Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — THEY CUT AND SLASH. [ARTICLE]

THEY CUT AND SLASH.

SURGEONS USING THE KNIFE TOO FREELY. Horrible Rites of the Cree Indians—Grand Chance for Getting Big Money In Damages for Race-Horses—Terrible Disaster tn Russian Samara. Dangers of the Knife. Conservative physicians of St. Louis are contemplating a crusade against the incompetent wielders of the surgeon's knife, Many physicians complain that capital operations are being performed when there was nonnecessity forafiem. Of these operations liparotomy'Seems to have been the favorite of the amateurs. Dr. Ihomas O’Reilly, a prominent surgeon, has written a letter to Health Commissioner Homan in which be calls Dr. Homan's attention to the many deaths resulting from laparotomy. He characterizes the knife of the surgeon when employed In such operations to be fully as dangerous as that of the assassin, and in the name of humanity asks Dr. Homan to protect sufferers from this operation. RAN THEIR LAST RACE. Fourteen Blooded Horses Killed on the Rail. A train consisting of six cars loaded with horses left the Hawthorne track via the Great Western Railway for Ft Pant It was derailed by a failing draw-bar at Ftiliman Valley and four men were badly injured and a lot of valuable race horses were killed and maimed in such a manner as to make them useless for racing purposes. Three cars were overturned completely. and. catching fire from an overturned oil lamp, were burned up The injured men were taken from the wreck with difficulty, and their injuries dressed. One was so badly burned that his recovery is considered doubtful The horses killed outright were fourteen io number, twelve of which belonged to W. H. Roller and two ' to the veteran Jack Batchelor, they being all that he owned. Eleven were injured, they being the property of Louis Ezell, G J. Kelly and Pat Dunne ADDS TO THE LANGUAGE. Code of Commercial Nomenclature, Just Issued, Contains Many New Words. Ihe first volume of a code of “commercial nomenclature” was issued from the Bureau of American Republics Tuesday. ' Its 842 pages present more than 100,000 business terms, extending from “A” to “ma- , chines. Inclusive,” such as are apt to appear In commercial correspondence on the American continent and neighboring islands. ViFy few of the terms given are to be found ln dlstiojarles. the latest inventions even in electricity teing fully treated In the present work, 'lhe second volume, completing the alphabet, will be issued some time In July. The book, which Is the most elaborate work yet attempted by the bureau, and which has been in course of preparation for two years, will, It Is thought, be invaluable to persons engaged in business with countries to the south ol the United States*

KILLED TWO BOYS. Electric Storm and Cloudburst Visit a Pennsylvania Community. A cloudburst broke over Penn Valley, Pa., deluging the land and washing away entire fields of growing grain. The damage is worse than that Inflicted by the recent flood. The downpour of water was accompanied by a severe electric storm. Three boys, William and Eddie Loz and Charles Hunter, who took refuge under a tree, were struck by llxhtning. Eddie Loz and Hunter are fatally injured. William Loz will recover. A cloudburst, accompanied by hail and high wind, struck Ellsworth, Kan. Water on the main streets was from two to four feet deep, filling cellars and undermining buildings, ana a great deal of damage was done Damage to crops has been great SUN DANCE ENDED. Cree Indians Conclude a Three Days’ Performance of Torture. A special from Havre. Mont, says: The Cree sun dance has just been concluded here, after going on for three daya Every sheriff in the State had been Instructed to prevent the dance at any hazard,but there was no Interference here. ’J hree braves were hung up by thongs thrust into slits In their breast slashed by Little Eggs, the chief. All fainted before the ordeal was over. A young buck had slits cut In his shoulders, and to the inserted thongs were tied four buffalo skulls which he dragged after him. Eighty pieces of flesh were cut from his arms to be kept us tokens Child Wedding a Failure. The wedded life of Clyde Mann and 11-year-old Anna Zoller, of Fort Wayne, who were married at Goshen last week. Is not proving a very successful deal The bride's parents were opposed to the match and she not being of marriageable age it was necessary to call in William Johnston, a friend of the groom, wbo swore that she, Anna, was 18. On the strength of this they secured a license in Fort Wayne County and flew to Goeheh whereFquire Chamberlain married them. Johnson Is now in the Fort Way ne jail as a result of his perjury and Anna has been captured by her mother.

