Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Page 2

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OVER A SCORE LOST.

LAKE SEAMEN FIND A WATERY GRAVE. Idepublicang Generally Successful In tht Elections—Election Riots In New Jersey— San Francisco Booming Her Midwinter Fair—Earthquakes In the Sonth. Frightful Lake Fatality. The steamer Albany, of the Western Transit Company, and the steamer Pbiladelphia. of the Anchor Line, collided on Lake Huron, off Point Aux Barques, at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning, in a dense fog. The Albany was taken in tow by the Philadelphia, but sunk in halt an hour, her crew going on board the Anchor liner. Shortly afterward the Philadelphia went down in 200 feet of water. The crews took to two lifeboats. One had twentythree persons on board and reached the shore in safety. The other boat contained twenty-four people. It was capsized and all on board were lost. The aggregate money loss Is over $300,000. The Albany was bound from Chicago to Buffalo and the Philadelphia from Erie to Duluth. Both were running under check on account of the dense fog hanging on the water. Fog signals were being exchanged regularly with their whistles as the steamers felt their way through the fog banks. Further than this, both captains declined to make any statement as to the course of the two vessels. In this they are sustained by the imperative rules of their companies and they have so far prevented their crews from making any statement. It Is expected that the inquest will bring out some of the circumstances Immediately preceding the crash. MIDWINTER FAIR. Buildings at San Francisco in a State of Forwardness. The progress thus far made by contractors on several of the main buildings of the Midwinter Fair at San Francisco Is highly satisfactory. The brick work of the Art Building is all completed. The iron roof girders are on the premises, and even If rain does set In there will he little or no delay In the work. Mechanic Arts Building may be said to be practically under roof, with only the glass for skylights to be put la, and this will be done in a few days. The roof of Horticultural Building will be of tin, painted to resemble tiles, and, as can readily be understood, It will not take long to put this in place. Another week of good weather will put Manufactures Building under cover, so there need be no fear that buildings will not be ready in time. The most notable progress made during the past week has beqp In connection with Administration Building, which has risen two stories in height during eight daya Various concessionaires are also making rapid progress on their buildings. BULLETS FOR VOTERS. Bisgraceful Election Riot at Camden New Jersey. The election for city and legislative officials at Camden, N. J., resulted in a riot, 'during which a mob of toughs collided iwlth the police As a result several persons, eight of whom are in the hospital, were shot and In two or three Instances dangerously wounded. The trouble broke out in the Fifth Ward and later In the Sixth and Ninth Wards. It was precipitated in every Instance by the special police attempting to prevent Deputy Sheriffs of tho opposing party from watching the polls and challenging votes Several deputies were arrested by the special police officers, and during a tight in the Ninth Ward a number of deputies were wounded. At noon appeals w ere made to Sheriff West to place the military in readiness, as a general riot was feared. At Gravesend, N. T, a suburb of Brooklyn, there was also a fierce fight at the polls, in which pollwatchers were assaulted and very badly used.

SHAKING UP MEXICO. Repeated Earthquakes and Colima Volcano In Violent Eruption. Severe earthquake shocks have occurred near Guadalajara, Mexico, during the past ten days, and there Is much excitement among the people. The Colima volcano Is In a violent state of eruption, and the people living In the Talley at the base of the mountain have left their homes In search of a place of safety. At the town of America t the first severe shock of earthquake did great damage to property and several persons were wounded by falling houses. The first disturbance was felt In the States of Oaxaca, Pueblo, Guerrero, Morelos, and Jalisco. ALL WENT ONE WAV. lowa, Massachusetts, and New York Lost to the Democrats. Latest returns from the elections Indicate that Jackson defeats Boies in lowa, McKinley defeats Neal in Ohio, Bussell loses to Greenhalge in Massachusetts, and the Republican ticket is umiformly successful in New York. Chicago elections also return Republican candidates with possibly one exception. South Dakota elects several Republican judges. A general feature was the lightness of the vote. Four Millions In Gold. The New York Subtreasury Monday shipped to the mint at Philadelphia $4,000,000 in gold bullion, which will be coined into eagles and half-eagles. The shipment was the balance of $10,000,000 ordered sent some time aga Six millions was sent two weeks ago Ihe bullion was packed in Boxes of various sizes, one of the packages weighing 450 pounds. The usual precautions—the presence of men armed with Winchesters—were taken, but the bullion was so heavy that very few men were required to guard it Slaughtering the Seals. According to a Victoria, B. G, dispatch, the statement of the North Pacific sealing catch, placing the total at 120,241, is not complete. Instead of 2,746 skins, San Francisco schooners took 20,000 skins, but landed nearly all at Hakodate and Yokohama. The exact figures are not known. Burned by Gas. , One person met death and two others were Badly burned by a gas explosion two miles south of St Mary’s, O. The accident happened on a lease of the Manhattan 0.l Company. Mrs. Cleveland Appears In Public. / President Cleveland accompan* ' by lira Cleveland and Secretary and M.„. Lament, occupied one of the proscenium boxes at the Academy of Music at Washington. to witness the presentation of “Borneo and Juliet” by MlsaJulia Marlowe and her company. ' Looked Up Children Burned to Death. Near Kennedy. Ala., Henry Weir and wl 1» locked their house, leaving four children inside, and started for the field to work. In some unknown manner the bouse caught fire, and three of the children were burned to death. The oldest succeeded in

