Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — CASH OUT OF SIGHT. [ARTICLE]

CASH OUT OF SIGHT.

ROTTEN CONDITION OF AN INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Three Killed end Cremated In a Rock Island Wreck Leavenworth'* Bridge Opened—Nearly Successful Plot Against the Csar’s Life—Short Texas Pastures. Looted and Wrecked. At the Instance of the present Board of Directors of the National Building, Loan and Investment Company, headquarters at Chicago, an investigation Into the affairs of that concern has been made and a report submitted to State Auditor Gore. According to this report the sum of 175,000 has been loaned on worthless securities, and peculiar business methods generally prevailed among the former officers of the company, some of whom have resigned. The National Building, Loan and Investment Society was Incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois In 1890 with a capital stock of *18,000.000. The offices of the society are at present on the fifth floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The concern has not done such an extensive business as the American, yet it would have been exceedingly prosperous but for the manipulations of directors. Last year O. G Kneale, who was a director of the American Building, Loan, and Investment Society In Its earliest days, got his grip on the National. His partner, William Smith, has disappeared, but the State Auditor hopes to find him and get back the money said to have been loaned on unimproved property. BURNED IN A WRECK. Shocking F»tj Befalls Three Men on a Rock Island Freight. Under the ashes and twisted Iron of what had been a passenger coach, a caboose and two freight cars, a wrecking crow found a few handfuls of human tones and the battered cases and wrecked works of two gold watches. Not a partlclo of flesh, not a shred of clothing, not another trinket of any kind was found to Identify the bones of those who perished pitifully In a collision and wreck closely followed by fire near Ltnwood. twonty-seven miles west of Kansas City, on the Union Pacific, at 5:30 Tuesday morning. One man Is known certainly to have perished In the wreck—J. H. Atwood, conductor of one of the trains, who met his death while bravely trying to warn his passengers of the danger. Two other men, stockmen, are missing and are believed to have perished, but this will not be definitely known until the Union Pacific surgeon has made a thorough examination of the few bones recovered from the ashes of the burned car. POISON IN THE FISH. Attempt Made on the Czar's Life at a Banquet. a On the 124th anniversary of the found-*, lag of the Imperial Order of St. George a grand dinner was recently given at Cracow, Poland, to all those who had been awarded the decoratjon. The Czar as the head of the order was present and partook of the banquet. The first course was but half consumed, and the Czar ordered that what was left be sent to the Nicholas Orphan Asylum, wfiere tho children also ate of the food. Later in the evening the the guests at the banquet, and the orphans were all taken sick, and an investigation revealed the fact that tho fish had been poisoned. The .sickness In the orphan asylum was officially attributed to cholera. NO GRAIN IN TEXAS. Stockmen Made Desperate by the Scarcity of Feed and Water. A dispatch from Fort Stockton, Texas, Bays conservative men estimate that 50 per cent of the sheep in that section will die the present winter, for there Is nothing for them to eat except dead grass. There is some water, but cowmen are fencing and guarding It The grass has been killed by the frost. The sheep men are moving their herds toward Mexico, and the cow men swear they will die be/ore the sheep will go over their range* Both •ides are armed and ready to shoot.

