Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — NEAR A LIVING TOMB. [ARTICLE]

NEAR A LIVING TOMB.

SENSATION AT A BATTLE CREEK, MICH., FUNERAL. Hanging of Hay ward—Sultan Yields to the Powers— Republican Convention Will Meet in St. Louis—Race Prejudice Among Orange Pickers. The Corpse Came to Life. Fred Markham, of Santa Cruz. Cal., received a letter ten days ago stating that his mother had died in Hattie Creek, Mich., as the result of a railroad accident and that the remains would he interred before he could reach Buttle Creek, where he formerly resided. A few days lat.er he was astonished at receiving another letter containing the information that his mother was alive and would probably recover. The letter further stated that his mother was apparently dead when the first letter was written. Arrangements for her burial were under way. but while the funeral services were in progress the minister, relatives and congregation were horrified by a sound front the coffin and were almost paralyzed when a moment later the eotlin-lid was broken and Mrs. Markham was found to be alive. It appears that she had suffered from concussion of the brain at.d for two day was unconscious. NEGROES DRIVEN OI.T. White Men Will Allow the Blacks to Pick Oranges. Nearly 200 half-starved and terrorized negroes were brought to Tampa. Fla., mi the steamer Lawrence from Lee County. The negroes were hired to go 1 1 ore County and pick oranges. When they reached Fort Meyers they were ordeied to leave, being told they could not wmk there. The negroes showed resistance, when armed whites surrounded them and they were kept under guard for two days until the steamer returned. The negroes were given nothing to cat and feared they would be massacred, as the guards kept up a constant fusillade at night. Twelve of the negroes became so terrorized that they leaped overboard, and. it is thought, were drown, d. Several others tried to run. but were shot. The negroes say the bodies of those shot were thrown into the river. A. V. Lane, a prominent resident of Fort Meyers, confirms the story told by the negroes. lie says white men have been visiting the camps of the orange pick, rs and firing into them until nearly all the negroes have tied the county; M: ay negroes have uhdoubtcdlv been kilo-d. St. Louis Gets the Prize. The Republican national convention will be held at St. Louis on June 10 next. That was the decision reached by the Republican National Committee assembled in Washington Tuesday, after spirited balloting lasting two hours. The successive ballots are shown as follows: St. Louis 11l 14 IS 22 29 San Francisco 20 19 19 19 10 Pittsburg 9 9 9 1 0 Chicago S S 9 9 0 New York 1 (1 0 l) O Hayward Pays the Penalty. Harry Hayward was hanged at Minneapolis at 2:0.1 Wednesday morning for the murder of Catherine ( ling. He made a statement of five minutes’ duration, and. while not making a confession, said he hoped Cod would forgive him for all the harm he had ever done. Tile murderer went to the gallows with a laugh on his lips, and went down with the trap just as he uttered the words, lightly: "Let her go, Megarden.” The command was directed to the chief deputy.

