Austin Daily Herald (Newspaper) - October 26, 1896, Austin, Minnesota DAILY HERALD Vol No Austin Minnesota Monday October 26 1896 10 cents per week O O you buy a dinner set look at 53 that new stock pattern of Alfred at Noah's Ark 3 Compare the prices with what you have 3 been paying cups and j fl inch 1 doz 7 inch plates 1.10 doz 8 inch plates 1 dw inc 1 Joz finit Ind butters 30 lonly 7 inch only 8 inch 1 9 i 10 inch l only 12 1 only H inch 1 only 7 inch 1 only 7 inch 1 only 8 inch 1 only covered 1 only gravy 1 only pickle 3 covered butler 1 1 1 teii pot 1 1 you can select your own p at these prices ARKl Railway Catastrophe Near St Louis the Result of Neg- lect of Orders Passenger Trains Collide Maiming and Mangling Many People Eight Persons Instantly Killed and Over Thirty More or Less Injured N B We have eight beautiful stock P terns to select from YOU SLEEP About a third of the time and should have a comfortable bed We sell exactly that kind Ask to see Our Luxury Bed Springs They are the finest out Besides beds we have I the best selected stock of Furniture in Austin The prices are about the same as for cheap shoddy stock If you have a furniture want we I can supply you J M Furniture Window Shades Wall Paper ST Locis Oct before 10 o'clock two passenger trains on the St Louis and San Francisco railroad in opposite directions collided near Windsor station about miles from this city instantly killing 8 persons and injuring more than 30 H of whom wil probably die The killed are all of St Their names engineer of the accommodation train Charles Conrad Kuntz C C H Thall Barney Me in charge of tho refreshments Miss Hand aged 14 hib laughter and John The collision occurred between the second section of an excursion train west and the Prisco Valley Park accommodation or what can be tho dent was the result of disobedience neglect of orders bu the part of the cursion train crow remained Park to hare let the accommodation through The excursion train was the second section special bound for St James Mo The first safely and the second which of 11 coaches heavily laden with G A R men their wives and children left St Louis about 9 o'clock According to J D Dishman the tor and station agent Ei Spring it should have stopped at that place In- t stead of doing EO the section passed by the and soon after j Engineer Hohl of the accommodation was not aware that the second section was on the road and iu trying to the switch at Kirkwood crashed the ill-fated train in a cnt The HIS CONGREGATION of Mind of a Chicago n Oct 20 By rare presence of mind he James Vila Blako liis congregation from a panic and possible awful results of a firo which broke out just as the morning service wits beginning at the Third Unitarian church and which destroyed the main part of tho building When the pastor took his in the pulpit his attention was to smoko in the lobby leading to the Sunday school room He remained standing until ho organist had ceased playing and the then requested the congregation to re- tire quietly by the rear exits His manner so reassured those assembled that a panic was averted Tho church was almost entirely destroyed Populists and ver Republicans ing on Electors Matters Arranged In nine States and One Is Still in Doubt Republicans Going It Alone Everywhere With tion of Texas Also Under t akin er- 1 South of Court House Austin Mian f RELIABLE LEATHER want you to let us quote you Q a few Prices on Fall FOOTWEAR T BONDS HE HAD FORGOTTEN Securities Coitions n to a Millionaire CHICAGO Oct prints a story to the Jolm 2 Schoolcraft who recently received 000 worth of bonds left in a trunk at tho Saratoga hotel hi this city has Spent the last 10 cars of his life in at- tempting to spend his of about Schoolcraft who lived in Richmond Va and was prominent left wife owing to domestic trouble and according to the has since devoted his time to patting his money out of bis bands that his wife get it upon his death The re- covered bonds the of which are Bird to bo all that is left of his fortune COTTON MILLS Thrown Out of ft Time Mass Oct Washington mills form one of the largest cotton goods turing firms in the city were badly damaged by fire the night Mill and the drying room adjoining whore the fire started were practically gutted and df the stock and ished goods in -Ure other damaged by The loss Is lully cohered bj About employed by the plant if to its full capacity all will tic thrown out of work for 10 days Protects Oct of Senator and mortally wounded an unknown in- truder who while her was tried to an entrance the window Mrs train consisted of an Hiltz from her sleeping gine tender baggage car and two coaches in which there were five passengers The engine and tender was wrecked but the other three cars were not damaged It is due to lightness of this that the accident was not worse than it to tho engine of the excursion train the commissary car filled with refreshments Barney McKenna and his daughter Maud were in charge of the edibles Both were killed being Scalded anil Crashed apartments through tho parlor and up stairs and just as the intruder was crawling through the window put a bullet through his stomach HK died iu 15 Nothing upon his son gave as to his Too Them N D Oct few containing was from the safe in the express Toom of the Great Northern company Tho robbery was veiled in