Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — FIRE UPON THE MOB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRE UPON THE MOB.

OHIO SOLDIERS SHOOT INTO WOULD-BE LYNCHERS. Scenes of Bloodshed About Washington Court House, Ohio —Citizen*, Eager to Wreak Vengeance on a Negro, Storm the Jail—Threaten to Use Dynamite. Three Kllle 1 and Many Hurt. At Washington Court House, Obio, three men were killed and about a dozen injured, some fatally, by the militia, in the endeavor to keep mobs from lynching William L'olby, coloied. Dolby assaulted Mrs. Mary C. Eoyd, aged 55, at Parrott's station a week ago, and was captured at Delaware, Ohio, and brought into court at Washington Court House. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to twenty ysars in the penitentiary. An angry mob gathered about the jail after Dolby had been identified by his victim, and Sheriff Cook called to his assistance the local militia company. This action increased the fury against Dolby, and Coy. McKinley was appealed to for additional assistance, and troops from Columbus were sent, CoL Coit in command.

The mob surrounding the jail and court houso attempted to take Dolby from the officers when removed from the jail to the court house for trial, but were kept at bay by the free use, of bayonets and clubbed guns. When brought to the court house Dolby broke down. While bringing him fiom th i ,ail the mob charged and almost succeeded in getting him. Henry Kirk, the brother-in-law of the assaulted woman, was knocked down the steps and badly bruised. Another man was .bayoneted through the finger, while a bayonet was thrust through the clothes of another. Deputies, with revolvers drawn, guarded the prisoner in the court room. Dolby cried like a baby and kept looking around for help. Soldiers were marched in to keep the crowd quiet. After the sentence the prisoner wa. taken to the grand jury room. A mob gatliered about tho Court House, and it was impossible to get the p isoner through to take him to tho train. The officers woio powerless to get Dolby from the Court House to the jail or to the train, and Sheriff Cook wi.ed the Governor to 6ond more troops. The mob grew rapidly in numbers and desperation. Col. Coit. ma le a speech, asking the crowd to disperse, but It was received with jeers. The prisoner was prostrate from fear and. lay crying and moaning all the time. Guar.i* Fire Upon tho Mob. The mob kept Dolby and his guards prisoners in the courthouse until (i p. m. and then made an attack, The militia repelled them without firing at first, l.ut at 6:15 p. m. the south door wa( forced open, 'ihis door opens upon the street, which was filled with men, women, and children. The detachment of the guards finally fired on the attacking party. None of the latter was hurt, but a dozen or more persons in the street were struck,, two killed outright and five more were fatally wounded, one having since died. The wounded were all hurriedly removed from the scene bv friends. The people were frenzied and threatened to dynamite the court house. Additional troops were ordered from Cincinnati, Columbus, Chiliicothe, and other points.

BOMB AT AN IRISH MEETING. Dastardly Attempt to Blow Up the Blake Reception in New York. The reception given by the Irish National Federation t > Edward Blake, M. P., at the Lenox Lyceum, in New York, was productive of some results never dreamed of by its originators. In the heart of the meeting, and while all eyes were turned upon Mr. Blake as lie stood upon the platform delivering one of his most impressive speeches, a stoutly built, frowsily dressed man walked swiftly a-ound the hack of the front tier of boxes until he reached the last one nearest the platform and to tho left of the pr scenium arch, in his hand he carried an old. bulky, green gingham umbrella, which he teemed to hold with peculiar tenderness. Outside the box he stopped, hesitated a moment, and then entering, took a chair in a corner nearest the stage. Tho old man left in a minute It might have been a minute or two later when a sharp cry from the women in tho box, resounding through the house, startled everyone from their seats and stopped the speaker. At the same moment there learned out a gush of llame and smoke, and then followed tho shriek of “Fire” and the simultaneous movement of 1.00 panic-stricken creatures to the door, but even as they turned Patrolman Lilley rushed into tho box, violently dancing on something with his feet, while the voice of Mr. Blake rang through the big building calling on his' audience to keep their seats. “The fire's out. Como back,” cried those on the platform when tho flame had gone and the smoke disappeared. As Lilley stooped to pick up the burning frame he saw lying among the fragments of the umbrella a small, stout tube or bottle. The tube was eight inches long and tw > in circumference, and capped with a covering of gelatin. The tube was filled with a white liquid, which the police think is nitric acid. Attached to the gelatin had been a piece of fuse half burned away.

