Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — IS HEIR TO A TITLE. [ARTICLE]

IS HEIR TO A TITLE.

CANADIAN MURDERER WHO IS A NOBLEMAN. Walter McWhirrel, in the Kingston Penitentiary, a Scion of One of Scotland’s Old Families—Many Articles in an Insane Woman’s Stomach. Cut Off from His Kindred. Walter McWhirrell, now serving a life term in Kingston (Canada) penitentiary for having killed an aged couple named Williams near Port Credit five years ago, and whose antecedents the most vigorous search by the authorities failed to reveal, is said to be the son of a Scotch nobleman and heir to his father’s title. Mrs. G. M. K. Truman claims to be by right Lady Kinnaird, the wife of Walter McWhirrell, the rightful heir to great estates in Scotland. She says McW'hirrell was the scapegrace son of a Scotch gentleman of quality; that he ran away and joined the army; that afterward be married her, a servant on his father’s estate, and was cut off forever from his kindred. Through the death of Lord Kinnaird, she alleges, she has become the rightful heir of the title and estate, i SILVERWARE TRUST FORMED. International Silver Company Incorporated in Trenton, N. J. Articles of incorporation of the International Silver Company, the silverware trust, were filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. The company has an authorized capital stock of $20,000,000, of which $9,000,000 is preferred stock, to receive 7 per cent cumulative dividends, aud the remaining $11,000,000 to be common stock. The company is authorized to manufacture and deal in silverware, plated ware, pottery and glass. ’The incorporators are William Findley, Hamilton H. Durand, Alexis P. Bartlett of New York, Frederick Dwight of Brooklyn and John J. Tracy of Jersey City. STOMACH FILLED WITH PINS. Many Foreign Articles Discovered During Dissection of a Body. A dissecting class at the Toledo Medical College met with a strange subject the other morning. The body of a middleaged woman who died at a charitable institution was being dissected. When the stomach was cut open the demonstrator and students were surprised to find that it contained at least a quart of hairpins, needles, brass pins, small nails and pieces of glass from one to three inches long. A ring with a fine stone was also found! The alimentary canal was stuck full of needles and pins. It is said that the woman had been insane. Creek Nation Defeats Dawes' Agreement. Secretary Bliss has received a dispatch from Indian Inspector Wright in the Indian territory announcing the rejection of. the Dawes commission treaty by the Creek Indian nation. Inspector Wright says the count of the returns in the Creek elections has just been completed and that the treaty, instead of being ratified as has been believed, is defeated by a majority of 152 votes. Injunction to Stop Boycott. An injunction was granted by Judge Johnson of the District Court at Denver, restraining the International Association of Machinists, its officers and the striking mechanics formerly employed by the F. M. Davis Iron Works Company from interfering in any manner with the nonunion men now employed in the shops nad from boycotting the company’s pi'oducts. Hobson Lifts a Mortgage. Lieut. Hobson has just lifted a mortgage of $6,000 on the home of ? his father. He earned the money by his pen. While Hobson and his men were held prisoners of war in Morro Castle word was sent to his parents that the foreclosure of the mortgage would be averted and the money raised by popular subscription, but the offer was courteously declined. Thieves at Work in Havana., The new police force of Havana, established by Gov. Fernandez de Castro, is very defective. Senor Galis Menendez, inspector of police, who was severely wotmded by thieves some days ago, died from the results of his wounds. One of the rooms in the audience chamber of Havana, where money and valuables were deposited, has been robbed. Keely’s Motor Secret Lives. B. L. Ackerman, president of the Keely Motor Company, says: “Keely’s secret did not die with him. Qn my arrival at Mrs. Keely’s house I found her so prostrated that she was unable to more than state that Mr. Keely had left in her possession a manuscript of 2,000 pages, which explains the whole system and the work he has done.”

