Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — SURVIVES THE SLIDE. [ARTICLE]

SURVIVES THE SLIDE.

>jA. klondiker buried under SNOW FOR TEN HOURS. Fred Boat of Lima, 0., Returns and Relates the Story of His Chicago Partner’s Death-Ohio Crop Prospects Below the Average* ’" Ah Alaska Experience. Fred Host of lima, Ohio, Has returned ’ from the Klondike m a serious condition, ■ the result of being buried In a enowslide with twenty other mindts,* 'several of ■'" whom were killed. Rost left last faß and reached Pillea river in March. His 'partners were Arthur and Joseph LaXejdnne of Chicago. They staked several claims and have found a large deposit. Ifeing ont of wood, they went to a mountain and were cutting timber, when an avalanche swept upon them, burying, them end sevf i enteen other miners, who had claim# pear f them, but whose tames Rost did not know. Arthur LaLadune was taken; out ' crushed to death. Rost had -three iribs broken and a leg mashed. Ten others were killed. Rost was buried. for! ten hours-before the rescuing party dug him out. He thinks many were not found at all. He came home as soon as be was able to leave Dyea, where the injured >, were taken. He brought the body of t«aLadupe as far as Chicago with him. <> » CAMP VISITOR 18 KILLED, jf IHI * *" One Man Loses His Life in the of an Excursion Train. m 1 An I 'excursion train op the Cleveland, Columbus and Akron Railroad, containing thirteen coaches and carrying 850 visitors to Cemp Rushnell at Columbu#, Ohio, left the tracks shortly after entering the city limits, and the engine and three cars were badly wrecked, one passenger was killed and many wounded, six seriously. The road enters the city over the Panhandle tracks, and soon af- < ter the train passed upon these tracks a 1 faulty switch was struck which derailed • the engine. It fell over on its, side and carried the three cars immediately In the rear with it. The train was rtmnlng at the rate of twenty miles an hour at the the passenger cars were thrown crosswise the track and on their sides. Freight cars standing on tracks by the side of the track on which the wrecked train was running were also badly wrecked. •' t ‘ "‘,j , . FAR BELOW AVERAGE. Figures Shewing the Present Condition of Ohio Crops. The Ohio crops report shows a condition better than that of a month ago, but the crops will be far below the average. The crop, figures are: Wheat, condition Compared with an average, 75 per cent. Barley, area sown as compared with last year, 87 per cent Rye, condition compared with fin average, 78 per cent Oats, acreage compared with last year, 89 per cent. Clover, average date of sowing March 20, average compared with last year, 100 per cent. Horses, losses during winter and spring, 2 per cent; cattle, 1 per cent; sheep, 3 per cent; hogs, 3 per cent. Berries, prospects compared with an average, 90 per cent.

National League Standing. Following is the standing of the dnbs in the National Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore ... 9 2 Pittsburg .... 8 9 Cincinnati ..12 4 New York... 7 8 Cleveland ...12 0 Philadelphia , 6 7 Brooklyn ... 9 5 St. Louis .... 4 10 Chicago .... 9 6 Louisville ... 5 15 Bostbh .... k 9 9 Washington . 8 12 Following is the standing of the dubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. St. Paul . .*. .•fS 2 Milwaukee ..6 10 Indianapolis .12 2 Minneapolis .. 5 10 Columbus ... 9 4 Omaha 4 12 Kansas City. 8 8 Detroit ...... 2 13 More Spanish Deviltry. The powder magazines at Indian Head, Md., the Government’s gun testing grounds at an isolated point on the Potomac river, narrowly escaped destruction by the proximity of a fire started supposedly by Spanish spies. For several hours thousands of cords of wood owned by the Government was ablaze, and the officers and men at the proving grounds risked their lives in fighting the fire to save the magazines. Shot at a Baptism. At Almy, Tenn., a large crowd had assembled to witness a baptism, when Jerry West and Reuben Phillips engaged in an altercation. West pulled his pistol and began shooting at Phillips, who returned the fire. Several shots were fired and both men fell mortally wounded. Summer Resort Destroyed. Over 100 cottages at Scandaga Park, N. Y., a popular summer resort, have been destroyed by lire, probably of incendiary origin. The cottages were all frame structures, built close together. No estimate of the losses is yet available. He Will Succeed Roosevelt. President McKinley has sent to the Senate the appointment of Charles H. Allen, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy to succeed Theodore Roosevelt, who has resigned to take a command in the army. Claims 200,000 Acres. Frank V. Salazar, an Oakland, Cal., blootblack, is claimant for 200,000 acres of land In the State of Sonora, Mexico. His title, he asserts, is based upon government patents issued to his grandfather. Addison Hills Dead. Addison Hills, assistant to the president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, of pneumonia, aged 91 years. Mr. Hills was probably the oldest railroad man in active service in the United States. Wife Entitled to Half. The Supreme Court of Kansas has de* cided that If a wife, even if not properly a wife, aids her husband to acquire property she is entitled to an equal division of such property on separation. Farmers Fight to Death. Peter Schucher of Venango township, Pa., shot and fatally wounded two men,George Henderson, pathmaster, and Edward Skinner, and then committed suicide. The shooting was caused by a* dispute over cutting down a ditch in front of the murderer’s property. All are wellknown and the two former wealthy farmers. . r ; • -CM •V * f Dying Militiaman Identified. A man in State militia uniform, found wounded pfld, probably dying near the railroad tracks several miles from Lincoln, Neb., has been identified as Calvin Hopper, a private in Company I, who, it is charged, deserted Gamp Saunders. There are two bad wounds op the bead. Given Up as Lost. The American bark Forest Queen, Captain Beasley, from Tacoma, Wash., No tidings has been obtained of the March 6, has been given up as lost. She was loaded with lumber from San Pedro, schooner Alyton, which sailed from there nearly two mdtrth£ ago for Copper River, Recognizes Its Women. The board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has decided to offer undergraduate courses for women in every way equal to those now open to men, and which are to lead to the same degree now fivea to the latter student#,

