Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — PRISONERS IN A PANIC. [ARTICLE]

PRISONERS IN A PANIC.

Exciting Eire In the City Prison at Columbus, Ohio. At Columbus. Ohi \ the city prison was discovered to be on lire early the othoi morning. The flames spread through the two upper stories and the volume of watei thrown drencbel the entire building, soaking the cell-rooms beneath. Of the 111 prisoners. eleven tvere females, and during the height of excitement it was thought best tc turn these out. The female prisoners were let loose, and. notwithstanding the cells were being drenched, the male prisoners, although they yelled lustily for liberty, were kept locked. The firemen assured the police that there was no danget of the fire reaching the rooms, and on this assurance the police refused to let them out The scene was one of. indescribable excitement and hundreds of pfrions gathered outside of the ;risjn and cried for the release of the unfortunates.within. The spectators feared the flames would reach the cell-rooms, hut on being assured by Chief Heinmiller that the prisoners were not In danger censed their demands. Loss, 810,000. The origin of the fire Is a mystery. FIVE MEN BURIED. One Killed and Several Hurt by a Fire and Explosion at Itutlalo. An explosion occurred in the boiler-room of Lee, Holland & Co.'s planing mill oc Court streat, Buffalo, causing the death ol one man and the iniury of several others. The 300Jemployes had just begun work when lire was discovered in the sawdust under the boilers. The furnaces are fed witli this sawdust, which Is gathered by a system of blowers. The employes had just succeeded in extinguishing the flames when a loud explosion was heard. The big weill fell out with a crash, and the roof of a passage way fell In upon a score of mill hands who had been at work on the flames. The explosion Is believed to have been caused by the generating of gas in the sawdust as It Is sucked into the pipes which carry it to the furnaces. The loss will reach $15,003. TWO NEW STATES. New Mexico and Arizona Making Strong Claims for Recognition. New Mexico and Arizona will probably enter the Union of the States before the end of the present Congress. Utah will also be an applicant for admission, and it is claimed that she has a larger population than Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada combined, but the lingering traces of Mormonism will probably keep her out. The enabling acts for New Mexico and Arizona are likely to pass next spring or summer, but the States will not conic Into the Union early enough to vote for President next year. They may elect their State officers by autunjn, but they will not take part In the Presidential election until 189(5. National Democratic Convention. The Exective Committee of the National Democratic Committee met at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, and decided to cal) a meeting of the full committee In Washington on Jan. 21 to determine upon the time and place for holding the National Democratic Convention In 1802. The meeting of the Executive Committee was at- I tended by Senators Goxman, Brice, and Barbour. No other business was transacted. Ravages of La Grippe. La Grippe appeared at Plainfield, Conn., a month ago, and nine-tenths of the residents have since been Its victims. There are now over two hundred cases la town. It Is also epidemic In many towns in the -vicinity. In Colchester there are hundreds «Vs eases. Bacon Academy was closed on accounts the epidemic. Many towns In Rhode Island report a large number of cases. Death Caused by Frlglit. Mrs. Charles Bliss, of East Maine, drove to Binghamton, N. Y., with a span of horses. On the way homo the horses were brightened by the puffing of an engine aDd ran a mile before being stopped. Mrs. Blise •was found holding the reins, but neither Moved nor answered when spoken to She was dead. A physician said her death was due to fright. War with Argentine. Paul Borgner, American agent for tho Krupps at San Francisco, says he has n cablegram from the Krupps Informing him that there Is likely to be war between Chill aad Argentine and ordering him to Valparaiso. Tildon Will Case. At Albany, N. Y., In the Court of Appeals In the case of George H. Tllden vs. Andrew Green the motion for reargument and motion to amend remittitur were denied, with the costs. Prince Henry IVed(led. The marriaio of Mary Cornwallis West, daughter of Col. Cornwallis West, M. P.. to Prince Henry of Pless. took place at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, England, COLD IN LARGE PAYING QUANTITIESA Mine Relng Successfully Operated at North Hastings, Ont. If present Indications point to anything North Hastings, Ont, has one of the bestpaying gold mines ever < p rated in America. Forty men are wording in the mine day and night The shaft has been sunk a distance of sixty feet Xu some cases the dirt has yielded f2i to the ton. The ore is «nr averaging $lB, while $4 or $5 is considered a paying average. The redudng Mills have arrived from England and the •re la reduced by a chemical process. -- - Killed with a Base-Ball Bat. Virile two base-ball teams were playing At Brier Ranch, sixty miles west of Sun Astonia, Texas, the players began quarreiiag over a decision of the umpire. William Love struck another player named William Meaaas with a bat, Inflicting injuriea from Mhlefc Remus died soon afterward. Continue, to Improve. The condition of Cyrue W. Field continmm to improve, and his physician# now exopinion that hit final recovery Is «f th* family who have been declared ln-

