Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — Page 2

aijegctnocraticScntincl JT. W. McEWE>’, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

HONOR TO PATRIOTS.

MONUMENT TO BRAVE SONS OF MARYLAND. Another of Holmes* Victims Identified—Bad Man at Butte Bounded Up— The Mexican Muddle at Last Straightened—Duluth Family’s Loss. A granite shaft in memory of the sons of Maryland that died, in the battle of Long Island was dedicated Tuesday, the 119th anniversary of the victory of the British troops over the forces commanded by Gen. Washington Aug. 27, 1776. The shaft, which is the gift of the Maryland Society of the Sons of the Revolution, is placed on Lookout Hill, Prospect Park, which was drenched that day with patriot blood. Four hundred of the Maryland Regiment defended the rear of Gen. Stirling’s retreating columns, and though nearly wiped out by the English fire stood their ground and saved the Colonial troops. DEAD BOY IS FOUND. Charred Remains of Howard Pitzel Taken from a Chimney. The charred remains of Howard Pitzel were pulled out of a chimney in a house in Irvington, the college suburb of Indianapolis, Tuesday morning. H. H. Holmes occupied the house two or three days last October. The chain of circumstantial evidence connecting Holmes with this find is even more complete than that which was turned up in Toronto, where the bodies of the two Pitzel girls were dug up. There are several witnesses who saw Holmes and the little Pitzel boy at the house, and the child was never seen afterwards. The entire body, or what was left of it, was crowded into the stovehole. The body was evidently burned in the stove, and then the stove was cleaned out, the remains being thrown into the chimney. There were a great many cobs about the place, and it is evident that the fire that burned the child was made from cobs. Such a fire is one of the very hottest. Buttons from the clothing were identified.

A VALUABLE SHIRT. Family at Duluth Loses the Savings of Years. The idea that money tied up in n handkerchief and hidden in the sleeve of an old •hirt was safer than in a bank has just cost the family of Joseph Hnmil, of Dulnth, Minn., the savings of years. Mr. Hamil’s wife has for several years saved the money given her by her husband, and hidden it iu the sleeves of a shirt kept hanging in a closet. While Mrs. Hamil was taking her husband’s dinner to him the shirt was given by Mrs. Hamil’s sister to a Chinese laundryman to be washed. When Mrs. Hamil returned and found the garment gone, ditto the money, amounting, it is claimed, to several hundred dollars, there were lively times for a while. The police were called in and the laundryman visited, but he denied having seen any money. Mrs. Hnmil’s sister did not know that the garment was a bank. RANSOM IS REAPPOINTED. President Solves the Complications Regarding the Mexican Mission. The White House mail Tuesday morning bore the commission of Matt W. Ransom to be United States Minister to Mexico. This ends a legal complication by which Minister Ransom, after several months’ service at his post at the City of was _dfcljirc(J ineligible to fill the office to which he had Tleeri appointed prior to the expiration of his term as United States Senator. It was held by the treasury accounting officers that he fell within a Constitutjopal inhibition against the appointment of Congressmen to offices created, or whose emoluments had been increased, during their service in Congress. v THREE SHOT AND KILLED. Cowboy Named William Long Runs Amnck at Sweet Grass. Word was received at Butte, Mont., of a triple killing at Sweet Grass, on the international boundary. William Long, cowboy for the “F” outfit, who is also said to be a whisky smuggler, killed a mounted policeman named Richardson. The two men met near the middle butte of Sweet Grass, had several drinks, got into a row and the killing resulted. After the shooting of Richardson Long went to O. B. Toole’s ranch, where he is alleged to have killed Ira Brown, the foreman. The latter, before dying, shot Long, killing him almost instantly.

