Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — CHOLERA AT ST. PAUL. [ARTICLE]

CHOLERA AT ST. PAUL.

IT' COMES Ifo AN IMMIGRANT’S CORPSE.' Dmth of Rutherford B. Hayes -I’rigUtlul .Slaughter of a Rhode Island Coasting Party—Chicago Calumet Club Burned Out—Silver Bill Up. ■ r . St Paul Alarmed. St Paul dispatch: The through train on the Soo Read Tuesday morning brought in the corpse of Engelbert Hoog. a Gorman emigrant, who died on the train from genuine Asiatic cholera. The cause of death ■was not suspected until inspection was made by local health officers, and so quiet was the information kept that there has been no particle of excitement The health authorities are thoroughly alarmed, .principally from the fact that they have little knowledge of how great the exposure has been and whether they have rounded up and quarantined every person who may have been in contact with the patient R. B. HAYES IS DEAB. The ex-Presldent Expires at His Fremont, Ohio, Home. In the 72d year of his age, surrounded by all the members of his family, ex-Presl-dent Rutherford B. Hayes died at his Freznont, Ohio, home, a little before midnight, Tuesday, of neuralgia of the heart He had been ill but a few days, having started the previous Monday for a visit to Columbus, Buffalo and Cleveland. During the past month he had been troubled with slight pains and chest troubles, but the illness did not assume an alarming phase until Saturday. Accompanied by bis son, Webb C, he started at once for home, only 1o take his bed with what proved his last illness. While dying, in bis own chamber, the ex-President frequently referred to a visit made to lii3 wife's grave on the preceding Sunday and spoke of the quiet beauty of the snow-covorol landscape. He said that he almost wished he was lying tbpre by the side of his wife. It was all so peaceful: “and yet,” he said, “1 am not unhappy- My life is an exceptionally happy one.” The family were hastily summoned to his bedside when it became apparent that the ex-l’resident was sinking. His last words were to his family physician. Dr. Hllbisch. to whom he said; “I know that I am going where Lucy is.”

•SILVER PURCHASE REPEAL. Sherman's Bill Amended by the Senate Finance Committee. The Senate Finance Committee resolved to report the bill to repeal the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Two amendments were added to the bill: 1. To have the suspension tuke effect on Jan. 3. 1894, instead of this month. 2. To permit national banks to issue notes up to tbo par value of their bonds. The report, according to a Washington dispatch, was a'surprise to almost every member in Congress The action is supposed to have been in obedience to the pressure of the honest money men of the country for some legislation tending to lessen the evils resulting from the continued purchase of silver bullion. The postponement of the time for the suspension will, some members believe, lessen the opposition df silver men. But they fear that the amendment increasing the national bank note circulation will prevent the opposition falling off so much as its absence might do. CARLISLE HARRIS TO HANG. The New York Coart of Appeals Declines to Interfere with His Sentenee. The New York Court of Appeals has affirmed the judgmeat of the lower court In the case of the People vs. Carlyle W. Harris, appellant This was an appeal from a Judgment convicting Harris of murder in the first degree.' The defendant who was a student at the Coliege of Physicians and JSnrgeons In New Yor> gjtjr, was Indicted by Ihe Grand Jury In February last for causing the death of Helen Nell Potts, a jftudent at the Comstock hoarding school for young ladies in New York. Harris gave her six capsules containing morphine and qatnine as a cure for headache, some of which she took, causing her death. Harris was secretly married to the girl under an assumed name some twelve months before she died, and the capsules were given ber by Harris a short time before the day set by the girl’s mother for a public marriage.

DENIAL FROM CORRIGAN. The Archbishop gays He Has Not Protested Against McGiynn's Restoration. Father Connolly, secretary to Archbishop Corrigan, has made a statement at New York la reference to the alleged protests of the Archbishop against tbo restoration of Dr. McGlynn. He said: “My attention has been drawn to a statement relative to two protests supposed to have been made by the most reverend archbishop against the reconciliation of Dr. McGlynn. Here Is the most reverend archbishop's answer: ‘First, the most reverend archbishop has not written to the holy father on any subject whatever since Dr. McGiynn’s restoration; second, nor has he written any one, either In these United States or In Rome, against the reconciliation of Pj, McGlynn.’”