Strike Closes the Mills. Three thousand cotton mill operatives struck at Augusta, Ga., on account of a reduction in wages, and the King, Sibley, Enterprise, Isetta and Shamrock mills were compelled to shut down from lack of men to operate the machinery. The strike is the result of an 8 to 25 per cent cut and was expected. Trouble on Shoshone Reservation. Indian Agent Nickerson of the Shoshone reservation received a telegram from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs notifying him that Indians are illegally killing game and setting fire to forests in the Teton mountains of Wyoming. Iloilo Said to Have Fallen. It is reported that Iloilo, capital of tne island of Panay, is in the hands of the insurgents. Fatal Explosion in Paris. A terrific explosion occrred in the Case de Champeaux, Paris, France, underneath the offices of the Havas agency. A woman was killed outright and eight other persons were seriously injured. It is thought that the explosion was due to ignited gas, but there are rumors of an anarchist plot. Sent to Prison for Term of Years. J. H. Southall, who secured some $600,000 in ten States on fraudulent Government time checks, was found guilty at St. Paul, Minn. He was sentenced to serve from six to ten years in State prison. Indicts a Bank Cashier. M. R. Todd, cashier in the defunct Fillmore County Bank at Preston, Minn., was indicted by the Grand Jury at Preston on a charge of embezzlement on four counts. Todd offered to plead guilty, but District J udge Whylock refused to permit him, and the case will go over to the January teiyn for trial. Indians Get a Big Claim. The Court of Claims at Washington rendered a judgment of $1,869,400 in favor of the New "York Indians, who entered suit against the United States to recover the value of certain lands donated to them in Kansas and subsequently disposed of by the United States. Peary Fears a Long Voyage. A letter just received from Lieut. Robert E. Peary states that probably no message will be received from him for several years. The Hope cleared the ice fields all right, but Lieut. Peary expresses fears that the Windward may be delayed by the ice closing in. Trouble Breaks Out Again at Pana. Two fierce encounters between union miners and negroes occurred at Springside, a suburb of Pana, 111. Many shots were fired, but no one was injured. The trouble was precipitated by an attack uppn a union miner by an unknown negro.

KRAG-JORGENSEN FOR THE ARMY. All Soldiers Are to Be Soon Supplied with the New Rifle. Secretary Alger, after a conference with Adjutant General Corbin and Major Shaler, of the ordnance bureau, has decided that the United States armories have progressed with the manufacture of Krag-Jorgensen rifles to a point where he could undertake to arm the entire army with this weapon. At the outbreak of the war only the regular soldiers had the small bore.rifles and the volunteers were necessarily armed with the Springfield, except in a few cases, such as that of the rough riders. The armories have been running steadily ever since, turning out the small bore rifle at the rate of 9,000 per mohth, untH the stock on hand warrants the undertaking which the secretary has ordered. CANADA TO CUT POSTAGE RATE. Consul General Announces an Important Change in the System. In his annual report to the State Department Consul General Bittinger, at Montreal, says that Canada is about to make an important change in her postage rates. On the 25th of December there will be three rates of postage on letters, 2 cents for Great Britain and her colonies, 3 cents for Canada and the United States, and 5 cents for foreign countries. If the experiment proves satisfactory the postmaster general, it is understood, will then reduce letter postage for Canada and to the United States to 2 cents. After Jan. 1 next the newspaper rate will be % of a cent a pound, but after July 1 this will be increased to % cent a pound. SWITZERLAND CATTLE BARRED. United States Government Declines That Country’s Request. This Government will decline to accede to the request made by the Swiss minister for a removal of the restrictions imposed by law on the importation of cattle from Switzerland owing to the prevalence in eleven cantons of the Swiss republic of the foot and mouth disease, which in the opinion of the Agricultural Department officials endangers all the live stock products of the country. The Swiss minister called on Secretary Wilson for the purpose of ascertaining if something could be done of a remedial nature, but the law is mandatory and the Secretary will be obliged to decline the minister’s request. Tidings from the Antipodes. Advices from the orient brought by the steamship Empress of China include the following: Japanese papers contain news of an alleged secret treaty between China and Russia, and the Chinese Government is stated to have agreed that Russian soldiers are to be employed for defense of the coasts and as military instructors. They are to be commanded by Russian officers. The whole expense is agreed to be borne by China. This arrangement would be altogether subversive of the plan arranged for not long since for the employment of British officers to drill and organize a Chinese army. It is reported that the Japanese Government has decided to co-operate with Great Britain with the object of restoring all things in China to their former status before the recent coup d’etat. It has transpired that on the day of the coup d’etat no fewer than fourteen of the Emperor’s own personal attendants were ordered to execution by the Empress dowager. The Empress dowager has issued an edict instructing the provincial authorities to diligently protect all places wherever Christian chapels of any nationality have been built, and ordering that all missionaries in the interior be properly and politely treated.

