Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — VERY STRANGE CASE. [ARTICLE]

V ERY STRANGE CASE.

DIVORCED FROM THE MAN SHE r, y NEVER MARRIED. * - fwmZ**'*' * • , • >• ■ wlfman In St. lonii In a Peculiar Pre* ■ Ssftraa — " * Divorced from Hpr J3r<she*-livL*lF> There IS if living* fa Est Louis herself In a {wrK*uSbre<bca- . went ,#s the result offifistairenldentily. 1 ‘ THe oTd story about the identity «of ith? mail Jqe MilleiC ; wfr<f was. twice tjrjad in, £ both the State and BqprerttF Cahrfa of North (Dakota ofi’the bHarfee of swindttnr »oum local Scnudinariatta »ttt' of seifctf mines In a Montana mining ;de4J» bML' bobbed up'again. Allen, j. Wine, alias Jo* Miller, -was a'prisoner at Fargo three years, and was discharged last spring after bis second acquittal. John R. Gill, who was a bookkeeper in the Minnesota woods last winter, makes affidavit that he the real Joe Miller; that he was a brother of the prisoner held at Fargo so Jlong, and went by the-name of George Wine. Op each trial the,case at-, tratted unusual attention, as at least fifty witnesses testified on each side, as to the identity of> the prisoner. Those'for the defense alleged that at was a caße of mistaken identity;. , According to, the story of the. Defense,, the a younger 'brother of the reat criminal, slightly smaller and less He ; Modd'the lofig imprisonment Mb®- the two Iriate- because he did pot \yaid; have bis. brother in trouble, and partially; because almost AS senousirouble lVanother State f where it was impossible to secure the evidence necessary for an alibi without admitting his guilt ofcp criminal charge. Thw case was made all the the,fact that the iaan who claimed to be Miller murried a girl named Nanseh fit Fargo. He deserted her in Duluth. When Wine was taken back from St. Louis she immediately identified him as the man she married, and her testimony went far toward the conviction of the prisoner. Afterward she seOtired a divorce from the prisoner, having notice of the detion served on him while he was in jail. Npw she finds herself divorced from her husband's brother. MANY MILL HANDS TO BE IDLE, Fall Rivar Manufacturers Will Curtail Production Until Novsmber. From information gleaned among the manufacturers at Fall River, it seems probable that about 1,000,000 spindles will curtail some time until the end of October. The Chase, Stafford and Wairtpenoag mills will be shut down, making idle about 250,000 spindles. Some 2,500 hands will be out of employment and there will be a loss in wages of about $15,000 for the week-. These three mills turn out about 30,000 pieces weekly. This is the beginning of an individual curtailment which is expected to continue iritermittently until the first of November. SEASIDE HOTEL IN A BLAZE. Cusst* Sava Their L vas by Leaping from the Window], The South End Hotel at Tybee, Ga., the principal seaside resort of the South, was destroyed by fire. It was owned by W. M. Bohan. The origin of the tire is unknown, but it is supposed to have started from defective electric wiring. The hotel was worth about $50,000 and was insured for $28,500. Guests from every city in Georgia and almost every Southern city lost from SSO to S2OO worth of wearing apparel aud jewelry. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Bostoa j... .09 30 Pittsburg ... .54 51 Cincinnati ..09 39 Philadelphia. 49 52 Baltimore ...63 38 Brooklyn ....39 62 Cleveland ...02 42 Washington. 38 65 New Y0rk...00 45 Louisville ...39 67 Chicago 58 49 St. Louis.... .30 77 Following Is the standing of the clubs In tho Western League: W. L. W. L. Kansas City.6B 44 St. Paul 61 48 Indianapolis. 64 43 Detroit 39 68 Milwaukee ..67 45 St. Joseph... .38 67 Columbus .. .59 43 Minneapolis. 37 75 Latest Mystery at 8L Lou's. The police of St. Louis are to have another mystery t 6 solve. An unknown woman partly disrobed on the river bank at the foot of Meramec Street and plunged into the water. The woman’s body floated out into the middle of the stream and sank, ahd up to a late hour it had not been recovered. In the pile of clothes scattered on the ground was found $205 in paper money, SIOO iu gold coin and some change. Boyi Rob thfe Pool Beller. Boy tbievtk stole $1,200 from ! the pool box at the race track at Fort Erie, Ont. The cashier had his attention attracted for a moment, but turned in titne to see a boy’s hand grasp a bundle of Canadian bills. .The boy rah and was seen to hand something to another boy, who disappeared in the crowd. . 1 Serious Wreck Near Soeton. In a rear-end collision at Sharon station, a summer resort, twenty miles out of Boston on the Providence division of the New York, Nqw Haven and Hartford Bailroad, four persons were killed outright and thirty-right seriously injured, and besides there Were several score bruised and shaken up. Eighty Soldier* Drowned. A dispatch from Budapest fb a London news agency says that while a regiment was crossing a pontoon bridge over - the River Maros, near Hoad, the bridge collapsed. Three hundred men were immersed, and it is feared that eighty were drowned. ; • / iu .* Elevator Burned in Ctrcigo. The Chicago Railway Terminal elevator near the river west of the Northwestern passenger station in Chicago was destroyed by fire. The loss ,was nearly $300,000. * : Von Der Aha Marr o» Again. Word has been received from Alttfo, 111., that Chris Von der Ahe, former president of the St. Louis baseball club, was quietly married in that; city to Miss Kaiser. This is the third matrimonial venture for Von der Ahe. f Ssvad th» 8h riff tho dab. Charles O. Kaiser, who was under sentence to be hanged for the murder of his wife, committed suicide in the county jail at Norristown, Pa. He first cut an artery with a watch spring and then hanged himself. Lava Stream] Flowing. Vesuvius Is again ih a state of active eruption. Four streams of lava ore flowing doWn the mountain side nt the fate of 400 yards an hour. The chestnut trees on Mount febmma have been burned, „ I*l » » ' • m Big O th-j-nV Fal’«. ! 1 The Black Diarirohd Coal Company with mines Wt Coal f Creek and offices as Knoxville; l’eirt»., i 11,H. tjeald being appointed receiver., Liabilities are $150,000; rfsßeis link^ow^i. No Rspubllcan Yic’cki'ln JpX3%, , At the Texas Republican State convention at Fort Worth it was decided a State ticket would not be good ppjicy and no candidates named.

