Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — KENOSHA'S GREAT LOSS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KENOSHA'S GREAT LOSS.

THE WISCONSIN TOWN SEVERELY SCORCHED. A Precocious Boston Swindler— Seismic Disturbances in California —A Noble Vil-lain-Valuable Horses Killed by Lightning—Fate oi a Moonshiner. The Lawmakers On the 19th the Senate ratified the convention providing for a renewal of the existing modus vivendl in Behring Sex The bill to amend the act of June 25, 1890, approving th) funding act of Arizona, was taken up and read. A provision that the interest on the bonds provided for in the Arizona funding act should be payable “In gold coin of the United States.” was amended to read “in lawful money of the United States. ” and the bill passed. Mr. George's resolution relating to the low price of cotton and the depressed condition of agriculture was then takeu up. amended and agreed to. The joint resolution to pay to the State of west Virginia the amount due to it under the “direct tax refund” act was then taken up and passed without any discussion, in the House the well advertised contested election from New York of Noyes against Bockwell was taken up. and c< nsumed the whole time without definite action.

BIG FIRE IN KENOSHA. Several Blocks Lett In Ashes by the Flames. Fire broke out in the factory of the Northwestern Mattress Company, in Kenosha. Wls, on the lake front, close to the Government pier. The fire was soon beyond control, and completely destroyed the mattress works The factory had a frontage of 400 feeton the lake by 150 feet in width. The flames then spread to the works of the Kenosha Crib Company, completely destroying them and the Baldwin coal yard on the river bank. From there the fire jumped to the Head & Sutherland yards, which cover four squares. Two engines from Racine, two from Milwaukee, and one from Waukegan, with the local engines. fnally got the fire Inchock. The loss Is roughly estimated at $250,000. The Northwestern Mattress Company had $58.000 insurance on its plant. The company lost between six and sevin million feet of dry maple lumber, upon which it is estimated there was an insurance of 8103.009. COAST TOWNS SHAKEN. Northern Part of California Visited by an Earthquake. The whole northern p mtion of the State of California was visited by a severe earthquake shock at an early hour Tuesday morning. The villages of Dixon and Vacaville, in Solano County, and Winters, in Yolo County, are said to have been demolished. but as all wires connecting with these points are down the rept rt cannot be verified.' and no particulars of any sort are as ye/ obtainable. The shock struck Bnk .Francisco. It awakened everybody, and many people rushed into the •treets in terror in th dr night clothes, expecting the houses to tumble about tbeir heads. Clocks stopped all over the city, many of them being thrown down. The long rows of bottles in the drug stores Were jostled violently against each other, in many cases cracking them and spilling the contents. Some of the oldgr and frailer buildings were badly racked, and considerable damage was done to business houses and dwellings in course of construction.

