Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — NEARLY A MILLION LOSS [ARTICLE]

NEARLY A MILLION LOSS

REPORT OF THE NEW ORLEANS GRAND JURY. Nebraska's Supreme Court Says Got. Boyd Was Not a Citizen—Djrptmite Used in the Striking; Coke District—A Schooner and Five Men Lotu i BIG BLAZE IN PITTSBURG. Nearly a Million Dollars Lost and Many Lives Endangered. The entire fire department of Pittsburg was summoned to combat a conflagration which started in a six-story grocers' supply and storage warehouse company’s building. The fire gained fearful headway, and in a short time the inflammable contents made the inside a mass of flames. Great excitement was caused by the catching fire of the Pittsburg Female College. Tne girls had scarcely retired. They were hustled down the stairway to the music of falling walls and shouting firemen. The hose was through the halls. Willing hands lent their needed assistance, and trunks were sent flying down the stairs, bouncing from side to side, breaking the railing as they sped to the bottom, iu several instances bursting open and scattering their varied contents to the floor. The young ladies came down, some being hysterical and requiring the aid of officers and volunteers. Among the losses are: Female College, $31,000; Christ Methodist Episcopal Church, $6,000; Arbuckle Building, 8100,000; Voight & Co., $7,000; Merchant's & Peoples’ loss on merchandise In storage, 8200,000; Vellstein & Palger, $12,000; Pittsburg Egg Company, $25,000; Mrs. Connelly, $15,000; George Frensch, $10,000; Hoeveler & Co., pork packers, 8150,000; Woodson’s heirs and Walker & Co., $8,000; Bowman & Co., $20,000; McCullough & Co., $12,000; total, $7X3,000.

LET THE LYNCHERS GO. New Orleans Mob I* Justified by the Grand Jury. After six weeks’ Investigation the New Orleans grand jury completed Its labors in the Hennessy case and the killing of Italians at the parish prison, and presented Its report. It in effect justifies the lynching of the Italian assassins in the jail by declar- , inr that from the number of people engaged and from the circunrsfances of the case the jury is not warranted in finding indictments against any of those taking part in the affair. The report arraigns the corruption that entered into the , trial of Chief Hennessy’s slayers and resulted in their acquittal. In effect it declares that they escaped punishment through the votes of a bought jury. Six of the arch-conspirators in the jury-fixing business are indicted. D. O’Malley, the detective, is the chief of these. The conclusion of the grand jurors on the lyuncblng is given in these words: “The magnitude of this affair makes it a difficult task to fix the guilt upon any number of the participants. In fact, the act seemed to involve the entire people of the parish, so open is their sympathy and extended their connection with the affair. In view of these considerations the thorough examination of the subject has failed to , disclose the necessary facts to justify this jury in presenting indictments.” ON THE DIAMOND. How the Clubs Engaged in tlie National Game Stand. Following Is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations:

NATIONAL LEAOT7E. W. L. ISO. I W. L. f>o. 805t0n5..... 8 4 .606 Now Yorks.. 6 8 .580 Clevelands.. 8 4 .646 ! Pitt8burgs.. 5 6 .455 Chicago:,.... 7 4 .630 Brooklyns... 4 8 .3JB Pailidelp i. c 6 .500 Cincinnatis. 3 9 .250 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. \V. L. w. L. s>c. Bostons 14 6. <0 I'Columbns:. .10 13 .435 Ballimores .12 6 .660 Cindnnatls.lO 14 .417 Louisvilles.. 14 10 .583!Athletics.... 7 11 .389 set. Louis.... 13 10 .5 6 Washingt’s.. 4 14 .223 WESTER*. ASSOCIATION. W. L. s?c. W L 59c. Rionx Citys. 9 o .6 <l MinneAp’lia. 7 - 7' .500 ” lnail,ls 0 6 .000;MiIwHUkoes. 8 9 471 ! Denvers .... 0 7 .501 Kansas C’ys. 0 10 .375 St. Pauls.... 8 7 .533.1iinc01n».... 5 9 .357 GOT. BOYD TURNED OUT. The Supreme Court Declares Him Not a Cit’zen When Elected. At Lincoln, Neb., t%3 opinion of the Supreme Court in the quo warrunto case brought by Gov. Thayer to t®Bt Gov. James E. Boyd’s citizenship' and his consequent right to hold the office qf Governor, ousts Gov. Boyd and seats ex-Gov Thayer. It is by Justioe Norval and is concurred in by Chief Justice Cobb, Justice Maxwell dissenting. Discovery of Three Petrified nodie*. Large crowds have been attracted to the old Greenlhwn Cemetery, Indianapolis, by the discovery that the vault contains.tiiree ' petrified bodies, one of which is that of a colored woman who has been in the vault fourteen years. Her features are perfect, • but her skin has turned to a chalky whits. • The flesh is hard but not very heavy. The features of the other two are not so well pre-erved. but the flesh has become perfectly solid.

