Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — DEED OF A DEMONIAC. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEED OF A DEMONIAC.

A CHICAGO LUNATIC’S MURDEROUS WORK. Herman Sclgler Kills Hto Wife’s Parents, Wounds Her as Weil as a Policeman and Is Checked Only' Sy a Bullet from an Officer’s Revolver. Victims ot u Madman. Herman Siegler, a'cabinet maker, living at No.' 723 North Paulina street, Chicago, got up early the other morning. went to his brother’s house and borrowed a shotgun on the pretext that he wanted to go hunting, returned home, shot and killed his father and mother-in-.aw, seriously wounded his wife, and filled a policeman’s nose full of buckshot, he in return getting a bullet in his abdomen from another officer’s revolver. His work of death was done mainly In the house in which he lived, but after policemen were summoned the battle waged between him from the house and the officers from the street. He emptied a double-barreled shotgun at them . a dozen times and bullets from their revolvers flew in his direction as rapidly as fingers could pull the triggers. Thousands of people attracted by the fusillade swarmed around the house, and when Officer Dan McCarthy finally grappled with and overcame the murderer, they fa'rly howled for his blood. Some one started the cry, “lynch him!” and it was taken up by excited men and women. Although four patrol-wagon loads ot officers were on the ground* they had a herculean task to prevent the infuriated people from making short shrift of the then c wering murderer. Men fought with each other to get at Siegler, each howling “Kill him!" “Lynch the brute!” Step by step, the

officers, with drawn revolvers, forced their way through the crowd, and evpn when the prisoner was placed in the East Chicago patrol-wagon the danger was not over, for the horses were thrown back on their haunches, while men tried to climb.over the wheels and steps to get at the object of their wrath. He was finally removed in safety to the East Chicago Avenue Police Station and subsequently to the County Hospital. The result of the morning’s bloody work was: Dead. Henry Siles, 66 years old, No. 723 North Paulina street; shot in face, arms, aud body. Mrs. Caroline Siles, 70 years old, No. 723 North Paulinasireet; shot in breast. Wounded. Bertha Guthman, 8 years old, No. 245 West North avenue; shot in left hand by scattering shot. Jeremiah O’Fonoghue, police officer; shot in face and neck; not seriously. Herman Siegler, 37 years old. No. 723 North Paulina street; shot in abdomen: may recover. Mrs. Herman Siegler, 30 years old, No. 723 North Paulina street; shot in face and neck; will recover. Siegler’h Statement. Siegler made the following statement: "About 8:30 o’clock this morning I went to my brother William Siegler’s house, 893 North Hoyne avenue, to get a gun, as I was told by our Lord God up above to go and get a gun. I was born to realize this country. The Lord said to me, ti-day is the day of Judgment, and you have got to be there. I brought the gun home and put it in the Clothes elcset, and after awhile T took it out. Then my mother-in-law came down stairs. She is a witch. She said to me: ‘You have got to die, and I will not go where you want to send me,’ and I shot her in the hall. The old man came down-stairs and I was contused, and I fired at the old man and shot him. I then came out cn the steps and the patrol wagons came. Then I was dumfounded. I have been sick and been feeling bad for some time.” It is strongly believed that Siegler Is insane. Notes of Current Events. The St. Louis Drug Trust has collapsed, owing to cuts in prices. The late James E. Hodge, of New Fork, has left SI,OOO to Hope College, Michigan. Five attempts have been made by ineendiaries to burn the village of Newcastle, Pa. United States Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, who has been seriously ill, is better. Habby Laman, a jockey, was crushed by his horse falling on him at Columbia, S. C., and will die. Secretary Foster estimates that $250,000,000 will annually be required for pensions in a few yeais. A portion of the wall ot the Planters’ Press was blown down at Vicksburg, Miss., by a wind storm. Over 1,500 persons were converted at the revival meetings at Kansas City, conducted by the Rev. B. F. Mills. Attorney General Miller will practice law at Waslrngton after retiring from President Harrison’s Cabinet A new Republican morning daily paper is to be established in Cincinnati with $200,000 capital. It will be known as the Tribune. The death of Wili am Cleveland, second cousin of President-elect Cleveland, occurred at Jeffersonville, Ind. He was 40 years old. Capt. Irving has been relieved of the command of the Teutonic. The steamship company disapproves of his “record breaking” speed. A prairie fire in the Missouri bottoms swept over a tract three miles wide ana twenty miles lone. Six hundred stacks of hay burned. Loss, $70,000. The contest of the will of John Twohig, a banker of San Antonio, Texas, has been settled, the Catholic Church, to which he left his entire fortune of SBOO,OOO, accepting s>oo,ooo. Opposition among St. Louis priests to the appointment of Vicar General Brady to the position of coadjutor to Archbishop Kenrick has brought forth a petition to Rome protesting against his appointment. Forti-three indictments were found at .Tackscu, Miss , in the Federal Court against as many members of the coffin trust, recently formed in that State. The indictments are based on a Federal statute. A fast express on the Atlantic & Pacific road flew the track and rolled down a steep embankment at Tucson Canon, N. M. W. G. Walker, of Mi-souri, was killed and several others were injured, though not seriously.

