Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — THE VERNON DISASTER. [ARTICLE]

THE VERNON DISASTER.

The Caene ■kplnined—Twenty-Twe es the Dead Recovered. Five fishing tugs went out from Twa Rivers, Wis., Wednesday, and returned with the bodies of seventeen men and two women who had been aboard the foundered propeller Vernon, making twenty-two bodies recovered so far. Only seven of the bodies .'were identified. They are: George Thorpe, of Ogdensburg, N. Y., captain ot the Vernon; John Sullivan, Chicago, first mate; Larry Higgins, Chicago, second mate; Martin Lebeau, Chicago, steward; Henry Lebeau, Chicago, porter; Fred Burke Chicago, clerk; Roy Haaelton, Chicago, cabin boy; F. B. Portand, Milwaukee, passenger. The bodies were found about eight miles east of Two Rivers. Five were loating together. The others were scattered, but not far distant. Several appeared to have made a desperate struggle for life by means of life preservers until the jackets became saturated and rendered useless. The- life preservers were, in some instances too large, and slipped up to the heads of the unfortunates, and they were found thus, in a perpendicular position in the water. The captain’s watch had stopped at 5:55 and it was at that hour the propeller went to the bottom. Alex Stone, a member of tke crew, is the sole survivor of those aboard the vessel. He says the load was unusually heavy and the disaster is un doubtedly due to this cause—over load ing. Stone says that before he went off watch he ventured to suggest to the captain that some lading be thrown off, sodhat the gangways could be closed, out that the latter refused to do so, and said that he was running that boat. He also says he asked the mate why they did not turn around and put back. He says that, after the wreck, and while on a raft, one of the firemen told him that one of the fires was put out at 3 o’clock. Between 3 and 4 o’clock he was awaken ed by a crushing sound and the noise of trying to get boats from the deck. He felt the steamer was foundering, and, putting on a life-pteserw, sprang through a window of the room into the water,

Dr. McGlynn Expecis Vit.dientlen. Dr. McGlynn surprised the meeting of the united labor party in New York Friday evening with the announcement that he was to return to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic church. He said: “The authorities who dealt with me Ate beginning to see their mistake, and the errors which some local authorities have made will soon be corrected by higher authorities abroad. After that outrage has been repaired, I shall be ready to go back into the folds of the church; but I shall not retract a bit.” Archbishop Corrigan says that there is no change in the attitude of the Catholic church toward Dr. McGlynn, and the assertion that he was about to be restored to the priesthood was a Henry George campaign dodge.

Death of Jenny Lind. Jennie Lind (Mme. Goldschmidt), the celebrated Swedish singer, died, Wednesday, at London. She was sixtyeight years of age. She had been seriously ill for some weeks. She retired from the stage after her marriage, in America, in 1852 , but reappeared in various concerts in aid of charities. She had not appeared in public'since 1866. Public Debt Reduction. The receipts of the Government for October mounted to $31,803,172, and the expenditures to sl2 474.622, being an excess of receipts of $19,328,520. The decrease of the public debt for October was $16.833 695. A Strange Overaigltf. —— '■ > By an oversight of the State authorities o f Georgia. Charlotte Jones, a convi< t. was not released at t ie expiration of her sentence, land she has been illegally deprived of her liberty for fourteen months. * •