DEATH AWAITED THEM. Forty-five Russian Merrymakers Drowned in the River Jek. A terrible disaster Is leported from the Russian Government of Samara. A party of young people, numbering about seventy, •were returning from a fete on the River Jek. The boat which was carrying them across the water was leaky and overcrowded. When near Bugulme the boat sank. The drowning people, few of whom could swim, clutched frantically at each other In their efforts to keep themselves above water, and forty-five out of the seventy passengers were drowned. Priest Assaulted at a Funeral. While a funeral was In _projress In St Mary’s Polish Catholic Church lu Reading, Pa., the priest. Father Januskowicz, requested that all those present who were In arrears to the church leave the sanctuary. About 150 of the congregation arose, and, after knocking the priest down, left the house of worship. Verdict of Murder Against Bone. At ' Portland, Ind., Coroner White rendei%ftlfi?Vierdict of willful murder against Policeman Samuel Bone, who killeji Frap.k Guilds. Bone is in the Winchester -jail Valuable Bed qt Ore Discovered. An Immense body of auriferous ore lu one body, a mile wide by two long. Is reported to have been discovered between Rat Portage and Port Arthur, seventy miles south of the Canadian PaclAc Railway. Assays average $8 In gold and J 4 In silver. Geologists have expressed the opinion that the deposit may be from 8,000 to 10,000 feet deep. Killed by an Exploding Boiler. Tbetmller of a sawmill six miles south of Linneus, Ma, exploded Tuesday night. Two men were Instantly killed and two others will die from their injuries. Low Water in the boiler cansod r>e exoloeiom

PLAGCE IN CHINA. Awfal Scourge Carrying Off Celestials by the Thousand. China Is being decimated by an awful plague that is raging there Thousands of people have died from it. and full details of the alarming spread of the terrible scourge hare just been brought by the steamer Empress of Japan. The plague first made its appearance in Canton t.wards the end of April It Is similar to the great plague that raged in London with such direful effect In the sixteenth century, and is carrying off larze numbers of victims. From Canton it soon spread to Hong Kong, appearing there In May. Thus far it is chiefly confined to Chinese All business has been paralyzed by the plague, and most of the big steamship lines refuse to take either passengers or cargoes from Hong Kong. The symptoms of the disease are described as follows: Without any premonitory warning In the shape of a chill, victims are attacked with ? sudden fever, rising to 105 degrees or over. There Is much headache, accompanied by stupon In twelve or twenty-four hours a glandular swelling occurs in the neck or armpit. increasing to the size of a fowl's egg. being hard and tender. With or without the decline of fever, the patient sinks into a condition of coma and dies at the end of twenty-four or forty-eight hours. If six days is reached recovery is possible. In Canton there is scarcely a house that has not some one dead in it The plague commenced there in the Mohammedan quarters, and 100 cases are reposed dally. „■ EKASTUB WIMAN GUILTY.

