Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — NEARLY 200 DROWNED [ARTICLE]

NEARLY 200 DROWNED

GO TO THE BOTTOM WITH THE COLIMA. Former Assistant Secretary to Have the State Portfolio—Floods Spread I>eath and Destruction in Texas— Details of the Death of Marti. Wrecked in the Pacific. R. S. Schwerin, superintendent at San Francisco of the Pacific Mail Company, Monday night received word that the Colima had been wrecked. Nineteen of those on board were saved. The Colima carried about forty first cabin passengers and the same number in the crew. The Colima was commanded by Captain J. P. Taylor and was an iron vessel of 2.906 tons. She was built in 1873 by Roach & Sons, of Philadelphia, and was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. The wreck occurred between Manzanilla and Acapulco. The Colima carried a very heavy cargo of general merchandise. A ship's boat containing five of the crew and fourteen of the passengers arrived at Mnnsanilla Tuesday. Assistant Superintendent Avery of the Pacific Mail stated that the Colima carried 192 people and only nineteen were saved. Most of the cabin passengers were bound through to New York. FOUGHT FACE TO FACE. Battle in Which Marti Was Killed and Gomez Wounded a Desperate One. Cable advices say the battle where Marti was killed occurred on May 19 near Bifos. The Cubans were divided into two bodies, under Gomez and Maceo. It was expected that they would leave San Luis for Bayamo. Learning this fact. Col. Sandoval, with 300 men, pursued them and encountered 700 of the rebel cavalry under Gomez at noon. In the first charge the Cubans rode down the Spanish advance, killing a sergeant and wounding or capturing an entire squad. Sandoval personally led the bayonet charge, and the Spanish heroically held their ground against the rebel horse, fighting the Cubans face to face. It is said that Marti, who led the advance, fell in the third charge, almost within the Spanish lines, pierced by seven bullets. Gomez then came to the front, and the Cubans made eleven successive fruitless attempts to break the Spanish lines and recov«r Marti’s body.

UHL WILL BE IN CHARGE. Successor of Mr. Gresham Not Soon to Be Selected. It is intimated in official circles at Washington that Secretary Gresham's successor in the cabinet will not be named for several weeks, and that in the meantime Assistant Secretary Ul.l will perform the duties. Grave international problems are pressing for solution, but the President has always taken such a deep interest in every detail of State Department affairs that a Secretary is not a strict necessity of the moment. Many names figure in the calculations as reasonable probabilities for Secretary of State. Don M. Dickinson is easily at the head of this, having declined the office at the commencement of the'administration; William C. Whitney occupies a place in the minds of many, while not a few believe that Bayard may be transferred from the court of St. James to his old imst as chief adviser of the President. SWEPT AWAY DEVIL’S RIVER. Entire Family Drowned in the Rush of Waters. In the terrible flood that visited the Devil’s River country in Texas last Thursday four persons met their death by drowning near Ozona. Two others belonging to tlie same family, were drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. The victims were George Velasco’s wife and the latter’s two brothers and three sisters. They lived on the bank of Devil’s river, which rose thirty feet within thirty minutes and swept their house and the whole family into the raging torrent All the houses on the Prosser ranch, between Juno and Comstock, were swept away, and several families, numbering in all about twenty persons, are believed to have been drowned.

Confessed to Murder. John Carey confessed ill' Chicago hia connection with the unirdcr of Police Oflicer Duddles on the night of Jan. .‘5 last. His statement exposes John Roach as the actual murderer, with William Magee and Carey as his accomplices in the felonious act of burglary which preceded the murder and from which the murder was a reasonable and anticipated consequence. Noted Wood Carver Dead. Henry Liudley Fry, who ranked high among the wood carvers of the world, died Monday at his home near Cincinnati. He was 88 years of age. He worked on the decorations of the House of Commons and Westminster Abbey before coming to America. There is work of his chisel in nearly every royal house in Europe. Negro Murderer Lynched. At Ellicott City, Md., Jacob Henson, colored, under sentence of death for the murder three months ago of Daniel F. Shea, was hanged by lynchers. Henson’s feigned insanity was to have been introduced, which probably caused the lynchers to take the law into their own hands. No Release for Debs. The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of habeas corpns. This is a victory for the Government. Woman Tnrns Highwayman. Sheriff Hancock, of Ava, Mo., captured the robbers who held up A. R. Turney, storekeeper at Rome. They were captured near Lead Hill, Ark. One of the bold thieves, and the one who appeared to be the leader of the gang, turned out to be a woman. Her name is Lydia Briston. Armenian Editors Are Arrested. A special from Athens says two Armenians, editors of the Journal Vatan, have been arrested there for blackmailing the Turkish minister and publishing articles insulting to the sultan. Baye It Injures Health. The Paris Journal des Debats makes a violent attack upon the importation of American lard into France, saying that it la sold as pure lard, defrauds the treasury and customs, injures pig breeding, deceives the consumer and is injurious to health. Says They Got the $16,000. Sheriff Leslie, of Leadville, Colo., believes that he has captured two of the three men trho robbed the Wells-Fargo express office of $16,000 near Cripple Creek several weeks ago. The men gave their names as Peter Barr and Jim StewArt- • .i

