Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — FOUR MEN ARE HELD [ARTICLE]

FOUR MEN ARE HELD

TO ANSWER FOR THE WORLD’S FAIR HOLOCAUST. i Tryon Assumed the Blame for tlie Victoria Disaster—B7,soo,ooo tost in a London Fire—Flurry In the Wheat Market—Xo Editors' Passes. r - l placing th<g Blame. »- Responsibility for the terriblyJ<?§s of life "at U v tbe Wood’s. Fjii^on in© Afternoon of July in tho belief t®"<s Coroner’s jury, Whicn for six days listened to the testimony at the inquest, rests upon the shoulders of four men. and this quartette is held to await the action of the Grand Jury. Daniel B. Burnham, Director of Works at £he World’s Columbian Exposition; John B. Skinner, President of the Cold Storage Company; Charles A. McDonald. Secretary and Treasurer of the concern; Edward W., Murphy, Chief of tho Columbian Fire Department. Sixteen verdicts cover the list of dead who were either killed or died from in-, juries received at the Are. Ilerq 1* the list: Philip J. Breen, John Cahill, William Henry Denning, Ralph A. Drummond, James Fitzpatrick, Lewis J. Frank, John H. Freeman, James A. Garvey, Norman M. Hartman, John C. Mcßride, Bernhard Murphy, Burton Edgar Page, Charles W. Purvis, John A. Smith, Paul W. F. Schroeider, unidentified man. The verdict, which was agreed upon twenty-soven minutes after the jury was given the case, recites as follows: That (name of victim here inserted) died from injuries and burns received at a fire of the Cold Storage Building at the World's Fair grounds on July IU, IRiW, and we the jury llnd from the evidence presented that Charles A. McDonald, John B. Skinner, Daniel H. Burnham, and Edward W. Murphy he held to the Gland Jury for criminal negligence, and there hold until discharged by due course of law.

MOKE PEOPLE WANTED. World’s Fair Officers Squelch a Plan to Attract More Visitors. How to increase the attendance at the World’s Fair is the problem that is causing a great deal of worry, says a Chicago correspondent There is no use denying that the attendance is a great deal less than it should be; less, in fact, than it was in June. It was proposed that the editors of country newspapers bo invited to visit tbe fair free of expense, and the railroads offered transportation, providing tho Exposition would give freo admission. This tho officials have so far refused to do. “The Fair is advertised enough already." they said, and that settled the country editors’ passes unless they come through Maj. Handy’s Departpartinent of Publicity and Promotion. “Thero are 6,000 editors whom we would have brought here, ” said one of the committee. “We could have bad them all here In a week, and in two weeks they would have been at homo writing tho kind of stuff about this Fair that it needs to brace ■up the crowds. Tho railroads have agreed to do their share; our association will entertain them, and now the World’s Fair falls down on our scheme for the sako of a few thousand passes that would have Brought forty people for every one that was issued. The attendance at the Fair Isn’t more than one-quarter what it ought to be, and we are sat down upon in one of our most sensible efforts to increase It. Wo will bring those editors anyway and ’put up’ for them at tho gates if necessary. ”

WHEAT TAKES A TUMBLE. Hurry In Western Finances One of the Chief Causes. Thero was a great flurry in wheat Tuesday morning on the Board of Trade. London opened from throe to four points ofT, and this caused New York to he very ■weak. Then the unexpected flurry In "Western banks caused a fluctuation on the Chicago Board and wheat "broke from CO conts, Monday night’s close, to 66% cents the first hour Tuesday morning. Tho first drop was to 08% conts and later to 67% cents. Then there was a rise to 67% cents, and the next drop came down to 66% cents. For several days, says our correspondent, tho feeling has been heavy and the pit has been filled with “long” wheat. Still there was a feeling also that the financial stringency would not last long and lhat there would be a general rise in a short time. But when the news of so many failures began to come in from the West, every “long ’’sought cover.

