Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — BY FLAME AND SMOKE [ARTICLE]

BY FLAME AND SMOKE

SEVERAL MEET DEATH IN CINCINNATI. o ‘San Disgruntled British Diplomat Relieves His Feelings—Fearful DeathRoll of an Austria Wreck—Turks Are Had with Hate and Rage. One Dead, Three Fatally Hurt. An alarm called the Cincinnati fire department to a fire-story brick tenement Wednesday morning, in which were sleeping forty tenants. The flames were in third, fourth and fifth stories. Women and children were screaming piteously at the windows. All the police patrol wagons were quickly on the scene and the work of rescue began. Thomas O’Flaherty, a deaf man, more dead than alive from suffocation, jumped from a fourth-story window into a net held by the police, without further injur?-. Immediately afterward bodies were taken from the fourth and fifth stories by the firemen on their ladders. Mrs. Mary Holmes, aged 80, was dead; her daughter. Miss F. ,T. Pendery, and an actress known as May Edwards, of New York, were taken out unconscious from suffocation, but not seriously injured. The fatally injured are: Rachael Davis, aged 4 years; Mamie Pomso, aged 19; Mrs. Emma Davis. It is believed that all others escaped with little or no injury except losing all their household goods. How the fire started is not known.

LET’S OUT HIS IRE. Lord Sackville Issues an Extraordinary Pamphlet. A special cablegram to the New Y'ork World from London says an extraordinary publication by a British diplomat has been discussed during the last few days among the foreign representatives to the court of St. James. This is a handsomely printed pamphlet marked “For private circulation only,” and entiled “My Mission to the United States, ’Bl-89,” and has just been issued by Lord Sackville, who as Sir Lionel Sackville West, K. C. M. G.. was the English Minister to Washington for the period named. It will be remembered that President Cleveland, almost on the eve of the election of 1888, sent Sir Lionel his passports because of a letter written by him to an alleged Englishman in California, commenting upon the approaching election. This pamphlet is Lord Sackville’s defense and explanation, after seven years, of that incident. But the unprecedented part of it, which has aroused very excited comment, is the freedom of his strictures upon the American people and American public men; and his own expressed indignation that the British Ministry should have accepted Mr. Bayard ns Ambassador to this country, while as Secretary of State of the United States Mr. Bayard had wantonly insulted in person its accredited representative, Lord Sackville West.

DISASTROUS BELGIAN WRECK. Eighteen People Killed in a Collision of Trains at Wavre. Dispatches received in Brussels from Wavre, where the collision between a crowded passenger train and an engine occurred, show that eighteen instead of ten persons were killed and that 100 persons, and not forty, were injured. Several of the wounded are so seriously injured that their lives are despaired of. There are no Americans among the dead or injured. The passenger train was just passing the railroad station at Mousty when an engine coming from Ottiguies at full speed collided with it and telescoped three of the carriages. Relief gangs and * medical assistance were promptly sent to the scene from all neighboring points and everything possible was done to succor the wounded, at least thirty of whom wgre in need of prompt assistance. CONSTANTINOPLE IN A FERMENT Armenians Refuse to Come Out of the Cathedral. It is reported that serious disturbances between the Armenians and the Turks have broken out at Sivas, Van and ut Bitlis, three of the leading cities of Armenia. The guard ships of the various powers are moored at Galata in order to be in position to render aid to the foreign residents in case it is needed. A council of ministers has been held at the palace in Constantinople in order to consider the terms of the note submitted to the Porte by the envoys of the six powers. The Armenian shops at Stamboul and Galata are closed.

Naval Evolutions. The North Atlantic squadron will go to sea again in a few days from Chesapeake Bay to resume evolutions. It is probable that the entire squadron, reenforced by the Maine and Texas, and perhaps the battleship Indiana, will continue these evolutions on a larger scale in southern waters during the approaching winter. Guarding the Church. At City of some excitement has been created by a rumor that Protestant missionaries had conspired to blow up a church containing the miraculous image Virgin Guadaloupe with dynamite bombs or to set fire to the structure. A section of the city fire department is at Guadaloupe near the church. Raft Capsized. It is reported in Moscow that 100 persons were drowned near the village of Ozery by the capsizing of a large raft on the river Oka.

Historic Structure Destroyed. The old Presbyterian Church at Abington, Pa., founded in 1714, was burned Sunday with all its contents. The walls, raised more than a century ago, are standing. Loss, $25,000; insurance, $15,000. The structure will be rebuilt. Floods in Arizona. Floods .in the Agua Fria and Gila Rivers have caused serious breaks in the bridges of the Santa Fe and Maricopa and Phoenix Railways, and for two days cut off Phoenix’s rail communication. A Friend to Mariners. Gen. O. M. Poe, the well-known United States engineer, died suddenly at his residence in Detroit. He had been ill for several days, but the serious nature of his condition had not been announced. Gen. Poe rendered valuable services to the marine interests of thp lakes. Express Safe Blown Open. At Myrtle, a small town a few miles from Toronto, Opt., unknown robbers assaulted the night operator, rendering him insensible. The safe was then blown open and $2,500 of the Dominion Express Company’s funds stolen. The operator