TWO CHILDREN DEAD. Insane Deed of a ifther Wto Jeal- ' onsy of His Wife. Jacob Gramm, a small shopkeeper, 50 years old, living in Morton street, New York, murdered two of his children, mortally wounded a third and inflicted fatal wounds on himself. The children are Ella, aged 5 years; John, 7 years, and a baby, Frank, 1% years of age. Ella and Frank are dead. During the absence of hia wife, whom he had sent to hunt for a new flat, Gramm told a neighbor woman, who had been left in charge of the children, that he would take them upstairs and put them to sleep. Gramm’s son Edward returned from school at 3 o’clock and Was sent to awaken his father and the children. The chamber door waa fastened and he climbed the fire escape, discovering the butchery through a window. Gramm lay on the floor and the three children upon a bed. The children had been frightfully slashed with an ax. Their father had used a bread knife to gash his throat. A note found beneath the bloody ax, written by Gramm, indicated that his act was caused by jealousy of bis wife. Those knowing him stdte that he was temporarily geranged by iptense suffering from rheumatism. OMAHA’S MAYOR IS OUT. Referee Appointed by the Supreme Court Rales Against Moores. Omaha’s sensational mayoralty contest is concluded, the referee appointed by the Supreme Court to hear the testimony deciding against the present Mayor, Frank E. Moores. A year ago the Omaha charter was changed and at the election following Moores was elected Mayor. W. J. Broatch, who had been legislated out of the-Mayor’s office, was.a candidate in the convention which nominated Moores. Broatch refused to surrender the office when Moores was elected, alleging that Moores was short as district court clerk, which office he had recently vacated, and, as the statutes forbid any man short in his accounts holding public office in Nebraska, Broatch claimed he would hold until his successor could qualify. The courts ordered the office surrendered to Moores. Broatch surrendered, but appealed to the Supreme Court. That body appointed a referee, to take, to B #' mony on the subject- of Mayor M&or6’s > alleged shortage! The referee’s report found fifty-one cases against Moores. This decision must be reviewed by the court before it is final. Moores is one of Omaha’s most prominent citizens. SPANISH -SPY ON fcT. PAUL. Seen Near a Magazine by a GuardOverpowered After a Fight. The report that a supposed Spanish spy had been captured aboard the military cruiser St. Paul at Cramp’s shipyard,: Philadelphia, is confirmed. Who the man is Capt. Sigsbee refuses to tell, and all that is known of him is that his father is a Spaniard and that his mother was born on Cuban soil.' The suspect enlisted some days ago as an oiler, and almost from the time of his enlistment was under suspicion on account of his peculiar actions. A marine who was on watch below decks near the powder magazine discovered the man acting in a suspicious way around the magazine. The marine lost no time in bringing the man to ground, and a short and severe fight followed. The guard overpowered him, but not before the suspect had received a great gash on the right side of his face. He was taken before Capt. Sigsbee for examination, and the captain committed him to the “brig” for the night. A thorough investigation is being made.

