Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — HAD A NARROW ESCAPE. [ARTICLE]

HAD A NARROW ESCAPE.

MERRYMAKERS ON THE VERGE OF THE GRAVE. Negro Settlers in Oklahoma Are Starving— A Mutual Boycott In lowa —Miss Abbott’s Body Cremated—An All-Night Session in Congress. DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL. Tlie Senate Agrees to the French Spoliation and Pacific Railroad Claims Sections. On the 3d, the conferrees on the postoffice appropriation bill reached a final agreement on the disputed points in the bill, including the Senate appropriation for carrying the postal subsidy into effect. The House conferrees receded from their disagreement to the Senate amendment Increasing from $750,000 (the amount appropriated by the House) to $1,250,000 the appropriation for carrying the foreign mails. The postal subsidies are to come out of this sum. Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, introduced (by request) a bill to compel an adjudication of all debts and to require a presentation of ■ all bills or claims against the United States. In the Senate all the amendments that had been agreed to in committee of the whole were agreed to in bulk, including the French spoliation claims and the Pacific railroad claims. An amendment by Mr. Plumb, appropriatiug $50,000 for the relief of citizens of Oklahoma who have been rendered destitute by the drought of the past season, was agreed to. The reserved amendments its to payment of Pucific railroad claims were agreed to. It is said that the President, in discussing the Congressional outlook, said that there did not appear to be any necessity for an extra session of Congress. NARROWLY E CAPED DEATH. A Sleigli Load of Merrymakers Thrown Out lu the Nick of Time. What might have been a serious accident occurred at Houghton, Mich. A sleigh load of people were going to a concert in an adjoining town, it being necessary to cross a lake on.the ice on the way. Before reaching the lake the horses took fright and dashed down on the Ice at a terrific speed, and out to where a hole had been made by ice harvesters. When near the cut the team swerved, throwing out the people, and almost immediately the horses and sleigli disappeared through the ice Into the water beneath. The loss of horses, sleighs, etc., is about $1,500. The thermometer was 32 degrees below zero. An lowa Boycott. A Dubuque (la.) special says: A boycott has been Instituted between the Farmers' Alliance of this State and the State Business Men’s Association. The Alliance is instituting co-operative farmers' stores all over the Btata, and selling goods at just enough advance to piy expenses. The Business Men’s Association has sent notice to all jobbers that none of their members will buy from firms who sell to the Alliance. Two Alliauce men from CroseJ were in the city to-day endeavi ring to place an order for $2,000 worth of groceries. Dubuque jobbers all refused to sell to them. In retaliation the Alliance people will refusp.tq patronize members of the Business Men's Association. Starving Negroes. At Oklahoma, O. T., a deplorable s'ate of affairs exists among the negroes who have lately immigrated to the Territory. They have come to the number of several thousands, with the understanding that the Government would fee 4 Iliem and give them a piece of land, and they are now opening their eyes to the fact that the land is all taken by white men. They are on the verge of starvation. Heirs to Ml lions. Several heirs to an immense fortune which, it is said, was left from the estate of Robert Edwards, of Kentucky, have been discovered in Houston, Tex. The inheritance involves the right of ownership In land on Broadway, Wall street, and under and around Trinity Church, New York City. The property is said to be valued at $267,000,000.

