Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — HIDEOUS SKELETON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIDEOUS SKELETON.

GRINS FROM THE CLOSET OF THE VANDERBILTS. Borne One (lakes Big Money Ont of the Whisky Trust—Mississippi River Little More than a Succession of Mad PudAles. Row of the Vanderbilts. For a month past very definitely stated reports have been current among American friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt In London and Paris that formal negotiations were In progress between them for a judicial separation. Failing that, it has been said there was a probability of a suit for divorce on the part of Mrs Vanderbilt. There is no doubt that Mrs. Vanderbilt has consulted friends as to the advisability of instituting such proceedings. She threatens to sue for divorce unless given three mansions and a yearly allowance of $300,099. The name of Nellie Neustretter, a well-known woman living in. Paris, though of Dutch birth, is mentioned in this connection, with what authority Is not known. She has recently established herself In expensive apartments at the Case Madrid, Paris, and at Deauville, with an elaborate entourage of servants RIGGING THE MARKET. Nearly a Million Made on the Whisky Trust Stories. There Is much excitement In the financial circles of Chicago and New York over the performances of the men at the head of the Distillers’ and Cattle Feeding Company, better known as the whisky trust, whereby some favored Individuals have ruade a profit of almost $4,009,009 in speculating in the .-hares of the company, and at the same time an opportunity to save for the company a great sum was thrown away. By the operation characterized among speculators as “rigging the market,” the price of whisky shares was carried up. then down, and then up again, and immense profits were made by those who knew how the cat was going to jump But the stockholders of the Distillers’ and Cattle Feeding Company are indignant. They complain that the interests of the corporation were •acrillced that some one might grasp large winnings in the stock market and Some even charge that certain directors played fast and loose with the company’s affairs Some of the stockholders intimate that President Greenhut, of the whisky trust, is responsible for the tricks played with the property and Is the greatest gainer thereby.

HOLD L’P TWO TRAINS. Amateur Bandits I’lay a Desperate Game in the Depot at Erie. Pa. At Erie, Pa , a band of five men made a most desperate attempt late Monday night to hold up two Lake Hhoie passenger trains in the Union Depot. Each one of the band picked out his car, and all began their work at the same moment. They flourished revolvers at the doors, cried <ut “Hands up!” In the most approved border tone, and then, having attracted attention to, themselves and awed and intimidated the nervous persons among the travelers, began collecting money and jewelry. 'lhelr success as contribution-lifters was phenomenal. considering the odds against them. Home of the passengers seemed glad to surrender everythin' in their possession in order to be rid of the supposed bandits. The gang was afterward captured by the police. TOUCHED LOW-WATER MARK. Upper Mississippi Steamboats llavq Been Forced to Stop for the Season. The Mississippi has reached the lowwater mark of 1864. Old river men say that the mark lias never bsfore been reached sin e the Government established It. The water In the I'pper Mississippi Is now so low that the Diamond Jo line of steamers lists been compe.lo I to stop business for the season. The river is full of sand oars. Never befoio lias the water fallen so rapidly or tiie channel changed so often or so treacherously, and several drownings are due to this fact. At Burlington the Mississippi is a mere thread In fact, no wider than the channel proper.