THROUGH AN OPEN DRAW. Twenty-five Persons Drowned in a StreetCar Accident. At Portland, Ora, an electric car on the Oregon City Electric line containing seven passengers went through an open drawbridge at Madison street, falling into the cold rushing waters of the Willamette Kiver. They were held there, helpless, until; dftqjji suffocated them. They were all workingmen and worklngwomen on their way to their daily toil. The usual deuse and dripping fog covered the face of nature. The driver of the car, which was propelled by electricity, made all speed to reach the destination, and so certain was he that no vessels would be passing up and down the river In that atmosphere, and that consequently the drawbridge would not be open, that he did not put on the brakes as he approached the entrance. But vessels were moving on the river and the bridge was open. The shivering passengers, held like rats in a trap, were startled by a terrific jar. They beard a loud cry from tho motorman as he Jumped, felt the car falling and turning through space and then the impact of the water, and they knew that the river was flowing in upon them. That was the last sensation they experienced. AFTER UNCLE SAM’S SHIPS. Pelxoto’s Agents Want the Montgomery. Machlas, and Marblehead. The New York Times says: “It is learned that negotiations are In active progress for the acquisition by the Brazilian Government of the new warships Montgomery, Machlas, and Marblehead, which were built for tho United States navy. Two of these ships aro still In the hands of the builders. 'J he Machlas Is the only one of the three In commission, and the purchase of these ships could not be well Interfered with by the United States navy department The final acceptance of the three warships by the United States Government Is not deemed In the contracts mandatory until after the completion of the final forty-eight hours’ trial.” 'J he Herald’s Rio correspondent says: “The siege has been declared prolonged until Nov. 30 and may be continued beyond that.” Tho Herald also says the Brazilian Government has purchased for $225,000 the magnificent steamer Britannia, now at Boston, for her navy. Tho Brltanula will be fitted up as a cruiser. STOLE OVER" A MILLION. Embezzler Weeks Safely Landed on American Soil. Francis 11. Weeks, the New York embezzler. whose defalcation, flight, and battle against extradition have so excited public interest, arrived In New Orleans Wednesday morning on the steamer Foxhall from Costa Rica. The steamer’s arrival had been expected all day and night, and there were many people at tho wharf to get a view of the prisoner, but a large force of police prevented every one froip boarding the ship. Even the crew when disembarking wore submitted to a rigid examination and were compelled to prove Identity In order to avoid the possibility of Weeks' escape. Weeks’gigantic stealings place him with John G Eno aud E W. Harper among the big embezzlers of the tlmo. The embezzlements charged to Weeks aggregate $1,300,COO. Ho was arrested In San Jose Sept 14,, and the legal process necessary to get him! back to tho United States has been In operation ever since. STEAMSHIP BURNED. City of Alexandria, of the Ward Line, Destroyed—Many Lives Lost. Tho iron screw steamship City of Alexandria, belonging to the Ward Line Steamship Company, was burned off Cojlmar wnlle returning from Matanzas for Havana to load for New York. 'J he steamship carried a crew of sixty men, but no passengers. All but twenty-five members of the crow perished. The ship carried a valuable cargo. The City of-Alexandria was one of the fastest and largest of tho American ships employed In the West India trada She was an Iron screw steamship of 2,480 tons burden and was built in 1870 by John Roach & Sons, of Chester, Pa. She was 307 feet long. 38 feet 5 Inches beam and 20 feet 3 Inches depth of hold. CAPTURED BY TRAMPS. Trainmen Bound and Cars Broken Into, But Officers Arrive and Save Contents. A dozen tramps boarded a special freight train as It left the Lake Shore yards In Cleveland about midnight the other night and commenced to set the brakes When the conductor and brakemen appeared they were seized and bound. The engineer, comprehending the situation, uncoupled his engine, ran to a switch and backed Into the yards for help. A squad of officers wore loaded on the engine and sent back to tho train. On their appearance the tramps fled. Several cars filled with valuable merchandise had been broken lntb, but the thieves were unable to make away with their plunder.

