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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1896)
f V- T jet- SUCCESSOIi TO CHERRY COUXTY INDEPENDENT ROBERT B GOOD - Editoii Fkop VALENTINE Tenn jumped the track stopped by the automatic time to prevent its falling below The passengers though panio stricken NEBRASKA HALF A MILLION LOSS STREETCAR BARNS DESTROYED AT CHICAGO Fire Consumes 554 Street Cars and Fourteen Horses Loss 500000 George J Gould Wins His Suit Need Not Pay a Tax on 5000000 Half Million Loss Tlie car barns of the City Railway Com pany on Cottage Grove Avenue near Thirty ninth Street were destroyed by fire The barns were 150 feet long 400 feet deep and occupied three fourths of a square They were filled with cars being the stables for the active system The company lost 554 cars 100 of them being grip cars Not a thing in the buildings was saved The loss is estimated at fully 500000 the buildings and contents being insured for 311000 The fire once started burned with great rapidity and the firemen experienced great difficulty in preserving many of the adjoining buildings They managed however to confine the fire to the car bains It is thought the fire originated from the crossing of two electric wires Thirty horses were an the barn sixteen were saved and fourteen were burned in the stalls PASSENGERS NARROW ESCAPE CJar on the Lookout Mountain In- clino Jumps the Trade While passing over a high trestle a car on the Lookout Mountain incline and Jmla LakeSRailway near Chattanooga The car was brakes just in on the rocks weie unhurt GOULD WINS HIS SUIT JTecd Not Pay Inheritance Tax on 5000000 Bequeathed Him George J Gould has won his suit to preven the collection of an inheritance itax qS 5000000 bequeathed him by his ffjer the late Jay Gould It was claimed latthe bequest was compensation for services rendered and this contention was sustained by the court THE LONG AND SHORT MEN Chicago Daylight Robbers Arrested in Detroit John Ormey with numerous aliases iand James Dempsey known as the long an4 short men who committed numer ous daylight holdups in Chicago and an other member of the gang were arrested -at Detroit Incendiaries Burn a Thresher Murder in a Penitentiary James Cox a Louisville negro in for three years for housebreaking disem boweled Preston Neal a Bourbon County negro in a light at the Kentucky peni rtiary Coxs weapon was a dining room knife which he had stolen and sharpened down to a fine edge Middletown Car Works Fail A receiver has been appointed for the Middletown Car Works of Middletown 3Pa one of the largest ofDaupin Countys industries The failure was due to the financial stringency No -statement of ithe assets and liabilities has been made Man and Woman Fight a Duel AtAnniston AJa Warren P Rouse andJNora Tanner keeper of a disreput sablehouse fought a duel with a pistol and a knife Rouse was -shot twice and died almost instantly The woman was mt to pieces and died later Headless Bodies iFound filheheadless bodies of Joseph Hoppoer and wife of Longdon y werefound on the irailroad track near Lawrenceburg that state They had evidently laid down with their heads on the -track and com mitted suicide Hal let Fiano Company Fails The Hallel Davis Piano Manufactur ing Company of Boston assigned on ac count of the failure of its western agents The liabilities are 175008 The assets are more -than double Arkansas Town Burns The entire town of Malvern ArkM -was destroyed by an Incendiary fire -Only three houses were left standing The oss is -400000 Four men are under ai rest Found Dead in a Field At Lela Oklahoma Allen R Cook a lawyer and farmer was murdered land buried in a corn field Dock Ben inett A J Montgomery and Chas Hyatt were arrested on the charge of murdering Cook Cook and Bennett were claimant if or the same trabt of land Indiana Counterfeiter Arrested Thomas Seed of Pendleton Ind was arrested charged with being the leader of a gang of couaterfeiters Spurious coin mas found on Mm The rest Qt Uw Ml mU probably be taken - BAYONETS USED ON RIOTERS Militia and Strikers Come Together at Cleveland Friday evening when the non union men were taken from the Brown Com pany works -at Cleveland Ohio Capt Zimmerman with a company of militia cleared the street Afterward the soldiers returned to the works and a crowd of 1000 men gathered in a vacant lot across the street They assailed the militiamen with vile epithets and finally began to hurl atones at them The order to charge was given and the soldiers plunged for ward The crowd broke and started to run but all could not get away from the soldiers At least a dozen men were bay oneted and some of them were seriously hurt The injured were hustled away so quickly that it was impossible to learn the names of any -of them The situation was uglier than it has been at anytime yet The mobs are growing