Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — ESCAPED THE GALLOWS [ARTICLE]

ESCAPED THE GALLOWS

4H. CLAY KING TO Be/|MPRISONED FOR LIFE. B«t«i> Ne*ro Hucksters Drowne9-Forty Hurt In it Santa Fe Wreck Near Denver —War In Africa-Eastern Railroad Em. ployes Are R -stless. Railroad Men Tlireaten Trouble. Ever since tbo Philadelphia aud Read ins Boad got control of the Central New England and Western Railroad there has been trouble with the men working on the road. Section men by the dozen have quit on account of a reduction of wages from $1.50 to $1.25 par day* and the men generally have been dissatisfied and discontented. On Saturday thirty-five of the Bixty-flve employes in the car- shops were discharged without warning. Now section men are being put on and the men wh« have left say that there will be trouble. THE AFGHAN REVOLT. Energetic Efforts of the Ameer to Suppress the Hazara Tribesmen. The revolt of the Hazara tribes In Afghanistan becomes more serious dally, and many of the great tribes have now combined their forces against the Ameer, who is collecting all his forces to put down the rebellion. In addition to 20.000 regular troops, and an equal force of irregulars, the Ameer Is trying to raise further levies by holding cut to the loyal tribesmen promises of great reward If they will assist him to combat the revolting Hazaras. Among other things, the Ameer bolds out the prospect that in the event of the subjugation ol the rebels the country will be divided between the tribesmen who assist him. These promises and the prospect of getting possession of Hazaraland have Induced many of the tribesmen to join the standard of the Ameer.

H. CLAV KING WILL NOT HANG. His Sentence Is Commuted to Imprisonment for Life. Henry Clay King, the murderer of David H. Poston, will not hang. Gov. Buchanan has commuted bis sentence to life Imprisonment In the Tennessee Penitentiary. Colonel King's son Laughton received k message from Nashville conveying the intelligence, and then hurried tc the jail to notify bis father. The old man read the message through the burs of his oeH, and, with an audible sigh of- relief, resumed bis seat on bis col- The young man then threw himself In his father’s arms and wept like a child. Colonel King sat like a sphinx and looked upon his weeping son with a stony -spare as if It was an everyday occurrence. TREASURE TRAIN IN GOTHAM. The 820,000,000 In Gold Unloaded and Taken to the Sub-Treasury. It was just 10:40 o'clock Tuesday morning when the now famous treasure train, cxrrying $20,030,003 of Uncle Sara's gold coin from San Francisco to New York, pulled into its destination. There was nothing unusual about the train to attract attention, but the unusual activity of officials and the sight of armed men who emerged from the cars and surrounded the train when the engine had given its last pad and stood still drew a small ceowd about It was not generally known when the treasure train would arrive, and those who learned what the commotion was all about glanced curiously at the proceedings but at a respectable distance. FORTY PERSONS HURT. Bw Chicago Limited Express ou the Santa Fe Thrown from tine Track. A bad. wreck occurred on the Santa Fe, eight miles from Denver, at 11:05 Tuesday morning, when the first section of the Chicago limited express ran off the track, caused by the spreading of the rails, while the train was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour. When the engineer felt the cars bumping on the ties he applied the air so suddenly that the passengers were thrown from their seats. A scene of confusion followed. In which at .least forty people wage Injured, several fatally. -

