Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 21 February 1896 — Page 1

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There has been much controversy, pro and con, on this question (which was inaugurated previous to my advent into the business cirdes of your city) and being unable to ascertain th feelinpiof the grocery patrons definitely, I have decided to test the matter by

Keeping Open House For the Next 30 Days,

to ascertain whether my own personal feeliiigs in the premises are approved by the good people of Greenfield who have patronized me so liberally, durii Ihe past 30 days or not, hoping thus to get a true expres-ion of what you want. Eerrember we tee] a complete stock of Fancy and Staple Groceries at bottom piice and solicit an expression on the early closing subject.

I am yours respectfully,

S. A. REINHEIMER, Prop. THE PANTRY, in 1.0 0. F. Block. Phone 98.

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Bottling Department.

All of our Beers and Ales arc bottled at the Briewery. Every bottle "guaranteed to be pure and brewed from tlie choicest Malt and Hops. Doctors prescribe it for the weak and sick. Every1 home ought to have a

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GREENFIELD INDIANA FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 21 18:#6

FISHERMEN MISSING.

A Number Have Probably Been Drowned in Lake Erie.

PERISHED IN THE SNOWSTORM.

Between Three Hundred and Three Hundred and Fifty Were Known to Have Been on the Ice When the Storm Came

Up Thirteen Unaccounted For and Others May Have Also Perished.

BUFFALO, Feb. 21.—A rumor is current in the city that 13 fishermen have lost their lives while out on the lake during Wednesday's storm, and though the report can not be substantiated, it is believed that a number have perished. Between 300 and 350 men are known to have been on the ice fishing when the storm sprang up about 10:30 a. m., and ic is thought that some failed to make the land. As a large number of those fishermen are Polocks, their absence would not be likely to be reported for some days in any event.

Several of the returned fishermen report terrible experiences during the blinding snow storm. Some narrow escapes occurred.

An unknown man was found frozen to death near the track of the Grand Trunk railway, this side of Port Colborne, Out., yesterday afternoon. He is supposed to have been a farmer.

Ail trains entering here are from one to four hours late.

RAILROADS BLOCKADED.

The Worst Storm Experienced This Season Throughout New York. ROCHESTER, Feb. 21. The storm which begun "Wednesday afternoon has been the worst the railroads have experienced this season. Very little snow fell, but that little, combined with the snow drifted b3r the driving wind, was sufficient to blockade most of the roads and it is doubtful, if the wind continues, if the tracks will be passable on some of the lines before tomorrow.

At present the wind fills up the cuts nearly as fast as the plows can clear them. Engineers and trainmen state that the wind lias made it well nigh impossible to keep up steam for traction and heating purposes.

The Erie road is badly blocked at certain points, and trains are running very irregularly.

No trains have come into the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg station from the Silver Lake road, and it is stated that there is nearly four foot of snow all along the track. No trains will arrive until tomorrow. The Bradford and Buffalo trains were very late. Nothing but perishable freight is being moved.

Disabled Sti-amer Taken in Tew.

DETROIT, Feb. 21.—Dispatches from Kingsville, Ont., reports that the ferry steamers Promise and Fortune reached the car ferry Shenango No. 2, which was imprisoned in the ice off Pelee island, Lake Erie, at about 7 o'clock yesterday evening. They took her in tow and were proceeding slowly toward Detroit, where the Shenango will go into dry dock.

RAID ON A GAMBLING SALOON.

One Sheriff Killed and Three Others Badly Shot Up. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—In a raid last night on a saloon at Jackson City, a notorious gambling resort across the river from here, one sheriff was killed and three others so badly shot up that they had to be brought to this city for medical attention. For along time this locality has borne a bad reputation. Sheriff Ed Duteman deputized six men to aid him in attempt to clear out the place kept by John Nelson. With Duteman were Milton Johnson, a man by the name of Lewis, Benjamin Hines, colored, and several other colored men who joined the sheriff for the raid.

The posse entered the barroom and had just began to take a survey of the place when they were fired upon by those in the saloon. A general shooting match then ensued and in the fusilade Deputy Sheriff Hines was killed, Duteman shot in the face and Johnson shot through the neck. Charles O'Neill, a race horse man, with a wooden leg, ran in the saloon to help the deputies and was shot in the face and also about the body.

The shooting was done so quickly that the sheriff's posse had hardly time to draw their weapons before they were helpless and lying upon the floor at the mercy of the gamblers, who fired from behind the bar and doors until a general rush was made from the patside. Hines' corpse was left lying upon the floor of the saloon, and the wounded deputies brought to the emergency hospital in this city.

It is claimed by ihe sheriffs that the shooting was done by Nelson and Harry Chandler, who escaped from the neighborhood immediately after the tragedy and are still at liberty. Nelson is spoken of as having been mixed in a number of such scrapes.

BILL NYE NO BETTER.

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Little Hope Expe^ed That He Will liver Recover.

ASHEVILLK, N. C., Feb. 21.—Edgar W. Nye, "Bill Nye," is no better and the end may come at any time. He lies in an unconscious condition, recognizing uo one and is restless as if in pain.

