Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — Page 6

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in. Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. CUeord o* Happening;* of Mneh or Little Importance from All Parte of the Civilized World—lncident.. Enterprises. Accidents, Verdicts. Crimes and Wars Two girls, aged 11 and 12, respectively, perform daring feat of swimming the Narrows, at New York. It is reported at San Francisco that E. H. Harriman will succeed C. M. Hays as president of the Southern Pacific and that E. St. John will be hla assistant. Four special policemen fight with 200 strikers and sympathizers in San Francisco. Seven men are shot, one of whom will die. Regular police arrest thirty of the mob, all of them heavily armed. Former Gov. W. S. Taylor of Kentucky is being closely guarded by Indiana friends, who hear of a plot to abduct him and take him back to Kentucky. Pastor at Kembell Springs, Ky., shot at while in the pulpit by man he had ordered to leave the church. Dr. Lorimer, famous Baptist preacher, resigned pastorate of Tremont Temple, Boston, but the congregation declined to accept it. Daniel and William Greenhill of Desota, Mo., accused of murdering their sister and her suitor. Eight men arrested at Canton during the McKinley funeral broke out of prison and escaped. Susie Heines, aged 10, swallowed part of toy balloon at Chicago. Her life saved by prompt tracheotomy operation. Dr. William C. Gray, editor of the Interior, died Sunday at his residence In Oak Park, 111. For thirty years editor of the Interior, through the columns of which he became one of the best known of the Presbyterians of the United States, Dr. Gray dated his connection with the newspaper world a score of years prior to his assuming the management of that periodical. Rev. John A. Peters, D. D., president of the Heidelberg university at Tiffin, 0., lies at the point of death at his home in that city. August Dekarske of Sheboygan, Wie., who stole $52 from a bride while a guest at her wedding, was sent to the state prison for two years. Enoch Edwards, a prominent farmer residing near Valparaiso, Ind., was kicked to death by a horse. He was 24 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. The Minnesota conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted 90 to IJL_|n favor of the new constitution allowing women representation in the conference. Homer Fite, living near the old Grant tannery at Georgetown, 0., beat and shot his wife. She will die. Afterward he committed suicide. The tragedy was the result of a domestic quarrel. William J. Yoder, the engineer in charge of the Baltimore & Ohio reconstruction between Garrett, Ind., and Chicago, 0., died at Tiffin of apoplexy. His body was found lying near the ■track west of town. Through Wabash train for St. Louis to Omaha wrecked near Council Bluffs. Nineteen passengers badly injured, (three of whom will probably die. ■ John Cabilla, editor of an anarchist paper at Spring Valley, 111., arrested charged with violating the postal laws. Managers of Pontiac, 111., Reformatory enjoined from removing physician of the institution. Miss Fraftcls West selected by Governor of lowa to christen the cruiser Des Moines. Governor Dole of Hawaii reported to have sent his resignation to the (President. Vice Admiral Murray, retired, of the British navy, killed by his horse falling on him. ' Four Mexican brigands killed in a Ifight at a hacienda in Pueblo, Mexico. I Despite the protest of his only living -Child, the casket of Abraham Lincoln Is opened by a small assemblege, head•led by Illinois state officers in their capacity as trustees, and then deposited In what is intended to be its final testing place in a bed of iron and masonry below the shaft of the national monument at Springfield. William B. Ridgely arrives in Washington to assume the office of comptroller of the currency next Tuesday. John George Nicolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, died in {Washington, aged 70. Pope Leo has slight Intestinal trouble which alarms his physician because <£>f the.pontiff’s advanced age. j Thirteen prospectors drowned in Presidio county, Texas, by a sudden flood in a ravine in which they were encamped. Formal opening of the school year at Yale and Wisconsin universities was marked by an increased attendance in all classes. Benny Yanger of Chicago defeats - George Qixon in a flfteen-round battle •t St Louis. Dixon Saved from knockDriver repulsed two highwaymen Jo° T up B etage near

COLUMBIA WINS THE RACE

Defender Leads at Line by a Few Seconds. THE CONTEST IS EXCITING. The Corrected Time Makes Victory by One Minute and Twenty Second* Breeze Holds True, bnt Average Is Barely Bight Knots. Here in a nutshell is the story of Saturday’s great race—a cup race which is without a parallel in the annals of American yachting: Start. Turn. Home.

