Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — SHOOTS HER FATHER. [ARTICLE]

SHOOTS HER FATHER.

GROOM MAKES HIS BRIDE AN ORPHAN. Tragic Sequel to an Elopement In Saline County, Arkansas-Married and Taken to Jail-Highest Mountain in America Is Discovered. Kill* Hit Brtds's Father. In Saline County. Arkansas, Joe McKinney shot and killed Charles Taylor. McKinney was a tenant of Taylor’s and had Tiis home in Grant County. Taylor had been very much dissatisfied at the attention shown by McKinney to his daughter, and purchased the latter’s crop in order to get rid of him. McKinney arranged his affairs and started to his Grant County home, Miss Taylor accompanying him. Immediately upon hearing of his daughter’s elopement Taylor started in pursuit and overtook the couple in a wagon near the Fletcher place in Saline County. Taylor immediately opened fire and McKinney secured a shotgun from under the wagon seat'and shot Taylor in the breast, immediately killing him. The young couple then drove to Redfield, surrendered to Justice Bain and were married. All parties connected are prominent in Saline and adjoining counties. PEAK 20,000 FEET HIGH. Most E ovate:) Mountain in North America Found In Alaska. The G. 11. Eldredge geological survey party, which has returned from the Cook’s Inlet country, is said to have discovered the highest mountain in North America. The peak, which towers far above Mount St. Elias, is situated in Alaska to the right of the Sushitna ltiver. The govern-menl-topographer took triangulations of the elevations, ascertaining by scientific calculations the exact height of the peak, which he declared to be more than 20,000 feet. The mountain was named Bullshae, a word spoken in exclamation by the Indian guide of the party upon first beholding the wonderful peak. Lursd by Advertisement Alexander S. Sampson of West Duxberry, Mass., died in n hospital after having been lured to San Francisco by the advertisement of a matrimonial agency. He was 05 years of age and went there to marry an alleged “rich widow.” He met a woman who has recently figured in a somewhut similar case, but when his money was gone she is said to have refused to recognize him.

Kills H s Bw>sthsart Near Montieello, Ky.j Alex. Keith, a young farmer, called on his sweetheart, Miss Lou Dick, and found a rival talking to tier. - Angry words passed nnd Keith attempted to shoot the other man. Miss Dick interfered, when Keith turned his revolver on her and shot her through the right breast, inflicting a mortal wound. He then fled. Ba-rgar 1 1 Worth SIOO,OOO. Charles Broekwitz, worth SIOO,OOO, was sent to Blackwell’s Island in New York as a professional mendicant. He came to this country from Russia about twenty years ago. He found begging more profitable than labor and made a tine art of it. To incite pity he deliberately destroyed his eyesight by gazing open eyed directly at the sun. National Laagus Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston ....101 45 New York... .74 72 Baltimore ...94 51 Pittsburg ....71 74 Cincinnati ..91 59 Louisville ...07 80 Chicago 84 05 Brooklyn ....54 87 Cleveland .. .79 05 Washington. 59 99 Fhiludelphia .74 71 St. Louis 39110 Young Troopjr 13 Shot. Private M. A. Doucet, a young Swede belonging to Company L, Twelfth New York, was shot and killed at Lexington, Ivy., by the provost guard while running away to evade arrest. Private Bailey of the Third engineers was also shot by the provost guard and is in a critical condition. v Have Not Bsen Andree. The German steam yacht Heligoland, with the members of Herr Theodor Lerner’s expedition, returned from Spitzbergen, having reached 81 degrees north. They had not seen Andree, but had collected much zoological matter. Will Evacuate Crete. The reply of the Turkish government to the. note of the powers on the evacuation of the island of Crete has been handed to the ambassadors. 