Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — TRAGEDY AT MEMPHIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRAGEDY AT MEMPHIS.

INK-STANDS AND SPITTOONS IN ARKANSAS. Buffalo and Peoria Suffer from Fire—The Second Largest Tea House in the Country Failed—Two Prominent Young Georgians Drowned. GAVE HIM NO WARNING. Col. H. Clay King Mortally Wounds Attorney David H. Poston at Memphis. David H. Poston, a prominent lawyer of Memphis, Tenn., was shot and mortally wounded by Col. H. Clay King, a wellknown citizen and also a member of the Memphis bar. The tragedy occurred on Main street and occasioned great excitement. Mr. Poston is a member of the law firm of Poston & Pi ston, and his family is one of the most prominent in the city and well known throughout the South. His father was also a celebrated lawyer. Col. H. Clay King served with distinction in the Confederate - army, being commander of “King’s Tigers,” is a brilliant lawyer, has held different offices in Shelby County, and is the author of “King’s Digest of the Laws of Tennessee,” which was for a long time r. standard work. The causes which led to the shooting have their origin in a lawsuit. The litigation has been pending for a number of years, and grew out of a certain transaction with regard to Arkansas lands. The firm of Poston & Poston was of counsel for the complainant, and prosecuted the case vigorously. A very bitter feeling was aroused between the counsel to the litigation, and evidence hurtful to the social reputation of both was freely adduced. Col. King was standing in front of Lee’s cigar store with a large pistol in his hand. A moment later Mr. Poston came along. Without a word of warning King stepped out from the doorway, and, placing the pistol—a 44-caliber—against Mr. Poston’s abdomen, fired. BIG FIRE AT BUFFALO. The Burt Block Completely Destroyed Loss (4235,000. Henry W. Burt’s five-story brick and iron building at Buffalo, and the Dental Manufacturing Company’s brick building were burned. Six horses in a barn in the rear of tthe dental company’s building were burned to death. The dental company had considerable stock in the barn, which was all destroyed. The Burt building was burned to the ground. The dental building was completely ruined. It is estimated that the total loss will foot up to abouts 22 >,oo3,and that the insurance will very nearly cover the loss. At Peoria, 111., the immense warehouse of the Peoria grape-sugar works, owned largely by the Woolners, the well-known whisky trust men, was burned. A cold-storage wureho.-.se belonging fro the Pabst Brew ing Company, of Milwaukee, was also burned. Loss on the sugar works about 850,000; insurance, $25,000 on llic building. The loss to the Pabst Brewing Company will be about 83,300. SPITTOON * AT TEN FACES. Two Members of tlie Arkansas Legis’ature Fall Out anti Fight a Novel Duel. Great excitement prevailed In the Arkansas House of Representatives, F. C. Mitchell, of Boone, and U. C. Head, of Little River, participating in a fight. The lie was passed and inkstands, spittoons, and other articles that were calculated to do injury were exchanged between the two gentlemen. No one was injured during the fight, but several members were well bespattered with Ink and tobacco juice. The Speaker ordered the Sergeant-at-arms to place the? disturbers under arrest. Hls Failure at Boston. The extensive tea-importing firm of Dudley Hall & Co., of Boston, have failed. Their business In teas had been profitable enough, but the Indorsement of paper by the senior member of the firm, Dudley C. Hall, for the accommodation of personal friends, proved too much for the firm. The liabilities are rising $400,000. a large part of which is secured by conveyances of real property and deposits of collateral securities. The firm was the second largest tea house in the United States, doing a business of over 81,000,000 a year. The firm was considered one of the soundest on the street. TVlll Not Resume Yet. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works of Carnegie’s, at Braddock, Pa., which shut down for repairs several weeks ago, will not resume operations for some time. A general resumption was expected by the employes, but the firm has decided to continue the shut-down for a month at least. This action enforces idleness upon nearly 2,000 men. No cause is assigned for the continued suspension. Both Found Watery Graves. Henry C. Lamar and Miss Louise King Connelly were drowned while rowing in the canal near Augusta, Ga, Both were popular and highly connected young people, Lamar was a graduate of Princeton College of the class of 1885. Miss Connelly was a granddaughter of the late John P. King. ex-United States Senator from Georgia, and a niece of the Marchioness of Anglesey. Breckinridge Very Sick. Congressman Breckinridge, of Kentucky, was believed to be dying at the Hotel Escambia at Pensacola. The naval physician had the patient in charge. He has had an acute attack of the grip, followed by tonsilitis. His temperature was very high. Sick Man and His Son Burned. At Ellsworth, Wis., Thomas Ecker and his 3-year-old boy were burned to death. The house caught fire in the absence of his wife, and Ecker, who was very ill, was unable to move Was It Suicide or Murder? Nictolas Eaton was mysteriously shot and killed at Kansas City. Whether he committed suicide or was murdered' is not known. His wealth is estimated at 8500.000. Shot Dead from Ambush. A special from Jackson, Tenn.. says: News was received here of a fearful crime committed near Pineson, this county. Scott Bradford, a respectable citizen (colored), while preparing to retire, was shot in the back by an assassin. No trace of the murderer has been found. • Foreclosed a Mortgage. The Massachusetts Life Insurance Company, of Springfield, foreclosed its mortgage on the Winona Paper Mills, of Holyoke, having previously made a demand for the Daymen! of the 8200,000 note.

