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Stmftam lilaHlllliW Simes.
VOL. X.
'THE PENALTY OF FOLLY
Interesting Details of the Death o
Sarah Welker.
X>anc*roua]y Wick, Mb® I® Hubbed an
Pounded to Death- Brutal Burris
lite Wifv’e Hye* Out
Is Hie Insanity a Hu*e?
Mt. Vkrnon, 0., Nov. 29.- -There are some
features a toot the death the woman Sarah
Welker, who resided near Gambier, this
(Knox) county, brought out in the testimony
nt the inquest, that arc almost past believin';
Dr. Burris, as he calls hinwlf, who had
charge of the victim in her illness, is a far
mer, and only atout eight months ago, ac
cording to his own testimony, became p
■piritualiistic medium. He claimed to b»>
under the influence of Dr. < aris, an Indian
doctor, and was therefore capable of curing
disease. Respecting hl« treatment of the
woman, he testifies:
This lady has been aihng for some tim
As a medium I have power to control pain
and cure disease. The i.iore developed I gel.
the more power I have. I have treated Sarah
Welker several times In the circle at her
mother’s. In this last sickness I was called to
treat her four or five times. She did not
complain of anything more than headache
and constipation of the bowels My treat
ment consisted of rubbing her. This wn
done under the influence of the Indian chief;
don’t know whether I relieved her or not. I
can not tell how often I have treated hor in
the last ten days. I never know what
disease I am treating unless it is
something very simple. On Friday night,
November 14, there were three mediums
in the house of Sarah W elker, myself being
one of them. We all treated her They told
me that she was suffering from prolapsus and
that I was directed to cure her. I did not
make an examination. Ido not know what
I did. They said I replaced it with the help
of the other two mediums I give magnet is o
to support vitality I might have taken a
knife and cut. I wa>» there every night from
the 14th until she died, ami whs there during
the day. I did not know wheo* her pains
were located except as she would tell rm
She told me she had wonderful pains from
piles, but did not ask me to tn at
her for this. I was with her when she died.
My own belief is that her own spirit
left her body Bunday night, atout 9 o’clock.
She went into a tram--- at this time. >Sh<- laid
in this trance one or two hours. We could
not see her breath" or feel her pubo. Her
mouth was shut. About this time I noticed
signs of returning life. he was in a short
time apparently < -•»: io us She spoke and
vailed for water, and complained f freezing
inside. She said her bowels was fi t zing out,
that her mouth whs freezing, and -. wanted
something boiling hot. Her sister . ave hei
hot tea. We thought at first that it wa*- e
own spirit that was in her body, but I —.
saw that it wax another spirit that had p<*
session of her. It was an evil spirit I wes
with her off and on from this tim<
until she died the second time. It was
very late Bunday night when I left her. 1
went over Monday about noon, and found her
sister in charge of her. She was actings
des|**rate that her sister would not let me gc
away I thought then that her own spirti
was in her body, but that she was out of h*.
mind, but about 3 o’clock we found that i
was still the evil spirit in her body 1 Htaye i
until night; went borne and brought my vri
back with me, and we stayed all night. In
the alter part of the night she got out of bed
and shouted that she was burning up, and
her bowels were running out and mor
tification had set in, and wanted an
other pow ier. We put her back in tod and
held her in. she asked me to strike her over
the hea . hi did not 10. She would be
quiet awhile, then she would rave again,
and we would have to hold her in bed. She
acted like this until this morning, and her
sister who is also a medium, said there was an
influence in the house that was going to tak -
the body away. I asked the spirit that was
in bar body who it was. It answered Dick
Ly barger. Her sister got afraid of her and
went over to my house I did not see h r
again until Wednesday morning. When I
went in she was quiet and in a few minutes
she whs lifeless. We rubbed her. I was un
der control of the spirits at this time and did
not know where I rubbed her. I think 1
rubbed her face and neck; can not tell how
long I rubbed her, but was with the body all
day Wednesday.
Mrs. Libbie King testified: Mrs. Sadie
Welker was a sister of mine; my sister was in
charge entirely of this Dr. Burris, who pre
tended to be a healing medium; he treated
her by rubbing her, and I am at raid he
struck her sometimes. He claimed to be un
der the influence of Dr. Cans, an Indian doc
tor. My sister died Bunday night in my
arms, about 7or 8 o’clock. 1 felt for her
pulse, but there was no response. She re
mained in this condition about fifty minutes.
Then they all left her except myself and one
or two of my sisters. When she came to
they all came back, except Mr. Burris;
he came in later in the evening. When
she came to she raised up in bed and
laughed She said: “Why, have I come back;
they told me I had a tie here and must come
back.” I asked her what she had seen, and
she said she had seen some people dressed in
all kinds of colors; she said they seemed so
funny. This was Sunday night. During the
night she would wake up and ask for water,
end act very queer and strange. The last
time she died it was totween 7 and 8 o’clock
Wednesday morning. She did not die as she
did the first time, her spirit seemed to go out
in ag< ny. She came to again about 12 o’clock
and i ried to speak and her hands moved.
