Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — HOUSEWITHOUT A HEAD [ARTICLE]

HOUSEWITHOUT A HEAD

MR. M’MILLIN IS TEMPORARILY SPEAKER. ! Trouble Imminent at Coal Creek, Tenn— Bert sive YVUI Bob No Trains for Twenty YeaA—Heavy Damages for an Indiana Girl. At Washington. It I After th 3 three-day recess of the two houses the Senators were not very punctual Ik their attenuance on the 22d, for not onefourth of the whole number was present when the opening prayer was offered. The calendar wns taken up and hills were disposed of as follows: House Joint resolution concerning mining debris In California: passed. Appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Bl<tnarck. N. D.; passed. To fix the compensation of keepers und crews of lifesaving stations; passed. Keepers of life-saving stations—except stations known as bouses of refuge—are to be paid SSOO per year, and members of the crews of stations aro to bo paid SOS per month during the time the stations are manned. House bill to provide an additional mode of taking depositions of witnesses > In causes pending In the United States courts (allowing depositions to be taken under State laws), was passed. The bill to prevent the adulteration of misbranding of food and drugs wns then taken up as tho “unfinished business,” and Mr. Paddock (who Is in charge of It) made t some brief remarks in its support. Mr. Bate and Mr. Coke spoke against the hill. Without acWontho Senate went into executive -session and soon adjourned. Tho House held a short session. twt transacted no business, ROASTED HER EYES. The Fiendish Act of a Young Colored Boy In Gooigla. News of a horrible story of murder and cannlbafism near Kay’s Mill, Go., has been received. Lucy President, a degraded and idiotic nogro woman, left her 9-month-old Infant In charge of her two older children. Mark and Linda, aged respectively 11 and 8 years. After her departure Mark resolve ' upon putting the Infant out of the way. HO told his sisUr what he proposed doing, at the same telling her that If she told ho would kill her. Procuring an ax, he deliberately hacked the Infant’s body until death resulted; ho then took a fork und gouged out the eyes of tho little one, which ho ronsled,%nd then, taking a slice out of either jaw, ho and his sister sat themselves down to a -feast. When the mother returned and found what had been done she did not show the least sign of maternal grief. THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. President Polk of tho Farmers’ Alliance Chosen Permanent Chairman. At the People’s Party Convention In Sf. Louis President Polk of tho Farmers' Alliance was unanimously chosen as permanent chairman. Miss Frances Willard was elected one of the vice presidents, and John W. Hayes, of the Knights of Labor, was made secretary. In taking the gavel Mr. Polk ■aid the convention had assembled foi action and recommended that active work ba commenced. SPEAKER CRISP SERIOUSLY ILL. The Judge Not Likely to Resume His Du. ties for a Long Time. Speaker Crisp Is a very sick man, and his condition during the last few days has given his old friends at Washington serious alarm. Mr. Crisp started for Florida, but returned to the hotel, being 100 111 to attempt the voyage. Mr. McMiUln was elected to preside daring tho absence of tbs Speaker. y win Havj 5,000 Tickets. Members of the local committee on arrangements for the National Democratic Convention mot tho members of tho National Democratic Com mitten at the Iroquois Club, in Chicago, to discuss the lssuanco of tickots of admission and other matters. At the conclusion of the conference Mr. Winston said the committees had arrived at a satisfactory agreement. _Thls Is understood to mean that the local committee w ill be allowod to disburse the 5,000 tickets asked for local distribution. Shooting at Coal Creek. A dispatch from an officer on duty witl the force of State troops at Coal Creek Tenn., says a slight skirmish occurred there. Privates Moore. Middleton and Moon, while on picket duty, were fired ai by bushwhackers. A reserve relief sent tc »M them was also fired on, and answerer ■with a volley, which seems to have don* execution, as one of the bushwhacking party was seen to throw up his hands.