Yacht in a Crash. Robert W. Inman Jr.’s sloop yacht Adelaide was run into Monday night by the iron steamboat Perseus while cruising off Norton’s Point, New York. Young Inman was drowned and his guests and crew barely saved. It is said the steamer was solely to blame, and that in addition to her carelessness, no discipline prevailed aboard her. Eight Caught in a Cave. Deputy marshals made a raid on a counterfeiters’ den in a cave in the Kaw, country, Oklahoma Territory, and captured eight of a gang of fifteen, who were at work making counterfeits. Officers have been on the lookout for the gang for six months, spurious coin having been in circulation during that time. Is Killed by a Bee Sting. Near Hume, Mo., Walter Gibson was helping his father rob a beehive, when a bee alighted on his chin and stung him. The bee’s stinger penetrated the pneumogastric nerve, and Gibson suffered excrutiating pain until he died. Indians to Collect the Tax. Gov. P. I. Mosley, of the Chickasaw Nation, accompanied by a body of Indian police, arrived at Chickasaw, I. T., to collect the 1 per cent, tax of white intruders or put those who should refuse it out of the territory. There is considerable excitement over the matter. Outbreak of Texas' Fever. • . ( „ The Kansas igtate .Sanitary Board has . received police from Paola that Texas fever has broken out in a herd of cattle on a farm two miles west of that town. Continues His Wife's Work. Charles R. Bishop, first vice president of the Bank of California, has contribu- . ted SBOO,OOO to schools and societies in the Hawaiian Islands. The money is to > be used to promote the interests of a number of institutions sustained by the late Mrs. Bishop during her lifetime. Gaye Him the Mitten. Thomas 1 Wickersham, a young business man of Salina, Ivan., has brought suit for $5,i)00 damages against Miss Cora Ahart for breach of promise. Wickersham alleges that Miss Ahart, in February, 1894, promised to marry him, but later spurned his attentions. 1 ,

HAWAIIAN CABLE CONTRACT. Colonel Spalding Wants the Co-Opera-t . tloo of the United State*. Colonel Z. S. Spalding, who was recently voted an annual subsidy of $40,000 by the Haw aiian Government If he would lay a cable from Honolulu to San Francisco, is anxious to secure the co-opera-tion of the United States in the undertaking. -To that end a special meeting of the San Francisco chamber of commerce was held to consider the best plan of laying the matter, before the government. Vice President Craig, of the chamber of commerce, has received private advices from the islands which say that Spalding is granted an exclusive franchise for twenty years, “to construct a land cable upon the shores of the Hawaiian group and a submarine telegraph cable or cables to or from any point or points ap the North American continent or any island or islands contingent thereto.” The first cable must, however, have its terminus in San Francisco and it is for the maintenance of this that the subsidy will be paid by the Hawaiian Government for twenty years. The agreement is hedged with further conditions, among them one that the United States shall join in the undertaking "by the grant of substantial assistance to the contractor.” If this assistance be not granted, or if the contractor fails to comply with the conditions of the agreement, then the Hawaiian Government will have the right of cancelling the contract sixty days after ing on the banking house of Bishop & Co. at Honolulu a notice of its intention. The contractor is required to give bonds to the amount of S2S,(XX) for faithful fulfillment of his contract. FEARS A CRISIS. ■ 111 ■ I London Paper Foresees Trouble Between America and England. The St. James Gazette of London publishes a scare article asking how England stands with the United States Government in the matter of the Nicaraguan Canal, and suys that it will be well if the Right Honorable George N. Curzon, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, is asked to give some explanation on the subject iu the House of Commons. Continuing, the St. James Gazette remarks: “As far as can be seen, we are heading you straight for a crisis, and there will be either a diplomatic deadlock between the two countries or the English will surrender important treaty rights. The deadlock can be avoided by discreet handling of the facts by the foreign office, and a surrender need never occur. Should a situation be brought about iu which the United States finds it can ignore the United States of Central America, then good-by to any hope of retaining, much less extending, our commercial hold of the republics of the Spanish main, a market in which we already suffer from uncommonly sharp competition from the Americans and Germans.” The St. James Gazette then proceeds to rehearse the history of the Nicaragua Canal, claiming that the accedence of the United States Govornmoat to the request of the American Canal Company to guarantee further capital for it would be an infraction of the Bulwer-Clayton treaty.

THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clnbn in Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 98 02 36 .633 Cleveland 107 67 40 .020 Pittsburg 103 50 44 .571} Boston 09 50 43 .500 Philadelphia ...100 50 44 .560 Brooklyn 101 50 45 .554 Cincinnati 00 54 45 .545 Chicago 103 56 47 ,5M New York 101 52 49 .515 Washington .... 94 31 63 .330 St. Louis 104 32 72 .308 Louisville 09 23 76 .232 ■WESTERN- LEAGUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: - . r Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ...100 66 34 .600 Kansas City.. . .104 62 42 .596 St. Paul 100 58 42 .580 Milwaukee 103 51 52 .495 Minneapolis ... .101 49 52 .485 Terre Haute... .103 44 59 .427 Detroit 110 45 -65 .409 Grand Rapids.. .105 34 71 .324 PARCEL-POST PACKAGES, Must Have a ** Customs Declaration** Posted on the Cover. Frequent complaints having, recently been made to the postofflee department of the return to the senders as unmailable under Postal Union regulations of packages of merchandise addressed for delivery in the countries or colonies with which the United States has parcels-post conventions, attention is now called by the department to the fact that to be entitled to transmission by parcels-post a package must conform to all of the prescribed requirements. One of these requirements is that a “customs declaration” must be pasted on the cover of the package, and if the package does not bear it the postal officials handling the package in transit must treat it as unmaiidble unless postage thereon is prepaid in full at the letter rate of 5 cents for each half ounce or fraction of half-ounce, or unless it conforms to the conditions prescribed for “samples” in international mails.

RICH PLACER FIND. Miners Trying to Find the Bource of the Supply. A wonderfully rich placer find is reported on Gold Creek on the Continental divide at the south end of the Wind River range, Wyo. The dirt runs SSO to the yard. It is not a gravel bed and experts say the gold comes from some wonderfully rich lead back toward the mountains. The miners are fairly tumbling over each other in their efforts to discover the source of the gold. Report of Army Engineers. The report of the Board of Army Engineers appointed by the Secretary of W ar to exnmine'and report upon the effect the Chicago Drainage Canal would have upon the waters of Lake Michigan has been received at the War Department. Very little can be learned as to the contents of the report, although it is understood that the board tind.i that the canal probably would reduce the average level of Lake Michigan about six inches and possibly Lake Huron the"- same. This lower level no doubt would be objectionable to the shipping interests, but Worn the fact that the lake has varied from one cause or another, such as a lack of rainfall orjinusual evaporation, more than one foot in different years, ships have been 1 built with a view to accommodating themselves to this reduced level. It is understood that the position taken by the board is that the former variations are such as not to make this reduction of-six inches of very great importance. It is, therefore, probable that the building of the canal will not be stopped by the government, though certain restrictions may be determined upon so as to not create any great waste of w r ater. , A Sunday Tragedy. A hundred horrified people saw Albert Golden, tightly hugging his 2-yeax-oid Child in his arms, dragged half a block by a 61st street electric car Sunday afternoon at Chicago. The cars were crowdot} with pleasure seekers, and many were

forced to stand. Among these was Golds en, who held his child in his arms. As the car shot around the curve at Cottage Grove avenue the man was hurled from the platform. As he fell he grasped the footboard and vainly tried to lift his child to the outstretched hands of a dozen passengers. So rapidly was he dragged over the rough pavement that neither those who were soon running toward him nor those on the car were enabled to take the child from him. A dozen times it seemed as if both were under the wheels, bat by a desperate effort the father each time saved himself. At last the car was stopped. and the father and child were carried to the sidewalk. The child was unJjurt and smiled at the anxious women who were hugging it joyously. The balm nnd injured man were taken to thein home, where Dr. McManns found that Golden had several rib* broken nnd had sußtained internal injuries which it is thought will prove fatal. TO SWELL JAPANESE TRADE. Cases of Fish Sent to . Tacoma as an Experiment. The Japanese Government, through its consulates, has taken steps to increase the already large trade between Japan and the United States. The Tacoma Chamber of Commerce has received from Japan six cases of smoked and salted Japanase fish which the chamber is invited to sample and ascertain if -a. market for the-product is obtainable ui this country. The letter accompanying the fish states the packing of them has been only recently started under the guidance of the'Government, which is seeking to ascertain if there is a demand for them in American mhrjtets. It is understood the~Japanese will experiment with other food products in a similar way.

