Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE OLARK, Ed. and Pub. MWRfIBT.AgR, INDIANA.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF

John Adams, George Gasparik and John F, Ncshke died ot injuries reserved by the blowing off of a furnace top In the Carnegie plant at McKees>ort, Fa., making five deaths to date. Five sailors—G. Nelson, A. Grlppenberger, T. H. Reyet, F. Gerstenkon and Augustus Fisk—were washed overboard during a hurricane from the British ship Claverdon, which has arrived at San Francisco from Hamburg. Walter Shafleen shot Norman Lutz on the street at Yellowbud, Ohio. Lutz returned the fire by fatally shooting Shafleen. Lutz was not seriously hurt. Lutz, a wealthy farmer, was charged by Shafleen with intimacy with Mrs. Shafleen. Prof. Marcus F. Farr of the department of geology of Princeton university announces that the Princeton geological expedition to Montana during the summer had been a great success, many valuable specimens of the cretaceous period being found. The remains of several mammals were discovered in the Fort Union beds near Big Timber. Henrik Sienkiewicz, the Polish author, in a public letter at Berlin advises the Prussian Poles not to allow themselves to be driven into extreme acts or words through the anti-Polish agitation. Germany’s proposition to call an international wireless telegraph conference having met with the general support of the powers, it is understood that the meeting will be called at an early date. The United States, in accepting an invitation, reserved taking further action until a program is submitted. The Rhelnan-Mannheim Chemical industry, a joint stock company, has filed a declaration in bankruptcy at that the deficiency had been concealed tion of the books showed that it had worked at a loss for many years and 'Mannheim, Germany. An examinaby false entries. The capital of the concern, $25,000, is practically lost. Wallace Grant, a negro, who murdered Essex Powell, was hanged at Newport, Ark. After confessing he professed religion and was baptized in a bath tub.

Scarcity of coal owing to the miners’ •trike has compelled the closing of the blast furnaces of the Marting and Union iron and steel companies at Ironton, Ohio. Every other furnace in the Hanging Rock district may be com pelled to shut down for the same reason within a week. The Eighth and Ninth lowa regiments of volunteer infantry will hold a reunion at Washington, lowa, October 1 and 2. There will be a sham battle. Otto Coats of the Union City, Ind., wheel works fell on a rapidly revolving saw and was cut through the back to the lungs. His injuries are considered fatal. William D. Huber oj Philadelphia was re-elected president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of the United States and Canada at Atlanta, Ga. Charlemagne Tower, ambassador to Russia, has been appointed by President Roosevelt to succeed Mr. White as the United States representative to Germany. Mrs. Hannah McCowen, aged 94, died at the home of her son, John McCowen, . at Concordia, Kan. Joseph Stanforth was drowned near Browning, Mo., while trying to cross Locust creek. John Hiller, engineer at the Reghardt stone quarry, near Cape Girardeau, Mo., was caught in the flywheel of the engine. His head was crushed so badly that he died in a few hours. Six horses were killed in a collision between a switch engine and a freight train on the Alton tracks at Jacksonville, 111. Rev. G. M. Oakley has been elected president or the Texas female seminary, a sectarian school of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, located at Weatherford. Tex. Alice Biery of Cloud county, Kan., has received a verdict of $6,300 in District court against Robert Kenney, a wealthy young farmer, for breach of promise damages. Superintendent Woodruff of the St. Louis quarantine hospital reports that a Chinese leper patient has been cured and recommends his discharge. Roumania, In response to the note to the powers of Secretary Hay, intends to prevent further emigration of Jews to the United States. The Earl of Dudley, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, got a cold reception at his state entry in Dublin. A memorial service in honor of the late Queen Marie Henrietta was celebrated in the Cathedral of Sainte Gudele, Brussels. King Leopold and members of the royal family attended, accompanied by a long procession of military and civil officials, diplomats and cabinet ministers. A constitution for the International Union of Flour' Mills Employes was adopted in Minneapolis by the convention of flour mill work ers. • A north-bound freight train near Cobden, 111., struck and instantly