MQRTON DOESN’T LIKE IT* Object* to Having Hi* Meat-Inapec-f , / tion Methods Critiaed. Secretary *of Agriculture Morton and Dr. Salmon, chief of the bureau Of animal industry, are very much exercised over the attack made upon the effectiveness of the meat inspection service. The inspection provided for under the act was to meet the demands of foreign governments to which our meat was exported, but the authority given the Secretary was insufficient and Mr. Morton has tried to induce Congress to cure the defects. While the inspection separated the healthy from the diseased meat and prevented the exportation of the latter, the Secretary was not clothed with the power to compel the destruction of condemned meat, and this could be sold in the domestic markets. If the Legislatures of the States had taken steps to co-opernte with the department by providing for the destruction of carcasses condemned by Federal inspectors the inspection would have been rendered effective. But this was not done, and the Secretary appealed to Congress. Last December Congress passed in a modified form an amendment proposed by the Secretary to punish persons selling this condemned meat for food. The amendment does not go into effect until July 1. Meantime, however, the department objects strenuously to the intimations thrown out that the inspection as at present conducted in no wise protects the domestic consumers. The Secretary, without the definite authority of law, insists that he has accomplished much with reference to trichinae in pork. BISHOP HURST HAPPY. Money Raised for the First Building of the American University. Bishop Hurst, president of the board of trustees of the American University, which on Wednesday raised $150,000 for the erection of the first building, a hall of history, is very enthusiastic over the outlook. It is proposed to make the university a great American institution for the training and equipment of students for special and original research. The work is to be purely post-graduate, a college diploma being necessary for matriculation. The site of the university, costing SIOO,000, is located on the heights above Washington beyond the new naval observatory and Woodley, President Cleveland’s old country place. It includes ninety acres. Ultimately the plans contemplate twentynine buildings. The trustees estimate that it will cost $5,000,000 to start the university, and $10,000,000 for the full equipment. The funds are being raised largely by personal solicitation.

MAD RUSH FOR LAND. Scramble of 20,0. O People for 437 Kickapoo Claims. At and before noon Thursday 20,000 eager, greedy men and women rushed from Oklahoma City, Ok., pell mell into the little triangular reservation of the last remnant of the once powerful Iviekapoo Indian tribe, and jostled, scrambled and fought for the 437 claims that were opened to settlement by President Cleveland's proclamation. At night the majority of the Kickapob were homeless and without shelter, roaming about over the land which for a quarter of a century has been their kingdom and in which no pale lace had been permitted to gain n foothold. The majority of the bark homes built by the Indians are located in the uplands, far distant from the rich bottom lands which were allotted to them by the agents of the Government. Now they shelter the white man, who hmj-'tatejn possession of the upland as his HAS A MANIA FOR JEWELS. Remarkable Career of Samuel Costar Arrested in New York. Saipiiel Costar, or “Jew Sara,” who was arrested at New York, was identified by Mrs. C. H. Maillard as the man who robbed her flat of $7,000 worth of diamonds last March. The police say that in Milwaukee he robbed Gertie Peace of SI,OOO worth of jewelry; from Rose Carroll. of San Francisco, he stole $5,000 worth of jewels; from .Tennette Wannmaker, of Denver, he took jewelry valued at SI,OOO, and from Miss Florence McClellan, $2,500 worth of gems. In Kansas City, Chicago and New York he lias victimized many women and jewelers. Race for the Pennant. , Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Pittsburg 28 20 8 .714 Cincinnati 30 20 10 .067 Chicago 30 19 11 .633 Cleveland 29 17 12 .586 New York 25 13 12 .520 Philadelphia 25 13 12 .520 Boston 24 12 12 .500 Baltimore 22 11 11 .500 Brooklyn 20 10 16 .385 St. Louis 30 11 19 .367 Washington 26 9 17 .340 Louisville 25 5 20 .200

WESTERN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 22 17 5 .773 Minneapolis 21 13 8 .610 Grand Rapids.. ..23 13 10 .505 Kansas City 23 11 12 .478 Detroit 21 10 11 ,476 Toledo 24 10 14 .417 Milwaukee 23 0 14 .391 St. Paul 21 7 14 .333 Bigamists Must Go. Bigamy in the United States by Canadian citizens is one of the subjects .to be grappled with at Toronto by the National Council of Women of Canada under the presidency of its founder, the Countess of Aberdeen. It has lately been decided thei;e that a married person who is a British subject resident in Canada, and who goes to the United States or any place out of Canada and there goes through the form of marriage with another person cannot be convicted in Canada of big’amy. This is the case even when no divorce has been obtained in the United State*. The countess and the ladies affiliated with her upon the executive committee of the National Council are bound to have the law amended if possible. Fierce Fury of the Winds. During a storm at Rockport, Texas, forty houses were blown from their foundations, and the Catholic Church and Commercial Hotel wrecked. Vessels in the bay dragged their anchors and three came ashore. The force of the wind drove the rain through roofs. Rev. Mr. Scarborough, of the Methodist Church, was internally injured. Half a dozen boats were blown ashore at Corpus Christi. Crops are utterly ruined along the Iverrville branch of the Aransas Pass road. Two bridges on the Aransas Pass near Yoakum and one at Kerrville were washed away. Reports place the rainfall at from two to three inches. To Run for Senator. ft is reported on what is apparently good authority that Secretary Carlisle is determined to make a hot fight for the Senate. His intention, a Washington dispatch says, is due to an expressed wish of the President. 1 Jail Burned by Lynchers. A letter from Rodney, Miss., says that the town jail wag fired by a band of lynchers at night and that a negro perished in the flames.