WATCHING THE RACE FROM A STEAMER’S DECK.

Columbia ...11:00:16 1:26:53 3:31:25 Shamrock ..11:00:14 1:25:12 3:31:58 Elapsed Corrected time. time. Columbia 4:31:07 4:30:24 Shamrock 4:31:44 4:31:44 The Shamrock started two seconds

CAPTAIN BARR, of the Columbia.

ahead of tho Columbia. The Shamrock rounded the turn forty-one seconds ahead of the Columbia, having [gained thirty-nine seconds. The Shamrock took 2:24:58 to beat fifteen miles to windward, which was at the ■rate (allowing that twenty miles was the actual distance covered) of about 7:25 per mile, or about eight knots per Pour. In the run home the Columbia Icovered the course of fifteen miles in 2:05:30. This was at the rate of 7.17 knots per hour. The Columbia crossed

CAPTAIN SYCAMORE, (of the Shamrock.)

the home line thirty-five seconds ahead (of the Shamrock. Boat for boat, the Columbia won by thirty-sevln seconds. (The time allowance by the official taible was forty-three seconds. By corrected time the Columbia won iby one minute and twenty seconds. Because during eighteen miles of tho windward work and about fourteen of the run home neither of the yachts gained a perceptible second on the other the day’s race between the Shamrock and Columbia was so remarkable that words fall adequately to discuss it

Burglar DieS of Hounds.

John Graham, one of the three burglars who dynamited the postofflee safe at Armada, Mich., and the only .one who was wounded in the running jflght that ensued between citizens and :the thieves, LA dead. The other two (have not yet been captured. Graham gave his residence as 112 Root street, Cleveland, O.

Name Corps for President.

At Washington, D. C., the organization of the troops of cavalry in connection with the district national guard, to be known as “The President’s Own,” is being discussed. The Idea has developed, It Is stated, through the plan proposed shortly after the election of Mr. Roosevelt as Vice President, to organize a company of infantry to be called “The Roosevelt Rifles.” Since Mr. Roosevelt has become president the scheme has taken a wider range, and a cavalry arm of the district guard is proposed.

SEVEN KILLED IN EXPLOSION.

Workmen Engaged In denning Big OU Tank Blown to Fleee*. Six men and possibly seven were killed and sev in injured by the explosion of an oil tank of the Essex and Hudson Gas Company at Newark, N. J. The tank was one of a number of Immense steel reservoirs which were un dergoing their periodical cleaning. It having been emptied of its oil in tho morning. The tank was twenty fee: deep and two men entered through the manhole first without taking the precaution of having ropes tied about them. They were Immediately over come by the fumes. Foreman Newlnan saw this and started down after them, after shouting a warning to the other men in the yard. He, too, col-

lapsed in the tank. Nicholas Miller, a grocer near by, had once been foreman of the works. Summoning others, the men began with chisels to cut a large- ring in the tank. It is supposed that a spark from the chisels caused the explosion that followed. Ten men were on the top of the tank at the time. They were swept away in all directions. The tank was split in two, and after all was over the bodies of the three men in it were taken out.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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ASSASSIN IS AT AUBURN.

He Is Taken Under Heavy Guard te Prison. At 3 o’clock Friday morning the doors of the state prison swung open to receive Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin who killed President McKinley. He Is now In a cell from which he will emerge only to die. With the cries of a mob of morbid loungers, who came to the depot, ringing In his ears, Czolgosz was rushed from the train to the prison, the door clanged and the world was lost to him forever. Over the door of the prison was a portrait of McKinley heavily draped In black. Signs of mourning marked the building, grim reminders of the fact that it was in reality the “house of death”— for Leon Czolgosz. As the heavy doors of the prison swung shut, Czolgosz sank limp and gave a faint moan of despair. He had utterly collapsed.

Would Rename the Islands.