PRECOCIOUS IN CRIME. A I®-Year-Old Boy Successfully Worked the Malls for Fraudulent Purposes. In Boston, William 11. Cozxens. whose father said he was but 16 years old, was held for trial by United States Commis■loner Bellett. He is charged with having worked the mails for fraudulent exchanges la all classes of goods, principally stamps and bicycles Ihe young prisoner has been a very skillful operator In four different towns. He advertised in boys' papers as H. W. King at Framingham E. B. Atwood at< Medfield, Charles B. Purdy at Natick, and Henry Hartson at South Framingham, and offered to exchange all kinds of articles for stamps from $1 to $6 in value, or for other goods He received remittances from all over the country, some of them as far west as lowa, and from north to south, even to the Gulf States. When he got the stamps it is charged that he did not remit the articles he promised. On the Diamond. Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NA I'INAL LEAGU3. W. L. «c| W. L. tfc Louisville... 3 1 .751’Pbiladelp'a. 2 2 .530 Boston 2 1 ,t67iC.hicago...... 2 3 .401 NewYork...2 1 .067 Cleveland... 1 2 .33.3 I Pittsburg*.. 3 2 .6 0 Waßhingt'n. 1 2 .333 Brooklyn..'.. 3 2 .fr’O St. Louis.... 1 3 .25 > Cincinnati .. 4 3 .571 Baltimore .. 1 3 .259 WeSTKBN LEAGUE. w. L. pc. | W. L. y>c. Milwaukee... 2 0 LOW St. Pau1..... 1 1 .510 Columbus... 2 1 .667 Omhha f’.l .500 Minneap’lis. 1 1 .too Toledo 1 2 .333 Kansas City. 1 1 .SOoilndtan’pTu.. 0 2 .000 Struck by Lightning. A flash of lightning during a storm did $59,000 worth of damace at Charleston. Ind. In the conflatration that ensued albetdoode 1 hordes were burned, together with valuable farming imp'ement . The casualty occurred at the stock farm of Elisha Carr, cne'of th,a best-known turfmen In foutbern Indiana. Lightnin; struck the stable and It was burned to the ground, together with Kentucky Ruler, a trotter valued at 825.003, and eight other blooded horses. Thera was ho insurance on tte live stock. One Moonshiner Killed. A fight between the United States authorities and a band of moonshiners took place near Big Bay, Ark., in which T. C. Bryant, ohe of the moonshiners, was killed. ’1 be Marshal’s posse captured several stills and a quantity of beer and whisky. Foster a Winner. Fostas, the Democratic untl-lottory candidate iu Louisiana, is chosen Governor by 8,000 plurality. Lawsuit Between Mormon Factions. Kansas City dispatch: The taking of depositions In the suit tor the possession of Temple Lot. In Independence, began Monday. The organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is plaintiff, and the Church of Christ, bettor known as the Hendrlklte Church, which is backed by the Church of Utah. Is defendant The Hendrlkites will endeavor to prove that the organized church Is not the true successor of tbe church as founded by Joseph Smith fa 1850. ‘<he suit is pendin; In the United States Court .and will be tried the aext term. , Double Murder in Florida. Robert Stevenson, paymaster of the Empire State Phosphate Company, and Mr. Payne, the mall carrier, were murdered near Hernando, Fla. Stevenson was in Ocala making up his pay-rolls and took back the money with him to pay off the next <Uy. He draw SI,BOO out of the bank and the murderers got it Ordered Baek to Italy. Albert G. Porter, Minister to Italy, recalved a telegram from Secretary Blaine requesting him to ipturn to Rome at his earliest convenience. Minister Porter expraooes satisfaction at the settlement and aaja it means the return of Baron Fava.

LOOTED THE EXPRESS. Chicago Train on the Central Held Up Near New Orleans. The crew of ihe New Orleans fast mall train, which arrive! in Chicago Saturday morning over the Illinois Central Road, had an exciting experience with train robbers Thursday ni;bt At Hammond, a lltt.e station about seventy-five miles out from New Orleans, four masked men. heavily armed, Covered the engineer and fireman vl.h cocked revolvers in regular Jesse James style, looted the express car, and successfully made their escape, while the Intimidated passengers shivered in the conches. Several sheriff’s poshes are following the track of the rubbers with keen-scented bloodhounds. After recurltig what money packages they could, the robbers compelled the engineer and fireman to resume t heir places on the engine and back the train about two hundred yards soutlu Robber Na 1 then showed his saracity by tying a coat belonging to Engineer Jarvis oter the locomotive's headlight, making the surroundings as dark as pitch. Then they ordered Jarvis to pull out fast, as they had finished their business with the train. Tha robbers then disappeared under cover of the darkness. Jarvis removed the blind from the headlight and brought the train to McComb, where he and Conductor Har- | bertson, who had taken no part in the affair, reported to Trainmaster Higgins. The robbers did not disturb the mail at all. and made no attack on any of the passengers. No shots were fired, and the entire stroke of business vat done quietly and in order. 3he amount of money taken is known < nly by the officials of tire Southern Express Com any, who are the sole losers. Vari us estimates place the loss from $3,000 to $5,000.

RUSSIA’S GRATITUDE. Many Mementos of Fsteem Brought Buck by the Indiana. The Russian relief steamer Indiana. Captain Sargent commander, has arrived at Philadelphia Captain Sargent proutiy displayed many mementos ol Russia’s esteem towurJs the United States. Among them was a silver urn fifteen inches high, surmounted by a reindeer head, and t'lo Imperial crown in solid gold. The Imperial coat of arms and the Provincial coat of arms of Libau were presented by the Mayor of Libau There were also several souvenir wooden spoons and a pair of moccasins from the peasants of Libau. Captain Sargent has several large plain meal cakes, on the top of one being affixed a silver salt cellar to represent that the country of the Czar sends to our land “salt and bread,” and apiece of bread that was consecrated by the Bishop of the Greek Church at Libau. Sophia Stehrbatbefa. a prominent Russian lady interested in the relief of the native sufferers, sent a fiamed painted.portrait of herself. DASTARDLY ANARCHIST OUTRAGE. Bombs Thrown Among Holy Thursday Paraclers and Several PeWou.4 Hurt. The Holy"'Thursday possession it Cadiz. Spain, was turned into a panic-stricken rout by the diabolical deed of some anarchists who threw missies among ti e people. evidently with the intention of causing loss of life./The bombs explode! with a great noise. The whole procession was thrown into confusion, an 1 for a time it wasstfppos id that a number of people had been killed. Some women fainted and other shrieked, while the grsans and cries of the injured added to the dismay and confusion. When the excitement was allayed it was found that while several persons had teen hurt, some by the explosion but more in th: panic, no one was killed and probably no one fatally injured. This terrible interruption of a sacred occasion in which all classes jol i bus added to the horror and indignation with which the anarchists are regarded.

