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About Bulloch times. (Statesboro, Ga.) 1893-1917 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1893)
CARTER HARRISON SLAIN. CMcait/s Mayor Assassinated ly an Insane Craet. The City Plunged Into the Sorrow—The Assassin in a Cell. A Chicago special of Sunday says: Another crazy crank lias done his deadly work, and Carter Harrison, five times mayor of Chicago, and one of the best known men in the west, lies dead at his residence. 231 South Ash¬ land boulevard. Three bullets entered his body, two of them making wounds sufficient to cause his death. The murder was committed by Eugene Patrick Prendergast, a paper carrier, who declared that Mayor Harrison had promised to make him corporation counsel and had not kept his word. This, ho said, was his only reason for committing the crime. The only per¬ son in the house at the time, besides Mr. Harrison, was his son, William Preston Harrison, and the servants, i About 8 o’clock Saturday night the door bell rang and when Mary Hansen, the domestic, opened the door she was confronted by a man about five feet five inches high, smooth shaven, his rather clean cut features lit up by a pair of dark eyes. “Is Mr. Harrison in?” asked the man, in a quiet, pleasant voice. “Yes, sir,” responded the girl as she threw the door open wider to per¬ mit his entrance. “I would like to see him, please,” said the man as he walked toward the back end of the hall. Mr. Harrison was in the dining room. Hearing the man ask for him, he rose and stepped into the hall, walk¬ ing toward Prendergast, who, by the lime he caught sight of Mr. Harrison, had advanced about ten feet from the door. FIRED WITHOUT A WORD. Without saying a word, Prendergast drew his revolver and commenced to fire. He pulled the trigger but three times, and every time hit his mark. One ball shattered his hand and passed into thp lower right side of the abdo¬ men, making a wound that would have been fatal within a few days. The third bullet entered the chest slightly above the heart. This bullet was the imme¬ diate cause af death. As soon as Pendergrast began to fire Mr. garrison turned and walked rap¬ idly toward the dining room. He walked through the room, across dining room and passed into the but¬ ler’s pantry opening off the room, where, weakened by loss of blood, he fell to the floor. Prendergast did not follow up his victim or make any attempt to ascer¬ tain how deadly his aim had been. He replaced his revolver in his pocket, with the same deliberation that had marked all of his actions aid eterted toward the door. PURSUED BE THE COACHMAN. Just as he was pasting through the doorway, William Preston Harrison, the mayor’s son, came rushing down the stairs from the upper portion of the house, just as Mr. Harrison’s coach¬ man ran into the rear end of the hall. The cries of Mary Hansen directed the son to where his father lay, but the coachman was after other game. He had a revolver of his own, and as quickly as he realized what had oc¬ curred, he leveled his weapon and sent a bullet after the disappearing form of the murderer. A second time his re¬ volver spoke, but both bullets went wild. Running to the door, the coach man was prepared to continue hostili¬ ties, but several people were entering to learn the cause of the shooting and by the time the coachman had reached the sidewalk, Prendergast had been swallowed up in the darkness. Across Ashland boulevard, directly opposite the residence of Mr. Harri¬ son, is the home of W. J. Chalmers, the wealthy maker of mining machin cry. Mr. Chalmers was standing up¬ on the front steps of his residence when the shots were fired. He dashed across the street and met Pendergrast almost out of the gate. “What is it?” said Mr. Chalmers. The man walked rapidly north on Ashland without re¬ plying and Mr. Chalmers hastened in¬ fo* the house. He reached Mr. Harri¬ son’s side almost at the same instant that William Preston Harrison had found where his father lay. Mr. Har rison was quickly borne to a ooucb .*f adjoining room. The front of his was soaked with blood, which :*e was running rapidly from two holes, lust above the heart and one in the Y^omcnt later he sank minutes into uncon- aft .r.imBness ?re.eivin" and in wounds*Mr. twentv ^ the Harrison ° read Wien voum- Mr. Harrison came rnimhc In down stairs to learn the cause fh< shooting he passed a burglar lftrrn He reached out his hand and fTrrTpdinftn ts alarm, and even before patrol reached his father’s side a wagon filled with officers from Lake street eation, about a third of a mile distant,was dashing towards the may¬ or’s hona. By the time the officers arrived fll trace of the murderer had been lostsnd even before the major h*ul breathed lis last, officers from every station intha city werts on