Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Stephen J. Ingalls has confessed to setaleven fires in Gloucester, Mass., one of which destroyed the Bass Rock Hotel entailing a total loss ex“fndred and eighty cans of dyna*bont » ® lle b * low Lilly, mh.afternoon with frightful resu.2 ,3* ? ead Injured are: Mike Hcnwnoskl, dead. Fatally injured: An- I '-■ torn© Btibie; Grego r io UB Schikl. Gabriel Augonostti, r rank Smith (colored), Peter Jackeon (colored). Hamuel Walters. The men were at Contractor Mc-

Mannt on the Pennsylvania Railway and were getting ready to make a blast when there was a premature explosion, blowing u|p 180 cans dynamite and burying the seven men beneath a mass of sand and rock. Tbe .steam shovel, .which stood on 1 the track, washurled twenty feet away. Captain John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry U. S. A.,, died Monday at the Olyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia, where he had been under treatment ter about three weeks. Captain Bourke was 53 .years old. He was stationed at Fort Ethan Alien; Vermont. He leaves a widow and three daughters. His wife was with him at the time of his dqath. but the three daughters were at their home in Burlington, Vt. Captain Bourke had a brilliant record As a gallant soldier. He enlisted as a private in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry in 1862 and took part in the campaign of the Army of the Cumberland under Rosecrans and Thomas. He was awarded a medal of honor ter gallantry at Stone River. At the close of the war he was appointed by President Lincoln a cadet-at-large to the West Point Military Academy, from which he graduated, in 1.8(59. He saw much service in Indian warfare, and was mentioned in general orders for gallantry in engagements with Indians. ’ He was a member of scientific societies in France, England and the United States, and wrote much upon anthropology and folk lore. One of his most valuable monographs upon th# medicine men of the Apaches was published by the Smithsonian Institution. His most popular books, “On the Border With Crook,” “An Apache Campaign" and “The Snake Dance of the Moqui.s." have had editions In New York and London. Three thousand Harvard men, encouraged by the phenomenal event of a Harvard victory, fought 100 policemen in the streets of historic old Cambridge Wednesday night. It was the biggest riot that the university has ever seen. The moment it was known that Harvard had won there was a roar. Then all was pandemonium. In half an hour there was on foot the biggest celebration ever known at Harvard. __The whole city was a blaze of red fire, fireworks lighted up in every _direction, and the evening was made hideous With the blasbFof atKousaTicLgianT’ horns. The police, anticipating trouble, were out Jn extra force. The majority of the Harvard men were armed with revolvers find delivered a running volley, firing into the air. Clay Stone Briggs, a student from Galveston, Texas, was arrested, and t here_was a mad rush of 3,000 enraged students to the rescue. Arthur T. Pilling, a student from Washington, was the first to tackle an officer. He was promptly knocked down. Goldwait ll.' Dorr, of Orange. N. J., a student, jumped on another policeman. He. was seized, and arrested'. Many policemen and studetftSTeceived wounds. Finally the police were victorious, and the three students were dragged into the station house. For an hour 3.000 mad students surrounded the station clamoring for the release of their comrades. The chief of police and prominent citizens addressed the students and urged them to disperse'. The students paid little attention to the officers and refused to retire until the three men who were arrested were released on bail. They then departed, cheering as they left the police station the three heroes mounted on the shoulders of the mob.