In a quarrel between negroes over a game of craps at Glenjean, W. Va., ‘Black Diamond’* shot and killed Will Washington. Deputy Sheriff Watts chased Diamond and wounded him, but was killed by the negro, who later was shot dead by a mob of whites. The Krohn-Feeheimer shoe factory in Cncinnatl was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is $50,000; covered by insurance. The franchises of the Ottumwa, la., City Water Supply company expired at 12 o’clock September 2s. The city council refuses to call a special election to renew the franchise or to make a temporary contract. While sitting in his home in Massillon, 0., reading a newspaper, Charles Flickinger was shot and fatally wounded by an unknown man, who escaped. The shot was fired through an open door. The new Methodist Episcopal church at Mendota, 111., was dedicated by the Rev. H. A. Gobln, president of Depauw university. Addresses were also given by Presiding Elder A T. Horn of De Kalb and Rev. J. A. J. Whipple of Joliet. H. P. Kirk’s wholesale store and apartment house at Mason City, la., was burned. The loss Is SIOO,OOO. The Interstate commerce commission at Wichita, Kan., has adjourned. It heard evidence and arguments in the seven cases scheduled for hearing. In two cases the railroads have granted concessions. Decisions of the court are reserved. Indian Agent Haslett of the Fort Defiance agency, Arizona, reports to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones denying the reports that 8,000 Navajo Indians in San Juan county are starving. He says he wants to hire 100 Indians at sl.lO per day to work on a railroad, but cannot get one to work. James O’Brien of Brighton, Wis., Is on his way to Ireland to claim an estate estimated at $8,000,000 which is said to have been left by his uncle. Three hundred Bulgarian revolutionists who were surrounded by Turkish troops in the villayet of Salonica succeeded in forcing the cordon after a sanguinary fight, during which both sides suffered severe losses. Reinforcements of troops have been sent in pursuit of the Bulgarians. The exodus of emigrants from Greece to the United States is probably due to the failure the currant crop in Greece. OfficialKreports say that 8,000 persons have emigrated during the past year and that /his exodus continues. / The comptroller of theXreasury has rendered a decision allowing the state of Kentucky $120,860 in reimbursement of expenses incurred in raising and equipping volunteer troops for the war with Spain. James W. Ertle, 60 years old, on trial at Portland, Ind., on a charge of cutting his aged wife’s throat with a razor, was acquitted after the jury had been out fourteen hours. The evidence was his wife committed suicide. Th® war department has been informed that Gen. Chaffee will sail from Manila for San Francisco on the transport Sumner, which will leave Manila in about eight days. The command of the Philippines is to be turned over to Gen. Davis on September 30. W. L. Cobb, administrator of the estate of Isom Holden, has brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Pine Bluff Light and Water company for the alleged electrocution of the deceased.

G. W. Burkitt of Palestine, Republican nominee for governor of Texas, announces that he will make a vigorous campaign, and that he considers it very probable that at least two Republican congressmen will be elected this fall. The American Christian convention, tne national meeting of the Christian church, inaugurated in 1819 and held annually since, will take place at Norfolk, Va., this year. Joliet last the next annual convention of the Northern Illinois Teachers’ Association, to be held Oct. 23 to 25. Rockford was chosen because it is the first city to secure a fare of one rate for the round trip. Mr. Reitz, the former state secretary of the Transvaal, and his daughter have sailed from Rotterdam for New York on the Holland-American line Statendam. Sir John Gordon Sprigg, prime minister of Cape Colony, announced in the assembly that he intended to introduce a bill for the total prohibition of the sale of liquor to natives. Senator J. P. Dolliver of lowa delivered the principal address at the dedication of Ottumwa’s Carnegie library for which Mr. Carnegie gave |SO,OOO. Robert Ray and Howard Rodman, aged 20 years, were killed, and J. H. Moran was seriously injured in a freight wreck on the Northwestern railroad near Cedar Rapids, la. Will Mathiskon, white, and Orlando Lester, colored, were hanged at Oxford, Miss., for the murder of the Montgomery brothers. Mrs. George Claflin hanged herself at Keosauqua, lowa, while her husband, who had been wviching her to prevent the deed, was asleep. A 10-year-old daughter of C. N. Martin of Carthage, 111., died after a few hours’ violent Illness from eating green hazelnuts. Hundreds were killed by an earthquake in Russian Turkestan which struck four towns, one of which was completely destroyed. Henry Rlngger, aged 60 years, was instantly killed at Fairbury, 111., by a Wabash passenger train. The fifty-horse power engine at the flax fiber mills at Spring Vplley, Minn., blew up. Engineer Jerome Stevens was burled in the ruins, but miraculously escaped death. He had just started a fire. It is supposed some explosive had been placed ip the boiler.