Dr. Burris at this time was rubbing my sister's
neck and face, and was rubbing hard; he
was under the influence at the time.
I do not believe he was under spirit control,
but under mesmeric influence. We all seemed
to be under his power from Monday night.
He slapped my sister some and rubbed the
■kin off her neck. I think we were all de
ceived in Dr. Burris since I have seen the
condition of his wife. lam afraid of him.
He may mean all right, but he is deceived by
his spirit guide. He worked with my sister
almost the whole day Wednesday. He was
under the influence, and he talked so funny,
such as Ta, Te, Ta, Ta. He said it was
Choctaw language.
Mr. Wm. Welker testified: lam the hus
band of the late Sarah Welker; my wife was
■ick about five weeks. George Burris first
treated her for constipation of the bowels.
His treatment was kneading the bowels and
algo to rub her. He would make considerable
pressure to do this for about three-quarters of
an hour. He also treated her for prolapsus
on Fridry night, November 14. He said he
replaced it and that he did it with his fingers.
The reason that I sent for him was because
he said he had the power to cure disease.
He did not use any medicine. I first noticed
the bruised places on my wife’s face last
Tuesday. Ido not know how her face came
to be bruised. When my wife died Burrii
■aid she was in a trance and would return tc
life, and we were not to let any one outeidei
bother her, nor let any one in the room whe
had noli been in the house where she died.
Ite said for us to keep h«» until he got an
impression to bury her.
Mrs. J. S. Burris was the next witmw
called. When she appeared she showed signs
♦ f having been pretty roughly handled; Loth
eyes were swollen shut, and her face was ter
ribly bruised. Being sworn, she testified: 1
am the wife of Dr. George Burris. He hai
treated me for pain in my stomach and tow
els; he t reated me by rubbing me. On Sat
urday, November 22, I had a pain in my
e; es; he was under the influence of the spir
its, of what he thought was a good spirit ; ht
said 1 was possessed with an evil spirit, and
he slapped me on the face and head to drive
the evil spirit out; he bruised my face and
my eyes; my eyes swelled amost shut; he said
he was directed to suck the poi >n out of my
eyes, which he did: he sucked my eyes for
about an hour; they swelled and were s<
painful that we had to send for Dr Welker.
The reason he slapped me was that he thought
an evil spirit had jone out of Sarah Welker
? d had come int"> me. He thought he could
see this evil spirit In my eyes and he could
knock it out. He also choked me and I fell
t<- the floor, I sari to myself what does my
<i' ar husband moan? 1 knew it was not
George, but the spirit that was directing
him. 1 wished several times that he would
quit, for I was afraid he would injure me.
Ho treated Sarah Welker during her last
sickness. He would go to her two or three
times a day. Sometimes he would go into
the cornfield and get a spiritual telegram to
g > and treat her.
DR. BURRIS SENT TO THE ASYLUM.
George Burris, the spiritualist doctor, was
yesterday brought to this city on
a warrant sworn out by Ids brother,
William Burris, and was examined
in the Probate Court as to his sanity.
He was judged insane and was to-day con
veyed to the Central Insane Asylum at Co
lumbus. This places him out of reach of the
law, and is, no doubt, a movement made by
his friends for his protection.
THE DURANQO SUNK
In Collision and Thirty Persona
Drowned.
London, Nov. 29. -Dispatches received
this afternoon from Dunkirk state that the
Steamer Durango was sunk in a collision off
that port to-day, with thirty persons
drowned.
MRS. SANDS’ SAND
Aid* Iler In Putting a Burglar to
Flight.
New York, Nov. 29. Mrs. C W. Sands,
of Richmond Hill, Staten Island, while alon •
in her house Wednesday evening, was at
to ked by a negro who Risked and beat her
until she ceased to struggle with him, then ho
er npelled her to show him where the valu
ables in the house were. In piloting him
ai »und she went to where her husband’s pis
to! was kept and secured the weapon. Then
bolted for the door with the negro In pursuit.
When he had nearly caught hoi she turned
and pulled the trigger. It snapped tire, but
tie action had the effect of frightening her
as ailant and he fled. As he did so, she fired
tw ice, neither shot taking effect. The noise
brought the neighbors to the seen ■, who found
Mrs. Sands in a prostrated condition from
excitement and exhaustion. A. i arty of citi
zens are searching for the bur lar, and a
v. lute man who waited for him in the vicinity
is -apposed to be an accomplice.
BANK FAILURE.
I HU»fd by Accepting Earg® Draft*
Without Security.
Middletown, N. Y., Nov. 29.—The Mid
dletown National Bank has failed. Its doors
were closed this morning. The failure was
caused by the President, Thomas K ing, who
ac opted large drafts from Benjamin D
Brown, a grain dealer at Indianapolis an
Burlington, without security Brown hnj
made an assignment. The banks capital
was S2OO,(XX), with a ’surplus of $115,001/
The extent of the loss is not yet known. I) r
positors will lose nothing. King takes all t/if
blame on himself. His recent advances wen
made without the knowledge of the othe •
officers and directors. The Bank Examiner
is on his way from Washington. A slight
run has «>ccurred on the Savings Bank hen
but the latter is in no way involved, and wil’
stand the run easily.