FEAST OF FLAMES. Beautiful Calumet Club Building at Chicago Totally Destroyed. Fire In Chicago has a delicate tooth for things rare and costly, and Tuesday night It feasted at the Calumet Club All it rontatned was completely consumed. The property was valuable In a money sense, 9380,000. but much was lost that was more than valuable, because It can never be replaced. At least half a hundred lives were In extreme peril, but only one was lost In the fire. The servants of the club fared worst, because the little they possessed was swept out of existence. Ohio Oil Advanced. At Lima. Ohio, the Standard Oil Company advanced “south of Lima” dll to 40 cents and “north of Lima” oil to 42% cents per barrel

Met a Terrible Death. A sleighing party from Pawtucket, R. L, was returning from Woonsocket after enjoying a supper and dance, Wednesday day morning, and while crossing a grade near Lonsdale a locomotive of a irelght train dashed Into the sleigh, killing eight and wounding fourteen. Graves Gets a New Trial. The Colorado Supreme Court has granted D. Thatcher Graves, the convicted murderer of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, B. L, anewtr^l. Steamboat Men Killed. While the steamer Warner was towing the a C Coles through the shlllet, a swift place below Chattanooga In the mountains, twO of the Warner's flues collapsed. Two men were killed and fifteen severely wounded. The deck hands were huddled around the boiler te get warm. The boat ■HKHhM ' ; , ; jir s **■■■ »< - .Governor ’ Eagle Near to Death. At Little Bock. Dr. Gibson, who has been atSeadiag Gov. Eagle, announces that his patlssit may die at any moment. He baa growing steadily worm and gtlk/.:

Kansas is white hot, IVUd Talk of Riot and Mob Role-Call of the Militia Looked For. At Topeka, Kan.. Gov. Lewelllng recognized the Populist House Thursday afternoon. At 6 o’clock his private secretary entered the crowded room where confusion had reigned all day and presented a message from the Governor addressed to the Populist Speaker and Clerk, acknowledging the receipt of their message announing the prganlzation of the House. When Populist Speaker Dunsraore was recognized by the private secretary tremendous applause began on the Populist Side Republicans remained quiet, but Speaker Douglass refused to leave the stand. He Is there holding the fort and wlll rertiafn until ejected by the military force 6f the State. What step the Reoubwill take then is unknown. This decision had been expected all day, and in the afte’rticiorl when the three Democrats in the Bouse declared it their duty to go over to the Republicans as the legally organized House the excitement was so intensified that violence was feared. This action of the Democrats meant either a Republican or Democratic United States Senator, and the leaders in the Populists’ ranks demanded of Gov Lewelllng tbft he organize their House.

TWENTY-SEVEN KILLED. Awful Catastrophe In a Union Pacific Coal Mine Near Como, Colo. An order has reached Denver for twentyseven collins from Como. Colo., on the Denver & South Pacific Division of the Union Pacific. The Union Pacific owns and operates coal mines ut King, four- miles from Como, where they employ 200 miners. Tuesday aftorno n a premature “dust” explosion occurred in one of Ihe chambers where twenty-eight miners were at work. The shock killed twenty-seven of the men, only one escaping, he being near tho entrance. The bodies were not recovered until midnight, and on account of their blackened condition only eleven of the twenty-seven wore recognizable. Evidently the victims were killed outright hy the explosion or knocked senseless and were afterward asphyxiated by tbo deadly gas, The bodies were found in all sorts of agonizing positions, many lying crossed or clasped together. Tho sceno was heartrending as. the bodies w ere brought to the surface, many of the women fainting as they recognizod the blackened remains of husbands or fathers. GOVERNOR PECK’S ADVICE. He Recommends an Additional World's Fair Appropriation. Governor Peck of Wisconsin appeared before the joint assembly and delivered his message, which was a circumscribed review of State affairs which press most prominently for legislative attention. He cautioned the Legislature against empowering the Commissioners of Public Lands to loan trust funds on specially favorable terms to borrowers specifically named. Regarding the World’s Fair Governor Peck recommends an additional appropriation to carry on the work laid out by the managers and to properly equip the Wisconsin building and make an exhibit creditable to the State. On the subject of the Improvement of country roads, the Governor suggests that a comprehensive plan should, If possible, be devised that will not only promote this desirable improvement, but will Insure uniformity and system In tho progress of the work.