A proposition to change the name of the Philippine islands to the McKinley islands and thus perpetuate the memory of the murdered president is being formulated at Washington. If the proposition meets with popular favor, and if the public men of both parties take hold of the matter, the next congress will be asked to make the change and inform the world that after the passage of the resolution the maps of the earth must be changed and the words “McKinley archipelago” inserted where the “Philippine archipelago” label has stood for 400 years.

Boat Capsizes; Three Drowned.

A small sailboat containing seven people capsized on West Lake, eight miles from Kalamazoo, late Sunday afternoon, and Mrs. Peter Kromdyke, Mr. P. Van Halst and Miss Edith Waud were drowned. The body of Mrs. Kromdyke, whose clothing caught on the boat, was recovered. The others are still in the lake.

Tuts Oil in Kitchen Fire.

As a result of an attempt to use oil to hurry along her kitchen fire at Braddock, Pa., Mrs. Barbara Sturgent la dead, her husband, Andrew, and their son George dying. Two other children of the family, Barbara and Andrew, are badly burned. The family occupied two rooms of a tenementhouse. Mrs. Sturgent while getting the breakfast started to pour oil on tk® Mndllng wood In the stove and an explosion followed. The room was filled with clothing hung on a line to «r.

AT BATTLE SANŢIAGE

McCalla Concludes His Testimony at the Inquiry. TELLS OF OFFICERS’ PUNS. Commander Southerland of the Bagla Testifies That Schley Gave Him Orders When Near Santiago to Oo to Fort Antonio for Coal. Captain McCalla, who had commanded the Marblehead during the Spanish war, In his testimony before the Schley board of inquiry in Washington said that he had been present during a conference of commanding officers on the Brooklyn while the fleet was off Santiago on May 29. Describing what took place, he said: “The commanding officers were ordered on board the Brooklyn on May 29. It was with regard to the work of blockade. I can only remember one specific thing which took place at the close, and that was that Captain Evans asked Commodore Schley If the Spanish ships (came out If he was going in for them. He said, ‘Certainly,’ and then arranged for a subdivision of fire from the ships under his command on the Spanish ships should they come out." Mr. Hanna—Prior to that conference on May 29 had you at any time received definite instructions respecting tho order of battle or the mode of procedure which the fleet should follow in case the Spanish vessels should appear?” "I do not remember.” “Did you have any further conversation with Commodore Schley?” "I had a conversation with him In his cabin after the battle of Santiago, about July 5, In Guantanamo bay. I went on board, making an official call to pay my respects, and during the visit Commodore Schley read me what I understood to be a part of his official report of the battle. After he had finished I said: ‘Commodore, you remember that after the battle of Lake Erie there was an unfortunate controversy and I hope that there will he none after the battle of Santiago, because there was glory enough for everybody.’ ” Captain McCalla said that when the flying squadron encountered the scoutships to the BOuth of Santiago on May 26 they were east of a direct line south. “If they had continued as they were then going could they have arrived at Santiago?” he was asked, and replied: “Certainly not.” “Where would they have arrived?” "If they continued as they were going they would have struck the coast of Hayti.” On cross-examination by Mr. Raynor the witness said he had failed to execute an order from Admiral Remey delivered while he was in command off Clenfuegos and directing that all except the smallest vessels be withdrawn. He had, he said, failed to leave the small vessels there. “Did you do that on your own responsibility?” "On my own responsibility.” Referring to the fact that he had Informed Captain Chadwick, Admiral Sampson’s chief of staff, of the code of signals arranged for communication with the insurgent Cubans, he said that he did not In any way communicate with the commander in chief. Mr. Raynor then asked: “According to : the regular custom and regulations observed in cases of that sort, was It not your purpose that this communication Bhould go to the commander la chief through his chief of staff?” "Certainly,” was the reply, i Lieutenant Commander W. H. H. (Southerland, who commanded the concerted yacht Eagle during the Spanish war, followed Captain McCalla on the (witness stand. He said he had first fallen in with the flying squadron on (May 19, when the squadron was steaming toward Clenfuegos and Captain McCalla’s sub-squadron was on Its (way from Clenfuegos to Key West He (had then, under Captain McCalla’s orders, undertaken to communicate to Commodore Schley his information concerning the situation at Clenfuegos, ,and had given this information to the ■Scorpion for the commodore, his message being as follows: “We left Clenfuegos on the night of the 16th, at which time, as we learned from Insurgents, the only vessels inside the harbor were two gunboats and several cannonieros.” Describing the cruise from Cienfuegos to Santiago, Commander Southerland said that from midnight of May 24 to the afternoon of the 25th the Eagle had made very bad weather. This was due to the fact that the sea had a “long roll” which was very tcylng to the yacht, as the vessel was ■then one-third full of water. Describing the c-. cAg ,u i CEat “A little after 1 o’clock of the 26th, when about twenty-five miles from :Santtago,” he said, “I was called alongside the flagship and the commodore directed me to go to Port Antonio for coal and to report rough weather south of Cuba. My answer substantially was that I already had three days’ coal, as much as the Marblehead,

