Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — Page 2

■ llje jßmocrattcSetttinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I. W. MoEWEN, - - - Potubp.

BIG NEW YORK BLAZE.

FIRE CAUSES A TWO-MILLION DOI-LAR LOSS. ' Sank -with Two Hundred SI illunn—A Father Shoots His Son—Fatal Mine Explosion—Rode on the Wind—Killed bv a Town Marshal—Ly all's Murderer Sentenced. BIG NEW YORK BLAZE. a More than 98,000,000 Worth of Property Destroyed in Five Hours. A special dispatch sent out at a late hour says; A fire that started, no one knows how. in the sub-basement of the mansard-roof brick and iron building on the southeast corner of Bleecker and Green streets, New York City, utterly ruined it. and spreading to two buildings east of it, destroyed them, as well as another in the rear that ran from Green to Mercer street. It will he classed among the largest fires ever known In the city. Over $2,000,000 worth of value

DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF THE FLAMES.

rolled skyward in smoke and flame in less than five hours. The building in which the fire originally started was owned by the Mandel Bros., real Astute men of Chicago, and was occupied by Alfred Benjamin & Co., probably the largest manufacturers of fine ready-made men’s clothing in the country. It was a stock company, composed of Isaiah Josefa, A. Hochstader, Eugene Benjamin. David Hocbstader, and specials Jesse and Samuel Koseiithal.

Sank with 1 lie Sicilians. A Gibrajtar dispatch says: The British steamship Utopia from Italian ports bound to New York with 70.) Italian emigrants aboard collided with the British ironclad llodney anchored in Gibraltar Bay and sank soon afterward off Ragged Staff. Boats were immediately lowered from the British ironclad and also from the Swedish man-of-war Freya. These boats rescued 180 persons, who are now on board the various vessels. Many others who were rescued are lodged in Government buildings on shore. It is reported that the crew of the Utopia were saved, but that over 209 passengers perished. i Captain Lyall’g Murderer Sentenced. Bhergwar, the Malay sailor who murdered Captain Lyall, of the ship Buckingham, thpee or four months ago, has been sentenced to death at LiverpooL The ship bound from Dundee to New York at the time of the murder. The Captain, a young Scotchman who had been recently married and who had his wife aboard the ship, was fatally stabbed In his cabin. The body was buried at sea, and the murderer, on the arrival of the ship at New York, was handed over to the authorities.

Shot His Son Bead. A special from Clarksville, Ark., gives the details of a terrible tragedy occurring near Hartman, which resulted in Harris Gilbert killing his son. Gilbert and a negro were engaged in a game of cards o ver which they disagreed. A quarrel ensued. Gilbert walked to his house and on return his son stepped between him and the negro to prevent the shooting. Gilbert ordered his son to get out of the way and upon his son's refusal he shot him, killing him instantly. He fled, but officers are in hot pursuit A Whirlwind Story. While James Pollock and sou were riding in a carriage from Dallas, Pa., they were overtaken by a whirlwind, and the men and carriage were lifted bodily and carried some distance and thrown against some trees. Each of them weighed above 200 pounds. They were badly injured. The whirlwind was confined to a narrow compass, and did no other damage. Buried by an A' alanclie. At Siiverton, Col., five men were burled fifty feet < eop by an avalanche. Three wero rescued alive. At Creste l Bitto. Col., three men wero killod by a snowslide; It Is not known just wl o.'e. A Fatal Explosion. A special from Ashland, I’a., says a terrific mine explosion occurred near there. Two men wero blown to atoms, another fatally injured, and others seriously hurt. Killed While Rosinting Arrest. A special from Lynnville, Tenn., says that the Town Mar.-hal, James Hellmick. shot and killod Turner Alexander while attempting to ane t. him. Telephoning lrom London to Paris. The first conversation by te ephone between London and Paris has been exchanged, and was highly successful. Exempted the Ra lroads. The Governor of Arizona signed a bill exempting from taxation for twenty years all railroads built within threa years. Kef used the Gold. The Directors of the Mint refused Heidelback, lekelheimer & Co. and Lazard Freres, of New York, $1,000,000 in gold bars for export. This is the first time in eight years that the Government has refused to allow gold bars to be taken for export. Slay Repeat the Act. Owing to opposition by Secretary Noble It to believed that Congress will repeal the act .recently passed appropriating $2,091.000 for payment to Cboctuw and Chickasaw Indians for relinquishment of Interests in the Cheyenne-Arapahoe reservation.