POWDERLY A SOCIALIST. The General Master Workman Delivers a Speech In Scranton, Pa. A special dispatch from Scranton, Pa., says: General Master Workman Powderly yesterday emerged from a retirement of some weeks to address a gathering of union carpenters In this city. During the course of his remarks be said: “I am a socialist, and 1 say it without blushing. If the avowal brings condemnation I am willing to take it lam one of 65,000,000 socialists in this country. I believe the railroads are public highways and should be nationalized and that the telegraph system should be owned and operated by the government The people own the election system, streets, public schools, and are we afraid to go a step further and own tbe railroads and telegraph, which are more essential to tbe public?” Died Like Rats. Pittsburg dispatch: Tbe trial of Hugh F. Dempsey for complicity in the wholesale poisoning of the Homestead workmen last summer was begun in the Criminal Court Thursday. The trial Itself did not reveal much, if anything, not already known to the public. But that there Is a largesized surprise in the background the counsel for the prosecution and a half-dozen doctors and expert chemists know. It was thought that the witness through whom this mine Is to be exploded would be on the stand, but this feature was finally postponed. Capt Hunt, analytical chemist, has been engaged for some time, at the instance of the prosecution, in searching for poisons 1n the remains of several Homestead workmen who had died. Of course, he refused to reveal anything as to the results of his examination, but it was learned from an authoritative source that arsenic In considerable quantities was found in one stomach at least, traces of croton oil In another, and traces of arsenic and other mineral poisons In other bodies exhumed.

Abused Prisoners Shot Down. Reports of harshness in the handling of Wyoming’s convicts that have been coming from the State prison for a couple of months have been given color by a sanguinary mutiny. Six men, returning from the broom factory, attacked and downed Warden Briggs, who has been charged with cruelty. Two guards opened on the party with rifles and one convict was killed. He was the leader, Madden, a horse thief. The charges against the prison management will now be investigated by the State Board of Managers. Two Deaths from a Runaway. A runaway occurred at Alton. Kan., by which Frank Nelson, a merchant, and Mrs Webb Cross received injuries which will result In death. Mr. Nelson and Mrs Cross were driving in a carriage. Suddenly a runaway team of horses dashed madly around a corner aud ran Into them. Both were thrown out and trampled by the horses

Senator Kenna Dead. Senator John E. Kenna. of West Virginia, died In Washington of heart disease, from which he had been for some years an accute sufferer. His sufferings during the last few months of his life from heart spasms were so poignant that to himself as well as to his family death must have been looked upon as almost welcoma St. Louis Grain Blockade. The St Louis grain blockake continues as bad as ever. The olevators are full to the roof, and It Is estimated that fifteen hundred carloads of grain are blockaded in the railroad yards. All Frauds but One. All but one of the 150 rare manuscripts presented to Knox Library, of New York, by Banker John & Kennedy have been pronounced forgeries by the British museum experts. Where Is Mrs. Whitaker? Mrs. W. B. Whitaker, wife of a Warrensburg, Mo., farmer, Is missing and foul play Is suspected. Senator Collom 111. Senator Cnllom, of Illinois, Is lying ill at his residence' In Washington* from the effecte of a cold. Br-r-r-r-r! Old Mr. Mercury keeps , right at work on Ms big contract. Sunday In Chicago was

the coldest day In five years and one of the really awful days during the last twenty years. Only five times has tbe mercury been lower, and on none of those occasions did the dally average remain so thoroughly unbearable, it wus remarkable in very many ways. Chicago showed the lowest temperature of any place in the United States save two or theee towns on the Canadian border. Starting at eighteen below at 1 a. m., It rose to sixteen and remained stationary until 6 o’clock. It was not only 10 degrees below zero at noon, but this stinging state of affairs was made worse by reason of a brisk twelve-mile wind. Toward evening It moderated only slightly, but even then It was superlatively frigid and tbe wooden Indians had the streets to themselves.

