Orland Zenith, Volume 4, Number 28, Orland, Steuben County, 28 August 1903 — Page 2

ORLAND ZENITH ORLAND, INDIANA. KNICE N. . - Proprietor. ■ t .

PAST AND PRESENT AS , T COMES TO US FROM ALL C( -RNERS OF THE EARTH.-Jt •-! idctraphi. Information Gathered by tbe Fevi t ke lialiKlitoament of the Many

WOMAN IS ABDTCTED.

WIFE OF WEALTHY IOWA FARMER KIDNAPED. Ransom of $30,000 Is Demanded— Victim Is Imprisoned in Cellar of Deserted House, but Manages te Escape—Made Insane by Frigbt. A most daring kidnaping took place near Sunbury. Iowa, late Sunday night, when Mrs. John Hilsrow, the wife of a wealth farmer living near Bennett, lOwa, was abducted, imprisoned in the cellar of a deserted farm house and a ransom of $50,000 demanded for her release. Sunday evening an unknown stranger called at the home and told Mr. and Mrs. Hilarow that their son, living at Walcott, Iowa, where ho has been working on a farm, was very sick and that they were wanted at the bedside at once. They immediately drove off with the stranger. When they arrived within two miles of the village of Sunbury, Iowa, seven miles from Bennett, the husband was thrown out of the buggy and told that he should bring $50,000 to a secluded spot near Bennett. He was also told that if he told any of the officers he would be killed. The man then drove on with Mrs. Hilsrow for several miles until they had arrived opposite a corner school house. Here the kidnaper tied his horse and dragged the woman through a corn field to a deserted house, where she was imprisoned in the cellar. The man then left and has not yet been found. Some time dtiring the night Mrs. Hilsrow escaped and was found in the morning in the farm yard of Henry Kueser, a farmer near Sunbury, insane and very ill. She was recognized by the wife of Mr. ttuescr, and the news of' her discovery was at once telephoned to the Bennett police. The case was then investigated, and after considerable, difficulty so great was the old man’s fear of the kidnaper, the facts were brought out. Hr. Hilsrow offered the police $1,000 re ward for the capture of the men, ane the sheriff immediately collected a posse and started pursuit. Late in the afternoon a grip with men’s clothing was found near the house and a little later a cane was, found it the road. The cane was recognized ai belonging to -another well-known f.irme; named John Lee. When confronted will this evidence he stated that the cam had been stolen from him several day: ago. He is not suspected of the crime. Mrs. Hilsrow has been under the can of a doctor, and at times her life is de spaired of. At no time has her mine been clear, and until she iif revived ai accurate description of the man will no be secured, as Mr. Hilsrow did not sei the man in the light.

been teleg phed from Sebfstopol to the Russian mbassador at < fonstantiubple. The dispat n of the squadrMi is intended \ to eoiphas- ; Russia’s bite won of exacts ing comjrh ? ccimpIMncq with lier demands us L satisfaction fof the murder by a Turitli gendarme of her .consul at Monastir. I)

CHIBI BRUTALLY SLAFN. Terribly tutllated Remain* of Alplinse Welmes Found. The mi: iated remains of 4-year-oid Alphonse elmes, whose father lives on Sfc Aubiuuemie, Detroit, were found in a Jot the rear of the Michigan Stove Wor| at Adair' and Wight streets. The body tit' discover’d by a workman wedged befeon two molding boxes. The hands werftiod behind with wire and a red haedke fhief had be.en s nffed down the little Row’s throat for. a sag. The body was p tiy stripped of clothing. The abdomen v, s sleuthed’ open a'-d the left

wrist was »arjy. severed. 1’ ith thighs also had kg. deep cuts in ihem. All the wounds had been made apparently with a very b ,rp insyinnent. Alphonse had "seen n King, froth Ids home for 18 hoitrt. -Not in.a: was thought of his absence at iirj, bat when he did not return for Bnnerjaiseareb was begun that ended in idewification of the body

by his fa Jmorgue. SWISHES MANY NEGHOES. Northern j& ck Oetti ti.OOO in South, Saylnj lie Represents Hanna. Thonsai j of dollars have been taken from the ;!; ;ka of Georgia and Florida by a Norfhj iiinegro named Mitchell, who said he h■:! been ■■employed by Senator Mark Ha; to collect noney to be used in passing I e Ohio Senator's bill to pension thee, laves of the South. The negroes. tenp ed by the prospects of a pension, gv> readily to Mitchell, some of them turns . over the’savings of years. Recently ie left, saying he was going to see fin na - f Ole nelgro, F. B. Wilson, who' had given |50, became suspicious and wrob Senator Hanna. Wilson has received letter from the Senator denouncing be man as a fraud. It is estimated th.i Mitchell got $6,000. £TOL,IU icls'ks costogo each.

