Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1898 — BOTH DUELISTS DEAD [ARTICLE]

BOTH DUELISTS DEAD

tragedy at a Sunday school CONVENTION. ,flfwo Tennessee Young Men Vent Their Jealous? in Fatal Revolver Shots— Anniversary of President Sam's Election Celebrated in Hayti. Kill Each Other. In an informal duel at Almy, Tenn., Rube Phillips and Orusoe West shot and killed each other. They had been rivals for the affections of a young woman named Sarah Sampson for several months and threats of a violent nature had been made. The annual meeting of the Scott County Sunday school convention opened at that place. The presence of Miss Sampson attracted both men and at an adjournment each tried to accompany her to her boarding house. The old rivalry was revived ana both men began shooting, after notifying each other what to expect. While Miss Sampson was pleading for peace West opened fire on Phillips’ feet. The latter, who bad tried to avoid trouble, put his pistol over his shoulder and, without looking back, fired. West fell dead, shot through the head. Just be- . fore falling West shot Phillips twice through the back, inflicting wounds from which he died in half an hour. Jack West, an eye-witness to the fight, and Miss Sampson were each wounded. The murders did not cause unusual excitement, as two men had been killed near the same place in a similar manner within thirty days. EXPRESS CAR IS ROBBED. Alabama Great Southern Passenger Train Held Up by Five Men. The north-bound Alabama Great Southern passenger train was held up by a gang of bandits at Cuba, Miss., and the express car was robbed of all the money in the safe. Cuba is a small station in the woods. When the train stopped for water four or five masked men entered the express car and demanded the keys to the safe. The express messenger pluckily refused to give them up, whereupon the safe was rolled out of the door and dumped down the steep embankment. The train was pulled to the nearest station and officers were telegraphed for, who arrived on the scene a few hours later. The safe was found blown open, and the contents—s Boo—taken, but some valuable packages were left untouched. The bandits have not been captured. SINK WITH THEIR VESSEL. Twelve Men on British Steamer Benholm Drowned in Collision. The Norwegian steamer Klondike, from Antwerp, was docked at Liverpool with her bow bodly damaged. The captain of the Klondike reports that off Port Lynas, on the northern coast of Wales, his vessel was in collision with the British steamer Benholm, bound for Cardiff. The captain further says the Benholm was so badly damaged she soon foundered and twelve of her crew, including the master, went down with her. Nine of those on board the Benholm were rescued and taken to Liverpool on board the Klondike. Bt*nd!ng of ths Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs iu the National Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..17 4 Chicago 10 10 Cleveland ...16 BBrooklyn .... 9 9 Boston 14 9 Pittsburg ...11 11 New Y0rk...11 8 St. Louis 6 14 Baltimore ... 9 7 Louisville ... 6 19 Philadelphia.. 9 8 Washington.. 4 15 Following is the standing of the clnbs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. St. Paul 19 4 Milwaukee... 8 14 Indianapolis. 16 4 Minneapolis.. 7 14 Columbus ...11 8 Omaha 5 15 Kansas City. 11 9 Detroit 5 16 James J. Hill Aide a College. The $36,000 of indebtedness of Hamline University at St. Paul, Minn., has been lifted. The institution has been carrying a mortgage of this amount for some time. James J. Hill offered to give $20,000, toward paying the debt if the university, would raise the remainder. President Bridgeman raised the amount among St. Paul and Minneapolis business men.

