Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — UNLOAD ON CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

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REASON WHY HER PEST-HOUSE IS OVERFLOWING. Boston Has * Terrible Conflagration—New Torn in the Highbinders* War —WellsFargo Express Cleverly Swindled - mporting British Bituminous CoaL Shameful if True. Chicago health inspectors claim to have secured positive proof Tuesday night that other cities were contributing Inmates for the pesthouse. Several days ago, according to Health Commissioner Reynolds, a colored man walked into the City Hall •who was afflicted with the disease, and ■who stated that the police of Indianapolis had put him on a train and sent him to Chicago. A few days later a woman suffering with small-pox wandered Into the office of the Health Department, and confessed she had been sent from the same city. Tuesday night Commissioner Reynolds was notified that a Bock Island .train was bringing another small-pox patient to Chicago from the Hoosier capital The news came from Peoria in the form of a telegram » filch stated that Katie Kelley had created a sensation at the poormaster’s office during the day by declaring she was suffering with small-pox. and that she had just arrived from Indianapolis, where she had been in the pesthouse with two small-pox patients. The telegram said she was badly broken out. and that the county physician had pronounced her symptoms to be those of smallpox beyond a doubt, She was turned over to the city physician, and, after being detained in the City hall until night, was then put on board a Bock Island train which left Peoria at 11:4a o’clock at night for Chlcuga FIRE SWEEPS BOSTON. Hundreds of Dwellings Burned, Three Thousand People Homeless. A slgarette butt thrown Into a pile of ■Waste paper under the bleachers or 25-cent seats In the Boston base-ball grounds Tuesday afternoon started a fire which destroyed more than 140 buildings occupying about sixteen acres of land in the crowded tenement-bouse section of the south en 1. The money loss is 8600,000, and In all other respects the conflagration Is the most terrible that Boston has seen since fifty acres were burned over in 1872, for more than 000 families are homeless, and they are the kind of families who seldom Indulge in the lu.xuiy of fire Insurance All the buildings on the following entire streets are In ashes: Burke, Coventry, Walpole, Sarstield, all parallel; all of Berlin street, four blocks on each side of Tremont street, three blocks on each side of Cabot street, three blocks on the west side ot Warwick street, and two blocks on. the north side of Newburn street Besides the Hotel WaJpole two apartment houses on Sterling street were burned, three on Western street, two on Hammond Park, two on Windsor street, and all those on Yendlay place.

BOGUS EXPRESS ORDERS. By Means of a Plausible Tale Sharpers Sell Them All Over the Country. An elaborate, but In a great nieasure futile, attempt to defraud by an extensive forgery of express money-orders has been traced to persons In St. Louis, Mo . and it Is expected that all the guilty ones will be In custody In a day or two. The attempt was made on Wells, Fargo & Oo.’s express, and several of the forged orders for small amounts wore cashed before the discovery was made. The bogus papers have been sold In all sections of the country. The operator being a stranger, professes Inability to collect from the company because ot the alleged Impossibility ot Identification as the owner of the money-order. He usually approaches some teputable house or person, and bls story is so plausible and probable thut the draft is disposed of without difficulty, and the operator Immediately disappears. In such cases the loss falls on the purchaser. and no doubt in this direction the aggregate of losses by these sharpers may be large. BRING COAL FROM ENGLAND. New York Contractors Make Use of Low Ocean Rates. There have been 50.000 tons of English and Nova Scotia coal sold to arrive In New York, a portion of which has already been shipped from Cardiff. Liverpool and Glasgow and from Sidney, Nova Scotia The cost Is within 50 cents per ton of the ordinary price of soft steamer coal delivered at New York. The bulk of this has been taken by the companies supplying steamers to fill their contracts. There are negotiations on foot for the purchase ot 190,000 tons more 10 be delivered here between the Ist and 10th of June by the same parties for the same purpose. From this fact It is inferred that the coal companies Intend fighting the strike to the finish.

