Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — SHOW FOR JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]

SHOW FOR JUSTICE.

CHETLAIN LOSES CONTROL OF PRENDERGAST. Reports of Pennsylvania Floods—To Look Into Armor Plate Frauds—Frenzied Action of Georgia Lynching Mob—Disastrous Explosloa. Away from Chetlain. I Some judge other than Judge Chetlain. of Chicago, will preside at Prendergast’s Insanity trial The lawyers for the State have made every move that legal Ingenuity could suggest In the direction of getting the case transferred from Judge Chetlain’s court to some other court. Every stratagem failed but one; that one was to apply for a continuance extending beyond the date which would mark the termination of Judge Chetlain’s term In the Criminal Court. The State desired, If a continuance was to b granted at all, that It should be until June 18. There was stubbornness < n both” sides An agreement was finally reached and June 11 was entered 'btf the record. In signing that date Judge Chetlain signed the death sentence of his connection with the case. As was subsequently shown. Judge Chetlain was not fully conscious of this at the time. READS OF HIS MURDER. John Crow Will Free the Xian Sentenced for Life for Murder. John Crow left 'Muncie, Ind., for Jackion. Mich., the other evening on an important mission. He said: “I an: going to free a man who has been in the penitentiary nine years and is innocent. I am supposed to be dead. In tho eye of the public I was murdered nine years ago this month near Big Rapids, Mich., and now a man named John Van Nlmmangs is serving a life sentence in the Michigan State penitentiary. My name is John Crow. Since that time I have not been aware that anything was wrong until a few days ago, when I picked up a Detroit paper and read an article about an attempt being made to secure the pardon of John Van Nimmanzs. who is in the penitentiary on the charge of murdering me." DEATH ALONE NOT ENOUGH. Georgia Lynchers Fire 600 Bullets Into a Hanged Negro. Near Arlington, Ga.. last Friday evening, the 14-year-old daughter of Washington fcmlth was assaulted by a negro while returning from school Mr. Smith came up on horseback and the negro fired three bullets Into his body and fled. Mr. smith died Bunday morning and the daughter is not ■expected to live. Sheriff IViik.ns captured the negro Sunday afternoon and placed him under a strong guard in the Miller County jail At 3 o’clock Monday morning an armed band of seventy-live meu ■ stormed the jail and took the negro to Bn Oak tree in tho public square. They hanged him to a tree and Cred 500 bullets Into his body.

FLOOD LOSSES CUT DOWN. Entire Damage In the Conemangli Valley Now Estimated at 8125,0110. As near as can be estimated the loss by the flood in the Conemaugh Valley will be $125,00J. The Pennsylvania Railroad’s loss is 150,000. The floods between Johnstown and Conemaugh are rapidly subsiding. Bridge No. 2, reported washed away, is Intact 'trains continue to run by way of Huntingdon branch, the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, and tho Southwest Pennsylvania, Around Williamsport the w’aters are slowly receding. It. Is now believed that the worst is over and no further damage will result from the flood, though it will be many days before the Susquehanna Elver will fall to its normal condition. SEVEN WERE INJURED. Boiler Explodes at New York and Crashes Through a Building. Seven persons wore Injured, two seriously, by the explosion of a boiler at 15lith street and Eagle avenue. New York. Tho boiler, which weighed three tons, was blown seventy-five feet Into the air and landed in a stable In Ann street, seventyfive fset away. It crashed through the roof and through two floors, landing among thirty horses. The boiler is said to have been defective and to have been reported as such to the boiler inspector a week ago. The boiler was used to run a drill in blastjlng rocks for the foundation of a mansion to be built by Ebling, the brewer. TO INVESTIGATE A SCANDAL. Armor-Plate Inquiry to Fall to the Lot of the House Naval Committor. The House Committee on Rules reported back a substitute for tho Dunphy resolution. ' The. substitute authorizes tho House Committee on Naval Affairs to lntbstt*uto the armor-plate scandal. A great mass of Information has been collected br the special committee, and ft is expected that this data will be called for by Chairman Cummings. and that all the persons connected ■with the 'manufacture of the defective plate will be summoned befcre the Committee. , ' < ———-.- BIMETALLISTS IN CONVENTION. Delegates Present from South and Central America and Mexico. The Pan-American Bimetallic Association, composed of representatives from the Halted States, South and Central America and Old Mexico, met In Congress In Grand Army Hall at Washington, D. C., under the gu dance of Col A G Fisk of Denver, Colo., president of the association. The purpose of the congress was to memorialize Congress to restore sliver to Its ancient right Bl a ratio not to exceed sixteen to one. ■William to Be a Guest of the Czar. The Moscow Gazette says that Emperoi Will am will probably be the Czar’s guest at the northern army maneuvers, which will be held around Smolensk. Judge Jenkins Condemned. Judge Jenkins was condemned by th< House Judiciary Committee by the adoption of the, Boatner report The resuß will be the introduction of bills to correc' the law so as to prevent a duplication o the Jenkins Injunctions and the offeilngol b resolution condemning his course. • , Julia Marlowe to Wed. Miss Julia Marlowe, the actress, is soot ternary Robert Tabor, her fdrtner leadinp man. A story to this effect was confirmed by Miss Marlowe herself in an Interview. Killed by the Cars. Ben Kltzman, aged 18, a son of Lewis Kltxman. a conductor on the Chicago and Northwestern Road, fell between two cars on the Milwaukee Road at Winona. Minn., end was cut In two, dying Instantly. Desperate Fight with Reds. At Roubaix, France, a desperate fight has taken place between the police and a mob of anarchists who were parading the streets and shouting uVlve I’lnternationale" and “A bas la France.” Banker/ Oppose Repeal. Tennessee bankers’ convention at Memphis passed resolutions opposing the repeal ot the State bank Ui la*

