Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — EPIDEMIC OF MURDER [ARTICLE]

EPIDEMIC OF MURDER

mXny women killed in ger* MAN CAPITAL Berlin Afflicted by the Presence of a Criminal of the Type of Jack the Ripper—Knoxville. Tenn., Girl Is Turning to Rubber. Work of a Teutonic Ripper. A veritable epidemic of woman murders afflicts Berlin, Germany, and what is more remarkable is that the majority of the victims belong to the unfortunate 'clasa. Another of these unfortunates, 'named Anna Singer, was found murdered an her tpartanents. Her throat was cut [from ear to ear, and her body brutally lent and bruised. The description of the [murderer in this case tallies with that of (the suspected perpetrator of a dozen other (crimes committed during the last four weeks in the lower quarters of the city. He is described as a modestly dressed young man, tall, and of muscular build, with light hair and a fine, carefully trimmed light mustache. This mysterious individual was seen entering and leaving the apartments of Anna Singer by a number of her companions, both before and after the crime is supposed to have been committed. The police are exhausting their energy and resources In trying to arrest the murderer, but beyond the clew furnished by the companions of the murdered woman nothing has been discovered.

TWO NEGROES LYNCHED. Result of Murder of City Marshal at Clarksville, Mo. An excursion boat from Quincy, IIL, and Hannibal, Mo., arrived at Clarksville, Mo., with about 300 negroes on board. After the boat had tied up, Curtis Young got into a fight with a colored woman named Lena Bryan of Hannibal. The row became general and City Marshal Meloan went on board to quell It. He put Curtis Young under arrest, when somebody in the crowd shot the marshal in the back and he died in fifteen minutes. There was greet excitement through the town when the shooting becamp known, and the citizens began to patrol the streets armed with guns and revolvers. A posse of fifty men went on board the boat and arrested Sam Young, Curtis Young, Bob Taylor and Charley Taylor, all colored, and took them to the city jail, where they were all locked up pending the arrival of the prosecuting attorney. When that officer arrived he found that Curtis and Sam Young had been taken from the jail and hanged to a convenient tree. TURNING TO RUBBER. Twelve-Year-Old Knoxville, Tenn., Girl Is Puzzling the Doctors. Knoxvilile, Tenn., has a curio that is puzzling the medical skill of the South. Three months ago Margaret, the 12-year-old daughter of Clavin Allen, complained of her neck "pulling.” But little attention was paid to her at the time. Her arms grew hard and now her entire body, with the exception of her jaw, is as hard as rubber. She has the use of all her faculties and works her joints with ease. She has a good appetite and when pinched or stabbed with a sharp instrument feels it keenly. It does not appear to be ossification. The girt is decreasing In weight.

