Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — IN A SERIOUS PLIGHT. [ARTICLE]

IN A SERIOUS PLIGHT.

ICE MAY PREVENT RESCUE OP PEARY’S PARTY. Who Wants Stewart’s Wealth—Austria Shivering with Cold—Tragedy on a New York Farm—“ Prince Michael Cannot Marry Eliza—New Ministers. Officers Shoot an Outlaw. A special courier from the sheriff’s posse which went from Lancaster, Ky., for Turner, the outlaw, reports the mortal wounding of Jack Cbatterwood, one of the gang, who is a fugitive from justice. He was shot in the left side. It is rumored that General Sowders and a crowd of Turner’s sympathizers from Bell are on the ground and a big fight is expected. FEARS FOR LIEUT. PEARY. Hi* Relief Steamer Kite Believed to Ba Caught in the Ice. Secretary E. J. Nolan, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, says: “If the reports of ice extendlug hundreds of miles south of McCormick Bay are true, God help Peary and the Kite relief party. ” Considerable fear Is felt In Ohlladelphia as to the fate of the Arctic explorers owing to the delayed arrival of the cryolite bark Ivlgtut from the Greenland port of the same name. Most serious fears are entertained that the Kite has never reached McCormick Bay, but is stuck In the Ice. As she took no extra supplies, and It Is believed she will be forced to spend the winter in the Ice, It Is feared that her provisions will become exhausted before Jan. 1.

PAUPER WORTH 910,000. Belfast Authorities Hunting for Relatives of a Man Who Died In the Poor House. The authorities of the poor house at Belfast, Ireland, are endeavoring to discover the relatives of James Stewart, who was admitted as a pauper to the poor house and died suddenly soon after. On examination of his clothing after death It was found that he had nearly SIO,OOO In United States money and certificates of twenty mining shares stitched In the lining of his coat The name of Stewart Is not uncommon among the Bcotch-Irish In Ulster, and It is believed that this Stewart belonged there originally, and had probably returned after a long absence in the United States. So far no one has identified him. WINTER IN AUSTRIA. Remarkable Change In Temperature Within a Few Hours. A great and sudden change in the weather has occurred throughout Austria. It was only a few days ago that Vienna was suffering from tropical heat Now the highlands around Ausze, In Moravia, are covered with snow. At Ischl the mercury dropped froiii 90 to 38 degrees In fortyeight hours, Snow has fallen throughout Styrla. A railroad train was delayed In the tunnel near Blschofshofen owing to the rails being so heavily coated with Ice that It was Impossible for It to proceed. TWO BITE THE DUST. Chicago Polloe Raid on Garfield Park Driving Club Results In Murder. For a weok, up to Tuesday, Chicago police have made dally raids upon the Garfield Park driving course, In an attempt to stop racing and betting. The officers of the club had been repeatedly arrested, but CoL James M. Brown, a horseman and noted character from Texas, always refused to be arrested without a warrant. Tuesday, in a running fight, he killed Officer Henry McDowell, mortally wounded Officer John Powell, and was himself killed. Shoots Htg Wife and Hired Man. Near Marathon, N. Y., George Willis, a farmer living on Howland Hill, in Lisle, shot his wife fatally and his hired man, named Oliver, seriously. The three were on a load of hay when a dispute between husband and wife arose. Willis fired one shot at his wife, which glanced and struck Olever. He then shot her In the temple, killing her Instantly. Willis then went Into the woods and hanged himself. Jealousy led to the shooting.

