Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — ’TIS A GRISLY RECORD [ARTICLE]

’TIS A GRISLY RECORD

FOURTEEN bYNCHINGS IN ONE FLORIDA COUNTY. Persuasive Methods of Missouri Vigilantes—Large Fire Loss at Arkansas City, Kan.—Abandoned at Sea on • Burning Craft. Three More Lynched. Three more negroes have been lynched In Lafayette County, Fla., for assault upon a white woman. The woman is Miss Jeanette Allen. Miss Allen recognized one of her assailants as Bill Collins, one of her father's employes. After a chase lasting all <day Friday he was captured, but while preparations were being made to lynch him he escaped. All Saturday and Saturday night he was pursued. The chase led through the phosphate region, where negroes are numerous, and two of Collins’ friends attempted to conceal him. These two negroes were shot by the pursuers and their bodies placed on the. railroad track, where they were cut to pieces by passing trains. Collins was recaptured early Tuesday morning. He was taken to the scene of the attempted crime, where he was hanged and his body riddled with bullets. The corpse was then cut down, weighted with stones and thrown into the river. In eighteen months fourteen negroes have been put to death in Lafayette County for assaults upon white women. STRUNG-UP TO A TREE. Missouri Mob Tries to Force a Confession from Farmer Bob Young. Bob Young, a farmer near Richmond, Mo., was taken Tty a mob and strung up to a tree in an effort to extort a confession from him which would lead to the capture of the incendiary who recently burned barns in the vicinity. The mob seized Young at the house of a neighbor and took him to the woods. Upon his denial of any knowledge of the crime they tied a rope about his neck, threw It over the limb of a tree and drew him up. He was let down, and, still persisting in denying knowing anything about the tires, was twice more strung up. Not making any damaging admissions, he was then permitted to depart. Young says he knows the meu, but will not divulge their names. LEFT TO THEIR FATE. Passengers on a Burning British Vessel Abandoned by the Crew. News has been received at St. Malo, France, of the abandonment on lire and with her passengers on board of a British vessel, the Why Not, bound for the Island of Jersey and loaded with fodder. The crew of the Why Not, it appears, deserted the passengers when the vessel caught fire and, taking to the boats, succeeded in landing at Erqu.v, department of the Cotes du Nord. These are all the particulars obtainable. The fate of the passengers of the Why Not is not known. SANTA FE SHOPS BURNED. Seven Engines and Many Valuable Tools Destroyed. Monday night at 11 o’clock Hie ten-stall roundhouse, shops, seven locomotives, Corliss engine, lathes and tools of the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Arkansas City, Kan., were, entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated by Master Mechanic Kirk at $125,000; fully insured. The cause of the fire is said to have been spontaneous combustion. In less than five minutes after the fire started the entire roof of the building was a mass of flames. SECURE A LARGE SUM. A Maine Grocer Robbed of $30,L00 in Securities and Cush. At Lovell, Me., the grocery store of J. A. Hutchinson was entered by burglars and $50,000 in cash, stocks, notes and bonds stolen. The securities were kept in a small tin box in the safe ih the store. The burglary was the most mysterious ever committed in Maine. The safe was not blown open, but some one who knew the combination opened it, and, after robbing the box, locked it again.

