Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — FATE OF THE NARONIC [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FATE OF THE NARONIC

TWO OF HER LIFEBOATS SEEN OFF NEWFOUNDLAND. Gad Not Been Long Adrift— Hopes for the Crew The Arrival of a Vessel with Eleven Shipwrecked Sailors Eagerly Awaited. Given Up as Lost. After long-continued anxiety regarding the fate of the White Star line freight steamer Naronic, which sailed from Liverpool Feb. II for New York, and which had not since been heard of, intelligence has been received showing beyond doubt that she is lost. The British steamer Coventry. CapL Wilson, from Fernandina, Feb. 10, has arrived at Bremen. She reports that at 2 o’clock in the morning of March 4, when in latitude 42 north, longitude 46 west, she passed a lifeboat painted white bearing thb name “Naronic.” The boat was floating keel upward. At two o’clock in the afternoon of the same day another lifeboat from the Naronic was passed. This boat gave evidence of having encountered heavy seas. The mast and oars of the lifeboat had been lashed together and attached to tho painter and then thrown overboard as a sea anchor to keep the boat’s head up to the wind and sea. Judging from appearances, neither of the boats had Deen long adrift The position of the drifting boats was about south by west of Sable Island, on the banks of Newfoundland. There is a chance that thro occupants of the boats were picked up by a passing steamer. All doubt as to the fate of the Naronic has been dispelled by the sighting of her life-boats. That she is now at the bottom of the ocean cannot be disputed, but the cause of the disaster is, of course, still a matter of conjecture. It may be, judging from the latitude and longitude in which the boats were seen, that the steamer struck either an iceberg, though it is still rather early in the season for ice to be adrift so far south as the banks. It is hoped that the mystery of the loss of the steamer will soon be cleared up by the landing .at some port of mombers §t her crew. A vessel "which passed Deal signaled

that she had on board eleven shipwrecked people, and the White Star officials say there is a strong probability that they are a part of the crew of the Naronic. The loss of the vessel will be a big one to the underwriters. Eighty guineas per cent, had been naid for the insurance. The loss of the ship will be a sad blow to the advocates of the twin screw, who have not yet forgotten the disasters that befell’ the Paris and Spree. The manifest of the Naronic’s cargo shows that she brings over $250,000 worth of merchandise consigned to various merchants in New York. On the Naronic were shipped also two valuable horses consigned to ex-United States Consul W. Burgess, of Trenton, N. J., and to W. J. Bobertson, of Baltimore, were consigned thirteen coops of poultry and pigeons, which were to have been exhibited in the poultry show at Madison Square Garden, New York. A GREAT CONVENTION. Tlie International Good Templars In Des Moines. The Independent Order of Good Templais is the strongest temperance organization in the world, numbering several hundrod thousand in its juvenile department Once in two years it holds its business sessions, and at each meeting there is a strong but generous contest for the location of the next The last meeting was in Edinburgh, Scotland. At that meeting Des Moines, lowa, was selected for the meeting in 181)3, and on June 13 next that session will begin, lasting six or eight days. This is the second time only that this body has met west of the Mississippi ltiver in its forty years of history. Twenty-nine States of this country, and England, Sfcotland, Canada, Channel Islands, Central South Africa, Eastern South Africa, Jamacia, Lake Superior, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Norway, New South Wales, Sweden, Tasmania, Wales (Welsh), Wales (English), and Western Australia, and other States and nations are yet to elect. lowa, with 13,000 members of the order, will give them a hearty lowa welcome. Among those from abroad will be some of the most distinguished olergymen from England and Scotland, as well as from various States in this country. HARRIS IS RESENTENCED. Alleged Wife-Murderer Condemned to Be Electrocuted In May. Barely, If ever, has there been so much excitement around the dark, grim building of the Court of General Ses-

sions in New York as there was Monday morning. Carlyle W. Harris, after having exhausted every possible means to escape the penalty for the murder of his wife, •was to be finally resentenced by Recorder Smyth. No one was allowed to enter except newspaper

men who were authenticated and persons bearing tickets of admission signed by the District Attorney. The court-room was crowded by 10 o’clock. A dense throng of men, boys and women, too, surrounded the

building. Harris was brought into court handcuffed to an officer. His skin was sallow. hi 3 eyes large ani sunken and under them deep-bine rings. And no wonder. The ferocious strain of anxiety the young man has •been undergoing would reduce the vital forces of the strongest. When Harris was asked if he bad anything to say why sentence should not

