Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — PEORIA’S CRAZY NEGRO [ARTICLE]

PEORIA’S CRAZY NEGRO

PLAYS HAVOC WITH THE CITY’S POLICE FORCE. A Brutal Murder Near Mattoon, ll’.—Good , Moro of a New Jersey Otttcer—After the Dalton Gang—Misfortune of ah Iow» To «ii. SLASHED BY A JCGHO. Throe Policemen and a Woman Fearfully Cut by a Desperado. On the streets of Peoria, 111., a negro ran amuck. The desperado is Frank Berry, and bis associates say he murdered two men in Natchez a few years ago. Ho tried to cut a colored woman’s throat, and Officers Sloan and Campbell entered just i i time to save tho woman, but in the fight which ensued both of them were frightfully cut. Officer Sloan has three ugly gashes in the face, one of which Is six inches long and exposes bls tongue. Campbell is cut around one-half of his neck. Berry got out on the street, but Officer Stevens knoqked him down. Berry rose and cut Stevens in the face. He then started to run across tire street when the patrol wagon was driven onto him and one of the horses stepped on ills head rendering him Insensible, and lie was captured. ON THE DIAMOND. How the Clubs E gaged in the National Gaine Stand. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. T'c. W. L. Wo. Chicago 64 39 .621 Brooklvns .. 46 52 .469 Bostonssß .586 Clevelands. .47 56 .456 New Y0rk...54 46 .574 Cincinnatis..4O 62 .592 I’hiladelp’s. 52 48 .520 Plttsburgs. .39 62 .386 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Vc. W. L. sc. Bostons 74 3z .1.98 Columbus.. .50 56 .472 St. L0ui5....68 40 ,i ; 3o|Milwaukees.4s 58 ,437 Baltimores. .56 45 .554 Louisvillos. .37 71 .343 Philadelp’s..s3 50 .515,Washingt’n.31 65 .343 WESTERN ASSOCIATION. W. L. Pc. I W. L. f>c. Sioux Ciiys.s3 48 .525 Kansas C’ys.s2 51 ,50> Omahas4B 44 .£22 Denvers43 57 .430 Lynched Though Gulltess of Crime. Will Lewis, colored, aged 18 years, was lynched at Tullahoma, Tenn. Tho lynching was very quietly done, no one except two prisoners in the calaboose knowing anything about it. Lewis was regarded as a quarrelsome negro, and a few days ago he attempted to kill City Marshal Rainey. He was last arrested t!ff acting In a dlsjrderly manner and Insulting a lady.

Grand Mound, loss, Scourged. Fire broke out at Grand Mound, Clinton County, lowa, and the buildings of Jacobs, harness dealer; Teege, butcher; Leyder, blacksmith; Twogood, hardware; Fitzgerald, druggist, and Moeller and Detleff, hardware merchants, were entirely consumed. The total loss is placed at $20,000. Only a year ago Are devastated the main part of the place. Will Give No Quarter, United States Marshal Grimes, of Caldwell, Kan., who has charge of the remains of Deputy Short, who was killed by one of the Dalton gang, says that from this time it Is a War of extermination, and his deputies will shoot on sight The trail of the Daltons has been found, and every deputy marshal in the territory Is on It To Protect Young Girls. Superintendent Brown, of the Newark, N. J„ Police Department, has Issued an order for the arrest of all girls under sixteen found on the streets after Dp. m. A close watch will be kept on tho regular picnics, and If young girls are found visiting the pienic parks with improper esCbrts they will be taken in charge by the police. The Fire Record, A special dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark., says: Tho town of Charleston. Tex., was partially burned last night. Total loss, $50,000. The court house and records were burned. At Moody, Tex., a very disastrous fire occurred, destroying half tho business portion of the town, including the postoffleo. Loss, $20,000; incendiary. Sla'n with a Ho •• James Winkleblack,residing near Charleston, 111,, who gained an unenviable reputation live or six years a o in connection with tho murder of Nehemlah Fleetwood and wife, is again In court charged with his landlord and neighbor Scott Green's murder. Winkleblack killed Green with a hoe. A Startling Report. It is reported in Washington that the crews of two small steam whalers wintering near the mouth of ths Mackenzie River, about five hundred miles east of Point Barrow, have been massacred by the natives of that region. Rough on Both of Thom. A black snake, over eleven feet in length, attacked Jerry Canfield, of Hamburg, Conn. Canfield was thrown down, and tho wheels of his wagon ran over both him and the snake, breaking his legs and killing the reptile.

