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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1892-05-27, Page 6a - FIENDS IN HUMAN SHAPE. Cruelties Practised on Children in England. SOME TERRIBLE TALES. .A London cable says: A report issued by the Society for the Prevention of. Cruelty to Children has caused a. sensation by the statements it contains relative to the cruel, and oft -times inhuman, punishments in- flicted upon children. The„crime of Mrs. Montagu, who claimed that she was impelled by such a high sense of duty that she was constrained to inflict extraordinary punishment upon her child- ren for their souls' welfare,. and who finally by this meant caused the death of her 3 - year -old daughter*. was believed to be ex- ceptional. That some parents wofulty neglected and abused their children was conceded, but hardly anyone believed that such fiendish cruelty as is set forth in the report of the society could be systematically pursued in England. The report makes special refer- ence to Mrs. Montagu and declares that hers is not an isolated case of cruelty in families of high social position. The society has., interfered with clergy- men, officers, barristers and other members of the gentry who it had learned were treat- ing their children inhumanely. Among the punishments people of this class inflicted upon the helpless children are mentioned, punishing a child by putting pine into its nostrils, putting.lighted matches in a child's nostrils, biting a child's wrist and burning 'the wound with lighted matches, biting the , limbs of a seven -months -old baby till they bled, keeping a baby in a cradle for weeks till toadstools greVv around the child as a result of rottenness ; shutting up for hours in a dark , closet a 2 - year -old child, tying a rope around a boy 6 - years years old, dipping him in a canal, bringing him up, and when he has recovered dipping him in again, and repeating the operation time after time ; keeping a child always in a cool cellar till its flesh became green, tying cords tightly round a child's little thumbs, then tying the extended arms to the foot of a bedstead and beating the child with a thorn bush. Like Mrs. Montagu, some of the culprits pleaded their high sense of moral discipline and their regard for the victim's soul. One individual whom the society'interfered w.th urged that he could not do his duty as set forth in the Bible without mutilating the face of his child. The report of the society has caused con- siderable discussion, and it is hoped that the law will be invoked to its utmost to punish heartless parents. It is thought that one effect of the report will be to put'a•stop to the mawkish denti- s to procure the release The D:eo meeting and made a strong conrmen shameful disclosures made. The most subtle cases of cruelty, he said, seemed to be perpetrated by persons of apparent respectability. Mr. Fowler, M. P., suggested• that legis- lation was needed to protect children: The most revolting recent instances of cruelty, he said, had occurred in families of affluence and the creation of public opinion was wanted to fight the evil. GEN. GRESSER'S JAB. A Quack's Vitaline Killing Oil' ;Russian Generals. A Se: Petersburg ' despatch says : Gen. Greaser, prefect of police, died to -day from the effects of an injection of the quack medicine " vitaline," which produced a sudden and violent attack of blood poison- ing. The stories that have been circulated to the 'effect that Gen. Gresser was the victim of a Nihilist conspiracy and all the sensational details of the case are without a single word of truth. He was the victim of quackery, and Gatchkowski, the inventor of " Vitaline," finds himself in trouble with the police because of Gen. Gresser's death. He was arrested yesterday, and to -day the police searched his resi- dence and seized his stock of vitaline, a quantity of chemicals and a lot of papers. It has transpired that Gen. Gresser is not the only victim of the quack medicine. Gen. Baranhoff died last Sunday, and now. it is stated that hie death followed shortly after an injection • of vitaline. Gatchkowski maintains, however, that his death was not due to the use of the medi- cine, but that it was caused by an illness from which he; was suffering before he used "vitaline." It is said that the medicine consists of glycerine and borax, but it is not believed that these substances would cause such rapid and fatal gangrene as marked the case of Gen. Greaser. The authorities have prohibited the future use of " vitaline." The fate of Gen. Greaser hap caused great indignation among the people against Gatchkowski. • Excited'. crowds besieged the • prefecture when the prefect's death was announced, and they denounced the quack in the most bitter terms. A MIcumAN 'man has a patent for a garbage receptacle which can be fitted into a back fence. When ifi its natural position the aperture in the fence is entirely closed up by the receptacle, which in itself closes tightly up and becomes nearly or quite odorless. Garbage can be emptied into the receptacle, says the Detroit News, from inside the yard, while at the same time the ' garbage collector in making his rounds is not put to