■ - * SHOT HIS DAUGHTER'S LOVER Same* Bant in Adopt* Haroic Measures to Prsrsnt an E epitneni v At Wichita* Kan., dames Beritbti, a hone dealer* apparently wealthy and claiming to come from Galesburg, 111., shot and killed J. H. Summer, a young cattle man of Oklahoma, while Summer and Benton's IJFyear-old daughter, Lola, were attempting to elope. Benton and his daughter have been in Wichita for three weeks or .more, during which time Miss Bebtdn bdcame acquainted with Summer. The two frequently went out riding together, contrary to the wishes of Benton, who saw that the acquaintance was becpming a love affair. When Summer drove up to the hotel for Miss Benton the father remonstrated violently, but on the yimng lady’s promise that it would be the last timjs’he let her go, with the caution that she should be back in an hour.- She did not return in an hour, nor in two. Blenton, suspecting an elopement, notified tie police, and himself started in search of the couple. He came upon them five /fcniles out in the country in a mover’s wagon, driving for the territory. Riding .. up beside the wagon, he called to young Summer to drive back >to town. The young man refused, whereupon Benton :shot him dead. ■■ KILLS THE PUGILIST’S MOTHER. Corbett’* Father Takes Two LlV*i And Leaves the Ex-Champ'oi an . Orphan. In San Francisco, F. J. Cqrbjett* father of Janies J. Corbett, the heavyweight pugilist, shot and killed hifc wife and then turned the weapon upon himself with r fatal effect. It is believed the murderer was demented. He had been in extremely poor health for some time, and had just returned from Bartlett Springs, where he had been stopping. Death was instantaneous in both cases. The shooting occurred at the residence of the Corbett family. Mr. King, a son-in-law of Corbett, who was living in the house, heard two shots in his father-in-law’s room. Hurrying there, he found Mrs. Corbett dead in bed and his father-in-law dying on the floor. Mrs. Corbett was in her .sight attire, while her husband was fully dressed.

KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION. One Man Djad and eoveral Bad y Injured at Preseatt, A. T. A terrific explosion occurred at the roundhouse of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad, at Prescott, A. T., resulting ia the fatal injury of two men‘and the wounding of two or three others. Machinists were at work on engine No. 2 in the roundhouse when the boiler exploded with tremendous force. Joseph Brown wuS on top of the engine adjusting the pop valve when tho explosion occurred and was badly crushed about the head, dying in a few minutes. E. M. Seamans had his left arm blown fifty feet away, his left leg blown off, and he was badly bruised aqd cut about the head. He cannot live. Charles Chambers was also quite seriously injured. The roundhouse is a complete wreck.

