Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Page 7

PEOPLE AND EVENTS

DEATH OF VON HATZFELDT. Count von Hatzfelt, former German ambassador to Great Britain, who died in London November 22, resigned his post with the permission of the emperor a short tiihe ago, because of ill health. Death occurred at the German embassy. He had been ailing for years from heart trouble...an<L internal complications. When it was seen that he was sinking the last sacrament was administered. He remained fully conscious to the last. Count Paul von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg was born on October 8, 1831, and waß specially educa-

COUNT VON HATZFELDT.

ted for the diplomatic service at the ter in order, that their daughter might universities of Berlin and Bonne.. He was secretary of legation at Paris under Bismarck in 1862, and in 1874 was appointed German minister to Spain. He was subsequently promoted to the post of ambassador to Turkey, and was recalled from Constantinople in 1883 to serve as secretary of state for foreign affairs. In 1885 he succeeded Count Munster as Ambassador to the court of St. James. Count von Hatz-feldt-Wildenburg married the daughter of Charles Frederick Moulton of New York. He was divorced from her in 1886 at the instigation, it is said, of Bismarck, who objected to her because her mother had been an actress, and who refused to recommend Count Hatzfeldt to the post of foreign secretary unless he secured a divorce. The separation was only nominal, however, and they were remarried two years laniarry Prince Maximilian of Hohenlohe.

BRYAN TALKS OF BRAZILIANS.

Col. Charles Page Bryan, minister to Brazil, delivered an address at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago recently on “American Diplomacy in South America.” He asserted that Brazil was more in sympathy with the United States than with any foreign power. Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, president of the institute, announced that addresses would be delivered later by the following: President Schurman of Cornell, President Eliot of Harvard, President Draper of the University of Illinois, Senator C. W. Fairbanks of Indiana and Senator Spooner of Wisconsin.

MAKES HORSES APPEAR SPIRITED.

Bit burrs for making horses hold their heads high in the air are said to be in common use in New York. Eight pairs of the burrs were removed from

the mouths of horses attac he d to private carriage s in front of the Madison Square Garden in New York on T hursday night. The owners of the carriages

desired to have their horses make a good appearance at the horse show, and hit upon that means of making an ordinary animal appear frisky. 'fhe bit burr is a contrivance made of heavy leather, three inches in diameter. In the center is a hole large enough to admit the bit. On the. inner side of the burr are bunches of bristles, which protrude a quarter of an inch! The burr is slipped on the bit and the bristles rub against the side of the horse’s mouth when the line is pulled taut. The burr is used legitimately for correcting a "one-line puller,’’ as a horse which pulls to one side is called. Bristles is the usual material used for studding the burr, although, it is charged that some horse owners use tacks, with the sharp point filed ofT. Both kinds of the burr are sa-d to have been removed from the New York horses.

Where Marriage Is Epidemic.

Servia is in trouble now with an epidemic of marriages. The cause is the system of marriage banks founded as an encouragement to thrift, but which have proved to have quite an opposite effect. The young men and maidens of Servia begin paying into these institutions at an early age on the promise of a premium on marriage. Immediately a small sum has been accumulated the desire for marriage grows overwhelming, with the result that the first offer is snapped up. In consequence prematurely early and unhappy marriages are general. The matter has now reached the government, and the advisability of abolishing these banks, which are held to be the root of the evil. Is being debated.

M’GOVERN LOSES THE FIGHT.

“Tout* Corb.ti D.IMU Champloa •(' Mt« FMtbtr WrifkU. Hartford, Conn., dispatch: Honors were won and lost with great rapidity when Terrence McGovern passed the feather-weight championship of the world to William Rothwell of Denver, who is better known as “Young” Cqrbett. The battle lasted a short two rounds, but into the four minutes and forty-four seconds that the men actually faced each other there was crowded more fighting than is often seen in a contest that goes the full limit of twenty rounds. From the moment the gong sounded calling the two pugilists together for the first time until the final blow was struck, with the exception of one minute for rest, it was give and take. F i rom one side of the ring to the other the maddened fighters forced each other. A clinch on the ropes would be followed by a sharp exchange of blows in the center of the arena. Again two lithe forms would flit in and out, gloved fists moving with a rapidity that it was difficult for eye to follow.

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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Killed by a Highbinder.

