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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
ON TIE SHOALS

The American Schooner Edith Berwind Is
Wreckcd-TerribleT Tale Of Suffering.
BALTIMORE, Jan. Capt. Robert NJ.
Mcbride and his crew of eight men of
the schooner Edith Berwind, Port Tam
pa, Fla, for Baltimore, which was
wrecked on Smiths island shoals, on
Sunday last, have arrived here. Chief
Mate johnson, in describing the horrors
Of the wreck of the Berwind, says:
'When the schooner sank we were all
compelled to take TO the forerigging.
She settled until there We're six feet OF
water on her decks. The weather was
extremely cold and we remained in our
positions in the rigging from o'clock
Sunday evening until 10 o'lock Monday
morning. The engineer, Charles Hines.
during the night became insane from
his sufferings and released himself from
his lashings and was washed over
board.
Capt. Mcbride was gradually sue
'cumbing to his sufferings, while most
of the seamen were becoming senseless
from the cold. The people at the life
saving station at Smiths island were
watching us, but the sea was so rough
they could not reach us, Finally, after
a desperate effort and hard pull Of
nine miles in the surgiug sea, the life
boat, in command of Capt. George
Kitchens, reached us. Most of us were
in pretty bad shape when we landed.
Our clothes We're stiff with ice, and
lack Of food, together with the strain
we were put through, left us in "a half
dying condition."
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
UNDER AN AVALANCHE.
Snow to the Depth of From Eff
teen to Twenty-Five Feet.


SPOKANE, Wash, JAN 9.-Further par
ticulars of the APPALLING wreck near
Java, on the Great Northern, have been
received. The train with the snow-plow
and the traclk-clearing crew was back
ing up to the camp for dinner when it
was suddenly overwhelmed blythe most
enormous avalanche ever known in the
| northwest.
The mountains, towering from 1000
to 5, 600 feet above the track, were COW
cred with snow to depth of fifteen
to twenty-five feet Light rains and
high winds had packed the snow into a
solid mass of ice.
Suddenly heavy report resembling
peal of thunder rolling along the
mountain side was heard. Almost in
stantly an immense mass of snow and
ice broke loose from u lofty altitude
and swept down toward the helpless
crew with the speed of a cyclone.
The roar was deafening as the mass
sped down the mountain side, carrying
with it enormous powders and giant
forest trees. The engineer threw open
the throttle with the view of pushing
the train as far from the center OF the
| avalanche as the limited time at his
disposal would permit, but this precau'
tion was of no avail, as the speed OF
| the avalanche was greater than that OF
any locomotive.
The avalanche bore down upon the
train, striking it with such force as to
carry the locomotive and cars from the
| track, landing them on a narrow bench
in the canyon forty-fve feet below. AL
most instantly the train and its crew
were entombed beneath twenty-five feet
of snow, while huge rocks and timbers
rolled over them.
A. l.. Morden, the brakeman who was
killed, was standing on top of the ca
boose when the slide occurred. He was
| hurled high into the air, and landed
near the place where the train lodged,
and it is supposed that the caboose
rolled over him, as he was badly
crushed.
1t was ten hours before the shovelers
reached him, and he was still alive
when taken out. He died during the
day. William d. Freeman, the other
brakeman, was standing on flat-car
near the engine, and when the crash
came bounded into the air and was rum
ming toward the spot which Il moment
later became the tomb of his comrades.
He came into contact with q telegraph
pole but with miraculous presence of
mind clasped his arms about it just be-
low the crossbeams and in some unac-
countable way the pole withstood the
force of the slide and the brakeman
came down unhurt.
Three Italians were killed and TWEEN
ty-fve escaped. John Benn, lineman,
was on the flat car and was knocked off
ahead of the train and was killed by
the force of the shock and the fall. The
fireman was thrown from the tender,
where he was at work, and crushed to
death. His name has not been reported
| here.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS-.
SECOND scssIon.