VAN WYCK’S CLOSE CALL. Infernal Machine Addressed to Go- , thain’s Mayor in Mails. A package, six inches long, two inches wide and two inches deep, with a wrapping of manilla paper and tied with a string, was received in the New York general postoffice, addressed to Mayor Van Wyck. The package happened to break and a dynamite cartridge four inches long was exposed. A fuse was attached to one end of the cartridge. It was admitted at the city hall that such a package had been received, but no further information was given. The postmark of the package was not divulged. Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ..29 10 Chicagol9 21 Cleveland .. .26 14 Philadelphia. 17 19 Boston2s 15 Brooklyn ....15 21 Baltimore .. .20 15 Louisville ...14 28 New Y0rk...22 17 Washington. 12 26 Pittsburg .. .21 20 St. Louisl2 26 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 27 10 Kansas City..2o 17 St, Paul 26 15 Minneapolis. 14 24 Columbus .. .21 16 Detroitl4 25 Milwaukee.. 22 18 Omaha 10 27 Floods in Minnesota. A terrific downpour of rain fell in the district between St. Cloud and Hinckley, Minn., on the Great Northern Railroad. Reports indicate that a tract between Quamba and Hinckley suffered in numerous places. A section of track ninety feet long was washed away. A bridge three miles east of Hinckley and a smaller one a mile west were washed out, and there is greet damage to the roarfbed in numerous places along the line. Natives Attack a Russian Post. A sensation has been created in St. Petersburg official circles by the news of an unexpected attack by 1,000 natives on a Russian post garrisoned by 800 infantry at the town of Andijan, province of Ferghana, Turkestan. It is said that twenty of the soldier? were killed and that eighteen were wotfnded. Rioting at Belfast. Great excitement was caused at Belfast, Ireland, by a nationalist demonstration in honor of the revolution of 1798. Several coMisions occurred. Stones were thrown, a general melee followed and arrests were made. Strike of Pittsburg Miners. Pittsburg miners have decided to stand for the observance of the Chicago agreement and refuse to go to work for less them 66 cents a ton. Ohio Brewery Deal Is Made. The big brewery deal which has been pending in Cleveland for several months past has been made finally and for good. A majority of the Cleveland and Sandusky breweries are in one corporation now, and under one management. The capital stock of the new company is <6,000,000. Many Persons Injured. A terrific explosion occurred in the tarpaper factory of Tobias New & Co., on East 19th street, New York, in which a number of persons were seriously injured. The entire plant was wrecked and thousands of dollars’ worth of damage was done. No one watt killed. Negro Lynched at Texarkana. At Texarkana, Ark., a crowd of citizens took part in openly lynching a negro giving the name of Ben Hayden. Hayden was arrested for assault. He was identified by his victim. A mob of enraged men took him from the officers and hanged him, Worthington Academy Destroyed. Worthington Academy, the college building controlled and operated by the Episcopal Church denomination of Nebraska, located three miles from Lincoln, was destroyed by fire. The loss is placed pt 165,000, ipsurapce gt <35,000.

ASKS FOR RESTITUTION. Foreign Missions Board Bearins Action Against a Japanese College. Founded under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a distinctly Christian institution, and supported for nearly twenty-fire years by American gifts on that basis, Doshisba College, Kiota, Japan, has so far departed from the constitution under which it was established that the board has demanded the immediate return to it of $175,000 in gifts in gold, besides the retransfer of houses and lands turned over to the Doshisba company’s trustees by the board in 1893. As the board fears that the letter containing its demand will be ignored, a suit against the Doshisba company for the recovery of the property, with probable international complications, is expected. Dr. Joseph Neesima, a distinguished native of Japan, educated in this country, founded Doshisha College, with the assistance of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1875. All went well until Dr. Neesima's death in 1890. Even in 1893 the board and friends of the college had such confidence in its management that it transferred to the trustees the right and title of property held in trust In several other places. Rumors that Christian principles were being forgotten by the trustees reached the American board in 1895, and a deputation was sent to Kiota to investigate. The report brought back was not altogether reassuring. In February the Doshisba so changed the fundamental principles of the constitution as to eliminate the Christian name and Christian instruction from the Academic school, and the American board considers that the trust has been violated. /

INSURGENT CHIEF f HOT. Spaniards Execute the Wounded General Gonzales Despite a Pledge. The Cubans at Tampa, Fla., have received word from a reliable source that General Gonzales, the insurgent leader in Santa Clara province, who was supposed to have died of his wounds after a fight with the Spaniards, was in reality shot after a trial by a Spanish drum-head court-martial. The first story received was that he was captured after being severely wpunded in a skirmish on the Sagua de Chica River by the troops of General Bernal, who commanded in that province. He was taken to Villa Clara. General Bernal, the Cubans declare, gave the bishop of Santa Clara his word of honor that the prisoner would be well cared for. The next day the mother and the family of General Gonzales were informed that he was dead and buried. The Cubans are infuriated over this example of Spanish treachery. CHASKA GOES TO JAIL. He Has Recovered After His Attempt at Self Destruction. Samuel Campbell, better known as Chaska, the Indian husband of Cora Belle Fellows, who was a short time ago reported by Running Water, S. I)., dispatches as having made a attempt at suicide, is alive and well, his Attempt at ending his life having proved a failure. He was recently sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for complicity with a gang of thieves. Before being taken to jail he confessed and gave evidence against the band. He named his brother William and two other men as leaders. According to his story, the gang found a ready market for stolen goods among the residents of both the Nebraska and South Dakota sides of the Missouri river in the vicinity of its operations. Fraudulent Enlistment of Minors. One peculiarity of the conditions prevailing in the volunteer force has been the enlistment of minors and their consequent discharge from the service on the ground of fraudulent enlistment, a course rendered necessary in most instances by habeas corpus proceedings through the courts. This circumstance has served to reduce the numerical strength of many companies, and the instances have been so numerous as to lead to the suspicion that something more than carelessness is chargeable against the officers who were enabled to have their commands accepted and mustered in by reason of the minimum strength, or in many cases less than the minimum strength allowed by law, having been furnished by the presence of so many minors who were enlisted without the consent of their parents or guardians. This feature is due to the instructions sent out from the War Department, presumably under a misapprehension. They permitted the mustering in of minors who presented themselves for service and whose parents did not interpose objection. This defeats in a measure the object of the statutes which, instead of requiring the objection of parents or guardians as a bar to enlistments, specifically exact the consent of those who have authority over minors desirous of becoming soldiers. In the late war much the same condition prevailed to such an extent as to lead to the dismissal of officers who were charged with defrauding the government to the extent of admitting fraudulent enlistments, and it begins to- look as If greater restrictions must be placed upon those in charge of the acceptance of volunteer troops.

