Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — ROB MOHEGAN’S DEAD [ARTICLE]

ROB MOHEGAN’S DEAD

VANDALS TAKE VALUABLES FROM BODIES OF VICTIMS. Distressing Fcenea Among Bereaved BiUtivei Comtinme—British Vessel Is Burned and Nine Perish Pirst Blizzard of the Season in the West, dhoti's R b ths Drowned. A dispatch from Falmouth says that the bodies of the victims recovered from the wreck of the steamer Mohegan have been robbed by unknown people. An American, Dr. Fallows, according to the correspondent, tucked a bundle of £SO notes in his breast when the Mohegan struck. His body was subsequently found, but the notes were missing. Several of them were afterward put in circulation and the police are investigating the affair. The distressing scenes witnessed at the offices of the Atlantic Transport Company when the news of the wreck first became known to those who had friends or relatives on board have not abated. There were many weeping women at the company's offices, several with infants in their arms, and all appealing for news of the missing. Most of them were the wives of members of the crew. Some of them went away still hoping that their husbands had been rescued, but the majority gave way to despair. DR. SEAMAN TO THE COMMISSION Tell* of the Porto R.co Campaign and ths Trip of tho Obdam. Dr. Louis S. Seaman was the principal witness before the war investigating commission Thursday. He complained that the commissary supplies furnished the troops in Porto Rico were unsuited to the demands of a tropical climate and that they were especially unfit for hospital use. He said he had been in charge of the 200 convalescents brought North on the Obdam and had been unable to secure suitable supplies for them from the Government depots. He confessed, however, that he had made no formal written requisition, but had acted upon statements made to him informally to the effect that no com- ' mutation of rations would be allowed. He refused to reply to some questions. NINE PERISH ON BOARD SHIP* Tho British Votsel Blangfstl Burnod Off Margate, England. The British ship Blengfell, Capt. Joint son, from New York Sept. 10 for London, was destroyed by fire off Margate, England. Nine of those aboard, including the captain and a pilot, perished. The Blengfeil was four miles off the coast when she was suddenly enveloped in flames and smoke poured from her hatchways. Two lifeboats immediately put off to her assist' a nee, but before they reached her both masts fell and she was burned to the Titer’s edge. The vessel burned so qtiickly that her. crew had no time to louver the boats. BLIZZARD IN THE WEST. Heavy Snow Storm Interferes wth Traffic of All Kind*. A genuine blizzard prevailed in the Southwest and West Monday. A heavy, wet snow fell, and, driven by a strong wind, prostrated wires in all directions and caused delay to railway traffic. The snow followed twenty-four hours of steady rain. The sidewalks were covered three inches deep with slush. There was a decided fall in the temperature, and the suddenness of the storm, coming upon the track of the Indian summer weather, will undoubtedly cause great suffering, especially on the ranges covered with cattle. FANNY DAVENPORT’S WILL. Bequests to Her Owi Relatives Foot Up to On y (66,000. Fanny Davenport’s vast estate, valued at from $350,000 to $600,000, is given almost ’in its entirety to her husband, Melbourne MacDowell. The will was made in 1892 and leaves to Mr. MacDowell the bulk of the riches accumulated by his wife. There are some special bequests, but the aggregate of these does not begin to cut much of a figure iu comparison with the amount to which Mr. MacDowell will succeed, being altogether only about $55,000. Knight* Dafaat tha Plan. Executive business occupied the fourth and closing day’s session of the grand encampment, Knights Templar, at Pittsburg. The special ordeT of business was consideration of the proposed revision of the constitution. The most important amendment proposed was the one to locate the grand encampment headquarters at Washington, D. C. This was voted down by a large majority. Oaptaln Sinks with H'e Ship. The schooner Churchill of Chicago, laden with iron ore from Lake Superior, foundered in the middle of Lake Michigan, off Waukegan, at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon, and the captain and one sailor were carried down with the sinking boat. The mate, three other seamen and the woman cook were rescued. Bsak Ihir:y-*ix Years’ Pay. Members of Washington artillery, which was mustered into service in 1860, who claim they were never mustered out, have organized to collect thirty-six years’ pay, amounting to $185,656. . Bacomia