Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — ONE MAN WHIPS FIVE. [ARTICLE]

ONE MAN WHIPS FIVE.

DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH BURGLARS. lowa Lover* Opposed by Their Parents, 1 Hang from the Same Limb—Kossuth, the Hungarian Patriot, Is Dead—Record of Disaster. Hot Reception to Thieves. ~ Five armed robbers entered Philip Jacobs' saloon at Chicago at a late hour Tuesday night, and at the point of their pistols boldly demanded the money from the till. Single handed, Proprietor Jacobs, who was standing behind the bar, resisted them. He drew a brace of revolvers A desperate battle was waged between the six men. only ending when two of the robber* had been shot and one severely cut by the flying glassware. Four of the robbers got away. One man. who has been partially identified'as a member of the gang, Is loc <ed up at the Stanton avenue station, wounded. The police think that two of the other robbers, who were also shot, will be captured. They will need to have their wounds bound up. One of them was hit by four bullets, and Is believed to be dangerously If not mortally hurt DEATH IN A FREIGHT WRECK. Two Men from Chicago Killed In a SmashUp on the Nickel Plate. A Nickel Plate freight train broke in two two miles west of Fort Wayne. The two sections came together with a crash, and two cars, loaded with oats, were telescoped. John Mulqueen and Harry Leroy, both from Chicago, were Instantly killed. It is suppo ed they were stealing a ride. The record of the Idaho division of the Union Pacific Road for the last week has been one of floods and washouts A Nampa dispatch says: No trains have been able to get through since a week ago, but arrangements are now completed for transferring at Owyhee The first delay was caused by a landslide near Mountain Home. Three tramps were killed and the engineer Injured. Great damage was then done by the breaking of the Orchard irrigation dam. The wreck of a freight train at Huntington and another flood between Shoshone and Pocatello complete the mishaps. The great amount of snow In the mountains and a Chinook wind has made It impossible for stages to reach Silver City or Idaho City for several day%

SECRET CONFERENCE HELD. Cripple Creek Mine-Owners Will the Strikers. A secret conference of mine-owners has been held, at which the situation at Cripple Creek, Cot, was thoroughly discussed. They are determined to adhere to the original schedule of nine hours at S 3, and will have nothing to do with a compromise, Baying that the matter Is now In, the courts. The Sheriff has put the Governor on record by sending him a telegram stat- 1 ing the serious consequences likely to ensue If the militia forces were withdrawn. The owners have also memorialized the Government, asking that the troops be retained to protect life and property. GOV. RICH SUSTAINED. Michigan Supreme Court Indorses the Removal of State Officers. The Michigan Supreme Court rendered a decision sustaining Governor Rich In removing Secretary of State Joachim, State Treasurer Hambltzer and Land Commissioner Berry for gross negligence In failing personally to canvass the returns of the amendment election of 1893. The court holds that it was within the power of the Governor to remove such officials under the Constitution and he has power to determine the facts. A judgment of ouster is entered. WANT BLAND'S BILL VETOED. Boston Bankers Urge President Cleveland Not to Sign It. A document signed by over fifty prominent Boston bankers has been forwarded to President Cleveland urging upon him the necessity of refusing to sign the seigniorage bill and stating that it will ruin the banking business, create distrust and In a measure ruin the financial standing of the country. Such firms as Kidder. Peabody & Co., Lie, Higginson & Co and many others of equal prominence aresigners of the document.

An lowa Tragedy. The bodies of John Reed and Etta Shaw, son and daughter of Cyrus Reed and John Shaw, respectively, farmers near Oskaloosa, lowa, were found late Monday night hanging from a limb of a tree near their horses, eight miles from the city. Their parents refused to permit them to marry on account of their youth. The deed was probably committed Sunday night, when they were last seen driving in the neighborhood. They unhitched the horses, and, standing In the buggy, threw a rope across a limb, and tying one end to each of their necks swung off Into eternity. Hungarian Patriot Dies in Exile. Louis Kossuth, the exiled Hungarian patriot, died at Turin at 10:55 Tuesday evening, after a long illness. His end was extremely painful He showed signs of consciousness until the last He expired In the arms of his son, and died pressing the hand of the Hungarian Deputy, KarolyL The members of his family and a few of his Intimate friends stood around the bedside of the expiring patriot Editor Rosewater Held for LlbeL E. Rosewater, of Omaha, accused of libeling Mrs. George A. Bennett was bound over by Judge Btorka to the District Court in the sum of S7OO. Treaty Goes Through. The German Reichstag passed the RussoGerman commercial treaty by a large majority. Opposed to the Tax. The Building Association League of Pennsylvania has appointed a committee to prepare and forward to Congress and members of affiliated organizations a memorial praying for the defeat of the proposed clause of the Wilson bill imposing * tax on building associations. Before the Committee. Democratic members of the Finance Commlttee having completed consideration of the tariff bill, It was. submitted to the full committee of Democrats and Republicans Tuesday. The most important change made In the bill Is In the sugar schedule, ' Father and Children Are Killed. At Dresden, Ont, the boiler In the Vales planing mill exploded Monday evening, killing, Adam Cornell, the engineer,’ and his thrfee children, who chanced to Igs with him at the tlma The force of the explosion hurled the boiler 100 feet Cornell’s wife. In Detroit is so overcome with grief that her Jlfe is despaired ot Cyclone on the Strip. Particulars have been received of a disastrous storm which devastated a small •action of the country In the Cherokee Strip, southwest of Pawnee. After a heavy rala the cyclone blew terribly for about tan minutes, leveling everything before it.