vonic 'CUbMII at Twelfth and Park avenues, Still.%is, who created a great sensation V it chcreh last July by kissing foreiblj A. pi tty wife of ene of the congregnfcj h? been fined $100 by default in .[uV. 1 dlayd’s court. The evidence shotSl that TJherkovits imprinted two kies in the cheek of Mrs. L. 0. Hollis, ludg Pollard, after careful consider,-]!it the law aud of the woman’s feeliifc, stimnted the kisses at $t)0 each, orMOO a pair.

Goat idiBl ’jure of Bn-ray. Charles Huljl a fanner or Shaler township, l*a.,-ofciciect to go to Pittsburg and invest in ahi iv;; buggy. He drew ?75 out ol the bait for that purpose and put it in his iifij,. pocket. Then he went to the erej to wash op his old buggy and left Is "at, containiug the money, on the ediof the stream. While he was washing fc buggy his pet goat came along and hade a lunch of his pocketbook. eatingpmney and all. - . : -£ < -S- .

Man; Resume Work, 11 is estimated tht between 0.000 aud 7.000 textile strte.-s in Philadelphia, principally operathk in' the rug branch, resumed work Mori.v, The manufacturers made no tfonossions. The strike was begun eleven woks ago. and,of the original 60,000 strike.- only 10,000 remain out. • n Shoots for Woton at Dance. Plain Votter. aged 7, shot and fatally wounded a young mini- named Burns at a dance at Keota. Mo in a quarrel over a woman. The feelin against Votter is intense. He is in hidag and his father refuses to surrender Jim unless guaranteed protection. _ ,

I, AC If HOMES ASD FOOD.

Conditions in Jamaica as Dc-inlt of Hurricane Most Serious, There arc heartrending scenes all over the eastern and northern portion; ,.f the I island of Jamaica. At Pott Antonio thousands of homeless and starving people have sought shelter in the old prison and the few other buildings which survived the hurricane. Those who could not be accommodated th*"are cowering in the lee of ruined w* and disman tied piazzas. The railjad sheds . and Waiting rooms arc filled with women and children. The merchants of the place are feeding tbe him gvmfo the beat of their ability, but the raflmtj are depending upon green, nnripjrb mauas knocked down by the storm. #The bananas are boiled in kerosene itr. s over open fires made from the debrii of destroyed buildings. This is tlieir hole food supply, and it will be exhausted in nine or ten days. Similar conditions prevail at Annotate liny. Buff bay. Orange hay, Port Maria, Marchioneal. Morant -bay, Bowden and other smaller seaports. In tbe interior the distress is equally acute. Scarcely a peasant’s home is standing. Even the dwellings of the planters, which are built stone, have been unroofed with Vc,y exceptions. The misery of the peasants*families ia indescribable. Efforts are being made at Kingston to relieve tbe immediate wants of some localities by subscriptions of food and clothing, but the local efforts at best are totally inadequate. It is now estimated that the loss on the island will reach $15,000,000.

Farmers to Combine. 1 Ians lorconibini;., f arnv fruitgrowers, dairymen am#al.J thel . producers of natural food products into oue national organization, were consi Vre( j at a conference held .at Chicago, rec nit) y between representatives of several fa.,iieti/fco-op-erative associations. The in (..(.tut has for its purpose the maintaining Jjgrioes; the control of distribution of prottf* an( j the saving of large sums of monKalVj n commissions. The plan under cSidorv tion contemplates the erection ifc grain elevators and cold storage ware biases in all parts of the country where pSdncts may be held if necessary until sudl time as they can be marketed at a fairer fee. As a result of the conference it was decided to hold a farmers’ convemioi) ii Chicago, September 8, to consider detail.of the plans of organization.

His Father's Disarrace. Because Mrs. Lillian Allien HarneJthe handsome woman to whom the enter Pierre Lorillard bequeathed Rancocas, the Lorillard breeding farm in New Jersey, had a filly entered in a maiden race at Saratoga, N. T., Pierre Lorillard, the younger, scratched his entry. It was soon known all over the track that Mr. Lorillard had withdrawn his filly because he would not allow the famous Lorillard tolors—cherry, black hoops on sleeves— J'lfbrUed from his father, to appear in a race the colors of the present mistress of Ka nctcas.