desperate and the troops have lost patience Martial law will be enforced in the dis turbed district from now on and any iserious menace to the militia is likely to be met with extreme measures The sol- ers are m the temper to use lead HUMORS OF MORE BONDS Stories of an Impending Issue Are Revived Again A Tally in stocks in New York Friday was attended by revived rumors of an im pending new government bond issue It was again alleged that representative financiers have been in conference with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Cur tis on the subject The story went that the tieasury offi cials and president believed a bond issue would soon be necessary and that the bonds could be marketed to better ad vantage now than later and that the po litical effect of such a step would have practically worn off by election time The appearance of Mr Curtis at the sub treasury lent color to the report es pecially in view of the strong and active market for government bonds Friday Bankers usually identified with the financial measures of the administration and members of the old government bond syndicate discredited the report TO SAIL A FILIBUSTER -Steamer Bermuda Preparing Again to Start for Cuba Much activity has been observed of late at the Cuban headquarters in New York due to preparations for an expedition which is to sail soon on the steamer Ber muda whose machinery has been over hauled at Philadelphia and speed power has been increaed The expedition will beled by Col Cabrera an old veteran of the ten year war Capt John OBrien will have charge of the vessel Twenty cases of rifles and 200 cans of cartridges have been sent to Philadelphia within the last three days but these are not one juarter of the war material which will be shipped or has been shipped aboard the -steamer INew Steamship Line to Japan S Iwanaga of Tokio Japan general Great excitement and indignation exists fnuimager of the Japanese Mail Steamship in the vicinity of Lexineton III A -threshing niachine outfit valued at 1000 owned by John Fair on the Mahon farm was destroyed by lire undoubtedly of in cendiary origin The machine had been sprinkled with oil Threats have recently been made to destroy the numerous ma chines recently sold into that territory The owner of the machine has offered a reward of 250 and the agent of a machine firm 25 forthe apprehension of the diary To Sell Great Chino Ranch Negotiationsfor the sale of the Great Chino Ranch near Los Angeles Cal which contains 52000 acres to an English -syndicate is about complete The syndi cate is represented by John F Gilmore and the papers of sale are now being drawn up The put chase price is said to be 51600000 Company limited has signed in St Paul a contract with the Great Northern Rail way Company for The establishment of a steamship line between Tokio and Seattle The first steamur will probably leave Seattle about August 15 and for the pres ent there will be one steamer east monthly ihe service to be increased as reauired Adrift on the Lake in a Scow A dispatch from Marinette Wis says After being adrift two days and a night on -Green Bay Joseph Barber his son William and two employes returned to this city They went out in the old scow OaloOrchurd Sunday night The scow became free Monday with broken center board and finally struck Chambers Island where the half starved men were eared for -Says He Is Schlatter A -man claiming to be Schlatter the divine healer went to Guthrie Ok la- homa on a bicycle lie was dressed in a trailing gown of black wore a curling beard and long flowing hair Great crowds dog his footsteps He addressed au immense throng laying on hands to heal and blessing hundreds of handker chiefs Trqpie Temperature in Europe A JLondon dispatch says Intense heat prevailed throughout the southern portion of Gieat iBritain and in France and Ger many uiuuiuay in juonuon tue mer cury marked80 degrees in the shade and in Paris the heat was so great that many workshops were closed Improved Tbeoondition of Cornelius Vanderbilt sr who was -stricken with paralysis in New Y ock is -slightly improved although there is -still the greatest apprehension H Walter Webb vice president of the New Toxk Central says Yanderbilts condition is not dangerous Humor of a Massacre The Ixmdon Chronicle publishes a dis dispatch from -Constantinople which as serts that a massacre has occurred at Egin in theDiarbekir district of Armenia in which 400 persons were killed and the city pillaged The authorities are trying o keep the matter a secret Woman Hanged in Virginia News from Coeburn Va is that Mary Snodgrass was hanged for the murder of her child She was a disreputable char acter and to get rid of the child threw it in the fire and burned it to death Slie was fried convicted 2nd hanged as above JLieut Pearys Ship Sails Lieut Peary has telegraphed from