Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1897 — AVENGED HER HONOR. [ARTICLE]

AVENGED HER HONOR.

TEXAS PLANTER KILLS HIS DAUGHTER’S BETRAYER. He, Too, Is Shot Dead—Tragic Denouement of a Fend During Church Services at Pleasant Valley, Dallas County—All Done in an Instant. In the House of God. One of the most sensational tragedies ever enacted in north Texas took place in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Pleasant Valley, ballas County, in the course of the services Sunday. As a result Augustus Garrison and Frank Jones arc dead and Thomas Jones probably fatally wounded. The Garrison and Jones families are among the most prominent planters in the section of Texas. They own adjoining plantations and have been on the best of social relations for many years. Augustus Garrison was a married man and had a daughter 16 years old named Lois. The Jones brothers were single. Frank Jones for a year or more had been very partial in his attentions to Garrison’s daughter. Recently the girl made serious charges against him. -he matter became a neighborhood scandal in Pleasant Valley, and Garrison swore he would have the life of the betrayer of his daughter. Mutual friends succeeded in keeping the men apart until Sunday, when the first meeting between them since the scandal took place. Garrison and the Jones family worship at the same church. Just as the preacher had taken his text after prayer and the singing of a hymn, Garrison, who had a seat near the door, stepped to the doorway, it is believed, to get some fresh air, as the atmosphere in the building was oppressive. He had no more than reached the doorway when the congregation was startled by a fusillade of pistol shots. Nearly a dozen were fired in about as many seconds’ time. When the firing ceased Augustus Garrison and Frank Jones were lying dead in front of the church steps, and Thomas Jones was stretched on the lawn near by, one hand clasped on his right thigh, and in his left he had a pistol. His statement of the shooting was brief and in substance that he and his brother Frank were approaching the church door and were within ten feet of it when Garrison appeared and instantly drew his pistol. Frank Jones was shot three times, once in the region of the heart, once in the right side, and once in the head. Garrison received but one bullet, and that pierced his heart. Neither man lived long enough to realize his fate.

GIBABA TAKEN AND LOST. Garcia's Men Cepture the Cuban Sea. port, but Fail to Hold It. Advices received from Santiago province give further details of the fighting during last week around Gibara and Banes, betwen insurgents and Spanish forces. The advices state that the insurgents under Gen. Culixto Garcia and Col. Torres, numbering between S,(XX) and 6,000 well-armed and equipped men, attacked both of the seaporta simultaneously, but met with a stubborn resistance from the Spaniards, who had been advised of their coming, and were prepared to resist attacks. The demonstration against Banes, which is less than ten leagues distant from Gibara, on the north const, was merely a feint by the rebels to divert attention and draw the Spanish forces from Gibara, which was the point really to be attacked, and which they knew had l>een strongly fortified and garrisoned. The ruse was partially successful, and Garcia, with his forces, entered Gibara. His success, however, was only of short duration, as he was subsequently driven out after a hot fight, during which many were killed and wounded on both sides. Gen. Gomez has planned his summer campaign and put it in operation. Already columns of thousands of well-armed men, under efficient leaders, have been distributed throughout Matanzas, Havana and other provinces. COPP'S MURDEROUS DEED. Attempted the Lives of Three of His Wife’s Family. William H. Copp, crazed because of the estrangement of his wife, tried Monday at Chicago to exterminate the family of her venerable father, Dr. Andrew C. Rankin, a prominent physician and a war comrade? of Gen. Grant. In the fierce duel of the men, witnessed by trembling and injured women of the household, the father-in-law received a razor slash across his throat, making a serious wound. A bullet from the doctor’s revolver would have reached the madman’s heart had it not been for the heavy folds of a reconciliation compact Copp had brought in his pocket for his wife to sign. At a dramatic pause in the conflict rescuers broke through the locked doors and saved Copp’s victims from further injury. Their assailant was locked vp at Woodlawn. The doctor's wife and Mrs. Paul Hermes, a daughter, were severely cut and bruised. Mrs. Copp was not at home. Athletes of the Diamond.. Following' is the rianding of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 38 14 Pittsburg ...25 26 Baltimore .. .35 Id Philadelphia. 26 z.B Cincinnati ..32 17 Washington. 21 30 New Y0rk...32 10 Louisville .. .20 31 Brooklyn ...26 26 Chicago 18 34 Cleveland .. .26 26 St. Louis... .11 43 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Columbus ... 37 17 Detroit 26 31 Indianapolis. 35 18 G’nd Rapids.2l 37 St. Paul 39 21 Kansas City.2o 41 Milwaukee ..34 26 Minneapolis. 10 40 Drive Back Fanatics. The troops have attacked the fanatics who hold the town of Canudos, and forced them to retire to their entrenchments. A correspondent at Montevideo telegraphs that the Government has negotiated a further loan of £4,000,000 with English capitalists to meet war expenses. Lockout for 3 000. The lockout in New York of 3,000 plus terera went into effect Tuesday, and many sympathetic strikes, involving a large number of men of other building trades, may restsit. Nineteen Are Indicted. The tpecial grand jury appointed to Investigate the robbery of ballot boxes and other frauds committed at the late Denver city election has returned thirty-eight indictments against nineteen election officers for violation of the election laws. The names have not yet been made public. lIISIII Blown Up by Dynamite. An Italian laborers’ shanty near Brii Hast station (Pa.) on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, was blown ap by dynamite shortly after midnight and Gaetus-Ant’-M&> was tawtantiy killed. Tigtoriua Bar tarßte was fataMy hart sad a number of oTheva warn hjwl I : '