DANGER IN THE RIBE. Price of Wheat Max Prove a Calamity) to Bnsineaa. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “If wheat has been so greatlyj injured t>y the snow’s and frosts in Mayi that the sudden riae of 12 cents in two weeks is justified, the calamity will affectall business prospects. The markets do 1 not believe it, for stocks do not collapse, iron, leather, and hides still rise, and no holders o£ wheat would sell at 80 cents, a lower price than had been known at this season for thirty years prior to 1893, if current reports were credited. Some injury has undoubtedly been sustained, but our own dispatches do not show that it is really serious. The temper is to buy, regardless of visible requirements, in the faith that prices are sure to rise. Western receipts -of wheat for three weeks have been larger than last year in spite of storms and frosts. But the rise has practically stopped buying for export, as the similar rise did in April, 1884, which was followed by about the lowest prices then, ever known. Whether grain has been greatly injured or not, foreign markets will take early occasion to fortify themselves from other sources. The week’s 1 sales at New York ataounted to 155,000,-’ 000 bushels, nnd accounts of damage by frost and by insects are so mixed up that some traders infer the bugs must wear overcoats.’’ SAY SHE WAS POISONED. 31rs. Matthews Dies in a Graveyard and C. W. Winthrop Is Arrested, C. W. Winthrop, assistant superintendent of Laurel Ilill Cemetery, San Francisco, was arrbsted in connection with the mysterious death of Mrs. Jennie Matthews last Saturday. Mrs. Matthews died very suddenly while decorating the grave of her ehild. Her little daughter, by whom she was accompanied, said Winthrop gave her mother a bill, but he denied this statement. A chemical analysis of the woman’s stomach, however, developed the fact that it contained strych-. nine. Evidence is suid to have been found now that Mrs. Matthews had her life insured for $2,000 a few days before her death, and that Winthrop is deputized in the policy to hold the money in trust for her daughter, Minnie, a child 5 years old.

ADVOCATES OPIUM TRADE. English Government Favora It for, Business Reasons. In the House of Commons Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, liberal member for the Barnard division of Durham, made a motion attacking the report of the opium commission and the opium trade generally, and demanding that the Indiau Government suppress it. Henry Fowler, secretary of state for India, strongly opposed the motion. The suppression of the opium trade, he said, would deprive 1,250,000 poor peasant growers of their entire livelihood and create a great deficit in the Indian revenues. The motion was defeated by a vote of 176 to 59. FLYING MACHINE A SUCCESS. Langlex"’* Invention Travels a Thousand Feet in a Recent Test. A Washington letter says: The Langley flying machine flew a distance of 1,000 feet at a test down the Potomac a few days ago. The machine is now propelled by storage batteries placed under the wings and moves independently of any control from the float from which the flights are made. It is now believed that the machine will fly a great distance. Prof. Langley lias already spent more than $50,000 in experimental work, and he believes that before long he will be able to build a practical machine. AH Records Broken. Thursday was the most notable day in the history of the Chicago wheat pit. Over 250,000,000 bushels were traded in, and the price touched 82 cents. The country crowd have won the market, and all efforts of the professional traders to hold them back have failed. John C. Schwartz failed during the day. Over $1,000,000 in margins was paid in. Strong foreign buying orders assisted the countrymen to keep the price up.

Is a Notorious Swindler. S. 11. Taggart, the Johnson County, Mo., farmer who was swindled out of $8,500 by two men who pretended to purchase his farm, has identified the two men arrested for the crime. A detective has identified tlxe chief swindler as J. H. Hamilton, a notorious confidence man, known in every American city. His companion has not been identified, but is thought to be a Chicago inan. Russia Showing Her Hand. It is stated that the Russian Government has declined to agree to the military occupation of Corea by the Japanese forces and demands that the Government at Tokio recall the garrisons stationed there. Wheat Scarce in Kansas. A serious condition confronts the millers of Kansas. Many of the small mills throughout the State are shutting down because they caunot get wheat, owing to the recent rise in price. Are Made Knights. Henry Irving, the actor; Lewis Morris, the poet; Howard Russell, the correspondent, and Besant, the novelist, were made baronet's by Queen Victoria upon her 760; birthday.