Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. * An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbor*— Wediling* anil Death* —Crime, Casualties and General News Notes, Multiplicity of Living Ancestors. A very uncommon family relationship has just developed in the family of Ira Cooper, who lives near Mitchell. His infant son, Oliver Perry Cooper, enjoys the distinction of hnving six living grandmothers, and of these the four great-grandmothers each have Ann as a part of their names. This peculiar consanguinity is certainly a rare circumstance, and perhaps cannot be equaled in all the world. The young child’s great-grandmothers are Mrs. Ann Beasley, Mrs. Ann Neal, Mrs. Mary Ann Roberts, and Susan Ann Cooper. Their ages range from seventy to eighty-three years. One of them lives in Monroe County and the other three in Lawrence County, in which Mitchell is located. They are so near in their locations that all could be summoned together at the home of their little grandson in ten hours’ time. The two grandmothers are Mrs. Sarah Cooper and Mrs. Mary Beasley, and they live at Mitchell. Both the grandfathers are living, and their names are Daniel Boone Cooper and Henry W. H. Beasley. One great-grandfather is living, and his name is John Beasley. Although the child has so many grandmothers living, its own mother is dead. She died about a \peek after the birth of the son. The remarkable longevity of these people is a fact that will be a delight for scientists to consider. Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. Patents have been grafted Hoosier inventors, as follows: James W. Bader, Bed Key, washing m ichine; Joseph Balsley, Seymour, clamping machine for wood-working machines and clamping device f(?r saw tables; Jefferson M. Belote, Greenfield Mills, wire and picket-fence machine; Simon L. Bray, assignor of one-half to B. Gugenbeim, Evansville, combined jug-handle and stopper; Calvin B. Davis, assignor of one-half to L. F. Kimberlin, Indianapolis, cultivator; William J. Hogue, La Otto, wind mill; Charles A. Jones and C. L. Bothwell, Lagrange, swinging chair; James Miller, Lafayette, car door; William Nehering, assignor of one-half to G. W. Warren, Evansville, solderingiron heater; Herman Prather, Jonesville, corn-planter; William Brady, Sellersburg, separating apparatus; Frederick Sielentopf, assignor of one-half to J. H. Briggs, J. N, Phillips, A. Grimes, J. Q. Sutton, J. B. Beynolds, J. F. Gulick and J. Charper, Terre Haute, apparatus for making salt; Samuel D. Straw, Elkhart, wind mill; John W. Titus, Eckerty, combined roller, harrow and marker; Charlea B: Wanamaker, assignor of one-half to A. G. Cox, Indianapolis, pencil sharpener; Frank T. Zimmerman, Auburn, wind mill. Minor State Items. —While gunning for rats at Muncie, Earl Hodge, aged 12, shot himself through the foot. —The Opalescent glass factory at Kokomo is being enlarged to double its present capacity. —A. B. Shadamy, of Waynesville, was dangerously injured by falling from a train near Seymour. The hub and spoke factory of Heibburn Bros., at Bochester, was burned. Loss, $13,000; insurance, $1,500. —The tile factory of Laster & Grant, at Daleville, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000. No insurance. —James Lyons and Charles Helwig were dangerously injured by a cinder explosion at the Brazil rolling mill. —William Britz, an Evansville merchant, swallowed carbolic acid with suicidal intent, and will probably die. —A street railway from Warsaw to Spring Fountain Park will be constructed as soon as the proper franchise is secured. —Stephen Gapen, of Thorntown, dropped dead near his home while returning with his wife from a visit to Greensburg. —Judge Noyes, of LaPorte, has appointed Albert E. Thornton receiver of the Continental Insurance Company of Michigan City. —John M. Oren, an inmate of the Dearborn County asylum, drowned himself in the creek near Newtown. He was an ex-soldier, aged 83. —Hon. Nelson Bernard, legislative Bepresentative from Porter County, lost an eye while hunting rabbits. A shot glanced from a tree. —The Standard Oil Company has purchased ground at Crawfordsville and will build several large tanks for coal. This place will be made a distributing point. —Mr. and Mrs. John Emerson, of Golden City, Mo., are in Lafayette to answer to a charge of embezzling SBSO from Lulu Minnear, Mrs. Emerson’s former ward. —During the year just passed the Morgan Countv Clark has issued 190 marriage licenses, and Judge Grubos, of the Morgan Circuit Court, has granted fifteen decrees of divorce. —The Little Biver drainage canal in Allen and Huntington counties is finished. With its branches it drains about 80,000 acres. Of the $152,602 collected for it $2,417.89 still remains in the hands of the Commissioners.