Blinded by a Pneumatic Lyman Parks, twenty-three years old, eon of Dr. Floyd '• homas, director of the Indiana prison at Jeffersonville, lost his eight through the explosh n of a pneumatic tire of his bicycle Parks was riding to Corydon, when the inner air tube of one of the wheels of his bicycle exploded. After having adjusted a new one Parks commenced to Inflate the tube, and this, too, exploded. Frazmoots of the tire struck him in both eyes, and he became totally blind. His Joy Was Short-Lived. David Farmer, a poor man of Martinsville. Ind., was recently overjoyed to receive a check for 32,000 on the First National Bank of Denver, Colo., from bis sls-ter-ln-law, who wrote that she was a millionaire and was soon to marry a wealthy wecond husband. 3he check has just been returned marked not paid for want of fundi The woman has been declared insane. Brave Messenger Rewarded. A. M. Chapman, the Wells-Fargo Express messenger whose train on the Frisco Railroad was held up at Redfork, I. T., on July 18 last by highwaymen, has been suitably rewarded by Wells, Fargo & Co. for his bravery at that time. The recognition came In the shape of a gold watch studded with diamonds and a heavy gold chain, valued at (590. Gold Pound in Indiana. While digging a well William White, a farmer residing several miles west of New Albany, Ind., found several pieces of goldbearing quartz, the deposit being distinctly marked and the gold being of a rich quality. Close Call for Senator Palmer. A telegram from Senator Palmer, dated Grafton. W. Va., says that the Baltimore and Ohio train in which Mrs Palmer and himself were speeding home narrowly es- ■ caped complete destruction by a landslide As it was, the engine, tender, and part of the baggage car were crushed flat and the engineer and fireman killed. Bitten by a Murderess. Sheriff Harrison Beecher, of Sullivan Couhty, New York, during the Incarceration of Lizzie Halliday, the triple murderer, Is suffering severe pain frem a swollen hand, U« result of a bite from her. Nebraska Republicans. The Nebraska Republican Convention, held at Omaha. Wednesday, nominated the following ticket: For Governor. 'J homas J. Majors; Lieutenant Governor, 11 E Moore; Secretary of State, N. J. Piper; Auditor. Xngene Moore; State Treasurer, Joseph S. Bartley; Superintendent of Public In•traqtlon, H. B. Corbett; Attorney Gonoral. A. & Churchill; Commissioner of leads and Buildings, H. G Russell. Hot to Kill Hippolyte. New has been received from what has hitherto proved a reliable source that an ettespt was made a few days ago to assesefartle President Hippolyte of Hayti.

pBES A PULLMAN PASS. Labor Commissioner Wright, the Strike Investigator, Carries an “Annual." Did Labor Commissioner Carroll D Wright go out to Chicago on a Pullman jass to Investigate tne Pullman strike? Commissioner Wright, according to hli iwn statement, carries a pass and uses It when be pleases, but hs says he didn’t use it in going to Chicago. Yes. Units'! states Labor Commissioner Carroli D. Wright, the Chairman of the special labor commission appointed by President Cleveland to Investigate the recent itrlke at Pullman, and to Inquire Into the treatment of Pullman's unfortunate starving employes, has a Pullman sleeping-car pass in his pocket He can feel it press against his broad bosom whenever he leans forward to question witnesses as to the condition of affairs In the “model town.” His feelings can only be surmised when the evidence is damaging to Pullman, his friend and patron, to whom he Is under obligations for many a ride in the palatial sleeping-cars Commissioner Wright’s pass Is an “annual” It entitles him to ride free in any Pullman Bar at any time in any part of the United States. He is not required to put up {2 for s night’s rest in a Pullman bunk, as less favored individuals without a “pull” must la

SAVED BY A BRAVE BRAKEMEN. Passengers on a Mountain Train Have a Narrow Escape. Passenger train No. 7. on the Stony Cove tnd Catskill Mountain Railroad, on a narrow gauge track to Hunter, and a steep trade, while going up the mountain met a wild train running down. The engineer st No. 7 reversed his englsup and all the crew jumped. Several passengers did likewise and escaped injury. Next came the crash, and then followed one ot the wildest rides passengers ever experlsneed. and they were saved from a fall Sown the mountain side by tho bravery of one man. When the crash occurred the engine of train No. 7 was badly broken, and, being reversed under full head of steam, started backward down the mountain without driver or fireman. Brakeman Arland B. Porter was on the rear car, and when the wild run commenced he tried vainly to stop the train with brakes. Then he heard the puffing of the engine and realized that something must be wrong there. Running through the curs he climbed into the cab and pushed the throttle and the steam was cut off. The train soon stopped.

HOWARD SKIPS TO CANADA. Founder of a New Religious Order Finds Dupes In Virginia. The Grand Jury ot Fairfax County, Virginia, has returned two Indictments against Dr. Granby Stanton Howard. Dr. Howard is the man who started what he called a new lellglous order on a bn sis which he claimed to have obtained while an officer in the British army In India. Howard established what he styled a school of philosophy at Gunston Hall, on the Potomac. He is said to be In Canada at the present time. The indictments charge him with obtaining from his dupes $4,000 in money and diamonds valued at 11,390. One of his followers has been Investigating Howard’s career for some time and asserts that he has operated in New York. Boston. Burlington, N. J.; Newport, It I.; St. Louis. Chicago, Kansas City, Chattanooga and other places under various names.

