Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — KILLS HIS COMRADE. [ARTICLE]

KILLS HIS COMRADE.

SOLDIER, ACCUSED OF THEFT, REPLIES WITH BULLETS Tragedy a* Montank Point Grow* Ont of a Trifling Difference-Spike in the Bails Canaea a Smash-Up at Bt. Louis —Bobbers Malm a Banker. One Soldier £ Hoots Another. A charge of manslaughter has been entered against Blacksmith Lindsey P. Holt of the Tenth cavalry at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point. Holt is responsible for the death of Private .Tames P. Twisby of troop F. Twisby died in the regimental hospital from a wound in the small of the back inflicted by a bullet from a rifle in the hands of the blacksmith. had quarreled. Holt displayed a gold coin to a party of comrades on the company street and Twisby immediately accused him of having stolen the piece. Twisby said he got it in Santiago and that it was worth $4 or $5. An altercation followed and Holt retreated to an officer’s tent and procured a rifle. He fired point blank at the trooper, three shots taking effect. One entered the small of the back and the other the left hip and jaw. Twisby was carried to the hospital unconscious and Holt was immediately placed under arrest. SEEK “WOMAN IN BLACK.” Bt. Louis Police Anx oui to Find a Olever Fem tie Thief. St. Louis police are anxious to find the “woman in black.” She is as famous there as the “long and short” men are in Chicago. The “woman in black” has robbed a score of people, and has done it so cleverly that the police are confident that she is a professional. On a street car a few days ago she robbed two women; she has robbed a half dozen women in the street, and more recently she robbed another woman. Mrs. Kate Cambridge was in a Broadway millinery store. She noticed a woman dressed in black standing near, but thought nothing of it until she felt for her purse and found it gone. Then she thohght of the “woman in black.” Employes of all the big stores have been furnished with a description of her, WRECKS NARROWLY AVERTED. Bt. Lou > Boyi Nearly Cauis D.eaatrouj Railroad Acc'denti. Just as the north-bound through passenger train on the St. Louis, Iron. Mountain and Southern Railroad as running Into St. Louis the other night the engihe struck a spike that had been wedged in between the rail ends and plunged across the double tracks, stopping on the brink of a 15foot embankment. A moment later a freight train running on special time crashed into the rear end of the passenger train, but no one.was severely injured. After the freight train crash a baggageman ran buck and flagged the Oak Hill accommodation within 500 feet of the collided trains. It is thought that boys placed the spike between the rails.

R.bbars Shoot a Oash'er. At Flora, Ind. 7 the safe of the Farmers’ Bank was blown open by robbers, who secured nearly $12,000 and made good their escape. Cashier William Lenon, who was aroused by the noise of the explosion, appeared op the scene while the robbers were still at work. He was shot nnd it is believed he will die. There were two terrific explosions and the bank building was almost wrecked. Peacamaker's Usual Fata. At Iloisington, Kan., Lew Kelley and L. E. Baker had an altercation brougUrt nbout by an alleged insult to Mrs. Kelley by Baker. The result was a running fight, in which Kelley pounded Baker on the head with a revolver. B. F. Ruggles, an old man, interfered nnd tried to stop the fight. The revolver in the hands of Kel- ‘ ley was discharged nnd Ruggles was shot and Instantly killed. National Laagua Standing. Following is the standing of the club* in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 02 44Philadelphia. 68 64 Baltimore .. .87 48Pittsburg ... .67 72 Cincinnati ..85 55 Louisville ...62 75 Cleveland ...75 60 Brooklyn ....49 79 Chicago 77 63 Washington. 44 91 New Y0rk...72 64 St. Louis 35 98 Loan and Trust Companies Fails. The New England Loan and Trust Company of New York, which has long been regarded ns the strongest of the financial concerns that exploited Western mortgages, has gone into the hands of a receiver, Otto F. Bann'ard, president of the Continental Trust Company, having been appointed. -•—> Datarminad to Dia. Frederick Welde of Milwaukee, a solicitor for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, committed suicide at St. Louis by swallowing prussic acid and jumping into the artificial lake at O’Fallon park, where his body was found. Jalnt Hairs In Africa. According to an article in the London Fortnightly Review the Anglo-German agreement provides in detail for England and Germany to become joint heirs by purchase of all the Portuguese possessions in Africa. Preachar Is Bantenctd to Hang. Rev. Mr. Morrison was found guilty of murdering his wife at Panhandle