Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — MOB STORMED THE JAIL [ARTICLE]

MOB STORMED THE JAIL

WILLIAM SULLIVAN LYNCHED IN MICHIGAN. Disastrous Windstorm at Louisville, Ky.— gome Practical Joker's Meanness Causes Trouble—Scheme to Freeze Out Small Lumbermen—Sharp After Cattle Thieves. No Judge Nor Jury. William Sullivan, the farm band, who murdered Farmer Leech and Mrs. Leech at Durand, Mich., on Jan. 1, was lynched at Corunna, Tuesday. He was brought from Detroit at morning, arraigned, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for life. He was to have been taken there Wednesday. At night a mob was formed for the purpose of lynching the murderer. They proceeded to the jail, broke In the doors, and made their way to the cell where Sullivan was confined. A rope was quickly placed around his neck, and he was dragged to the door and out on the steps. The body was then pulled to the ground, where the maddened crowd trampled on the remains and mutilated them in a terrible manner. Then the clothes were torn from the corpse and the rope was swung over the limb of a tree, the crowd jerking It up and down. The murderer’s body was finally let down and dragged around the jail yard some time, aDd the crowd then dispersed. The sheriff made a show of resistance at first, but was overpowered.

HAVOC MV THE WIND. Louisville Swept by a Tornado and Many Buildings Damaged. Louisville, Ky., was visited by a tornado at 4 o’clock Tuesday morning. Many buildings, stores and residences were wrecked, roofs torn off and chimneys demolished. A number of people had narrow escapes from death by failing walls and flying roofs, but outside of a few bruises and broken limbs no one was seriously Injured. The tornado came from the west and was evidently of a local character, as no damago has been reported from points outside of the city. The heaviest sufferer from the storm is the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The wind struck their immense round house In the western portion of the city, and In an instant the heavy walls fell and the roof crashed in, burying the men at work on the engines beneath a mass of brick and iron girders. Heavy locomotives were blown from the rails and overturned. When the employes found the walls falling they rushed for the cinder piles and crouching In the excavations miraculously escaped death.

BIG LUMBER i R JST FORMED. Immense Timber Lands and Mill Plants In the Hands of a Combination. A great lumber trust has been formed by leading Canadian and American capitalists, and so quietly and successfully was the deed carried through that its groat import to various interests is scarcely yet realized even In the trade more directly concerned. Dennis Ryan, the St Paul capitalist. Is one of the men foremost In bringing about the combination, the various Interests of which surround the Lake of the Woods on the Canadian and American shores, and extend for many miles along tho principal streams tributary thereto. The principals In tho affair have personally Inspected the standing timber, the sawmill plants, and the shipping facilities, and at intervals met in Winnipeg to to discuss the situation. Small lumbermen will be frozen out, or practically so, as they will be at the mercy of the stronger concern. ALL LEFT THEIR KEYS. Telegraphers on the Northwestern Road Victims of a Hoax. Misled by a bogus order all the telegraph operators employed by the Chicago and Northwestern Road struck Tuesday morning. The trouble was soon adjusted by Chief Ramsay, of tho Order of Railway Telegraphers, who notified the men that the strike was not authorized by the organization and Instructed them to go back to work. The operators obeyed the countermand. Whore or with whom the bogus order originated is not known. It was over the wires at jO o’clock Monday "nlgnt. Chief Ramsey says ih'eralsno Immediate pfospect of a strike. rarnniitt e aofopi* rators was sent to notify the officers of the railroad company that the order had not called out the men. They believe the order was sent at tho instigation of an enemy of the organization. /<*». -» Cattle-Thieve3 In Jail. James Radcliffe, arrested in Texas, has been lodged in the Belleville, (Ill.) jail, and If the cattle-growers of Texas, representing an aggregate capital of 820,000,000, can accomplish It, Radcliffe, with John Hayes, his partner, who has been in jail for several months, will go to the penitentiary. The case against the two men Is the stealing of ten carloads of cattle from various members of the Cattle-Growers’ Association of Northern Texas, which they sold in East St Louia

