Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — DA GAMA NEAR DEATH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DA GAMA NEAR DEATH

REBEL ADMIRAL IN A CRITICAL CONDITION. SafTering from Severe Wounds Received Daring the Battle of A rmacao—Embezzler Armstrong Gets Away at Kokomo— Death of a Noted PianistRebel Deader May Die. Admiral Saldanba Da Gama, the Brazil* Jan rebel commander, who was wounded in the neck and arm by Mannlicher bullets during the battle of Arraacao, is in a critical condition. It was at first supposed that the Admiral’s wounds were insignificant; but it Is now said that he is so seriously injured that ie tnay die. Every effort is being made to save the Admiral’s life Admiral da Gama jwas not one of those who originally rebelled against President Peixoto’s authority.’ Previous to September of JgsJ year there had been revolutions of eon* 6iderable proportions in Rio Grande do Sul und other provinces, but the insurrection Es ainsT TeTxoTo’S wis precipitated Tjy Adfniral de Mella 1 hie jatt3* was in command o£ the GovjtfivdStfieet, and his defection deprive! Pqixoto of his entire najal force. MURDERED WIFE AND SON’. St. Louis Millionaire Dr. Arthur Duestrow Commits a Double Crime. Dr. Duestrow, of 1724 South Compton avenue. St. Louis, walked into the reservoir police station the other evening and surrendered himself, stating that he bad accidentally shot his wife. At the house It was found that the child w as dead, with a bullet in Its heart and one In its head. The mother had received two bullets In her head, and was unconscious. Her recovery is impossible, so the physicians say. The exact leasons Arthur Duestrow has for committing the deed is not known, but It Is said that for some time past he had trot been living happily with his wife. From a wound on the prisoner’s head it Is thought that he attempted to kill himself after shooting the other members of his family.

BROKE OCT OF KOKOMO JAIL. Calvin Armstrong, the Emlwzzllng County Cashier, Makes His Escape. Calvin Armstrong, Tipton County’s Deputy Treasurer, convicted of embezzling $43,003 of the public funds, escaped from jail at Kokomo, Ind, the other evening. While the jailer was feeding the prisoners he pretended to be asleep, and while the Bheriff was In a remote part of the jail he slipped out a bar previously sawed off, ran down the corridor to the street entrance and was gone. He was not missed until morning. Watson Pitzner, of Tipton, who was in the conspiracy to release Cal before, was arrested suspected of furnishing him money and a saw while attending the trial. Armstrong was to have been taken to the prison on the day of his escape. COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. Delegates from Transmisslssippl States Meet at San Francisco. Delegates from all United States territory west of the Mississippi River and of the portion of Louisiana lying east of that river assembled at fan Francisco in the sixth annual session of the Transralsslsslppl Commercial Congress. The object of the Congress is to consider questions relating to irrigation, arid lands, the silver issue, mining laws, public lands, matters relating to the department of the interior and to the Pacific and Gulf coasts, as well as the question of the Nicaragua Cana!. Over twenty 6tates wers represented. W. J. McConnell, of Boise City, Idaho, was the President of the Congress. Death of Von Bulotv. Hans Guido von Bulotv, the distinguished German pianist and composer, is dead, in Cairo, Egypt Von Bulow’s career is one of the most remarkable among those of the great modern masters of music in Europe. He was born at Dresden, Jan. 8, 1830. Unlike many other famous artists und creators in his field of art he did not give In early childhood the slightest indication of the remarkable gifts with which nature had endowed him. It was not until after a •erious Illness of brain fever iu his ninth year that he evinced a taste for musical study.