Across the Missouri. ' The new steel drawbridge which crosses the Missouri at Leavenworth, and which •was built at a cost of about 81,000,000, was opened Tuesday with Imposing ceremonies. The strength of the bridge having been tested In the presence of the public by having ten large locomotives on It at one time, a train of 100 cars entered Leavenworth over the new bridge, loaded with wheat, lumber, Iron, hogs and cattle, for Leavenworth mills, factories and packing houses, the value of the goods being more than 8100,000. Watch Company Falls. At Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Watch Company’s property has been placed In the hands of Philip H. Bruck as receiver, upon the application of G T" Pfaff and Louis Unden berg, who say they are sureties upon about $60,000 of obligations the company must soon meet and it has no funds to meet them with, Ihe total assets of the concern are about $400,000; liabilities, •250,000. Burglars Burn an Old Man’s Feet. At Kenton, Ohio, burglars entered Solomon Pollard’s residence, tied him and his wife, ransacked the house and secured about 8100 In money and valuables. They tortured the old man by burning his feet with hot irons to make him tell where his money was secreted. His injuries are serious. i To Foreclose a 850,000 Mortgage. At Portland, Oregon, the Scottish-Ameri-can Investment Company brought suit against the Portland Industrial Exposition Company to foreclose a mortgage ol *BO,OOO. Thrown and Killed at East St. Louis. Boy Lowry, an exercise boy, was thrown from a horse at the East St. Louis race track and fatally lnjnred, his neck being broken. He died shortly after the accident occurred. He came a short time ago from Dodge City, Kan., where his parents reside Natural Gas Nearly Burns a Town. Fires nearly destroyed the small town of Bed Key, 'lni, Tuesday morning. The total loss Is estimated at $75,000, about one-third insured. The fire was caused by natural gaa There is no fire department in the town. New Bid for Cherokee Bonds. ( In the matter of the Cherokee bond sale the Impression Is that the Ohaddick option has expired. The bank of deposit was changed by him without authority from the Cherokeea A bid of par and 8100,000 Interest is now In the bands of the chief and will be submitted to. the Legislature, Wife Worth 810. A St Joseph; Mo., man, whose wife was killed by a train, has offered to settle with the railroad ‘ cotripany for 410. He says: •She was a good wife and her cooking could not be equalled In the State, She was worth all of that to me and I think you ought to pay.”

STEAD’S BLUNT WORDS. Cumin red Language Before the Woman’s Club at Chicago Make* a Stir. Woman held their breath and looked at each other with trepidation while such .stinging and plain words as they had never heard before outside of whispers were uttered by William T. Stead And when he said that women of riches and talents who wielded them not In behalf of their less fortunate sisters were more disreputable in the eyes of God than the worst woman of scarlet In. Chicago's vilest street, the startling sudsclty of the statement evoked such a medley of hisses, applause and startling evidences of amazement that for two hours after he left the hall the women were constrained to talk in secret at what he had said While the dazed conditirn into which the London editor’s bluntness had thrown the throng still existed, Mr. Stead went hut. It was said then that If he had not gone just when he did he would have been asked to go, but a little later the women began to Inquire if there were not, perhaps, a little something In wbat he had said after aIL “I do not know how he can be reached, but a man who would wantonly insult the best and purest element of Chicago society as he has done should be compelled to leave the city.” This was the comment of Mrs. W. J. Chalmers In speaking of the address. It was before the representatives of women’s clubs that Mr. Stead appoared in Recital Hall, where women were gathered at the behest of tho Chicago Woman’s Club to confer as to plans to aid the suffering poor women and children of the clly. The hall was filled. Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson presided. MILKED THE COMPANY. Petition for Removal of Northern Pacific Receivers. / Silas W. Pettit, of Philadelphia, General Counsel of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, has filed before Judge Jenkins, In the United States Court at Milwaukee, a petition for the removal of Thomas F. Oakes, Henry G Payne and Henry G Rouse, the receivers of the road, alleging that they are parties to a conspiracy to defraud the company, and that therefore their places should to declared vacant and other persons substituted for them. In support of his petition Mr. Pettit presents detailed statements of the way In which he declares tho Northern Pacific Railway has been robbed and Its directorsenrlched which throw Into the shade any of the achievements of the famous Fisk and Gould manipulation of the Erie Road. Mr. Pettit shows how tho Directors of the rojid, who were all evidently close students of the “Mikado,” took upon themselves the role of “Pooh Bah,” and that, as Directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, they bought from themselves miles of branch lines of railway that were absolutely worthless to the Northern Pacific, at a profit to themselves of millions of dollar* Within one year from the time these directors obtained control of the company they had saddled upon It branch lines of road and Increased its bonded obligations over 160,000,000. ' Not one of tho properties so acquired has ever earned the Interest upon Its bonds, and some of them have cost the Northern Pacific Company millions to maintain. The ] etltlon avers that tho stockholders represented by tho board of directors have a rauso of action ngainst the late directors, including Oakos and Ralston, for the various transactions set forth. "t— WILSON BILL TO PASS IN JANUARY. Speaker Crisp Thinks Hard Times Will Then Be Relieved, Speaker Crisp, In an Interview at New York the other day, said ho thought the Wilson bill would pass tho House In January, though there might be some sow amendments. His idea was that tho hard times might bo relieved stmowhat when the Wilson bill became a law. Ho thought the present depression was owing to overspeculation and a general panic to liquidate. “Will not the Wilson bill loavo a deficit of $50,000,000 annually?" he was asked. “It Is Is difficult to tell,” ho replied, “because the matter of a deficit Is merely specillatlve. On the basis of the present Importations into this country It has been calculated that tho deficit will bo about $50,000,000i When the Wilson bill becomes a law the groat reduction In the tariff may increase to a wonderful extont tho Importations and thereby increase tho revenue. The present tariff Is no criterion to judgo the opjratlon of the Wilson bill, because the McKinley tariff Is prohibitive on many articles. Increased Importations will naturally Increase the revenue, though the tariff may bo much lower."