ROOT ADDRESSES ILLINOIS LEAGUE

Secretary of War Defends the Acts of the National Administration FOLLOWS M’KINLEY’S POLICY Declares That President Roosevelt Is Carrying Out the Wishes of the Late Chief and That Republicans Must Be Retained. Peoria, 111., special: The campaign in Illinois was formally opened here at the meeting of the Republican league. The chief event of the day was the speech of Secretary of War Elihu Root, in which the cabinet officer defended the administration’s Philippine policy and demonstrated that the line laid down by President McKinley had been followed without wavering to a successful termination. The war secretary proved that of the great mass of undertakings under which the administration had labored the only unfinished task that could be pointed out was a small Moro rebellion. Indorse State Nominations. The league adopted resolutions, but took no action on the question of the United States senatorship. It indorsed the nominations and indorsements of the last Republican state convention. The resolutions refer to the deaths of President McKinley and Gov. Tanner, commend President Roosevelt and deplore the accident which lately befell him, and commended the administration of Gov. Yates. Secretary Root opened with the statement that he had visited Peoria once before, in 1899, when President McKinley spoke at the unveiling of the soldiers’ monument. Mr. Root paid an eloquent tribute to McKinley and said: Root Utters Praise. “The first words spoken by his successor, when taking the oath of office at Buffalo, were: ‘lt is my purpose to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of President McKinley for the peace, prosperity and honor of our beloved country.’ With loyalty and resolution, with the honesty, frankness and courage for which the American people love him he has continued the work McKinley began, and pressed forward the performance of the great duties which they both believed the welfare of their country and of mankind Imposed upon the government of the United Slates. “The American people are now called upon to consider whether they wish to withdraw their support from the policy of McKinley and of Roosevelt, and elect a house of representatives which will oppose and, by a hostile majority, frustrate and prevent all further effective action by the President. Says Democrats Cause Delay. “Of course, such action as that would result in an effective government. A government half Republican and half Democrat can never be a government of progress or offirmatlve action. “What has the Republican administration of the country done or failed to do to call down upon it such disapproval and loss of confidence? The principal, Indeed almost the sole attack by the representatives of the Democratic party, which occupied a greater part of the last session of congress, was violent denunciation of the administration’s policy in the Philippines and of the execution of that policy.” Business Session. The business session of the league was In the morning. Clarence F. Buck of Monmouth was chosen as president, with C. J. Fellows of Chicago as vice president, and Harry B. Ward of Duquoin as secretary. After introductory speeches, the report on resolutions was submitted and adopted, and endorsement given Gov. Yates. Gov. Yates made a speech in which he spoke about what he had done with the state Institutions, and Incidentally touched upon the merit system. Uncle Shelby Speaks. Senator Cullom in his address said in substance that the Democrats were not united this year and theirs was a destructive and not constructive party. Quoting a favorite expression of Gov. Oglesby, he said the Democrats could not run the country, because It was as much as the Republicans could do, and that the Democrats, never understood the spirit and genius of the American nation. He spoke, too, ot legislation the Republicans have gotten through congress, and said he favored reciprocity rather than a radical revision of the tariff, claiming that all radical tariff revision suspended the business of the whole country for an entird year.

NominationS for Congress.

7th AlabamaO. D. Street (R.) 9th Alabamac. Miller (R.) 3d CaliforniaC. B. White (D.) 4th ConnecticutE. J. Hill (R.) 20th New York...T. H. Babcock (D.) 3d New Jersey. .J. Geissenhalmer (D.)

