Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — NINE MEN MANGLED. [ARTICLE]

NINE MEN MANGLED.

FOUR KILLED, FIVE FATALLY INJURED. A Five-Tear-Old Maniac—Railroad Accident in Minnesota-Sunk in the Sea— Through a Burning Trestle—Queer Collateral. ) JUNE MEN MANGLED BY POWDER. Four Instantly Killed, Five Fatally Injur* cd, and One Driven Insane. While a gang of workmen were drilling rock near Great Falls, Mont., a hole containing powder became choked with some “wash” and the foreman immediately started to drill it out, A spark ignited the powder, causing a terrible explosion. Four of the meu were Instantly killed and five injured so seriously that there is no hope for their recovery. The foreman escaped to the woods and It is thought he had gome insane over the accldent caused by his carelessness. IT\ T E-T£AK*OID MANIAC. Little Nellie Copeland Sent to Kankakee for Trying to Kill Her Mother. Nellie Copeland, of Indianapolis, five years old. has been-committed to the Kankakee (III.) insane asylum. It is thought she has but one chance in a thousand of being cured. The child has been Insane since her birth. When six months of age she developed a desire to burn things and tear clothes When a year old she gashed a girl’s face with broken glass Before she was two years old she could talk volubly and could rout her brothers of ten and twelve years In an argument. At the ngo of three she developed a mania for killing domestic animals and had to be watched lest she harm her brothers and sisters. A year ago she learned the alphabet; and she has mastered geography and invaded astronomy. The act which brought about her incarceration was an attempt to murder her sleeping mother with a fork and attempting to commit suicide the next day. SEIZED THE SKELETONS. Queer Collateral for a New York Bank’s Loan. In New York City the Sheriff went on a hunt for a lot of skeletons under a writ of replevin for about $3,000 which the National Bank of Deposit of New York obtained against the firm of Sardy, Coles & 00., No. 141 Malden Lane, who failed a lew weeks ago The bank claims a lien on the property, It Is said, for advances made. After a long search the Sheriff’s officers discovered in Malden Lane four entire articulated skeletons, eight skulls, innumerable bones, and other portions of anatomy which they were very chary In handling. The replevin calls for skeletons, but they have not yet been found. DISAPPEAHED IN THE SEA. The Volcanic Island Off Palermo Has Already Sunk Under the Sea. The low volcanic Island which rose so suddenly out of the sea near Palermo, and from which fire was emitted, has entirely disappeared, even the water that covers It having ceased to boll. The volcanic Island of Pantellarla, sixty miles from the Sicilian coast and fifty-eight square miles In extent, which has experienced severe shocks within the last week, is now quiet and the inhabitants are resuming their ordinary occupations. The Satire northern portion of the Island has been lifted two feet, while the eastern coast Is also higher than It was formerly.

CYCLONE IN OHIO. Great Damage at Conneaut—Wrecks "Reported on Lake Erie. A terrible cyclone struck Conneaut, Ohio, destroying about thirty houses and causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. The storm was rery severe all through Northern Ohio, and much damage to shipping Is reported. In Cleveland the velocity of the wind was from thirty to forty miles an hour, and Lake Erie was literally “turned Inside out ” Several vessels are reported to have been wrecked. DDE TO RECKLESS RUNNING. Cause of the Terrible Kailway Accident Near Molraas. Further details regarding the frightful railway accident at Molrans. France, where fifteen were killed and flfty injured, fifteen fatally, show that It was caused by excessive speed around sharp curves and over a portion of the road that had lately been rebuilt. The train went over an embankment forty feet high and a dozen carriages He wrecked at the bottom of the ravine. KILLED FIVE VICTIMS. Terrible Accident on the 800 Railroad at Thorsen, Minn. A terrible accident happened at Thorsen Station, Minn., on the 800 Kallroad, by which five persons were killed and seven seriously injured. A regular west-bound freight-train was switching at the station, when it was run Into by a west-bound extra running at a high rate of speed. The caboose of the regular train was completely telescoped. All the dead and Injured were in this car.