Cloudburst in Tennessee. A cloudburst occurred at Greenville,' Tenn. It extended from above Greenville as far south as Morristown. In Greenville ami Morristown the creeks passing through the towns were rut of canks innndulatmg streets and iloodlng nany cellars, dar ug .‘docks.AO'mfJrffe 1 ably. Theelectri ' -mb of Greenville w f \ useless j'|,- - ai c tty far rrporisu ., calamity. Robert Barks and his litUel-year-otCL son were drowned white attomtiling to cross a swollen creek.

RESTORES LIFE TO A.N INFANT.

Remarkable Results From Electricity

In an Ontario Case.

Dr. James Brien, an old practitioner ■of. Essex. Out., says he was successful on Thursday last by means of electricity lit restoring life to a child which had ipparemly been born dead, after all old oethods had failed. He says: "Imme- <■ lately after birth not a sign of life was visible. After all known remedies failed to revive the apparently lifeless babe it Ui -i-urred to me to test electricity. 1 had ju .or heard of such an experiment, and only decided to do so when the last spark of life had apparently fled. After fifteen minutes' ipplieatio of the able •• * breathing and the --- u'eating normally.

MAN IK COILS OK LIVL W1KE.

Merchant Vessel Sinks a Cruiser.

Brooklyn Resident Has a Narrow ICs-

cape from Heath.

Hong Kong special: The Canadian Pacific Railroad’s steamer, Empress of India, from Vancouver, B. C., July 27, and Yokohama, Aug. 10, for Hong Kong, collided near this port with the Chinese cruiser Huang-Tai. The warship sank an hour after the collision. The Empress of India saved 170 of the crew of the cruiser. The captain of the Huang-Tai, who refused to leave his ship and thirteen of her crew were drowned. The Empress of India was badly damaged amidship.

A broken trolley wire, carrying a voltage that would have been death to the average man, held Edward Yockers, a •switchman at the Broadway (Brooklyn) ferries, rigid in his (recks for live minutes and he is still alive. Five hundred persons saw Yorkers’ narrow escape. Yockers was standing under the trolleywire when it snapped and coiled about his body. When he was released an ambulance surgeon examined him and said rockers would probably recover.

IS Leu.nl.

The Philippine commission has- appointed Capt. Geo. T. Eanghorne of the Eleventh cavalry, secretary to the provincial government of the province of Moro and Captain Keller, engineer officer, both of the new appointees to receive an addition of twenty per cent, to their army pay. Major Robert L. Bullard, with the assistance of the friendly Moro chiefs, is making arrangements for a grand celebration and peace conference on the comple- I tion of the Lanao military road.

Army Men Get Civil Places.

Judge Rogers in the United States Circuit Court iu St. Uouis handed down an opinion to the effect that any company has the absolute right to dismiss employes because they belong to labor unions or for any other reason; that employers may maintain what is known as a blacklist and give it out for the use of others; that this is a purely lawful act and has no element of conspiracy.

Rules Black List

Fire starting in a shed in which Flock drovers slept destroyed annex B of the Union Stock Yards in Cincinnati, causing a loss of $60,000. A large quantity of live stock narrowly escaped destruction and three men were severely injured. The stables of M. F. Brown and Robert West were also destroyed. Farmers Cannot Get Help,

Cincinnati Stockyards Fire.

Angry Neiehbora ’Would Lynch Him. Sheriff Barclay of Tipton, Cedar county, Iowa, captured August Lueth, a farm hand who confessed that he kidnaped Mrs. John Telsrow of Bennett, and held her in the cellar of a deserted honsewhile awaiting a ransom of $50,000 fn m her husband. Lueth was taken at once to the jail at Tipton for fear of violence from excited neighbors of the Telsrow family.

The Most Rev. J. J. Harty, recently appointed archbishop of Manila, will be consecrated at Home. Evangelist D. VV. Potter was re-elect-ed president of the board of trustees of the Desplaiues Camp Meeting Association.

Norwalk, Ohio, Printing Plant Barns, The printing plant of the Laning Company was destroyed by fire at Norwalk, Ohio, with a loss about ?100,000, fully insured. The company publishes lawbooks and does a general printing business. The plant will resume operations as soon as possible. The origin of the fire has not been learned.

New York State farmers are losing touch of their harvest owing to inability to get sufficient help. The only men who oau be secured are “floaters”—men out of work and stranded, who hire out as farm hands, and after earning enough to take them to the next city decamp.