Dynamite for Hans. Three buildings occupied by Hungarian miners at the Rock Hill, Pa., collieries were blown up with dynamite by persons unknown. The buildings contained eighteen men, two of whom were fatally injured. Superintendent Sims and the foreman have received threatening letters telling them that their residences will be bombarded with dynamite if they do not discharge the Huns. Five Men Went Down with th 3 Atlanta. The schooner reported ip distress off Ste. St. Marie was the Atlanta. She was In tow of the barge Wilhelm and parted her line twenty miles from No. 10 life-saving station. foundering shortly afterward. Five of the crew perished and two men were rescued by a life-saving crew. Railroad Man Nearly Kill a Tardmastrr. A gang of railroaders at Evansville. i n d, attacked Richard Griffin, night yard master of the Mackey system, beating him with a coupling-pin and slashing him with a knife. Frank Newbech has been identified as the one who did the cutting, and Henry Rose as the one who struck and kicked Griffin, and both are under arrest. Mr*. Cleveland Off to Her Summer Homo. Mrs. Grover Cleveland passed thnugh Boston en route to her new summer heme at Buztaid's Bay. the has gouo to look things over.

PROSPECTS I lUGHT. Winter Wheat Promises the Largest Crop Known for Years. A bulletin Issued from the Government office at Washington says: The weather has been specially favorable for all growing crops through >ut the grain regions of the Northwest and the central valleys. Excessive sunshine and warm weather favored farm work, and etirly sawn wheat in'Mlnnesota and Dakota Is In excellent condition. The light frosts which occurred during the week In the central valleys did not prove injurious. In the winter wheat region, extending from the Ohio Valley westward to Kansas and southward to Tennessee and Arkansas, all crops are reported In excellent condition; wheat and grass growing nicely and much corn being planted. The warm. clear weather has caused very rapid evaporatlor, and although there has been an excess of precipitation during the season, there are many localities In the central valleys where additional rain would prove beneficial, and the indications are that these rains will occur dur ng the early part of next week. In the cotton region cool nights have retarded growth, and crops are generally in need of rain. Oregon reports normal weather conditions and wheat prospects most excellent, but rain to the east of the Cascades would be beneficial. California reports that high winds and hot weather damaged the grain crops materially In the latter part of the week. Frosts In the coast counties have slightly damaged the fruit prospects. Haying Is ip progress In southern California: prospects g wd. BIG FIRE AT CHATTANOOGA. Property Valued at *250,000 and Covering Twenty Acres Destroyed. At Chattanooga. Tenn., fire started In Campbell & Co.’s furniture factory on King street, and raged four hours, destroying property covering twenty acres of ground, valued at $150,000, on which there Is a total insurance of $150,000, The losses, as nearly as can now be estimated, are as follows: East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company, on depot and contents and fifty loaded and twenty - five empty cars, 8125.000; Campbell & Co., 575.000; G. G. Lilly’s new unoccupied block, 810,000; Feck’s warehouse, $15,000; other small buildings, 820,000. The newly erected Mountain City flouring mill, valued at $200,000, wus barely saved. During the fire several carloads of fireworks and other combustibles exploded, terrifying the spectators and those working to stay the flames. The fire department had only three engines, and could do little effective work, especially as a second fire occurred while the first one was still In progress.