The Jury Couples the Verdiet with a Recommendation to Mercy. Erastus Wlman, on trial at New York for forgery In the second degree, was convicted Friday afternoon. The court-room was half emptied when word was sent from the jury-room that they had reached a vercict Justice Ingraham took his seat on the bench and the jury filed In. Mr. Wlman did not look at them. He knew what the verdict must be. Several of the jurors showed more emotion than did the defendant “Gentlemen of the jury, ” said the clerk, “have you reached a verdict?” “We have,” said George Murray, the foreman. Mr. Wlman stood up The jury arose. “What Is your verdict? Do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty?” In a voice so low that It could be heard only a few feet away Mr. Murray said: “With sorrow we say It, we find the prisoner guilty, with a recommendation to mercy.” The indictment on which Mr. Wlman was convicted was for forgery In the second degree In forging the Indorsement of E. W. Bullinger to a .check for $5,000 made by R. G. Dun A Co., and drawn on the Chemical Bank. Mr, Wlman said to a reporter: “There Is nothing more that I can say. My case will, of course, be appealed. lam not guilty. I did not intend to defraud any one. I was persecuted, not prosecuted ” CROPS OF THE COUNTRY. Wheat Area Shows a Decrease of Over 3,000,000 Acres. The monthly crop report in the Price Current gives the total wheat area as 35,480,000 acres, against 38,501.000 last year, a decrease of 7.8 per cent. The decrease In winter wheat acreage is 5.8 and spring 10.1 per cent.; total decrease, 3,021,000 acres Condition of winter wheat 1.4 higher than last month, averaging 80.2, against 84.8 for May. Condition of spring wheat 90.7, against 86.4 a year ago. Present position indicates 305,000,000 bushels winter wheat, 138,000,000 spuittg. and total of 443.000,000, compared wlth'Thoman's estimate of production last year of 471,000,000, a decrease of 28,000,000. Area of oats,29,l3s,ooo,agalnst 29,910,000 acres last year, a decrease of 2.6 percent. Condition of oats, 88.7, practically the same as reported a your ago, indicating 716,000,000 bushels COXEY CARRIES HIS POINT. Actually Delivers from the Capitol Steps Remarks Intended for May 1. Jacob 8. Coxey and Carl Browno made their appearance at the Capitol In Washington Friday, and this time actually delivered the remarks which they were not permitted to make from the steps of the Capitol May L Coxey and Browne appeared before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, and for an hour and a half talked to the members of the committee on the Coxey bills for goods roads and no interest on bonds The arguments were in the usual stereotyped form. Coxey, a Washington dispatch says, was mild and gentlemanly in his language, but Browne did not malto so good an impression. MINERS WILL GO TO WORK. Representatives of 20,000 Strikers Meet In Pittsburg. After a long and hard fight the representatives of 20,000 miners In convention at Pittsburg by a standing vote of 89 to 31 Indorsed the acts of the Columbus conference. This ends the great coal strike,, and ' at once the sound of the pick will be heard once more In the land and idle thousands will ha+e work. The rate will be 69 centa Dissatisfaction and violence are features in many districts, especially In Indiana and Illinois. But the strike is broken. The National Gama. 1 The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows In the championship racst

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Chief Justice of England Dead. London cable: Lord Chief Justice Coleridge Is dead. He was unconscious for a few hours before his death, which was painless His son Bernard will succeed him in the peerage. It Is announced that Baron Ruasell will succeed Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief Justice, and that Sir John Rigby Will become a Lord Justice of Appeal lu place of Baron Russell Robert T. Reid, now Solicitor General, will become Attorney General, and Richard B. Haldeman, M. P.. Solicitor General Ditched Their Engine. The 500 Coxeyltes who seized r. Unlo Pacific engine at Julesburg, Col, and attempted to make up a train to carry them east were thwarted by the accidental ditching of their engine In switching. They then determined to seize the regular eastbound passenger train from Denver, but it was held. Fifty deputy United States marshals have been sent to arrest the Coxeyltes should they seize a train. Assets Have Dtsappeaned. W. W. Brasie, assignee of the National Co-operative Building and Investment Association. of Denver, says the concern will not p« / 1 cent on the dollar. In August. 1892, W. A Hemphill, after examining the books of the concern, reported that its assets were $121,000. When the assignment was made there were $71,000 liabilities and no asseta Assignee Brasie says he cannot find out where the money went. Plot of the Beds. The Washington Post publishes an exjtosure of a plot which bad for Its object the destruction of the Capitol and perhaps other buildings According to the story, the plot was formed at the time Coxey’s army was on the march. The Post says: “The prime mover in the anarchistic plot,