a Fathar at 92. Captain. Henry O’Neill, aged 92, a Mexican and civil war veteran, and for many years a famous member of the Louisville police force, is for the first time, a father. Charge Conspiracy to Murdar. A charge of conspiracy to murder and murder has been brought against the officials of the Chicago-Virden Coal Company and the guards employed by them. This is the first move on the part of the strikers to take the fight against the mine owners into the courts. Four Blown to Pieces. Four Workmen constituting the crew of a large freight engine on the Wilmington and Northern railway, were blown to pieces. The locomotive boiler blew up, hurling the crew into the air. Bpaln’a Boldlara Bail fjr Homs The Spanish, mail steamer Reina Maria Cristina has sailed from Havana for Spain with 1,073 officers and troops, 651 cases of military archives and a heavy cargo of ammunition—-the exact quantity not being ascertainable. Dio in an Oca in Wrack. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Cornish coast, the outward-bound liner Mohegan, from London to New York, going ashore on the rocks near Manacle Rock, Falmouth. It is reported that 170 lives were lost. Ban on War OvrreapovdariU. The Treasury Department has been advised that the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies hag issued a proclamation that all American yachts having war correspondents on board will be treated as privateers. Must Qu t Cuba by dan. I The American and Spanish commissions have reached an agreement regarding the evacuation of Cuba, and it is stated that the date by which the last of Blanco’s soldiers must leave is Jan. 1. Coal M nor* Riot Fourteen mea und several others were fatally wounded in battles between strikers and men guarding the mine property at Virden, 111., Wednesday.

*—=s ——- WALKER STILL UNDER GUARD. Warlike Savages Are Expected te Surrender Walker, Minn., is still under guard. Vigilance will not be relaxed until the Indians are surrendered. The arrival of Commissioner Jones was a great relief to the white settlers, as it is generally believed that he can induce the Indians to surrender. Jones arts for the surrender of the Indians wanted by the United States Marshal, promising not to punish those whose only offense was resisting the troops. Nothing has yet been heard of Assistant Superintendent McCoy, of the timber corps. He left early last week for the Leech Lake forests with his family. It is supposed he was massacred. An effort is being made to locate the murderers of Joseph Gould, the trader, who was found in bis cabin near Leech Lake dam. The Bear Islanders are beginning to admit that their losses in last Wednesday’s fight were quite serious. Late dispatches assert that the Indians will surrender as soon as terms can be arranged. MOTHER OF TWENTY-FOUR CHILDREN Pennsylvania Woman Holds the Record for Lsrge Families. Mrs. Samuel P. Swartwood of Mountain Top, Pa., is the mother of twentyfour children. Five of the children are dead. But Mrs. Swartwood’s dinner horn can still summon to the table nineteen children, her husband, two sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. Mrs. Swartwood is now 40 years old, pleasant-faced and genial, rotund and jolly, with a great capacity for laughter and a happy disposition. Mrs. Swartwood was married when she was 14 years old and when her husband was 20, and two of her daughters have followed her example in making an early marriage, both being wedded when they were 19. WILL SELL SPANISH MONEY. Relic Hunter* to Be O ven a Chanc* to Furchae* Treasure. The Navy Department will place on sale in New York a quantity of Spanish money, gold and paper, found on the Spanish armored cruiser Almirante Oquendo. The money was damaged by exposure to salt water and heat, and is valuable principally to relic collectors. It was in the treasure chest of the Oquendo that the gold and bills were found. The proceeds of the sale of this money will be turned into the United States treasury. AFRAID OF CHICAGO SEWAGE. St. Lou* B>eki Protection frem Pollution by the Cana!. The board of health of St. Louis has adopted a resolution asking Congressman Bartholdt to introduce in Congress his bill to stop Chicago from emptying its sewage into the Illinois and finally into the Mississippi River. Drs. Starkloff, Hughes and Grill, the medical members of the board, agree that the effect of the operation of the canal will be to pollute the water supply of St. Louis. VERDICT IN M’INTYRE CASE. Court Martial Sentences Chaplain to Dsmissal from the Arm/. The Navy Department has made public the findings and sentence of the court martial in the ease of Chaplain Mclntyre. All the charges