First Natural Death at Hope. Idaho. James Duffy, a former bartender, has th< distinction of being the first person of Hope Idaho, to die a natural death. He went t< the Sisters’ Hospital some time ago to b< (treated for consumption, but tbs expense W*B toogreat for him and he returned anc died. He Vai an s*-s "Idler and drew £ pension of $lB a month! Miss Wood Given a Verdict, \ At Greencastle. Ind., In the suit of Mildred J. Wood vs. The Big Four Railway Company, In the Circuit Court, a jury gavi the plaintiff judgment for $12,000. Th« •mount asked for was $25,000.. The youns \ lady was badly Injured at a grade crossinf eeveral months ago, Twenty Years for Slye, In the Circuit Court of Clayton County, 110.. Adelbert Slye. the Glendale train rob"ber, who pie ado 3 guilty to. the charge o. robbery In the first do tree, was sentenced to twenty years In the psnltentlary. Kaliway Traffic Suspended. Railway communication between Conatantlnople and Western Europe is stll' •impended, owing to inundations. Heirs to 82,000,000. Three Buffalontans have fallen heir to i fortune of $2,009,000 left by au uncle ll ‘Kew York City. Six Years for Simmons. At New York United States Judge Addi eou Brown signed the order in mandate o the United States Supreme Court sentencing James A- Simmons to six years Imprisonment In the Erie County penitentiary. Simmons was one of the clique engaged In bank wrecking a couple of year •go In New Ytrla At Bay In a Coal Mine. BUI Davis, known as “Horsehead Bin,” i negro murderer, who escaped from Pocahontas, Va., while under sentence of death was captured in a coal mine near Plnevllla Ky., where he had found employment Springfield Gets It Springfield won the fight for the Illinois Haaoocratic State Convention, and the date Mt for this momentous gathering is April 27, *ad the hoar for convening 2 o’clock p. m. : "The representation is fixed at one delegate *e each *OO Democratic votes for Cleveland I* the last presidential election. ■Wrecked Off Cape Hatteras. The echooner Annie E. Pierce, of Wil*«*lagtoc, Del., went ashore off Cape Hatter**, and W»a driven upon the rocks, which at this point are considered the •sort daugerousr'cm the Atlantic coast. Ihe eaate was Instantly killed and the cupPci is-. . - -Vef*- - , a

GOLD IN THE TABLE. It Had Formerly Belonged to a Miser Who Died Years Ago. An old oak table that had been kept in the family of Mrs. T. B. Hatcher of Omaha for twenty years as a curiosity went to pieces under tho investigations of an Omaha newspaper man, and revealed to its astonished owners a secret drawer In which was concealed a fortune of healthy proportions. It appears that about twenty years ago Mrs. Hatcher’s father attended the salo of the property of a miser named Rempke, near Clinton, lowa. Ills attention was attracted to an oddly built and curiously carved oak center table about twentyfour Inches long and eighteen lncbes wide, which he purchased for a trifle The table had one shallow drawer. The purchaser toak his property home and kept it for years, giving It a few years ago to Mrs. Hatcher. Sunday an Omaha newspaper man who was visiting Mr. and Mrs Hatcher noticed the odd carving of the table and started to examine it. A small seam along one side of the table caught the newspaper man’s eye, and he began an examination which resulted fn the discovery of a secret drawer, which was soon opened. Here was a surprise. Securely wrapped in a piece of g-unny-sack was nearly $40,000 in gold, legal tender. State bank notes and some old Confedorato bills. Mr. and Mrs. Hatcher wore simply dumbfounded. PROSPECTS NOT BRIGHT. Dun's Review Says There's Nothing Encouraging In the Business Outlook. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Trade Review says: The business situation Is not so satisfactory or encouraging as It has been. While the gradual Increase In distribution of many lines of merchandise continues, there ,1s shrinking demand and much depression In Iron. A further decline In cotton blights hopes of revival In the Southern trade, and tho speculative mania, stimulated by cheap money and by the great success of tho coal speculation, now extends to wheat and threatens to restrict exports. Notwithstanding the fact that exports of wheat have been diminishing, and for four days of tbo present week have been only 800,000 bushels from Atlantic ports, while Western receipts continue large, speculation at Chicago has lifted the price 6% cents during the week, and sales have been 57,000.000 busliels. An advance from any cause which cuts off exports of breadstuffs at a time when Europe has heavy demands for stocks marked here would not be wholesome. Corn has declined half a cent, with large exports, but large receipts. Pork products, oats, and coffee are substantially unchanged, and oil Is V,i cents higher on small transactions. Cotton is a shade lower, receipts being 24 per cent better for tho week than last year, but exports 36 per cent, greater.

