Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — BREEZY BRIEFLETS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BREEZY BRIEFLETS.

COLLECTED BY WIRE FROM FAR AND NEAR. An Entertaining anti Instructive Summary of the Doings of the Old and New World, Embracing Politics, Labor, Accidents. Crime, Industry, Etc. I .. • I - ■ WALKING GOOD IN DETROIT. A Strike of Street-Car Employes Results in Some Lively Scrimmaging. At Detroit, Mich., trouble has been brewing between the Detroit Consolidated Street Kailway and the employes for some time past, which culminated in 150 conductors and drivers refusing to go to work. Some of the lines are completely tied up while others are running very irregularly under police protection. An attempt to start a car was made, and the crowd began to yell and jeer. The first striker who mounted the platform was seized by an officer and placed under arrest Another car was pulled out Four patrolmen took their stand on the platform. The crowd made no demonstration except to shout and jeer. The strikers refuse to divulge their intentions, but their appearance was ominous. FIENDISH TRAIN-WRECKERS. They Throw a Passenger Train from the Track in Alabama. A wreck occurred on the Alabama and Great Southern Railroad at midnight near Springville, twenty-nine miles north of Birmingham. Some malicious persons had removed the fish-plates, causing the rails to spread. Passenger train No. 6, north bound, limited, was ditched, and the engine and four cars turned over. Engineer John Cotten and Firemap Charles George were scalded to death. The escape of all the passengers from death was almost miraculous. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Letters Dyed in Blood. Part of the mail which was in the car in which the six postal clerks were killed In a collision on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad near Norwalk, Ohio, on Saturday, arrived in New York. Some of the papers were soaked in blood, so that the addresses were Illegible. Victor J. Bradley, Assistant Superintendent of the railway mail service, said that in ten years fortythree clerks in the railway mail service had been killed, and 479 injured. The men are exposed to great danger because the postal car is always in the front part of the train. Discovered His Secret. At Arkansas City, Kan., everybody is wild over the Cherokee strip gold field. O. T. Buchanan, who first discovered the gold, refused to divulge the location, but parties dogged his footsteps, and followed with bloodhounds and Indian scouts. Buchanan led them a f wild-goose chase for a time, but they sent word back that they had discovered the location of the find. Fifty men at onte left for the scene.

Killed While Stealing Grain. James Mowbray, a farmer living near "Wichita. Kan,, vis ted his corn crib and was surprised to find a man helping himself to his grain. A second look, however, showed him the man was dead. The stranger had inserted his head and arms and was helping himself to the corn when the support gave way, and the whole weight of the wall of rails and roof pinned him down. A Colore 1 Murderer Hanged. At Charlottesville, Va., William Muscoe, the negro who murdered Policeman George F. Seatin, in 1888, was hanged. He made a full confession a few minutes before tlie execution and said he had no hard feelings against any one. He prayed fervently and joined the minister in singing. He mounted the scaffold with a firm step and joined iu the singing on the scaffold. Fell Over a Cliff. News has been received of the death by falling from a cliff into the sea at or near Placentia, Newfoundland, of John C. Cahoon, the young naturalist. Cahoon was one ot the most daring hunters for bird specimens in the country. This was his third trip to Newfoundland In search of rare specimens. Pinkertonians on Guard. Four carloads of Pinkerton guards arrived in the Pennsylvania coke regions. Two carloads were from Philadelphia and 125 men from Chicago. It is thought these men will take the place of the militia, as Gov. Pattison will not allow the National. Guard to “be used to evict the strikers.