IMMENSE LOG CUT. Duluth Sawmills Preparing for the Greatest Season on Record. Monday Che haw-mills of the Duluth, Minn., district began operations for the biggest season on record. The log cut for the winter of the Duluth lumber district has bee i a total of 415.000,000 feet, or 140.003,000 feet more than last yea - . This excess will represent about the amount that will be shipped by water to the East during the coming season. Never has the amount of lumber on hand at the opening of the sawing season been so small as now. The demand for the winter from the Red River Valley has been enormous, two or three train loads of lumber frequently leaving here in a day for the West. Most of the district will work night and day during the entire season. One Duluth lumber and sash firm Is now making 55.00(3 windows for a Chicago wholesaler, the lan est quantity ever manufactured under a single order anywhere In the West POWDER MILL BLOWN UP. At Least Five Men Killed by an Explosion at Scranton, Pa. The press and corning mills cf the . Moosic Powder Company near Scranton, Pa. were blown up, killing several men and Injuring a number of others. The killed are: John Gibbons, Edward Vanderberg, Adam Coolbaugh, Daniel R. Carry, Allen Schnale. Twenty men were seriously injured, two of them fatally, named Goerge Ellis and John Green. Less. 570.009. The wreckel buildings caught fire an 1 were destroyed. The <ltlzcns bad cretit difficulty in saving : djoittin? buildings. excitement prevailed. The cause as the, explosion is unknown. A WEAKNESS FOR CRIMINAL LIBEL. \ Arrest of an Editor for Calling the Chief of Police an Ex-Convict. \ Levi' Crasper. editor and publisher of a small Sunday paper called the Sunday Sun, was arrested at Pough'-eepsle, N. Y., on a charge of cr'.miml libel pieferred by Chief of Pi lice McCabe, trasper published In his paper a statement that the 'Chief of Police was an ex-convlct. 3 hero is Indignation throughout the city at the statements made in Craspers paper about nearly every premia jut man in Poughkeepsie. Went Ma i lit the Court-Room. At Glasgow, Ky., Henry Ragland, colored was place! on trial for car breaking. He was one of many colored men indue d to go to work o i a railroad in the Adirpndacks. where lie claims a bro'her was murdered and lie wis brutally beaten. Ragland had scarcely pleade 1 to the charge when he began t> foam aid bark. He win sel. e! with sp isms ami his yells were horrible. He attempted to bite the Ju ige aid others, and caused a panic in the courtroom. He was not tried, and will die soon. Between his paroxysms ft was learned ho was bitten by a rabid dog last August Refused to Rescind the Decree. The Russian minister! of war and the interior have refused their consent to the rescinding of the decree which proh b t< the expo, tof grain. Many failures areex--1 e tei to le suit from their decision. London firms will probably loie heat Uy on advances made by them to Russian deaie s. Get. erat Got r:a has ordered all German colonists who have net passes tJ re.ura to Samara.

