Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — Page 2

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

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Mrs. H. Yates of Ontario, Canada, ■was burned to death at Mountain [View, 0. T., while attempting to start a fire with kerosene. Eight .companies interested in the Bath County, Kentucky, oil fields will construct a pipe line to the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. This will put on the market about 1,200 barrels of oil daily. Major James P. Nelson of Lexington, Ky., assistant engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, has accepted the position of chief engineer of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad. Thomas MacCarthy, who went over the Kankakee river dam at Kankakee, 111., in the presence of 3,000, people, on a wager, dislocated his shoulder and was arrested for violating the ordinance against daylight bathing. A brick cottage at 274 Sheffield avenue, Chicago, collapsed and buried the family of Aleck De Mar; Mrs. De Mar shielded her baby and was badly hurt. The others Were slightly injured.

A freight wreck on the Lake Shore railroad at Ninetieth street, Chicago, injured seven men, most of whom were stealing a ride. A coupling pin broke and the rear section piled up. Cleveland officials, who photographed money in their effort to obtain evidence in an alleged bribery case are to be prosecuted by the government under the law prohibiting photographing of money. Samuel Hendricks, a widely known fisherman and hunter, was drowned In the Rock river at Sterling, 111. Snow fell for twenty-four hours at Evanston, Wyo., and in the mountains it lies on the ground to a depth of three to six inches. The mercury fell to freezing point. Martha White of Des Moines, la., colored, was curelly assaulted and cut with a knife by her lover, Sam Whitney, also colored. William A. Reynolds, an attache of the country form, was found dead in his wagon in Grand Rapids, Mich., under circumstances indicating murder. He went to town with considerable money and was seen to enter the alley with a stranger. His right arm and side were badly lacerated as though he had been hit with a club, and his pockets were empty. He was 60 years old. Music teachers’ national convention is in session at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, with 600 delegates in attendance. Otto Scholtz and Jacob Friesenborg, who recently came from Germany, were drowned at Watseka, 111., by the capsizing of a boat. The report of the consular district of Berlin shows that the exports to North America for the last quarter for that district were over $1,600,000, an increase of $200,000. The Paris Figaro intimates that coming changes in the French diplomatic service may possibly include the transfer of Jules Cambon, the French ambassador at Washington, to Berlin. Hundreds of cattle imported from southwest Texas are being driven out of the Indian Territory by the Indian police, acting, it is said, upon orders from the Interior Department. The steam yacht Yacona purchased from the king of Portugal by Henry Clay Pierce of St. Louis, has arrived at Boston to await its new owner, who will cruise along the coast and visit Labrador. A continuance was refused in the case of Superintendent of Police Fred W. Ames, charged at Minneapolis with bribery. Captain N. W. King of the detective force, convicted of accessory after the fact to a felony, was sentenced to three years and six months at hard labor in the penitentiary.

Earthquakes are reported to have occurred simultaneously in twenty towns of Asia Minor. Many houses collapsed. The German government has sent to the bundesrath a draft of the decree making tjie meat law effective in April, 1903. The bundesrath will act on the issue July 3. A march called “The Parade March of the Marine Division,” composed by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, has been brought out by a publisher of Leipsig. The St. Petersburg students arrested last March at the time of the student disorders and sentenced to imprisonment for two or three months are now returning to their homes. About 1,500 Canadian troop 3 sailed from Durban, Natal. Two thousand additional Canadians will start for home on July 12. Governor Bettß reports perfect peace in the province of Albay, Philippine Islands, and that commercial interests were never in a more prosperous condition. The Mexican minister has presented his credentials to President Palma at Havana. At a meeting of the stockholders of the German Atlantic Cable company in Berlin the proposition of the directors to issue 20,000,000 marks in bonds to lay a second cable between Germany and the United States war

Worth American turnerbund national convention reports show 257 local societies with 84,708 members, and that the socialism propaganda failed. Richard A. Canfield, "king of American gamblers,” denied that he will start an American Monte Carlo at Saratoga, declaring such a venture would not be tolerated. The wife and 7-year-old daughter of Capt. Siemann N. Horn of Fort Hancock, N. Y., were drowned off Sandy Hook by a sailboat capsizing. The husband and four others were rescued. Mrs. Francis Batcheller of Boston coaxed ner husband to close his factory and take her to Europe to study voice culture, and 1,200 persons are out of work as a result.

