Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1889 — Page 1

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ESTABLISHED 1823. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 18S9. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

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DIED CURSING HIS FATE.

NEW YORK'S QUADRUPLE HANGING, XSentton of tbe Four Murderer In the Tornas Prison Carolin Swnnglnto FternIty With an Oath and n Lie On tits Ups Their Crimes. New York, Aug. 23. The four murderers fatrick rackenham. Jack Lewis (colore J), Jayes Nolan ami Ferdinand Carolin were lanje 1 iu the yard at the Totubs prison ibis rooming. There were two scalfolds, and two un were hanged on each. Paekenham and olan were first executed on the scaffold, which ad been erected on the Franklin-st. side of the jrison. Ihe drop fell at 6:.x5 o clock. Light minutes later Lewis and Carolin were handed from the seatToM on the Leonard-it. iide. At G;54 two of the condemned men. Packen ham and Nolan, emerged from the jail, accompanied by the priests. Father Prendorgast upportcd Paekenham and Father Gelinas waiked alongside of Nolan. The processiou brought up with Father Van Renzellaer. Paekenham' face was a ghastly pallor, but his step was firm and he looked unflinch.tgly into the faces around him. Nolan apiared to realize Ms position. There was a half defiant look on Lis countenance, and he cast his eyes up at the cross-bearo, from which two ropes dangled, with something akin to curiosity. The rope around his neck, with the knot preying against his left ear, seemed to chafe him. for he moved bit head uneasily once or twice in his brief walk to death. Nolan took his place under the rope hanging nearest the Franklin-st wall. Packeuhani was four feet awav from his companion anil next to the prison. Hangman Atkinson stooped down and tied a white cord about the legs of Nolan j-jst above the ankle. His assistant did a like service to Paekenham. In a twinkling the black caps were adjusted and Atkinson rapped three times in rapid suceessiou on the side of a box where a third assistant stood with a hatchet. The third rap had hardly been given when the bodies of the murderers were jerked into the air. At 7:10 both men were pronounced dead, but were permitted to hang for fifteen minutes longer. While this scene was being enacted preparation tor what proved to be the most shocking spectacle th it na ever taken place within the walls of the Tombs prison were being made. 'I tir naiiim: of Carolin and Lewis, in several aspects, is probably unparalleled. Two minutes after 7 o'clock Carolin and Lewis, with the priests, came throush the jail door. Lewis walked unsteadily the Ost dozen paces, but qniVfcly recovered himself. He was smiling, and as he caught sieht of a deputy who had been especially kind to him, he walked over end seized his hands. Then he shook hands with two more. Father Gelinas urged him toward the rope that was to strangle him. He smiled and looked fearlessly around him. Carolin had the butt of a cigar between his lipä. and was putfing vigorously, blowiug treat clouds of smoke into the face of the attending priests. His face was as pale as the face of the dead, and the bcowI upon it almost demoniacal. He glare! at the priests as he turned around and telt the ropo touch his shoulJer. fcpittinz the cigar stump from hi3 mouth, he broke out into blasphemy that horrified the spectators. Atkinson had just pinioned his lgs, when he spoke. Looking? sulletdy at the three priest, he sullenly eie'aimed : "I die an innocent man. G d d n it! I did not do tins tiling." Lewis, who had then been pinioned, half turned his head, and, addressing his companion. said: "What's the matter with you, anyway? Why don't you die like a roan?" "I will dit like a man." shrinked Carolin, his c turpi"? perfectly livid; "I will die like a Can an innocent man!" Tiie words were scarcely out of his mouth before Atkinson bad clapped the black cap over the Murderer's face. Tb j assistant hangrr.sn covered Lewis' face at the same moment, Atkinson cave the signal and the weisrht fell. Instead of bounding up, sr. Packe chara and