Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — ITS PRESTIGE GONE. [ARTICLE]

ITS PRESTIGE GONE.

LITTLE BLACK SPIDER DOWNS JERSEY’S FAMOUS PEST. Bhort Shrift for Louisiana Firebugs— Child’s Wounded Vanity Leads to Suicide —Life Imprisonment for a Murderer—City Treasurer Short. Jersey Musquito Dethroned. The Jersey mosquito has been dethroned by a species ofjblack spider which is now running rampant in that State, and Whose victims during the tnst fortnight are numbered by the score. In three instances its depredations have been attended with serious results. Lawyer G. F. Fort, of Camden, while lying on his bed, felt a tingling pain in the foot, an<4 looking down saw a huge spider. Within a few hours his entire leg had swollen to an enormous size and it was only after confinement for a week that he was able to leave his house. A similar case was that of C. H. Folwell, of the same city, who was bitten on the temple. Harry Linn, of Williamston, was bitten on the hand, and the pain became so intense that he was thrown into hervous prostration, from which he has not yet recovered. Lynched a Firebug. Gretna, a small town just across the river from New Orleans, was the scene of a mysterious lynching Sunday night. The victim was John Frye, 22 years of age. Frye belonged to a gang of firebugs. In the gang were Frank Strahl, a nephew of the sheriff; James Whitesides, a nephew of the, chief of police, and Gustave Raphael. The gang was caught setting fire to a disorderly house occupied by negroes,—They defied the police and did their work right under the eyes of two policemen. Later Raphael, Strahl and Whitesides were arrested and lodged in jail. Frye was captured some hours afterward, and while being taken to jail his captors were overpowered and their prisoner taken from them. That was the last seen of Frye until his dead body was found.

| Goes Up for Life. At Chicago, Joseph Weiman was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Joliet penitentiary by Judge Neely for the murder of Genevieve Minnie Dinger. A motion for a new trial was denied and the punishment prescribed by the jury was Imposed. Joseph Weiman shot Genevieve Dinger at Mrs. Anna Ziph’s house, 4857 Paulina street, Feb. 20 last, in a quarrel over a photograph. The two had been lovers and following the shooting of the girl her murderer tried to commit suicide. Weiman is a tailor by trade and 25 years old. Suicide for a Shirt Waist, Disappointed because her sister had not bought her a shirt waist, 14-year-old Katie McCoy committed suicide at Philadelphia by hanging. The child lived with her sister, Mrs. Mary Baker, who had promised to her the coveted garment on Saturday, ''tailed-ttHreep her word. Katie was much chagrined when she learned of her disappointment and Sunday night she quietly crept upstairs and, attaching a clothesline to her neck, hanged herself. Short $0,400. City Treasurer Stapf, of South St. Paul, has been arrested for a shortage in his accounts amounting to $9,400, the money having been used by him in his private business. The treasurer’s bondsmen will make good the shortage at once. This was Mr. Stapf’s fourth term as treasurer.