Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1892 — MONUMENTAL NERVE. [ARTICLE]

MONUMENTAL NERVE.

A BROTHER OF THE DALTONS CHARGES ROBBERY. A Noted Lake Captain on His Last Cruise Without Rudder, Chart or Compass—Quite • Comfortable Working Capital—Lost at Sea. / 7 Search'for the Hussar Treasure. 1 The queer-looking flotilla which anchored Just below'Port Morris, N. J., In the middle of last July, has given place to an odd-ap-pearlng barge, loaded with a big boiler and a powerful engine. Early on Saturday morning the boiler began to ■hake, the engine trembled, a cloud of steam and smoke drifted skyward, and the sixth attempt to discover the $4,800,000 supposed to have dropped to the bottom in the wreck of the ship Hussar over a century ago was under way. The Chapman Derrick and Dredging Colupany has the job now and is hunting for the treasure with a powerful suction pipe worked by a sixty-horse power engine. DALTON TO SUE FOR DAMAGES. The Brother of the Dead Bandits Says They Were Robbed After Death. Will Dalton will bring suit against the city of Coffeyvllle, Ivan., for damages, basing his claim on the alleged rifling of the pockets of his brothers after they were killed. The Instigator is thought to be Luther Perkins, a money-lender. Will claims that $930 was secured from the bodies, and that he knows the man who has it He is inclined to exhibit a spirit of bravado. He walked into the Eldridge Hotel office and said: “I came very near shooting a newspaper man just now, and the next one that braces me will get shot.” According to Will, Emmett will be defended by Senator Vest of Missouri, uho lias proffered his services free by reason of along-standing friendship for the family. Emmett is Improving and will recover. ANOTHER FATAL WRECK. A Temporary Bridge on the Northern Pacific Gives Way. News has been received of a terrible disaster on the line of the Great Northern Railway, whereby six men were killed, one fatally injured, and six others more or less hurt The accident occurred at the second crossing of the Wenatchee River, a few miles beyond Wenatchee. A construction train with eighteen men aboard was endeavoring to crosi a temporary bridge. When It was upon tho first and second Bpans the bridgo went duwn, carrying the first span with It and the entire train, with men aboarl was plunged sixty feet ' fm^KETTES. Many Buildings Burned In the Little Village of Hummelstown, Fa. Fire started In a stable in Hummelstown. Pa. For several hours It looked as if the entire town would be swept by the flames. The farmers in the neighborhood came to rescue and put out the lira The loss Is estimated at $30,000, partly covered by lneuranca The fire was started from cigarettes thrown by boys. Strike in New Orleans. A serious strike of laboring men. extending to all branches of trade, is threatened at New Orleans. The warehousemen and packers employed by the merchants and the drivers employed by the boss draymen made demands of tbelr employers which were refused, and Monday they struck, with the effect of greatly embarrassing trada Leading bankers and merchants drove ordinary drays and floats through the streets to the railroads, and were jeered at by crowds of strikers.