Prominent Oshkos Man Killed. Thomas H. Morgan, millionaire lumberman of Oshkosh, % >., was edict and killed by Frederick Hrnpel, a drunken employe, who afterwar committed suicide in his cell by bandog himself with suspenders.

About 300 Baptists in Los Angeles, Cal., .have formed a now church. Many of the members come from the First Church.

Teamsters Union Selects Headquarters The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Teamsters and Helpers, newly formed at Niagara Falls, N. Y., and representing 150,000 teamsters rn the United States, has selected Indianapolis as permanent headquarters and Cincinnati as the meeting place next August.

Nebraska Republican Convention. Nebraska Republicans in State convention commended the administration of President Kiiosevelt and favored his renoauination: declared for the protective tariff and suggested John F. Webster of Omaha as their candidate for Vice-Presi-dent. 1

Five Girls Arc Vowned. While a party of i klren—one, boy and seven girls —rangii i in age from 8 to 15 were boati! ■ at Lurich Station, V-a.. the boat capfeed and five of the girls were drownede

Favorable Report ou Trade. Dun s Review of Trade says the outlook is promising, the distribution of merchandise continues heavy and railway earnings increase. Preparations for fall business going ahead with much vigor.

Slain by Her Husband. Mrs. Lillie Maude Evans, a Kansas City woman, who gained a record for nerve by driving a truck through crowds of jeering . strikers, was billed while asleep by her husband, who then slew himself.

Russia to Coerce Turkey. A squadron of the Russian Black Stea fleet has been ordered to sail for Turkish waters. Notification of this move has

Review* North Atlanta Squadron. President. Kooseveltl reviewed the North Atlantic rqnadro* , Fong Island sound. The destroyer De itnr was rammed by the Karry during je maneuvers, but neither was seriously .amaged.

Mar Chooae Nicaragua Route. The Panama canal treaty was killed by Colombia and the Nicaragua route probably will be decided'on by President Roosevelt; amendments by congressional committee will not be accepted by United

Prof. A. W. Berg, organist of “The Little Church Around the Corner,” New York, and his wife celebrated their golden wedding recently. The Rev. Benjamin H. Davis of Weymouth, Mass., one of the oldest clergy-, men in the Universalist denomination in the country, is dead. A Christian Endeavor Society with thirty members has been organized at Salonika, the ancient Thessalonica, where Paul taught the Thenenlonians. The Rev. T. J. Bassett, president of the Upper Iowa University, hag been honored with the degree of doctor of divinity by Cornell University. Dean Samuel Oox of Garden City Cathedral, Hempstead, N. Y., narrowly escaped being killed recently while a> tempting to get cn a train at Hollis. Elizabeth Lyons, the oldest nun in the diocese ’of Connecticut, died recently in St. Patrick’s convent. New Haven.She was a nun for fifty-one years. Bishop ITartzell has been decorated a knight commander of the Order of the Redemption of Africa. The honor was conferred by the republic of Liberia.

For School of Jonr.alUm. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietr of the New York World, has donated ?2,00d,000 to establish a school of joiinlism in connection with Columbia University. A building will be erected foti lie work.

Shot by Insane Student. Gilbert Gtigg, an insane student, shot a score of persons at a band concert at Winfield, Kan., and ended his own life by shooting. Panic resulted, and others were hurt. Flood Endangers Temporary Fridges* Flood in Kansas River and its tribu» taries, caused by heavy rains, endangered 1 ■ Abi-

raised the Lper year, , Wcreas e

' ’ ’ Fire Destroys Wanionaes, At Camden, Ark., fireCcsl royed the larje compresses and yf< -chouses of Hitohie & Co. and Reeve? Son, and two other business houses. The loss is $100,000; insurance small.

Carrie Nation Imitators. Eight women concerned in thesmashing of a “joint” last week, were arraigned in the city dourt at Wichita, Kas. All pleaded guilty to assault. They were fined $10 each and costs. Those who were , fined were Mrs. Dixon, Dora Warded, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Braden, Mrs. Wyekoff, Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Rogers.