Not Tle:l to Anybody. The IVashlnston Republican State Convention elecUd delegates to Minneapolis uninstructed, as dll also tb? Ne.v Mexico Territorial Coaveatlrn. ———(• Damage.! by Snow. Three inches of snow fell Thursday night in New Jersey. Milch dama.e has been done in the farming sections. Burned to Death In Jail. News has been received of a horrible affair at Iron River. Mich. An elderly Polish woman named Mrs. Martin Falkorskl

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| was arrested for Indecency and locked up ■ in the small frame structure used as a jaiL Here the woman was left alone tor the night. In the morning the jail was found to be a heap of ashes: in which was found the burned and blackened body of Mrs. Falkorskh BURIED UNDER SNOW. Many Towns in England Isolated by the Deep Drills. The unseasonable winter we.vhc- continues over Gnat Britain. Snow has fallen heavily lu North Wales and the section of Engltnd adjoining. Many towns a-e isolated by heavy drifts and ar? cutoff fr >tn communication bythedest u tion of te egranlt line-. In the county of Essex. the Slot r. Blackwater, Lea. Rodins. and ether rivers liava been s voile I by the storm-, and in many places the country is flooded. In some parts the situation is set oas. The losses in urred by farmers and fruit-grow-ers wit! be viry great, owin to the vegetables being either washed out of the ground or killed by frost. 1 r.tit trees that were budding and giving promise of un abundant cr >p are now blackened and will yield nothing. Great damage has been done to the crops in the Channel Islands. On the Island of Jersey, where snow and frost are seldom seen, the weather has been very col!. It.is estimated that here alone the loss on the potat.n crop will amount to £’158.003. The cold shows no sign of abatement. In many place: the ground is c >vered with snow a foot deep in some parts of the country tire storms h ive been as severe as anv that occurred during the winter —regular blizzards in fact. The meteorological observations show that the storm now prevailing is traveling in a northwesterly direction, and dispatches announce that it is beginning to be felt in the Baltic. Dispatches from Paris and places in th? north of France state that hail and sleet are falling, and the weather is bitterly cold. It is feared that much damage will be done to the early crops.

EGYPT'S NEW KHEDIVE. Abbas Formally Installed on the Throne of His Fattier. ♦ The investiture of the Khedive tvok place Thursday at the Abdin Palace, Cairo. The ceremony was celebrated with great pomp.

All the British and Egyptian troops were massed in Abdlu Square, fronting the palace. Tribunes had been erecie! on the sides of sqdare, and these were filled with officials and others. The firman of investiture was read by an official, who also read a telegram from the Sultan conferring upon the Khedive the

administration of the Sinai Peninsula. Upon the conclusion of the reading the assembled troops thrice saluted the Sultan and a bund played the Turkish anthem. After tills the troops saluted the Khedive three times and the Egyptian anthem was played. Then a salute of 10.3 guns was fired. VOLUME OF TRADE BIG. More Business Being Done This Y’ear than Ever. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: During all this year business news has been rtrongly sectional Western cities are gaining almost without* exception, doing tbe largest business ever known, and Inclined to resent tlie suggestion that it is In any decree below expectations 'ihe South all t oo year has Veen struggling with unfavorable conditions, doing less business than a year ago. and looking In vain for a material change. The East has been doing a large business, rather less than a year ago on the whole, but especially less than many traders expected to do this year. This, with very thin pro Its. makes the season disappointing to many. 1 best conditions continue, and are reflected in returns this week. Yet the volume of trade In tbe whole country has been larger than In any previous year.

HERR MOST’S TIME OUT. Anarchists Preparing to Welcome Theb Leader's Return from Sing Sing. There Is unusual excitement end animation In New York anarchist circles. This is because Chief Apostle Johann Most, who has been serving a sentence of one year's imprisonment in the penitentiary for preaching a revolutionary sermon on the uttnlvertary of the execution of the Chicago bomb-throwers, has been released. The steamer John S. Brennan was chartered to convey Most across the river to the foot of Fifty-sixth street, where a tremendous crowd of his followers met and escorted him to their headquarters, where a reception was tendered. Must intends to resume the editorship of the German anarchist sheet known as the Freiheit. He may also take a trip t? Europe next month. BLOWN INTO FRAGMENTS. Seven Employes of p Powder Company Lose Their Llfes. The works of the American Forclte Powder Company on the shores of Lake Hopatcong, about a mile itelow Mount Arlington, N. J., blew up and seven men were blown to atoms. Water and Death In a Cylinder. At Lima, Ohio, F. W. Henry, Frank Josett and Dave Hogan had been given a steam cylinder to repair and placed it In a furnace to heat It, It contained water, which was converted into steam, and caused the cylinder to explode killing the men and completely wrecking the building. New Opera House for Winona. A new opera house is to be built in Winona, Minn., at a cost of £50,000, by A. B. Youmans and H. Choato. Belligerent Legislators. A night session of the Ohio House of Itepr.sentatives broke up in a free fight.

KHEDIVE ABBAS.