Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — ONE MILLION LOSS. [ARTICLE]

ONE MILLION LOSS.

BALTIMORE HAS A BLAZE IN WHISKY, Sad Tragedy at Bay City, Mich—South Carolina Representative Dead How Hill Stands in the Race—Many Negroes Leaving Oklahoma. The Lawmakers. On the 14th. Representative Fowler reported to the House from the Committee on the Merchant Marine the Geary bill, granting an American register to the steamship China. The bill, says an accompanying report, grants the same privileges to the ship as have been recently granted by Congress to the Inman steamships City of Paris and City of New York. If this bill be passed the company will not only build a vessel in an American ship yard equal in tonnage to the China as required by the bill, but the committee is assured by the company’s representatives that It will build two vessels of at least 8,000 tons each. The China is a vessel of about 5.000 tons register. General Eli T. Stackhouse, member of Congress from the Sixth District of South Carolina and a prominent member of the Farmers' Alliance, died. He was one of the party that accompanied the remains of the late Col. L L. Pojk. President of the Farmers' Alliance, to Raleigh, N. C., last Saturday. The session of the •Senate was only long enough to receive a message from the House announcing the death of Mr. Stackhouse and tc adopt resolutions of sorrow, and providing for a committee of five Senators to escort tho body to Its place of burial.

FLAMES IN BALTIMORE. Office Buildings and Several Hundred Barrels of Whisky Destroyed. At Baltimore, a fire which broke out Tuesday afternoon among some bales of cotton on the wharf of the Bay Line at •Union dock spread so rapidly that the employes had to run for their lives, and destroyed the entire freight shed, the office building of the line, 531 barrels of whisky, several hundred barrels of rosin, greatly damaging the four-masted ice-laden schooner Augustus Welt, besides much other property. The entire loss will probably reach three-quarters of a million dollars. For hours it was an undecided battle between the firemen and the James, the former taking long chances. Not a stone's throw from the very heart of the fire and directly in its path was an iron tank holding thousands of barrels of turpentine, which might have exploded at any moment and would have killed many. But" the firemen worked on. and after lour hours had the flames well under control. The blase did not spread beyond the Bay line property.

FIGURES AND FORECASTS. Cleveland in the Lead, with Hill in Second Place. A New York dispatch says: Up to date the managers of Senator Hill's canvass for the Presidential nomination have not’given out any figures tending to verify their claim that the Senator has more than an even chance to win at Chicago One day last week a very prominent leader of Tammany said that Hlli would have at least 2CO voles on the first ballot and Cleveland probably 500. There has been a tally kept of the preferences of delegates so far as could be ascertained. A national delegate from the midwinter State convention yesterday canvassed the roll of States carefully with these resulting totals: Total delegates, 89$; necessary to a choice (two thirds), 590; Cleveland. 453: Hill, 336: Palmer, 48. Carlisle, 35; Boles, 16. These results are arrived at by splitting but js believed most of the Slates wTii vote under the unit rule. If they do, Mr. Hill's vote would be reduced to 215 and Cleveland’s Increased to 577, or within 22 of tLe requisite number. .. , v % TRAGEDY AT BAY CITY. George Beaudry Drowns Herself and Two of Her Children. Mrs. George Beaudry, of South Bay City, Mich., jumped into the river Tuesday morning with two of her children, and all were drowned. Mrs. Beaudry rose as usual about 6 o'clock and began getting breaklast Her husband and live children were In bed. A few minutes later she wont to the bedside of the two younger, and, dressing them, started from the house, carrying Victoria, aged 3, and leading George, aged 6. Mrs. Beaudry went to the river and sat down on the dock. She pushed the boy Into the river, and seeing a man coming down the street she jumped In her.elf, with the girl In her arms. The man reached the river in time to sea the mother and children about to sink, but not wishing to risk bis life in aa attempt to save the three, ran back to give alarm. The bodies were recovered shortly afterward. '"\ ELI T. STACKHOUSE DEAD. The South Carolina Congressman Expires Suddenly irom Heart Disease. ' Representative Ell T. Stackhouse, of the Bixth District of South Carolina, died suddenly at his residence In Washington. Mr. Stackhouse was la his seat in the House the day before his death, and answered to the roll-calL but complainiug of tlie Intense heat left the House and returned to his residence. During the night young Stackhouse heard his father breathing laboriously and called to him. hut he did not respond. He never rallied and died shortly afterward. The Immediate cause of his death is thought to have been heart disease.

