Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — WHIPS A YOUNG ROWDY. [ARTICLE]

WHIPS A YOUNG ROWDY.

Elder Dinsey. of Indianapolis, a Believer in Muscular Christianity. An exciting scene was witnessed at Ashboro, near Brazil, Ind., at a revival meeting. Elder Dinsey, a noted divine of Indianapolis, was conducting the services, when the congregation became greatly stirred up over a general fight which was going on outside tho church door. The minister ceased preaching and attempted to stop the altercation. He was assaulted, but came out on top by badly heating up his assailant, a young man nantfed Ellis. Ellis filed charges against the minister for assault, and the minister retaliated by filing charges against him for disturbing religious meetings. Chicago Playhouse Damaged. Fire gutted the three upper floors of tho five-story Haymarket Theater Building at Chicago Friday. For two hours thirty companies of firemen fought as fierce a blaze as has visited the West Side of the city since John M. Smyth’s big establishment across the street was destroyed. The bitter cold air and stiff west wind, mado active work almost impossible, but tho firemen succeeded in checking the flames before they reached the auditorium.ps stage of the playhouse. The entire ambunt of damage done by the flames and water reaches SIOO.OOO. When tho fire was discovered about 9 o’clock, all the occupants of the building were beginning to start in the day’s work. A panic seized the persons on the upper floors when the firo rushed along from room to.room with frightful rapidity, and it was feared that lives would be sacrificed before all could reach a place of safety. Charles E. Boyer, thq elevator conductor, bravely stood at his post and made several trips to the fourth and fifth floors through the smoke and flames, and savfid the lives of several who had given up all hopes of getting out alive. Young Boyer performed deeds of heroism which few men would have undertaken. Time and again he shot the elevator up to the upper stories and carried down fainting women and panic-stricken men. Not until the elevator cable got so hot that he could not handle it did Boyer quit the machine, and ihen he had assured himself that nobody remained up-stairs. His last trip was made to carry up a company of firemen. At the second floor the cable parted and the passengers were thrown to the bottom of the shaft. Fire Marshal Campion and several members of engine company 7 and truck 2 were cut about the head with broken glass.

Tramps Strip a Man of HU Clothes. Three tramps stopped Mr. Schedell, of Ligonler, Ind., late at night and stripped him of all hi 3 clothing but his shoes. The night was bitter cold, and in this plight Schedell ran to the county infirmary, half a mile distant, whera he was cared for. Tho tramps escaped. Penalty for an Idiotic Performance. Three of a party of young men living near Admire, Kas, have died from the effects of drinking whisky and beer. Twelve of them bought two kegs of beer and one of whisky and indulged in a wild spree. Station Agent Beaten and Robbed. George Keller, Bertrand, Neb., agent of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, was sandbagged and robbed of an express package containing SI,OOO. The robbers escaped with their plunder. Chicago Snow-Bound. Vale humanity in Chicago passed Sunday in the service of the snow king. He' did not have a chance to worship at any other shrine and about the city an army of 20,009 hired ahovelers heaved away

from dawn to dark on the deep drifts which the gale of the day before had piled against front steps and along the walks* The municipality alone put on 500 extra men in the district about the City Hall, and this force, with 2po teams, made hardly any hole in the great furrows of slush and soot which banked the streets from curb to curb. The street car companies sent out every available man who applied for work and even then the tracks were kept ready only for uncertain service. It would take at least a week to get the downtown avenues Into passable shape. The cloudburst complicated matters beyond any previous experience, and even In times of widespread idleness the corporation found itself unable to get enough men to do the cleaning as rapidly as the business interests demand. Every applicant was accepted, and those who did work Sunday were paid for two days that their energy might h? pushed to the very last limit. Horses and wagons were at a premium, aud late in tho day the street department had out scouts looking for more laborers. Appeal was first made to several groups of Weary Waffles, Dusty Roads and Wayside Willies who were toasting their shins in the corridors of the city hall, but these gentlemen were not in search of real work, and disdainfully scorned the offer to earn an honest cent; DESERT THEIR TRAINS. Wyoming Division of the Lehigh Said to lie Strewn with Wrecks. Wrecked engines, smashed cars and disabled cabooses are strewn along the Wyoming division of the Lehigh from Coxton to Packerton, while freight trains are stalled in many places along the mountain, having been deserted by non-union crews. Tho new men uppe'ar utterly unable to run the trains with any degree of safety. It is snowing on the mountain sides, and It is predicted by competent engineers and many of the strikers that the first real cold snap will drive every non-union engineer and fireman from the road, as these green men cannot control the trains on the steep mountain grades, some of which are ninety feet to the mile. Wrecks have become so numerous that the officials are declining to give out any information, and it is impossible to learn from them any but the merest details.

HER MANIA FOR CATS. Officials at Dedham, Mass., Disturb the Flans of a Crazy Spinster. Tho attention of the Dedham, Mass., Board of Health has been called to a certain smell emanating from a tenement in the building known as the Crystal Palace. In the rooms occupied by an aged ward of the town. Hate Walsh, the trouble was located. Officers visited the premises Investigation revealed the body of a huge cat carefully covered up and resting across the seat of a chair. This was removed and the room was disinfected. There were found in the attic over a hundred live cats. Tho rooms were alive with vermin. Miss Walsh is demented, her mania being to collect cats. Rescued from a Sinking Vessel. Two little children, hold aloft in tho arms of their parents from the deck of a water-logged and fast sinking vessel, attracted the attention of a passing craft during the awful October gijles, and, after an experience such as mortals seldom suffer, tho crew of the Newfoundland barkentine. Lady Elibank, were on Th'ursday landed at Philadelphia from tho British steamer Sledmure. The rescued party consisted of Captain J. M. Congdon, his wife and two small children and eight seamen. Will Not Go to Italy. James J, Van Alen has refused to represent the United States as ambassador to Italy. While vague rumors that such was his intent have been occasionally heard, little credence was placed in them, and tiie announcement of his positive declination of the position tendered him created genuine surprise. He says he gave £50,000 to the Democratic campaign fund from pure patriotism, and will not accept any position under the suspicion of his fellow citizens.

Millions of Dollars. Tho co,inage of gold at the Philadelphia mint during tho past two months was one of the largest in the history of Uncle Sam’s money-making institution, about $15,000,000 being coined. Under orders from the Secretary of tho Treasury two months ago, the mint was required to turn out $15,000,000 in gold by Doc. 1. All tho presses were put to work, and overtime has been made, the operators working at night in order to comply with the Secretary’s mandate. Sues Her Father for Damages. An unusual case has been placed on trial at Warren, Oliia Elizabeth Ivibbee, of Bristol, sues William Noble, her father, for SI,OOO darnagos for having, as she alleges, maltreated her and turned her from his house. The defendant claim* the plaintiff’s conduct was such as to warrant him in moderately chastising* her, and some sensational testimony touching upon that point has been Introduced. Killed His Wife and Himself. At Grand Rapids, Mich., Myron A. King shot his wife and then himself. Sho was instantly killed and he died a tew hours later. King was an old soldier, 55 years of ago and quarrelsome. H. R. Kist Spotted and Arrested. H. R. Kist, formerly manager of the Western Union at Coffeyvillo, Kan., has been arrested, charged with stealing money from the telegraph company. For Mayor of Chicago. Republicans of Chicago have nominated George B. Swift for Mayor, and Democrats have choson John P. Hopkins. The light Is now on.