Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — Page 3

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

events and incidents that have V LATELY OCCURRED -An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Wedding* and Draths—Crime. Casualties and General News Notes. A Brutal Murder. Mrs. Charles Wheland was found brutally murdered in the suburbs of New Albany. The killing had been evidently done with a hatchet. A frightful gash in the head toldthe story. Mrs. Wheland had been living with her sister, Mrs. Henry Ritter, and the latter’s husband. The house was near by where the murdered woman was found. Ritter was arrested and lodged in jail, saying: ■“I was too drunk to do anything like that,” before any crime was charged. He bears the marks of scratches, as if ‘the woman had defended herself. Mrs. Ritter, who is ill in one room of the cottage, while the murdered corpse lies in the only other one, sifter refusing to say anything, at last stated that Ritter and Mrs. Wheland quarreled early in the morning, and she fled, he following her, and returning in a few minutes to bed. This is all she will say, but the bruised body tells the tale of awful brutality, and is marked all over with blue spots. It is believed that the attempt at another crime led to the murder. Ritter bears a hard name. The dead woman’s husband is of good Kentucky family, which has always refused to recognize her. He -only visited her on Sundays and his whereabouts are unknown.

Minor Slate Items. —Bloomington will erect a new school building to cost $16,000. —The Western Glass Company has begun operations at Marion. —Eighty old soldiers have thus far been rece ieved at the Marion Home. —Frank Edwards ,of Evansville, was drowned while ratting in Green River. —A plumber named Bradway, at Fort Wayne, sneezed so hard that he broke a rib. —William Sudduth, of New Albany, dropped dead on the street from heart disease. —A son of Deputy Surveyor J. F. Meighan lost a leg at South Bend while attempting to board a train. —The City Marshal of Brazil has given the saloon-keepers notice that the selling of liquor to minors must be stopped. —Mrs. Emeline Cash fell to the floor at her home at Richmond and expired in a few minutes. Congestion of the lungs was the cause of death.

Mrs. Daniel Brumbaugh has brought suit against the city of Montpelier for $3,000 damages, suffered in falling through a sidewalk last fall. —George Haller, of St. Meinrad, jumped from a moving train nt New Albany. An arm and several ribs were broken, and he was injured internally. —Prof. Harvey Young, of Hanover College, has just completed analyzing the water of the Madison gas well, No. 4, finding valuable medicinal qualities. —The jury in the Miami Circuit Court, in the case of Mrs. Dr. Claire Taylor, charged with criminal practice on a 13-year-old Dunkard girl, returned a verdict of not guilty. —ln the western part of Bartholomew County robins are appearing by thousand sand have a regular roost. They are of unusual size, very fat, and are being slain by the hundreds by the inhabitants . —John Wells was precipitated one hundred feet by the breaking of a rope while he was being lowered into a coalhole near Vincennes. He struck forty feet of water, and was but slightlv injured.

—John Baker, of Daviess County, was recenty bitten by a rabid dog, but hydrophobia has not developed. Several horses and hogs have been lost through rabies there, and about fifty dogs have been slaughtered. —John Milton Steenberger, who came to Bartholmew County with his parents in 1820, and who has resided in German Township for seventy years on one farm, died at his family residence, at the age of 74 years. —Gen. Lew Wallace has presented Eddie Brandkampt, a blind musician at Crawfordsville, a copy of “Ben-Hur,” printed in raised letters. The work makes two volumes, each the size of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. —The large grain-cradle and scythesnath factory of T. C. Fisher, which burned at Anderson, will be rebuilt and enlarged at once. Mr. Fisher began life there without a dollar, and he is to-day one of the most successful business meh of the city. —Mrs. Henry Hamer, of South Bend, was fatally burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove, caused by filling the stove with kerosene instead of gasoline. Her back, arms, thighs, and lower limbs were burned nearly to a crisp, the nails snd skin on her hands and wrists coming off. —The fine large barn belonging to J. W. Scaggs, living near Martinsville, burned with its entire contents, consisting of six horses, two cows, a thresh-ing-machine, four buggies, four hundred bushels of corn, hay and all farming implements. Loss, $3,590; no insurance. _•

