Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — BOLD EXPRESS ROBBERY [ARTICLE]

BOLD EXPRESS ROBBERY

THE MYSTERIOUS THEFT OF, SIO,OOO. Harrison Again Bereaved—Short Shrift for a Negro Murderer—Revels in Bovine Gore—Rainmakers Despondent—threatening’ the Coal Combine. Express Officials Puzzled. The officials of the Island City Savings Hank at Galveston were astounded Tuesday' morning by the discovery that a package received by them from the Wells-Fargo Express Company, supposed to contain 810,000 In bills, was tnade up Instead of brown paper, neatly cut to the size of bank notes. The contents of the package Is supposed to have been changed while in transit from New York, but when or where is at present an unsolved mystery. '*■>

ANOTHER JACK THE RIPPER. This One Devotes His Attention to Killing and Mutilating Cows. For more than a year, with Intervals varying from two to three weeks or months between each offense, some of the best cows la Columbus, Ohio, numbering about a dozen, and one horse have been killed or to badly mutilated as to make killing by the owners necessary to put the animals out of misery. A fine cow, the property of David Greene, son of the late ex-President of the Hocking Valley Railway, was killed Monday night and one belonging to exPostmaster A D. Rodgers, father-in-law of Mr. Greene, was badly mutilated. Variation between dairymen's cows and animals owned by rich Broad street people shows that the offender must be governed by an insane desire to kill rather than by malice against Individuals. Some of bis butcheries have been horrifying. REV. DR. SCOTT IS DEAD. For a Second Time the Destroying Angel Invades the White House. The Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon Scott, the father-in-law of President Harrison, died on Tuesday afternoon at the age of 93 years. He died in the executive mansion, where he went with his daughter and son-in-law when they made It their home. Dr. Scott’s Illness was of short duration. He went to Indianapolis with the party that accompanied Mrs. Harrison’s remains. He bore the fatigue of the trip very well and returned to Washington in his usual health. Oh Saturday, Nov. 19, he caught cold and was compelled to go to bed. 111, as it proves, unto death.

LOST FAITH IN DYNAMITE. Men Who Furnished Money for Rain-Mak-ing Experiments Are Disappointed. John King, of Washington. D. C., and John W. Dickson, of Chicago, who furnished 88.000 toward the rain-making experiments which were begun at San Antonio, Texas, by Gen. Dyrenforth, are very much discouraged with the results and have almost reached the conclusion that the theory is not practicable. Upon their request, however, Gen. Dyrenforth will continue the experiments until all the explosives on hand are exhausted. Will Test the Anti-Trust Law. The coal combine may be attacked In the United States Courts at Boston. District At’orney Allen has received assurances from Judge Putnam, of the United States Circuit Court, that he will set down tor an early hearing the case of the United States against the officials of the National Cash Registry Company, which is ■brought to test the constitutionality of the Sherman anti-trust law. Should the Government be sustained’ in itt position in this tease the cases against the whisky trust officials will be pushed at once, and it is onderstcol proceedings will be begun to Smash the coal combine. Shot Down from Ambush. John Schlbly, a carriage palntei residing la Howard Park, a suburb two miles west of Jeffersonville, Ind., was shot from amtmth and mortally wounded. He VaS on His 'way h<fme ’ from Louisville -4nd no sooner got off the train at Howard Park Station than he fell apparently lifeless to the ground. Neighbors heard the shot and found Schlbly unconscious. He was carried to his home. Schlbly cannot account for his attempted assassination, and claims that he has no known enemy. • May Divide the Vote. The official vote of all the counties In California, with the exception of San Francisco, gives Harrison a plurality of 6.422. The returns from all but nine precincts In San Francisco, reduce Harrison’s plurality fa the State to 310. It is possible that when the official vote ’has been completed upon Individual electors the electoral vote may be divided between Harrison and Cleveland. Hanged by Men of His Own Race. At Hiawatha, Kan., Tuesday morning. * mob of masked men broke open the jail and took Murderer Commodore True, and hanging him to a tree riddled his body with bullets. True was a negro, and was awaiting trial for the murder of Wm. Waltham, also colored. The mob was composed of negroes, friends of the murderer’s victim. Strung Up for Murder. Thomas Ball, a negro aged fifteen years, was hanged In the jailyard at Macon. Ga. He was arrested in May last by Deputy Sheriff Wilder on a charge of petit larceny. On the way to jail he drew a pistol and shot the officer dead. He escaped, but some weeks later was captured. The hanging was Absolutely private. The gallows was sureounded by a twenty-foot board fence. Garvin Gets Nine Years. At Pittsburg Frank Garvin, the murderer of his bride, Cora Redpath Garvin, was sentenced to nine years In the penitentiary. A Fearful Death. John Noland, of Cleveland County, North Carolina, died of hydrophobia after chewing his tongue into shreds Imhis convulsions. Women Threaten Tar and Feathers.