Missouri River Rooming. Kansas City, Mo., special: The Missouri River is boom ins; here, and reports from up the river say that a big flood is now coming down from the upper country, caused by heavy rains and cloudbursts in the last few days. The present high water here is from the June rise, aud if on top of this come floods from such sources as indicated there is every reason to fear grave danger to the lowlands. Fatally Hurt by a Hull. Bart Griesem. a Swiss stockman living hear Sedalia, Mo., was attacked by an infuriated bull and fatally injured. He was stooping down to get a rock when the bull rushed upon him. The animal's right horn entered Grlesem’s side, and three ribs were torn out A frightful wound was inflicted. Fifteen Y ears for Torture. At City of Mexico the trial of the notorious widow, Guadalupe Martiuez de Bejarano, with her son Mauriclo, for tortaring small children to death, has Just elided. She was sentenced to fifteen years’ Imprisonment in the penitentiary. Stringing Wires to Chicago. The Western Union Telegraph Company, After signing the contract of the Chicago Board of Trade to deliver the grain prices of the board by tickers. In New York, immediately began to string wires between the two cities, and put on a force of men to work on the different circuits Flowers for the Convicts. The Joliet, 111., Woman’s Christian Temperance Union took MOO flowers to the peniteotiary, ISO to the county poor farm, and twenty-five to the jail, and gave them to the inmate*. They have made a practice of giving flowers to the prisoners oflhe ninth of June for years.

SIDNEY DILLON DEAD, Alter Twelve Weeks of Suflerlng He Suc- . chmbs. Sidney Dillon, the New York financier and railroad magnate, died at his residence, No. 23 West Fifty-seventh street. New York, at 11:10 Thursday morning. For more than a year Mr. Dillon has suffered from indigestion. Although attended by eminent physicians he could get no relief and gradually became worse until twelve weeks ago, when te was compelled to take to his bed. Sidney Dillon was born In Northern New York 79 years ago. his parents having emigrated from Ireland many years previous. His father’s poverty was so marked that when Sidney was but 7 years old he determined to strike out for himself, and secured the position of water-carrier on the Mohawk and Hudson Road, then being built between Albany and Schnectady, receiving $1 a week and board. In a sow years he bought horses and carts, and soon had a paying sand and water hauling business. When quite a young man Dillon made his debut In New York City and devoted his attention to carrying out railroad oontracts. Mr. Dillon was known as Jay Gould’s right bower. In 1884 bis wealth was estimated at 825.000,000 in railroad stocks and bonds and a sow million in Government securities, but lately his possessions increased at a rapid rate.

REBUILDING the dams. The Means of Death in the OH Country to Be Replaced. Inside of three years, 5.000 people have lost their lives in floods caused by dams In the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Over a score of dams held back the waters of Qil Creek and its tributaries above Titusville. It was these dams that hurled to eternity the souls of nearly 150 people and destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of property, left hundreds homeless, and made orphans of mayhap a thousand. With all this lesson, and even with that taught by the flood at Johnstown, where over 3,000 lives were lost In a single night and where there now lie s'eeping two regiments of dead in unknown graves, the people have not heeded. Wednesday a gang of men began rebuilding tho wreck of the Spartansburg dam, which caused the awful loss of life. They were building the same flume and only dumping dirt to replaco that which faded away under the force of the waters

INGENIOUSLY CRUEL TO A CHILD. Essex, Out., Excited Over tlse Wretched Life of Little Florence Harrison. Warrants were issued charging Mrs Brodie. Mrs. Scott, Charles Scott, James Bendlck and John Richardson, all of Essex, Ont, with cruelly beating Florence Harrison. The girl was examined by doctors. The bruised and lacerated condition of her body fully confirms her statements as to the cruelties to which she waa subjected. Tho excitement in Essex is intense. If half the current rumors are true the two women must have had a mania for iuflicting pain on the wretched girL One report has It that a favorite method of torturing the child was to strap her wrists together and suspend her by a rope from the celling, her toes touching the floor. A public subscription lias been taken up to pay the expenses of the prosecution.