Mason Plan to Aid Boers.

Rome cablegram: Newspapers here announce that the grand master of the Italian Free Masons has instructed all the Italian lodges to open subscriptions in behalf of the destitute Boers.

PENSIONS NEAR MILLION MARK

Uncle Sam’s Rolls Show Net Gain of Over 5,700 Since Spanish War. DEATH LIST FOR LAST YEAR Over Fifty Thousand Veterans Passed Away During the Twelvemonth, But Only 27,000 Drew Relief From the United States Government. The annual report of the commlseloner of pensions, Eugene F. Ware, shows that the number of names on the pension rolls still Is under the million mark despite a net gain of 5,732 pensioners since 1898. The total enrollment July 1 last was 999,446, against 997,735 last year. The total comprises 738,809 soldiers and 260,637 widows and dependents. The aggregate Includes 4,695 pensioners outside the United States. The number of death notices of old soldiers not now In the service received by the bureau during the year was 50,128, but only 27,043 of them were pensioners. Predicts 46,000 Deaths. The report says that the death rate among the pensioners for the coming year will be about 40,000 and the losses to the rolls from other causes will be about 6,000. The total amount paid for pensions during the fiscal year was >137,504,268 and the yearly cost of operating and maintaining the bureau and the agencies outside of the payment of pensions proper aggregate >3,590,529. The pension system since the beginning of the government has cost >2,992,509,019, exclusive of the establishment of the soldiers’ homes. Where the Money Goes. The following amounts have been paid to soldiers, their widows, minor children and dependent relatives on account of military and naval services during the wars in which the United States have been engaged: Revolutionary war (estimated) >70,000,000; War of 1812 (on account of service, without regard to disability, >45,025,297; Indian wars, 1832-1842 (on account of service, without regard to disability), >5,814,207; War with Mexico (on account of service, without regard to disability), >31,861,338; War of the Rebellion, >2,744,878,276; War with Spain, >3,275,184; Actual total disbursements in pensions, >2,900,854,302. The amount paid as pensions on account of disabilities and deaths as results of military and naval service during the wars of 1812 and with Mexico and in time of peace to the beginning of the war with Spain are included in the payments on account of the war of the rebellion. Cost of Old Wars. It is estimated that >16,000,000 was paid In pensions for disabilities and deaths due to military and naval service in the wars of 1812 and with Mexico and during the time of peace prior to the war of the rebellion, making the payments of pensions to soldiers and sailors of the war of the rebellion and of the regular military and naval establishment since the close of the war of the rebellion and their widows, children and dependent relatives amount to >2,728,878,276. This is outside of the cost of maintaining bureau, agencies and soldiers’ homes. Disposing of Applications. The average value of each pension is now a little over >132. The number of applications for pensions filed was 188,626; rejected, 118,464, granted, 117,268. During 1902 the oureau handled 47,106 more pension applications than it received, showing progress in catching up with the accumulated work.

DEEDS ARE SET ASIDE BY COURT

Lands Devised to Clara Belle Strain Taken From Eureka College. Laporte, Ind., special: Judge Rabb of Warren county, this state, has decided the case of Clara Belle Strain against Eureka College of Eureka, 111., the First Church of Christ of Danville, 111., the Second Church of Christ of Danville, 111., and Lewis Hoff. The suit was to set aside deeds to SIOO,OOO worth of real estate and to quiet plaintiff’s title, acquired by virtue of the will of Deborah Bandy, who subsequent to the execution of the will executed deeds to the college conveying lands that were devised to plaintiff. The verdict was for the plaintiff.

Wilder’s Brigade.

Greenup, 111., special: Five thousand persons attended the union of Wilder’s brigade. Speeches were made by Chief Justice Wilkins and J. G. Cannon of Danville. Rev. J. L. Ryan, on behalf of the citizens of Greenup and the members of the brigade, presented Gen. Wilder with a beautiful silver cup.

Stockmen Are Killed.

St. Louis, Mo., special: Four stockmen were killed and several injured in a collision near Malden, 111., on the Burlington road. A passenger train crashed into the rear end of a stock train, telescoping the caboose.