WORKB AN EASY GAME. Smooth Forger Catches Two Indianapolis Concerns. A forger, bareheaded and in his shirtsleeves, professing to be a clerk, caught the Indianapolis Brewing Company on a forged check for $65 to which Col. Eli Lilly’s name was fraudulently signed. Soon afterward the surae fellow swindled the Lieber Brewing Company out of a similar amount by making free with the name of Otto Stechlian. The city is overrun with the most daring gang of scoundrels noted for years. Burglaries are daily reported. Friday morning two policemen attempted to stop four men in an alley, but the Supposed burglars replied with their revolvers and escaped under the fire which was returned.* AUGUST TRADE GOOD. SomevVjhat Large Shrinkage Due to July Inflation. R. v G. fcuii & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: The volume of business shrank, as is natural in August, and the shrinkage seems rather larger than usual, because transactions in July were somewhat inflated for that month. Some industries did more than ever before in August, and tho prospect for fall trade is good in others, although much depends on the crops, and the outcome is less dear than speculators on either side are disposed to admit. Industrial troubles have not entirely ceased, but have become much loss threatening. MUST RELEASE THE INDIANS. United States Interferes on Behalf of Bannocks. Attorney General Harmon Instructed United States District Attorney Clarke, of Wyoming, to sue out writs of habeas corpus for the Bannock and Shoshone Indians who are under arrest at Evanston, ■2& SI that the, hunting rights of the Indians, which were obtained by treaty with the ‘United States, cannot be abrogated by the passage of State game laws. It was for violation of the State laws that they were arrested. Declare War Upon Saloons. An important circular signed by every presiding elder of the Methodist church in Ohio has been sent to the members of that denomination throughout the Stnte. It calls for united political action on the part of all Methodists in an effort to elect to the next Legislature as many members as possible who will fight the saloons. • Tho circular states that “special services will be called for by tho elders in this connection in every Methodist church in Ohio.” i Driving Out Horses. Owing to the low price of horses incident to the general use of bicycles and electric power, large shipments of horses are being made from Baltimore to European markets. The Johnson Line has made five shipments to Antwerp and Havre. The steamship lines say this promises to compensate them for the falling off of cattle exports, owing to the foreign exclusion of American cattle. Followed Holmes’ Plan. At Minneapolis Mrs. Lora Perkins was arrested, charged with the murder of her sister, Mrq. Louise Hawkins, the supposed motive for the alleged crime being the fact tjiat Mrs. Hawkins had $7,000 insurance on her life. Cholera’s Work In Japan. Since the outbreak of cholera in Japan there have been 25,000 cases of that disease and 16,000 deaths.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, s2.po to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 02c to 63c; corn. No. 2,37 cto 39c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 21c; rye, No. 2. 42c to 44c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, lie to 13c; potatoes, new, per bushel, 35c to 45c; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 3c to per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 61cj to 63c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 2Gc to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64e; c6ru. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 c to 41c. - Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, s£oo to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,00 cto 07c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 40c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 04c to 00c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c 46'25c; rye, 48c to 44c. Toledtn-Wheat, No. 2 red. 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 37c to 39c; oats,' No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,44 cto 46c. Buffalo —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 09c to 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 28c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, Ole to 02c; corn, No. 3,37 cto 39c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; barley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; rye, No. 1,44 cto 4G«; pork, mess, $9.25 to $9.75. New York—Cattle, $3,00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No.-2 red, 67c to GBe; corn, No. 2, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; butter, creamery, 18c to 21c; eggs, West era, 13« to 15c.

DIGGING FOR DEAD.