As a result of Highbinder outrages three Chinese were killed and one wounded in San Francisco Thursday night. Quon Luey and an unknown man were asleep in a lodging-house on Stockton street about 5 o'clock when some unknown Chinese entered and fired five shots into their bodies, instantly killing the latter. Quon Luey aied soon after his removal to the hospital. At almost the same time four Chinese got into a quarrel at a gambling house on Waverly place and Jung Ming fired one shot into the neck of Jew Doo. He then turned his pistol on Loo Fook and fired four times, every shot hitting its mark. He was removed to the receiving hospital and died there. Doo’s wound is not fatal. The assailant escaped.

Liberals Give Up Colon.

General Alban, commander of the government forces, entered the city of Colon Friday afternoon with 360 men. Captain Perry of the United States warship lowa handed the town over to him as the representative of the Colombian government in accordance with the agreement made on board the American gunboat Marietta. Before this the Liberal force surrendered to Captain Perry. Senor de la Rosa, the Liberal chief, subsequently surrendered his sword to General Alban. The American marines, who were occupying the then withdrawn, with the exception of a detachment, which remains to guard the property of the Panama Railroad company. The lowa’s men have returned to Panama.

Name of Damn Is Fatal.

Because she was obliged to go through life weighted with an undesirable name Martha A. Damn of East Bane, near Rochester, N. Y., committed suicide. She drowned herself in the cistern at her home. Ever since her marriage her children had been subjected to ridicule. Mrs. Damn was of a sensitive nature. Day after day her children came home from school in tears as the result of teasing by thoughtless companions. Friday Mrs. Damn said she would stand it no'longer and she disappeared. A search Sunday revealed her lifeless body.

Five Are Victims of Fire.

Shortly after 2 o’clock a. m. five persons, a mother and her four children, were burned to death at Gwyn station, on the Wopsononock railroad, three miles north of Altoona, Pa. The hus band, Carl W. Burk, escaped with severe injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Mary C. Burk, 42 years old; Adam G. Burk, 16 years old; Mary E. Burk, 12 years old; Joanna Burk, 11 years old; Joseph Victor Burk, 8 years old.

Crowded Train Is Wrecked.

Syracuse, N,-Y., dispatch: A special train north bound on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, carrying 300 Syracuse Knights of Columbus, ran into a freight train on a siding at Tully at 1:16 o’clock a. m, wrecking both trains. A wrecking train has Just been sent to Tully, and railway ofllcials say the accident is not serious. A special dispatch from Tully says several were injured.

Woman Looted Peking Shops.

London dispatch: The Pans correspondent of the Times gives what he declares is the reason for the disinclination of the French government to make public the reports of Gen. Voyron, who commanded the French expeditionary force in China. The correspondent asserts that, after the legations were relieved, European women went through the best shops in Peking, pillaging loads of the most precious articles. Silks, laces, Jewelry, gold and silver objects, and ivories wore among the valuables taken.

JOVRNEYS WITH MOTHER’S ASHES

Miss Blanche Walsh, the accomplished actress, who has passed through the singular experience of losing the ashes of her mother and then regaining the beloved treasure after having given up all hope of its recovery, has, as may be Imagined, many of the eccentricities of genius. Among them is the odd conceit of carrying with her, the remains of her maternal ancestor, preserved in a neat little bag. It was at a way station between

KIDNAP THEIR WIVES.

Time has wrought but few changes in the manners and customs of the people of the Caucasus, and modern ways are making but slow progress. One of the relics of the good old times to which the Caucasians especially cling is the custom of kidnaping the women whom they desire to make their wives. Recently a case of this kind resulted in a tragic end. A prominent inhabitant of the little Caucasian town of Katuhagan, named Ismail Ogll Okj tried to kidnap the sister of his best friend’s wife while his friend was absent from home. The girl resisted his attempt to carry her off, aided by her married sister. The baflled lover drew his sword and inflicted dangerous wounds on both the ladies. At this moment his friend returned and, enraged at finding what had occurred, killed Ismail on the spot. Then he cut off Ismail’s head and carried it round to show the neighbors what a fearful revenge he had taken. In the same district a young nobleman desired to marry the daughter of a neighboring land owner, and invited the girl with her parents to a grand ball given at his castle. During tho evening he found an opportunity of decoying the girl into a secluded part of the, house, where she was seized by his men and placed in a carriage. The prince joined her and in spite of the girl’s entreaties started out to drive to a place where they could be married without much delay. The girl’s father, on finding that his host had disappeared with his daughter, gave

MAY RIVAL PADEREWSKI

MISS BLANCHE WALSH.