After Hazen.
Washington, Nov. 29.—The forthcoming
Report of the Secretary of War will, it said,
contain some vigorous passages on General
Hazen. The findings of the Court of Inquiry
regarding the management of the
last Arctic expedition were not
inquired into by the Chief Signal Officer,
who subsequently took occasion in his report
to criticise Lieutenant Garlingt n and other
subordintaes for lack of judgment. The
shifting of responsibility will not, it is re
ported, be approved by the War Depart
ment.
Colorado i»llfier« Foiled.
Bueblo, Colo., Nov. 29.—The coal miners
of Southern Colorado still maintain the
strike which was inaugurated by them last
September, but it is not likely they can hold
out much longer. The miners supposed that
the steel works, smelters and citizens could
not get coal unless it was mined in Colorado,
but they were undeceived yesterday when
several trains of coal came in from Kansas
over the Atchinsou, Topeka & Santa Fe.
There is no danger of any more suffering for
want of coal, whether the miners resume
work or not.
Beecher and Politics.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 29.- Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, in his Thanksgiving sermon
yesterday, touched upon the political situa
tion of the day. He expressed his gratifica
tion ot having been in some degree instru
mental in securing the election of Mr. Cleve
land. His efforts in this direction, he said,
had been inspired by the same devotion to a
sense of public duty which had led him in
former years to opi>ose slavery at the risk of
great detriment of his own interests.
After an Incendiary.
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 29. —The citizens of
the towns in Nash, Edge wood and Johnston
counties, whose gins and dwellings have been
burned lately, believe they have found who
is the guilty person. They arc seeking Joe
Hennant, a negro, who is known to have set
fire to Garry Williamson s buildings, in Wil
son County, last week. He is so closely pur
sued that he stole a horse a few days ago and
rode through Raleigh with it. He has been
twice convicted of arson before.
Closed Indetinltely.
Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 29. —Three hundred
employes of the cooperage department of ths
Standard Oil Company in this city were
paid off to-day and the establishment closed
indefinitely on account of an overstock and
no demand for the barrels. At other factor
ies not controlled by the Standard the out
look is better.
Attempt to Blow Up a Land Agent.
Dublin, Nov. 29.—An attempt was made
with dynamite last night to blow up the
mansion of Mr. Hussey, a land agent at Cas
tle Island while the family was asleep. A
loud explosion occurred which partially shat*
tered tiie building. The family escaped with
out injuiy.
COLUMBUS. GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1884.
TOSSED ON THE BILLOWS
Tbr«e Sailors Suffar Sixty Hours
Without Food or Water.
Th® Death of Ona of the Number 1«
Followed by the Survivor* Sack
ing the Hlood from Hie Body
and Hatlag Hia Fleah.
Philadelphia, Nov. 29. - A dispatch to
the Pros® from Lewes. Delaware, says: The
three masted schooner Helen Langet, from
Georgetown, District of Columbia, for Balti
more, brought here to-day Pilot Marshall
Bertrand and Alfred Swanson, a Norwegian
two of three men who, on Monday forenoon
left the pilot boat Turley in a skiff for the
purpose of putting Thomas Marshall, another
pilot, on board the steamship Forma, which
was bound for Philadelphia. They succeeded
in performing this duty and started back to
regain the Turley, which was beating to an 1
fro off the Five Fathom Light Ship. The
weather waq very thick and a heavy sea was
running and they never reached their vesse’.
It was supposed they were lost. Several
pilot boats w are sent in search of them ai d
one cruised miles off the coast without
finding thenr.
Bertrand tells the following horrible story:
Soon after leaving the Penna, they found
that in the darkness they had lost their bear
ings. They had no compass on board, and
not one of the Delaware lights was visible.
Their frail boat became unmanageable and
the wind and sea rose higher every moment.
When daylight broke they were drifting rap
idly out to sea before a strong northwest
gale, and then abandoned all hope, except
that they might be carried within sight of
some vessel. This was but a forlorn chance,
as Bertrand knew that only by some lucky
accident would their craft, which most of the
time was in a hollow of the seas, be sighted
from the deck of any vessel. All they could
do was to keep her as much as possible before
the wind. The weather was bitterly cold and
they had left the Turley in such haste that
they had failed to take their thicker clothing
or throw in any water or provisions. Soon
the spray froze upon their oily skins and their
stiffened muscles refused to do duty. One
man attended the helm while the others at
tempted to keep the boat from swamping by
constantly bailing her. All Monday night
and Tuesday they drifted aimlessly about,
suffering extremes of hunger, thirst and
cold. Toward dusk on Tuesday even
ing both Norwegians became delirious
and before Bertrand could control them
they lost their oars and everything else that
was loose in the boat. Thus left without any
means of handling the skiff Bertrand can
hardly explain how it escaped filling or cap
sizing. He says that he occasionally sank
into a stupor in which the ravings of his
shipmates, roar of the winds, and the lashin
of the waves were curiously mingl -1 in whai
ever remained to him of consciousness. Ho
supposes that it was about midnight of Tuc
day when one of the Norwegians, who:- ■
name neither himself or Swanson kne
drew his sailor’s knife from his sheath and
made several plunges at him, declaring that
he would kill him »nd drink his blood; but
be was too feeble to carry out his intention.