Folcht to Bo Restored. In Vatican circles it is reported that Mgr. Folchl will soon ho fully restored to his former position, which he lost hy reason of his unfortunate speculations with St Peter’s pence. The friends of Mgr. Folchl have always claimed that he had the written authority of the Pope for engaging In the speculations and that the Vatican treasury shared in them so long as they were successful An Ohio Convict Escapes. Amsey Welsh, a prisoner received from Bhelby County a year ago to serve six years for burglary and larceny, escaped from the Columbus, 0., Btate Prison. He was employed about the hospital and managed to steal away to the attic. Cutting through the roof he made his way from one roof to another and finally leaped twenty feet to the ground. Election in Vermont. The returns from the Vermont State election are very slow owing to delays under the new Australian ballot law. Reports from counties throughout the State indicate a Republican majority of about 20,000. Burlington has gone Democratic, and J. B. Henderson, Democrat, has been elected Representative by a majority of 297 over H. W. Allen, Republican. Has Not Wedded Eliza. The Jackson, Mich., prison officials have shut down on the marriage arranged for between Prince Michael, of the Flying 801 l and Eliza Court, his “spiritual affinity.” The object, it is believed, was to place the prisoner In a position that he could refuse to testify when Eliza comes to trial at Ann Arbor next month. John B. Smith Nominated. John B. Smith, of HlUaboro, was nominated by acclamation for Governor by the New Hampshire Republican State Convention. New Argentine Ministers. It has been decided that Senor Romero, Who opposed the Issue of paper money by state banks, will join President Saenz Pena’s new cabinet as Minister of Finance of Brazil, and that Senor Quintana will be Minister of the Interior and Senor Vlctorlca Minister of War. Shot in a Drunken Quarrel. During a drunken quarrel Gamora Forte, an Italian, was shot three times by Vincenzo Borbulo at Lancaster, N. T. Forte Is still alive, but can hardly recover. Borbuto escaped. The men belonged to a gang of railroad laborers Millions and a Title. H. B. McClelland, a poor school teacher of Enclnal County, Texas, has received word from some English attorneys that he Is the only heir of his uncle, the late Lord William Moore, of England, and is therefore the possessor of that title as well as an estate of $2,000.00a % Struck at a Crossing and Killed. % The Boston and Albany express train Struck a vehicle containing Albert Sedgwick and Philip Bonnilie at a private erosaing near Dalton Station. Mass. Bonallie was killed Instantly and Sedgwick had both arms and legs cutoff and lived

FOUND THE ROST CABIN MINE. The Famous and Long-Sought Storehouse of Treasure Discovered. William S. Dany came Into Deadwood, 8. D., bringing with him several thousand dollars’ worth of gold nuggets and a number of speclments of ore fairly bristling with gold. Dany claims to have found the “Lost Cabin” mine, of which so much that Is romantic has been written and printed In every modern language. His story Is that While hunting In the western part of the Black Hills, he stumbled Into what he at at first supposed was a small cave, but which upon subsequent Investigation proved to be a room 30 by 20 feet, and of an average height of 7 feet, rudely hewn out of solid rock by human bands. This room he first discovered to contain the skeleton of a human being, which, exciting his curiosity, induced a search that was rewarded by finding gold nuggets of an aggregate value of $25,000. The place was many miles from a settlement and he remained a week searching for the mine from which the nuggets came. He claims to have found it, and states the ore be has was taken from it. The fact that Dany has so much, gold with him lends plausibility to the story, which is creating a great deal of excitement and will cause numerous prospecting parties to start out.

CANAL TOLLS IN EFFECT^, No Trouble Reported In Enforcing the President’s Proclamation. The President’s proclamation imposing a retaliatory toll of twenty cents a tjon on Canadian produce passing through St, Mary’s Falls Canal was put Into effect smoothly and without friction, and the Treasury officials have received no advices leading them to anticipate trouble. Advance sheets of the report of the Bureau of Statistics on the internal commerce of tho United States for tho past fiscal year devote considerable attention to the remarkable Increase of commerce through St. Mary’s Canal, which becomes the subject of the President’s proclamation with respect to Canadian tolls. The value of that Commerce has Increased from $29,000,000 In 1881 to over 8128,000,000 In 1891. During the season of 225 days during which the canal remained open In 1891 over 10,000 vessels passed through, of which number 7.300 were steamers. Tho precise number of Canadian vessels Is not clearly shown. The shipments of wheat, including the crop of Manitoba, for 1891 amounted to 38,816,000 bushels, against 16,217,000 bushels In the preceding year.