City, Texas. Sentence of death was imposed. Roosevalt Receive* Njm nitlon, Col. Theodore Roosevelt is the Republican nominee for Governor of New York. Train Fslla with a Trestle. A sleeper and a chair car in a train on the Houston and Texas Central plunged through a fifteen-foot trestle over Chambers creek, forty-seven miles from Dallas, Texas. Twenty people were injured and Judge G. W. Davis of Oak Cliff was killed. Decorated by the M kado. Dr. M. C. Harris, elder of the Methodist Episcopal Japanese mission of the Pacific conference, has been decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Sacred Treasure. Four Killed In a Wreck. The first section of a north-bound freight train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton nnd Dayton road was wrecked at the Detroit and Lima Northern crossing, two miles south of Leipsic, Ohio, aud the entire crew was killed. The train went into a ditch, all the cars being piled up on top of the engine. Chinese Emperor Rasigns Power. An imperial edict just issued at Pekin definitely announces that the Emperor of China has resigned his power to the dowager empress, who has ordered the ministers to deliver to her in future their official reports. Largs Wheat Orop in Francs. The French wheat crop is estimated at 123,000,000 hectoliters, the largest since 1874, when the yield was 130,000,000 hectoliters. This will render France independent of foreign importations of wheat. Goup'e KillsJ In a Tunnsl. A man and a woman, both middle-aged, were run over and instantly killed in the Prospect Park tunnel of the * Brighton Beach Railroad in Brooklyn, N. Y. Woman Burnet w th Kerosene. At Denison, Texas, Mrs. Mary Joslyn, while attempting to light a fir<e with kerosene, was burned so badly that she will die.

ENTOMBED !N_A COAL SHAFTExplosion of Qas Oausos • Die eater Near Brownsville, Pa. Fifty-eight men were at work in the Snowden, Gould & Co. coal mine, a mile below Brownsville, Pa., when a terrific Explosion of mine gas occurred. A great warve of fire damp immediately followed, filling the mine and entries. This also exploded, spreading death and havoc on every hand. Jacob Davis, a man named Walker and two Huns, names unknown, who were working near the entry, were rescued, all more or less seriously hurt. Davis says he does not think it possible that any of the men who were imprisoned could escape death. The explosion caused the wildest excitement. Several blackened and mutilated bodies have been recovered from the mine by rescuing parties. IN LOVE WITH A CONVICT. Newspaper Woman Comm ti Suicide at Oolumbut, Ohio. Mrs. Effie Rankin Bowers, a newspaper writer, died at St. Francis’ hospital, Columbus, Ohio, as the result of an overdose of morphine taken with suicidal intent. She took the drug at night and Waß found by her husband in the morning. A note left by her discloses the fact that she was in love with Francis Emerson, the convict who hid in a box a few days ago and was conveyed out of the prison on a dray, but was afterward captured. Mrs. Bowers said that Emerson was her former husband. Her first newspaper work was in Chicago under Storey. She had recently pnrehased the Democratic Call and had lost money. KILLED WHILE BOUND. Indian Tarrllory Man Bhoote His Htlplwi 8 jn- in- Law. News of a terrible double tragedy near Center, I. T., has just been received. In a moment of passion A. B. Harding killed his wife. He was captured by citizens and put in a wagon and bound down with ropes. J. A. Page, the murdered woman’s father, learned of the deed, and at once went in search of the murderer and shot him to death as he lay, utterly helpless, in the wagon. Page was arrested and is now in the United States jail at Paul’s Valley. ONLY TWO WERE SAVED. Ten Lives Are Lost by the Wreck of a Schooner. Australian papers report the loss of the schooner C. C. Funk on Flinder’s Island, with ten of her crew, all of whom shipped on the well-known coaster either in San Francisco or in the north. Only two seamen—Albert Krough and John Peterson —were saved, and but one body had been recovered. It was that of Peter Neilson. The vessel was driven ashore by a gale and went to pieces in the surf. Nerve of a Missouri Miner. A few nights ago a paper was tacked to the door of a house at Tuckahoeming mining camp, two miles north of Joplin, Mo., notifying Reed Hoagland to leave the country at once. It was signed “A Friend.” The next night Reed and Will Hoagland watched their home, but no one came. The second night Reed Hoagland went to Joplin and stayed, leaving his brother Will at home to guard the house and his wife and mother. About 1 o’clock five men approached the house and forced open the back door. Will Hoagland fired at them, whereupon they jumped off the porch and went around