May Be Declared Off. President Welhe and President-Elect Garland of tho Amalgamated Association held a secret consultation with advisoryboard officials and rumors are being circulated that the Homestead strike may bo declared off. Belva Lockwood visited Homestead for the Universal Peace Commission and investigated tbe strike. She was surprised over the peaceful aspect of the town and said that outside luterference was unnecessary. Ended His Own Life. Captain E W. Dorcey, who for several years commanded the steamship Indiana, plying between Chicago and Milwaukee, committed sulcldo at Chlcaia He was 57 years old, and had been 111 since last May. Despondency over his Illness, which the physicians had told him was Incurable, prompted him to kill himself. His family Is of the opinion that ho was lnsano at the time he fired the bullet into his heart. Death was instantaneous. , War Department Expenses. ’■y The annual report of Quartermaster General Batchelder, submlttei to the War Department, shows that, during the year, transportation was furnished for 442,488 persons, 3,383 animals, and 92,244 tons of freight at a cost of $2,355,219. Tbe ■cavalry and artillery horses purchased cost SIO3JU)O. The amount expended on roads, walks and bridges was $201,663, and tor wajer and sewerage $403,719. i Biood Spilled M a liaU-So om. At a ball held In Smith Park, a suburb OT-St Joseph, Mo., James Carter knifo-and commenced slashing at everybody it i Teach. A barber named John Chinn was badly<jut In the left side, and Carter started for h woman with whom he had been dancing, when a clerk named James Fiddler shot him throe., times, killing him Instantly. Carter la thought to have been crazy. Capital Stock SIOO,OOO,{HM>. The stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph Company met in New York and ratified tho resolutions of tbe board of directors to increase the capital stock of the company. Tbe Increase Is $13,800,00c, consisting of" 138,000 shares at SIOO each. This amount swells the capital stock to H 00,000,000. _____ Three Men Are Missing. Three well-known men of Bachelor City, Colo., Dr. Dawson, William Merritt, and Edward Foist, are missing. They, with a Mr. Tanner, went bunting two months ago. Tanner returned six weeks ago and left the others twelve miles from Pagosa Springs. Since then nothing has been seen of the three men. A search will be made for them. Says His Wife Poisoned Him. Barney J. Allen, foreman at Brooks’ poultry pud produce establishment of Logansport, IntL. died In spasms. He made a statement prior to bis death, to the effect that he had been poisoned by a drug placed la his coffee by his wife Was Divorced by Death, Death beat the Wichita, Kan., district court In divorcing Mrs. Minnie Padriek from her husband. Marshall Padriek. Judge Bsed granted a decree, and bad Just signed the document when a messenger brought word that Mrs. Padriek had died Looked In • Horning Building. WhUe Mrs Michael Hanses was attendees tbe Columbian exercises at Manannah, Mima., her house, 200 yards away, was harwed. Her two children, aged 1 and 4 years, whom she bad locked In the house twwaty minutes before, were burned to

FIGHTING THE COAL BARONS. Supplementary Information Filed Against the Company. A Trenton, N. J., dispatch says: Attorney General Btocktqn, has filed a supplementary Information against the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey, which recites the conditions under which the former information had been filed against the Central, Port Reading, and Reading Companies In tho Reading deal. It further shows that the price of coal on or about July 1, 1892, bad been raised from 10 to 15 per cent, and that on September 1, 1892. the Philadelphia and Reading and New Jersey Central raised the price of egg and stove coal about 25 per cent, and the chancellor Is asked to direct that this company must not further advance the price of' conL The prayer of the Informations is that the Tallroud company shall be obliged, under seal, to give facts as to the Increase in tho price of coal, and that tho Philadelphia and Reading and Central Railroad Companies may he restrained from further continuing to maintain the advance. NEW YORK FIRM FAILS. Burkhalter Sc Co., the Wholesale Grocery House, Makes an Assignment. C. Burkhalter & Co., Now York, wholesale grocers, failed, with liabilities which may reach $709,000 or more. They have preferences aggregating $183,167. All the preferences are for borrowed money. The partners In the firm are cousins. Both live in New Jersey—Charles at East Orange and John H. at Glen Ridge. The business was established In 1829, and has passed through several generations and various changes In style. The partners have declared right along that they were worth $300,000 over and above ull liabilities. Charles, the senior partner, has been In poor health for six months past but has been able to attend to business off and on. John H. Burkhalter said; «We preferred only our confidential debts to secure money which we borrowed from our friends. Besides the preferences there are, I should think, about $250,000 notes out and the rest of our Indebtedness is for merchandise.” WORLD-SURPASSING, The Scene at the Dedicatory Exercises of the World's Fair. The scene at the dedication of tho World’s Columbian Exposition was one that amazed the throng of nearly 200,090 people who attended, and It was ono which has never before been paralleled in the history of the universe. In the vast building devoted to manufactures there were fully 100,000 people, most of them seated, and twice that number would not have crowded the structure. The decorations were lavish In profusion, beautiful In design, and the ceremonies were of the most Impressive order. Naturally, but a small proportion of those present cduld hear the addresses, and In consequence the throng outside the building equaled that Inside. The fireworks display In tho evening at three parks simultaneously was most elaborate, and was seen for many miles about