Nolan bad done, the miserable wretches went into the air with so liitle force that there was scarcely a rebound at nil. Lewis immediately begin to struggle in the most sickening manner. He threw his leg about so violently as to kick o-f his t ippers. Then he began to irurgie nd choke. The raspimr, wheezy sound came from under that horrible black cap for fully ten seconds. His body turned and swayed, and the contortions were so painful that half a dozen men turned away their heads. The poor creature was slowly strangled. Carolin's body was violently contorted also, but he emitted no sound. The weight fell at 7:03 o'clock, and at 7:10 both men were dead. The tour bodiei banc for halt an hour, and wer then cut down and placed in piaiu coffins. Histories of Their Crimes. New York. Aug. 23. nere are histories of the crimes far which the four men mlTered death. By many persons, Charles Ferdioani Carolin was not believed to be of sound mind. Although experts on his trial declared him sane, there seemed to be a screw loose somewhere and every prison keeper or deputy sheriff who hai to watch him said so. lie murdered a woman named Bridget Quinn, w ho passed as Lis wife, in a small hack room in a iStanton-st. tenement on March 16, He butchered her with a shingling hatchet. From the time Carolia left his home in Germany until he met the wo scan he murdered, he lived the life of a rosier. The day on which the mnrder was comruined was cold and windy and the city was still under the cover of a bi,? snow-fall. The woman wanted him to go out and look .for work. "I won't do it," he said. Tin going back to my mother in Germany at the end of the week.""Then you will not go, for I won't let you. I w.il make trouble for you," she exclaimed, E-ith had been drinklnsr and were in a mood 'or onarrelincr. A few more words passed be tween thm, and then Carolin picked up a lit tle, keen-edged shins-line hatchet, and making for his mistress, hacked her about the beadand shoulders untii life was extinct. Alice Jackson never had a change for her life, after the neero, John Lewis, alias Black Jack burst into the kitchen of the house, No. ft V. Third-st., where she was at work on July 17, lvv. On the afternoon of the murder Lewis went to the house where Alice was employed and forced his way into the kitchen. -Le ordered him out, bot the only reply was to draw his revolver and shoot her twice, once in the left breast and once in the abdomen. she lived but a short time, but Ion? enough to identify the murderer, who was arretted before be bad walked half a block. James Nolan's crime was the killing of his mistress, Fmrua Husch, who had left her home nd lived with the man who finally murdered ber. Nolan was a hard drinker and a loafer. He treated her brutally and she had threatened to le.ie hirn. She bad also shown preference for another man. On Nor. 20, ISM, Nolan came home and found his mistress In company with his rivaL He called her into the hall and Shot her twice, the wounds proving fatal. I'atrick Paekenham was the patriarch of the mnrderers hung this morning, and vet none of them, perhaps, more richly deserved the fate. He was once a member of the New Orleans police force. On March 13 he was drunk and quarrelsome. He had been drinking hard for several davs. On the night of the 13th he fonht with people in the house who were friends of his wife, and cut the head of one mau with a water pitcher. Paekenham finally prepared for bed. His outer clothing was removed, when he suddenly grabbed a raior and ran at his wife. He caught her by the hair and the ken-edged blade was used with deadly eflect, Severine the jocular vein. The 5w Hooks "Lxcellent" Poseyvilla News Copies of the new school books were on exbibition at the county institute last weekend srtre closely examined by a majority of the teachers present and pronounced excellent in every particular. The binding and engraving are superior to the eclectic series, and the eon teou are equally as well, if not better, adapted v to the use of the schools. The teachers of the county are in fall co-operation with the new law aud will do all In their power to make it a success.