Remenyi Falla Dead. Remenyi, the violinist, died on the stage at the Orpheum Vaudeville Theater, at San Francisco, Cal. Remenyi, in response to a second encore, had just drawn a few sweet notes from his violin, when he suddenly reeled and then pitched down and forward almost over the footlights. Within twenty minutes he was dead. New Train in a Collision. A St. Paul train, just out of the shops and on its way to Chicago, to run on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, was wrecked near Middletown, 0., in collision with a switch engine. The fireman on St. Paul engine was slightly injured and one car was badly damaged. Monnt .Etna Is Awakening* Many houses in the villages of Biancavilla and Bemposso, on the slopes of Mount Aetna, Sicily, were wrecked by an earthquake. The most violent shock was felt southward from Aetna for thirty miles. Electric Eight Works Destroyed. The plant of the Mitchell, S. D., electrio light company was destroyed by a fire originating in the engine room. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. Dies in a Woman's Arms. Lewis R. Clifton, a prominent citizen of Lucerne, Mo., clasped Miss Cora Miller about the waist and shot himself dead because she would not make up a quarrel. Miss Miller was afterward found standing in the center of the room holding Clifton’s dead body in her arms. Saw Mill and Lumber Destroyed. A terrible fire raged around the village of Rosseau, Minn,, and it took all the people there to save the village. The sawmill is in ruins, and thousands of feet «f lumber were burned. Live-Stock Growers Organize. The first annual convention of the Missouri Live Stock Growers’ Association met at St. Joseph and effected a permanent organization, electing officers as follows: H. Duncan, Osborn, Mo., president; C. E. Thornton, St. Joseph, secretary. Mrs. Burnett Is Divorced. Judge Hagner at Washington, D. C., signed a decree granting Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist, a divorce from Dr. Swan M. Burnett, a well-known oculist of that city. She is permitted to resume her maiden name of Hodgson. Hands Off in Corea. The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes the protocol signed at Tokio April 26, by which Russia and Japan pledge themselves to abstain from interference in the internal affairs of Corea. Ping Tobacco Trust. A big plug tobacco combine has been perfected in New York. The new company has a capital of $60,000,060, and absorbs the business of Lorillard & Co. and P. J. Sorg & Co. King's Assassins Executed. Dispatches received in London from Athens say Kerditza and Georgeus, the men who attempted to assassinate the King of Greece in thaUcity Feb. 26 last, kgve been executed.

HITS THE DISPENSARY LAW. Sooth Carolina's New Liquor Enactment Is Partly Overthrown. In the United States Supreme Court the South Carolina liquor law is the subject of a decision handed dovkn by Justice White. The State dispensary law haying been amended since the recent decisions holding it invalid, this decision deals wijth the new law. This law attempted to eliminate the feature of the old law discriminating against other States in the shipment of liquor to individuals for their own use io South Carolina, but while this inhibition was eliminated and the privilege restored in the new law, it was coupled with conditions of-inspection which it was claimed still amounted to discrimination. The court in this decision accepted this view of the case, holding that the inspection provision of the law was tantamount to a denial of the rights of interstate commerce, and therefore antagonistic to the constitution of the United States. EXPLOBION KILLS THREE. Workmen' Burned by Igniting Gas In in New Cleveland Water Tunnel. At Cleveland, 0., ten n»n were injured by an explosion of gas in the new water works tunnel under the lake. The diggers were 0,300 feet from shore. The explosion was caused by one of the men who struck a match to light his pipe. Instantly there was a blinding flash of flame and a terrific roar, filling the tunnel with smoke and bliuding the diggers. Three workmen were so badly injured that they died later, and six others were badly hurt. An alarm was at once sent to the power house on shore and a relief expedition was organized among other workmen for the rescue of their comrades. Blackened, blinded and stunned, the injured men were carefully transported to the shaft and thence conveyed by ambulances to hospitals.

WOOL WAREHOUSE BURNED. Fire at Ballardvaje, Mass , Causes a Loss of Half a Million. Fearing a bombardment of the port of Boston by the Spanish, a big wool concern recently leased the idle Ballardvale mills of the Craighead & Kuertz Company in Andover, thirty miles inland, and filled them with wool. Roofers were engaged in patching the roof when sparks from their stoves set fire to the roof and in four hours’ time the extensive plant was in ruins. Five car loads of wool on a switch track near the factory was also burned. The loss' on the buildings is $200,000, on wool stored $300,000 and on wool on the cars $50,000. The owners of the ivool were Dennis Brothers & Lovejoy of Boston. Insurance of $300,000 on the wool and SIOO,OOO on the buildings. EFFECT ON ORE PRICES. War Makes but Little Difference to Iron Miners, Chairman H. H. Porter of the Minnesota Iron Company returned to Chicago, after a trip of inspection. He said the only marked effect of the war on thfe ore market might be favorable, caused by a demand for armor for ironclads. Mr. Porter said the effect of the movement for lower ore carrying rates from the mines had been to cancel Duluth and iron range plans for $300,000 worth of improvements, and that other plans would be set aside. The effect of lower freights, he said, would inevitably be to cheapen the cost at the furnace by that much, and not benefit mine owners. HAVEMEYER’S SON A SUICIDE. Shoots Himself at His Home in Roslyn, L. I. Charles F. Havemeyer, son of the late Theodore Havemeyer, committed suicide at his home in Koslyn, L. I. He shot himself through the brain. Mr. Havemeyer was 35 years of age. He leaves a wife nnd two children. No motive for the suicidal act is known. Mr. Havemeyer had been to New York during the day and had seen several friends. Shortly before the shooting he had been playing with his boy, apparently in his usual good spirits. There had been nothing in his manner that would lead to a suspicion that his act was premeditated.