FIVE KILLED OUTRIGHT. tTjrce Trains in a Wreck on the New York and New England. A terrible accident occurred on the New Tork and New England Railroad at East Thompson, Conn. The steamboat train bound east and two hours late tan into a freight train at a crossing and five porsons were killed outright Another was burned to death In the smoker, which took fire, and several others were seriously injured. Including at least one fatally. The passenger engineer is among the killed. All traffic is blocked. A wiecking train from Norwood with one hundred men lias gone to the scene, as also has a special train with physicians from Boston. The Long Island express was passing on the other track at the time and all three trains were piled up. Tho engineer of the Boston tiain and his fireman were reported killed. Tho cars almost imm f i lately took fire,and doctorshavc been summoned from near-by polnta Tho accident Is said to have lawn due to an open switch.

FOUR FIRE-BUGS CONFESS. Investigation or the Conspiracy at St. I’aul Leads to Startling Disclosures. The St. Paul police have been busy making arrests in the incendiary conspiracy made public, but only four names of the principals have been made public. Moritz Michael, the leader of the gang, has confessed that he was an incendiary in Chicago when he ran a clothing store on Desplnlnes street, between Madison and Monroe, and that he has fired seven houses in St. Paul. His uncle. Marx Michael, Is implicated with him in the last two fires. Julius Rosenthal is mixed up in the same. The fourlh prisoner is Ida Gess, whose house burned a month ago and wtio received her insurance money. Moritz Michael confessed to having, received $509 and some jewels from her. The other arres s are of people whose housoi mysteriously burned and who are to bo put through an Inqulsitition process before their names are given out.

CHAPTER OF DISASTER. Death by Drowning, Falling Walls, and Railway Wrecks. Twelve barges loaded with brick, coming down the Hudson, when opposite Croton Point, N. Y„ were upset, and about twenty persons drowned. When at Croton Point the swash of the river was so great that the tug was compelled to round to, thus forcing the barges to ride each other. Being loaded and the tide washing high they immediately upset. There were sixty men on the twelve barges and only about thirty came ashore. The accident is attributed by many to the carelessness of the pilot of tho tug. Nine mancled and blackened bodies lie at tho St. Paul. Minn., morgue as the result of the falling of a partition wall in the Furwell, Ozmun & Kirk Building, which burned two weeks ago. Another man lies dead at the City Hospital from injuries recciv 1 front falling bricks. SMOTHERED TO DEATH. Father, Mother and Three Sons Lose Their Lives In a Fire. The most distres ing loss of life by fire that has occurred in Detroit since the burning of the Tilden school a couple of years ago, took place tho other morning. Fire broke out in the grocery st>re of George J. Reis, and oomnuuilcating to the dwelling house overhead, smothered to death Reis and liis wife and their three sons, Charles, aged 22. and Jesse and Eddie, aged 11 and 7 years, respectively. The last two were found in their bod and tho older boy was discovered by the firemen lying upon the floor before a window, as If he had realized the daugor and bad attempted to make his escapo by that egress. The father and mother were found locked in each other's arms at the foot of the stairs leading out in o the yard. Their bodies were burned to a, crisp.