to the front door. A few moments later a terrific explosion occurred and the front door, which was fastened with a chain, was torn to pieces by dynamite tvhich the white caps had placed under it. Hoagland opened fire upon the invaders. The foremost man was hit in the breast and fell backward. He was caught by his companions and taken outside. Then a fierce battle followed, the white caps firing through the open door and Hoagland returning the fire, While his 12-year-old brother knelt behind him and loaded his revolvers. The assailants were finally driven off. In the morning many bloodstains were seen on the porch and the imprints of several bloody hands were left on the outside walls. Officers and friends of the Hoagland boys, with a pack of bloodhounds, went in pursuit of the white caps. Three miners named Collier, Goforth and Coffer were arrested. Chicago Robbers Captured. George Rouse and Edward E. English, alias Williams, alias Rinnert, the two desperadoes who have been known only as the “long and short men” and who have committed many bold robberies in Chicago, have confessed their guilt. After their arrest they admitted they were the men for whom the police have been searching night and day. Inspector Hartnett questioned them a long time before one admission could be gained from either. Then Rouse, the “long man,” broke down. . He admitted his guilt and also said that English was the other guilty man. Rouse made a detailed statement in writing of his and English’s operations, which he signed later on. English, who appears the more desperate of the two, would not discuss in detail the many holdups which Rouse says they committed. He, however, admitted his guilt. Rouse is 30 years old and claims Syracuse, N. Y., as his home. He is not unknown to the Chicago police, having been arrested in 1893 and given a 50-day sentence. English says he was born 25 years ago on board his father’s boat in Long Island sound. Carpet Mills to Oloae. At a meeting of ingrain carpet yarn spinners held in Philadelphia an absolute shutdown of the mills represented was decided upon. This action is taken because of the overproduction of yarn. At present, owing to unusual conditions in the carpet business, a large per cent of the ingrain looms are not running. While the looms have been shutting down the production of yarn has kept up. Man with Money It Missing. Joseph Hickey of western Nebraska, who was accompanying a married daughter, Mrs. Maggie Brown, and a sick child to Medford, O. T., mysteriously disappeared from the union station at St. Joseph, Mo. Hickey had S4OO in money and railway tickets in his possession, and fears are expressed that he has been robbed and thrown into the river. Nsll Dsnnelai'j Fj*»l Shot. Neil Donnellon, only son of Cornelius Donnellon, a vice-president of the D. & M. Chauncey Real Estate Company of Brooklyn, and a wealthy man, killed himself by shooting himself In the left breast with a revolver at his home in New York. There is an absolute lack of reason, so far as bis family knows, for the young man’s act. Dead of a Jealous Husband. At Oskaloosa, lowa, James Raymond was stabbed and almost instantly killed by Jacob N. Moyers at the latter’s boarding house. Moyers was insanely jealous of Raymond, who had been attentive to Mrs. Moyers. The husband found the two talking in his wife’s room and the fatal encounter ensued. Illinois Man Is Robbed. Robert Young, a well-known man in Knox County, Illinois, was robbed of $2,000 in cash and notes at Wichita, Kan. Young was trying to get through a crowd Into the street car to go to town from the State fair grounds. Crackimen Rob an lows Bank. The Botna Valjey State Bank at Hastings, lowa, was robbed the other night by cracksmen, who blew the safe to pieces. The robbers, of whom there were probably three, secured $2,135 aud escaped with their booty. Horses Perish in Flames. Davis’ livery stable at Gloucester, Mass., was burned, ihirty-five horses perishing in the flames. The loss is $28,000. Qreat Plans fir 6h pbu Iding. Sharply' following the confirmation of the news that a gigantic steel trust has been formed in this country comes