second session.
WASHINGTON JAN. A-sENArB -- Senator
Chandler introduced in the senate short bill
TO prohibit unlawful military organizations.
1t provides chat IL shall be unlawful for any
body of men numbering ten or more, any of
whom are subject to enrolment rs a part OF
the militia Of any state OF the Uuited States,
TO assemble or drill or bedr arms as Il military
squad company, battalion, or other military
organization, unless they are called
lawfully authorized to make such call Section
2. 1t shall be the duty Of the president to dis
band and disperso any such organization, and
every person serving as q member thereof shall
also be subject to a fine not exceeding II, 900 or
by Imprisonment not exceeding one year, OF by
both such fue and imprisonment"
HoUsE--A bill introduced in the house to-day
by Mr., Martin, Of Indiana, provides that the
term of all persons appointed TO offices under
the United States shall be four years, whether
under civil service or otherwise and no person
is to be eligible to hold Office for more than
eight years, and all persons having held Office
for this length Of time or longer are not TO be
eligible to hold oflce after July 4, 1893.
WAsH1NGToN, Jan. 5.--SENATE-The feature
OF to-duys session Of the senate was the speech
delivered by Mr.. Villas democrat of Wiscun-
sin), against the autioption bill He opposed
the bill because as he claimed, it was unconsti'
tutional, and to that objection he directed main
ly his remarks,
HoUsE-Therc was not quorum in the house
to-day, though the exhibition Of that not en-
tirely crcditable fact was wardcd of long
enough for the fortihcation bill and q few
private pension bills from the senate to get
through. Not all OF the pension bills proposed,
however, were successful. Some of them pro
vided FOR removing charges OF deseruon so that
! the deserters might draw pensions.
WAsHINGTuN, Jan. -EEATE-r0.d days scs.
sion OF the senate was given up exclusively TO
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
IMMENSE BARBBTTRs
Being Turned Out by the Largest Lath
In the World.

Being turned out tSN tne Largest Ailnc
in the World.
BUFFALO, n, Y, Jan. THE largest
iron lathe in the world is now finishing
one of the two immense steel barbettes
for two recently constructed govern
meut iron-clad cruisers. That lathe is
a part of the equipment of q Buffalo fac.
tory, the Lake Erie Engineering works.
Not even the great works of Krupp, the
gun-maller of Essen, the Woolwich ar
senal, or the United States government
establishment could turn these bar
bettes.
A barbette, it may be explained, is
the tubular basis OF the furret of the
iron-clad 1t rises in the middle of the
iron-clad, and through it the guns are
raised from the gun room below, where
the loading is done, to the turret, from
which they are fired. These barbettes,
when finished, will be twenty feet in
diameter They are rolled in quarter
sections, each weighing twenty tons,
and four cars are required for the ship
ment of the entire barbette. The Sec
tions have to be worked down to a
specified weight, polished and nodded
for putting together, and the greatness
of the task may be imagined from the
fact that it will require six weeks yet
to finish the first barbette. Yet these
busy works run day and night
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION.


Alleged Statements That There Is No
Prospect of Any Radical Steps Being
Taken.
CoboGNE, Jan. AT meeting Fri
day of the North Atlantic Steamship
association it was decided to postpone
the proposed reduction of the number
of trips to America by steamships of
the companies belonging to the associa-
tion. The reason for this action is that
the association has received advices
from Washington to the effect that
there is no prospect at this time of a
bill excluding immigration, or greatly
restricting immigration of the kind
chiefly carried by the North Atlantic
Steamship lines, and that the opposi-
ton to exclusion, or anything APPROACH
ing it, is increasing, especially among
the representatives of the western sec
ton of the United States.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
FATAL ACCIDENT.
a Son, Going for the Doctor to Attend
His Dying Father, Falls Down Stairs.

a Son, Going for the Doctor to Attend
His Dying Father, Falls Down Stairs.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Robert Hanson,
rs years old, was found in his room at
2211 First avenue, and his son, Benja-
min Hanson, 45 years old, was found
dead in the hall at the foot of the stairs
in the same house. The elder Hanson
had been sick for some time and it is
presumed that he had bad turn some
time after midnight and sent his son
for doctor. II is thought that Benja-
min who had been heavy drinlier of
late, in his haste, fell down the stairs
and was killed, and that the old man
died without medical laid. This is the
theory of the police at present, but the
coroner's jury will make thorough in
vestigation.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
REPRESENTATIVE HARTER
Has n New scheme for silver which He
WIN Irre on Conrress.