r DOWN TO THE BOTTOM. Never Before Was the Wheat Trade So Paralyzed. j - Never in the memory of the oldest traders on the Chicago Board of Trade has the wheat market been so paralyzed as it Is right now. The bears have all they want. Traders dare not buy and the feeling of uncertainty is so strong in | the ring at the wheat pit as to make l the body of them feverish and wild. There seems no hope of reaction—no prospects for a permanent bracing of the and there is not an expert on the floor, bull or bear, that has the hardihood or the courage to predict. The market Is as If It bad been hit In the head with a hammer, and seems unable to recover consciousness. Opinions differ as to the cause of this remarkable movement, that in a few months has carried wheat down to a point that has not been equaled In nearly seventy years. The decline has acted like a debilitating drug on the spirits of the traders. Money has been made by the bears, but quick action has been a thin? almost foreign to the board except In one or two instances that came with a sudden drop in prices and as sudden a readjustment from purely incidental causes. The trend of the market has been and Is that way still—downward. About the only ones who are losing money by the conditions, however, are the speculators. as very little actual trade Is done by the farmers. PERISH IN THE SEAS. StoutrVeasels and Creyvs Succumb to the Fury of the Gale. Tip to nightfall Friday the furious gale had driven eight vessels on the beach at Chicago, and ten sailors were known to have peirished. The vessels were the schooners Evening Star, G G. Mixer. Myrtle, Lincoln Dall. Jack Thompson, J. Loomis McLaren, Mercury, and Rainbow. The Myrtle alone lost six men. At Milwaukee the M. J. Cummings went ashore and seven men were lost The G G Barnes was lost, but her crew escaped. At other points, from Milwaukee around to Ashtabula, 0., twelve vessels were driven ashore, but there was not great loss of life. The gale was furious and long continued, and every harbor held boats’ which had put In for shelter, while outside each port there were many at anchor, the attempt to enter being too dangerbus; Still others went trp or down the lakes uni dec bare poles ’Wfote the screaming wfndj their crews krfowlng no rest or safety. The ’ catastrophes oft Chicago and Mllwaus kee were witnessed by of people, and some of the sailors perished within a few feet of shore. Thlb was the worst storm known on the lakes In years, and it came with a suddenness that caught many unprepared, and with no forewarning from the Government signal service. The full list of casualties will not be known for several days.

