Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — A FOOL AND HIS MONEY. [ARTICLE]

A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

AS IN ANCIENT TIMES SOON PARTED. Vn. Russell of Eau Claire Found Guilty ot Murder—Don’t Go to Sweden l'or Your Divorce—Two Elves Sacrificed at Dallas, Texas. At Washington. On the 24th the Senate passed several bills for public structures, among them one Srovlding for a $50,000 building at Owosso, [ich. Mr. Mitchell, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported to the Senate a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment providing for the eloctlon of United States Senators by popular vote. He said that the members of the committee were divided on the subject and would make separate reports. The joint resolution was placed on the calendar. In the House, Mr. Stewart, of Texas, from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, reported back the river and harbor appropriation bill with the Senate amendments thereto with the recommendations that the Senate amendments bo nonconcurred in. The bill was referred to the committee of the whole. The balance of the time was spent on the sundry civil appropriation bill. TARIFF BILES DEAD. Senate Finance Committee Disposed to Delay Action. Washington dispatch: The prospects for further tariff legislation by this Congress are not the most propitious, judged by a discussion on the subject that took place at a meeting of the Senate Committee on finance, Tuesday. The probabilities of taking up *t an early day one or more of the tariff bills passed by the House were tilked over Informally, but no definite Information was given as to the probable policy of the committee In the matter. The Impression left by the short discussion was that If the committee does report the free-wool bill or some other tariff measure. It will not do so for several weeks. Democratic Senators do not seem very hopeful of securing any tariff legislation without the aid of the Finance Committee, which Is opposed to the enactment Of measures placing articles on the free list. BRICK TRICKSTERS FOOL A MINER. Seven Thousand Dollars Secured from an Indiana Man of Faith. George Swygart, a wealthy South Bond, Ind., man and former minor, was worked by the “gold brick” racket A fine appearing man Introduced himself as a nephew from Arizona He told Swygart he had found an ' Indian In Chicago with a gold brick weighing seventy pounds and that It could be bought for $7,000. Swygart secured the money and, In company with his alleged nephew and a gold assayer, alleged to come from Philadelplda, went a mile from town Into Ctoqulllard "woods and met the Indian. Swygart thought the brick genuine and paid over the cash. The swindlers have skipped. -4 ~ • ■ " MRS. RUSSELL GUILTY. Jury at Eau Claire Finds that She Committed Murder in the First Degree. At Eau Claire, IVIs., Mrs. Elizabeth Russell was found guilty of murder In the first degree. Mrs. Russo 1 had been on trial for three weeks on the charge of causing the death of Mrs. Bertha Erickson. Mrs. Russell was In love with Erickson, who had been her hired man, and when the wife died It was suspected that she had been polscned. An autopsy showed this to he the case. Mrs. Russell was accused of administering the poison and was convicted. Strong circumstantial evidence was given against her.

ARKANSAS PEOPLE STARVING. Little Rock Charity Supplying: Food to Hundreds of Families. . The destitution among the fleo 1 sufferers, both white and colored, l etween Little Bock and the mouth of the river, Is slpiply appalling. Pine Bluff aud vicinity are filled with refugees. Ail alpng the rlyep the ootton crop is totally destroyed, "and It Is hard to tell on what the farmers will subsist during this summer. At a mass meeting held at Pine Bluff $1,660 was subscribed in an hour. A flotilla of Government boats is continually on the river carrying succor to the helpless victims of the flood. f’ Thousands Homeless. Govern >r Boles of lowa has returned from a personal Investigation of the devastation at Sioux City. He reports about one thousand homeless and in Immediate need of relief. The loss of property is over 9200,000. He will issue his proclamation to the people of the State, giving the facts and calling for aid to relieve the needs of the flood-stricken districts. Divorces in Sweden Don’t Count. A most Interesting case decided by the Wisconsin Oupreme Court was one In which & divorce granted in Sweden to naturalized Americans was not recognized. The case catne from Sheboygan and contained a touch of romance It was that of William O. St. Sure against Olive St. Suro-Llndes-felt. of Sheboygan. Died at the Age of 100. Mrs. Mildred Ann Clay, aged over 109 years, died In Leavenworth, Kan. She was married twice, and was the mother of fifteen children, all of whom are dead but two. She was born in Virginia, and went to Kansas In 1862. where she has since resided. . Her health and memory were quite good to-the last Two Men Killed In a Riot At Dallas, Texas. Policeman C. O. Brewer was shot and instantly killed by a negro named Henry Miller, whom he was trying to arrest A mob attacked the jail and In the riot two men wer3 seriously shot The mob finally dispersed when they saw that to carry ths Jail meant heavy loss of life. Were Wedded on the Sly. It became known that Miss Jenny Dunbar, the actress, was married last March In New York City to Thomas Wlnthrop Hall, a young Norwalk (Ohio) journalist. Miss Dunbar Is now with the E. H. Scrthern panyBlaine and McKinley. Gov. McKinley's closest newspaper organ. the Cleveland Leader, In a leading editorial article pronounces for Blaine and McKinley as “the strongest ticket that could be made,” and says that “next to President Harrison the only man seriously thought of for the Presidency Is Mr. : Blaine.» Wont Down to Watery Graves. John Moses and Charles Holmes, of Lastport, Mo., started to sail from Indian island to Deer Island. Their boat capsized off Cherry Island and both were drowned. They leave families Young Girl Convicted of Murder. Harriet Smith, a 14-year-old Easton, Md.. colored girl, was convicted of murder In the second degree. 6be poisoned her father, Thomas Smith, about two months ago, by putting arsenic In the teapot. She Intended it tor hor brother Henry, who had refused <0 accompany her to a festival. At Nice, the trial of Edward Parker Deaeoo of Boston, who shot and killed M. AkelUe at Cannes while the latter was with Mra Deacon, resulted in a verdict of willful wounding, and a prison sentence of one