Greatest in America. Monster Parade at Chicago to Inaugurate Dedication Ceremonies. The civic parade, Thursday, at Chicago, was the most notable affair of the klud ever seen In this country.- Eighty thousand men on foot and thousands more mountod and In car-, rlages, tramped over the route between the densest masses of people on sidewalks. The spectators numbered over a million, and were so closely massed that for hours men and women were as offectuaUy'confined as If prison. The buildings along the line of march were apparently bursting with humanity, and the decorations of the city were something wonderful. There were over 300,000 strangers In t he city. NEW OCEAN RECORD. The City of Paris Makes New York In 8 Days 14 Hours and 24 Minutes. The steamship City of Paris, of the Inman Line, has again broken the westward record from Queenstown, which was made by her when she made the run In July In live days fifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes. She also beats the record for a single day's run by covering 530 miles, against the record of 528 miles made by the Teutonic. The City of Paris sailed from Liverpool and arrived at Sandy Hook lighthouse, covering a distance of 2,782 miles, In five days fourteen hours and twenty-four minutes, beating the record by one hour and thirty-four minutes. Her days’ runs were as follows: 448, 508, 503, 505, 530 and 288. CARNEGIE EMPLOYES BEATEN. Laborers in the Pittsburg Mill Attacked by Alleged Union Men. Early Thursday morning as Gu9 Smith and Hans Sutter, day laborers In Carnegie’s upper Union mill, Pittsburg, were set upon and terribly beaten by five men, alleged to be strikers. They were found an hour later and sent to the West Penn Hospital. Smith’s injuries are thought to be latal, while Sutter lies unconscious and In an extremely critical condition. There is no positive clew to the assailants. ECHO OF THE BERGMAN CASE. Chief of Police O’Mara, of Pittsburg, Indicted in New Jersey. The Monmouth County, N. J., grand jury have found Indictments for kidnaping against Chief of Police O’Mara, of Pittsburg, for conveying Frank Molllck, wljo was arrested on suspicion of being an accomplice of Bergman In the attempted assassination of H. C. Frick, of the Oarnegie Company. He took Molllck out of the Slate of New Jersey without a requisition.

9” Masons Choose Officers. At tho Masonic’jGrand Lodge of Ohio adjdflfroed to meet in Cleveland the third week in October. 1893. Reports showed 37.044 Masons'ln. tho State, a gain of 1,441 duringXJjo year. The treasurer’s report showed a"-balance o's $22,682. The following officers were-ejected and Installed: Grand Master, All&h Andrews. Hamilton; Deputy Grand Master, Carroll F. Clapp, Warren; Senior Grand Warden, William R. Melish, Cincinnati; Junior Grand Warden, Barton Smith, Toledo; Grand Chaplin, Rev. F. G. Mitchell, Piqua; Grand Orator, Nelson Williams, Hamilton; Grand Marshal, J. M. Robinson, Cleveland; Senior Grand Deacon, C. F. Baldwin, Mt. Vernon; Junior Grand Deacon, C. E. Guilford, Cleveland; Grand Tyler, Jacob Randall, Wavnesvllle. Cholera Lingers in Germany. At Hamburg there were two fresh cases of cholera Friday and two deaths. It snowed all the afternoon. There Is no doubt that cholera exists in tho district of which Coblenz is the center. Deaths from the disease are known to have occurred in that city and in' Mentz and Polch. It is feared that the malady is on the Increase. Spain’s Exhibition Postponed, A Madrid correspondent says that the opening of the Spanish Columbus exhibition has been postponed in consequence of illness of King Alfonso., Fire In a Foundry. The Stewart Brothers iron works at Wichita, Kan., were partially burned. Tho loss Is about $12,000, fully covered by Insurance. Three years ago this firm lost Its entire plant by fire. Struck by a Foul BaU and KUled. At Perry, N. Y., during a game of ball, Thomas Buell batted a foul ball which flew among the spectators and struck David Allen, agqfi 18, over the heart, killing him Instantly. Couldn’t -jm.ul the Tremens. “Tip Brown, a notc4'Lyons, N. Y., character, was attached by delirium tremens

