Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — DEPEW IS INDICTED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEPEW IS INDICTED.

THE RAILWAY MAGNATE BEFORE A GRAND JURY. Italy Mav Firht —Lake Steamer Goes Down Leprosy Spreading in British Columbia—Danger of a Flood in the I Ohio Valley. BIG MEN INDICTED. The Grand Jury Holds the Railroad Directors Accountable. The New York Grand Jury has returned an indictment against the officers and directors of the New York and New Haven Railway Company for a misdemeanor in permitting the use of car stoves on the trains of the company for the purposes of heating them. The Indictment recites that on Feb. 20, while Charles P. Clark was the President and a dMM>r of the company, and . Chauncey M-wepew, Wilson G. Hunt. E. H. Trowbridgigtaf. D. Bishop, Nathaniel Wheeler, H. U. 'Robinson, E. M. Reed, James Park, H. S. Lee, William Rockefeller, and Leveret Brainard, were directors of the company, they ordered the use of stoves in the cars of the company against the law; that on that day in a collision between two trains of the company in the Fourth avenue tunnel the stoves communicated fire to the

carajßhd caused the death of one or more persons who were passengers on the company’s cars. The Indictment states that the law distinctly forbids the use of stoves upon railway trains within the boundaries of New York State, and that the persons named above are therefore guilty of 'a misdemeanor. The announcement of the indictment did not cause much surprise, because the- Coroner’s jury held the Directors responsible for the fatalities of the collision of Feb. 20. The lowest penalty for the offense for which the officials are Indicted is a $1 fine and the highest 8500 fine and one year’s Imprisonment in the penitentiaryKEAN’S INDICTMENT TURNED IN. The Banker Is Notified, and Gives Bail in the Sum of 85,000. The grand jury turned in the long-ex-pected Indictment against Banker S. A. Kean, of Chicago, and according to the agreement with the State’s Attorney Mr. Kean was at once notified by messenger. The indictment is not long, and simply charges embezzlement according to the language of the statutes, in having accepted deposits of money from W. W. Royer within thirty days of the failure of his bank, the same being in law prlnri facie evidence of an attempt to defraud. Kean came into court and gave ball in the sum of $5,080, with J. B. Hobbs and Joseph M. Kean as sureties. BARON FAVA RECALLED. The Italian Government Dissatisfied About the New Orleans Affair. Baron Fava, tho Italian minister, has been recalled from the United States by his Government on account of dissatisfaction in connection with the New Orleans affair. Baron Fava called at the State Department and withdrew his passport and other papers. The affairs of the Italian legation are now temporarily in charge of Marquis Imperial!, who has authority to transact current business only. It is reported from Rome that eighteen Americans have been arrested there and held as hostages. Leprosy Is Spreading. Ottawa (Ont.) special: The medical inen detailed to Investigate the cases of leprosy recently discovered at Victoria have pronounced it of the Oriental type. Immediate steps will be taken to hunt up the afflicted Chinamen and return them to China. It is stated that within the past year the scourge has made great headway in the Pacific Province, and that it has reached a point that will imperil the settlement of British Columbia unless the government take immediate steps to wipe it out.

Danger of a Flood. A break is reported iu one of the embankments of the Mercer County reservoir, situated just above Celina. Ohio, and the people In the immediate neighborhood have abandoned their homes in alarm. The reservoir contains 33,000 acres of water, and is located at a considerable elevation above the surrounding country. The heavy rains have brought the surface of the water to the top of the embankment, and a serious inundation is threatened. i Another War in Prospect. A dispatch says that rumors of war between Hayti and San Domingo are current The old dispute, the boundary line question, is the cause of the strained relations of the two countries. The domlnican representative at Port au Prince has teen recalled and diplomatic intereoursj has ceased. Big Fteamer Goes Down. Detroit. Mich., special: The big steel sidewheel passenger steamer City of Detroit, which left this port on her regular trip for Cleveland!, struck a rock at the Limekiln Crossing, teeing a great hole In her bottom. The boat was run near the Canada shore, where she sunk, the water being above the main deck. To Succeed Huston. A special from Washington says the latest rumor about the Treasurership is that the name of E. 11. Nebecker, of Fountain County. Indiana, is being considered for the place. Mr. Nebecker is a local politician of some means, who has served as a member of the Republican State Central Committee. The Dedicatory Speech. Ex-Governor Foraker has accepted an invitation to deliver the address at the dedication of the monument to the Andrews raiders at Chattanooga. May 30.