be passed upon him he leaned both hands on the rail, bent forward and began to speak in tones so low that the deputies who stood close beside him on each side could not hear what he said and leaned their heads to catch the words. There was a buzz of whispering among the spectators, which was stopped by the Court. At the end of Harris’ speech Recorder Smyth sentenced Harris to be electrocuted the week beginning Hay.fi. The case of Harris is almost without parallel In the history of poisoners, not so mnch for his method of ridding himself of the girl he secretly married, but because of his remarkable fight, aided by Ms mother, to escape the law’s penalty. There was a sort of smart clumsiness about his administering the poison to his wife, just as a conceited

young student dabbling in drugs and poisons for the first time and thinking he knew all about them would oommit. Nor were his efforts to conceal his act characterized by nearly so much skill as those of Thomas Nelson Cream, who was executed in London a few months ago for poisoning dissolute women. But Harris is regarded by criminal experts as a man of the most dangerous type, and his conductduring his trial and confinement in the Tombs prison has proven him to be a man of extraordinary intelligence and nerve. NAMES MEN FOR OFFICE. President Cleveland Sends in a Batch of Nominations. President Cleveland* on Monday sent in these nominations to the Senate: James G. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Judicial Cireuit. James B. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Prance. Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey., to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Germany. John E. Risley, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Denmark. Walter D. Dabney, of Virginia, to be Solicitor for the Department of State. Charles ri. Stuart, of Texas, to be Judge of the United St&ti s Court for Indian Territory. William H. Hawkins, to be United States Marshal for the District of Indiana. Ernest P. Baldwin, of Marland, to be First Auditor of the Treasury. Thomas Holcomb, of Delaware, to be Fifth Auditor of the Treasury. Wade Hampton.of South Carolina, to be Commissioner of Railroads. William McAdoo.of New Jersey,to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To be Marshals of the United States: David T. Guyton, of Mississippi, for the Northern District of Mississippi: William H. Hawkins, of Indiana, for the District of Indiana; Abner Gaines, of Arkansas, for the Eastern District of Arkansas: James J. McAlester, of Indian Territory, for Marshal of the United States Court for Indian Territory. To be Attorneys of the United Statest Frank B. Bnrke, of Indiana, for the Dlstriot of Indiana, Clifford L. Jackson, of Indian Territory, to be Attorney of tho United States Court for Indian Territory; Joseph W. House, of Arkansas, for the Eastern District, of Arkansas. Theodore Runyon, the new mlnistet to Germany, is one of the prominenr figures of New Jersey democracy and a man of pronounced ability. lor ten years he was Chancellor of the State and has twice been its candidate for Governor. John E. Bisley, nominated

to be minister to Denmark, is a brothor-in-law to Senator Voorhees, and a lawyer of high standing in New York. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, who is to become railroad commissioner, served in the United States Senate twelve years. The nomination of Ernest P. Baldwin, of Maryland, for first auditor of the treasury is one of the exceptions which President Cleveland has made to his rule not to reappoint exofficeholders. James G. Jenkins, of M lwaukoe, who steps into Judge Gresham’s shoes as Judge of the Seventh Circuit Court,

has been Judge of the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The appointment, which was decided on by President Cleveland and several •weeks ago, was recommended not only by the Wisconsin bar but by the Democrats in both houses of the

Legislature. Judge Jenkins is a cousin of Gen. Worth of Mexican war fame, and was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Jan. lfi, ,1834. Ex-Senator James B. Eustis, of Louisiana, is a native of New Orleans, and was born in 1834. At the outbreak of the war he joined the staff of Gen. Magruder in the Confederate army, and served until the close of the war. He was elected a memoer of the State Legislature before the reconstruction acts, and was one of the committee sent to confer with President Johnson upon Louisiana affairs. He was called to serve in the United States Senate from 1877 to 1879. COST OF THE GREAT BALL. Loss of Pension Office. Employes’ Services Amounts to $04,000. General Raum, the late Commissioner of Pensions, has addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Interior inviting attention to the loss sustained by the government by the use of the pension office building as an inauguration ballroom, the loss alluded to accruing principals through the absence from duty duty of employes, made necessary by t'he work of preparing the building for the usual reception and ceremonies on tne evening or inauguration "day. This General Raum places at about SB,OOO per day. or, on the last occasion, $64,000, eight days being consumed in preparing the building. The suggestion is made by the late Commissioner that in future a separate building should bo provided for ceremonials of this character.

THE MISSING FREIGHTER NARONIC.

JUDGE JENKINS.

CARLYLE HARRIS.

HELEN P. HARRIS.