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CARRIED HIS NERVE ALONG

And, lidding; 1'p a Stage, Fatally Shot the I Faaaengers. AshiInd, Wis., Aug. 2). Black Hart's most daiing deeds in the mountain passes of California and Colorado were outdone to-day by a ine highwayman, who held op and robbed he stag.5 that runs between Gogebic, on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore fe Western railroadj just over the line in Michigan, and Gopcbiijlake, a summer resort where people from thi lari;e cities spend dojj-dnys. As tli fctno was running alone at a lively gaitthrtugu a dense forest, when about two miles fom the station a man jumped out in front ofit, and pointinsr two bijr .navy revolvers at the iViver, commanded him in good western style to throw tip his hands, at the same time extending the same order to the four passengers in4 le the coach, with a further provision that tiny "hell out" all loose valuables and cur re my. One of the passengers went down in bis pocket. but instead of bringing up his pocketbook, Winched a pistol in his hand and beian firing nt the robber. The desperado immediately rturned the tiro, and although the driver whippe'J the horses into a mad callop his aim was triu I). Mnckerchar. a bookkeper in the First mtionnl bank of Minneapolis, receiving the first bullet iu his cheek, while a second went clashing through his leir. Another passenger named A. G. Flceschbain of llellevillc, 111., was mortally wounded. He raised up n the seat ns the horses were whipped away, just in time to receive a bullet in the hip. He fell forward and pitched over the side of the coach into the roadwav. The horses continuing on a run, ths wounded man was left to take his chances with the robber. The villain threatened at first to kill l.ini. but finally desisted after securing .57 and his victim's watch and chain. The wounded man lay bleeding ii the road for three hours before any one courageous enough to po to his succor was secured. He was Uiken to the hospital at llessemer, but the loss of blood was so creat as to blicht a'l hope of recovery. Physicians say he will not. live over nieht. Mackerchar was taken to Laelo Kivcr for treatment and frm this to his home, at Minneapolis. There are doubts as to his recovery also. There were two other passenircrs on the coach, but neither of them were molested. They were William Padden of 1. Washinetonet., Cldcao, and Robert. Fkinlout of the bank of Moatrcnl ('liiowo. The unrtv was out on a tishina trip, and was composed of wealthy men. I A defcription of the robber tallies to the j letter with that daring freebooter who went j through a Northwestern train near Ellis Junction some tune aeo. Sheriff Have Foley of Dessemer at once organized a posse of a dozen j men, an i has gone in pursuit. The chances lor capture are very glim. WHAT AN EX-TEACHER THINKS. lhe Methods of the School-Hook Trust Exposed Itnylntr I'p T-arhers, Kte. A writer in the Llkhart Srntinrl makes the following serious charges against the old school-book monopoly: "I have been engaged in educational work for years," said a wellknown ex-teacher to me the other day, "and I know what I am talking about when I venture the assertion that three-fourths of the superintendents of the Ftatc and tiine-tenthi of the tru.-tces are bought up by the schoolbook trust, I am acquainted with truteea who are making five or hundred dollats a year from this source. 1 have had some urprisirs o tiers myself and do not use my assertions on guess work. I know one case where an atrent ottered a teacher $70) to recommend a change of school books. If the book men make such bids just to secure a change of books, what will they not oOer when they are combined and fi4 htin-.v to keep an entire state? I can rec:dl the cao of a superintendent who was oll'ered fcl.O-iO for his inlluence. The teachers ns well as the school officers of the entire state have been canvassed, and potent influences have been brought to bear or? them to make them stand by the trust. A ercat many of these people compromise with their consciences on the theory thr.t the books they indorse are the best for the schools any way, nnd therefore they do not do any harm by incidentally making a little money for themselves. It is a monstrous system, and I am not surprised that the new law meets with Hitter opposition at the hands of the men whose duty it is to assist in its enforcement." A TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC Of Diphtheria Depopulating th LlttU VII. lace of Moscow, O. Coi umcus, O., Aug. 21. Dr. Trobst of the state board of health has just returned from the terribly scourged village of Moscow, a place of 600 inhabitants on the batiKs of the Ohio river. There are seventy-six cases of diphtheria, sixtyfour children and twelve adults. There have been twelve deaths up to date, and before the week is over the doctor thinks there will be that inriDT more. The Tillage is upon the hills and is scattered along for about three-quarters of a mile. There is plenty of pure air, and it ought to bo a healthful place, but th sanitary conditions are awful; the ho; pens and out-hou?es have not been cleaned for years, and the stench is terrible in many parts ; of the town. Fathers and mothers are flying i with their children for their lives, and in this j way the disease will undoubtedly be carried to I other places. The three doctors of Moscow are working night ani day, one ot them having forty cases. The disease is the most malignant ever known in that vicir.ity. It is accompanied by rapid pulse, hieh fever ami great exhaustion. I'eatli frequently results from blood poisoning when the p.itient is apparently convalescing, sometimes an hour after the child is up walking around. A board of health has been organized at Moscow and the town is now being cleaned. THE CRONIN CASE. Each of the Pefendents Ask For a Separate Trial. Cuicago, Ang. 2'x The cases of Ftarke, WoodruT, Coughlin, O'Sullivan and Kunze, nnder indictment for the murder of Dr. Cronin, were called in Judge McCormell's room at 10 o'clock thia morning. The court-room was crowded and many were compelled to go away without having satisfied their curiosity, being unable to force an entrance into the room. The attorneys for each of the defendents presented motions on behalf of their clients for separate trials. The motions were accompanied with affidavits from each of the defendants, reciting that they were innocent of any complicity iu or knowledge of the murder of Dr. Cronin. At the request of the state's attorney the hearing was adjourned, in order to give him timu to prepare his argument in opposition to the motion of separate trials. Judge McCor mell fixed Wednesday as the date for resuming the hearing. No Sign of m llreak. Brazil, Aug. 23. Special. The strike has assumed as yet no new phases, nor is there promise of any change in the situation. From day to day, however, more interest and sympathy are enlisted on the part of the workingmen's organizations throughout the country. The sources of contribution to the relief fund are multiplying from week to week. The public has about settled down to the convictioa that neither side (operator nor miner) entertains any thought of concessions from the positions taken earlier in the strnggle. Robert Watchorn of the K. of L., Columbus, O., Is now here ooking over the field and counseling with bis brother knights. A lluadred-Thousanrl. Dollar Fire. Coixmbt. 0., Ang. 26. Fire broke out in the btem-Chittendea building at High and Gay-sts., at an early hour this morning. The McCune building soon caught An aerial track was hoisted f a third-story window of the McCune block and Richard Johnson and Fannie Scofj el l rescued. The loss will figure about one hundred thousand dollars. Several stocks of goods were flooded with water and badl damaged. Nearly everything covered by insurance.