Mr*. Goodwin Gets a Verdict for $5,000. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, in the case of Mrs. Artie Goodwin of Chicago against the Providence Savings Life Assurance Soci. ety of New York and the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, also of New York, to recover on policies held by her husband, Matt Goodwin, amounting to $5,000 at the the time of his death in Chicago in November. 1891, the jury returned a verdict of $5,000, with Interest amounting to S6OO. The trial occupied two weeks and eminent counsel were engaged on both sides Kissed by a Widow. A sensation was developed in the Haley murder case at Dubuque when Mrs. Fanning, a widow employed in the bberiff’s office, was discharged for rushing upon Hugh Robbard in the courthouse corridor and kissing him, at the same time presenting him with a bank note and a basket of fruit, in the bottom of which was found a letter- The scene occurred while Robbard and Halley were being taken from the crowded court room to the jail. Robbard is under life sentence for murdering Policeman Frith. Bonanza on a Farm in Indiana. Two experts from Chicago, who have been in Brazil, Ind.;"for the past few days examining the ore''found on M. W. Carpenter’s farm, south of the city, claim It is rich with gold and silver. In examining the location where the ore waq found they discovered that the ground was fullof the precious metal, which means thousands of dollars for Mr. Carpenter. Burled In a Coal Pit. Thirteen lives were lost in a mine at Plymouth. Pa. The men were caught by a cave-in. All the victims, with the exception of two. have families. One of those lost his wife only a month ago, and four little children survive them. Consequently the disaster may throw eleven widows add thirty-six children on the world's charity Turkey Concludes to Yield. Constantinople advlcessay that United States Minister Alexander W. Terrell, after taking a.-vigorous stand in the matter and threatening to ask the United States Government, to send one or more war ships to Iskanderum. Northern Syria, 3 ' Bushwhacked Farmer Ford. Twenty miles from Brenham, Texas, Wednesday night, Peter Ford, a well-to-do farmer 60 years old. while sitting in his house was fired upon and killed by some one In the dark outside. Son-in-law Andrew Washington, who has long desired to get possession of Atbe old man’s property, has been arrested!Uiarged with the crime Frwoeh Buffer Defeat. A dispatch received In Paris from the Governor of Senegal states that a French lying column is reported to have been surprised by the Tawregas, near Tlmbuotoo, and defeated. No further details are «toe»

PLOT TO KILL PEIXOTO. Reported Conspiracy to Murder the Brazilian President. Advices have reached London from Rio Janeiro that a plot had been discovered to assassinate President Peixoto. Many per-

sons were arrested on ai6hargeof being concerned in the conspiracy and several o f them have been shot. The insurgents in Rio Grar.de do Sul are reported to be approaching Porto Allegro, the 'capital of that state It is dcclarel that the decision of Peixoto to issue n decree calling for

a Presidential election, as well as for an election fpr members of Congress, was only reached after the Pro-ldent had been badly frightened by the dl-covery of the potto uiurier him. Influential people. Including several officers, aro said to have bccu among the conspirators. The police arrested the rihg! aders. whose trial Is said to have loilowed closely upon their arrest.

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<-u „-*» -w- -sdecatrs were put to do iijj The bodies of the conspirator* were nastily placed in >he graves by the soldiers composing the firing party, the earth was shoveled upon them, and the soldiers were cautioned not to Sr.y a word about t! q affair under the threat of being shot if they did. The circumstances wete thus kept from the ear of the general public. A number of implicated persi ns, besides those who were killed, were sentenced to long terms of Imprisonment, and those who had property were notified that it had been confiscated for the use of the Government. TRAIN WRECKED 11V ROBBERS. Texas Desperadoes Ditch a Passenger Train and Fire on the Crew. At the high bridge over White Oak bayou, near Houston, Texas, train-wreckers removed the rails and -fish-plates on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. When the passenger train came along the engine passed safely over, but the baggage and mail coaches jumped the track and rolled down the bank, followed by the smoker, which landed on top of them. The wreck presented a frightful appearance. Joe Elliott, a brakeman was sent back to flag a freight train which was soon due. He had not proceeded a hundred yards when a volley from ambush was fired upon him, Four bullets took effect In his body. The crew in the meantime, aided by passengers. were at work extricating the men buried in the wrecked cars, and feared to go to the flagman’s rescue He, however. crawled, bleeding and wounded, back to the train. In the mail car was Lou Morris, the agent, badly braised, and with several bones broken. 11. Hatton, the express messenger, was found In his car with his ribs broken and in a critical condition. J. W. Carter, baggagemaster, was injured about the head and Internally. INGALLS IS CONVERTED. Sam Jones' Preaching Touches the Heart of the Ex-Senator. A special from Nashville, Tenn., says; There was a striking scene In the Gospel Tabernacle here Thursday night The Rev.