PRESIDENTIAL LANDSLIDES, t Electoral and Popular: Vote from Jackson, to Cleveland, Inclusive. . The following table exhibits thenames, parties, electoral votes and popular votes of Presidential candidates from 1828 to 1892. While it will be seen that political landslides are not infrequent occurrences in this country|the landslide of' 1892 takes in the undisputed vote of the entire country, and is the greatest political surprise since the Scott and Pierce* campaign of 1852: Electoral Popular Year. Candidate. vote. vote. 1828—Jackson, Dem 17b 660,0281828—Adams, Fed. 83 612,168 1832—Jackson, Dem 219 687,602: 1832—Clay, Whig....; 19 660,189 1832—Floyd, Whig...;. u 1832—Wirt, Whig.. 7 1836—Van Buren, Dem;... 170 771.978 1636—Harrison, Whig, 731 1836—White, Whig 26 1836—Webster, Whig..... U f 769,353 1836 —Mangum, Whig u j 1840 —Van Buren, Dem 60 1.128.303 234 1,274,203 1840—Bl mey, Liberty i soo De®l73 1,329,013 1844—Clay, Whig 105 1,231,643 1844—Birney, Liberty 66,304 1848—Taylor, Whig 163 1,362 242 1848—Cass, Dem'. 107 1,223,785 1848—Van Buren, F. 8 291,378 1852 —Pierce, Dem 254 1,685,571 1862—Scott. Whig 42 1,383,537 1852—Hale, F. 8 167,296 1856—Buchanan, Dem 174 1,834,337 IB6o—Fremont, Rep 114 1,341,812 IB6o—Fillmore, Amer 8 873,055 1860—Douglas, Dem 12 1,876,157 1860 —Breckinridge, Dem. 72 845,763 IB6o—Lincoln, Rep 180 1,866,352 1860—Bell, Union 39 689,681 1864—McClellan, Dem 21 1,808,725 1864—Lincoln, Rep...; 216 2,216,067 1868—Seymour, Dem 80 2,703,600 1868—Grant, Rep 214 3.013,188 1872—Greeley, Dem »66 2,834,079 1872—O’Conor, Ind. Dem 29,468 1872—Grant, Rep.... 292 8.597.370 1872—Black, Temp 6 608 1876—Tilden, Dem 184 4,284,885 1876—Hayes, Rep 185 4,063,950' 1876—Cooper, Gk 81,740 1876 —Smith, Pro 9,522 1880—Hancock, Demlßs 4,442,035 JBBo—Garfield, Rep. 214 4,449,053 1880—Weaver, Gk 307,306 1880 —Dow, Pro 10 487. 1884—Cleveland, Dem 219 4,874,980 1884—Blaine, Rep 182 4,861,981 1884—Butler. Gk 1W.3701884 —St. John, Pro 150 399 1888—Cleveland, Dem 168 5,538,660' 1888—Harrison, Rep 233 5,441,902: 1888—Streeter, Labor 147.621 1888 —Fisk, Pro 249,937 1892 —Cleveland, Dem..+276 1892—Harrison, Rep+l43 1892 —Weaver, Gk+ 23 1892—Bidwell, Prot .. 4 . •Mr. Greeley having died before the electoral college voted, 42 of his votes were cast for Thomas A. Hendricks, 18 for B. Gratz Brown, 3 for Mr. Greeley, 2 for Charles J. Jenkins, and 1 for David Davis. tEstlmated for 1892.