TWO TRAINS DEMOLISHED.

RESULT OF CONFLICTING ORDERS. A Fatnl Collision on the Italtlmore Jb Ohio lUUrottd in West Virginia-Three Per. sons Killed and Many Injured A Circus Train Wrecked. Pktroiki m, W. Va., Aug. 23. A terrible collision occurred about 11 o'clock this morning on the Baltimore A- Ohio railroad, between Petroleum and Silver Ituu tunnel, about twenty-three miles east of Parkersburg, in which three men were instantly killed aud many wounded. The accommodation train coming west, due at Parkersburg at 12 o'clock, crashed into a special train occupied by railroad magnates on a tour of inspection. The cause of the wreck is said to have been conflicting telegrams. The one received by Conductor Flanuigan and Fngineer Jjyman of the accommodation ordered them to pass the special at Petroleum, while the special train, engineered by Cr.pt Opinis Rowland, is said to have had telegrnphio orders to pass the accommodation at Silver Kuu. The result of the misconstruction was to hurl into eternity four men at lenst, and to wound fifteen or twenty others. The trains came together with a crash at the curve eat of Petroleum and between that point and Silver Itun. Both trains were running at a rapid speed, and when they collided with a crash the special train, and the engine tender nnd baggage-car of the accommodation went over the cliff in one inconceivable mass. James Layman, engineer of the accommodation, one of the oldest engineers in the employ of the Baltimore A Ohio road, was crushed to death. Alexander Bailey, fireman for Layman on the accommodation, was also crushed in the wreck of the engines. Cephus Rowland, also one of the old engineers, of Grafton, was caught under the wreck and had one leg broken and received internal injuries from which he cannot recover. John Fletcher, firemin on the special, was also killed. Fletcher stuck to his engine, and, with his help-mate, preferred death to desertion of bis post, and went over the bank In the wreck. He was cut nnd crushed to death. The special car, occupied by officials on au inspection tour, was smashed to smithereens. Roadmaster J. A. Hunter was badly injured, together with several others. George Douglas, in the same car, was also badly injured. In the accommodation train were many passengers, all of whom received a terrible shakiug up and fifteen or twenty of whom were more or less injured. Pw J. Malley. track muster at Parkersburg, and a member of tho city council, was badly injured. Jelb rson Roe, baggagemnstcr of the accommodation, was aUo seriously hurt. A large nutnoer of passengers wem more or less injured, but they were hurried oil on trains going east or west, Rnd in the confusion following the disaster it is impossible to get their names. The bodies of Layman, Builey and Fletcher were brought to Parkersbur on the evening train, where they were incased in cofiins and sent to their homes. Tjiyman was sent to his home oa Depot-st. Kowland was taken to Grafton. When the train bearing: the bodies arrived in Parkersburg it was surrounded by thousands of people, many of whom were friends of the dead, while others had friends who they believed to have been on the wrecked trains. As it is impossible to hear from their friends, and as rumors of the accident have grown into colossal dimensions, the anxiety increased tintil tiia crowd Duuibered thousands at the depot A CIRCUS TRAIN DEMOLISHED. Barn urn & Ballej's Shows Wrecked Kn Knute to Montreal. Watektows, N. Y., Aug. 23. The second train of the Barnum & Bailey shows was wrecked late last night about two miles and a half east of Ilotsdam while en route on the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg road from Gouverneur to Montreal. A broken axle was the cause. Thirty ring hordes, including one of the four chariot teams, and two camels were killed. Six cars were derailed and two were telescoped so that everything in them was crushed. The scene was one of confusion. At either side of the track were distributed the bodies of thi dead horses, with here and there a poor beast which had received injuries that rendered it useless, tethered to fences. At the side of the highway were camels, sacred cows, rteers and various other animals rescued from the derailed cars. The cars were crushed and twisted into all sorts of shapes and piled up on the track in a seemingly hopeless entanglement Barnum's partner. J. A. Builey, says it is diflicult to estimate the loss at present, but it will be in the neighborhood of $10,0(X). He thinks the loss of the day's receipts at Montreal will be about ?l.S,0OO, and some of the horses that were killed are valued at thcusands of dollars each. Money can not replace them as it required two years for training them after lie riiiht kind had been secured. The number of horses killed was thirty-four. The trick ponies, which have attracted much attention, were among the killed. The seven-thousand-dollar stallion, which was driven by Mrs. Adam Forepaugh, jr., was n!.o killed. It is said that Mrs. rorepaugh wept bitterly and would not be consoled when she learned of the death of this horse. The pretty w hite mule, which performed remarkable tricks, is also among the lost Seven of the eight chariot horses arc dead. Au i:plarifttton Desired. (Kvansvillc Courier. According to the figures of the Indianapolis Journal the old school book ring of Van Antwerp, Bragg fc Co. made $1,000,000 profit, annually, more than it is possible for the Indiana school book company to make. Yet that eccentric republican organ continues to howl at the Indian-i school book company, composed, as it is, of such republicans as David J. Mackey, K. I Huston, William Heilman and Josephus Collett, and such democrats as Witiiam Fleming, ltobert C. Bell, James Murdock and l id ward Hawkins, and to charge that it is nothing more nor less than a trust, organized for the specific purpose of swindling the people of Indiana. Why does the Jiiurnul not explain its enthusiastic preference for the old Van Antwerp-Bragg concern, and its equally enthusiastic opposition to the new school book company? There must be a reason for its conduct, nnd everybody would like to know what that reason is. It has been hinted that there is a "nigger iu the woodpile," whatever that may mean. l'atiie at a Circns. TOIT.DO, O., Aug. 21. This afternoon, while John Robinson's circus was in full blast, a heavy storm of wind, rain and hail passed over the city. It struck the tent, lifting the cauvos and throwing the tent over on one side, crushing down the seats. A wild scene of terror resulted. In the panic women fainted, children screamed, and it is a miracle that there were so few casualties. The most serious was the breaking of a leg of a young girl by a falling seat; but over a hundred people suöered bruises aud contusions. The circus was unable to give a night performance, and the performers' wardrobes were ruined by the rain. The total loss was put at f'2,U00 by the managers. Lightning's Pecottar Freak. Baldwin, Wis., Aug. 22. During a thunder torrn early Tuesday morning the store building owned by 'Henry Frants at Hersey was struck by lightning. It .entered a room over the store, occupied by M. Devine and wife, struck the bed and passed nnder their heads between the springs and mattress, leaving the occupants uuinjured. then passed down in the tore and oat through the front windows, breaking five large light of glass. The siding is torn from the building in several placee. During the same storm Pat RIcket, an old man living alone near Hersey, was struck by lightning and killed.

