Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1899 — GUESTS ARE SAVED. [ARTICLE]

GUESTS ARE SAVED.

HOT FIRE IN A CINCINNATI 1 HOTEL. i Lives of : ixty Persjns Are Endangered. but All Are Rescued Without Injury—Cheap Labor in China Hurts tralc of Machinery. Escape from Hurninz Hotel. The Sherwood House, on the east side of Walnut, above Sixth street, Cincinnati, took fire, probably from an overheated furnace, early the other morning and in a very brief time the house was so filled with smoke as to endanger the lives of the sixty or more sleeping guests. Many of the guests were members of theatrical companies. Very soon the upper corridors were filled with shrieking, hysterical women in night robes. The male guests had difficulty in restraining the women from jumping from the windows. The firemen were active in carrying out the women and most of them were rescued by the stairway, but several were taken down by the ladders and by the fire escapes. F. H. Munch, a traveling salesman from New York, was among the last to be rescued. He was found unconscious, with a wet towel over his face, but by the aid of physicians was saved. The entire fire department was called out and the fire subdued before the building was destroyed. The money loss will not exceed SIO,OOO, fully insured. OVERPLUS OF COOLIES. Labor-Saving Pevices Are Not Wanted in the Flowery Kingdom. Labor-saving devices are not Wanted in China. This is clearly shown by Consul General Goodnow, in a report4o the State Department, made in reply to an inquiry of an export association in New York. “I cannot give you any encouragement,” he says, “in regard to the shipment of wheelbarrows, scrapers, dump carts and the like to China, wheelbarrow used here has one large wheel in the middle and a seat on either side, where passengers are carried. Once in a great while dirt is carried in baskets in such a barrow, but ordinarily it is carried by a coolie in two baskets hung on the end of a bamboo rod balanced on his shoulders. Laborsaving devices are not in demand in China. The cheapest thing here is a man. There is more labor than can find employment. A coolie carrying dirt will receive from 7 to 10 cents gold per day. He must work from sunrise to sunset —not very steadily or intensely, but putting in a great many houre and accomplishing a large amount of work for the amount of wages paid.” NEGRO SOLDIERS IN A RIOT. Three Men Wonnded in a Fight with Waiters at Chattanooga, Term. A riot occurred in a negro saloon at Chattanooga, Tenn., between the barkeeper and waiters and several negro soldiers of the Eighth United States volunteer infantry, now in camp at Chickamauga. A quarrel arose between one of the soldiers and a waiter over a matter of change, when the soldier pulled a pistol and fired at the waiter. The barkeeper and several others in the saloon opened fire on the soldiers, and as a result Sergeant J. L. Williams, company clerk of Company I, was shot in the abdomen; John Reed, private, Company F, was shot in the thigh and through the chest, and Louis Brown, the barkeeper, was shot twice through the lungs and will die. Sergeant Williams’ wound is regarded as fatal. Thieves Cat Telegraph Line. It has just been discovered that thieves have stolen about a mile of the copper wire recently strung by the Western Union Telegraph Company between Omaha, Neb., and Florence. The line had only been completed a few days when it ceased to work and linemen discovered the theft. The thieves had climbed the poles and cut the wire at the insulators. Bishop Rademacher Insane. Right Rev. Bishop Rademacher of the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind., has been taken to St. Louis and placed in the Alexian Brothers’ hospital for treatment for insanity. The bishop has charge of a great deal of property belonging to the church, and the management of it has caused him so much worry that his mind gave way. Grain.' Speculators Arrested. Seventeen arrests under the new antipoolroom law were made at Kansas City the other day on warrants sworn out by City Attorney D. A. Brown. The prisoners included John W. Moore, president of the Board of Trade, and others who are either grain commission men or buck-et-shop keepers. Conntjr Clerk Missing. J. S. Giles, county clerk of Millard County, Utah, has disappeared. He is accused by George Bishop of Smithfield of forging the names of George E. Smith, receiver, and Byron Groo, late register of the United States land office, to receipts and certificates affecting entries to public lands. 2,500 Men Are Idle. On account of a threatened strike of the carpenter force at the Honeybrook colliery of the Lehigh and WiJke6-Barre Coal Company, Hazleton, Pa., because of a wage disagreement, all the works at Audenried and Honeybrook were shut down, throwing 3,500 men out of employment. Arthnr Bank Robbed. • The bank at Arthur, 111., was robbed at an early hour the other morning. The robbers carried away in gold, greenbacks and silver from $3,000 to $6,000. The bank officials admit that the sum is in excess of $3,000. Six men blew the safe open with dynamite. Prof. Thomas Mac Adam Drowned. The Rev. Thomas Mac Adam, aged 68, late of Morrin Presbyterian College, Quebec, was drowned at Toronto. He went for a walk with his pet spaniel. The dog returned and search was made for the professor, when his body was found in the bay. Five Coasters Are Drowned. Five small boys, from 7 to 10 years of age, met death in a drowning accident in South Gibson, a small hamlet in Susquehanna County, Pa. The five victims and another boy got on a big sled and coasted upon a weak place on a mill pond. Bad Fire at New Orleans. ! The large iron works and foundry of J. D. Connell, South Peters street, New Orleans, La., were destroyed by fire, en-1 tailing a loss of $30,000. j