To Succee.l Edmunds. Hon. Bed field I’rocfor, now Secretary of War In President Harrison's Cabinet, has been appointed Senator to succeed George F. Edmunds by Governor Page, of Vermont. Owon’s Murderer Captured. At Mansfield, Mo., Sheriff Kllndine captured James Wright, and will take him to Sneedsville, Teun., where he is wanted for murder. Suicide of a Morphine Vic'im. At Salt Lake City. P. T., a carpenter named Wl.l SI errill shot himself through the heart. The effects of the morphine habit led to the suicide. Only Six V«>n hs. An Italian laborer wHb was detected robbing the body of one of the victims of the disaster in New York was sentenced to six months in prison. Apparent’? Destitute. He I ett 817,000. Near St. Louis, Edward Baker died, apparently in destitute circumstances. His relatives in clearing up the house discovered an old trunk containing $17,000. The deceased left a widow and three children, none of whom suspected his having the money. Fell from a Window in Bis Factory. At Yonkers, N. Y., John Howland, a wealthy hat manufacturer, aged fil years, feU from a window of his hat factory, and striking on the stores one hundred feet below, »as killed.

THAT CAUTIOUS FEELINCI 'Pervades Business, Notwithstanding the Exceedingly I'right Prospects. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Daring the past week attention has been absorbed by great excitement in grain. Therw is little room to doubt that the foreign demand will be greater than ever if prices here are not so advanced as to check IL The general business of the country does well, with gradual Improvement in nearly all branches, based on actual Increase of demand from farming States. The general feeling is cautious and conservative. Though the prospect of large trade is bright, In scarcely any branch is there seen a disposition to venture upon large speculative purchases.. Yet the volume of business is probably as large as ever before at midsummer. The business failures during the last seven days number: United States 199, Canada 17, as compared with a total of 227 the week previous. For the corresponding week last year 172 in the United States and 20 in Canada. PLOT TO GAIN 820,000. The Plan Whs to Accuse Employes of Siegel, Cooper & Co. of Arson. Thomas Higgins, William Dalton, George Washington and John Anderson are under larrest, charged with conspiracy and attempted blackmail. Ever since Siegel, Cooper & Co.'s store, State and Adams streets, burned the proprietors have had suspicions that the fire was of Incendiary o'-igln. August Binswanger, attorney for the firm, began a thorough investigation, and caused the arrests. Their plan was a simple one. They agreed to go to tho Insurance companies and propose that on payment of $20,000 they would disclose the parties who had set the buildings on fire, and then confirm each other's story. PALLIUM FOR KATZEIL The Catholic Archbishop Reclves High Honors from His Eminence the Pope. With all tho pomp and grandeur of an ancient and historical eccloslastlclsm, which has its embodiment In the Jioman Catholic Church of the present, his Eminence Cardinal Gibbons Invested with tho pallium the newly elected Archbishop of Milwaukee, the Most. Rev. Frederick Xavier Katzer, D. D., at the Cathedral of St John, Milwaukee. The presence of a prince of ,the church, together with archbishops, ■bishops, arch abbots, abbots, monsignors, and hundreds of priests gave an opportunity for an elaboration of ritual which is seldom attempted In the West DID HE TAKE HIS LIFE? Clark Woodman of Omaha, Neb., Found Dead in a Hoom. The body of Clark Woodman, one of the wealthiest citizens of Omaha, Neb., and an Influential director in the Linseed Oil trust, was found in his room at the Grand Pacific Hotel Chicago. The supposition of every one at all interested personally Is that it was a case of suicide. The cause for such an act is a peculiar mystery, and all the circumstances do not by any means confirm the theory of suicide, which Is, however, strengthened by a few strange and unexplained facts. TOOK THE LAW IN THEIR HANDS An Indiana Murderer Takeu from Jail, Hanged and Filled with Bullets. O(|y Marshal Bruce, of gbelbyvllle, Ind., while endeavoring to stop a quarrel between Charles Hawkins and another man, was shot by Hnwklna A mob of 500 collected at the jail where Hawkins was confined. After gaining an entrance six men came rushing out pulling their victim by the neck. He exclaimed: “Give me time to pray.” They took him to a tree, hanged him up, slfot him full of bullets, and in five minutes she mob had dispersed. THEIR TICKET. Pennsylvania Republicans Have Started the Ball Rolling. State AuditorD. McM. Grego State TreasurerJ. W. Morrison The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met at Harrisburg, and on the first ballot chose the gentlemen name 1 above as candidates for tho respective offices. The Convention took a lively Interest in the surface indications, but committed itself to no candidate for the Presidency. The platform adopted favors tho free coinage- of silver.