taTORM WAS WIDESPREAD. Wind and Lightning Ends Lives, bn Bain Helps Crops. The reports of heavy storms Throughout southern Illinois and Missouri are received. A tornado struck the northern portion of Rich HiH, Mo., Thursday night. The damage wiH amount to thousands of dollars. One set of kilns and one set of furnaces of the (Tierokee-Lauyon Smelter Company were blown down, caught tire and were totally consumed. The blacksmith shops and other buildings at the plant were blown away. The Rich HiH canning factory was wrecked. The brick block of the M. S. Cowles Mercantile Company was unroofed and the water poured in, greatly damaging the stock. Tire Buckeridge block, brick, was unroofed, and the buildings occupied _by the Daily Review badly damaged, ’me city hall and the Wiseman brick block were unroofed. TheKlumpp block was damaged and the amphitheater house, horse stalls, sheds and floral hall, together with agricultural halls and other buildings at the fair grounds, were completely demolished The streets are blocked with trees, fences and ‘outbuildings, signs and plate glass. The Christian and Episcopal churches were wrecked. The hound’houae of the Memphis road is a total wreck and freight cars were blown from the tracks in the Pacific and Memphis yards. While the wind has been destructive to trees, crops and buildings in some sections, the rain has greatly benefited some crops. Around Cairo, 111., fully five inches of rain has fallen within the last week, breaking the drought and saving corn and other crops. Reports from nearly every section of southern Illinois indicate that while the yield of wheat is below the average, the quality is unusually good. St. Joseph, Mo., suffered especially from the wind. Big trees were uprooted, and small buildings crushed. The other points throughout the State where the storm was especially severe were Moberly. Alexandria, Fayette, Trenton ami California. Several lives were lost through lightning. Mrs. Ruben Rickabaugh, wife of a farmer, was instantly killed while sitting at the window of heir house, two miles from Albany. Albert Roaster, a farm hand living near St. Charles, Mo., also suffered death in tin 1 same way, while a number of farmers in l»th Illinois and Missouri had barns and crops burned by the lightning. In a Topeka, Kan., hailstorm many persons were hurt and roofs and windows of houses shattered.