DISASTROUS BLAZE AT FITTSBURG. Half h Million Dollars’ Worth of Property , Destroyed by Fire. At Pittsburg. I’a., a heavy explosion of gas blew out the entire rear of the J. R. Weldin & Co. building. In a moment the entire five-story building was a sheet of flame. Every stream at the command of the city was turned on without avail, had Allegheny was called on for aid. ThA Chamber of Commerce Building across the street caught flro and both buildings were completely destroyed. The Weldon five-story building was erected at a cost of $30,000, owned by David Gregg and the Morrison heirs. Weldon’s loss on fine stationery,

BURNING OF THE FIVE STORY WELDIN BUILDING.

books, etc., occupying the entire building, is $125,000; insurance, $03,000. Loss on Germania Bank Building, $75,000; insurance, $50,000, Relneiuan’s case, saloon, and building, $50,0)0; Kornblum, optician, 810,000: Cain Bros., shoe store, $20,000. In addition to these there were other heavy losses suffered by the Dun Agency, Carnegie Bros. & Co., offices, Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, and the handsome interior of the Germania Bank, all of which will run the total loss up to half a million dollars.

W. H. CRAWFORD HANGED. Tile Murderer of Mrs. Mathias Executed at Decatur. WUllam 11. Crawford was executed in the corridor of the Macon County (Ill.) jail, in the presence of 200 witnesses. The crime for which Crawford paid tho law’s penalty was the murder of Mrs. Lina Mathias. On Aug. 25, 1890, the section was startled by the discovery of the dead body of Mrs. Mathias lying in an open field, with the throat cut from ear to ear. It was known that Crawford had been trying to foro his attentions on Mrs. Mathias, and that his advances had been repelled, tie was Immediately suspected of the crime, and a posse which started in pursuit captured him at the house of his brother-in-law, but not until he had made an attempt to end his own life by cutting his throat. Believing that his end was near Crawford confessed to the murder, and after one of the most sensational trials ever known in the county, during which the prisoner had to be constantly guarded to prevent the people from lynching him, he was sentenced to be hanged Tho condemned man was one of the most depraved criminals that ever stretched hemp. His last hours were taken up with senseless profanity and ihreuts against people against whom he had a grudge. He would not allow a minister to attend him, and resented all words of pity. He slept soundly and ate a hearty breakfast He permitted a barber to shave him, and then prepared for his walk to the gallows. He was pinioned after the death warrant was read to him by the Sheriff. Crawford walked up the gallows step without a break and took his place on the trap. He had nothing to say, and Sheriff Perl pulled the lever. He was pronounced dead in fourteen minutes, tho fall of five feet bre iking his neck. Large numbers of visiting sheriffs and county officials were witnesses to the execution.

FARMERS ARE FAVORED. Prices Tor Their Products Will Take an l’pward Turn. K. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Foreign influences have again disturbed the money market a little. But there Is more active speculation in breadstuff's, pork products and cotton, which have all advanced, and the outlook for farmers has rarely been better at this season than it is now. Of the great industries nearly all are expanding and employing labor fully, but the coke strike and other causes have produced a remarkable shrinkage in the output of Iron. Tho prospect for the building trades Is rather dull In New York, but at other cities, particularly in the West, It Is remarkably bright. The wool manufacture Is doing remarkably well, though tho prices of goods do not advance; the mills engaged on dress goods and knit, goods are especially active, and the worsted works are on full time, with fair prospects. In the boot and shoo Industry shops are all fairly employed. West of Chicago heavy snows and bad weather have had much Influence, impeding the lumber trade. Reports from the entire South are a shade better, because cotton has recovered slightly in price. The business failures occurring during the last seven days number for the United States 231), and for Canada 34, or a total of 273. as compared with a total of 205 last. week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 252.

FIRE IN' AN INSANE A-YLUM. Six of tho Patients l urned tv Death and Many ot Them Escape. Fire broke out at the Central Insane Asylum, seven miles from Nashville. Tenn. It started in the rear of the male wing, which was destroyed. There were twenty-eight patients iu the whig and six of them were burned to death. The other patients were taken to the main hall and placed under guard. The fire spread to tho main building, causing a panic among the patients, many of whom escaped. Gov. Buchanan ordered out the State militia to help recapture them. The Governor himself went to the fire.

