Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — GLAD HE’S ARRESTED [ARTICLE]

GLAD HE’S ARRESTED

BOHEMIAN EMBEZLLER IN CUS TODY IN CHICAGO. Wife and Annt with Him-Former Did Not Know Her Husband Was a Fnaritive When They tailed for America -To Haise $20,000,000. >c:use-l cfßtealirg $46,000. Lambert Wilt, the alleged absconding comptroller of the Bunzlau Savings Bank of Bunzlau, Bohemia, with his young wife and his aunt, Blaja Mullei, arrived in Chicago the other morning in custody of Sergt. Harding, who had followed the foreigners through several cities and finally effected their capture in St. Louis after they had eluded a score of operatives who were on their trail. Wilt expressed reliefthat he was through with being a fugitive and an outlaw. He said that the hounding to which he had been subjected since he left his native land had so worked on his mind that even a rest behind prison bars was a relief. Wilt’s young wife, whom he married about the time he left Europe, declares she was ignorant of the cause of their sudden departure for America and that she knew nothing of the alleged defalcation of her husband until Sergt. Harding’s steel handcuffs were snapped upon his wrists. In W’ilt’s possession was found $5,521, and he is said to have considerable more of the $45,000 which he is charged with stealing from the coffers of the Bunzlau bank, on deposit In New York. INCLINE ROAD CARS CO W<LD. Wreck the Engine-House and hjure Three Persons at Pittsburg At Pittsburg, the machinery of the Fort Pitt combination passenger and freight incline “got away” from the engineer, Alexander McDavid. The two cars ran wild up and down the plant until they battered to pieces all obstructions at the top and bottom. After wrecking the engine house the machinery stopped and the cars came to a stand. Maggie Horn, aged 15, and Henry Hinton, colored, were injured. Both will recover. Mrs. Henry Mackin, passenger on one of the cars, was bruised. Two horses attached to a wagon on which Hinton was the driver were killed. Engineer McDavid narrowly escaped death in the wreck of the engine house. The monetary damage will amount to $25,000. MANY FISHERMAN LOST AT SEA. Eghty-tws Who Went from Q'oucsster, Miss., Fail to Ra'urn. The end of the Gloucester, Mass., fishing season is at hand, and with it is counted the profit and loss and the sacrifice of life. The reckoning for the year is fourteen vessels a total loss and eighty-two men drowned in the pursuit of the fisheries. The losses will approximate SIOO,OOO. The terrible gales which, raged on the banks in October, 1897, are undoubtedly responsible for the loss of three vessels and their entire crews, while the series of gales which prevailed during the winter also brought the fate of many a Gloucester fisherman. The proportion of those lost in dories astray from their vessels is not so large as formerly. BISHOPS ASK $20,000,000. Method;*!* Will Try to Raise the Sum a* a Thank Offering. The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church are going to ask the members of that church to celebrate the beginning of the twentieth century of Christianity by contributing a thank offering of $20,00q,000. A vote to that effect was taken at the conference of sixteen bishops held in Springfield, Mass. The money will be expended for the improvement of existing educational and charitable institutions maintained by the denomination. The funds are expected to be received by Jan. 1. 1901. The call will go all over the civilized w;orld to Methodists. 8-te c f V rgii Mary's Abode. While in Jerusalem, Emperor William went to Mount Zion, where occurred the ceremony of hoisting the German and Turkish flags bn a piece of ground which, according to tradition, was formerly occupied by -the abode of the Virgin Mary and which the Sultan presented to the German Emperor. The latter subsequently formally prsented the ground to the German Catholics. Ii a Trancs 8 xtein Yser*. Miss Elmira Marie Charpentier, who had been in a trance at New Orleans practically for sixteen years, is dead. During this period she was awake 11,680 hours and unconscious 140,160 hours. In other words, she was conscious one year and ten months out of sixteen years. Her life has been a problem which physicians were unable to solve. Married Women to Bj Barred. The life insurance companies doing business in Canada have agreed hereafter not to accept risks on the lives of married women unless they happen to be the breadwinners of the family, or, in other words, wholly independent of their husbands. The decision has been come to with a view to cheeking the crime of murder for insurance. , Unted States of Central Amsrlca. Three Central American States—Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras—have entered into a coalition and began life the other day as the United States of Central America. Many that by an Insane Man. Adam Hammer, a machinist at Beaver