Collision of Trains. A bad collision is reported on the Northern Pacific Railroad, near Little Falls, Minn.,‘in which a postal clerk, an engineer, and a fireman lost their lives. Defaulting State Treasurer Pardoned. Governor Jodcs Issued a pardon to Isaac fl. Vincent, the defaulting State Treasurer | of Alabama He had nearly served out his term and Is In bad health. Mexican Counterfeiters Captured. A notorious gang of counterfeiters, who have been carrying on extensive operations in the City of Mexico, have all been captured by the police. Tired Quickly of Single Bliss. James E. Layton was granted a divorce at Goshen, Ind.. and within an hour had taken out a license to wed a pretty girl in the same town. Revolution in Peru. A special cable from Panama says that a revolution has just begun In Peru. Sealers Will Get Damages. At Victoria, B. C., Collector of Customs Milne has been instructed by the Ottawa authorities to pay the owners and masters of sealing schooners, as compensation for prohibition against entering Behring Sea In 1891, the sum of $74,634.

Sugar Bounty Bill Vetoed. Gov. Hogg, of Texas, has vetoed the act known as the sugar bounty bill. The act was Intended to enable the superintendents of Texas penitentiaries to accept from the general government the bounty on sugar raised on convict farms. Aiirald to Stand a Ran. The Citizens’ Bank of Minneapolis suspended payment Wednesday morning. The notice on the door says..the depositors will be paid in fulL The officials declare that the bank Is perfectly solvent and that the suspension is due simply to its inability to realize on its securities. There has been no run on the bank and tbe action was taken to project all depositors alika JMMMPBrobst Shot by a Tramp. Of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, the head while atlemptIpj.tke atrat' Jr a gang of tramps. Seven Of them under arrest Brobst will recover, v

TO PROTECT MISSIONARIES. Presbyterian and Methodist Boards Fear she Effect of Enforcing the Geary Law. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions at Now York has cabled all Chinese missionaries as follows: “Exclusion act constitutional; notify stations.” This stop was taken aftor a consultation of the mission council, In view of possible dangers which might threaten American missionaries now in China in consequence of any retaliation which might he taken by tho Chinese. A letter has also beeu addressed by the board to each of tho missionaries explaining the situation and advising ihem to make no trips into Hie interior of the country without tuk ng proper precaution. Tho board will also send to each missionary an extra remittance to be used in case of emergency. The Methodist Foreign Missionary Society also met and decidf d io make a final appeal to the President and Cabinet against the immediate enforcement of the law and to recommend that a day he set aside as a day of special prayer that tho missionary interests in China might bo saved from disaster. A committee was appointed to confer with similar committees from other missionary societies to “arrange for such public expression on the part of Christian and humane people as is called for.”

VANDALS AT THE FAIR. Captain Roafleld Commissioned to Take tho Mischievous Robbers Dead or Alive. Jackson Park is infested with a mighty horde of petty thieves and mischiefmakers, and for tho first time in the long course of liia detective experience Captain Bonfield, Chief of the Columbian Secret Service, is about to promulgate an order demanding the capture of the offenders, said order to contain the clause, “either allvo or dead.” To that end ho has entered into a conspiracy with a learned scientist to spread a blighting disease by secret infection of tho food eaten by the thieves, to tho end that the World’s Columbian Exposition might bo rid of the army of “crooks” now at work in the great white buildings. All the vandals are old-timers, noted .for (heir persistence and boldness. They are all of English extraction, and while they have flourished for many years in tho big cities of England this is tho first time a detective chief has attempted to affect their capture. The army of toughs has Its representatives and emissaries In almost every urban and rural community in the country, for It Is nothing elso than tho pugnacious English sparrow.

TO STUDY PROHIBITION. A Canadian Commission to Report on Its Workings to Parliament. A commission has arrived in Topeka, Ivan., for tho purp so of examining into tho workings of tho prohibitory law. The commission sont by tho Canadian Government is composed of Judge llerbort K. McDonald, of Brockvllle, Ont.; Rev. Frederick McLeod, of Fredericton, N B.; G. A. Glgault, Minister of Agriculture of Quebec; uud Albert Horton, Secretary and steuo’rapher. L. W. Kribbs, editor of tlio Toronto Empire, is with tho party. The commission, according to a Topeka dispatch, will visit all the larger cities In the State examining the “joints,” “blind tigers’’ and other evasions of the law. and also take testimony showing the merits alleged to follow tho slriet enforcement of the law. Tills commission was appointed as a result of the petition of many thousand people to Parliament asking for the passage of a prohibitory law, and while here the commission will make diligent inquiry with the view of reporting back to Parliament their opinion on the subject