that la, ths Washington end of IL was Honors Jaxoo. He come from Chicago, and Is still in the city. He Is a professional Indian. In Chicago he has been a disturber for years. At the time of the Haymarket riot he narrowly escaped being arrested as a principal conspirator, and was shadowed by the detectives for a long time after that most memorable affair. Jaxon is a half-breed of unknown tribal origin. Be was one of Louis Riel's lieutenants In the Canadian rebellion some years ago. The man has done some little newspaper work, and has frequently passed himself off as a reporter on the Chicago Tlmea PERMITTED TO HANG HIMSELF. Incendiary at Monroe, La., His Own Executioner Before a Great Mob. For six or eight weeks past Monroe, La., has been stirred to a white heat over fires of an Incendiary origin. Although efforts were made to discover the firebugs they escaped detection until the other day, when, after the burning of some small buildings in the outskirts of the town, bloodhounds were put on the tracks of a man who had evidently left the burning building, and the dogs followed the trail, finally running down a man named Day. who was arrested and confessed. The jail was broken open and he was taken some distance from town, escorted by a crowd of 400 to 600 people. Day said he knew bls time bad come, but besought his captors to allow him to execute himself. After some parleying this was granted. Day had the rope which was nrjund his neck flung over, the Itmb of a tree, where It was securely fastened, then he climbed the tree and jumped from the first branch, breaking his neck. His body swayed to and fro. while a shout wont up from the crowd, which had become silent during the preliminaries. The spectators at once dispersed.

VIGILANT CROSSES THE OCEAN. The American Yacht Makes Fast Time and New-Yorkers Rejoice. There was great rejoicing among the members of the Now York Yacht Club when the report that the Vigilant had passed Tory Island. Ireland, was posted on the bulletin-board of their Madison avenue club house. The voyage of the Vigilant Is one of the most remarkable in point of speed ever made by a sailing vessel and while under her present yawl rig she can hardly be classified as a single sticker, her time will bear 1 close comparison with the records of American clipper ships and racing schooners in their palmiest daya She was 14 days 13 hours and 50 mlnuzes In crossing. The fastest trip over made across the Atlantic by a yacht was In 1869, when the Amerl- | can schooner-yacht Sappho sailed froth Staton Island to Queenstown light In 12 days 9 hours and 24 mfnut-. In the great race In 1866 for $90,000 between the American schooner yachts Henrietta, Fleetwing, and Vesta, the Henrietta made the voyage from Sandy Hook to the Needlee, Isle of Wight, in 13 days 21 hours and 55 minutes—an average of nine and one-half knots for 3.106 miles. PHELPS 18 NO MORE. Ex-Minister to Germany Succumbs After a Long Illness. William Walter Phelps died at his residence at Englewood, N. J., Sunday morning after recognizing the different members of his family who were at his bedside. He realized that his end was drawing neat and bade them all good-by. Though known for many years as a representative Jerseyman, Mr. Phelps was born in New York City of a New England family which traces its ancestry back to William Phelps, a brother of John Phelps, who was Oliver Cromwell’s private secretary. He has been a very prominent man in political and diplomatic circles, having been Minister to Austria under Garfield, and Germany under Harrison.

Widow of the Pathfinder Sued. A suit in equity was filed In the United States Circuit Court at Los Angeles, Cal, by Loren Jones, of New York, against Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of General Fremont,• the pathfinder, to restrain her from collecting mouey from Congress for the seizure of land by the Government belonging to her husband. The complainant avers that the land seized by the Government In California was heavily mortgaged by Gen. Fremont and that the property was foreclosed. The complaint severely criticises Gen. Fremont’s business methods. Ashland Babies on Parade. Ike Saner held his annualf'baby parade at Ashland, Ohio, the other night No town In the State has anything like it Seventy-five babies In cabs, ornamented with flowers and evergreens, were pushed up and down Main street by children, headed by Saner, with Frank Hammond’s twins. People, came fifteen miles to witness the scene. The Indomitable Bill. Evidence tends to show that Bill Dalton was concerned In the robbery of the Longview (Cal) Bank recently. The bank officials have Identified the greater portion of the money, some SBOO, found In Mra Dalton’s valise, as that stolen from them. Located in Mexico. Through letters received at his home, J. C. Thompson, the absconding cashier of the First National Bank of Sedalia, Ma, has been located in the City of Mexico. It is thought he Is trying to make amends and return to bls family. Damage by Wind. Considerable damage was done at ard, Oklahoma, by a small cyclone. B. a Rlchley’s house was blown down and his 10-year-old child fatally Injured by falling timbers