Syd ney Cape Breton My steamer Hope sails at noon I expect to remain until the last of September It is understood he is in search of a great meteorite dis covered on his last polar expedition Murder and Suicide In a quarrel between Italians at Charles ton S C John Gasperri stabbed and killed John Gonsales and then cut his own throat to escape arrest Ship and All on Board Lost The British ship Curfew from Dundee tas lost in the Red Sea tfh all ou board Oats TEN WORKMEN DROWNED Overcrowded Ferry Goes Down at Cleveland Ohio At least ten lives were lost in an acci dent which occurred about 730 oclock Thursday evening on the old river bed near the ore docks of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railway Company at Cleveland Ohio The ore handlers had just quit work for the day and were waiting their turns to cross the branch of the river on the fiat bottom ferry boat which they had provided for their own use A number of the men had crossed When the ferry reached the dock the last time at least twenty men crowded upon it The boat which is about IJ0 feet long and not more than 4 feet wide would carry safely not more than a dozen persons The stream is not wide however and the hurrying ore handlers had no thought of danger The boat was pushed from the shore and was being propelled across the stream When it was about half way over it began to sink Then as the men rushed to the side it turned over All the occupants were thrown into the water Those who remained on the shore alarmed at the capsizing of the little craft at once threw life preservers and planks to the unfor tunate men but most of them sank like lead A few however managed to swim ashore -while one or two were picked up by a tug The first report of the accident placed the number of dead at twenty two but that proved to have been exaggerated The life saving crew whose station is near the scene of te accident was sum moned at oncv and the work of recover ing the bodies from the river was begun Within half an hour seven corpses had been laid side by side upon the dock Later three more bodies were recovered JEALOUS LOVERS DEED Stabs His Girl and Kills a Man Who Attempts to Arrest Him While resisting arrest for attempteu murder of his sweelheartat Tinsley Ridge iml John wiiito shot and instantly killed Thomas Fields White had been calling on Miss Nettie Atkinson for some time and later she accepted the attentions of the other young men in her town This so angered White that he induced the girl to take a ride with him and when but a short distance from her home he at tempted to murder her stabbing her in the breast and neck and leaving her for dead She recovered consciousness and Thomas Fields and others attempted to arrest White when he shot and killed Fields TWO KILLED AND TWO HURT In a Collision Between Two Freight Trains in Illinois In a collision between two freight trains live miles east of Quincy 111 two men were killed and two badly injured The engines were piled ou top of each other The dead Engineers G Hammer Taylorville pinned in wreck and scalded to death Fireman Louis Athey crushed to death Injured Fdgineer N F Vansteemburg severely bruised i Fireman Fred Smith leg amputated body crushed may recover Two Bodies Found in a Lagoon The body of Bernard Wetzel was found in the canal or lagoon which intersects portions of Belle Isle Park near Detroit Mich Later the body of an unknown woman was found near by The womans features were distorted and evidences of a struggle were apparent on the bank A post mortem examination did not tend to show any connection between the two mysterious deaths Sewall Welcomed Home A Bath Me dispatch says Arthur Sewall had his home coming Wednesday night and it was of the warmest sort The formal welcome was entirely non partisan As the special train bearing Mr Sewall came into the city fireworks were profusely burned the church and city bells were rung and a national saluto was fired by big guns Fatal Shooting in Springfield During a quarrel between Richard Shep herd a farm hand and Gue an emigrant mover at Springfield 111 the former was shot and mortally wounded by the latter Big Steamer on Rocks The Pacific mail steamer Colombia which ran onto the rocks off Pescadero Cal is rolling heavily and thumping her self to pieces MARKETS Sioux City Hogs 2 90 Cattle Cows and Heifers 2 50 2 80 Stockers and Feeders 8 25 Veal Calves 4 50 Sheep 3 40 Wheat 46 47 Corn 15 17 Oats 12 Hay 4 50 6 50 Butter 10 13 Eggs 10 Chicago Hogs 2 85 3 45 Cattle- Reeves 3 40 Stockers and Feeders 2 50 Wheat hi Corn Oats Rye 31 Timothy Seed 2 85 Flax Seed 71tf 4 50 3 CO 55 27 South Omaha Hogs 2 85 3 45n Cattle Steers 3 40 ffi 4 50 Cows 1 25 4 00 Feeders 2 50 3 60 Kansas City Hogs u2 50 53 224 Cattle- Beeves 2 Feeders 2 Sheep 2 60 3 25 65 3 55 00 5 20 Minneapolis Wheat July 0 54 September f2 Flax 66K -- 16 