'Turkey accepts the terms proposed, but expresses a wish for certain modifications. Selects a New Emperor. The empress dowager of China and the imperial Clan have adopted as the new emperor a son of the late Emperor T’UngChi, who will shortly be proclaimed. Heavy Fire Loss at Tacoma. At Tacoma, the Tourist Hotel, under construction, was burned. There had been expended on the structure up to date SOOO,OOO. Bank Relieved of Oash. The private bank of Jacob Denherder at Zeeland, Mich,, was looted by robbers. Ail currency was taken, except SI,OOO in “ silver. Frssident at the Exposition. Two hundred thousand citizens of the transmissouri region welcomed President McKinley to the peace jubilee in Omaha. Quart* Runs $1,003 Per Ton. News is received at Victoria, B. C., of the finding of gold quartz at Skaguay going SI,OOO to the ton. The news comes from a very reliable source, and although the exact location is not made known, it is within a very short distance of the gateway city. Amir cin Troops in ManzsnTo, The American troops raised the Stars and Stripes over the custom house and in the public square of Manzanillo, Cuba, and took formal possession. The Spanish garrison departed for Cienfuegos. Dsath of Freildoit’s Bro'hsr-ln-Law. George D. Saxton, the only brother of Mrs. William McKinley, lies dead at the Canton, Ohio, morgue, murdered by a woman. Mrs. Anna George, an intimate friend of the dead man, is under arrest charged with having fired the fatal shots. Last’ Hang ng In the 8 ate. Alfred Williams, convicted of the murder of John Gallo, in Lynn, July 22, 1897, was hanged at Salem. Mass. This is the last hanging Massachusetts will ever know. In the future the penalty for all capital offenses will be electrocution. Qsnsral O'ay’j Child W fs Marries Dora Richardson, “child wife” of General Cassius M. Clay, and who was divorced from him a month ago, was married at Keene, Ky., to Riley Brock, the farmhand to whom she was engaged. E ected B*nator In O-egon. Oregon now has two Republican United States Senators. Joseph Simon of Portland was elected in joint ballot by the Legislature, receiving the full Re/r publican vote. ' Ex-May r A. Oikey Hall Dead. Ex-Mayor Oakey Hall of New York died suddenly in the 73d years of his age. Mr. Hall had been ill for some time,* but his death was somewhat unexpected.

PAR* STftlK£_ EXTENDING. Faarsd that the Lssdsrs Are Aiming at a Revolution. The strike of the laborers in Paris has extended to nearly all the building trades, and it is feared the railroad men will join in the movement. Work on the exhibition buildings and underground railroad has completely ceased. About 60,000 men have gone on strike, and the situation is causing consternation. The attitude of the strikers is increasingly aggressive, and fights between strikers and so-called “black-legs” are incessant, involving the intervention of the police, troops and mounted republican guards, who have been obliged to repeatedly charge the strikers. The quarters in which rioting has taken place are patrolled by strong detachments of police and troops. There are great apprehensions lest the agitators turn the strike movement'to political ends. SUES ON NOVEL GROUNDS. Pullman Company Blamtd for Consumption Contracted in a Oar. J. M. Edmondson, a prominent attorney of San Antonio, Texas, formerly of Dallas, has sued the Pullman Palace Car Company in the United States ' Circuit Court at El Paso, Texas, for $15,000 alleged damages. The plaintiffs grounds for the suit are somewhat novel. He claimed that while journeying in a Pullman car from San Antonio to Denver he was drenched with rain water through a hole in the roof while asleep in his berth. From the effects of the wetting he says he contracted a severe cold, which resulted in consumption. ONE THOUSAND DIZ IN FIRE. Estimate of th» Loss of Life in a Conflagration at Hankow. According to a special dispatch from Shanghai, a fire on Sunday at Hankow destroyed over a square mile of the city, including the Government buildings and temple. It is feared that 1,000 lives were lost. Hankow is a treaty port on the Yongtße-Kiaug, at the mouth of one of its tributaries, 700 miles from the sea. The city forms, with Han-Yang and WooChang, the capital of Hoo-Po, all in sight of one another, and separated only by the river, one of the greatest commercial centers in the world. POLICE STATIONS ON YUKON. Canadian Authorities Flaci Them About Thirty Milas Apart The Canadian police are completing the establishment of a chain of police stations along the Upper Yukon, from Dawson on to Lake Bennett. The stations are now about thirty miles apart. Five men have been detailed for each post. Each station has supplies for two years and numerous dogs. The soldiers are to carry dispatches and facilitate the forwarding of mails, and are instructed to assist all travelers, of whom from 6,000 to 8,000 are expected to come out over the ice.