Emma Abbott Cremated. The remains of Emma Abbott, the wellknown singer and actress, were cremated In Pittsburg, Pa. The fact was kept very quiet at the request of the mother of the deceased. The Incineration took place in Samson's crematory, and occupied but one liour. Several Passengers Hurt. One of the coaches on the west-bound passenger train was derailed and upset near Sarasville, Ohio, on the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Railroad. Three or four passengers were seriously Injured. A New Mint. President Harrison signed the bill ftr the erection of a mint at Philadelphia on the one hundredth anniversary of the day on which President Washington signed the bill establishing the mint in that city. BiAhyliead Scores One. Ex-Chief Bushyhead, of the Cherokee Nation, obtained a restraining order enjoining Lieutenant Golden from removing Bushyhead and his employes from the strip and destroying his buildings and machinery. Alleged Rioters Arrested. At Pittsburg, Pa., President Rae, Master Workman Wise, and others of the Union mine workers, were arrested, charged with conspiracy, riot, and assault, for their connection with the coke strike. Joined the Revolutionists. Advices, from Chill state that three battalions and the Fourth Regiment of Gov- ’ era men t troops, stationed near Plsagua, have shot their officers and declared In favor of the revolutionists. A Confessed Murder-ss. A.negress named Dayton confessed at Denver. Colo., the murder and robbery of James Wade at Kansas City,;Mo., two years ago. ' Fay They Swelled the Census. At Minneapolis, Minn., two enumerators pleaded guilty to conspiracy to pad tlio census. Killed His Rival. Frank Dice and William Chaney, two young men of Owen County, Indiana, were rivals for the affections of a young lady of the neighborhood. They met ut Atkinsonvllle, when Dice drew a revolver and shot Chaney, killing him Instantly. Went Up in Smoke. At Sioux City, lowa, Are started in the armature-room of the City Electric Railway Comp Any, and before it could be got under control it destroyed the building, together with a dozeu motor cars and five passenger coaches. Loss, about (75,000.

FINE BLOCKS BURNED. Fire In the Magnificent Minneapolis Lumber Exchange—Sol Smith Russell’s Loss. At Minneapolis fire started in the fivestory trick block owned by Sol Smith Russell, the actor, and destroyed his buildings, besides a four-story brick owned by J. M. Roberts, At this hour, the fire has caught in the fifth floor of the Lumber F.xchango, one of the most magnificent blocks in the country. It Is built of brown stone, twelve stories high, and cost over $1,000,000. But as the building is fire-proof, ft is not expected that great damage will be done. The building owned by Sol Smith Russell was valued at $87,000, and is totally destroyed. It was occupied by the Clare-Speaker .Company, paints and oils. The loss of the latter company is $60,003. J. M. Roberts’ building was valued at 840,000. It was occupied on the ground floor by H. B. Gayner, with a stock of hardware. Loss $35,000. Mrs. Ree-. son bad furnished apartments in the upper floors, and will lose $5,000. In Chicago, Counsclman's elevator was almost entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of nearly SIOO,OOO. - * ) SOME CROPS ffnllßT. Only for Them Have Prices Advanced the Past Week R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly relvew of trade says: There is not much change in the condition of trade, hut there Is a little more dullness at the South and In the Northwest, with a little more stringency in money markets and complaint about slowness of collections. In general, business Is still hesitating. The largcrcause is undoub edly the partial loss of crops, which has left a great many farmers without means for the usual purchases. At the same time the collapse of the real-estate boom which so wildly inflated prices throughout the West and South has affected business more than has yet been realized. To this influence is added at the South the extremely low price of cotton, which affects farmers the more because so many of them tried, by holding back their crop, to force a higher level of prices. There has been an advance In the average prices of all commodities, amounting to half of 1 per cent, for the week, but it has been almost exclusively in products of which crops were short. The business failures during the last seven days number 290, as against 297 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 301. DOWN AN EMBANKMENT. Terrible Accident on the Richmond Division ol' the Panhandle. A terrible railroad accident occurred on the Panhandle at Hagerstown. Ind., in which four men were Instantly killed, one mortally wounded if not two others, and a large number injured. It was the fast train between Chicago and Cincinnati, which was cqming down a steep grade, when the framework of the engine broke and dorailed every car. At the canal bridge, where there is a fifteen-foot fall, tlie fatality occurred. The cars caught tire, but the fire was quickly extinguished. The smoker first turned on Its side and then the day coach and parlor car. the smoking cimpartment of which contained all the killed. Breaking away from the smoking car. but holding together, they rolled over twice In their descent of tlie embankment. Meanwhile the derailed baggage car had hung to the engine, and the other cars struck a guard at the crossing, again mounted the tracks, and escaped almost uninjured. But the engine, though holding the rail, was about as badly wrecked as the parlor and day coaches.