BODIES RECOVERED FROM THE DENVER HOTEL RUINS. Engineer [Pierce, Whose Negligence Canned the Horror, Himself a Victim of His Own Carelessness—Fire in Milwankee-Ontrages by the Chinese. Twenty-five the Death RolL A portion of the Gumry Hotel, Denver, the scene of the frightful disaster, is still standing, gaunt and sinister, constantly threatening to crash down at any moment upon those delving in the ruins The search for victims has beei> on with utmost energy constantly, with the aid of twenty arc light*. The list of dead and Blissing now numbers’twentyfive, making the disaster the worst that ever occurred in the city. It is clearly proved that the tragedy was due to the carelessness of the engineer, who turned water into the boilers which had become overheated Pierce, the engineer, it Is ■aid, was intoxicated. Some of the victims were instantly killed; others were buried in the ruins where they slowly burned to death, the building having taken fire after the explosion; others were rescued after suffering horrible tortures only to die in hospital or on the way to it, while others still suffered injuries that will seriously affect them during life. For several hours after the disaster the scenes amid the ruins of the hotel were such that men turned pale and stood help-

THE RUSSIAN THISTLE FOUND IN INDIANA.

less with sorrow and horror. Several persons were seen slowly burning to death, but they were so weighted down with debris and encompassed by flame that no aid could be given them. Some of them begged piteously to be killed, that they might not be forced to endure the torture of fire, while others, needing only the chopping off of a limb to be free, implored the firemen to cut off a leg or an arm. Most of the victims were persons prominent in the affnirs of the State. The total loss caused by the explosion and fire is $75,000. The Gumry Hotel was worth about $25,000 and had SB,OOO

HOTEL THAT PROVED A DEATH-TRAP.

worth of furniture. It is a total wreck, but was insured for $25,000. The McMann Block, which stands next to the Gumry, was also heavily damaged. It is owned by Colonel E. A. Bishop and was built in 1890. It is a four-story pressed brick and is occupied throughout by the A. Lilliblade Furniture Company. The whole rear end of this block was ruined. The loss on the building is about $25,000, as the building will have to be torn down. This block is insured for $15,000. The stock of A. Lilliblade, valued at $30,000, is only partly lost.

JOE PATCHEN KING.

Defeats John R. Gentry for the World’s Pacing Championship. Joe Patchen is the champion stallion pacer of the world. Fourteen thousand persons saw him wrest the championship from John R. Gentry, winning three straight heats and the race, at Washington. Park, Chicago, Thursday afternoon. No records were broken owing to the strong southwest wind, the mile heats being paced In 2:05*4, 2:071/4, and 2:07*4 respectively. But loud and lusty cheers rang out when the big, black horse came in easily in the third heat, for his smaller cousin, Gentry, had been picked as the victor before the race began. It was the fifth and biggest day of the meetingof the Northwestern Breeders’ Association. To promote true sport the association offered SII,OOO in prizes to trotters and pacers. And for love of the sport 14,000 persons went to Washington Park to see the two stallion pacers fight for victory. Betting there was none except perhaps a few private wagers between friends. The crowd was there, not for betting, but to see Patchen and Gentry strive for the championship. Gentry made a gallant struggle, but his big black cousin was too much for him.

FIRE IN MILWAUKEE.

Valuable Railroad and Steamboat Property Bwept Away. Fire burned over a dozen blocks in Milwaukee Thursday and destroyed property worth $382,000. It started on the river front at the Water street bridge and before it was stopped it had burned 1 n

MISS GORDON, Speared and killed.

■with from one to three blocks wide to Sixth street. A stiff breeze served to fas the flames and sent them traveling west over the yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company with startling rapidity, destroying iff their path the freight warehouses of railroad and steamship companies, valuable freight in storage and railway cars. , For four hours all the fire apparatus, firemen and employes of the railroad company in the city fought the progress of the flames before they were under control. When the fighters finished work two companies of firemen were left to guard half a square mile of glowing embers. During the exciting scenes incident to fire-fight-i ing a boy was run over by a fire engine and killed. The losses are divided as follows: Buildings in the freight yard, all owned by the C., M. 4k St. P. R. rR- Co SIOO,OOO Union Steamboat Company 40,000 Anchor line (Pennsylvania C 0.).. 40,000 Sixty freight cars (C., M. & St. P. Co.) 50,000 Wisconsin Central, freight 30,000 C., M. & St. P. Co. freight 70,000 Franklin refiners of Philadelphia. 37,000 Delaney warehouse, damaged... 5,000 Pritzlaff warehouse, damaged... 2,000 P. F. Doyne’s factory 2,000 Twelve frame houses, damaged.. 6,000 Total $382,000 Insurance companies, however, will stand the greater portion of the loss. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company, by far the heaviest loser, is fully protected by insurance, as are the steamship and manufacturing concerns. The dozen frame cottages that stand on the north edge of the burned district, and