IT WAS TRYON'S FAULT. Last Words of the Admiral to His Flag Lieutenant on the Victoria. In his evidence before the court-martial In the case of the battleship Victoria. Capt Bourke said that he bocarae aware of the danger of a collision almost directly the Victoria began to turn. He did not think that Staff Commander Ilawkins-Fmith had ever been consulted by Vice Admiral Tryon In regard to the maneuvers. Indeed, nobody had been consulted. When Vice Admiral Tryon hoisted his flag on the Victoria, It was customary to use a 30-dogree helm. Vice Admiral Tryon altered this to one of 28 degrees. Lord Gilford, Flag Lieutenant of the Mediterranean Squadron, was the next witness He testified that after tho collision Admiral Tryon said to him: “It was all my fault” Great Fire In London. A warehouse fire in London tho other night burned over an area of over 1,500 yards before the flames were extinguished. Thirty buildings were entirely destroyed. These buildings were occupied by more than twenty-five firms, who dealt in stationery. clothing, tea, wines, furniture. Imported goods, etc. The porters and their families living on the premises had narrow escapes. Many of them rushed to tho street in their night dresses It is expected that the loss will reach £1,500,000. The burned district is but a short distance to the eastward of the Bank of England, the Boyal Exchange, and the Mansion House, the residence of the Lord Mayor.

Leaped to Her Death. Miss Emma Garrett, of Philadelphia, Pa, Who, with her sister, Miss Mary S. Garrett, had charge of the Pennsylvania blind children’s exhibit at the World’s Fair, committed suicide Tuesday evening by leaping from a window in the Briggs House Blood Freely Shed. In a saloon row at the Hunters’ Home, near Whiting and Sheffield, Ind, Tuesday, two men were killed, three men mortally wounded and the other two out of a gang «f seven landed in Jail In Sheffield. Started the Fire with Kerosene. Mra Jane McVery was fatally burned at Fittsburg by an explosion of oil, which she was pouring into the kitchen stove to start a fire. Her 3-year-old child was also terribly burned, but will recover. Two young lady visitors, Emma Dean and Minnie Hamilton, made narrow escapes from the flames. Killed by a Defective Scaffold. By the breaking of a scaffold used in the building of the Garfield Avenue Presbyterian Church at Columbus. Ohio, Thomas Fairchild, Joseph Leopold and William long were precipitated twenty -five feet Fairchild was instantly killed and Leopold jrobably fatally h.Jured.

FIRED ON THE FORTS. French Gnnboats Cross the Bar and Fight Their Way to Bangkok. Bangkok advices are to the effect' that, despite the most pacific assurances from the French minister, who undertook to stop the advance of tho gunboats and to arrange all differences, tho Comte and the Inconstante crossed the bar Thursday evening and exchanged shots with the Pakham forts. The two men-of-war then proceeded to Bangkok and anchored with the gunboat Lutln opposite the British legation. Another dispatch says that twenty Siamese were killed and fourteen wounded during the exchange of fires between the forts at tho mouth of tho Moinam River and the Freuch gunboats Comte and Inconstante. It is not the present intention of the department to dispatch an American war vessel to the scene of war in view of the fact that the American Interests in Siam are insignificant, boing confined to a snityll trade in teak wood. Nevertheless, it lormiaable proportions the Siamese maV make it very unpleasant sot foreign residents, including the few Americans there, as the hostilities are apt to bo characterized on one side by Iho summary proceedings known to semi-barbarous natloni If such a state of affairs obtains, the United States will not be without a vessel in Siamese waters. SESSION MAY BE LONG. - in— > Belief that Congress Will Not Adjourn Until Spring. According to a Washington correspondent, the belief that Congress, upon convening on Aug. 7, will remain in practically continuous session till next summer is becoming general Thero may bo a recess of a few days before the date for boginning tho regular session, hut it will ho only to allow the members to get their second wind after the extra session spurt When the proclamation was first made public nearly every member of . Congress then in Washington predicted that it would not last more than a few weeks. It is clear enough that, oven if the silver law is repealed, it can only bo done after a long and tedious dobato—a debate which will in all probability ran the gamut of financial legislation and tho history of coinage from the time of Adam to that of the international monetery conference of 1892. If tho Sherman law is removed from the statute books by tho time tho regular session begins in December most mbn will consider that the country is playing in great luck. There are more, however, who believe that December will roll around and still see no agreement reached.