THE ARIZONA DELUGE. Losses In Yuma County Alone Foot Up I)2,ooo,ooo—Provisions Scarce. A special dispatch from Yuma, A. T., In speaking of tlie devastation wrought by tho flood, says: Over 250 houses alfe In ruins from the flood and 1,400 people are homeless. Not a single business house remains standing, and It is feared that hundreds of lives havo been lost in the Gila Valley. The telegraph wires are down in the valley, and as all bridges are down und roads impassable, no reliable reports can be bad from there. The river above town is seven miles wide, and below the town In places the water covers the country In one great lake over fifty miles across. The railway company will not have the blockade raised for weft-boimd trains for four days, and it will be ten days or two weeks before they can get east. The town has provisions sufficient, for eight more days und tlie Southern Pacific Hotel Is feeding a thousand people a day. Reports from Jakuno, ISmlles above here, are to tho effect that tho flood drove the people into the tree tops, and many became exhausted from cold and hunger and dropped Into the water and were drowned. Reports from reliable sources put the loss of lives in the valley anywhere from thirty to 100. All along the valley for 200 miles everything Is In desolation. Costly houses and barns have been washed away like playthings, while stock and fences have been carried down by the flood, leaving tho country as bare as a desert. Men who ten days ago were wealthy are now homeless and paupers. MENACED BY FLOODS. Yuma Roporteil to He In Imminent Dnnger of Destruction. News was received by the Southern Pacific manager at San Francisco that Yuma, A. T. is certainly doomed. At 2 o’clock the railroad operator warned his supervisors that he could stay at his key only half an hour longer, as the water was rising so rapidly that it would soon sweep away the office. At that time the. water in the Colorado was up to 34 feet 2 Inches, five feet higher than the flood matk of 1861 and the highest ever known there. The Colorado and Gila are both raging torrents, bringing down portions of houses, trees and dead animals. The water ha v reached the sills of the 500-foot railroad bridge across the Colorado River, and It Is expected the bridge will go down. It is an ordinary Howe truss bridge, ■ but’cost eonsideiable money because of its length. Yuma has abouj 1.200 people, mostly Mexicans and half-breeds. HUSTON’S RESIGNATION. It la Accepted by tlie President—His Successor Appointed. The President lias accepted the resignation United States Treasurer Huston and has selected J. A. Lemeke, ex-Stato Treasurer of Indiana, as his successor. James A. Lemeke was born in Germany and came to this country when a boy. He commanded a transport during the war. He became paying teller of the First National Bank at Evansville, Ind., and later bookkeeper. He has filled the positions of City Clerk, City Treasurer, Sheriff, and Police Commissioner, filling more than one term in n.arly all of them. ] MURDERED HIS WIFE. John Copclnnd Kills His Helpmeet and Attempts to End tho l ives of His ChilitreA. John Copeland, a wealthy storekeeper of Parnassus, Pa., recently discharged from the insane asylum at Warren, without provocation, drew a revolver and fired five shots at his wife, four of them taking effect in her body, Death was almost instantaneous. The insane man then tried to kill his two little children, and to commit suicide,

but he was disarmed by friends who were attracted to the house by the shooting. Copeland Is a raving maniac now, and will he sene back to the asylum. His children, aged 2 and 6 years, will be cared- for by relatives. AN UNDERGROUND MYSTERY. Miners Come Upon a Room Containing a Skeleton in the Rowe » of the Earth. A strange story coines from Anisted, In the Elk River, W. Va., mining region. Miners have been at work for over two months driving an entrance through a ton - foot vein of coal. When over 1,000 feet In the mountain they broke into a “room” about 20 feet square. It had no visible signs of ever having been in communication with the outside world. On the floor lay the skeleton of a human being, the bones crumbling into dust on exposure to air, or at the slightest touch, while on the walls were many rude outline sketches and what seemed to be inscriptions. It is a mystery which awaits the solution of the learned. ' ALL HANDS WERE SAVED. Arrival of the Steamer Chester with the Crew of the 111-Fated lowa. The Standard Oil Company’s steamship Chester, from Rotterdam, arrived off Sandy Hook, bringing the first correct tidings of the loss of the big Warren Line steamship lowa. These tidings show that instead of having been lost through a collision with an Iceberg the lowa sprang a leak after being stranded