Highbinder Murders. The battles of warring highbinders in Chinatown, San Francisco, have taken a new turn. The fury of these murdering bands is now being wreaked uton the helpless women who are the slaves of highbinder masters. It has' long been an unwritten law in Chinatown that life should be taken for life, and whenever a highbinder has been murdered the members of his Tong, or society, have invariably taken the life of some Chinese belonging to the Tong whose members were supposed to have done the killing. O’Grady Dying from Remorse. The chances that Dr. Dominick O’Grady, who shot Mary Gilmartin at Cincinnati, April 25, will ever suffer the legal penalty of his crime are remote. The man seems to be dying from remorse He has lost all interest in life, and is living In a semistarving state When brought into court when the lawyers argued his ple iof abatement, he had to be supported In walking, and when seated his head hung in a listless manner. Strikers Building a Fort. The striking miners of Cripple Creek are building a fdrt at the summit of Bull Hill, a stratevlc point commanding a clear view of the Victor and other mines whose owners refuse to pay the union scale of wages, and who, it 1? reported, are preparing to resume work with non-union men protected by an armed forces Harvard Boys Drowned. Some clothing and a part of a wrecked catboat were found on 1 hompson’s Island and an investigation Indicates that a boat hired by tour Harvard students was overturned and.all of them drowned. Chicago Printer Dies on a Train. D. F. Hollo nd. a printer of Chicago, dial a train at the Pittsburg Union station Friday morning. He was on his way t<*> his brother’s home in Sharpsburg. His three brothers were at the depot to receive him. Death ensued just as the train arrived and resulted from consumption. Congressman Dead. Congressman R. T. Brattau died Thun day morning at his home in Princess Anne, Md. The death of Bepresentatlve Brattan had been expected for many weeks; in tact, be had been lingering between life and death ever since the session began. Fright’s disease caused death I

REPULSED THE DEPUTIES. Industrial* Seise a Train and Fight for Its Possession. A fight took place at North Yakima, Wash., between Marshals and Coxeyltes. Deputy Marshals Chidester and Jolllck. of Tacoma, were shot; the latter may die. Twenty shots were fired In the nxlee. Messrs. Savage, Weaver and McAdee. all Seattle citizens, received flesh wounds from revolver shots. “Buck." a Seattle Coxeyite, who was ths leader of the crowd, had two fingers broken with a club Dispatches say that great excitement reigns In Yakima. The fight was the result of a determination on the part of the Coxey men to not leave a train which had been held by them there. The deputies determined to take the train, and charged on the crowd. Ihe industrials swarmed over > 'the train and outnumbered the Marshals, so that' the latter gave up after two attempts to oust the army, and steamed back to Yakima, two miles from the scene of the scuffle, and side-tracked. The Coxey men retreated, breaking a switch and piling rocks on the track, but afterward removed them. As soon as the fight was begun stones were thrown r t the engineer and fireman in an attempt to dislodge them. '1 he train backed into Selah Station. Adjutant Fitting of Seattle went to Yakima from Elldnsburg later on and demanded food and shelter for the army. The City Council granted the army leave to sleep lu the city ball, and food was given them. ROBS THE MAILS. An Unknown Thief RiHes Scores of Chicago Post Boxes. Capt. McGrath, of the free delivery department of the Chicago postoffice, is using every effort to catch a bold thief who has rifled postal letter boxes of hundreds of valuable letters within vheTast few days. The thief is a shrewd one, and the authorities are as far removed from him as ever. In some unaccountable wav the thief has secured possession of a Yale key to the street letter boxes, and. dressed in the full uniform ot a letter carrier, has managed for a few days to carry on bis thievery without suspicion. The districts In which this bogus collector operated, and perhaps Is still operating, include that in the business center—a rich field for thieves of his kind. The tUscovery that such work was going on was made when various authorized collectors opened the boxes at proper Intervals of time and found that their usual contributions were either ifilsslng entirely or had been reduced by the robbery of everything except circulars and other communications not appearing contain anything which promised cash res turns.