Governor Hastings Ik 111. Governor Hastings is confined to tin executive mansion at Harrisburg, Pa., with a mild case of bilious fever. This is the third attach of the malady since his return from the Atlanta exposition. The Governor had a heavy -chill during his visit to Gettysburg. He returned to the city feeling ill, and was driven direct to the executive mansion. He has since been confined to his room, and will see lie one but members of his household. Sultan Issues Firnians. Constantinople dispatch: The long drawn-out controversy between the Sultan and the ambassadors of the powers over the question of the admission of additional guard ships for the protection of the embassies was settled at 8:10 o’clock Tuesday evening by the issuance of an irade granting the necessary firmans to permit the guard ships to pass the Dardanelles. No One Is Responsible. The Cleveland coroner has rendered his verdict on the Central viaduct disaster. He fails to find sufficient evidence of an act committed or omitted on the part of any person to warrant him in holding anyone criminally liable for the accident. He concludes that the seventeen victims of the disaster came to their death as a result of the injuries sustained or from drowning in the river. Chicago's Murderous Trolley. Two people killed outright, four probably fatally injured, seventeen injured, besides minor casualties in the shape of horses killed, buildings set afire, telephones burnt out, fire alarm service crippled—such was the record of the deadly trolley in the Chicago police reports during the month of November. More Troops for Campos. Dispatches from Havana announce the arrival there of six transports with reenforcements of Spanish troops for service in Cuba. Generals Marin and Tando were also on board. Must Wear Stripes. The commissioners of Delaware County, Ind., decided that workhouse convicts must wear penitentiary stripes in future. The severe step is taken to check numerous escapes, blit is looked upon as too severe, as a majority of the inmates are “plain drunks.” To Impeach T. F. Bayard. Representative Barrett (Rep.) of Massachusetts offered a resolution in the House for the impeachment of Thomas F. Bayard. United States Ambassador to Great i Britain. Fought Over a Sandwich. At Denver, Col., William Byrd, son of the Rev. S. W. Byrd, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Keiton at a social of the Christian; Endeavor Society in the church. Both men are negroes. The shooting was the result of a quarrel about a sandwich which Keiton ate but refused to pay for. May Go to the Ocean. It is reported that the American Steel Barge Company will send the big whaleback passenger steamer, Christopher Columbus, around into the Pacific and operate her on one of the coast routes.

FLIGHT OF SAID PASHA. Tnrkey’z Ex-Grand Vizier Seeks Refuge in British Embassy. A dispatch received from Constantinople says that Said Pasha, the President of the Turkish Council of State and formerly Grand Vizier, has taken refuge in the British Embassy at Constantinople, believing himself not only to be in danger of arrest, but fearing for his life. The existence of a Cabinet crisis has long been commented upon, but as a change of Ministry is one of the oldest and most familiar moves of the Sultan to obtain further delay little or no attention has been paid to the matter beyond conveying to Abdul Ilamid the intimation that another change of Ministry would in no way alter the determination of the powers to take any action they may think advisable under the circumstances. All the Turkish Ministers are guarded, and all are in fear of their lives, not only dreading assassination at the hands of the Armenians, but standing in great apprehension of being summarily dealt with by the Sultan, who is known to be irritated beyond any previous degree at everything and everybody. Seeing the meshes of the European net drawing closer and closer around him every day, Abdul Hamid is described as being frantic with impotent rage and likely to wreak vengeance upon any or all of his Ministers if he can only muster up courage enough to do so. ’FRISCO FIGHTING HARD. With Western Members, Can Name Republican Convention City. Gen. James S. Clarkson, the national Republican committeeman from lowa, met W. 11. Mann, of Ohio, in New York, and discussed the selection of a time and place for the Republican national convention. It turns out that San Francisco is to make a very sturdy tight for the convention, which will be held about June 10. The Golden Gate city has already from fifteen to twenty votes out* of the fifty-two members of the cqnimiltee, and it was said that California could hold these votes, and eventually, even if it lost the fight, designate the city where the convention will be held. San Francisco gave way in 1892, and by the votes of California and the far Western States euchred Chicago and Cincinnati and gave the convention to Minneapolis. Only four cities are putting up a fight for the convention —namely. Pittsburg, Chicago. St. Louis and San Francisco. The Goiden Gate city clearly has the balance of power in determining the result. Gen. Clarkson said that there was no mistake about this.