were all more or less damaged by the blaze, are owned by workingmen', who must stand their own losses. They suffered not only by damage done to their homes by the fire, but in the excitement the house furnishings were thrown into the street and nearly destroyed. Ashes from the pipe of a careless longshoreman at work on tile docks of the Union Steamboat Company are believed to have caused the expensive blaze. No one knows just how it started. When first seen it was burning on the planking of the dock close to the south end of the building at a point where there is a bend in the river, several hundred feet west of the West Water street bridge. A southwest gale blowing over the city at a thirty-mile-an-hour gait fanned it, and in less time than it takes to tell the story the flames were licking up 1,500 feet of valuable river front property.

Names of the Men and Women Who Are in Danger at Foo Chow. The riots at Foo Chow, reported in the latest dispatches, are much more serious than those in the Interior and give the friends of the missionaries and missionary work more concern. Foo Chow is near the coast, and is a city of importance. A dispatch to the London Times from Hong Kong confirms the dispatch announcing the attack upon the American mission near Foo Chow and a dangerous state of the populace of that city. Foo Chow is an important station of the Methodist Episcopal church’s missionary work. The mission was begun in 1847, and is now under the general supervision of Bishop Goodsell, assisted by the following missionaries and their wives: N. J. Plumb, G. B. Smyth, M. C. Wilcox, W. H. Lacy, J. J. Gregory, M. D.; J. H. Worley, W. N. Brewster, G. S. Miner, and Miss Sarah M. Bosworth. There are also a number of women missionaries sent out by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church, who work in conjunction with the bishop and his aids. These missionaries are located in various towns and villages near Foo Chow, and of course, in case of such an uprising as reported, might be murdered before assistance could be sent to them or they could assemble at the American school, near the gates of Foo Chow.

Patients Permitted to Mangle and Maim Each Other. The investigation of the Cook County (Ill.) Commissioners into the management of the Dunning Insane Asylum began Tuesday. Thirty thousand words of testimony were taken at the first sitting.

HOSPITAL. FOR THE INSANE AT DUNNING.

Toward the end of the day’s sitting came a horrible story, that in detail was more barbarous than the story of the Pucik murder. It was told by Dr. McGrew, resident physician of Dunning Akylum. Tt concerned a battle between two mad men, who had fought in the corridor of ward 2 while Anderson, accessory to the murder of Pucik, was on watch. These two

VICTIMS OF THE OUTRAGE ON MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.

MRS. STEW ART, Burned in the Mission House at Whasang.

LIST OF THE MISSIONARIES.

INSANE ASYLUM HORRORS.

REV. R. W. STEW ART, Burned in the Mission House at Whasang.

patients quarreled over some silly, child ish difference. They came to blows. They tore at each other's faces and rolled about the floor. One of them, in the frenzy of a raving maniac, act his teeth into the face of the other He bit off his nose and spat it out on the stone floor of the corridor. The maniac with whom thi« patient was battling sprang away from the death grip, fell bleeding and screaming to the floor, saw the flesh torn from his own face, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed his own nose to a pulp and swallowed It. He said that would make it I grow again, and Anderson, the attendant, looked on. This was the sworn testimony | of Dr. McGrew, resident physician at Dunning Asylum. While it was being I given one of the commissioners turned j sick and pale. Julia Addams, one of the committee, covered her face with her J hands and clutched at the arm of her chair. Although the inquiry was only begun, enough was drawn ont to show that groat abuses have been practiced in I the asylum.

THE CROOK OF THE CENTURY.

