Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — THEY DIE LIKESHEEP [ARTICLE]

THEY DIE LIKESHEEP

OVER 6,000 DEATHS FROM ' . BLACK PLAGUE. ~ Aa miaois Town Burned-War Is On Between Japan and China—De;;t*i Comes Many In Varies! Forms Forests - . v Ablaae. £ ▲adltlonal information regarding (black plague in China has been received at the marine hospital service through the Department of State. Minister Dunn, •writing from Tokio unler date of June 22, 1 •ays that up To Jurje £ ’ bcour.-ed In Hong a:i<\. / 6eycraT European. had died of tTo Avery •mall percentage 6niy of tnosg •ho tacked recover. Latest kdvlces from Hong Kong report a slight abatement of the epidemic. He Ctate Department a notification by lha Japanese government which requires cltlaensof the United States In Japan and the commanders and master.! of naval and merchant Vessels arriving at Nagasaki,. ' Kobe, Yokohama, and Hakodate to con* form to the Imperial ordinance for the regulation of the inspection of vessels arriv. tag from cholera-Infected ports. CHENOA, ILL., IN RUINS. Ihm Wipe Out the Business Portion of the Town. . ,The business portion of Chenoa, 111., was destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon, entailing a loss estimated ut from $5110.000 to 4608,000. Fifty-four buildings and nearly •II of the stock the/ contained were swept •way in a ro%-j.\ig cyclone of flame that aeemed to broak out ail over the feontness district at once and gave no tirno ta nave anything. More complete devastation cannot be Imagined, 9he only bust•eas establishments left lu the town are •wo saloons. Pal bach’s dry-goods store and •ho office of the Chenoa Gazette. The general opinion Is that the lira was Ignited hy sparks from tho south-bound Alton <ny express falling in hay at Ballinger's livery barn. The conflagration •ptwnd over tho district that was devastated a few years ago, and where wore many elegant two-story brick structures. Thn postoffice was destroyed and a large •mount of mall matter burned. J. T. SlcKeever, a merchant tailor, leaped from a Mound story and was Impaled on an iron feoce. A sharp picket ran half way through his body und ho will die.

BIG GUNS BEGIN TO ROAR. Asyftnsw Cruiser Sinks a Chinese Transport In an Engagement. A dispatch received in Shanghai from Nagasaki, on the southwest sldo of the laland of Ivloo-Sioj, Japan, says that a detachment of Corean trops at the lostl•at lon of the Chinese attacked tho J upon•so garrison and suffered defeat. A later telegram suys that a Japanese cruiser and • Chinese transport have been engaged In action, and that the cruiser sunk tho transport The British consul has rocelved • tolegram from the British charge d’affaires at Tokio stating that the Japanese have undertaken to regard Shanghai as outside of the sphere of operations. Tho price of coal has risen 43 per cent on account of the largo demand made upon the supplies for use aboard tho war-ships, transports, etc. WORKMEN BURIED ALIVE. Caving In of a Cistern Wall Results In Tholr Horrible Fate. By the caving In of a cistern wall at 'Winona, Minn., Tuesday three men und a boy were burled alive. The work of rescue waa at once begun, and the body of the hoy, Henry Griesback, was soon recovered. After six hours of digging the men were reached and found to be alive. Just then • second cave-in occurred, owing to tho CtewA pressing around the spot, and the men were again burled After another hoar’s digging they were again reached. Joseph Schneider and Thomas Stanek were takes out dead, and Michael Kulas was ao badly Injured that ho will die.

KILLED BY AN ELEVATOR. rM Men Meet Death and Two Others Are Injured In a Brewery. 1 uesd&y afternoon three men were in•tently killed and two others seriously Injured by the breaking of an elevator drum •tkhe Clausen k Price brewery, New York. They were all tub men employed In the brewery. They got on a large grain elevator ten feot square, which was loaded with kegs. They started from the sixth floor to go down into the basement. The flrum of the elevator broke, and the kegs and men went down with a crash. The three men were killed by the shock. SIX FEOFLE DROWNED. Three Women and Three Men Lose Their Lives While Bathing. Five women went bathing In the San Joaquin Elver near Fort Washington. Col. One got beyond her depth and, in attempting to rescue her three of the others were carried to an eddy and. drswned, Three young men were drowned while bathing In the Snake Elver telow Tawa. Wash. One called for help and the other* swam to his assistance. All three grappled in the water, sinking slmultaue- **** _____ ''nAui- Bought Death by Fire. 4t St Louis, Augusta Koch, 71 years old, 'waurled by her nearly three-quarters ol a rwutury on earth, strapped herself in a C sal oil saturated sheet as a shroud, and *ken setting it on fire, perished. Her reaaala* were frightfully burned.

