Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — WRECKED BY STORM. [ARTICLE]

WRECKED BY STORM.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN A MISSOURI TOWN. South St. Joseph Is Visited by a Destructive Tornado and Deluge— United States Gunboat Bennington Ordered to Pago Pago Bay. Ths Element* Work Havoc. A tornado struck South St. Joseph, Mo., the stock yards suburb, at 5:30 o’clock the other afternoon, and the damage is variously estimated at $25,000 and $50,000. Nearly every house in the town was more or less damaged. Roofs were blown off, corners were torn out and a number of buildings in course of construction were completely destroyed. The damage by water was also heavy, as the wind was followed by a perfect deluge. Much damage resulted to manufacturers and railroad shops in the south part of the city proper. Sewers were washed out and railroad washouts were numerous in all directions. VESSEL AND DREW GO DOWN. Nothing Knowi as to the Identity of the Sh p or Whence She Came. An unknown schooner, believed to ben fishing vessel, has been lost With all her crew at a place called East Lake, a mile north of East Point reef, Prince Edward’s Island. Men on shore saw the two topmasts of a vessel sticking out of the water only a short distance from the beach. They rowed out and ■ discovered that a schooner had foundered and was lying upright on the’bottom in five fathoms of water. Two days before a heavy thun- ■ derstorm and tierce gale raged at East ,Point and persons living near the shore state that while the tempest prevailed they heard the cries of people in distress, but nothing was learned of the disaster until next day. HUSBAND SHOOTS TO KILL. Wealthy Man of Warrensburg, Mo., Slain by O.ie He Wronged. W. H. Hartman, senior member of the firm of Hartman & Markward, proprietors of the Magnolia mills, and one of the wealthiest citizens of Johnson County, was shot and instantly killed by Adolph Lubrick at the home of the latter in Warrensburg, Mo. Lubrick forced his way into a room occupied by Hartman and Mrs. Lubrick and opened fire on the pair. Three shots took effect in Hartman’s body, killing him instantly. Mrs. Lubrick was uninjured. Lubrick was arrested.

National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 75 42 Pittsburg ... .01 62 Cincinnati ..78 44 Philadelphia. 56 58 Baltimore .. .71 43 Louisville ...51 70 Cleveland ...68 49 Brooklyn ....44 68 New York. .'.65 53 Washington. 40 77 Chicago 66 54 St. Louis 33 86 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 76 47 St. Paul 70 56 Kansas City. 77 48 Detroit 48 77 Milwaukee ..78 52 Minneapolis. 44 86 Columbus ...68 50 St. Joseph... .40 83 Eighteen People Killed at Oahoes, N. Y. Au appalling disaster occurred in Cohoes, N. Y. A trolley car of the Troy City Railroad Company was struck by I the night boat special of the Delaware and ' Hudson Railroad at a crossing at the west 1 end of the Hudson river bridge which connects the city with Lansingburg, and its load of human freight was hurled into the air. Eighteen of the thirty-five passengers are dead and at least ten of the remainder will die. Democratic Success In Arkansas. Arkansas elected a full set of State officers, 100 members of the lower house of the Legislature, sixteen State Senators and local officers in each of the seventyfive counties and voted on the adoption of two important constitutional amendments, , us well as the question of the liquor license in the different counties. The Democratic State ticket, headed by Dan W. Janes, was elected.

