Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — Page 3

AFFAIRS IN INDIANA.

INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Mar. riages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes —Personal Pointers. Indiana Inventors. Patents have been granted to the following Hoosier inventors: Bnrton H. Barnes, Muncie, pen-holder; Charles M. Bennett, Logansport, assignor to himself, J. J. Turner, of Pittsburgh, Penn., and L. F. Lorie. Cass County, torpedo; Bobert C. »Berry, assignor of one-half to H. W. Comstock, of Lafayette, angle piston engine; Sidney E. Chase, 'NVolcottville, grain separator; Charles Comstock, Indianapolis, shortturning vehicle; James P. Coulter, Aurora, and T. Hibbett, Cochran, draft and buffing mechanism for railway cars; John E. Donaldson, Montezuma, die for forming roofing tiles; Augustine Ellis, Bellford, cultivator; Everett Goldthwaite, Elkhart, bolt-cutting machine; John Hull, assignor of one-half to Z. Bobinson, Elkhart, wrench; Elisha Peck, assignor of one-half to W. A. Stewart, Wawaka, wind-mill; Briton Poullson, Fort Wayne, cabinet folding bedstead; Summer C. Beiley, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon burner; Harvey Segur, assignor of one-half to P. W. Smith, Decatur, saw-mill feed; Walter B. Silvers, assignor of one-third to C. W. Baggerty, Indianapolis, spring traceholder; William A. Timberman, Delphi, machine for filing and setting saws; William C. Walda, Fort Wayne, safetyvalve.

Minor Stain items. —lncendiarism is rife at Jeffersonville. —A mower cut off George Hunt’s right foot at Watson. —William Dooley’s ankle was crushed by a saw-log at English. —James Custer, a wealthy farmer of Lagrange County, is missing. ‘ —A new building was blown down at Logansport, causing a loss of SI,OOO. —The wool clip in Montgomery County, this year, amounted to 66,000 pounds. —A horse 41 years old has just died at Jeffersonville. —Leroy M. Sanders, a well-known citizen of Bloomington, is dead from heart disease. —Jacob Kern has been appointed Clerk of Allen County, vice Dr. W. G. Loag, deceased. —The. body of James Cnster, the missing Lagrange County farmer, has been found in a lake near his homo. —Henry Lilly, aged seventy-four, the oldest native-born citizen of Clark County, is dead at Jeffersonville. —The Indiana Live Stock Insurance Company, of Crawfotdsville, has over $2,01X1,000 insu ranch oiiUin Indiana. —Mrfe. Julia Grasten, of Sellersburg, was bitten by a spotted adder while picking blackberries. She may die. —H. D. McMackih, pastor of the English Lutheran Church,of Logansport, fell and broke his leg while riding qn a bicycle. —Charleston is suffering from a plague of herse-flies. Several animals have died from the effects of bites by the insects. —The 15-year-old son of Isaac Engle, living near Eckerty, is dead from the effects of a bullet wound received while playing with a revolver. —An alligator twenty-eight inches long was captured by Robert Williams and Henry Hodgin in a creek about four miles north of Richmond. —Thieves broke into G. C. Nelson’B grocery at Marion, blew open the safe and robbed it of SSO in cash and p.everal hundred dollars in notes and mortgages.

—Thomas J. Graves, at one time Becorder of Warren County, committed suicide by banging at Williamsport. Domestic trouble is supposed to be the cause. —The average yield of wheat thus far threshed in Bartholomew County is a fraction less than eleven bushels per acre. The larger part will grade as No. 8. —The Salvation Army at Crawfordsville has shut down, and the sound of the drum is heard no more. The Captain got married and moved away, and the army has disbanded. —Mrs. James Tomlinson, of Plainfield, is dead. aged ninety years. She and her husband came to this State from North Carolina in 1812, yaking six hundred miles of the journey on foot. —Peru’s Law and Order League has given notice that the Sunday law must be strictly observed in that city hereafter, or prosecutions will follow. A careful watch will be kept on all saloons. —Auditor of State Carr has prepared a statement concerning the financial condition of the State. It shows the sum of $783,000 in the treasury on July 1, in the general fund. From this there was paid $60,000 in salaries, and the balance must be applied to pay an interest account falling due, $137,000; the running expenses of State institutions for six months, $392,000; balance of specific appropriations; $167,500; money appropriated for improvements in penal and reformatory institutions, $53,000; amount due the State universities, $23,000, making a grand total of $832,500, and leaving a deficit of $49,500.