FINED FOR CONTEMPT. Chicago Election Commissioners Assessed 81,000 Each for Their Contumacy. To pay a fine of $1,1)00 and to remain in jail until such fine be paid was the penalty Imposed by Judge Chetlain on Election Commissioners P. H. Keenan. A. TV. Hutchings, and Henry Schomer for refusing to obey tho court’s order to submit to inspection by tho grand jury the ballots cast at tho April election in the twenty-second precinct of the Twenty-ninth Ward. Chicago. The proceedings werd dismissed as to Chief Clerk W. A. Taylor, because It had been shown that'ho had no authority over the ballots The respondents were not in court and an order of commitment was at < nee Issued and sent to Sheriff Gilbert, Instructing him to arrest the contumacious Commissioners and lock them in jail. The absence of the Commissioners from tho court-room was Intentional. They did not appear because they expected an unfavorable decision and wanted to be arrested. By this procedure they ceuld at once make application for release on a writ of habeas corpus and thus bring their cases before the Court of Appeals. Royal Commission Commends. A London dispatch says: The British Royal Commission to the World’s Fair at Chicago has just issued its report. It Is decidedly favorable to the exhibition. It gives an excellent description of the exhibits, and concludes by saying: “It 1 la Impossible for those who did not visit the exhibition to understand the enthusiasm which pervaded It and the genuineness of Its character. It would be an easy matter to criticise Its shortcomings, but it is undeniable that It was a courageous inception, splendid In execution and successful in its results” In all previous exhibitions tho exhibits have been almost the sole attraction, and It has suffice! If the buildings furnished suitable shelter. The great feature of the Chicago fair was the unique arrangement of the frame of the picture. Enormous sums wero lavished upon the splendid temporary palaces. Concerning the part taken In the fair by Great Britain, the report says that Great Brltalu had less to gain by tho exhibition than any of her rivals, yet If she had not taken a i romlnent part It would have been extremely disastrous to her trade.

Minnesota and Wisconsin Suffer. The great storm wbich.Bwept over Minnesota and Western Wisconsin Tuesday night was the most severe since the cyclone of April 14, 1886, crushed elghty-slx lives at St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, So far as reported only four people have been killed, but tbe loss to buildings, crops, .hfldges and -railways, by wind, hall,' lightning and flood will foot up at least $500,009. The downpour of rain for a given period was the greatest known. The storm broke in the region of Fergus Fulls, Minn, .about 3 o’clock in the afiernoon and swept central, eastern and southern Wisconsin. Insignificant creeks grew from placid streams to raging, muddy torrents Railway traffic Is In a state of utter demoralization, Over an area of twentvfive miles the worst effects felt and on the Chicago linos the washouts have been particularly severe,'

The National Game.' The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand MVoHows In the champion- 1 ship race: _ Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Clevelands.l7 i> .778 Brooklyns..ll 1* ~7« Baltimore. .16 7 .69rlNewYorSs.il 13 .tea Plttsburirs lS 7 Bants...Vi It: .117 Phtladeln'an 8 'JWil.onlsvllles 8 13 .316 Bostons... .11 10 .'8 iChioaeos ... B 15 .'les Clnoirinatl.il 11 .BaulWashlnct’n 3 22 .12j WESTBBN LEAGUE GAMES. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sionx City. 12 6 .7t<J Gid Rapt dell 12 .bo, Toledos 14 « .MBllndlau’p’ls 7 14 .333 Kansas C‘vll. . 7#'“;j.67J'Ml[wa’keea 4 8 .333 Minne'p’llsll 8 J7J|Detrolts... C 14 ,3ut) Fishplates on the Track. Tramps made an attempt to wreck a night express train on the Boston and Albany Road, neat' Cordaville, Masi, by piling a ton of fishplates on the track. The train was going at the rate of forty miles an hour when It struck the obstruction, and went through without serious Injury, only the locomotive'being' damaged. . ■ Judge T. S. Wilson Dead. At Dubuque, lowa, Judge T. a Wilson died Wednesday. He was born In Ohio 81 years aga Wilson was appointed Judge by President Van Buren. He declined the Democratic nomination for United States Senator In 1888. Killed by a Thug. Officer James Hartnett was shot and fatally wounded while trying to.arrest a negro thug at St Joseph. Ma Awful Fate of Seven Men. Possibly the worst wreck the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southern Railroad has had for years occurred In Standing Rock tunnel, ten miles east of Princeton, Ky., Saturday