Exhausted by his long fast and clad in his
icy garments a» in a coat-of-mail, he fell
shrieking and gasping acrow the thwarths at
Bertrand’s feet, and in a few minutes he was
dead.
The clouds had passed away, the moon had
risen and its beams fell upon the contorted
features of the dead sailor, upon whose face
a freezing spray quickly formed a film of ice.
To add to the peril of the remaining men, the
boat shipped a great deal of water. The
bailer was among the things that the crazy
men had thrown overboard, and Bertrand
was forced to take off one of his rubber boots
to use in its place. Thus he freed the boat
from water, but his unprotected foot was
frozen. Swanson was so near death as to be
incapable of rendering any assistance, and
except when he was raving he lay like a log.
When the sun rose on Wednesday morning,
Bertrand eagerly scanned the horizon in
search of a sail, but saw nothing. As his
glance fell upon the corpse of the dead sailor,
it. occurred to him that here might be the
means <»f prolonging life until a rescue came.
Horrible as the idea of cannibalism was to
him, h<- realized that there was nothing else
between them and death. He roused Swan
son and was happy to discover that his mind
had comparatively cleared and that he un
derstood what was said to him. The cold had
not abated, but the sea had gone down. The
day was bright, and Bertrand knew that if
they could keep alive until nightfall they
would, in all likelihood, be picked up, as
they c<>uld not be out of the path of coasting
vessels.
Then came the supreme moment. Bertrand
indicated to Swanson what he proposed to do
and the latter agreed with him. With the
small remnant of strength left them, they
tore the stiffened oil skins and underclothing
from the dead and left a portion of the body
exposek. Into his breast and shoulders they
plunge* 1 their knives and eagerly sucked the
blook from the wounds. They immediately
felt refreshed, and the tortures which they
had experienced were allayed. Pausing for
a moment in their work, they returned
to it and cut strips of flesh from
the corpse. Each devoured a little,
though Bertrand says it was with a
loathing which only conviction of self-pre
servatii >n could enable him to continue. Then
they lay back under the gunwales of the
craft, occasionally raising their heads to scan
the water for a sail. They were scarcely con
scious of the passage of time, but when the
sun went down Bertrand saw passing its disk
a vessel not more than a mile from them and
headed almost directly toward them. The
welcome vision reanimated him, and spring
ing to his feet, with some vigor, he stretched
himself to his full height in the item sheets,
and d awing off his oil skin coat,
swung it high above his head.
Just at this moment fortune aided
him, the boat mounting high on
the crest of a long roller, so that it was thrown
into full view of the lookout on the vessel.
For a moment she held her course, and he
feared that in the fading light they were not
seen. A moment more and he knew better,
for she came around before the wind and
headed straight toward them. 'The rescuing
vessel proved to be the Helen Langel, which,
in the storm, had missed making the Capes of
the Chesapeake. As she neared the castaways
she launched a boat and by (5 o’clock, Wednes
day evening, they were comfortably resting
in her cabin and comforted with food and
drink.
For sixty hours these men had nothing but
salt water and the flesh and blood of their
shipmate. The scene of rescue was eighty
five miles southeast of Five Fathom Light
Ship, so that in three days and two nights
which had elapsed since they put off from the
Turley, they had drifted around in that nar
row space. Just before the Langel bore
down on them, they threw overboard the
body of the dead man. The Langel arrived
at breakwater at 5 o’clock yesterday after
noon and Bertrand was put ashore. He is in
Eood condition with the exception of his
frozen feet. Swanson was sent to Turley and
s reported as doing well. It is said that a
bark passed the lost men’s boat on Tuesday
and that, notwithstanding their hailing and
signals, she paid nc attention to them.
TIIE FURY OF A WOMAN
A Defenseless Man Stabbed Seven
teen Times While Held,
In Return for an Attempt at Outrage
—Horae Thieve® Captured—Brutal
Killing of a Chinaman - Ker
ord of Other Crimea.
1... „
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 29.—Fabia Syl
vester, aged thirty-four years, was stabbed
seventeen times yesterday by a pretty little
woman at the corner of Seventh and Baker
streets. When arrested she gave the name
of Katrina Sorroto, aged twenty-eight.