BROKE TWO OCEAN RECORDS. The Teutonic Made the Fastest Time from Llrerp. ol to New York. Tho White Star Line steamer Teutonic beat the record for western Atlantic passages. Her time from tho bar at Queenstown to the Sandy Hook bar was five days sixteen hoars and thirty-one minutes. This Is one hour and thirty-seven minutes faster than the time of her sister ship the Majestic. One day the Teutonic steamed 517 miles, which also beats the record of speed for a day.

OHIO’S JE'SE JAMES Is S .foly L-.dged Behind the Prison Bars at Ottawa. James Roberts, arrested at New Washington for the Columbus Grove, Ohio, robbery and murder, was fully identified by Cashier Maple and John Crawford, the hardware dealer who sold him two revolvers. He was taken to the Ottawa jail. He went from the scene of the robbery to New Washington, where he had been the guest of his uncle, Mr. Carson, postmaster of the village. CROPS ARE INJURED. The Recent Heavy Frost Does Great Damage Throughout the Badger Sta e. Frost did considerable damage to crops in Wisconsin. A dispatch received from Necedah states 75 per cent, of the cranberry crop is ruined. The temperature In the canberry belt fell to ten degrees below freezing. From the tobacco sections dispatches say that another frost of this kind will ruin 10,000,000 pounds of tobacco, which Is now being put in sheds. Corn and potatoes suffered severely in some sections. CREMATED IN A CABIN. The Charred Remains ot Benjamin R. Musgrave Found Near Terre Haute, Ind. Terre Haute, Ind., has a ghastly sensation in the charred remains of a human being found in the ruins of a fire eight miles north of the city. It is reasonably certain that the bones are those ot B. R. Musgrave, a real estate dealer of the city up till two years ago, since which time he has been a fugitive from justice. Forced H r to Take Polson. Howard D. Earle, of Buffalo, N. Y., gave his wife a dose of laudanum, and when she threw it off be held a hammer over he; head, forced her to take another dose, ant' left her to die. A woman in the house later discovered Mrs. Earle’s condition and crflled two doctors who resuscitated her. , v Alleged Incendiary Caught. At Indianapolis, Ind., there have been within the last thirty days about seventy* 'five small fires of barns, little dwellinghouses. etq. A man named John Taylor was arrested. He is a house-repairer and small carpenter. His scheme was to burn property and then get the job of repairing, it was his prompt appearance just after