—Fort Wayne is making an effort to secure the National Convention of Railway Surgeons in 1891. —The right eye of the 3-year-old son of Joseph Moniac was burned out, at his home, in Stringtown, Clay County. The little fellow was playing with a number of other children, and was peeping through a small hole in the door, when one of his playmates pushed a hot poker through the hole. —Miss Lizzie Miller, while waiting upon Mrs. J. W. Clapp, at New Market, Clark County, fainted and fell into the fire-place, and she was horribly and fatally burned. Robert Clapp, aged 9, finally succeeded in dragging her from the fire-place, and in extinguishing her blazing clothing. —Mrs. George King, of Columbus has brought suit against the Pennsylvania Railway Company for being forcibly ejected from a car because the limit on her round-trip ticket had expired. She took the next train on the road, the ticket being accepted by the Superintendent. She claims $20,000 damages. —Wm. Cravens committed suicide by taking poison at Mt. Vernon. He was a member of the G. A. R., and had been despondent over the fact that his claim for back pay had not been allowed by the Pension Department, with the fact that he was in love with a young lady who had given him encouragement, but who refused to marry hjm until his pension came. --- - —Martin Rich, night watchman at the factory of the LaPorte Wood Manufacturing Company, was found dead in the engine-room, with the side of his head crushed in the other morning. He is the second who has been found dead in this factory in three years, the former, being burned to death. There are suspicions of foul play, but the general opinion is that the old man met death from falling off a ladder while turning a valve over the boiler. Sheridan Stoner, the man who murdered William Bolles at a Farmers’ Alliance meeting, near Lexington, a few weeks ago, received his death blow at the jail at Scottsburg, at the hands of a fellow-prisoner, John Rayburn, awaiting trial on the charge-of forgery. Rayburn had improvised a saw and was attempting to cut his way out when Stoner gave the alarm. Turning about, Ray-, burn struck a savage blow over the head, fracturing his skull.

- A terrible disaster occurred at Indianapolis during a tire in the large book establishment of the BowenMerrill Company. When the tire was about extinguished the roof fell in carrying with it the three floors to the basement below. A large force of firemen Mere on the roof and inside the building at the time, and twelve were killed outright and twenty-five injured, many of whom will die. This is the worst calamity that ever befell that city. —The saw-mill owned by Thomas Vandever, at Brookfield, was blown up with dynamite. The engine, machinery and building are a total wreck. The dynamite was placed under the boiler. A letter was found, tacked to a saw-log, warning Mr. Vandever to be careful in the future, or he would be sent to hell in a minute. Some two week? ago some one poisoned a horse belonging to Vandever. The reason for thus persecuting Mr. Vandever is not known. His loss is $2,000. —AI Swadener, engineer on the Panhandle, saved the life of a 3-year-old girl in Hartford City, recently. The train was pulling up the grade at a rapid rate, when Swadener saw the little one seated on the end of a tie against the track. He climed out of his cab and got to the baby just in time to push it away from the rails as he stood on the pilot. The heroic and clever act was witnessed by several people from the depot. The frantic mother picked up her child a few moments later, while the engineer coolly climed back into the cab, as if saving babies from being smashed under the wheels of his engine was a part of his business. —The Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the three cases comiqg up from as many circuits, and each involving the constitutionality of some part of the school-book law, the Judges being divided in their opinions, but the majority sustaining the constitutionality of the law. Judge Elliott wrote the majqjity opinion, and held for the law on the ground that it in no way interferes with local self-government. Judge Berkshire dissented on the ground that the constitution declares that the General Assembly shall not grant to any citizens or class privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens. —A case which has attracted more than ordinary interest has been on trial in the Circuit Court at South Bend, on a change of venue from Elkhart County. Two years ago, at Elkhart, in a quarrel between Rem Scott and Con Crowly, the latter was fatally stabbed by Scott, who barely escaped being lynched at the time. He was tried for murder, and sentenced to a term of years in State's prison. The widow of Crowly then brought suit against Scott for SIO,OOO damages for causing the death of her husband. Both sides employed the best legal talent, and the case was hotly contested. The jury brought in a verdict of SIOO and costs in favor of the plaintiff. Scott being a non-resident of the State at the time the crime was committed was in his favor.

THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

OUTLINE OF THE MEASURE PREPARED BY MR. M’KINLEY. By Its Provisions * Total Reduction o! 860,000,000 in the Revenues of the Government Would Be Effected—The Proposed Rates on Various Articles of Everyday Consumption. Washington dispatch: What will be known as the McKinley tariff bill is practically completed. While subject to revision up to the last moment, the schedules have been so ight out so thoroughly in committee that the material changes are likely to be few. The estimated reduction of revenues from the bill is in round numbers $60,000,060. Some of this is to come from decreased importations because of increased duties. Roughly estimated the proposed reductions may be split up as follows: Sugar, $27,500,900: ' internal revenue, $19,000,000; free list, $1,500,000; tariff schedules, $12,000,000; total, $60,000,000. The internal revenue features of the bill are as follows: The entire abolition of all special taxes upon dealers of all kinds, commonly known as licenses; the taxes upon snuff will be repealed; farmers and planters growing tobacco will have the liberty to sell to whomsoever they please without restraint, In the same manner as any farmer can dispose of any other of the products of his land. The tax upon manufactured tobacco will be reduced from eight cents to four cents a pound; cigars, cheroots, and cigarettes will carry the same tax as is Imposed under the present law. Alcohol used in the arts is free under substantially the same restrictions as are prescribed in the Senate bill. The reductions in the revenue from these sources will be in round numbers between $17,000,000 and $19,000,000.

The following are the principal provisions in the tariff schedule—the chemical schedule contains but few changes from existing law. There are some reductions and nd advances in duty, and it is believed that the duties in this schedule will be found below the Senate schedule: The earth, earthenware, and glassware schedule remains substantially as in the existing law. There arc a number of important changes in the metal schedule.. Existing rates are maintained upon iron ore and pig-iron. Barbed wire for fencing is made dutiable at 6-10 cent a pound, which is a reduction below that of the Senate bill. Railway iron is reduced to 6-10 c a pound, the present rate being sl7 a ton, a reduction of about $4 a ton and a reduction in the rate fixed by the Senate bill. The duty on steel rails is reduced $4 a ton. The duty on tin-plate has been increased to two and two-tenths cents a pound. Pig-tin remains free. It is believed that with the encouragement our tin-plate will be manufactured in this country. Already we make the sheet-iron and sheet-steel, which is 95 per cent of the tin-plate, and, with the assurance that there is tin in the Black Hills it is thought that a great industry will spring up. There is’ an increase on the duty on pocket cutlery, which the committee justify on the ground of the depressed condition of that industry in the United States and the sharp and ruinous competition that has already been felt from Germany. Hand sewing needles are also placed upon the free list. The new metal aluminum is given a designation for the first time under “metals and manufacturers” thereof, and is made dutiable at 37 per cent ad valorem. In the lumber schedule the duty on sawed boards, sawed planks, and finished lumber is reduced 50 percent from the present rate. There is a special provision inserted that in case Canada lays an export duty upon lumber then duties shall be collected according to the rates under existing law. The dutv on Sumatra tobacco is increased to $2.75 per pound. There is a an increase generally along the entire list in the duties upon agricultural products. The duty upon barely is raised to 30 cents a bushel, hops to 45 cents a pound, buckwheat to 15 cents a bushel, macaroni and vermicelli 2 cents a pound, oats 10 cents a bushel. The duty on agricultural seeds is increased. Sugar under and including 16 Dutch standard is made dutiable at 35 per cent and above 16 Dutch standard at 40 per cent. This gives 5 per cent additional duty to the refiners, and as the standard is raised from 13 to 16 the people of the United States will be enabled in case the refiners combine to put up the prices to import sugar which will be in every way fit for family use. This is a cut in the duties upon sugar of from 50 to 60 per cen t. Molasses is made dutiable a‘ 25 per cent ad valorem, the present rate being specific. This is a considerable reduction. In the wool schedule, wools of the first class, known as clothing wools, 11 cents a pound; wools of the sercond class, known as combing wools, 12 cents’ carpet wools valued at 12 cents or less, 3X cents a pound; valued at over 12 cents, 8 cents a pound. This is a reduction of IX cents a pound from the Senate bill and an increase of IX cents from the present law.

DIDN’T TOE THE MARK.

Fireman Shay Tells Why He Wag Punished on Board the Enterprise. New York dispatch: In the McCalla investigation Jeremiah Shay, fireman, charged Lieut. Mulligan with cruelty while at Cronstadt. The witness said he was put in irons and tied up with a single line because he did not toe the mark properly on the Quarterdeck, where he had been placed by Lieut. Lumley. The witness said he was tied to prevent him from leaning on the bulwarks' to rest. Michael Murphy, W. F. Heevey, F. W. Betzer, and William Murphy corroborated Shay’s story and testified regarding punishments inflicted on themselves. Lieut. Mulligan was questioned on this point, but he could not remember any such occurrence.