Train Robbery Foiled. Attempt was made to rob the through night express train leaving Knoxville, Tenn., at 8 p m. on Friday for Louisville, over the Knoxville and Ohio Railroad. The train stopped at a water tank near Coal Creek, and two men boarded the express car. They had no sooner entered the car than several men Inside opened fire on them. One of the men, who has since been Identified as James Emlth, of Knoxville, was shot through the body and mortally wounded. The other, whose name has not been learned, was captured without Injury. There was less than SIOO In the express car safe. The Southern Express Company had been aware of a conspiracy to hold up the train for several days, and from four to sep armed men had been sent out on the express car for three nights. Sensation for Des Moines. The assignment of James G Savery, of 30 Slate street. New York, on behalf of himself and the American Emigrant Company, of New York, formerly of Hartford, Conn., of which ho Is sole proprietor, became known at Des Moines Wednesday, but accurate details are not obtainable. The papers were filed In the County Recorder’s office after the close of business. W. '\v. Wltmer, of Des Mcilnes, the chief owner of the Savery Hotel and president of the New England Loan and Trust Company, Is named as assignee. No schedule of liabilities was filed, but they are estimated at $350,000. The assets, said to amount to thd same, are scheduled but not valued, and are described rather vaguely. A Fearful Missile. A boiler in the stables of the dry dock of the East Broadway and the Battery Surfaces Railroad Company at 14th street and avenue B, New York, exploded Thursday and tore up the building, causing death and destruction. The section of iths building la which the boID’ er i was collapsed. The boiler flew across the sirset and struck the double tenement, 534 East Fourteenth street, just below the first story. The side of the building was crushed In. Three men were Instantly killed and nearly a score were injured, several of whom died later. 1 Earth's ToU Ended. Sad tidings came to Chicago from Pasadena, CaL, Thursday of the death of Jas. W. Scoville, President of the Prairie State National Bank Not only as a hanker was Mr. Scoville known to the residents of Chicago and vicinity, but as a business man of unusual talents and far-sightedness. His most intimate business friends and those who knqw him best loved to call him the “romantically honest banker. 1 ' H, Four Britain* Killed. A dispatch was received by Secretary Herbert from Captain EL F. Picking, ermmanfling the Charleston, the senior officer

, I of our fleet at Rio, itatlng that Baturdaj an explosion had occurred at Mello’s magazine, and that a large quantity ol gunpowder had been destroyed. Tht loss of this magazine may be a serious blow to Mello, as it is believed his entlrt supply of powder, except what be had In his ship’s magazine, was stored away ot the Island. The Island upon which tht magazine was situated Is in the hands ol Mello, and lies Just above thecity. It it probable ho seized it soon after the navy revolted and erected a magazine there tc hold this powder. Two British naval officers, a boatswain, and one seaman wert killed. They were on the island short taking sand for holystoning decks and cleaning up the ships when the explosion occurred. TUANKSGB ING PROCLAMATION. Nov. 30 Set Apart as a Day of Prayer and Gratitude. The President has issued the following Thanksgiving-day proclamation: By the President of the United States of America—A proclamation: While the American people should every daj remember, by praise and thanksgiving, the divine goodness and mercy which have followed them since their beginning as a nation, it it fitting that one day in each year should be especially devoted to the contemplation of th< blessings we have received from the hand ol God, and to the grateful acknowledgment o! his loving kindness. Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President oi the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 3utli day of the present month of November, as a day of thanksgivinf and praise, to be kept and observed by all th< people of our land On that day let us foregc our ordinary work and employments and assemble in our usual places of worship, when we may recall all that God has done for us anc where, from grateful hearts, our united tribute of praise and song may reach the Thront of Grace. Let the reunion of kindred and th< social meeting of friends lend cheer and enjoyment to the day and the generous gifts oi charity for the relief of the poor and ncedj prove the sincerity of our thanksgiving. Witness my hand and the seal of the Unitec States I have caused to be hereto affixed. Done at the city of Washington on the thirc day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety-three and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighteenth. Grover Cleveland. By the President: Walter Q. Gresham; Secretary of Slat . BENEFIT OF REPEAL. R. G. Dun’s Weekly Review Tells of Goou Results. li. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review ol Trade says: The repeal of the silver purchase act does good already. The business world In every part of the country reckons It helpful, aud the tone of tho trade Is more confident It Is hardly time as yet for the effects to be felt to any great extent In manufactures, but bankers aro more liberal In accommodations and merchants more hopeful in purchases. It 19 well to remember that tho act will do less good than If It had been passed early In the spring or without delay after Congress assembled. It cannot now prevent several thousand failures which have already occurred, nor relievo creditors from resulting embarrassments. It cannot now save from loss a multitude of manufacturing establishments which have closed because the future seemed uncertain. It will go far to restore business confidence which was much needed, but many may expect from tho measure larger results than can at this late day be realized. WITHOUT NATURAL GAS. Upper Sandusky Cnt Off by the Company It Aided with Money. , Tho Buckeyo Natural Gas and Oil Com'pany, composed of New York capitalists, and supplying Upper Sandusky, Ohio, with natural gas obtained from Hancock and Wyandot counties gas wells, has shut the city off from Its line, und given as a reason therefor that It had not gas enough. This Is the first town In Northwestern Ohio t obe thrown entirely back on wood and coal, and the action is an inconvenience to tho people who have become so much attached to natural gn9. With a debt of more than SBO,OOO incurred through going Into the natural gas business, the blow falls especially hard on the city, and those who pushed the city Into the scheme are now looking for a hole to crawl Into themselves