GRADUATES IN DISGRACE. Expelled for Ducking a Lieutenant Who Wore a New Uniform. Over half the graduating class at the Grove City, Pa., college were expelled for ducking a lieutenant of the college guards, because he appeared in a new uniform. Barely a corporal’s guard of the seniors will receive their diplomas. A number of the freshmen were also expelled for taking part in the affair. Bank Robber Captured. A stranger attempted to rob the Silver Bow National Bank at Butte, Mont., Tuesday. The robber stuck the muzzle of a gun through the cashier’s window and demanded money from the bookkeeper. The latter dodged under the desk and fired six shots into the ceiling to attract the attention of outsiders. The robber ran out without getting any money. He met a policeman and the two exchanged several shots. The robber was caught a few minutes later by Deputy Sheriff Young. Murderer at the Age of Four. Indiana has a youthful murderer in Gilbert Bowsher, 4 years old, who killed Bernice Collins at Montieello, his victim being a toddling infant of 2 years. Bowshflr was angry because the Collins child didn’t speak to him. The authorities are puzzled, the annals of the State failing to record a parallel case. Both families are prominent. Nebraska Gets Rain. Two inches of rain covered the entire State of Nebraska Monday and Tuesday. Fields of grain which had been abandoned as ruined, which had been so parched that a match would have kindled a serious conflagration, have revived, and will in most cases make a full crop. To Bucceed Thurston. Secretary Olney has received a brief telegram from Minister Willis, saying that W. R. Castle has been appointed Hawaiian minister to the United States In place of Mr. Thurston, resigned. Three Killed in a Wreck. Three men were killed by a rear-end collision at Shamokin, Pal A Philadelphia and Reading freight ran into a coal train. The wreck occurred on a. heavy grade and at a sharp curve in the road, and is one of the worst that have occurred there for many years. About thirty cars were piled on top of each other. Wants to Leave Corbett. Rumors are current of trouble between “Jim” Corbett and his wife, and that she has begun proceedings for divorce. Mrs. Corbett’s father, Mr. Lake, said he thought the papers in the case had already been served on the pngilist

LOADED DOWN WITH 'DEBT. Cuba la in No Condition to Pay the Costs of War. - A semi-official statement has been received in Washington from the leaders of one of the most influential elements in Cuba showing that the war expenditures are becoming so enohnous and the sugar and tobacco industries so unprofitable that they believe a general uprising will result from the hard times caused. The portion of the statement concerning the desperate conditions prevailing is as follows: “The War expenses of 1808-78 were paid by Cuba. Spain furnished 212,307 men, but not a single dollar. Cuba was loaded with nearly $200,000,000 debt, besides a yearly budget of $58,000,000 in those ten years. Gen. Lovellar declared in the Spanish Cortes that the war expenses had been $700,000,000, or an average of $70,000,000 a year. Sugar produced then with slave labor was sold at <>% cents a pound. Leaf tobacco was sold 100 per cent above to-day’s prices. Per contra, sugar sells to-day at 1.80 cents a pound, or 30 per cent below cost of production, and is pressed to its last ditch by German beet sugar. The tobacco industry is ruined beyond redemption by a tariff war. Leaf does not pay the cost of labor at to-day’s prices. A $45,000,000 deficit is the last straw on the camel’s hack. The budget of 1803-4 was closed with a $6,000,000 deficit and sugar sold then at 2.625 cents a pound, while this year it sells at I.BC cents a pound.”

