Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — THEY ROB A JEWELER [ARTICLE]

THEY ROB A JEWELER

THIEVES LOOT A WHOLESALE HOUSE OF $6,000. Small Fire In Mew York Results In Fearful Loss of Life —Kansas City Has a Big Blue—Mercier, Canada’s Ex-Premier, Dead. Bold Daylight Robbery. One of the most peculiar robberies the Chicago police bare yet bad to Investigate occurred Tuesday afternoon. At 2:15 o’clock, according to the story told, a man carrying a piece of lead wastepipe two and a half feet long and elx Inches In circumference walked Into the office of the Brethauer Watch and Jewelry Company on the second floor of Na 71 Washington street. Accompanying this Individual was a young man armed with a big gun. These two men laid violent hands upon the person of G. W. Brethauer, Jr., and —considerately leaving the outer door open for him so that he could breathe—shut him in the vault. W’hen Brethauer got out the office had been looted of everything valuable, the thieves showing a nice discrimination in the matter. The loss-, is said to be $6,000. As a souvenir they left behind that extraordinary piece of lead pipe and it is worrying the police If. as they think, the robbery was committed by experts, they want to know why they carried twelve pounds of lead through the public streets when billies are so cheap and concealablo. SEVEN KILLED BY SMOKE. Occupants oT a Mew York Building Are Suffocated to Death During a Fire. Seven people were smothered to death by smoke in a tenement-house fira at 216 West Thirty-second street. New York. Another woman jumped from a thirdstory window and will die. The fire came suddenly and cut off all escape b 7 the stairways. In the excitement everybody looked to his or her own safety, and rushed down the fire escape. The following perished in the building: George Friedman. 4 years: Levy Friedman, 3 years. Annie Appleblatt. 22 years; Lena Mitchell. 24 years; Margaret Killian. TO years; j Jacob Killian, her son, 40 years • George Levy, Mrs. Killian's grandson. 20 years, years Lena Friedman, mother of the dead children, jumped from the third-story win- ' dow. She was badly crushed and mangled and will die. Tne house is a five-story brick tenement, the ground floor being occupied by a grocer/ and the upper stories being arranged with front and rear apartments There were seven families in the house. The only means of exit for the people is by means of a stairway, narrow and dark, which runs directly up through the center of the building. Before they were thoroughly aroused the flames shot wp through the air shafts and hall- | ways, licking the wood-work and cutting off the escape of the ten- ! aoV. By the lime the firemen came the Inmates were in a state of hopeless panic. Some of them made their way to the roof and escaped to adjoining houses. Others appeared at windows surrounded by flames and crying piteously for aid. A groat crowd gathered in the street below, unable to extend any relief to the paplc•tricken victims. These imprisoned persons who did not lose their heads climbed out on the fire escapes, and some of them reached the ground in this way. The fire j was extinguished soon after the hose was turned on. and though the work of rescue was prosecuted with zeal from the instant the firemen arrived on the scene, they were too late. The damage to the house will not exceed $2,000.