$20,000,000 in Gold. “Pat” Galvin, who arrived at Tacoma, Wash., from Dawson, reports that by this time the spring clean-up is finished, amounting to <20,000,000. When he left, April 28, sluicing had been in progress for a week, the results on the best creeks being better than expected. Sulphur, Dominion, Bear and Henderson are the best producers after Eldorado and Bonanza. Water began running from Lebarge to Dawson two weeks earlier than last year. The miners were figuring on starting for St. Michael with their treasure between May 28 and June 5, bringing them to Tacoma about July 1. William Stanley received letters from his sons at Dawson by Mr. Galvin. They say many miners believe the treasure ships are likely to be captured by pirates between St. Michael and Tacoma, and they accordingly requested that the Government detail a gunboat to convoy the ships to Puget sound. The Stanley boys have taken <600,000 this winter from nine claims. A special from Lake Lindeman, Alaska, says: “Lakes Lindeman and Bennett are practically open, boats and scows are nowpassing down both lakes along the shore. The ice has become unsafe. Gue man with a big pack on his back suddenly disappeared through the treacherous frozen surface. No one knows who he was. The price of provisions in Dawson and vicinity has dropped materially, being only 30 per cent of what it was a year ago. Real estate is having a tremendous boom, lots on the principal streets selling for from <1,500 to <2,000 a front foot. The long row of tents along the river bank have been removed, property there renting for <lO a front foot a month.”

. Drinks Deadly Poison. James Underwood, a traveling salesman for the Champenoia Jewelry Company of Newark, N. J., drank a quantity of potassium by mistake at the jewelry store of F. H. Niehaus, St. Louis, Mo., thinking it was water. He fell to the floor immediately and lived but ten minutes. Runs Into an Iceberg. The steamship Cestrain of the Leyland line arrived at Boston in a badly damaged .condition as the result of a collision with an iceberg in mid-ocean. The Cestrian’s bows were crushed ip below the water line, and it will cast SIO,OOO to repair her. Destroys a Big City. A conflagration at Peshawar, India, which was not mastered for twenty-four hours, destroyed 4,000 houses, doing damage to the about four crores of rupees (about $20,000,000). This is supposed to be the record fire of India. Enormous Output of Gold. Cripple Creek gold output for May was 34% tons, worth $1,254,430. This is in excess of any previous month’s record. The ore shows an improvement in value. May Stop Pelagic Feat lug. The Canadian negotiations recently concluded St Washington led the »isnin|

of « protocol which formally agreed to the exact subjects to be submitted to an international commission. While the protocol makes no preliminary agreement on the several questions, yet it is the general understanding among officials that the Behring aea question will be adjusted and finally settled by the complete termination of pelagic sealing. This has been a source of controversy for many years, the United States seeking to put an end to pelagic sealing, and Canada, through the imperial government, contesting against this termination of an industry very profitable to many citizens of the Canadian Pacific coast During the recent negotiations, however, it developed that this industry was practically extinct, and was no longer profitable to any considerable number of Canadians. Under these changed conditions, it is said, Canada has only a few sealers to deal with, and she is therefore in a position to meet, the contentions of the United States without seriously injuring a large established industry. It is understood that the protocol specifically recites that there shall be three representatives from each government on the Cana-dian-American commission.