WHOLE ARMY SLAIN. Baron Dhanis and His Nile Expedition Massacred by Mahdists. The Brussels Reforme says it learns, from a good source that the entire Dhanis expedition to the headwaters of the Nile, including Baron Dhanis himself, has been massacred. Baron Dhanis last year enlisted 6,000 men in the Congo Free State to take part in a secret ex|K*dition. The British Government allowed a number of its hussar troops to join the expedition, but it was officially denied that the AngloBelgian movement had been concerted against the Mahdists. The general impression, however, was that this force was intended to act in conjunction with the Anglo-Egyptian expedition up the Nile and take the Mahdists between two fires and eventually complete the reconquest of the Soudan. In August last Baron Dhanis was reported to have arrived at Lado, north of the territory of the Congo Free State, on the White Nile, and some 325 miles north of Victoria Nyanza. It was then understood that the Dhanis expedition would push on northward in the direction of Khartoum. Early in December last it was reported that the expedition had met with disaster and that Baron Dhanis had been killed. Later it was authoritatively stated that there was no ground for the report, and that when last heard from, in September, the Baron was at Stanley Falls, (JOO miles from the nearest Dervish forces.

WHITE IS THE MAN. ■R ■' lowa Democrats Select Him as a Gubernatorial Candidate. Following is the ticket named at Des Moines, lowa, Wednesday: For Governor Frederick E. White For Lieutenant Governor, Benjamin A. Plummer For Supreme Court Justice. .L. G. Kinue For Superintendent of Public Instruction G. F. Reinhardt For Railroad Commissioner. .S. B. Csano Frederick E. White and Judge Kinne are Democrats, Plumber and Reinhardt, silver Republicans, and S. B. Crane, candidate for Railroad Commissioner, is a Populist. The ticket really represents the combined work of three separate and distinct conventions, but on account of the provisions of the antifusion Inw which was passed by the State Legislature the Democratic convention bad to nominate it primarily and the Populist and silver Republican conventions indorsed the action of the Democrats. Fifty-three middle of the road Populists, headed by Messrs. Weller and Weeks, bolted. SMOTHERED IN A TRUNK. Two Little Girls Perish While Play* ing Hide and Seek. When an old trunk was opened in tht: home of Joseph Melton, near Bordley, Ky., the father found bis two little girls lying in it smothered to death. They were Lara, aged 7, and Jennie, aged 5. While their parents were absent the children had been playing “hide and seek” with three other tots. While searching for a good hiding place the two evidently thought of an old trunk in the cellar, crawled into it and closed the lid. A spring lock made it an air-tight tomb.

Work of Cruel Wind. News has been received of a terrific cyclone which passed fifteen miles northwest of Salina, Kan., about 10:30 Wednesday night. As far as known three persons are dead and a number dangerously injured. The dead were members of the Geesy family, and others of this family are also badly hurt. Mr. Geesy was away from home. The remainder of the family had retired, and when the storm struck they made for their cave. Before they had got out of the house, however, the tornado had destroyed it. The Work of destruction was not known till morning, when neighbors found the dead and injured members of the faipily lying about in the debris. The three dead were found about fifty feet east of the house, and near them was the baby, alive, but bttried to her waist in dirt. The other three were found some distance west of the house. A2by 4 scantling was driven through cne of Mrs. Geesy’s limbs. At Mrs. Story’s, a half-mile east of the Geesy place, the family were sleeping in a stone basement, with a frame upright part. The framework was bloW'n away and the timber fell on to the family below, but none of them were killed. The stope work was uninjured. The track of the storm was narrow, but very winding. It tore down the fences on three sides of the Geesy pasture without passing through middle of it. It came from the east, and after doing its damage the main storm divided, part going west and the rest north. Women In the Dungeon. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has this from Havana: “At Below Collan, in Matanzas province, the insurgents released twenty-three prisoners from jail last week, five of whom had been held without I kbargee, as far as they knew, for three