COTTON DOING FAIRLY WELL. Corn Promises Well in the South, but Rain Is Needed. According to the Government weekly crop report, the warm weather of the past week has been favorable for cotton, which is reported as doing well in Tennessee and Oklahoma, and is improved in Arkansas and North Carolina, though still backward in the last-named State. In Louisiana the stand has been affected by the cool weather of the preceding week, brff it has commenced to grow again. In Texas the early part of the week was unfavorable, but the warm weather of the latter part was favorable for cultivation, which was badly needed. The warm weather has also been beneficial to corn, replanting of which over the northern pbrtion of the corn belt is about completed? and it is coming up and doiug well.- Urnports from Southern States indicate corn in that section is iu excellent condi-' tion. In Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and southern Illinois corn would be greatly benefited by rain. Winttf* whcat)-is in less promising condition in Ohio, Jndiann, Michigan and Missouri, and rust is appearing in Illinois. It is nearly ready to harvest in Kansas and is bending in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Arkansas nnd Kentucky report improved condition, and prospects in Oregon are excellent. SCORES OF PEOPLE DROWN. Cloudburst in Germany Results in the Destruction of Life and Property. A tremendous cloudburst occurred over the Wurtemburg portion of the Black Forest, in Germany, The downfall of water caused the river Eyach to rise and many houses at Ballingeu, Frommern, Dirrwangen and Lanfeti were swept away. Ten persons were drowned at Ballingen, 6even were killed at Frommern nnd nine other persons are missing. At Laufen ten persons were killed. The Black Forest is a mountainous region of southwestern Germany iu the grand duchy of Baden and the west of Wurtemburg, separating the basins of the lthine and Neckar. In many places it is 3,700 feet above the sea. Neckar, Kinzig, Murg, Eltz and other rivers rise in this region. are mainly engaged in rearing live stock, trading in timber gud manufacturing wooden clocks, toys and woolen fabrics. INDIANS WEARY OF SCHOOL. Two Youths Make a Futile Attempt to Reach Their Reservations, Philip Pratt and Victor Bette, two Inlian youths, one an Apache and the other an Arapahoe, arrived at the Indian office at Washington, fugitives from the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. Some time ago they ran away from a farmer and on returning to the school were sent to the guard house. When released they went to Washington and asked to he sent back to their reservations. lustend they will oe returned to the school under guard. Cuused by Overloading. The Colima survivors declare that the ship was overloaded, badly loaded, topheavy—ull agree to it. When the gale struck her the vessel weathered it badly. There was a list to starboard and she did not right again. Men called out to the captain to cut away the deckload of heavy spars. The captain was obdurate. He knew his luisiuess, or fancied that he did, and would brook no suggestions from what he called the terrified and panicstricken passengers. The ship listed more and more and lost her steering power. The captain rang for more steam, and would not cut loose the decklond, that might have saved her. Steam could not save her. The engines were taxed to their utmost. Still the vessel listed. The panic on board grew worse, the fear of death more intense. Then the captain gave orders for the crew to keep the passengers within bounds. The effect of these orders Was to turn the crew into subaltern tyrants, who acted nB though they sought to prevent passengers from escaping the doom that yawned before them. Those who were saved are some of those who were wiser than the captain, who could see their peril more clearly, and had wit enough to throw themselves into the foaming sea before the Colima gave her last list to starboard. As she did this the captain’s whistle sounded to cut loose the deckload of spars.

Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clHbs of the National Baseball Leaguer , Per Clubs. Flayed, Won. Lost, cent., Pittsburg 41 20 15 ~ .034 Boston 34 21 13 .618 Baltimore 34 20 14 .58S Chicago 42 24 18 XH I Cleveland 39 22 17 .564 New Y0rk.......38 20 18 .526 Cincinnati 40 21 19 .585 Philadelphia .....37 19 18 ,514 Brooklyn 37 18 19 .486 Washington 38 17 21 .447 St. Louis 41 15 26 .360 Louisville 37 6 31 .162 WESTERN LEAGUE. Following is the standing of the clubs of the Western League: Per Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. cent. Indianapolis 34 ' 23 11 .676 Minneapolis 32 19 13 .594 Grand Rapids....3s 20 15 .571 Milwaukee 37 .18 19 .486 Kansas City 36 16 20 .444 St. Fatil 34 15 19 .4st Detroit 32 13 19 ...406 T01ed0*:.....’....34 13 21 .382 Aifed Couple Divorced. The Kanawha Copnty, W. Va., Circuit Court granted a divorce to Mrs. Carney Totiey, aged 72, from her husband, aged 90. They bad only been married three years, but expressed themselves as having hud enough of wadded life. The wife wa* granted alimony. Encouraging Trade Reports. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The tide of business is lis-