About a month ago Sylvester wrote a postal
card te the woman’s husband, telling him to
come to the Pennsylvania Railroad office and
ie would be given employment. Sorroto im
mediately started for the depot, and while
he was away from home Sylvester called at
the house and attempted to assault Mrs. Sor
roto. A warrant was issued for his arrest,
but he was not apprehen led. To-day he was
seen near Seventh and Baker streets by some
friends of the woman. T’hey went to the
station house for an officer to a, rest him, but
before they could get ba k Sylvester started
to go away. He had gone but a few steps
when he was seized by Sorroto and an un
known Italian and held while tke enraged lit
tle woman ran up with two dirks in her
hands and began to stub him. He was ut
terly defenseless, and had it not been for a
heavy overcoat he wore, and the fact that
one of the knives broke off at the hilt, he
would have been murdered outright. A« it
was, he received seventeen thrusts. Sylves
ter was carried to the h-ispital. The would
be murderess was arrested.
HORSE THIEVES CAPTURED.
Lisbon, Dak., Nov. 29.—Osman Benson,
formerly of this place, went to Burlington,
Stevens County, with J. L. Colton a year
ago. During the summer two strangers were
noticed on the region of Benson’s place, who
would be absent from there about two weeks
and return with a number of horses, alleged
to have been purchased 1 rom the owners, In
Canada. A few days ago vigilantes sur
rounded his house, arrested him and a couple
of strangers stepping at Benson's house, and
took them to parts unknown. One : umor
says they have all been hanged, while another
story is that they have been token to Mon
tana for trial.
A CHINAMAN KILLED.
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 29.—A number
of boys passing the laundry of a Chinaman
—Ah Jim - iast night, threw rocks through
the windows and outhouse, and tormented
him. He came out of the house and ran after
them, when one of a gang of laborer! work
ing in the street, putting in a street car track
struck the Chinaman on the head with a pick,
inflicting a wound from which he has since
died. The officers have been unable to dis
cover which of the men committed the mur
der. The Chinaman was industrious and
quiet and the killing was an outrage. The
negroes and boys take every opportunity to
torment Chinese laundrymen.
A J »ES DERATE ROBBERY.
i Pittsburg, Nov. 29. —About midnight last
night, two unknown men entered John Don
aldson's saloon on Penn avenue, and in pay
ment for the drinks, tendered him ass bill
An altercation arose in regard to the change.
One of them made a grab for the contents ot
the cash drawer in a small safe, and the two
started out, followed by Donaldson. A des
perate struggle ensued, during which Don
aldson was struck a blow*on the head, from
the effect® of which he has not yet regained
consciousness. He lies in a precarious condi
tion. The assailants escaped, taking with
them S4O and a gold wat'-li and chain.
CHEAP SUGAR.
Th® Talk of Ilrdiiriuu th® Tariff on
that Article.
I Washington, Nov. 29.—Representative
Bums of Missouri, a member of the House
Committee on Appropriations, arrived here
t<>-day. He says it is the imperative duty of
the Democrats to reduce taxation at the com
ing session of Congress. He is not insisting,
he says, upon general tariff legislation, but
he hold that the duty on some of the neces
saries of life must to reduced. He said:
‘•We may bring in a bill to put sugar, salt
and lumber on the free list, or to at least re
duce sugar one-half. J think such a bill
would pass the House. We must cut down
this surplus, which is steadily accumulating
in the Treasury. If we delay, all the money
of the country will be locked up in the Treas
ury vaults. Ido not think that such a bill as
I speak of would open up the whole tariff
question, or load to protracted debate.”
When asked if he did not think that the
Louisiana sugar planters would fight such a
bill, Colonel Burns replied:
“There are only a few hundred of them,
and are we to tax all the people heavily for
sugar for the sake of a few planters? We now
admit Hawaiian sugar free, and I say, let us
admit the product of other countries on the
same terms, though I am willing to support a
bill to reduce the sugar tariff one-half. It
would be a fearful blunder for the Democrats
to permit this session to end without making
an effort to reduce taxation. lam also in fa
vor of putting barbed wire on the free list.”
Arrested for Mail Robbery.
Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 29. Caputon
Querry, a boy fourteen years old, has been
arrested for mail robbery. He carried the
mail on the part of the route between here
and town in Nicholas County. Letters and
packages had long been missed on that route,
but the detectives were unable to trace the
losses to any one. They have at length been
fixed upon Querry. He confesses. His
method was to neatly cut the leather bag just
around one of the rivets of the flap so he
I could raise the flap and leave space between
the rivets on each side of where he had cut,
large enough to insert his hand into the bag.
( A Farmer** Hard Luck.
Bradford, Pa., Nov. 29.—Farmer Wagner
has made a practice of keeping all his money
in his house, having no faith in the banks.
Three years ago his house was entered by
thieves who stole $2,500. Wagner then put
what money be had left in a bank, but the
bank failed and he ‘esumed the practice of
keeping his wealth <t home. Saturday night
the Wagner familj were at a n ughbor s. On
returning home they found burglars had
broken open nearly every receptacle in the
house and stolen most of the farmer’s saving
—sl,ooo.
Serious Charge* Against a Cure.