Many college students, who were given summer work by the United States government as foresters, are paid $25 a month and board for surveying timber tracts. English stewards from the Cunard steamer Saxonia tore down an American flag at Boston. Persons who saw the act attacked and beat them. A New York mob tried to lynch two negroes who had stabbed a boy. The police reserves were called out and rescued them. Montana’s capitol at Helena was formally turned over to the state by the building Commission. Mrs. R. J. Seney and her daughter Alpha were killed at a crossing at Sioux City, la., by a Milwaukee train. H. L. Hurlbut, a Boston hotel man, committed suicide at Seattle by taking morphine. The motive is not known. W. A. Ross, a school teacher of Thomasville, Ohio, was drowned while trying to reach home during a storm. Miss Elizabeth Daniels, aged 25, a well known young woman of Jacksonville, 111., dropped dead of heart disease as she lelt the dinner table. Thirty thousand persons at Sycamore, 111., take part in ceremony of marking grave of Abner Powers, one of five revolutionary soliders buried in this state. George Powers was fatally hurt and Mrs. Salaeb and Mrs. Denean were seriously wounded in a Fourth of July fight in the Syrian quarters at Fort Wayne. Organized iron molders of New York and vicinity announce that they have gained a peaceful victory, 2,220 of their number having been granted the nine-hour day through oflicials. The steamer Senator arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., from Nome, reports no tidings of the missing steamers Jaenie and Portland. Mathias Vanderlasek, a machinist, jumped from a St. Paul bridge, 200 feet, into the Mississippi river, and sustained only slight injuries. Paul Saulsman of Lee’s Summit, Mo., was knocked down and killed, and M. J. McGlynri, his employer, was struck twice and seriously hurt by an unknown man at Kansas City. Fire at Philadelphia caused $200,000 loss, the woolen and cotton yarn firms of James E. Mitchell & Co., William d’Olier & Co. and Buckingham & Paulson being the heaviest sufferers. Rev. C. R. Schermerhorn, near Coldwater, Mich., while using gasoline to rid his hen house of lice accidentally set fire to a can of the fluid, and in throwing it out of the building, fatally burned his 8-year-old son.

Two inches of snow fell in the Coeur d’Alene region in Idaho. August Schievie was hanged at St. Helena, Ore., for the murder of Joseph Schulkowski, on Dec. 26. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has sent a silver medal to Captain Fred Johnson of Chicago for gallant service in saving lives Nov. 12, 1900. One of the greatest shipments of coal that ever started for the South was begun at Pittsburg. It comprises fully 10,000,000 bushels. The Nebraska Supreme Court rendered an opinion affirming the constitutionality of the female labor law enacted by the last legislature. During a dance at the home of Judge W. S. Pettit in I’awhuska, Okla., George Dickie, an Osage graduate of Carlisle, was killed by Pettit. Dickie had been drinking. Alma and Ada Kilgas, 10 and 8 years old, near Reynolds, Ind., were drowned by stepping into a washout while crossing a field covered with water. A log jam on the St. Croix river near Grantsburg, Wis., contains 50,000,000 feet of logs and is nine miles long. One hundred drivers are breaking it.

Archer Wade, 23 years of age, shot and fatally wounded James Owens at Martinsville, Ind. It is alleged that Owens was jealous of Wade’s attentions to his wife. The world-wide convention of the International Sunday School association probably will be held in Jerusalem in 1904. Edwin and Thomas Balch of Philadelphia are in St. Petersburg for the purpose of collecting information and material with regard to the boundaries of Alaska. Charley Wee, a Chinese laundryman, has been arrested in Buffalo in connection with the murder of Mary Murphy, 6 years old, whose body, badly mangled, was found wrapped in newspapers in a pond in a cemetery. The autopsy showed the child had been outraged and strangled. George Sperling of Graham, Mo., and George Bates of San Francisco were killed by lightning on a ranch near Arvada. Col. It is estimated that the deficit in the German budget for 1901-’O2 will amount tc $8,000,000. The Colorado supreme court has declared the city of Donver to be entitled to the $2,000,000 willed it by George W. Clayton for the founding of the Clayton college for boys. Governor Bliss of Michigan has given $21,000 to Albion College to apply on the debt of $93,000