LOOKS BAD FOR THE STRIKERS. Pittsburg Operators Threaten to Impart 7,000 Negroes and ItaliansThe expected sensation in tlio Pennsylvania coke districts is the promised importation of 7.000 workmen from the East, many of them to be negroes and Italians. The operators have little to say, except that they must run their plants somehow. Citizens generaliy are indignant that steady skilled labor seems about to be driven from the field by this threatened invasion of Ignorant and by no means desirable laborers. Some 600 evictions will be made in order to make room for the new men coming into the region: but labor officials say they will be able to prevent the bulk of them from going to work. Bev. Father Lambing, a power among the Catholics of the region, severely denounced the labor leaders and socialistic element from the pulpit. He also created a sensation by repeating bis advice that the rnen return to work. At tho Polish celebration he also reiterated those views. SHIP 7 HE IK CONVICTS. America Made a Dumping Ground for All EuropeA Hamburg correspondent says that much surprise is expressed by the authorities of Justice there at the rejection in America of an immigrant known to have been guilty of crime in Germany. The correspondent says that thero is little concealment of the custom In all of the German state*, as well as other European countries, of shipping incorrigible criminals to America. In Switzerland the released convict signs an agreement promising not to return to the country. Although America is not mentioned in this agreement, nearly a’l the exiled criminals go to America and land. The government generally pays the passage, although some of the money is contributed by friends. In this way the convicts would otherwise prove a permanent charge being regularly drafted off to the United States.

STRIKERS SHOT DOWN. Fatal Affray Between S’riking Coke Men and Officers Near Unlontown, Pa. Near Unlontown, Pa., another collision has occurred between the coke strikers and deputies, the result being one striker dead and one seriously wounded. Superintendent Gray and Pit Boss Callaghan went to rescue two of tho men who had been at work, and were being held at a house by the strikers. They were set upon and stoned, and the deputies came to their aid. One of the strikers tried to take a gun from one of the deputies/ when a shot was fired by the strikers. Superintendent Gray then ordered the deputies to fire, and in the volley which followed John Mahan, a striker, fell dead, and another, whose name is not known, received a mortal wound. TRAGEDY AT AN ELECTION. An Officer Sliot Dead at Leadvllle by a Man He Was About to Arrost. At Leadvllle. Ojl., one of the most exciting school election contests that ever occurred in this State took place. The Patriotic Order Sons of America and the Catholics took opposite sides in the fight. Hundreds of ladies were at the polls, and the excitement was intense The flojr in the main building sank six inches and quite a panic occurred, but luckily no one was badly injured. Trouble occurred in tho Adelaide district. John Burns, a Deputy Sheriff, had some trouble with a man named Ra/land. He wa; about to arrest him, when Itagland fired twice, instantly killing Burns. STRIKE FOR EIGHT HOURS. Ten Thousand Men Eratdoyed in the Building Trades at Pittsburgh Out Five thousand carpenters, 1,700 bricklayers, 1,000. stonemasons, and 1.500 planingmill hands quit work at Pittsburgh, determined to stay out until their employers concede the eight-hour day. Under the lockout policy adopted by the Builders’ Exchange, every man employed in the building trades will be drawn into the fight, making a total of over 15,000 men who will Jay down their tools. DEFIES THE TROOP*. All Effbrts to Capture Manuel Garcia, the Cuhau Bandit. Unavailing. No cne has yet claimed the 590.000 reward offered for the capture of Manuel Garcia, the notorious Cuban bandit Robberies and murders and abductions, all attributed to the band!." and his band, have been frequent of late and active measures for his capture have been forced upm the Government There seems to be a general belief