WRECK OF A CITY. 4 Spanish Town Almost Wiped Off the Earth. While the ship Volos was lying at the wharf at Santander, Spain, Friday evening, she caught fire. Her cargo contained many barrels of petroleum and her captain said only twenty casos of dynamite. The crewsof many vessels near by rallied to subdue the flames, and the city fire department, headed by the governor of the province, was hard at work watched by thousands of cltlzons, when suddenly there was a stupendous roar and crash, caused by the explosion of the dynamite, and the next instant bait the city was In ruins Aid flames, hundreds of people were killed, and many scores since have become insane from terror. Reserved for Broken-Down Officers. Secretary Lament has decided that the places on the limited retired list shall be kept, so far as possible, for officers who have have been physically disqualified for active service. These vacancies are created by the transfers to the unlimited retired list of the officers who have attained tho age of 64, and there are at no time more than half a dozen places on the limited list Pleaded Not Guilty. Frederick T. Day, President of the broken Planklnton Bank, at Milwaukee, appeared In court and pleaded not guilty to some new Indictments found against him In connection with the falluro. He was released In SI,OOO bonds. Bribery Law Constitutional. In a test case, involving a lino of S3OO on Peter W. Shoouover, who was candidate for Clerk of Warren County, the Indiana Supreme Court holds the election bribery law constitutional.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO, Cattle—Common to Prime.... 13 50 at COO Hoos—Shipping Grades iOO @ 6 75 SHEEP-Fair to Choice 2 2> @ 4 00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 62 @ 63 Cor*—No. 2 3SU@ 30 Oats—No, 2 29 @ 31 Rye—No. 2 48 @ 60 Butter—Choice Creamery 27}£@ 28>4 Eggs—Fresh 20 @ 21 Potatoes—Per bu 55 <3 65 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 300 & s 25 Hoos—Choice Light 400 (@625 Sheep—Common to Prime 2 00 @ 3 00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 <@ 68 Corn—No. 2 White 37 i@ 33 Oats—No. 2 White 29>a@ bop, ST. LOUIS. Cattle 300 @ 5 so Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ 60 Corn—No. 2 30 @ 37 Oats—No. 2.... 26 @ 27 Barley—Minnesota 60 @ 61 „ CINCINNATI. Cattle 3 00 . @ 5 01 Hogs 301 @6.5 Bhkep 200 @ 3 ,5 Wheat—No. 2 Red 69 @ 60 Corn—No. 2 3754,0: sß}4 Oats —No. 2 Mixed 29 @ 31 Rye—No. 2. 49 o si DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 76 Hogs 3 00 @ 6 00 Sheep..... 300 @ 3 to Wheat—No. 2 Red Corn—No. 2 Yellow aspj@ so*? Oats-No. 2 White 31 @ 32 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 63 @ C 4 Corn—No. 2 Ye110w....; 39 @ 41 Oats—No 2 White 29 @ 31 Rie—No. 2 48 @ 49 „ BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 68 ® 69 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 43 @ 44 Oats—No. 2 White 34 @ 3.1 Rye—No. 2. 62 @ 51 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 69 @ 60 Cohn—No. 3 37 g* 33 Oats—No. 2 White 29 @ 31 Rye—No. 1 48 @ 49 Barley—No. 2 63 @ 66 POBX—New Mess 15 75 mu 25 _ NEW YORK. J. 300 @6 25 Wheat-No. 1 Red- 68 @ 69 Corn—No. 2 47 /a 40 Western.....::::: 36 @ 37 Butter—Creamery 29 @ 30 Pobi—New Mess 19 00 #2O 00

BLOWN INTO THE SEA.