RIO UNDER MARTIAL LAW. President Pelxoto Assuming Dictatorial Powers. Rio Janeiro Is under military patrol. Pelxoto’s secret police are everywhere, "he Brazilian warship Constant has been

ordered back from Uruguay, and the harI or is patrolled by warship launches. Too city has tho appearance of a military camp. The Minister of War was hurriedly summoned. A number 'of prisoners have been released on Pelxoto’s order. A strict censorship has been established over the press

and Pelxoto refuses to grant Interviews, saying that he has his own organs in the United States and In Europe.

Smothered to Death. A terrific gas explosion occurred in breast 62 cn sixth level of the Franklin mine, at Franklin, near Seattle, Wash., Friday afternoon. Sixty-two miners were imprisoned and thirty-seven were killed. The fire was soon extinguished and the work of taking out the bodies began. All were recovered It is evident that all the men had time to come out, for those at work In the farther breast reached the shaft in safety, while those who were nearest the shaft and consequently more removed from danger I all perished from asphyxiation. They | evidently believed they were in perfect I safety at the fire, but while they staid the smoke oozed from some outside place farther south and the bodies were all found south of breast 62. within a space of 500 feet Several mon were badly bruised and nno colored man was taken out with a broken neck, their wounds Indicating they had thrown themselves against posts and timbers of the gangway In a wild and desperate endeavor to e«capo. but a majority of the bodies bear no marks at all, not even a scratch, and their features were in quiet repose. Indicating that their death had been a speedy and painless one. The National Game. The clubs of the National and Western Leagues stand as follows in the championship race:

NATIONAL LEAGUE. Perl Per W. L. cent. I W. L. cent. Boston 68 35 .660,Pittsburg..fl 61 .500 Baltimore. JI6 36 .BHlChloagos.. .47 57 .461 NewYork*.66 38 . 635 Cincinnati. 46 67 .447 PbU’delpTatO 44 .680 St. Louis .42 89 .404 Clevelands.s4 46 .540 Waehlnat'uSl 69 .330 Brooklyns.,s3 48 .5'26 Louisville .39 71 .311 WESTERN LEAGUE. Per Per W. L. cent. W. L. cent. Sjoux Clty.69 49 .634 Indl'n'p’Hs.49 69 .485 Kansas C’v.6o 43 .678 Grd Rapldsl7 64 .465 Minne'p'lfsOS 44 .6’6 Detroit 45 58 .446 Toledo 62 44 .642|Mllwankee.33 64 .40 Bought by the Illinois Central. The Illinois Central Railroad, after Sept 1, will operate and own the Chesapeake. Ohio and Southwestern system. The Illinois Central will use that portion of the road from Fulton, Ky.. to Memphis, Tenn., as a main line along with the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, over which the fast freight and through passenger trains will’pass from New Orleans to Chicago Instead of through Jackson. Miss., and Jackson. Tenn, The entire line was ; urchased. it is said, for 85,(100,000. It was valued at $15,001,001 Boodler Callahan Convicted. At New Orleans, City Councilman John T. Callahan was convicted of receiving a bribe and was Immediately committed to the parish prison by Presiding Judge Moisa The penalty .for his crime is not less than one nor more than five years at hard labor In the State Penitentiary and a fine of not less than 559 nor more than (5.000. His conviction has struck dismay into the hearts of the city ring politicians, of whom he was ona Locomotives for Brazil. The Brooks locomotive worcsot Dunkirk, N. Y.. completed and tested under steam the first locomotive of the order of sixty for the Brazilian Government, to run on the Brazil Central Railway. Great Railroad Man Gone. t John Newell, o f Chicago, president and general manager of the Lake Shore,

and identified with other railroad liter- 1 ests, died Sunday afternoon at 2:Bfi.- la apartments at the Tod House, Young*- j town. Ohio, where he waa taken Saturday I night from hls private car. While traveling from Pittsburg to Cambrldgeboro, Pa., be I was stricken with apoplexy, which paralyzed his left slde.rendering him helpless Ho rallied under stimulants and was taken to ■ the hotel on reaching Youngstown and the best medical aid summoned. Until after midnight he seemed to grow stronger and was able to converse with bls medical attendants As daylight approached hts | symptoms showed brain disturbance and he became unconscious, so continuing until the end came. Ills life went out peacefully i and no Indication of Buffering.