TO AMEND THE BANKING LAWS. Comptroller Eckels Will Make Important Recommendations in His Report. A Washington special says that tho comptroller of the currency will, in bis forthcoming report, make a number of recommendations in tho way of amendments to the present national banking laws. The most important of these will bo tho ono authorizing tbe issue of circulation up to tho par value of tho bonds deposited to secure the same. It is probable that he will also recommend tho repeal of tho act which provides for the organization of hanks in small cities on tho deposit of $12,000 United States bonds. Ninety per cent, of the banks which have failed lately, the dispatch says, were of this character, having been established In many instances whore they wore not needed and in others by irresponsible poopla Couldn't Hear the Burden. The National Bunk of Kansas City, Mo., suspended payment Friday afternoon and is now in the hands of tho comptroller of currency. The assets will be between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, and the liabilities, between SBOO,OOO and $1,000,000. Tho depositors will he paid dollar for dollar, tho officials claim. President J. S. Chick said that tho suspension was duo to a steady withdrawal of deposits since tho beginning of the financial stringency which has prevailed throughout the whole nation during the last sow months. “A few minutes before tbe bank closed,” ho said, “there came a demand for $40,000. Wo could not stand another day’s run and so suspended. We had asked tho clearinghouse for help, ancj that fact was telegraphed to creditors and depositors out of town and caused the run to bo heavier. We asked for ample aid from the clearinghouse and received $35,000. The orders for currency came in so heavily that we could not possibly fill them. I expect the Comptroller will placo a hank examiner in charge. ”

A Stitch in Time. Visitors to tho Fair will no longer bo able to promenade on the roofs of Manufactures and Transportation Buildings. The Council of Administration has issued an order stopping the elevators which run to the roofs of the two buildings mentioned and the baiconlos and galleries of Administration Building will also bo closed to the public. This order was made upon a written report from Director of Works Burnham, who informed the council that he thought it unsafe to permit visitors to visit those places as they liavo done heretofore. The fire in the ColdFtorage Warehouse had its influence with Mr. Burnham, but the chief reason was to avoid a panic. The promenade on Manufactures Building is 250 feet high and there is no means of getting down except by the elevators. On one occasion there were 3,000 people on that roof. It took several hours to get them down. In the event of a panic, which would be created by even a slight blaze in the big building, there would be a catastrophe.

Paris Reds Rampant. Friday was tho one hundred and fourth anniversary of the fall of the Bastilo, and the Paris anarchists, ever active, seized the opportunity and on the walls and other places about the city posted revolutionary and Incendiary placards calling the people to arms and revolt. They say that another ’93 is needed to give the people justice. These bloodthirsty evidences that tho dangerous classes are active alarmed no one. but the police were busy all day tearing the obnoxious placards down. The wellknown anarchist resorts were also closely watched.

Eight in One Grave. The funeral of tho unidentified dead from the fire in the World’s Fair cold storage building took place in Chicago Friday morning. There were in all eight bodies, which were placed in one grave. The ceremonies were held at the church by the Rev. Father Hischen, and at Oakwoods, where the Interment took place, the Protestant services for the dead were read. The bodies were buried In a lot given by the Oakwoods Cemetery Association. Base-Ball Record. The standing of the clubs of tho National League is shown by the following table: W. L. ?>c. W. L. so. Pktladelp’ia.43 23 .C 52 Ft. L0uie,...30 35 .462 Bostons. ...42 24 .636 New Yorks .30 36 .455 Plttsbures..Bß 29 .567 Chicagos....29 86 . 446 Clevelands. .54 26 .(67 Baltlmoree.,2B 36 .438 8r00k1yn5...35 30 .538 Washl’gt’ns.2S 40 .403 Gtacinnatls.32 34 .485 Louisvllleß..lß 37 .327

Bad Charge for the Girls. Misses Arwlld and Florence Van Drubb were arrested at Alliance, Ohio, charged with stealing SIOO from a house where they were employed as seamstresses. Two Miners Killed. An explosion of gas in the Pettlbone mine at Kingston, Pa, killed Robert Hughes and George Kestner and injured four ethers. Heroes’ Day at the Fair. Flags drooped at half-mast Sunday at Jackson Park. Above white domes and gilded spires the gay banners of twenty nations hung listlessly about their staffs

Over the serene, triumphant beauty of the city lay a somber pall Inside the wide gates of the main entrance at Sixtyfourth street stood a black, sodden heap of embers. Silently, solemnly, it told a story which came near to the heart of each one who entered. Even outside the walls the spell had fallen. Blatant, shrill-voiced men crying their shoddy wares had lost something of their usual vigor. Their cries were less sibilant, their importunities less insistent. It was Heroes’ day, and the last open Sunday of the World’s Fair. Brave men who had met awful death in the line of duty had been laid to rest. To their memory the day was sacred. For the reliel and support oj those left bejjjpd the people met. The’ day, was extremely warm up to noon, when a drenching rain fell, and then the sun shone with intense heat Because of these unfavorable conditions the crowd was not as large as was expected, but it is believed the amount realized for the families of tho dead flropiea from the World’s Fair will eSceod $50,000, "J". ..