Uprising of ths Muisu'manj, Candia, Island of Crete, is in a state of anarchy. A collision between the Mussulmans, who were demonstrating against European control, and the British authorities, who have been installing Christians as revenue officials, culminated in bloody fighting between the Mussulmans and the British troops.- Riots took place in various parts of the city and many have been killed. Ordered to Samoa. The United States gunboat Bennington has been ordered to Pago Pago bay, Samoa, according to Mare Island reports, to make a survey for a coaling station. Upon finishing the survey she will proceed to Manila and relieve the Concord, which will go to Mare Island and go on dry dock, the English docks not being available. Colorado Town Scorched. Fire broke out in the paint and oil room of Fenton’s drug store, in the best built part of Rocky Ford, Colo. The entire block was consumed before the flames were controlled. The loss will exceed $50,000. Holland** Queen Crowned. The crown of the Netherlands was formally placed upon the brow of its young queen, Wilhelmina, at Amsterdam, amid general rejoicing. Burglars Kill a Man. 3 Arthur Middleton, proprietor of a tea store in West Seventh street, in St. Paul, died from a bullet wound in the left breast, which, he says, he received at the hands of one or two burglars who tried to break into his place. There is no clew to the murderer. Earthquake in Cuba. Two earthquake shocks were felt at Santiago de Cuba. The first was of unusual severity and shook every house in the city. The second shock, which was lighter, occurred just an hour later. Caatructidh of Rap □ River, Mich. Fourteen business buildings at Rapid River, Mich., were destroyed by fire, causing great losses. In John Caswell’s barn twenty-two horses were cremated. The village has nearly 2,000 population and is entirely without fire protection. The belief is general that the fire was of Incendiary origin. Codiei of Childre i Found. The dead bodies of Matilda Mullins, aged 14, and Isaac Mullins, aged 10 years, were found at Baker’s Fork creek, near Charleston, W. Va., and no clew can be secured to the double murder. Six murders have occurred in the same vicinity, all due to family feuds.

Soldier In Prison for Life. Private Alex La Duke, Company I, Second Wisconsin volunteers, was placed in the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to remain for life, for the murder of Private Thomas Stafford of the Thirteenth ■United States infantry in a saloon row in Ponce, Porto Rico. Prom'nent Man an Embezzler. Ex-Mayor Fritz H. Twitehell, one of Bath’s most prominent citizens, a member of Gov. Power’s council and well known in business circles in Maine and Massachusetts, is a confessed embezzler. The amount of embezzlement is placed at $60,000,

dastardly work of tramps. They Wreck the Chicago Llmltsd and OiW« Two Death*. Train No. 5 on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, known as “The Chicago Limited,” was wrecked at Ingalls Crossing, four miles south of Fulton, N. Y., at 5 o’clock the other m»ning. The wreck was doubtless due to tie dastardly work of tramps, who open the switch at which the train was wrecked, as well as two switches to the north of-the wreck. The train was running nearly sixty miles an hour when it struck the switch and was thrown over to the side track. The engine was thrown twenty feet and blown to pieces. The tender was turned over. The trucks of the baggage car were torn off and the head coach telescoped the baggage car. A vestibule chair car and the sleeper Farragut were derailed, but neither was badly damaged. Engineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both jumped and were found under the wreckage of the tender by passengers from the sleeper. Dowd died in a few minutes and Hall three hours later. The body of Brakeman Osborn was torn in two. Several passengers were injured. SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS STOLEN. Pac.fls Express Money Packages Mystoricusly Disappear at O/nahs. Pacific Express money packages containing $6,000 in George W. Archibald’s wagon shfe, while being delivered at the express office in the union depot at Omaha, Neb., were stolen most mysteriously. Archibald, the driver, discovered his loss shortly after the money disappeared and immediately reported it to officers of the company. He said the money was taken from the wagon at the express office in the depot. When asked if the safe was locked, he said he must have neglected to lock the safe before leaving the uptown express office. - He said the money was stolen either en route to the depot or during a few moments while he left the wagon to enter the express office at the depot.

FIVE KILLED BY A ELAST. Premiture Expoi on cf a Dy iarn te Ch'rge Doe* Deal y Wark. Five men were killed by a premature explosion of dynamite near Stinesville, Ind. The men were at work on the .Mount Tabor and Ellettsville turnpike and had prepared to blast rock for macadamizing. Fifteen men were working near the spot, but besides the killed only one was badly injured. All the dead were blackened and mangled almost* beyond recognition. They were all married men and all leave small children. All lived in or near Stinesville. The debris and broken stone from the explosion were carried over a mile and the earth was shaken as if by an earthquake. It is not known what caused the explosion.