the neceasity, in case of the absence of the family, of climbing fences, facing savage bull dogs, or accepting the alternative and leaving the garbage until he finds somebody at home. He turns a crank, upsets the contents o the receptacle into his pail, fires the a ff into 'is cart, allows the receptacle to right itself the fence, and drives merrily off whistling -ra-ra booni-de-ay, while the resident is 7e1l accommodated as though his entire Ty were home watching for the garbage This garbage receiver looks to be an 'oment on the common barrel,- arid ,e worth insjuiring after. my—Do you say your prayers every 'Timmy—I do whenever, I've goiter c folding bed. • School teacher—What is the Bright boy—It's wot makes you •ou get found out. ' Shakespeare up to date :. Bks, • germs in the running s in everything. PRISONER WILD WITH RAGE. 4 A Murderer Tries to Brain a District Attorney. EXOITING SOENE IN COURT. A Washington D. C., despatch says : Howard J. Schneider, convicted a month ago of a peculiarly brutal murder of his wife, after a trial which, partly on account of the standing of the two families, and partly on account of the circumstances, attracted more attention than others of recent years, attempted, while feigning insanity, just before sentence was imposed to -day, to kill District Attorney Cole. When Schneider, who, during, his trial, as before, was a well dressed, fashionable - looking fellow, came into court to -day a short, black growth of beard covered his face, his hair was matted and disordered, and his clothes were diaarranged and in a moat untidy condition. His coat collar was pulled up about his face, and no signs of collar or cuffs were'seen. His counsel, ex -Representative Jere M. Wilson asked the court, Judge Bradley, to order an examination as to Schneider's men- tal condition, which he said would show him to Ile insane. The court refused to do this, and also overruled motions for a new trial. • The District -Attorney then said : " Your Honor, I now ask that the sentence of the court in the case of the United States against Howard J. Schneider be pro- nounced." Then occurred a scene never' before wit- nessed in the history of the court. Hardly had the District -Attorney ceased speaking, when Schneider, with a loud cry of rage, sprang up from his chair, and, grasping it by both hands, raised it above his head and sprang at the District -Attorney with .the undoubted purpose of braining', him. The room had become densely packed with men, women and children, and as Schneider sprung toward District -Attorney Cole with the uplifted chair, his face purple with uncontrollable rage, his eyes flashing with wicked intent, nearly all sprang to their feet, and several of the ladies screamed and attempted to make their way out. Bailiff Joyce had been seated in a chair just behind Schneider's right hand, twhiie the prisoner's .usual, guard, Springman, stood soiree distance off. Before Schneider could bring the chair down on the head of the district attorney, who sat with his back toward the . prisoner, unconscious of his peril, Joyce and Springman sprang upon Schneider and caught his arms. They were immediately reinforced by Bailiff Ransdell and one or two others, and it required their united efforts to wrench air .21of the man's hands and throw L with his right hand and- -tignntry- near ilier left wrist with the other. Joyce pinioned Schneider's arms, from .behind, while two other bailiffs assisted them in holding him down in the chair, but, strong as they were, they failed to completely control the pris • oner's struggles, and as he would not ceag e his struggle, Judge Bradley cut the matter short by saying : " Handcuff him, and if he still resists tie him in the chair." The handcuffs were quickly produced, and Springman snapped them on the pris- oner's wrists. He then quieted down somewhat, although he still fiercely glared at the court and at those who held him. In a• moment the court room, which had been in a state of most intense ekcitement during all this time, became perfectly still in expectation of the sentence about to be pronounced. - Springman and Joyce raised the prisoner to his feet and tightly held him between them, and told him to face the judge. " No," interrupted Judge Bradley, " I will not sentence him while he is hand- cuffed. Take them off. You are able to hold him." . Springman, unlocked the handcuffs and released the prisoner's hands, although he and Joyce never relinquished their graap on him. Springman, who from the first, has had almost perfect control over Schneider, whispered to him to be quiet and brace up like a man. This he did to a certain extent, but he absolutely refused to look at the court. Then the court said : " Howard J. tShneider, the jury have convicted you of lie murderof your wife. Have youanything to say why the sentence of the law should not be imposed upon you ? Do you wish to say anything why the sentence of the law could not be imposed on you ? " Schneider replied, sharply : " God d—n you." . Judge Wilson, turning to the defendant, said : " Say nothing." Judge Bradley then continued : " That your insanity is all a sham and dodge is perfectly apparent from your.action here