mystery and promised to remain so Saturday however the priests of St A number of passengers mostly John's chuich iu this city notified On men were grouped the express company that the stolen money eating and drinking hnd loft with them to return to most either injured i the company The priests state that This and the next car iu which the thiel became known to them by the passengers suffered the damage medium of the confessional and most of the killed ood injured -i were taken from them Not n in the County Hohl of the accommodation which was Ky Oct on time was killed and 5 gate raiders left a tollgate on fireman Frank Hasler badly injured Immediately after the wreck occurred people began to come in from all tions on wheels in buggies and on foot and within an hour after the accident occurred thousands could be seen grouped around the pile of de- bris No wrecking was available a single pike in Franklin county turbed Saturday night a mob of about 500 came clown the pike destroying all the tollgates as they entered Frankfort They then went one the Louisville pike from Frankfort laying to the ground the i gates as along in the Oct Republicans have a straight electoral ticket iu 44 of the 45 states having effected a fusion in Texas with tho middle-of-the-road Populists and gold standard Democrats The Democrats have a straight toral ticket in only the states having effected a fusion with the and silver Republicans in 29 of the others a conclusion having yet been reached in the remaining one In some cases the Populists and silver Re- publicans endorsed the Democratic electoral ticket but iu others sions of electors were made to them for their support of Bryan and Sowall In two states Oregon and South Dakota the Democrats endorsed tho Populist electoral Of the 447 electors to be chosen the Democratic ticket con- tains 808 Democrats 74 Populists aud 5 Republicans POPULIST ADDRESS National and WASHINGTON Oct national committee through ita man Senator Butler has issued an of- address to members of the Peoples party urging hem loyally to support Bryan and follow his banner wherever it The address is highly of Bryan ns peoples pion and warmly commends Watson It urges the party not to be dis- by the met there arc two candidates for vice president in the field marching under banner It says there will be two months bo- the election and tho casting of the votes try the and that there is iu the two parties which support Bryan to thar complication ily to ill It says Peoples ren need have no fear this campaign will destroy the Peoples that its principles are and therefore im- mortal It says Democracy lives up to its pledges the alliance may bo continued but that if it does not fourths of their people will march off under the Peoples standard which has still a mission to perform A appeal not to miss this oppressed concludes the address IN OHIO AND KENTUCKY In Meant n Largo Vote Oct the registration of voters closed in tucky it was found that the increase was larger than hnd ever been before The same is true with in the Ohio cities Tho increase far exceeds all increase in and the percentage is so much than in any other year since registration was provided for that it is tho general opinion that the vote in these two states will be phenomenally large belief is based on the fact that many who have not voted in for- mer years have registered this year VINDICATES HIMSELF of the Up Oct Howard Gould has himself with ing the controversy with tho yacht ing association it rests in tho published correspondence ho is still fortifying his own position To a represent of tho Associated Press lie said before leaving London For my own satisfaction I am having a leading English naval architect make a report upon Niagara mado a preliminary examination ami points out that we had used our tanks fov shifting ballast tho 250 pounds of water that each contained wonld owing to their position near the keel have only been equivalent to tho weight of a boy on deck There are of course no re- garding the number of crew or visitors that a yacht shall carry You can see from this how absurd the whole con- tention is FEELING OF UNEASINESS Turkish Government to Security LONDON Oct Constantinople correspondent saya The purchase of arms during tho week has been most extensive and a feeling of vague uneasiness and alarm is spreading rapidly Tho palace to distract the attention of tho 4 lorns in Constantinople from its own misdeeds by holding out a prospect of unlimited loot An Athens dispatch to tho samo paper Bays Reports from all parts of Turkey point to the complete tion of the administrative machine and an absence of all justice and public curity The envoys have sent n col- note to the porto of tho strongest character in view of the critical tion NO MISSION TO HAWAII On account of the hard times we cut our profits in two w are -a few of our many Bargains Nies Misses Guilds ii Cant shoes all solid sizes 2 to 7 11 to 2 8 to 12 J 5 to 8 2 to 5 1.25 AND MANY OTHERS J SCHWAN BLUE FRONT but everybody turned to and in short i light and defying interference by the time had rescued the injured and taken tollgate keepers out the dead Doctors from I JilU ing towns harried to tho scene and daring rendered what assistance they could J was at the to the suffering who were county jail after 6 o'clock of Safety And sir