—Wm. McDole, a lifetime prisoner, sent up from Lawrenceburg, Jefferson j County, for murder, died at the southern prison of consumption. —As the pay train on ths LD. A W. was going west, it struck and killed Talmer Yeoman, section foreman, at Dana. Yeoman and Bis men were on the hand-car going 10 work. He leaves a wife and two children. —George B. Andrews, charged with burning the stock barn and thirty-five polled Angus cattle belonging to Col. C. E. Briant, was found guilty in the Huntington Circuit Court and sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary. —While Jas. Hawkins, a well-known young farmer, was mowing in one of his fields, near Elkhart, his team became frightened' and ran away. Hawkins fell in front of the mower, and was literally cut into pieces and killed. —During a heavy storm the United Brethren Church, of South Whitley, was struck twice by lightning, demolishing roof, breaking ail windows and wrecking walls. Fire was averted. Damage about $1,500; no insurance. —John Cawley, of Greencastle, broke in two a large block of ice, and was Burprised to find imbedded therein a turtle measuring four incheß across the back. After being thawed out the turtle crawled around as lively as a cricket. —The census enumerators of Crawfordsville have sent in ninety-five additional names of persons who were missed. This makes that city 6,080 people, according to the enumerators. This does not include the Beven suburbs. —Jesse F. Hutchins, of Wabash, died on a train between Delphi and Lafayette of heart disease. Deceased was forty-five years of age, and until recently a law partner of Hon. Warren G. Sayre, late Speaker of the Indiana Hofise of Representatives. He was returning from Lafayette, where he went on legal business. He leaves a wife and two children. —Ground has been broken and arrangements made to commence the erection of a mammoth glassworks in Pendleton by B. G. Guptill <fc Co. They will manufacture glass tubes for the use of underground electric wires in connection with the manufacture of fancy glassware. The company intends to be ready for operation by Dec. 1, and will give employment to a large force of men.

—ln Montgomery County there are 2,773 sewing machines, 1,099 organs and 337 pianos. This year there are 57,555 acres in corn, 11,471 in oats, 23 in barley, 45 in buckwheat, 158 in rye, 233 in potoes, 12 in watermelons, 9 in tobacco, 10 in cabbage. Lnst year 3,839 gallons of sorghum molasses was made, and 42,015 rods of rail fence erected, 5,581 rods of board fence and 10,147 rods of wire fence. —Experiments have been in progress for some time, by Messrs. Edwards and Bouslog, of Peru, regarding the successful raising and cultivation of celery. Notwithstanding the poor season the first crop is now in and the practical succeßßß is assured. The celery raised is firm, solid and equal to any of the Michigan fields. The strip of ground immediately north of this city, some six miles long and mostly one mile wide, with soil of most exceeding richness, formerly being the bed of the Wabash River, is being utilized. With this positive assurance the new industry will be actively pushed. —The north-bound freight train collided at New Providence, twenty-five miles north of New Albany, with the south-bound freight. Both trains were badly wrecked, and K. McNally, engineer of the train going north was pinned under tho tank of his engine, which had a car-load of stone piled upon it. He was crushed to death. His fireman, Charles Helfrich, was badly bruised, but had no bones broken, McNally had been in the employ of the company but a few months. He lived in Illinois. The track was.so baaly obstructed with the wreckage ns to compel the north-bound passenger train to return to New Albany. —Six South Haven County, Michigan, women, Mrs. Cherry Cooper, Louise Doer, and Ray Dalamere, Louise Bacon and Hattie Thompson, started from home June 25 in a rowboat, with a tow full of camp equipment, bound for South Bend. The trip is a hard obe, twenty miles along the Lake Michigan coast and twenty-five miles up the St. Joseph River, with swift currents, rapids and dams. The party all arrived safely at South Bend. They camped every night and report a most enjoyable trip. The young women are the first who ever made the trip, which has not been attempted by men since Indian times. They will return by the same route. —At Cambridge City a few nights ago an explosion awakened Daniel Wissier and family from their repose. Mr. Wissier hastened to the place from whence came the sound, and discovered the interior of the kitchen in the rear of his house was on fire. He quickly extinguished it and immediately sought the cause. On the outside, near the kitchen window, he found a half-gallon oil-can, which had contained gasoline. The window had been broken open and the gasoline poured upon the floor and ignited. The sound of the explosion which followed awakened Mr. Wissier and piobably saved himself and family from a horrible death. The front gate was held open with a prop, thus affording a rapid exit for the miscreant.