Has n New scheme for Silver Which He
WIN Urge on Congress.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. Representative
Michael D. Harter, of Ohio, objects to
suspension of the silver purchase reso-
luton introduced in the senate by Mr.
Mcpherson, Of New Jersey, on the
ground that it gives the secretary of
the treasury greater control over the
subject than any man could wish, and
more than congress ought to place in
the hands of any officer of the govern
ment He will offer in the house a
substitute in the nature OF housejoint
resolution providing as follows:
THAT all further purchases of silver
bullion by the United States of Ameri-
ca shall cease from and after the pas
sage or adoption of this resolution, and
that said purchases shall not be resum-
ed until an international agreement
shall be reached which agreement shall
at least include Great Britain, Germany,
France and the United States, and
which agreement shall fix the valuation
at which silver bullion will thereafter
be received for coinage, without limit
as to quality, at the mints of all the
nations which are parties to said inter-
national agreement"
Mr.. Harter thinks this resolution
would accomplish the same result and
not be open to the same objection as
the Mcpherson resolution. 1t would
moreover, he says, be notice to the
world that we were ready to join with
other civilized nations in the coinage Of
silver upon any agreed international
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
IN HAWAII
United states Subjects own the Largest
Part of tho Kingdom.

hHA VA bhh
TACOMA, WASH. Jan. 5.--W. H. Simp-
son is back from Honolulu, where he
had breakfast with the queen of Hawaii,
met the ministry and other officers in
charge of the kingdom. The valuation
of the kingdom is now placed at
$50, 500, 600. OF this merchants of the
United States own S2G, 100000 and be-
cause of this vested interest every
body in authority assured Mr. Simp-
son that the first duty of the Hawaiian
government would be always to protect
the American investors. Acting in part
upon this assurance, Mr. Simpson, as
the representative of Puget Sound
Steamship company, agreed to establish
new steamship line and to show the
appreciation the reigning ministry
has of American enterprise, the
legislature, then in session, appropria-
ated $50, 600 monthly subsidy. From
the queen, the ministry and others, Mr..
Simpson learned that while many ma
tives favored annexation of the Sand
wich islands to the United States, it
was the policy of the Harrison admins
tration not to take charge of these is
lands unless pressed to do so by the
failure of self-government there and for
the purpose of protecting the interests
of it's citizens.
This policy is satisfactory to the pres
| ent ministry which is composed mostly
of successful business men. However,
discontented politicians, abetted by
Englishmen, are trying to convince the
natives that it would be beneath their
dignity to become subjects of the Amer.
leans. The English wish the ma.
tives to understand that it would be hui
miliatihg to lose their monarchial form
| of government and be placed under the
republic of the United States. But ma
tives own less than five per cent. of the
total valuation of the islands, and aside
from creating dissensions and revolu-
| ton, it is evident under the present
ministry the meddlesome English could
accomplish nothing. Interference of
the English is pernicious as regards the
granting OF Pearl harbor to the United
| States as a coaling station.
The natives are told that the United
| States will not accept concessions at
| Pearl harbor unless it has absolute con-
| troll of the harbor The English agents
then say TO the natives: at would be
very humiliating, you know, to have to
! ask the United States for permission to
enter your own harbors. If the United
States has absolute control you can not
| enter Pearl harbor without
the consent of the United States "
In this way many natives are
preiudiced against the granting of
any privileges at all to the United
States at Pearl harbor. The leader of
the English meddlers has returned to
London to report BY this date the
Hawaiian legislature has adjourned un-
til May, 1894, until which time no ac-
ton can be taken regarding annexa-
ton. Annexation had its origin, Mr..
Simpson was told, in the desire
of the sugar kings of Hawaii to
get rid of paying duty on sugar by be-
coming a party of the United States.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
Caughf In the Shifting.

MAssILLoN, O., Jan. T. 7-IIerruau Ko-
patsky, an enSloye in stone quur,'y in
Massillon, met horrible death in q
sand mill Friday afternoon. His cloth
ing caught in shaft, and he was twist
ed around the shaft of the mill for
some time before he was discovered.
His right leg and arm were completely
torn from their sockets. He was fifty
years old and leaves wife and two
children.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
Randmaster Gamma Dead.

