Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1892 — SLAIN BY THE SUN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SLAIN BY THE SUN.

INTENSE HEAT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. Abnormal Temperature T| the Cause of Many Fatalities—Sufferings Endured In tlie Crowded Centers of PopulationDeaths Reported from All Points. Victims by the Score. The fierce heat during tho past week has Leen terribly oppressive throughout the country, and the uuthber of fatalities from the effects of the sun has been greater than fur many years. Especially in the larger cities has the death rate been astourding. Tho result of tho heat last Wednesday In Chicago was alii: ost as bad as a battle. According to reports the rattle of the ambulauces over the hot dry pavements to where a little crowd had collected around a prostrate for u was heard e irly and late. Officers would push their way through the throng and lean over tho B‘rlokea one who had reele I under tho blasting rays of Old Sol. One of the stalwart men in blue feels the unfortunate’s pulse and looks up solemnly. The crowd falls back in awe. The man Is dead. He was walking along when he was seen to stagger suddenly, throw his hands to his head and fall heavily to the sldowalk. Who Is he? Nobody knows. Nobody knows whether he may have a mother, or a brother, or a wife or children .His body is borne off to the morgue, Where it is laid out among that awful family which has lately been so large, which goes among the office is of the law and a careless public who reads the notice with a passing glance, by that awful name “Unknown.” There have been hundreds of such cases iu the cities all over the country. Chioago in three days had sixty-eight deaths and nearly three hundred prostrations, while smaller cities suffered in like proportion. The climax was reaohed on Wednesday last. It was a red-hot, roasting day, and the largest number of people overcome by the heat in many years was re, orted. In Chicago the mercury reached 98 degrees, and men and women of all classes wilted down in the streets to the number of 128, thirty-two of whom died. Over 300 horses also suoCumbed on that day. While Chicagoans were sweltering the people of Cheyenne, Wy., >gere ohilly ■’•t 52 degrees. Sioux City reaohed 02 igrees, but a rain came on and the ercury dropped to 68 degrees. A heavy r&ln storm brought the tempera-

ture down from 90 to 61 degrees at North Platte, Neb. The ooolest plaoe recorded was Calgarry, in Alberta, over the British American line. The maximum temperature there was 34 degrees. Boston was two degrees hatter than Chioago, although it was visited by a shower. New York’s maximum was exactly the same as Chicago’s. President Harrison felt uncomfortable at Washington with 98 degrees, while the eloquent Senator Wolcott enjoyed the breezes at Denver, with a top-notch record of 66 degrees. As far sduth as New Orleans the mercury could only struggle up to 84 degrees. Omaha reached 98; Des Moines, 94; Detroit, 92; Milwaukee, 94; Cincinnati, 92; Kansas City, 90; St. Louis, 92; but it was only 64 at Helena, Mont., 66 at Bismarck, N. D., and 76 at Huron, 8. D. The strikers at Homestead had the heat of 96 degrees poured down on their troubled heads, while Rapid City, 8. D., enjoyed midsummer life with the high-wave notch of 60 degrees. Wichita, Kan., with 82, was near Nashville at 92, Davenport at 92, Louisville at 92, and Toledo at 90. Memphis and Oalveston ran a dead heat at 88.

CALIFORNIA TOWN WIPED OUT, Bod In* Once a Flourishing Mining Gump, Destroyed by Fire. Advices were received at Hawthorne, Nev., by messenger late Thursday nlgbl that Bodle, the largest town In Mono County, California, had been practically destroyed by a great fire. The flame! broke out at three o’clock In tbei morning in a bakery, and before the firemen reached the epot one whole block was in flames on both sides of the street. The town has only one volunteer fire company, and although the men worked hard they oould make very little Impression. The district burned Included about thirty stores of all kinds, the only one remaining being the grocery of Harvey Boone. Among those who are the heaviest losers are: Bodle Bailway and Lumber Company; Henry Coehen, dry goods; Delury & Garcia saloon; Kuhlman Brothers, druggists; S. Gensler and 'William Boush, general merchandise; C. H. Kelly, furniture; George W. Penter, banker; N. J. Salisbury, boots and shoes. The total loss Is SIOO,OOO, with trifling insurance. Many families lived over the stores, and theae are homeless, as they lost everything. The buildings were nearly all of wood and burned like tinder, giving no opportunity for removal of furniture.