Went Up in Smoke. Government statistics show that French smokers consumed In 1890 2,000,000 francs’ worth of foreign cigars, 2,600,000 worth of cigarettes, 29,000,000 worth of snuff and $1,000,090 worth of pipe tobacco. There Is aa Increase of 700,000 francs In the expend•ure for ladies’ cigarettes. There is one anti-tobacco society In France. Tilden’s Will Broken. Thd judgment of lower court In tbe contest of the will of Samuel J. Tilden was affirmed by tbe New York Court of Appeals. By the terms of the decision the Tilden trust is rendered void and the estate ,of 98,000.000 Is to be divided among the seven children of Governor Tilden’s brother and sister. . . . , ' Burned to Death. At Taunton, Mass.. Alpheus Hunt, an elderly man, was burned to death. His son was awakened by the smell of smoke. He rushed down-stairs and found the house ablate and his father dead, tbe lower part of bill body being burned. The house was partially destroyed. -* Went Through a Trestle. Near Birmingham, Ala, a passenger train on the Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, consisting of two coaches, went through a burning trestle and was entirely consumed. The passengers had .1 miraculous escape, breaking through tko windows Shaken by Earthquakes. Two more earthquake shocks have occurred la the Island of Pontellana. They were very severe, wrecking four dwellings aad injuring many people. Advices from Iceland are to the effect that Mount Hecla hae decreased in activity since the present outbreak la Italy. During the eruption in Footellana SOO convicts escaped from a castle where they were confined and began Judge H K. Higginbotham, one of tbe Sr lo uir«iL'^ «* COM treatment at PlalnfieM. He took

<he Ejection for two days died. He stumped the State of New York with Roscoe 'Oonkilag for Garfield In 1880. CBU.I MUST ANSWER. Mlqlster Rgitn Talks Pointedly to tlie Junta. The Hutted States Government, through Minister Egan, has formally demanded reparation from the Government of Chili for the attack recently made In Valparaiso upon a number of the seamen of the United Staites cruiser Baltlmoro. The demand made by the United States Minister Is no Informal suggestion that the government at Washington expects some kind of satisfaction for the killing and wounding of the Baltimore sailors. It Is a friendly put notification, given according to direct orders received from 1 the State Department at Washington, that the United States demands an immediate explanation of the whole affair Vgd jKfparation for the injuries Inflicted. Acting upon the instructions sent to him from Washington, Mr. Egan presented the demand to the Junta, with a detailed statement of the results of the investigation made by Captain Schley', tit the Baltimore, and by Mr. Egan himself. Chilians try to smooth over the assault upon and imprisonment of the American sailors by classing it as a simple street row. Up to the present time the Junta! has expressed no regret for the attack made on the American sailors. PERHAPS THE POPE WILL FLEE. Personal Safety May Require His Holiness to Quit Home. The Kev. D. S. Phelan, editor of the Western Watchman, St Louis, Mo., who keeps up a correspondence with Rome that places him in possession of facts that might almost be considered official, was questioned as to his views on the recent sensational rumors concerning the state of affairs now existing there, and-the talk that the Pope might leave. He said: “I would not cousider the exit of the Pope a political move, a coup d'etat, as it were, which would bring to the Immediate notice of the powers his exact helplessness. If he leaves Rome It will be only because he has been forced to It to Insure personal safety. He will not leave Rome with the object of returning to his ancient Inheritance the more speedily. In regard to the coming conclave all talk in regard to It Is speculation. If the Pope were to die to-morrow I believe that the conclave would be held In Rome, and Austria and Prussia would guarantee Its freedom.” INDIANS AND POLICE FIGHT. Two Redskins and an Officer Killed In a Conflict In Canada. Word was received at Assinabolne, Mont., of a battle between a band of Blood Indians and a force of Canadian mounted police, just across the boundary line. The Blood Indians, who are old-time .enemies of the police, made a raid on a band of horses belonging to the latter a few days ago and ran off with nearly all of them. Ten of the police started In pursuit, and, coming upon them suddenly, both sides commenced firing, and the first flro killed one policeman and two Indians. Several were wounded on both sides. The news was brought In by a Blackfoot who witnessed the fight The fight was still in progress when he left. Col. Bates, commander at Fort Assinabolne, has ordered a troop of cavalry to take a station at the Blackfoot Agencytas a precautionary measure to restrain the Indians at that agency from taking any part In the disturbance. OPENED MANY NEW SPRINGS. Hot and Cold Water Started to Flowing by the California Earthquake. The recent earthquake in Central and Northern California occasioned phenomenal results In Sonoma County. On the Polpulo ranch of J. E. Peppe the ground was cracked and seamed In various places. Front these narrow openings In tho earth large quantities of water of various temperatures have been gushing forth over since. In somo places the water Is ice cold, while In others It Is warm, reaching a temperature of 100 degrees. The Polpulo ranch has always been noted for Its many springs, but the recent earthquake has opened up many new ones, some hot and somo cold, and caused the old ones to gush forth ten times the amount of their previous flow. The flow of Gen. Valejo’s artesian well has been Increased about 100,000 gallons per twenty-four hours. BOLD SAFE ROBBERY. Masked Men Hold Up Omaha Street-Car Men and Blow' Open the Strong Box. One of the boldest safe burglaries ever known occurred in Omaha. Superintendent Beals, together with two other employes of the Omaha Street Railway Company, was seated in the company’s office in the cartarn when four masked men entered and, drawing revolvers, commanded them to hold up their hands. Two of the men stood guard while the others went to work on the safe. A hole was quickly bored In the heavy door near the combination and a quantity of powder placed within. The explosion was terrific, blowing the safe door fully thirty feet. Here was storod about 81,200. The contents of the safe were captured and the safe blowers made their escape in the darkness, but before going they cut the telephone wire communicating with the city.

