Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — LIKE A WHITE MAN. [ARTICLE]

LIKE A WHITE MAN.

CHASKA, THE SIOUX, DESERTS HIS WIFE AND ELOPES. Close Call for Rochester Lunatics—Pennsylvania Elections—Chicago Agony Ended—Death of a Famous Satirist —Furious Feud at Houston, Texas. Mrs. Chaska Deserted. The fact has become public that Mrs. Cora Bell Chaska, who created a sensation about three years .go by marrying Chaska. a Santee Indian, has been abandoned by her coj per-skinne 1 husband, and is .new living aith her half-breed children in Southern Nebraska. To make matters worse. Chaska has taken an Indian wife and is living openly with her ont he Santee reservation. 3he attention of the Indian Department at Washington**ill be called to the matter. BULLETS FLEW FAST. Four People Killed as an Outcome of a Texas Feud. James R. Mitchell shot and killed four people at Houston. Texas, and injured several others, as an outcome of the Fort Bend feud murder case. Milton Sparks and D. I. Sution, constable of Eagle Luke, were in the city as attached witnesses in the case, and Mrs. Sparks accompanied her husband. This engendered bad blood and Mitchell, who was waiting for his father and brother from Richmond, espied Sutton. He opened fire, which was promptly returned, Sutton failing after firing a second shot. Mitchell kept up his murderous fusillade until he had fired six shots. The result , was that. In addition to Sutton being killed. Milton Sparks was shot io death and , Dan Gleason, an omnibus driver, also lies ; dead, Mrs. Sparks, wife of the murdered , man, was badly wounded, as was also a ! child she carried. A brother of Sparks was mortally wounded, and Mrs. McDowell, an aged lady, received one of the bullets, and her chances of recovery are slim. A dispatch says: It is pretty evident that Sutton killed Gleason, while Mitchell killed Sutton. Milton Sparks and the baby, mortally wounded Sparks’ brother, and shot Mrs. McDowell. INMATES IN A PANIC. State Hospital at Rochester, N. Y., Burned to the Ground. The Rochester State Hospital at Rochester, N. Y., was burned the other morning. The flames spread rapidly, owing to the lack of water, and the building was destroyed. From the moment vhen the first alarm was given the inmates were in a state of Intense excitement. Their shouts and cries for aid were pitiful. The safety of the inmates demanded their removal, which was accomplished without loss of life. Ihe burned building was a fourstory brick structure, 100 by 70 feet in dimensions, and was built fifteen years ago. Dr. Howard, warden of the institution, says the loss will amount to $120,000. There is no insurance. At she time the fire broke out there were in the building 220 male inmates, 213 female inmates, and 110 keepers and officia’s.

Offices for Chicago. President Cleveland sent tbe Chicago nominations of Collector of Customs, Subtreasurer, Appraiser and Marshal to the Senate Tuesday afternoon. Only one of the appointments had been asked by Senator Palmer. The other three are acceptable to the Senator, although they are not his candidate,. These are the nominations transmitted: Collector of Customs, Martin J. Russell; Subtreasurer, Delos P. Phelps; Appraiser, Frank G. lloyne; Marshal, J. W. Arnold. In the same batch of nominations a new Collector of Internal Revenue for the Peoria district, J, W. Hunter, who was Senator Palmer’s candidate, was named. Too Much Beer Aboard. While the members of the Eleventh Ward Club_ of Philadelphia, were celebrating the victory of Its Councllmanic candidates Tuesday a frame annex to the club house collapse! Several barrels of beer had been brought Into the annex, and this additional weight. Is supposed to have caused the accident Thirteen men were seriously injured and several more received slight bruises. The victorious candidates had left the rooms only a few minutes before the accident occurred.

Great Cartoonist Dead. Joseph Keppler, the great caricaturist, editor and part owner of Puck, died at his New York home. In the 56th year of his age. Mr. Keppler had been sick for six months with an affection of the spine complicated with lung trouble. It Is believed that this was brought on largely by Dis labors in Chicago during the World’s Fair, where he conducted and personally supervised the production of a World s Fair edition of Puck on the Fair grounds. Woman Suffrage Officers. The woman suffrage convention, in session at the National Capital, elected the following officers: Susan B. Anthony, President: Rev. Anna Shaw, of Philadelphia, Vice President at large; Rachel Foster Avery, of Philadelphia. Corresponding Secretary; Mrs, Harriet Taylor Upton, of Ohio, 'treasurer, and Mrs. Ellen B. Dietrick, of Boston, and Josephine K. Henry, of Kentucky, Auditors. Pawn-Broker Robbed. At gan Francisco, the residence of Simon Jacobson, a money-lender, was entered by burglars while the occupants were asleep and about $12,000 in coin was taken. Seven Men in Agony. Frank Baur is at St Elizabeth’s Hospital suffering with burns which will probably cause his death, and six other men are nursing badly burned hands and faces as a result of an explosion caused by an unruly horse kicking over a large can of gasoline In Patrick Ryan’s blacksmith shop, at Chicago. Cyclone Kills a Woman. A destructive cyclone passed over a part of Bradley County, Arkansas. A number of dwellings, barns and out-houses were demolished and much farm property damaged or destroyed. The aged mother of Dennis Crosby was killed and all the other members of the ifamily were more or less seriously hurt Losses Were Heavy on Both Sides. Manuel Bonilla’s forces have been routed near Juzoran by Gen. VUlela. They were pursued to Corpus, where they were reenforced, and another battle took place, when Vlllela In turn was obliged toreireat The lopswas heavy on both sides. Indiana Republicans Meet Ex-President Benjamin Harrison made a political speech before the Indiana Lincoln League at Its meeting In Indianapolis, the first political speeeh he has made since his retirement from the Presidency. By some his action Is regarded as significant df a kindling desire for a renomln-tlon. Three Times Wed to the Same Woman. Thomas Courtney, of Waynetown. Ind., waa married Thursday evening for the third time to the seme woman. The con pie Jha’« been divorced twice, the woman securing ftfe divorces after protracted trials The man in both initances has again asked the woman to remarry him.