JONATHAN Y. SCAMMON.

A CHICAGO PIONEER GONE TO HIS REST. Incidents in an Eventful Career—His Connection with Western Banks Journalistic Experiences—As a Politician —A Busfr Lite Ended. Chicago dispatch: J. Young Scammon, lawyer, banker, railroad man, publisher, politician, philanthropist, and well-xnown citizen who had been identified with Chicago history, both early and present, is dead. Mr. Scaminon first came to Chicago in September. 1835, when the city had hardly reached the dignity of a village, having scarcely 2,000 population. Mr.

J. YOUNG SCAMMON.

Scammon was quite a young man, being but 23 years old, although he had practiced law in Maine, his native State, some years before. Here he associated himself with D. S. Mason, and the members of the firm continued their professional relations for a year, when Mr. Scammon formed a partnership with Norman B. Judd, and they were together for ten years. Mr. Scaminon was of a too progressive nature to confine his energies strictly to the law and he assumed a prominent part in developing the citv. With W. B. Ogdon he was successful in completing the Chicago & Galena Union railroad, and these gentlemen made themselves pioneers of the present railway system of the Northwest. During this period Mr. Scammon also took an active part in the political arena, and was one of the founders of the Republican party. He then engaged In the banking business, forming the Marine bank, which was the first in Chicago under the general banking law, was a director of the State Bank of Illinois, and a promoter of the Mechanics' National bank. He founded the Chicago Fire and Marine Insurance company. He helped to establish the Tribune and Evening Journal, and founded the I liter Ocean. He was the founder of the Swedonborglan church In Chicago and donated the ground on Congress street where the present imposing edifice of that denomination now stands. He was one of 4he~ftrst stockholders in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railway. He founded, built, and presented to the city the Hahnemann nospltal. He built the Dearborn street observatory, and for a long time paid the salary of the superintendent. In 1857 Mr. Scammon retired from active business, having acquired large property possessions outside of his regular commercial interests. He then visited Europe and remained there three years, and while abroad his wife died. He returned to Chicago in 1860 and found his Insurance company threatened with financial disaster and Its affairs in very bad shape. He opened a private bank and closed up the affairs of the old institutions. The fire in 1871 destroyed all the building property he had, and his loss at that time was estimated at $500,000. By 1873 he was in fair condition to repair his financial standing, but the panic of that year involved film still further. Mr. Scammon was born at Whitfield, Maine, July 27, 1812. His first wife was Miss Mary Ann Haven Dearborn of Bath, Maine, and of their four children but two daughters survive. Neither reside in this city. His eldest son, Charles, who died In 1876, was formerly a law partner of Robert T. Lincoln.

TO FOOT THEIR OWN BILLS.

No Funds to Pay the Expenses of Veterans to Chickamauga. Washington dispatch: Inquiries have eached the War department from various quarters asking whether there is any appropriation available to pay the expenses of veterans visiting the battle field of Chickamauga for the purpose of aiding in identifying the lines upon which they fought. There, is no fund available for that purpose. Upon the passage of |he Chickamauga park bill, which is expected early in the summer, officers wll be sent to the field to confer with all veterans ■ who will gather there to assist in establishing the lines. Until then the expense of those visiting the fieftTwould be entirely wasted, since no one can be there to make an official record of the information gathered or to officiallymark points which might be designated by the visiting veterans. Minor Mention. It Is announced that all Rnssia import duties will be raised three months hence. The Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad been completed to Palatka, Fla. Hugh King, ten years old, died at St. Joseph, Mo., from being kicked in the head by a horse. A goods train fell into the river at Elberfeld, Germany, and several of the trainmen were killed. John Schultz, a bankrupt merchant of New Orleans, committed suicide at Cincinnati by shooting.