BATTLE IN SALVADOR.

THE CAUTCMALANS DEFEATED WITH hEAVY LOSS. Aa Army of Nina Thousand Invades Salvador apd Is Repalsod by Gen. Euta’s Forces—President Barillas of Guatemala Threatens to Resign. City of Mexico special: Tho longthreatened war has broken out between Guatemala and Salvador, according to official advices received by the confidential agent of the provisional government of San Salvador, Seuor Geronimo Pou, who arrived here last night from San Salvador. It began without the usual formalities of war, and for his country Seuor Pou claimed first victory. Senor Pou exhibited the following telegram from Gen. Ezeta: “Julv 19.—The enemy, 9,000 strong, yesterday invaded San Salvador, but our forces bravely repulsed them, causing their complete rout Mauy pieces of artillery, large quantities of ammunition, and hundreds of stacks of arms were captured by us. I have given orders to advance into Guatemala.” Senor Pou says the Salvador army is armed with Remington rifles, machine guns, and mountain batteries, and is generally well equipped with plenty of money. The Salvadorian forces are inferior in number to those of Guatemala, but Senor Pou says he has received advices that disaffection has occurred in the army of Guatemala, and two battalions have refused to proceed to the frontier, which, he thinks, will havo the effect of equalizing matters. Gen. Ezeta is commanding the movements of the Salvador forces. Minister Dleguez of Guatemala says that the only dispatches received are from points in San Salvador where it is known that the press censorship is in force. “Our forces aro well armed with Remington rlflos, Gatling guns, and mounted batteries, and if San Salvador has 16,000 men in the field, we have nearly double that number. While it is true we havo no big fund in the treasury, everybody in the country will come to the front with money in case there is war.” It is tho general opinion here that in case there is war between Guatemala and San Salvador, tho first named country will be victorious, because of its superior forces.

RAN INTO AN ICEBERG.

The Steamship Hibernian Has a Start6rj ling Adventure. Ph)iad#lpbia i ,,.(Pa*). telegram: The Allan* stepjper,.Hibernian arrived here yesterday fjoni jpiasgow after a trip of ten days, during which she had a narrow escape frbm feeing dashed to pieces on the side* oDw* Inf go iceberg. The vessel ran- into a fog and the speed was 'reduced to five knots an hour, Bsut fpr this the vessel would surely have .been lost. The berg was sighted just before 8 o’clock in the evening,' and at a distance of about fifty yards. The engines were reversed, and the mail at the wheel had succeeded in slightly changing the course of tho vessel so that the berg was struck at a stand. Tho iron plates grated along the side of the huge pile, and the vessel careened until her sails touched the water. There was groat excitement among tho fifty passengers on board. One passenger, a woman, was thrown from a bunk and slightly injured. The berg appeared to be about fifty feet above water, and was very long. After the collision the Hibernian remained hove to till tho next day, all the while being enveloped in a thick fog. During this time the passengers suffered intensely from cold. They paid many visits to the engine room, which was the only warm place on tho ship.

