Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — MADAGASCAR HORRORS. [ARTICLE]

MADAGASCAR HORRORS.

LA CRIPPE IS TERRIBLY FATAL , AT PITTSBURG. ' ' ' r “JT r .' --- -—< — Troable Abounds In Foreign Countries —A Tens Women Splits Her Husband’rHead with an Ax—General News of the World’s Doings. INHUMAN BUTCHERY AT MADAGASCAR. Two Hundred and Seventy-eight Persons Put to Death by Torture. Prompt vengeance has fallen upon Ratniasatra, Governor of the Province of Belanona, Madagascar, who massacred 278 men, women and children belonging to the leading families. Dispatches state that Ramiasatra, together with his brother, who Instigated the massacre, has been executed on the spot whera the wholesale killing took place under the cruel Governor’s directions. The populace addressed the Government, asking protection from his repeated acts of cruelty. This so enraged the Governor that he commenced to slaughter men, women and children, and continued so doing for several .days. In many cases the agoniesof the victims were protracted by the Governor’s causing their limbs to be gradually dismembered, their heads to be slowly sawed off, and by subjecting them to other acts of torture. Survivors were compelled to erect a trophy composed of the heads of the murdered people, upon a spot near the scene of the butchery. The fury of the populace was aroused, and Gov. Ramlasatra and his equally ferocious brother have mot the fate they so riehly deserved.

SCARCITY OF HEARSES. Pittsburg Undertakers Overworked to Rury the Victims. Pittsburg, Pa., undertakers cannot get enough hearses to bury the dead. The grip and diseases of the system have claimed so many victims that the funeral directors find it impossible to supply the demand for their services. In several cases wagons had to be used to convey the coffins at funerals. A double funeral took place from the residence of John Hill. It was the Interment of his two children, and the coffins were pi teed in one carriage across the seats, It being impossible to get a hearse. In Pittsburg and Allegheny there were fifty-one funerals one day. ’At the Pittsburg department of health 438 deaths were reported. In Allegheny there have been HO deaths, making a total Of 'titer CSS deaths for twenty-four days in the two cities. Tblrty-elght deaths were reported in twenty-four hours. Nearly every physician in Pittsburg is suffering from overwork caused by the grip. It is estimated that there aro now over 10,003 cases in the city.

Insolvent for Ten Years. At Louisville, the further the affairs of the Schwartz Bank, which failed, are investigated. the greater the liabilities and the smaller the assets. The investigation shows that the bank has been insolvent for ten years, since which time it has been robbing Peter to pay rani. So five the liabilities reach nearly a million, while the assets consist of nothing hut S3OO worth of mutilated currency left in the safe. T'he cashier has disappeared. The directors will bearrested on a criminal warrant. Drifted Oat to Sea. | Captain Munroe. of the schooner John G. Whittier. reports that at Re! Island, N. F., the daughter of a French woman was sliding on the ice, when It broke away from the shore. The mother put out in a dory to the rescue. On reaching the cake of ice she stepped from the dory to get the child. The dory slippel off from the ice and mother and daughter drifted to sea and were never heard from. Brained Her Husband with ail Ax. At DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas, William Watts, a plantation laborer, on arising told his wife to say her prayers as he was going to kill her as soon as he had put on his shoes. The woman, to save her own life, determined to take that of her husband, and stepping out to a wood-pile secured an ax and returning to the houso buried It in the back of his head. Ashore at Long Hrapeh. The brig Joseph Barrigan, from Jamaica.W. 1., for Havre, with logwood, went on the beach at Long Branch, N, J.,during a’dense fog. Two seamen jumped 'joverboard, and' one. Thomas Lawson, was drowned. Caps Layons says the vessel, which Is half ajeijutury.bld. and so unsea worthy that crews had refused to sail on her, had behaved badly during the voyage. Proclaimed a State of Sage. In Manicaland, South Africa, the Portuguese have proclaimed a state of siege. The siege is said to have been proclaimed by the Portuguese with a view to coercing the British subjects who have sought to establish themselves in the colony.

General Kkin Dying. Brigadier General Janies A. Ekin, of the United States army, retired,' is dying t Louisville of diseases incident to old age. He was in charge of the Government depot at Jeffersonville many years praviousto his retirement. Anti-Pinkerton I'ill Defeated. At Columbus, Ohio,, the bill prohibiting the bringing of detectives into the Slate to do police or military duty, known as the “anti-Pinkerton” bill, which recently passed the House, was defeated in the Senate.. v ,r —i j. Killed by Dissipation. James Watt, son of Millionaire Watt, of San Francisco, was found dead in a 10-cent lodging house on Chatham Square, New York. Mr. Watt was greatly addicted to the use of chloroform, and his death was the result. Her Body Found Hanging in a Barn. Kittie Detwiller. a young lady of Canton, Ohio, committed suicide in Louisville, Ohio, ■where she was visiting, Her dead body was found hanging in a barn. She was crated by la grippe Verdict in the Cincinnati Tragedy, At Cincinnati the verdict of the Coroner's jury In the ’cases of Salinger and Frankenthal was to the effect that death resulted from pistol ball wounds inflicted by themselves; the testimony did not bear out the theory that Salinger shot Frankentbal and then himself. Joined the Rebel*. A report from Buenos Ayres says that the Chilian Governors of Tultaland and Caldera have gone over to the revolutionists, and that the massacre of prisoners Is common to both parties to the struggle.