HAS THE HICCOUGHS. Michigan's Governor Very HI, and ’TIs Thought Will Die. Gov. Win an s is thought to be dying. He has had hiccoughs for thirty-six hours. A dispatch says: Gov. Winans, of Michigan, has been afflicted with hiccoughs, from which his physicians have thus far been unable to give him more than temporary relief Unlike these attacks, which are usually the result of nervousness, the Governor’s trouble returns after he has had long seasons of refreshing sleep. The attending physicians expressed considerable alarm at the Governor’s condition. They fear that there is something serious back of the hic-

coughs, because of their constant recurrence. In December last- Gov. IVinans was very sick for several weekg with,, a stomach trouble, and the doctors apprehend that the present difficulty is due to the same cause. There is no concealing the fact that both the Governor's physicians and his family fear that the alarming feature of his Illness lias not yet fully appeured, and it is not improbable that he Is afflicted with a fatal malady, and may neve- again enter upon the active discharge if duties. RUIN IN THE SOUTH. Tennessee and Mississippi Scourged by Wind and Water. A cyclone destroyed several lives and vast property interests in Mississippi. Okolona, Brandon, Lexington, Pickens, Columbus, Meridian and Yazoo City were visited. Many towns arc entirely cut off from the outside world because of the high water. At Lexington, Minnie Bray, a young colored school teacher, while standing on her gallery viewing the storm, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Bridges, both wooden andiron, were washed away, and roads were washed into gullies in many places, rendering them Impassable. Farming operations have been entirely suspended and the land that had formerly been plowed is badly washed, delaying planting two or three weeks. Farmers ure greatly discouraged at the outlook. The Cumberland River is rising all along its course in Tennessee. At Nashville there is already much suffering among the poorer classes who have been obliged to move and the Relief Society is making arrangements to properly care for thorn. Fully 2,000 people have left their homes and many others will be driven out. No loss of life is reported, but numerous narrow escapes have been made. DAMAGING DOW NPOURS. Five Inches of Rain Fa’ls In Thirty-six Hours in the State of Mississippi. The severest rainstorm for years prevailed throughout almost the entire State of Mississippi for thirty-six hours. Five inches of rain fell at Vicksburg,, and the heaviest rainfall ever known is reported from ina»y points/ All the smaller streams have overflowed their banks, and much damage has been done to v roads and bridges. The railroads have been badly washed out and trains are all delayed or abandoned. At Yazoo City the river reached ten inches above the highest point reached last year and was still rising.* All the cotton warehouses are more or less submerged, And many families, mostly colored, living in the lower portion of the city, have been driven from their homes. West Point, Canton, and Memphis report the hardest rain for years, the whole country being covered with water and railroad traffic entirely suspended.