CANADA’S BIG WHEAT CROP. By Far th» Qr*at**t Yie’d in tha Annals of tha Dominion. Cauada’s wheat crop this year Will be by long odds the greatest in the history of the dominion. The Ontario Government bulletin shows that the fall wheat crop Will be 25,000,000, or 1,000,000 more than last year, and the spring wheat crop 6,500,000, or 1,500,000 more than last year. Harvest operations are now in full swing in Manitoba, and the wheat crop there will be about 15,000,000 more than last year, estimates this year ranging from 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels. The condition of wheat in Canada was never better and will all grade very high. Market of Japtn I s R oh. Shizuo Kondo, president of the Japan-ese-Ameriean Commercial and Industrial Association, with headquarters at Tokio, Japan, is in America attempting to interest American manufacturers in the possibilities of trade with Japah, which country, he declares, has been gaining wonderfully each year since 1890 aud holds forth exceptional inducements to American exporters. If the American exporter knew the real conditions of the Japan field, Mr. Kondo says confidently, American exports to Japan would increase enormously. American headquarters have been temporarily established iu New York, “When Japan was opened by the United States in 1854,” Mr. Kohdo said, “she took the position of nn older sister and we have always so regarded her. We have exported to the United States more than to any other nation. But we do not find that the United States’ exports to Japan are in equal ratio. Until about 1890 we bought little from the United States. We had hoard that wages and the cost of living were comparatively high here. So we concluded that manufactured articles here must be high priced. Until about 1890, also, the United States did not take much interest in the possibilities of our market. Its merchants were contented with domestic trade.” Japanese exports to America have increased 65 per cent since 1896, Mr. Kondo says. Last year they amounted to $26,218,202. Almost an equal increase in the American export trade into Japan hus been noticed during the last two years. “We can buy from the United States just as much as, or more than, we export to her, Mr. Kondo said. “It is only a matter of time.”

E : e Fire in Russia. A great fire at Nijni Novgorod, capital of the Russian Government of the same name, near the confluence of the Oka with the Volga, about two hundred and fifty miles northeast of Moscow, has destroyed a number of factories and eighty houses. Forty persons have been injured and damage to the amount of 1,500,000 rubles has been done. Yonng Woman Comm a Su'ctde. Because of a belief that they were unfit to live two girls committed suicide by jumping from a ferryboat into the Delaware river. They were Bessie Foust, aged 19, of Camden, N. J., and Maud Hoffnagle, aged 20, of Philadelphia. Both took the leap to death together, hand in hand, and were drowned before a rescue could be effected. Fearful Plungi of a Train. An accident occurred on the Union Colliery. Railway line, in British Columbia, resulting in the death of at least six persons. A long work train, with a passenger coach attached, plunged through the trestle which spans the Trent river about midway between the wharf and Union City. It was about 125 feet high and 500 feet long. Attempted Assassination Near Ch'cago. An attempt to assassinate John Hill, Jr., leader of the anti-gambling crusade in Chicago, was made at his home in Morgan Pafk, 111. A dynamite cartridge exploded f t the window of a bedroom where Mr. anil Mrs. Hill were asleep. No one was hurt. Place for Rcb*rt P. Porter. Robert P. Porter, the superintendent of the lalt general census of the United Stated has been appointed a commissioner to examine and report upon the finances, banking systems and customs laws of Cuba and Porto Rico. Anti-Bwearing Ordinance Killed. The New York Board of Aldermen has killed an ordinance introduced providing punishment for swearing in public places by laying it on the table by an almost onanimpus vote. Open to Foroign Traffic. The Hong Kong correspondent of the London Times says the new regulations ■ opening every port on the West river to r fpreign traffic went into operation recently.

Thirty Killed in a Wreck. A collision is reported to have occurred at Matjes Fontein, South Africa, between (i goods train and a passenger train. Thirty passengers were killed. Pars many of a f ovsralgn. Queen Victoria’s disregard for certain social usages and customs baa been

HO little amusement and gossip in London find lit the same time afforded a choice Subject of comment to that portion of the benny pres* which is wont -to "make the most of her majesty’s so-called parsimony. For some time the approaching coronation of the yonng Queen of Holland has been much discussed in England. Large parties are organizing in London find elsewhere, the steamship lines have announced low excursion rates and the present month will sec more English visitors in Amsterdam and The Hague than ever before. The Prince aud Princess of Wales, accompanied by a large and brilliant suite, Will represent the Queen, and as custom prohibits the attendance of any reignihg sovereign ih person, the Prince of Wales Will naturally be regarded as the most important pefsohage present. As fit the coronation of the Czar two years ago the gifts from different rulers of Europe Will be a conspicuous feature of the enthronement; Speculation as to the nature of Queen Victoria's presents to the youngest of her sister sovereigns was satisfied a few weeks since by the official announcement that the Prince of Wales would present in behalf of her majesty a magnificent Indian bracelet set with diamonds and rubies Of the first water. The ptlblifc Was Somewhat surprised when the fact leaked Out that the bracelet is one Of the diamond jubilee gifts and was presented to the Queen by one of the Indian princes.