AWFUL EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE ON A VESSEL. The Spanish Town of Santander Wrecked by the Disaster and Over 800 Persons Killed—Ship Carried Contraband Explosives—Murderer Stone Sentenced. Hundreds Are Dead. Dispatches from Santander confirm the report of the terrible disaster which wrecked the port, destroyed hundreds of lives, and sent a thrill of horror throughout the whole of Spain. The vessel which was blown up was the Cabo Machicaco. She was discharging 2,000 tons of iron and many barrels of petroleum and flour and several wine casks. Tho Captain had declared only twenty cases of dynamite, otherwise he had not been allowed to use the dock. Tho fire started at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in the coalbunkers. The customs officers and police hastened to remove the twenty cases of dynamite, which soon were landed at a safe distance from the vessel. A tug was then chartered to tow the Cabo Machicaco seaward. Meanwhile desperate efforts had been made to quench the flames. The captain and crew of the steamer Alfonzo XII. boarded the burning vessel to help fight the flames. They worked for an hour and a half without success. At the end of that time the fire reached the petroleum. Then came a series of awful explosions as the flames went from barrel to barrel of petroleum until they reached the contraband dynamite. The tug had just been moored alongside the vessel and many townspeople had gone aboard either to satisfy their curiosity or to help to extinguish the fire. Then came the explosion of the dynamite. All on board the Cabo Machicaco and many on the dock were blown to atoms. The tug vanished. The quay, with its enormous crowd of spectators, rose slowly in the air. The people were scattered in every direction, into the sea, upon the land. Firebrands fell in showers over sea and land for a radius of a mile and a half. The Cabo Machieaco’s anchor was hurled 800 yards and fell on the balcony of a house, which it completely wrecked. Houses rocked on their foundations and more than a hundrdd were set on fire by falling-firebrands. Tho destruction in the harbor was equally appalling. The launch of the steamer Alphonzo XII. was lying alongside, and contained all tho crew not aboard the Machicaco. It vanished with tho others. The survivors ashore fled shrieking, leaving the promenade adjoining the quay tt-ewn with dead and dying and mangled remnants of human bodies. Wherever the terrified fugitives turned they met only frightful destruction. Horror was added to horror in the wrecked and burning buildings, from which came piteous cries for help. Many of the fugitives were thrown down and trampled upon. Numbers are said to have lost their reason. The people were too panic-stricken to think of anything but saving their own or their relatives’ lives, and ignored their burning property. When at last a few persons with some presence of mind collected, it was at once resolved to telegraph an appeal for help to the Government and to the municipal authorities of other cities. F.very available surgeon was summoned to the scene. When night fell the sky luridly reflected the fires burning fiercely in various parts of the city. The fire went on unchecked throughout tho night. Block after block were in ruins. The people were terror-strick-en. Thousands abandoned their homes and fled to the fielda or outlying villages. Others remained to search frantically among the heaps of ruins and half-bared bodies for their lost friends or relatives

Santander was lately among the most prosperous towns in Spain, but it will* take years to repair the disaster which has overtaken it. The whole country is indignant at the criminal conduct of the captain and crew of the Cabo Machicaco, as well as the criminality of those who shipped the contraband 480 cases of dynamite, the general opinion being that tho government must take immediate steps to punish the shippers. The death of the captain and crew of tho dynamite steamer is hut poor compensation to the thousand victims. The explosion of the dynamite lifted the sea up into the air like a water spout, mingling enormous quantities of mud and stones with tho wreckage and hurling them for a great distance on every side. Reports differ as to the number killed. The most conservative estimate places the number at 500 wTiile others say that fully 1,000 have been killed and injured. The disaster is one of the most appalling that has occurred in Europe in a generation. '

ISSUE A SILVER ADDRESS.

Populist Congressmen Urge the Public to Study the Financial Question. The Populist members of Congress, including Senators and members of the House, have issued an address appealing to the people to take up the silver cause. The address begins with a statement of the aggregate debts of the world and of the gold and silver in existence, calls attention to the fact that the arts require almost the total gold production, and says the decreaso of the volume of this metal caused by hoarding has caused its raise in value 40 or 50 per cent. The address continues: “The repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act destroys silver as money of ultimate redemption, and reduces that metal to credit money to float only by redemption in gold. The $1,100,000,000 of paper and silver now in circulation must rest upon less than $100,000,000 of gold in the treasury as available for redemption. The only reason for demonetizing silver was to enhance the value of gold and obligations payable in money. It is further proposed to sell bonds of the United States and buy gold to strengthen the reserves in the treasury. National banks will use the bonds for hanking and issue their notes, upon which the people must pay interest as well as on the bonds.” The document ends with an appeal to the people to study the question. Gen. A. J. Warner, President of tho American Bimetallic League, also issued an address.

ALMOST FOUND SAFETY.

Nine Men Drowsed In New York Bay Within 400 Feet of Shore. Nine lives were lost by the capsizing of a yawl in the lower bay of New York. Twenty-two mechanics and laborers employed by the contractors who are working cn the new buildings on Hoffman island embarked in a thir-ty-foot yawl shortly after noon to return to their homes. The sea in the bay was running very high, but the yawl, with a doub’e-reefed sail, successfully battled with the waves until within 400 feet of the long dock at South Beach, where the men were to disembark. The sail had just been lowered when a sudden squall struck the boat. By quick work the yawl was kept from overturning, but the sea

washed completely over the craft «eveveral times. For a few minutes they were successful in keeping the yawl afloat, but a large wave struck the boat and filled her completely. The yawl sank, leaving the twenty-two men struggling in the watdr. The catastrophe was witnessed by people on the shore at South Beach. Small boats were hurriedly manned and sent out to rescue the workmen. Almost at the same time a naphtha launch was sent out from Hoffman Island on the same mission. Before the rescuers could reach the spot where the men were struggling in the water nine of the men had gone down for the last time. The other men were picked up by the small boats and the launch and were landed at South Beach.

STONE SENTENCED TO HANG.