The Stronger Survives. Two 5-year-old children, Ariel Fri/e and Bertrand Davis, of Allston, near Boston, Mass., who disappeared several days ago, were found in a closet of an unoccupied house near their homes. The girl’s body was still warm, but life was extinct. The boy was able to give a rambling account of their adventure. His condition is critical, but he will probably recover. Since their disappearance relatives, friends of the family and the police have scoured the country for trace of the little ones, but without avail. An uncle of the little girl kept up the search. An unoccupied house within a stone’s throw of pretty little Ariel’s home attracted his attention. Raising an unlocked window on the ground floor, he entered. The stifled cry of a :hild struck his ear. He rushed to the •ellar, but the cries then seemed to come from the floor above. Finally he located the sound in the kitchen. A close examination revealed a panel in the wall of the cupboard. The panel was fastened by a snap clasp on the outside., The wood, however, was swollen and he could not open the door. In answer to his call he heard the boy say: “Come, Ariel, wake up, they have come for us.” Borrowing an ax from a neighbor and calling the boy’s father, he returned. The door w;as pried open and the little fellow staggered out into the light. The uncle pulled out the body of the girl. The little one’s face was bloody and bruised, as was her body, telling the story of an awful struggle for existence, in which the boy, being the * stronger, had conquered in the battle for a position next the slight crack under the door through which the only breath of air could reach them. All efforts to resuscitate the girl were without avail. Former Chicagoan in Trouble. Perry, O. T., society was shocked by the arrest of Captain J. A. Apperson of Denver, Colo. Apperson went to Perry ten days ago and was married to Miss Collie Fife, one of the most prominent women of Perry. Later a telegram was received from Denver ordering his arrest on a charge of bigamy. His wife in Chicago is going to prosecute him. Apperson was at one time a prominent railroad man in Chicago, in which city he has a son and daughter. Hurled Down a Shaft. Three men were killed, another fatally hurt and four others dangerously, injured at the mines of the Thackers Coal Company at Parkersburg, W. Va., by the breaking away of a car on which were ten men. The car broke away from the tipple at the mine shaft and landed with a crash at the foot of the shaft, 300 yards away. Confederate Decoration Day. Chattanooga, Tenn., observed Confederate Decoration Day. The graves of 0,000 Confederate dead were strewn with flowers in the presence of thousands of citizens. In the crowd were many United States army officers. They stood with uncovered heads during the exercises. Coal Breaker Barns. The Riverside breaker in Archborough, Pa., was destroyed by fire. It was operated by the Ontario and Western Railway Bompany. Several men were in the shaft, but they got out safely. The loss is estimated at $75,000 and the origin of the fire is unknown. Whipped by a Sheriff. Henry Bishop, a diminutive negro boy, arraigned in the police court at Norfolk, Va., charged with driving off with a milk wagon and stealing a sls pistol, a $9 overcoat, 40 cents in cash and four gallons of milk, was discharged with a thrashing. Canniff Is Chosen. Through William K. Vanderbilt’s personal selection William Henry Canniff, general manager of the Lake Shore road, has been appointed president of the “Nickel Plate” Railroad. Increase in Price of Bread. The operations of the speculators in wheat are now being felt by the poor people of- the country. Flour now cost* SB,

$8.50 and $8.75 a barrel, nearly double the price of two months ago. An Investigation shows that were it not for the foresight of the bakers, who bought wheat when its prices were far less, bread would be almostdf not entirely beyond the reach of the poor. As it is, the increase in the price of bread is a matter of concern for those who mast be careful of their pennies. The four-cent pound loaf, which was sold by bakers irf the tenement districts of New York City, now costs fixe cents, and weighs from one to two ounces less. Whole wheat bread has been advanced 00 per cent, which means that the former five-cent loaf is now eight cents. The wholesale bakers, who make probably four-fifths of the bread used in New York, have increased the weight of the five-cent loaf by two ounces, the eightcent loaf by three ounces, and the ten-cent loaf by four ounces. This .is, equal to an advance of about three-quarters of a cent a loaf. The farmers, who are now receiving for their wheat the best prices for ten or more years, are not inclined to deprecate the rise.