DRIVEN TO SUICIDE. Sensaionai Letter Left by Mrs. L, E. Reinhold, of Indianapolis. At Indianapolis, an afternoon paper received through the mail the following letter: “When thfai readies you I will be out of this world. I could not stand it. I had a bad. low husband, Who beat and cursed me and tried to make me believe I was not virtuous. I could not stand It.” At the street number where tills was written Mrs. Kate Reinhold, tho young and attractive wife of L. E. Reinhold, a lawyer, was found dead. HEAVY LOSSES AT SYRACUSE. More than 91,000.000 Damage Done by Two Terrible Fires. ' Two destructive C ’M&iiugiiitlons occurred at Syracuse, N. Y... tons aggregate lo&s approaching Si,200,00(1. only half covered by insurance. At Ca. r.i. fire broke out In the Hogan Block m West Fayette street and destroyed not only the Hogan Building but alFqj> the Ayers, Cahill, Solomon, Kauffman and Fay blocks and the historic dwellings formerly occupied by Mayor WHliston. While the first fire was still raging, another

broke out in the Roscoe Building on Washington street. The carried the flames into the Montgomery flats and from thence Into the Journal office and the Yates Block. Aiflstetance was summoned from Utica, Oswego and Baldwinsville, and by the heroic efforts of the firemen the flames were oonflned to the above buildings. Both the Vanderbilt and Candee houses had narrow escapes from destruction. The total -losses on the Fayette street fire foot up $457,003, on which there was $225,000 of insurance. In the Washington street blaze the losses amounted to $635,000, partially covered by $300,000 insurance.

A KENTUCKY ATROCITY. A Family Is Poisoned Over a Dispute About 917. At Mount Sterling, Ky., a mob came near lynching the Wigginton family, composed of John Wigginton and his four sons, for the poisoning of William Ferguson and R. C. Watts, his sons-in-)aw, both of whom died, and Miss Boyd, a grand-diughter of Ferguson’s, who is still in a critical condition. The Wlggintons were suspected, and after arrest the' boys, the youngest of whom is only 10 years old, confessed. Their father bought 10 cents' worth of arsenic, and sent two of his sons to Ferguson’s house. One of them slipped into the kitchen and put the arsenic in the coffee-pot after supper. Next morning the cold coffee was used with fresh coffee, and the family was poisoned. The Wlggintons and Wattses had raised tobacco together last year, and there was a dispute between them about sl7 of the proceeds. On this account the Wlggintons wanted to kill Watts.

THE 101 WERE WINNERS. Gen. John M. Palmer Is Chosen United States Senator. There have been few more prolonged or more sternly contested Senatorial struggles than the one just closed in Illinois, whereby John M. Palmer is chosen United States Senator. On the 154th ballot his 101 supporters were joined by Moore and Cockrell, F. M. B. A. members, thus electing him by the exact number necessary, 103. Cicero J. Lindley, President of the F. M. B. A., received 100 Republican votes, and Taubeneck voted for Streeter. The closing scenes of the joint assembly were thrilling in tho extreme. Wildly enthusiastic members created a pandemonium around others who were so ill that they had to be carried in and out on couches. Triple Fatality on the Reading Road. Another disastrous wreck occurred on the Reading Road, through the precipitation of the engine and four freight cars over a sixty-foot stone wall into the creek at Mainville, I’a.. crushing Engineer James Fisher to death, drowning Fireman John Wood, and so mutilating Brakeman Clinton Harper that he died a few hours later. The train was running at a rapid rate, and it Is supposed that the engine struck a beambrake dropped from a preceding train and displacing the switch.

Shot hy Her Playmate. At Bridgeport. Conn., Lizzie Cook, four years old. was shot in the bead by a playmate of her own age. Tho children were playing in the bed-room of Mrs. Ellen Cook, mother of the girl, and in a bureau drawer they found an old sClf-cocking revolver. Tho two grappled for Us possession, and the boy got it. He pointed it at Lizzie’s head and the weapon was discharged. Charged with Murder. Mrs. Ida Elder, a handsome young woman of 22, was locked up at New Castle, Pa., on a charge of murdering her stepmother, Mrs. Levi Repman, nearly two .years ago. Mrs. Repman died at Wampum. In July, 1889, after a brief Illness, presumably of heart disease. Evidence has now been obtained, it is claimed, to show that Mrs. Elder gave her rat poison, pretending that it was medicine.

