Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — FOUR DIED INSTANTLY. [ARTICLE]

FOUR DIED INSTANTLY.

A TEMPERANCE LECTURE FROM THE GALLOWS. Climbing Pike's Peak by Bail—Juryman Went to Sleep Canadian Archbishop Dying Outrages by White Caps A Fleeing Sheriff—Murders and Suicides* ARCHBISHOP TAC HE IS DYING. Work of the Great Missionary and Explorei Among the Indians. Archbishop Tache, who for Iwo decades has been the head of the Roman Catholic Chnrch in the Canadian Northwest, and is the foremost Canadian prelate, is lying at the point of death. Alexandre Taclie was born at Katuoweaska, Lower Canada, in 1822. After being ordained at St. Boniface he devoted himself to the Indian tribes b*yond the borders of civilisation. Like LaSalle and Hennepin, he was a great explorer, being the first to penetrate the unexplored Northwest During the Riel insurrection in 1869 he exerted himself to prevent bio >dsbed, and after Kiel's surrender and election to the Dominion House of Commons the archbishop successfully resisted all attempts of the authorities to punish him for treason. HURLED INTO ETERN’IIY. Four Men Killod by the Burs tng of a Locomotive Boiler. By the bursting of the boiler of a switch engine on the Jersey Central near White Haven. Pa.. Engineer Thomas Trip, Fireman J. Pope, and Brakemen Gallagher and Smith were instantly killed. The body ol Engineer Trip was crushed and bruised in a terrible manner and was found 100 yards from where the explosion occurred. Nc trace of Fireman Pope’s body lias yet been found and it is thought he was blown tc atoms. The locomotive was totally wrecked, the boiler being blown 800 feet up the mountain side. There was some defect in the water pipes. DIED FOTESTING HIS INNOCENCE. L’oudtnot Crumpton Pays the De<th Penalty lor the Murcl - r of Sain Morgan. At Fort Smith, Ark., Boudiuot Crumpton, alias Bud Burris, was executed. Crurnptou died protesting his innocence. He attributed his downfall to whisky. He warned those present when tiiey took a glass of liquor to look in it and they would see there the hangman’s noose. The crime was committed Nov. U; 1880, near Mus'togse. Creek Nation. The evidence against him was circumstantial, but very strjng. ON THE DIAMOND. Bow the Club* Engaged In the National Game Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE, . . . w L c -' W. L. i?cNow *„orks. .38 >» .till Pkiladelp'B. ,2-i 2J .491 ( h:cHgo*....Bl J 8 .589 Brooklyn*.. .as 30 .463 Bostons 80 27 .626 Pittaburga. /si 33 .40/ Clevelands. .80 2J .508 Cincinnatig. 22 33 .atso . AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. sc., w. L. sc. Bostons 41 21 .(ill Columbus.. .31 bn .463 Bt. Louis. ...44 25 ,63CPhiladelp's. 29 36 .446 Baltimores. .37 2; .687 Louisville* .23 41 .4t > Cincinnatis..3 2 83 .492 Washfmgt’nslO 41 .317 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. . . W. L. Vc. W. L. s>c. Omaha* 84 2i .6 8 Kansas C’vs.2i 30 .492 Milwaukees/'O 25 .590 Sioux Citys.26 32 440 Lincolns....3a 24 .779 Denvers 23 80 >9;) Minneapolis 34 28 ,548Dnlnths 21 40 .314 Terribly Whipped by White Cap*. Further details of the whipping of old man Maguire and his stepdaughter, aged eighteen, near Leavenworth, lad., show it to have been a most brutal affair. Two hundred masked white caps dragged their victims to the woods, where they were stripped to the waist and tied to Irees. The girl was given fifty lashes and Maguire seventy-five, and both were terribly mangle J. Both fainted under the puulsbtnenL After the whipping Maguire and his stepdaughter were ordered to leave within twenty days or they would be lynchod.