Buffalo, Nov. 29. —A special to the Daily
Times from Montreal says: Preparations
is being made for the arrest of a Cure, who
1b reported to have violated the sanctity of
the confessional. He is reported to have
made a special point of making indecent pro
posal to young girls, endeavoring to induce
them to confess to him as often as possible so
he might come into contact with them. As
soon as he is arrested, it is stated, he will be
arraigned on five different indictments for
similar offenses. The inhabitants of the uar
hh are at present in a feverish state of es ;ite
ipent.
Archbishop Feehan, of Chicago, will, in
all probability, be Cardinal McClosky's bu •
cessor. The Pope looks favorably upon Mr.
Feehan m a desirable man for the posiUon-ls
THE CUBAN TRADE.
Important Commercial Result* of
the New Spanish-Amerlcan Treaty.
i Washington, Nov. 29.—1 n view of the
proposed commercial treaty with Spain, the
extent of the foreign commerce of Cuba and
Porto Rico becomes a subject of immediate
.intenet. It is difficult te obtain here de
. tailed information regarding the total amount
|of this commerce. In his last annual report
lon the commercial relations of the United
I States, the Secretary of State estimated the
j export trade of the Spanish West Indies at
■bout one hundred millions, and their Im
ports at fifty millions.
Two-thirds of the exports are sent to this
country, and one-fourth of the imports come
from the United States. Last year England
lent to Cuba over two millions of cotton
manufactures, and the United Statea sent less
than $100,(XX). Our exports of breadstuff® to
Cuba amounted to $1,9 r,667; iron and steel
■nd manufactures of iron and steel, $2,323,-
541; provisions, $3,867,162, and wood and
manufactures of wood, $3,213,960. These are
>ur chief articles of export to Cuba.
It is a remarkable fact that the combined
export trade of Great P»ritain, France, Spain
■nd all other countries (except the United
States), with Cuba falls far short of the value
>f the Cuban sugars imported into the United
States. Hence, even if the proposed treaty
ihould enable the United States te absorb all
jf the export trade of the countries named
pvith Cuba, our exports to Cuba would not
squal our imports of Cuban sugars, te say
lothing of the large quantities of molasses,
xibacco and cigars annually imported from
ihe island.
THE HOCKING VALLEY.
Fwenty-Two of the miner* Lan
gulahlng In Jail.
Columbus, 0., Nov. 29.—Twenty-two of
Jhe Hocking Valley miners spent Thanksgiv
ing Day in jail at Logan. Seven of them
rere imprisoned Tuesday, seven were ar
rested at Jacksonville Tuesday night by the
sheriff’s posse that went up to Jacksonville
>ver the Ohio Central Road, and the others
vere arrested Wednesday night in the
rlcinity of Buchtel and Murray City. All
ihe arrests have been made quietly, without
•rouble or excitement. It is expected that
Congressman Converse will defend the pris
mers.
The report that Governor Hoadly had or
lered the troops to be in readiness to go to
she Valley is denied at the Executive Office,
where it is thought that, the civil auuu-cities
•an cope with any trouble that baa arisen or
nay arise.
KATE SMULZEY DYINQ.
1 De*p Sleep Followed by Unusual
Weakness.
Fort Plains, N. Y., Nov, 29. —The resi
lents of this village inquired all day yester
lay regarding the condition of Kate Smul
»y, who alleges that she has lived 263 days
without eating and nearly half that time
without partaking of any liquids. Last
light she sank into a deep sleep, and physi
cians thought the great change had come,
Jhe rallied, however, but is so weak that she
‘an hardly talk above a whisper. Her phys
cians will not say that she is struck with
leath, but they admit that she is a very sick
prl. The community accept this as ad unit
ing that death is approaching, and interest
n the ease increases.
“THE PROHIBITION OUTRAGE”
(• Denounced a* a Ll* The Work
of Roush*.
Bladensburg, Pa.. Nov. 29.—The true
listory of the murder committed hero a few
lays ago and telegraphed over the country
m a Prohibition outrage, is as follows:
A wholesale liquor dealer of Mt. Vernon
ent a stock of liquors to this place and put
hem in charge of the murdered man. On
.he night of the Democratic jollification a
crowd became drunk and noisy, and Anson,
n endeavoring to put them out of the saloon,
•eceived the fatal injuries. While he was
inconscious and the extent of his injuries
were unknown, the crowd of drunken roughs
jutted the saloon. Not a sober man took
>art in the outrage.
Death front Coal Gas.
Galveston, Tex., Nov. 29. —Cnnsterna
•ion was created yesterday by a rumor that
;he whole of the crew of the British bark
Homo, unloading coal here, were dead or dy
ng. The suspicion that cholera had at last
appeared was raised at once, frightening the
irnid, but investigation proved the report ex
aggerated. It seems that gas hud arisen
'rom the coal in one of the bark's coinparc
nents, which had been sealed by the customs
uithorities, and had permeated there during
light. As the result, the captain, steward
ind mate were taken sick. The captain,
George Raulston, of Londonderry, Ireland,
s dead, but the others are out of danger. The
lags of all the British ships and many others
n the harbor are at half mast out of respect
lor the captain’s memory.