IS A SEA OF DEATH. The Floyd XUver Inundates Sioux City, lowa — Many People Perish. A dispatch from Sioux City says: The Floyd River rose from its banks at Sioux City, and a wall of water three feet high swept upon the lower portions of the city. As a result many residents lie dead beneath the flood, and the city has suffered property damage of over $2,000,000. The loss of life Is not definitely known, being estimated at from twenty-five to one hundred, with the strong probability that the latter figures are correct; The first note of warning was a telegram received from Hinton, twelve miles up the valley, to tho effect that a fourteen-foot rise was coming. Intelligence was sent to the police station. Chief Hawman was notified and Bent at once for an engine, loaded a boat, and started up the Illinois Central track for Leeds. The wave stuck when but a short distance up, and tho boat was launched at once From one house three children were taken, but the mother could not bo rescued and perished. The party narrowly escaped being overturned by a second wave six feet in height. The angry waves nearly made way with the boat From another house seven people were taken who had crawled into the attic. Eight minutes after the house toppled over and swept down the stream. Five people were taken from a tree at Springdale. When the warning came Captain of Police Wlckles and a posse made haste for the flat and warned as many as could be reached before the flood came. Many would not listen to the words of warning, saying they had seen high water before, and stayed and were drowned. PREACHER ATTACKED BY A WOMAN. Extremely Lively Scene In a Wooster, Ohio, Methodist Church. There Is a sensational entanglement In the financial affairs of the aristocratic First Methodist Church at Wooster, Ohio, The Treasurer and the church officers could not agree in their settlements, and this gave rise to rumors in which a $2,000 mortgage was mentioned. A. G. Cooser, teller of the First National Bank, Is the Treasurer. He has moved In the best circles there He has a family of girls, one of whom Is about to graduate from a Paris art school. A church meeting was called at which Mrs Cooser represented her husband, who Is in Chicago. The statement showod Cooser short $2,000, with an offset of SSOO, money loaned the church by Mrs. Cooser. The statement made Mrs. Dooser furious She attacked the pastor In the pulpit In John L. Sullivan style, and the women prosent had to carry her from the church by force. The affair Is the biggest sensation the wealthy, aristocratic college city ever knew. BIG Fillip IN' OSWEGO, N. Y. Mills and Elevators Burned and Others Likely to Go. At midnight Friday a great fire was raging along the Oswego, N. Y., water front The flames, which originated In the big Washington mills, swept with great fury through the line of elevators. A brisk wind prevailed uqd It looked at jnldnUjht as though the Columbia ana Merchants’ elevators would go. The fire department was out In full forco fighting the firo, but made but little headway. At 12:15 a. m. the Corn Exchange and Merchants' elevators wore burning. The firemen abandoned the big Marine elevator, which Is full of corn. A dozen fires were burning on the west side of the river, with no streams of water playing on them. Sheets of flame leapod out into tho river from the burning elevators and all property In line of tho fire on the west side was in imminent peril. The Fulton firemen were summoned. DEVASTATED BY A WINDSTORM. Heavy Damage Inflicted at Jeffersonville, Indiana. A windstorm almost equal In its magnitude to the cyclono that played havoc In 1890 passed over Jeffersonville, Ind., Tuesday afternoon, doing great damage to barns and fences, orchards, telegraph wires and many buildings The cltlzons were almbst paralyzed with fear, and many families residing In the city took refuge In outhouses Instead of remaining in their respective homes, lest the buildings should he demolished. The storm was twenty-five miles In width and lasted thirty minutes, followed by a terrlflco downpour of rain, which caused many of the streets to be flooded and Impassable DEATH TRESTLE. Trains Collide at Crooked Bayou—Eight Killed and Twenty-two Hurt. One of the worst wrecks In the history of the Cotton Belt road occurred between nine and ten o’clock on Friday night on a trestlework between Humphrey and Goldman, some twenty miles above Pino Bluff. The wreck was Indirectly due to the flood occasioned by tho overflow of the Arkansas River. Eight persons were klllod outright and twenty-two Injured.