by field and drift lee, and had to be abandoned when half filled with water. All on hoard the unfortunate vessel, numbering seventy-nine souls, were saved and brought to New York ou the ( hester. BURIED ’NEATH TONS OF SNOW. Four People Lose Tli -Ir Lives by an Avalanche In the Rookie*. A snow-slide swept over the Bullion King Mine at Irwin, Col., burying tlie (warding house and Superintendent Ropell's dwelling nouse. Mrs. Rope 11, Mrs. Ed Clarke and child,, at the hoarding house, and B. F. Smiley, the engineer, were buried in the snow. Anna Dickinson Is Insane. Miss Anna Dickinson, the authoress and lecturer, has become insane, and has been removed in charge of Dr. Hilener to the insane a&ylum at Danville, Pa. One night last week Anna drove her sister Susan from the house with a butcher-knife, and the next day attacked the servant girl with a knife. On another occasion she went to a drug store and purchased SSO worth of drugs. When she boarded the train to be taken to Danville she wanted to sit in a certain scat; no other would do. Then she summoned the conductor and said to him: “I want you to send a telegram for me at opes to Jay Gould. Tell him that I want a billion dollars. While you are at it,” Miss IHcklnson continued, “send one to President Harrison also. Tell him that the women of this country want protection.” Did Noi Explode as Advertised. A special grand jury iii Covington, Ky., reported an indictment for arson against W. Winchester, recently proprietor of chemical works in that city. Mr. Winchester when his establishment caught fire hastily drove out the few girls employed by him, locked the doors, and begged the firemen to flee for their lives, as a dreadful explosion would soon follow. The firemen treated him as a' lunatic, forced their way In, and soon put out the fire. It was tfcen discovered that he had piled up boxes of chemicals in such a way as to give the impression of an immense stock, while In fact there was but a single tier of boxes that were filled. He had insurance for $12,000. Daring Escape lroin Jail. Four prisoners escaped from the county jail at Dayton, Ohio, John Gabner, John McCarthy, Edward Locke and George Locke. The prisoners cut through twenty-eight Inches of iron and gainod access to the 1 outer corridor. They then hid, and, as Turnkey McNeil entered with the morning coffee, knocked him down with a mop ban-, die, stunning him. They then ran Into the street, and, boarding an express wagon, compelled the driver to take them a short distance and then struck out for parts unknown. A reward of SSO for each man has been offered. Suicide at St, Paul. At St. Paul Frederick DeHass, one of the pioneers of St. Paul, and -the Minnesota representative of the Germania Life Insurance Company of New York, shot himself. The officers of the company find that from $15,000 to $20,000 of overdue premiums have not been collected, but aside from the rather loose manner of conducting the books they say the affairs of the concern are in pretty fair shape. 11 Houses and Orchards Ruined. A tornado blew down the seventy-five-foot bell-tower at Howard’s ship-yards, at Jeffersonville, Ind. The greatest damage was done at Utica. Many dwellings were totally destroyed, and narrow escapes from death were frequent. It .was very fortunate that the town is flooded by the overflow from the Ohio River, us otherwise people would have been at home at the time of the storm. New Unite I stales Treasurer. “J. Alexander Lenicke has been appointed United States Treasurer.” This was the substance of a confidential telegram received in Evansville, Ind., and there seems to be no doubt i f its veracity, as it is knowq that Mr. Lenicke was tendered the place three months ago by President Harrison, but declined because his term as State*Treasurer had not yet expired. Btr kers Shot at Braddock, Pa. At Braddock, Pa., strikers attacked some non-union workmen at the Ohio Works at Braddock. The latter replied with a pistol volley. Two strikers were wounded—John Hobday £nd John Trainer. Hobday Is in a dying condition. Trainer was but slightly wounded. Three non-union men are in jail for the shooting. The ' excitement among the strikers is intense.' Struck at the Noun Hour. At Boston Charles 11. Moring, the proprietor of the Hotel Oxford, discharged one of his waiters. Just us dinner uas about to he served al! the wai ers except four called for their pay and went out. The 300 guests in the house were told of the trouble and sided with the proprietor. Came Donn on the Seminary. At Barre, Vt., a huge landslide occurred on the property occupied by the Goddard Semiuary building. Hundreds of tons of earth were hurled down and many dwelling houses were wrecked or damaged. The residence of William McDonald was moved a distance of o even feet, but not Injured. Want to Keep Chinamen Out. Resolutions have been adopted by the Legislature at Victoria, 8.C., urging the imposition by the Dominion Government of a poll tax of SIOO on Chinese immigrants and the abolition of return certificates. Troubles of the Harrow Trust. A secret meeting of the National Harrow Company was held in Buffalo. It is sur-