Fatally Shot in Duel. Berlin special: Lieutenant Kayser was shot and fatally wounded in a duel at Allenstefn with Lieutenant Klauenfiugel. Both officers belong to the Seventy-third regiment of field artillery. The duel was the result of joking at a farewell supper given at the officers’ casino to Captain Fiege. Mason and Hamlin Organ Company Knila

The Mason and Hamlin company, manorgans and pianos, having their factory at Cambridge, Mass., have assigned for the benefit of their creditors. No financial statement has been made public. * * ... Saloon Licenses au Raised in Evansville, Ind The Evansville City C(^ cU raised the saloon license from $,5 to fhsu per the limit under the law. Of the Va cr 'e as e JsT.50 goes into the sinking fund,n- ’ action was indirectly due to the riotim*-

I CHINA WILL OPEN TWO PORTS. 1 — ' j X>eni*iude M inister Conger, at Pekin, has secured a written promise from Prince Ching to sign on Oct. S a treaty with the United States which will include a guaranty that Mukden and T'atungtao shall be open ports. The arrangement for the signing of the treaty ends the stubborn resistance by the Chinese, which for tome time promised to be successful. Prince Ching made one defense after another until all were exhausted. He C«st argued ftnssian opposition to the opening of these ports. He then- said that he was not .informed that Russia had consented to the opening. Finally he refused on the ground that China was unable to open towns which were held by another power. When the present settlement was proposed with the explanation that China must presume that Russia intended to fulfill her evacuation agreement Prince Clung reluctantly gave in. Mukden is an important port. Tatungtao is a small port which does not promise much business to attract foreigners in the near future. Its opening is mainly important as a victory for the open-door principle.

HOLD-UP MAN FATALLY SHOT. Wounded at Springfield, O,, After Fight with Detective Norris, Andrew Myers, a colored man. charged with holding up and robbing Charles Hays, was fatally shot by Sheriff Routzahn near Springfield, Ohio, - after the negro had had a desperate struggle with Detective John T. Norris. Hays was robbed of $2.50 and a watch, after had been struck over the head by a m.. who climbed into the back of his buggy. Hays is in a serious condition and may die. Norris was sworn in as a deputy constable and, going to Myers’ house, attempted to arrest him. Ayers drew a revolver and Norris, who is now an old man, attempted to secure possession of it. The two men clinched and a moment later Norris was rolled on the ground, with Myers on his body, beating him over the head with a revolver. Leaving the old detective for dead on the ground, Myers returned to his house. Norris, recovering consciousness, went to Springfield for help. Sheriff Routzahn and Deputy Rupert went to the scene of action and Myers faced them at his own door with a revolver. The Sheriff and his deputy took no chances and immediately shot him several times through the body. Myers had been implicated in a number of robberies, notably one last winter, when 'two aged sisters, living alone, were robbed of a large amount.

CLOUDBURST CAUSES WRECK. Fireman of Rock Island’s Texas Ex* press Killed at Alma, Kan. The engine, mail car and baggage , of the Texas express on the Rock Island went through a bridge across Hendricks creek near Alma, Kan., killing Fireman John Leggett and seriously Injuring the engineer, John McSteen of Kansas City. The baggagemen and expressmen jumped when the shock came and were swept by the waters * into tree tops, from whence they were rescued at daylight by William Graves, a lisheriiign. Graves also found the engineer unconscious and entangled in the limbs of a tree. The engine is at the bottom of the creek, out of sight. One car is dangling from the end of the bridge and another is lodged on the bank of the stream, partially un- I der water. That a fearful loss of life ngr,i»»ffn;r_lj "J. cibnffmirst had fink'd the creek and the bridge.

BATTLE SHIP IN BADpHAPK. I Fifteen Holes in Massachusetts’ Bottom and Maciiinery Is Rusting. It is impossible to obtain definite official information as to the jondifion, so far as known, of the battli ship Massachusetts, which sustained a erious damage by contact with the pinnacle of Egg rock in the harbor at Bar Harbor, Me. It is learned, however, and from a reliable source, that the vessel has fifteen holes in her bottom and that a part of her rpdder is gone. It is also said that the water in the enter of the ship has rendered her mack nery useless and that in all probability be will have to he towed to dry dock.

■*— Empress of India Bams Cruiser, The Canadian Pacific railroad’s steamer'Empress of India collided near Hongkong with the Chinese cruiser HaiangTai. The war ship flank an hour after the collision. The Empress of India saved 170 of the crew of the cruiser The captain of the Huang-Tai, who refused to leave his ship, and thirteen of the crew w ere drowned.

Alaska Has a Tribal War, The -{steamer Princess May, from Skaguay, brings word of a tribal .war among the Ghilkat Indians of the Kltikwau Jibe. For several days a reign of terrop was in progress in the valley of the Chilkat. Witchcraft, which generally prevails among these Indians, is said to have been at the bottom of the trouble.

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