lOWA’S THIRD PARTY. Convention of the New Organization at lies Moines. The lowa People’s Party State Convention at Des Moines hail about 290 delegates and visitors. W. H. Robb was chosen Chairman of the State Committee: Richard Olney, Secretary; and M. L. Wheat selected to present the name of J. B. Weaver for President at tho national convention. The platform indorses the subtreasury scheme or something better and 2 per cent loans the Increase of money to 850 per capita, a graduated Income tax. postal savings banks, asserts that laud Is the heritage of all the pooplo and that the Government should own and operate railroads A separate resolution was passed declaring that James B. Weaver Is u proper man to make tho raoe for the Presidency ft, n< l iSnnnmuHa? him to the Omaha cmveution. . .. , - JUST TWO HUNDRED YEARS OP AGE. Old W indham. Conn., Celebrates Its Birth and Bedecks Its Houses. With flags and music, spoeches, poetry and 2,003 people, the town, of Old Windham. Conn., celebrated on Windham greon the two hundredth anniversary of Its birth, The old colonial houses in the Ideal country village were garlanded with flags and swathed In bunting. In two of the dwellings Washington spent several nights, as did the gallant French captains and noblemen. In the time of the rovolutloa The old Standard tavern Is standing. It was a tavern in colonial days, and Its sign of the Brit sh Uuloorn is Still aloft Must Observe Two Sabbaths. Louis Goldsmith, a Toronto. Out, Hebrew. was fined 85 and oosts by tho police magistrate for allowing a number of his employes, all Hebrews, to work on Sunduy. The magistrate admitted that it was a hardship that Jews who kopt their own Sabbath should be compelled to also observe the Christian Sunday, but such was the ‘ law. Henry Cohen, a Hebrew tailor, was also flped for cut.in? cloth In his store on Sunday. Hailstones Kill a Farmer. A disastrous hailstorm visited Canton, Miss., causing incalculable damage. The hailstones were us largo as teacups, and remained on the gr Hind for an hour. Reports from the surrounding country give fearful accounts of tho damage done. The cot.on and corn crops are damaged to the extent of 75 per cent., and fruit has been completely destroyed, Nathan John, a farmer, was killed by hailstones while plowing In hLs field. Stage Robber In the Jury Box. The San Francisco authorities were amazed to find that J. H. Squires, a juror who was arrested in the box and indicted for attempted bribery, is a retired train and stage robber, with one of the hardest criminal records od the ooast

Firemen Fatally Hurt. A destructive Ore visited Niagara Palls, N. Y., involving the loss of nearly SBO,OOO and probable death of two firemen. Four volunteer firemen were badly injured, two fa’ally. The fire was in the Macklen malthouse and elevator. To I)o Away with Convict Competition. Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan master coopers and manufacturers of staves and other coopers’ supplies met at the Grand Pacific, Chicago, to formally protest against the manufacture of barrels bv convict labor. June Rise Reaches Kansas City. The June rise In tho Missouri River has reached Kansas City. No danger from flood is appebeuded. The Missouri River is at present eight feet and three Inches below the maximum of May 2L A Painter's Fatal Fall, At Sedalia, Mo., William Sheehan, aged 30 years and unmarried, fell a distance of eighty feet from the top of a smokestack that he was painting at a mill, and sustained fatal injuries. Cleveland Wins tn Texas. In the Texas Democratic convention a free silver plank was adopted. The question of instructing for Cleveland came up. The delegates stand 16 for Cleveland to 14 for Hill. ’ Suspension of Hostilities. Everything is yet quiet in Buffalo County, Wyo. Round-ups are proceeding harrnoni>usly without event of any kind marring :he peace. The report of the hanging of tour man is a canard The county was

never In' a more quiet or settled condition End no one can account for the sending of troops here unless It be the culminating point of a plot to kill the country’s civilization and prosperity. Private dispatches state that Government troops are en route, and It is tho general belief that martial law will be declared when they are in position.