ALE ON BOARD PERISH, Loss of the City of Toledo and Seven Souls —Life Savers Blamed. Captain John McMillan’s rashnoss In sailing the schooner City of Toledo out of Manistee, Mich., at the height of the most furious gale of the year has resulted in the loss of the entire crew and the wrecking of his boat, which lies on the beach some sixteen miles north of Manistee. The dead number seven. Captain McMillan leaves a wife and five children In Manistee Tho schooner was owned by tho Manistoe Lumber Company and was loaded with 35,000 feet of lumber. , The boat Is very old, having been built in 1805, anti once before the hull had been waterlogged. Manistee citizens are indignant at tho action of the life-saving crew and the tugs. The charge is made that cowardice prevented them from going to tho rescua Thisoccurrence is butthe repetition of their action during the slorm which drove the schooner Estelle on the pier. Capt. T. W. Miller, of the schooner Jura, says tho Toledo was not out of sight of the life-saving station until dark. FAST MAIL WRECKED. Engineer, Fireman, and a Mall Clerk Killed Near Newburgh, N. Y. Tho fast mall train on tho Hudson Itiver Railroad met with un accident at the New Hamburg draw bridge. The traiu was going as the rate oi a mile a mlnuto and tho bridge was Just being closed aftor letting a steamer go through. Several feet had yet to be closed just us the train reached the brldga The engine jumped the gap, but the rear eud of tho tender dropped enough to check the. momentum of tho train. Then the mail car, crashing Into the tender, pushed It against the locomotive. The rear end of the locomotive and the mail car were splintered. The engineer, Joseph Owens, of Albany, and the fireman, Edward Best, of Albany, were crushed under the fore ond of the cab and Instantly killed. J. H. Kane, of Cohoes, N. Y., a clerk In tho mall car, was also killed. Much of the mall matter was destroyed.

SHIP AND CREW SINK. Twenty-six Persons, Including the Owner and His Family, Perish. The steamer Western Reserve, of Cleveland, with twenty-seven persons on board, broke in two in Tuesday night’s gale and sank twenty miles off Sable Point, Lake Superior. Harry Stewart, the wheelman, is the only survivor. The dead Include Peter Minch, the owner, his wife, son, and daughter. The steamer was out on a pleasure trip for the owner’s . family and had no cargo. The Western .Reserve was the largest freight carrier on the lakes, 300 fee.t long, 41 feet beam, and was con; sidered a triumph of modern ship-building. She was built at Cleveland in 1890 and supposed to he able to withstand any storm. WANTS ANNEXATION. A Newspaper to Advocate the Union of Canada and tde United States. Ex-Alderman E. A. MacDonald, of Toronto, Ont., who has been before the Canadian public in various ways for some years and particularly lately as the advocate of strong annexation doctrines, Is arranging for a series of annexation lectures In New York, Boston, Buffalo, and other American cities One object of the lectures is to raise money to start an annexation paper in Toronto. It Is stated that prominent Canadians In several places are arranging the local details. CLEANED OUT THE OFFICE. A Woman Entertains a Broker’s Clerk Willie Her Pals Secure the Cash. A well-dressed woman drove up to the door of Nichols & Marter, brokers, In Notre Dame street, Montreal, and summoning the clerk to the wagon asked him about exchange and percentages and other business matters, and then drove rapidly away. When the clerk returned to the office he found that thieves had practically cleaned it out, securing between $3,000 and $4,000 In money and bonds. The robbers are believed to be Americans. Cholera Almost Stops Foreign Travel. As a result of the dread of cholera. Eastern railroad lines are losing a large amount of revenue which is annually paid them by passengers bound for Europe. This source of revenue has been counted on heretofore with as much certainty as Increased travel for any Important occasion. In comparison with former years, European travel has practically ceased. The loss also falls heavily on steamship agents Sued for Back Taxes. The town of New Philadelphia, Ohio, the Sid home of Beriah Wilkins, Is greatly Interested in a suit for delinquent taxes which has jnst been brought against the part owner of the Washington Post. The amount claimed Is $65,000. Mr. Wilkins declares that he will never pay a cent of it, and that it Is a conspiracy to ruin him in his old home. If successful, the county officers Instituting the suit will make about $20,000 out of it Western Reserve Wreck Victims Found. The tug Andrew J. Smith arrived at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., from Deer Park, having on board Philip Minch and C. F. Palmer, with the bodies of Mr. Minch, Mrs.