Pleaded Guilty, and the Jury In a Short Time Rendered a Verdict. James E. Stone, the confessed murderer of th® Wrattan family, was brought into court at Washington, Ind.,

JAMBS[?]E STONE.

swered in a low murmuring voice that could scarcely be heard: “I am guilty.” He was asked a few questions to determine whether he was sane. He answered in an intelligent and unconcerned manner. His wife, Cecelia, was examined and she stated that he fell on some ice last winter and hurt his head and at some periods he seemed slightly off, but that he had been in his right mind the last three months. Neither the State nor the defense argued the case, and after Judge Hefron had carefully

instructed the jury they were given the case at 10:42. At 11:00 the jury returned and handed the follow- 1 ing verdict to the Judge: “We. the jury, find t\i.e de-( fondant guilty of murder in the*first degree and assess

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as his punishment that he shall suffer death.” Judge Hefron sentenced Stone to be hanged at Jeffersonville Feb. 16, 1894. Stone said to the Court that he guessed the jury did about as well as he expected. As he parted from his wife and children he besought them to promise to meet him in heaven. The persons implicated by Stone's confessions were released on their own recognizances to appear at the January term of court. Nearly every circumstance strengthens the belief that Stone proceeded to the Wratten hom 3 unaccompanied by any one and alone slew the entire family. There is no positive proof that was the motive, although this theory was advanced by the knowledge that the woman had considerable

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money hid away in her house. Over S6OO in coin was in plain view of the murderer and could easily have been secured.

DERAILED BY DESIGN.

Illinois Central New Orleans Limited Wrecked at Ullin. Train robbers wrecked the Chicago and New Orleans limited express on the Illinois Central Koud at 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning near Ullin, a little station about 325 miles south of Chicago and twenty miles north of Cairo. A stolen signal lamp and opened switch throw the train from the main track upon a “spur" or siding open at the end. Engine, tender and baggage car were overturned, while three coaches and the first truck of the head sleeper were derailed. Fireman Harmon jumped from the cab just as the engine btruck the switch, but was caught by the falling tender and crushed to death. Two tramps, one a negro, who were stealing a ride in front of the “blind baggage,” were buried boneath the falling car and- killed. Their names are unknown. Just after the shock passengers and trainmen heard shots fired at a short distance from the train. The remains of Fireman Harmon were taken from under the wrecked tank and removed to Ullin. He leaves a wife and two children, who reside at that place. The wrecked train carried- one of the heaviest and most important express details on the road. A reward of SI,OOO has been offered for the arrest and conviction or information leading to the capture of the person or persons who opened the switch.

Four Lynched by a Mob.

On the farm of Jack Daniels, near Lynchburg, Tenn., Ned Waggoner, his son Will and daughter Mary, and his son-in-law Motiow, were found hanging to one tree. All are colored and the only cause at present assigned for their fate is that they were implicated in the numerous barn burnings which have taken place in Moore and Lincoln Counties recently. There is no clew to the lynchers.

Telegraphic Clicks.

The Red River steamer Satterlee struck a snag and sunk. Five business houses burned at Kyle, Texas. Loss, $30,000. The Senate passed the New York and New Jersey bridge bill. H. L. Hosmer, ex-Chief Justice of Montana, died at San Francisco. Mrs. Ferdinand Heim, wife of the St. Louis brewer, fell dead while laughing. J. E. Bueckling, a St. Paul school teacher, committed suicide bv drowning. The Moss Rose saloon burned at Dallas, Tex., and two farmers perished in the fire. E. H. Palmer, a leading lawyer of Vermillion, 0., was run over and killed by a train. Canada has decided to not take part in the midwint3r exhibition at San Francisco. Up to date there have been 150 cases .of small-pox in Muncie, Ind., and twen-ty-one deaths. The lumber mill and yards of Fox <& Windom, at Binckley, Minn., burned. Loss, $250,000. The Illinois screen law relating to saloons has been declared invalid by the Supreme Court.