BUSY PENSION AGENTS.

They Are Crowding the Mails with Their Advertisements. Washington dispatch: The pension legislation at this session of Congress has stimulated the pension attorneys to great activity, causing an increase of 33 per cent in the receipts of the Washington postoffico for the quarter ending June 30, and tho officials say there will also be a great increase for the month of July. The abnormal increase is due almost entirely to the patronage of tho pension agents, who have been buying as high as as 85,000 worth of stamps at a time. Some of them bought one cent stamps for use to inclose unsealed circulars, but the smart ones used the sealed envelopes to send their circulars, knowing with the press of business at the office the lirst-class matter would receive attention first. In addition to the circulars, sealed and unsealed,one firm sent out a million copies of a newspaper In which their business is advertised.

AFTER THE TIMBER THIEVES.

AV The United States Government Preparing to Put a Stop to Tlielr Operations. St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch": The lumbei stealing by Canadians along the northern border of Minnesota has become so extensive that the government has concluded to put a stop to it. A large expedition headed by four agents will leave Duluth about Aug. land head in a northwesterly direction, its destination being the western portion of Rainy lake. It is estimated that In two rivers there are 75,000,000 feet of logs, and perhaps as much more is being got away with by Canadians at other points along the boundary line. An effort is to be made to secure this in the name of the government, and as soon as the logs have been found by the agents and branded with the government stamps, which the agents take with them, they will be held at all hazards. It is proposed to have h permanent census department in Great Britain, whose duty it shall bo to take the usual decennial census. A company having for its object the bridging of the English channel, is seeking concessions from the French and English governments.

SOUNDERS MADE SILENT

FLAMES RAGE IN THE W. U. BUILDING. » Terrible Paata Among Employes Cut Oil from Means of Escape—Thrilling Rescues by Heroic Firemen—The Damage Almost Inestimable, New York special; Fire broke out in the Western Union building at 7:05 Friday morning. The operators, about seventy-five in number, were penned in by the flames. Many of them attempt- 1 ed to climb from the windows. Most of them got upon the top of tho building, where they cried piteously for help. ! Tne fire started two floors below the top and it was feared raanv of tho operators would be burned to death. The building was eleven stories high, ! ana tho firo department was almost powerless in its attempts to reach tho unfortunate men. The loss will be enormous and is estimated at 83,000,000. A vast crowd witnessed the fire and the police had difficulty in keeping the street clear for the work of the firemen. Owing to tho heigat of the structure the department experienced great difficulty in subduing the flames, but three hours after the firo started it was under control. It had spread, however, to the Associated Press offices, the execu- ! tive offices of tho Western Union, and the upper floors. At 7:30 l ames wore pouring from the windows in tho upper stories, and it seemed as if the entire building, though considered fireproof, was doomed to destruction. It is reported that there was considerable delay in sending out tho first alarm, and it was fully ten minutes before the engines put in an appearance. The embersjworo living to tho south and threatened tho destruction of tho buildings in that afrection. Several roofs caught fire, but no serious damage was done. Meanwhile the fire was spioading through the Western Union building in spite of every effort of tho firemei\ who were handicapped by tho great height of the building, the hook and ladders being practically useless. Tho excitement among the immenso crowds around tho building was Intense. The employes of the morning newsoapors worn chiefly conspicuous, and, as thoy hiul many friends among the operators in the burning building and a large loss of life was rumored, tho greatest anxiety was felt. -»• <*• j“ a -Sss*' Not a wire or a switchboard of tho Western Union was saved, and the Associated Press and the operators’ rooms are in ruins. All communications are cut off and temporary offices are established at Jersey City and neighboring places. Throe thousand seven hundred telegraph instruments were destroyed, together with the battery rooms, and thousands of Leyden jars, which caunot be replaced for several weeks. Loss, about $3,000,000. Tho Associated Press’ loss alone is estimated at 81,500,000, and the Western Union loss at about the same. Ten operators mado their way to an adjoining building bv swinging over an iron shutter. Ten female employes in the lunch department who slept In the upper story were compelled to flee to the roof, from where they wero rescued by the firemen. who tied ropes around them and let them down three stories to a building in the roar. The women were screaming for help a considerable time before .the firemen reached them. The excitement was increased by two explosions, presumably of acids used for tho batteries. At the time the firo broke out tho elevators wero not running and would have been useless, as the shafts were in flames. Chicago telegram: At tho Western Union offices here it was reported that the firo was under control, and that there had been no loss of life reported. The flames, the officers here said, had started in the operating-room and had swept through the big room almost before the alarm could bo given. “The on-y in ormation wo have at hand is that a serious fire broke out in tho operating room of tho New York office.” said Superintendent Tubbs. “Tho building, however, is fire-proof, and I don’t think that it will be seriously injured. Our wires are down there and up to the present time wo have had nothing direct. Business for New York is accepted subject to delay only. “Our Jersey City wires aro working, and we expect to have communication with New York city direct In a few hours. There is always a great quantity of stationery distributed in a big operating-room, also furuituro and inflamablo material of various kinds, including the wires, which, of course, aro covered with oil.” The Postal Telegraph is the only company that has communication with New York, and it was learned there that the upper floor of the Western Union building had been completely destroyed, but that there had been no losstif life so far as couid bo learned. Arrangements bad been made, the manager said, to receive the market reports over the Postal wires.