this morning. That your weakness is all a play and a sham is apparent, when it took two powerful men to hold you when you undertook to execute your malignant pur- pose upon the district attorney, as it ap peered to the court you were just now attempting to do. ' " It is idle to claim for a moment that you are not now in ,condition to have sen- tence imposed upon 'you. The same malig• nant and devilish purpose that actuated You in • the accomplishment of the hellish design which you executed upon your wife has been apparent in the action which you took this morning. " It certainly is not a pleasant duty for me to perform: I do not like to impose the sentence of death upon any man: But if there was ever a case in this community, or fan any other in this country, where fiendish malignity had accomplished its purpose and was apparently subject to the righteous execution of the eente'nce of death, yours ie that case, anrl, without any further remarks, the court will impose the sentence of the haw. " The sentence of the law is that you he taken hence to the common jail of the I)is- triet of '!'olNmhia, from whence you came, and there be committed in close confine- ment, and that upon Friday, the 20th day of January, 1a93, you he taken to the place prepared for your execution within the walls of said jail, and that then and there, be- tween the hours of 8 a. m. and 13 noon, you be hanged by the neck until you be dead, and may that God whose law you have defied have that, mercy upon you and upon your soul which you refused and denied to your -murdered wife," • Immediately after the sentence was pro- nounced Schneider was hurried to the cage below, and the .crowd in the court room began to leave. AN EXT1tA0BDI%ARV BALL. The Halt, thta Lance and the Blind Have a Ul„;h Old Time. At Pittsburg, a few days ago, there was a strange gathering of curious people. A class of people that are looked upon as out- side the sphere of physical enjoyment ere those who are maimed and disfigured by accident or other causes. The sympathies of the hale and hearty are always aroused for the cripple or the one -limbed members of the human family, and it is for the pur- pose of calling attention td the success of• the Cripples' Athletic Association, in the direction of affording muscular amusement to the class deemed so peculiarly aliiictecl,, that „reference is made to a unique ball that was given for their benefit by friends and sympathizers. The spacious hall of a popular place of amusement was crowded with members of the cripple population of Pittsburg. It was a remarkable sight. ' One-armed men seemed to predominate and to have the easiest part to play, but the one•legged members were not behind when the figures were formed. The grand march, led by the president of the association and a pretty little brunette for a partner, was worthy of an artist's study. The joy of the occasion gave the incongruous column an elastic st and an air of jollity that was strangely in contrast with the general movements and appearance of the participants. There were many that took the step of Richard III. The " Hunchback " was also represented. William Ghost was there in flesh and blood, and walked on the wiong side of his partner on account of an armless sleeve, notwithstanding that accident came near making another kind of ghost of him. And so they passed along. The stiff -legged man saluted a fingerless acquaintance, and the cripple who wore an iron brace on his left ankle bowed respectfullyto the man with a hook.for a hand. When it came to dancing it was wonder- ful how these queer -motioned people suc- ceeded in going thrpugh with the figures. But the handsome women, the entrancing music and the general joyousness of the scene gave the participants a more stately and steady step and they acquitted them- selves to the entire satisfaction of their friends. These people represented many accidents by rail and machinery, suffering in various forms, and the effort that brings back to them some of the lost joys of active life must be praiseworthy indeed. —Bauarlo News. CHOLER.. L",THE EAST. Great Precautions Being Taken to Prevent it from Reaching England. A London cable says : There is some 4} _- P teneivr hale, being taken in view of tie appreh•.. ended danger to put all possible obstacles in the way of the westward spread of the scourge from its breeding places in the Orient. At the request of the various European Gov-• ernments the authorities. of Egypt -are exercising unusual vigilance to prevent that country being traversed by • the diseaae. Experts say that, as a result of careful study on the subject, it has been found that cholera travels .along two distinct line in its advance upon Europe. The first course is across India, Afghanistan and Asiatic Russia. It is believed by thoae ' who have been investigating the matter that the disease is now raging in the latter country. The fact is carefully concealed from the public, but it is known in official circles that a special committee has been appointed by Russia to enquire what is best to be done in the premises. The second route of the deadly malady is by way of Persia, Arabia, and the Red Sea ports. To -day's mail from