Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1897 — BURNED IN THE BEDS [ARTICLE]

BURNED IN THE BEDS

WOUNDED AND SICK CUBANS SLAIN. Spaniards Burn Hospital Patients Alive-Swift Retaliation Follows by the Hansine of Thirteen Captured Spanish Guerrillas. Rebels Busy Raidins. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has this from Havana: "At Madon, Matanzas province, the Spanish troops attacked a Cuban hospital, killing 23 wounded and sick Cubans, who had surrendered on a promise to lie held as prisoners, after a defense of half an hour or more. The Government troops tired the buildings, first placing all the disabled men, who were unable to move, in their cots, burning them alive. The others, eleven in number, were tied to trees and shot to death, the corpses being left there. The pttcificos near there came out afterward and buried them, sending word to Havana of the outrage. Col. Marston, an insurgent leader, a Texan, by the way. on hearing of it promptly hanged thirteen Spanish guerrillas whom he had captured the day previous, and whom he had intended releasing anil sending baek to their camp. All through Santa Clara province the insurgents are busy raiding the towns and doing much harm to the Government stations. commissaries and stock yards. The railroad lines have been broken up and the troops are constantly on the march, keeping the communication open between their largest points and depots. The situation is very serious for the Spanish, anil the Cubans all feel elated over the developments and the present situation.’’

FORESTERS OF AMERICA. Supreme Court of the Order in Session at Denver. Fnlly 200 delegates, representing Foresters' courts in all portions of the country, were in attendance when the supreme court was called to order in Denver Tuesday by the supreme chief ranger, Lawrence .T. Smith of Lowell, Mass. After welcoming addresses and responses and other preliminaries, the reports of the supreme chjef ranger, the supreme secretary, E. M. McMurtrie of St. Louis, and other executive officers were presented. These showed that during the last two years the Order of Foresters of America has made an increase of 17,746 members and eighty-six courts. There are now 1.257 courts in the United States and a total of 134,822 members. The supreme body has paid out in insurance during ttte last two years $735,977 and has a balance of $22,046 in the treasury. HELD UP BY HIGHWAYMEN. Messenger and Guard Relieved of u Retort of Gold Worth $5,000. The retort of the Placer Mining Company’s mill at Leadville, Colo., estimated to be worth $5,(M10, was lost Silurday while being brought by a messenger from Granite to Leadville. The messenger and a guard started from the mill at 11 o'clock. They were heavily armed. About 1.000 yards from the company's mill two highwaymen suddenly appeared, covered them with Winchesters and demanded the retort. They were taken completely unawares and surrendered. The town of Granite was alarmed and a large posse started in pursuit.

Maimed in a Wreck, A score of excursionists were injured in a railway smash-up in the outskirts of Lima, O. Several of them are expected to die. The wreck occurred at the junction of the Lima Northern and the Lake Erie and Western roads in the eastern portion of the city. A Lake Erie freight crashed into a Lima Northern special passenger train carrying a large number of excursionists on their return from Toledo. The Lake Erie engine was knocked off the track and badly demolished, nnd two coaches of the lama Northern were overturned. Neither train stopped at the junction. The Lake Erie engine dashed into the second coach. It was filled with passengers. The engine was sent into a wheat field fifty feet from the track. Athletes of the Diamon t. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 71 31 Philadelphia. 46 58 Baltimore .. .65 32 Pittsburg .. ..43 56 Cincinnati ..62 34 Louisville ...44 59 New York.. .(Ml 37 Brooklyn ....43 58 Cleveland ...52 47 Washington. 40 59 Chicago ....49 54 St. L0ui5....26 76 The showing of the members of the Western League is summarized below: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 76 29 Detroit 55 54 Columbus .. .65 39 Minneapolis. 37 74 St. Paul 68 43 G’nd Rapids. 34 72 Milwaukee ..68 43 Kansas City. 36 77 Eicht Shot in a Riot, Eight men were seriously injured Sunday afternoon in a riot that occurred among the strikers at the Unity mine, near Pittsburg. Two of them cannot recover, and the others are all in serious condition. The shooting grew out of an attempt of the miners who arc still at. work to get some of the foreigners and negroes who are striking to go back to work.

Starved Herself to Death. Lena Collinsworth of Claiborne County, Tennessee, is dead from the effects of a 58-day fast. She has been starving herself to death under a vow. She quarreled with her husband, they separated, and she vowed that she would fast until he returned to her. Efforts of friends and relatives to force her to eat had been of no avail. Pleasure Party Miasintr. A party of eight pleasure seekers, left Superior, Wis., Friday in a small sailboat for a cruise along the shore. They intended to return Sunday, but have not been heard from, and it is feared the entire party has been drowned. Cairo Boiler Kills Three. By the explosion of a boiler at the brickyard of W. H. Haliday, nt Cairo, 111., three persons were instantly killed and eight injured. Michigan Banker Killed. At an early hour Saturday morning Ebner E.-Struble, cashier of the Farmers’ Biot by ed the nd cslaving nation is sellmshel, brings these Vheel-