WEEK'S DOINGS IN CONGRESS

Business Transacted by the House and Senate in the National Capital. SUMMARY OF CLOSING DAYS Many Measures Rushed Through Both Houses Before Adjournment Ara Signed by the President—Session Was a Busy One. Monday, June 30. Hot words passed toetaween Mr. Bailey (Tex.) and Mr. Beveridge (Ind.) on the floor of the Senate, and after adjournment was followed up by a physical assault by the Texas senator on the senator from Indiana. Mr. Elkins (W. Va.) delivered a speech in favor of the annexation of Cuba, maintaining that it would be in the best interests of both countries. Mr. Platt (Conn.) and Mr. Hanna (Ohic), deprecated any annexation proposition at this time. A bill was passed giving Rear Admiral Schley the pay and allowance of a Rear Admiral on linger (N. H.) made a brief statement linger (N. H., made a brief statement of the work done by the pensions committee during the present session. It showed that ihe bills relating to pensions introduced in the House aggregated 7,518 while the aggregate number introduced in the Senate was 2,552. The total number passed was 1,151. A resolution offered by Mr. Morgan, calling on the Secretary of State for a statement of the expenditures of the isthmian canal commission, was adopted. Bills were passed as follows: To prohibit the killing or taking of seals, porpoises, whales or marine animals or fish of any kind in the waters of the United States by means of explosive materials; to establish regulations in the District of Columbia during the national encampment of the G. A. R.; to authorize tne director of the census to compile statistics relating to irrigation. Conference report on the general deficiency appropriation bill was taken up in the house. Among important items passed was $500,000 for the Buffalo exposition and $160,000 for the Charleston exposition. Philippine conference report adopted—l 49 to 92. Friar lands to be purchase by issuing bonds and to become part of public domain. Public lands to be open to homesteaders. The Dick bill to recognize the militia was taken up and passed.

Tuesday, July 1. The final report of the conferees on the general deficiency bill was presented to the senate and agreed to without debate. The conference reports on the naval appropriation bill and the bill to provide a temporary civil government in the Philippines were agreed to, as was that on the Porto Rico public lands and buildings bill. A bill appropriating $75,000 for the erection of a quartermaster’s warehouse in Omaha was passed. The house concurrent resolution providing for adjournment was adopted. Before adjournment the usual resolutions were adopted, including one thanking President Pro Tempore Frye for “the dignified, impartial and courteous manner in which he had presided over the deliberations of the senate.”

The senate bill to promote the efficiency of the marine hospital service and change its name to the public health and marine hospital service was passed in the house under suspension of the rules. Other bills were passed as follows: House bill to authorize the erection of a quartermaster’s warehouse at Omaha at a cost not to exceed $75,000; senate bill 1 6 reduce the number of appraisers at Philadelphia and Boston. A joint resolution was adopted appropriating $6,000 each to the memories of Gen. Francis Noah and Gen. William Lee Davidson of North Carolina. The conference agreement on the naval appropriation bill was adopted. Bills were passed to appropriate $50,000 each for bronze equestrian statues to Count Pulaski and Baron Steuben, to be erected in Washington; senate bill for the suppression of train robberies; a bill to make confederate soldiers who enlisted in the Union army previous to Jan. 1, 186Jj, pensionable, was passed, 97 to 19. A resolution from the ways and means committee fixing the hour of final adjournment was passed, 137 to 76.

Dies Reading Declaration.

Evansville, Ind., special: Mrs. Murray Brown, aged 80, while sitting in her home reading the Declaration of Independence, fell over dead. The members of the family were away at the time celebrating the Fourth. When found a copy of the Declaration was clutched in her right hand.

Liabilities, $1,500,000; Assets, $100.

New York dispatch: Walden Pell Anderson, who has been an extensive operator in real estate in this city, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States district court. The liabilities are $1,535,212; assets, SIOO.