were founded upon the chaplain’s criticism of his superior officers in a lecture delivered in Denver. The accused was declared guilty, and he was sentenced to be dismissed from the United States naval service. KILLED BY ANGRY ELEPHANT. George Dilly, a Circus Man, Beaten and OrushvJ to Death. At Roncevert, W. Va., George Dilly, a circus man, was killed by a female elephant. The elephant broke her chain, picked up Dilly with her trunk, .and beat him upon the ground, and then crushed him with her feet. Dilly had been teasing the elephant and her baby until the animal became enraged. Bkaguayans Alarm sj. A good deal of alarm has been felt at Skaguay, Alaska, os a result of the news that ex-Mayor Grant, of Vancouver, and a number of other Canadians have jumped claims cn Wright Creek, the richest region yet discovered in the Atlin Lake district. It appears that as soon ns Mr. Grant appeared on the scene the recorder discovered that the original locators had not complied with the law relative to the amount of work for the season and so the new arrivals rushed up to Surprise Lake and jumped Wright Creek. It is claimed that the gold commissioner of the district has said that the original locators are entitled to the claims and that when the matter comes up for adjustment in the spring he will oast Grant and his party. News is received that Lake Bennett froze over about a week ago. The river is getting very low and will soon freeze for the winter. But one more steamer is expected at the lakes from Dawson. Mej r Beebe Dies of Yellow Fever. The shadow of Cuba’s yellow pest has fallen on the American commission. Maj. William S. Beebe, chief of ordnance on Gen. Wade’s staff, died of the black vomit at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning in Havana, after hours of speechless agony. Lieut. Fred H. Pullen of the Resolute lies grievously ill with the same fearsome blight in the sick bay of the big transport which was sent across to the Dry Tortugas quarantine station. Lieut. Pullen will he removed to the hospital ashore, the crew quartered in the detention camp on the island and the ship dismantled, fumigated* and put out of commission. Maj. Beebe’s illness continued less than a fortnight. » Say* ll'a a Farce. F. Tennyson Neely, of New York, gave a dinner to several men at Delmonico’s Tuesday night and afterward called on several of them to speak. Among the speakers was Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, formerly minister, to Spain, who declared that the peace commission sitting in Paris was a farce, that no agreement would be reached and that hostilities between Spain and the United States would be renewed within three months. War li Not Ended. The War Department is constantly in receipt of requests from soldiers asking to be mustered out, stating that the war has closed and they wish to go home. The War Department officials say the war will not be over until the treaty of peace is ratified by the United States Senate, and that the soldiers may be needed for further duty. Olosil by the Oomptrol *r. The Tioga National Bank of Owego, N. Y., was closed by order of the Comptroller of the Currency, and this action reveals that the bank was wrecked by its assistant cashier, wbo died Wednesday. Senator Thomas C. Platt is the president of the bank and the largest stockholder. Coiep'iMters Are Hanged. A dispatch from Seonl, Corea, says that Kim Hong Nuik and two other men who were the leaders of a conspiracy to poison the Emperor of Corea, were hanged. The populace secured the bodies of the conspirators, dragged them through the streets and mutilated them. A Panther for V ctor a. The British legation in Bombay lias sent to Queen Victoria a full-grown panther, which was captured when a cub by F. L. G. Simpson, of the legation, and reared by bottle by his wife. Fat*! Acs dent, in an Asylum The boiler of a wing of the asylum for dangerous criminal insane at lonia, Mich., exploded, killing one man and badly injuring three others. Explosion at Tameque, Pa. Five men were killed and eleven injured by an explosion of gas in colliery No. 8 at Coaldale, near Tamaqua, Pa. Fere* Fighting Reported. A Manila rumor says that Macabulos, chief of the five northern provinces of the