HEMLOCK GROWING SCARCE. The Demand for Bark and Lumber Rapidly Exhausting the Supply. Every day that goes by, says a Pittsburg dispatch, brightens up tho hemlock situation. The trade, which has been dull now for nearly a yetjr. Is showing signs of a decided improvement, and observing lumbermen argue that It will never again fall Into the slough which It Is now emerging from. The reasons given are the growing demand for hemlock lumber us tho population of the country grows and the lessening supply. The lumber market was a few years ago exclusively a pine market Hemlock was looked upon with contempt. A raftsman was almost ashamed to run down the river on a hemlock raft and the hemlock tree had no value In the pye of a woodman except for the “cinnamon” that, could be husked from It and sold for tanbark. LOSS MAY BEACH 875,000. Later Particulars of tho Sensational Express Bobbery Near St Louis. The Adams Express Company, It Is now stated, will lose about $75,000 by tho robbery of the ’Frisco night-express car, near Glendale, Mo.,,by six masked men, and the bold “hold-up” Is rapidly developing Into a criminal sensation of the first order. Tho safo of the express company was completely rifled, and although Superintendent Damsel plnced the loss In the neighborhood of $20,000 it Is now known that the safe contained far moro than that amount Superintendent Damsel refuses to deny or confirm the story that the total loss reaches 875,000, hut admits that It exceeded the amount he first gave out as the company’s loss. EXECUTED BY WIRES. Wife Murderer Loppy Electrocuted at Sing Sing. Martin D. Loppy was executed at Sing Sing, N.Y. Prison Chaplain Silas G. Edgerton wa» the first man to emerge from the prison after the execution. He looked very pale and was much agitated. In answer to questions concerning the execution he declined any details, but said It was similar in every respect to the four he witnessed in July. But there was no suffering and no scene. Loppy died easily and went to the chair bravely, giving everyone tho Impression that he did not care whether ho lived or not. There were three contacts, the signals being manipulated by Dr. Laudy.

TORN BY AN EXPLOSION. Two Men Killed and a Sawmill Demolished at Collinsville, Tenu. The boiler of J. W. Houston’s sawmill, at Collinsville, Tenn.. exploded, killing two persons and destroying the entire plant. John Smith, the engineer, had his leg. cut off below the hip and the rest of his body landed in the forks of a treo 150 feet away. Ed Downes was silting on a log eating his breakfast. His clothing was torn Into shreds and his naked lody was found lying fifty yards away. An Iron pipe twelve feet long was hurled against a tree with so mash force that it pierced it. The loss Is $5,000. CITIZENS IN A STATE OF TERROR. Another Murder In Johnson County, Wyo., Supposed to Be theVork of Rustlers. Johnson County, Wyoming, furnishes another assassination. The Tisdale inquest was yet in session when the body of Ranger Jones, another small ranchman, known as a range pirate, was brought in. He was found dead in his wagon, shot in the back from ambush twice. This was In a gully on an old road three miles from where Tisdale met his fate. Jones, like Tisdale, had been into Buffalo for supplies. War has been declared, and the contending parties are the rustlers or thieves and those .conducting the range beef business in a legitimate manner. Johnson County is thief-bidden. They control the local elections atid have organised under a thin disguise to further the common purpose of enriching them-

aclves off the herds of others. This secretly organized society has a membership of fully 200, and has terrorized Johnson and Sheridan Counties. Over a hundred armed cowboys are on the streets of Buffalo anxious to punish the assassins. A guard hile been placed over the guns of the local militia. FOREIGN TREASURE. Gold Galore Received in San Francisco from Australia. Foreign gold has boen actually dumped into San Francisco during the past few months It has arrived in the form Of English sovereigns from the Australian banks. The records show that during the past few months over $7,000,000 worth of gold sovereigns has arrived from Sydney and Auckland banks. Tho Mariposa, wLich arrived from Australia, brought over nearly $3,000,000 worth of sovereigns, and the bulk of them have been received at the United States mint on Fifth street. All the sovereigns are recoined into S2O gold pieces and go idto circulation. Until this year the Imports of sovereigns or other treasure from the colouies has never exceeded $3,000,000. The volume of business has been increasing gradually, however, and will probably be maintained hereafter.