Mra Maggie Bradley, who was tried for Murdering Mary Curtrois' baby and reteased, was told by the women of Willis, Kaa, where she lives, to leave the country tn ten days or they would tar and feather her. White caps have threatened to lynch her. . Forty-five Freight Cars Wrecked. A collision between two freight trains occurred on the Norfolk and Western Balltoad, a short distance from Blackstone, Va. Both locomotives and forty-five freight cars were wrecked Wru. Lester, •reman, was painfully scalded. , Nihilists Active in Russia. • The correspondent of the London Chronfcfe at 8t Petersburg says that the nihilists are distributing inflammatory pamphlets and letters among the peasantry near the Volga. inciting them to revolt against the government. The police are instructed to seise all sueh literature. Foot-Ball Battles. In the Bcston-Chicago foot-ball game at Chicago the Bostons were victorious, and Yale beat Prl iceton at New York. The Boston-Chicago game was one-sided, but Abe Tate-Princeton contest sas probably

WBrrKUff jyT nvw a mttfTerrlflc Revenge of Three Chinese Laundrymen—NMAtieFarty Possible. A o’clock last eveulpg ap explosion occurred that shook this city from center to circumference. years three Chinamen have Seen running a laundry here. About one month ago Ed Davis came here from Kentucky and started a steam laundry. Jie had secured a good part of the Chinese trade. Within the last week two attempts have been made to burn Davis’ building. Suspicion pointed to the Chinese. They were watched, and last ( evening, just before the explosion, one of them was seen running toward the depot and has not been seen since. The explosion was caused by a large dynamite bomb being thrown into the building. The entire building was wrecked, valuable machinery smashed, and the sleeping-room of Davis totally demolished.' Davis was not In the building at the time. Excitement Is high here and everything points to the guilt of all three of- the' Chinamen. Every effort Is being made to : Bnd the missing one. His two associates' are under a close guard. Lynching has been threatened.

PROTEST AGAINST ELECTION BILLS. Representative Fitch Desires to Examine Personally Davenport's Accounts. The Secretary of the Treasury has received a letter from Representative Fitch, Chairman of the special committee Investigating election methods, protesting against the payment of any bills of John I. Davenport, Chief Supervisor of Elections at New York, for services or disbursements at the recent election, and requesting that he (Mr. Fitch) be allowed to personally examine such accounts before settlement The secretary declined to discuss the letter except to say that the communication will receive the same careful attention accorded all communications from Congressional committees It is learned from another source that Mr. Davenport’s accounts for the period in question have not yet been presented to the accounting officers and are not expected for several weeks SHIP GOLD TO EUROPE. Men in Wall Street Speculating on the Fourth Nations's Intentions. Indications are that the 8600,000 gold withdrawn from the Sub-Treasury by the Fourth National Bank of New York will be shipped to Europe. Great interest Is manifested In Wall street over the transaction, as shipments of the yellow metal at this season are most unusual The trouble is that while this country has been exporting vast amounts of and other products, the prices realized have been so low that a heavy balance of trade has piled up against us. At the same time the imperts of general merchandize continue on a large scale, partly In consequence of the preparations for the holiday only thing that will be apt to prevent gold exports on a large scale is a revival of the European demands for American securities.

