Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — KOETTING IS GUILTY. [ARTICLE]

KOETTING IS GUILTY.

RAPID RUIN OF THE MILWAUKEE BANKER. Hard Experience of an Ocean Steamer— Home Stands bjr Its Action on Sugar— Old Boreas’ Bitter Blasts—Work, Not Foul Play. His Downfall Complete. John R Koetting. who was cashier and half owner of the defunct South Side Savings Bank, Milwaukee, was found guilty Tuesday of the charge of receiving a deposit when he knew the bank to be insolvent Unless his attorneys’ motion fer a new trial and an arrest of judgment should be successful, and. this is no; looked for. It is expected Banker Koetting will be on his way to prison In a few days to suffer the penalty which Judge Clementson will Impose upon hjm for looting the Institution of which he was practically the sole manager and head for twenty-five years. A year ago no citizen of Milwaukee stood higher in the estimation of his fellow men than John R Koetting. He was honored and respected by all One oj the earlier settlers of tne city, kln ah with a wide acquaintance, one who had been actively identified with the progress of Milwaukee, he was looked upon as the embodiment of honesty and integrity. He occupied many positions of trust and confidence and his name was often mentioned in connection with a nomination for the Mayoralty. Now he sits in a cell in the county jail, with a verdict of guilty hanging over his head and the State’s prison gates of Waupun opening to receive him. His trial lasted two weeks ALL THREE DEAD. Alonzo Reese, of Pike County, Puts an End to His Unhappy Family. The eastern part of Pike Cpunty, 111.. is excited over the murder at Perry 'J uesday of Mrs Alonzo Reese and her little babe, but 8 weeks old. The deel was done by the husband and father, who shortly after ended his own worthless life, saving the Infuriated people from taking things into their own hands This makes the third murder affair in the county in a month. Reese, who was 84 years old, was married a year ago to the daughter of one of his neighbors. He was of a quarrelsome disposition and made the life of his bride very bitter. About eight weeks ago the birth of a baby girl made him a little more reasonable and he ceased his abuse, though he showed no affection. Several days ago ho was again seized with one of his fits of temper, which ended in the tragedy.

HIT BY A TIDAL WAVE. Ocean Finer Normannla Forced to Pnt Back Into Port. The ocean liner Normannla, which sailed last Thursday with about 250 passengers for Genoa, returned to New York Tuesday morning, much the worse for an encounter with a tidal wave,land hearing seven injured men, ono of Idem so badly hurt that ho will probably die All of the victims of the accident are from Germany. On Sunday morning during a strong oasterly gale a heavy sea boarded her forward and swept aft, carrying away rails, stanchions, and completely wrecking the forward deckhouse and flooding the cabins. As soon as the break could be covered up with canvas the ship was turned about and leaded for New York.

COLD WEATHER AND SNOW. Hllzzardg Reported Throughout Kansas and In the Northwest. Reports from all parts of Kansas are that a blizzard was raging Tuesday. In the northern part of the State the mercury was below zero Tuesday morning and a terrible wind was blowing with a cutting snow. In central Kansas a heavy snow, with much drifting, Is reported. All railroad trains will be behind schedule time. At St Paul, Minn.. It Is snowing hard, with the thermometer below zero Wind northeast Reports from all over Nebraska show the mercury from four to eighteen below zero, with high winds and driving snow. Railway,travel is not interrupted. Make All Sngar Free. Washington dispatch: The House clinched the nail which was driven through the sugar schedule when the bounty was abolished by a vote' of 161 tq, 38. the House adopting the Warner amendment—first making It a substitute—which provides that all sugars, raw and refined, bo placed on the free list. This action was taken in committee of the whole, and will, of course, have to he voted on In the regular session, but there is little probability that the action of the committee will be overturned.

, Returned and Married His Nurse. An Omaha girl named Eva Barnett has been married to an Australian millionaire. Miss Barnett went tr Chicago a few years ago, became a professional nurse and accepted a position in a hospital While there a middle-aged man suffering from pneumonia was brought In. Miss Barnett attended him. He was restored to health and discharged. Two years passed, the man returned, a courtship was begun and a wedding resulted. Not until then did the wife learn the story of millions In Melbourne, whither they have gone. ' Catch Rabies from a Mad Cat. Near Greensburg, Ky.', week, fully seven persons were bitten by a cat afflicted with hydrophobia. Among those bitten - was C. P. Fogg, who died In great agony Saturday morning after suffering all the horrors of rabies. All seven applied a madstone to their wounds Mrs. Fogg, who was bitten before her husband, left tor Bardsvllle to try the madstone again, while the others who were bitten are badly frightened. Delinquent Railroad Closes Schools. Thirteen schools In Lyon County,.Kansas, wiU be obliged to close on account of the Santa Fe Hoad falling to pay Its tax assessment of $14,000. What Caused Mrs. Fhesant’s Death. Mrs. William Phesant, a farmer’s wife near Columbus, Incl, was found dead in her bed Tuesday morning. She helped her husband saw wood all of Monday. Foul play Is suspected by some and the Coroner Is investigating. Three Were Drowned. Mr. and Airs. Gustavus H. Lyson and Miss Minnie Chapman, teachers in the Sac and Fax Indian School, Oklahoma, were while fording the stream in a luggy. , .. Rebels in Fall Control. A dispatch to the Mayor of Juarez, Mexico, says Chihuahua is in the hands of the rebels. A first attack was made by a detachment of revolutionists on the west side of the town, which called the federal garrison to that point Immediately the insurgents rushed into the city. ’ ;«%, 1 Bank Robbed of $230,000. B. M. Leonard, manager of the wrecked Santa Clara Bank, at Saa Jose, Cal, has been arrested at the instance of the grand jury, charged with embezzling fs.ooo. dead) managed to themselves

