Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1902 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, E«T. and Pub. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Edwin N. Requa, a business man of Kewanee, 111., committed suicide by Inbaling gas. Charles A. Hensel, a young farmer, is on trial at Princeton. 111., charged with murdering his wife. Lorenzo Faulkner, aged 30, a railroad man, shot his fvit'e dead and killed himself at Ogden, Utah. Louis Cunningham, a farmer, was kicked to death by Joseph Hubbard, with whom he had quarreled at Washington, Ind. Oliver Lamar, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, was released from jail by a mob of his friends at Mendenhall, Miss. James Walsh, aged 21, of Chicago, head waiter on the Barry steamer Charles H. Hackley, was drowned at Muskegon, Mich., while yachting. Jason Wilson, a negro, and O. Carroll, a white man, engaged in a fighi at a baseoall game at Florence, Colo., and the former narrowly escaped lynching in the riot which followed. Mrs. William Highley and son were fatally injured by being struck by a Panhandle train at a crossing in Converse, Ind. In a fit of jealousy Frank Wilson Bhot and wounded his wife, killed Abner Canter and comiriitteed suicide at Arkansas City, Kan. A. G. Wright, publisher of the Milwaukee directory, estimates the population of the city as 308,000, an increase of 19,000 in two years. The condition of Rev. Dr. Palmer, the noted Presbyterian minister, who was injured in a trolley car accident several weeks ago at New Orleans, is critical.

Miss Margaret Floy Washburn, warden of Sage college. resigned from Cornell, having accepted a position as full professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Edward Swanston, an electric lineman of Paxton, 111., on his way home from Pittsburg, Pa., was probably fatally injured in an accident on the Belt railroad at Indianapolis. The new Archer line steamer Columbia arrived at New York after a good maiden voyage from Glasgow and Moville. It is the largest vessel yet built for the Anchor line. The Miners’ association of Manila will send a cablegram to the United States senate protesting against the shelving of the pending Philippine bill at recommended by the United States Philippine commission. The jury in the Bliss murder trial at Portage, Wis., brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the third degree. The defendant, Charles Bliss, was charged with wife murder. The dedication of the Ohio monuments in the Shiloh National Military park is set for June 6 and 7. Special rates have been arranged for a train leaving Cincinnati at 8:15 a. m. June 4. Guy Croffoth of Troy, Mont., was killed and Bridge Foreman Collins was badly injured in a work train wreck on the Jennings branch of the Great Northern just across the boundary line.

J. P. Miller, deputy sheriff of Stewart county, Tennessee, and his brother, C. J. Miller, were arrested at Hopkinsville, Ky., charged with making and passing counterfeit money. The former admitted his guilt. The agricultural department revised estimate of the 1901 grain yield places wheat at 748,460,218 bushels and corn at 1,622,519,891 bushels. A trust with 535,000,000 capital is to control the photographic business of the country is being formed by the Eastman Kodak company. C. F. W. Neely and Estes G. Rathbone, convicted of Cuban postal frauds are to be freed. The Cuban house granted amneßty to all Americans through efforts of their friends, and the senate will follow suit. Bishop Thobum of the Methodist Episcopal church in his testimony before the Senate committee said Hongkong is better governed than Chicago and that human life is safer there. Mr. Dubois of Idaho in a Senate speech on the Philippine bill said more money had been spent in the Philippine war than the island trade in 150 years will amount to. Congress is likely to remain in session till late in July. A vote on the Philippine bill is not probable till June. ' Admiral i>chley was initiated into the order of the Mystic Shrine at Washington. About 800 members were present. One thousand Brooklyn Hebrews started a rjot over high meat prices, jwTecked several butcher shops, and poured oil on meat after throwing it Into the streets. A Paris aeronaut has announced as the result of 285 ascents that warmer atmosphere exists above 37,000 feet. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn, and , his son, Richard, have sailed to Europe from Boston. William M. Jones, a former resident of Lincoln, Neb., was placed on trial in the recorder’s court in Detroit on the charge of murdering -Qegrge H. Hyewood, whose body was found on the sidewalk a short distance from his home early one morning in April.

DOUBLEEXPLOSION KILLS 109 MINERS

Violation of Rule Against Smoking Leads to the Catastrophe. TWENTY-FOUR ESCAPE DEATH Work of Rescue Hampered by Fear That Coal Damp May Cause Fire in Shafts—Relatives Beseech Survivors to Keep Away. One hundred and nine miners are believed to be dead as a result of a double explosion in the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal company’s mine near Fernie, B. C. Only twenty-four of the men at work in the two shafts escaped. A number of bodies have been recovered, but because of tne gases in the shafts the work of recovering the dead is slow. It is believed none of those still in the workings has survived. The disaster was caused by a miner striking a match to light his pipe. Smoking was forbidden, but occasionally the rule was ignored. Details of the explosion are meager, as Fernie has poor telegraph facilities, and the mine is six miles from the town. No. 2 and No. 3 shafts are situated on Coal Creek. They have always been considered dangerous, being dusty and gaseous. The first explosion occurred in No. 2 mine and was repeated in No. 3 mine, the two shafts being connected. The scenes at the mines and in the town of Fernie are pitiful. Hardly a house has escaped affliction. Perfect order prevails, assistance coming from every available source. The presence of coal damp is adding to the danger of rescue work.