TOUGHS AND TRAINMEN FIGHT. Six Desperate Brothers Are Thrown Down an Embankment. Gallipolis. Ohio, special: Six brothers named Williams, desperate characters, boarded an Ohio River Railroad train at Huntington last night. All were drunk, and they soon precipitated a fight with the conductor and brakeman, whom they cut and beat seriously. The train was stopped, and the engineer and armed with clubs, took a hand in the affray. Several passeng< rs also assisted, and after a furious fight the Williams brothers were beaten insensible, dragged from the train, and thrown down an embankment. The train then proceeded. It is not known whether any of the desperadoes were fatally hurt or not. CANADA’S NEW CABINET. Change Necessitated by the Resignation of the Premier, Sir John Abbott. Hon. George Foster, Minister of Finance, has left England, carrying in his pocket the resignation of Premier Abbott This will lead to a reorganization • of the Cabinet, and on good authority it is said that the Hon. J. A Chapleau, Minister of Customs will be made Lieutenant Governor of the province of Quebec, the present holder of the position. Lieutenant Governor Anger, succeeding to the Portfolio of Customs Sir John Thompson, the present Minister of Justice, will be the Premier, and ; W. R Ives, Member of Parliament, Will be taken Into the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture. Other changes are likely to be made, WORKMEN IN DEADLY PERIL. Coal Mines in New Mexico in Flames—Miners Believed to Have Escaped. Fire broke out .In . the Blossburg coal mines, situated four miles south of Raton, N. M. Sixteen mules were burned to death. About one hundred men were at work In the subways in entire Ignorance of their peril A messenger was at once dispatched to the mouth of this shaft, a distance of three miles over the mountain, to notify the miners of their danger, and It is thought that all escaped. The output Is seventy-five cars of coal a day. It Is thought that the mines will be destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown.

VANDERBILT’S BIG LOSS. Summer Residence at Newport, with Its Costly Furnishings, Destroyed. The? Breakers, the elegant and costly Newport (R. I.) summer residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is a smouldering mass of ruins. Blackened and crumbling walls of brick and heaps of ashes are all that now remain of the palatial villa which for years has been numbered among Newport’s largest and finest residences. The loss is esoo.ooo. May Not Recover. James G. Blaine Iles in his bed critically ill. fie may recover and be able to get around again, and he may never leave his bed alive. In either event his physician will not be surprised. Securing information of a reliable character concerning Mr. Blaine is attended by the very greatest difficulty, and one must be content with a general rather than a particular knowledge of bls condition. It is simply impossible to obtain any Information at the house, for Mrs. Blaine has instructed the servants to say nothing, and she herself will not be Interviewed. Mrs. Blaine has also placed a seal on the doctor’s lips,wand all he can do is to roll his eyes and sigh and shake his head when questioned by newspaper men. But all talk to their friends, and these friends talk to whom they piease. ,According to one of them, a very proininent Government official, Mr. Blaine’s condition is serious. The exact nature of his compaint is not known. It started with a cold, which was followed by a fever. But his cold and fever have entirely disappeared, leaving him. however, entirely prostrated. The family regard his condition as the result of a complication of ailments, and they fear that it means the beginning of the end. There is not the slightest doubt that the family is greatly alarmed and apprehensive of the worst. Put Polson In His Tobacco. At St Henry, Minn., Joseph E Hanndcr died suddenly. Strychnine was found in his tobacco. The pext morning Miss Agnes Beer, his wife’s sister, died of the same poison. She left a letter asking to be buried with Haunder. It is supposed that she poisoned herself and Haunder. Brig Wrecked; Crew Saved. The brig Charles Purves, from Philadelphia, for Clenfuegos, was totally wrecked at Inagua. The crew are safe. Profits for Americans. While the members of the French Chamber of Commerce are investigating the affairs of the Panama Canal Company and