Dam, Wis., became violently Insane and shot nine men (none of them fatally) before he was arrested. Exjloso; in a Barracks An explosion near the rear entrance to the eastern barracks at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, resulted disastrously to four soldiers, who are now lying burned and bruised in the regimental hospital. They are all members of the Nineteenth infantry. F.r* at OKI h mi Cit The Commercial Hotel, city livery stable and a saloon were burned at Oklahoma City. The guests had time to escape from the hotel, which was entirely consumed. Four horses were burned to death. Boiler Exploalo t Kill* Thre*. By the explosion of a boiler in the Calumet and Hecla stamp' mills at Lake Linden, Mich., JoTm Gillion and William Boyer of Lake Linden and William Helion of Bruce Ont., were instantly killed and Daniel La Francer fatally injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. Attacked by Flock; of Geeax The young son of Jacob Green, while going through the barnyard at Bucyrus, Ohio, was attacked by a flock of geese. He was knocked down and his nose and ears were torn off and his face badly bitten. He was senseless when found and the geese were still tearing him to pieces. Bank President A:qu tted. At Fargo, N. D., H. F. Miller, president of the defunct Citizens’ National Bank, on trial in the United States Court for the past two weeks on charges of embezzlement and misappropriation of funds of the bank, was acquitted by the jury after it had been out for nineteen hours. American* Arrested In Peru. Two American Protestant tract distributers have been arrested at Arequipa, capital of the Peruvian province of the same name, charged with distributing papers contrary to the State religion. The State attornev will nnnlv far fhnir rplMan

POSTOFFICES IN PORTO RICO. M»J. BtuartTei:* Hiw Postel System of the Island Was Reformed. Major James E. Stuart, ehairman of the Porto Rico postal commission, has gone to Washington to report to the Postmaster General. In discussing his work Major Stuart said: “There were ninety of us, including my assistants and a number of postal clerks, when we lauded at Ponce. As soon as we landed tre began obeying the Postmaster General’s order to establish a postal system by following-in the rear of the advancing army. As soon as a town was captured we evicted the native postmaster, put one of our clerks in charge, introduced a money order and registered letter system, and there we were. We bad an up-to-date American postoffice running like clock work four hours after a town was captured. We have now about eighty offices, with all the modern arrangements, in full operation. Most of the postmasters are American citizens, but in unimportant interior towns we have appointed native postmasters. A native postmaster is the proudest mortal alive, for, aside from being accounted the chief man of the community, he is looked upon as a soft of magician.” THREE KILLED IN COLLISION. Open Switch on U non Pac fl: Cause* a Fat*! Acc dent A rear-end collision on the Union Pacific at Omaha resulted in the death of three men and the serious Injury of one other. An extra freight train standing on the sidetrack and the switch being left open, freight No. 27, going at a good rate of speed, crashed into the rear end of the extra. The engine was badly wrecked and four freight cars reduced almost to kindling wood. Samuel Hindman, engineer of No. 27, was taken from the wreck unconscious. He died later. William Ranan, the fireman, was caught in the freight cars, being thrown a distance of several feet, and was wedged in- between timbers and parts of the engine. It was half an hour after the collision before he was extricated. He died a little later. John Grilling of the extra was caught between the cars and sustained serious injuries. Brakeman Shannon was fatally injured, being thrown from the car to a considerable distance. CUT A PASSENGER’S THROAT. Murderous Deed of«i I ,sina Farmir In an Atlanta Street Car. William Shockley, an insane farmer of Auburn, Ga., cut the throat of J. D, Bishop and wounded Police Captain John Thompson in a street car at Atlanta, Ga, Robert McCoy, an ex-policeman, in effecting the capture of the demented murderer, was seriously but not fatally stabbed. Bishop died instantly. Shockley called at the police station during the morning and asked to be locked up, as he was going insane, but was thrown out of the station. He then called on Gov. Atkinson and asked for protection, and while the Governor was telephoning the police the man departed. Shockley was sitting next to Mr. Bishop in the car, and without a word drew a razor, reached around and nearly severed his head from the body. Shockley is under arrest. BIC SAW 'MILL BURNED. One of the Largest Plant* on Pte fl: Coast Totally Destroyed. Fire broke out at the Hastings sawmill at Vancouver, B. C., and entirely destroyed it. Two hundred and