New YORK, Jan. 7.-Bandmaster Cap
pa, of the Seventh regiment, National
guard of the state of New York, died
here at Z o'clock Friday morning. His
death was due to tumor in the right
lung. Mr.. Cappa had been ill for only
few weeks, and it was said that he
was suffering only from slight cold.
His death Friday morning, therefore,
came as a surprise to all who knew
him. Carlo Alberto Cappa was born in
Sardinia in 1884. His father was an
officer in the famous Eleventh regi-
ment, and followed the Eagles of Ma
poleon to Russia, and was killed in the
famous retreat from Moscow.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
MRS. MAYBRINK.
Gail Hamilton Writes the English
Premier a Letter.
She Declares That There ia No Evidence
of the Imprisoned Woman's Guilt
Gladstone Has the Power to Re-
lease Her, But Has Not Done SO.

BosToN, Jan, Gin the name OF
God arraign you, the head of the Brit
tish government, for the murder of
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, now dy-
ing in the convict prison at WolSing."
SO writes Miss Abigail Dodge, the au-
thoress, known to the literary world as
Gail Hamilton" to Rt. Hon. VIM Il.
Gladstone Prime Minister of Great
Britain.
by way of beginning she apologies
for contributing to the harmony of his
birthday congratulations u note of dis
cord, "But" she says, humanity is a
more sacred thing than harmony"
After arraigning the prime minister,
Miss Dodge says: 1.-THE home secretary
of the late government, who began the
torture; the late prime minister, who
sustained him in it; the present home
secretary, who continues it--these are
all as guilty as you; but l do not know
whether they believe in a God. You
believe in God. 1t is therefore because
you believe in God that / invoke the
witness of Almighty God while l charge
you with the murder of the innocent
woman who is perishing in Woliing
prison. We have been asking justice in
the name of mercy. L ask it no more.
l ask for justice, and for justice only,
and / ask it in her own stern and sacred
name"
Following this Miss D,dge declares
that there is no evidence OF the prisoned
woman's guilt, and shames the great
government for binding the feeble
hands of woman in living tomb and
then demanding more evidence of her
innocence.
Then the writer continues: "The
British government not only murders
her, but ISLANDERS her. The late prime
minister and the late home secretary
joined hand-in-hand to brand her before
America as an adulteress. She was
never convicted for adultery, tried for
adultery, charged with adultery. But
she is an enslaved woman, and the
great power of England seals her
to eternal silence before it SLAM
ders her. The home Office of your
own government seems to be following
in the same ignoble track, more mean
ly, because more indirectly. Rumors
are rife of evidence suppressed at her
trial, but retained in the home Office
against her This is infamy. 1t is vio-
lation of magma charta, of common
law, that one should be deprived of
life and liberty without the opportu-
nifty to hear accusations, to confront
accusers, to answer evidence in open
court"
After reproducing the British gov
ernment, and the Home Office in partic-
ular, for their barbarous action, Miss
Dodge declares they are guilty of delib-
crate murder. go on your cruel way
because you cam" concludes the writer.
"She is alone and poor and weak and a
foreigner She can loose you no votes
in England, for she has no friends, no
family Make the sacrifice complete.
But if there be God who marks and
notes the ways of this world, who hears
the voice of innocent blood crying unto
Him from the ground, it is better to be
the young wife and mother perishing in
Wolling prison than the prime minister
of the government which works her
torture and her slaughter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
NOVELTIES IN BUTTER.
At the Worlds Fair An Indiana Woman
win Have Il Rare Exhibit.

RICHMOND, Ind, Jan. 9.-Mrs. Laura
D. Worley, secretary of the Indiana
State Dairy association, and one Of the
Worlds fair commissioners, has been
appointed to make the Indiana dairy eX-
hibit.
-Four portrait busts in butter will be
exhibited. In June the bust will be
that of nspector-General Davis; July,
Mrs. Palmer; September Chief Buchan-
an, and October Mrs. Charles Henrotin.
Mrs. Worley will make the butter for
the portraits in her own dairy, and they
will be modelled by an Indiana woman.
This exhibit will not enter for any pre-
MUM.
Four shares Of stock in the woman's
dormitory are offered in prizes to the
woman who will send the handsomest
designs in butter for any of the four ex-
hibits. They will be in bas relief in tin
pans not exceeding eighteen inches in
diameter or twenty pounds in weight
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
NATIONAL QUARANTINE.