-George W. Alford, elected from Martin and Daviess counties to fiil the unexpired senatorial term of C. K. Tharp, claims to have been elected for four years, and will defend his claim in the courts. —Fifteen years ago William Guthat, a Frenchman, suddenly disappeared from LaPorte, leaving considerable property. Eecently a peddler appearednt LaPorte, claiming to be Guthat, and is taking steps to Becure the property, which his wife deeded some years ago to one Cumro. Mrs. Guthat is a victim of intermittent insanity. —Edwin Morrison. 17 years old, a son of William H. Morrison, was struck and instantly killed, nt Hammond, by the fast mail train on the Michigan Central road. He stepped off the east-bound track to get out of the way of a freight, when the incoming mail train struck him, completely serving his head from his body. —Extensive additions will be made shortly to the plant of the New Albany structural iron-works and rail-mill, which will make these works the largest of the kind in the West. The establishment now employe about four hundred operatives, and the paoposed enlargement will greatly increasethe number of employes. —Thomas Jackson, a plasterer, who resided at New Providence, was drowned in Muddy Fork. He left New Provi-* dence slightly intoxicated, and it is supposed that in crossing the bridge he fell into the swoolen stream and was drowned. His hat was found about a mile below the town, but the body has not been recovered. * -Miss Emma Prewitt, of Cartersburg, who was injured in the wreck on the Big Four, near Morgantown, in August,lßß7, has brought suit against the company for SIO,OOO in the Morgan Circuit Court. Henry Crone, a prominent farmer, near Martinsville, received a broken jaw and internal injuries in the same wreck, and has been offered $1,200 to compromise. He has not yet accepted. —At Marion, William Newcomb, 18 years old, a hardened young criminal, plead guilty to highway robbery, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary., On the way to the jail Newcomb threw a handful of pepper in the eyes of Deputy Sheriff Frank Fagan, who had him in charge, and attempted to escape. The officer knocked Newcomb down and chocked him until help arrived. —As Patrick McGee was employed at the Bee Line yards at Union City, shoveling coal from a car into a coal bin, a box car was shunted into the side track, striking the car in which he was standing. The concussion threw him on the track, when a car-wheel passed over his head, killing him instantly. He was about fifty-five years old, and leaves a widow, but no other family. —About four hundered ex-Union soldiers, residents and members of the Service Pension Association, met at the Court House in Muncie, and indor&d Governor Hovey’s appeal to Congress. Besolutions were passed strongly indorsing the Governor’s address, after which a permanent organization was effected. Speeches were made by Hon. J. W. Byan, Dr. Kemper, Dr. Good, Bobert Snodgrass, W. H. Younts and others. —William Stilley, Lynn Smith, and Harley Moore, of New Castle, were out hunting, when Moore was accidentally shot by Stilley. 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. —JohnW. Cammins, a fanner living two miles south of Middletown, accidentally shot and killed himself at his home. He was preparing to go to a neighbor’s to assist in the work of butchering. He had taken down his gun, and was in the act of putting a wad in the muzzle to protect it from the weather, when it was discharged, and the ball passed through his head from the mouth upward and backward. He died in a few minutes. He leaves a wife and several children. While Mr. N. M. Holmes, of Columbus, was going through his large safe, arranging it for this year’s business, he found a sealed envelope, on which was marked, “Last will and testament of Samuel J. Linton.” Dr. Linton was one of the oldest citizens in this county, and died on December 29, 1889. It was not known by his relatives that he had made a will. The instrument was executed in 1870, and placed in this safe, which was then owned by Mr. Gus Hurzsch, a druggist. The instrument will be probated to-morrow. —The first annual reunion of the Fort Wayne Division of the National Asso- j ciation of Ex-Prisoners of the War was held recently. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Capt. S. L. Lewis; Vice President, John A. Solidav; Secretary, 9. W. Lynch, of Ossian; Treasurer, Capt. J. W. Clark. Gen. A. D. Streight, of Indianapolis, made a brilliant address in the afternoon. Hon. J. B. White also spoke entertainingly. In the evening a grand banquet was held at Standard Hall. Tbs principal toasts were responded to by Gen. Streight, B. C. Bell, and Mason Long. There were many visitors from out of town.

BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL

STATUS OF THE MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENTS. The Last Rites Over the Remains of the Former Empress of Brazil Sagasta Gives Up His Attempt to Form a New Spanish Cabinet. Lisbon cable: In Portuguese official circles it is denied that Major Serpa Pinto can rightly be made to bear any responsibility for the fresh difficulties which have arisen with the natives of southeastern Africa. Not only, they say, was Serpa Pinto himself ill at Mozambique at the time when the revolt broke out, but the bulk of his forces had retired from the district, leaving the natives no immediate cause for their action. The government here believes that the sharp attacks on Portugal appearing In the English press are due to the machinations of certain English politicians seeking to force Lord Salisbury into a rupture with Portugal. The authorities here are unmoved by this newspaper warfare, but await with anxiety the tone of the debate in the Honse of Commons during its approaching sittings in February. The government has not recalled Sennor Serpa Pinto, who only left Nyassaland to return homo in order to recruit his shattered health. London cable: The British naval squadron is collecting at Zanzibar, and is supposed to be destined for Delagoabay. Lord Salisbury insists that Portugal must give* guarantees to prevent the recurrence of outrages in Africa on British subjects and interests, which, as the situation now Is, must interfere with a diplomatic settlement of the misunderstanding between the two countries. The British admiralty has dispatched the Enchantress with sealed orders to the Benbow and Colossus at Gibraltar. The Portugese officials at Quillimane, on the east coast of Africa, have forbidden British steamers to receive the British Consul Johnston’s dispatches direct, but insist that they must pass through the Portuguese postoffice. Lisbon cable: The body of the late Empress of Brazil has been consigned to its final resting place in the pantheon here. The' remains were brought by the train from Oporto. Dom Pedro and the family came on the same train. The King and his suite waited at the station and received them. The remains were transferred from the train to the hearse amid salutations of respect from all present. The King then bade farewell to Dom Pedro and returned to the palace. Dom Pedro and his relatives then entered the state carriage and the funeral procession moved to the pantheon. The representatives of the Emperors of Germany and Austria and of the Begent of Spain, the papal nuncio, the whole diplomatic corps, and the State officials met the cortege at the cathedral. After the dean had pronounced absolution the Imperial family followed the coffin to the vault and there lieafrl the remainder of the funeral service. Madrid cable: Sagasta, having found it impossible to organize a new cabinet, has resigned. The insuperable difficulty was found with the protectionist Liberals, who demanded that revision of the tariff should be made part of the government program. The Queen has consulted the president of the Cortes and leading statesmen, and it is probable that a provisional cabinet will be-formed to pass the budget. London cable: Great solicitude is reported at Madrid touching the exciting rumors in connection with the illness of the King and the political combinations likely to ensue in the event of his death. The best information obtainable to-day was that the royal patient had suffered a turn for the worse. Yokohama cable: Four survivors of the American ship Cheeseborough, from Hakodadi to New York, sulphur laden, which encountered a gale in the Pacific and was totally wrecked by running ashore, have arrived here. Of the remainder of the crew, sixteen in number, several were killed by falling of the rigging and others were drowned. The survivors escaped with little more than the shirts on their backs. The Cheeseborough was owned in Bath, Me.

AN INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY.

for a Road Through Central America and the Isthmus. A Washington dispatch says: There is a movement on foot now—and the panAmerican Congress is mafic the field of agitation—to build a continuous railroad system beginning at the southermost point of Mexico reached by rail from the United States through Central America and the isthmus and running well down into South America. Mexico will take care of her share of the enterprise and the South American States involved will take pare of theirs. In Central America, however, the governments are too poor to do anything except cede large tracts of land. They look to see our Congress supply the money by giving the government’s guarantee to the bonds issued, on the strength of the whole scheme being engineered by American financiers and statesmen. •

THE SIOUX’ DEMANDS.

John Gium Speaks Before the Senate Indian Committee The delegation of Sioux chiefs appeared before the Senate Indian committee at Washington the other day. John Grass, who acted as spokesman, said they wanted the provisions of the Sioux commission agreement carried out, and also asked indemnity for 8,800 ponies said to have been run off by Gen. Terry a long while ago. Grass then made an earnest onslaught upon the practice of sending Indians to eastern schools. The Indian youth, he said, should be educated at schools on or near the reservation. More Indians could be sent to reservation schools and their presence would improve the great mass of the Indians. He was asked if the Sioux were ready to accept land in several£7. He replied that they were not, and it would be about fifteen years before they would be ready.

BRICE IS THE NOMINEE.