Aden brings information that leaves no ddubt of the prevalence of the disease along this line of travel. It is epidemic in the interior of Arabia, and frightful accounts of its'ravages come from• that region. Hundreds are dying daily from this cause. At Harrar, .where thousands have died, the epidemic is now abating. Fugitives 'from the stricken district thriving at the coast estimate the mortality at 1.5,000 during the past fort- night. Commerce is paralyzed, and no caravans have arrived from the interior since the middle, of April. The deadly effects of the disease are said to be un- paralleled. SURPRISED BANK BURGLARS Attack :a City Marshal and Beat (lint to Death. A special to the Nashville American, from Toccoa. Ga., says : Marshall Carter, at Toccoa, Ga., discovered four negroea drilling in the Toccoa National Bank's yault this morning between three and four o'clock. Alone he entered the building, contemplating the capture of the gang ; but the instant he stepped through the door he was discovered, and a desperate fight, ensued. This morning the body of the dead marshal was found just outside the bank door. At•first the dead•man was a mystery, but when the bank door was found- open and tampered with the mystery grew less deep. Beside the body of the dead marshal were footprints that led toward the railroad, and in a box car were found pieces of steel, with which the marshal's head had been crushed in. From the car -tracks led to Jim Redman's house. Redman was arrested, and after an interview with the officers Will Bruce, Gus Roberts and Bob Anderson, negf•oes, were taken into custody. The evidence before the coroner's, jury shows that the fon- negroes are responsible for the marshal's death and the safe -blowing.. It is feared that they will he quickly dealt with. Not an Adept. " I hart •to be away from school yesterday,' said Tommy, " Yoe oust bring teacher. " Who Isom ?" " Your father." " 1-fe ain't nn good at making ex01.1ses ; me catches him every time," • —A society of Highbinders —the twine trust. an excuse," said the —Man proposes, woman disposes', ma'r; tinge composes, time exposes and finally death deposes and reucses. EX -DRUNKARDS' LEAGUE. Keeley Graduates Form an Organigation of • the Renounaerbof Rum. MAROHED PROUDLY BEHIND A BAND A New York de. pat , h sacs : More thau a hundred Filen, erten one of whom has spent years of his life in marching up to a bar and asking for whiskey, in husky tones, paraded the streets of White Pintas yesterday after- noon behind the local r•ft and di um corps on• their Kay to 0banquet at. a hu h cr flee and ise water were the only liquid stimulants. Keeping step to the music, which hap- pened to be " Tiara- re -boom -der -ay," were ex -drunkards who up to a short time ago hadn't done any steady walking to speak of for years. Their mode ot locomotion through life had been more in the nature of a stagger. Yet they stepped it jauntily along the main street of the village, proud that Chief of Police Bogert had consented to lead the procession as drum -major, giving their reform a sort of official approval. There were those among them who had followed the police before, but not so far behind. All these winners in the fight with alcohol were graduates of the Keeley gold cure. It was a reunion to form a State organization, composed of the freshmen, sophomores, seniors and graduates of the institutions of this State and of the gradu- ates from other States who now live in New York. There are four institutes in New York, located at Binghamton, Geneseo, Westfield and' White Plaine. . A fifth is to be opened at Babylon, L. I., shortly, under the charge of Dr. George H. Nicholson. , At a preliminary meeting yesterday after- noon the first steps were taken to form the State league of clubs, and after committees had been appointed an adjournment was had until this morning. H. D. Nutting, an Oswego lawyer, presided. He is a man whose acquaintance with liquor had been long and close. He has just got through with the treatment and he considers him- self cured. "I cannot make a good speech," he said, " in the first -place, because 1 am sober, and, in the second place, because I feel so happy that to -morrow I am going home to my wife, saved." After the business meeting the parade was made to'the Bichloride of Gold Club, whose quarters are in an ancient frame building that has been saved from collapse very much in the same way as some of the, graduates. There a collation was served and speeches were made that' rung with enthusiasm for the treatment that had put the orators on their feet. The toast, " Dr. Keeley, Our Noble Benefactor," was responded to by Thomas H. Rodman, junco, who sailed into the news-. papers for their attitude toward the Keeley cure. He admitted that there had been a•i �- �.-.. ..-........- you =rim 'Jur west Dr. Keeley has done for you ?" he de- manded, and many of the graduates replied that they would not part with their changed condition at any price. . 