On the Diamond. Following Is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different assoctatlona NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. tfc.| IV. L. %>c. Cleveland... r?r 6 .Tu;Chicaao.....Mo n aw Boston. u 7 .767;Pittsburiz.... 9 ll ,4V) Brooklyn. .13 0 .■'9l Cincinnati.. 9 19 .42; Philadelp'ial2 9 .671 Washington. 9 13 .03 New'York...ll 0 .o'O Lonlsyllle... 7 14 .333 Baltimore. 11 10 .524 St. Lonls 6 15 .‘.BO ILLINOIS-lOWA LEAGUE W. L. fc. W. L. ¥>c. B. 1.-Mollne..v2 19 687 Joliet 21 21 .5.41 Bockford 23 21 .521 Jacksonville. .lo 24 .442 WIBCONBIN-MICHIGAN LEAGUE. W. L. Wc.i tv. L. Uc Menominee. ..24 14 ,632 l Marlnette 19 23 .452 Oshkosh 24 18 .671iGreen 8ay....19 20 .422 lsh’lng-Neg...25 20 .556|Marquette....l7 29 .396 Mr«. Enoch’s Elopement Disastrous. Frank Swallow, a well-knoan Lima. Ohio, resident, and Mrs. F. H. Enoch left town several days ago, but the affair ju£t J cime to light. Mrs. Enoch took her 3-year-old daughter and what money she could raise. Swallow left a wife and five children. Beaching Pittsburg he deserted Mr& Enoch, alter taking all her money, and left her to shift for herself. The police are looking for him. Indians on the Warpath. Lee Hodgdon. of Denting. N. M., was murdored by Indians near Hatchita. N. M. The Indians numbered fifteen and have been off the San Carlos Beservftlon for jome weeks. A Mexican named Ecalahta was found near the scene of the Hodgdon tragedy shot through the head. He was Also killed by Indiana Flour Combine Formed. At San Francisco, a big flour milling XMnbtne was perfected, when six of the largest flouring companies in California, sontrolling thirteen large mills, united under the title of the Sperry Flour Company. Fatal Ferryboat Disaster. A ferryboat plying between Charleston. . 8.C., and 'Sullivan’s Island was swamped, i The captain of the vessel and seven of his V-qnew were drowned; four passengers were rescued. The accident was caused by the boat being overloaded, i Seven of the drowned were negro hucksters. Knights on Parade. The grand parade of Knights Templars took place In Denver Tuesday under the most favorable conditions. The weather was perfect, and the accommodations for rUftors were all that coaid reasonably be *x pec ted considering the crowd. iron Hall Yields to Clamor. At Indianapolis, the popular demand for A thorough overhauling of the books of the Order of the Iron Hall has constrained the Xcecettve Beard to appoint a snbcommltfor that purpose, and a careful Investigation of the hooks of all the officers, covering a period of four yean, is nsw in progress. __ i * Johnston Island Annexed. tetters front Honolulu declare that tbs British cruiser Champion arrived there JTuly IS Horn her Vip to Johnston Island. **• island tins formally annexed, the BritW»*ag being run up Captain Roberts who 1* part owner of the Island, lives In San

JOHN W. EWING FOB GOVERNOR. . ■■ Result of TBre People’s Party Convention in Michigan. There did not seem to be the enthusiasm In the People’ State Convention that was expected. There were 585 delegates present abd perhaps half as many visitors and alternates at the People’s State Convention at Jackson, Mich. The Committee on Resolutions reported the Omaha platform as that for the State. In addition It demands the separation of church and state, that there shall be no appropriation of the public funds for sectarian schools, denounces the Pinkertons, demands the abolishment of penal labor which competes with free labor, demands that the names of manufacturers be placed on their goods, makes election days legal holidays, demands that mine Inspectors be elected by thqg>eople, that all land sold for taxes be bought and held by the State for actual settlers, and declares opposition to all trusts and combines In every form. John W. Ewing was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. The balance of the ticket was selected as follows: Lientenant Governor, George H. Sherman of Wayne i Secretary of State, Frank M. Vandercook of Gratiot; Treasurer, Joseph W. Welton of Kent; Superintendent of Public Instruction, O. M. Graves of Emmet; Commissioner of "State Land Office, William L. Hayden of Houghton; member State Board of Education, Wilber H. Clute of Bay City. DEACON WHITE PAVING HIS DEBTS. Successful Ventures with Keene on Wall Street Make Him Solvent. Just about a year ago 8. V. White, of New York, became entangled In an effort to corner com. Because of the Chicago manipulation of that cereal he was forced to suspend payments, owing a couple of millions He handed over to his creditors everything he had left, and said that If they would give him time and take his word he would pay dollar for dollar. They all took his word, and did not ask for even a scrap of paper In acknowledgment of the debts. He joined hands with James R. Keene, another gentleman who had met misfortune, and who, since 1884, has squared a couple of millions of debts. Mr. Keene and Mr. White became personally and jointly Interested In the Industrial securities of Wall street, particularly Cordage, Sugar, General Electric and similar properties. The success of the ventures has been so pronounced that on Friday Mr. White spent most of the time in calling upon the friends of a year ago and handing out to them checks of the amount due them. In all, Mr. White settled $400,000 of debts. He Is now pretty well clear of the old trouble. -*•’