Ghouls Visit McKinley’s Tomb.

The military guard at the McKinley vault In Canton, 0., was attacked by midnight prowlers carrying packages .supposed to have contained explosives, ;the intention being to destroy the .vault. A soldier named De Prend was stabbed while pursuing the marauders.

Battle Reported In Syria.

A dispatch to Paris from Constantinople reports that a sanguinary conflict has taken place between Musselmane and Christians at Beirut, Syria. No details are given.

meaning as much In proportion. The commodore told me that I had not coal enough (or Ms purpose and directed me to carry out his orders. I then asked him again very earnestly to let the Eagle remain with the fleet and coal from the collier. He very courteously replied to me that he either very much regretted or else was very sorry he could not let me do so, the ESagle had not coal enough for his purpose, and again directed me to proceed, which I did after communicating with the division commander.”

ANGLO-TURKISH CRISIS.

Troops Under General Edhem Pasha Are Missing at Basra. A dispatch to the London Times from Bombay gives the following additional details regarding an alleged Anglo-Turkish crisis in southern Asia. According to these latest dispatches the Turks again attempted to land troops at Koweit. The British cruiser Perseus, noticing the movements of a Turkish vessel, steamed up and demanded the object of the visit The reply was that the vessel had been instructed to land 500 men. The commander of the Perseus advised the Turkish commander to return to Busra. The Turkish vessel instead of doing this, entered the haroor and prepared to land the troops. The Perseus cleared decks for action and played her searchlight on the Turk all night In the morning the Turkish commander visited the Perseus and intimated his intention of returning to Fao and telegraphing to Constantinople for instructions. The vessel went to Fao and is still there. Meantime Turkish troops are massing at Busra and are reported to be under command of Edhem Pasha. • The Sheikh Mabourkh reports that the vali of Busra has asked him to discourage the calls of British warships and mail steamers. He has refused to do so. A British protectorate has not yet been established. A British naval force is concentrating in the Persian gulf. Three warships are already on the spot and they will be augmented by the gunboat Assaye, which has already left Kurrachee, and the flagship, the secondclass cruiser Highflyer. The thirdclass cruiser Pomone will also sail for the Persian gulf so soon as she has coaled at Bombay. It is believed that fresh trouble is Impending at Koweyt. According to a report, Turkey has 30,000 troops at Basra (on the Shat-El-Arab, seventy miles from its mouth in the Persian gulf), commanded by Edhem Pasha, with the object of seizing Koweyt though the Turks assert that the troops are intended to traverse Arabia with the object of suppressing disaffection in Yemen.

LIABLE FOR DELAYING DEAD.

Illinois Appellate Court Holds Hallway Is Responsible. The appellate court of Illinois has decided that a corpse can be injured sufficiently to warrant the collection of damages. The decision was secured on an appealed case from McLean county. Fred Beam of Springfield, a soldier in the Spanish-American war, died in the hospital at Chickamauga and while the corpse was being transferred some delay ensued. It was impossible to forward the body on the regular train, for which transportation had been paid. Instead the road ran a special train and asked more money. This extra price was not paid, and in addition the family sued for 950 damages. The appellate court holds that the railroad had no right to charge more than the regular rates for transporting the body on the scheduled train in that the delay was through no fault of the shipper. The claim of damages by reason of injury to the appearance of the remains is held to be valid and reasonable.