PERSISTENT MISCREANTS. Three Men Suspected of the Attempted Train-Wrecking at Reading Arrested. The attempt to .an express train on the Great Westorn Railway by placing sleepers on the line near Reading, England, proves to have been most determined and diabolical After the engine had plowed its way through the obstruction and the train had proceeded the wreckers returned and laid two huge pieces of timber across the rails a little further along the line, and an iron rail cut in ttro was jammed in between them. Already three have been arrested, and there Is good reason to believe that all the miscreants were discharged workingmen who had bean employed on a railway extension nearGorring.

ARE SHY OF CHINA. Foreign Officers Unwlllng to Accept Places in the Celestial Navy. It Is reported that tbe Chinese Government, in view of the threatening condition of its foreign relations, especially with Russia, is anxious to procure English officers of experience for subordinate commands. This, it Is believed, will be difficult, In consequence of the bad treatment accorded to Captain Lang, who, after building up the navy to considerable efficiency, was driven In to resigning. The Chinese Government then declared that it would never again Intrust real authority to any foreigner, and it Is hard to find competent foreign naval officers willing to serve under the Chinese. THROUGH A BURNING TRESTLE. Two Lives Lost in a Disaster on a Southern Railroad. At Hatchet’s Creek, seventy miles east of Birmingham, Ala., oh the Colombia and Western Road, a freight train loaded with coal ran into a burning trestle. The engine and two cars passed over, but eleven cars and the caboose went down. Conductor A. Klee and Flagman L. R. Crawford, who were in tbe caboose, were killed and the bodies were burned, together with the* train. Engineer J. D. Hendrix, In attempting to rescue them, was badly hurt. Sparks from a passing locomotive caused the fire. WORK OF DYNAMITERS. Attempt to Blow Up Hie Office of a McCarthy!** Paper. Great excitement was caused in Dublin by an apparent attempt to blow up tbe •Bee of the National Prow, the or-