STAND BY THEIR WORD. l’resbyterlam Demand That the World's Fair Be Closed on the Lord's Day. Tho second day's session of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Washington, was opened with devotional exercises conducted by the Rev. Dr. Smith, of Haitimore. The Rev. Mr. McCauley, of Dayton, Ohio, moved a reconsideration of tho vote of the first day on tho World’s Fair Sunday opening for the purposo of offering a substitute for that resolution going more into detail. Reconsideration was refused by an almost unanimous vote, and Mr. McCauley then moved to add the substitute to tho resolution, but the assembly refused to adopt It or to consider it. The resolution adopted the first day, by a rising vote, was a protest against Sunday opening, witli an appeal to tlio National Commission to interpose its negative, and that if need be the Pie3ident exorcise his authority to prevent It. -Lilly «i 1 Many violent deaths. Eighteen Victims to Factory Explosion and S-orms on Lake Erie. Six men killed, one lying at the point of death, three more badly injured and the big plant of the Charles Pope Glucose Company ruined, sum up tho disaster which befell the pretty littlo town of Genova, 111, Wednesday afternoon. The loss of life has been flguroJ up; the Joss in dollars and cents Is estimated by Charles I’opo to be $150,000, probably an excessive estimate. The cause was the explosion of a converter in the glucose factory. From the Conneaut, Ohio, harbor a tug and scow were carried out into the lake, and seven men and two women drowned. At Ashtabula the schooner Pelican foundered, and three of her crew wore drowned.

GOES INTO HYSTERICS IN COURT. Mrs. Busier Calls on Her Dead Husband to Rescue Her. At Guthrie. O. T., at the trial of Mrs. Ivusler, charged with the poisoning of her husband, Mrs. Kusler's mini gavoway. and she fell into a hysterical fit and continued to scream, rave, and struggle for hours. The scene in the court-room was one long to be remembered, as the woman writhed in agony and called upon her dead husband to come to the rescue. Physicians think she will die, and the prosecution has been dismissed. Siamese Attack French Troops. According to the latest advices the situation in the Mekong valley is becoming very grave. A serious conflict has occurred between tbe French Annamito garrison at Khong and the Siamese The French are reported to have been attacked by the Siamese A severe struggle occurred and a considerable number were killed on both sides. Several French officers were wounded, and one French officer. Captain Thoreaux, was captured by the Siamese. The ,Siamese Government repudiates all responsibility for the affair and declares that it has no intention of making war upon France. Tea Met with Death. Ten men are now known to have perished by a fire which destroyed Louis Sand's lumber camp, eight mlle3 northeast of Lake City, Mich., Saturday afternoon. Eight of them were killed by burning timbers while they were in the bottom of a well in which they had taken refuge. Kansas Town In Terror. There is Intense excitement in Cedarvillc, Chautauqua Countv, Kan., owing to the discovery that the Starr gang of desperadoes is camped a few miles south of there. The Starr gang is the remnant of the old Dalton band. A posse of fifty men, well armed, is guarding the town. Convicted of Murder. Jacob Brown, the negro convict who murdered Frank Nackin, foreman of tbe tanning department of tho Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., last August, was convicted of murder in the firs* degree. Pulls the Teeth of His ruplls. One of the school teachers at Windsor, Oat, has been sick and her place was filled by Adolph Girardot, a student of the Detroit college of medicine. Girardot noticed

