Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1904 — COMPLAINT OF RUSSIA [ARTICLE]

COMPLAINT OF RUSSIA

Pamphlet from the Muscovite Which Charges Us with the Greatest Ingratitude. BODY OF A SUICIDE FOUND Gen. Chaffee Inspect* a Military Site —Mystery on a Trolley LineFatal Wreck. Indianapolis, Aug. 19. The Indiana members of congress have received copies of a pamphlet published at St. Petersburg, Russia, and entitled “Services Rendered by Russia to the American People During the War of the Rebellion.” The pamphlet contains a succinct recital of the attitude of Russia toward the United States during the civil war, as contrasted with the attitude of Great Britain. It is recalled that secessionist privateers, armed with letters of marque issued by Jefferson Davis, used English ports aA a basis of operations which ruined the maritime commerce of the northern states. Polltclal Mob Hysteria. “These souvenirs,” says the pamphlet, “have not had time to fade away, but we are already subjected to. the painful spectacle of what human inconsistency can do. While generous blood is flowing far away in the defense of Port Arthur this same people that we remember having so recently loved is fraternizing with the Japanese and drifting into one of those stampedes which, in this age of emotionalism, one is almost tempted to call ‘political mob hysteria.” Army Post Site Inspected. Indianapolis, Aug. 19.—General Adna R. Chaffee, chief of staff of the United States army, accompanied by General C. F. Humphrey and Captain Grote Hutchinson, U. S. A., inspected the United States army post site at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Suicide's Body Is Found. Indianapolis, Aug. 19. —The body of Miss Julia Allenberg, 27 years old, who had been missing since Tuesday, has been found in Fall creek. Her hat, shoes and pocketbook, together with two notes saying that she had committed suicide because she was losing her mind, were found on the bank. For eight years, until six months ago, when she was rescued from an attempt to commit suicide by drowning

in Lake Michigan 7 after an estrangement from the son of a Chicago millionaire whom she was engaged to marry, she was employed as chief saleswoman in one of Chicago’s largest department stores. AFFAIR 18 VERY MYSTERIOUS Man Picked Up on a Trolley Line Who Disappears After Bis Injuries Are Dressed. Shelbyville, Ind., Aug. 19.—A man claiming to beWilllam Hardy, and giving his home ais Louisville, Ky., was picked up by an interurban motorman at night, between this city and Fairland, and he was brought to Shelbyville and taken to the Kennedy hospital, where his injuries were dressed. There is some mystery connnected with the affair. The stranger said that he met two men, giivng their names as Charles Edwards and George Dempsey, at the Union railway station, Indianapolis, at night, and they all boarded the “Knickerbocker,” which is due here at 7 p. m. They stood on the platform and drank beer, and then he sat on* the steps. After this he knew nothing until he was picked up off the track by a farmer and carried to the interurban station, where the motorman found him sitting on the track. He says his gold watch and two $5 bills are missing. After bis wounds were dressed he disappeared. Felloe Coptala Killed. Tipton, Ind., Aug. 19. —Captain Robert Irwin, of the police force* and William Jones used a railroad “speeder" in chasing thieves who had escaped to the country, and while they

were returning they were overtaken by a train on the Lake Brie and Western railway. Jones sprang off and dragged the “speeder” aside, but Captain Irwin was caught and killed. He was 35 years old, with a large family. Weather and Crop Bulletin. Indianapolis, Aug. 19. The crop bulletin for the past week says that abnormally low temperatures, particularly at night, prevailed during/ the first part of the week in this state. On and after Saturday it was higher than the average at this season. The com crop as a whole needs rain very badly. Spring sown clover is dying, and in most cases seed clover is very unpromising. Pastures ere brown. Collision Will Bo Death to Two. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Aug. 19. As the result of a collision between construction and water trains on the Big Four railway, near the Ohlo-Indiana line, two miles north of this city, Patrick Mitchell, engineer on the water train, was instantly killed, and John Stanley, fireman on the water train, was fatally Injured. Four other members of the crew were seriously injured. Mind Wracked by s Horror. LaPorte, Ind., Aug. 19. —Clara W. Redhouse, aged 14, has been adjudged insane. Her mind is hopelessly wrecked. Her trouble developed after the Iroquois theater fire, the accounts of which, physicians declare, dethroned her reason.