THE WEEK OF TRADB. SfetSo Satisfactory as < Wished, but with Better Prospects. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Trade has been rather quiet and hesitaring, as is natural at this season, and there is rather more complaint of slow collections, but throughout the Northwest bad weather and the bad state of country roads supply an explanation. Money is in fair and Increasing supply, and though still tight at Salt Lake and scarce at Jacksonville, and in stronger demand at Omaha and Milwaukee, is almost everywhere easier, so that the wants of legitimate business are met without trouble. The outlook for the coming crops continues exceptionally good. Wheat rose to f 1.16%, and at $1.15% is still 2 cents higher than a week ago, sales here having been 73,000,000 bushels. and corn with sales of 73,000,000 bushels, and corn with sales of 35,000.000 bushels has risen 4% cents to 78% cents, while oats at 59% cents are less thanl cent higher. Pork products have advanced, and coffee and oil a small fraction each, while cotton Is a sixteenth lower The general average of prices reached its highest point this year, and though now a fraction lower is still 1 per cent, above last week. But manufactured products do not share in the advance, except in a few cases. The iron market has a better tone. Copper is weaker, tin steady, with lead a shade higher. Wool is selling steadily at Boston, and the very large consumption of Australian is a surprise. Carpet works at Philadelphi are fairly busy.

MURDERED BY REDSKINS. An Indian Boy Tells How His Father Killed a White Man and Woman. In the Federal Court at Paris, Tex., testimony has been given showing that double murder has been committed in the Choctaw Nation by' Tonrtcss Williams, a full-blood Choctaw. A white man stopped at the house < f Jackson Baptiste. He was accompanied by a woman. The Baptistes directed him tq John Williams. Tomless Williams is John Williams’ son, and Ellis Williams, a boy of 12, is the latter's sou. Ellis says that about sunset the man and woman reached his grandfather's and stayed all night. The man and woman left next morning, going toward Tomless' place. Later the boy and his grandfather went over toward T< roless’ farm, and there found the.woman, but not the man. The woman was crying. Tomless made the boy mount his pony, put the woman up behind him, and started them up the mountain, John and Tomless following with guns. On the mountains the boy was made to dismount and take the woman into the woods. At this the boy began crying again, and Tomless shot the woman in the head. She fell on the edge of a gully, into which they rolled her body, and piled rocks on it. Later they found the body of the man, shot in the forehead in a gully, and also covered with stones.

THE KANSAS CITY MEETING. A List of Speakers Chosen for the Western Commercial Congress. At the meeting in Kansas City, of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Congress of the Western States the following speakers and subjects for discussion were agreed upon: “Improvement of Waterways," General T. J. Henderson, of Illinois, and Newton C. Blanchard, of Louisiana; “Reciprocity," Don M. Dickinson of Michigan, Ben Butterworth, and J. C. Burrows of Michigan; “The Coinage Question,” General A. J. Warner, of Ohio; “Agricultural Depression and the Remedy,” J. J. Ingalls. of Kansas; “The Promotion of Manufacturing Interests,” Maj. Wm. McKinley, Jr. of Ohio; “Taxation,” C. R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, John H. Gear, of lowa, and Chas. Stewart, of Texas; “Immigration and Settlement of Unoccupied Lands.” Gilbert A. Pierce, of North Dakota, and J. M. Thurston; “Union Commercial Laws." Judge J. L. Torrey, of St. Louis, author of the Torrey bankrupt bill; “Railway Transportation,” George R. Peck, of Topeka; “Legislation as Affecting Commerce,” General Who Her. of Alabama: “Irrigation of Arid Lands.” T. C. Henry, of Denver, and John Jay, of Junction City. Kan. Among the others who will t.e present are General David Henderson, of lowa, and Benton McMillin, of Tennessee. SHOT AT GENERAL ROCA. A Buenos Ayres Youth Fires at the Prime Minister of the Republic. A special dispatch from Buonos Ayres says that the city is greatly excited over an attempt made Saturday afternoon on the life of General Roca, Prime Minister of the republic. After a Cabinet meeting, General Roca, accompanied by a friend. Don Gregoro Soler, entered his carriage and proceeded on his way homeward. As they passed Calle Cangalle a shot was heard and General Roca at once stopped the carriage and said: “My God, lam wounded.” A great crowd surrounded the Carriage and the police made twenty arrests. Among them was a boy, from 12 to 14 years of age, who said he was out of employment, and. being convinced that General Roca was the cause of the ruin of the country, he decided to kill him.