The Commissioner of immigration Favors
1t, with Power to suspend the Incom-
ing of All NationGIities
New YORK, Jan. Cool Weber, COM
missioner of immigration, delivered an
address on immigration before q large
audience at Cooper Union Wednesday
evening. He said: 81 believe in an eff
fective quarantine, and that it can be
best made effective by making it ma
tional instead of state. Its effect is
national, and its regulations should be
likewise. 1t should be constructed
upon a plan worthy of the nation and
upon a scale commensurate with the
outside limit of the requirements of a
civilized people. To this should be
added a power in the president to sus-
pend the incoming of all or any nation
alities whenever the public health is
threatened by such coming, and con-
tinued until the danger has passed"
Col, Weber then declared in favor Of
continued immigration, saying that
there is plenty of room in this country
for all who are coming and that the en-.
forcement of the present laws to shut
out undesirable classes is all that is
necessary. He said that the contract
labor law is accomplishing its purpose
by preventing the wholesale importa-
tion of laborers under contract.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
A State Naval Militia Scheme.

SPRINGFIELD, H., Jan. Among
the many proposed measures which are
of peculiar interest just at this time, on
account of the Worlds fair and its at
tendant ceremonies and exercises, is
one for the establishment of state ma
val militia, which Senator Hamer, of
Fulton, has introduced in the senate.
The bill provides that "there shall be
allowed in addition to the companies of
the military code of Illinois, as now
provided by law, not more than eight
divisions or companies of naval militia,
four of which shall constitute battal-
ion, to be known as the First and Sec
ond battalions of the naval militia Of
Illinois" Provision is then made for
the various officers of the state navy,
their rank etc,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14

TORONTO, Ont, Jan. 6.-Canadian
sugar refiners announce an advance of
one-eighth cent per pound on all re-
fined and white sugars. The principal
reason given for the advance is the re-
duction in Lichts estimate of the beet
sugar crop. The market is expected to
rule strong for some time, but mate
rial change in values is not anticipated,
so long as the demand continues as
liFht as at present.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
A College Damaged nv Fire.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 9.-The Ohio Mill
tary school at College Hill, better known
as Belmont college, suffered damage
by fire Saturday morning. At the time
President Mckenzie and all the direc-
tors were in the building, besides a
large number of the scholars, but all
escaped. Three rooms of the historic
old building were completely gutted,
and the loss will be about 81. 900.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14

DEs MONIES, Ia, Jan. 5.-Peter Sut-
ter, the rich German farmer who mur-
dered his wife last Thursday, committed
suicide in the county Jail at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning. A barber went to
the Jail to shave him and laid aside a
razor Sutter seized it and nearly sev.
cred his head, dying instantly. He left
lengthy letter written Tuesday night.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
A Southern Blizzard.

CULLMAN, Ala, Jan. r. The coolest
blizzard ever known in Alabama struck
the state Thursday evening. The wind
blew fearful gale and reached a
velocity of 80 miles an hour The ther-
mometer dropped 60 degrees in six
hours. Friday morning at seven
o'clock it ranged eight degrees above
zero. From many points as far south
as Tampo and Jacksonville, Fla, cold
weather prevails.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
HOW They Get Rid OF Snow

VIENNA, Jan. 7.-Great quantities of
snow still cucumber the streets of Buda-
Pesth and some queer methods of get
ting rid of it are practiced. A steam
engine was taken out into the broadcast
streets and the snow shoveled into the
boiler melted and allowed to run into
the gutter. 1t is declared this plan is
much cheaper than shoveling.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14
want Federal Leg station Against Cholera

ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 5.--In the assem-
bly, Wednesday q resolution was intro
duced asking that the representative of
New York i'll congress be earnestly re-
quested to enact, at the present session
Of congress, some measure which shall
effectually restrain that class Of immi-
grafton most likely to bring to our
shores the cholera, and to establish a
national and uniform system of quaran-
tine, applicable alike to the entine na-
tional boundaries, exclusively under the
control of the United States.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-01-14

SANTA RosALIE, Mex, Jan. 5.-El-
der John Stewart of Salt Lake, who
has obtained a concession from the
Mexican government for the establish
ment of a Mormon colony here, has ar
rived with twenty families, comprising
about hundred people. This is the
first installment, as the colony Is ex-
pected to comprise 8, 900 persons.