Bank Clerk Steals 535.000. William Melville, the correspondence Clerk ot the Bank ol California at San Francisco, has made a confession that daring the past thirteen years he has •tolen $35,000 of the hank’s funds Ho Is oeder arrest H aa»ed”for Murdering a Jailer. Joseph Walwltz was hanged at Trenton. K. 4., for the murder of Deputy Prison Keeper James B. Llppincott Forest Fires at Duluth. Forest fires are doing considerable damaxe around Duluth, and have now appeared Inside the city limits. At Amnicon, *weuty-two miles away, a bridge pn the Northern Pacific Eoad, 150 feet long and 50 feet high, were destroyed. It will delay trains for several days. I Montreal Badly Scorched. Fire destroyed twenty-six tenemonthonses In St Jean Baptist village, in the northern part of Montreal Thursday. The damage Is estimated at $60,000. Four peoPle were dangerously Injured. j St Paul Striker* Indicted, i la the United States District Court at Ft Paul the Grand Jury reported between «fW-flre and sixty Indictments against -striker* and others for interfering wlih •nail* daring the recent strike on the va*l- ««* Northwestern roads. Bench warrants Were Issued, and until the arrests are made no names will he given out. 4*Men Can Come Back. Placards wers posted on all the gates lodlng to the Pnllman car Works at 4 •'dock Wednesday afternoon announcing flfcnt.Uw oompany would begin business as ■oon as it got enough workmen to start all

-f HARD ON COXETITES. ' Two Hundred Confined at Fort Sydney In a Terrible Flight. A special from Fort Sydney, KeU, says the 230 members pf the Denver contingent of £he Coxey army* who are there under arrest grq liable Jo be pffllcted with an epidemic of typhoid fevsr The symptoms aye already manifest, and there jrj least three well-defined cases of. scurvy? caused by their present food and ~Burrcuifclngg. —hi tniu rave bee" than ggygmg’tuM. igSujgg enongh to lecommodate half tbelr jQtgiber. Many of the prlsofters have no blankets of other covering from damp night air, and are compellel to sleep on the bare floor, which Is overran with vermin. The men are guarded by about forty Deputy United States JJjU’.&als. who allow no outp/sf isyiyjp»£g Slven, generally cbp<Stin£ of boiled beef, tainted, an 1 so-called coffee, ometiraes ‘gtew n U given, con-* slstlng same beef, with an" oulSli and fek)dT potato yej man. Generally the 'mess Is badly scorched lij, footing "aud tastes like Burned hair. Tho men were arrested at Big Springs, Neb, June 15, and were herded in this pan of Jllth for two weehfi before a trial tfaTgranted. „ THE FENSION tfUBKAU. Result of the FirsJ Complete Investigation of the OtUce’s Records. The Commissioner of Pensions some time i ago Issued fc, circular directing Assistant | Commissioner Murpfiy to make a thorough i examination Of the records of tlje I Office, with a view of showing the P?j>6ni | status of the bureau. For the "llist lime since the establishment. of thg Tension j Office an accurate, complete and comprehensive 'lnvestigation ./ has thus been made, and the results are regarded as vory satisfactory. The work was carried up to July 1 of i this year, and It shows that there are now i 019.027 claims pending, against 711,150 on July 1,189 a, or a uocrease of 92,123 clulrns. The total number of claimants was 514,414, representing 019,027 claims. Of the total number of claimants, 227,205 are already on the pension rolls, showing that there I were only 287,209 claimants who were not | receiving pensions Commissioner Lochren ; sees before him only £87.209 claimants who | are not receiving pensions, and he proposes to put the whole clerical force of J the office at work adjudicating these claims. LIQUOR MEN BARBED. Sensation Caused by Satollt's Indorsement of Bishop IVatterson’s Decree. Mgr. Satolll’s ruling sustaining the dej cree issued by Bishop Watterson, of Coj lumbus, Ohio, that no person engaged In j the manufacture or salo of Intoxicating | liquors may bo admitted to membership In societies affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, has, according to a Chicago dispatch, produced a profound sensatlonln Roman Catholic circles throughout the country. Tho pastoral letter sent out by Bishop Watterson and now Indorsed by the papal delegate was most sweeping In Its | condemnation of all persons concerned in tho liquor traffic. It withdrew the episcopal sanction from all associations of whiclt a saloonkeeper was un officer, and it declared that no ono engaged either us principal or agent In tho manufacture or sale of liquor could be admitted to such societies. J his was the most radical utterance on tho liquor question ever delivered by a Roman Catholic prelate In this caunj try. and Its approval by the representative of the holy see makes It tho law for ! the faithful