By Rail Up Tike’s P ak. The Pike's Peak Railway is now in successful operati n. The first passenger train consisted of an engine and one car, occupied by sixty-five peop’e, mostly excursionists from Denver. The lower termini s of the line is 6,400 feet above sea level and the upper 14,147. The distance is nine miles, and the steepest grade is 25 per cent, on a rise of one in forty. There is a double reck rail In the center of the track. The track is standard gauge, steel rails, and fifteen feet roadbed. The road Is operated on the Apt system. One Juror Went to Sleep. At Indianapolis, some lime ago, A. J. Kestlin secured a judgment against the National Accident Insurance Company for *a ,000. Application was made for a new trial on the novel plea that Juror Norwood, an old and very feeble man. was asleep during the greater part of the trial, and did uot. therefore, hear all the evidence. Norwood admitted that he slept a part of the time, and the court set the verdict aside, grunting the deleadant a new trial. Four Cruel Murders. John Baker, a colored man, killed his wife and himself at Huntsville, Ala. Ik a fit of jealous rage, Jesie Cartwright, of Baldwin County, Ala., killed his wife and his brother. John Rausch shot aud killed his swoe heart, Marla Bucket, at Lawrence. Mass., aud then put a bullet through his own head. Pugh Prewitt, a colored boy, residing iu Germantown, Tenn.. was stabbed to death outside the church at that place. Hli as ailant is unknown. Flight of a Defan ting Sheriff. Sheriff and Collector John WgrJeld. of Desha County, Arkansas, Is missing. He is shqrt in his accounts at least $25,000. He left saying be was going to Dumas, but went to Little (£ock and thence to Memphis. Failure of a Texas Bank. Bank Examiner Spauldlug took charge of tbe Dallks, Tex.. Ninth National Bank, and its doors hrlll be close!. He makes ast tement that every depositor will be secured. Tbe causes assigned are stringency in tbe money market and tnora loans than the capital would warrant. * High I rice to Fay for a Collision. The awards lit the cases of persons who brought suite to recover damages for the Itwa of re’&tives. or for personal injuries. In the collision of the steamers Virginia and Louise, at Balt more, grant a total of

RESPECTED THEIR DEAD. Because the Grave Was Dug Next a Murderer’* a Burial Was Postponed. There was great consternation at the Park Cemetery where lies the body of Scheelo, the murderer, says a Bridgeport, Conn., dispatch. Thomas Thornton, an Englishman, died Friday night. His friends purchased a single burial plot at the Park cemetery. In this cemetery graves are sold by number. The number they had called for a grave next to that of Scheele. After the coffin had been taken from tbe heaFse and mourning friends had about the grave some one remarked that it was a shame that a man like Thornton should be buried beside a murderer. Others thought so. too, and it was decided to persuade the sexton, if possible, to dig another grave. He said, however, that he had no authority to do this, and it was finally arranged to place the body in the receiving vault until another plot could be bought.

COMMERCIALLY SOUND. Activity at Pit sburg—Brisk Trade at Chic* go. R. D. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Signs of Improvement in business grow more frequent and distinct, though there is nothing like a radical change us yet. The situation which has prevailed during the year gives way but slowly to increased confidence, the more slowly because of a few failures in woolens at Philadelphia and in leather and shoes in the East. Yet the soundness of the commercial situation is generally recognized, and the hesitation which remains is rightly attributed mainly to uncertainties regarding the demand for gold from Europe and tbe financial situation there. Hence dispatches announcing the settlement of difficulties which have been banging over the London market, and which were supposed to affect one or more houses having large interests in this country, are regarded with satisfaction. iVhlle gold continues to leave England for Russlu the banking Institutions of Western Europe are well supplied, and in this country treasury disbursements have been enormous. Tbe one point of danger is still the exceedingly strained condition of credits abroad on account of past disastrous speculations. AID FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS. Tlie Mayor of Cherokee Sends Out an Appeal—Five Huntlred Homeless. Mayor David H. Bloom, of Cherokee, lowa, has sent out an appeal for aid. There are 500 people In the place who are homeless and who will have to be supplied with food and shelter. The loss to the town is estimated at $250,000. The damuge has been great along he Maple River and Ida Grove, Correctlonville, Danbury, Holstein and Battle Creek, including the intermediate country, have been deluged. Two children were drowned near Correctlonville and one man near Galva. Large numbers t f cuttle have been drowned. Hail storms at Holstein' ruined all crops on a tract throe miles wide and ten miles long.