HOSTS OF BAPTISTS YOUNG PEOPLES UNION MEETS IN MILWAUKEE Ten Thousand Members of the De nominutional Society from All Parts of the Continent Sunrise Devotional Services Membership Over 100000 Prominent Workers Present The sixth international convention of the Baptists Young Peoples Union of America the Christian Endeavor of that great and powerful denomination was held in Milwaukee Delegations and scat tering visitors from every State in the Union as well as from Canada were in ys Y attendance Illinois sent fully 5000 Wisconsin 3000 out side of Milwaukee Indiana 2000 Iowa- 1000 Ohio 000 Michigan 2- uuu anu otner states in proportion to their distance Canada sent from 2000 to 3- sect viLKixs 000 visitors and del egates The event brought to Milwaukee probably the largest number of distin guished Baptist divines and representa tive members of tho denomination male and female that has ever been brought together in any one city Promptly at 10 oclock on the opening day the international convention was called to order in the great Exposition PRESIDENT CHAPMAN building next to the Coliseum in Chi cago the largest convention auditorium in America It has a capacity of 15000 and was filled to the doors half an hour before President John H Chapman rap ped for order This was speedily secured and devotional exercises consisting of the reading of a chapter from the scriptures who spoke wre known throughout the length and breadth of the land as deep thinkers and fearless exponents of what they deem the right The addresses de livered and the subjects discussed com prised all that is worth study and reflec tion in theology sociology and metaphy sics After the work of the convention was over the delegates and visitors made ex cursions to Lake Winnebago Devils lake Dells of the Wisconsin Epworth League Grove at Ludington Mich Racine Wis and Chicago EX GOV RUSSELL DEAD Distinguished Son of Massachusetts Kpirea Suddenly of Heart Disease Ex Gov William E Russell of Massa chusetts died suddenly at the camp of B F Duttou at St Adelaide Pabos Que bec Gov Russell accompanied by his brother Col Harry E Russell and Col Francis Peabody Jr arrived there only the day previous in search of rest He had run down in health after the trying scenes at the Chicago convention and his friends urged upon him the necessity of a rest in the backwoods and he accepted the invitation of Mr Dutton to go to his beautiful Canadian camp On reaching St Adelaide the ex-Governor appeared in good health and spirits and the evening was spent in a social way and in preparation for a fishing trip the next day He and his companions re tired early Col Russell was the first to arise and whan ho called his brother he received no answer He then attempted to arouse him by shaking him where upon he discovered that life had flown The position of the body and the expres sion on the dead mans face showed that his death was painless William Eustice Russell was born in Cambridge on Jan G 1857 within the shadow of the university from which he was graduated in 1S77 He received his early training in the public schools of Cambridge in which he prepared for Har vard College entering that institution in 1873 Mr Russells political aviations had always been Democratic In 1SS0 Mr Russell was elected Mayor of Cam bridge by a large majority He held the reins of government in the Mayors chair for three terms Mr Russell was mar ried to Miss Margaret Swan daughter of the late Rev Joshua Swann formerly of Cambridge on June 3 1SS5 They had three children two sons and one daugh ter In 18S8 he was nominated for Gover nor but was defeated by Gov Ames He was nominated again -in 1SS9 and was elected over Mr Brackett by a plurality of 8000 In 1801 he was successful over Charles H Allen of Lowell by a plu rality of 7500 In 1S92 the presidential year he defeated William H Haile by a plurality of 2500 votes while Benjamin figgy mmBBsi Ewmm MMW fill m EXPOSITION BUILDING WHERE THE CONVENTION WAS HELD- prayer and singing led by a chorus of 700 voices were conducted by Rev E W White of the Tabernacle Church The services concluded A W Drake presi dent of the Milwau kee Union deliver ed the address of welcome in behalf of the local organi zations and ad dresses were also made in behalf of the municipality A response for the board or managers J F TYPKKLI 1 fs of the international a w drake union and the delegates came from Rev E M Poteat of New Haven Conn The preliminaries over General Secre tary Dr Frank L Wilkins of Chicago presented the annual report of the board of managers In it he referred to the fact that the total membership of the or ganization exceeded 100000 one and all young people enthusiastic in the work of the church He pointed out that the Bap tists allowed great liberty Every church was left to its own discretion as to how its young people should be