Death by Electricity. • The United States Supreme Court advanced the New York electrocution case of Wood vs. Brush, and set It down for argument on the first Monday of April next. In tho Juglro case, a now qitatipn was ordered to be Issued directing the counsel for the prisoner to come Into court on the same day Wood’s case is to be beard, when argument will be proceeded with. The Grip in Minneapolis. La grippe claimed Its first victim In Minneapolis, Minn., this winter In tho person of Thomas Callahan, an aged gentleman from Ohio. La grippe, or rather that which most people designate as such, prevails to an extent which has caused much uneasiness. A careful estimate places the number of cases in that city at fully ten thousand. Dervishes Killed In an Explosion. A terrible disaster occurred at the arsenal of Omdurman, Egypt. From the reports received it appears that about one hnndred dervishes were killed by an explosion there which destroyed immense stores of ammunition and shattered the arsenal building and everything in the immediate neighborhood. Slew a Woman. An atrocious murder was committed at Caldwell, Noble County, Olilo. Elmer Johnson, while Intoxicated, went to the store of Joseph Graham. Mrs. Graham was in the store and slio ordered Johnson to go away. Johnson turned upon her and stabbed her in the neck. The woman died in five minutes.

Many Finns Burned Out. Through tho carelessness of a boy the five-story brick building at Nos. 103 to 107 Fulton street, Chicago, with all its contents and several adjoining buildings, was destroyed by fire. It is estimated that the loss will be over $150,000; partially insured. The building was owned by the Atlas Manufacturing Company. Killod lif n Texas Woman. / At Corpus Christ!, Tex.. Mrs. John Dunn’s bouse was robbed. Arming herself with a Winchester, she proceeded to follow up a Mexican man whom she suspected of the crime. She found him encamped about half a mile from, town. When he saw her lie attacked her v*fth an ax. whereupon she drew a bead on him and killed him instantly. Found a Fortune ill an Old Coat. When Judge H. M. Cooley, of St. Paul, Minn., died it was supposed that lie died penniless, but bis son picked up an old coat be bad been In the habit of wearing. Hearing something rattle, ho ripped open the lining and discovered 59.700 in certificates of deposit and bank bills of large denominations. Railroad Hill Passed. The bill providing for the construction of a broad gauge railroad from Salt Lake City through Nevada, by .way of Beckwith Pass, to the seaboard, passed the California Assembly. * Italy Protests. Baron de Fava In a dispatch to Marquis Di Minister, states that be has protested against the inaction of the local officials in New Orleans, and that Mr. Blaine, the

American Secretary of State, expressed horror at .the acts of the New Orleans mob, f promising that he would immediately make the orders of the President in the matter 'and that the decision would be communicated to the Italian Government.

The Newfoundland Fisheries. The text of the convention between England and France respecting Newfoundland, which has been signed by Lord Salisbury and M. Waddington, provides that the commission to which the matter is* referred may, after settling the lobster question, be asked to examine subsidiary fishery questions. Fatal How at a Texas Dance. A dispatch from Houston, Texas, says that while Officer Janies E. Tenn was attempting to arrest two negroes in a dancehouse for carrying concealed weapons, he was shot and instantly killed, and a bystander named Frank Michaels was mortally wounded. The negroes escaped. Two Sad Suicides. At Baltimore General Isaac B. Moore killed himself while despondent At Virginia, Neb., Bella Preusch, aged 15, shot and mortally wounded herself because she had been suspended from school for thirty days for alleged misbehavior. First Boat of the Season. The City of Betroit, the first boat of the season, passed Colchester, Ont., on her way from Detroit to Cleveland, taking the south passage in order to avoid the large fields of ice which block the north channel.

Ashore on Homers Shoal. At New York the entire crew of the Italian bark Unberto Prince, which was ashore on Homers Shoal, was rescued. The bark is going to pieces fast and will probably be a total loss. An Entire Family Poisoned. At Martinsville. Ind., the family of Edward Moore, a farmer, were taken suddenly ill. A physician who was called found that they bad been poisoned. Two of the children will die. Instructions Issued. The Brazilian Government has issued instructions to its revenue officials regarding the admission of American goods under the reciprocity treaty. Killed in Ohio. At Navarro, Ohio, Postal Clerk W. T. McLean leaped from a train that became derailed and was running on the ties, and was disemboweled. The Fat Contributor Dea l. A, Miner Griswold, widely known as “The Fat Contributor,” editor of Texas Siftings, died suddenly of apoplexy at Sheboygan Falls, Wis.