SENATE STATEHOOD BILLS. Arizona and New Mexico May Not Be Admitted at This Session. While tho Sedate Committee on Territories has virtually decided to report the bills for the admission of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, the prevailing opinion about the Senate Is that they will not be considered during the present session of Congress unless the session should be prolonged beyond the expectal Hoe of a majority of Senators. Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the Committee on Territories, has expressed the opinion that consideration of the bills will be deferred until tho short session. If, however, tho tariff bill should cause adjournment to be deferred for some time this calculation might bo upset. Big Stockyards Fire. Fire destroyed the largo wholesale market owned by Nelson Morris & Ca, Nos. 4121 to 4123 Halsted street, Chicago, Wednesday. Tho damage was $58,000. The lire was supposed to be of Incendiary origin. An officer on the corner turned In the alarm. Ho said tho fire started with an explosion, followod with a blue, smokeless blaze, liko burning oIL In ten soconds tho back of the building was In a mass of flames. Three refrigerator cars filled with meat were also found to be on fire and beyond saving. Six men of the Sixth Regiment, I. N. G„ were on guard at the corner. Tboy saw three tnen running away from behind the cars a moment after the fire start3d. They called to the men to halt and then fired six shots ut them as they disappeared among the cars down tho track. The police took up the chase, but the men escaped. A dozen tough looking men had been hanging übout the place all the evening and were closely watchel by the police The Nat'onal Game. The c’ubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows lu the championship race; National league. , • Per Per It W. L. oen6. W. L. cent. Baltimore.. 4o 23 .807 Pittsburg.. 40 35 ,fsj Boston 50 23 .667 Cincinnati.B6 89 .438 New York. 43 SO .533 St. L0ui5.,3.1 08 .434 Cleveland..4o 81 .663 Chioago... .29 44 .397 8r00k1yn...39 31 .657 Louisville. 24 61 .320 Phil’delp’a.B7 52 .586 Washlngt’niu 6* 270 WESTERN LEAGUE. Perl Per j W. L. cent.l W. L. cent. Bloux Cltv.4s 21 .6 2 Grd RaptdsSS 38 .500 Toledo 40 29 . 580 lndlan'p'lis36 37 . 493 Mlnne p’lisss si .585 Detroit.... 29 4t .414' Kansas C'y.3s 35 .500 Mllwankee.l9 44 .303

Arrested After Many Years. Henry Hickok. a Columbus (O.iio) saloonkeeper, was arrested for grand larceny said to have bean committed in Carroll County, lona, Boventeen years ago Ills dlscardbd wife Is the Informant. He stole, she says, 1,700 bushels of wheat and four horses. Two Innocent men were convicted of the crime und served their sentences in State prison. Chief of Police Pagets telegraphed to Carroll City asking for Instructions, and was requested In- u prompt reply to hold Hickok. City Marshal Kills Two Thieves. Marshal Ryan, ot Eist Point. Go., arrested two negro chicken thieves. On the way to the station-house one of the prisoners shot Ryan In the breast, hut the bullet struck a bone and glanced off. Byan shot the negro dead. The other prisoner broke and ran up the railroad track. Tho marshal pursued him. firing as ho ran. After running a few hundrod yards Hyan fired two bullets through tho negro and brought him down, desperately wounded. Kills Father and SonNear San Antonio, Texas, James Craney went to the house of a usd named Lawton, where he mhi John Crate ind son. In a quarrel between Craney and Crain and son Craney drew a pistol and shot and killed both. Craney has not been apprehended. Waite Not a Candidate. Governor IValte, of Colorado, has announced that he is not a candidate for the United States tenate and will not allow hi* name to be used In that connection. Old Fort Pulaakl Burned. An explosion of 400 pounds of powder at Fort Pulaski, Savannah, Ga., at 0 o’clock