CHILDREN EURNID TO DEATH. Four of Th-m P*rlih in th* Fl:m#* that Destroy a Barn. A frightful holocaust, in which four persons lost their lives, occurred near Stanley, lowa, on the farm of Peter Foy. The victims of the flames were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Foy—Thomas, aged 18; Lewis, aged 16; George, aged 11, and Blanche, aged 9. During the hot nights the children had been allowed to sleep in the loft of the big farm barn, and the other night they retired to the haymow at an early hour. About 2 o’clock ih the morning neighbors hoticed a blaze on the Foy farm. Hnstenihg to the place they found the family still asleep in tho house. Mr. Foy Was rouSed, but by that time the fire ih- the barn was beyond all control, and the efforts Of the agonized parents Were Without avail; The fire had started In the lbwer part bf the barn and there was no escape for the occupants of the loft, who were shut in by the burning of the ladder which had afforded them entrance to the place. Their screams of pain drove their parents and friends wild with anguish. At last the collapse of the building stifled the cries of the suffering prisoners. DROWNED IN CLOUDEU.IST. .* . F.vb Person] Lost and O.her* Missing Near Pittsburg. Reports have reached Pittsburg, Pa., of a cloudburst in Saw Mill Ituii, Temperanceville, a suburb of the city, ou the south side Of the Ohio riVef; Five persons were drowned and tt number of others are missing. There whs much damage to property. Crowds of people were near the river watching the flood Whefa the bank caved id, eUrrying nine persons into the torrent. Those reported missing al-e: Regis Loftus, aged 3 years; Irene Loftus, aged 6 years; Mrs. Mary Shaughnessy, Geneva Shaughnessy, aged 7; Ignatio Saltze, aged 10; find ail unknown man. There is no doubt that all of these and others were drowned. His Whereabouts Is Uikiowi. George A. Kimmell, cashier of the Farmers’ State Bank of Arkansas City, Kan., is missing. His case is most mysterious, and his friends fear he has been made away with. Mr. Kimmell left Arkansas City recently, taking $19,000 worth of township bonds tjp, the State Treasurer at Topeka, lie delivered the bonds and sent back to his bank a draft covering the full amount of the transaction. On the following day he went to Kansas City and registered at the Midland Hotel. DufiUg the foreboon, it has been learned, he telephoned from tho hotel to a Kansas City bank in which he had money deposited to send him SSOO to the hotel. The money was sent to him as he directed. Detectives and bank officials who have been hunting for the missing ettshiet for over d week have leariied that lie left the Midland Hotel With three unkh'owu men fit 7 O’clbch ih the evening of the day on which he.received the money from the bank, but since that time absolutely nothing is known of his movements. An examination of the bank proves the cashier’s books to be correct iu every detail. Mr. Kimmell went to Arkansas City from Niles, Mich., in 1897.

MdKin'ey and Fau.-o Ta k. President McKinley and President Faure of France exchanged direct felicitations oVet the relations of the two coun tries and expressions of mutual esteem of the two chief OxeciltiVeS. The occasion Was the opening of a new cable between Cape Cod, Mass., and Brest, on the French coast. Pu’’man Wods.Misi Fermld. According to a report received from New York, George M; Pullman and Miss Lillian Femald Of Chicago have been married in that city. The marriage is said to have been in the nature of an elopement. MiSS Fernald and Mr. Pullman have been staying at Long Branch. £t Lou’] Str.ke Fpro]l : n». It is asserted that 700 workers in the Allied Building Trades of St. Louis are out as the result of the strike for better wages inaugurated some time ago, nnd that the suspension of work may spread. There Jb a large number of new buildings in the course of constructior FoUcWsd H»r Hu.b i-d. Mrs. Womert, wife of Emanuel Womert, who was murdered iu bed at Lancaster, Pa., by supposed burglars while his wife was asleep by his side, committed suicide the other night. Hay fir Secretary of Stite. Ambassador Hay at London has accepted the office of Secretary of State.