A new fear has become general—that the mines may catch fire at any time, and survivors are being besought by their relatives not to venture into the shafts, even for rescue work.

MAJOR WALLER IS HELD GUILTY

General Chaffee Disapproves Findings of the Court-Martial. General Chaffee has disapproved the action of the court-martial in acquitting Major Waller and Lieutenant Day of the charge of killing nar tives of Samar without legal process. General ChafTee says the verdicts are a miscarriage of justice and the findings are opposed to the evidence. He holds that while the laws of war justify summary executions in certain cases, such cases did not arise in this Samar campaign. A minute review of the record leads him to decide that justice to the military service and common fairness to the helpless natives whom Waller sent to their death, his acts partaking more of unlawful retaliation than justifiable warfare, make the case one that should not become an approved precedent for young officers. However, considering the mental condition of Major Waller, so much of the findings as declare the accused not guilty of murder are approved. Lieutenant Day is censured because, though he knew Major Waller’s condition, he did not counsel delay. Instead, he seconded Major Waller’s resolve and promptly executed orders, which, under the circumstances, he should have disobeyed, thus guarding the honor of his country and probably preventing one of the most regrettable Incidents in the history of American military service.

THE LATEST CASH MARKETS

CHICAGO. Wheat. No. 2 red 80%@ .80% Corn, No. 2 61% @ .62 Oats, No. 2 .43 Cattle 2.75 @7.70 Hogs 5.70 $7.27% Steep and lambs .... 4.25 @7.io NEW YORK. Wheat, No. 2 red elev r @ -87% Corn, No. 2 69%@ .70 Oats, No. 2 (® .46 ST. LOUIS. Wheat. No. 2 red elev'r @ .78% Corn, No. 2 @ .64% Oats, No. 2 ’... @ -42% MILWAUKEE. Wheat, No. 1 northern. @ .78 Oats, No. 2 white 45 @ .45% PEORIA. Corn, No. 3 @ .62 Oats, No. 2 white @ -43% DULUTH, Wheat, No. 1 hard.... @ .77% MINNEAPOLIS. Wheat, No. 1 northern. .75%@ .76% TOLEDO. Wheat, cash @ .82% Corn, cash @ .63% Pats, cash @ .44 OMAHA. Cattle 2.75 @7.25 Hogs 5.75 @7.20 Sheep 3.75 @6.90 KANSAS CITY. Wheat, No. 2 hard.... ~73%@ .75 Corn, No. 2 mixed .64%@ .64% Oats, No. 2 white 44 @ .45%

Elect M. E. Bishops.

Dallas, Tex., special: At the Methodist Episcopal conference the principal business was the election of bishops. Dr. E. E. Haas was chosen on the first oallot and A. Coke Smim of Virginia on the fourth ballot.

Lead-pipe Trust.

New York special: Manufacturers of sheet iead and .pipe, who are reported to have planned a consolidation of Interests, will incorporate a new company in New Jersey early in June, with a capital of 315,000/100. jif (i'll . vv ■.i V* /,. * V.*

SIXTY-TWO YEARS A PRINTER E. W. Cailis of Martinsville Has Long Service to His Credit. E. W. Cailis of Martinsville does not claim to be the oldest printer in the state, but it is doubtful if there are many excelling him in length of service. He has sixty-two years of actual work in the “art preservative of all

E. w. CALLIS. (Indiana’s old-time printer.)

arts’’ to his credit, and Is now in his seventy-sixth year. He can still do a full week’s work despite his advanced age, feeling better at the end of the week than many a younger man. He was born in Flemington, N. J., January 27, 1827, and was apprenticed to the printer’s trade in 1840, continuing at it ever since. Shower Saves Woman. Mrs. Laymiller, sixty-five years old, who has lived aione on a small farm north of Kendallville, was nearly burned to death. She had been burning rubbish, wnen her clothing caught fire, and she would have lost her lue had not a shower of rain put out the flames. Two hours later a neighbor heard her cries for help. Light Without Heat. Dr. Hercules Ogle of Kokomo has Invented ah electric light device that includes the principle of wireless telegraphy. He obtains the electricity from water and burns a lamp of four candle-power. While brilliant, the light is devoid of heat. It is especially adapted to use on ranroad trains, automobiles and vehicles. Rattlesnake Story. A rattlesnake was brought into Bloomington that measured four feet four inches in length and nine inches in circumference around the largest part. The snake was killed on the Farris farm in Brown county, and had fourteen rattles and a button. It was coiled anu ready to strike, when a farmer killed it with a fence rail.