Lively Times in Lexington. At Lexington, Ky., Wash Ramsey was shot and killed while standing at his gate by Lee Jenkins, a fellow-workman. Ramsey leaves a wifo and two children. The same night Martin Stevens, of Louisville was robbed by two negroes Lexington, and his throat cut. ■Boy Bufhrd in a Barn. Near Wichita, Kan., Charle-,the 5-year-old son of George Newman, met death iu a burning barn. He set tlie building on fire while playing with matches. His mother made three efforts to get to her child, but was driven back by the flames and terribly burned. Hotel Thieves Make a Haul. At Hot Springs, Ark., thieves went through the Plateau Hotel, securing a gold watch and a considerable sum of money from Judge Duffy and $2,000 In cash and diamonds valued at between $5,000 and $7,000 from Dr. Tumblety. Bought a Battle Site. Malvern Hill, located about twelve miles below Richmond, Va., the scene of one of the most famous battles during the late war. has just been sold to William H. Hale, of New York. Suicide at Indianapolis. At Indianapolis, Ind., John Scarry, aged 65, a .reial estate broker, after making nis will shot the top of his head off. His wife had recently sued him for divorce. A Murderer Captured by a Brave Woman At Maysville, Ky., Alexander Johnson Bhot his wife, inflicting a fatal wound. Della Carlisle, his wife’s sister, seized the pistol. and, putting it to Johnson’s head, inarched him to the Mayor's office, where she turned him over to the officers. Tried to K‘ll a Judge in Court. Sira Johnson, a negro at Charleston, W. Va.. was sentenced to be hanged. After Judge Snyder had pronounced sentence, Johnson made a desperate attempt to kill him. Officers rushed in, and after a struggle dragged the negro away.

' '■ KILLED IN A COLLISION. Frightful Accident on the Lake Shore, Near Norwalk, Ohio. A frightful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore Railroad at Kipton, Ohio, in which six postal clerks and two engineers were killed. The fast mail, bound east, collided with the Toledo express, just as the latter train was about to puli on the siding to let the fast mail pass. The fast mail was runnning at full speed, and the force of the collision was so great that both engines,

three mail cars, and one baggage car were completely wrecked. None of the passenger cars left the track and but one of the passengers received serious injuries. There is scarcely any curve at the station, but on one side of the track Was a line of freight-cars and on the other the station. These might have obstructed the vision of the engineer of the fast mail. Re applied the air-brakes when he saw that i collision was Inevitable, but the speed of the train was not checked materially. DISASTROUS CAVE-IN. Many Buildings at Luzerne, Pa-< damaged by the Sinking of the Earth. A disastrous cave-in in one of the largest mines in the anthracite region, the Black Diamond, has < c.’urred at Luzerne Borough. Pa. About six acres of land have settled and there is consternation among the residents. The first alarm was caused by an ominous subterranean rumble and roar and great fissures ran through the streets and underneath the residence 1 . Several fine properties are badly wrecked. The high school building, one of the finest structures in that vicinity, is so badly cracked and warped that it will probably have to be rebuilt. Dwellings and stores are damaged and some of them are unfit for occupancy. Many of the residents would not venture into their houses during the night for fear they would be suddenly swallowed by the earth. Still more serious consequences may ensue, as there is no telling when the earth will sink again. The damage to the mine amounts to thousands of dollars, as six acres of the workings are rendered useless. TWO SHOCKING TRAGEDIES. A Brooklyn M n Shoots His Wife and Himself—Anotli r at Hoboken. Samuel dark shot himself and wife In Brooklyn fatally. Both were alone when the shooting occurred, and two or three hours are supposed to have elapsed before they were discovered, both in an unconscious condition. The have bee:i married more than six years. The folio.vin? story of a murder and suicide comes from Hoboken: As the German steamship Eider was to sail for the other side a young couple came to the steamship. They were talking earnestly and the young woman seemed to be very much depressed. Shortly after the people on the wharf were startled by two pistol shots, when the two young peoole fell to the deck. They were sweethearts. She came from Germany two weeks ago to join Ommecker and was returning home. IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE. Better Weather and Collections Have Helped the Markets. The weekly review of trade issued by Dun & Co. says: With better weather there is visible improvement in trade and collections, and, .while it Is yet but slight, the outlook for the future is generally regarded us encouraging. Crop prospects continue excellent, there is less monetary pressure at points where some stringency has existed, und . in the chief industries some Improvement in the demand appears. Meanwhile the volume of trade continues nearly as large in the aggregate value as it was a year ago. some decrease in quantities of important products being balanced by an advance in the level of prices, which was nearly 15 per cent, higher than a year ago, April 1, and Is still more,than 13 per cent, higher.