Library President.

Galesburg, 111., dispatch: The board of directors of the new public library to which Carnegie gave $50,000 elected as the president F. C. Rice, superintendent of the Illinois lines of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.

TEMPERANCE PEOPLE NAME STATE TICKET

Platform_le_Confined to Prohibition and Woman Suffrage—Carrie Nation Foiled. Peoria, 111., dispatch: 'The prohibitionists of Illinois nominated their state ticket. The committee on platform split in the conference and two platforms were submitted to the convention for adoption. One touched on all the leading national issues and the other confines itself strictly to prohibition and woman’s suffrage. The convention adopted the minority report on platform. This holds the prohibitionists to the two issues, the liquor question and woman’s suffrage^ The convention was at one time most exciting. When the call was made for voluntary contributions the 1,200 delegates went wild with enthusiasm, and, crowding forward, they showered their contributions upon the stage. Almost $5,000 in cash was heaped upon the platform. Carrie Nation arrived in the city, and her arrival was the signal for some rushing work in the convention. All business was rushed through with whirlwind speed and before the Kansas lecturer arrived at the Coliseum an adjournment had been taken. Mrs. Nation delivered a lecture in a local beer hall and was listened to by a large crowd. She denied that she is going to join Dowie. The following ticket was nominated: For state treasurer, John H. Wilson; clerk of the supreme court, Robert H. Hardin; superintendent of public instruction, Charles A. Blanchard; trustees of the University of Illinois, Miss Marie C. Brehm, Judge J. O. Cunningham, Mrs. Dr. J. W. Akers.

FASTS FOR FIFTY-THREE DAYS

Aged Woman Spiritualist Is Unable to Partake of Food. Muncie, Ind., d.spatch: After a fiftythree days’ fast Mrs. Wanda George, who at 81 claims to be the oldest Spiritualist medium, although still alive, is reduced to a skeleton. When she started she was a healthy woman weighing 210 pounds. While living in Chicago five years ago she prophesied she would soon be stricken blind| Now she is the victim of a strange disease which has baffled the skill of all available specialists. She fasts not because she wants to, but because she is physically incapable of taking any'Tood.

GIVES PEN TO FILIPINO.

Senor Buencamino Secures Precious Bit of Steel. Washington dispatch: Senor .imencamino, who has been sojourning in this country, called upon President Roosevelt and requested the pen with which he signed the Philippine government bill, as he desired to preserve it and eventually place it in some public library in the Philippines. The pen already had been given to Senator Lodge, chairman of the Philippine committee, but as he happened to be present at the time, he presented it to Senor Buencamino When the latter left the White Hous| he remarked that the Philippine bil\ initiated self-government in the islands. He also paid a hijgh tribute to President Roosevelt.

JOHN IRVING PEARCE IS DEAD

Chicago’s Noted Hotel Proprietor Has a Peaceful End. Chicago, 111., special: John Irving Pearce, dean of the Chicago hotel men, and for twenty years proprietor of the Sherman house, is dead. The final summons came suddenly. Although he felt that the sickness which came upon him last Wednesday night would be fatal, the members of the family did not think that the end was so near. Wednesday evening he was about the hotel, but was taken ill before morning. The end was peaceful.

SENATOR VEST GROWS WEAKER

Missouri’s Veteran Statesman Is Almost Blind and Confined to Bed. Kansas City, Mo., dispatch: Senator Vest, Missouri’s veteran senator, is in poor health and is rapidly growing weaker. During the last session of congress his strength failed a great deal and his sight became poor. Now he is almost blind and is not able tc leave his bed. Owing to his age, 72 years, it is feared the senator cannot long survive and in any event it is sure he will never be able to reenter public life.

HAVANA’S AMERICAN COLONY

Elaborate Celebration of Independence Day at Cuban Capital. Havana cable: The American colony in Havana celebrated Independence day more elaborately than it was ever celebrated here before. The colony has been greatly reduced by the withdrawal of the representatives of the United States government from the island, but those who remain joined in making it a day worthy oi the great event of whiefi it is the 126th anniversary.

He Loved Enaland.