the lookout for a small, smooth-shaven man about twenty-five years old. DEAD BEFORE THE DOCTOR ARRIVED. Every offort was made to secure medical attendance for Mr. Harrison, but when Dr. Lyman the first physi¬ cian to arrive at the house, reached the mayor’s side lie was a dead man. About twenty-five minutes after the shooting Prendergast presented him¬ self at the Des Plaines street station and gave himself up, he shook like a man with the palsy. His face was white and great drops of perspiration chased down his face, and his tottering limbs seem scarcely able to hold him up¬ right. On being questioned he said: “I shot Mayor Harrison, and that’s what I shot him with,” was the reply and Prendergast made a motion with his hand towards his revolver “He said he would make me corporation counsel and he did not do it, that s what I shot him for.” The prisoner was finally placed in a cell under the city hall and additional policemen were stationed about the building for the night’s vigil. All night long the crowds came and went about the place. A bitter feeling against the murderer was manifested. Significant but subdued remarks about convenient lamp posts and swift ven¬ geance were frequently heard. Meantime tidings of the murder had swept like an electric shock through the city. The telephone wires fairly burned with service as queries and confirmations flew over the circuits. Politicians, officials, business men and everybody dropped their papers as the news came to their homes and started to the center of the city to swell the large crowd. • CHICAGO MOURNS. Chicago today is overwhelmed with sorrow and shame, Her citizens mourn for the man who stood closer to the people’s heart than any other who has lived or died within her boun¬ dary lines, or has been in any way connected with the city’s growth and progress. The feeling of shame is that just at the close of the great¬ est and most glorious period of her municipal history, just at the dawn of a brighter period than she has ever be¬ fore experienced, the dark criimj of murder should have a red blot on the record. It was a thing no man could pre¬ vent; a calamity that no human intel¬ lect could foresee, but the crime is done and the stain and digrace of hav¬ ing her chief executive shot down is a part of history now. The act of a maniac, or at the best a weak minded youth, has plunged Chicago into grief and mourning just at the period of her greatest triumph. From all ranks and all conditions of men there comes but one voice and that is of grief. The blow was heavy and it struck Chicago to the heart. Mayor Harrison was, without ques¬ tion, the most popular man among the residents of Chicago. He was the most widely known and beloved of all Chi¬ cago’s sons. CONFEDERATE MONUMENT Unveiled with Imposing Ceremonies at Clarksville, Tennessee. Wednesday Clarksville, Tenn., was crowded with the guests who came from far and near to witness an event which was of much moment, not only to those most directly interested, but to every southerner—the unveiling of the Confederate monument erected at Greenwood cemetery. There was an imposing ceremony, The Hon: S. J. 'Wilson, of Gallatin, was the orator of the day. The shaft is of Y T ermont granite, forty-eight feet three inches high, and thirteen by nine feet at the base. A bronze statue eight feet high, repre¬ senting an infantry confederate sol dier, ornaments the top of the splen¬ did shaft, and near the base, on either side of the shaft, are two statues, each sixteen feet six inches in height, one representing a cavalryman and the other an artilleryman. On the front panel of the monu¬ ment is this inscription: ‘•In honor of the heroes who fell while fight¬ ing in the Army of the Confederate States, 1861-1865.” On the reverse panels are these words: “Though adverse fortune denied final victory to their undaunted courage, history preserve* their fame made glorious forever. Confederate memorial.” THE CLOSING WEEK. ___ Preparations for Winding up the Great roinmliim Columbian Fxnosition Evposi A Chicago special of Tuesday says: i^the doubtful whether they will stay for anything less than a blizzard. Everything now centers on the festm - tles at tbe close of tbe fair ’ The 6tatc ' ment from Washington that President Cleveland and his cabinet could not attend is regarded by the committee as final and the .programme is being arranged accordingly. The only popular feature of the entertainment during the day will be the landing of Christo pher Columbus. The noted mariner will step aboard tbe Santa Maria and cruiBe around lake Michigan awhile. He will then come ashore opposite the manufacturers’building,discover some of Prof. Putnam s New York Indians and then the rest of the world s fair. OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. The