DROWNED IN COLLISION. Lake Tug Record Sunk While Making Fast to a Steamer. The tug Record of the Inman fleet, and. one of the stanchest on the lakes, was run down and sunk in the ship canal at Duluth, Minn. Three of the tug’s crew went down with their boat. They were Contain John Buckley, Elmer Cook of Cueboygan, steward; George Riggs, Cheboygan, engineer. The fireman, Al Davidson, was the only survivor of the tug’s crew. The Record was meeting a steamer as she entered the harbor. Just as she got alongside and was making fast the steamer’s line the strong current setting out into the lake swung the tug broadside against the steamer’s stern and the Record went down like a shot. It is supposed the tug was forced over on its side and foundered from the water taken on. deadly bullets for two. Murderer Kills Himself When He Finds Escape Impossible. Louis Martels, who was released from jail at Alfred, Me., having completed a term to which he was sentenced Jor a misdemeanor in which Mrs. Joseph Glendon was involved, was shot and probably fatally injured as he was leaving the jail by the husband of the woman. Officers who witnessed the shooting followed Glendon, who, when he found he could not escape, placed the revolver with which be shot Martels against his own breast and fired a bullet through his own heart. He died instantly. New Cabinet in Italy. The following is the personnel of the new Italian cabinet: President of the council and minister of the interior, Marquis di Rudini; minister of justice, Sig. Bonacci; minister of the treasury, Sig. L. Luzzetti; minister of finance, Sig. A. Branca; minister of marine, Admiral di Canevaro; minister of war, Sig. San Marzanos; minister of foreign affairs, Sig. Copelli; minister of public works, Sig. Afan de Rivera; minister of public instruction, Sig. Cremona; minister of agriculture, Sig. Serena. It is a colorless combination and is likely to have difficulty in finding a majority in the chamber. Many Drowned at Sea. The schooner Jane Gray, which sailed from Seattle for Kotzebue sound, with sixty-one people on board, foundered abount ninety miles west of Cape Flattery while lying to In a moderate gale under foresail. Ten minutes after the alarm was given she lay at the bottom of the ocean with thirty-four of her passengers. The remainder succeeded in embarking in a launch and reached Seattle in safety. Governor*® Wife Safe. At Glenville, W. Va., Judge Blizzard sustained the demurrer to the indictment charging Gov. G. W. Atkinson’s wife with forgery, but overruled it with reference to J. P. Owens, the man to whom Mrs. Atkinson sold the Camden property and to whom she gave the alleged forged receipts. Owens is now on trial, but the case is ended so far as Mrs. Atkinson is concerned, unless the State reindicts her.

For a Peace Commission. An agreement has been reached at Washington for the creation of a commission which shall consider all the subjects of controversy between the United States and Canada, and frame a treaty between the two Governments for the complete adjustment of their controversies. Trains Wrecked at Lima, Ohio. A limited passenger train on the Pennsylvania road and a freight train crashed together at Lima, Ohio. Fireman Sheahan of the freight was dangerously cut on the head. Both engines and eleven loaded freight cars were demolished. The monetary loss was very heavy. Distress in Spain. Widespread distress is reported in various parts of the interior provinces of Spain, more especially in the Province of Catalonia. Food prices have risen considerably and many working people have been thrown out of employment. Reciprocity with France. President McKinley has issued a proclamation setting forth the terms of a new commercial reciprocity agreement with the French Government. It is the first agreement entered into under section 3 of the Dingley tariff law. W. A. Stone for Governor. Col. Wm. A. Stone, of Alleghany, the Quay candidate, was nominated for Governor by the Republican convention in Pennsylvania. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, was a good second. Samnel Plimsoll la Dead. Plimsoll, known as the “Sailors’ Friend,”- and originator of the famous “Plimsoll mark,” to prevent the overloading of ships, is dead in London.