ATE HIS BROTHER. Horrible Act of a Mailman as Reported from a Cuban Town. At Havana, Cuba, news has been received of a horrible affair nt Macaigua. A madman attacked bis little brother with a knife, cutting off his head and otherwise mutilating hint in the most terrible manner. He then proceeded to eat port ions of the body, and had devoured the fingers, liver, heart, and eyes when discovered. In reply to questions as to why he had committed the horrible deed the madman declared that his brother had died, and that he was making an autopsy on the boy’s body. BLOWN OUT Ol EXISTENCE. Terrific Explosion ot an OU Tank at St. Paul—One Man Killed. At St. Paulj a terrific explosion occurred where the City Electric Railway Company's power-house is located. John Johnson, a plumber, was working under one of the huge petroleum oil tanks, and, it is supposed. ignited the gas in the tank with a light be carried in his Laud. The tank, containing 14,000 gallons of oil. was blown to atoms, and nothing can be found of Johnson's remains over which to bold an inquest. The loss is about $7,000. All the electric street cars in the city were stopped. SLEW SIX NEGROES. Tennessee Mountaineers Take Vengeance on the Men Who Displaced Thein. Near Rockwood, Tenn., seventy-six miles from Chattanooga on the Cincinnati Southern Road, a party of twenty or thirty mountaineers, arrntd with rifles, rode into a tanbark camp situated on the Cumberland Mountains, and without warning shot and killed six negroes and wounded ten. Tue mountaineers, it is said, had been discharged for incompet-ncy anl took this method of vengeance. SIXTY ABE POISONED. The Festivities of a Wedding Made the Occasion of a Diabolical Crime. A large party assembled to celebrate the the wedding festivities of a young couple at Linden, Ky.. and sixty of them were poisoned by arsenic in the well. B. F. Guthrie is dead, and many others will die. It is thought a servant poisoned the welt THE FIFTH WILE MOURN. Michigan's Popular < ongresutnun, Melbourne H. Ford, Dies Suddenly at Grand Rapids. Congressman Melbourne H. Ford, of the Fifth District of Michigan, died at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., ot apoplexy, which resulted from the grip, Mr. Ford