The Indians Are Satisfied.

Kingfisher (I. T.) telegram: An agreement was arrived at between the Cheyenne and the Arapahoe Indians and the Cherokee Commissioners to-day. The Indians accepted the terms proposed by the commissioners—to wit: They are to have their lands in severalty —l6O acres to each man, woman, and child—and receive 81,500,000, 8500,000 cash and 8500,000 to draw 5 per cent interest. The Indians began signing tho agreement at 6p. m. It will probably require eight or ten days to completo this part of the business. Tho treaty opens up over 4,000,000 acres of land to settlement under the homestead law,but the acre settlers will have to-pay 81.25 per acre when they come to prove up. This practically settles the work of the commission at present. Ciia.ri.kß R. Nelson filed a 850,000 suit against the Pan Handle Railroad company, at Logansport, Ind. Nelson was run over by an engine in January and had both legs off. -

MET A FEARFUL DEATH

BY A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OP POWDER. Dluittr Near Cincinnati—Half a Score of Men Dead and Many More Injured—Factories Wrecked and Burned —The Accident Due to Careleaa Railroad Men. Cincinnati, (Ohio,) special; A terrible oxplosion occurred late yesterday at King’s powder mills on the Little Miami railroad, twenty-nine miles east of this citv. At least ten persons were killed and thirty or forty inlured. Two empty freight-cars wero being rolled on to a side-track, where a car containing 500 kegs of gunpowdor was standing. As tho cats struck there was an oxplosion and immediately afterward another car containing 800 kegs of gunpowder exploded, making 1,300 kegs altogether. William Frauly, a brakeman in the service of tho Little Miami, was standing on one of the ompty cars when the explosion occurred. His body must havo been blown to atoms, although no trace of it has yet boon found. Nino other persons, supposed to be employes of the p**rder company, were killed. There wor a number of cottages occupied by workmen in the powder factory I situated close to the track. These were shattered by tho oxplosion and their inmates injured. About thirty girls at work iu the cartridge factory were crippled by tho explosion. Tho railway station and tho freight house belonging I to the Llttlo Miami railroad, together with ail tho adjacent buildings, were set on firo and totally consumed.