years. After getting these men and women out the insurgents were about to burn the jail, a email structure, when the prisoners begged them not to until they bad searched the place, as they frit sure that more prisoners were still in it. The Cubans began tearing down the jaH, but not until the building was in ruins did they discover a secret dungeon underneath. There, in a small ceil, hardly large enough for them to turn about in, were four men. In a second ceH were three women. The women were almost insane, and it was some time before they could tell their stories. One had been a belle of the city and had been imprisoned because she resisted advances of the colonel commanding the troops there. The other two were confined for having relatives in the Cuban army, but the reason for imprisoning them in this horrible hole was not ascertained. They were fed only once a day, and as no light entered the place, their existence was almost intolerable. They had been in there six months, but all seemed mere wrecks when taken out, and could not bear the sunlight. The men were not in any better condition, and two of them have since died.”

CONGRESSMAN FOUND DEAD. Edward D. Cooke Discovered Lifeless in His Bad. Congressman Edward Dean Cooke, member from the Sixth Chicago district, was found dead in his bed at the Cochran Hotel in Washington, Thursday morning. Physicians who examined the remains say that death was the result of heart disease. Mr. 4'ooke was not feeling well the previous evening, but nothing was thought about it, p.a he had been subject to attacks of acute indigestion. About 2 o'clock in the morning, however, attendants at the hotel were summoned to his room, he having been taken worse. He had a fit of vomiting and was much relieved, he said. He was asked if he did not want a physician, to which he gave a negative reply, saying that he would be “all right.” The hotel attendants accordingly turned down the light in his room and retired. Not responding to a call in the morning, the door of his room was broken open and the Congressman was found dead. He was lying flat on his back and his face showed no signs of suffering. RACE WAR AT KEY WEST. Town Terrified Over n Conflict Between Whites and Blacks. An attempt at Key West, Fla., to lynch Sylvester Johnson, colored, who pleaded guilty to assault, resulted in an uprising of the negroes and the capture by them of the town. The local militia were rendered powerless by the loss of their armory and equipment. Dp to Friday night several conflicts had occurred, one white being killed and several whites and negroes being wounded. The whites declared Johnson should be lynched if it took every Caucasian on the island to do it; while the blacks, largely in the majority, were successful, up to that time, in the defense. The sheriff wired Gov. Bioxham for permission to call upon the Government for help from the artillery mid infantry companies stationed there, to prevent the blacks from rising and burning the town.

Doga on Hie Trail. Meager information has been received of a hold-up on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. One man armed with two pistols sacked the express car and obtained, according to reports in Clarksville, from $2,000 to $4,000. The express car was in charge of Messenger L. C. Brennan. The train, No. 102, left Memphis at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. The robbery occurred four miles east of Clarksville at 9:35 o’clock. It Is supposed the robber boarded the train at Clarksville. When n few minutes out he entered the car and ordered the messenger to open the safe, which was done. After securing some money, the robber pulled the bell cord. When the train slacked its speed he jumped off and made his escape. Bloodhounds were placed on the bandit’s trail. The passengers were not disturbed and knew nothing of the robbery until it was reported by the messenger. Cornell la Champion. Cornell proudly claims the title of queen of the rowing world. Her champion crew overwhelmingly defeated Yale and Harvard Friday afternoon at Poughkeepsie. Gone are the claims for glory of the English stroke, it would seem, for Mr. Lehmann’s crew from Harvard, its avowed exponents, finished, exhausted and half dead, lengths behind Yale. And Yale’s crew rowed a plucky race, but was never in it with Cornell. Cornell’s time, 20 minutes 34 seconds, was not record' breaking, but was good considering the condition of the water. Mormon Elders Expelled. Elders Rydalch, Pomeroy, Parish and Jones, four Mormon riders from Utah were run out of Meridian, Miss. The elders have been in the city several days arranging for meetings, and had begun a house-to-house enirvaes for the purpose of securing converts. Kansas Gets a Roast. The most intense heat that has prevailed in Central Kansas for several years has been experienced the last four days, the thermometer averaging 100, and finally reaching 104.