PILOT KNOB’S GHOST Proves to Be a White Bear Which Had Escaped from a Circus. The people.,living, about Pilot Knob, a suburb of Leavenworth. Kan., have been under a nervous strain for a week. In the thickets on top of the hill Is a deserted graveyard, and a strange figure In gleaming white which crawled noiselessly on Its hands and knees has been seen among the tombstones every night by some one. The other night a party of men and boys laid for the ghost. It appeared at 10 o’clock. Its form resembling a Newfoundland dog, though It was much larger and white. Silently it moved along the headstones as if searching for something. The dogs cowered and whined and refused to attack the whit 3 object, and in fear and trembling the party retreated. The next day boys in the brush nearly stumbled over a big white bear, which, it is presumed, escaped from a circus in a wreck on tbo Central branch. BOLD BANK ROBBERS. Four Masked Men Hold Up a Cashier at Benton, Mo., in Broad Daylight, Four masked men rode up to the bank In Benton, Mo., Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock, and two of them dismounted, while the others remained outside. The men on entering the bank presented revolvers at the head of Cashier Smith and ordered him to hand over the cash. The Cashier gave the men about $1,200, which they placed In a bag, and, after cautioning Smith to remain Inside the building, took their departure. The men had hardly left the building when Cashier Smith gave the alarm, but before a posse could be gathered they had a good start The men were well mounted and performed their work In a professional manner.

FARMER SMITH’S MISTAKE. Out 83,000 by Htg Deal with Three Strange Men. Three strangers have buncoed William D. Smith of Clinton County, lowa, out of 53,000. They came to his place Inquiring if there were any farms for sale, and agreed to pay him $lO a day to show them around. Then they borrowed $3,000 of him to clinch the bargain on a farm they bought, and after placing the money In a locked tin box, which they gave the victim to keep, they pretended to have received a dispatch calling them to another town to meet some one, and asked Smith to await their return. He waited for a time, then forced open the box and found it filled with brown paper. Smith Is 75 years old. Victims of a Mistake. In the belief that they were drinking whisky three men in East Chicago swallowed enough carbolic acid Saturday* night to have killed a dozen persons. One of the men paid the penalty with his life and the other two narrowly escaped death. The three men were C. S. Ingram, superintendent of the Chicago Horseshoe Company,idead; LCuis Brunlg, foreman at the horseshoe works, and Dr. Vincent Cole. These Are Laws Now. The President has signed the act changing the date for the dedication of the buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition; the act to authorize the entry of lands chiefly valuable for building stone under the placer mining laws; and the joint resolution extending the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation bill; also the bill to pension army nurses of the late war.

’ 02 ® e * <,ly JS*plo»lon of Naphtha. Ftvp workmen were seriously burned by an Explosion of naphtha at the chemical works of H. W. Jayne & Co., Frankford, Pa. Thomas Beach, aged 16 years, and W. C. Beal, 16 years, will die. The sheetiron building in which the explosion occurred was gutted by fire. The loss amounts to $5,000; insured. , North Dakota Republicans. North Dakota Bepublican State ticket: Governor, A. H. Burke; Lieutenant- Governor, R. H. Hankinson; Secretary of State, G. M. Dali; Auditor, Mr. Walker: Treasurer, L. E.:Booker; Superintendent of Public Instruction, M. Devine; Commissioner of Agrlcnlture, D. H. McMillan; Attorney General, P. H. Bourke. Committed Suicide by Mistake. George Harris, of Avoca, Pa., while at the Fairview Excuslon Resort, carelessly pointed a revolver toward himself while examining it. He accidentally pulled the trigger and was shot dead. Got Half a Loaf. The House has finally passed the Durborow World’s Fair bill by a vote of 131 yeas to 63 nays. According to the provisions of the bill the Exposition will re- • 2,500,000 as an appropriation outright New Parliament In Session. The new British Parliament assembled Thursday. The proceedings were merely formal Bt Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, Speaker of the last Parliament, was elected Speaker. P. J. Sheridan Comes to Light. SJM J. BherMan, a farmer HVthg eight hi flee south of Monte Vista, Cola, while iriviag through his gate with a hay rack was Pushed between the .post and hay ruck. Several ribs were broken and It is