THE RESERVOIR BROKE.

A Serious Flood In lthode Island-Three Persons Drowned. Pr.OVlDKXCK, Pw I., Aug. 2". The Spring lake reservoir near Flskville, in the southwest corner of Cranston, about fiiteen miles from the city, which supplies a whole row of mill villages along the Pawtuxceut river.burst this afternoon. Three persons were drowned and some damage done to property. A man named Yeaw, who was about a quar tcr of a mile off, noticed the water coming through the masonry of the dam, ns he describes it, in a stream about as big as a barrel. The hole was apparently growing very rapidly. The only living object in sight was a cow a few hundred feet across the fields, nnd Ycaw says be started to run, making up bis mind to rescue the cow. When be reached the animal the field was a big lake nnd the water was up to bis neck. He got out of it, however, and so did the cow. Meanwhile, down the valley were Mrs. tireen Tew, a,ed sixty, n Mrs. Hawkins, aped ninety, nnd a Mrs. 'lew's on, seventy years obi. They were walking through a strip of wood and were overtaken by the Hood nnd drowned. Their bodies wer found in the wood, through which tbo water quickly ran until it emptied into the Pawtuxceut river. The river rose rapidly and caused alarm among people along its banks who thought that the Poncgansett reservoir, the largest in the state, had pone. Many of them left their houses, and fled, but the flood subsided as rapidly as it had come. The path of the water from the reservoir was through a thinly settled country, and the only damage to property was the wrecking of a stable Aiclongingto Russell Matthewson, the capsizingVf a carriage shop belonging to Dr. F.. K. Clarke and the demolishing ot' three road bridges. The dam was built in 1&S7 for the service of the Puwtuxcent valley company, draining a small, swampy pond, known as Spring lake. The reservoir covered eighteen acres and contained about thirty-five million gallons of water. The dam is 9J5 feet long, seventeen feet nine inches high and eight feet wide on top and thirty-five feet wide at the bottom. A STORY OF CRUELTY Told by an Inmate of Minnesota Asylam An Investigation Asked. St. Faul, Aug. 2L Another story of inhuman treatment is being told, which, if true, will draw considerable attention to the man agement of the St Peter asylum, and may pos sibly cud in an investigation. The story has been told by the Rev. S. D. Kemerer, a methodist pastor at Ortonville. Several weeks ngo he wrote to Secy. Hart making complaint that a young lady of IJingstone county had been most fouliy dealt with by a citizen of Minneapolis, who, in addition to his shameful treatment of the girl, had her finally placed in the St Peter asylum. Mr. Kemerer charges that the young lady was not sent to St. Peter ns a lunatic, but that the authorities knew the facts and took charge of her to hide the wrong done by the Minneapolis man. It is related that her father wrote to Supt. Bartlett, but did not receive a satisfactory reply, whereupon William Campbell, probate judge, wrote, but received no answer. Lately the girl has been released, and she makes the charce that her treatment there was very immoral. Mie has signified her willingness to testify to their acts before the board of corrections and charities, but she has not yet been called to do so. This is the story, and it is now being investigated by the state board of charities and correction. THE G. A. R. A Hundred Thousand Mraugera Attend the rtaitnlon. Milwapkeb, Aug. 20. Fully 100,000 strangers, 50,000 of them veterans, have arrived in the city to-day. Gen. Sherman got in at 8 o'clock this evening. Bands are playing, decorations arc universal and the enthusiasm is unbounded. The Iron brigade reunion this evening was addressed by Gen. E. S. Bragg. Com-tnander-in. Chief Warner presided over the sons of veterans' camp-fire, which was addressed by Gens. Alger, Rusk, Rhea, and Charity Rusk Craig, president W. It. C. To-morrow the encampment proper opens with the parade. Sherman, Manderson, Foraker. Rusk, Alger and others will be on the reviewing stand with Commander Warner. In the evening the chief meeting will Pe lield. (iov. Hoard will make nnd Corporal Tanner respond to the address of welcome. Speeches will be made by Gen. Sherman, Louis Fairchild, Senator Spooner and others. JUSTICE FIELD IS FREE. The Citso Against Him Is Dismissed Sarnh Althen Is Mad. Stocktox, Cab, Auar. 2?. Dist. Atty. White appeared before Justice of the Peace Swain this morning, and moved to dismiss the warrant bssued against Justice Stephen J. Field, charging him with being a party to the killing of Pavid Terry, which had been sworn out by Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry. This action of the district attorney was based on a letter of the attorncy-generai of the stHte to the district attorney, directing that such a course should be followed. Sarah Althea is out in abitter letter denouncing Atty.-Gen. Johnston for his interference. It is said Judge Sawyer has grave doubts of the power of the federal courts to interfere in Nagle'a case, and that the deputy marshal will have to return to Stockton and stand trial in the state courts. O'BRIEN CONVICTED AGAIN. II lief uses to Appeal and Goes to the Cork Jail. DrBLIX, Aug. 2fj.-At Clonakilty Messrs. William O'Brien and James Gtlhooly were convicted of holding a nationalist meeting. Mr. O'ßrien was given two mouths and Mr. Gilhooly six weeks' imprisonment and if they don't give bond to preserve the peace at the end of that time they will be forced to serve two months more. They were taken to Cork biil and were loudly cheered on the way. Str. O'Brien declined to appeal. Mr. Gilhooly appealed and was subsequently released on bail. The residence of a seceder from the plan of campaign at llallygowan was set on tire and the owner and a servant burned to death. Itansdall Understands I'nrrlson. (Washington 8pecia':.J When U. S. Marshal Ransdell kicked out a number of the attaches of his office Friday he frankly admitted that they were good and efficient men, but be wanted their places for republicans. He added that no more immediate changes were contemplated. Marshal Itausdell has changed his mind on the latter point, and to-day he ousted a bailiff, a messenger, a fruard. a van driver and a watchmen. In due time their places will be taken by republicans. Marshal Ransdell is an intimate personal friend and fellow-townsman of President Harrison, and he knows exactly what the president meant when he said that fidelity and etliciency should be the only iure tenure of office. All Used Kerosene. Detter, Col., Aug. 21. During the present month a dozen persons have lost their lives in this city and vicinity by nsing kerosene in starting fires. Most of the unfortunate victims have been ladie. To-day'a record show two more added to the list Mrs. Dalmadge, mother of Asst Fire Chief Dulmadge of this city was fatally burned while pouring oil from a can into her cook stove. The second victim was Mrs. Jeff Orr, wife of a prominent business man of Durango. She was using kerosene to light the fire when the can exploded, burning her in a most horrible manner, her flesh peeling offher bones. Death soou ended her sutleriog. Named Their Ticket AlfACOSDA, Mont, Aug. 52. The republican state convention to-day, after long and careful deliberation, nominated the bead of the sttto ticket as follo-vs: For member of congress, T. IT. Carter of Helena; for governor, T, C Tower of Ilelena; for lientenatnt-gor emor, J. E. Rickards of Butte.

OLD VETERANS WRECKED.

