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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
RBMEMBERED HIS PREsHRvnR
A Large Fortune Left n Soldier Under
Romantic circumstances.

A Large Fortune Left Soldier Under
Romantic circumstances.
CANANDAIGUA, N, Y, April 19.-W. A.
Daniels, of Bath, Steuben County, has just
como into q fortune of $50, 600 under cir
cumstances decidedly romantic, In 1868
Daniels was in charge of u wagon train,
which was passing by one Of the roads Of
the wilderness. The dense forest was
on fire, and every thing in or
near 1t was doomed to destruction.
Charles W. Dawson, then lad Of
seventeen years of age, was discovered by
Daniels lying by tho side Of the wagon
train. He was seriously wounded, and as
orders forbade the carrying of any person
on the wagon train ho was in imminent
peril Helpless from his wounds he called
upon Daniels to remove him from danger
of burning to death. He believed the end
was near, but he was terrified at the pros
pect Of burning to death. Daniels heart
was touched, and at the risk of his own
liberty If not his life he lifted the lad upon
q wagon and carried him to Fredercis-
burg where he was placed in hospital.
Dawson lived to become q rich man and
to bless Daniels for saving his life; but he
could never get him to accept financial as
sistance though he was sometimes sorely
in need of 1t. He worked at his trade as
painter and eked out moderately COM
Portable existence, receiving visits from
time to time from the man to whom he rem
| dered the greatest service possible upon
earth. The other day he was surprised ut
a visit from Joseph II. Williams, Chica-
go attorney, who informed him that he
was heir to S15O,00O left him by Charles w.
Davidson, who lately died in Chicago.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
DEPENDENT PENSION BILL.
The Amended Shape In Which
1t Comes Before the
Present Congress.
A More Liberal Measure Than That Asked
for by the Grand Army of the
Republic.

WAsnrSaToN April 20.-The dependent
pension bill, which was vetoed by Prest-
dent Cleveland after passing the Forty.
ninth Congress, has been the subject OF
serious consideration by the Grand Army
of the Republic and by the Committee on
Invalid Pensions of the present session,
and will soon come before the House again
in its amended form. The new bill, in
stead of giving pension OF twelve dollars
per month to those who are totally
incapacitatcd for the performance OF
manual labor, provides that the pension
for such persons shall be at the rate per
month of one cent forleach days service. In
other words, what is known as the per diem
idea is applied to all soldiers who are to-
tally disabled, and that without regard to
dependence. 1t goes beyond that asked
by the Grand Army Of the Republic, and
provides the same kind of pension to all
who are now sxty-two years of age and
to all who shall become sixty-two years
from and after that period, during
their natural lives. The bill gives
recognition to the manifestly just princi-
pie of pens sioning soldier for his service
according to his service. The objection
may be made that some who are now
needy do not receive at this rate enough
to give them entire relief from their i'm
poverished condition, and yet the fact re-
mains that each is pensioned at the
same rate according to his service.
And If one receives not enough 1t
is because he did not serve long
enough. Those who served during the
whole war would at this rate get more
than is provided in the Senate bill for
them. The committee recognizes the fact
that the period for universal service PEN
sion bill is fast approaching, and that
many we'll founded complaints have been
made that advancing years have rendered
the matter Of obtaining livelihood mat
ter Of very great difficulty to many of the
veterans of even our late civil war, and so
to meet the question of giving this class of
worthy citizens the relief that they have a
right to expect from the general Govern
ment, they have provided that all who are
now of the age of sixty-two years shall be at
once placed on tho pension roll at the rate OF
one cent per month for each day of war
service, and that all who have not, shall,
as they become of that age, be likewise
placed on the list of pensions. A substi.
tute for the third section of the Senate
bill is reported, which adopts on behalf OF
the widows the same principle applied to
the soldiers, and the fourth section Of the
bill is amended SO as to give attorneys a
fee of five instead of ten dollars.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
An lmnnriani Qecisian.