thought hft, l ea«hot Mr. Sheridan gained a world- wide reputation a few years ago os being a man who was supposed to know something about the Phoenix Park murder. He has been offered large sums of money to go to England to testify as to what be knew of that celebrated piurden DR. COLE’S BAD MISTAKE. Gives Carbolic Acid Instead of Whisky to Friends and a Death Follows. In East Chicago, Ind.. at 0:30 o’clock last Saturday night. Dr. Vincent Cole, who is a young man about 22 years old, Invited C. S. Ingram, the superintendent, and , Louis Brunig, the foreman of the Chicago Horseshoe Company works, into his office to take a drink of Whisky. He divided what whisky there was In his bottle into three drinks, and then added to each drink from a vial which he took from his case, and which be supposed also contained whjsky. - It turned out, however, that the vial contained carbolic acid. In a moment the men were In a frightful agony. Dr. Cole instructed them to drink all the water they could, and they drank all in the office, Brunig pouring down his throat a basin of sloppy water from the sink. Dr. Cole then, dashed across the stroet to a drug store, and, returning witji a jug of whisky, and took doses.<of It, which aggravated The result was that Ingram died within ten minutes. Cole is not yet out of danger, and Brunig saved his life by drinking the soapsuda SONS OF VETERANS. Thousands of Visitors at the Opening ol the National Convention at Helena. Helena, Mont, special: The doors of the new Auditorium were thrown open Monday morning to welcome the third national convention that has now assembled within Its walls since Its completion In June, the occasion being the annual gathering of the Sons of Veterans. The convention proper consists of about 500 members, delegated from the different branches of the organization throughout the country, and as has always been the case at the previous gatherings of the order several thousand visitors are present, and the new structure was taxed to Its utmost to accommodate the crowd. The citizens of Helena have contributed liberally for the entertainment of the visitors and the city is elaborately decorated throughout. The sittings of the convention will continue for four days and numerous excursions and receptions have been arranged to take place during this period.

WIPED OUT BY A STORM. A Tornado Accompanied by Hall in Southwestern Minnesota. A destructive tornado and hailstorm oecurrsd in Southwest Minnesota between 4 and 5 o'clock Monday morning. The'storm covered portions of Lincoln and Yellqw Medicine Comities and the northern half Of. Lyon County. Reports show A loss In Lyon County of not less thaw $600,000. The tornado struck Marshall and passed over the same course as the b}ow of last Friday, wheh Mr. - Cummings' house and other buildings were demolished. That day twenty-five carpenters rebuilt Cummings’ house from foundation to ridgepole, and all his household effects wore moved ip. Monday morning the new bouse was crushed like an eggshell and all thp contents ruln« ed. The family was in another building. FLAMES IN A DRUG HOUSE. Tarrant A Co., ol New York, Sustain a Loss ot 8100,000. An explosion occurred on the third floor of the large wholesale drug warehouse of Tarrant & Co., 278. 280, and 282 Greenwich street, New York City, Monday morning. The explosion was quickly followed by flames which gained such speedy headway that by the time the firemen arrived the whole center part of the building seemed on fire By 10:30 the fire was under control, and a careful but hasty estimate places the loss at SIOO,OOO, fully insured. A fire which started ip the furniture factory of Chatterton & Co,, in Baltimore, Md., on the same morning, damaged property to the extent of $200,000.

STOLE RARE BOOKS. Rev. William A. Carr Confesses to Looting Wooster University Library. A great sensation has been stirred up at Wooster (Ohiq) University over the discovery that several thousand dollars' krorth of rare books have been stolen from the university library and that over two hundred of the missing volumes have been found In the possession of a former student who is now a licentiate and as such has been preaching for-eotne" time. The offender Is Rev. William A. Carr, of Llthopolis. He has confessed his guilt and the books have been returned. His name has been removed from the list of applicants for liceiike’ to preach. It is thought revelation? may follow implicating others. . BANDITS IN THE TOILS. The California Train Robbers Are Caught by the Officers. The two men who robbed Wells, Fargo & Co. ’s safe, after blowing open the express car with dynamite bombs, near Fresno, Cal., are now in the hands of the officers of the law. The robbers were captured near Visalia. Cal., after an exciting chase, during which Deputy Sheriff Whitty was shot in the neck by the fleeing criminals. The men wore tracked from near the scene of the robbery into Visalia and to the ranch-house of Chris Evans. The Queen's Speech Read. The Queen’s speech, which was read in Parliament, was purely formal, and fore« shadows an early adjournment. All Gave Ball. All the Carnegie officials who were arrested on the charge of murder have been released under bonds of SIO,OOO each.