Discover Big Coal Field.

Liverpool cable: A new coal field has been discovered on Lord Dudley’s Staffordshire estate. It is estimated that the field will yield 1,500 tons daily for a period of eighty' years.

CyCLONE INVADES ISLAND OF SICILY

Kills Hundreds of Persons and Destroys Much Property. STORM COVERS A LARGE AREA Path of the Tornado Was 124 Mlleo In Length, Everything In Line Being Swept Before It—German Steamer la Wrecked. Hundreds of persons were killed and enormous property loss waa caused by a cyclone which swept over the eastern coast of the island of Sicily. Flooded streams and what seemed a tidal wave were features of the storm. A large portion of the low lying part of Modica has been destroyed. Two torrents, the St Francis and the Ste. Marie, which descend through the town rose suddenly and brought with them masses of mud and heavy stones and invaded the buildings of Modica. They carried away everything in their course. Many houses were utterly wrecked and others were seriously damaged. Numerous salmala perished. Church Becomes a Morgue. The number of victims is still unknown, but eighty corpses have been deposited in a single church. At Soicli twelve persons were killed. Tasearo was destroyed. Enormous damage was done at Palazzolo, Acreide, Faria and Geratana. Catania, a city on the east coast, is flooded and many houses, including the villa Bellini, have been damaged. The railroads have suffered seriously. Sea Sweeps Inland. For twenty-four hours before the cyclone burst over the Island a violent storm raged on the eastern coast The path of the cyclone was 124 miles long, and everything in the line of the storm was destroyed. The sea swept inland a great distance, doing enormous damage, while there were violent submarine agitations between Sicily and the mainland. Along the railroad from Catania to Palermo the force of the cyclone was such that rails were torn up and hurled to a great distance. Find 100 Bodies. It is reported from Modica that 100 bodies already have been found, but that the number of dead bodies swept away by the torrent is unknown. The survivors of . the catastrophe have taken refuge in the hills. A relief committee and search parties have been organized at Modica. Ths disaster is supposed to have been due to a marine waterspout The German steamer Caprera was wrecked at Catania after a terrible struggle with the waves.

THE LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

Wheat. New York—No. 2 red, 73%c. Chicago—No. 2 red, 78@84%c. St. Louis —No. 2 red, 65%c. Kansas City—No. 2 hard, 66%@67c. Duluth—No. 1 hard, 71c. Toledo—73c. Milwaukee —No. 1 northern, 83c. Minneapolis—No. 1 northern, 67% @6B%c. Corn. New York—No. 2,72 c. Chicago—No. 2, 61%@62%c. St. Louis—No. 2,57 c. Kansas City—No. 2 mixed, 56%c. Peoria—No. 8,58 c. Toledo—62c. Oats. New York—No. 2,33 c. Chicago—Standard, 33c. St. Louis —No. 2, 29 %c. Kansas City—No. 2 white, 32%c. Milwaukee —Standard, 32%c. Peoria —No. 3 white, 30@31c. Cattle. Chicago—[email protected]. Kansas City—[email protected]. St. Louis —$2.25 @7.60. Buffalo—[email protected]. Omaha —[email protected]. Hogs. Chicago—[email protected]. Kansas City—[email protected]. St. Louis—[email protected]. Buffalo—s6.so @7.85. [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs. Chicago—[email protected]. Kansas City—[email protected]. St. Louis —[email protected]. * Omaha—[email protected]. 8uffa10—[email protected].

Crops Saved by Rain.

Buenos Ayres dispatch: An official Report, issued by the minister of Agriculture, says the recent rains in tha Argentine Republic have saved tha crops and estimates that the yield this year will exceed that of last year by 40 per cent. The wool clip is expected to amount to the exceptional value of $50,000,000.

Workman Dies on Scaffold.

Indianapolis, Ind., dispatch: James Kennedy, a plasterer, whose home was in Cinoinnati, was found dead on a scaffold only two feet wide on the second floor of the new Claypool hotel building. He died of heart failure.

Husband’s Illness Causes Suicide.