organized There were over 3500 Christian En deavor societies in the denomination but the fact that the Baptists were largely enlisted in the interdenominational fel lowship of Christian Endeavor did not preclude their having a young peoples denominational society of their own and the fact was that a denomination that numbered 4000000 adherents in Amer ica had perhaps more reason than other denominations for maintaining such an organization He went back to the first organization of the union in Chicago in 1891 when 3000 delegates were pres ent and commented upon the phenome nal growth of the so ciety The address was lengthy and re peatedly applauded Its adoption was moved and seconded by Rev Dr der Blackburn of Cambridge Mass and Rev W W Landrum of Richmond Va and was carried unanimously Some idea of what the leaders of the assembly undertook may be gathered from the fact that each days work began at G30 in the morning and ended about 10 oclock at night with almost continuous sessions throughout the day When the convention was not in session at the ex position hall the various churches of the city were utilized for meetings each one of which was in charge of some promi nent minister or layman and transacted business of importance to the body of Baptist Unionists Even when the con vention was occupying the great hall these side meetings were kept up The subjects treated of embraced every reJigious and social and mora theory of life The men Harrison carried the State by a plurality of 30000 He retired from office at the end of his third term and resumed the practice of law Notes of Current Events The Czar and Czarina have returned to St Petersburg Mrs John W Mackey has been sum moned from London to Rome on account of the critical illness of her father Li Hung Chang special envoy of the Emperor of China arrived in Paris and was welcomed with military honors 1 is rumored on the Paris bourse that the Rothschilds will issue in Paris a Rus sian loan for 1000000000 francs 200 000000 Harry Askin a manager of theatrical enterprises of wide reputation has filed a petition in insolvency No schedules are given Jones Laughlin signed a special steel scale with the Amalgamated Association at Pittsburg and will continue in opera tion They employ 4500 men There arrived in New Orleans thirty Chinese boys in charge of Rev Hule Kin a Presbyterian minister who has charge of a mission in New York where they go to be placed in school and after receiv ing a preliminary education will enter college They are sons of prominent and wealthy Chinamen Milton L Ely said to be one of the most noted bandits of the West has been captured at Moberly Mo by William Pinkertons detectives Ely is wanted es pecially because of his connection with the express car robbery at Ottumwa la Jan 12 1895 on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad There is danger of a water famn In Boston and considerable alarm is felt by Water Commissioner Murphy nnu City Engineer Jackson because of tiie large and unaccountable increase in tne use of water during the last three months The rainfall in the last six weeks has been very small and the water commission has issued orders to the people of the city to cut down their consumption According to what is considered reliable authority a controlling interest in the De troit Railway a system operated under the 3-cent-fare ordinances has been sold by Henry A Everett proprietor of the system to R T Wilson of New York Mr Wilson now owns most of the stock of the Citizens Railway Company ad u eonsoiiuuuon oi tne roaas under management is now anticipated uV JffJM ore The latter part of a wise mans life is taken up in curing the follies preju dices and false opinions he had con tracted in the former In ancient times bones were collect ed from the- battlefields ground to pow der and usfidto fertilize tae land 0E A G JREAT STATS NEWS FROM ALL FARTS OF NEBRASKA7 The Constitutional Amendments to Be Voted Upon this Fall Soon to Be Published for the Information of Voters Information for Voters Secretary of State Piper has preparea the copy for publication of the constitu tional amendments as provided by law There are twelve amendments and they cover about 3225 words They will he published in one paper in each county and the cost for each county is estimated at 225 If moreithan one paper wishes to divide this amount they can be pub lished in more than one paper Tile amendments as prepared are all together with the certificate of the secretary of tate appended at the end It was thought at one time that it would be necessary for the Governor to issue a special proclama r tion previous to election for these amend ments and the qiiestion was submitted to Attoruey General Churchill He has de cided that incorporation of the amend ments in his proclamation for a general election will be sufficient