WHITE CAPS IN ILLINOIS. Marshall County Torn Up Over the Murder or Royal Frisby. Marshall County. Illinois, Is all excitement. The body of Royal Frisby was found dead with two loads of shot in his body. The whole- matter originated in a family quarrel. John Carver died about thirteen years ago, leaving u widow, one daughter and three sons. Some time after his death Royal Frisby married the widow and ran through the property left, by Carver In short order. The wife sued for u divorce and received a decree. Frisby afterward married tho daughter, whom, it is said, hd.rulned while lie was yet the husband of the girl's mother. DEADLY DUEL IN A CANOE. Two Michigan Indians Figlit with Paddles and Both Are Drowns I. Swift Arrow and Guide of ihe Woods, two noble Michigan red men. both belonging to the Walpole Island Indian Reservation, disposed of a canoe-load of cherries, the first of the season, and got drunk off the proceeds. They slaggero.l to their canoe and bo’li got In. Guide of the Woods was not so drunk as Swift Arrow, and hud not taken twenty sweeps when lie conceived the Idea that the latter was shamming to avoid work, and lie ordered him to help | addle. A figlit ensued, and' both fell overboard and drowned.

WILL ACT INSTEAD OF PREACH. The Rev. John Jayni to Leave the Pulpit lor the Stage. One of the most brilliant ministers of the Christian denominations in the Wost lias boen the Rev. John Jayne, of Falmouth, Ky. He is but 28 years old and unmurried, though it is said he is about to load to tho altar a lineal descendant of Henry Clay. The announcement is authoritatively lnude that he has resigned his pastorate and is going on the stage. He will essay dramatic parts. The news causes a wide sensation in the leading church circles and great regret among the heads of the denomination. HER MAJESTY’S FIRST PIPER. Death of William Boss, for Thirtv-Seven Tears in Queen Victoria's Service. William Ross, the, well-known first piper of her majesty Queen Victoria, is dead. His sturdy and his thrilling pibroch strains were familiar and welcome ut every great gathering of Scotsmen in London, and he will be greatly missed on such occasions. His death was a blow to her majesty, who sent a messago of condolence to her old piper’s widow. Nebraska Under Water. A perfect doluge of rain has fallen throughout Nebraska, says an Omaha dispatch. Railroad traffic is entirely suspended In the State. There were no trains iu or out of Omaha for the West to-night In many places in the State the tracks are under water for miles, rendering traffic entire y Impossible, Tho Missouri is a raging torrent. It is rising fast, and is within a few feet of tl.e danger line. Crop damage is incalculable throughout the State. ~ » • Simmons Gets Six Years. James A. Simmons, who was convicted of aiding General Peter .T. Claassen. President of the Sixth National Bank, in the etubezzelrnent of the funds of that institution, was brought up before Judge Benedict in the United States Circuit Court at New York and sentenced to six years' imprisonment in the Erie County Penitentiary. Au appeal will be taken to the United States Supreme Court. Tho scheme which nearly wrecked the Sixth National Bank caused a sensation In hanking circles in March, 1890. Explosion ft an Oil Tank. Reports come of the explosion and burning of a large tank of oil at Coraopo.is Station, on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, fifteen miles from Pittsburg. One report states that four men were killed by ihe explosion. Another report says that teo men were fatally hurt. Special Census Agent Thompson Discharged. Chief Special Agent of thfe Census Thompson, charged with the collection of the statistics of manufactures, in Philadelphia, was removed by Superintendent Porter.

