Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — RAILWAY IN ALASKA. [ARTICLE]

RAILWAY IN ALASKA.

PACIFIC & ARCTIC ROAD PARTLY IN OPERATION. From Skagnay to White Paaa It la Now in Complete Working OrderCleveland Roomer Kills His Land* lady and HimaelA A'askan Railway Running. John Stanley, Mayor of Skaguay, Alaska, who is now in San Francisco purchasing apparatus for a fire department, says: “The Pacific and Arctic liailrond, now being built from Skaguay to Selkirk, is well under way. Kails have been laid to White Pass, and up to that point the road is in full working order. Over thirty-five tons of freight is daily shipped over this spur. Seven hundred men are working on the road. Last month the pny roll was $120,000. From White Pass to Lake Bennett, a distance of thirty miles, freight is transferred by sledges. Laborers on the road receive 35 cents an hour.” LOWELL, IND., SWEPT BY FIRE. Alarm Ball In tha V.llaga la Found to Ba Tiad-Loaa l» $40,000. • After t; r in.g the fire bell so it would not ring incendiaries set fire to the town of Lowell, M, containing about 1,800 inhabitants, and in three hours the largest portion of the business district was in ashes. Fourteen business houses were destroyed. The town has no fire protection except a volunteer bucket brigade. Before the big blaze was discovered two smaller fires were extinguished. The buildings burned are: Waters’ drug store, Niehol’s barber shop, Nichol’s opera house, postolfice, Hayward’s studio, Hacker’s saloon, Yiant building, Dr. Bacon’s barn, Spindler’s general store, Lowell Record Publishing Company, millinery ' store, Gersham Tailoring Company, E. J. Fixley, jeweler; George Death, hardware store; Haskin & Brannon, hardware store. The loss is estimated at $50,000, with little or no insurance. DOUBLE TRACEDY AT CLEVELAND. R chard Dlckion Kill* Mr*. Blanch* Wlnship and H miclf. A sensational murder and suicide occurred at 238 Lake street, Cleveland, Ohio. Richard Dickson, aged 00 years, the keeper of a repair shqp, shot Mrs. Blanche Winship with a revolver and then turned the weapon upon himself. Both died almost instantly. Dickson was a roomer at Mrs. Wiuship’s house until recently, and on account of some unexplained trouble went to the place, forced open the door of a room in which the woman had taken refuge and killed her and himself. Amancin Rilroid in China. A. W, Bash, general agent of the Ameri-cnu-Chinesc Development Company at Seattle, sails soon with W. Barclay Parsons, chief engineer of the company, for China to start work on one of the great railroads to be built in China. The company, heuded by ex-Senator Calvin S. Brice, lias obtained a concession to build a railway from Hankow to Canton and tlie sea opposite Hong Kong, traversing one of the richest districts of the empire. The company is capitalized at $40,000,000. It will obtain most of its material on our W estern coast. Ocv.i Eitita Distribulad. The estate of the late Jacob H. Davis, which has been in litigation for the last two years, has been finally distributed among the heirs in accordance with an order issued by Judge Coffey at San Francisco. The estate has been valued at $2,000,000, but owing to un agreement entered into years ago by the deceased half the property, as well as the outstanding mortgages, goes to his surviving partner, Alexander Boyd. The remainder is divided among his nieces, Mrs. John M. Curtis and Miss Lizzie MuLr. OinUl Operation Ends in Death. Jndsdn Crossman died in the Eastern District 'hospital at New York from the loss of blood caused by a dental operation. A Brooklyn dentist extracted four teeth for him. Blood flowed so freely from the jaw that it was some hours before the dentist could check it sufficiently to allow Crossmau to go home. Au hour later the bleeding began again and he was taken to the hospital. There the bleeding continued until he died. Engtiah and Du.ch Shipi Oallidc. The British steamer Hillcraig, Captain Gibson, fropi Ferpandin.a, yia Norfolk, for Hamburg, has been in collision with the Dutch steamer De Reuyter, bound from Cronstadt for Dordreicht. The collision occurred near Helvoet. The Hillcraig proceeded and the extent of damage to her is as yet unknown, but De Reuyter was badly damaged.

National Laagua Standing. Following is the standing of the dabs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 97 45Philadelphia. 70 68 Baltimore ...91 50Pittsburg ....68 78 Cincinnati ..90 58 Louisville ...65 79 Cleveland ...77 61 Brooklyn ....51 84 Chicago 81 65Washington. 49 93 New York.. .73 69St. Louis 37 104 LaPorte Myatary l» 8o:v«d. Harry Goldberg, a 12-year-old lad, who disappeared from La Porte, Ind., two years ago and who was said to have been murdered, has been found in Chicago, where he is at work. Bu>cida of Chinaaa Empsrar. A late dispatch from Shanghai says it is semi-officially announced there that the Emperor of China committed suicide on Sept. 21. Olosa Call for J. O. Oav •. J. C. Davis, a prominent cattleman and eity marshal of Wellington, Kan., was sitting in a window in the third story of the Carey Hotel when he fell backward and his foot caught in the shutter. He hung suspended for several minutes, but was finally rescued. George Qou d Will Have to Pay. George J. Gould, by a decision of the New York Court of Appeals, will be eompelled*"*to pay the State $132,784 as tax on a $5,000,000 bequest left him by his father, the late Jay Gould. Bhoa Latter* on 8 r ki. ' Shoe lasters all over southeastern Massachusetts are out on strike on account of the refusal of the lasting machine companies to withdraw agents they had put into the factories. The strike is the largest known in that section in years. It started in Broeton. Wisconsin Town Razsd by Flro. Fire originating from burning foi'ests destroyed half of Cumberland, Wis., a city of 1,500 people, causing a property loss estimated at $225,000. About five families are homeless. Five children" are reported burned to death. Naw Lord Mayor for London. Sir John V. Moore, an alderman of the city of London and senior partner of Moore Brothers, leather, merchants, has been elected lord mayor of London, England, to succeed Horatio David Davies, the incumbent of that office. Fifty Arnoanlana Killed. Turkish advices from Van say fighting has occurred at Alashgorb between the Turks and a number of Armenians from Russia. About fifty Armenians were killed. * ■*.*>>'* Buainssa Part of Ipaw ch, 8. D., Oastroyad. The entire business portion of Ipswich, S. D., was destroyed by fire, with the exception of on* block.

HAS WASHINGTON A GHOST 9. Mysterious Midnight Sounds in the Mansion at Mount Vernon. It was the custom In the family of George WaabiiNJton to shot up unused for two years a room In which death had occurred. So, after the death of the first President in the stately chamber with the great four-poster bed which Is still shown to visitors, Martha Washington, with her lonely heart, nightly climbed the attic stairs to lie in a low-celled, sloping-roofed room with one window—a room Intolerably .hot In the summer, with little or no means of securing a draught except by a triangular opening where the lower corner of the door had been ent off to make room for the passage of the cat. Martha Washington died before the twp-year period had ended. If sue had occupied the death chamber would she have seem the ghost of her dead husband? They say that the stalwart, stately figure of the brave general stalks through the passage with martial tread and clank of astral sword in spectral scabbard. It is a good ghost No one fears It Perhaps there are not many who really believe In its existence, but of the few are those who know most about the old house. Again and again It has happened that people detained at Mount Vernon on the business of the Mount Vernon Association have declared, on “waking from a sleepless night,” that they had heard the ghost’s sword and stride and seen Its tall, commanding figure, dressed in the old uniform that In life It wore. No lights are permitted In the old house, for fear of fire, except during the meeting of the regents, and then only candles. Ghosts are said to love dark or ill-lighted houses.—New York World.