Th® Shooting of O. A. Carpenter,
Lincoln, 111., Nov. 29.—The rumor thatO.
A. Carpenter had been shot by William
Dukes, a brother-in-law of Zura Burns, con
;inues to agitate the minds of the people of
;his county. It is reported the shooting was
lone in Pierre, Dakota, where the parties
now reside, but a telegram sent there by a
•esident of this city elicited no reply, and the
people here now generally discredit the story
he name of O. A. Carpenter will long be ro
neinbered here.
Row at a Dance.
Denton, Tex., Nov. 29.—Last night a row
occurred at a dance five miles north of here
in the ranch of S. Curley, among some of his
lired colored help. It seems that several of
the negroes of Denton attended the dance,
unong whom were Albert Tilly, James Lusk,
snd others. The former was badly cut and
ihe latter was shot through the head and is
' jot expected to live. It is thought that Al
lert Lilly did the shooting, but nothing pos
itive is learned.
Failed for a Quarter of a Million.
Dallas, I'ex., Nov. 29.—The schedule
; ihowing the list of depositors, liabilities and
wsets of the bank of Adams & Leonard,
which made an assignment a few days since,
las been filed in the office of the County
Jlerk. It shows the liabilities to to $317,-
; J 77 72; assets, $61,259 45. The actual assets
ire not known, but they are not believed to
ixceed SIOO,OOO.
Resumed.
I Pittsburg, Nov. 29.—Shoentorger & Co.’s
two large iron mills, which have been closed
tor some time, start ad on full time this morn
ing in all departing nts, giving employment
k> 600 hands. The tlrm have sufficient orders
io keep them running steady. The employes
were overjoyed when they received the news
ast night.
It Didn’t Come Off*.
I Bt. Paul, Minn., Nov. 29.—The much-her
ilded Barnes-Norton prize fight, which was
put down to take place yesterday at the gym
nasium, corner Seventh and Fore streets, was
topped by Chief of Police Clark just as
;he men were stripped to enter the ring.
Barnes and Norton were held in SSOO bait
CONOENSEDWNEWS.
Yale beat Princeton at foot ball ye*ter»
lay.
Eastbound rates from Chicago have been
restored.
Thanksgiving was generally observed all
□ver the country
Fannie Eissj.er, the noted dansuese, died
yesterday in Vienna.
The Erie Railroad Company, in its re
trenchment has spare<! only the oldest em
ployes.
A Socialist society with ramifications ex
tending tlirough all Austria has been dis
| covered.
Patrick Egan, at New Orleans, lias been
sentenced to hang for the murder of a man
named Blake.
At Annapolis the Naval Academy cadet*
beat the John Brown University boys of Bal
timore at foot ball.
Fanny and Reddy, two dogs, fought in
New York for $5,1)00 a side. Reddy died
and Fanny was victor.
Miss Julia Murphy, Milwaukee’s great
musician, was married te E. J. Cudahy, of
Chicago, Thanksgiving.
J. H. Sawyer’s colliery, near Wilk**-
barre, Pennsylvania, destroyed by fire. Loes,
$90,000; insurance, $30,000.
General Miguel Guadia, the Costa
Rican Commissioner to the World’s Exposi
tion, died Thanksgiving Day.
United States Minister Kasson, at Ber
lin, is very lukewarm in his support of th*
claims of the Congo Association.
In a game of lacrosß yesterday the Will
lamsburg Athletic club beat the University of
Pennsylvaania club at New A r ork.
James Sullivan, a sailor, has been found
guilty of murder in the second degre*.
for the killing of John Tamney, at Philadel
phia.
Alex Shearer, manager of the branch
bank at Annapolis, of the Union Bank of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, has disappeared with
$5,000.
There is a deficit of $5,250,000 in the e*ti
mated revenue from taxes on beet sugar in
Germany and of $750,000 in that from to
bacco.
Mr. Morin, a lawyer, was shot and killed
in the Paris Court of Assizes by the wife of
M. Cluviathuges, whose reputation he Lad
slandered.
Frank Kline, saloonist, 123 Columbia
street, New York, shot and killed Michael
Dunnery, aged 23, who was trying to burg
larize the saloon.
Advices from Durban state that ten thou
sand rifles and one million rounds of ammu
nition for field guns have arrived in the
Transvaal country.
Henry M. Stanley, attending the West
African Conference at Berlin, will leave for
London Sunday. The sittings of the Confer
ence promise to be prolonged.
Oliver Brothers, manufacturers of fin
ished iron, Pittsburg, have ordered a ten per
cent, reduction in all wages from December
1. This will affect 1,000 men.
The Third Plenary Council on Thanksgiv
ing held Thanksgiving services and decided
that the daj should henceforth be a legal hol
iday for the Catholic Church.