bees may go by mail Ban Salvador Honey-Makers Admissible in Sample Lots. The International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union at Berne, Switzerland, has officially announced thak the postal administration of Salvador gives circulation In Its malls to packages containing live bees. Consequently packages of live bees will be admitted as “samples” to the malls hereafter dispatched from this country to the republic of Salvador, provided they are properly packed. Two Sticks Is Found Guilty. The jurv In the Two Sticks case at Deadwood, S. D, rendered a verdict of guilty. Two Sticks Is the Sioux Indian supposed to have been the instigator as well as one of the perpetrators of the murder of the four cowboys at Humphrey & Sturgis’ ranch Feb. 3,189 a Of the other four Indians implicated one Is dead, another, Too Too, is In the penitentiary, and the remaining two have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Municipal War On. A great municipal war Is on at Toledo, Ohio, and demands are being made for an Investigation of all the city department! The Mayor and City Auditor are at loggerheads, and each Intimates all sorts of disclosures in connection with the other. The Council and Board of Aldermen have demanded an examination of all departments, the Mayor's included. Charged with Sedition. E F. Talley, editor of the People’s Advocate, a Populist newspaper Issued at Blpley, Tena, was arrested on the charge of sedition, growing out of the publication of au article In the last issue of that paper. Editor Talley was arraigned before a magistrate, waived a preliminary examination, and was admitted to bail under *2,500 bond. Death of Mercler. Ex-Premler Mercler died at Montreal Tuesday morning. Mercler was In some respects one of the ablest men Canada.has produced for many a day. He was born In 1840 in the village of Ivervllle, Province of Quebec. Ohio Town Wiped Ont by Fire. Tbe town of Rising Sun, In Wood County. Ohio, has been totally destroyed by Rising Sun has a population of 1,500. Costly Blaze In Kansas City. Fire at Kansas City destroyed the store nod stock of the Green Grocery Company. The store was a fbur-story building at Santa Fe and St. Louis avenues, and was bnllt In 1885 at a cost of *30,000. It was Insured for *15,000. The stock was worth *BO,OOO and was insured for *50,000. Jatne3 Green was the sole owner of the building Embargo Is Extended. The prohibition against the landing of American cattle and American dressed meat announced by a decree of the Hamburg Senate on Saturday last, has been extended to every port of Germany. Not Ready to Lock This Season. Although It is claimed by the contractors that the Canadian canal will be ready for locking this season, such Is not the case. The dredges have not completed their work at the upper end yet, and It will take them thirty days to do so. The machinery for moving the gates is not in place yeL Killed by Dynamite. A targe Hungarian boarding bouse at Laurel Bun, near Wilkesbarre. Pa., was blown to atoms by dynamiters at \Z o’clock Sunday morning and three of the inmates were killed outright, four-fatally Injured pad a half dozen seriously hurt. The wounded were robbed.

CRANK CALLS-OM HIM. I Cleveland Is Mot at Home to Mr. Richard Boeder. A crank of note called at the residence es Dr. Joseph Bryant on West 36th street, | hew York, where President Cleveland was stopping, and demanded to see the President The man Is Richard Boeder, of New York, the same man who wrote to Emperor William of Germany some months age. challenging him to a duel. Boeder rang the door bell of the Bryant home violently about 9 o’clock, and when the butler responded, demanded to see the 1 President The butler told him that Mr. I Cleveland could not be seen. “But it is a business of extreme national importance,” insisted Boeder. This brought Dr. Bryant to tbe door. He reasoned with the crank and toid him it was impossible to see tbe President at that hour. Boeder was finally persuaded to go away. The crank is a man of middle age and was well dressed. He is of wiry build and talks nervously. Boeder told Dr. Bryant that he had been trying to see the President for years in order to wipe away the stain which had been put upon him by incarceration in a lunatic asylum in Germany. He said be had challenged Emperor William to a duel, but the latter was a coward and had him put in an asylum. President Cleveland was the only man who could wipe away tbe stain now resting upon him. As he left the house Boeder promise 1 that be would call again. BIG DISASTER IN JAPAN. Earthquake Destroys Three Thousand House#—Many Lives Lost. Yokohama advices say 3,000 houses have destroyed by .a succession of earthquake shocks As far as known 260 lives have been lost and hundreds of people have been injured. It is reasserted that the army corps under Field Marshal Count Oyama, formerly Minister of War, has affected a landing at Solkiosso. near Port Arthur. It is also again asserted that the Japanese army under Field Marshal Yamagata has successfully crossed the Yalu River and entered Manchuria. It was announced Sept 26 that Field Marshal Count Oyama ha? sailed Hiroshima with tbesecond Japanese squadron. Since then It has been repeatedly asserted that the Japanese had effected a landing near Port Arthur, and it has been stated that a report was current that this Important place had been captured by the Japanese, On tbe other hand, the Japanese have several time? been reported as having crossed the Yalu Elver, and also as having been repulsed. TO LOSE THEIR HEADS. Chinese Generals Handed Over to a Board for Trial and Punishment. Gena Yeh Chi-Chao and Wel-Yu-Kwe, formerly commanding in Corea, have been handed over to the proper board for punishment. They will probably lose their heads. The former is charged with cowardice and responsibility for the murder of a French missionary, Josua. Geo. Wei is accused of extortion and cowardice. Other Important officials have been cashiered and a complete reshuffling has taken place throughout the viceroy’s prbvlnces. The French minister has threatened the Tsungli Yamen, or foreign council, with serious consequences should a long list of claims handed to them remain unsettled.