HALF A DOZEN JURY-BRIBERS. The New Orleans Grand Jury Will Return ■ everul Indictments. The New Orleans Grand Jury will return a half-dozen indictments against O’Malley and others. These will be all brought in together, so as to lay the whole business of the perversion of justice before the court at once. There are also a number of persons of whose guilt the jury is morally convinced but cannot obtain direct evidence sufficient to indict. Their names probably will be mentioned in a special report, which will have all the effect of an indictment upon the public mind. The. parish prison raid will not be taken up until afterward. Very little sleep is being lost over that portion of the case. If anybody should be indicted it will be because there is direct evidence of their participation in the attack, and there is very little of that sort of testimony. DEATH FOR THEIR CRIME s Two Pennsylvania Murderers Perish on the Gallows. At Wilkesbarrc, Pa.. George Washington Moss was hanged. Moss walked to the gallows smiling, with a firm and fearless pace. He said: “God does not hold me responsible for the murder of my wife, and I do not hold myself responsible. I die like a soldier, with a smile.” Death ensued in eleven minutes. Moss murdered his wife Rhoda on the night of Oct. 10, 1889. At Mauch Chunk, Pa., the jail was crowded to witness the hanging of Oliver William Stangley. His neck was broken; and he died without a struggle. THREE TRAINMEN KILLED. A Reading Freight Hurled Over an Embankment with Disastrous Effect. While a freight train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was ascending the grade from Locust Summit, Pa., the locomotive jumped the track near Barry Station and rolled down the embankment, carrying with it thirty-two freight cars. Engineer Andrew Walker and Fireman John Oches, also Frank Myers, a passenger engineer, who was riding to his home at Tamaqua, were ' instantly killed. Conductor William A. Hoffa and Brakeman Lewis

Cockart and Jacob Yanancer were very seriously injured, the former perhaps fatally. The cause of the wreck is attributed to tbe spreading of the rails. KILLED IN A MINE Four Men at Lyons, Kas.. Meet a Sudden and Shocking Death. A terrible accident occurred In the Rock Salt Company’s mine at Lyons, Kansas. Four men were descending in a bucket when the traveler beam, neighing 000 pounds, was stopped by an accumulat on of snow on the guides, and then was suddenly freed and went tearing down the shaft on the men, who by that time had descended about 400 feet. The men were crushed Into a shapeless mass and were only identified by their clothing. One was decapitated and every bone in the four bodies was splintered. The killed were Thomas Beach, Nelson Van Brocklln, Thos. McCandless, and Fred. Miller. Beach came recently from Marissa, 111.

SAILORS DROWNED. Heavy Loss of Life by the Wreck of a British Steam-r. The steamer which went ashore a mile below Chlcamfcomico Life Saving Station, on the North Carolina coast, is the British steamship Straithairly, bound front Santiago de Cuba to Baltimore. Out of a crew of tw?nty-six nineteen were lost, including all the officers except the second mate. The steamer will be a total loss. Shot Into a Colored School. A brutal attempt at wholesale murder was made at New Zion Church, near Liberty. Miss., at a school examination and concert given at the Parson Hill school house, where Miss Ida Dixon, colored, had just closed a session of the public school for colored children. While the teacher and her pupil's jjvere singing for the entertainment of a large audience of colored people and quite a number of white persons, and the improvised auditorium was crowded with teachers, pupils and spectators, a double-barreled shot-gun. heavily charged with shot, was fired into the assemblage by some unknown miscreant, wounding, it is said, fourteen persons, some of them seriously, others slightly. The assassin has not been discovered.