Stirs Up the Bell Company. The Davies County Telephone company, with SIOO,OOO capital, will be incorporated under tne laws of the state, it is an independent company and will extend lines over the county and connect with systems operated by farmers. The Bell company, which has a system at Washington, has begun to cut rates. Find Greenbacks in a Boot. Two workmen, while tearing dpwn an old building at Evansville, found $1,200 in greenbacks in an old boot. An old bachelor shoemaker lived in the house thirty years ago and is supposed to have secreted the money. The heirs of the old man will claim the money. Lightning Kills Cattle. During a storm north of Dresser, twenty-eight head ot cattle on the farm of John Strain were killed by lightning. The loss was $1,960. Benson Smith, a farmer, six miles west of Clinton, had four head of cattle killed by lightning. Glassworker Shot. Antone Meyers, Jr., a glassworker at Orestes, was shot while in the factory by George Ham. The ball lodged in his side, and was removed, but Meyers is seriously hurt. Ham claims the shooting was accidental.

Seeking Right of Way. Agents of the Union Traction Company are engaged in acquiring rights-of-way for the line proposed to be built from Delphia to The line will parallel the Wabash the entire distance. White Perch a Yard Long. James Harvey caught in the Wabash rivqr a few miles south of Terre Haute a white perch inches in length and of twenty-eight pounds weight. New Church at Monticello. The contract for the new Christian church at Monticello has been let to Strate & Brown of West Lafayette at $10,363. The total cost will be $15,000. It will be of brick and efforts are making to purchase a pipe organ. Plays Ball With One Arm. C. W. Fletcher, a druggist of Haleville, who has but one arm, the right, plays ball and throws a ball with tremendous force. He can catch a ball with £ase.

Indiana News

INDIANA SHILOH MONUMENTS Shafts to the Various Regiments to Be Completed by July. Capt. Thomas B. Wood of Franklin and Capt. Nicholas Ensley, members of the Shiloh monument commission, visited Bedford to inspect models of the monuments to various Indiana regiments to be erected on the Shiloh battlefield. The designs for the monuments show that they will be imposing, each to be sixteen feet high. The inscriptions, in raised letters, will show the regiment number, whether artillery orjnfantry, and on each will be the figure of a soldier in full military equipment. On each monument will appear in raised letters ten inches high the word “Indiana.” The work, which will be done by the John A. Rowe plant, will be completed by July. It will require a car to transport each monument. The stone will be highly polished and will compare favorably with granite. The inscription on the back of each monument will be in sunken letters. Members of the Indiana commission will go to Shiloh June when the monuments from Ohio will be dedicated. BEATS A PRACTICAL JOKER Negro Uses Board on “Satan” With Telling Effect. Orange Holman, a saloon-keeper of Marion, undertook to impersonate the devil with serious results to himself. Holman has in his employ a colored man, John Boswell, who is superstitious. Holman procured a false face, representing “Col. Satan,” and appioaohed the colored man, whom he found lying asleep in the alley in the rear of the saloon. Holman uttered several unearthly yells and started toward Boswell on all fours, saying that he "had come for him.” Boswell was so frightened for a moment that he was unable to move, but he picked up a board and before Mr. Holman had time to make himself known, the negro began beating him unmercifully. A deep gash, six inches long, was cut hi Holman’s head, and he became unconscious. For a time it was thought he was fatally injured. He soon recovered, however, and is sorry for his joke.

THREESCORE YEARS a MASON A. S. Wiggins Holds Enviable Record for Membership in the Order. Andrew S. Wiggins of Hagerstown has been a member of the Masonic order for sixty-four years and he has been constant in attendance and performance of duty. The Hagerstown

ANDREW s. WIGGINS. (Dean of Masons in Wayne county.)

lodge was chartered in 1838, and Mr. Wiggins was the first worshipful master. He served eight consecutive years, and he is the only one of the charter members still living. His term of membership exceeds that of any other man in Wayne county.

Met After Forty-two Years. D. E. Long of Elkhart and J. S. Long of Lima, Ohio, met at Elkhart for the first time in forty-two years. Both men were in Sherman’s army on the march to the sea, but were in different regiments and each was wounded in the leg at the battle of Bentonville. N. C. Neitner knew that the other was in the army. Lovelorn Lass Takes Acid. '» Mary Starr, 17 years old, committed suicide at Keystone by taking carbolic acid. A love affair is supposed to be the cause. She was the daughter of Christopher Starr. Embarks on Last Journey. John Rominger. 79 years old, whp lived in Hope seventy years, is deaty He went to Hope from North Carolina and made the journey oq foot. Bridegroom Is Missing. Albert Keller, son of a wealthy farmer near South Bend, and Miss Mary M. Ullery were married April 20. Soon Keller disappeared, but his family did not make it known and began a search themselves. At first foul play was feared. Later the young man’s horse and buggy were found at a livery stable and the impression, is that Keller has left the country. His father is now seeking for him in the West. The cause of his disappearance is not known.