WILL NOT ARBITRATE. England Insists Upon Her Claims to Venezuelan Territory. Washington dispatch: The eagle bird of freedom is preparing to do some screaming. The provocation is varied. Three resolutions of inflammatory tenor are already . before the Senate upon which discussion has already commouced, and the steamship Britannia brings additional ammunition in the shape of a reply to Secretary Oluey's note to Lord Salisbury touching the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The British Governmcit questions the right of the Uuited Slates to mix in and flatly refuses to arbitrate upon the title to the disputed territory east of the “Sehjynburg line,” holding to the precedent that the area specified is part and parcel of the British possessions, and therefore solidly British beyond peradvontiire. This is the reply that lias been expected; but it will nevertheless be the occasion of a fuss and future demonstrations of seemiug great consequence. Abuse of Habeas Corpus. The annual report of Attorney General , Hannon, sent to Congress, shows that there has been an increase in the number of criminal cases pending in the Federal Courts, as well as an increase in the expenses of the courts from $3,8(14,898 in 1888 to $1,(128.223 in 1891. A strong argument is made for the abolition of the tee system, lie says too much of the time of the Supreme Court is occupied by criminal appeals and suggests that such appeals be disallowed, save in capital cases. The Attorney General also calls attention to what he regurds as the growing abuse of the writ of habeas corpus and suggests that the allowance of a stay by the Supreme Court or one of its judges be required, at least on appeals after the first. He asks for an additional Circuit Judge in the Fifth and Sixth Circuits. The Northern Pacific litigation has called attention to the necessity of legislation to regulate the appointment of receivers and judicial sales of railroads, parts of whose lines are ill different States, lie points out the desirability of the investment of a single court with control over the entire property. Propipt action is urged toward working out the solution of the problem presented by the Government’s relation to the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, and, as it may become necessary or advisable for the Government to institute proceedings against one or both of these companies, he shows the necessity of a law giving some court in the District of Columbia jurisdiction of the entire property and all of the parties in interest. He urges the imperative demand for the erection of at least one penitentiary in a Southern State for the confinement of convicts from the Southern district.

Gough Is Convicted. George Gough, of Chicago, stands convicted of manslaughter for killing George Pucik. The jury fixed his punishment at eight years in the penitentiary, but it was considered “surplusage” by the Court, and the sentence will remain indeterminate, unless Attorney David's motion for a new trial is granted. If sentence is passed by the Court, then under the law that went into effect July 1, 1595, the prison board will have power to abate the term at the end of the minimum, one year, or to protract it during life, as Gough's prison behavior determines. Gough was an attendant at the Dunning poor house, and Pucik was an insane inmate. The latter was kicked to death by Gough. Four Vessels Missing. At Port Townsend, Wash., much apprehension is felt for the British steamship Gorzdd, Capt. Mead, now out fortyfive days from Singapore. This is. the third steamer which is unaccounted for on the Northern Pacific Ocean, the others being the T. Eskdale and the Strathiiovis, bound westward. It is feared that these vessels and the British ship Lord Brassey foundered in the violent typhoon which swept the China Sea on Nov. 14 and 15, thus causing a loss of 150 lives and property valued at $1,250,000. Religious Congress Scored. A Rome dispatch to the London Chronicle says that in the Jesuit organ, the Cevita Cattolica, the Vatican will publish an official note blaming retrospectively the religious congress and condemning the idea of a similar congress at the next Paris exposition. Savings Banks in Schools. The Board of Education of New York will provide for the opening of the branches of the penny provident fund in the public schools. There are now twenty stations of the fund in the public schools, and they have met with surprising success. Chicago Firemen Busy. Chicago's business center suffered bndly from fire Sunday. There were two serious blazes, one in the morning and the other at night. The first destroyed the