the fires and soliciting for the repairing jobs that led to his ai .est. Skipped with the Cash Box. At Sioux City, lowa, two thousand people gathered at Evans’ Park and paid 25 cents each to see a wild West show that had been extensively advertised. When the crowd was gathered the show people quietly left the ground with the admission fees, and it developed that there was no show of the kind in existence. Some well-known Sioux City people were arrested for complicity la the swindle. Murdered Thirteen Children. Marciano Medina, his wife, and his daughter, living on a ranch at Lomoi di Zomora, in the United States of Colombia, have been arrested, tho first charged with murder and the other two with being accessories in the killing of ten children born to Medina and his wife and three born to his daughter. Medina has confessed, and he shows little feeling now that he has been discovered. Costly B'aze in Texas. At Dallas, Tex., Ardlnger & Rose’s clothing store, F. M. Smith & Co.’s boot and shoo house, and Wardan’s gun store were destroyed by fire. W. F. Shook, a druggist, und W. A. Watkins, piano dealer, were also burned out, as were several doctors and lawyers having on the upper floors of the burned buildings. The loss will aggregate $400,000, with insurance of perhaps a quarter of that sum. Mutiny on a Steamer. The firemen and coal-pass. ts on the Netherlands Line ship Obdam, on her last western passage, rebelled. They put out the fires and stopped the boat when two days out from New York. Captain Bakker promptly shot and killed the ringleader, ending the uprising. Three hundred passengers were on the craft The dissatisfied men were all foreigners, anarchists and socialists. Girls Helping; the Strikers. At Lafayette, Ind., the Lake Erie and Western officials were determined to stnrt their freight trains, but were unsuccessful. Between twenty-five and thirty men arrived from Chicago to man the trains, but the strikers soon had all but two of them won over. The dining-room girls at the St. Nicholas Hotel refused to wait on the men who came to take the strikers’ places. Was the Boy Poisoned? West Brownstown, Ind., Is excited over the sudden death of little George Hughes, two weeks ago. He was an Important witness In a criminal prosecution, and not feeling well a doctor was called, who gave him some medicine. He died. Ono of the parties interested In the suit gave him the medicine. His body will be exhumed and his stomach analyzed. Has a G ><><l Thing; and Known It. The city of Grand Rapids, Mich., bought a seventeen-acre tract without realizing that a half acre In the center of it is owned by a notorious prize-fighter now In Waco, Tex. His piece is worth about S3OO, but he now refuses to sell to the city or any one else for less than $6,000, and if they don’t want to pay it he writes that he will come home and start a beer-garden. Carried Oil by a Buloon. A most remarkable balloon ascension was made at a summer resort fifteen miles below Wilmington, N. C. Charlie Williams, a negro helper to tho aeronaut, was carried to a height of 5,000 feet. It was supposed that Williams had been killed, but just before reaching the ground he disentangled himself, jumped away and escaped unhurt. Bis Body Found in a Creok. The body of Nicolaus Erric was found in Flint Creok, Missoula County, Mont. Ou his person was found a bank-book from Milwaukee, showing a balance of $l,lOO to his credit. He had a second-class ticket from St. Paul to San Francisco and $123 in his pocket. He had doubtless fallen from a train and rolled into the creek. Fruit-Growing; in Oregon. The country around Albany, Ore., in the Willamette Valley, has long been noted especially for its fine climate and “big red apples,” but now acres upon acres are being planted In pears, prunes, cherries and other fruits suitable for canning purposes. More Canneries are needed there to take care of the surplus fruits. Cattle Die on a Tramp Steamer. Tho cable brought news of very heavy mortality among the cattle on the steamer Loch Lomond, which arrived at Dundee from Montreal. The steamship met with a heavy gale and no fewer than 121 of the cattle perished on the voyage. The Loch Lomond Is a tramp steamer and has never carried cattle before.

His Arm Torn off. The door of a car in a freight train swung open as the train neared the Marion station in Jersey City at 9:20 at night as it passed a passenger train. Joseph Kelner, of New Yoi*k, sat with his arm out bf the window of the passenger train. The swinging freight car door caught his arm and tore it from its socket. Relations a Little Strained. The German Minister of Finance has sent a communication to the Emperor asking that the duties on corn be suspended for three months. He ignores Chancellor Von Caprivi by this action, and it is thought that one of the Ministers will be obliged to leave the Cabinet. Canada’s Wheat Crop. Canada will export more wheat this year than ever before. The yield in Ontario will be 30,500,009 bushels, or nearly 10,000,000 more than last year, Manitoba and the Northwest will yield, it is estimated, 30,000,000 and other provinces 2,500,000 bushels, in all about 63,000,000 bushels. < rushed His Skull. Ada, Ohio, Is in a ferment of excitement over a brutal murder. George Stokesbury. a fellow named Stewart, and John Frouth became engaged in an altercation. Stokesbury was knocked down. Fouth struck him with a big stone, crushing in Ills skull. He expired in about half an hour. Sever, Storm in Missouri. Dispatches from several points in Missouri indicate that the storm which did so much damage at Atchison, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., played havoc with the grain in stacks and standing corn, as well as doing immense damage to houses, barns, and outhouses. Desperuti Fight in a Church. A desperate affray at the Methodist Jhurch at Pineville, Wyoming County, W. Va., resulted in the wounding of Sheriff Lambert and the capture of two desperadoes. “Grandpap” Rules and his grandsbn Joe, both under the intludnce of liquor, caused the trouble. Both were jailed. Every Vessel Destroyed. The United States Consul at Martinique, in the West Indies, cables that a hurricane destroyed every vessel in the harbor. A Woman for Judge in Nebraska. The executive committee of the Nebraska Prohibition State Central Committee placed