John Aird, City Jailor at Salt Lake City,
has been arrested for “unlawful cohabita
tion,” his wife making complaint, who says
that he has taken a second wife since tho pas
sage of the Edmunds Law.
A fight between Joseph Edwards, are
tired pickle merchant of New York, and his
eon, resulted in the fatal injury of another
son who got between the father and hi*
brother as the father discharged a pistol.
In his annual report Superintendent Kim
ball of the Life Saving Service says there
were last year 439 disasters; lives saved, 4,41*;
lives lost 20; value of property involved,
$10,607,940; value of property saved, $9.10L
-450.
Eugene Gleeson, colored, who wa*
guarded by military at Petersburg, Vir
ginia, for fear of lynching, is now in jail
awaiting trial for the niurder of Wilmar
Holland, white, without fear of more vio
lence.
In respect to the boundaries of the Congo
basin the conference has agreed that th*
mouth of the river be understood to include
the coast from the river Loge on the south, to
the river Sette on the north, and that trade
shall to free to all comers within the Congo
region.
Jane Patterson, mother of twenty chil
dren, was bitten by a rattlesnake thirty years
ago near Ringgold, Georgia, and has felt the
effect every August since until this year,
when her suffering has toon intense for three
months, and at last accounts she was not ex
pected to live. None of the children give
evidence of inoculation.
A distressing tale comes from Toronto.
One Quinolle separated from his wife because
of a liason formed with a servant girl, and,
■while his wife was ill, returned, and going to
the grave of his dead child cut off its hand
and took it to his wife. He then sewed the
hand up in linen and left it on the table,
after which he and the girl, who had become
enciente, eloped, leaving the wife in spasms.
It is thought they are in Boston.
THE MARKETS.
General.
Cincinnati, Nov. 28.—Flour Winter
patent, $4 20@4 50; family,
$3 75(g.4 25; buckwheat flour, $4 75@5 25u
W heat—No. 2 red, 75(gldc; choice, 77(g78c ;
mixed lots, 684ji72c. Corn —No. 3 mixed,
samples No. 2, 38(£42c. Oats—No.
2 mixed, 28><(5290; No. 2 white, 29@30c. Rye
—sß@s3>£c. Barley—Spring, 50(jj60; No. 2
fall, 70(a-74c. Pork—Family, sl2 25@12 50,
Lard—Steam leaf, Bacon—Shoulders,
sides. 7#<£B>gc. Whisky—sl 11.
New York. Nov. *2B. Wheat—No. 2 red,
December, 8’.%@81%c. Corn—Mixed West
ern, spot, 45@51c; future, 45%@50c. Oats—
Western, 32@38c. Beef—New extra, $22.
Pork —New mess, $13(31 IS 50. Lard—Steam
rendered, 7.30 c. Butter—Western, 9(g)3oc.
Cheese—Firm at l($l2%o. Tallow—
-6 3-16 c. Eggs—Western,
New Orleans, Nov. 28 —Pork—sll 90
(g)L2 00. Cut meats—Shoulders, s>sc; sides,
Bacon—Clear rib, 7%c; long clear
sides, Bc. Hams—l2(g) Lard—Refined
tierce, 7%c; prime steam, Sugar
—Good common, 3%c; fully fair, 3%c; fair
to good fair. prime, 3>£(s4c;
strictly prime, 4(jj}4> b c; choice white, clari
fied, 5J%@5Xc; choice yellow do., 4%c.
Molasses—Fair, :25<®29c; strictly prime, 35®
37c; choice, 39@40c; centrifugals: common
to good common, 12® 13c; lair to good
fair, 20®22c; prime to strictly prime, 25®
80c; prime to good prime, 30®34c. Whisky—
sl 15.
Utv* Stock.
Cincinnati, Nov. 28.—Cattle Good to
choice butchers’, $4 00®4 75; fair to medium,
$2 75®3 75; common, $1 50®2 50; good to
choice cows, $4 00®4 50; good to ahoio*
heifers. $4 25®4 75; common to fair oxen.
$2 50®3 50. Hogs—Selected butchers’ ana
heavy shipping, $4 50®4 65, ana a few extra
at $4 70; fair to good packing, $4 30®4 60;
fair to good light, $4 10®4 40; common, $3 50
®4 00. Sheep—Common to fair. $2 25®3 00:
good to choice, $8 25®3 75, and some extra
wethers at $3 75®4 50. Lambs—Common
to fair, $3 00®3 75; good to choice, $4 00
®4 50, and some extra at 14 75.
Chicago. Nov. 28—Hogs—Fair to good
light,*3 90®4 30; mixed packing, 14 00®4 20;
choice heavy, $4 25®4 50. Cattle —Export*,
f(5 50@6 75; common to choice shipping,
H 00@6 40. Sheep—lnferior to fair, tl 60
■ 25; good to choict, 69 40,
NO. 2«6
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Bill Heads, Statements, always on hand
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42 Randolph St.,
ISirOpvosite Postoilice.
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My Plantation, lying two and >i h H'
tnlk,'Oßt ot Columbue. contalrg floo • ■
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