SIR. PEFFER’S BILL. The Kansas Senator Speaks on His Currency Measure. The bill introduced by Mr. Peffer on May 26 “to Increase the currency and provide for Its circulation, to reduce tbe rates of interest, and to establish a bureau of loans,” was taken from the table and Mr. Peffer addres-ed tbe Senate in explanation and advocacy of it. It provides for the appointment by the President of three commissioners, to hold their office Id Washington, whose duty it shall be to establish loau agencies, one at tbe capital of every State and Territory and at other convenient places—such loan agency to be known as the Central Loan Agency for that State or Territory. Tho business of these local agencies Is to be to lend money to the people on tho plan of well regulated . real estate and loan agencies, secured by real estate. The loans are to be for not less than one year nor lohger than (blank) years. They are to be for not less than SIOO nor more than $2,503 to any one person or family. There Is no provision as to the rate of interest. In order to provide funds, treasury notes are to be issued, equal In amount to 81.50 for every dollar’s worth of gold and silver coin and bullion belonging to the United States —the bullion to lie estimated at its coinage value. No banking firm, company, or corporation is hereafter to receive interest at a higher rate per annum thau 5 per cent for short time or 4 per cent, for a your or longer.,

A HOWLING TERROR. A FVurtui Storm Kills Many People and Destroys Property at Chicago. Never in the history of the signal service In Chicago had the wind gained so great velocity as it did Monday. For two minutes it went driving through tho city at the rate of miles an hour. It carried along great sheets of water and created widespread havoc. It tore against buildings and left a scar; it unroofed the big Democratic convention wigwam on the lake front; It dug into the streets and ripped tlie pavements from their concrete beds; It seized great beams of wood and bore them hurling through tho air; It drove men from the thoroughfares and transformed gutters into rivers. Rumors of fallen buildings, of killed and maimed men and women, went flying through the city for hours uftor the storm had passed on. The first reports largely exaggerated tho loss of life and injuries to persons. An authentic list of tho killed foots up eight, and of the injured fifteen.

FIVE NEW WARSHIPS. Oomlltlon of tho Work Upon Them at Cramps' Shipyard. Work on the cruisers and battloshlps under construction at Cramps’ shipyard at Philadelphia progresses steadily. In spite of the numerous delays' due to changing tho material of the protective deck and rion-delivery of nil armor, tho twin-screw armored cruiser Now York is rapidly approaching completion. She is lying at the wharf, and Is about nlne-tentlis finished. Tlie joiner work Is well advanced, and the four engines are nearly eroctod on board. Outwardly tho vessel does not look much different from what she did when “he was launched. A great part of tho deck structure is in place. The main bridge has recently been erected. On the wharf ure the boilers ready to be put lute the hold. Under a shed In the upper past of the yard are the Iron masts, ready to ship ’J heir fighting “tops,” which will contain machlno guns, are large enough to hold a halfdozen men with comfort.

KILLED BY SHELLS. Twolve Seaman at Mare Island Navy Y’aril Blown to Pieces. A dispatch Monday morning from Vallejo, Cal., says: . ■ —c ' A report which shook this town like a sharp shock of earthquake was heard at 11:30 o’clock this forenoon, and was fob_ lowed by the ringing of alarm-hells at Vue’ Mare Island Navy Yard. When the great volume of smoko at tho yard cleared away, it was found that the explosion had taken place at tho shell- house of the naval magazine. The burned and charred bodies of two apprentice seamen were found on the beach 200 yards from the scene of the explosion. A third body was at the same time on the way to the hospital In tho midst of the ruins were seen bodies scattered here and there. AVhen collected the dead numbered twelve, with Gunner Hittlnger of the cruiser Boston at tlie head. The bodies were greatly disfigured. some being cut in two, and nearly all minus llmba Cyclone In Minnetonka. Orono Point, Lake Minnetonka, Minn., was crossed Monday morning at 7:30 by a cyclone, which formed on the surface of the lake and swept across the peninsula with irresistible force The residence of George A. Brackett was wrecked and all the fine trees surrounding tho house, most of them fifty years’ growth, were uprooted and now lie in tangled masses in the center of tho wrecked cottage Hardly a tree is left standing along the route of tho storm. Three Bitten by a Vicious Dog. At Chicago three persons were bitten by a vicious dog. By a lucky shot an officer killed the animal Just as it was about to attack him. Emin Pasha Reported Dead. The Borlln Tageblatt’s Zanzibar dispatch says English reports via Mombasa confirm the death of Emin Pasha.