O. M. TOWNER MISSING. Representative of a Chicago Syndicate Has Not Been Seen for Three Weeks. O. M. Towner, Vice President and General Manager of the Northwestern Farm-Land Company, a syndicate of Chicago capitalists heavily Interested In North Dakota farming lands und engaged In tho German colonization schema for growing barley, mysteriously disappeared throo weeks ago from Grand Forks, N. D. His friends and business associates are totally at a loss to account for his absence. They fear he has met with foul play. Towner was last seen Sunday, Jan. 29, In Minneapolis, at tho Windsor hotel, where ho was not In tho habit of staying. On that day lie told Arthur Noyes, a Minneapolis attorney of the syndicate, that certain private business would engage him until the Monday following. He had between S2OO and S3OO In his possession. His relations with the company are straight, and his business prospects were exceedingly bright

HIS MANIA IS YOUNG GIRLS. Jonathan Roberts Trying to Get 16-Year-Old Girls to Murry Him. Jonathan Roberts, 84 years old, an orthodox Quaker, and one of tho oldest, best known and wealthiest men In Eastern Indiana, will be the subject of inguest In tho Circuit Court at Richmond. Ills son has filed a petition asking that a guardian he appointed to take care of his estate, allowing that ho Is a monomaniac on the subject of young girls. Tho old man Is worth $500,000. A few months ago Roberts had a severe attack of typhoid fever. When bo recovered It was wilth a mania for tho company of young girls, and ever since ho has been looking for a 16-year-old child who would marry him. He has found several who have so planned as to get several thousand dollars from him.

RECIPROCITY WITH MEXICO. N gotlatlons Dropped for the Present—Another Effort Will Be Made. A rumor has been current at City of Mexico that tho negotiations for a reciprocity treaty between tho United States and Mexico had beon broken off. It Is authoritatively stated, however, that the negotiations have only been temporarily suspended In order to allow the Government to examine the counter propositions that have been made. The Mexican Government rejected the American propositions last fall, whereupon Mr. Ryan, the American Minister, presented counter proposition", which the authorities still havo under consideration. TO INSPECT THE FAIR. Trip of Many Congressmen by Specla Train to Chicago. Four special trains from Washington arrived in Chicago, baurlng members of Congress to visit tiie city and inspect the World’s Fair grounds. The weather was of the most miserable description when they arrived, but an extended trip about the city was made. The Congressmen came to Chigago with a view to deciding just how -badly tho exposition was in nood of an appropriation from Congress.

Millions Die In Ashes. The most disastrous fire of a decade swept New Orleans the other night. More than $2,000,000 worth of property is in ruins The losses on stock as near as can be estimated are as follows: A. S. Schwartz, dry goods, $500,000: P. Wcrloln, pianos and musical Instruments, $80,"00; Clenverius, drugs, $8,200; Runkle, dry goods, $75,000; Wenger, beer garden, stick and building, $32,000; R. H. D. Holmes, dry goods, $25,000; Kuehn, fancy goods. $75,000; Hoffman Bros.. $18,000; Leopold Levy, carpets and mattings, $50,000; Krueger, dry goods, $30,000; B. Fellman, dry go ids, $210,000. Pugilistic Statesmen. Senator Finn knocked down and severely chastised Doorkeeper H. .M. Belvel lu the Senate Chamber at Des Moines, immediately after the adjournment the other day. Belvel is a newspaper correspondent and in a recent letter alluded to Finn In an uncomplimentary way. Yellow Fever at Ecuador. United States Consul General Sorsby, who was among the refugees arriving by the last steamer from Guayaquil, Ecuador, reports a yellow fever epidemic there which is assuming most alarming proportions. M. Maydleux, the French vice consul, was among the latest victims

On Their Way to Liberia.' More than a hundred negroes and Indians, most of them without a penny, arrived In New York from Red Land, which is a part of the Cherokee Nation reservation In Arkansas. They were on their way to Africa, where they Intended to form a colony. Says Drinking Is No Sin. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a sensation grew out of a sermon on temperance as distinguished from total abstinence, preached by Rev. J. C. Beagen, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. The reverend gentle-

man claimed that total abstinence Is not a divine command. Hardly had the benediction been pronounced when the congregation gathered In groups and began to excitedly discuss the views expressed In '.be sermon. Some sided with the minister, others bitterly condemned him, stating that they would never enter the church doors again, while still others thought it would have been bettor not to have been so outspoken.