•that he receives warning whenever an at- ! tempt Is to be made to capture him by the i troops. The belief that even if he was captured and delivered to the authorities i the reward wonld not be paid Is matter of j general comment in Havana. MENACED by flames. A Teacher and Her Pupi’g in Danger from Michigan Forest Fires The forest fires raging In Michigan almost eftused a tragedy at Mann’s Siding. The flames were being driven in front of a terrific wind, and before they were aware of their danger, a school teacher and her little flock were completely shut off from escape, and all around them the flames were shooting from thirty to fifty feet in the air. The little crowd rushed back Into the schoolhouse, closed the door and wooden blinds, and were ready to be sacrificed. This was the- situation when a posse of neighbors rushed through the fire line and rescued them. _______ • HUTCH IS FOUND. The Veteran Speculator Capture:! at Evansville, I mi. B. P. Hutchinson, the Board of Trade speculator, did not go to Florida, as his family thought. He got no farther than Evansville, Ind.. where he was arrested by the chief of police. Mr. Hutchinson says that the reason why he left Chicago pas because his son was taking steps to have him sent t:> an insane asylum. He docs not think he is Insane. He says that In the last three months he has lost over 83.000.000 and blames his son for his losses, saying that if he had been let alone he would have come out all right. PKOVOKE D THE REBE LLI ON. Tlie British Slaughter of Women and Children in India Was Unintentional. A dispatch from Calcutta says that the evidence collected from the Muneepoors captured by the British troops goes to establish the truth of the charge made by the usurping rajah that the British troops, in attacking the palace, had killed several women and children, thus provoking the rebellion and consequent massacre. It Is believed, however, that the killing of the women and children was unintentional.

TERRIBLE FATE OF NEGROES. Four of Them Burned to Death in a Railway Car. A horrible holocaust occurred at Duck Oreek, Term., siding on the Chattanooga Southern Railroad. The kitchen of a construction train used in building a new road caught fire In some unknown manner, and four colored men burned to death. Their names are: King Meadows, John Harvey, Will Broiler, and Elder Miles, The theory of the accident Is that the men had been murdered and then burned. TRADE IS IMPROVING. R. G. Dnn $ Co. 11l Tlieir Weekly Review Give ail Encouraging Report. Dun &. Co.’s weekly trade review says: Business Is large In volume and sustained by general confidence as to the future. Wheat and flour exports from Atlantic ports continue far belt ind those of last year, iind while reports of foreign crop prospect's are not favorable, there is really no reason to anticipate any shortage or unusual demand from abroad prior to the close of the current crop year. The possible demand next year lias to meet it an exceptionally favorable crop outlook. BIG BLAZE AT BOSTON. The Codman Building Destroyed, Entailing a Lons of *70,000. The Codman Building, adjoining the American House, was burned at Boston. Loss about $70,000. The guests of the American House were frightened and fled, hut the building was not harmed. Several firemen were made unconscious by smoke and one was injured by a fall.

Ksnsa* Wheat Damaged. Reports from sixteen of the principal wheat-growing counties of Kansas say those counties will not yield more than onolialf or two-thirds of a full crop. Reno County report* much damage from the Hessian fly. Jewell County reports many fields unfit to cut The “new” bug appears in several counties where wheat Is turning, yellow. Bloodshed at a “Log-Rolling.” A Norfolk, Va., special says: At a logrolling near Centerville, in Norfolk County, five negroes stabbed a white workman named Sam Mansfield. Constable John Burgess attempted to arrest James Ilarrish, the leader of the nogroes, who attacked him with an ax. The constable thereupon drew his revolver and shot the negro, killing him instantly. Stole Everything hut the Mills. Some parties went to LaVinsky’s Mills, near Verbena, Ala., and carried off everything except tho mill. The commissary was valued at several thousand dollars. The country about Verbena 1* infested with a daring band of robbers, who have in the past sow weeks perpetrated a number of bold robberies. Narrowly Escaped a Horror. While the Brighton express, crowded with people on their, way to business in London, was crossing the bridge at Norwood, the structure collapsed and six of the rear carriages fell into the bod of ihe shallow stream beneath. The carriages were smashed to atoms, but not a person on board of the train was killed.

Father and Child Drowned. Frank Williamson and his wife and three-months-old child attempted to ford the Marais des Cygnes River, one mile west of Osawatomle. Kan. The wagon was upset and Williamson and ids child were drowned. Mrs. Williamson clung to the wagon-box and was rescued. Probably a Murder. The body of William Mills, who disappeared from his home a Tnonth ago, has been found in Marsh Creek, about a mile from St. John, N. B. The nLht he disappeared cries were heard In the vicinity his body was found, and he is believed to have been killed. “Blue Joans.” “Blue Jeans” is on the boards at McVlcker's Theater, Chicago, for this and the coming week. On the opening night this production packed the great playhouse to Its fullest capacity. The Rising Sun Roars Band was called out again and again, and the sawmill scene was realism itself. J. H. Liipplncott’s Failure. Jessie H. Llpplncott, sole lessee of the American Graphophone Company and President of the North American Phonograph Company. New York, assigned to Frank S. Wait. The liabilities are estimated at $500,009 and the assets at $40,000. The Jury Disagreed The jury In the case of Plenly Horses, the Sioux Indian on trial for the murder of Lieutenant Casey, disagreed and were discharged. Thought to Be the Ripper. A man known as “Frenchy No. 1" is under arrest in New York for the murder and mutilation of the abandoned woman, Car-