MR. CARNEGIE’S OFFER. He Is Willing to Give 8300,000 to the Poor of Pittsburg, A letter has been received in Pittsburg from Andrew Carnegie, addressed to Robt. Pitcairn, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who Is associated with other prominent citizens on the relief committee to provide work for the unemployed. Mr. Carnegie offered to glvo. If the people of Pittsburg will contribute an equal sum, $5,000 a working day for two months. This means a contribution from Mr Carnegie of nearly $300,000. Mr. Carnegie says: “You know my views about almsgiving, and how often I have written and said that of every thousand dollars spent to-day in socalled charity SOSO of it had better been thrown into the sea. But the business condition In this country, and especially In Pittsburg, creates a temporary emergency In which money can bo beneflcialiy devoted. not to giving alms, but to giving worthy men work who are Idle through no fault of their own.” Knights of Labor Growing. Eeplying to the statements that the report presented at the recent General Assembly of the Knights of Labor show that the order Is rapidly going to pieces, the Executive Board has Issued a statement setting forth that the organization is in a good financial condition, that the membership finished the last fiscal year with a fair Increase and that the personnel of the order Is as good, if not better, than at any time In Its history. Tho development of the organlzaticm. It Is stated, will be vigorously pushed durlDg 1804. Austin’s Mayor May Go to Jail. The Mayor and City Council of Austin, Texas, are in trouble. The district judge recently held an old issue of city bridge bonds illegal. The Council passed an ordinance making an appropriation to pay the Interest on the bonds. They claim they did it to protect the city’s credit, but Indications show that the district judge looks at the matter Id the light of contempt of his ruling, and may send them; to jail Lops Off Mrs. Mary Lease’s Head. Governor Leweillng of Kansas has notified Mrs. Mary Lease that her services were no longer needed as President of the State Board of Charities, apd without ceremony chopped her official head off. The real cause for her removal was her famous interview several weeks since when she declared that all the Populist leaders, from the Governor down, were boodlers and thieves. What Colorado Farmers Want. At the Farmers’ Alliance meeting a| Denver a resolution was adopted asking Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 for the construction of reservoirs and other Internal Improvements' ■ The Wages of Sin, Death. ■ For the second time within two days George W. Leighton, a real estate dealer, who la said to live at Home City, a suburb of Cincinnati, attempted Unsuccessfully to eommlt suicide at Chicago Friday night fly taking poison. Leighton's first attempt