FIRE LOSS OF *500,000. Flams* at Olarksv.lle, Tann., Swsap Ovsr Tan Acras. At Clarksville, Tenn., fire broke out in the Grange tobacco warehouse occupied by Mill & Turnley, burning about 4,500 hogsheads of tobacco. The loss on tobacco aud building is estimated at nearly $500,000, with insurance of about $300,000. The fire also burned Gracey Bros.’ coal and storage shed, the Louisville and Nashville depot, six freight cars on the track and several cottages. The fire covered a space of about ten acres. Its origin is unknown. ARMY CORPS ARE REORGANIZED. Third, Fifth and 8 xth Are Discontinued and O h»r» Rsmidalad. A general order was issued organizing new army corps and designating various points where the troops shall be stationed. The Third, Fifth and Sixth corps are discontinued; the First, Second and Fourth corps reorganized. They are to be commanded respectively by Major Generals Breckinridge, Graham and Wheeler. The headquarters of each corps will be: First corps, Macon, Gn.; Second Corps, Augusta, Ga.; Fourth Corps, Huntsville, Ala. Railway Smashup Naar Mi wauka*. One man killed, three cars burned and a locomotive wrecked was the result of a collision between a passenger and freight train on tfae Chicago and Northwestern Railroad about eight miles south of Milwaukee. The trains which collided were the passer or train No. 15, which leaves nightly at 10:30 p. m., and an extra freight both north bound. The freight train was standing on the main track and the accident was caused by failure of Engineer Lane of the passenger to notice a block danger signal. The passenger train on crashing* into the freight telescoped the caboose, setting it on fire. The locomotive toppled over sideways, burying Fireman Thomas Duckwall of Chicago, whose dead body was taken out several hours later in a badly mangled condition. The engineer escaped. The flames communicated to the mail car, and also a freight car containing coke next to the caboose, the three being destroyed. All the mail, with the exception of one or two sacks, was saved, and the mail clerk escaped unhurt. The passenger train was in charge of Conductor H. S. Smith. Conductor J. H. Vebber wns with the freight. Drowieti at His Bath. William Strutt, aged about 25 years, son of Lord Belper of Kingston, Derby, England, and nephew of the Earl of Dunmore, a Scotch peer, who is a lord-iu-waiting to Queen Victoria, was found dead iu the bathtub in his apartments at the West End Hotel at St. Louis. His body was entirely submerged in the water that filled the tub. The remains were discovered by Herman Alweise and Lottie Piper, man and maid servants respectively of the young man, who occupied a suite of apartments on the fifth floor of the fashionable hotel. The hotel people were immediately notified and the coroner took charge of the remains for the purpose of learning the cause of death. The Countess of Dunmore, who is stopping with friends in the city, is an aunt of the dead man. She was notified of his death, but as her whereabouts are kept a secret nothing could be learned from her concerning Mr. Strutt. Deceased went to St. Louis Aug. 15 and took apartments at the hotel where he died. He was there apparently on a pleasure and sight-seeing tour, and not very much was known about him. Dsiver H s a Jack th« Rppir Ois a. Mrs. Julia Vogt, a clairvoyant and medium, was found dead in her apartments on Champa street, Denver. She lay on the floor face downward. A twisted towel was tied tightly around her neck and there is no doubt that she had been strangled to death. There is no clew to the murderer, but the police believe that thd deed was committed by the same strangler who murdered three women on Market street in that city some time ago. Chic g >an Lost In Alaska. Sterling Martin is drowned and ten of his companions, all from Chicago, are stranded. They were gold hunters and were members of the Alaska and Bonanza Mining and Transportation Company of Chicago. Their small steam schooner, Fortune Hunter, now lies beached on the shores of Golovin Bay. Nits) Old Stsmsr Doomed. The old steamer Prof. Morse, which assisted the Great Eastern to lay the first cable across the Atlantic, is lying xt the Fulton Iron Works, San Francisco, and will probably be broken up. Orop Out Dow v - Trustworthy indications are that the cotton crop in Georgia will be cut down at least 300,000 bales by the recent. severe storm. The money damage will amount to nearly $5,000,000. Lnra* Lost in a Smtsh-Up. A Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley freight train drawn by two locomotives ran into the rear end of an Omaha line passenger train ia the-yards at Omaha. The last car on the passenger train