Des Moines and Burlington that she missed the treasured receptacle. She had lunched in a station restaurant and had forgotten the little bag, which she had placed beside her plate at table. On discovery of her loss the train was stopped and her maid was sent back for the bag. Before the curtain was rung up at Burlington the tragedienne was once more in possession of her mother’s remains, and hence quite able to appear.

chase and, being on horseback, overtook the carriage. He shot the nobleman without ado and took his daughter home. The nobleman, however, had won her heart during the drive and the girl was now reluctant to marry the man of whom her father approved, but the stern parent insisted on the wedding taking place at once. The bride appeared in the church pale, but cool and collected. During the ceremony she drew a dagger and stabbed the bridegroom to the heart. Afterward she committed suicide.—Chicago Chronicle.

The old town of Stratford-on-Avon, says the London Mail, does not forget its boast that it has the only statute fair which carries on Its rites exactly as they have been observed through many centuries. Therefore, it takes care each year that the Mop Fair shall lose none of its wonted traditions. Five oxen and twelve pig were slaughtered for this year’s “mop.” Each one was roasted in the street before a huge fire burning in a temporary brick oven. Each one as it was cooked was cut up into slices and sold for 6d., and Bd. a plate. The slices were sold as quickly as cut, and all save the carcass was demolished before 2 o’clock on Saturday had struck. A pig was roasted outside the house of William Shakespeare, but otherwise his street was almost deserted. It is too far from the center of the fair. Special trains from all parts of the country poured in hun-

JOSEF HOFMANN.

STRATFORD’S MOP FAIR.

dreds of visitors into the quiet old market town, and hundreds . more drove In In market carts, wagons, costermongers' carts and even In victorias and landaus. Up to a few years ago men stood In rows in the street waiting to be hired. Laborers with whipcord in their buttonholes waited for hours till they found an employer. Now few come for the purpose. The days of the “hiring” are over.

PROHIBITION WINS IN CANADA.

The legal fight which liquor men have fought for tho past three years against Manitoba's prohibition laws has ended in a victory for prohibition. Three years ago the Manitoba legislature passed a prohibitory law which forbade the sale or gift of liquor from one party to another. The liquor men held that this was ultra vires, as such laws should only be passed by the dominion parliament. Pending the legal fight all temperance legislation has been at a standstill. The dominant party in every province and territory except Quebec and British Columbia is pledged to prohibition if the Manitoba acts were sustained. The other day the unanimous decision of the privy council as cabled from London is that a province has absolute control in prohibiting the use of intoxicating liquors.

CEASES TO BIND HER FEET.

Much interest has been caused by the statement of Miss Wu Chon Ching, the adopted daughter of Minister Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese minister to America, who is now In Washington, that she intends to cease binding her feet into “golden lilies” as is the custom and that when she takes her place again at the head of society in Pekin she will do all that may be done to cause her slaters to do the same. The

MISS WU CHON CHING.

(Adopted daughter of Minister Wu Ting-fang, Who is Adopting Reform Ideas.) reform ideas are rapidly spreading in China, but there is still a strong feeling against their entire adoption.

Josef Hofmann, the young pianist who has lately been attracting unusual attention from the musical critles is now in his early twenties and at the critical point in his career. Thirteen years ago, Josef, then a little boy of wonderfully sweet disposition, who r t DOt ! P ? k a Word of English, set the music loving public of America on fire with his marvelous genius for playing on the pianoforte. He was a prodigy with the promise of becoming f. R “J )e “ Bteln - and his tour through the United States was something of a succession of triumphs. Emotional men and women who heard him perform wept with the Joy of it, and great things were predicted for his future. Mr. Hofmann since that time has learned many things beside music He now speaks fluently in half a dozen languages, among them English French, German and Polish. He has developed a rich, deep voice, with a touch of the bass in it. His hobby is mechanical Invention, and not unnaturally his favorite novelist is Jules Verne. President Thwing of Western Reserve University recently asked Professor Goldwln Smith to fill a lectureship in American history In Western Reserve University this year. Professor Smith, in a brief note, replied: “My lecturing days are over.” Minister Conger will soon he the only foreign minister in Pekin who passed through the siege, and will then become the doyen of the diplomatic corps. All the other ministers have been relieved or expect to leave Pekin.

