Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — CASH FOR A HUSBAND [ARTICLE]

CASH FOR A HUSBAND

BUT HE MUST TAKE A CHINESE BRIDE. Big Raid on Chicago'* Population— ™ —Board of Trade Men Win—Williams Sinks with AU Hands Startling News Comes from Cuba. Rich Chinaman's Offer. Hip Sing Lee, a wealthy Chinese merchant of San Jose, Cal., offers a halfinterest in his extensive merchandise business and $5,000 in cash to. any rep- j utable young American who will marry J his daughter, Moi Lee. Hip Sing Lee is ! the wealthiest Chinaman in the valley ! and his fortune is estimated at from SSO,- t 000 to SIOO,OOO. Lee has become thor- j oughly Americanized, and as he is getting old it is his wish to see his daughter hap- I pily married to some good American who will look after and care for his business and wealth. Lee’s wife died about a year ago, and as several attempts have been made to kidnap Moi he is afraid that if Moi does not marry soon the highbinders may succeed in abducting her. 1_ . Desperate Battle in Cuba. News of a battle, in which tho Spanish" were defeated by the Cubans and lost * 800 men, was received Monday, at New York. It came in a letter written Sept. 14 by Pedro Rovini, a Spanish private who deserted to the Cuban ranks at Pera I.ego when Campos was defeated. In a later engagement Rovira was captured by the Spanish, court-martialed and shot. The Spaniards were greatly incensed against him, as he had killed three of their men before being captured. The Cubans bad bo ’cavalry, but Made effective use of dynamite bomba, which, the letter says, struck terror to the enemy. In the engagement the Cubans' loss i was forty men wounded and killed. The | —SpaßittrdslosteveritOOH+e&vfeFtyiMH-tiesj and a large store of provisions and munitions of war. Startling News from Cuba. A dispatch dated Monday, via New York, sent from Havana by steamer four days earlier to a Chicago paper says: I “Armed parties of revolutionists are ai- | ready in the Province of Ma-tanzas and | actually within seventy-five miles of the ; city of Havana. For a long time this -frill be denied, and as news of other attacks are received they will be either suppressed or twisted into stories of mere predatory bands of evildoers, having no real connection with the revolution, until the facts become impossible of further concealment. The west end of the island | will soon be the scene of an uprising. This ) seems improbable, but it is reported on the best authority. Forty-five Go Over the Road, Fopr covered wagons were driven into the jail yard at Chicago Monday morn- ■ lng. When the big gates were swung open to allow: the vehicles to depart half an hour iotpr the wagons contained for- j ty-five prisoners on their fray to Joliet t ; ,an<Hfe»fjac., Tfebmifc? tho Chicago jail. Never before, according to the jail authorities, was there such a jail delivery in a single day. The number to go to Joliet and Pontiac Monday ! was originally fixed nt forty-seven. But Mattie Smith and William, alias “Mut- J ton,” Johnson were wanted as witnesses j In cases set for trial, and they were not taken to Joliet. Elevator Men,, Beaten. 1 The Chicago Board of Trade won its fight against the elevator men. Chairman W. S. Cantrell, of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, handed down a decision declaring that the owners of public warehouses must not buy or sell grain through their own elevators. By way of impressing upon the elevator companies the force of the ruling the commission issued an order revoking the licenses of nine firms who have been violating the law on this point. Lost on Lake Michigan. The schooner E. R. Williams sunk off Escanaba, Mich., in a gale Sunday night, and all on board are supposed to be lost, as it would be impossible for them to reach shore in such a furious sea. Following are the names of the crew so far as known: Capt. Hunton, master of the schooner; home in Cleveland. Maggie Bennett, stewardess; home in Cleveland. - Mate and four sailors; names unknown.