on their ticket the name of Mrs. Ida M. Blttenbender, of Lincoln,' as candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, K. W. Richardson, the nominee, being found ineligible. Pinkerton Men Placed on Guard. Pinkerton detectives have been taken to Pottsville, Pa., by the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company to assist their own special police In guarding the property at the company’s fishback mill and protecting the non-union men at work. Elberon Hotel and Cottage Sold. The trustees’ sale by Charles S. Brown of the property at Elberon, N. J., known as the Elberon Hotel and the Garfield Cottage, where President Garfield died, took place, and was bld in by the trustees for the sum of $62,000. Fatal Fall of a 'J rain Conductor. As a freight train on the Monon was going down the steep grade at Smithville, Ind., a wheel broke and Walter Ferguson, the conductor, was thrown to the ground; the blood vessels in his neck and his windpipe both burst, and he died. No Beer tor Indians. Secretary Noble has instructed the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to direct Agent Bennett of the Union Indian Agency in the Indian Territory to seize all packages of beer that may be shipped into the . Indian Territory. Two In ane Women Commit Suicide. A double suicide occurred in the Erie County (N. Y.) Jail. Two insane women, Anna Gorosowskl and Catherine Schmidt, hanged themselves with pieces of bedclothing within twenty minutes of each other. Two Firemen Killed by the Cars. A carriage containing H. G. Mulligan, of Greenbush, and J. F. Hickey, of Troy, delegates io the Firemen's Convention at Herkimer, N. Y., with John Lawton, of that village, as driver, was struck by the N. Y. C. express and all were killed, Stabbed His Assailant. Near La Porte, Ind., Washington Keithline assaulted a man named Lewis, whom he knocked’down, and while kicking him in a brutal manner the latter drew a knife and stabbjd Kplthline in the . left side near the heart. Lewis fled. W; ecked by Storms. A violent wind and hail storm passed over country contiguous to Atchison, Kansas, Kansas City. Mo., and Bloomington, Ind., unroofing buildings and doing immense damage. Cairo's Quaint Streets. The World’s Fair directors awarded George Pangelo, a merchant at Cairo, Egypt, the privilege of reproducing a street of his native city at the Columbian Fair. Took His 1 in for Five Cents. Near Jackson, Tenn., James Hardin stabbed and instantly killed J. Edwards, his nephew. Hardin accused Edwards of having spent five cents which had been intrusted to him. Four Men Killed in a Mine. William Janz, G. A. McNeil, Robert Blackburn and Alexander Barron w-ere killed at the Black Bear mine in Ooeur d’Alene County, Idaho, by falling earth. One of the Boodlers Feslgns. At Ottawa, Ont., it is understood Mr. A. Senecal, Superintendent of the Government Printing Bureau, has resigned and that his resignation has b?en accepted.

Dropped Dead While Changing Car*. At Mitchell, Ind., an old lady, aged about 70 years, while changing cars suddenly dropped dead. Her name was McQueen and she was from Renaud, 111. Every 110 ie Broken. A boiler in Spencer’s sawmill at Wallaceburg, Ont., exploded. Fireman Clark Brunson was 1 urled nearly 100 feet, and nearly every bone in his body broken. Gohl Found in Abundance. Carson. Nev., William Zirn, at Pine Nut, Nev., was offered SI,OOO for permission to work his new mine twenty-four hours. In four hour Zirn took out 81,503. Murdered Man Identified. The young man found murdered In a spring south of Indianapolis four weeks ago proves to have been named Gilbert. He was from St. Louis. Killed His Sister. At Chicago a drunken brawl at a christening party resulted in the murder of Mrs. Amelia Darwald by her brother, Albert Kinkl, a laborer. Crowned While Fishing. George Fussell, an old resident of Cumberland, Wls., and his grandson were both drowned while fishing In Beaver Dam Lake. An Old Resident Killed. William Orr, aged 80. the oldest man in White County, Ind., was killed at Monon by a train. Two Men Cremated. At Boston, Mass., two men, asleep in the loft of a stable, were burned to death, as were also two horses.