ONE MORE FAIR FIRE. Part of the Illinois State Building and Ita Content, Consumed. Jackson Park Imoadlarles deserted the group of bi; World’s Fair structures Sunday and attacked the Illinois Building. The fire-boat and the engines kept in the p,rk were too close to the crumbling palaces around the grand basin to give a fire much of a chance, so the incendiaries moved north and dropped their matche> in a section where railroad tracks and deep snow might impede tbe engines. As a fire It was not so successful as Its three forerunners, but It was much greater in possibilities. Whoever lighted It was animated by aspinitof criminal recklessness, if not bjr actual fiendish destructiveness The Art Building—now the storehouse of the Columbian Museum treasures —was tbreaiened. At one time its roof was Nothing but pr nipt work by volunteers saved this best of the fair buildings from serious damage and prevented what might have easily become the worst fire, in a monetary measure. Jacksun Park has had since Nov. 1.

BREAKS ALL RECORDS. Prices Ever Known in Many Products Touched in the Present Week. R. G. Dun & Ca’s Weekly Review cf fTrade says: This has been a week of record breaking. ( In wheat, in silver, hi some forms of iron ,and steel, in Connellsville coke, and in well-known cotton and soo.en goods the lowest prices ever known have been made, and it is gratifying that failures ot importance have not resulted. While no action especially affecting business prospects was taken at Washington the continued 'dlscussicu of revenue and moi etary measures and the uncertainty regarding them ■have a constant unfavorable influence, and indifferent markets have caused sudden fluctuations in prices Wheat at 60J4 cents is not only lower by 4', cents than it was for a single day last year, but lower than It had ever been in the previous seventyseven years. A visible supply of over 79,000,090 bushels Feh 10. with sales and receipts from farms continuing large, has completely destroyed faith in the official reports of the yield last year, and caused enormous liquidation. Receipts last week Were but 1,810.314 bushels, against2.9ol,o4B for the same week last year, but Atlantic exports were only 659.962 bushels, against 1.013.015 last year, and the recent decrease In foreign demand has been an important factor. Some trust companies have .arranged to advance money against wheat as collateral security, but with results not as yet encouraging. Corn and other products fluctuated but little, though receipts of corn were large.

WANDERING IN THE WOODS. E. H. Mann, of Syracuse, N. Y., Remembers Nothing After Boarding a Train. E. H. Mann, the wholesale grocer who mysteriously disappeared recently from the St James Hotel, St Louis, was found wandering aimlessly about the woods near Gurdon, Ark., by two negroes. He wat examined by a physician, and when able to talk said: “My home is la Rochester, N. Y. lam a man of considerable means and have wealthy and prominent relatives living there. Tuesday I was In Houston. Tex., and boarded a train at that point for St Louis. That Is all I know. What may have taken after that Is all blank to ma When I left Houston I had In my possession $l5O in cash and a check for S3OO. I still have the check; of the $153 but s4l remains What became of the rest I do not know. ” ONE HUNDRED TEMA.CHIANS SLAIN. Reports of a Desperate Battle, in Which . the Tribe Suffers Severely. Reports from Old Mexico say that the Temachlani have been about wiped out of exlstenca In addition to the battle which occurred out from the city of Chihuahua some time ago, Government troops to the number of 200 met the rebels south of Elvia, about forty miles south of Casa Grande and 2>o miles south ot Deming, and killed seventy-flve of tho 'I emachlans. Twenty-five were taken prisoners and immediately after the hard fighting wore taken out and shot, a few being sirung up to the trees. The information was brought into the Mormon colony below Palomas and in turn to Deming. The couniry in which the fight occurred is wild and mountainous and, like the Chihuahua defeat, the rebels were caught and killed In a canyon.

Condition of Embarrassed Bank*. Bradstreet’s report of embarrassed banks, by classes and States, for the calendar year 1893. shows a total of 598 (exclusive of South Dakota), owing $170,000.000 and having $184,000,000 assets. Nearly one-third, or 193, have resume'd business, liabilities having been only 566,000,000 and assets $95,000,000. Remaining banks whose doors are still closed number 495. the aggregate debts being $104,000,000 and assets $80,000,000, Thirty-nine Perish. An explosion resulting in the death ot thirty-nine men and the serious wounding of nine others occurred on board the German ironclad Brandenburg near Stollergrund. three miles from the Duelk lighthouse, at the entrance to Kiel Bay. Western Cattle Not Dying. Telegraphic reports from many points 11 Colorado and New Mexico disprove the reports that range stock is dying by thousands on account of the severe weather. It is hardly possible stock will ever agait. suffer as it did in the winter of 1886. Pest-House Nurse Dead. Plater Alvina, one of the two Chicago pest-house nurses who were stricken with small-pox a few days ago, is dead. Rejected Peckham. Peckham’s nomination to the Supremt bench was rejected by the Senate, the vote being 32 for to 41 against.