Bam Jones, the noted Georgia evangelist, is preaching there, and in his audience was exSenator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas. The ex-Sena-tor was deeply interested in Mr. Jones' remarks, and when the. call was made for thoso who had repen ed and wanted to lead better lives to come forward and shake bis hand, the first to respond was the ex-Senator. “Mr.

Jones,” he said, “your sermon has moved me. I indorse every word you have said.” “May God bless you,” was the evangelist's response, and the dramatic scene closed.

SAYS WAR WILL ENSUE. Wllliar-. Uses Strong Language in Urging _ Acceptance of Russian Treaty. Berlin advices say that the statement is made by a leading National Liberal who was present at Chancellor von Caprivi’s recent soiree that the Emperor’s language in urging the necessity of the Russian treaty was too strong to be reproduced in the Berlin papers. According to the Associated Press correspondent’s Informant the Emperor said that if the treaty was not adopted Germany would have war with Russia before three months had passed. Russia, the Emperor continued, waff bent upon the treaty aud the Czar was identified with it and would not stand its rejection, now that ho regarded the recent action as an inimical step upon the part of Germany.

To Protect the Public, The Chicago authorities are “after” certain stockyards packers whoslaughter diseased cattle and place the meat on sale. It has come to the attention of the city health department that the present method of inspection is faulty in the extreme. Persuasion and threats have alike failed to provide sufficient protection to the public in the matter of i reparing meat for the market. As a last resort the city has taken up a big cudgel that will bring about the desired result or stop the slaughter of cattle. The license of every violater of the law will be revoked by order of the Mayor, and there wijl be no discrimination. For years the city has had to fight this evIL It comes up regularly for discussion. Previously the matter has been publicly agitated. This year it has heen considered quietly. About a month ago Governor Altgeld and Health Commissioner Reynolds visited the stockyards to investigate for themselves They found that lumpy-jaw cattle were being killed and the meat sold to retailers by certain unscrupulous stockyards butchers About this time the live stock exchange took up the subject and appointed a committee to report on it The investigation proved that the city and* State officials Were right in their complaints.

Near to a Panic in India. The London Financial News, commenting upon the silver situation, says that the Indian Government must see that if it persists in its currency policy ruin to the commerce and credit of India will be the result. The closing of the mints was a colossal blunder. The small quantity of bills sold at the end of the export season Implies, if continued, that England’s credit will have to be employed to avert the bankruptcy of India. Sheriff Found STO of Assets. The failure of the Exchange Bank at Seville, Ohio, owned by Weideman, Shaw & Co., will, a dispatch says, involve more than was at first announced. The liabilities will reach $50,000. The Sheriff made a levy on the bank Wednesday and found only S7O in the vault \ Big Demand for Steel. The Iron Trade Review this week says: The market for soft steel has furnished further encouraging indications, the past week, and an advance of from 50 to 75 cents over the lowest prides' touched has taken place. 1 Parisians Smothered. By the explosion In Paris of a large carboy of snlpburet of carbon eight fireme n ••re Instantly smotbared and burnsd to