Sold Documents and Information. The Russian “Dreyfus” trial which has just closed in St. Petersburg, continues to agitate the Government, and further Sensational developments are expected as i result of the rigid inquiries being made by the imperial police. The principals convicted have already been removed to Siberia, where, according to their sentence, they are to remain for life. There Were nine prisoners, including one young vj-oman, and the crime with which they Were charged was the selling of military documents and information concerning tlje defense of the empire to alleged agents of the Austrian Government. The two principals accused were a privy councilor aid his young daughter. Both of these wjere sent to the remotest parts of Siberia feir life.. The others involved in', the conspiracy, including a number of minor attaches of the imperial ariny, were all. deprived of their civil rights and military ranks and condemned to servitude in Siberia for terms ranging from ten to twen-ty-five years. The severity of the penalties is causing much comment, especially as the evidence against the young woman and her father,‘convicted as principals, was regarded as of little weight Cattle Are Thriving. William Penn Anderson, cattle statistician for the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company of Chicago, has just returned to Salt Lake City, the intermountain center of the range cattle trade. Mr. Anderson said: “During the past thirty days I have visited the State associations and ‘round-up’ cattle conventions of Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Utah. At these gatherings I have met and conversed with the owners and range riders covering the entire range country mentioned. The concurrent information thus obtained gives conclusive evidence that never before in the history of range cattle business of the part of the Northwest described has there been a more favorable winter in the open range grazers. There were no severe weather losses to record; cattlje came through strong and thrifty. The trade in general, as usual at this time of the year, is moving from south to north and California and Nevada east without serious interruption. A perfect system for the removal of even a suspicion of contagion has been established at Salt Lake City, representing Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and Utah sanitary boards.”

“ c henandoah” at McVicker’s Theater. The announcement that Jacob Lift is to begin his career as manager of McVicker’s Theater, Ghieago, with the finest production of “Shenandoah” ever given in this country is borne out by the 'austatement that Mr. Otis Skinner, the well-kpown bee* est 1 ’ gaged the leading role,-i Great prepara tiOHs have been made,,for the atot traction by Mahdiger'Litt. dred people and fifty' horses” will be em- t ployed on the stage,- and the presents-, tion will--excejo’in scenic ■'splendor any-' thing ever .before (attempted, u The cailt is also a ope. The present WA'f excitement males the production- of this great war pltty at this time especial ly.ap.' propriate^ oo ' 1 “ a 7 -- i jr _ ijugotrii -»•*-> Snicide ot MoWte! Ca mpi U 1 Lieut. CJ. of Compari^G; 1 Twentieth 1 Infantry, shot hipisejf.through the head hhYtH a revolverat, Spring. Hill Gamp, Mbbild, !, Aia. He died, He was and aespopdent ovter not' being ordered trf Gubh. 1 Lieut, HilT was .a, ,Hastne of Muscatihe, ldwa, ( ond was 4L.yeai?&jpf agej m I : ' ,;t ‘ * -rp ■r-nf~Jo> f- 'Uft ViH&k& Is Wrecked. The town of Mobeetie, Tex., was almost totally destroyed by a cyclone. Pour persons were killed and three fatally injured. Fifteen were pgipfully injured. AlTfcduri-’' ty buildings were wrecked. The (property •lbss is $35,W0.‘ The tow*q-is the countyseat of Wheefdr County and .hap 4 population of 200. ; u , u ■ lfi Sl « Verdict of Not Gullityt J W i At Montpcjier, itt -thetMiP 5 -dVed Brewster piurder .trial < returned k"> verdict, finding the dgfendajfji pa,t jpiiMy) by reason was charged-"W-ith hiring killed, Wheeler, of’. Whbm 'whs lealcms, nearMontpelier, -Mayo29, 4g97. ■ , CanniJ^i^*n]Anatr*llW. Qi/ ' 3 * A terribile story of cannibalism is reported from New Guinea. Fourteen escaped prisoners from Manamana attacked a friendly village, killing and eating eighteen men. Settles Arkansas Debt. The closing act in the much-discussed debt setttefpeßt compromise between the