JUSTICE METED OUT. A Missouri Murderer Expiates His ColdBloudtgd Ci ime. John -Oscar Turlington was -hanged at Boon% 11s, Mo., for the murder of Sheriff Cranmci, of Cooper County. Turlington’s neck was broken. A year ago while going through Missouri Turlington was ordered from a freight train. While jumping off the cur he fired at the brakeman and ran away. He was arrested and lodged in Boonville jail. On the night of June 14, as Sheriff Cramner was unlocking his cell, Turlington drew a revolver and shot the Sheriff, who died the next day. Turlington escaped from the jail, but was captured the following day a few miles from Boonville. On the trial he was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged on Sept. 17. The case was tukeu on appeal to the Supreme Court. On Nov. 1 Tufllngtou escaped from Jail, but was captiyfed in Kentucky Nov. 12. On Jan. 27 last the Supreme Court rendered its decision sustaining the decision of the trial court and fixing the date of the execution. TWENTY LIVES LOST IN PUGET SOUND. The Steamer Buckeye Believed to Have Gone to tlie Bot'om. At Seatt e, Wash., it is rumored that the steamer Buckeye went down in the Sound between Edmunds and Apple Tree Cove, with twenty passengers. The Buckeye, which is a small steamer, went into Edmunds. and the Captain Invited a party to go with him on a trip across the Sound. About twenty accepted the invitation. The boat bad reached the mi idle of the Sound about dusk when the storm came up. For an hour or more there was a heavy gale. A grader on the’Great Northern near Edmunds saw a light bobbing on the water for an hour or so and then disappear. The boat did’ not return to Edmund-, and in the morning the shore near that place was covored with wreckage. MANY VESSELS STILL BLOCKADED. The Cardiff Employers’ Victory Not So Complete as Claimed. Although the Bute docks claim a victory in the struggle with the dockers, a considerable number of va» sels are still blockaded at Cardiff, while contributions pour in for the support of the men on strike. The shipping federation is spending large sums of money for free labor at Aberdeen with very little apparent tesuit. The free labor men generally drou away after a day or two, and many are found worthless and have to be discharged. Nevertheless the shipping federation is resolute in maintaining its principle that men shall be employed irrespective of union affiliations. AN INDIANA MURDER. Charles Coryell Shoots and Kills His Y’outliful I rother-ln-Law. A special from Seymour. Ind., says: Some time ago the wife of Charles Coryell, a weil-to-do farmer near here, left hfm and went back to ber parents to live, mean hile suing

fordivoree. : Coryell had sworn vengeance on both his wife and her father. Mr. BurdelL Coryell met his wife and her brother, Arthur Burdell, aged 17, at Beach Grove Church. He endeavored to take his little child away from his wife, a’so laying violent hands on her, whereupon young Burdell interferred in his sister’s behalf. This so incensed Coryell that he drew a pistol and fired at the young man, the ball penetrating his heart. SIX MEN DROWNED. Loss of a Raft on the Cumberland River with All on Board. . A Princeton, Ky., special says: News has just reached here of a terrible casualty on the Cumberland River a short distance from this place. Curtis Boyd, a merchant of Canton, started a raft in charge of six men for Paducah, and when only a day out they were overtaken by a terrible gale. They managed to get the raft into the bank and tie it. The high waves broke It loose from its moorings, and it drifted into midstream, where the steamer Reagan passed it. The water was then running over the raft. The men made signals of distress, but the boat fearing to go to the wreck passed by without making an effort to rescue thetn. The six men were drowned. PERISHED IN SNOW. ✓ Father Graton Sacrifices His Li'e In Trying to Keep His Appointment. The Rev. Father Graton, Catholic priest of Regina, N. W. T., was found dead five miles outside of that city. He left to assist in the elections. On the return his team gave out and Father Graton walked on, being anxious to reach Regina for services, but perished from exposure. McK’nley Tariff Suits. The attorneys of Charles Wyman & Co. appeared before Judge Thayer in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, and asked that an order be issued compelling the United States appraisers of New York to return the papers in the reappeal case of Charles H. Wyman & Co. from the appraisers’ decision and an appeal from the St. Louis port of entry. This is the case wherein the constitutionality of the McKinley bill is questioned, and Mr. Wyman sues to recover 81,481 collected under the bill. Judge Thayer took the matter under advisement.