death and seventeen workmen were seriously Injured. The men were called oot to a fire in a building on the Rue de Neulliy. The fire started in the basement, which contained much Inflammable material, b-sldee a large quantity of drags, chemicals and ollt Ihe firemen broke Into the basement and with the workmen wera bard at work removing goods in order to give them a better chance to fight the fire. They had succeeded in getting an opening and were playing on the fire with a line of hose when the carboy exploded. The stuff ignited at once and filled the basement with flames and suffocating vapors. Pieces of broken casks flew in every direction and added to the horror. The eight men working with the hose line were completely envelop ‘d by the flames and vapors and were all dead before assistance could reach them. Other workmen, many of whom were nWar the carboy, were horribly burned and disfigured. FOUR FROM ONE FAMILY. Secret-Service Men Capture a Gang of Brooklyn Counter eitent. The special agent of the United States secret service, with the assistance of two deputy marshals, raided a counterfeiters’ den at 022 Atlantic avenue. Brooklyn, and made fout arrests They took into cus•oJy Carlo Buanadonna, and Josephine, Annie and Dnffield Lament, the lust ihreo being mother, daughter and son. Duffield Lamont Is only 1> years old. In ihelr apartments in the. rear of a “dummy” barber shop the officers found thousands of counterfeit d mes and quarters, plaster molds, crucibles, and nil the necessary Counterfeit paraphernalia. The prisoners *Vr« arraigned before United States Commissioner Mor’.e, In Brooklyn, and held in $2,500 hail for examination. shey were compiHlcd to Street jail The agent theft Tvcht t 6 New York City and ar- J rested Albert Lamont, another sort of Josephine, In his father’s grocery store. These persons have beou vutebed by agent and his men for several weekst Their victims were all small store keepers. Albert Lamont Was taken to Brooklyn and locked up with his alleged confederates This Is the third gang of counterfeiters captured In Brooklyn within a fortnight.

SMALLPOX STRIKES THE SISTERS. Faithful Attendants at the Chicago PestHouse Fall lIL The faithful Sisters of Charity who have been nursing the patients at the hospital for contagious diseases in Chicago have been themselves stricken with smallptx. Two aro down with the disease, one being so seriously sick that her life Is despaired of, the other quite ill, but not dangerously so. These sick nurses are Sister Kate fchleich and Sister Albina Hummert. Sister Hutncnert has the disease in Its worst form, and it is very doubtful if she will recover. Sister Schleich Is not as HI as her comrade, and It Is thought she will recover. There are now ninety-one cases of the disease In the hospital, not including the two sick Sisters. There were 342 cases of the disease In the hospital during the month of January. Daring this month the average number of ne w cases per day has boen about four.

ALLOWED TO DISMISS THEIR CASES. The Peters Actions Against the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Are Ended. At the annual meeting of the Kansas City Live Stock. Exchange, E. W. Peters and W. G. Peters were allowed to dismiss their cases against the exchange on'the payment of costa This was virtually the last act In the disposal of the celebrated American Live Stock Commission Company’s charges, which has been running the course of the courts during the last few years, and which has in every instance'proved to be a signal victory for the exchange. It was tho caso wherein the Peters Brothers, representing the American company, sought to enjoin the exchange from enforcing the rule against dividing commissions. Insane Woman at the Throttle. Miss Emma Moulton, of Findlay, Ohio, while temporarily insane from the effects of an attack of tho grip, jumped out of bed, throw up a window, and leaped to the ground, a distance of some ten feet. Before she could be stopped she bad clamberod over a fence, run almost half a mile into the yards of the Ohio Central Railroad, and dashed Into the cab of a yard engine, which was temporarily deserted by its crew. The insane woman pulled on a lever, and started out of the yards toward Toledo. She evidently did not understand the working of the locomotive, for she was unable to send the engine forward at a high rate of speed, and was overtaken before the engine was far out of the yards.

Victoria Still Reigns. Queen Victoria, who is temporarily sojourning at Osborne House, heHresldence on the Isle of AVight, is enjoying good health. An unfounded rumor In some manner gained currency and was widely disseminated that her Majesty was dead, and from all parts of the world inquiries have been received. Tuesday evening she gave a large dinner party at which were present Empress Frederick of Germany, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their daughters, Princesses Victoria and Maud, and Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg. No doctor has been seen in attendance upon the Queen for some time except her household physician. Dr. James Reid, who was prosent at the dinner last night. Girls Are Going to Carry Canes. The young ladles of AVesleyan College have created a mild sensation by announcing that they will carry caues. Many Deaths from Cholera. There has been a recrudescence of cholera at AVarsaw, and many deaths have occurred.

PEIXOTO.

JOHN J. INGALLS.