the announcement’ a shipbuilding plant on a vast scale never attempted hitherto or even dreamed of as qmong the possibilities—is to establish in New York, with Andrew Carnegie as its active head. Even now it is said that conferences are being held daily in Pittsburg by the representatives of the various capitalists who wil be interested with Mr. Carnegie in this great undertaking. One secret of the determination to establish a plant is said to be the fact that Andrew Carnegie has now obtained the right to use the Kruppized steel armor, or armor that has been subjected to the Krupp process—a process that renders six-inch armor more impenetrable than seventeen-! inch armor is under the old processes. The Carnegie syndicate expects to control the shipbuilding of this hemisphere, besides the construction of many of the warships which the maritime powers of Europe have in contemplation. CONTROL OF MONEY 13 SHIFTING.Dun Repart* America Booming Ma»tsr of Eurrpj—State of Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Europe will have to consider possible American needs for money much more anxiously in the future. The control of this country over money markets in the old world is coming to be that of a master. Onr banks lend over there heavily when it is the most convenient market for them, bnt they draw on Europe whenever they want money, and no longer have occasion to limit their drafts. This country Is not drawing on Europe as largely to pay for breadstuffs as it did a year ago, and wheat exports for the week, flour included, have been 3,963,204 bushels from Atlantic ports, against 8,677,868 bushels last year, and 543,417 bushels from Pacific ports, against 1,094,893 bushels last year, making for three weeks 10,203,941 bushels from both coasts, flour included, against 15,569,129 bushels last year. Prices have risen sharply, about 4 cents for the week, and the exports of corn, though not as large as last year, have been heavy in comparison with any other year. The price is slightly advanced. Reports from different cities disclose a wonderful activity at the chief centers of Western trade, the dispatches from Chicago, St. Paul and St. Louis being especially significant. Failures for the week have been 173 in the United States, against 209 last year, aud 16 in Canada, against 28 last year.” BANDITS WRECK A CAR. 1 N Masked Men Blow Up the Expre** Coach of a Missouri Pac fl: Train. Another successful train robbery has been perpetrated almost within the limits of Kansas City. A Missouri Pacific train was held up by masked men at Belt Junction, just east of Leeds, and within seven miles of the union passenger station. The express car was detached and dynamite used with such effect that the car was blown to atoms. The debris was hurled across the wires of the “Frisco” road, adjoining, breaking down the wires and cutting off all connection to the south. The rubbers had taken precaution, however, to compel the “Frisco” operator to accompany them, and had broken his instruments. The Pacific express officials declare that the loss is small, but it is rumored that there was considerable money aboard. DISTILLERY EXPLOSION KILLS ONE. Qranary of the Relschmann Plant In Nsw York Wracked—Ten Hurt. Grain dust exploded in the granary at the big Fleisch’mann distillery in Long Island City. One man was killed and three were injured. The conveying plant was utterly wrecked, as well as the large building in which it was situated. Traffic on the main line of the Long Island Railroad was blocked for two hours by the piles of debris thrown on the tracks. When the dust explosion took place the big building and its costly contents went down like a house of cards before the irresistible force. All Long Island City was shaken. Patrick McCaffrey was caught in the falling wreck, and all the afternoon the firemen worked hard to recover his body. The damage is estimated at $50,000, covered by insurance. Kilts a Widow, Than H.msalf. James O’Neill, yardmaster of the Long Island Railroad Company, shot and killed Mrs. Ella Wilson at her home in Brooklyn, N. Y., and then killed himself. Mrs. Wilson was a widow, with several children. O’Neill was unmarried and had been a frequent visitor at her house for some time. Uommlts Suicide at Bsa. A man registered as M. Putze, a second cabin passenger on the steamer La Gascogne, from Havre, for New York, was found dead in his cabin, having committed suicide by hanging. He was about 85 years old and left nothing that tvould reveal his identity. Kanaa* Farmers Hold Thalr, Drain. At Topeka, Kan., four flour mills have ceased grinding for want of wheat. It is estimated that at least fifty mills at other points in the State are idle from the same cause. The Kansas farmers are generally holding their wheat for better prices. » Child Dia* cf H/drrphobia. Florence, the 12-year-old daughter of Mrs. Alexander Carmen, died at Liverpool, Ohio, of hydrophobia. The child was bitten two weeks before by a pet dog. Soon afterward the animal displayed signs of rabies and was killed. Kill* Hi* Brother-lr.-Law. At the Haldeman paper mills, at Lockland, Ohio, ex-State Senator J. C. Richardson, aged 84, was shot by his brother-in-law, William J. Haldeman. Richardson died instantly. New Jersey Republican* Name Voorhes*. Acting Governor Foster W. Voorhees has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of New Jersey.