HELD FOR A BRUTAL MURDER. Farmer Swarthout’s Sons Arrested on S usplclon of Killing Their Father. According to a dispatch John Henry Swarthout and Ernest Albert Swarthout. are locked up in the county jaifrat Morrison, 111,, charged with the murder of their father, Albert Marion Swarthout, a prosperous farmer living near Morrison. Albert Swarthout was shot while in. h»% barn, not fifty steps from the house; his body was then thrown into a cart, hauled within a stone's throw of the side windows of the farm-house, and dumped into a strawstack, which was set on fire. All of this was done within easy reach of the house, in and around which, according to the statements of the family, there were at the time the two sons, the daughter and her husband, and the wife of the younger son. The boys were arrested on an affidavit sworn to by five of the best-known citizens of the county charging them with guilty knowledge of the crime. It is claimed that the boys were opposed to their father’s approaching marriage with a. young school-teacher in a neighboring town, by which vhey thought the estate of $25,000 would le lost to them. Ti e theory of robbery is also advanced, as a gold watch and SIOO known to have been in tho possession of the murdered man have not been found. The entire evidence, however,‘is purely circumstantial. The two sons are good-looking young fellows. John, the eldest, is 20 years of age, and a graduate of this year's class at Bennett Medical College, Chicago. Ernest is 24 years old. He has always lived on the farm with his father, and wai married two months ago. Both the young men are willing to talk of their father’s death, and deny most emphatioally any knowledge of the crime.

VICTIMS FOR THE HEADSMAN. Clerkship* and Similar Positions Which. Will Be Spoils for the Victors. A scrutiny of the official blue book in. regard to the appointments in . the. executive departments at Washington discloses a little over t),500 clerkships and similar positions, ranging in salaries from SI,OOO to $1,600, included in theclassified lists of the civil-service law, the occupants ot which can only be removed for cause, and over 1,500, positions of the higher grades, the occupants of which are subject to change at the will of the heads of the departments. The salaries of these positions range from $3,000 down. Echoes of the Election. Arkansas gives Cleveland 20,000 majority. Congressman Wise is re-elected in Virginia. Republicans made a clean sweep in Montana. Weaveb electors carried Nevada by 1,500 majority. Harbison’s plurality in Oregon Is estimated at 6,000. Cleveland will have 40,000 majority in South Carolina. Govebnob Russell’s plurality in Massachusetts is 1,937. Govebnob Floweb is talked of to succeed Senator Hiscock. Govebnob Hogg is re-elected in Texas by 50,C00 majority. New Mexico has elected a Democratic delegate to Congress. 1 Flynn, Republican delegate to Congress, is elected in Oklahoma. Incomplete California returns give Harrison electors 3.C93 plurality. Ex-Senator Blair has been defeated for Congress in New Hampshire. Cleveland’s official plurality in Delaware is 504 in a total vote of 37,224. South Carolina elected four Alliance and three Democratic Congressmen.' Mbs. Ann Scally has been elected justice of the peace in <) ohnson County, Wyoming. MORBis (Dem.), for Governor of Connecticut, has a majority of 107 in a total vote of 164,662. Mbs. Ella Knowles, Populist candidate for Attorney General, leads by 300 votes in Montana. The Republican plurality in lowa is figured at 22,000. Republican Congressmen are elected in all but the Second District. West Vibginia has given 6,000 majority for the Democratic Electors and Governor and re-elected all four Democratic ( ongressmen. Republicans elect all but one Congressman in Minnesota and retain a majority in Ihe Legislature, insuring the re-election of Senator Davis. Rich, Republican, has from 8,010 t) 10,000 ma ority in Michigan. Demo- . crate secure six out.ef . fourteen electors and five Congressmen out ot twelve.

HOLDING THE OFFICERS AT BAY.