prisoners made their Dr city physician of St escape The delivery was supposed to Louis immediately set out for the be a wholesale one in which every scene of the wreck with a corps of j prisoner the third door of and ambulances lint owing to I the old jail wra to get out but the difficulty in getting to the wreck their j watchfulness of the turnkeys prevented services were noi needed At p m the relief train bearing tho survivors reached the union station Some of the wounded were removed to their homes by friends while others were taken to various hospitals Dishman the telegraph opera aud only six escaped le urn Ind Oct Morton C Hunter died during the morning of paralysis He was the most honored citizen of Bloomington and tor and station agent at Spring Park lied boh in and stated to a reporter that had tho military life Ho was the hero of sion stopped at Spring Park for mid saved Oie day at as it should have done the j would have bee n averted j cotton Fire I Ter Oct most disastrous cotton lire iu history of tor occurred during the DES Oct Holmes ing the destruction of sentenced William the murderer of George Frank to Hi years in the The jury was out for eral hours nnd returned a verdict of murder in the second degree of Canterbury LONDON Oct IU Rev Frederick Temple of London has been appointed archbishop of bales and tho warehouse ill which they were stored Loss on warehouse 000 loss on cotton 1 and Children I Oct ont in a I boat with his wife aud five children a The Oregon for Sea SAX Oct weeks of preparation the new United States line of battleship Oregon is ready for tho sea She was ordered ont some weeks ago but it was discovered that her turret machinery was out of order would not work Then it was found that her compasses wonld have to be readjusted Now however thing is in on board It is that the battleship will also test her outside Foster's Is in and Japan Oct John W Foster of Indiana who negotiated the treaty between China aud at tho close of the close of the recent war has arrived here accompanied by Foster from D O jlr Foster is on his wny to Japan and China It has boon hitherto announced that lie was going to Hawaii on a delicate diplomatic mission but it- is now stated that his real mission con- cerns only Japan and China It late Mr Poster declined to go into any details except to say somewhat that ho noticed 0110 of the papers said he was going on a diplomatic trip to islands He will sail ou the Hong Kong steamer day CANAL Government tho of the Scheme ASOKA Oct men from some department at Washington at the purpose sounding and measuring the volume of water in the Rum and Mississippi crs They are to stay one year They will have small foot bridges built across each river If all proves canal will be built that will connect Duluth the gulf via the sippi Locks will be made at St An- thony falls and at Coon creek rapids If this is carried ont Anoka will be greatly Strikers A Factory ALBI France Oct ties attended tho of the operative glass factory which has been put up by the former strikers of the glass works M of the Paris municipal council sainted tho worker in the name of Paris M Henri Rochefort delivered a speech nnd with M tho Radical Socialist deputy for Carmaux who was prominently identified the of tho cause of the strikers lit tho furnaces to His Oct was a Sunday of quiet and rest that iam Jennings Bryan spent in this city where for six years he prepared self for his after life In the morning he attended services at the State Street Presbyterian church and listened to a sermon by the Rev A B Morris day at 10 a m Mr Bryan addressed tho students of the college in which he studied LUMBER PILES BURN kee Mich Mich Oct broke out during tho evening iu the lumber piles on tho mill plant premises of tho Centre Lumber company nt six miles down the river It spread into a very largo conflagration which destroyed about feet of ber The sawmill and salt works wore Mr Spnte a grocer on a small body of danger hut were saved only porno small buildings woro the southern limits of i w this city the boat was by some means I lire departments of and of all England in overturned and Mrs Sputo and her five lmw nml liny Gity i fighting The loss approximate succession to tho lato Most Hay Ed ward White Benson drowned the names Tolstoi ST Oct Tolstoi of the Russian church who was deposed from tho priest's tions because ho had refused to clear himself of nn accusation that he had been converted to Catholicism has been arrested at Moscow and taken to where he was condemned by a church tribunal to seven years banishment from St Petersburg and Moscow nnd was forbidden to hold any state for 20 years the Postal Union Oct General Wilson has requested the of state to invite all the tries of tho world to tho meeting of tho universal postal delegates in this city next May Tho postmaster general will ask congress to make a suitable for the entertainment of the visitors who will include many of tho highest postal officials in the world The conventions are held every six years for Weyler LONDON Oct Madrid dispatch to Tho Standard The press con- bitterly to resent and declare it impossible to admit iu any or form United States interference in Cuba The government is straining every nerve to bring the rebellion to a decisive Orders have been sent to Captain General to this effect