HsppeniEgs nf a Day ClraiicM in ; Erie! and Concise ParanrapHs And Containing the (list of the News From Ail Parts of the World. The record of new cases and deaths as reported at the Friday noon meet¬ ing of the Brunswick board of health is very encouraging. Only six new cases and one death was officially re¬ ported. The Rteamer Bovie, which arrived at New York Sunday from Liverpool, made the passage in nine days, two hours aud one minute, breaking all previous records of freight steamers between these two points. The president, Saturday, sent to the senate the following nominations: To be United States consuls—Hermann Sehoenfeld, of Maryland, at Iliga, Russia; Robert P. Pooler, of New York, at Sierra Leone, Africa; David N. Burk, of New York, at Malaga, Spain. The newspapers of Paris published a rumor Saturday of an Italian plot to imperil the launch of the French war ship Jaurequiberry, which was put in to the water at Toulon Friday. The papers say that had not the plot been frustrated there would have been a dis¬ aster. A new York dispatch of Saturday says: The Brazilian government lias bought from the Pheumatic Torpedo and Construction Company the finest 15-inch dynamite gun ever built and a hundred projectiles, loaded with nitro gelatine, to be placed on the steamer El Cid and used against the insurgent fleet. Tluv^teamship A Brunswick, Ga., dispatch says: Balfour went to sea Saturday morning drawing twenty feet and six inches of water. She car¬ ried a remarkable cargo of 8,518 bales of cotton, 548 tons of phosphate rock, sixty-two tons of cotton seed and 102 bales of West India staves. She was loaded at the Brunswick Terminal Company’s dock. In the United States circuit court at Nashville Saturday Judge sage over¬ ruled the demurrer for defendant Frank Porterfield for a continuance and decided that the trial must pro¬ ceed on Monday, defunct Porterfljj|d Commercial was cashier of the National bank, and there are several indictments against him for violation of the national banking laws. A special of Saturday from Flor¬ ence, Ala., states that Sheriff Fatter son,' of Woodruff county, has arrested Rev. J. H. Matthews,a methodist min¬ ister who has been preaching in that county. Matthews was taken back to Arkansas on a warrant charging him Tie with grand larceny and forgery. made no objection to being arrested, but refused to make a statement. A New Orleans special of Sunday says: Among the passengers aboard the steamship Stillwater on her last voyage to Livingston, Gautemala, was Sheriff and Collector W. E. Cook, oi f St. Tammany parish, and with him about $61,000 of the state’s money. He left Covington last week, ostensi¬ bly to go to Baton Rouge to make a settlement with the auditor, hut dis¬ appeared. A special of Friday to the New York World from Quetzaltenango, Guate¬ mala, says: The government troops sent out after the bandits have re¬ turned, after having attacked the ban¬ dits and being repulsed. In the en¬ gagement three officers and fourteen soldiers were killed and many were wounded. The soldiers deny that their opponents were brigands; they insist that they were revolutionists. It was announced Sunday at Grand Rapids, Mich., by personal advices from Washington that the Hon. Ed¬ ward F. Uhl has been tendered and ac¬ cepted the assistant secretaryship of state to succeed Josiab Quincy. He is now in Washington. Mr. Uhl is one | of the most popular and influential oemouius democrats in the im.ni state, , lias served two | i terms as mayor o » am 1 j was a delegate at large to the Clove land convention last lall. A dispatch of Saturday from rlor ence, Ala says: White caps have post ed cotton gins in every part of the county warning the ginnersto stop gm ning eotton until it brings 10 cent. , Many have quit picking ami ginning for fear of having their cotton and gins burned. A white cap was arrested while posting a giu and is now in jail. He admitted having posted the notice, but claimed that it was done in fun. A Nashville special says: Cumber i ftIK L. ouut v has voted$50,000 subscrip tion to the Tennessee Central railroad, nn q private parties in the county have subsC ribed $25,000. Colonel Baxter 6ay9 tbis be sufficient to extend the road to the Cincinnati Southern. Eoan CO unty will vote on a subscrip¬ tioll of $1*0,000 on November 22tb, aml tbis WO nld take tbe road within twenty-five miles of Knoxville. Ihe gap between Nashville and Lebanon will be tbe i afct part of the road to be cons tructed. Raleigh special says- Revenue offioials interviewed Saturday regard- ing the new order of the commissioner of internal revenue that all whisky distillers shall pay tax on three gal¬ lons of whisky for each bushel of corn distilled, say they believe it will shut down many small distilleries and will greatly increase illicit