LONG LULL IN TRADE. Prospects Bright, However, With Absence of Embarrassment. R. G. Dun & Co. ’a weekly review of trade says: The pause In business, Incident to the holidays, seems to last longer this year than usual; but severe weather has given a powerful stimulus to trade In heavy boots and shoes and woolens and preparations for the spring business aro going on actively and with the utmost confidence. In spite of reports that mote ftbld will go abroad, and in spite of uncertainties regarding legislation on the money question, the business world seems inclined to believe that there wTM bo no serious financial embarrassment, especially as the average of commercial Indebtedness Is remarkably low and failures have been comparatively unimportant. -No. interruption of industrial activity is seen, though iron is somewhat more riepressbd. but in' other important branches a distinct improvement Is noticed in the preparation for spring trade NOVEL .SUIT FOR DAMAGES. A Railway Held Somebody Squeezed a Woman'* Foot. Mrs. Virtue Pomeroy, of filed a novel damage suit against .the Illinois Central Railroad. She alleges that while on a train of that road on Aug. 12, just prior to its arrival at Fulton, Ky., the said defendant permitted tbe plaintiff to be rudely assaulted by some person unknown to plaintiff, who then and thero committed an unwarranted assault' upon her person, by seizing her foot and squeezing It violently and otherwise frightening and intimidating plaintiff, causing great mental pain and mortification; and for the wrong said plaintiff has sustained damage in the sum of $5,000, wherefor she suos. SHUT OFF THE NATURAL GAS. Glass Factories of Findlay, Ohio, Deprived of Their Fuel. The naluralgas trustees of Findlay, Ohio, have shut off the supply of gas of all the glass factories In town. The trustees gave notice that the companies could have thirty days in which to change to oil or some other kind of fuel, and all except three of the eighteen companies paid no attention to it They claim they were induced to come tc Findlay by offers of free natural gas for fuel, and that the city cannot lawfully take the gas away from thorn. A large number of suits will probably result A peculiar fact developed by the shut-off is that the pressure has not raised an ounce. This tends to prove a theory, generally regarded as a weak one, that cold weather hinders tho flow of gas.

Rainmaker Gets 850 for a Shower. At Lincoln, Neb., Acting Judge Long rendered a decision iu County Court in the case of Rainmaker Swisher against J. H. McMurty, awarding the plaintiff SSO. Swisher last August contracted with McMurty to produce a fall of one-half Inch of rain, and If successful was to receive SSOO. The rain came, but McMurty claimed it was due to natural causes and refused to pay. Swisher sued and the judge, though not assured that he produced the rain, thinks from the fact of the contract that he is entitled to some remuneration. Blaze In a Storage Warehouse. At Fostorla, Ohio, fire was discovered in the Cold Storage Company’s big warehouse Friday, and before It could be quenched the whole building was destroyed. The losses are: The Cold Storage Company’s building and fixtures, $18,000; Davis A Foster, groceries, $16,000; Fo3toria Glass and Bottle Company, $16,000; American Potato Company, potatoes, $10,000; L. Ilarbaugh, apples, sl,ooo—total $63,000. The total Insurance amounts to $28,000. To Maintain the Governor. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says, that after a lengthy discussion in tbe Cabinet, tbe Government has Issued a decreefor formal armed intervention to maintain Governor Ruiz in the province of Corrientea The residents of Buenos Ayres attack this action and are preparing to issue a manifesto The police and troops are under arms tonight, and it is feared an attack will be made on the Government House. The general opinion is that tbe President’s action is despotic. Tired Even of Intoxication. At Salt Lake, Utah, James C. Smith, a gambler, killed bimself by poison: cause, intoxication. Letters and telegfbms found among his effects tend to show that he has wealthy relatives in Chicago. Loss Is 82,000,000. The loss by Tuesday’s fire In Boston is now placed at $2,000,000. Joseph F. Barker, a newspaper reporter, was killed, and fifteen firemen and otkeTs were injured. Three Persons Hurt by a Cable Car. A Kansas City, Mo., cable train collided with a crowded horse car, severely injuring three people Fusion in Nebraska. The Democrats and Independents In the Nebraska Senate united and captured the Senate offices.