An Unsurpassed Counterfeiter Cap* tured at Last. It was very efficient work on the part of the New York secret service men which succeeded in breaking up a gang of counterfeiters, seizing their plant at Hoboken, N. J., and capturing their head, William E. Brockway. It was long known that counterfeit gold certificates for SSOO and SIOO were being issued, but it was hard to track up the criminals. Valuable plates were taken and Canadian notes, half printed, for $200,000, together with fibre paper and many United States notes. No plant of such magnitude and so complete in every feature has been secured by secret service men for years. Besides Brockway, who is regarded as the most expert counterfeiter in the country, and who is 73 years old, O. E. Bradford, Libbie and Sidney Smith and William Fi. Wagner were also taken. These others are comparatively little known, but Brockway has lived a life filled with deeds of crime and adventure. In many respects he is one of the msft notorious criminals of this class this country has produced. Only one crook overshadowed him in point of skillful work as a counterfeiter, and he was Tom Ballard, who, it was said, possessed a better formula'for making paper for greenbacks than, the Government. Only one man may be said •to have been his peer as a forger, and he also bore the name of Brockway. Brockway started on his career in New Haven about 1845. He was a Connecticut boy, and found employment as a printer. Later he learned engraving and, becoming an expert, he made good wages and saved sufficient money to pay for a special course in electro-chemistry in Yale. This technical knowledge he applied to the production of electrotypes. From almost the day he left Y'ale his career as a counterfeiter and forger dates. His first trick, so far as any record goes, was to take an impression in soft metal of a plate which two directors of a bank had brought into the shop in which he worked to have certificates struck from. Really his first important crime was committed soon after the war broke out. When the Government began to issue bonds Brockway thought he saw his opportunity. On the 7-30 bond his work was of such exceptional cleverness that $90,000 of the issue got into the Government vaults before any suspicion was aroused. Brockway was arrested, but was permitted to go on surrendering the

WILLIAM E. BROCKWAY.

plates. Brockway was arrested in 1880 for counterfeiting and forging SI,OOO 6 per cent. United States coupon bonds. Two crooks, Smith and Doyle, were also arrested at the same time for complicity. The finished bonds and plates were all seized. .Brockway was sentenced for thirty years and Doyle for tw'elve. Brockway did not serve a day of this sentence. He managed to arrange a compromise with the Government. By consent of Judge Benedict the sentence wan suspended on condition that other plates be surrendered. It was said at the time that, if he were again caught tampering with the United States securities, the sentence would stand. He was caught again, but for some reason best known to the authorities the sentence of thirty years was not enforced. Brockway was arrested this time in New York, in November, 1883, for forging Morris & Essex Railroad bonds. Two others were taken into custody at the same time. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to Sing Sing for five years by Recorder Smyth. He was discharged on Aug. 4, 188.7. Since then he has gone free until just now.

Action in Waller’s Case.

In Paris a semi-official notice was issued saying it is inexact that the United States Government has demanded the release of Mr. John L. Waller and the payment of an Indemnity on account of his sentence to twenty years’ imprisonment by a courtmartial on the island of Madagascar, where Mr. Waller was formerly United States Consul.

Corn Crop Estimate.

The New York Produce' Exchange expects the biggest corn crop in the history of the country. According to the statistics of the Produce Exchange the com acreage is 82,000,000 and the indicated crop is not less than 2,425,000,000 bushels. The increase over the great crop of 1889 will be 312,108,000 bushels if the exchange figures prove correct when the clop is gathered. It is probable that Parliament will abolish the office of lord lieutenant of Ireland and substitute a chief under secretary instead.

MISS CODRINGTON, Seriously wounded.

MISS HESSIE NEWCOMBE, Speared and thrown down a precipice.

CAMPBELL IS NAMED.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO. AU the Nominations Are Made by Acclamation—Free Silver la Beaten— Cleveland’* Administration Enthusiastically Indorsed—Brice on Top. Buckeye Democratic Ticket. Governor James E. Campbell Lieutenant Governor John B. Peaslee State Auditor James W. Knott State Treasurer William B. Sholer Supreme Judge William T. Mooney Attorney General George A. Fairbanks ■Member Board Public Works. .H. B. Keefer Clerk of Bupreme Court...J. W. Cruikshank The Ohio Democratic State conventioa nominated James E. Campbell for Governor by acclamation. It was done with A whoop and a yell and while Mr. Campbell was on his feet trying to persuade the body to select Judge Peck, of Cincinnati. The convention also, by a vote of 525 to