VETERAN INDIANA GUARDSMAN William E. Meyers Has Been In the State Service Since 1883. William E. Meyers, a private and company clerk of Battery A, is probably tne oldest enlisted man in point of service in the Indiana - National Guard. He has served in every capacity rrom private to first sergeant since the organization of the battery in 1888. During an election of officers some time ago Meyers, who was then first sergeant, failed to get the coveted position of lieutenant. He was weary

WILLIAM E. MEYERS. (Militiaman who has been in the service since 1883.)

of the arduous duties of first sergeant and requested that he be reduced to the ranks. Meyers was a member of the famous drill team of the battery, which won fourteen prizes out of fifteen contests. He was known, with the Rodman gun tactics, as one of the best drilled artillerymen ever in the state. He volunteered in the SpanishAmerican war and served with the battery in the Porto Rico campaign as the first sergeant of the organization. “Circus Day Strikes.’' Glass manufacturers all over the United States are now losing thousands of dollars on account of what is known to the trade as “circus day strikes.’’ Every spring the small boys employed in many glass factories strike, ostensibly for higher wages, but almost invariably while a circus is in town. They usually return to work, whether they obtaih the increase or not, after the circus leaves. The boys do no skilled work, but their presence is necessary to the skilled mechanics, and there is such a scarcity of boys that their services are eagerly sought after. Manufacturers are now endeavoring to get together on a method of avoiding “circus day strikes.”

Midway Disgusts Her. Miss Mamie Ward, 20 years old, left home at Springfield, 111., to join a company of the Mardi Gras midway attractions. She is now sorry and called at the Marion police station and said she would like to return home. The superintendent of the department sent a telegram to her father and in a short time received a reply requesting that she be sent home. The girl told the police that she was informed the show was a firstclass exhibition. She saw the first performance yesterday and the desire for home seized her at once.

Mishaps to Tin Workers. Clifford Seward, a tinplate worker at Elwood, stepped into a vat of hot metal and the flesh was burned from one of his limbs to the knee. He will be crippled for life. Dudley Biggs, also a tinplate worker, stepped on a sharp piece of metal and cut a gash the length of his foot. Before a physician could uress his injuries he almost bled to death. i Railway Gangs Clash. Fifty workmen for the Kokomo Street Railway and Light company and a section gang of the Pennsylvania company clashed at a Kokomo crossing. The former were first on the ground and tore up twenty feet of the railroad's track. An order was then issued by Judge Mount of the circuit court restraining the Pennsylvania company -from removing the track. Grandma Bowers is Dead. Mrs. Margaret E. Bowers, the oldest wonam in Fountain county, is dead at tne age of 98 years. Among hexsurvivors are fifteen grandchildren, twenty-eight great-grandchildren and eight great-greai-grandchi 1 dren. Money Awaits Missing Heir. I 1 rank Balcome, formerly a soldier, now thought to be a traveling jeweler, has $4,300 awaiting him at Portland! with more to come. He is one of fifteen heirs to the estate of William Newton, who died thyee years ago. All the other heirs have been located, and each has been paid $4,300. Unless Balcome claims his share within a given period, the money will go back to the estate. Many unsuccessful attempts have been made to locate the missing heir., • . V l « • *

"Under the Turquoise Sky,” and "Camping in Colorado" are the titles of two most beautifully printed and illustrated pamphlets, descriptive of Colorado scenery and camping, published by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway. The latter is a camper s guide book. These are the finest railroad literature that has come to our notice, and the general passenger department of the Rock Island route, Chicago, is distributing them free on request

Mexican servants are said to be almost worthless, judged by the American standard of good service.

Superior quality and extra quantity must win. This is why Defiance Starch is taking the place of all others. Kansas has 600 more miles of railroad than the state of New York.

I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Taos. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17,1900.

A perpetual grin is about as 4 exasperating as a sticky fly on a hot day.

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Don’t be a back number even if you have to forego birthday presents.

$20 A WEEK AND EXPENSES

to men with rig to introduce our Poultry goods. Sendstp. JavelleMfaCo.,Dept.D.Parsons, Kan.

Less than 1 per cent of the land of Norway is in use for grain fields.

Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold

Laxative Bromo'Quinine Tablets. Price 25c.

Some women are a choice combination of fool and fiend.

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