Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — TWO WIVES TOO MANY. [ARTICLE]

TWO WIVES TOO MANY.

BECAME REPENTANT AND CONFESSED HIS CRIME. Most Terrible Disaster In the History of Northwestern Collieries—Bad. Girl from Polecat Creek—Her Child Devoured by • Bear. At Washington. On tbe lOtb, after passing several resolutions for printing various government reports, including the thirteenth annuel report of the geological survey, the last reports of the fish commission and of the bureau of animal industry, tho Houso proceeded with tho sundry civil appropriation, Mr. Cogswell, of Massachseutts, opposing the policy of the committee in neglecting to make proper provision for certain public works, notably public buildings and lighthouses, whilo Mr. Wilson of "Washington, Mr. Sweet of Idaho, Mr. Clark of Wyoming, and Mr. Hermann of Oregon all spoke i? fa-vor of larger appropriations for surveying the public lands. Mr. Enloe, Tennessee, criticised the coast and geodetic survey, and Mr. Dingley, of Maine, closed the debate In a general criticism of tbe Committee On Appropriations for the duplicity displayed in the ponding bill. The House then adjourned. In the Senate, a bill was passed changing the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park. Four bills for this putpose have been pending in the Senate, and the measure passed is a sort of compromise. fOkty-thbee are dead. Explosion from Unknown Causes In a Roslyn, Wash., Tunnel. At 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon a terrible explosion occurred In the slope of Mine No. 2 of the Northern Pacific Coal Company at Boslyn, Wash. The loss of Ufo exceeds In number that of any other disaster that has ever been chronicled in the Northwest or on tho Pacific slope. The exact nature of tho explosion or the circumstances that led to It will probably never, bo known, since It Is believed that every miner who was working in the slops at the time perished. It is believed that between fortyfive and fifty men were in the three levels that were affected b 7 the explosion. Most Of the men were 1,500 to 2,000 feet down the slope and In the immediate vicinity of the accident There is no doubt either in the minds of the miners or the company’s officials that every man was instantly killed by the explosion. A FRANTIC MOTHER. Her Baby Devoured Before Her Eyes by a Black Boar. Mrs. Mary Carter, a widow with a family of small children. Is a raving maniac as a result of a raid upon her little cabin by a half-starved black bear. In which two of her children lost their lives and one was half devoured before her eyes, says a Mountain Home (Ark.) dispatch. Her cabin stands upon a hillside some distance above the town. A heavily wooded grove extends up to a small clearing immediately before the house. In this clearing her five children were playing while the mother was engaged inside the cabin. Suddenly the wild scroamlng of the children Startled her. She saw an enormous bear strike down her oldest boy. who had bravely attempted to defend the others. The ferocious .beast seized the baby *Dd shuffled rapidly away, the frantic mother dashing after them In pursuit The auimal tore the little one limb from limb before the mother's eyes, and before help arrived from the village completed his meal and escaped within the forest CONSPIRATORS CONDEMNED.

judgment Pronounced Upon the Anatalni of the Bulgarian Diplomatic Agent. The two men. Merdjan and Christo, who were charged with the murder of Dr. Vulkovlsch, the Bulgarian Diplomatic Agent 12 Turkey, hare been found guilty at Cftiyftpnttnople and condemned to death. Tn fektchletT and the brothera Naonra, wiio known to be the Instigators of fin crime, lied to ela, but they, too, though without Turkish 1 jurisdiction, were tried and each sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. It Is believed that the result of these trials will cause a relaxation of the tension between Bulgaria and Turkey, which it was thought at one time would lead the former to throw off all allegiance to Turkey and declare herself independent. Owns Up to Three Wives. E. H. Olney. the husband of three living Wives, gave himself up to the police In Augusta, & C,, and confessed himself a scoundrel He says one of his wives lives In Paris, Tenn., another in Augusta, Kan., and the third in a small country town In Tennessee. Olney professed religion not long ago and this led him to confess tho crime Olney Is a machinist and |went to Augusta from Blackstoue, Maas., about a year ago. The Augusta authorities would not take him In charge, but advised him to go back to Tennessee of his own accord, which he says he will do. Moonshiners on Trial. The United States Court convened at Covington, Ky., Tuesday, and 100 moonshiners, men. women and children, are up for trial It is a strange-looking crowd. Most of the men and all of the children are barefooted. The women chew and smoke, and one of them. Jane Melton, Is the most notorious moonshiner in the State. Her distillery is at Pole Cat Creek, Leslie County. She can ontshoot Bogardus, has whipped every man she ever a'tacked, can knock a yearling steer down with one blow of her fist and for years has defied the United States revenue officers.