distilling. The {State Liquor Dealers' and Distillers’ Association has called a meeting at Charlotte and will appoint a deputa¬ tion to visit Washington and urge the commissioner to revoke the order. BUSINESS REVIEW. I)nn & Co. Heport Trade as Deci¬ dedly Better. R. G. Dun Sc Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The port is in sight after a long and stormy voyage aud the prospect of a speedy end of,the strug¬ gle over repeal has brought bright hopes into business. It; is still too soon to expect much effect in trade and manufactures, and though mone¬ tary obstacles are to a large extent re¬ moved, there still remain other legis¬ lative questions which create uncer¬ tainty. A fact of real encouragement is that railway earnings for the third week of October shows an increase of 3 per cent over last year, the first increase for a long time. Wheat rose 2 cents, although Atlantic exports foil to 1,100, 000 bushels for the week, against 1,900,000 bushels last year, in part because western receipts were 5,863, 000 bushels, against 8,900,000 last year. But corn declined an eighth, with better reports of yield ; coffee de¬ clined three-sixteenths; pork products made only slight gains, aud cotton fell a quarter, the receipts being 60, 000 bales greater than last year. As yet there is seen only a continu¬ ance of the faint and slow increase in the distribution of products which has been noticed ror some weeks. Nor does this gradual revival in demand extend to all branches. Most of the increase yet seen in the cotton and shoe manufacture may be explained by mere exhaustion in stocks of dealers, ai frequent requests for immediate de¬ livery show, but there is also reported a somewhat better demand from con sumer s and more eotton mills have started, and seven have increased their forces, against seven stopping, or de¬ creasing. A similar demand lias in¬ creased by six the number of hosiery and knit goods works reported in oper¬ ation. The shipments of shoes from the east in four weeks of October are 28 per cent less than last year, against. 32 tier cent in September; but against eight compar atively small woolen mills starting five have stopped, including one of 3,000 and another of 3,000 hands. The total sales of wool at three chief markets, including several million pounds believed to be for spec, - ulation, have been 9,207,152 pounds in three weeks, against 21,975,000 last year. additional iron furnaces have Two g me into blast, and the present out p it may be a little larger than at the b ‘ginning of the month. Home rail mills have resumed manufacture appa¬ rently to provide for future rather than present wants of their customers, and there is some addition to the number of the nail grid wire works and machine shops employed. But the demand for most products is small. It is hoped that monetary ease aud security may encourage rail road extensions and improvements and more architectural work; but the shrinkage in demand is not wholly due to the state of the money markets. The number and magnitude of fail ures decreased less than had been ex pected, the liabilities in three weeks of October amounting to $15,072,920, against $7,000,000 for the same week last year. This week there have been 352 failures in the United States against 187 last year, and 44 in Cana¬ da against 20 last year. Including one bank and two western failures for a million or more, there were sixty five of liabilities exceeding five thou, sand each. A Noted Colored Man Dead. I)r J- C. Price, colored, . president .. . Livingstone -. college, at Salisbury, *• c - *«» “ Wednesday He was one of the greatest orators of the negro T race and is wellknown, hav j k< tnred in many ot Jbo laulin cities both in America and Europe. jje was appointed by I’resident Clove j an< j during his first administration, as minister to Liberia, but did not nc ce p b jj e ra t bcr preferred to give his gervices to the colored people of his country, lending his greatest efforts to working out the race problem, Funeral of Gounod. The state funeral of M. Gounod was held at Paris Friday. The body was conveyed to the Church of Madalaine. An immense crowd filled thePlaee de la Madalaine and the streets and bou¬ levards in the vicinity. The interior of the church was hung with black drapery, dotted with stars and trim¬ med with heavy fringe. Similar em¬ blems of mourning draped the portico. Over the portico was a shield of silver bearing the initials, “C. G.” A Baltimore man reii overooaru with ftb a<v containing 107 silver dollars in his haD(b He scrambled out, but left the bag behind. Then he gave fifty of the silver dollars to a professional diver, who recovered the bag after half an hour’s search SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The surface of a man’s lungs is