HUMAN SOUL IN COURT. Question of Its Immortality Raised In a Buffalo Will Contest. The Surrogate of Erie County, New York, will be compelled to pass upon the question ot the Immortality ot the soul, by reason of a will contest just brought in his court Last January Mrs Catharine Backus died leaving SI,OOO in the bank and several adult children. In her will she bequeathed the whole sum in trust to Nicholas Dashman, to be used by him to pay for masses for the benefit ot the soul of the deceased and her busband. The children have contested the will, their attorney raising the point that tbo soul of Mrs. Backus cannot receive any benefit from masses; that even If it could a soul has no standing In a temporal court and the trust is illegal, because it is not for the benefit of any human being; that the existence of a soul is not subject to proof, and that any trust for the benefit of something which may not even exist is not warranted in law. Sf. ANOTHER BOND ISSUE COMING. If the Gold Reserve Continues to Decrease It Will Be Unavoidable. A Washington dispatch says that the reduction of the treasury gold below J94,000,000 has started a new speculation as to a new bond issue. The temper of Congress is such that no legislation is expected on financial measures, so it Heaves the Secretary with no discretion except to use the means tlio law gives him by selling bonds to replenish the treasury when it is depleted of gold. So far no steps looking toward a bond issue have been taken, and if the gold output ceases none will be necessary. but among well-informed treasury officials, if the present conditions continue, a bond issue in the near future is looked upon as almost unavoidable.

KILLED IN THE WRECK. Fast Express Derailed and Engineer Edgerle Loses His Life. Through passenger train Na 24 of the Illinois Central, north-bound, was wrecked at Buckley, 111. Engineer Samuel Edgerle was Instantly killed. The engine was derailed and turned on its side, and several of the baggage-cars and coaches were derailed. None of the passengers were injured severely, although they were all shaken up and bruised in in the accident. Aside from the engineer none of the trainmen were killed. The fireman sustained severe Injuriea Worked Like Professionals. At 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon seven men armed with Winchesters and revolvers rode Into Southwest City, Mo., and robbed the bank, getting all the money the" bank contained, between $3,000 and $4,000. They evidently came from the territory and were experts. They did the job in a very business-like manner. Two of them were stationed on the sidewalk, throe entered the bank with a sack and two others guarded the horses. About 100 shots wefe fired by the robbers, and four prominent citizens were badly wounded. The robbers were about ten minutes going through the bank. Afterward they mounted their horses and started for the nation ata gallop As they were leaving the outskirts someone fired several shots at them, killing a horse and wounding a robber. He Immediately secured another horse from a farmer who was passing and followed his pals. No resistance was offered by the citizens. The wounded men were shot while standing on the sidewalk. A posse was made up and started in pursuit, but the robbers had a good start and got away. If *• The NatlonafTjlame.' The clubs of the National and Western Leagues sffnd as follows In the championship racei - Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Clevelands.H *. .176. New Yorks.io 9 .6.6 Baltimore. .14 6 .7«uißrooklvns.. 8 11 .21 Pittsburgh.l3 6 .681 St. L0u18... 8 11 .411 Philadelp'alS 7 .6 <<iCnic*iios... 5 12 .294 Bostons. ...11 8 .S79|Loulsvilles 5 13 .278 Cincinnati, s 8 .SasiWeshlnrt'n 3 18 .143 WESTERN LEAGUE GAMES. _ . Per Per Toledosis u .tisi'Minne'pTls 7 8 ,467 Sioux City. 9 5 .643 IndtanVls 7 11 .339 Grd Rapldsn 7 .631IMilwa’kees 4 8 .333 Kansas C’y 8 7 . 533IDetrolta... 5 13 .278 Troops Ordered Out. The five companies of Alabama State troops were ordered to report at their armories in Birmingham. A dispatch says: People talk of the situation with bated breath. A mob of strikers near Pratt Clly attempted to wreck a number of coal cars, and were only prevenied from accomplishing their endeavors by shut,., from the the guards. A number of shots were exchanged. Seriously Injured a, Child. Mrs. Lizzie Norton was arrested at Cedar Rapids, lowa, for injuring a child. Because her adopted boy, aged 6, had forgotten what she sent him to the grocery for. It Is alleged that she picked him up by the heels, slammed his head on the floor several times, and finally jumped on him. Only Female Mississippi Pilot. A novel proceeding was enacted at a special meeting of Harbor-No. 28. United ttates Associatioii of Pilots. It was the