IRONWORKERS ON STRIKE.

NearPy Two Thousand of Hewitt’s Km* ployes Demand the AmalKAmated Seale, 1 Now York special: Between ],2ot> and 2,000 iron workers this morning refused to go to worK in the Now Jersey steel and iron mills at Jersey City, which aro owned by ox-Mavor Abram B.' Hewitt, because of tho refusal of the iirm to sign the amalgamated ironworkers' scale of wagos and rccognlzo that labor organization. A wcok ago last Friday the heaters in the twelveinch room struck against certain rules and asked Superintendent Stokes to sign tho amalgamated scaio of wages. The superintendent sad he had no power to sign, but ho took tho scaio and promised to presont It to tho proper authorities. Tho men. went b_as£ to work on the superintendent's ptdtmse that tho matter would be all right in a few days. Days passed, and the shop committee again called on the superintendent, but got no satisfaction. Yesterday before they would go to work they asked whether or not the scale had been signed and were told it was not. They then refused to go to work, and tho men in tho twelve-inch room, the rolling mill, the bar mill and the puddling mill and their many laborers and helpors loit tho works. The Knights and the Amalgamated Association have secretly organized tho works, which have been non-union for years. The firm is stacked with orders and has been running day and night. The members say they will not sign the scale.

WOULD LYNCH THE CAPTAIN.

People Ab:>ut Lake Pepin Wrought Up Over the Disaster, St. Paul, (Minn.) telegram: A mob gathered last evening near Diamond Bluff, Wis., tho home of Capt, Wethern, who commanded tho 111-fated Sea Wing, with the purpose of lynching him He was made aware of the approach of tho crowd and was plactd in a buggy and driven rapidly to Ellsworth, tho county seat of Pierce county, and Mimed over to the Sheriff for protection. The feeling among the friends of tho dead at Bed Wing, Diamond Bluff, and Trenton is verv bitter against the Captain, and their anger has increased since the sudden and unsatisfactory termination ot tho inquest. It is said the United States Steamboat Inspector has a warrant which he intends serving on Capt. Wetheru, charging him with overloading his vessel. It is pretty certain it carried over 200 persons, though its capacity is but 140. Rod Wing, (Minn.) special: As time progresses and the missing are heard from it becomes apparent that the victims of Sunday’s cyclono on Lake Pepin will number a few over 100; but tliis, it is hoped, will not be exceeded by more than six or seven. To-day wa* devoted to a fruitless effort to recover more bodies, dynamite being used in profusion on the shores of the lake to bring to the surface the corpses buried beneath tho waters.

FIRE AT MINNEAPOLIS.

The Security Warehouse Destroyed— Loss *>500,000. Minneapolis, (Minn.) special: Th® biggest fire that has occurred in the Floor Cltv since the burning of the ,Tribune building, Noy. 30, completely destroyed the Security warehouse with its contents, entailing a loss of &500,000. The blaze was communicated to the larm machinery house of Deere & Co. The flames gathered strength with the flying minutes. The walls of the warehouse fell with a great crash-and the blaze mounted high in the air. “Thero are sixty barrels of oil in the basement,” said one of the owners. As he spoke there was visible evidence of it as tho flames leaped upward In great angry tongues. Suddenly the wind veered and carried, the sparks and heat diagonally across tho corner to the Cooper Block, occupied by O. W. .lones, the Smith Wagon company, Linscy Bros., and the Blue Gras company. At 4:15 tho north s'.do wai. of the warehouse was seen to waver. A shout went up from tho throats of watc^Ml.<rtlousands as it trembled and then*ilfflij»Btward with a resounding : crash. it lay a tittle stone 1 structurehad been used as a boardirife HiilgßfeA. donso cloud of the black<-t smoke vjftsp. hiding from view the firemen, thte building, and everything. When it cleared away tho stone house had utterly disappeared, j