Pleasure Seekers Mangled. At Birmingham. Ala., a disastrous w reck occurred on the Ensley City Dummy Line. A train heavily loaded with pleasure seekers, and going at a rapid rate, ran off the track about live miles from town from no apparent cause, and fell down an embankment about ten feet. A. L. Brown and Bob Taylor, two negro passengers, were instantly killed. Alf Rigsby, the engineer, was caught under the engine and horribly crushed. The engineer was trying to make up time. Bitter Fight of Miners. Strikers to the numler of nearly 1,000 attacked Frick’s coke works, at Morewcod, Pa. They destroyed some coke ovens and railway track and broke windows in several houses. Several of the raiders were arrested and taken to Greensburg jail. Riots are also reported at Leisenring and Leith, and considerable property destroyed. There Is great excitement throughout the coke country and serious trouble is apprehended. Combination Never Proposed. The newspapers of Berlin dismiss the reported interview which the Marquis de Villeneuve says took place in 1866 between the late Prince Napoleon and Prince Bismarck, at which the latter Is s ild to have proposed a combination of France and Prussia against Russia and the rest of Europe, as being a piece of absolute fiction evident from the fact that Prince Napoleon was not even in Berlin in 1866. Burlington Flyer Wrecked. Near Sutton, Neb., the flyer on the Burlington Road crashed into the rear of a stock train while running at the rate of fifty miles an hour. It was snowing hard at the time and the flyer had two engines pushing a snow-plow. The second engine was thrown twenty-five feet to the side of the track and fell on its site, crushing and instantly killing Engineer Roberts, of Plattsmouth. A Brutal Schoolmaster. At Norwalk, Ct., Professor R. H. Dumbart, of the East Norwalk School, severely whipped Richard Hendricks, one of his pupils, and will have to answer for it in court. The Professor beat him severely about the body with a ruler. The boy was carried to his home by his classmates. Professor Dumbart, it is said, lost a lucrative position in Brooklyn on account of his treatment of the scholats.

Killed in a Gambling Den. A row occurred at a gambling house called the “White House,” at Covington. Neb., in which John Payson, a saloonkeeper, and “Doc” Middleton. a gambler, were fatally injured. Payson had lost S4OO, and accused “Stub” Wilson of stealing his hat. Both were armed, and the row began. Payson had his skull fractured so that he died. Middleton was shot through the body and will die. A Mine Foreman Brutally Assaulted. D. M. Jones, for many years inside foreman at the Glen Lyon collieries of the Susquehanna Coal Company, located near Nanticoke, Pa., was met on the highway-while on his way home, by a band of masked men, who knocked him down and kicked him in a brutal manner. Believing they had killed him he was left lying on the roadway. A Murderess Confesses. Mrs. Francis Calkins, who is on trial with Frank Hendrix for the murder of her husband at Elkhart last April, has turned State’s evidence and made a full confession of the crime. This, coupled with other strong evidence adduced by the prosecution, has made the case look almost hopeless for Hendrix, who still stoutly maintains his innocence. Not to the Pen. The verdict of the lower court in the case of The People against James J. West has been reversed and remanded by the Illinois Supreme Court. West was charged with fraudulently issuing stock of the Chicago Tinres C unrany, found guilty, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. An Officer Killed by Desperadoes. A desperado named Cokestone and his gang were pursued and overtaken near Clarksville, Tex., by a Sheriff's posse. In the skirmish that followed Officer Whitman was killed and Cokestone wounded. Two of the gang were captured, but Ookestone, the leader, made his escape. Newfoundlanders Going to England. The lower house of the Newfoundland Legislature has appointed Premier Sir William Whiteway, Speaker Emerson and Mr. Morine, leader of the opposition, delegates to proceed to England to oppose the adoption of the imperial coercion laws. , Believa He Wm Whipped to Death. | Coroner Osborn took testimony on the death of Walter Hedorea, who died suddenly at Rockwell. lowa. He was an orphan boy adopted into the family of Peter Mc-