waa made Thursday sight at the Grace Hotel, Clark and Jackson streets, where be was staying. The second attempt was made at the Stafford Hotel Pacific avenue and Van Buren street. Each time Leighton was discovered before It was too late, and restoratives were applied. At the Connty Hospital the physicians said Leighton wonld probably recover. Mr. Leighton Is a prominent citizen of Cincinnati and It is supposed the cause for bis attempt at suicide may be found In dispatches from Cincinnati which announce the prospective Indictment of six prominent men of that city who are charged with fraudulent real-es-tate deals In connection with the Cincinnati Widows’ Home* Among the names mentioned is that of Mr. Leighton. RUN OUT WITH SMALLPOX. Man with the Dt»ni) Driven Into the Streets by Chicago Police. After being run out of \Vest Pullman by the police of that Chicago suburb, and out of Kensington by the police on duty there, after riding on the electric and cable roads from Kensington to Chicago during an hour of the night when traffic Is very heavy; after walking the streets of Chicago all night, G W. Sever walked Into the health department the other morning displaying a well-developed case of smallpox. He Informed the officials there that unless he was given treatment and a place of refuge he should place a card with the word “Smallpox” on bis back and wander about the streets again until he found some one to care for him. Sever was taken Into the private office of the Commissioner of Health, hungry, weary, footsore, and weak from his sickness. The officials sent out for food for him and shut him out from the general throng, after which he was sent to the small-pox hospital. Sever Is 58 years old, with a family In Michigan, and has beon having hard luck since the hard times set In. GUILTY THE VERDICT. Carter Harrison’s Assassin Most Expiate —HU Crime with llla Life. Death is the penalty dereed against Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast for the murder of Carter H. Harrison. Tho last word of awful accusation was uttored by A 8. Trude at noon Friday; an hour later the Judge charged tho jury, and sixty-two minutes after Prendergast’s fata was committed to twelve of his peers a verdict was returned, which read: “We, the Jury, find the defondant, Patrick Eugene Prendergast, guilty of murder. In the manner 4Snd form as charged In the indictment, and we fix his punishment at death. The assasiln did not falter at the announcement of his doom; ho bent his head slightly. and, touched bis forehead with tho tips of the fingers of his right band, then his breast, next his loft and lastly his right shoulder—making the “sign of the cross”—he mumbled the words, “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. ” Later, however, he collapsed completely, and In his cell was overcome by the most abject terror.

OPPOSES THE BOND ISSUE. Grand Master Sovereign Issnes a Highly Sensational Address. General Muster Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, before bo left Philadelphia for bis home In Des Moines, Issued an address to the Knights throughout the country appealing to them to protest against the proposed $200,000,000 government bond Issue. In closing his address Mr. Sovereign says: “I am in receipt of lotters from the cotton regions of the South and from agricultural districts In the West, declaring that tho Issuing of interest-bear-ing bonds by the National Government will bo considered sufficient provocation to Justify a call to arms The Issuing of bonds is an outrago upon a liberty-loving people And should brand with eternal Infamy every name connected with the disreputable transaction.” ANNA WAGNER NOT GUILTY. Such Is the Verdict Rendered by the Indianapolis Jury. . Anna Wagner, whoso trial at Indianapolis has been going on for nearly a month and who was charged with the murder of throo children and the wife of Charles Kooster, bocuuse she was In love with Koester, was acquitted. Tho verdict was greeted with uprourious applause and Anna Wagner, after hearing tho words that set her free, gasped and fell to the floor unconscious and remained In that condition for twenty-five minutes. Anna Wugner was the domestic in the Kooster family and tho method employed by her for causing the death of the Koestcrs, as alleged by the prosecution, was slow poison. California’s Terror Breaks Loose. Chris Evans, of ,Evans und Bontag, notorious outlaws and train-robbers, escaped from the county jail at Fresno, Cal, at 6:30 o’clock Thursday night Mrs. Evans was in jail with her husband, and when a keeper and waiter appeared with a lunch, the bandit and his wife leveled pistols, and compelled him to open tho doors, the waiter also turning to assist the outlaw. Evans met the City Marshal on the way out and shot himthrough the tody. The wound is considered fatal, Evans ran toward a newsboy with a horse and cart, chased tho hoy out jumped into the vehlclo and drove rapidly northward. It is supposed he was met by friends at tho outskirts and helped on his way to freedom. Mrs. Evans remained in the jalL New Mayor Sworn In. In the presenco of a brilliant assemblage which filled the council chamber to Its extreme capacity, John P. Hopkins was formally inducted into the office of Mayor of Chicago Wednesday n.^ht