* SWINDLERS CAPTURED, Obtained Merchandise Without Paying for It and Broke Invoice Laws. At Hartshorne, L T., United States Postoffice Inspector 51 C. Spooner and W. C. Houko effected an important arrest under the charge of fraudulent usos of tie mails, They will turn over to the Federal Court at Fort Smith Elliot Johnson, J. ,0. Johnson, W. It Johnson, and Hales Johnson, a father and three sons, who have for several months styled themselves the Johnson Trading Company. Colonel Spooner, who has been at work upon the case for some timo, states their plan of operation was to obtain merchandise wherever possible without payment in advance, convert the goods into cash without regard to invoiced cost and neglect to pay for them. They maintained no place of business, disposing of tbelr goods to tho Indians Kansas City, Bt. Louis, and Chicago houses are their principal victims, to what extent is not known. Complaints other than that of the postoffice department will be filed against them.

JUMP TO THEIR DEATH. Burglars Vault a Fence to Avoid Pursuers and Fall Down a Cliff. The little town of Westfield, N. Y., was rulded \>y two desperate burglars. After they had robbed a number of small stores they were discovered In C. J. Bannister’s grocery. They were headed off from escape by the night watchmen from tlio rear and jumped through tho glass front. Thoy ran toward Chautauqua creek, and, evidently believing they were to secure the seclusion of a grove, vaulted a low fence. Instead of lighting in a grove they were precipitated to a hod of rocks iu the creek, fifty feet below. Their dead bodies were found In the morning. One of the men bad hls back broken and his skull crushed. A notebook in his pocket contained tho name “Thomas Fitzgerald. Sandusky, Ohio.” His pockets wero filled with razors, knives and cigars.

Low Rates n Winner. The first fair test of tho drawing power of excursion rate 3 to the World’s Fair from long distance points occurred Wednesday. The Erie ran an excursion from Ohio points, all of them over 300 miles from Chicago, and 277 excursionists took advantage of tho rate. Needless to say, the excursion was extremely satisfactory to tho Erie, for it netted about 83 per train mile. Any Chicago railroad which averages 81 per train mile is making monoy. It is only tho rare exception which approaches tho S 3 mark. Antioch College Teachers Resign. Thero is trouble at Antioch College, the famous institution twelvo miles west of Springfield, Ohio, founded by Horace Slann tor the coeducation of the sexes. Three of the prohiinent professors have resigned wttltin the last few weeks—J. R. Hammond, Eddyton, N. Y., professor of Greek; G C,„ Wilcox, Lundburg, professor of chemistry; and Mrs. Ella S. Sholdon, Sparta, Ohio, professor of German. It is claimed a difference of opinion regarding the government of tho institution is the cause.

Money Markets Less Stringent. R. G. Dun & Co’s Weokly Review of Trade says: There is a somewhat better tone in business because money markets ure a little loss stringont. But it cannot be said as yet that there is any distinct improvement. In every direction unusual. conservatism prtvuils, orders tiro relatively small, the volume of business is restricted, and a waiting policy rules. Her Husband Stole the Babe Away. While walking in Goodaie Park, Columbus, Ohio, wheeling her six-months-qld baby, Mrs. Edward ReeSo was astonished to meet her husband with a woman on his arm. She upbraided him, whereupon he soized the baby from tho carriage and ran uwuywith it. She appealed to the police to help her find tho child. Will Have Cavalry. Kansas' Stato Military Board has authorized Adjutant General Artz to organize and equip two companies of cavalry. One of these will be stationed at Vassar and the other at Moridan, both within easy call of Topeka. l’oplar Men's Popular Action. Tho National Poplar Manufacturers’ Association. in session at Louisville, decided not to increase the price of poplar lumber. Canal Work Stopped. The Nicaragua Canal Construction Company is out of funds and has stopped all work. Lynched for Assault. Robert Larkin, colored, was lynched at Ocala, Fla., for criminal assault.