SWEPT O’ER BY FIRE. Five or More Lives Lost, While Large Stocks of Hay Are Destroyed. For the past few days terrible prairie fires have swept the sand hills country in Nebraska. Bumors of death and destruction are rife, but little can be verified. The counties of Thomas, Cherry, Sheridan, and Grant are those in which the fire prevails or has prevailed and tbe only authentic list of deaths and loss of property follows. The dead: Bliss, ranchman; E, H. Lachtner, ranchman; three unknown farmers Loss of hay: Bartlett Richards, 1,500 tons; Margraves, 350 tons; Pit Moore. 100; West. .100; H. Woodruff, 600; Stansbie Brothers, 1,000; G. H. Miner, 1,000; Mason Brothers, 1,200 and barn. Putting on the Screws. The price of coal is not going down. Recent dispatches from Philadelphia indicated the anthracite pool had been broken up and that a cut-throat war was about to begin. But Thursday Chicago coal dealers received telegraphic advices to advance the price of anthracite in car-load lots from $5 to $5 25. The reasons for the advance in the price of coal are many. During the summer labor troubles and the strike among the soft coal miners many operators of anthracite fields, fancying they foresaw a short market, mined sufficient hard coal to glut the market in the late summer and early autumn. This kept prices down. In the early portion of tbe season lake rates on coal were as low as 25 cents and rail rates fell from $4 to $3.50. Since then lake rates have risen to 70 cents, and while rail rates have not changed, an advance to $4 Is expected within the next few days. Also, the cold weather is beginning and examination of stocks on hand shows Chicago dealers that the supply is by uo means as great *as it was thought to be. Further, small dealers with outputs of a million tons have placed their product in advance of that of the big dealers with outputs of four millions And these are the reasons the coal men give for making the public pay a little more for its winter fuel.

Caprlvl Steps Ont. Chancellor von Caprlvl has handed his resignation to the Emperor. Count zu Eulonburg, President of the Ministerial council, has also resigned. Dr. Mlquel, Prussian Finance Minister, has been appointed President of the Council, and Prince von Hohenlohe-Shllllngsfurst, Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, has been offered the chancellorship. Before offering the chancellorship to Prince llohenlohe. Emperor William consulted with the envoys from Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Saxony, and Baden. It Is reported that Prince Hohenloho declined the office owing to his age. Iho Emperor has summoned General Count Wuldersee, the political soldier who was conspicuous In the final intrigues against Blsmarca. The general Inference Is that he Intends to n ake him Caprivi’s successor. They Suspect a Double Murder. Thompson Township, near Delaware, Ohio, is excited at finding the charred remains of two human beings In the rubbish occasioned by the burning of William Deholt’s barn. A (ramp was seen next morning after the fire looking very intently at the burning embers, and It is suspected that he knows much about the burned barn and how the two men met their death. Ho has escaped, but people think It Is a case of double murder and that he fired the barn to covr>r up his crime. The officers are after him. Disgrace Causes His Sudden Death. Daniel McCllntoc, Trustee of pilfty Township and defeated candidate for the nomination of County Auditor, died suddenly at Columbus, Ind. Ho is known to be short In bis accounts from $4,000 to *5,000, and last week forged a note for *3OO and one for *25 Thursday. His tondsmen filed a petition in court to be released, and when notice was served on him by the Sheriff It produced such a shock that he died. Six Seamen Blown Up. At Brest, oho of the boilers of the French cruiser Aretbuse exploded while the vessel was lying In harbor. Six of the crew were Instantly killed and twenty were more or less seriously Injured. Small-Pox at Washington. Another case of small-pox was developed at Washington. James l Parker, of Indiana. a law clerk In tne division where tbe other cases were reported, was the vic-