fifty men were thrown out of employment. The mill was one of the most complete on the Pacific coast, having a capacity of 300,000 feet per day, or 9,000,000 feet per annum. All the valuable machinery was destroyed, as well as the wharf and the company’s mill. The owners are the Royal City Planing Mill Company, and the loss will amount to several hundred thousand dollars. Opp sition In Rubbir Business. George A. Lewis of Naugatuck, Conn., president of the Goodyear Rubber Company, has tendered his resignation. This :s the consummation of the biggest deal in the history of the rubber business in this country. Levi T. Warner, general superintendent of the company, has also resigned, and he’takes with him his brother, Abner, shipping agent for the company, and John D. Rodenbach, general manager. The avowed intention of all concerned in this deal is to organize an opposition to the United States Rubber Company, and, with the millions of money behind the Lewis family, the Whittemores and the Warners, there will be an interesting contest. It has been suspected that the Naugatuck rubber magnates for a long time have been quietly backing the late Joseph Bannigan of Providence in his fight. It is now thoroughly understood why J. G. Whittemore sold out his stock in the Goodyear and other companies. The move of his son is also understood—the buying of the immense plant of the Tingue Woolen and Plush Company at Beacon Falls, which has lain idle for several years.

A Carefully P.anned Eu clda. August Rantach threw himself on the Northwestern Railroad tracks at West Ravenswood park and Foster avenue, near Chicago, the other night. His body was found the next morning with the head entirely severed from the trunk. The tracks are elevated at that point and the head had rolled almost to the edge of the embankment. The body was thrown to the side of the track. From the appearance of the body, the plan was carefully thought out and the deed most deliberate. Rantach had removed his overcoat and coat, carefully folding them and placing them beside the track. Apparently he waited until he heard a train approaching and then placed his body between the rails so that his head would be severed. He was lying near the track of north-bound trains. The police are uncertain when the affair took place, but are positive that it was not an accident. Nothing unusual was noticed by those who had the train in charge. A number of trains pass the place during the night, and several of them may have passed without the crews noticing the body. Cloak Vanufacturar* Bank) upt Julius, Alfred and Israel Ablowich of New York, who composed the firm of J. Ablowich & Co., have filed a petition in bankruptcy, both individually and as members of that firm. They were formerly cloak manufacturers and failed three years ago. The firm’s liabi'itits amount to $196,865. F X 8« Datet for fctata -Fair*. The American Association of Fairs and Expositions has fixed the following dates for State fairs to be held in 1399: New York and lowa, Aug. 28 to Sept. 2; Minnesota and Nebraska, Sept. 4 to 9; Wisconsin, Sept. 11 to 16; Indiaiyi. Sept. 18 to 23; Illinois, Sept 25 to 30; St Louis, Oct. 2 to 7. D-cw e I While F thing Dr. Edward Bovett, a well-known veterinarian of Denver, and E. Girard, cook ut the club house of ths Standard Shooting Club at Bowles Lake, ten miles ssuth of there, were drowned while fishing in the lake. The cause of the accident is unknown. Yellcw Fever In New York. Commissioner William T. Jenkins of the New York health department gave out an official statement to the effect that Col. George E. Waring, Jr., who returned to New York on the Ward line steamer Yucatan from Havana, had yellow fever. Web Wrecki Street Car*. The employes of the London, Ont., Street Railway Company are on strike’ and a mob of sympathizers wrecked several cars and bombarded the company’s oflice with stones, driving off the. clerical force. Hereford! Sold to EreoJey. Stock breeders from every section of the country attended Armour’s sale of Hereford cattle at Kansas City. Many head were disposed of and high prices were realized. Much Gram Sh pp>d Abroad. Bradstreet’s reports on the condition of business in this way: “Irregularity in prices and trade movements has been rather more marked this week than for some limo pdtst, but measured by all the usual