WALKED IN HIS SLEEP. Dime Museum Manager Shroff Badly Injured While In a Somnambulistic Fit. A. J. Shroff, 29 years old, manager of a Chicago dime museum, received probably fatal Injuries while upon a somnambulistic expedition In his hotel, Monday Mloming. His room was on the third floor, and from one of the windows access could be had to an area covered by a skylight Shroff arose In his sleep and walked out upon tho skylight It gave way under his weight, und he was precipitated forty feet to the paving below. Both his logs were fractured, and several ribs were broken. Besides these fractures, ho sustained severe Internal Injuries, whloh will probably cause his death. STUDENT GREETING TO CLEVELAND. Ann Arbor Given Over to Washington’s Birthday. Grover Cleveland has reason to b,e proud of blsrecoptlcn at Ann Arbor. Tho city was In holiday attire, and almost every Inhabitant turned out to do honor to the exPresldcnt No attempt at a partisan demonstration was made, and he was hooked for an address on the life and services of Georgo Washington, a subject which appeals more to patriotism than partisanship The general tenor of the address was such as to please the mixed audience who thronged University Hall to listen to It.

Mr. Bold has Resigned. The Paris Gaulols states that Whitelaw Reid, the American Minister to France, has resigned, and will soon leave Paris for the United States. The report lacks confirmation, but Is generally credited In official circles. At New York, the report that Minister Reid has resigned finds no confirmation in the Tribune office. It is known among newspaper editors and publishers, however, that for some time past the Tribune’s editor has eontemplated resuming his journalistic labors, A Washington dispatch says: An unofficial report comes from the Stale Department that the resignation of Whitelaw Reid has been received. Outwitted a Gas Monopoly. The Capital City Gas Company, Des Moines, which has a monopoly, is striving hard to bold its exclusive privilege and keep up the price of an inferior article of gas. The Council passed an ordinance reducing the prlco from $2 to $1.25, but the company procured an order restraining the Mayor from signing it The Council then passed a similar ordinance, and tho Mayor signed It at Will Not Go Upon the Stage, Mrs. Blaine, who obtained hor divxjrco at Deudwood, S. D.. Saturday, has loft for the Hot Sprlncs, where she will tarry for several days before continuing her journey to Sioux Falls, H. D. After a few days’ rest there, sho will leave for some quiet point In tho South, where she will quietly rest for a couple of months. Sho denies that sho Intends to go upon the stage Troops Tackle a Summer Job. Tho several troops of the Third United States Cavalry are still engaged In ac lve scouting operations on the lower Rio Grande frontier. Gen. Stanley believes that Garza Is still In hiding In the chaparral, a short distance from Pallto Blanco, Tho troops will be kept In tho field until Garza Is captured or until he Is definitely located In some other part of tho ct^intry. Decatur Heavily Damaged. At Decatur, 111., fire entirely destroyed tho public library block. In which were located a number of stores, a business college, lodge rooms of secret orders and the Western Union Telegraph Company. The losses are $150,090, partly Insured. Dynamite Used as an Argnment. As the outcome of a difference as to tomporance In tho little town of' Newport, Tenn., dynamite was used as a forcible argument. A saloon was blown up and incidentally two stores adjoining ' were destroyed. Chicago Men Buy Silver Mines. Tho Silver King Group, including Silver King, Bonanza Boy, Lady Helen and two other claims near Rod Mountain, Col., have just boen sold In Chicago. Tho capitalization is $440,000 und $40,000 working capital. Ho Ceuld Not Eat and Died. At Trenton, N. J., Fetor Smith, seventy years old, died of exhaustion. He was taken with tho grip about fifty-three days before, and since that time had not tasted a mouhful of food. Mount Aetna Active. Mount jEtna Is In an unusual stato of volcanic disturbance. The people of Znffarano, a market town on the eastern slope, have abandoned., their dwellings in consequence of a series of violent shocks. Many Shipwrecks Reported. Many shipwrecks are reported from the Irish coast as a result of the recent storms, and It Is believed that the loss of life has been considerable. Hold Up tho Con. Five toughs tried to rob the conductor of a street car in St. Paul, but only succeeded In wounding him and smashing the cor windows. Burled Under Snow. France and Germany are covered with snow to a depth that has brought railway traffic to a standstill.