MUST IMPORT WHEAT. European Crop 116.000.000 Bushels Short —Estimates by Countries. The condition of the crops of Europe for 181)4 is given in the forthcoming report of the stati tician of the Agricultural Department for October. The estimated wheat harvest amounted to 1,435,410.000 Winchester bushels, against a regu'ar consumption of 1,553,500,000 bushels. The harvest by countries is as follows: Prodnc- Consumption. bu. tion, bu. United Kingdom 61,891,000 23.1,000,000 France 313,425,000 350,000,000 Germany .113,600,(00 12-, 000,000 Spain andPcrmgal 110,600,000 115.600,000 Italy 122.959,000 149.000,000 Austria-Hungary 217,000,000 190,0110,000 Roumania 41,000,000 15,000,000 Bulgaria 81,000,000 20,000,000 Russia 310,' 00,000 2,9,000,(00 Belgium 1G,600,000 25,000,000 Holland : 6,115,000 35,000,000 Denmark 6,100,000 5, 600,000 Other countries 64,500,000 43,000,000 This gives 116,000,000 bushels as the approximate requirement from abroad. Owing to unfavorable harvest weather, only a small part of the wheat in Great Britain is fit for milling purposes. The oat crop is considered excellent. There is about 2,475,648 bushel:) of last years whoat crop in first hands. The amount necessary to be imported to meet all demands will be about 189,705’,680 bushels, at about 3,646,000 bushels a week. Official estimates of the crop just gathered in France show the quantity of wheat in excess of the average. The harvest makes France practically independent of outside supplies, but some wheat will probably be imported. The wheat crop in Roumania is the smallest for <

fire years, the rye crop falls below that of last year, and the yield of barley and oats per acre is the lowest in five years. There was about half a crop oi corn. in Germany wheat shows a falling off in quantity and quality from last year and the potato crop is very disappointing'. The Austrian wheat crop is expected to measure 50,000,'09 bushels. Barley and oats have an average yield, but corn doss not promise so* welL Italian grain is reported excellent in Quality. The corn crop, damaged by drought, is looked upon as lost in many districts. Belgian wheat ha-vesteil under very unfavorable conditions is in ured in quality. Hungary’s wheat fields yielded 1t»7,ut0,000 bushels: rye, 01,000,000; and corn, 00,000,000. There is an average rye crop in Austria, except in quality, which is deemed poor. In Russia the approaching completion of the Siberian Railroad is expected to open up to commeics a new field, and “a new and vigorous competitor," says the statistician, "will before long be found in the markets of Europe,” as an enormous quantity of fertile land will be brought under cultivation by the railroad.

WANT TO BE GOVERNORS. Men Who Seek High Honors at the Hands of the People. Ernest Cady, whrm the Democrats ot Connecticut have chosen as their leader in the gubernatorial contest, is

the present Lieutenant Governor. He is a prominent Free Mason, a Grand Army man on the strength of service in the navy during the civil war, a wealthy manufacturer and leading citizen of Hartford. He was born Sept fi, 18h2, at Stafford. Tolland County, lost his fa-’ ther when but nine years old, and thereafter supported him-

self by his own labor. His education he received at the winter terms of the public schools. Since 18(52 he has been in the firm of Pnatt & Cady, manufacturers of steam-boiler appliances at Harts. rd. . Mr. Cady has twice been elected Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with In 'on B. Morris. The Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts, E'rederick T. Greenhalge, was borti in England in

1842. Early in the ’sos his family came to the United States, and settled in Lowell, Mass., where the subject of this sketch entered the publio schools. In 1859 he . entered Harvard College, but three years : later was obliged to leave because of the death of his father, which left him the main support of his mother and six sis-

ters, he being the only son. He was admitted to the bar in 1865; held several city offices, and in 1885 entered the State Hou-o of Representatives. He also served in the Fifty-first Congress He is a very popular man ip his State.