ing, even as It was falling just two yean ago, with surprising rapidity. The gain has gone so far and so fast in some branches Uhat the more conservative fear it may not be maintained. But the period of dullness which comes in each market after an unusual rise brings as yet nothing like** corresponding decline. Industries gain much, halt back a little and then gain once more. The demand for consumption steadily increases as the employment and wages of the people increase. Demand for money expands, one bajik reporting 29 per cent larger in the discounts for the country and another 23 per cent more commercial loans than a year ago, and a| but two report some gain. The serious question remains whether the crop will be full enough to sustain a large business, but the worst reports to-day are better by far than the estimates recently current.” KILLED BY CHINESE. Frightful Reports Concerning the Missions at Chengte. A London cablegram says: A special dispatch from Shanghai says that it is almost certain that a massacre of all the persons connected wth the English, French and American missions at Chengte has occurred. Neither men, women nor children have been spared. It is admitted that telegrams have been intercepted by the Government, the object being to conceal the news of the massacre. A French gunboat is en route to Woenchang to investigate the report. Chengte is situated in the province of Pe Chi Li, 100 miles northeast of Pekin. The people composing the population of the city are of a low order. The fact that Chengte is so near-Pekin, the seat of the Chinese Government, makes the outrage all the more flagrant. When the news of the massacre arrived in Shanghai a French gunboat was promptly ordered to Wreng Cheng to investigate. There arc several English warships here, but none has been ordered north. The Americans and English will, however, make a thorough investigation.

FIRE IN MILWAUKEE. Property Worth Nearly a Million Dollars Is Destroyed. Fire early Monday morning, in the center of the Milwaukee, Wis., lumber and tannery district, and only eight blocks from the business center of the city, did $750,000 damag6. At 3 o’clock the flames were under control. Foster’s and Uhrig’s lumber yards, Gallun’s tannery, the steambnrge Itaieigh and the steambarge Lucy Graham were destroyed. The Schlitz brewery had a narrow escape from being burned. Other shipping was damaged, as was considerable other property in the neighborhood. GOULD VICTORIOUS. Uis Yacht Wins a Prize in the London Regatta. In a fresh northeaster Howard Gould’s tyvepty-rater Niagara defeated two other yachts of the same class in a race for a prjze of £2O in the regatta of the Royal London Yacht-Clhb at Sheerness, England. The Prince of Wales’ Britannia and A. B. Walker's Alisa were to have started oyer the same course in a race for a prize o’ffered for yachts of their class, but the 4hsa’s main sail split at the gaff and she was compelled to retire.

TP RESCUE PEARY. Expedition Being Fitted Out to Sail Next Month from St. Johns. The whaleboat Kite has been chartered at St. John’s, N. F., to carry an expedition of ten persons to Greenland to rescue Lieut. Peary, the Arctic explorer. Emile Diebitseh, Peary’s brother-in-law, will have charge of the party. Mrs. Peary will not accompany the party, but will waiit for the return of her husband at St. John’s, The Kite is to start about the middle of next month. Cabinet Now Complete. President Cleveland Friday afternoor. announced the appointment of Richard Olney, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of State and Judson Harmon, of Ohio, to be Attorney General. The announcement of Mr. Olney's promotion caused no surprise, ns it had been expected, but the nomination of Hnrmon caused a sensation, as his name had not been mentioned in connection with the vaenney. Mr. Harmon is about 50 years old, has been a judge of the Common Pleas in Cincinnati and at present is oue of the counsel of the “Big Four” and other roads. Missouri Is Bank-Full. For the first time in almost a year the Missouri river is running bank full at Omaha, and is within ten feet of the danger line. Every river in Nebraska is on the point of overflowing Formosan Republic Dead. The republic proclaimed in Formosa has collapsed and President Tang has escaped. The Chinese forces in North Formosa are disorganized at the approach of the Japanese. Alfaro Proclaimed Chief. Gen. Eloy Alfaro has been proclaimed supreme chief of the revolution in Ecuador. He is preparing to leave Nicaragua for Guayaquil. Three Lead Miners Killed. A portion of the Doe Run lend mine at Flat River, Mo., caved iu, killing three men.