OAVB RI» LIFE FOB ANOTHER, Trantp Killed After Saving Hia Comrade from Death. The souvenir of a brave act and a life that Went out under the wheels of commerce was the blood-bespattered front of a huge Frisco engine us it pounded and rattled over the switches of the St. Louis freight yards the other morning, and, panting great cloud's of smoke after its long run, stopped as with exhaustion. Across the gridironed front of the engine there were stains of blood —the blood of a hero, if he was only a tramp. A tramp who has proven the truth of Bobbie Burns’ saying: “A man's a man for a’ that,” for he sacrificed his life to save that of a man who was nothing to him save that he was one of that sanle brotherhood of wanderers. Engineer Daly tells the story: “We were going along about twenty miles an hour, when I saw four rough-looking men ahead. I figured that we would pass the men on a little trestle, and I blew the whistle to warn them. They looked back, and lined up on the narrow embankment just the other side and the nearest within five feet of the trestle. I noticed that they were talking and lauglfing. Suddenly, when within ten feet of them, I saw one of them fall forward. I shoved the lever forward, but I knew I could not stop in time, and I shuddered. Then I saw one of the tramps —the two others had fallen backward into the ditch —spring out on the track. It was like a flash, and then I couldn’t see him, so close were we upon him. 'Then I saw a body thrown from the track, and I felt and heard the scrunch of bones under the wheels. Twenty yards further on we stopped, and I ran baek. A crushed and mangled body lay under the car —dead, I could see that. The reason the fellow fell? Why, the weight of the train shook the bank and it fell in, throwing one of them in front of jthe train and the others, except Dave, the man who was killed, into the ditch. Dave threw the other man off the track, but it cost him his life’.”

ONE VAST FIELD OF GOLD. Alaska Miner Says Untold Richca Are in the Yukon Valley. Postmaster General Gary has received a copy of the Alaska Mining Record of Juneau of Aug. 4, in which is an interesting sketch of the gold mining regions and advice to the incoming miners. The article says that the gold-bearing regions have never been fully prospected, but enough is known to demonstrate that it Is the richest gold-bearing belt on the globe. The valley of the Yukon and its tributaries constitutes, it says, one vast gold field, where scarcely a shovelful of earth can be found that will not show the color of the precious metal. But it also calls attention to the difficulties which lie in the path of those who come to seek for gold. “In the first place,” it says,, “whoever comes to Alaska must be prepared to support himself for at least two years. The development of the country is such that its present population is fully up to every industrial requirement. In the field of industrial labor, every position is tilled. The professions are fully represented'; the labor market is glutted. Artisan and mechanic find no opening here. Mining and prospecting alone remain open to the newcomer, and he must find his own field, and must be prepared for self-support until he has found it. He cannot depend on his own labor for support in any direction, for the field is fully occupied."

WORKERS OF THE CHURCH. The Young People’s Christian Union Meets at Indianapolis. An early morning prayer meeting in the capitol grounds opened the day’s proceedings of the Young People’s Christian Union of the United Presbyterian Church at Indianapolis. The weather was dear and cool and the attendance large. The subject, “Consecration,” was presented by Rev. J. D. Rankin, D. D., of Denver. At 9:30 a. in. the first session of the day was begun at Tomlinson Hall. After devotional exercises, the Rev. John A. Duff, general secretary, read his annual report. Next came the report of the junior work and award of the junior banner to the presbyteiy representing the largest increase in membership of junior societies. After the installation of the new officers a short song service was had, after which came the reception of J. S. Moffatt of Chester, S. C., chairman of the executive committee and synodical delegate associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The forenoon session was concluded by Rev. W. T. Meloy, D. D., of Chicago, who spoke on “The Ministry of Sympathy.”

WHEAT TAKES WINGS, Cereal Goes Soaring Around the Doilar Mark. At the opening on the Chicago Board of Trade Friday September wheat was 3% cents above Thursday's close and within a minute the price was 91 % cents. After another slump it rose to 93% cents without any material decline. December wheat also fluctuated, wildly. In New York September wheat sold up to 99, amid the shouts of a big crowd of spectators. The day in Philadelphia was the most exciting ever experienced in the history of the exchange. Quotations jumped up 4% cents and brought the price beyond the dollar mark. There were sales of No. 2 red at $1.02. This is the highest quotation there in many years. In Minneapolis wheat sold for $1 per bushel. McCord Claim Must Be Paid. Relations between this Government and Peru are badly strained, and it is within the range of possibilities, indeed, of probabilities, that it may become nAiessary for the United States to make a demonstration against the South American republic. If similar conditions existed between Spain and the United States to those that now exist between this country and Peru, we would be in the full enjoyment of a well-developed war scare. The trouble grows out of an attempt of the United States to collect a claim against Peru on behalf of Victor H. McCord, a citizen of Pennsylvania. This is a claim for $50,000, and as it has been aired in the newspapers there is no necessity of entering into a detailed history of the matter. Suffice it to say that the present administration has assumed the attitude of backing it and of enforcing its collection. Secretary Sherman several days ago sent an ultimatum to Peru through the representative of the Peruvian Government at Washington. No reply has yet been received to this communication, although c sufficient time has elapsed to have heard from Lima. The case is considered by the State Department as being one of peculiarly aggravated injustice against a citizen of the United States, and it is the purpose of the administration, as expressed by Secretary Sherman both orally and in official documents, to compel reparation. The Peruvian Government has nev«r offered anything but the flimsiest excuses for the wrong committed against McCord, and the justice’ of his claim, which is now ten years, old, has never been seriously disputed. He was simply held up and robbed -of a large sum of money by men who were then representing the revolutionary government, which was successful and is still in power.