Mahon, and it is thought the death occurred from a brutal whipping. To Reduce Their Ware*. The Reading. Pa., Iron Company has notified its 2,000 operatives that owing to continued trade depression, a slight reduction in wages would be made on April 1, The employes accept, as a restoration is promised by the company with improved business. A Kansas Brand d. County Clerk Curry, Treasurer Gloderly, and County Commissioners Morton and A Cole, of Comanche County, have been arrested. charged with malfeasance in office. Several of the heaviest tax-payers in the county have retained lawyers to recover money illegally withheld. Tragedy at Ironton, Oh'o. An Ironton (Ohio) dispatch says that Albert and William Kell attacked Arthur Haney with clubs for having betrayed their sister. Haney defended himself with a revolver and mortally wounded Albert Kell. He surrendered to the officers. Indians for Soldiers. Orders have been issued from General Merritt’s enlisting Indians in the regular army. The Indians are to be enlisted for five years, and receive the same pay as the whites and negroes now in service. England Will Exhibit. The British Government, through the Marquis of Salisbury, has formally notified Mr. Blaine, the United States Secretary of State, that Great Britain accepts President Harrison’s invitation to take part in the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893,

Two Thousand Coal M'ners to Strike. The 2,000 coal miners employed in the Laurel-Jellico, Ky., districts are to strike May 1. They ask pay on coal before it is screened and eight hours per day. The operators have agreed not to allow the demand. Three Burned to Death. At Austin, Pa., a $5,000 fire in the Commercial Hotel and boarding-house of R. Henry totally destroyed the building. Three lives were lost: Lizzie McGarisk, a domestic; Jack McCarty, a boarder; and an unknown man. A Train Burned Up. A passenger train on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ran into the rear of a freight train in a tunnel seventy-five miles east of Charleston, W. Va. Fire broke out, and the entire passenger train was consumed. Several persons were slightly injured. Hanged Himself in a Tree-Fork. A. Anderson, a Norwegian, was found dead, hanging to a tree near Mason City, lowa. He had bent a young sapling, put his head between the branches and let it fly up. From indications he had been dead about six days. Obtained a Large Bum. At Sedalia, Mo., Thomas F. Sibley, who claimed to represent Wood Bros, of Chicago, presented what is claimed to be a forged bill of lading for eleven ears of cattle to the First National Bank of that city, and obtained $5,200 on it, and then left town.

Appointed by the President. The President appointed Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, vice Lewis A. Gross, resigned; James Compton, of Fergus Falls, Minn., Surveyor General of Minnesota, vice John F. Norrish, term-expired. Want the Detainer. The Directors of the Mechanics and Traders' Bank of New York have offered a reward for evidence to convict the person who has tried to injure the bank’s business and standing by circulating reports that it was in financial difficulties. Reds May Rise Up. Father Craft, the missionary at Pine Ridge Agency, has written a letter in which he stated that unless the Indians were placed under control of the War Department thero would be another uprising. Bnlldozed the Bartender. At Butte, Mont., the Ozark saloon was raided by masked robbers, who forced the bartender to open the safe and give them $l,lOO which it contained. Great Britain snowed Under. A heavy snowstorm is sweeping over the northern part of Great Britain. All the horse-car lines and railroads of Aberdeen are blockaded. Blown Up by Dynamite. The house of John Ankney, near Sycamore, Ohio, was blown up by dynamite, and the members of bis family were more or less severely injured. Suicide of a General. Gen. Charles A. Johnson, a retired army officer, committed suicide in New Haven, Conn. Fire In . incinnatl. At Cincinnati, fire at the vinegar works of Miller & Co. caused a loss of $18,000; insurance, $3,000.

CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.