ACED 115 YEARS. Death of Another Colored Woman Whc Knew George Washington. Maria Beed, colored, who Is said to be the oldest woman in Kentucky, died at her home In Louisville Wednesday. She was born in Virginia In 1777, and was consequently 115 years old. She was the mother of sixteen children, only two of whom are living. She moved to Louisville nearly a century ago and has lived there ever since. Her children, with whom she lived, claim that she was intimately acquainted with George Washington and a number ol other historical characters. Popular Equality. People who wish to reduce society to an absolute popular equality rarely care to begin the work of reformstion in their own households. WheD Mrs. Macaulay advocated this adjustment of affairs, Doctor Johnson silenced her by saying: “Madam, lam now become a convert to your way ol thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing, and to give you an unquestionable proof, madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, wellbehaved fellow citizen—your foot, man; 1 desire that he may be allowed to dine with us.”

This Dog's Vsae la Istfk “Snap* is the name of ons as ths eutest dogs In the oountry. Hs Is a fin# little fox terrier puppy, beautifully marked, but he is. devoting his young life to missionary work In the Harlem Hospital. He never misses an ambulanoe call, being always ready for the ride long before the doctor who answers the oall, and when the injured person Is onos In the wagon he waiohes over him . or her with unceasing vigilance. Only two or three days ago hs saved one or the doctors from serious Injury at the hands of an insane patient. Ths doctor was sitting on the rear seat of the ambulance, while Snap watched ths patient. By some means the man released the upper portion of his body from the restraining straps and was about to strike the surgeon.,on the head when Snap saw the danger and jumped at the man. He.bit his nose so badly that the doctor was made aware of ths condition of affairs and, with the aid of a policeman, again strapped the man down.—New York Advertiser,. Dragooning Won't Dot Not with the Uver. Violent oholagogues, like oalomel and bine, pill, administered in “heroic” or exoeeaive doses, M they often ere, will not permanently restore the activity of the great hepatic organ, and are productive 0( much mischief to the system generally. Institute a healthful reform. If inactivity of the liver exists, with Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, which Insures a regular discharge of the secretive function of tha jttver, and promotes dne action of the bowel* without griping or weakening them. The dUoomfttrt and tenderness in the right side, nausea, fur upon the tongue, yellowness of the skin and eyeballs, sourness of the breath and sick headache, which characterise chronic biliousness, disappear, and digestion—always Interfered with by biliousness—resumes its former activity. The Miters annihilates malarial complaints, rheumatism, kidney trouble, ants le a promoter of healthful repose. ) A Keip uknble Royal Family. About toe granjito pedestal of tha bronze memento presontod to the King and Queen of Lexmark on the oooaetoa of their golden wajdlng le a row of basrelief portraits of: the fifty-one ohildrea anT grandchildren .of toe house. The most remarkable.thifift about the group Is that out of the' fifty-one descendants only one ls dead, the Duke d£.Glsrenoe. Few women can count, upon their fiftieth anniversary, a family of fifty living descendants, numbering among them a daughter who Is an empress, a son who is a king, and another daughter who will be a queen when Queen Victoria Is gathered to her fathers.

Curing an Epileptic. , A bold surgical operation was made at Vienna, Austria, toe other day upon g. boy of 15 who had been suffering from epileptic fits from his early youth. Professorp Benedict and Mosetlg opened the skull and took out a portion of the bruin where the nervee start that oonneot with the limb In which the flte used to ooinm«n oe. The wound heeled rapidly and thp boy has boon free from fit* ever since toe operation wan performed. Ouu loader* will romember to* particular* of remarkable eure* published some week* ago In these columns These urUrles attracted widespread attention,' foT tho reason that medical science hud hitherto bald that tha diseases 111 question were Incurable. Iu this Issue will be found tha particular* of another equally remarkable ease, tha parson who thus miraculously recovered being one of the beat-known merchant* of Detroit, Ml oh. The article appear* under the hooding «A Detroit Miracle,” and 1* worth a caiwfal p cental.

Dahomey Native. at the Fair. Several Amazons of toe King of Da» homey will probably be seen In toe Dahomey village, which will be established at the World 1* Pair. Sixty or seventy natives and toeir manner of living will be shewn. CONDUCTOR E. a LOOMIS, Detroit, MiflK, ■ays: ‘The effect of Hsfl'i Catarrh Ours 1* wonderful.” Witte him about 11 gold by Druggists, 7Jc. Mowex is rarely a substitute for mind. 1

OLD SOL-"SO YOU THINK THERE ARE SPOTS ON ME. DO YOU?"