MISSISSIPPI PACKET BUKMEO, Ouachita Destroyed at Memphis—Passengers All KBcaps. The Memphis and Vicksburg packet liner Ouachita, Captain Bender, was destroyed by fire at the foot of Jefferson street, Memphis, where she was tied up for the night at dock. The blaze started about 1:15 a. in., and in "fifteen minutes very little was left of the boat except the hull and a mass of twisted rigging. Rumors spread that there were several passengers aboard, but it is believed every one escaped. The Ouachita was a passenger and freight boat in the Memphis and Vicksburg trade, and was valued at $30,000, with insurance of $20,000. The fire originated in the boiler room. The boat had a cargo of merchandise for points south, and was to depart the same morning. DOLLAR for dollar. Martindale Gives Up His Property for Bank Creditors. William Martindale, vice-president of the First National Bank of Emporia, Kan., which failed last November, owing depositors $500,000, has turned his holdings over to Maj. Calvin Hood under a deed of trust. Hood will settle with the depositors for Martindale’s debts, and it is believed he can handle the property so that it will pay dollar for dollar. When the bank failed its president, Charles S. Cross, shot and killed himself at his famous Sunny „Slope Hereford farm, near Emporia. Cross left a confession saying be falsified his reports to the Comptroller and exonerating Vice-President Martindale and the other bank officers. Fatal Fire in Cleveland. W T hile seeking safety from the flames, which were destroying their home at Cleveland, Mrs. Fred W. Tisdel was instantly killed and her husband sustained severe injuries. Mr. Tisdel is chief clerk in the auditing department of the Lake Shore Railroad. The couple were sleeping on the second floor, and when aroused it wns too late for them to get out by way of the stairs. They were forced to make their way to a scaffolding on a house which was being erected next door. The scaffolding gave way. Jealousy Led to Shooting. A sensational shooting affair took place at the Ellington, a fashionable Cleveland apartment house. A young woman, said to be Miss Edna Raymond, entered the rooms occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hanna during the absence of the husband and opened fire on Mrs. Hanna with a revolver. Four shots were fired in rapid succession, only one of which took effect. Hanna had kept company, it is said, with Miss Raymond. Jealousy undoubtedly led to the shooting. Court to Try Eagan, The detail of the court to try Commissary General Eagan includes Gens. Merritt, Wade, Butler and Young and Brig. Gens. Frank Pennington, Randell, Kline and Comba. Lieut. Col. George B. Davis will be the judge advocate. Killed in a Train Wreck. A train of empty ears on the Oregon Short Line, while leaving Butte, Mont., ran into a switch engine. Both engines and a number of ears were wrecked. Conductor Joseph Grant was thrown under the wreck and fatally hurt. Niece of James Tyrfon. Mrs. Mary Tyson Williams of Denver claims to be a niece of James Tyson, the Australian who recently died leaving a fortune estimated to be worth over $25,000,000, and she expects to receive a share of the estate. Attempted Hold-Up in Oregon. Emmet Allen, Hugh Breen and John Richardson, young men of Boise, Idaho, attempted to hold up an Oregon Short Line pay car near Mountain Home, Idaho, and were arrested and placed in jail. Like a Johnstown Flood. A dam retaining an immense body of water gave way at Cleveland, causing a flood that resulted in great damage to property, but small loss of life. Fire in Indian .Territory Town. The postofflee and other buildings occupying an entire block in the town of Davis, I. T., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Election Riot in Hungary. A fierce election riot took place at Uj-Szent-Anna, in the county of Arad, Hungary, and four persons were killed and sixteen injured. Hurt at a Reception. During a Bryan reception at Denver a platform gave way, throwing 300 persons into a mass. Many were injured.