Farmers Will Fight the Law August 19 pursuant to a call issued by the executive board of the Douula County Farmers Union a county convention will he held at Elkhorn to devise metms to de feat the ratification at the polls of the- constitutional amendment enacted at tlie last session of the legislature which pro viding it carries at the coming election will empower cities of the metropolitan class to annex adjoining territory of the county wholly or in part and merge the two governments city and county Eich couniry precinct will be represented at the convention by five delegates and the plan for a systematic and aggressive anti annexation campaign will be adapted The text in full follows Be it resolved and enacted by the Leg islature of the State of Nebraska Section 1 That article xii of the con stitution of the state of Nebraska be amended by adding to said article a new section to be numbered section 2 to read as follows Section II The government of any city of the metropolitan class and tho government of the county in which it is located may be merged wholly or in part when a proposition so to do has been sub mitted by authority of law to the voters of said city and county and received the assent of a majority of the votes cast in said city and also a majority of the votes cast in the county exclusive of those cast in said metropolitan city at said elec tion Sad End of a Picnic Party Three young married couples living about fourteen miles south of Franklin were having a picnic fishing etc They were wading in the Republican River here the water was about two or three feet deep and Henry Daniels and his wife went under the water stepping in a hole where the water was about ten feet deep and very swift Daniels was a good swimmer and worked hard to save his wife but became exhausted and both went under Mrs Daniels came to tho top and iloated so that she was taken from the water in a few minutes She showed signs of life Her chance for re covery is slight Daniels body was In the water three hours belore it was louuu All Pleased With Fort Crook A dispatch from Fort Crook says The officers and enlisted men of the Twenty second Infantry are well pleased with thet change of station All sympathize with the members of the Second Infantry m ther misfortune in being sent so far out of civilization Although Fort Crook is situated in such a manner that it is rather unconvenient for its people to get to the city they are happy in the fact that when they do go they can get something for their money and see something worth tho expenditure of their time Dragged to Death by a Team Nicholas Wurtzel an wged and farmer living eight miles north of Wast Point was on his way home when the team ran away throwing him out of the wagon He became en tangled in the lines and was dragged some rods He was picked up in an unconscious condition lacerated Medical assistance was procured but to no avail and he died 5f coucusaion of the brain JJife of a Child Crnshnti r Charles the 0-year-old son of Joseph fiohac of Schyler got under the wheels of i Union Pacific passenger tram and sus tained a terribly crushed and maneled right leg and left arm broken right arm and lacerated head and chest from the effects of which he died two hours later Hot Dispute Settled The controvefsey between the mayor And city council at Nebraska City as to uc wlj atturueysuip nas been settled by Judge Dundy who decides that C W seymour is city attorney of Nebraska City Mayor Stahlhut is highiy elated as it is a victory for him Child Fatally Hurt As George Phillips who lives in the ficinity of Odell was moving his thresh ing enginehis little boy whe was riding on the straw carrier was thrown off and one of the wheels passed oyer his breast and head fatally injuring Hastings Boys Prize J Jones of Hastings has been noti fied that he was the winner of the Schaff cash prize for having the best essay of th 9li class of the Hastings VroshvtoTi uuege me lasi decision having been received in IU icuu tu maKe ner owing to her age of the judge Aged Woman Hurt at York Mrs Stafford an aged woman of York was seriously injured in a runaway Shs received a broken arm and othr i J case serious Burlington Employe Injured Wm Cooney an employe of the Bar fmgton dirt train fell betwppn tQ at Nebraska City and was struck bv a brake beam and badly injured internally Requisition for J R Ritschel Governor Holcomb has issued an extra dition warrant for the return of Julius R Ritschel He stands charged with grand larceny committed in Henry County Missouri The requisition is made by Governor Stone of Missouri Titnh0i u now under arrest at Fairbury Returns from a Foreign MIssior John Mattes jr who was appointed special agent of the United States AgricuU tural Department to Germany has re turned to Nebraska City Bf ter an absence of three years - a h X m r