WESTERN LABOR UNION. New Organization la Formed at Sait Lake City, Utah. The Western Labor Union was bom in Salt Lake, Utah, when the report of the resolutions committee was adopted by the labor conference by an overwhelming majority. The union has for its object “the unification into one organization of all labor anions and assemblies west of the Mississippi river, others not included within this territory who desire to affiliate with the union, and to organize all the wage-earners within their lines wherever possible, to promote the interests of labor by unceasingly working for the establishment of the initiative and referendum in every department of the government.” Officers were elected as follows: President, D. McDonald, Butte, Mont.; secretary and treasurer, M. J. O’Donnell, Victor, Colo.; vice-president, B. Harbour, Salt Lake, Utah; second vice-president, M. MePhee, Colorado Springs.

DYNAMITE IN THE COAL. Discovery Made in Fuel Originally In* tended for the Government. While unloading a car of coal at one of the glass factories In S-ilem, N. J., the workmen discovered a large can of dynamite. It was at first supposed that it had been left in the coal by miners by a mistake, but those who are in a position to know say it is not the kind of material used in blasting at the mines. An investigation has developed the fact that the lot of coal from which this can was taken was purchased by the Government, but was not used at once, and the coal companies bought it back for use in filling rush orders. There is a strong suspicion that the placing of the dynamite in the coal was the work of Spanish spies at the mines. This is the second can of dynamite that has been discovered at the factory. _ Wellman Off for Norway. One of the passengers on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, which sailed the other day, was Walter Wellman of Chicago, the Arctic explorer, who will soon make another attempt to reach the north pole. Mr. Wellman expects to meet on June 15, at Tromsoe, Norway, the other members of the exploration party. These include Lieut. 13. B. Baldwin of the United States weather bureau, who was the meterologist of the last Peary expedition; Dr* Edward Hos man of Grand Haven, Mich.; Prof. James H. Gore of Columbian University, Washington, D. C., and Querof Harlan of the United States coast survey. Equipped with helpers, dogs, sledges, provisions, etc., the party will sail on June 20 on the ice steamboat Fridtjof. According to Mr. Wellman’s plans, a supply station will be established near Cape Flora, and the winter will be passed in huts between parallels 82 and 83. The 500-mile journey over the ice to the north pole will be begun about Feb. 10. The party hopes to be able to determine the fate of Andre and his balloon.

Big Chicago Elevator Burned. Nearly 6,000,000 feet of lumber, over a million bushels of grain and P. D. Armour’s mammoth Elevator D in Chicago were wiped out of existence by fire inside of an hour, while fifty fire engines and hundreds of firemen had all they could do to keep the flames from spreading to the whole Chicago lumber district. There were no accidents to life or limb. The total loss was estimated at $981,540, of which the insurance companies will have to bear at least three-fourths. Wheat Prospect in Oklahoma. In Oklahoma wheat is now heading and the stand is* perfect. Last season the wheat counties of the territory made from twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre. Wheat experts say the average yield per acre will be mhch better this year. The total crop for Oklahoma last year was over 20,000,000 bushels. Absconding Clerk Caught. Clark Braden, Jr., night clerk in the office of the American Express Company at New York City, who Jan. 6 absconded with an express package containing $5,000 in cash and five SI,OOO bonds of the Consumers’ Gas Company of Chicago, was arrested in Washington. To Build Warships for Russia. Chas. H. Cramp, the Philadelphia shipbuilder, has contracted to bnild two warships for the Czar of Russia. One will be a battleship of 12,500 tons and the other an armed cruiser of 6,000 tons. Both must be completed inside of thirty months. Lord Aberdeen to Qnit. It is officially announced in London that the Queen has accepted the resignation of the Earl of Aberdeen as governor general of Canada, to which office he was appointed in 1893. Minnesota Land Tax Decision. The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that the Anderson railroad land tax is valid.