PRISONERS EATEN UP^ Shocking Story of Cannibalism in Canton Province, China. Two large villages. Pien-Cheng and Lang-Cheng. distant seven miles from TySami, in the Canton Province, Chinn, were recently the scenes of shocking deeds in cannibalism and wanton destruction of productive property. The Swatow correspondent of the China Mail gives rhe details of the fight between the two communities, which was precipitated by a dispute over water rights. In a night attack the people of Lang-Cheng cut the sea embankment and let in the water so as to destroy a large part of their enemies’ rice, then almost ready for cutting. Reprisals followed, and though the villages are distant only thirty miles from two district cities, Hai-Ilong and Lok-Hong, the fighting continued for ov£r a month, involving many villages and causing a large number of deaths. The worst feature, however, is this: By one side throe and by the other four prisoners were taken alive. These men were killed aqc{ eaten, seven in all. It was not in this case, as in some others, an eating of the heart or gall only. Every eatable portion was consumed, most of it being given to the children of the respective villages. Though not unprecedented in that district, such an act of cannibalism is unusual, and led to the appointment of a special deputy to inquire into the case.

GREAT ARMY OF PUPILS. Increase in the Chicago Schools Is 11,092 Over Last Year. Reports of Chicago public school principals of the enrollment of pupils for September give gratifying evidence of the substantial growth of the city and evidence not so gratifying of the inability of the Board of Education to provide suitable school accommodations for the large number of new pupils. The total enrollment is 183,749, an increase of 11,092 over the enrollment for September, 1894. To accommodate the rapid and steady growth in school attendance about twent?' new buildings are erected annually and forty have been built dnee Jan. 1, 1894. But in spite of this activity the reports for the last month show that the schools are so crowded thut although sittings are rented in other buildingi for 11,600 pupils, there are 20,124 who are unable to get more than half a da>’'« schooling flail?'. The Board of Education was handicapped by a bad start, and though struggling manfully each year to cope with the deficiency in school accommodations has been unable to keep pace w th the annual demand of the added thousands of boys and girls who are entitled to the privileges of a public school education.

CAN BUILD THEIR OWN SHIPS. That’s What Japs Think, and Americans Don’t Get Contracts. Irving M. Scott, president of the Union iron works, is coining home on the China, which is due iu San Francisco next week, but he is not bringing any contracts to build bntleships for the Japanese Government. On board the China is also Gon. Williams, one of the agents of the Cramps, who was iu Japan for the same purpose as Mr. Scott and whose mission met with the same result. The Japanese Government hns not let any contracts tor additions to its navy to American or other foreign shipbuilders for the reason that until the imperial diet meets iu November the Minister of Marine will not know just what money will be at his service. Even after appropriations are made it is doubtful if any contracts Will be made with American shipbuilders, at least not for some time, the reason being that the people of the Mikado’s empire have become suddenly impressed with the idea that they can construct their own battleships and cruisers. This decision, of course, shuts out British and German shipbuilders ns well from a slice of the Japanese maritime patronage.

CARLISLE WON’T INTERFERE. Hus No Power to Overrule Comptroller iu Sugar Bounty Cases, Secretary Carlisle had an interview with ex-Representative Wilkinson, of Louisiana, now collector of customs at New Orleans, in regard to the pending sugar bounty controversy. Mr. Wilkinson appealed to the Secretary in behnlf of the planters, but Mr. Carlisle saw no way in which he could ’render the bounty claimants any assistance except possibly by expediting tbe hearing aud the decision of the Court of Claims. The Comptroller, he said, hud jurisdiction to overrule him. It seems to be the opinion of the treasury officials that the case will remain as at present, without going to the court until Congress meets in December. ” PREY TO FLAMES. Big Cotton Mills at Warren, R. 1,. Destroyed by Fire. One of tbe largest tires ever known in Southeastern New England broke out at 7 o’clock Thursday night in one of tbe mills of the Warren Manufacturing Company, situated near the center of Warren, R. 1., and before it was got under control it had swept through three large cotton mills, two warehouses, small sheds, freight cars and other property, causing a loss which is estimated at more than $1,000,000. Muscular Margaret Mather. All of the romance which surrounded the marriage of Margaret Mather to Col. Gustave G. Pabst, Secretary of the Pabst Brewing Company ahd the favorite gon of the big Milwaukee brewer, has vanished. Wednesday afternoon the pair were riding at Milwaukee, when iu full view of many pedestrians the Colonel jumped from the buggy, followed by his wife, who gave him a furious horsewhipping; and when he wrenched the whip from her, she continued the assault with her fists in a style which showed she was no amateur.