A Bud Mail Gone. John Wilder, a noted desperado and illicit whisky dealer, was killed by a United States Marshal’s posse at Cumberland Gap, while resisting arrest. Liquor Salesman Shoots. At Columbus, Ind., Lambert N. Goldsmith shot and mortally wounded R. S. Skillman. -Both were salesmen for Louisville liquor houses. Ferocious Bull and Dogn. John E. Carr was killed by a bull at Haverhill, Mass., and Birdie Miller, a school-girl, was fatally bitten by two dogs at Friedensberg, Pa. Wheat Supply Decreased. The supply of wheat in Dakota and Minnesota elevators is 21,091,659 bushels, a decrease for the week of 245,916 bushels. About the Immigration Bureau. Congress at its last session created a Bureau of Immigration, but failed to appropriate any money for its maintenauce. Noted Desperado Captured. John Mooney, the noted desperado, was captured while sitting in his mother's house at Wheeling, W. Va. Bank Failure at Williamsport, Fa. The private bank of F. R. Wood & Co., at Williamsport, Pa., has closed its doors. No statement has yet been liven out. They Call It Treason. The Dominion Government is said to contemplate the prosecution of some of tho prominent annexationists for treason. Collision or Freight Trains. Freight trains on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern collided near South Bend, Ind., causing a loss of $40,000. Attempted Double Murder. At Coshocton, Ohio, James Chaney,. Jr,, cut liis own and his wife’s thro'at. Both may recover. Ex-Gov. Koliiusou 111. Ex-Gov. Lucius Robinson is lying very dangerously ill at his home in Elmira, N. Y. He is in bis 81st. year. Bishop Haddock Dying. At Boston, Rt. Rev. Benjamin IT. Paddock. Bishop of tho Episcopal Church, is in a dying condition.

THE MARKETS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3.25 @ 6.00 Hoos— Shipping Grades 8.00 @ 4.00 Sheep.. 3.00 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 100 @ 101 Corn—No. 2 60 @ ‘.61 Oats—No. 2 50 @ 51 rte—No. 2 ;; ; 90 @ Butter—Choice Creamery 28 @ .32 . Cheese—Full Cream, flats 11 @ ,12 Eoos-Fresh 15>$@ .'l6‘4 Potatoes—Western, per bu 1.00 @ 110 INDIANAPOLIS. ' Cattle-Shipping 3.50 @ 5.00 Hoos—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.00 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 525 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.00 ’as 1 01 Corn—No. 1 White 59 @ 'gj Oats—No. 2 White 52 @ [53 * ST. LOUIS. Cattle 4.00 <a 5.25 Hogs.... .... 3.(0 @4.00 Wheat—No. 2 lied 93 @i 00 Corn—No. 2 57 @ . 58 Oats—No. 2 49 @ .59 Barley—Minnesota 74 @ 75 CINCINNATI. Cattle..; 3.00 @5.00 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 Sheep 3.90 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Rod 1.02 @1.0214 Corn—No.2 62 @ .63 Oats—No 2. Mixed 53'..@ .5414 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 Hcgs 3.00 @ 4.00 Sheep 3.00 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 lied 1.93 @ 1.01 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 02 @ .62)4 Oats—No. 2 White 54 @ 55 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.03 @ 1.04 Corn—Cash 60 @ ,ei Oats—No. 2 White 52!4@ .53)4 Clover Seed 4.55 *@ 4,60 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 @ 5.60 Hogs—Light 3.25 @ 4.25 Shefp—Medium to Good 4.03 @ 6.25 Lambs 4. 50 @ 6.50 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring .90 @ .98 Corn—No. 3 68 @ .60 Oats—No. 2 White 51 @ .52 Rye—No. 1 92 @ .93 Barley—No. 2.., 67 @ .68 Pork—Mes6 U.OO @11.25 NEW YORK. CATTLE 4.00 @5.75 Hogs 3.25 @ 4.00 Sheep 5.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.14 @ j.if Corn—No. 2 73 @ .74 Oats—No. 2 White...; 57 @ .58 Butter—Creamery 21 @ .32 Eggs—Western 18 @ .19 Pork—New Mess 11.75 @12.25

MASSACRED THE MAFIA.

