he will be lynched.

EIGHT NEGROES LYNCHED.

Taken From a Jail and Riddled with Bullets. Barnwell (8. C.) dispatch: The murderers of Heffernan and Martin, eight negroes in all, have been lynched here. The sheriff anticipated trouble, it seems, from information of the jailer. About 800 men, all disguised or unknown to tbe jailer, entered the jail. After putting him under control the party applied to the jailer to deliver some of tbe prisoners, and when he came to receive the expected prisoners he was overpowered. Eight negroes were riddled with bullets just on the outskirts of the boundary line of the town. Charleston (S. C.) dispatch: Advices from Barnwell Court Bouse say that ell v quiet an 1 no further outbreak is feared as tbe result of the lynching of the eight negroes. The threats of vengeance come chiefly from infuriated black women. The talk of the negroes leaving the State is not looked upon as serious, as the community at large are their friends and denounce tYe horrible butchery. Sheriff Lancaster for a long time had the jail thoroughly guarded, as threats of violence had been made, and he only withdrew the extra force when it was believed all danger was past It is admitted that the murder of Martin by negroes precipitated the lynching. "

STEALINGS OF A YEAR.

SUMMARY OF THE GREAT EMUEZELEMENTS OF IHBO. Tlie Amount Sntliclent to Run the Unitcc States Navy lor a Half-Year—Tlie Monti of April Most Urolith: in Defalcations. New York dispatch: The grand total of money embezzled from corporations, privatj firms and the L T nited States government during the year ISBJ was $8,5 »:!,- 75-i. The annual appropriations for the United States Navy Department are less than double the amount stolen, while it would meet the expenses of the War Department for three months. It is about equal to the total value of either the living animals, fresh and salt beef, lard, leather, petroleum, woods, or cheese exported from this country to Great Britain in a year. It is more than equal to the combined annual exports to Great Britianof iron, copper and sugar, and two-thirds as great as the total volume of tobacco or maize annually exported to the same country, these being the most important items of America’s export trade. The amount would be sufficient to meet the allowances to Queen Victoria and the English royal family and the royal pensions for two years. It is greater than the total annual public revenue of the Kingdom of or the principality of Bulgaria, to say nothing of the minor German principalities and duchies. It is also greater than the total annual revenue of the Republic of Guatemala, tbe united republics of Honduras, Costa Rica, ami Ban Salvador or Colombia aud Ecuador combined. The amount is also greater than the cost of governing either such important colonies as Tunis or Algeria by France. A summary by months oil the embezzlements is as follows:

January ...81,111,643 February 808,24!) March 1.181.487 April 5.890.375 May... 433,296 June 87.500

COMPLAINT OF THE POPE.

Hit Temporal Power Encroached Upon by King Humbert’s Government. A Rome cable says: At a consistory the other day the Pope said that the Italian adversaries of the church persistently continued their war against it, as was me.de evident by the recent utterances of persons in public positions acquainted with the intention regarding the church of the rulers of Italy. Among other recent insults to the church was the demonstration in honor of Giordano Bruno. The Italian government, seeking to detach the people troin the church, opposed the action of the Pope in every way. His holiness referred to the temporal power as necessary to tbe independence and liberty of the Pope in the exercise of his mission, and declared that he did not claim tbe restoration of the temporal power from human motives. It was his right, and he was required to preserve it intact and transmit it to bis successor as one of the unalienable treasures of the Christian faith. The new Italian penal code just coming into operation also attacked the just liberty of the clergy and hindered their work with new obstacles. An additional wound was about to be Inflicted upon the church by the law regarding charitable trusts, which had recently been enacted with unseemly baste. This was a fresh step in the endeavor to efface every vestige of religion from civil institutions. By this law all pious establishments were to be suppressed or transferred, especially those for the dowering of girls entering convents, and thdse by which it was provided that masses should, be said of the souls of the dead. This law violated the wishes of the founders of all those charities. Priests were excluded from the benefits of charitable institutions and women were admitted to such benefits. It was argued that charity should be secular in order that it might be more acceptable. But, indeed, the unfortunate are too proud sometimes to accept Christian charity, and outside the church there is no true charity. Other blows also have been leveled at the church by the invasions of the civil power forcing itself into sacred things. For a time all these things might embarrass the church, but they can never definitely change its course. Tbe Riforma says the violence of the language used in the Pope’s allocution will not prevent Italy from being governed in harmony with tbe necessities of progress and tbe aspirations of her people.

SENATOR VEST’S SON.

He Marries a St. Louii Heireait Despite Many Tribulations of a I.one Courtship. A St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch says: Alex-, ander Vest, son of Senator Vest, is the hero of a romantic courtship that has extended over five years, and has now terminated in marriage. He obtained a license to wed Katherine Servis, a social star, and an heiress. The news caused much surprise, as it was generally believed that the affair of heart which had existed between them had been broken off forever (when Miss Servis nearly a year ago jilted Vest a few days before the date set for their marriage. Vest, who is paymaster for the Granite Mountain mine, came here a year ago to wed Miss Servis. The date had been set, but much opposition developed on the part of the lady’s mother and friends. Miss Servis refused at once to make a planned trip to Europe, said she proposed to marry her sweetheart and arranged to have the ceremony take placj at a married sister’s residence. Just before the day set, however, the young lady gave way to the importunities of her friends, broke the engagement and sailed for Europe. Vest, dejected and sad, returned to his Montana home alone. A sow months later it was reported that the young man was to marry a Montana lady. Early last October Miss Servis returned from Europe and lived with her mother in the suburbs; She seemed to have lost all desire for society. That she and Vest were corresponding does not appear to have been known to anybody, but the securing of a marriage license by them is conclusive evidence that they have been writing to each other. No doubt Vest came to the city on her promise to wed him. and,after all their trials and tribulations, they are finally to find happiness m each other’s society. I Thomas A. Edison and wife, accompanied by Marchioness Demayer, daughter of Marquis Demayer, of Paris, have been uisiting relatives in Norwalk, Ohio.

July $ 802,000 August 1.171.750 September. 003,2 Ml October.... 504.058 November.. 353,775 December.. 400,527