mised that the conference was cal let: to consider the advisability of dissolving the trust, which has become embarrassed by its defeat In the action brought by the Clipper Chilled Plow Company of Elmira. Confesses to Wrecking a Train. At Boonville. Mo. ~ two men named Lawrence and Smith are under arrest charged with having wrecked the Missouri Pacific passenger train shortly after the train robbery at Ottcrville last November. Smith confesses, their object being, robbery. Farmers to Form a Trust. Frank McGrath, President of the Farmers’ Alliance, says it Is the Intention of the organization to form a trust, to be operated in the States of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and lowa, to dispose of the grain and live stock of members, and do awpy with option men and brokers. A Judge Shoots His Son. Ex-Judge of the Circuit gourt Bobo, of Decatur, Ind., while under the influence of liquor, shot bis son Roland. Infllctlug a wound that may prove fatal, Judge Bobo ordered his son from the honse. The latter not obeying immediately, the father drew a revolver and fired. Tlie Henhessy Jury Completed. The Jury In the Hennessy assassination case at New Orleans is completed, and the examination of witnesses will at once commence. The case will probably occupy the time of the court for two or three weeks to come, as there are about 200 witnesses to be examined. In the Track of the Told Wave. The mercury has marked 20 degrees below zero in St. Paul, 38 below In Moorhead and 42 below in St. Vincent. The wave was -one of wide extent, ranging from Port VArtliur on Lake Superior to Helena and beyond. with a longitudinal crest over the Red River Valley. The temperature is rising, however, and the weather will moderate. Obstreperous Strikers. AtScottdale. Pa., between 2,000 and 3,000 foreign and American strikers forced the reluctant employes of Rainey to strike. About tlie same time a howling aggregation of strikers, estimated at 1.500 or 2,000, descended on the Pauli plant, where a few men vero ct work. These -were compelled to beat a hasty retreat. A Prison Door Arrest. James H. Ward has completed his term of eleven years in a Pennsylvania penitentiary for killing Miss Mary Means In West Moreland County. Upon stepping from the penitentiary door he was arrested and placed in jail for the killing of Miss Ellen Means, whom he had assaulted at the same time he killed her sister. Fatal Explosion. At Charleston, Mo., the boiler of James Fugate’s sawmill exploded, killing Jeff Cobb, Charles Cobb, and John Dawdy. The body of Charles Cobh was thrown 700 feet in the air. and one leg was picked up In a corn-field 100 yards from the body. Four other mill-hands were dangerously Injured. Lack of water iu the boiler is supposed to nave caused the explosion. Married a Colored Coachman. Miss Ella Tice, of Williams Bridge, N. Y., white, and pretty, has startled the neighborhood by running away from her home and marrying a colored coachman named James Randolph. Miss Tice Is the daughter of the late Isaac B. Tice, inventor of the machine for gauging whisky which Is now iu use by the Government. Mormons Flooded Out, Mail advices from Phoenix, A. T., say: “The second rise in the Salt River was several Inches higher than the last one. Phoenix or Tompe had ho material damage done them. The Mormon settlement of t,ehi Is neurly destroyed. The bridge at Florence is washed away and the town is supposed to be flooded. Tried to Poison Her Family. Pearl Lecourt, of Revere, Mass., is under arrest charged with administering poison to her family. Her brother Arthur, 8 years old, has died from the effects of the poison, but the othor members of the family, although made very ill, are now recovering. No motive can be assigned for the crime. Statue to General Sherman. A meeting of business men was held In New York for the purpose of raising a fund of $50,000 to erect an equestrian statue of thq late Gener 1 William Tecumseh Sherman. It is understood that the statue will b6|Slrailar to that of General Washington in Union Square. Robbed In a Cab. Hattie Purdy, aged 19. has been lying unconscious at lier home In Trenton, N. J., for the past week. In her lucid moments she states that she was taken in a cab and robbed by two men. Her person bears evidence of a violent strugge. Blizzard in Nebraska. A blizzard from the northwest swept over Nebraska, traveling fifty miles an hour.