Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — DEATH OF MRS. STOWE. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF MRS. STOWE.

Pasiee Away at Her Home in Hartford, Conn. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the gifted authoress of * Uncle Tom’s Cabin’* and other works of world-wide repatation, died at her home in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, without regaining consciousness. She passed peacefully away as though-into a deep sleep. By her bedside at the time were her son, Rev. Charles Edward Stowe of Simsbury; her two daughters, Eliza and Harriet; her sister, Isabella Beecher-IIooker; John Hooker; Dr. Edward x>. Hooker, her nephew, who was also her medical attendant, and other relatives. Mrs. Stowe began to fail in 1888. The first alarming symptoms of the breaking up of her faculties, mental and physical, showed itself at Sag Har-. bor, L. 1., in September, 1888. Her intimate friends and family knew where the trouble lay. but Mrs. Sttiwe’s condition was such that it was thought advisable to keep it a secret, and it was not until the following year that the truth was told in the public press, and was then not denied by the family.

MILITIA ON GUARD. Troops Called Out to Control the Cleveland, Ohio, Strikers. State troops have possession of a large part of Cleveland. Continued rioting at the works of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Company on the part of the strikers led to the killing of one citizen Thursday afternoon. A nonunion workman, Albert G. Saunders, did the killing. The man killed was William Rettger, a striker, lie was shot through the heart. lie was lately employed by the Brown company, and joined the strike. Saunders was on a bicycle and was near the Brown works. So far as can be learned a mob of strikers were yelling "Scab” at him when he suddenly drew n pistol and fired into their ranks. Rettger received the bullet and died instantly. But for po’iee protection Saunders would have been lynched by the mob. The Mayor at ouee called upon the Governor for troops, and the local companies were ordered out. During the day the police charged the crowd several times, and cracked many heads. ELECTROCUTION IN OHIO. New Low Regarding Executions Goes Into EfFcgt,Commencing Wednesday the execution of the death penalty by hanging in Ohio becomes u thing of the past, -and the Buckeye State, following the lead of New York, will substitute electrocution, excepting so far as relates to persons already under sentence of death by the noose. The change has been brought about by a bill introduced in the upper house by Senator Jones and championed in the Assembly by Representative Reed. It provides that all murderers convicted after July 1 and sentenced to the death penalty shall be electrocuted, and infliction of the penalty must take place before sunrise on the day set by the sentence in court. The death chamber must be in the penitentiary. There is no other change in the provisions of the present law relating to death sentences.

MYSTERIOUS BALLOON. Aerial Ship, with Passengers, Sweeps Fast Over Winnipeg. A mysterious balloon, with occupants, passed over Winnipeg, Man., Wednesday evening. It was at a great height and traveling so fast that it was soon out of sight. A month or so ago the Hudson Bay officers were requested by the English Government to notify the chief factors at their various northern posts regarding the north pole balloon expedition of the explorer Audree. This notification, widely published, and the appearance of the mysterious balloon caused people to speculate whether this was Audreo’s balloon. It was going due west. Local papers have sent dispatches to all western and northern points and hope to get some information regarding the balloon and its occupants. More than $3,000 Received. The Cuban army sanitary corps in New Y’ork has received in subscriptions up to date more than SI,OOO, and 00 per cent, of this amount was donated in 2-ceut stamps. A splendid showing this is of American generosity and practical sympathy in four weeks’ time. The Cuban army sanitary corps was organized to till the place of a Red Cross society on Cuban soil. The Spaniards have their hospitals comparatively well looked after by corps of nurses from Spain. Up to the time that the Cuban sanitary corps was organized the only trained nurses ever seen ill the insurgent hospitals, improvised in some old, damp church, or hid away among the miasmatic vapors of the Liipata swamps, or concealed in the torrid recesses,of a mountain gorge, were" those ba’tlent and over sacrificing Angels of mercy whose lives have been wedded to the .church and (lie alleviation of human suffering. While ’ the Sisters of Charily are doing all they can for the sick and buttle injured in the Cuban camps, their work has not been the most successful, because of the lack of the proper remedies and appliances, and the almost total absence of surgical instruments. Surgeons have been few, and the wounded many, and supplies scarce, and the sick ever increasing. The Cuban war organization known as the junta, though correctly called the “delegacion,” was formed to provide material to prosecute the war, and ao much of its time and attention were taken up in the purchasing nnd sending of arms and ammunition to Cuba that hospital stores were overlooked and neglected. The headquarters of the society, which are known ns the Cuban Army Sanitary Corps, are at 81 New street, New Y'ork,