A G. A. R. EXCURSION TRAIN DITCHED Serlona Ilallrond Acrldsnt Near Mreator, 111. -Fifty Persons Hurt, Many of Whom It is Feared Will Die Six Cnrs Down an lanlmnkmeut. STr.EATort, HI., Aug. 2f. The vestibule train on the Santa Fe route, running between Kunsas City and Chicago, met with a serious ac'ident at Kinsman, a small station about fifteen miles north of here, at S o'clock this morning. The train was heavily loaUed with grand army veterans and their friends, bound fortho Milwaukee encampment, and consisted of several extra couches. By the spreading of tlia rails three coaches, two Pullman sleepers and Iho dining rar were thrown from the track nnd down n steep embankment, a diktance of probably forty feet. Word was immediately telegraphed to this city for medical assistance nnd a special train was Kent at once with a dozen surgeons on board. The wrecker was also sent out to clear up the track. Those most seriously injured were brought to this city nnd taken to St Mary's hospital, where their wounds were properly attended to. In all there were probably fifty persons hurt, nnd though none were killed outright, the following are in a very dangerous condition: Mks.S. S. Dii'KKRMAN of Lawrence, Kns., chest und beau budly cut Dick human, little sou of above, hurt about buck and face. William R. Fisir, Topcka. Kns., seriously hurt; head injured. Mus. Fish, Topcka, head, back and arm cut S. F. Gori.u, Mulvune, Kas., back and face terribly cut Mrs. It It TrcKKKMAN, Topeka, face badly cut and internally injured. Mi s. F.dwaki) Anii.ky, lives near Carrollton, Mo., arm, head and back badly bruised and lacerated. Mus. Grone e B. Itters, Emporia, Kas., head and face mashed and eut. Gkorge ITTERS, Emporia, Kas.. hurt about the chest aud face, also internally injured. Mrs. S. S. Joiinon, Norfolk. Conn., badly hurt internally nnd head and face cut In addition to this Ben I-evy of Streator bad his face cut arid arm dislorated, but his injuries are not dangerous. The others are at the hospital and tho majority, it is feared, will die. Three of the injured are reported to have since died, one of the three being Mrs. George Peters of Lmporia. Exact information is bard to obtain, tho railroad authorities being extremely uncommunicative. The HCeidcnt was caused by the chair car, the third behind the engine, jumping from the track. It was ditched instantly, taking with it the three sleepers behind. A mil was found projecting through the bottom of the chair car nnd coming out the side about three feet from the bottom. A man who was hunting in a field near by and saw the accident said the chair car jumped fully ten feet high and landed in the ditch over 10O feet from were it left the track. The car was full of passengers, every seat being occupied, and the scene which ensued was intensely exciting. Mr. Itobiusoti of Mulvane, Kas., had just pascd into the smoking room of the chair car, and when he felt the jar he clutched the lamp and held himself in position, thus escaping serious injury. He at once commenced to rescue those who were heiplcs, but the sight of bruised heads, broken limbs and streams of blood were too much for him and he had to give it up. Others soon came, however, and the suCcrers were relieved &i rnpUUjjAa lwuaibla .' The truin was running nt a high rate of speed, probably sixty miles an hour. The road-bed where the derailment occurred is in very poor condition, and probably the engine and two c.irs which passed over the loose rail bent it out of shape so ns to cause it to catch where it did. The chair-car and two of the sleepers are a total loss. It is believed that if the train had been of the ordinary pattern instead of vestibuled, the loss of liie would have been at least fifty. Rilled on the Construction. Lincoln", Neb., Aug. 2d. A construction train on the northwestern extension of the Burlington fc Missouri railway was wrecked Saturday night near Pine Ridge tunnel, in the northwestern corner of the state. Fleven men were hurt, and two, at least, will die George Moore, the engineer, and James Murnan, a laborer. THEIR NOVEL BRIDAL TOUR. A Newly Wedded Couple Heating Their Wsjr to New York. Denver, Col., Aug 26. A novel bridal tour is what a newly married couple is at the present time enjoying. Several months ago Charles Fish, a clerk in a San Francisco store, while attempting to board a ferry boat made a misstep and fell over some ropes into the arms of Mary Rathburn, daughter of a retired merchant With an apology the young man departed. A few nights afterward the pair met at a party, and from that time on a friendship sprang up between the two. Finding that the girl's parents were opposed to the match, the couple, a few weeks later, eloped and were married at Sacramento. The young man having only $33. told his wife if they could manage to reach New York all would be well, ns he bad wealthy relatives there. Tins proved satisfactory. The girl took ott her dresses and adorned herself in man's attire. Their adventures since then have been numerous. From Sacramento the pair beat their way by riding on freight trains and on the trucks of passenger coaches. A week ago Ogden was reached and being desirous to see Borne of Colorado's scenery, the Rio Grande was selected. After having been put o0 a half dozen trains the couple reached Denver Saturday morning. Äs it happened, the Union Pacific ran a grand army excursion train out Saturday night and by strategy the couple managed to go on the train in the capacity of porters. It is more than probable that the pair will get through to Chicago, reaching New York next month. The girl is extremely pretty and scarcely nineteen years old, while her hu&band is three years her senior. Wants To It Examined, Washington, Aue. 24. Senator Manderson has written a letter to the commissioner of pensions asking to have a medical board designated to examine him physically, in order that there may be no doubt of the justice of the increase lately made in his rate of pension. la his letter the senator says that his pension was re-rated without his knowledge, that six examining otlicers have separately leported that he was unjustly rated, but that before he can ac cept the increase granted he desires the most ritrid examination as to the extent of his present disability. A Marder In Court. Lon.SYii.LE, Ky., Aug. 21. At Somerset today while D. J. Sharp was giving his testimony in court, a Miss Goodman, who was interested in the case, cried out upon some answer of Sharp's: "That's a lie." Sharp sprang up and struck her. Her brother, Henry Goodman, grappled with Sharp, ana after a short struggle, stabbed hi in to death. Goodman escaped. A posse is in pursuit Whipped In Five Hounds. Lawrence, Mass., Ang. 21. George Bosh of California and Ileury JI. "Watson of Massachusetts fought to a finish early this morning. Iubt over the New Hampshire line. Bush had lis own way from the start and knocked out Watson in the fifth round. The fight was for f.'tu). Bush weighed 175 pounds and Wataon 170. The Creat Wheat Crop. Mr. W. A. Oliphat a farmer of Tike couuty, and a member of Gov. Uovey's staff, claims to have raised the champion wheat crop of the season, and he is doubtless correct From 450 acres be harvested a little less than 11500 bushels, being an average of almost thirty bushels to the acre. Who can beat that?

