Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — CAMPED ON HIS TRAIL. [ARTICLE]

CAMPED ON HIS TRAIL.

STORY OF RELENTLESS COREAN VENGEANCE. End of the “Financial Napoleoa*’—Chicago Alarmed at the Spread of Small-Pox—To Dispense with the Smaller Custom Houses. A Tale from the Orient. Balzac or Gaboriau never wrote a more thrilling story of long pursuit and successful revenge than comes by the China steamer in accounts of the assassination In Shanghai of Kim Ok Kim, the Corean refugee It cccurred in a foreign hotel in the European settlement. and the assassin. Hung, was arrested and held for trial. Hung camped on Kim’s trail for six years is the hope of getting him outside of Japan. While in the pay of the Corean court he cultivated the acquaintance of Kim, who had lived at Toklo for several years under a Japanese name Hung induced a Corean exile, who owed Kim a large sum of money, to write offering to pay the old account with interest if Kim come to Shanghai. The Trial will probably" show that the court promised the assassin a big reward for removing a dangerous conspirator whom the Japanese government had saved from their vengeance for ten years. Kim was the ablest Corean who has come to the front since the hermit kingdom was opened to foreigners He spoke Japanese, Chinese, French and German fluently.

TO ABOLISH USELESS OFFICES. Proposed Plan to Do Away with a Number of Small Custom-Houses. Some legislation is probable during the present Congress looking to the abolition of the offices of collectors of customs at a, number of the smaller ports and the transferring of the business to the larger offices. It is asserted that the expense of maintaining the smaller custom-houses is unnecessary jiiid,many times results in actual loss of revenue on account of the Inexperience of officials. A bill Is now before the House Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department which proposes to discontinue the office of collector of customs at over forty of the smaller ports. Including Burlington. Iowa; Galena, III; La Crosse, Wis ; Grand Haven. Mich., and Rock Island. HL Assistant Secretary Hamblin reports that with the exception of Brownsville and Corpus Christi. Texas, there appears no objection to the, continuance of forty ports named. He also favors a more comprehensive measure authorizing the consolidation of some of the districts in the interests ot economy. The total receipts for the fiscal year 1893 at all the ports named in the bill, excepting Brownsville and Corpus Christi, were $5,097 and the expenses SBO,601, an excess ot expenses over receipts of $ 5,504. SMALL-POX IN CHICAGO. - The Health Department Unable to Care < for the Victims. is raging In Chicago, and the city and the county stand, for the nonce, helpless before the pest There are ten cases of the hideous disease in the county hospital and that great institution Is under quarantine. No patients can be taken into It; no patients can be discharged from it The small-pox, accoeling to a dispatch, is worse than at any time during this visitation and is increasing daily. For the first time the officials of the city and the county have become seriously alarmed, aud while every measure possible Is being taken to estop*the progress of the disease among the people the officers are really TmbarrasseS and there seems to be a disposition to stammer and halt among them. On all sides the situation looks black and it Is getting blacker every day. ? HENRI S. IVES IS DEAD.

The Railroad Wrecker Dlen of Consumption in North Carolina. Henry S. Ives the railroad wrecker, died near Asheville. N. C. at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday night, ot cnisumptlon. Ives had been In ill" health for months. Last winter he epent some time at Tampa, Florida. He was then a physical wreck. Ives was but 30 years of age, yet he had gained the name of being the wildest speculator and most unprincipled ra> cal that ever operated in railroad stocks. In 1882, when but 18 years of age, he was employed as spittoon clc»aner and sweeper In the New York office of Harper & Bros His rise was phenomenal, and his daring was equaled only by hfs criminality. He wrecked the fortunes of many men, several railroadsand his own; and by a career of wild dissipation ruined his own health. He came from Litchfield, Ct. Strong Box Rifled. Dr. A E. Evans’ box in the vaults of the Commercial Safety Deposit Company, Chicago, was robbed ot $4,270. How the robbery was accomplished neither the doctor nor the officers of the safety deposit company claim to be able to explain, suspicion fell on Dr. Evans’ office boy, Wallace Galbraith, and his friend, Richard I’arsona They were arrested Friday at Buffalo, N. Y. Shooting at Indianapolis. The law office of Miller, Winter & Elam, In Indianapolis, was the scene of a sensational shooting. W. B. Copeland, of Madison, Ind., shot Addison Q Harris in the arm, inflicting a painful wound. He also ■hot W. H. Bruning, of Madison, in ths face. Mr. Harris is one of the most prominent lawyers In the State and Is one of the Iron Hall attorneys. Children Crushed to Death. The celling of Riverside school, in Point 6t Charles, a Montreal suburb, collapsed. Three children were crushed to death and aevefal wounded. i -