Incidentally stirring up more mud than ever came from the bottom of the canal Itself, It will vastly Interest Americans to know that 100,000,000 francs (820,000,000) of the canal company’s money was paid Into the hands of a syndicate of American capitalists for work done In the contruction of the cauaL There was 810,000,000 profit in the work. The syndicate by which this Vast sum was directed through American channels Is known as the American Contracting and Dredging Company. Several members of the company made over 82,000,000 each. GENERAL TRADE GOOD. Probable Gold Exports Are Not Considered Significant. R G. Dun & Ca’s weekly review of trade says: The announcement that gold would be exported, though not In large amount, has not necessarily as much meaning as many supposed. Foreign exchange does not yet justify exports, and movements not warranted may be due to temporary and trifling influences. 7he condition of business throughout the country appears excellent, with the volu’me of trade greater than In any previous year. POEY WILL GO TO PRISON. To Be Confined Six and One-half Y’ears fol Forgery and Larceny. Simon Poey, passenger agent of the Ward Steamship line, was sentenced at New York to five years in the State prison for forgery In the third degree, and one year and six months for grand the second degree. Poey stole about $40,009. To Restrict Immigration. The protest of the passengers of th* steamer Weimar, detained in quarantine, has had little effect upon Secretary of the Treasury Foster. He says the regulations must be enforced strictly, even If hardship is caused in some cases, and believes the Government ought to be as careful and take as many precautions against cholera all during this winter as at any time in the past. The way to reduce the danger from cholera or any other epidemic raging In Europe, Mr. Foster says, Is to enact legislation to restrict Immigration. He hoped Congress would take Immediate action It this line.

To Build the Yerkes Telescope. Warner & Swasey, of Cleveland, have been awarded the contract for building the new Yerkes telescope for the University ol Chicago. They built the famous Lick telescope and the one for the National Observatory at Washington. Tae Yerkes instrument will have a 40-ineh lens, and is expected to exceed the Lick telescope in magnifying power 25 per cent The tube will be seventy-five feet long, and the instrument completed will weigh six tons. Work will be begun at once, with the expectation of finishing it in a year. To Lock In the Audience. The Choral Symphony Society of St Louis opened Its season Friday night As usual on such occasions during the last chorus many people manifested a vulgar anxiety to get out This was not complimentary to Miss Emma Juch and her associates. To prevent a recurrence of the annoyance the society decided to lock the doors hereafter until the last number Is finished. The public has been notified through local papers. Driven to Suicide by Madness. Maggie Hamilton of Killanning Pa., was taken ill with typhoid fever. While In her delirium she flel from the house in her night robes. Shortly afterward her absence was discovered. Judge Rayburn. C. E Hileman and others organized a searching party. Abort an hour afterward the young woman's body was found in the river. She was a teacher In the public schools of Allegheny, Pa. Indian Child Killed by a Panther. At Hopkins, a Cherokee outlet trading post, a panther killed an Indian child. The beast’s cries had teen hoard for several nights, but none of the few inhabitants had the courage to attempt to kill it. Shortly after the child was killed,however, William Simmons, an old Indian scout, turned up, and he followed and killed the brute. The animal measured seven feet from nose to tip of tail Women Use Hot Water as a Weapon. Near Piedmont, Ala, three brothers named Conner were arrested by T. V. Jackson, an express detective, aided by local officers and a posse. They report a desperate fight with women arme< with hot water. The captives are thought to be the trio who robbed the mall and express cars of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad near Piedmont about a month since.

Fed Their Limbs to Hogs. Henry Banks, a colored Clarksville, Ark., farmer, who had been absent from home, returned and found his wife talking to Joseph Perry, a neighbor. The enraged husband pulled out a razor and literally carved them to pieces, cutting the limbs of the viatoms from their bodies and throwing them in the hpg pen. The murderer escaped, but a posse is In pursuit Bank Robbers Run Down. Three of the five robbers who robbed the Roslyn. Wash., bank of $10,003 Sept 24 were captured Friday in the Cascade Mountains in the central part of Oregon. The prisoners have been fully Identified by the bank officials They are believed to be the same men who robbed the banks at the Dalles and La Grande, Oregon, during the past year. To Raise Money for Mrs. RandaU. The Samuel J. Randall Club, of St Louts, has been reorganized to raise a fund for the benefit of Mrs. Randall Already money is being subscribed.