' " " 'c- . ,1 4k, a f * Jones, waiter, of Chicago, was kilted, and Otto Homedale, conductor dining car, scalded and fatally injured about the body. Several other persons were seriously injured. The accident was due to the inability of the engineer, Michael Smith, of the head engine of the freight, to stop his train. The track from the curve south to where the accident occurred is a down grade. Engineer Brandt said that when the engines passed the curve he saw the motionless passenger train and whistled for “down brakes,” but before this move contd be made the engine struck the dining car. As they struck Brandt and his fireman jumped, as did Engineer Smith and bis fireman. CARNIVALS HELP TRADE. Bradstraat's R -parts Hssv/ D stribution of Qiods. Bradstreet’s says: “With the exception of some parts of the South where heavy storms and yellow fever with resulting quarantines cheek distribution, a very large business appears to be doing, though complaints of ft narrow margin of profit are well nigh unanimous., It has been a carnival and fall celebration period at a number of Western cities and a resulting large distribution both retail and wholesale is reported. Prices of leading staples, while showing rather more irregnlarity, are in the main well held.” FIRE AND DYNAMITE AS WEAPONS. Inca idiariss Bssk to Burn and B ow Up an lowa Fh/slcian. Dr. Harrison, an old settler and the richest man in Newton, lowa, incurred the enmity of unknown persons npon being charged with selling whisky in his drug store. On a recent night the drug store, livery Btuble and dwelling owned by the doctor were burned by incendiaries. While the fire was raging the doctor’s residence and private stables in another part of the town were blown up by dynamite and partially destroyed. The family narrowly escaped death. Dr. Harrison’s loss is $15,000. SENTRY SLAY 3 A DESIRTERTwo Boldi«rs, Falling to Raach the Front, . Attemp E icaps. Believing there was no chance of their being sent to Porto Rico, Privates Oliver W. Greenwood and Harvey Stokes of battery B, Seventh United States artillery, attempted to leave Fort Slocum, New York, while prisoners. The men refused to halt when challenged and the sentries fired upon them, killing Greenwood instantly. Stokes, although uninjured, immediately surrendered. Greenwood was from Kentucky. Ever since hostilities were suspended he had been unruly and despondent. Djctrsis Ohsrgsj wth Murder. Coroner Doten has completed his inquest into the death of Emma Gill, whose dismembered body was found in the lrellow Mill Pond at Bridgeport, Conn., a few weeks ago, finding that she came to her death by felonious homicide at the hands of Nancy A. Guilford, assisted and abetted by Alfred Oxley and Rose Drayton. The grund jury has indicted Nancy Guilford for murder in the second degree. This will facilitate her extradition from England. Canrt batism in Russia. At the church congress held at Kieff, Russia, the question of cannibalism among the Votiaks came up for consideration. The bishop of Kasan affirmed that such was rife in his diocese. Its votaries are so cautious and secret in indulging in this practice that great, almost insuperable, difficulties had been encountered in trying to stamp it out. Eng'and’s Ru'er In a Runaway. Qfieen Victoria and her daughter, the ex-Empress Frederick of Germany, had a narrow escape from death while driving at Balmoral, Scotland. The coachman lost control of the horses and a serious accident was only averted by the horses turning into the woods, where the carriage stuck between the trees. To Prcbi Yukon Scandals. William Ogilvie, Yukon commissioner, has been empowered by the Canadian Government to make a searching investigation into Yukon scandals, and Gordon Hunter, barrister, of Victoria, B. C., has been appointed to replace Gold Commissioner Fawcett, Hsavy Loss for Mining Company. The Standard Consolidated Mining Company’s 20-stamp mill at Bodie, Cal., was totally destroyed by fire. The fire started in the boiler room. The adjoining offices and the cyanide plant were saved. The estimated loss is $50,000, partly insured. Savad by Ohsw of Tobsco. While standing in a skiff at Tarrytown, N. Y., John Kelly fell overboard. He was chewing tobacco. This lodged in his throat and prevented him from swallowing water. He was rescued and relieved of the quid, after having gone down twice. Smallpox Causes a Pan e. An epidemic of smallpox has broken out at Wapakoneta, Ohio, but so far there have been no deaths. All the schools have been ordered closed, and public assemblages have been forbidden. The scare amounts to almost a panic. Dispjrstt Fight with I ldians. Indians and Gen. Bacon’s soldiers fought a desperate battle. The scene of the conflict was a promontory in Leech Lake, near Bear Island, thirty miles from Walker, Minn. Several were killed on either side. Russia Mskei a Q-ab. Menelik, negus of Abyssinia, is said to have come to an agreement with Russia whereby the latter country secures a coaling station on the Red Sea. Qsorgi* 70,000 Democratic. The Democrats elected all State officers in Georgia by majorities approximating 70,000. Allen D. Chandler was chosen Governor.