tlm. The email-pox scare at the Interior department gathers force. Dr. Woodman, the health officer of the District, made an urgent appeal to Secretary Smith to cloee the entire Interior Department in the Interest of public health, and in accordance with tbe request an order was issued to close the department for fumigation. This applies to tbe secretary’s office, census office, patent office, general land office, miscellaneous division, railroad division, and Indian affairs division, all of which are in tbe main Interior Department building. DIED IM A FIRE BOX. Sixteen Humans Burned to a Crisp In a Seattle Hotel* At Seattle, Washington, sixteen persons—teu men. three women, and three children were burned to death In tbe West Street Hotel Saturday morning. Thirteen bodies have been identified. The financial loss Is less than $20,000, well Insured. Tbe Are was undoubtedly caused by the explotlon of a lamp in the kitchen The proprietor’s sou was aroused by the noise of tbe explosion about 1 o’clock, but before he could investigate the flames had spread all through the house The corrugated Iron sheeting kept tbe flames hid until nearly the whole Interior was a furnace. The thin partitions were of resinous pine covered with cheesecloth and burned furiously. SHOOTS A CLAIM-JUMPER. Plucky Miss Agnes Jones Defends Her Property in Oklahoma with a Gun. Miss Agnes Jones, who has entered a tract of land several miles north of Perry. Q. T., shot- Sam Bartell three times, and several other shots were fired which -missed the mark. It seems that Bartell bad jumped Miss Jones’ claim while she was away from home, and bad taken possession of her house. On her arrival at home Miss Joues told Bartell to vacate her house, which be refused to do, and Miss Joues shot at Bartell six times, three shots taking effect and wounding Bartell seriously if not fatally. Bartell shot at Miss Jones once, but failed to hit her. Bartell asked to be carried from the claim as soon as he was shot. NEARLY READY FOR BUSINESS. Pullman Concern at Hiawatha, Kas., Has Applied for a Charter. The difficulties of the Pullman Co-ope-rative Company at Hiawatha, Kas., have been adjusted and a charter has been applied for. The capital stock is $75,000. Tbe workmen take $25,000 of the stock and pay for It in work. Eighteen families and thirty-two men have arrived from the Pullman works. Ihe superintendent of the Hiawatha manufactory will be D. H. Vannasche, said to be one of the finest workmen employed by tbe Pullman company. The new works will not manufacture cars, but will make furniture and coffins and anything there is a demand for.

Her Story of Abuse Was Falte. Mrs. Emma Wohlhuetter, wus arrested at Akron, Ohio, on the charge of arson. Six weeks ago she created a sensation by declaring that three negroes assaulted her in her own house, threw her, bound, down cellar, and then, pouring kerosene over Everything, set fire to the house. 'the story was believed at first and a posse ol several hundred citizens set out to find the negroes Local colored people resented the story, took up the mattor, and the arrest is the result. Kicks Her Father, Shoots Herself. John Sprouts, a Grundy County, Ma, farmer, was chastising his 17-year-old sou wheu the boy’s twin sister tried to prevent the father from whipping her brother. Failing to pull the father off, she kicked Sprouts so violently that ho is in bed with three broken ribs, Feeling remorseful, the girl loaded a target gun with shot and discharged the load into her left breast Sho died twenty-four hours after the shooting. Drops Dead at His Baby’s Feet. While wheeling his baby on the streot at Laporte, lud,, Lynn Boyd fell forward dead from ai oplexy. He was never sick a day in his life. He was eleven years in the United States mail service. He was Noble Grand of Laporte Lodge, Na 36, I. 0.0. F., and Commander of Canton Laporte, Na 10, Patriarchs Militant Crlspi in Danger, As the date for the opening of the Italian Chamber of Deputies approaches it becomes very evident that the situation of the ministry is one of extreme difficulty. The financial problem is still unsolved, and the deficit is calculated at 60,000,000 lire. Killed In a Railroad Collision, A fast freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad Sunday evening crashed into the end of a construction train at Croydon Station, just outside of Philadelphia. Three men were killed and nine badly injured. Saloonists Organize, Several hundred saloon-keepers met in secret session in Brazil, lud., to prevent the passage of a proposed bill in the next Legislature limiting tbe number of saloons to one for each 1,000 inhabitants. Mexico to Have an Exposition. There Is a scheme on foot at the City of Mexico, for an exposition of Belgians aud Americans. It is claimed that this exposition will bo the legal successor of the midwinter fair of San Francisco. Mythical Insurance. H. Hoffer was arrested at Xenia, Ohio, charged with issuing policies of insurance on a mythical company, the Supreme Lodge of “Unity.” He *as fined S2OO and sent to work for ninety days.