Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1892 — THE PLOT THICKENS. [ARTICLE]

THE PLOT THICKENS.

STRIKERS WILL ARREST MANAGER FRICK. Supreme Justice Somerby Say* tile Iron Hall Is AU Right—Oregon’s Pride Gets a Bad Scorching—Arizonians Fight Like » the Kilkenny Cats.

At VTashinglon. The House commiltee on the 2d finished ' Investigating Mr. Watson’s charges of drunkenness and a not. guilty majority report will le presented- Another deadlock day was passed in the House, but the friends of the Fair promise to take a more .aggressive stand. In the Senate a select committee of seven was api ointed to investigate and report the facts In relation to the employment of armed bodies for private purpose. ORDER DE THE IKON HALL Supreme Justice Somerbv Declares That He Can Refute the Charges. Indianapolis, special: Supreme Justice

Freeman D. Sornerb, - , of the Order oil the Iron Hall, Is in town. lie is apparently as calm and pleasant as if he were not one of the most-talked-about and wrltton-up men in the country, Mr. Somerby says he came here last evening and was met at the depot by his chief clerk, Rowland Evans, who took him to his h >me. They remained there a short time and then came down, town and until a la‘e hour were consulting with their attorneys. This morning at 9 o’clock Mr. Somerby was in his office looking over papers and answering dispatches that were coming in by the score. “I have just got in.” said he. “and have not had time to look matters over. As soon as I do I am tvilllng to givo to the public any information that will be of interest concerning the Order of the Iron Hall. I can say that the order is solid in every way and will bu vindicated in the courts,” The application for the appointment of a receiver fer the Order of the Iron Hall has created great uneasiness among the members of the order throughout the country. Hundreds of dispatches are being received by the local officers asking for particulars and demanding to know the exact condition of the order. The ‘gravest reports are cuirant involving the funds which are’ or ought to be in the the Supreme officers? . ■*". FRICK tS"RJS ARRESTED.

The Amalgamated Files an Information Against Him. Pittsburg special: Aboutone hundred and flfty men are working in the upper union mills of Carnegie’s and the eight, ten. and twelve inch mills and the plate mill are in operation. Superintendent Dillon says the second plate mill will soon be started. The best of order prevails In the vicinity of the works. The strikers are not interfering in any way with the workmen and no trouble is apprehended. A large force Of police still guard the plant, however, as a precautionary measure. Ihe anarchists, Bauer and Knold. made application for release on hail and Judge Ewing fixed the bail at $5,000 each. Attorney Friedman expects to secure bondsmen and have the two men out It is rumored that an information will be made against H. G Frick on a charge of conspiracy and that he will be arrested. The information will be made by the Amalgamated Association.

THIRTY LIVES IN TWO YEARS. Cost of the Tondo Basin Feud In Arizona, Ended by Assassination. The Tondo basin feud, which has endured near Tompe. Arizona, for two years and has cost thirty lives, is ended by the fatal Injury of Tom Graham, the last of his family, shot from ambush Tuesday morning by Ed Tewksbury. The feud between the two families sprang from the Tewksburys bringing sheep into the Tondo barin. which was claimed as cuttle-grazing ground by the Grahams. The latter shot the herders and stampeded the sheep. Since then, every few months, fighting has occurred, in which the Grahams always were worsted. They lost twenty-seven men, and the Tewksburys three Only six of the Tewksbury gang remain. Several times the sheriff Has been UDable to arrest the murderers. LOSS ESTIMATED AT 9400,000. Two Large Wholesale Houses Burned Out at Portland, Oregon. Fire originated in the third floor of Whittier, Fuller & Co.’s wholesale paint store, at Front and Pine streets, in Portland, Oregon. An explosion followed, breaking the fire wall between Whittier & Fuller’s aud Wadham & Co.’s wholesale grocery. Both places were completely gutted. The losses are: Dolph, Thompson & Dolph, on buUding, $35,000; fully insured; Whittier, Fuller & Co. (estimated), $200,000; fully Insured; Wadham & Co. (estimated), $150,000; insured for $125,0C0.

lams Goes to Law. Informations have been made In Pittsburg before Alderman Reilly by ex-Prlvato lams azainst Colonel Hawkins, Lieutenant Colonel Streator, and Assistant Surgeon Grim, of the Tenth Regiment, for aggravated assault and assault and battery. Warrants were issued. The charge of aggravated assault was for tying lams up by the thumbs and the charge of assault and battery for shaving his bead. Ducked and logged an Old Man. At Dover. Ky.. R M. Owens, 60 years ol age, was taken by White Caps and ducked In the river until he was nearly drowned, when he was taken out and given flfty blows on the bare hack with a board. He was released more dead than alive. Osvens has always borne a good reputation, and the outrage is generally denounced. He says he knows the perpetrators, and will have them arrested. Blaine to Take the Stump. The campaign in Maine will he opened by the Republicans on the 17th Inst, and Chairman Manley is busy arranging for meetings to be held in every section and corner of the State. Ex-Secretary Blaine will take the stamp and appear all along the line. Mr. Manley left Augusta for Bar Harbor Tuesday afternoon to arrange when he will speak.