gan nt the McCarthyllfch The members of the staff of the paper were Just on the point of beginning the night's work when a bomb fell in the area In front tit the windows on Abbey street, where the editors’ rooms are situated. The bomb exploded with a tremendous report, but fortunately there was no one In these particular rooms at the time, and consequently no one was hurt. It is thought to have been the work of Parnellltes. DEATH OF J. M. SHELLY. Prominent in Keokuk Business Circles and lowa Politics. J. M. Shelly, one of the oldest residents of Keokuk, lowa, died suddenly. Deceased had long been prominently identified with the business and political history of the State. He served in both houses of the Legislature. He leaves a wife and two sor.a, William F. and George M., both of Kansas City, the latter having been Mayor and postmaster of that place. GORED BY A STEER. Five Pittsburg Citizens Injured, One Fatally, by a Maddened Beast. A wild Texas steer escaped from the Herrs Island Stock Yards and for a time created a panic on the streets of Allegheney, Pa. Five persons were gored by the frenzied beast, one of them, a small boy. it is thought, being fatally hurt A party of citizens with guns and revolvers finally ran the steer down, and it was shot dead, W. H. SMITH IS DEAD. The Government Leader In Parliament j Passes Away. The Rt Hon. William Henry Smith, First j Lord of the Treasury, Warden of tho Cltnque Ports, and the government leader In the House of Commons, who had been ill at London for some time, suddenly suffered a relapse and died. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: General business Is remarkably active and Increasing in volume at the West, improving at the South, and distinctly less dull than it was a week ago at Eastern cities. Collections are Improving in nearly all directions. Iho money markets are nowhere stringent, at nearly all Important pdints being quite easy, though with a noticeable improvement in the demand. These signs plainly promise a strong trado for the fall and winter, unless disturbances which cannot now bo foreseen should Interrupt. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number for the United States 207, and for Canada 42, or a total of 240, as compared with a total of 259 last week, and 270 the week previous to tho last. For tho corresponding week of lust year the figures were 225, representing 203 failures In the United States and 22 in tho Dominion of Canada. Deriding the Rainmakers. Private advices received from San Diego and other towns of the section wherein the recent Governmental rainmaking experiments were made utterly discredit the first reports, and the correspondents assert that after nearly seventy-two hours of continuous bombarding not enough rain fell to lay the dust. What did fall was brought down by a norther which blew up that night and caused showers at many points outside the sphere of the exploders. Russian Crop Prospects Brighten. Plentiful rains are falling In the southern provinces of Russia, completely changing the prospects for next year’s crops. The work of plowing and sowing is proceeding with vigor, and tho peasants no longer despair of a good yield from their fields. Safety of the Wisconsin. The steamship Wisconsin, of the Guion Line, which sailed from New York for Liverpool,. Oct 11, and about whose safety there was some slight uneasiness, has arrived In port. White Murderer Lynched. John Rush, a young white man, was lynched at Columbia, 1.a., for the murder of Hager Sterling, an old colored woman. The murder was a brutal one and entirely unprovoked. Pressed for Funds. Tho factory of tho American Cash Register Company, located at Philadelphia, has been closed by the Sheriff upon two judgments, one of 86,200 and the other of $1,700. Makes tho Duty Twenty Francs. The French Cabinet has rejected the recommendation of the customs committee for a 25-franc duty on salt meats and has accepted a 20-franc duty. Snow in the Adlrondacks. The Adlrondacks have been visited by a heavy snow-storm. At Baranac Lake three Inches of snow has fallen and the storm continues. May Lose Her Mind. Mrs. Parnell is still unable to take food. It is now feared that her mind may give way. Her situation Is most critical. Sustain the Cabinet. At Buenos Ayres, a vote of confidence In the Ministry has been passed by both housos of Congress by a large majority. Four Hundred Houses Burned. Fire has destroyed the town of Dida, Russia. The Government offices and over 400 other buildings were consumed. Eight Were Killed. In a railway disaster near Molrans, France, eight persons were killed and thirty seriously wounded. Died at the Age of One Hundred Years, Enos Frlsbee died in Harwlnton, Conn., aged one hundred years and four months.