WORK OF THE SESSION

SEVENTEEN BILLS, SIXTEEN JOINT RESOLUTIONS. Summary of the Doings of the National LegUlatnre—Pew Result* for So Long a Term—Matters Which WIU Confront the Regular Session. What They Did. At the extraordinary closed Friday, sixteen joint resolutions and seventeen bills became laws. Three of these joint resolutions were signed Friday and nine of the bills. The last proposition to become law was the joint resolution amending the act approved April 25, 1890, relating to the admission of articles intended for the World’s Columbian Exnosition. Other bills signed were as follows: Transferring the model battleship Illinois to the State of Illinois as a naval armory: donating abandoned cannon to the G. A. R. at Pittsburg, Pa.; act amending the Geary Chinese law; to regulate terms of the United States Circuit and District Courts In the State of South Dakota; increasing the number of officers of the army and navy to be detailed to colleges: to regulate the fees of the clerk of the United States Court for the Indian Territory; amending an act to provide for holding terms of United States Court in Idaho and Wyoming: amending section 212* of Revised Statutes relating to mining claims; providing for the construction of steam reve-nue-cutter for service on the great lakes: and an act in regard to the World's Fair PrizeWinners’ Exposition to be held at New York City. Additional important bills which were signed by the President during the extra session included the famous silver bill repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. Also the following: Authorizing acknowledgment to the various foreign governments who participated in the commemoration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: for the reporting, marking, and removal of derelicts; act in ai t of the California Midwinter International ExSosltion; act to extend the time for completlg the work of the eleventh census; act amending the act to repeal timber culture laws; several bills relating to the Cherokee outlet, and a bill to settle the Mormon Church fund. One of the first measures presented to the next House will emanate from Congressmrn McGann’s Committee on Labor. It will be a favorable report on a resolution of inquiry as to the comparative effect on labor and cost to consumers of labor-saving machinery. “The resolution of inquiry,” said Congressman McGann, “was not prompted by any spirit of criticism, but was set on foot to secure information on a point that is becoming of vital interest to all classes of people, including employer and employe. ” It is the intention cf the majority of the Ways and Means Committee to submit the r.ew tariff bill as soon as it it is completed to the Republicans, who will bo given ten days to consider it. and frame a minority report. The bill will probably be ready by Dec. 1, ju?t before the opening of Congress in regular session. By reason of a joint resolution passed by both houses to have all enrolled and engrossed bills printed it is probable that a printing office will be established at the Capitol. It is thought by having the bills printed many errors can be avoided. The New York and New Jersey bridge bill will not be' passed until the next session of Congress. It is now in conference. Routine Proceedings. The House Thursday passed World’s Fair prize winners' exposition to be held In New York City from Nov. 24 to Jan. 15. The Senate passed a bill extending the time for the registration of Chinese in the United States and doing away with the necessity for the Columbian museum of Chicago paying duty on any of the exhibits it may require for’its own use. The Senate bill granting to the State of California 5 per cent, of the net proceeds of the cash sales of public lands in that State to aid in the support of its public or common schools and making an appropriation for that purpose was also passed. A batch of nominations received the approval of the Senate, and that body then adjourned. Congress has finished the extra session. But little business was transacted Friday by either bouse, and that little simply perfunctory. The session closed without confirmation by the Senate of the nomination of Judgell ornblower to the Supreme bench.

by Sheriff Lending at 8:30 the other morning. The prisoner seemed as unconcerned as if nothing was going on at aIL . When the indictment of murder in the first degree was read to him he an-

Seven buildings burnod at Monongah, W. Va. George K. Oglek&Co., carriage dealers at St. Louis, failed for $50,000. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has obtained a $3,030,000 loan in London. Jacob Kriest was burned to death at St. Louis, Mo., in a lodging house fire. Fire destroyed a dozen business houses at Kittanning, Pa., causing $30,000 loss. Fire at Jonesboro. Ark., consumed sixteen buildings and caused a loss of $30,000., Helen Zuchswerdt committed suicide at St. Louis by hanging. She was demented. THE plant of the Williamsport (Pa.) Furniture Company was damaged $25,000 by fire. The window glass plant of Roedfer & Hoffman, at El wood, Ind., burned. Loss, $50,000. Abe Redmond was lynched in Charlotte County, W. Va., for brutally beating a negro. The Phonolite Glas Company, incorporated at Denver with $500,000 capital, will manufacture glass by a new process. The fight against the coal combine in St. Paul has taken shape in the organization of the Minnesota Coal Company. A movement to secure amnesty for political offenders and workingmen convicted of rioting has bean started in F ranee. Instructions have been telegraphed from Washington to all Government mints to discontinue the purchase of silver bullion. On October 29 Philadelphia celebrated the 211th anniversary of the landing of William Penn. In a quarrel over the possession of a ranch in Missoula County, Mont., Tom Cummings was shot dead by Ike Langress. A 7-year-old daughter of W. S. Both well, of Clay City, 111., wa3 burned to death while playing around an openair fire. Illinois Canal Commissioners are moving on Congress to have the Illinois River deepened and the dams removed. By the bursting of a fly-wheel in the Peoria. 111., electric light plant, the main building was wrecked. The damage amounts to SIO,OOO. The barn of George A. Chandler, in the town of Sharon, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. In the debris were found the remains of two men. Women raided a “blind tiger” at Pine Hill, Texas, and with axes broke in the heads of liquor barrels and emptied the whisky into the street. Mrs. Kate C. Blood, who was connected with a St. Louis building association in several official capacities, is under arrest on a charge of fraud.

Overflow of News.

STATE ELECTIONS.