Indiana State News

Many of the 200 miners who marched from Montgomery and Cannelborg Saturday to Kaglesville aud closed 'down three coal mines because the employes were non-union men have camped at the scene and will remain until the trouble is settled. A number Of the miners agreed to join the union this morning and demand the scale wages, but the marchers say the mines will remain closed until all have joined. The operators are preparing to resume operations. They have not asked aid of the sheriff. Trouble is expected. Fire Sunday night in the Masonic building at Evansville gutted the plant of the Crescent Printing and Engraving company. The loss is $50,000, insurance $20,000. The fire is believed to have been started by a discharged employe. Mrs. Polly Caubles celebrated her one hundredth anniversary at Richmond Sunday. An impenetrable mystery still shrouds the finding of Mrs. John Mulllnix’ body in an abandoned cistern at the home of her father, John Sharp, at Ashervllle Saturday. Coroner Mushon held an inquest and several witnesses wore examined, but not one has been ablo to throw any light on the case. The coroner says there was no water in the lungs, which convinces him that death was not causod by drowning. No clew to any crime has yet been developed and the parents of Mrs. Mulllnix are confident she Jumped into the cistern. They say Hhe had been brooding over her husband's death, which occurred a year ago, and at times was morose and acted queerly. The Snarps are among the most prominent families of the county and hundreds of people attended tho funeral of Mrs. Mulliutx Sunday and viewed the remains. She left no statement as to her intention if she did commit suicide.

Earl McClain of Peru, a brakeman on the Peru and Montpelier accommodation train of the Wabash railway, saved the lives of twelve people and prevented a bad wreck Saturday evening. Just after his tratfc had left Chill, a little station near Peru, McClain heard a fast freight which does not stop at Chill thundering around the curve behind him. He stood on the rear platform of the last coach and waved the freight train down with a lantern, the engineer of the freight managing so to check the speed of his train that although the passenger coach was stood on end when the engine and coach came together, and the twelve passengers got a bad scare and a severe shaking up, all escaped injury. McClain jumped to save himself, a few scratches from a cinder pile into which he fell being the extent of his injuries. Ihe Indiana, Illinois and lowa railroad has Issued a defiant challenge to the city of South Bend and despite the fact that the common council and the board of public works have refused to grant a right of way through the city over tho route selected by that railroad for its eastern extension to Detroit, Mich., via Toledo, the railroad people put a big force of .men at work Friday morning on the proposed line. The city refused the right of way because the route passed too near the heart of the city and residents made strenuous objection. The contention of the company is that it is not absolutely necessary for them to secure the sanction of the city authorities to thefr proposed route, but that such course has been pursued to avoid any legal squabbles and consequent delays. The city will uphold its end of the fight. The railroad people have another factor to consider. A few years ago the Indiana, Illinois and lowa cut off the Vandalla from use of the old northern extension which the new tracks must cross. The Vandalia has brought out engines and freight cars and has blocked attempted progress. The varsity broke the training tables at Notre Dame. Salmon, Notre Dame’s star full back, was elected captain to succeed Fortin. This is Salmon’s second year on the team. He is the best line-bucking full back Notre Dame has ever had and by western football critics is compared favorably with any full back in the country. Next week Frank Morrissey will give a banquet at the Oliver hotel, South Bend, to the football team.

Virgil Weber of Evansville, 24 years old, is a prisoner in the guardhouse at Fort Sheridan, 111., and is said to be dying from grief because he cannot seie his mother, who has been sick for some time. Weber deserted last March and went to Evansville to see his mother. An officer from Fort Sheridan arrested him and took him back. He was sentenced to the guardhouse and, it is said, has beep confined there ever since. The old mother has worried herself gray over her son, and it is feared she cannot survive many days. A letter to her from Chicago states her boy was fast turning gray. Lou—“l declare, since I came back I’m quite another woman.’’ Biddy “Oh, won’t your husband be pleased.” Austin A. Durand, a veteran of the civil war. died at Kendallville of apoplexy, aged sixty-seven. As a result of a mass meeting at North Vernon, a jojnt stock company, with SIO,OOO capital, was organized for the manufacture of lamp chimneys. J. W. Linkart was elected president and T. W. Russell secretary.

An engine on the Illinois Central railroad at Evansville struck a wagon containing Thomas Nichols and Charles Rich. Nichols was killed and Rich will probably dl« from '’his injuries.