VESSEL AND CREW LOST. One Hundred and Twenty-three Lives L-ost—Four Persons Saved. The Ironclad Sollmoes, one of the six war ships sent by the Brazilian Government against the rebels at Matto Grosso, was sunk Sunday morning In the harbor of Montevideo. One hundred and twentythree of the officers and crew were drowned. Only five on the vessel escaped. Lias of the Flood Victims. The list of victims of the flood at Sioux City, lowa, so far as known Is, as follows: Nellie West, Mrs. Louise Homers and two children, A. Anderson, Mrs. A. Anderson and child, N. H. Enderson, Mrs. N. H. Enderson and child, P. P. McLarren. William Stone. William Bose, Mrs. Frank Luther and child, daughter of E. Moenard, aged 7 years; George Cox, a child of four years; George 0. Miller, Aaron Johnson, Bobort Harney, Frank Henderson. Mrs. Frank .Henderson and child, Mrs. 11. Fickes, Mrs. Peter Rasmussen and two children, six unknown men, two unknown boatmen. Few bodies have been found, and a few of the above-named may yet be found safe. They are given up as lost, a 1 having been soon in the flood and not since. Corn Still Going Dp. The frost In the West and Northwest sent prices upward with a boom ou the Chicago Board of Trade Friday. The alarming reports and rapid advance of the market created a stampede among shorts In corn and wheat and there was a general rush to cover. Pardridge aud Cudahy were among the first to buy and no attempt was made to disguise the strong bullish tendency of trade. And for the bears this was not the worst of It, for the best-posted manipulators on the floor expect to see prices steadily advance for some time yet. Declared tor Cleveland. The New England Tariff Reform League held its annual' dinner at the American House in Boston, Thursday night. A resolution was adopted declaring that Grover Cleveland was the man best fitted to lead those Interested In tariff reform. Blaine Will Accept. According to a dispatch from Washington, Tom Platt has received assurances that James G. Blaine will accept the nomination for the Presidency If It Is offered him. The exact nature of the assurances cannot at present be learned. The Waters Falling. ' Reports from along "the Missouri from Kansas City to the mouth are that It Is falling slowly, but the recent rains in Kansas are expected to start a rise which will reach the length of the stream soon, and make the rise greater than ever. Terrorised by Mad Dogs. Brazil. Indiana, Is In a ferment of excltemeot over the numerous eases of rabid dogs. Falls t wen tv persons have been bitten.

I Besides this a large quantity of stock was bitten and had to be killed. Saturday night four more persons were bitten and Bert Large was attacked by a rabid Newfoundland dog and terribly lacerated. The Mayor has Issued orders for every canine to be muzzled, and the police force armed with shotguns are slaughtering dogs right and left. _____ DEEMING’S DEATH A RELIEF. Public and Officers Breathe Easier Now that His Career Is Ended. The execution of Deeming, the Australian demon, which took place at Melbourne. Monday, Is a relief to the public. So formidable was the reputation of the monster that many people w*fe in constant fear of his committing some new atrocity and perhaps escaping to renew his hideous career of murder. The officials having him In charge were also burdened with anxiety. The execution was witnessed by 100 spectators, Including doctors, justices, members of the Victoria Parliament, and representatives of the press. When the sheriff entered the coll for the purpose of reading the death warrant he found Deeming In a dazed condition, and he continued that way until the drop fell. The clergyman who stood by him on tho platform had barely said, “Man hath but a short time to live,” when the hangman gave the signal, the bolt was drawn, and Dooming was hanging six feet below the scaffold. RELIEF FOR lOWANS IN DISTRESS. Gov, Boles Asks Sioux City for Instructions as to Appeals for Aid. Gov. Boies, In his address to the meeting of citizens after he had visited the ruined district, plainly put the case with respect to needed relief. He said: “The case can be put before the good people of the State and the situation plainly stated, and then It Is for them to act. I may say, however, from what I havo seen this morning, that I have n > doubt It Is your duty to ask for aid. You have no rlgnt to hinder the relief of such distress as I havo seen. In fact, I would feel disposed to place the matter before the people of the State In any event, and tho only point on which I wish to obtain your sentiment Is whether this appeul should bo made to the State or should extend outsldo tho State. Unless there should be a unanimous opinion against it I havo concluded to appeal to lowa for you. I want to know whether this appeal should go further.” Indiana at tho Fair. The Indiana State Biardof World’s Fair Commissioners has found that Indiana’s building* wili cost 8100,000 more than they could pay out, and. so the State’s enterprising manufacturers have decided to give $70,000 worth of material. In design the Indiana building will he French Gothic, both Inside and out It will cover an area of 100x170 feet, Inc udlng (he verandas that surround It The building will bo furnlsbod throughput with tho best hard wood the State affords. By Masked Robbers. Northbound train No. 14 on tho Jacksonville, Tampa am! Key West Railway was held up at a lonely hummock station five miles north of Sanford, Fla., at two o’clock the other morning by four masked roohors who, in a desperate attempt to secure tho money of the’ Southern Express Company, killed Express Messonge- W. N. Saunders and badly wounded Soliciting Agent I. O. Cox. The robbers fled without securing the booty. Blalno Presents Fava. Italian Minister Baron Fava was received In the blue room of the White House, Monday morning, by President Harrison. He wa3 attondod by tho attaches of the Italian Legation. Secretary Blaine accompanied the Baron to tho Executive Mansion and made the Introductions. After presenting Baron.Fava Secretary Blaine had quite an exiended conference with the President Its nature was not disclosed.