Hanged Herself. A young girl who had been in the ladles’ waiting-room at the Union station in Pittsburg entered the lavatory. As she did not appear in a reasonable time Matron Elizabeth Kempt knocked at the door, but received no response. The door was forced open and the woman was found hanging from the gas jet, suspended by a towel around her neck. The body, yet warm, was cut down and carried to the waiting-room. Phislcians were called, but the woman was dead and the body was removed to the city morgue. Charges Her Husband with Bigamy. Ten years ago Adam Fry of Lancaster, Pa., deserted his wife and went West. Through an acquaintance she learned that he has prospered in Chicago and carries on an extensive building business She desired maintenance, put her case in the hands of (he Mayor, and an investigation disclosed the fact that her husband is again married and the father of three Children. Mrs. Fry No. 1 will take steps to have her husband arrested for bigamy. Disappearance of a Drummer. George Sperber, a drummer for a wine and liquor house of Sandusky, has disappeared at Springfield, Ohio. He made collections aggregating SIOO and took numerous orders. He frequented low dives, and four weeks ago was enticed into one and locked Into a room with two women, who tried to drug him, but failed. It is believed that he lias been enticed into a low dive and rubbed and killed. An Army Scandal, A court-martial is booked at Fort Omaha, Neb., in which, developments of a sensational character are promised, growing out of the battle of Wounded Knee and the Indian campaign, and the manner In which an officer evaded the dangers Incident thereto by securing a physician’s certificate of disability. The gallaut Caps. H. ?E. Cafley, Second Infantry, is alleged to be slated for investigation. Fled with a Chicago Woman. Fred W. Lee, head clerk of the Hotel Eastman, at Little Rock, Ark., absconded for parts unknown, and it Is alleged that quite a large sunt of money is missing from the hotel safe. The affair created a sensation, inasmuch as it was rumored that a wellknown Chicago lady, who had been a guest of the hotel for several weeks, bad accom-' panlcd Lee. Both left on the same train.

Cracked Two Depot Safes.

At Shreveport, La., three masked men took possession of the Shreveport and Houston Railway Depot. One covered the watchman with a pistol, one kept a look-out on the outside, and the third blew open the safe, from which they secured nearly §4OO. The safe in the office of tho Shreveport and Arkansas Railway was rilled of a small sum of money. Sick Legislators. Twenty-five members of the South Dakota Legislature are seriouslyVift at Sioux Falls. Two have died during the jsession, and one is reported to be beyond hope of recovery. The general ailment is pneumonia. Inadequate ventilation of the State-house, which permits of a multitude of draughts, has caused all the trouble. • « Carefully Planned Incendiarism, At Ltstowel, Ontario, incendiaries bound and gagged the night watchman at Hess Brothers’ furniture factory, and then fired the premises, which were totally destroyed. The water-works pumps and fire-alarm had been tampered with to insure the destruction of the factory. Tho loss has not yet been estimated- There is §31,000 insurance onjthe building. Brooklyn 1 abernacle I’onds. Of the $250,009 worth of bonds issued in order to take up the indebtedness and finish the new Brooklyn Tabernacle. §25,000 of the issue has been subscribed f r bv the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. Ru-sell Sage, it is said, wiil exchange his $125,000 mortgage for the same amount in bonds. Another Eyiatul (use. It is now announced that the police have discovered that Dr. Lincitrmann. of Manchester. England, whose dead body was found at San Remo some months ago, and who was supposed to have committed sui.cide. was murdered by his paramour and her lover. Kil ed by the Sight of ttloodshod. Colonel Israel Underwood, who was a spectator of the recent tragedy in Columbus, Ohio, has died. Thecnu-e of his death is remotely attributed to the shock which he received at the tragedy and exposure from attending the Coroner's inquest afterward. Brutal Mob. A mob of Polish Hebrews partially destroyed the house and stock of Hennafi Greenbaum, a eloakmaker of Jamaica,