270, reaffirmed the financial plank of the Democratic nation*! convention of 1892 and indorsed the administration of President Cleveland and the course in the Senate of Calvin S. Brice. The nomination of Campbell was made in spite of his moat earnest protests. He

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had the floor when he was interrupted by Dr. James A. Norton, who presented a motion to suspend the rules and nominate James E. Campbell by acclamation. Mr. Campbell protested and raised points of order amid the wildest scenes of cheering and yelling for Campbell. Campbell said he had run for Congress three times in a Republican district and twice for Governor in a Republican State, till he waa depleted financially and otherwise unable to make the race. He insisted on the nomination of Judge Peck or some other good Democrat who could make a good race and afford to make it Seconds of the nomination of Campbell rolled In. Chairman Brice ruled that the

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motion of Dr. Norton to suspend the rnlea and nominate Mr. Campbell was in order. M. E. Ingalls, who had previously, opposed Campbell, made a strong plea for him as the winner. The motion of Dr. Norton was put and carried with a great whirl of enthusiasm and Chairman Brice declared Mr. Campbell the nominee for Governor. The ticket was completed a* above by acclamation. Platform Adopted. The Democratic party of Ohio, In convention assembled, points with satisfaction and pride to the wisdom of the action of that party In the last two years and the results accomplished according to Its promises, to-wlt: The repeal of the Republican legislation known as the Sherman law, the un-Ameri-can Federal election law, and the McKinley law, from which repeals has resulted returning prosperity to the country to such an extent that even the Republicans are obliged to recognize the same. We congratulate President Cleveland that his efforts in favor of the repeal of these vicious laws and the upholding of the credit of the country have been successful. We congratulate our Senator, the Hon. Calvin S. Brice, for the earnest and effective support he has given to the President In these matters. When we consider the fact that the Democratic party received from the Republican* in 1892 a bankrupt treasury, that It Inherited from them the vicious currency and tariff laws which had prepared and finally produced the panic of 1893, we Insist that ft Is entitled to the thanks of the people for the courage with which It has attacked and repealed these laws. We reaffirm the following portion of the seventh plank of the platform of the last National Democratic Convention. “We hold to the use' of both gold and silver as tho standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and sliver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted by International agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall lnsnre the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times In the payment of debts; and we demand that the paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable In such coin. Wo Insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of farmer* and the laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency.’’ We call the attention of the people to the methods and practices of bossism by which the Republican party in this State has been managed In the last few years, and for examples point to Its history in Hamilton county and to the final culmination of the same in the Zanesville convention, and we ask the people by their votes this fall to put their condemnation on such practices. We denounce the last Legislature as corrupt and unworthy of the confidence of the people, and we submit to tho voters whether they wish to perpetuate this condition of affairs by placing the Republicans again In power. « We view with alarm the large increase of Indebtedness throughout the State by counties and municipalities, as authorized by the last Legislature, and the Increase In the last few years In the tax rate, and we demand economy In expenditure and conservatism in the increase of debt.

REGAIN THEIR LIBERTY.

All the A. R. TT. Directors Except President Debs Released from Jail. All the directors of the American Railway Union except President Debs left the Woodstock (Ill.) jail Thursday, after having served a three months’ sentence for contempt of court All of them resume their duties in the field, obligating and instructing members and organizing local unions. They have demands now which will require them fully three months to fill. Keiliher goes direct to Minneapolis and Goodwin to St. Paul. Rogers, Bums, Elliott and Hogan go together to Chicago, where they will separate. Rogers goes to Pueblo, Col.; Hogan to Ogden, Utah; Elliott to Philadelphia, stopping at Cleveland, Ohio, until after Labor Day, while Burhs will remain in Chicago and establish district headquarters there. Their release marks a new departure in the work of organizing railway employes. District headquarters wall be established in all the large railway centers throughout the'country. In each of these districts solicitors will be employed to obligate members, keeping their names absolutely secret. Since their imprisonment 150 local unions that were shattered by the strike of last summer have been reorganized and twenty-seven new ones instituted. Tom Wilbur, aged-91, committed suicide at Norwich, Conn., by severing his jugular vein with a razor. He was a wellknown quarryman.