esti¬ mated at 150 square feet, ten times the surface of the external body. In Great Britain the annual sick rate for each inhabitant is ten days to the year; in the United States eight days. Nests of the termite ants of South Africa are often twelve feet high and grouped together in clusters, the tallest in the center. Ants are provided with a poison bag, which discharges a fluid having a strong sulphurous smell, sufficient to drive away most insect enemies. The smallest holes pierced by modern machinery are l-1000th of an inch in diameter. They are bored through sapphires, rubies and diamonds by 8 machine which makes 22,000 revolu¬ tions a minute. Sir James Crichton Browne, the Eng¬ lish specialist, is a believer in the theory that the coming man will be toothless. He declares that over 10, [)00,000 false teeth are annually fitted into the mouths of Britishers. Many larv<e of beetles and other in¬ sects are used for food ; the beo gives iioney and wa::, the coccus manna and ?ochinoal, the Spanish fly a blistering drug, the gull insects an astringent ind the silk worm an article of dress. Uranus lias four little moons—Ariel, Umbnel, Titania and Oberon—which, funnily enough, rise in the north and set in the south. A single diminutive one, belonging to Neptune, traverses the sky from southwest to southeast. Neither Mercury nor Venus lias any satellites. Doctor Neisser.of the Hygienic Insti¬ tute at Berlin, has discovered in the city a new cholera bacillus which he calls vibrio heroicasifi. The inoccula tion of dogs, cats and rabbits with this bacillus has proved that the vibrie is fully as potent as the Asiatic bacillus. The Berliners manifest no alarm over Ihe discovery. The difference between the atmos¬ phere of the best ventilated houses and the outer air is illustrated by the con¬ duct of cut Dowers. Blossoms that re¬ tain their freshness but a day or two when standing in water within doore will sometimes live twice as long when dropped in a shady place out of doors, even without the aid of other moisture than they obtained from the earth and air. Experiments made by tlic scientists appointed for that purpose by the French Government show that the re¬ sistance of the atrfiosphere to the motion of a high speed tram often amounts to half the total resistance which the locomotive must overcome, Two engines, of which the resistance was measured repeatedly and found thirty- to bo nineteen pounds per ton at seven miles per hour, were coupled together and again tried. in tlia second trial the resistance fell to four¬ teen pounds per ton, the second engine being shielded from atmospheric re¬ sistance by thy first. Great attention is now being paid by the German military authorities to the question of facilitating and expediting intrenching methods. Among other implements which they arc testing is an intrenching spade, invented by M. de Layeh. When in use it is fitted to the stock of the rifle, but it is sug¬ gested that its proposed place, soldier, when not in use, on the breast of the is likely to cause oppression and to give little or no protection. The whole arrangement adds rather more than three pounds to lm impediments. ^ ^ --- — ----- * A CJljnese Proverb's Origin. “‘Hell steal shoes . • an ex¬ your is pression which iu China is used to de¬ scribe an arrant knave and pilferer.” says ex-Consul Edward Bedloe, re¬ cently returned from Amoy. “The expression is hundreds of years old and is based on an adventure perpetu¬ ated through the medium of decorated crockery ware. A wealthy Chinaman, whose gorgeously embroidered shoes were the envy of the community, was, according to the legend, despoiled ol his pride in the following manner: A raseal one day rushed up, gave the rich man a hearty blow on the back and seizing the astonished gentleman’s hat pitched it upon a high wall. The next moment the fellow seemed to discover that it was not an old friend he was greeting so enthusiastically and apologized profusely. ii 6 How shall I get ray hat?” in¬ quired the man with the beautiful shoes. “ ‘Jump on my back and you can reach it, ’ replied the schemer. “The suggestion was carried out, but while the liatless man was reach ing for his head covering the rascal slipped off the handsome shoes and made away, leaving the simple minded millionaire clutching the wall. Salutations in Old Marblehead. The customary morning salutation at all seasbns in old 3Iarblehead, Mass., is, “How is the fish?” In the past rainy summer the answer, after a look down the street, has generally been, and “Oh, her tail is going round round.” This is the town’s way of Bpeaking of the weather vane on the Congregational Church, the infallible oracle which determines whether boats shall put out to sea and leisurely lands¬ men go a-riding,— -Rochester Union and Advertiser.