Kaines law la Working Well. The actual number of excise permits issued by Deputy Commissiotier Hilliard of New York up to Wednesday is 7.421. About 1.(100 drinking places have been wiped out by tin Baines law. The lager beer saloons are the heaviest losers by the law, being tinulde to pay the SBOO tax. Hundreds were shut up, and so wprp most of the little Italiau,■'PrencbfaiftL Hungnrihri cases, in the quarters there- are; colonies oC'.those nationalities.It is paid to be oniyya finest ion of time when they will nil close, for their customers wir pot .idfcfc lheir meals jyhere they pfn'uot get wihe.„ Tn JBrookiyti, and Coney.'-lblanfl where thb fax hj’ s({so, a very Milall 'proportion 'pf'MuilfOr,.dealers have dropped out:' A» gleftt' majority of the liquor dealers hadCftteCiV able to pay the smaller tax. The Law and Order Society people have been-disappointed. Baby Grhnted Wjpaltl* in Court. ilargart-tha' old, was preseut'tip court in Brooklyn TlpoSday when she was declared an .lielroKs to $45.4)00 in real csItte and in bapk. The baby cooedd *nd laughed and was the recipient of in-v numerable kisses and embraces by tpc friends of Mrs. Mayor, who held up the tittle one for admiration. She was torn eight -months and two days after the death of her father Interior Customs Abolished. The abolition of Mexican customhouses in the interior went into effect Wednesday, and hereafter these establishments will exist only on the frontier and at the ports. Chicasroans Are Desnerate. In Chicago, ex-County Commissioner S. Albrigh and the West Siders are

organizing a White Cap society to protect themgelves against the "long” and "short" men and the thugs of the city. Tar, feathers and lynchings will figure in the* program and the city is promised a duplicate of the famous regulation committee that made San Francisco respectableH>j terroxjziujf the thugs. “The business of Chicago is ruined by these holdups,” said Mr. Albright to a reporter. “New Y'ork, tit. Louis, Cincinnati and other cities order theirMraveling men to go right through the city and not to stop; people are afraid to come here to buy. On the West Bide there is an organization of volunteers who will from now on patrol the streets every night and when we find men continually loafing around we will warn tliem and if that warning is not obeyed something will happen. It inny be only tar and feathers, or it may be that the thugs will disappear forever from his favorite haunts; our families must and shall be protected; we wish to be law-abid-ing, but this wholesale robbery must be stopped. Our men will be at the police courts to fight the aldermen who make u business of interfering nnd standing between the law and the law-breakers of their wards: we will teach aldermen that they are not elected to promote hold-ups. Every day new men are signing with us and soon every block on the West Side will be patrolled, day and night. YVe have the money to hire men for the day time, nnd our men arc not particular how they handle a man caught trying to rob or hold up. We mean to break up the various gangs of thieves and drive the men who are known to have bad reputations out of town.”

THE FORTY-FIFTH STAR. “Old Glory’s" Blue Field Ha« a New Star Added. Saturday, foi the first time, the flag of the United States \va. floe.ted with fortyfive stars on its blue field, indicating the admission of Utah to the sisterhood of States. General orders issued by the War and Navy Departments prepared the way for the change, and for several months past the flngmakers have been busy in placing a now star on the flags in stock. From economical considerations the old army flags will not be retired at once, but will be replaced only as they are worn out in service by the new ensigns. In the ease of the naval flags the change was more easily made, for all of these flags are made at the New York and Mare Island navy yards, while those on hand on shipboard may be readily altered by the expert saiimakers. GETS $30,000 IN DAMAGES. Miss Casey Is Awarded This Sum from the West Chicago Company. At Chicago, .Miss Margaret Casey, one of the victims of the Harrison street bridge disuster of July 29. 1891, was ;;iven a verdict of SIO,OOO from the West Chicago Street Railroad Company in Judge Freeman's court. Miss Casey was on a Taylor street ear going west ovei the Harrison street bridge on the d,ay of tlie accident, when a pole about twenty feet long, used for turning the bridge, struck the ear, killing a Miss Rierdon r.rnl terribly injuring Miss Casey. The polo struck Miss Casey in the abdomen, making n transverse cut fifteen inches long and tearing away all the muscles on the left side.

Chicago’s Patriotic Victims, Summarized police reports in Chicago show the following results of the glorious Fourth: Ini Killed, jured. Cannon 1 4 Crackers 7 Powder 4 Stray bullets 1 4 Revolver .. 9 Total 2 28 Injuries classified: Face 8 Hand <; Fingers torn off ....... 4 Eyes burned 1 Leg <; Breast .... .. 1 Neck l Back l To the above list might be added the names of several thousand patriotic Americans whose hurts were not reported to the police. Made 11l by German Pork. A cable from Berlin to the New York Journal says that soldiers of the One Hundred and Fourth Infantry, quartered in the barracks at Chemnitz, are suffering greatly from trichinosis. They were made ill by eating German pork. Big Fire nt Galveston, Texas. Galveston, Texas, had a $150,000 fire Thursday afternoon. The line sheds, extending from pier 24 to pier 28, -burned, together with contents. A.train, of twenty-six empty freight cars on the truck were consumed. Awful Crime of n Drunken Man. At Winnipeg, Man., William Warren, while intoxicated, cut his wife's throat and gashed her face and head terribly with a razor, and then drew the weapon across his own throat Massacres iri South Africa. Massacres of white people in Matabele-. land continue. Powerful chiefs are joining the insurgents. Premier Spriggs predicts a rising of the natives in the colony.