Engleby and one fireman. Contrary to the report received from the steamer City of Green Bay, no other bodies have been round. The body of First Mate Egglesby, which the Nlmick picked up on the lake, was found lashed to a ladder with a life preserver on. He apparently died from ox* haustlon and not from drowning. WHITTIER 18 DYING. His Doctors Bay There Is Little, It Any, Hope of Prolonging Hts Llie. The beloved Quaker poet, John G. Whittier, is dying at Hampton Falls, N. 11. His doctors say there is hardly any hope for his recovery, and think he will live but a few hours longer. The slight Illness which attacked him early last week has developed serious complications. He sank rapidly Sunday, and at night he was so weak that he cannot U9e bis right arm and cannot swallow or articulate except with great difficulty. He Is unable to tuke any nourishment, and this fact, together with the bowel trouble which does not yield to treatment, has caused the gravest apprehensions as to his ability to rally. Mr. W'hlttler has spent the last seven weeks In Hampton Falls and has very often remarked on his improved health and how very much enjoyment he had received from all the pleasant surroundings amid which he had found himself. He has been free from all labors and received but few callers, that ho might derive ail tho benefit possible during his stay. His last extensive literary effort was the poem for the Atlantic to Dr. Holmes, and the last verse he wrote was for the Boston Journal, published on tho birthday .of Dr. Holmes.

CHOLERA HURTS TRADE. General Feeling ol Uneasiness In All Branches us Business. It. G. Dun & Company’s weekly review of trade says: While Industry and business wore Improving dally, and prospects were brighter than ever, the sudden alarm about cholera came to cause some hesitation. It Is even said that buyers from the South who had started for New York turned back because they were afraid of detention by quarantine there. There is reason for the utmost precaution against Importation of the disease, which national and city authorities are taking with creditable energy. But there is yet no ground for supposing that the pestilence will obtain a foothold here this season. In all other respects business prospects are better than a year ago, and nearly all accounts showed actual increase In business. Crop prospects are better, money is in greater demand but ample supply everywhere, and industries are producing more than ever before. Fear that exports may be Curtailed by pestilence In Europe, with causes previously strong, has depressed the markets. FUNERAL OF GEORGE W. CURTIS. The Remains of the Late Editor at Rest In New Dorp Cemetery. As simply and unostentatiously as he had lived, George William Curtis was laid at rest Friday In the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, S. I. At 2:50 o’clock a hearse and three carriages drove through the gutes and wound their way up the Bteep groon overlooking the bay hllL In the Curtis plot half a dozen laborers waited the coming of tho hearse. There were no pallbearers. The laborers lifted the coffin to their shoulders and carried It to the open grave. At Its head stood Mra Curtis, with her children grouped about her. Dr. Chadwick offered a short prayer, a little oarth was thrown on the coffin and tho ceremonies were over. I ~ Ml SUGAR HIGH AND GOING UP. The Cholera Proclamation Sends the Price Above Two Years’ Rocord. Tho circular Issued by President Harrison requiring vessels from Infected cholera ports to remain In quarantine at least twenty days had a pronounced effect on the New York sugar market Nearly all of the raw sugar at this season of the year comes from Hamburg, one of the worst infected choleru ports, and tho quarantining of vessels for twenty days will partially prevent the refiners working. There Is a heavy demand for all grades of sugar by jobbers, who seem to expect still further advances and ara buying ahead. The Spreckols company refused to accept orders except on condition of delay In deliveries, Lizzie Borden Deemed Guilty. At Fall River, Mass, the hearing in the case of Lizzie Borden was closed. Judge Blulsdell said that sympathy should be laid aside, and duty required upon evidence but one thing to be done. Supposing that u man was seen in the chamber of MrS. Borden, the chambor of death, and thut he was In the room of tho father when death came; suppose that a man should tell as many different stories as Lizzie has done. The way would be plain. “I find that she Is probably guilty,” ho said. Lizzie was ordered remanded to the county jail at Taunlon for trial at the November term. Crushed by a Railroad Train. Tho second section of a south-bound train on the Cincinnati Southern, carrying Pittsburg sporting men to Now Orleans, ran over a buggy at the NlcliolaSvllle (Ky.) crossing, killing one child, fatally injuring another, and breaking both legs of the mother, Mrs. J. T. Farra. The traiu stopped only long enough to get tho wrecked carriage out of tho way. Robbed the Postofflce. .During tho temorary absence of Postmaster Tice, the postofflce at Perth Amboy N. J., was entered by thieves who got away with $175 In cash and $1,600 worth of stamps. There Is no clue. Two Thousand Killed. A dispatch from Vienna says It Is reported from Merv that 2,000 Afghans were killed In the last battle with the revolting Hazaras.