t UNION DEPOT BURNRp. Denver's handsome Stone Building Vnlned at •300,000 Totally Destroyed. The Denver Union Depot was totally destroyed by lire Sunday morning, tbe loss being $300,090. The flames were discovered at 12:30 a. m. In tbe baggage department In the sor.tb end of the building. At 1 o’clock It reached the central portion of the building and in a few momenta the tower was In flames, and portions of It began to fall This caused the northern portion to take fire. The walls in many places fell In. The entire city was Illuminated. Tsenty streams of water were playing on the burning building at a point where the flames were advancing, but It was impossible to save it, and threequarters of an hour from the time the blaze was first discovered the handsomest and most costly depot structure 'ln the West was in ruins The depot was about 800 feet long and was built about twelve years aga It was built of stone. JEERED BY COLLEGE BOYS. Comstock Lectures In New Haven and Meets with Rough Treatment. Anthony Comstock lectured on the street to a crowd of New Haven, Conn., boys on “The Evils of Drunkenness and Dime Novel Reading." Several thousand boys gathered around Mr. Comstock and cheered and made such a noise his talk could not be heard. Some Yale students were attracted to the lecturer and finally rushed at him and handled him in a rough manner, putting their arms around his neck and rushing him out Into the street, amid the cries of the mob of boys and others who were attracted by the excitement. There was no police interference. EMPRESS EUGENIE'S CROWN. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Said to Have Bought It for #300,000. It is reported that Mrs. William IL Vanderbilt has bought a wonderful crown which once adorned the brow of the Empress Eugenie. It is described as a marvel of workmanship, which cost Mrs. Vanderbilt $300,000. It contains 2,000 stones, finely mounted in old sliver, lined with gold. The crown Is made in imitation of violet leaves surrounding a bunch of violets. It measures twelve Inches in circumference. Non-Suit at Madison. The sensational roster suit at Madison, 1 Wia, came to a precipitate termination Thursday afternoon when non-suit was granted without even the formality of an argument by the defense In support of the motion. The big room was crowded, as it was “in the air” that "tlie trial was ap« preaching a climax. The end was not unexpected. It was presaged by a vital ruling made by the Judge before the noon recess, wherein he held that the plaintiffs who were suing as the victims of a fraud were perfectly well aware of the enormous profits Involved In the roster contract, which they bought and that the determination of such knowledge wae a question of law for the court and not a fact for the jury. He further held that the objection of the defense to the Introduction of evidence showing those excessive profits must be sustained.

Gold Found in Great Grains. Since the discovery of the rich placer beds at Torres, Mexico, many prospect borings are being sunk. The gold comes up on the auger as largo as grains of w'heat and thq soil gives evidence of being as rich In gold as any over discovered In Mexico. Native and American prospectors are flocking In by the hundreds and many are meeting with good results, although they are jealously watched by the Indiana . Test of Tuberculosis. Professor Otto Lugger, In charge of the Minnesota Experimental Station at St Anthony Park, has discovered what is likely to prove a valuable test for tuberculosis In cattle. Numerous experiments show that if the animal Is healthy no rise In temperature will follow the Injection of Koch’s lymph, whjle If afflicted with tuberculosis, even In its Incipient stages, there Is an Instant rise In temperature Decline In Values. R. G. Dun & Co. ’s Weekly Review of Trade says: Prices of commodities are this week on the whole the lowest of which there Is any record, having declined 12 per cent In March, and averaging 11.8 per cent, lower than a year ago. so that more than a third of the decrease In volume of all payments is due to decline In prices of things consumed. Five Deaths Caused by a Tornado. A tornado swept over portions of Brown and Coleman Counties. Texas, wrecking buildings and leveling fences. At Trickham, in Coleman County, W. D. Watson's house was razed to the ground. Mrs. Watson and four children were killed outright An infant escaped unhurt while Watson’s Injuries will prove fatal. Kentucky Miners War. The trouble at the Middlesborough (Ky.) mines continues The tragedy of Tuesday, in which Ike Miller, a union man, killed a non-union miner, was followed Wednesday night by another shooting affraA, In which Bill Lasley shot H. Collins, a non-union man. Crazy and Bound for Dublin. John O’Neill, of Napa, Cat, became demented on an eastbound Union Pacific train and was placed In a hospital at Laramie, Wyo. He had a through ticket to Dublin, Ireland, and also a draft on the Bank of Dublin for £BO, besides about SIOO in currency. No Rebates. The fruit Importers of New Orleans have organized an association and agreed to reject the claims of customers In other cities for damaged fruit