Tom O’Brien Caught. Thomas O’Brien, tho American bunko king, was arrested in Paris, while landing from the steamer Marseilles, which left New Orleans on May 1 for Havre and Antwerp. The fugitive tried to leave the steamer with the cargo, but he was detected and captured. The French police were on the lookout for hltn and one of their best detectives was watching at the wharf. First Sea Serpent of the Soason. Two fishermen near Oak Harbor, Ohio, declare they saw a sea serpent in Lake Erie. It Is described as about twonty-flvo feet long and a foot and a half in diameter In tho thickest part of the body. Its head was large and flat, and there appeared to be several lurgo fins or flippers about five feet from tho bead. It was black In color, mottled with brown spots. '

Train Robbers Caught. Officers have arrested Charles Williams, Benjamin Ward, William Miller, O. L. Buchanan and two other men whose names are unknown, who attempted to rob the south-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas train and afterward fired several volleys Into It Buchanan has made a full confession, giving away the whole gang. Three Men Drowned. Harry Crock. George Doughty, and Wm. Reilly, three young Cleveland (Ohio) mechanics, went out on the lake In a rowboat The empty boat was picked up by a tug, and it Is believed the men were drowned. Saddle Horses Burned. The Metropolitan Stab!e3 have been burned at Hot Springs, Ark., with forty head of saddle horses; Thirty had been collected for the Oakland Stables of Chicago. Loss, 825,000; insurance, $15,000. MARKET QUOTATIONS. CHICAGO. Cattle - Common to Prime.... $3.50 @ 4.75 Hoas—Shipping Grades 8.50 @ 6.00 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4,00 @ 576 Wheat-No. 2 Spring S4U@ !86)« Corn—No. 2, new... 48 @ .49 Oats—No. 2 7. si @ .88 Rye—No. 2 77 @ .73 Butt eh —Choice Creamery 19 @ Itl Cheese—Full Cream, flats .00 @ 10 Eoos—Fresh 14i*«a ,15V Potatoes— Choice old, per bu... .40 @ 50 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.25 @ 4.50 Hogs—Choice Light 5.50 4.75 Sheep—Common to Prime B.OC 0. i 75 Wheat-No. 2 Bed .86 @ m Corn—No. 1 White Oats-No. 2 White ” si « 33 „ ST. LOUIS. ■ & St™* 8.00 @ 4.50 itcGS 3,50 (a 475 VPheat-No. 2 Red .... 88 @ SO Corn-No. 2 « g Oats-No. 2 1." ill S ‘S —No, 3 70 @ 72 „ CINCINNATL „ DETROIT, ‘ s*™*- 800 @ 4.26 i ß ;£*g % Corn-No. 2 Yellow gla 51 Cork-No. 2 Whi e. . * 4? S Oats-No. 2 White .....i”; .§ buffalo.'” ,81 ® ,83 SSrSSKr::::™: «IS Wheat-No. 1 Hard g 0 ® *■£ CORN-NO" 2 MIL WALKEK' ’ s;l ® ’ sl S«l 9 ::::: f» fl ;is | 10 & Cat*t*t v NEW YORK. ® 6kkep 8.00 « 8 « Cork-No 8 ” X „ I 'h