Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — TREASURE MISSING. [ARTICLE]

TREASURE MISSING.

QUEER PLIGHT OF AN INDIANA BANK. Loss of 81,000,000 by Fire at Springfield, Mass Startling News from Ottumwa, lowa—Death of J ex-Secretary RuskFound a Pot of Money. SIX BURNED TO DEATH. Hotel Horror NeSr Beaver, Pa., Early Tuesday Morning. Six men were burned to death and several were badly injured at the Government dam. two miles below Beaver, Pa-, early Tuesday morning. Tho disaster occurred at the Merrill House, a three-story frame building and boarding-house to accommodate the employes at the new Government dam, which has been under course of construction for the past year. The hotel was situated upon the hillside above the railroad—the only building on the north side of the track. It was 84x40 feet and contained twenty-five sleeping-rooms. It also contained the telegraph office, postoffice, and a store. The proprietors were Frank J. Bradley and Robert Kenyon. Every room in the building was occupied. Fire was discovered at 4:30 o’clock in the morning by William Bollie*. the colored porter. The storeroom was then full of flames. Bollies then gave the alarm by running to .the second and third floors screaming “fire!” Many of the occupants of lire rooms had been working a night turn and had retired only two hours before. All were sleeping soundly and when aroused became so confused that they lost all presence of mind and wandered through tho hallways unable to find a means of escape. Si* men are known to have perished. The hotel register was burned, and it is not positively knowa how many men were in the house. The belief is general that others perished. Several are yet unaccounted for. Men were constantly coming and go nr, seeking employment A number of these arrived that night, but whether they lodged In the hotel Is not known.

LYNCHED IN lOWA. Swift and Terrible Justice Meted an Ottumwa Criminal. Fred Gustaveson, a laborer aged 32, who recently went to Ottumwa, lowa, was hanged by a mob on the main street of Ottumwa, Tuesday afternoon. Monday night he enticed the 4-year-old daughter of Jonas Sax into the room of a boardinghouse and criminally assaulted her The child was able to drag herself home, but had been horribly maltreated and now lies at the point of death. Tuesday afternoon Gustaveson was taken to Justice Truitt’s office for preliminary examination. In the office a fight ensued between the father, grandfather, and other relatives of the child and the officers. The culprit was finally wrested from tho hands of the officers and dragged out of the office door. Here the mother of the child stood with a rope and gave it into the hands of the mob. It was immediately placed about the wretch’s neck and he was hanged to tho handrail of the outside stairway leading to the justice’s office. 980,000 in Currency Missing. F The Citizens’ National Bank, Muncie, Ind., which has been in the hands of a receiver for several months, opened its doors Monday as announced, but was unable to transact business because of tho failure of an SBO,OOO package, of currency to arrivo from the United States treasury at Washington. ■The money was shipped the 17th, and should have arrived Saturday from Washington via the Baltimore and Ohio and Lake Erie and Western Railways in care of the United States Express Company. A letter mailed since the money left arrived. Agent Bud Thomas has kept the wires hot with messages, but the valuable chest has not yet been found t Burled Treasure Found. Dr. Bailey, of Gap, eighteen miles east ♦ of Lancaster, Pa., discovered an iron pot under an old farmhouse he had recently bought Investigation proved that tho pot contained over $2,600 in gold and silver coin. There were also found three.sets of solid silver spoons marked “C. ” Many years ago the house was owned by a family named Chamberlain. It is supposed the pot was buried by one of the members, and that the secret died with the last surv Ivor.

Earthquake In Persia. A special dispatch to the London Times from Meshed, Persia, says that a severe earthquake occurred Friday evening at Kuchan, an Important town Iq the northern part of the province o, Khorassan. The town is situated at the eastern extremity of the Ala Dagh Mountains. It is thought that the loss of life was large. Two-thirds of the town was destroyed. Gen. Busk Is Dead. Ex-Secretary of Agriculture J. M. Rusk died at his home in Viroqua, Wis., early Tuesday morning. His last hours were comparatively free from suffering. His death was the result of an affection of the prostate gland. Springfield, Mags., Ablaze. The worst fire at- Springfield, _ Mass., known lor years raged Wednesday morning early and entailed a loss of $1,000,009 in an important business quarter in the heart of the city. Mr. Lsmont Finds His Man, Secretary of War Lamont will have an Assistant Secretary by the middle of next month. He has accepted the resignation of Assistant Secretary Grant, tendered at the time of the President’s inauguration, to take effect Dec. 15. General Joseph R Doe, of Janesville, Wis., Adjutant General of the Wisconsin National Guard, will occupy the place on that day. Hiding in a Swamp. Three men, supposed to be the robbers of the Hllnois Central train near Bard well, Ky„ last week, are In hiding in a swamp near Paducah. Ky., and a posse will attempt to dislodge them. Flames Sweep Newbeme. Tenn. / Fire broke out shortly after midnight, Tuesday, in Newberne, Tenn., destroying the opera house and the buildings of Wilson & Bradshaw, J. H. Swindles, H. Williamson and B. Cox. Several lives were lost, among them being J. E Brads’ .-, v. Drowned in North Blver. The tug Charles R Stone sank at pier 1, North river. Tuesday morning. Two men were drowned. They were Harry B. Boxers, and the firemen, known only as William. The bodies were recovered. Fate of Explorers. A letter written by the Swedish explorer, Bjerling, who started on an expedition to the Arctic regions last year, was brought to Dundee by the whaling vessel Aurora The letter was found in a cavo cm Carey Island It relates that the explorer’s vessel, th* Blpple, stranded In August, 189? End of a Combine. The National Plate Glass Association has gone to pieces. The association had a capital of §10,030,908, and was one of the strongest trusts in the country. Lately ansll outside concern* have been cutting prices. And this. It is saM, bad something