standards of business developed the sitoa» tlon Is one of exceptional activity and even strength. The active foreign demand at advancing prices for American cereals and their products appeared to have culminated early in the week in a virtual ‘warscare’ market, in which the highest prices reached since early in August were recorded. The reaction shown, however, has been a small one. Evidences of reaction in prices are not confined to wheat, but extend to lard and coffee, among food products, Bessemer pig iron, lead and cotton, while most other cereals, pork and beef, copper and print cloths, have remained steady and unchanged. The industrial situation has many points of interest in It. The cotton goods trade is closely following the workings of the plan or restriction adopted by the Fall River print cloth mills. Sales of wool are of increased volume. The manufactured product remains slow of sale at first hands, but advices of good retail buying are more numerous. The iron and steel situation continues without much change. In other industries the report is generally of plenty of work. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,500,991 bushels, against 4,582,773 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,424,376 bushels, against 2,397,191 bushels last week.” SHE CHASED A BURGLAR. Bcrafoo'.ad and in Her N ght Robe, 6hs Follow *d the Thief. Mrs. W. D. Lefevre, wife of a railway conductor living at 204 College street, Akron, Ohio, awoke at 3 o’clock on a recent morning and heard some one in the house. Thinking her husband had returned she called to him. Receiving no response, she took her revolver and sailed out into the hall. Here she found a strange man just crawling out of a window. She fired at him once, and opening the door pursued him out into the street. Four times more she fired and chased the robber down the street, although clad in her night robe and barefooted. On the way she passed four men, but they made no effort to stop the running man. At last the robber vanished into the railway yards and the plucky woman gave up the chase. SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD. George Bare'ay, a Prom nant Lumberman of Pine R ver, Assassinated. Information has been received that George Barclay, a prominent lumberman and proprietor of the hotel at Pine River, Minn., a station on the Brainerd and Northern Railroad, was shot through the head while sitting in the waiting room of his hotel. The shot was fired from without by a party unknown. The operator says a man was seen running away immediately after the shot was fired. General Manager Haas of the Brainerd and Northern was wired for a special train to bring a doctor from Walker, but before the special could be gotten ready, word was received that Barclay had died. .- Will Ba Triad at Ban Franc'aco. (Mrs. Cordelia Botkin must stand trial ar San Francisco in the Superior Court on the charge of the murder of Mrs. John r Dunning of Dover, Del. The grand jt ’y, after a prolonged session, has voted to indict her. The evidence collected there ai i in Delaware was presented to the gr nd jury and action was hastened at the rq uest of Detective McVey, who said he w> s anxious to return home. fc'urdsr at Ling Braich, N J. larry Brooks, married and 21 years old, w«»t to the residence of George Hibbett in (Long Branch, N. J., at 1 o’clock the o tiler afternoon and shot and killed Hibbelt’s wife, who was ten years his senior. Th* cause of the murder remains a mystery. The murderer was taken to the coiinty jail at Freehold to escape a mob of riynchers. { Schooner St. Peter Founders. 'Vhe three-masted schooner St. Pe’er, a To edo boat, foundered seven miles northwe it of Sodus, Lake Ontario, in twenty fat 10ms of water. She had 700 tons of ha; 1 coal for Toledo. Captain John Griffin is her owner. His wife and the crew of even were drowned, but Griffin himself was saved. The schooner was valued at $1,500. fjo Troublj Expected with Shoshones. A- special courier from Nye County, Nev., the scene of the recent Indian scare, reports that all dread of an uprising among the Shoshones is past. Fifty mounted policemen are still on duty and it is believed these men can quell any disturbance that may arise, but hostilities are highly improbable.

Dsath Litt of Spanish War. Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans says that up to Sept. 30 the war with Spain had caused the loss of the lives of 2,906 American soldiers and sailors, and that the pension list would likely be increased that number of names. Earthquake Shock at Ottawa. An earthquake shock was felt in Ottawa, Ont. It was most marked on Ssndy Hill and in the vicinity of Gilmore street. On the latter street several of the houses were shaken, awakening the inmates and causing great alarm. Car Barn* Burned. The Cuyahoga Falls barns of the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio) Rapid Transit Company were destroyed by fire, and with them sixteen cars. The loss will be $20,000, fully insured. Incendiary. Defalcation Cause* Failure. A direct outgrowth of the flight of Cashier J. M. Childs of the First National Bank at Lisbon, Ohio, was the assignment of William Steele, the leading grocer of the town. Thanksg ving Day November 24. President McKinley has issued his annual proclamation and set aside Thursday, Nov. 24, as Thanksgiving day. Massachusetts Strike End-d. The general strike of the boot and shoe lasters in southeastern Massachusetts factories has been declared off.