Cracksman la Slain. As the result of a bold attempt to loot a bank in Canton, 0., one of the four robbers engaged in it lies dead. Three other men who were with him iu the attempt to erack a vault have escaped. The raid was the moat daring ever attempted in Canton and has aroused widespread interest from tbst the robbers selected the But*

Inga and Depoiit Bank as their prey, an invitation located but a few doors from the court house, and on a street where people pass at all times of day and night. The four men engaged in the job had planned their work with care. They played for a big stake and lost. The bank carries in cash from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. The money is kept in a vault which is solidly built from the cellar up. It was the cellar that had l>een selected as the place of attack, and the burglars were armed with explosives consisting of bombs of gas pipe and dynamite, nitroglycerin and dynamite; they had plenty of burglars’ tools and blankets to aid them in .their work, and had cut an electric wire to be used on the vault. All the tools were left behind. The robbers were foiled by Charles Hemminger, hired by several business men as night watchman. He was making his round of the bank building and was leaving the place by a rear stairway when he was fired upon. He drew his revolver and fired seven shots at his assailant. He brought down his man, while he escaped with a few bullet holes in his clothing. The groans of the wounded man and the sound of shots soon brought help for Hemminger. Three men were seen leaping over a gate eignt feet high, which opened from a court In the rear of the bank to an alley. They escaped. The wounded burglar died with closed mouth.

VITRIOL FOR HIS WIFE. Fensational Charges Against Doctor Ducker of Chicago. Sensational charges are made by his wife, Madalon, against Dr. James O. Ducker, one of the professors of the Post Graduate College and a member of the Chicago Medical Society. The wife charges the doctor with having employed Charles Hill to throw vitriol in her face because she refused to live with him. Mrs Ducker swore out warrants for her husband’s arrest before Justice Underwood nnd Ducker was arrested, but later was released on bonds of $3,500. Dueler and his wife have been separated since January last and a suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Ducker is pending. It is alleged by Mrs. Ducker that her husband made a bargain with a stranger named Hill, whereby the latter was to receive $lO for throwing the vitriol in her face. Hill called at the house of Dyke V. Keedy, 6334 Monroe avenue, where Mrs. Dueker is staying temporarily, with the intention of throwing the acid, but at the sight of her he broke down and confessed his part of the plot. Detectives were placed on the case and their investigation resulted in the arrest of the doctor.

FIVE CHILDREN DROWN. Accident nt Toronto, Ont., Caused by the Capsizing of n Float. Five children were drowned in the Toronto, Ont.,Jiarbor Sunday afternoon by the capsizing of a float. The bodies of three were recovered. The float was twelve feet long and six feet wide, and was made of rough timber and used for conveying workmen from the mainland at the foot of Cherry street to the breakwater, a distance of about 100 yards. The float is worked by chains attached to the bank on one side and the breakwater on the other side. Sunday afternoon thirtyone children, boys and girls, .ranging from 8 to 13 years of age, crowded on the raft intending to go bathing at the breakwater. Half way across the channel, where the water is very deep, the raft capsized, and all the children were thrown into the water. There were many boats in the neighborhood, and these were quickly at the scene of the accident. All of the children were rescued except five. Boom In Wheat Market. The wheat market in all parts of the world Wednesday was the center of interest. Reports of greater shortage in the old world than heretofore reported, and greatly decreased yield in Canada and this country, sent the price for September on the Chicago Board of Trade up 5 cents to 88*/i. The advance in St. Louis was 5% cents, and the same in San Francisco and New York. Cnn’t Go Without Grub. The miners at Skaguay have decided to allow no one to go over the White pass who has not at least 800 pounds of provisions. This action is taken to avoid the necessity of feeding the hungry in Dawson City during the winter. Heavy Cattle Shipment from Pierre. At Pierre, S. D., the first heavy cattle shipment of the season, thirty cars, started for the Chicago market Saturday evening. In the yards twenty steers sold for $53.57 each and 100 went at sls straight. There is a brisk demand.

Wreck a Train. Unknown persons deliberately wrecked an excursion train on the Chicago Transfer Terminal road near Riverside, Ind., by opening a switen. Several people were injured, but none fatally. Many Tired of Life. Another suicidal wave seems to have reached Chicago. During the first eighteen days of August twenty-four cases of suicide have been reported to the coroner. Gobbled by the Postal. The Postal Telegraph Company has secured control of the telegraph lines of the Mexican National and Mexican Central railways. Treasury Statement. Friday’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $221,064,626; gold reserve, $142,075,698.