was elected by the Democrats to the Fiftieth Congress, defeated for the Fifty-first, and re-elected last fait He was born in Michigan in 1849. He attained an enviable prominence in the Fiftieth Congress. He leaves a wife and three children. The President in Peril. At Atlanta. Ga.. an accident occurred at the time of the President’s arrival. It resulted from the military salute fired in honor of the President. The cannon used for this service was mounted on a flat-car at a siding near the track over which the Presidential car ran. In order to give emphasis to their work, the soldiers having charge of the cannon, discharged it just as the President’s train was passing on an adjoining track. The concussion was tremendous and shattered three thick plate glass window panes in the dining car Coronado, immediately next the scats assigned to the special use of the President and Mrs. Harrison. New Treatment ot Tubercuosis. In Paris, medical circles are greatly inested in a new system of treating tuberculous diseases. The ne w method was discovered by Professor Germain See. According to Professor See’s plan patients suffering from tuberculosis puss four or five hours daily in a close chamber, wherein the air is above normal pressure and is saturated with creosote eucalyptol. The pressure is gradually increased until it readies a maximum of an atmosphere and a half. Several excellent and permanent results have been obtained. Malignant Spottezl Fever in Texas. A dispatch from Mesquite, Tex., says that the spotted fever in that vicinity is spreading rapidly. There hava been four more deaths from the disease. Near Hausley there is one new case, Dick Kennox, who contracted the disease while attending his son, died and was buried. A Mr. Biand has lost four children, aud fears are entertained that the damp, cool weather will have the tendency to give the disease a new start. The four children of Joe Moon, at Copevilje, were stricken with the disease and died inside of twelve hours. Captain Vernoy’s Betrayer. It has transpired, says a London dispatch, that Captain Vejney, the Liberal member of Parliament, who lied to escaiie prosecution for abducting young girls, was betrayed by a French woman recently arrested and convicted in London for procuring young women in England for immoral purposes in Paris. The French woman gave the authorities valuable information, implicating prominent men, both .American and English, as the patrons of her traffic. An Insane*Murderer Commits Suicide. A second tragedy was enacted in the old Lockwood homestead at North Salem, N. Y. Old Jesse Lockwood, who, while insane frqm the grip, clubbed his aged wife to death, and who has been confined to his home under the charge of Deputy Sheriff Hallock ever since. Committed suicide. He got hold of a can of kerosene and poured a lot of It Into a cup and mixed with it a quantity of red pepper and alcohol. He drank down this mixture, and when found was dead. Shocking Murder in Arkansas. News comes of the murder of Wiley Whittington, a wealthy planter in Louisiana. Whittington went to see a negro named Gus Frazier. He carried a shotgun. Frazier met him In front of his house, aud after some sharp words started for the house to get a gun. Whittington told him to halt, when the negro rushed at Whittington and seized the gun he was carrying. Frazier fired both barrels, almost tearing Whittington’s head from his tody. Phcebe Will Fight. Secretary Phoebe Cousins, having been legislated out of office by a resolution of the Ladles’ Executive Committee at Chicago, found, on going to her rooms at headquarters, that her World’s Fair records and papers had been confiscated by the committee. Not being able to gain admission to the Secretary’s rooms, she took up her place in an adjoining apartment, ordered dinner and threatens to appeal to the courts. Fatal Railro id Wreck. A freight train of thirteen cars and three engines on the Maryland Central Railroad broke through a trestle this morning at Fallston, near Baltimore, Md. Nine men were on the train. Three were killed and two badly injured. The others had time to jump and escaped. The cars were quickly ablaze and burned. Wile-Beater Commits Suicide. The New Brunswick (N. J.) Grand Jury found an indictment against James Lynch, a chronic wife-beater, who had frequently been arrested. Lynch followed his wife to the Court House, waited till she came from the Grand Jury room, and struck her. Then he went home and hanged himself.

Tire Woman Was Murdered. The post-mortem on the body of Mrs. Dolle, an old woman who was found dead under the trap door of her store in San Francisco, showed that the woman’s neck was broken and the skull badly battered by some heavy instrument. No clew to the perpetrators of the murder. Five Persons Burned to Death. A fire which resulted in the loss of five lives occurred at a house in the High Road, Knightsbridge, England. In spite of the efforts of the fire department, assisted by the soldiers from the barracks, five persons were burned to death before the flames were under control. Will Ask a Renewal. In consequence of the agreement for the conference between tiie United States and Canada on trade mutters next October, the Dominion Government will ask Parliament to renew’ the modus vlvendi arrangement as applicable to the Atlantic fisheries for the present season of navigation. Indian student for the Mini-try. Levierinz, a young Omaha Indian attending the Carlisle, Pa., Indian school, has been examined by the Carlisle Presbytery as a student for the ministry and passed a creditable examination. His purpose is to enter the ministry and work among his own people. Immigrants via Halifax. The steamer Oregon landed nearly 500 immigrants at Halifax, most of them coming into the United States by rail. They disembarked at Halifax to avoid the new immigration law, which make- necessary an examination on landing and a capita tax of fifty cents. Got the Drop on Him. Some time ago Samuel Wiggins caused the arrest at Elmer, Mo., of John Satterfield. The latter threatened to kill Wigsins on sight. When the two men met Satterfield started to draw his revolver. Wiggins shot first, killing Satterfield. Wiggins was exonerated by a coroner’s jury. Hostile to Chinese. The Dominion Trades Congress has peti- I tioned the Dominion Government to prohibit the importation of Chinese labor. Shocking Death of a Fireman. At Chattanooga, Tenn., Charles Werner, was at the top of a ladder which stood with