Friday morning, thook the earth, fatally wounded Ordnance Sergeant Wm. Chinn, seriously Injured Mary Washington, his mother-In-law, and set fire to the fort, causing Intermlltegt explosions of ammo- j nltlon and doing much damage Just after breakfast Sergeant Chinn went Into the storeroom. Ha did as he had been la the Dibit of doing for some time during the summer montkl_—took J Jjandful of the one oT tha ones' wyt lt j »t the pump, and p’ieod It :n the middle 01 gui fojmN He Ignites it la order to 4£!j£4>ut the which had been abundant Tt sce-ns tLat Ju carrying the oj {Sorter"from tbj cask he had left a {fail of dry powder from the middle of the floor right up to Hie cask. As soon as he had ignited the powder It burned along the trail alid49o pounds exploded. wages. - “ Judge Caldwell Writes a Letter to Hansas Employes of the Sants .- The Committee of the Santa F Cnlmoyes of the Wichita dlv r<r-‘ all,, »y apjSblnted To prileit to /udge^Vwell ajsajns* BT , V J "oelved an «nto* graph letter ✓ 4 CaldweU, “in which he says \ he m atter haw been referred to the Tb* receivers. th f » re exper'encla* the great- , , h y Vln securing funis swfficlent to 1 d dama 't 0 d °ne by t*>e strike, and u s, i»l,’or a month tho earnings have Jw a cut off and thousands of dollar-,’ ..orth of the road’s property has been de- | stroyed, but notwithstanding the deplorable condition of the road tho men must be paid as soon as It Is possible raise tho funds.»

Foreigners Going Boms. There was trouble at New York on th» docks of the ocean steamship lines Wednesday. ho many steerage passengers had taken advantage of the rate war to get back to Europe that ship* could not accommodate all those to whom passage had been sold. Hundreds could not bs taken aboard even with the crowding'of the steerage quarters to the utmost. Only once before. In 1873, has thore been an opportunity to get a steerage passage from New York to Europe for $lO. This la the rate now, and It Is likely to be further reduced unless nn agreement is soon reached by the rival llnet Ball Fight In «r. Ohio Town. At Beaver Dam there was a genuine bull fight. Two farmers lived In the nlghborhood. One had a Durham bull and tho plher a Jersey bulL For some time post they havp Indulged In a great deal of bandying as to who had the better animal It was finally arranged that they pit the bulls against each other In a ring on the main street of the town. Ten dollars a side was put up, ar.d a large crowd gatherod to witness the contest. After an hour and a half of hard fighting the Jersey bull came out victorious, having killed his opponent Both of them were torrlbly cu' up. Heat Drops Down In Chunks, In New York, Friday, tho heat dropped down In chunks and everything wilted, ’there were many casos of sunstroke. The official thermometer marked 94 degrees, and on the street It was ovor 100. Seven persons succumbad to the heat during tho (lay, while In Jersey City there were two fatal cases of sunstroke. In Brooklyn, eight persons were prostrated, and of these two are likely to die. Terrified by a Big Snake, The big snake which Is said to exist It. the neighborhood of Carter’s Lake, Barry County, Mich., and known as “Carter’s snake,’’ has been seen again, this lime by Henry Marble. The snake Is variously reported a 9 fifteen to twenty feet long. Marble was terrified and wont to Sexton MeElwaln’s with Ills horse on the run. Hunts have several times been organized to kill the snake, without results.

Ills Gallantry Caused Ills Death. Thomas McCloskey, a well-known Albany printer, while trying to assist a Ihtlo girl to recover hor pocletbook, lost his balance and foil from the Greenbush brldgo Sunday afternoon. Ills headstruck the projecting stones of the pier. His skull was crushed and when his body was recovered from the water a few minutes later life was extinct Lynching Bee In Texas. At Woodville, Texas, a mob of thirty armed men overpowered the jailer and broke down the doors, ’they went to the cell where William Griffith was confined and took him out Proceeding to the Southern Pacific water tank they hanged and shot him. One of the shots fired into his body nearly cut his arm off. Griffith ass suited a little girl John Applegate Killed. John Applegate, a farmer northeast o. Noblesville, Ind., was killed by a runaway loam hitched to a reaper. He was a member of the Knights of Honor and Ancleqt Order of United Workmen, In each of which he carried $2,000 life Insurance. A wife and sevoral children survive. Soldiers Sent Home. General Mlies has ordered the Federal troops out. of Chicago, and Adjutant General Orendorff has told the Second Brigade, Illinois National Guard, to go home. They Can’t Agree. Tariff conferrees reported tholr inability to agree. Chairman Wilson road a letter from President Cleveland favoring tho House bill « i Memphis, Tenn., Is Shaken. Three distinct earthquake shocks were felt at Memphis. Tenn., Wedne-tlay mornlug. The vibrations were from north to south.