FEEDING WHEAT. Report l>y the Kansas Hoard of Agriculture Says It Is Decidedly Profitable. Fat-mers can not fail to bo interested in an elaborate and able report just published by the Kans is State Board of Agriculture on the advantages and disadvantages of wheat as a food for farm animals. The conclusion reached is that, at the present price of wheat, there is decided profit to be gained in feeding wheat instead of corn. In order to get at the truth in this late phase of the oheap-wheat problem, the Secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture recently sent a carefully prepared list of questions to 1,000 wheat growers, stock growers, feeders and dairymen, and after editing the replies found himself in possession of -iOJ very useful contributions on the subject. From the answers and estimates of these observant and practical men he compiled the following interesting conclusions: Of the 1:4,827,52:5 bushels of winter and spring wheat raised in Kansas in 1893 there has been used as feed for farm animals 4,059,323 bushels, or 16.4 per cent. When fed whole, especially to hogs, 25 par cent, of the wheat grains are swallowed unmasticated and go through the animal undigested—a shameful waste. Yet three-fourths of the men reporting, representing fifty counties, state that, pound for pound, wheat is superior to shelled corn for fattening hogs—even with the one-fourth waste. This superiority is estimated va iously at from 7 to 35 per oent., the average pla ing the superiority of wheat over corn at lb per cent. As to how much live pork may be expected »6 a fair return per bushel of wheat fed to hogs, the average of all the answers is eleven pounds. It is also of interest to note that the ccst of raising a bushel of wheat in Kansas ranges from 561 cents, where an acre yields only 10 bushels, down to 26 cents where an acre yields 35 bushels. _ The Secretary sums up his conclusions thus: Under existing conditions wheat has become a very unusual and important factor in the grain feeding of all classes of farm stock. It is superior to corn in producing healthful, well-balanced growth in young animals. Mixed with corn, oats or bran, it is much superior to either alone for working horses. Fed to cows it is far and away ahead of corn as a milk producer. For swine it gives generous results, but is used at a disadvantage when fed whole, especially without soaking. For cattle the clear wheat is rather too carbonaceous unless mixed with corn or oil-cake.

AMATEUR OARS WOMAN. Miss Rose Rosentheim Easily Defeats Miss Ashley at St I.ouis. Before a throng which picked the levees and the great Eads Bridge, at St. Louis, Rose Rosentheim finished easily first in the mile and a half sculling match for the female championship of America, defeating Miss Tillie Ashley, of Hartford, Conn., who, seeing the race lost, stopped rowing before the contest was half over. Tne time was 12 minutes 23} seconds. Miss Rose Rosentheim, who is now the champion amateur oarswoman of America, received her training for

the recent female rowing race, at St. Louis, Mo., from Fred Koenig, champion amateur oarsman of America, and the Western Rowing Club. Miss Rosentheim is a decided brunette. She is five , feet five inches tall and weighs 131 pounds, but can row at L 5 pounds. She rows thirt\-four strokes to the min-

ute, while her opponent. Miss Ashley, takes thirty-six strokes to the minute. This race was of special interest being the first of its kind to take place in this country, except those of purely local character, among boarders at seaside resorts. The stakes were the amateur oarswoman championship o’ America, and a suitable trophy.

E. T. GREENHALGE.

BOSE MOSENTHEIM.

ERNEST CADY.