Julian Law Invalid. The State Supreme Court at Jefferson City, Mo., decided that the Julian law, enacted by the Legislature in 1894, and providing for the sale of public franchises to the highest bidder, is unconstitutional. The case came to the Supreme Court on application of the attorney general of Missouri for a writ of mandamus to forfeit the charter of the West Side Electric Street Railway Company of Kansas City for violation of this law. The court denied the writ, holding the law to be vague and indefinite. Motor Car Runs Away. An electric street car on the Tacoma, Wash., Railway Line was derailed five miles from the city the other evening by the controller failing to shut off the current on a heavy down grade. The car was smashed to splinters by striking the side of a cut ten feet deep through which it was traveling. Seven persons were aboard, and all received injuries, but Fay Roberts, motorman, is hurt the worst. He may lose a leg. Kansas Failure and Suicide. The First National Bank of Emporia, Kan., was closed by order of the comptroller of the treasury. An hour later Charles S. Cross, the bank’s president and one of the best known breeders of Herefords in the West, shot and killed himself at “Sunny Slope,” his famous stock farm. Speculation is said to have led to Cross’ downfall. Measure for a Treaty Commission Lost. The bill providing for a treaty commission was lost in the Cherokee Senate at Tahlequah, I. T., by a tie vote. The Cherokees will now be governed by the Curtis bill. By the terms of the till the tribes were given their choice of treating with the Dawes commission or accepting the provisions of the Curtis bill. Killed with a Billiard Cue. John Shanley, aged 52, a machinist from South Bend, Ind., was murdered in Leslie Hanson’s saloon in St. Paul, Minn. Shanley, who had been on a prolonged spree, knocked against the cue of a man who was playing billiards in the saloon and spoiled the shot. The man struck Shanley on the head with the cue, fracturing his skull and killing him.

Colored Soldiers in Trouble. In a general row in the colored quarters of Cheyene, Wyo., three soldiers were shot. They are L. Fontenough, H. Mitchell and William Saunders. All will recover.— The shooting was done by Corporal Scott of Company E of the San Juan heroes, who was arrested. Dragged from Her Horse. Great, indignation and excitement prevails at Madisonville, one of the jnost aristocratic suburbs of Cincinnati. As Susan Williams, a white girl 16 years of age, was riding on horseback into Madisonville, she was stopped and pulled from her horse by an unknown negro. Prairie Fires Cause Damage. Dispatches announce serious prairie fires in Gregory, Tripp and Todd counties, South Dakota, the ruin of thousands of acres of range and the loss of many cattle. In northwestern Nebraska the losses on grain and farm buildings are even heavier. Wire Worm in Kansas Wheat. The wire worm is doing great damage to the new wheat in northwestern Kansas. Maw fields have been totally destroyed. Farmers say the worm was in this year’s, stubble and was a product of the rainy season in July and August. Woman Sentenced for Murder. Mollie Breedlove, who killed her husband in Argenta, Ark., last August, has been convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to four years and six months in the penitentiary. She pleaded self-defense. British Ship a Total Wreck. The British ship Atalanta, Capt. MacBride, has been wrecked at Alsea bay, on the Oregon coast. Reports say that of thirty men aboard only two were saved. The vessel is a total wreck, her back being broken. Fire at Portsmouth, Ohio. A Portsmouth (Ohio) special says: "Eire destroyed Dice’s livery stable, the Farmers’ Hotel and Friok’s flouring mill and residence. The loss will reach $75,000, partly insured.” No Negro Need Apply. A dispatch from Havana says: “The news from Topeka, Kan., that John T. a Baptist clergyman, is about to