Philippine Islands, has rebelled Again* Aguinaldo and that hard fighting has already taken place between the opposing factions. It is also reported that Gen. Rios, the Spanish commander at Doilo, dermine Agudnaldo’s influence and induce the natives to demand that Spain retain the Philippine Islands. Commander Bradford, U. S. N., who arrived in Paris from Washington, was examined Friday morning by the members of the United States peace commission relative to the conditions prevailing and the main' features of interest in the Philippine Islands, with which the commander is well acquainted. SAYS HI BRIBED JURORS. Train Robber Low* Admits Helping Hold Up Alton Train. W. W. Lowe, the self-confessed Missouri train robber, has added to his confession the statement that he also had a hand in the “hold-up” of the Chicago and Alton passenger and mail train at Blue Cut the night of Dec. 23, 1896, and alleges that the notorious John Kennedy led the latter raid. Lowe alleges further that his share of the Alton robbery was sl,640 and that he spent $1,500 of H In bribing criminal juries to free Kennedy. Kennedy was acquitted of the Alton affair after a hard fight to convict him. WOMEN WHITE CAPS. F»m ly They Warned to Leave Town Has Some of Them Arrested. About twenty people, mostly women, disguised as white caps, made an attempt a few nights ago to drive a family from the town of Glen Lyon, Pa. The men were armed with guns. They told the family to leave the neighborhood within twenty-four hours or there would not be a trace of them left. One of the children was so frightened that she was thrown into convulsions. The next morning the family moved out and procured warrants for the arrest of some of the white caps. Ord nanci Board Reports. The board of ordnance officers has made its report to Gen. Flagler, showing that the 3.2-inch field guns are satisfactory in every way. The board reports favorably upon the Krag-Jorgenson arm for the infantry and cavalry. No fault is found with the Springfield rifle, except that smokeless powder would be much better. Smokeless powder is also found very desirable for field guns. Indian* Mad* Fin* fiold.ert. Col. Rooseveat avers that his regiment of rough riders contained no better soldiers than the score or more of Indians who enlisted in the Indian territory. Not one of these Indian soldiers succumbed to disease. They were obedient, willing, hardy and fearless in battle. The first shot at the battle of Las Guasimas was fired by an Indian soldier. " Dewey to Be Greatly Honored. Secretary Long said the other day that ordinarily a higher officer than rear admiral. should head the navy, but the signal accomplishments of Rear Admiral Dewey during hostilities with Spain entitle him to the title of vice admiral, and Congress wifi be asked to bestow that honor upon him. E-ilisting Troop* In Halifax. Qreat activity prevails in Halifax military circles. Reserve men are being rapidly enlisted in the First battalion, Leinster regiment, Royal Canadians, for two years instead of seven. One hundred dollars is offered as a bonus for good reserve men willing to don the Queen’B uniform. , Mex co Build* a Railroad. The Mexican Government has granted a concession for a standard gauge railroad, 150 kilometers maximum length with 6,000 kilometers subsidy. The concessionaire is the Inguaran Copper Mining Company, in which the Paris Rothschilds are heavily interested. Actr**s Weds Howard Gould. Howard Gould and Actress Katherine Clemmons were secretly married at New York. The groom may lose $5,000,000, as under the provisions of his father’s will his share of the estate will be cut in half unless a majority of the executors consent to the marriage. Liabilities of $200,000. The Adams & Bishop Company, New York manufacturers and wholesale dealers in paper, with offices in that city and mills at New Windsor, N. Y., have made an assignment. It is thought the liabilities may reach $200,000. Oolllsion at B*a. The Belgian mail steamer Princesse Josephine, from Dover, for Ostend, collided daring the passage with a threemasted sailing vessel. The latter was seriously damaged, and her fate was not known. No Mora Football at Miami. The faculty of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, has stopped all foot-ball games of the ’varsity team. Brutality and negligence of scholastic duties are given as the reason. Italian Forca for Pekin. The Italian Government has authorized the commander of the Italian cruiser Marco Polo to land a detachment of seamen, to be sent to Pekin to guard the Italian legation. Ns Comprom'ee. Lord Rosebery, in a speech at Epsom, referring to the Fashoda dispute, declared that Great Britain will submit to no compromise in matter of inroads on its territorial rights. 83 Weds 23. Philip Blank, aged 83 years, and Miss Mandella Hickman, aged 20, both of near Russellville, Mo., were married. W**t Next Year. San Francisco has been determined upon as the place for holding the next biennial council of the Episcopal Church. ' Oregon and lowa Btart The battleships Oregon and lowa sailed for Manila Wednesday afternoon.