RECORD FOR GOLD COINING. Output of Ban Franc sco Mint for August Aggregate $8,160,000. Daniel Cole has succeeded A. T. Spotts as coiner at the San Francisco mint. During the four years ended Aug. 31 this mint coined $153,697,834, of which over $125,000,000 was gold of Pacific coast production. The coinage for the month amounted to $8,160,000, breaking all previous records in the United States. September is expected to make a still better showing, as more gold from the Klondike and Australia is expected in the form of nuggets and sovereigns, which will rapidly be converted into United States money. • ANNEXATION NOT POPULAR. GaloreC Element in Jimi'ca Not Fayorable to th* New Movement, The annexation movement in Jamaica has not progressed favorably, owing to the opposition of the colored element of the population and the lack of support from the newspapers. Consequently Samuel Constantin Burke, Jamaica’s member of the Barbados conference, is not authorized to propose annexation as an alternative to the joint demand of the West Indies for fair treatment. Possibly British Guiana or Barbados may take the initiative, should the conference decide to adopt a decisive ultimatum attitude. NEEDLE TRUST BEING FORMED. English and Amir'cin Firms Perfecting a Big Combination. The St, James’ Gazette of London says it is reported on the stock exchange that an Anglo-American trust to control the output and sale of sewing machine, knitting machines and all other kinds of needles is being formed. Several American and two Midland firms are reported to have sold their business to the combination. The capital, it is further announced, will be £1,500,000 ($7,500,000), divided into preferred and ordinary stock. Dec slon Pending New Laws. T. H. Goodman of the Southern Pacific Company of San Francisco, Cal,, is in receipt of a ruling by the Treasury Department on the question of whether foreign vessels will be allowed a clearance for any ports in Hawaii, to enter and land their cargoes at such ports, now that the islands are American territory. The Southern Pacific Company is interested In the matter to the extent of its interest ip the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, which is operating the steamships Gaelic, Doric, Coptic and Belgle between San Francisco and the Orient, by way of Honolulu. AU are chartered British vessels, and, under the treasury regulations, cannot engage ip coasting business between porta. The ruling of the Treasury Department settles this question. The company will be allowed to continue running its vessels between San Francisco and Honolulu until new laws for the islands are enacted by Congress.

To Oonneet British Colonial. The report of the committee of the New Zealand Legislature just issued recommends joining the Australian colonies with Canada and the mother country by a Pacific cable, on the basis that if Great Britain and Canada together would guarantee five-ninths of the cost of the work. New Zealand and the other colonies would contribute the remaining four-ninths, of which amount New Zealand will contribute one-ninth. The committee also recommends that Canada be intrusted with the construction, administration and maintenance of the cable on the understanding that the contributing colonies are to be ratified to representation and votes on matters of policy of the management and that the. cable is to be jointly ?wned and controlled by the contributors. The report concludes with advising that a conference of the colonies concerned in <,he new cable be held in New Zealand. Wa hid Ovirboard fr;m a Yacht By the accidental jibing of the sail of a pleasure yacht on Presque Isle Bay, near Erie, Pa., four young women were swept off into the water and drowned before assistance could be rendered them. Their mimes are Mary, Della and Ella Pardine, daughters of William Pardine, an Erie machinist, and Jessie Moore, daughter of John M. Moore, an engineer on the Erie and Pittsburg road. F vi Men Fall Th rty-fl/e Feet. A scaffolding in the tower of the union station at Kansas City, Mo., fell a distances of thirty feet, carry down with it five workmen and burying them beneath a shower of bricks, broken timber and plaster. It is thought none will die. Firs in Toronto thlp/ards. Fire broke out in Bertram’s shipyards at Toronto, Ont. The docks of the company and the large carpenter shop and «>me small buildings, together with a barge and a quantity of lumber, were destroyed. The loss will reach $200,000. Hotoital Sli p Qoei D-wi The hospital ship Olivette sank in thirty feet of water while near the quarantine station at Fernandina, Fla. No one was drowned. The cause of her going down is yet a mystery. Rumjr* of Eu-cpeaa Wari. War between France and Germany as a result of exposures to be made in the Dreyfus case and war betwosu Greet