Paris cable: The late M. BenjamiD Constant desired that all the work: he left be taken to England, “which," he says, “I have learned to love with all my heart and which has become my second artistic country.”

Ex-Outlaw in Sheboygan.

Sheboygan, Wis., special: ihe Gentlemen’s Driving club has invited Frank James, the once notorious out law, to act as starter in one of their matinees to be given this month. Mr. Junes has accepted.

ROBBERS HOLD VP TRAIN NEAR CHICAGO

Posses Scour the Country in Search of Bandits Who Plundered Rock Island Express —One Man Under Arrest.

More than a dozen posses are scouring the country for the two men who held up the “Big Five” express on the Rock Island July 3, and the farmers, who also suffered at the hands of the robbers, are particularly enraged. The holdup occurred near Dupont, nineteen miles from Chicago, shortly before 11 o’clock the night of July 3. Pursuit of the robbers began at once. One of the two men under arrest, Charles Nessler, is known to have been with the robbers, but the police believe his story that he was an unwilling accomplice, being forced to aid the robbers under threat of death. In the chase that followed the robbery the two desperadoes stole seven horses and fought a battle with farmers who attempted to capture them. Several times they were almost captured, but each time they managed to elude their pursuers. The posses of detectives and citizens lost the trail at Willow Springs, twelve miles northwest of the scene of the holdup. Rater it was reported that the men had been seen at Lemont, where it is thought they may have boarded an Alton or Santa Fe train.

After disappearing into the woods beside the railroad tracks at Dupont the robbers, with their bag of booty, made their way to the nearest farmhouse to the northwest of the railroad. There they broke into a barn owned by James Abbey and secured a farm of horses, which they hitched to a buckboard. After driving the horses at a furious pace for two miles further on one of the fugitives entered the barnyard of Herman Nicha, where they took possession of a surrey, to which they hitched a team of horses, which they hitched to a buckboard. Five miles farther on, in the vicinity of Willow Springs, Adolph Chance engaged in a running fight with the fugitives. At Chance’s farm the horses stolen from Nicha were unhitched from the surrey and a fresh pair taken from the barn, while the horse which was being led was again hitched to the rear of the vehicle, to be used, apparently, as a reserve. The robbers made quick time in changing horses at Chance’s place, and soon were speeding down the road as fast as they could urge them. Chance, who had been awakened by the robbers, secured a shotgun and shells loaded with buckshot, then awakened one of his farm hands. The two harnessed a horse to a light buggy and gave pursuit. After the chase had lasted fifteen minutes Chance rounded a curve in the road within range of the men in the surrey, and when a command to halt was unheeded the farmer discharged both barrels of the gun at the fleeing men. Flashes from the revolvers of the robbers answered the farmer’s shots, and bullets whistled about the heads of the pursuers. show of resistance caused Chance to drop behind, and, as his horse was fagged, he was compelled to abandon the chase.

The Rock Island train No. 5, which is the Denver and Omaha express, left Chicago at 10 o’clock. It consisted of an engine, express car, a baggage car, and five Pullman sleepers. The train was in charge of Conductor Coffey and Engineer Charles Goodall. The express cars were in charge of Messenger John E. Kain and William Rejahl. After stopping at Englewood the train ran through Normal Park, Washington Heights and Blue Island without slackening its speed. As it was approaching Dupont, about three miles from Tingley Park the fireman opened the furnace door to shovel in coal. By the light of the fire within Engineer Goodall noticed a man climbing over the tender towards the engine cab.

“Stop the train at Dupont,” called out the man, as he clambered forward. “Obey orders.” Both the engineer and the fireman, Albert Duckett, after a moment of astonishment, broke into laughter. “You are held up; stop your train at Dupont,” repeated the man. “This is no joKe.” The engineer and fireman continued to laugn. “If you think this is a joke, look up tnere,” the man called out, at the same time pointing upwards where the cab roof and tender nearly join. Through the open space the engineer and fireman saw four revolvers pointed at them by two men dressed in dark clothes and wearing masks over their faces. An attempt to speak on the part of Engineer Goodall was met with a command to obey orders and keep his “mouth shut.”