CADETS FAIL TO PAJS& Resalt of the Recent Examination at West Point I* Made PoWle. - ' The result of the recent West Point examination U made known, and twenty-one cadets were found deficient and discharged from the service. They are as follosrs: N. K. Averlll, of Michigan, first class; Frank C Boiies, of Missouri, second class; James U. Barges. Virginia; Dickinson P. Hall, Ohio; Frederick W. Hatch, Minnesota: Henry W. Hughes. New York; John E Hunt, Rhode Island; Robert F. McMillan. New York; Walter B. Stokes, Illinois; William A. Whyte. New Jersey, and John C. Work. Illinois, third class; Thomas R Bell, of Wisconsin: Howard McL. Brown, Maryland: Harvey L, Cole, Pennsylvania; Irwin G Fawcett. Indiana; L. H. Foley. Jed R Freund, Michigan; Daniel A. Gillen, Pennsylanla; Hubert H. Pinney. Iowa; David P. Wood, Missouri; John R Young, fourth class. IV. H. McCormack and T. A Roberts, of the third class, were turned back to join the fourth class at once When the result of the examination was made known, some of the cadets were sadly disappointed. Cadet Jose Urtechs, of Nicaragua, who has been at the military academy since June 11 ( 1889, has been withdrawn by his government.

BIDS FOR THE BONDS. The Range Thought Not Likely to Go Above 3 1-3 Per Cent. Letters and dispatches offering to take the proposed new Government bonds began to pour In upon Secretary Carlisle early Thursday morning. Many of the dispatches sim{>ly the Secretary that had been foF.iarileu by mail. Mr. Carlisle gave thenr* only a cursory examination, and he dees not propose to consider them or make them public until the bidding closes. He thinks that an announcement of the prices offered would be unfair to Jhe bidders who have already submitted their offers and might afford a guide to tho range of prices to future bidders. The range is not is not likely to go much above a 2*4 percent, rate. This would make the of the bonds about 122. It Is not supposed that many bidders, if any, will go much higher, because money can always be placed at 2 '/. t per cent., and the 4*4 per cent bonds which were continued by Secretary Foster at 2 per cent, in 1891 arc now at a discount because ot the low rata BONDS AID BUSINESS. Secretary Carlisle's Determination Seems to Give General Satisfaction, R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review ts Trade says: The offer of 850,000,000 United States 5 per cent ten-year bonds gives much satisfaction to all who care for a sound currency. The gold not represented by certificates has fallen belows7o,ooo,ooo, the revenue continues to fall behind that of lust year about $5,000,000 a month, and action in Congress on various financial measures is liable at. any time to excite doubts whother gold payments can be maintained. The immediate eliects wero not greatl though London, after selling American securities largely soveral days, bought to some extent, but if subscriptions for tbo loan should be free and large it is hoped improvement in trade and industry mav be hastened. While industrial improvement continues, tho gain is slow, arid increase in the purchasing pbwer of tlie people by'enlargement, of lha force at work is in a measure through reduction in wages paid.

Attacked the Mayor. F. J. Cox, an ex-policeman, attempted to assassinate Mayor M. M. Ftephens. of East St. Louis, at the racetrack In that city. Oox made a numberof vicious lunges at Mayor Stephens with a huge knife, but, before be could inflict serious injury ho was overpowered by bystanders and locked up The trouble is the result of au old political quarrel. Benton Out on Ball. Springfield, IIL, dispatch: Dan Benton, alias Hill Newby, was brought here from the Chester penitentiary and was taken to the United States Court and entered into recognizance In the sum of $2,500 fer Ms appearance lo await the action of tho United States Supreme Court, to which his

case goes on appeal Five Passengers Hurt As the Richmond and Danville fast mail was crossing the Georgia. Carolina and Northern tracks at Chester, K 0,, it was run into by a freight train on tho latter road. The Richmond and Danville sleeper was overturned and of the tea passengers cn board five were Injured. Says He Will Sue the Postmaster. .It is stated by a La Porto, Ind., paper that Hiram Harrison, a discharged Republican colored mall carrier, will bring nctim against Postmaster Grover for slander. Harrison was removed for alleged drunkenness, and the case promises a sensational sequel ■Well-Digger Hurt. William Raradan, residing near Brazil, Ind., was frightfully mangled by an explosion of a dynamite cartridge. He was digging a well and bad Inserted the cartridge under a large stone.

' Crushed by a Log. Charles C, Cllngor, a well-to-do farmer of Winamac. Ind., while hauling logs to a saw-mill, was Instantly killed by the chain breaking and the log rolling on top of him. Negro Fiend Lynched. John Buchner, a negro who assaulted a young white girl and a middle-age,l negro womali nealr Valley Park, Mo„ was lynched Wednesday morning. Diggs in a Dunngeoq. Sheriff Williams has returned to Millbank, S D.. after arresting in Chicago Major W W. Diggs, Indicted in connection with a recent bank failure.