COLUMBUS, o., April 1s.-The Supreme
Court handed down an important decision
yesterday in the case of Robert Patterson,
q Miami County prisoner in the peniten-
tiary, sent up on a five years. sentence for
burglary, which sentence will expire in
1890. This being Patterson's third or fourth
term he was marked for retention as life
prisoner under the Habitual Criminal act.
That act was based upon the principle that
q man who is convicted of three separate
and successive crimes is a confirmed GRIM
inal and should be restrained of his liberty
for the good of society. The attorneys for
Patterson took the case to the Supreme
Court for the purpose of testing the con-
stitutionalty of the act The Court de-
cided that the law Is unconstitutional, and
Patterson will therefore be released at the
expiration of his legitimate sentence.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
Al Conkling's Bier.

NEW YoRK, April 2O.-Funeral services
were held this morning in Trinity Chapel
over the remains OF Roscoe Conkling, and
q large number of prominent people were
present. The following were the pail
bearers: Judge Shipman, Mayor Abram
s. Hewitt, s. L. M. Barlow, Clarence A..
Seward, Manton Marble, Senator John
p. Jones, Senator j. Don Cameron, Judge
VIM. A. Wallace, Walter s. Church and
Isaac H. Bailey. Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix
was the officiating clergyman. The SER
vices were simple, and contrary to expec-
tation no sermon was preached. The re-
mains were taken to Utica and will lie in
the residence Of the deceased gentleman
until tomorrow, when the final funeral
services will take place at two o'clock. The
Rev. A. b. Goodrich will oficate.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
aRnAr on sPouTERs.
Wells in Russia Making Pennsylvania OPP
orators Acknowledgment That Yield as
High ms Three Million Barrels.

Wells In Russia Making Pennsylvania OPP
orators Acknowledgment That Yield ns
High ns Three Million barrels.
TITusvILLE, Pa, April 81 Statistics OF
the oil business in Russia have just
reached this country and American oil
men are studying them with great deal
of anxiety. They throw new light on
the business in Russia, and show too
plainly that the Baku districts are most
dangerous rival Of the American fields.
The output of many of the Russian wells
is prodigious, and far eclipses any thing
ever heard OF in this country American
oil producers have claimed to have no
fears of Russian competition, but with tho
new information on that industry In that
country they are taking another view oil
it. There is no better way to brng this
fact to them than by few comparisons.
Take we'll at Baku called the WET
Nurse" 1t has been yielding oil for twelve
years, and in that time has averaged thir-
ty-two thousand gallons day. These fig
ures are amazing to an American oil pro-
ducer. They mean that tho we'll has pro-
duced 100000, 900 gallons of oil, or over
100000 barrels. These figures are
startling to the people of this
section when they turn to tho statis-
tics of their own industry and find that
this one we'll has produced three times as
much as Pithole produced in year OF its
wonderful business. 1t lacks less than
400, 900 barrels of producing as much as the
famous Oil Creek district produced
in 1869, its most prolific year. The
Washington district, among the richest
ever discovered in America, in 1887, its
banner year, produced but $500 600 bar
rels. This is but 100000 barrels more than
the output of this one well in Russia.
The wonderful Thorn Creek pool in
Butler County produced in its twelve
months but 26S,O0O barrels more than
this one Russian gusher. Such as
founding facts as these bring the danger OF
Russian competition home to tho people OF
the Pennsylvania fields. This we'll does
not stand alone in this enormous produc.
tion. The yearly outputs given of num-
ber of wells, many of them nearly as large
as this one. The "Mirzoef No. s." also at
Balsu, has for six years produced 4O, 900 gal.
Ions day. This is above 1000, 900 barrels
and the production of Cogley, Tarkill and
Rel Valley, three prolific Venango Coun'
ty pools, produced but 1,965, 900 barrels in
1886, their best year. Tie record is given
Of we'll drilled by the Nobel Brothers
called the "Droojba Well" 1t cost 81, 5N
to drill. The record of the we'll is thus
stated: This we'll spouted for 115 days
the yield being 3,4cO tons day for forty
three days, 800 tons for thirty, and Coz
tons for eleven days. The we'll was then
plugged and the supply kept underground
for further wants. The total amount Of
oil spouted by this we'll, according to the
lowest estimate, was 22, 900 tons, or 81, 600,
600 gallons; according to the highest esti
mate, 100000 tons, or 125,0OO,00O gallons
The spray from one Of these geysers wa:
blown through the air for eight miles.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
BLOODY TRAGEDY.
A Mother and Her Three Children
Butchered.
The Murderers Caught In the House and
Three of Them Kiiled--Cool Judg-
ment of o Peddler.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, April 1S.-John
Hill, substantial farmer who lives on
Barn Creek, on Elk river, about twenty
miles from this city, and who is we'll
known to many of our citizens, came to
town yesterday, and brought news of
most horrible murder. A man, whose
name he was unable to learn, who lived in
Calhoun County, about forty miles from
Charleston, had been away with a
small drove of cattle, which he had
disposed of, and was returning home on
Wednesday last but being overtaken by
night, he stopped at the house of a neigh
Dor. Something weighed heavily on his
mind, and, though he could not explain
the reason, he decided to go on and reach
his home, fearing that something had gone
wrong. A peddler who was stopping
Mt the house offered to accompany
him, and then they both started to-
and seeing light in the window ap-
sight almost froze their blood with hor-
ror. Lying on the floor, wetering in their
blood, lay the wife and three children in
cold death, and four strange men were
sitting and standing in the room. The
peuuler'S presence OF mlnu ulu nOb ue-
sert him, and, drawing his revolver,
he told his companion to make q
noise at the back door and hold it
shut, while he stood guard at the front
This was done, and the men inside the
room made rush for the front door, and
were shot by the plucky little peddler as
fast as they came, three being killed and
the fourth severely wounded. The story
sounds very much like sensational make
up, but seems to be credited by Mr.. Hill
and his surrounding neighbors The dis
tance and difficulty of communication
with that point render it impossible to
corroborate or disprove the story.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
The Fire Kino Badly Burned,