Two Hanged at One Time. L. D. Slaughter and Tom Bailey were banged at Little Bock. Both executions took place from the same gallowa The men were negroes. Slaughter murdered his mistress in a fit of jealous rage in June, 1801. Bailey shot and killed a peddler from Jacksonville, 111., afterward robbing the body. Canadian Women Want to Tote. Eighteen thousand women have memorialised the Dominion Parliament to be enabled to vote for members of that body. Prime Minister Abbott has Informed Mrs. Mary McDonell, of Toronto, the women’s representative, that their request will be granted. Senator M. W. Mathews Dead. State Senator MOton W. Mathews died at bis home In Urbana, 111., at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. His death was due to repeated attacks of Inflammatory rheumatism, which had induced heart trouble and a complication of diseases. * Mew Gold Fields Found. A Denver mine owner has received a letter from one of bis prospectors In Arizona Sying that he has discovered a new gold Id in the Chasco Mountains, just off the Kavajo reservation. He says that the belt extends for thirty miles and there are no Indications of Its having been prospected. , J Hagenbuek Secured n Wife. A sensation was created at Laporte. lad., by the elopement of Miss Minnie Hill, the Id-year-old daughter of John HIU, with Barry Hagenbuek. A telegram received from Hagen buck from Kalamatoo states that they were married in that city. The rooms man’s borne H In Locansnort.

WOMEN AND DANCING. fwo Big Subject* Before the Methodist Conference. Omaha dispatch: The Methodist General Conference had two sensations at the very beginning Monday. The women’s question was sprung In the form of a resolution of J. B. Maxwell of Nebraska, which asks that they be admitted to membership In the General Missionary Committee. Without debate It was referred. The second sensation showed that young blood in Methodism as well as In politics Is hound to come to the front and make itself felt. The only thing that had kept many young people out of the church Is the rule that dancing be prohibited. The oldschool Methodist will hold up his hands In horror when he hears that a scheme is on foot to allow the religious to mix a little gayety with their piety. But such is a fact. Among the memorials presented was one from the Troy conference, which petitions tho general conference to expunge from tho discipline section 242, relating to amusements, or at least asking that it he modified so that dancing may be permissible. The memorial Is signed by Rev. Wm. W. Foster, Joel W. Eaton, William H. Hughes, John W. Thompson, E. P. Stevens, E. E. Sawyer, and several others, all of New York. Bishop Foster, of Boston, approves the movement and has given It his official sanction and will no doubt advocate its adoption.

BROKE THE LEVEE. Appalling Catastrophe In the Morganxa, Above New Orleans. New Orleans dispatch: The groat Morganza levee In Polnte Coupee patlsh—the biggest levee In Louisiana—broke Monday In consequence of the great pressure of the swollen river against It At midnight the crevasse was 400 feet wide, and the water, six feet In depth, was rushing through with appalling force. The levee Is 25 feet high, from 60 to 150 feet wide and a mile long. It is one of tho most Important levees along the lower Mississippi, and parted at a point where a break will cause the greatest possible amount of damage, since it will lot tho water down on Polnte Coupee, Iberville, West Bnton Rouge, Assumption, Ascension, La Fourche, Iberia. St. Mary, and St. Martin parishes, and may flood all the country between it and the Gulf. This levee broke in 1884 and caused $10,000,000 of damage, cutting down the sugar crop of the State materially. It was partially •broken in 1890, but enough of It was held then to reduce the amount of damage. The United States government assisted in rebuilding It both times.

CROP OUTLOOK IS BAD. Heavy Rains and Cold Weather Threaten Disaster. The farmers In the West and Northwest have a good right to be blue these daya The heavy rainfalls seriously dolay those who have not finished their seeding, and the unseasonable snowstorms In the more northern regions have played havoc with the crops already In. The corn belt Is souked, and the tillers of the soli In Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and lowa are fretting away the time until the sun dries tho land so they can do their drilling and seeding. Wheat, too, will have to wait in many States until the land assumes a better condition for plowing. The outlook at present Is not at all encouraging. Cloudy weather still prevails In the vicinities visited by rain, and In those still visited by snow and sleet the temperature evinces a most discouraging tendency to hover about tho freezing point. RIOTOUS MOB OF MINERS.

PaUte Attacked and Property Destroyed and Stolen at an English Colliery. Quite a serious riot occurred Saturday evening at the Castledeu Colliery, near Hartlepool, England. The trouble grew out of the employment in the mine of a non-unionist named Stockdale. The union men attacked him, and would no doubt have seriously Injured him had It not been for the Interference of (he police. The mob wai in strong force, *aud finding that Stockdale had escaped them, they rushed to the colliery and smashed the engine-house to piece Some one lu the crowd suggested they attack Stockdaie’s house. This suggestion met with Instant approval, and. howling and yelling, the mob rushed to the house, and In a very short time It was totally wrecked. Great indignation is expressed at the action of tho mob, and there Is no doubt that the ringleaders will be severely punished. KILLED A WRECK. At Least Seven Lives Lost in an Accident on the Santa Fe. A terrible accident occurred shortly before I o’clock Thursday morning on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at the little town of Revere, In Missouri. The through California vestibuled, east hound, went through a bridge into a creek swollen by the heavy rains. The fact that tho telegraph wires are down makes It Impossible to obtain definite Information as to the number of killed and Injured, but as the whole train, with the exception of the last sleeper, went into the creek tho number must be largo. So far as known at the present time seven were killed, all residents of Missouri; teu were severely hurt. Sentenced to Hang. .The Supreme Court of New Hampshire has denied the application of Almy, Christie Warden's murderer, for a new trial, and he has been sentenced to be hung on the third Tuesday lu May, 1893. Tried to Kill His Brother. Henry Rogers, colored, shot his younger brother Charles at West Stockbrldge, Mass., during a quarrel. Charles will probably recover. Henry gave himself up.