His children are now with liim and a brother liom Minneapolis in expected tomorrow. It is stated t-hiA. Mr. Nye's last illness was brought on in part, from the eli'ccts left by an attack of meningitis several years ago from worry over the failure of a lecture tour and from recent overwork on seveiai literary matters he had in hand.

The first trouble was noted a month ago, but Mr. Nye continued c.» cious nntil about a week ago. Since men he has recognized no one. He is attended by his devoted wife and a capable nurse and visited daily by his physician. vThe nearest} telegraph station to his house is at Fletcher, on the line of the Asheville and Spartanburg railway.

HORRIBLE HANGING.

Bungling Execution of James Fitzgerald at St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21.—The hanging of James Fitzgerald yesterday for the murder of his sweetheart, Annie Naessens, on Nov. 23, 1803, was one of the most horrible affairs that has ever happened in this city. The execution was set for 6 o'clock in the morning. At midnight Governor Stone sent an order to postpone the hanging until 10 o'clock, that he might examine into some evidence that at the last hour had been brought to his attention. At 9:45 o'clock Sheriff Troll received word from the governor refusing to interfere further, and ordering him to do his duty. The condemned man was informed of the governor's action. At 10:12 a. m. he bravely stood upon the gallows. The black cap and noose were soon adjusted. Fitzgerald's legs were bound and, with a protestation of innocence upon his lips, his body was launched through the trap at 10:17, but not to death.

A cry of horror went up from the crowd about the gallows as the body of the law's victim fell sprawling, struggling and strangling among the doctor's below. The rope had broken. The horror-stricken doctors pi eked the man up and stood him on his feet. "Loosen the rope, for God's sake, I'm choking," he gasped.

Bound hand and foot and with the black cap still drawn tightly over his head he was carried into the morgue and laid on a slab. For 50 minutes the condemned man endured terrible agonies.

Outside in the jail yard an angry horror-stricken crowd watched the exciting scene. From pity for the dying man, their expression turned to intense disgust as the horror of the situation dawned on them. Then angry murmurs arose and imprecations were hurled at the men on the scaffold. As a measure of safety, a detail of police was sent to the yard.

A rope was finally procured after much delay, and quickly strung. Five deputies carried Fitzgerald to the gallows and supported him until the drop fell at 11:03 o'clock, just one hour and five minutes after the trap was first sprung. He was soon pronounced dead, his neck having been broken. Fitzgerald's father, mother and sister died of grief as the result of his conviction.

JOHANNESBURG'S EXPLOSION.

The Dynamite Disaster Greater Than First Reported.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 21.—The explosion of dynamite which occurred at Yiedendorp, a suburb of this city, Wednesday evening was more disastrous than was at first believed. Thousands of people have been rendered homeless by the terrible calamity, about 100 persons are believed to have been killed, some 300 men. women and children have been severely wounded, and many others have been more or less injured.

The exact extent of the disaster will I never be known. Several of the wounded have since died of their injuries. All the hospitals are filled with sufferers from the explosion, and many private houses have been turned into refuges for the wounded ana homeless.

Most of the houses in Yiedendorp were built of corrugated iron, as is usual in South Africa suburbs, and of this material, anywhere near the spot where the explosion took place, hardly a vestige remains.

Boers and uitlanders are working harmoniously in the succoring of the wounded and homeless. The disaster seems to have done a great deal to .vards healing the soreness which remained from the Jameson raid and may do much to cedent a new and better feeling between the foreign population and their Boer rulers.

President Kruger h:i t-ie uaphed his sympathy with the people of Johannesburg in this emergency and he is being kept posted on all the details of the great calamity.

The amount of dynamite which caused the terrific disaster is ascertained to have been 20 tons. This had been standing on a railroad switch for a period of three days, exposed to the sun and the air, and this is supposed to have put it into condition in which its chemical composition was very unstable, so that it was ready to be set off from the slightest disturbance.

STREETCAR DEMOLISHED.

Six People Badly Injured at a Railroad Crossing.

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 21.—About 4:30 yesterday afternoon a caboose on the Erie railroad tracks collided with a Grove street horse car, at the Grove Btreet crossing. A locomotive was making a flying switch at the time, sidetracking the caboose. The gates at the crossing had not been lowered and the horse car attempted to cross the tracks when it was struck by the caboose. There were six passengers in the car, all of whom were more or less injured. Harry Bernard, 5 years old, of Milton, N. J., was badly bruised and internally hurt, while his mother was only slightly injured. The boy was removed to St. Francis hospital and it is thought he can not live.

The other passengers were removed to the Second precinct police station. In addition to the above mentioned persons the following were injured:

Mrs. M. Steward, 1238 Park avenue, Hoboken, crushed about the head and body.

Harry Gross, 587 Grove street, hurt about the head and body. Morris Fogleson, 305 First street, Hoboken, feet crushed.

Edward F. Voorhies, 254 Greene Btreet, New York, body crushed. The car was driven by Michael Collins of Hoboken and conducted by W. Jellett.

Finished After Twenty-One Years. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.—The Monitor Monad nock was formally placed in commission at Mare island uavyyard yesterday The constructien of the Monaunock commenced 21. years ago, and has dragged along at intervals all this time Naval officers say she is now al most, powerful .battleship and hble to hold her own against anything I that floats Captain Sumner took com- I mjM.fi jaf flLi vpssfil.

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