Murdered with a Flat-Iron. A brutal murder was committed in St. Louis. Ignatz Goldmaun, a feeble and defenseless old man, was assaulted in a room back of his restaurant, where he lived alone, beaten into insensibility with a flat-iron and then stabbed repeatedly across the face, so 4vs to be rendered almost unrecognizable. Missouri Bank Assigns. The Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Creighton, Mo., made un assignment.' The statement filed shows assets to the amount of $124,000 and liabilities of SOO, > 000, mostly in real estate paper. The officers of the institution say that the suspension is only temporary Honor the Old Bell. The removal of the liberty bell from Independence Hall to the Pennsylvania depot at West Philadelphia, en route to the Atlanta exposition, was made the occasion of a great demonstration of patriotism and of public reverence for the gTand old relic. Miles Succeeds Schofield. Wednesday afternoon Gen. Nelson A. Miles was appointed general of the arm?', headquarters at Washington. Gen. Rnger succeeds to the command of the department of the east, headquarters in New York. Noted Author Gone. Prof. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, of Columbia College, the noted Norwegian author, died at New York Friday of rheumatism of the heart after an illness of but two days. Prof. -Boyesen was born in Norway in 1848. When he came to this country in 1869 he went to Chicago,

where he became editor of the Scandinavian paper, FjpunatL* Five years after coming to Aaierfea he published his first novel, “Gannar,’’ v which was an immediate success. In, 1881 he was appointed instructor in German at Columbia Col-' lege, and in 1883 he was appointed to the Gebhard professorship of German and literature. The chair of Germanic language* and literature was created for liim' in 1800. He established a reputation as a lecturer'as well as a novelist and essayist. and among his friends numbered such men as Victor -Hugo and Tonrgueneff. He leaves a widow and two children. GOOD TONE‘‘To TRADE. Analysis of Failures Daring the Last Quarter. It. G. Dun ft Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says that commercial failures in the third quarter of 1895 were 2,792, witli liabilities of $32,107,179, averaging sll,521 iter firm, against $10,028 last year, or about 15 per cent. more. The rate of failures for every 1,000 firms in business is lower than last year, and the proportion of defaulted liabilities to the solvent business represented by payments through clearing-houses is but 2.49 per 1,000, against 2.77 last year. The defaulted liabilities per firm in business average $20.92, ngainst $20.39 last year. The defaulted liabilities of the manufacturing class average $20,805, against $19,703 iu the same quarter last year; in trading $8,577, against $0,443 last year, and the banking failures, not included above, have been thirty-one, with average liabilities of $114,000, against $110,030 last year. In the third quarter, when failures are usuull?’ low, the average of liabilities in prosperous years falls below $10,000; the number below two in 1,000 firms; the defaulted liabilities below $2 per SI,OOO exchanges, and below $25 per firm in business. Thus the analysis indicates a condition approaching, but not ye' reaching, one of general prosperity.

DEATH IN A CRASH. Awful Disaster at an Ohio Church Corner Stone Laying. A frightful disaster plunged Lorain, Ohio, into mourning Sunday, and whflt was meant to be an incident of glad rejoicing became iu an instant a.catastrophe of appalling horror. One child was killed outright, ten persons were fatally injured and between thirty and forty others were seriously hurt by the sinking of a section of temporary platform built on rotten timbers. The accident happened at the outset of the ceremonious laying of n corner stone for the new St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and just nfter the priests had hushed a crowd of 5,000 people into solemn silence, the old Catholic church, a few rods distant from the new, was turned into a morgue aild hospital, and some of the injured persons were carried into the parochial school next door and there made as comfortable as possible. Twenty physicians were on the scene within twenty minutes, and they were kept busy until sundown caring for the victims’ wounds.

OLNISY WILL NOT TALK. Secretary Declines to Discuss the Venezuelan Boundary Matter. Secretary Oluey positively refuses to say anything touching any correspondence he lias had or intends to have relative to the settlement of the Venezuelan boundary dispute, scf it cannot be positively ascertained whether he hns taken any steps recently to induce Great Britain to submit the mntter to arbitration. It can bestead, however, thnt since Secretary Gresham’s death and up to a very recent date the department lmil not made a single move in thnt direction. But inasmuch ns Copgress by resolution directed the executive to use its best efforts to bring the dispute to arbitration, it is very probable that, having in mind the near approach of the assembling of Congress, Secretary Oluey lias been giving the subject the attention it demands arid is formulating his views to be communicated to Ambassador Bayard upon- the return of the latter from his vacation iu Scotland.

DEAD IN THE PULPIT. Rev. Dr. Longstroth Expires While Conducting Services. Rev. Dr. Lawrence Lorain Longstroth dropped deud in the pulpit of the Wayne Avenue Church Sunday at Daytou, Ohio, while conducting services. He was stricken with apoplexy aud died instantly. Rev. Dr. Longstroth was at one time prominently associated with the theological department of Yale College, nnd later conducted a seminary at Andover, Muss. He was nationally known as a writer on technical subjects in bee culture. Too Fast Id a Fog. Carelessness in running too fast in a fog caused a collision nt Tacoma, Wash., between two electric cars, resulting in the demolishing of both cars and the injury of a dozen persons, two fatally. Ten Killed in a Collision. By a collision between an engine and a crowded passenger train Sunday evening near Wavre, Belgium, ten persons were killed and forty were injured, several of them seriously. Siam Called Upon to Settle. The United States has called upon the Siamese Government to settle what is known as the Cheek claim. Instructions have been sent to Sir John Barrett, Minister resident at Bangkok.