Piano-Maker Knabe Dies. Ernest Knabe, the noted piano manufacturer, died Tuesday afternoon st Baltimore. Balm for a Broken Heart. At Findlay, Ohio, In the breach of promise case of Emma Martin against Dr. Lorenzo Firmin, the jury returned a verdict In favor of the plaintiff for 11,000. The peculiarity of the case lies In the fact that the defendant is 03 years old and was only recently married to a young woman. Strike May Spread. An officer of the A. R. U. says that the first move made by the Great Northern to hire non-union men will be met by a strike on the Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific lines, thus blocking absolutely all traffic . ;Vt ■< - b•' A ■ One Million Loes. The plant of the American Glucose Company burned Thursday night at Buffalo The loss will be about $1,000,000, The Insurance is KBMOOI All but twelve of the sixty men employed In the building at qhrht have been accounted for, It is feared that they are in the ruins Russell Sage to Appeal. The papers are being prepared in the appeal Of Bussell Sage from the verdict assessing him in dsmages to the tune of $2«.for making a target of Bookkeeper Laidlaw when Norcross, tl.e anarchist, attempted io blow the financier to pieces with a djaamlte bomb

DECREASE IN FAILURES. Favoaablw Progress Has Been Interrupted, but the Outlook Is HopefoL R. G. Dun &■ Ca’a Weekly Beriev of Trade says: Business Improvement meets many obstacles and Is scarcely as distinct as It has been in recent weeks. Strikes have checked the improvement in building and in some other trades, and scarcity of coke has caused closing of some Iron works. while a strike of all bituminous coal miners la ordered, and may prove serloua More favorable crop reports than were expected, which justify larger hope for next fall, have arrested the upward tendency in prices of product! The renewal of gold exports occasions soma disquiet, but the gradual exhaustion of goods in the hands of dealers makes the consumption of the people more distinctly felt and apparently larger, and thia demand increases with the gain in number of hands at work. It cannot be said that the uncertainty as to the future has materially diminished, but there is evident a growing impression that there will be no important legislation on the currency or the tariff. This impression, whether erroneousjor not, influences the action of many. On the whole, though progress is still obstructed by uncertainties, it has not been arrested. The most cheering sign is the decrease in importance of commercial failures.

LAKE ERIE DRAINED OF FISH. Many of the Ohio Companies Are Seeking New Fields. A few days ago nine carloads of fishing nets, a small tug and other fishing appar- ' atus were shipped from Sandusky to a point near the Lake of the Woods, on the boundary line between the United States and Manitoba. The shipper was the Sandusky £ompany A whijb is compose! of the combined fish companies of that city. Lake Erie is said to have been drained of fish, there being too many fishermen for the stock. Nothing but soft or the least desirable fish remain and the company goes north under the belief that great quantities of whitefish and sturgeon are to be had with comparative ease. It is said that other fishing companies along the north coast of Lake Erie will soon follow suit, returning to Lake Erie when cold weather sets in in the North. None of the Toledo companies will go this year, but will probably do so If Lake Erie should not make a better showing by next spring. DEATH OF SENATOR VANCE. The Distinguished North Carolinian Passe, Away at Washington. Senator Vance, of North Carolina, died at his residence, Na 1726 Massachusetts avenue, Washington. D. C., at 10:40 o’clock Saturday night. He had a stroke of apoplexy In ths morning. He had been suffering for some time from paralysis and a complication of diseases, but the end was sudden and unexpected, as he was regaining his health and It was thought was on the road to recovery. He was compelled during the winter to leave the Senate and ga to Florida. Here he grew ao me what better, and in view'of the struggle over the tariff he returned to Washington. He was a member of the Committee on Finance, but took little or no part in framing the present tariff bilL His last appearance In the Senate was eight weeks aga

NOT A SOUL ON BOARD. Abandoned Schooner Ashore at Newburyport—Crew Believed to Have Been Lost. The schooner Jennie M. Carter, bound for Philadelphia with a cargo of pavingstones, went ashore at Newburyport, Mass., without a soul aboard, and it Is believed the entire crew has perished. When first seen her sails were In ribbons and her jibboom and bowsprit were gone. Her rudder was "’also missing aud the vessel was drifting at the mercy ot the terrible seas toward Sand Beach. In half an hour she struck and was soon pounding herself to piece! When she was boarded no one was fonnd aboard. A large threemasted schooner is ashore at Salisbury Beach, and two bodies have been washed ashore. BIG STRIKE BEGUN. Great Northern Road from Larimore to Spokane Tied Up. , A general strike on the Great Northern Railway extending from Larimore, N. D.. to Spokane, Wash., on the main line, and from Havre to Butte, on the Montana Central. was Inaugurated at noon Friday. Nearly 1,503 miles of road are tied up. The strike embrace! all classes of employe! Every conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, operator, clerk, shopman, section man, car repairer, and coal heaver between the points named quit work together, and the switchmen with the exception of those employed In the Butte yard. Blow at Breckinridge. The Now Albany Presbytery took action in the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal and adopted resolutions to be presented at the general assembly, which meets at Saratoga next May, asking that mon of dissolute and immoral habits be excluded from the national councils. Mello Takes Rio Grande City. Dr. Silveira Martine, the Brazilian revolutionist at Montevideo, received a telegram saying that the insurgent forces under Admiral de Mello have occupied Rio Grande City. St. Lonis Millionaire Dead. The richest man In Missouri, John T. Davis, merchant prince and owner of the largest dry goods trades in the Country, died In St Louis Friday of kidney disease. McKsne’s Last Hope Gone. Judge (Lacombe, of the United States Court at New York, has denied the writ ot habeas corpus asked for in the case of John Y. McKane.