'Major Alfred R. Calhoun said that when .he went up to White Plains. he expected to find a lot of old, disreputable bums hanging', about, and he was half ashamedof his mis- sion and thought of changing his name. To his surprise, however, he discovered that the Keeley graduates were by far the beat people in the village. He himself had no more of a desire to drink whiskey than he had to drink ink, and they were both quite close to hisl:lesk. In the evening a public meeting was held in Lafayette Hall and Speeches were made' by many graduates. Several stories were told by the graduates showing the popular impressibn that it is neceasary for the patient to arrive at the institute drunk. A young man went there sober and took the treatment, for two weeks. Then .some one informed him that he hadn't started right. He want . down to New York and got. gloriously intoxicated, returned and began the treatment all over again. An English Invention. A clever English tailor has invented a new skirt, which is an improvement on the muddy gown • of the present period. The skirt is designed chiefly for rainy weather. It is the length of an ordinary skirt, but the cheviot of which it : d composed reaches only within a foot, of the ground, where it is supplemented with a band of leather or of mackintosh of harmonizing color. • This band is merely buttoned by invisible; means on the skirt. When the wearer returns to the house it may be unbuttoned, the mud and dust easily cleaned off, and its place filled by a band of cheviot. The great objec- tion to this dress is that it offers no special protection to the ankles and underskirts, which are liable to become badly spattered by the mud and dirt. Being a stiff material, it will cause a great deal more spattering in '• awashing" through the mud than a dress of ordinary goods. Stout legging of the material of the dress, if you please, lined' with mackintosh, comfortaqle riding habit tights and a stout skirt of tweed, faced with rubber cloth on -the inside to the depth of ten or twelve inches and clearing the ground, makes a dreadnaught outfit, which is utilitarian and may be graceful. The upperart of the dress may be selected in any style the wearer fancies " Ouida." • • "/Juida'a " name is Rosa etle la Rama., and she is the daughter of a Frenchman. More information than this the most indefatigable interviewer has not been able to get from the author. She lives in a lovely villa about two miles front Florence, where she is surrounded by hooka pictures and, what she prizes more than both of these, dogs. She has a burying -ground on her place for her dogs, where they are laid away with a tenderness that is not always bestowed on the hunian race. " Quida "• was an unknown writer, glad to earn t 1 a page for her magazine stories, when her novel of " Granville de Vinge " made her reputation, and now every noyel she writes finds a ready market a x7,000. Professor Elihu Thompson, in a recent article, states his belief that 136,000 horse- power at 500,000 volts can lie transmitted 210 miles through three wires about as large as a good-sized knitting -needle, and, more- over, that this can be sent underground through a small pipe, using only cotton and cheap oil as'en insulator. ENGLISH TRADE UNIONS. Figures 'Which u Show of the towlh and Mag - ons. By far the moat important publication of the Labor Bureau of the Board of Trade is the report on trade unions issued to mem- bers last mouth. The report was long over- due- As no report was issued in 1890, the present volume contains the statistics for the two years, 18s9 and 1890. Taking the 208 soa.ieties in England and Wales, in which the total number of members Moth in 1889 and 1890 are given, we find that the aggregate in 1889 was 640,840, and in 189 it V% US 790,473. But 235 societit s returns a membership of 1i79,283 in 1889, and '2 societies in 1890 a membership of 871 i The total income of 233 societies, in 188' , was £9.54,039 19s ; of `259 societies, in + 1894, ;11,160,141 l Os 8d. The total o 206 societies, which sent in particulars both years, wes, in 1889 £031,145 13s lid in 1890, £1,131,436 Os 6d. The total ex penditure of 23'1 societies in 1889 wa £706,233 6s 3d ; of 260 societies in 189 £861,752 18s 6d. I1i•207 societies„ makin returns in both years, the total in 1889 wa £683,424 13e 3d, and in 1890 £842,391 13s. The increase of funds in the year vias there- fore 3;155,967. This vast income and expenditure for only some 206 or 20 societies show that the estimated aggregat, income of the trade unions of the United Kingdom, supposed to number nearly 2,00 societies, would exceed the estimate of n made of over two or two and a quarter lions ' sterling. If 259 societies have a income of over £1,160,441, it is but reason • - able to suppose that the remainder, even if only 1,000 in number, would make u £839,559 in the aggregate in the course of a year.—London Engineering. Ram's Horn's Reasons. The eccentric genius who presides over the destinies of the Ram's Horn, a weekly paper printed at the • home of President Harrison, under the head of " Some Reasons," does a little bit .of paragraphing which is unique, to say the least : One reason why every Christian is not a millionaire, is because God can't trust him with so much, money. One reason why peopleeeleep in church, is because the preacher himself is not wide• awake. 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