Elwood has cabled acceptance of $25,000 offered by Andrew Carnegie, with condition, made, it is said, in deference to labor unions, that building shall not bear Mr. Carnegie's name. Son of Attorney j. E. Henley of Chicago quits college, elopes with young Indianapolis girl, marries, deserts young bride and again disappears. Rudolph Fischer, a prominent tobacco merchant of Lafayette committed suicide by taking laudanum. The act is attributed to domestic trouble. The suicide occurred at the home of John B. Wagner, where Fischer went to see his wife, who left him recently owing to ills unbearable temper, and was given shelter at the Wagner home. Mrs. Fischer, it is said, is the daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, who disinherited her at the time of the marriage. William Norris, the character actor, this season a leading member of Otis Skinner's company in his big production of "Francesca Da Rimini,” returned to the cast at Imllanapolid. Mr. Norris was taken very ill two weeks ago In Ixmisvllle and underwent treatment at a hospital in that city. The appointment of u receiver for the Chicago and Southeastern railway company was affirmed by tho Supreme Court at Indianapolis. The application was resisted on the ground that several of tho claims held by the plaintiffs were Invalid.

John N. Redmond, Patrick A. McHugh and Thomas O’Donnell, Irish envoys to America, who spoke at Indianapolis, were entertulned later by local Irishmen. They enjoyed a carriage ride about the city. They left Indianapolis for Pittsburg. As a result of a practical joke, Mrs. Moses Llnson, aged 35, Is now lying in Buch u critical condition at Columbus that there is no hope of her recovery. She and her husband, the Rev. Moses Llnson, were out driving when the horse became unmanageable and threw the occupantß of the buggy over a steep embankment. Mr, Llnson was uninjured. It developed that mischievous boys had put burrß beneath the harness on the horso, causing it to run away.

William Heck, a coal miner, went to the house of Bird at Terre Haute and while sitting in a chair was struck from behind and injured so badly that he died. At first it was said that Jameß Bird, a 22-year-old son who is thought to be demented, had struck the blow, but Levi Bird and the mother, a Bister and Mrs. Hansen, a stepsister, who were present, have been arrested. The son escaped. The story the coroner is investigating is that Heck was lured into the house to be assassinated because he was a “blackley” miner. Northwestern defeated Purdue university on Stuart field at Lafayette Thanksgiving day in a close and exciting contest by a score of 10 to 5. Purdue scored its first touchdown after eighteen minutes’ play by working the visiting eleven down the field by steady line plunges and around the end plays until Davidson was sent over Northwestern's goal line. Miller failed in tlie effort for a punt out for a goal kick. Purdue should have scored another touchdown near the close of the half, but lost the ball on Northwestern’s flve-yarfl line, being ponallzed for holding in the line. In the first half Purdue outplayed the visitors in both offensive and defensive tactics. In the second half Northwestern played fast ball, scoring Its first touchdown in fifteen minutes on tandem plays, sending Flaeger over the line. Johnson failed to kick goal. The team scored Its secodn and final touchdown by tandem plays near the close of the half by sending Dietz over the goal line, Johnson missing an easy kick for goal. The game ended with the bait In Northwestern’s possession on Purdue’s forty-yard line. Mrs. Eliza Fowler of Lafayette, widow of the late Morse Fowler, has given Purdue university sfio,oGo for an assembly hall. The gift was accepted and there was a demonstration in the chapel, followed by a parade of 1,20 Q» students to the Fowler home. Miss Daisy McOittnis, who was on the ill-fated Wabash train, No. 4. which was wrecked at Seneca, was fatally Injured, according to a dispatch received from Peru, to which place she was taken for medical attendance. Miss McGinnis is a public school teacher In Butler and has lived there since her birth, being the daughter of one of the pioneer Bettlers there. An electric car loaded with twentyfive glass-workers at Anderson collided with a coal car while returning to the city from the factory. All of the workmen were more or less injured and threo will probably die. A vicious horse seized the cap from the head of a 6-year-old boy, Homer McKee at Fort Wayne, and when the boy ran to recover the cap the animal struck him down with his hoofs, killing him instantly. Private Albert Francis of the Fourth cavalry was killed at Fort Leavenworth by his horse falling on him. His home is in Indianapolis. He was 20 years old. Sylvester Beach of Petersburg has made an assignment. Assets, $10,000: liabilities, $16,000. Edward Neible of Evansville, a young man of family, has been fined $25 and coets as a “Peeping Tom.” Louis Ebel of South Bend is reported as meeting with wonderful success as % pianist at Lelpsic, Germany. The City Council of Noblesville has refused to grant a fifty-year franchise to the Union Traction Company, considering the contract with the Central Traction Company the better of the two.