In Christopher Hopp’s saloon and started to drown himself in the river. He was finally prevented from doing so and was locked up. Hopp was a periodical drunkard, and Brown’s condition set him to thinking, so It appeared from his talk, as to how he wa9 likely to wind up If he did not stop drinking. He brooded over the matter all night and In the morning cut his throat from ear to ear, expiring instantly. ENGLISH CONGRATULATIONS. Evidence of the Intense Self-Reliance of a Wonderful Country. The London Post, referring to the dedication of the World’s Fair buildings In Chicago, says: “Nothing but the Intense self-reliance of a wonderful country could have started and completed a spectacle so unique. Englishmen join In congratulating their kinsmen upon an event of peaceful and progressive Import” The Chronicle says: “The cup of Chicago’s huppiness must be fulL The ceremony has been superlative In every respect Although we may wince a little at the drum roll of superlatives. English congratulations must not be lacking.” The Telegraph and the News agree that the directors of the fair could not have chosen a better man than Chauncoy M. Depew to dellvet the Columbian oration. Tho Telegraph says: “Everybody here wishes the fair prodigious prosperity.” The Times says: “Well may Americans look with pride on so unexampled a sight and listen with gratified self-esteem to the orator who belts them to understand Its full value and their own. It Is a splendid spectacle. We fully recognize the qualities and efforts which produced it, and wo offer our hearty congratulations.”

AVAILABLE STOCKS OF WHEAT. Reports Received of the Amount on Hand. The available stocks of wheat In the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains at last report were, as reported to Bradstreet’s, 70,555.570 bushels. On the same date the total available stocks west of the Rockies were 9,482.522 bushels. Exports of wheat (and of flour as wheat) from New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Newport News, New Orleans, Galveston. San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Tacoma and Seattle, as reported by mall and wire to Bradstreet’s, were, for the week, 3,270,275 bushels. CRUEL MATRIMONIAL HOAX. A Louisville Church Crowded Through Bogus Invitations to a Wedding. There was such a jam at the regular prayer meeting of the Covenant. Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Wednesday evening that the regular attendants were amazed. Tho strangers came on an Invitation to witness the marriage of Miss Funny O. Adams and Willium T. Huxley. Finally an announcement was made from the pulpit that the Invitations were a hoax. Scottish Rite Masons In Council. The Supremo Council, Scottish Rita Masons, for the Southern and Western States, who jHidr bleanjjl counclj at Washington, tlie next biennial session at St Louis. Propositions looking to amalgamation of this Supreme Council and the Northern Supreme Council have baen submitted, and while It Is thought union will eventually take place it may bo deferred for two years. A petition from the German socalled Corneau Scottish Rite Masons ptayIng for recognition was unanimously rejected.

Synod in Session. The Presbyterian Synod convened at Albany, N. Y.. Moderator Parsons presiding. The reports on the work of the past year were submitted from the different presbyteries as well as reports from the several committees. The Moderator then announced the members of tho Judicial Committee which Is to pass on tho complaint of Dr. Briggs. The Judicial Committee met after the noon recess and took up the appeals of Dr. Briggs and Dr. McLeod. The latter’s appeal was referred to a sub-committee of three. Friends Appealed To for Funds. Thursday’s session of the conference of friends at Indianapolis was largely devoted to a discussion of the pastoral relation and to reports from the several committees. Among the declarations adopted was ono which calls the attention of the church to the necessity of providing for the support of the ministry, and friends every where are exhorted to take the matter of pastoral relations Into consideration, “so that the gospel may not be hindered nor the shepherding of the flock be impaired by the want of pecuniary means.” Disaster In a Mine. The train used for hauling the loaded coal “Jimmies” from tho mines at Musle, Kjr., separated and came together a few minutes later. A young man named Hubbs was instantly killed, while another named Phillips, with four more whose names could not be learned, are thought to be fatally hurt None of the crowd escaped uninjured, and several were badly used up from gas and smoko from the engine. Chicago Man Accused of Fraud. T. H. H. Pilklngton, a young man from Chicago, Is under arrest at Birmingham, Ala. He advertised for metk who wanted good indoor positions. He opened a studio and when his victims appeared he put them to coloring plcturos. He got a deposit of $lO from each In advance as a guarantee of good faith. Ills employes thought they wero being dupod and had Pilklngton arrested. Run Over by an Electric Car. Joseph Thompson, one of the oldest citizens of Memphis, Tonn., was run over by an electric street car and fatally fcurt. Mr. Thompson Is 84 years old.