morntßf Extra freight train Na *O2 In charge of Conductor Kinkle, ran Into tbe work train 1 , whlch~wa* graveling near Dawson, in charge of Conductor HilL Midway In the tunnel Conductor Bill and six gravel men were killed outright and several slightly injured. Engineer Jones, of the extra freight, saw the danger just In time to jump and save his life. The cause of the wreck was due to either the carelessness of the flagman of the work train or to Conductor HilL who was killed. The flagman was left at Dawson, two miles away, to stop trains until the work train could make the siding, and he claims he gave orders as he was directed. When struck the work train was backing through the tunnel to make a siding a few yards teyond. The extra freight running twenty-five miles an hour, dashed into it. completely demolishing four or five cars of the work train and the engine and several cars of coal of the freight Many of the trainmen had miraculous escapes from death, and the accident happened so quickly that no one save the engineer and his fireman left their train. They were on the train before they saw it and their escape seems miraculous TONTI ORDER ASSIGNS. Liabilities Up in the Millions, and Said to Have 81.200,000 in Assets. The Order of Tontl has gone the way of the Iron Hall, the Earnest Workers, and other bubbles The executive committee of the order assigned at Philadelphia to the Land Title and Trust Company and Francis Shunk Brown, the order’s attorney. Although the assets are estimated to be in the neighborhood of $1,200,003, the liabilities cannot be approximated. President Clausen had ext ected the blow, when, upon his election to the presidency, he began to examine the flimsy state of the bubble, He found that there were $529,000 of matured certificates outstanding, with others rapidly approaching maturity, and with no cash to pay them without a draft on the reserve fund. He saw that in two years the order would be called upon to pay out $7,000,000, and that the very best it could do would be to have 13,000,000 to meet the demand. The order’s attorney said a large assessment would not stand the test of law, and so the Supreme officers decided that the only thing to do was to make the assignment. ;OG i, STRIKE DEPRESS IT. Yet Trade Shows Remarkable Soundness *• In Spite of. Them. R. G. Dtm & Ca’s Weekly Review of .Trade say st, •; . , , v The obstacles to Improvement do not Lessen. Tho strikes of coal miners and coke tvorkers have not ceased, but have caused the stoppage of numerous works and embarrassment to some railroads The conference at Cleveland exhibited much angry feeling and wider differences than had been expected and seems to render agreement more distant. Proceedings in the Senate do not indicate that the latest form of tariff revision has made speedy final action more probable. Yet the recuperative force of the country is so great that observers are constantly amazed ut the volume of business transacted, the tonnage being transported, the number of works resuming operations, and the general soundness of trade, notwithstanding influences which in any other land would produce dire disaster.

JUST MISSED A FORTUNE. Largo Sum of Money Sent to St. Louli Swindlers 'Which They Did Not Got. Now that J, B. Breeding bas been arrested In Bin Antonio, Texas, charged with the forgery of tho Wells-Fargo Express Company money orders, it has been learned that If tho swindling firm of ’1 rend, Smith & Foster had been allowed a few days it would have reaped a fortune. There are about 300 registered and ordinary mall letters ut the Sb Louis postofflee addressed to the firm, and these letters are known to contain drafts and currency amounting to $20,000, but not one was delivered. The funds at tbe postofflee are remittances from banks to which the firm sent Its forged money orders for collection. Johnstown Flood Recalled. The reservoir In the Allo.-heny Mountain: at Kittanning Point, six miles above Altoon, on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, broke early Monday morning, and the flood poured down upon Hollidaysburg. The break in the darn Is fifteen feet wide. A mighty volume of water is behind tho breast . A Pennsylvania locomotive was sont down to Hollidaysburg. six miles, to warn tho people. It was a wild race with tho flood. When the people of several towns heard the news there was a panic. An earlier report of danger had put tbe residents on tho lookout They fled for safety and awaited developments. The reservoir Is used to supply city of Altoona with water and the break Is In one section. Victim of the Oil Can. Mrs. Annie Komentzky and her 2-year-old babe wete fatally burned at their home in Pittsburg by the explosion of an oil can. The woman poured oil In tho stove to start the fire and the explosion followed. Russian Nihilists Again at Work. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that four bombs were found near the Imperial Palace. An enormous number of arrests have resulted, tbe prisoners being of all classes of society. Dr. Meyer Found Guilty. The New York jury in the case of Dr. Henry Meyer, who Is accused of having poisoned Ludwig Brandt, rendered a ver--dlct of murder In the second degree. ■ i. Charged with Embezzling. Clarence Schulte, father of eight children. was arrested at St. Louis on a charge of embezzling 14,000 from the J. 11. Rottmau Distilling Company.