formal Initiation of Miss Callie French, said to be the only female pilot in the country. Headquarters were crowded with pilots from all parts of the St. Louis district. It was the first time in the history of the organization that a woman was admitted. Miss French is 22 years old, and knows the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers tbourougbly all the way from Cincinnati to New Orleans. She spent fifteen years on the river with her father. Captain O. French, who runs a boat between Cincinnati and New Orleans. THREE TIMES IN FIRE, Dr. T. DeWitt Ttlmsg? Is Again Burned Oat at Brooklyn. Fire seems to be the Nemesis of Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage and the members of bls congregation. Their beautiful new tabernacle at the corner of Clinton and Greene avenues, Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. Tift? Regent Hotel was also burned. The total loss was about $1,003,000. Flanles broke out in the church office just after those who had attended the m’orulng service had left the building. Had the fire broken out one hour earlier, while the building was filled with worshipers, it is almost certain that a dreadful panic and loss of life would have resulted. This is the third time that the Talmage tabernacle has been destroyed by fire. By a singular coincidence each fire occurred on Sunday. WILD RIDE FOR LIBERTY. Woman Eludes a Constable and Makes Hei Escape on a Bareback Horse. Mrs. Sophia Ottenthaler. of Mlivaleboro. Pa., was sued before Squire Madden, and at the hearing in the little office of the justice she was ordered to be ;ommltted to jail for court trial. She managed to walk out without being discovered. Hitched outcide the door stood a borse without saddle or bridle The woman jumped upon the animal's back and lashed the borse to a run with the hitching strap. Sitting astride the animal like a cowboy, her hair aud clothing streaming out behind, she dashed along the road. Constable Beck, with another horse, tried to citch her, but she had too much ot a start and outrode him. She has net been captured.

SLASHES HIS TEACHER. Young Gilbert of .Jeffersonville, Ind., User a Knife on Prof. W. C. Dorr. William Gilbert, aged 15, a Jeffersonville, Ind., high school student, had an altercation with his teacher, Prof. ,W. C. Dorr. It was during recess. The Professor ordered him to go to his rcom, aud he declined; • Sharp words followed, and Gilbert whipped out a knlfa He made an assault upon the teacher and cut him in the left arm. inflicting a slight wound. At this juncture the janito* interfered, and Gilbert cut him on the arm. Gilbert also seized a rock'and hurled it at the Professor, striking him on the left temple The trouble is due to an old grudge on the part of Gilbert GRAND JUROR AN EX-CONVICT. Work of the Body Vitiated and Complications Will Ensue. The Cincinnati Grand Jury was suddenly discharged upon the discovery that Albert Tanner, one of the jurors, was an ox-con-vict who had never been restored to citizenship. Ho served one year for the theft of a watch fifteen years ago aud since then has lived an exemplary life. Among the indictments vitiated by this juror’s service is that of Father O'Grady, charged with the murder of Miss Gilmartin. COAL COMING FROM WALES. Thousands of Tons Being Imported on Ac count of the Strike. New York is already feeling the effects of the big strike in the coal* regions. The scarcity of soft coal has already precipitated heavy Imports of Welsh bituminous coab Heavy orders have been sent, and already thousands of tons are on the way. Among the companies ordering is the Berwind White Coal Company. It was compelled to order 15,000 tons of bituminous coal from Cardiff. In Wales, and 5,000 tens from Nova Ecotla.

WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED. Father, Mother and Four Children Slain— Assassins In Danger of Lynching. Near Browning, Ma. Gus Meeks, his wife and four children were found murdered near a strawstack in an open field. The murderers are under arrest and lynching is talked of. Meeks and his family lived at Milan, and were on their way to Browning to visit relatives. They were waylaid. The cause of the crime is said to Lie in th«fact that Meeks was a damaging witness In a big cattle case last September. Thirty Persons Badly Burned. Several hundred people had a narrow escape from a’terrible death at Bradford, I’a.. Sunday. In the course of a fire In the barrel-bou-o at the Emery Manufacturing Company's refinery a tank of benzine on a siding near by exploded. A panic ensued among the spectators who were watching the fire and they tied in all directions. Thirty or more persons were severely burned. Fortunately the burning benzine which was flung into the air In sheets of liquid fire had consumed Itself before settling down over the crowd. With all the suffering this fire will cause Ahe propert; loss will not exceed $5,900. Hotel Men Snowball in Colorado. The hotel-keepers arrived at Glenwood Springs, Cola, from Manitou, having enjoyed a most delightful ride over the Rockies on the Colorado Midland. A stop was made near the Busk tunnel to give the visitors an opportunity to have a game of snowball