send to Santiago thirty negro families as a nucleus for a large negro colony has caused an exceedingly bad impression among the Cubans,'who are anxious that only white immigrants shall come to Cuba. The more rabid predict a race war should many negroes come from the United States. A strange feature is that the Cuban negroes are even more bitter than the whites in denouncing the movement. The Cuban army will receive one year’s pay on Dec. 10. Notes for the balance due will be issued and the troops will then be disbanded. This information comes from an officer of Gen. Garcia’s personal staff, on whose word implicit confidence may be placed. From what source the money will come cannot be learned, but that the United States has guaranteed the loan is almost certain." FIGHTS FOUR BANK ROBBERS. Plucky citizen of Weston, Ohio, Routs a Quartet of Desperate Men. A bold attempt was made to rob the Citizens’ Bank of Weston, Ohio, and after a battle between the four burglars and one plucky citizen tbe robbers escaped. Mrs. Henry, an agbd woman residing opposite the bank building, was awakened between 2 and 3 o’clock by a sound as of some one using a sledge or hammer. She aroused her son-in-law, I. M. Neifer, and he, armed with a revolver, started out to investigate. He discovered a light in the bank building and boldly advanced to the door, when it was suddenly thrown open and four men opened fire with revolvers. Neifer, instead of retreating* held his ground and emptied the six chambers of his weapon, with the effect of wounding one of the burglars, how seriously is not known. The citizens were by this time thoroughly aroused and came running from every direction. The robbers started down Main street to a point where a fifth was waiting with a team and surrey, which had been stolen from a livery barn, and made their escape.

FASTEST IN THE NAVY. Torpedo Boat Dupont Develops Over Thirty Knots’ Speed. The torpedo boat Dupont, attached to the torpedo station at Newport, R. 1., exceeded the best torpedo boat speed yet developed in the United States, proving her to be the fastest boat in the United States navy. During torpedo practice in Narragansetf Bay her starboard engine made 401 revolutions per minute and the port engine 403, with only two of her three boilers in use. This demonstrated a speed of over thirty knots. Her contract speed was twenty-seven and one-half knots for three boilers. ANOTHER GOLD STRIKE. High-Grade Ore in Abundance Discovered Near Snowshoe Pass, Idaho. A. Lewiston, Idaho, special says a great strike of high-grade ore is reported near Snowshoe Pass, on the Warren trail, twenty miles south of Florence, Idaho. A big stampede from Florence is reported. The Florence correspondent of the Spokane Spokesman-Review reports that the strike was made between the now famous Buffalo Hump and Thunder Mountain. The great vein crops 6,000 feet, is from thirty to ninety feet wide, and carries an abundance of free gold. Drowned in the Yukon. Passengers on the steamer Dirigo, from Skaguay, bring news of the drowning of two men in the Fifty-Mile rapids on the Yukon River. Four men left Lake Bennett on a scow with -fifty tons of provisions. When the scow reached Fifty-Mile her seams opened and she sunk. Two men, Smith and Halloway, swam ashore. The other two, whose names are unknown, were drowned.

Boy Shot by His Stepfather. In a heroic effort to save his mother from his stepfather’s brutality, William Lindemayer, aged 14 years, was shot in the head by the stepfather, James Clements, at Philadelphia, and now lies in the hospital in a precarious condition. Another son, George Lindemayer, was shot in the head, but the wound is not of a serious nature. Rock Island Wrecks in lowa. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific collided at Moscow, lowa. One man was killed and one injured. A wrecking train about to start to the scene from Wilton was run into by tbe fast mail. The fireman of the latter was badly hurt and sixteen men on the work train were injured, some seriously. Minnesota Votes Female Suffrage. Official figures on the recent election show that the constitutional amendment providing home rule for cities in Minnesota carries by a vote of 26,945 to 12,809. Returns from thirty-seven counties on the proposition to extend the franchise to women on school matters show 27,860 and 18,079 against, which carries it. Ohioan Kills His Daughter. At Dayton, Ohio, John Kirves, a plasterer, blew his daughter’s brains out and then made an ineffectual attempt at suicide. The man has been drinking heavily for weeks. Boy Shoots Little Sister. Julia Reidel was accidentally shot and killed by her brother Walter at their home near Cincinnati while carelessly handling a shotgun. Both were school children.

Price of Zinc Advances. For the first time in the history of zinc mining at Webb City, Mo., the price per ton reached $36. Forty dollars is anticipated. The highest heretofore was $34. ■ Foreigners Shut Out. Advices from Seoul say that the Corean Government has issued orders that foreigners are to be stopped from trading in the interior. Run Down by a Train. During a dense feg a Pennsylvania train ran upon a gang of workmen on the Hackensack Meadow, killing eleven trad injuring six.