FINDLAY, o., April 22.-Prof. James Nu-
man, who bills himself as the fire king,
and who has been giving performances dur
ing the past week in Harmonic Hall, was so
badly burned last night by the explosion
of Il gasoline lamp which he was using in
his exhibition. that his life is despaired of,
as he inhaled great deal of the flame, be-
sides being burned in the most horrible
manner on the neck and face. The acci-
dent occurred in the presence Of hall full
of spectators, and caused the greatest ex-
element and a panic was only avoided by
the presence Of mind OF the professor, who
protested he was not much injured, but to.
day he is in very critical state.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
A REMARKABLE CASE.

A Confessed NIurderess, While Detailing
Her Crime on the Witness Stand, 10 Con.
rronted by Her Alleged Victims, Alive an6
Well,
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 22.-Henry and
John Hill, bachelor farmers, lodged in Jail
at jamestown, KY, two weeks ago for the
murder of two peddlers named Burton
early in March, We're brought to trial Sat-
urday. The principal witness against
them was Mary Smith, their for
mer servant. Her story was supported
by tho finding of the remains of
two bodies in cave near the Hill farm
house. While she was telling on the stand
how she had been compelled, on peril of
her life, to cut the throats of the peddlers
while they were asleep at her employers
house, and catch the blood in bucket, the
Burtons walked into the courtroom. The
case was at once discontinued and the
Hills dismissed The remains found, upon
close examination, proved to be parts Of
the carcasses of two sheep.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
Excited Colored Folks.

colored preacher, living on Sheriff Gil
more's plantation. has created consider
able excitement among the negroes on
account of revelation he claims to have
had. He says that the Lord has re-
vealed to him that on a certain day He
will carry all the negroes to Egypt, and
that he (Tom) is to be the leader.
The day and hour Of departure are set.
What causes the prophecy to be believed is
that the older colorcd folks say that be-
fore the war the same prophet proph.
esied that the colored men were to be
set free, and that the prophecy was
literally fulfilled; hence, they believe
him now, and are getting their clothing
and other things in readiness for the de-
'parture.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28

IT is curious fact that while the
annual supply of quinine for the whole
world is about 100000 ounces, the
consumption Of this drug in the United
States is more than 3,10O.0 900 ounces,
or nearly one-half the entire product.
The price of quinine has been SO low
for several years that large planta-
tions of cinchona tree have been up
rooted in Ceylon, and the tea plant is
substituted. Ceylon produces very
large share of all the bark that is
marketed. and the exports for that
island declined one-third between 1885
and 1887.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
WORKERS In MINES.
The Two Great Dangers to Which Coal
Miners Are Exposed.