ELEVEN MEN KILLED BY A NEW ORLEANS MOB. Terrible Scenes of Blood Enaeted by the Enraged Populace—A Verdict of Acquittal of the Accused Mafia Too Much for the Creseent.Clty—Many of Its Leading Citizens Lead In the Revengeful Mission of Death. Eighty thousand infuriated citizens rose up in their fierce wrath at New Orleans and wreaked summary vengeance on the men whom they considered guilty of the murder of Police Chief Hennessey. The excitement throughout the city over the miscarriage of justice in the case of the alleged Sicilian assassins leaped beyond all restraint. The parish prison was surrounded, the doors burst open and the Sicilian assassins taken

DAVID C. HENNESSEY, THE MURDERED CHIEF OF POLICE.

out and lynched. Some were shot; the others were hanged. Joseph Macheca. Manuel'Politz. Antonio Mabchesi, who is not dead, but mortally wounded. Antonio Bagnetto. Eocco Gebuci. James Cabuse Lobetto Comitez. PIETBO MONASTEBO. Loins .Tbahina. Fbank Romebo. Charles Irlennl and Soreto Conitz, who were charged with complicity in the murder of Hennessey, but who have not been tried, were also killed in their cells. The boy Marches!, Matranga Incerdona, who had been acquitted, were spared. The verdict of the jury, acquitting six of the accused prisoners and reporting a disagreement as to three others, was received with general disaproval and rage and for a time it was apprehended that an attempt would be made to wreak vengeance upon the prisoners at once, but this was averted for the time. Tho evening newspaper extras were filled with intimations that the jury had been corrupted. It was asserted that not less than $75,000, and probably as much as SIOO,OOO, was contributed by Italians all over tho country for a defense fund. Thousands of dollars, it was said, came from Chicago and New York, and farm laborers were' taxed $3 a head. These statements only served to infuriate the enraged populace still more, and as a consequence a call appeared in the papers, signed by one hundred prominent citizens, for a mass meeting to assemble at the Clay statue “td take steps to remedy the failure of justice in the Hennessey case.” “Come nrepared for action,” was tho concluding injunction in the call.

The mob congregated at the Clay statue in broad daylight. Mr. Parkerson spoke first. He said that he faced the people of New Orleans to denounce the most infamous act which was consequent upon tho most revolting crime in the criminal annals of any community. That act was the finding of the jury in the murder trial and that crime was, as everybody knew, the foul assassination of the chief of police. “I desire neither fame nor name nor glory,” said Mr. Parkerson. “I am a plain American citizen, and as such and as a gpod citizen I am here. ” The' crowd was yelling itself hoarse.

A. MATRANGA, ALLEGED CHIEF OF THE CONSPIRATORS.

Fury ungovernable was evident throughout that Immense assemblage, w;hich by that time numbered fully eighty thousand people. “Shall you protect yourself?” “Yes.” “Self-preservation is the first law otf nature!” “This is tho time for action, not talk!” “Come on, Wycliffc!” “Come on, I'arkerson!” “We are ready!”—were some of the cries which escaped from the throng. Sheriff Villere was not at the prison when the multitude reached there. He was hunting the Mayor in order to have the police ordered out. Attorney General Rogers also hunted up the Mavor, as did the Italian Consul, but they were unable to find him, and the work was done before the Mayor or the Governor could interfere. The parish prison was reached. The wooden door on Marais street was broken in with a large billet of wood used as a catapult and heavy rocks were also poured against it. No material resistance was offered by the police or the Sheriff to the work of the citizens, who were armed with shot-

PETER MASTERS. THE COBBLER OF GIROB STREET, IN WHOSE BUILDING THE ASSASSINS LAY IN AMBUSH.