MAY BAR ANARCHY’S SHEETS.

Postmaster General Contemplate* Ds< nylng Them Right to Wails. At Washington, D. C., Postmaster General Smith is seriously considering the denial of postal privileges to newspapers and other publications of anarchistic tendencies. While there is nothing specific in the regulations of the department that confers upon him this authority, it is argued by officials that he has as much right to proceed against such publications as he had to withdraw second class mail privileges from periodicals with premium offers. It is further contended that there is no reason why anarchists should receive the protection of the very government which they are endeavoring to destroy, and that if orders are issued against fraudulent concerns they could also be issued against persons who are known to be anarchists and those who publish anarchistic newspapers.

President Mc’Kinley’s Will.

President McKinley’s will was filed for probate by Judge Day and Secretary Cortelyou at Canton. Mrs. McKinley is given a life Interest in real estate and personality. Miss Helen McKinley, his 6ister, receives an annuity of SI,OOO. The estate worth $225,000 to $250,000, including $67,000 life insurance.

Insurgents Kill Forty-Eight Americans.

Forty-eight soldiers belonging to the Ninth Regiment of the United States Infantry were killed and eleven were wounded during a sudden attack by Filipino insurgents while at breakfast Friday morning at Bassay, Southern Samar.

Empress of Germany Is Iii.

At Berlin the Empress Augusta Victoria, whose return from Rominton was earlier than she had Intended, is ill and confined to her bed. Professor Olshausen has been consulted.

KIRKLAND B. ARMOUR DEAD

He Passes Away After a Long Illness. ONLY 47 YEARS OF AGE. In Spite of Hie Busy Career He Was a Soelal Leader In Kansas City and a Churchgoer—Long In Packing BastKirkland B. Armour, one of the most conspicuous figures in the western commercial world, died at his home in Kansas City at 5:66 o’clock Friday evening after an illness of about two years. He had been a sufferer from Bright’s disease, though the immediate cause of his death is given as acute inflammation of the kidneys. He was only 47 years old. At his bedside, when the summons came, were his wife and son, Watson; his brother, Charles W. Armour, who now becomes the head of the Armour family here; his mother, Mrs. A. W. Armour, and a few close friends. Mr. Armour’s fortune was placed at about 95,000,000. K. B. Armour was born at Stockbridge, Madison county, N. Y. During that period of his life when young men generally attend college, Mr. Armour was walking about In top boots in the Blush and blood and grime of the packing house in Kansas City, learning the business. What schooling he had outside of the district school was at the Oneida seminary. He left school when he was 18 years old and went to Kansas City. That was in 1872.

Studied Business Thoroughly. The Armour packing company had been established two years at that time, and the young man stepped in to fit himself for the management of the business, which fell upon his shoulders when he was still a young man. He went through all the departments; he handled the shipping, the purchase, and the killing and the packing of the stock. He went right through the mill, in fact, and when he stepped out he was a better graduate of this school than is many a man of his alma mater. Then he went into the active management of the business in which he was until his death, or history before. His first official position in the Armour company was that of vice president and general manager of the Kansas City plant. From that he stepped Into the presidency when his uncle, S. B. Armour, died in 1898. But even with the added duties he still retained the general managership. He was at his office every day, and he had a grasp of the details of the business that was wonderful. He was a quiet man, and he never made a fuss about anything he did. While- he worked all the time, he was a leader socially, and was well known as a church goer. He Bred Fancy Stock. Mr. Armour was a devotee of fancy stock breeding, and his herd of Herefords is recognized as the finest in the .West His farm south was owned by C. C. Armour and himself. He did more for this breed of cattle than any one else, and it was his great pride. Armour Rose, the heifer which virtually built Convention Hall, was his gift, which he redeemed from the woman who drew her for 91,000 in gold. He afterward got 92,500, for she was probably the most advertised Hereford that ever lived. Armour Sunflower he recently gave to the hall for the same purpose. He was a very public-spirited man, and what he did he did quietly, but it was lavish and large. In the National Association of Hereford Breeders, Mr. Armour was looked up to aB a leader. He was twice elected president despite the rule that a man can serve only one term. He was a director in the Stock Yards company, the New England National Bank, the Armour Packing Company, and the Interstate National Bank at the stock yards. About two years ago he became ill and then he left the management of details at the packinghouse largely to others, but he watched its general trend, and kept it well in

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR ON WHICH CZOLGOSZ HAS BEEN CONDEMNED TO DIE.