Congress in Session. Tho Fifty-second Congress is a thing of life. It met at 1> o’clock on the 7tli, but almost immediately adjourned. The older and more aristmcratlc twin, under the presiding genius of the Vice President, became a well-organize 1 body at once. People came from long distances to see it, and at an early hour of the morning the spectators on the terrace of the Capitol looking down Pennsylvania avenue saw a long line of worthy citizens, male and female, marching through the rain. The marchers climbed the steep steps, entered the bull ling, clogged the corridors and stairways and pressed hard against the doors Such as chose the Senate were admitted at ten o'clock. Men and women, young, old. and rniddleoged, jumped over, fell over, and were pushed over the backs of the seats until tho seats and aisles were packed as no one in the House had ever seen them picked before. Such as were fortunate enough to secure tickets to the private gallery fared better, but all were packed and none except the executive and diplomatic galleries, which were only partly filled, contained a fourth of those who craved admittance. When the hands of the clock over the main entrance to the house indicated the hour of 12 o'clock Clerk McPherson rose and smiting the newtopped Speaker’s desk with Ills gavel called the members to order. It took six good hearty raps to execute his order. Then when a hush was obtained he announce! that the roll would he called. It took half an hour to do this, and three hundred and twenty-six members answered to their natuos. A Manufacturer's Suicide. At Trenton, N. J., John T. Stapler, a cracker manufacturer and prominent business man, shot himself dead. His wife was packing the trunks preparatory to a trip tc Bermuda with him when the fatal shot was fired. Mr. Stapler had recently purchased an elegant mansion, and had fitted it up in grand style Previously he had lived very plainly, and it is believed that his new responsibilities and increased cost of living affected Ills mind. Explosion of a Steel Furnace. At Baltimore, while workmen were making repairs to a furnace at the Sparrow Point steel works, a terrific explosion ol gas occurred which resulted in the giving way of the lower part of tho furnace, fatally injuring three men and more or less seriously wounding several others. The damage to machinery and stock was slight and will be repaired in a few days. Hundreds of Rabbits Bugged. As a result of an all-day, four-sided rabbit hunt In Ripley tow nship, near Crawfords ville, Ind., about 1,000 of the longeared pets were bagged, tho winning side killing 533. On account of the recent mild winters rabbits havo become a nuisance in that section and match hunts are becoming all the rage.

Tried to Thaw tho Cartridges. At Eagle Gorge, Wash., a workman named Charles Rodgers was killed and a track watchman by the name of Henry O'Neill fatally wounded by an explosion ol giant powder. The cartridges were frozen and Rodgers attempied to thaw them out In u bonfire. Three Millions Untouched. The private str ng box of Frank Jones, president of the Boston & MalntMttiilroad, was taken from the vaults of the wrecked Maverick Bank at Boston and opened. It was found to contain $3,900,000 iu securities and coin, and all was found undisturbed. Kan on a Beef. The Pacific Mali’s new steamship Nicaragua struck on a sunken reef off Acajutta, San Salvador, and sank. She was bull! last June by the Cramps for the Central American servlco of the Pacific Mail and cost $300,000. Cashier Ferclval Stole Thousands. At Lewiston, Me., specifications were filed by the Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn in its suit against tho bondsmen of exCashler Perclval, showing that Perclval’t stealings amounted to $187,455. Brice Sued for Taxes. The Treasurer of Alton County. Ohio, filed suit against United States Senator Calvin S. Brice for 517.350 delinquent taxes. Fxlt Horn Pedro. At Paris, after an illness which has been regarded serious hut from which he apparently rallied, Pom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, died. Harriott Makes Confession. Louis Harriott, the slayer of Mrs. Cbarlei T. Reynolds, at Atlantic Highlands, N. J., has confessed that he murdered the woman.