IS SUMMONED BY DEATH

GENERAL CROOK DIES SUDDENLY OF HEART FAILURE. Stricken Down in the Apparent Glow of Health, He Never Speaks After the Fatal Malady Attacks Him—A Brave Man’s Career Sketched. Chicago dispatch: General George Crook, commander of t.ie department of the Missouri, expired suddenly at the Grand Pacific hotel at 7:15 Fnaay morning, the 21st Inst. Heart-failure is said to have caused his death. The news of his death was a great surprise, as it was supposed that the general was in the very best of health. The shock was all the more severe because Gen. Crook had been apparently in the best of health and spirits up to the moment ho had retired the previous night. All dav Thursday ho was at his desk at the army headquarters, performing bis usual labor and directing the affairs of the division of tho Missouri, of which ho was the commander. Ho was in his usual happy frame of mind and wore his old-tlmo smile as he greeted hls friends. Thursday night, with his wife and her sister, Mrs. Reed of Oakland, Md., he attended a small social gathering at the homo of a friend, and after his return to tho hotel chatted merrily In the corridor with some acquaintances. When he arose Friday morning he stepped at once Into an adjoining room, as was his habit, to exorcise with Indian clubs, dumb-bells, and other gymnastic devices, before putting on his clothes. As Gen. Crook walked Into the little gymnasium ho called to hls wife. Ho spoke quickly and Mrs. Crook jumped hastily from the bod. She ran Into the room to find her husband had fallen to the floor. Mrs. Crook called to her husband as she leaned over the inanimate body. Receiving no response she screamed, and, running to the door, called for aid. A moment later a score of guests and employes of the hotel were there in response to Mrs. Crook’s repeated calla, The house physician was present almost Instantly, but ho saw at the first glance that Gen. Crook was already dead. The cause of Gen. Crook’s death was heart failure resulting from indigestion. He had been troubled In this way for many years. Adjt.-Gon. Williams, who assumed command Immediately after Gen. Crook’s death, has charge of the arrangement's for the funeral. He Is in communication with Secretary of War Proctor. It is Mrs. Crook’s desire that the body be taken to Oakland, Md., for burial and her request has been forwarded to tho Secretary. Gen. Crook was appointed from Ohio to tho military academy at West Point, July 1, 1848, and graduated In 1852, and was appointed brevet second lieutenant, July, 1852. After serving awhile in garrison at Fort Columbus, New York,’ he was sent out to Bencia barracks, California. He was transferred to Fort Jones, California, where he served until 1855. His principal duty while there was escorting the topographical party that was making a survey of Rogue river. He was on this duty from 1855 to 1856. On March 11, 1856, ho was promoted to first lieutenant, and was in command of the Pitt river expedition in 1857. In a skirmish with tho Indians ho was wounded with an arrow. Ho had two other little Indian fights, one on tho 2d of July, 1857, and the other July 26, the same year. He was transferred to Fort Terwataw in the latter part of 1857, and in March, 1858,went to Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, where ho took part In the Yaklmo expedition. Ho was then transferred back to Fort Terwataw, where ho served until 1861. In 1861 ho was made captain In the Fourth infantry and came East and was assigned to duty in West Virginia. Sept. 17, 1862, he was made colonel of the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and was put in command of the Third provisional brigade. He participated in the action of Lewisburg, W. Va., where he was badly wounded. For hls gallantry there he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, the commission dating Sept. 2, 1862, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. He was engaged in the battle of South Mountain, Sept, 14, 1862, and Antietam. Sept. 17, 1862. He was then transferred to the Army of the Cumberland in command of a division. On July 4, 1863, he was in. command of the Second Cavalry Division. He was at the battle of Chickamauga from Sept. 18 to 20, 1863. After Chickamauga he had three fights with Wheeler’s cava'ry—one on Oct. 3, one on Oct. 4, and one on Oct. 7. In November, 1863, he was transferred to the command of tha Kanawha district in West Virginia, 'She Sr ncipal fights he had there were Cloyd’s fountain and New River Bridge. These occurred while he was on a raid against the Virginia and'Tennessee Railway. Tn July, 1869, he was put in command of a’l the troops in the Department of West Virginia and brevetted Major General in the United States army. After a skirmish at Snyder’s Ferry and at Kernstown and a sharp fight at Halltown he was captured at Cumberland. When he was exchanged, which was in August, 1864, he joined Gen. Sheridan in his Shenandoah campaign and was in all the battles of that campaign. He was put in command of all the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac and was made a Major General of volunteers Oct. 24, 1864. He participated in the battles of Dinwiddie Court House, Fisher's Hill, Jetersville, Sanders Creek, Farmville, and Appomattox. He was in the last battle of the war, at Farmville, April 7, 1865, and was present at the capitulation of Gen. Lee on April 9, 1865. On July 28, 1866, he was made Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third Infantry, and on the 29th of October, 1873, he was made Brigadier General, being promoted over half the lieutenant colonels of the army and all the colonels, and assigned to the command of the Platte. Subsequently Gen. Sherman put him in command of the Department of Arizona, and about a year ago General Crook was placed in command of the Department "of the Missouri.