Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — RUSH TO THE YUKON. [ARTICLE]

RUSH TO THE YUKON.

EASTERN EXODUS NOW WELL UNDER WAY. Saif a Dozen Steamships Are Out from New York City, Hurrying South—Going Around the Horn—Kansas Murderers Sentenced for Life. Going to the Eldorado. At least half a dozen steamships are Sow on the way from New York to the Yukon carrying gold seekers. A small fleet of sailing vessels has the same destination and the same class of passengers. Among the steamers well known in these waters now making long voyages around Cape Horn are the Cottage City and the BCuracao. formerly of the Maine Steamship line. whi< h were purchased by Senator Perkins of California ami associates, to form part of the fleet that the transportation company in which he is interested will operate between San Francisco or Seattle and St. Michael’s. The steamer Morgan City has been tilted in the Erie basin for a trip to Alaska and the Gloucester fishing schooner Nellie G. Thurston. whihc left New Y rk in I tuber, is now —or should.be —in the South Pacific. She.has fifteen passengers. The brigantine Harriett <J., another Klondike vessel, is on her way around the Horn with about fifty gold seekers. The steamer City of Columbia, w hich left New York on Dec. 17, has fifty voyagers, including twenty-five women. The steamer Blixham departed for Seattle a few days ago. She carried no passengers, but lists sieeommodatior.s for 2GO who will join the vessel at Seattle. The vessels still in port fitting for the trip to Alaska include the bark Agate, with staterooms for 120 passengers. the steamer South Portland and the little pilot boat Actea. The latter will take a party of ten. including three venturesome women, who declare they prefer the little pilot boat to .the largest steamer.

PROVESA FALSE FRIEN3. Missouri Farmer Loses His Wife Through the Man He Trusted. Up to a few days ago Itichard Conway and Nicholas Willard were cellmates in the Gasconade County jail at Herrmann, Mo. They liked each other and unfolded little schemes and confidences to each other frequently. Willard especially liked to talk, and his principal topic of conversation was his wife. Conway accepted a cordial invitation to visit the Willard farmhouse when the owner should have served his time. Conway was released ten days ago. Willard became a free man a week later. His release came in the form of a pardon based on information of a wife's infidelity and a friend's treachery. Conway had visited the Willard home as soon as he was released and had found Mrs. Willard all that her fond husband had said. He prevailed upon her to go with him. They left three small children, not the woman's, in the house without protection. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Dobbs and Mrs. New Sentenced for Murdering Latter's Husband. George H. Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia New, recently convicted at Eureka, Kan., of the murder of Mrs. New’s husband, have been sentenced to life imprisonment. When arraigned for sentence Dobbs stoutly protested his innocence. Mrs. New made no statement. At the conclusion of the trial and while the jury was deliberating upon the case she broke down and acknowledged the murder of her husband by herself and Dobbs. Later she denied this alleged confession. Joseph New was mysteriously murdered last October. A few days later Dobbs went to live with Mrs. New. To Break Satisser Will. The trial to break the will of Sausser of Hannibal, Mo., who died and left his fortune, about $150,000, to the Westminster Presbyterian College of Fulton, Mo., has been begun in the court of common pleas. The deceased had no children, and provided for his wife with an annuity of $2,500. William H. Marquis, president of the college, was named as administrator. The only relatives who survive the deceased are Eugene Riggin and Mrs. Isabella Thornton of Los Angeles. Cal., children of a half-brother. They brought the present suit against the trustees of the Westminster College for the purpose of breaking the will.

Thrown Into Icy Rapids. Two men assaulted Health Inspector Charles Leverenz of North Tonawanda, N. Y., beat him with sandbags and threw him over a parapet into the rapids of Tonawanda creek. The water was full of churnit* ice floes and Leverenz was terribly bruised and cut, but he managed to lay hold of the anchor chains of a schooner below the rapids and was rescued. Canada Loses Her Trade. Strong pressure is being brought to bear upon the Canadian Government to close the Dyea and Skaguay passes to Americans altogether. The regulations enforced by the United States Government on Canadian goods going through the disputed territory is killing Canadian trade, and the coast towns of Victoria and Vancouver are suffering. McComas Is Elected. At Annapolis, Md., Louis E. McComas was elected United States Senator, to succeed Arthur P. Gorman, one the tenth ballot. To Make Silk in America. Duplan & Co., silk manufacturers of Lyons, France, propose to establish a branch plant at South Bethlehem, Pa. Poker Players Expelled. Poker playing has got several theological students into trouble. President Jeffers of the Western Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Pittsburg has expelled three students, suspended seven for a definite period and censured several others for this pernicious practice.

National Bank of Paola Suspends. The National Bank of Paola, Kan., suspended business. No statement of assets or liabilities is made, but it is stated that the deposits, which are small, will be paid in full. Fire at Randsburg, Cal. Fire broke out in a vacant building in Randsburg, Cal., and spread so rapidly that more than thirty structures were consumed within one hour. Everything was swept clean on both sides of Rand street. This included the postofflee and some of the largest stores in the camp Fishermen in Peril. One hundred fishermen's huts on the ice in Lake Erie, off Put-ia-Bay, were swept away in the late gale. Two hundred men, women and children narrowly escaped drowning by the ice breaking up and carrying them out into the lake and Iff the huts catching fire.