rle Brown, In the East River Hotel recently; Oh his clothing, the bed, chair, walls, and celling of his room and his fingers were found many blood stains. Shot His Alsatian'. James Taggart, who took the place of one of the striking puddlers at the Pencoyd Iron Works, was assaulted on his way home from work by some of He drew a revolver and shot one of his assailants In the breast, inflicting a dangerous wound. AU the Crew Perished. The wreck of the schooner R. B. Leeds, of Somers port, N. J., was found in Chesapeake Bay with the bodies of two sailors badly bruised and lashed to the rigging. It is supposed the vessel, capsized in the recent sqnall and that all the crew perished. Frost in Northern Minnesota. Dispatches from many Northern Minnesota points state that a heavy frost prevailed in eight or ten epunties. In Kittson County ice formed and in Polk. Hubbard, and Marshall young wheat and oats were cut down. Alger to Succeed Proctor. General Veazey, Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army, says that Secretary Proctor will succeed Edmunds in the United States Senate, and that General Alger will go Into the Cabinet as Proctor’s successor. Trouble with Anarchists. Serious trouble occurred between the anarchists and the authorities at Rome, Lyons, Marseilles, Florence and other points, during which many on both sides were killed and wounded. Extent of Immigration. During the month of April 60,449 immigrants landed at the port of New York, the largest number for April since 1882. At Baltimore 11,700 persons wore landed in the same period.

Died in the Pooriiouse. The Hon. Charles J. Rogers, a Democratic politician who stumped Indiana for Cleveland in the last Presidential campaign, died in the poorhouse at Butte, Mont., recently. Bank Bobbers Captured. The three men who attempted to rob the Oak Creek Bank at Valparaiso, Neb., have all been captured. They are all farmers. Banker Johnson, whom they shot, is in a precarious condition. Will Renominate Harrison. A special from Washington says: “President Harrison will be renominated by acclamation.” This is what the Republican politicians are beginning to say with a unanimity which means a great deal. Verdict ol Acquittal. At Denver,Col., the jury In the Millington murder case returned a verdict of not guilty. The trial lasted ninety days, during which time 126 witnesses were examined. Three Girls Burned. Three girls were burned to death and two other persons were badly burned in a fireworks factory at New York. The fire was started by an explosion of powder. ( lamor for a Republic. Honolulu advices report that Minister Carter has resigned from the Cabinet and •the people are clamoring for a republic. It is said that the life of the queen is in danger.

Minneapolis Flour Output. The flour output at Minneapolis last week was 161,770 barrels, against 161,400 the preceding week. Prices have been reduced, but the market remains dull. Fire in a Aline. At Shamokin, Pa., the Lancaster colliery breaker, owned by Smith & Keyser, was burned. Loss, $20,000; insured. The origin of tho fire is not known. Two Boys Drowned. At Breancourt, Quebec, two boys, one named Dumont, aged 15 years, and the other named Keuu, aged 12, were drowned. To Make Gun Cotton. A plant for the manufacture of gun cotton Is soon to be established by the Government in Central Pennsylvania. Ended His Misery. Louis Berdicker, a St. Louis draughtsman. killed himself. He was sufferlug from an Incurable cancer in the mouth. Cotton Oil Mills’ Pool. All the cotton mills In Arkansas, with one exception, are said to have formed a pool, with a capital of $2,000,000. Cremated Alive. Herman Stephonskl and his wife-, lost their lives In a burning building In Rochester, N. V. Mines Reported Sold. It Is reported at Butte, Mont., that the Rothschilds have purchased the Anaconda mines. Ex-King Tamasose Dead. Advices from Samoa, via Melbourne, state that ex-King Tamasess is dead.