L. 1., beat him and his wife, and fatally burned bis 4-year-old son with oil of vitriol, because they heard he was employing nonunion work-people. Not in the I’oorhouse. In the Sugar Trust investigation at New York an accountant testified that the trust had made a profit of 811,000.000. of which ten per cent, had been paid to stockholders, and that the rest is held by the constituent companies. Trouble in Hawaii. A prominent merchant from Honolulu brings news of a conspiracy, formed by Colonel Ashford, to seize the Hawaiian Government and make the Queen a mere figurehead. The scheme was similar to the one engaged in by Wilcox four years ago. Beaten and Bobbed. John E. Siefried. night operator at the Louisville and Nashville depot at Nashville, 111., was attacked by unknown parties and beaten into insensibility with a couplingpin. The contents of the money-drawer and the operator’s gold watch were taken. Storm on the Coast. A fog along the Atlantic coast, from Cape Cod to Cape Henry, seriously Interfered with the movement of shipping. A heavy thunder and rain storm prevailed at New York. Jay Gould Fined 5250. Millionaire Jay Gould was fined 8250 by Judge Martine, in Part 2 of the General Sessions at New York, for his failure to respond to the summons directing him to qualify as a juror for the March term. A Delaware Execution. Shakspeare Reeves was hanged at Newcastle, Del., for felonious assault committed upon little Grace Clark, a white girl of 11 years, near New Castle on Sept. 28. Six of the Crew Lost. News conies from Hong Kong that the American ship Vigilant, which recently arrived at that point from New York, lost six of .her crew while on the outbound passage. Fire at Madison, Wis. Fire completely destroyed the extensive agricultural and carriage warehouse and offices of the S. L. Sheldon Company, at Madison, Wis. The loss will reach $40,000. Thanked the Grand Army. General Sherman’s family has written to the head of the Grand Army, thanking the members for all tokens of respect and sympathy. The Work of a Negro. In a New York suburb a negro named Perkins sandbagged, gagged and bound a cab-driver named Farrell and then robbed his house. To Vote a la Australia. The Australian ballot bill was signed by the Governor of Nebraska and it Is now a law, having passed with an emergency clause. An Omaha Blaze. At Omaha. Neb., the printing house of Gibson, Miller & Richardson was destroyed by fire. The loss is $100,000; fully iusured. Closed by the Sheriffs The F. P. Lawrence Implement Company at Lincoln, Nob., was closed by the Sheriff, the claim of one bank amounting to $16,000. •6 . Bishop Paddock Dying. At Boston, Rt Rev. Benjamhi H. Paddock, Bishop of the Episcopal Church, is in a dying condition. Army Officer Killed. Major Vauvllot, of the Tenth Cavalry, was thrown from a wagon and killed at Hooker's Ranch, Arizona. Encouraging the Strikers. Mass meetings are daily being held throughout the Pennsylvania coke regions to encourage strikers. A Boston Loss. The works of the Samuel Hano Company, book-binders at Boston, burned, causing a loss of $69,008. No Deaconesses. The New Presbytery voted against establishing the office of deaconess in the Presbyterian Church. .. -Will Contest Ended. Thq Fayerwepther will contest at New Vork-wasi brQilght to awjudden close, all the objectforrs iikving beeir withdrawn. California to Reform. The ballot reform bill, a modification of the Australian law, has passed both houses of the California Legislature. , Wealthy Alabamian Dea l. Josiah Morris, said to be the richest banker in Alabama, died in his home at Montgomery. Tennessee Shooting. At Cumberland Gap, Tenn., Hugh Johnson and Mo-e Gibson were killed in an affray.

EDWIN B. WINANS.