to pay the United States *572, the amount called for in the* Mil recently passed by Congress. As soon as the Government transfers to the Auditor aU Arkansas securities now held by it, excepting the |160,000 which the Government is to retain, the Auditor is authorized to pay over the $572. The securities to be turned over to the State amount to a little over $2,000,000. Gov. Jones voted no and filed a protest against the acceptance of the settlement. . The paotest is similar to the veto message he s *®® with the Legislature, when thewneasfif Jessed that body last winter over hi# abiedtions. Auditor Sloan, SecretarJl of iStwtw Hull and Treasurer Gully voted in the affirmative. THREE MINERS KILLED. Two Fatal Accidents in the Same Mine in a Week. The Halstead mine at Duryea, Pa., which caved in the other day, and in which two men were entombed, wap she .seen# of another dreadful accident dn which three met wiora horrible death. Owing to the cave-ln the mine had been twisted out of shape and it was impossible to use tbe cage. A corps of men were at work putting down guides to the line of the shaft. About twenty feet down there were men on a temporary platform to whom the guides were lowered. Two men at the head attached a heavy guide, a timber about a foot square and twenty feet long, to a rope and began to gradually lower it, when suddenly the timber slipped and struck the platform with great force, smashing it and precipitating the men down the mine, a distance ofSdO ffTet. The mine was entered through an opening a half mile distant and the bodies of the men, crushed almost beyond recognition, were brought To the surface. The men were John Monaghan, John Titns and Stephen Jenkins. The latter leaves a wife and several children. BIG BLAZE IN CLEVELAND. Six-Story Building Burns—Loss About $125,000. 1 'The brick block at the corner of Bank and Lake streets, Cleveland, was gutted by fire. The northern half of the building waa owned by the Bradley estate and the southern portion by the Root & Mcßride Company, wholesale dry goods. The fire was confined to the former, but the stock of the Root & Mcßride Company was damaged by water and .smoke. The total loss will to aboait-$125,000, fairly well covered, by ,insurance. u The site reJ suited from an. explosion of chemicals In Beeman’e chewing gum factory on the, fifth floor of the Bradley end of the building. , . i i >'• 5 “ ’ ; —; ~ - j * s ' Mimic Battle Causes Death., , As a result of a mimic battle between the JJnited States and Spain by American and Polish boys from JL2 to l 6 years of age in Canton, W. Va., a day or two ago, John Keprofsky is dead and eleven youngsters are locked up on the charge of causing his death. The boys organized two forces, the Poles, representing Spain, in charge of a fortress., Keprofsky wk# sent out to reconnoiter.. He was called dppn by the storming party to surrender, but refused, and, was shot in the abdomen by one of the Americari boys. Lives with Broken Neck. Charles Look of Sandy Hook is in the Danbury, Conn.', hospital with a broken neck. He, has . been living- -more -than ‘ft week in that condition. He can breathe and talk, but below his neck he is completely paralyzed and practically dead. His head is placed in a frame and held by a weight. Although his injury is such as to make his case hopeless, there seems to be no immediate danger of his death. Missionaries in Trouble. A dispatch from Free Town, Sierra Leone, West Coast of Africa, says: The rebellion which grew out of -the dissatisfaction of the natives with the hut tax has spread to Shongay,<in the Sherboro district. The headquarters of the American missionaries have been burned by the insurgents. A detachment of police has been sent to the assistance Of the members of the mission. Brazil Refuses Reciprocity. Congress was opened at Rio Janeiro with the reading of the message of the president, Gen. Campos Salles. The message said the president had refused to renew the reciprocity treaty with the United States, though the Government of the United States had asked for its renewal, on account of the great loss in receipts which was recorded during the year 1897. Shoe Factories Burned. Two Cincinnati shoe factories belonging to Wolf Bros, and the Manss Shoe Manufacturing Company were burned out by a mysterious fire. The loss on stock by each firm was about $50,000. The damage to the building is estimated at $20,000. Noted Indian Tries to Die. Chaska, the Santee Indian who, ten years ago, married Cora Belle Fellows, a Washington girl, cut his throat in jail at Niobrara, Neb., while awaiting trial for harness stealing. He cannot recover. His wife left Chaska-several years ago. To Suppress Wheat Duties. The court of agriculture at Paris has decided to favor the suppression of wheat duties at French ports until July 1. The premier, Mr. Meline, will submif the Council’s decision to the cabinet, which is expected to adopt it immediately. Kansas Silver Republicans. The free silver Republican State committee of Kansas has issued a call for the State convention, to nominate a State ticket, for June 15. Death of Prince Konng. Prince Koung, president of the Tsung-li-Yamen, or Chinese foreign office, died at Pekin. 1 '