Rising in Values.

“Our last giraffe,” said the manager of a Philadelphia zoo, “died in 1885 after a life here of ten years. Since then our collection has been wanting in this animal. Giraffes now cost $5,000 apiece. In 1874 we bought six, and they lived with us respectively five, eleven, nine, three 7 and two years, while one died in ten days after its arrival of congestion of the lungs. Of the others, one was carried off by heart disease, another by a spinal trouble, and the remaining three by ailments of an unknown kind."

“Stop,” shouted one of the masked men and the engineer brought the train to a standstill. “Climb out and be quick about it,” came another command. Both the engineer and fireman obeyed, and as they did so the man who had climbed over the tender dropped out of sight on the other side of the engine. “Make a hot foot to the express car,” commanded one of the robbers. As Engineer Goodall hesitated to obey he was threatened with death. He was told to pound on the door to the express car and ask the messenger to open it. He obeyed and the ruse was successful.

As the messenger opened the door the two robbers covered them with their revolvers and ordered them to come out. Both obeyed. “Hands up, or you are dead ones,” commanded the robber who appeared to be the leader. “We’re held up,” gasped Rejahl. “You are up against it,” retorted one of the robbers. The four men then were lined up along the side of -the express car and guarded by one of the robbers while the other began to fire his rovelvers to frighten the passengers, who had become curious over the delay and were climbing off the train. At the first shots they clambered back again. At this point Messenger Kain, who, with the rest, had been standing on the ends of the ties with his hands up, slipped and nearly fell to the ground. Without a word one of the robbers fired at him, and with a cry of pain the messenger fell to the ground, shot through the groin. “I did not attempt to escape or put up a fight,” groaned Kain. “Yes, you did,” came the reply, accompanied by oaths. Several of the more venturesome passengers saw the messenger shot down and, fearful that all would be killed, began shooting from the coach windows. The robbers returned the fire, and the bullets rattled on the sides of the cars. The women and some of the men in the train were panic stricken. One woman fainted, and others were hysterical. While one of the robbers was holding the passengers at bay and guarding the engine crew and wounded express messenger, the other directed Engineer Goodall to uncouple the express car from the rest of the train. The command was enforced at the point of a gun.

“Be quick or we’ll shoot you, too," came from the masked bandit. The engineer, realizing the plan of the robbers to run the express car forward and crack the safe, professed to be in ignorance of the coupling apparatus, and although apparently endeavoring to cut the train in two failed to do so. w “Cut that off or you are a dead one,” shouted the robber, but the engineer only fumbled at the coupling. He twisted and pulled and kicked it, and finally the fireman] was sent to his assistance. Still the connection remained unbroken. As a last resort Rejahl was ordered back, into the express car and told to open the small safe. The large safe is sent through without the messenger having possession of the combination. The robbers, apparently, were aware of the fact, for they made no attempt to force the messengers to open this safe. Rajahl dropped to his knees as he was bia and soon opened the safe. A number of packages of jewelry and a small amount of money was disclosed to view. One of the robbers pulled a canvas bag from under his coat and shoved the contents of the safe into it.

“Here, carry this,” Rajahl was commanded. He obeyed, and leading the way dropped down from the car and walked as directed a short distance westward from the railroad tracks. After the messenger had dropped the bag by the roadside he was commanded to return to the car. Then the robbers ordered the messengers and the engine crew to climb back to their places. As Engineer Goodall was about to climb into his cab he encountered the man who had first commanded him to stop the train. Seizing him the conductor pulled him aboard. It was this man that afterward proved to be Charles Nessler. With a ■ volley from their revolvers the robbers then backed away from the train and disappeared. As the train pulled out Engineer Goodall caught a glimpse of the two men as they disappeared in the woods. “The British museum is the principal building in Paris.”

For Illuminated Signs.

The movement to furnish travelers about the streets of New York with information as to where they are going, by providing illuminated signs on the corners, is practically accomplished,. although none of the signs are yet in place. Another needed reform is about to be inaugurated, under the auspices of the board of aidermen. That is to compel owners of buildings to place the street numbers upon the same in some conspicuous place, so that they may be read by night as well as by day.