Britain and Russia over complications in the far east are confidently predicted by well posted politicians in Europe. Paris is excited over the disclosures following Colonel Henry’s suicide and the wildest rumors are affoat. The people are demanding a retrial for the prisoner of Devil’s Island and the government faces the prospect of war with the Kaiser if this is granted and the whole truth told and a revolution at home if it is refused. Officers of the French army threaten to resign and tell all they know of the Dreyfus case, and many of the highest men in military circles are implicated in the promised exposures. No order for a revision of the Dreyfus .verdict can be secured until the cabinet meets, and the ministers are now scattered, apparently wishing to keep out of the way for the present. Zola, from his hiding place, has written Dreyfus’ wife congratulating her. HARD TIMES ARE FORGOTTEN. Nearly Every Line of Tradr Shows Improvement—Records Bretten. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The smallest failures ever recorded in any month for five years were those of August. No other month since the montly reports were commenced by Dun’s review exclusively has shown defaulted liabilities as small within $1,000,000, and the ratio of such defaults to solvent business, represented by exchanges through all clearing houses —only $108.70 to sloo,ooo—is smaller by 26.5 per cent, than in any previous month. The clearings have been the largest ever known in August, and 23 per cent, larger than in 1892. The enormous volume of business in a month usually one of the most inactive of the year demands attention. Postponement during the months of war of some contracts and purchases which have now come forward explain part of the increase, and the strong absorption of securities explains part, but there has also been a great decline in the average of prices for all commodities, so that it takes a much larger volume of business in tons or bushels to make up transactions amounting to a million more than in 1892. It is therefore strictly trua. that business is larger than in the very best of all past years, and yet there is every prospect of much further increase. Failures for the week have been 171 in the United States, against 191 last year, and 22 ip Canada, against 25 last year.”

WRECKED BY WAR TORPEDO. Snag Boat Blown Up and Four of Her Grew KilledThe United States steamer John Meiggs of the snagboat service was blown up in the Mississippi river, near Fort St Philip, by a torpedo or mine placed there at the beginning of the war with Spain for the purpose of preventing any hostile vessels from ascending the river. Captain Starr, Sergeant John Needham of the engineer service, Ralph Rogers and Pat Corless, employed on the vessel, were instantly killed, and D. B. Reddick and Fritz Koch seriously wounded. The only other person on the boat at the time, Lieut. Jarvis, escaped unhurt, almost by a miracle. The boat is a total loss. Some seventy mines and torpedoes were placed in the Mississippi at the beginning of the war. Major Quinn was ordered to remove them. It was while in this work that the Meiggs was blown up. The lost steamer was built in St. Louis and cost $30,000. May Mean L.bsrly for Dreyfua. Lieut. Col. Henry, oue of the chief witnesses against Captain Albert Dreyfus, killed himself in the Mont Valerlen fortress, near Paris. He had made confession that the document which he offered at the trial had been forged to aid the army in the prosecution of Dreyfus. Upon hearing of the tragedy Gen. de Boisdeffre, chief of staff of the French army, resigned. Revenge of Treasure-Seekers. 'The schooner Sophia Sutherland, which left San Francisco eighteen months ago with a party of treasure seekers for the Sdlomon Islands, has returned with a cargo of cocoanuts. The men were deceived by the projector of the enterprise, L. P. Sorenson, who was put ashore on the island. The others sailed for Samoa. Big Lot of Flour Ruined by Fire. Fire, smoke and water ruined or damaged about $200,000 worth of flour in the New York Central freight house in Buffalo. The flour, which is owned by three Minneapolis companies, was fully insured. The freight house and dock were damaged to the extent of but a few dollars. Coffi i Game In Texas. Dr. Oscar J. Braun was instantly killed and E. St. Leon, a State ranger, fatally wounded by John Collier and other parties near Socorro, Texas, while Braux and St. Leon were trying to arrest Collier and others for shooting up the town. Collier is in jail. Allege 1 ! Murderers Are Arrested. The coroner’s jury in Watertown, S. D„ brought in a verdict that Lyman E. Moody, whose charred body was found in the burned ruins of his home the other pight, was murdered by Louis Montrol and Mike Andre, both of whom have been arrested. .Japan's New Oru ser. Paymaster K. Nakanama and Lieutenant Commander K. Tsuchiya of the Japanese navy have arrived at Seattle from St. Paul to meet the crew of the new Japanese cruiser Kasago Kan, just built at Philadelphia. Heavy 'Storm In Georgia. A heavy storm did $250,000. damage in Savannah, Ga., and vicinity. One man was drowned by the wrecking of a steamer in Calibogue sound. Stone for Governor. Democrats of New Hampshire have selected Charles F. Stone of Concord as their candidate for Governor. P:ot Against Banff/. The Budapest newspapers report the discovery of. ft plot to murder Baron Banffy, the Hungarian premier.