Miss Morton to Wed Title.

Miss Helen Morton, daughter of Levi P. Morton, former vice president of the United States, and Count de Peigord, son of the duke of Talleyrand-et-Sagan, will occur October 6th at St. Mary’s Catholic church, Chelsea. The ceremony will be followed by a wedding breakfast at the residence of the bride’s Bister-in-law, Mrs. W. C. EustiS. The bridesmaids will be Alice and Mary Morton and the best man is to be Count Marius De Galllfet.

hand, almost to his death. He had • magnificent home on Armour boulevard. His wife and three children survive Mm. His wife was Miss Annie Hearne of Wheeling, and they were married in April, 1881. Three weeks ago Mr. Armour was sent home on a special train from New York state, where he had been seeking health, to die.

Henlen H. Stone Heard From.

The Rev. Mr. Haskell, a missionary at Sammkov, Bulgaria, has received a letter from Miss Helen H. Stone, the American missionary who was curried off by brigands Sept 6, in the district of Djumabala. It does not reveal the whereabouts of Miss Stone, but says she is in good health and has been well treated by the brigands, especially in the earlier stages of the abduction. Latterly, in consequence of the vigorous pursuit of Turkish troops, she has been subjected to privations. Miss Stone adds that the brigands demand a ransom of 25,000 Turkish pounds. The opinion is expressed in Constantinople that the Bulgaro-Ma-cedonian committee was actively concerned in the abduction of the missionary.

Shot and Killed on Train.

Edwin De Priest of Eminence, Shannon county, was shot and instantly killed on an excursion train just as the latter was entering Mountain Grove, Mo., bound for Springfield. The shooting was done by E. A. Woody, an employe of the Cordz-Fisher Lumber company of Birch Tree. De Priest accosted. Woody, it is said, calling him vile names, and made a threatening gesture, whereupon Woody shot him through the brain. De Priest was pardoned from the penitentiary by GovStephens a few days before Dockery’s inauguration. He had served three years’ time for the murder of Tom Woody, brother to the man who killed him. .-is ....

Passenger Drowns Himself,

An unknown man, a passenger on the steamer City of Milwaukee, committed suicide by jumping overboard when the steamer was in sight of St' Joseph, Mich. The man was shabbily, dressed and he had bought transportation for Detroit in Chicago. He is said to have intimated that he would not live to see St. Joseph. The steamer was stopped and boats lowered, but the suicide did not come to the surface. The life savers noticed the stopping of the steamer, and thinking something was wrong' with the boat, the tug Andy was sent out to meet her.

Aeronaut Hague Drowns.

Frank Hague, an aeronaut, better known as ‘‘Zeno,’’ was drowned in the city water-works reservoir at Lima, O. Hague was in a parachute and balloon race with C. M. Hawley at the county fair grounds and was about 1,200 feet in the air when the drop was made. Hawley landed in a private yard near the reservoir, while Hague landed in the middle of the big reservoir and was drowned. He became entangled in the ropes of the parachute.

Unable to Fence Claim.

’ J. R. Wood, the man who drew claim. No. 1, adjoining the city of Lawton, Ok., is now attempting to fence his farm, on which are located 500 squatters. The squatters refuse to move. To fence the north side, one mile long, Wood must go through an almost solid row of tents, stores, and shacks. He will appeal to the United States to remove the intruders.

Kills His Wife’s Admirer.

Jealous because of attentions paid to his -wife, Charles Hudspeth of Mason City, 111., enticed Charles Curry to the Hudsjjeth apartments in Kansas City by means of a letter, which; he'torced his wife to write, and then shot him down. Curry, whose home is -la Lexington, Mo., was unconscious when the police arrived, and died later. Hudspeth is 30 years old and says he and his wife have been married five years and that they hare one child.