Thompson at once surrendered all , matters pertaining to his office to General Agent Williams, who will be in charge temporarily until a new agent bus been appointed. The ground for Mr. Thompson’s removal was disobedience of orders. Refused to Naturalise a Chinaman. At New Haven, Conn., Lee Hoo, a Chinaman who has lived far fourteen years in this country, made application for naturalization. Judge Deming refused to grant full naturalization papers, though he thought that tbe act of Congress forbidding the admission of Chinese, as citizens was wrong in principle, but issued first papers, so that in case of the repeal of the law Hoo can be admitted on this document without further trouble To Repair the Dolphin. The Navy Department will resume the repair of the Dolphin July 1 at tbe Norfolk navy yard, when the appropriations for the next fiscal year will be available. But the department appears to have abandoned the idea of fitting up the vessel to replace the Dispatch and only the ordinary repairs will be made. The President and such guests of the nation as are t ) be transported by water from place to place must continue to use the old vessel. Fatal Fight Auung Huns. A desperate fight took place In the Hungarian district at Plymouth, Pa. A party of Huns had been drinking, tlielr shouts causing disturbance. John Majak requested them to desist. Ho was brutally beaten and fled to his home, where he aroused a number of friends, A free fight ensued, fully 100 Hungarians taking part. Andrew Kiimski and Stanislaus Sazcheska were fatally injured and a large number seriously hurt. No arrests. Ohio Farmers Victimize!. Detectives are In Canton, Ohio, after a gang of sharpers, of whom Samuel Camp, of Marshallvllle, Is the leader. They have victimized farmers and others out of $20,000 worth of property. Samuel Kehm, the Wayne County farmer who reported to the police some weeks ago that he had been robbed of SIO,OOO, is a leader. Rehm took this course as a ruse to avert suspicion. He has disappeared.

Glass Fa-tories Close for the Summer. All but one of the fourteen flint and window glass factories of Findlay, Ohio, have put out their fires for the summer vacation, which will last until Sept 1 and probably longer, as a wage schedule lias not yet been agreed upon. The closing of the factories of Findlay gives over two thousand employes a two months’ vacation. Cattle Thief Escapes and Is Recaptured. Officers recaptured ' Frank Evans at Drakes ville, lowa. He was arrested charged with stealing cattle, but told such a plausible story that he was released. Later evidence more criminating made his rearrest necessary. He lias confessed that his cattle peculations had been going on for two years. Indiana Murderer P.irdnnetl. Sylvester Bassett, of Shelby County, Indiana, who was sentenced in 1887 to eighteen years' imprisonment for killing his brother, has been pardoned by Governor Hovey. The brother was drunk and abusing his aged father, when Sylvester interfered. A fight ensued, in which the elder brother was stabbed to the heart. Drunken Fight Ends In Wife Murder. At Leavenworth, Kan., Mrs. Mary Ryan was shot and fatally injured by her husbaud, Dennis Ryan, in a drunken fight. They quarreled about some money which Ryan had, Five shots were fired, of whicli two took effect, one in the left breast and the other In the head. Ryan was captured. The Obituary Record. Dr. John L. Northrop, the instructor in zoology at Columbia College,, who was so badly burned by the explosion of a cask of alcohol in the basement of the college building; died at ihe Presbyterian Hospital. Ban Away with His Wife’s Money. G. W. Stranahan, the tailor who ran away from Atchison, Kan., a few weeks ago, taking witli him a certificate of deposit for SI,OOO belonging to his wife, was arrested at Salt Lake City. Broke tile Steamship Record. The steamship Furst Bismarck, from New York for Southampton, made the trip In 6 days 16 hours 10 minutes. This beats the record. I’attfmore Maltsters Fall. At Baltimore Levy & Joseph Straus, maltsters, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The assignee’s bond is SBOO,OOO. Three Men Killed. At Janesville, Wis., lhitrick Hegenry, Richard T. Bennowitz, and John Flaherty were instantly killed by the fall of a wall. Un'tml In Death. James Holden, of Fostervtile, Tenn,, was fatally stabbed by an unknown negro. Holden shot the negro dead.