RESULT I ROM THE OHIO SENATORIAL CAUCUS. A Lise j Contest, Which Soon Terminated When the Legislators Began Voting— The Nominee’s Address of Thanks —A Ratification Meeting. A Columbus (O.) dispatch says: C. S. Brice took the Senatorial prize in the Democratic Legislative caucus on the second ballot. The caucus was called to order by Senator Howells, chairman of the joint caucus committee, and Senator Perry N. Adams of Tiffin was selected permanent chairman. Nominating speeches were limited to five minules

CALVIN S. BRICE.

each. A roll-call showed seventy-three of the seventy-seven members present. The absentees were Representatives Brown, Count, Munson, and Smith, Messrs. Smith and Brown sent letters to the caucus announcing they would support the caucus nominee. The names of Calvin S. Brice, Charles W. Baker, John A. McMahon, - John H. Thomas, James E. Neal, Gen. Samuel F. Hunt and George I. Sency were put in nomination. The first ballot resulted: Brice, 20; Thomas, 11; McMahon, 14; Baker, 6; Hunt, 2; Neal, 2; Seney, 2; McSwceney, 4; Geddes, 2; Outhwaitc, 1. After the second call of the roll had been begun Senator Corcoran withdrew the name of. Hunt and was about to make a speech, when ho was closed out under the rules and voted for Brice. Changes were rapid after this and the second ballot resulted: Brice, 53; Thomas, 3; McMahon, 13; Baker, 14; Seney, 2; Outhwaite, 1. Monott, on behalf of Mr. Thomas, moved that tho nomination be made unanimous, which was agreed to with a whirl and much enthusiasm. Col. Brice was brought to tho caucus by a committee and the caucus converted itself into a ratification meeting. Mr. Brice being introduced said: “Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of this joint caucus: I tender to you my sincere and heartfelt acknowledgments for the greatest honor, it seems to me. to be possible to be bestowed upon a man reared in Ohio in sympathy with her people and her constitution. You will not expect mo here and now, at the conclusion of this somewhat exciting contest through which we have passed, to do more than to acknowledge to you the weight of obligations which I bear to you and which I desire here and now to acknowledge. Whether the issae be a temporary one or a protracted oje, I know I can test and determine the plase where I will stand and where the Democratic party ought to be. [Applause.] Tariff reform is now of great interest. [Applause and cheers.] But, gentlemen, with tariff reform accomplished, new issues will demand the attention of legislators, and where then will be the man whose only claim to Democracy Is that of the temporary issue of a reform of the tax schedule. I think there is no one born and brought up in northwestern Ohio who is more In sympathy with every one and with every industry than I. [Applause.] I have in ipy time, man and boy, worked with, shared In the tasks and in the struggles and fears of every kind of laboring men in our northwestern country, and I have not lost touch with any one of them, and I include the temporary struggle—which I hope will never be repeated in our time—the temporary struggle for the preservation of our union In which I took a part, and I sympathize with the soldiers of our country whose memory I wish to have preserved, not only in legislation but in the hearts of our people.” Col. Brice was followed by Baker, Hunt, McMahon, and other unsuccessful competitors. They all accepted the situation with good grace and called for a united support to the nominee. During the speaking Mrs. Brice, her sister, and a friend came in to witness her husband’s triumph. There is less bitterness shown at the conclusion of the present fight than in any that has been waged for the Senatorship in the last twelve years. The after meeting amounted to a jollification, and all signs of a bolt sedmed to have disappeared. One of the most pleasant episodes of the after meeting was the finished talk of Gen. Hunt, who gave a brief story o.f his acquaintance with Brice from boyhood. The committee appointed to bring Mr. Thomas before the caucus was unable to find him. He is probably the most thoroughly disappointed man among the candidates.

kNIƑIN and Miss. Purcell Released.

Trenton (N. J.) dispatch: Dr. Arthur S. Kniffin and Emma Purcell, who are suspected of the murder of Myra Kniffin, were released from jail after a confinement of twenty-five hours. Their counsel, H. N. Barton and Chauncey H. Beazley, secured writs of habeas fcorpus from Chief Justice Beazley, and they were set free, each furnishing bail in the sum of *20,000. The coroner’s inquest was adjourned until next Monday, the testimony containing nothing of a criminating nature against either of the suspects.

JUDGE KELLEY AT REST.