All Seemed to Go Pretty Much One Way. THE REPUBLICANS WIN M’KINLEY CLAIMS OHIO BY FIFTY THOUSAND. lowa, Massachusetts, and New York Post to the Democrats—Populists Claim One Supreme Court Judge in South Dakota —McKinley’s Contest Ignorad State Issues and Was Conducted on the Tariff—lowa Republicans Claim a Clean Sweep —Returns from Many States. McKinley Wins. With a plurality claimed to be 75,000 and two-thirds of b ith branches of the Legislature McKinley has won the most decisive victory recorded in Ohio since the civil war. It has been won on national issues. Although McKinley was running for re-election as Governor he made State affairs secondary to protection and honest money in all his speeches, numbering 110. It would not have been a surprise two weeks ago, but after the action cf Congress there seemed to have been such a reaction that the overwhelming vote is a surprise. The Democrats did not allow the coctest to go by default, but made a mOst vigorous fight with harmonious working forces. The voters were out all over the State, and McKinley has a majority over all, with and Populist tickets opposed to him. This is the first majority over all any State candidate has had since Foster’s election, just after Garfield’s death in 1881. Blaine had a majority in 1884, but the Republican State ticket then had only a plurality. Last year the Democrats elected one Presidential elector, and the Republican plurality was then 1,072. McKinley’s plurality in 1891 was 21,511. In 1890 the Republicans had 10,000 plurality, and in 1889 the Democrats elected Gov. Campbell by 10,872, when there was a small vote. Jackson in lowa. A De@ Moines dispatch says: The election of the entire Republican ticket is beyond any hope of recall. The Republican gains that Jackson made over last year's vote for Harrison averaged six to the precinct. There are 2,000 precincts in the State. The Republican plurality last year was 21,000, so at this rate Jackson will have 35,000 to 40,000 plurality, and the rest of the Republican ticket will run ahead a few thousand. How much cannot be stated with any degree of exactness yet. j The reports are very slow to i come in. and have been incomplete on everything below Jackson and Boies. But the general report is that the Prohibition vote has been far below what was expected, even by the Republicans. National issues and the calamity cry raised by the Republicans were strongly fought to pull all the Republicans into support of the local option platform. The. Republican Prohibitionists have voted the Republican ticket, too, as they promised to do. The populist vote has fallen somewhat belcw what was expected. The Legislature will be strongly Republican in both branches, insuring the election of a Republican United States Senator. The vote has fallen off probably 10 to 15 per cent., but the Democrats have lost more than the Republicans.

Bay State Slides Back. A short and sharp campaign, fought almost entirely on national issues, the tariff and the currency. pas resulted in a very decisive Republican majority in Massachusetts. Gov. Russell’s declination of a fourth term removed from the front rank of the Democracy the most popular man and the strongest vote getter in New England, and though the standard brarer, the Hon. John E. Russell, is a man of great cultivation, wide experience in diplomacy and statesmanship and, moreover, a man of great strength with the agricultural population, the verdict at the polls has shown that Massachusetts cannot yet be accounted a Democratic State on national issues. The city of Boston has given the Democracy only 9,700 plurality, against 13,0C0 last year, while in the country the Republicans have made gains proportionate to this loss. The entire Republican State ticket is elected by substantially the same figures as Mr. Greenhalge. A conservative estimate founded upon the returns from small cities and towns gives the following result: For Gover-. nor,. Greenhalge (Rep.) over .Russell (Dem.) 18,000; for Lieutenant Governor, Walcott (Rep.) over Carroll (Dem.) 23,0G0; for Secretary of State, Olin (Rep.i over McDonald (Dem.) 26,000; for Treasurer, Kimball (Rep.) over Hall (Dem.) 24,000; for Attorney General, Knowlton (Rep.) over Lilley (Dem.) 17,000. The Senate and House will both be Republican by slightly increased majorities. New York Not Democratic. A year ago the Democrats made a clean sweep in New York. Tuesday the Republicans had their day and it was another runaway race. Richard Croker said: “It looks as if the Republicans had carried the entire State ticket, including the Legislature.” In the contest for the most important office, Judge of the Court of Appeals, Bartlett, is elected over Maynard, the Democratic candidate, by at least. 30,000. Maynard was cut all over the State. He ran behind Bartlett in King's County by 12,0C0. In Brooklyn, for the first time in years, the Republicans elected their mayor. Kan pas Re tar ns. Returns from Kansas admit a great falling off in the Populist vote. Cherokee County, which gave 1,700 majority for the Populist - in 1892, and Sumner County, another Populist strong? _ hold, have been carried by the Republicans. Crowley County, in which the vote was very close in 1892, has, also gone Republican. The Republicans will probably have a plurality of the votes cash They have carried Miami, Harvey and Montgomery Counties. The Demobrats carried Leavenworth County. Republican Losses In Nebraska. Returns from Nebraska came in slowly, and indicate Republican losses on the head of the ticket and Populism gains. Judge Holcomb (Pop.) is probably elected Supreme Court Justice bv 10,000. The Usual Majorities. The returns from Kentucky are incomplete, but enough have been received to indicate that the Legislature will be Democratic in joint session by about four to one. About 60 per cent, of the Representatives are pledged tc William Lindsay for United States Senator, and a majority are also said to be favorable to Senator Blackburn.