The Two Great Dangers to Which Coal
Miners Are Exposed.
This mine, while one of the largest,
was also one of the most dangerous in
the valley. In order to keep the work.
ings supplied with pure air. in quantity
sufficient to render harmless the explo-
sive gases released by opening the
coal-seams. an immense fan had been
constructed which. during every min
ute that it was in action. drew forth
from the mine over two hundred thou
sand cubic feet of impure air. Even
with this great air-current, there were
still very dangerous parts of the mine,
requiring the utmost vigilance from
the miners. To hear of some miner
or laborer firing the gas in his cham
ber and being burned thereby was
matter of almost weekly occurrence.
In pits of this character, where there
is plentiful air-current. it is often q
custom with miners to ''fire'' the
gas in their working-places before a
quantity sufficient to render its COM
bustion dangerous accumulates When
this is done, the gas will take
fire with noise not unlike that made
in lighting a common gas-jet There
is such. an excess of mir that the cx-
plosion of the gas is very weak and
harmless, The flame, often three or
four feet deep. will travel along the
uneven roof, showing beautiful colors
varying from deep. dark blue to a
brilliant crimson; and in it shine stars
of dazzling white light, showing that
fine particles of coal-dust suspended in
the air are burning in the great heat of
the gas. Sometimes this flame will
travel clear up against the roof, slowly
to and fro, several times, until all the
gas has been burned away.
When the flame dies out, the burnt
gases (the ''black'' or "after-damp"),
being heavier than tho air, fall to the
floor. So the coal miner is ever OK
posed to two great dangers: the first,
that of being burned; the second, chat
of being suffocated after he has es-
capped the tire.-Roy Mczavish. il, 81.
Nicholas.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28

A New York syndicate has purchased
1856 acres OF land at st. Louis for suburban
purposes.
CALlPH, the new hippopotamus for Cen
tral Park, arrived safely in New York
from Cincinnati
THE fourth floor of building at Chicago
gave way and caused serious injuries to
several worknen.
IT is stated thnt Claus Spreckels has
definitely decided to locate his Eastern
sugar factory in Philadelphia.
INCREASED activity is observable in the
craters of tbe volcanoes Gorullo and Popo-
catapetl, in Mexico.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENRY SEARCH, an aged
couple. were shot down in cold blood for
their money on the 9th OF July last, at
their home in Crow Mountain, Mich. War
rants are out for Mr.. and Mrs. WOlhaup
ter, in Search's employ ut the time.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
Acute Alcoholism.

SAN Francisco, April 2O.-"Acute alco-
holism" was the DOCTORS certificate in the
case of the death of little Willie McCon.
nell, the seven-year.old son of a foundry.
man of this city. Willie and playmate
found quart bottle of strong whisky
while playing alone in the house. Willie
drank fully one-half the contents, which
was regular "rot-gut," but his companion
took only small drink. The Mcconnell
boy fell into stupor, and although the
doctor pumped pint of whisky from the
lads stomach, he gradually sank, and died
last night
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28

In the sixth annual report Of the Di-
rector Of the United States Geological
Survey Prof Shaler estimates that the
improvable marshes of our Eastern
coast amount to atleast 5. 600. 600 acres.
Fully 200. 600 acres of salt marsh lands
are situated between Portland and New
York. all Of which are capable Of be.
ing reclaimed from the sea by dikes
and brought under cultivation to make
them yield profit on valuation
Of two hundred dollars per acre,
while the, cost Of reclaiming them
ought not to exceed one-dfth ef
that sum.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
Eaur Victims Of an ExnloSian.

TOPEKA, KAN, April 1s.-The town Of
Hazleton, near here, was the scene of a
fearful explosion, which seriously injured
four persons, and will probably result in
their DEATH While Geo. Clark, the man
ager of the Hazelton Creamery N. P.
Moore, one of the partners; his son Harry,
aged eight years, and James Smith were
standing examining the separator of the
creamery, which was running at the rate
of about 40,0s revolutions per hour, it ex-
ploded. Those standing near were man.
gled in terrible manner The separator
burst into hundreds Of pieces, and tho
room was complete wreck.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
An Entire Family Drowned .

NEENAH, Wis, April W.-A dispatch
from Embarras to an evening paper here
says that man named Lathrope, his wife
and three children were drowned there
last night by the flood. The family lived
on the bank OF the river, and their house
was surrouded by water. In attempting
to get to dry spot they wero carried
down the stream. Embarras is on the Up
per Wolf river, on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western road
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
Asleep for a Month.