MINERS INDIGNANT

At the Scandalous Reports Ret Afloat by the Operators. Buazil, Aug. 21. Special. The block coal millers' central committee met to-day to audit contributions aud compare returns on dependents, reporting a total to the relief fund received since last Tuesday of $1.100.-"., and dependents, 5,74, the aid accredited as follows: Cincinnati J'ort, $."0; Fratik McGralh, Muncie, Ind., f.57; Louisville printers, $9; J. J. Woodward, Sherrardsville, O., f 15; local assembly 4.H9, Louisville, $3."; local assembly lt;.. Sbuwnee, ()., .J0; Gallagher JL Russell. Rushville, J5; T. F. Holser. Clinton. Ind., f 1 N..V-; miners, Burnett, Ind., i-Jl.ot; General assembly. No. i;V, K. of L., rtK). A special session of the committee was held this .'kfternoon, when the following was unanimously adopted: Where, We, the miners of tho I'tsmI block roal district, he l'eeu I. s-lilinit for in srljr lour montlis Kalnt an enormous rJu' limi, Meli In-iurJuJ-luent is m uncalled fur us it 1 unj.t ; stij Vher!n, V hste twrn tb- dally recipients of ptiMIc sympathy and public sid ; and Mieres, Mlstatenrnts have been piren curreticy which are rslculntml. It lint designed, to cet olt this aid and sympathy whleh we bav received with so min h KraiilicAtun and ( Itmuie; therefore, Itesolved, That we, the central coiinnittiu iu session, du herchv couJeinu such statements, especially tho one attributed to P. H. Penna In the li rre llsute Krjirtu of Aug. 17, to the eiTcet that the strike is blng ronecuted in the interests of a politiciil party, !'. it further llosolved, Tliatne still continue our fight ss it has been conducted heretofore, In Lebatl oiuur livelihood snd it ouly. BRAZIL, Aug. 2d. Special. The proposition of President Porter to the striking block coal miners of Brazil, to pny the expenses of a committco to virit Chicago to prove to them that the Brazil block coal company has mado no dividends for three years pat, that their stock is worth but 0 cents on the dollar, and that the state of the market is such that the company can not pay a cent morebon has been otlered, will be considered by the central committee at its regular meeting to-morrow (Tuesday), and very likely accepted. True, the oflicers should come down here to show up these propositions before a board of arbitration, but the miners may accept out of deference to public sentiment IS HUNG EVERY DAY. Pollee-Lleut. Ialy I ndergolnj Itlgoroas Treatment For Spinal Trouble. Bostox, Aug. 24. Police-Lieut V. Paly of this city is undergoing a rigorous treatment to get cured of a spinal trouble, caused by a fall from a horse car in 1SS7. It is nothing more or less than a systematio course of hanging. He is suspended by the neck until he is almost unconscious, this process being the only way in which the spinal cord can be properly strengthened. The machine is shaped very much like a gallows. It consists of an iron rod with eyes in the center and hooks at each end in which ans loops that pas down under each shoulder to take the ttrain otj" the patient's neek. Along the horizontal bar is a series of notches, from which hang the supports for thti head and chin. Lieut. Paly's head is placed in the support and he is then swung from the tloor. He says that the ejperience is anything but pleasant, but as a cure is being ellected he keeps at it. He is generally strung up about two and a half minutes. When released he cannot stand, and it is fully five minutes before he recovers from the effects of the hanging. He has control of his lower limbs now, while less than six months ago be staggered like a drunken man, aud can Bleep every night without injections of morphine, as before. MRS. MAYBRICK RECEIVES THE NEWS Of the Commutation of Her Sentence Her Health Kapldly Kalling. LlTEnrooL, Aug. 21 The official messenger bearing the announcement of the commutation of Mrs. Maybrick's sentence, did not reach the jail until 2 o'clock this morning. The news was at once communicated to the prisoner, who betrayed some emotion, but not to the extent that was anticipated. The chaplain visited her nt breakfast time. The revulsion of feeling had then prostrated her and she feemed weaker than at any time since her arrest It is feared that she will not live lonr. Brierly, her alleged paramour, sailed for Boston on the steamer Scy thia, which left I jverpool yesterday. Will I'rge a Pardon. Loxpov, Aug. 23. The Maybrick committee has resolved to agitate for a pardon on the ground that the decision of Home Secy. Matthews shows that there is a reasonable doubt whether Mr. Maybrick was poisoned. Flaying Its Weak Brother. The Terre Haute F.xrrru, a republican paper, takes to tak the Vinccnnes Commercial another paper of the same political faith, and gives it some timely advice on an important subject The Jjprm says: "The Vincennes i'ommerrinl says that 'no law can compel a man iu this republic to buy what he does not want to buy,' referring to the new school books. That is a low appeal to the obstinacy of human nature. The row m'reial certainly would not follow the logic of its assertion that any and every man can buy the school books that best suits his ideas and thereby decide that the teachers employed by the state 6ha!l use the books': Of course the Commercial is right when it says no roan can be compelled to obey the law "by sending his children to the public schools. We have no compulsory education in this state, but as to the choice of books the people of the state prefer the "compulsion" of a state law, even though passed by a democratic legislature, bad recommendation as that may be, to the 'compulsion' of a school-book trust with its hired officials everywhere, that makes the purchaser pay two prices for books, trie extra money to be used in iniluencing ofiicials who are supposed to be servants oi the public" Weather Crop Bulletin For Last Week. No rain daring the past week and the temperature slightly below normal with warm weather during the day and quite cool during the nights; there was abundant and uninterrupted sunshine throughout the week; the condition of the weather in general was certainly favorable for thrashing wheat, much of it being in the stack, and also for corn, although it is becoming a little too dry and rain is needed; breaking for fall seeding is only progressing slowly because the ground is too hard and dry; pasturage and stock are in good condition. Discovered An Ochre Ited. LoosviLLE, Ky., Aug. 22. Michael J. Leonard, a contractor of Mayficld, Ky., recently discovered seventy-five acres of land near Klpley, Tenn., upon which were rich def osits of yellow ochre. He told his friend, I I. Bell, publisher of the Catholic Ahocate here. Bell bought the place at the ordinary value ot land in that region and will give tip bis business to bring the ochre to market. It is supposed to be a great fortune for him. There are only eight other beds of ochre in this country. A Word of Explanation. To THE Editor Sir: In my remarks of the 22d, published In your paper to-day, I made an unpardonable error in relation to Cob William P. Benton of the Fighth Indiana. He was a oldier of the Mexican war. His rank was that of a private in company K of the First regiment mounted rifles, who were in all the engagements from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico. In justice to a dead ro:nrade I hasten to make this correction. M. F. Maxsox. Terre Haute. Aug. 23. The Fxlra Session. Deer Park, Md.. Aug. 2C President Ilarrison says be bas made no announcement to any one as to calling an extra session of congress. He bas discussed the matter with various persons, but the question is not determined. mmmmm. Died of Sunstroke. CotrMBTS, log. 22. Joe Gilraore, a prominent cltiien, aged sixty, fell dead of sunstroke while threshing oat.