guns and pistols, and who represented not only the humbler classes but the most prominent bankers, citizens, merchants, and professional men in New Orleans. A wagon filled with police dashed up to the scone, but they were driven away amid a shower of mud and did not seem anxious to charge the crowd. The Sheriff’s deputies found that resistance was useless. When apprised of the approach of the mob the prison officials transferred the Italians from the male to female de-

partment of the prison, and when th&‘ armed men who got on the inSide of the jail found them the prisoners rkn down into the yard below. They begged and pleaded for mercy,*but for so mb of them there was no mercy at the handslof these outraged citizens. When the prisoners reached the yard they tried to seek places of safety, but there was none to be found and the shotguns belched forth and the slayers of Hennessey fell dead in their tracks. Macheca, the arch conspirator, crouched down in a corner with his hands* before his face and’ screamed. A dozen bullets entered his body and he pitched head foremost on the* Atone pavement, dead. In the great 7 confusion it was difficult to ascertain who had been killed. . While the work of vengeance was going on inside, a crowd of men came out. of the jail with the crazy assassin Politz. Some one had a rope, and as the miserable- Italian was rushed ta the corner the line was thrown over an arm of a postand Politz was drawn up in the air, but before he strangled to death a dozen, shots out-and the body was riddledwith bullets. Then on the other side of the prisonBagnetto, one of the assassins, wasbrought out already in the throes of death from a bullet wound in the .head. A rope was thrown over the limb ot atree, and he, too, was hoisted in the air. His face, covered as it was with blood, presented a horrible sight as the brains oozed forth. Police Officer Herron, who was in the prison, was shot in the neck, and he is the only one outside the prisoners whosuffered. After the work was done Mr.' Parkerson addressed the dense mob of citizensand advised, them to disperse. They frantically applauded, and when he finished carried him bodily on their shoulders. The multitude participating in .the avenging work then marched toCanal street shouting and waving handkerchiefs in the air. Mass meetings of infuriated Italians

SCENE OUTSIDE THE PR[?]SON.

aro being held throughout tho country* and it is feared that the end is not yet

SENATORS FROM NEW STATES.

The Men .Chosen by South Dakota and Idaho to Reprose it Them. South Dakota has selected J. H. Kyle to take the place of Mr. Moody in the United States Senate. He was chosen as| a compromise candidate by a combiuation of Farmers’ Alliance men and Democrats. The new Sena-

SENATOR J. H. KYLE.

came fiut In 1882. He officiated as pastor of a church in Salt Lake City. He went to Dakota five years ago, and is now Financial Secretary of Yankion College. He has taken an active part in politics, and served a term it, the Dakota Senate. Judge William Clagett, the newly elected Senator from Idaho, is likely to have a hard road to travel, owing to the circumstances of his election. The Legislature first elected three instead of two Senators. McConnell and Shoup were elected to fill the long and the short terms and Dubois for that which has just begun. Since then the friends of Judge Clagett effected a coalition with the Democrats a"d elected him in the place of Dubois. Ihe election of Dubois is considered by Senator Edmunds to be legal and

it is probable that the question of the legality of Clagett’s election will be raised! 1 Judge Clagett is a native of Maryland, but has been in the West since 1850. He? was elected delegate to' Congress from Mom 'tana in 1871, defeating the present Governor, t t r rn ‘ t _ i

J. K. Toole, by 481 liam clagett. votes. He has resided in Montana, Navada, Dakota and Idaho. He is a lawyer, but is interested in mining. The Mormons, who have influence in Idaho, supported him against Dubois.

Lots of Timber Jet.

Says a Western lumberman: “The signing of a contract for 600,000,000 feet of pine in Minnesota should serve as a reminder that the fear of American forests giving out is far from being an imaginary one. I have been handling lumber by the 10,000 feet for two-thirds-of a lifetime, but the figures in this deal took me by surprise, and it. wa3 some lime before I could realize them. The supply of lumber in the North is steadily giving out, as the figures for Michigan in particular show. Ten years ago the annual output or product was just about the sizo of the greatMinnesota contract for single companies, but the aggregate totals for 1890' barely reached these figures. We’are lavish and extravagant with our lumber now, but at the present rate of consumption there will be precious little left to consume a quarter of a century hence, even making allowance for. what we can draw from Mexico after Mr. Blaine’s reciprocity treaty has been drafted and signed.” It is with a seat in a street car as with, a riddle—one dislikes to give it up.

tor is only 38 years, of age, and began life as a Congregational minister. He was born at Xenia, Ohio, and graduated in his twentieth year from Oberlin College in 1873. He then studied theology in the Western Theological Seminary at •Allegheny, Pa., and

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