BUFFALO, N. Y, April 2O.-Emma Alt
house, the young woman Of Attica, N. Y,
who has been subject to trance, awoke
to-day from sleep Of thirty-three days.
Tho death of her grandfather, residing in
Mumford, N. Y, took place during her
sleep. Awakening to-day she informed
the family ply sician of the fact. During
her sleep she has taken only small guam.
tity of milk.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28

BOARDING A CONVICT BAKaE.
Mr.. u. A. Frost, artist and photographer,
accompanied Mr.. Kennan, and the results OF
his work will form wonderfully interesting
series Of pictures Of Russian and Siberian
life and scenery.
The articles begin in the May Century,
which is great issue in many other re-
spects, containing also an interesting illus
trateo article on ranch life; first chapters
of "The Liar" a novelette, by Henry James;
in Georgia;" a suggestive paper on "The
Chances of Being Hit in Battles" an essay
on Milton by Matthew Arnold. ga Lovo
Story Reversed" by Edward Bellamy, etc.,
etc. Our local bookseller viii have the NUN.
bef after the first of May.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
Ohio Republican State Ticket

DAYTON, o., April 19.-The Republican
State Convention to-day nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For Secretary of State-Dan
J. Ryan, Of Scioto For Judge of Supreme
Court. P. Bradbury, of Hancock. For
Member Board of Public Works-Wells A.
Jones, of Pike. For Presidential Electors
"A. II. Mattox, of Hamilton, j. P, Lamp
son, of Cuyahoga. The delegates at large
Governor J. B. Foraker, Charles Foster,
William Mckinley, Ben Butterworth.
The eAlternates-Robert Harlan, of Hamil.
ton; H. l.. Maxwell, of Greene; Frank
Baird, of Perry; l.. w. Brown, Of Fulton.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28

Tent Life in Siberia, ETC., had spent TOUR
wears in Russia and Siberia, was thorough
w conyersant with the people and the lam
guage, and had reached the conclusion that
the Russian Government had becn misrep-
resented, and that the exile system of Sibe-
ria was not 30 terrible as was supposed.
Knowing that Mr.. Kennan held these
views, tho Russian Government gave him
every facility for thorough
INSPECTION OF MINES AND PRISONS
Of Siberia--the most thorough that had
ever been made by traveller. Armed with
letters from the Russian Minister of the
Interior and other high officials, Mr.. KEN
nan went everywhere, inspecting mines and
prisons, convict barges and hospitals, and
travelling with chained exileS along the
great Siberian road. He made the intimate
personal acquaintance of more than three
hundred exiled "liberals" !" and Nihilists,
many Of whom wrote out their histories for
his use. The actual facts, as revealed by
this searching investigation, were far re-
ideas, as this thrilling narrative of fifteen
months' privation and adventure will show.
AS is already known, the publication OF
Mr.. Remnants preliminary papers has re-
suited in his being placed
ON THE BLACK LIST
by the Russian Government, and copies OF
The Century containing them have the OBJ
iectionable article torn out by the custom
officials before being allowed to enter the
Czar's dominions
"Iexpected, of course" says Mr.. Ken
nan, in recent interview, "to be put on
the Russian black list. The stable-door is
locked, but the horse has been stolen-and
I've pot him .,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28

Wichita. Kan, resorted to unique
measure to reduce it's tramp popula-
ton, which previously seemed incapa-
BILE OF diminution. Two freight cars
were hired and, after filing them with
the stern opponents of work, they were
attached to an east-bound train, sew
eral guards going along to prevent the
tramps escaping on the route. The
charges on the living load OF freight
were paid for fifty miles
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-04-28
ljniied States peniientiaYies.

WASHINGTON, April 19-The House Judi.
ciary Committee, through Mr.. Stewart, Of
Georgia, has reported bill providing for
the construction of two United States
penitentiaries, the sites to be selected by
the Attorney General and Secretary of the
Interior, one to be north and the other
south of the thirty-ninth degree north lati-
tude. The penitentiaries are to be used
for the confinement of United States con-
vIcts, sentenced to Imprisonment for more
than one year, and the cost of each build
ing is not to exceed S50O, 900.