five-stety building occupied by H. Wolf & Co., wholesale general merchants. Nos. 210 and 252 Madison street, and a stock of dry goods, toys, and notions, insured \ on a valnation of AWO.taai. Harris Wolf. president of the firm, is known as "King j of the PoddloKs." Tile second fire broke 1 out at l(»25l> at Nos. ITS and 1 Wabash I avenue, and liefore it was quenched had j caused a loss of SIOO,OOO to the huildiug ' and the stock of Meyer 4c Weber's piano ' house and other coin-eras under the same roof. Two men were injured in the fires, one in cadi, and two had narrow escapes in the Wabash avenue blaze, being res0111*1 from ihe building in time to save their lives. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. London's Distinguished AYar Correspondent Is Dead. George Augustus Henry Sabi, the distinguished Ixmdon author mid journalist, is dead. George Augustus Henry Sala, journalist and author, was ln*rn in London in 1828. In the early part of his career he became a contributor of articles to newspapers and magazines. He founded and was the first editor of the Temple Bar Magazine. He visited the United States in 1S»C! as special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and in the latter part of the following year published the result of his observations under the title of "America in the Midst of War.” lie was war correspondent for the same paper in France in IS7O. witnessing the fall of the empire in Paris Sept. 4. He afterwards went to Rome to re< ord the entry of the Italian army in that city*in January. 1875. He visited Spain on the occasion of the entry of Alphonso NIL lie visited Russia in December, 1870, as special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. and subsequently traversed the empire to observe the mobilization of the Russian army, then in progress. SWISS NATIONAL EXPOSITION. Its Electrical Features to Be the Finest Ever Seen. The Swiss national exposition, which begins at Geneva May 1 next and terminates Oct. 11. bids fair in the matter of interesting novelties to surpass any national display made since our centennial. Probably because Theodore Turrettini, mayor of Geneva, and the most distinguished electrical engineer in Europe, is president of the exposition, the electrical exhibit will lie the finest ever seen. The river Rhine supplies 12,000 horse power to be electrically transmitted six miles to the grounds. There will be a traveling footpath operated by electricity traversing the great machinery hall: horseless eabs driven by electricity; appliances for aerial navigation; a multiplying valve pump; processes for making paper and fabrics; tests of strength of metals by electricity, and many other electrical appliances.

AMERICAN ARMOR-PLATE BEST. Test in Russia Proves that It Has No Superior. Robert P. Linderman, president of the Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, I’a.. received from Lieutenant Meigs, engineer of ordnance for the company, a cablegram stating that a very successful test of armor plate had been made at the Czar’s proving grounds at Oclita, Polygion, near St. Petersburg. "The plate was selected from a group of side armor for the battleship Sevastopol, and subjected to the most severe test possible. The projectile penetrations were very slight and there were no cracks. The test resulted in the Russian Government accepting 110 tons of Ilarveyized armor plate. The test proved that American armor plate is the best made in the world. Waiting for Holidays. It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Business is still sluggish, as if gorged by excessive indulgence of the appetite for buying when prices were advancing. In nearly every branch stocks not yet distributed lo consumers stand in the way of new orders, and competition of a producing force largely exceeding the present demand puts down prices that decline, retarding purchases yet more. After the holidays men look for a larger demand. For the present the springs qf new business are running low, but enough is doing on old orders to keep most of the works employed in part and a good proportion fully. Financial influences have not hindered, and rarely has the opening of a session of Congress affected business so little.”

(limped from the Windows. The Greenville Hotel, located six miles east of llortonville, Wis., burned to the ground. William Router, an employe of the hoted, was suffocated and was taken from the burning building dead. Several members of a medicine troupe escaped death by jumping from the second-floor windows,' clad only in their night robes. Reunited in Their Old Age. At Jeffersonville, lnd.. John and Margaret Cowling, aged T.’i and 70 years, respectively, after having been separated by divorce twenty-four years, were reunited in marriage Thursday night. Victim of Railway Bandits. At Bucyrus, Kan., two masked men attempted to rob the railroad station. W. A. Gilman, the agent, offered resistance and was shot through the lungs, being mortally wounded. Chief Justice Fuller 111. Chief Justice Fuller, of ttie United States Supreme Court, is confined to his bed at Washington, D. C., with a severe cold. market quotations. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $5.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; corn, No. 2,20 cto 27c; oats. No. 2. 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2. 34c to 36c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to SSO per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,62 cto t!4c; corn, No. 1 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,38 c to 39c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50: wheat. No. 2,67 cto 6!>c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. 3Sc to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c: oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.50 to $4.60. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 68c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to '34c; 22c to 24c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 5Sc to 59c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19e; barley. No. 2,32 cto 34c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 38c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. New York—Cattle, $3.00. to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 28c; butter, creamery, 16c to 27c; eggs, Western, 21c to 24c. I