WHISKY AND REVOLVERS

CAUSE SEVERAL DEATHS AT A DANCE. Arkansas Negroes Fill Up With Had Liquor and Indulge In a Free Fight Fite Killed and .Many Others Woiiudrd. LlTTf.r Bock. Ark., Aug. 'X Meager tew of a negro riot at Jordanbrook. Ark., bas just been received. Several persons are known to have been shot to death end many are reported wounded. The list of the dead includes JOSLTII JOP.POX. WILLIAM N FWCOMB. FKANIC HOLT. AXi)i:i:so.xi:i:i The exact number of the dead nnd wounded is not known. The Jtfjinter to-morrow morning will print the following: "Information reached this city yesterday of a teruMo negro riot nt Jordanbrok, not far from Lockcsburg, in Sevier county, resulting in the death of several, and the wounding of many others. Joudohbrook is a unall town situated on the edge of an immense strip of pine timber, many miles from the nearest telegraph ofle. For sometime the negroes of that county baTe been rpending their Saturday nights in a jubilee ceremony in t'e woods near the town, nnd Just Saturday uight was set as the time for an especially large and uproar iom gathering. A large quantify of whisky was introduced, the people coming from all over the country to participate in the hurrah. Shortly after 9 o'clock the trouble began in a quarrel between Joseph Jordon and William New-come, and it ended in Newcome shooting Jordon in the breabt ";th a load of turkey shot The wounded mnn was carried into the woods, and while the lighting was still going on at the grounds, he died from his wounds. Meanwhile the utmost confusion nnd uproar prevailed. The women scattered to get out cf the way and the men fired at each other in their drunken fury, without knowing whom they were shooting at "In the clamor that resulted, it was imposst. ble to secure the names of all the wounded and injured, but it is known that several are fatally hurt, while many are seriously wounded. Frank Holt is known to be dead, with four bullets in his body, w hile Anderson Neil lay near him shot three times. These two men met in the darkness and promptly began a battle with pistols, killing each other. "As soon as the news reached Ickesburg a posse of white men started for the scene of the disturbance, but the contestants had nil disappeared when they arrived. The grounds were in great disorder, however, and objects presented to sight bore evidence of a terrible struggle." MURDER IN KENTUCKY. A Farmer Kills Iiis NetshToor For an Assault on Iiis Son. CiCTKXATl, Ang 25. This afternoon, near Independence, Kenton county, Kentucky, P. T. Heers, a farmer eighty years old, shot and killed Levi Bice, Lis neighbor. A quarrel of several years' standing existed between them on account of a roadway. The shooting oc curred in the publio highway near Beers house. The story is tnat Beers sent his two sons a short distance from the bouse to water the horses, and that his wife and daughter walked along in the road behind them. In a hört time Beers beard a cry of "murder, help." He immediately rushed into the house, secured his revolver and harried in the direction of the cries. There he saw Rice in the middle of the road with a club in one hand and a large stone in the other, holding his club raised over the prostrate form of Mrs. Bfers, while the daughter was struggling with Bice to keep him from striking her mother. The son was lying in the road near by, insensible from a blow from the club. Beers rushed to the scene and shouted to him to stop. Bice threw stones at Beers, bitting him once in the bead and once in the tdde. Beers drew lib revolver and shot him dead. Beers then mounted a horse and went to Independence for doctors, but they arrived too late to be of any assistance to Bice. They attended to Mrs. Beers and her son and daughter. The injuries of Mrs. Beers and her son are said to be quite serious, and the daughter is suffering from nervous prostration. There were no witnesses to the aflair but the Beers family and this is their story. THAT ARMY EXPOSE. A Terrlbl Sluts or Affairs Eil stint; at Jefferson Barracks. St. Lons, Aug. 2o. The Poii-DiepatcJL prints another chapter of its army expose, secured through the medium of a reporter, whoenlistei to obtain the inner workings of army life. It shows a terrible state of affairs at Jefferson barracks, alleging that recruits are treated like dogs;' men are strung up by the wrists until they swoon from - weakness; that brutal sergeants detra no cruelty too severe; relates how an insane roan was heartlessly tortured, while common soldiers are io.'prisoned at the whim of their superiors. It is also charged in the expose that in the guard-house, whera prisoners are packed in an inclosure 20x40 feet the sanitary condition is terrible. There are no provisions for the ordinary calls of nature and the place becomes a breeder of pestilence. The prisoners are kept from sleep by vermin, and their surroundings are all revolting in the extreme. Another chapter is promised for to-morrow. ALL LOCKED OUT. The Spring; Valley .Mines Closed Down Ii. definitely. Sfkixg- Valley, HI., Aug. 20. Mr. Scott of Pennsylvania telegraphed General Managet Devlin to-day to discharge all employes of tho Spring Valley coal company who were not absolutely needed to run the mine, and to prepare for a general shnt-dowu of six months or a year, lie says they will never beopeced again if thy can not be opened on a paying basis. This means the practical depopulation of the town. Many of the miners have already left. The Chicago fc Northwestern railroad has closed down its Spring Valley branch and discharged all men at this end of the line. A Well-Posted IlrpnMtcan. Taper. f Iturbp'ter Sent nd. The Wabash iVuiWfo-Vr, a radical republican paper, says the Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. ichool-book monopoly is dying hard. It says the Van Antwerp crowd are making too desperate a fight for tie perpetuation of their monopoly to consist with their oft-repeated declaration that there is but little profit in the text-boofc publishing business. Men of sound judcnient do not invest thousands of dollars in printed appeals to save a trade that yields no profit, and therein lies the weakness of Van Antwerp, Bragg A Co.'s defense. The monopoly which this trm alleges the Indiana legislature has created can certainly be no more oppressive than that which bus ground down the school patrons in Indiana for the past twenty years. A Murder and Suicide. CmCAGO, Ang. 21. Aimer Hoffman, a railroad employe, killed bis wife thia afternooo and then committed suicide. The couple were recently married, and IIo3man became jealous of his wife and a young man who lived in the neighborhood, and frequently upbraided ber for what he supposed ti her wrong doingHe came home oil the road this afternoon snd indulged in a quarrel with bis wife. The woman started to leave the bouse a hen Hoffman grabbed a butcher knife which lay upon a table and cut her throat from ear to ear. He then ran out of the bouse with the bloody knife in his band, and across the street, where, in the presence of numerous persona upon the street ne drew the kni'e across his jugulaj vein and fell t-jVe p-",,y 4jr--r