MUST PAY THE BILL. United States of Colombia Ha* a Valid snt Large Claim Against Us. A secret has leaked out from diplomatic circles to the effect that our Government has become sadly entangled with one of the Central American republics as a result of the reciprocity treaties, and will have a bill to pay be tide which the Bering Sea claims will appear trivial In amount. The country tn question is the United States of Colombia, one cf the Central American republics which steadily refused all efforts of the State Department to Induce It to become a party to one of these reciprocity treaties. Moreover, when her sister republics and Spain (as to Cuba und Porto Rico) began to ship their products duty free to the United Stales under the terms of their new treaties. Colombia claimed the same exemption tor her staples, hides, coffee, sugars and molasses. The State Department rejected this claim, us it was obliged to do. else the whole fabric of treaties would have fallen. Colombia persisted In her claim, and pointed to the treaty of 1846, which declares that the Colombian* shall no; be assessed any duties upon their products Imported Into the United States higher than on like articles Imported from any other foreign country. They have never abated this contention; and at last the United States has been obliged to admit the strength and correctness of the Colombia!'. position. This being done, It follows that the Government must refund to Importers the amount they have paid in duties on Colombian products which should have been free, or admitted at lower rates Just what the total will amount to no one can tell at present, but steps are being taken to ascertain the amount from statistics.

HOT HUE AND CRY. Exciting Chase and Capture of Two Mur defers and Robbers. Two coolly desperate train robbers, Henry S’. Gordon, alias Griswold, and William Lake, both of Chicago, shot and Instantly killed Special Officer Patrick H. Owens, of the Chicago. Milwaukee and St." Paul Railroad Friday night as he was going to the assistance ot Freight Conductor N. A. Sargeant, who was being held up and robbed In the caboose by the desperadoes. Early Saturday morning, while fleeing from the scene of their first murder, the robbers shot and probably mortally wounded Officer ’Patrick McGrath of the Northwestern, who was about tr attempt their arrest The scene ol the robbery and the first shooting was at the little station of Deerfield, on the St Paul Railroad, throe and a hall miles west of Highland Park. 'J he shooting of McGrath was at Mayfair, ot the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. After the second shooting the murderers fled west, and their pursuit and running gun light with the police, their final capture after both were wounded, were In keeping with tho desperate methods that the robbers employed at the outset. Fur cool atrocity In both robbery and murder and for desperate deterrplnation to. escape, cost what It might, either to themselves or their pursuers, the crime and the criminals are alike remarkable.

Chinese Lo in Falls. , A telegram from Shanghai says that the attempt of the Chinese Government tc float a loan of 1,009,090 taels, to be guaranteed by Chinese merchants. has proved a failure. The Japanese Government has declared rice to be not Included among articles contraband of war. The American consul at Shanghai has ordered the Japanese in that city to discard the Chinese costumes und advises a majority of them tc return to their native country. Mr. Oiori, the Japanese minister at Seoul, Is reported to have been killed. Was a Wind of Dzath. A wind of death—no other name can describe the cyclone that swept across the Sea of Azov Saturday. It will be Impossible for days yet to compute the dai.age done, but it is almost certain that at leasi 1,000 persons have perished, some by drowning, others by being crushed undei fulling houses and trees. The excitement is great among the American colony In St Petersburg, for It Is feared that at least two parties of American tourists were or the Sea of Avoz at the time the wind did its deadly work.

To Fay the Militia. Governor Matthews, of Indiana, hat mortgaged his farm for 340,902 to ralst money to gay the State troops for services during the strike riots at Hammond and In the mining region. lie expects to b< reimbursed when the legislature meets Four Hundred Go Out. Four hundred weavers In the mills -at Suncook, N. Y..dld not go to w irk Thursday, becau.se of r reduction In v ages equal tc the cut-down In the Full River mills. Casualty In a Pennsylvania Mine. Two men were killed and eleven Injured by an explosion of gas in the Gilberton colliery, near Ashland. Pa.. Friday after, noon.

PEIXOTO.