Muncie, Ind., dispatch: Mrs. Harry Rentfrow, a prominent woman, shot herself through the heart and died Instantly. She was despondent because her husband ig dying of typhoid fever

PLENTY OF GOLD IN NEW DISTRICT

Big Creek Belt, Lying West of Thunder Mountain, Is Rich in Ore. DEVELOPMENT IS BEING DONE Snows Will Block the Roads Soon, but With the Opening of Spring a Great Rush to the New Fields Is Looked For. The chief topic of interest among western mining men, and particularly at Boise, Idaho, is the news of the development of that part of Thunder mountain known as the Big Creek district, a belt lying west of the Thunder mountain district proper and comprising a strip of ground twenty miles long and five miles wide. For two or three months it has been known that claims were being located in this belt by mining experts, and considerable work has been done under the direction of men who were supposed to represent eastern capital. But the prospectors and the local mining people were not inclined to look with much enthusiasm on the work. The Thunder mountain boom early in the year, which played out during the summer, has made local mining operators suspicious of the country. Finds Gold and SilverH. H. Hunter of Seattle, representing Colorado capitalists, has a wonderful showing of ore, and is actively at work with a large crew of men driving tunnels, building cabins, etc. The ledge shows on the contact of quartzite and porphry through their property a mile in length, and from 60 to 200 feet wide. It is a clean quartz carrying gold and silver values in considerable quantities. Tunnels are being driven at a depth of 800 feet on the vein on opposite sides of the canon, and, if the values justify, this one property will furnish sufficient tonnage to warrant the building of transportation into the country. Story Is Credited. Hunter is recognized as a conservative mining man, backed by developers, and has gone about his investigations in a systematic way, and has, beyond doubt, centered on what will prove one of the greatest mineral belts in the world. He has let contracts for a number of tunnels and other workings on what is known as the Empress group of mines, on the south fork of Logan creek, in the Big creek district. The mining investors have begun to take more interest in Big creek, for Hunter’s clients are believed to be the most conservative mining people in the country. Assays Are Big. This has been thought to be a country of large tonnage and low values, but instead the assayists report it of high values. The tonnage is unprecedentedly large. The ore occurs on all the properties in the Big creek district in great ledges, many of them exposed along the sheer sides of the mountain for as much as a thousand feet. In the Empress group of mines there is a ledge exposed for a thousand feet down the mountain, averaging seventy feet wide and traceable over a mile. Anywhere along this exposed ledge tock broken off will assay from >7 to >6O in gold and silver values. The mineral is found in contact veins in porphries. Rivals the Transvaal. Mining men in Boise and vicinity believe that a camp has been found in the Big creek district which will rival the South African fields. Naturally in so large a district the country has not been thoroughly prospected, in fact, hardly scratched. The country will be closed by snow in a few weeks and prospectors will hardly have time to get in this year. But a rush is looked for next spring, and it is believed that the new camp on Big creek will develop more rapidly than any gold camp for many years. As the preliminary work this summer has been done under the eyes of expert mining men, backed by capital from the beginning, it has not been an accidental development.

WILL HAVE NOTED SPEAKERS

Y. M. C. A. to Hold State Convention at Kankakee. Kankakee, 111., dispatch: The annual state convention of the Young Men’s Christian Association will be held in Kankakee Oct. 16-19. The convention address will be delivered by Luther Laflin Mills of Chicago. Four hundred delegates are expected. A feature will be the banquet for business men. Among the speakers will be John R. Mott, Capt. Richmond P. Hobson, Rev. W. E. Biederwolf, Judge M. W. Fields, President F. C. Barnes, Dr. John M. Coulter, L. W. Messer, L. E. Buell, John Lake and M. M. Mallary.

French Birth Statistics.

Paris cablegram: A French government report just issued shows that in 1900, for the fourth time in eleven years the number of births was less than the number of deaths. Of the births one-sixth were illegitimate.

Burglars at Springfield.

Springfield, 111., special: Burglars entered the residence of C. D. Roberts and carried away all the Jewelry and diamonds of Mrs. Roberts and her daughters and all the silverware.