THE "FATHER OF THE HOUSE” DIES OF A CANCER. I’ennsylrsiiU'ii Veteran Legislator Succumbs to a ralnful Malady—His Last Hours—Striking Incidents iu a Career of Many Nears and Honors. Washington dispatch: At 6:20 Thursday evening, surrounded by every member of his family except his married daughter, who resides in New York city, Congressman Kelley, tne veteran “father of the House,’’.breathed his last.. His end was peaceful and quiet. Speaker Reed was notified at once and directed Sergeant.at-Arms Holmes totako charge of the remains and conduct tne iuneral in accordance with tho wishes of the family. The interment will be in Philadelphia, where the remains will be taken Saturday. Mr. Kelley was in his seventy-sixth year, and had he. lived to finish his term ho would have served continuously for thirty years in Congress. His death was caused by cancer of the jaw, which first made its appearance three years ago. He was liked by everyone who knew him, and his death has called forth expressions of sorrow from both Democrats and Republicans. The death was announced in both Houses Friday and both adjourned at once out of respect for the memory of the deceased. William Darragh Kelley was born in Philadelphia April 12, 1814. Tils father died when ho was 2 years old. At tho age of II Mr. Kelloy began to cam his living as an errand boy, and later sorved an apprenticeship to tho jewelry trade, lie early began to take an interest In politics, and when the deposits wore romovod from the United States bank In Philadelphia he headed tho Democratic demonstration made against the Whig capitalists. In consequence of his action in the matter ho became so unpopular among tho employers of Philadelphia that he decided to remove to Boston, to which city ho wont In 1834 and worked at his trade until 1839, when ho returned to Philadelphia. He immediately began tho study of law and In 1841 was admitted to tho bar. He met with Immediate success In his profession, and in 1846 when a vacancy occurred Jn tho court of common pleas lie was appointed the position by Gov. Shunk. He occupied tho position until 1851, when he was elected to the same place. In 1856 he received tho Congressional nomination in tho Fourth Pennsylvania district on the Republican ticket, but was defeated. He resigned his seat on the bench after tho election from motives of delicacy and resumed the practice of law. In 1840 he was again nominated for Congress bv the Republicans of the Fourth Pennsylvania district and elected, and has represented the district continuously from that time to tho present. Mr. Kelly began his public career as a Democrat, but left that party on tho repeal of the Missouri compromise. During the war ho was one of the earliest agitators for the removal of McClellan from tho command of tho army, making a bitter attack on that General’s policy early in tho session of 1862. In 1865 ho favored impartial suffrage as a fundamental condition of tho restoration of local government in the various Southern States which had Rebelled. During the proceedings against President Johnson In 1868 Mr. Kelley voted for his impoachment. In later years ho has been chiefly noted for his fidelity to the doctrine of protection and especially that portion which most directly affected his constituents, who arc largely engaged in the iron industry, and on this account he gained the sobriquet of “Pig-Iron” Kelley,” which has boeome so well known all over the country.

CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP.

Fourteen Live* Lost by the Sinking of ■ Caisson. Louisville (Ky.) dispatch: Fourteen workmen employed on the construction of the new Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge were drowned by the sinking of the caisson. , The dead are: THOMAS ASH. CHARLES CHARLES. ** J. JORDON. JBT WILLIAM HYNES. THOMAS JOHNSON. i ~ JOHN KNOX. ' FRANK MAHAR. Mr. McADAMS. B. MONROE. i HAMILTON MORRIS. P. NAYLOR. THOMAS SMITH. FRANK SOAPER. ROBERT TYLOR. William Haynes, 40 years of age, was a resident of this city. Ho leaves a widow and three children. Knox was a gang boss and also resided here. McAdams was from Hyde Park, Pa., Mahar was from New Jersey and Naylor from Philadelphia. The rest of the dead are colored, all of Henderson, Ky. The last man out of the caisson was Frank Haddlx. He was barely saved by Murray, who dragged him from where he was caught waist-deep in the quicksand. Taylor says he stood nearest the iron ladder by which they got in and out of the caisson. He heard a rumbling and there was a rush of air almost at the same instant. He jumped up the rungs of the ladder, followed by the other men. They had hardly got clear of the caisson when the water burst through the manhole in a surge, knocking them into the river, where they were picked up, Haddix says he saw Ham Morris, who was climbing next below himself, swiftly drawn underby the sand and heard hi a cries for help but could do nothing. The caisson is not wrecked, as at first supposed, but has settled down in the bed of the stream, completely fijjled with, sand and water. The pumptng station, is hard at work clearing the way to the bodies, but none will be reached tonight. There seems absolutely no hope for any of those caught, within the, caisson. __ _