I its iron end resting on an electric light wlra. I He leaned against the wire. A peculiar j blue flame flickered about his garments, he uttered a shout of pain and fell to the sidewalk dead. - Tlie Italian Trouble. The Italian Premier declares that Italy cannot admit the irresponsibility of the i United States Government for the acts of I single States. London papers declare that Mr. Blaine’s reply to the Italian note is an able state paper. In Rome.political circles it is characterized as “vague and inconclusive.” Three Women Drowned. Misses Minnie and Hattie Kaufman, daughters of one of the wealthiest farmers of Vernon County, Missouri, and Mrs. Jas. Matthews, wife of an employe of Mr. Kaufman, went boating on the Osage River. Suddenly their boat capsized and all three were drowned. A Catholic Priest Mulcted. The jury in the 325.000 suit brought by Henry Ba us. a carpenter of Wood Haven, N. Y., against Aloysius Steffens, pastor of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in the village, for alleged alienation of his wife’s affections, awarded the plaintiff £I,OOO damages. Ths Fire Record. Messrs. Benedict & Gaffney, dealers in teas, coffees und spices, in New York, suffered a loss of $50,030 by fire. It is fully covered by insurance. The building was damaged to the extent of SIO,OOO. Suicide Caused by the Grip. Major Benjamin F. Tallbot, prominent in Philadelphia society, committed suicide in Boston, while crazed by the grifl, by shooting himself In the right temple with a revolver. Both Found Gu lty. Cosgrove and McElJigott, the men accused of forging the Jerome will, were both found guilty at Chicago. The former’s punishment was fixed at nine years and the latter’s at three years in the penitentiary. New Coast Defense Vessel. The United States coast defense vessel Montery, now In course of construction at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, will be launched in the presence of President Harrison. Makes a Serious Charge. Senator Fassette. in the New York Legislature, charged that $250,000 blood money was extorted monthly by the police of New York City from the liquor interests of that city. Ninety Reported Drowned. Advices from Honolulu state that the British ship St. Catherines was recently wrecked off the Caroline Islands, and that ninety persons were drowned. The Florida Senatorship. At Tallahassee, Flu., first vote for United States Senator: Call, 60: Bloxham. 37. Second vote: Call, 59; Bloxham, 38. Z two-thirds majority is required. It’s a Good llig Sum. Secretary Fo-ter has announced that $21,000,000 in fractional currency will be put it circulation as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. To Suspend the Duty. According to a Paris dispatch the Frencl and German governments will probably sooi be compelled to ask their respective Parliaments to suspend the duty on cereals. Foul Pl y Feared. William Hedrich, a farmer living neat Warren. Ind., was found dead in the road near his home. Blood had been flowing from his mouth, and foul play is feared. By Falling from a Fence. At Alliance. Ohio, Addle Duncan, a farmer’s daughter, fell from a fence and broki her neck. Hogs partly devoured the bodj before it was found. Brazil Is All Right. A committee of bankers appointed by the Brazilian Government reports that there is no danger of a commercial or crisis in Brazil. Failure of a Commission Firm. The failure of J. M. Shaw & Co., of New York and Chicago, has been announced. The firm has been mainly interested lu grain. An Alaska Expedition. Lieutenant Schwatka has started for AlI aska to explore the <ountry from the Yukon | River wes.. This is the third expedition tx 1 Alaska. i Quarantine Stations Discontinued. Secretary Rusk has issued an order dis- ‘ continuing the animal quarantine stations at El Paso and Brownsville, Tex. For the World’s Fair. A bill appropriating $50,000 for the State exhibit at the World's Fatir has passed both branches of the Minnesota Legislature. < abinet Crisis in Portugal. A London cablegram says: The entire Portugal Cabinet has resigned.

THE CRASH AT THE SIDING.