CAL, WOOD ELECTROCUTED. Death Wm Apparently Painless and Instantaneous— HU Crime. At Dannemora, N. Y., Joseph, otherwise known m “Cal.” Wood was executed by electricity at 11:52 o’clock Tuesday morning. Death was apparently painless and Instantaneous. Wood was convicted oi murdering his father-in-law. Leandet Pasco, a farmer of Warren County, May 10, 189®. The defendant pleaded not guilty, alleging temporary insanity. The successive courts adjudged him guilty, and Got. Flower refused to interfere. I ' A '\ ~ f , - To Complete the Panama Canal. Private cablegrams from Paris announce Aat a syndicate has been formed for the purpose of taking in band work on the canal and pushing It at once along the route. These telegrams have caused great rejoicing at Panama, and further particulars hare been requested by cablet Am—lean Killed by an Avalanche. A dispatch from Interlaken. Switzerland, •tat— that an American named R Ribbons has been killed by the fall of an avalanche fmm the upper Grindecwald glazier. The fall of aa avalanche in that vicinity iz a frequent spectacle, bat seldom attended by dang— aniens the spectator is foolhardy.

rIOr >T WITH A MADMAN. KlUedft ftJi * Canstalril After Frightening Vwople at«d Destroying Property. ,1109 Angeles special: Arthur Strobel, an issane German from New York, was shot ipd killed yesterday by Constable E. P. flardle of Garvanza while resisting arrest. Strobel applied at the reslden’t-e of Mrs. Ramson for lodging, and on being refused put the family to flight. From there le proceeded to the railroad crossing, and made an assault with a revolver on Thomas Wilson, a one-armed logman. A bystander interfered and Strobel chasedthim down the street with a revolver at his head. Hardie was notified and found Strobel at the Ramson residence, whither he had returned and where he was demolishing the furniture. The officer called on him to surrender, but Strobel fled from the bouse, at the same time drawing his revolver on the officer who Bred, the bullet taking effect in an artery of the right leg. Strobel bled to death in ten minutes. Hardie surrendered himself.

MORE TO BE PROSECUTED. Those Who Assaulted the Pinkertons Will Be Arrested. Those who participated in the disgrace at Homestead after the surrender of the Pinkertons on July 6 will be prosecuted for aggravated assault and battery, highway robbery, larceny, pocket-picking, and other crimes and misdemeanors. The work of securing the necessary evidence to convict those engaged in the assaults on the Pinkertons and the robbery of the surrendered men has been going on for some time, and it is now so far advanced that informations will be made in a few days and the persons arrested. Among them are several women who were particularly active and aggressive during the time the men ran the gantlet and after it in taking the property of the men and hiding It Assault and battery and receiving stolen goods will be the charges against these women. The attorney for the prosecution is preparing informations in those cases, and as soon as they are completed the warrants will be issued. ROASTED IN NAPHTHA. Four Men Burned Fatally by an Explosion Resulting From a Train Wreck. One of the worst wrecks ihe Biz Four has experienced in recent years, occurred Monday afternoon at Cold Springs, four miles west of Springfield, Ohio, to the first section of west-bounl freight Na 65, in charge of Conductor Mara and Engineer Smith. While the train was running at the rate of twenty-five miles per hour, a truck ojsqme J»art Jho junnlng-gear of one of the cars broke. In an Instant thirteen cars, all loaded, were piled up in indescribable confusion. The wreck occurred Id the limekiln region where the road runs for a couple of miles in a small canyon and the track was completely flocked. Of the cars, four were loaded with naphtha, which caught fire, aud soon the entire wreck was blazing. The financial loss is estimated at $75,000 or over. Four persons were burned fatally.

MURDER HIS PROFESSION. Says He Had a Hand In Three Irish Political Assassinations. A man who is confined in prison in Glasgow has confessed to the authorities that he was implicated in the murder of Lord Leitrim who was shot and killed on April 2, 1878, while driving near his residence in County Derry, Tr-land. The prisoner also stated that he was concerned in the killing of Lord Montmorris at Rusheen, County Mayo, Ireland, Sept. 25, 1880. He further says he was hired to assist the man who killed the informer, James Carey. The prison commissioners are carefully investigating the story of the mao, whom they have subjected to a most searching examination, and are endeavoring to secure proof of his statements. IN THE BUN’S HARVEST. No Diminution of the Fearful Death Rate in Chicago. Another scorcher, another long list of heat victims to add to the mortality column and the prolongation of the misery that goes with a protracted season of equatorial heat in these latitudes. Such was the record of Chicago on Wednesday. Those who gave up their lives numbered thirtyfour and the Injured were sixty-seven. Other cities east and south had the same experience, but sections of the Northwest report a drop in temperature of from 20 to 40 degrees. Killed by a Vicious Bull. Martin H. Smith, a Schenectady. N. Y., farmer, aged 04, was gored to death by a vicious Durham bull. Smith had gone to the pasture to give the cattle some salt when the hull attacked him. The old farmer made a desperate fight, but was finally overcome by the animal. He was rescued while yet alive, tut died two hoars later. Poor Crops Around Northfleld. The’crops near Northfleld, Minn., are in very poor condition. In many places the spring wheat is not more than eight inches high and will never be harvested. Wellmatured grain cannot he cut with a machine because of the mud. and old-fash-ioned cradles are being used. Deed of an Enraged Husband. William Bushendorf, a well-to-do farmer residing at Clark Station, Ind., shot and fatally wounded Henry Werkmeister. Werknjelster was paying too much attention to Bushendorf’s wife. Bushendorf is now in the county jail. Many Die In the East. New York reports ninety-four deaths from heat Friday, and Philadelphia twentyeight. The mercury has fallen at both Cities