that two or three of tho children had the toothache. This put a brilliant Idea Into htS'bead. He would relieve the scholars of their bad teeth and at the same time get tho benefit of a clinical experience. Alt hut two or three of tho fifty little boys allowed him to pull any teeth which be thought needed pulling. The teacher in the girls’ room was asked if some of her pupils might have their teeth pulled, and as she made no objection twenty-four little girls added to bis collection of teeth. When Girardot dismissed school for the day and went home he carried 125 teeth rolled up In a newspaper and exhibited lhem to hi 9 friends. Girardot was relieved from teaching the next morning, and a number of the parents of the children threaten to prosecute hlrn. SAGINAW FIRE SWEPT. The Pretty Michigan Town Sustains a Loss of *1,500.000. Saturday afternoon Saginaw, Mich., the metropolis of the Sagiraw valley, was visited by the worst conflagration in her history and one of tho most destructive which ever visited any city in the State. For three long hours the element licked up cottage homes and more elegant residences, lumbor piles and manufacturing plants with equal relish. The loss Is difficult to estimate, but will reach somewhere In the neighborhood of 51,500,000. '1 he extent of territory which was burned is about twenty-five squares, and includes largo portions of the sixth and seventh ward. This territory was swept nearly clean of every building. Besides this Edward German's big factory, employing 300 men, and one or two factories outside of this district were destroyed.

ABANDONED AT SEA. Magnificent's Captain and Crew Rescned After an Exciting Night. Tho steamship Aucblon. from North Sydney, N. S., for Montreal, arrived at Quebec, having on board the captain and crow of tho barque Magnificent, of Liverpool, which was abandoned at sea. The Magnificent encountered very bad weather and the vessel sprang a leak, an accident rendered tho pumps useless and. the crew had to abandon tho vessel. They put to sea in their boats and during the night the wind increased to a gale. On tho next morning, after a night of horror and suspense, the square-rigged ship Ingo, of Norway, bore down and took the men up. They were later put on board the steamship. The Magnificent was a wooden vessel of 1,284 tons, built at Quebec lu 1873. Sho was worth SO,OOO. DIDN’T KNOW SHE WAS FREE. An Aged Missouri Negress Sues for Services for Twenty-four Years. Edio Hlckatn, an aged negress, Is the plaintiff lu perhaps tho most remarkable case ever tried in (lie courts at Boouvllle, Mo. She Is an old ex-slave, and brought suit against her mast?r,.Joseph Hickam, for 85 a month wages as a family domestic for twenty-four years, during which time she claims to have been kept in Ignorance of her emancipation The suit was instituted in 1889 for 81,400, and resulted In a judgment In her favor for S7OO. Tho defendant appealed to tho Kansas City Court of Appoals, which remanded t'ae case to the Circuit Court of Cooper County,’which now renders a decision for the defendant A moticn for a now trial has been lilod. Trade Depressed by Money Uncertainties. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: St cks rally from extreme depression, hut business shows no subst initial improvement. The distribution of products to final consumers is rather less encouraging, though tho weather has been generally moro favorable and at some points helps retail trade. Wholesale buslnes's and speculation show each week more hesitation with regard to tho crops next full, the responsibilities of tariff changes, and money uncertainties. Some lurge failures and many of minor Importance show the effects of Increasing stringency In money markets, and while money Is comparatively easy at Now York the pressure atother points has Increased. Almost everywhere collections are slow, and doubt about tho future affects new undertakings, although the present volume of trade based upon past orders is remarkably large Tho Treasury Is In a stronger position than for some weeks past, hut exports of gold have notably Increased. The extraordinary hank failures In Australia, involving deposits already amounting to more thau $420,000,000, of which over $125,000.000 was due to British depositors, cause much realizing on securities and merchandise. the effects of which are felt in American markets.

The Transfer Made. The final step was taken Wednesday in the proceedings by which the United Stales becomes the owner of the Cherokee strip. Tho number of acres ceded is 0,022,764 and the price to bo paid for tho same $8,595,736; and it i 3 hoped to have everything in readiness for tho President’s proclamation on Sopt. 15. Will Prophesy No More Storms. Professor Wiggins, the Omaha weather prophet, has letirod and will venture no more opinions as to prospective earthquakes, floods or cyclones. One Man Dead, Another Dying. A serious shod! ig affray occurred at Gauley Bridge, W. V., which resulted in the death of one man, and left another dangerously wounded. Killed His Wife’s Traduecr. At 1 leasant Plains, Ark., Prof. H. L. Thorp shot and instantly killed Thomas U. Mason for slandering his wife. Dear Experience. William Patterson, a wealthy farmer of Lima, Ohio, was fleeced of $3,500 by a fanning mill agent.