Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1898 — CLARK FOUNDGUILTY [ARTICLE]

CLARK FOUNDGUILTY

VERDICT IN JHE FAMOUS BOYD MURDER CASE. Attorney and Writer Convicted of Manslaughter Mistaking Him for a Thief, Sister Crushes Brother’s Skull with an Ax. Verdict in Boyd Case. E. C. Clark, a prominent 'member of the Reno County bar, anil who has been known to greater or less extent as a writer on economic questions, has been found guilty at Hutchinson, Kan., of manslaughter in the second degree. This is the first trial in the sensational Boyd murder case. W. C. Boyd was murdered on May 11) in the restaurant of Mrs. Nellie Postlewait. At the inquest it appeared that her oldest son, Harry, had committed the crime, but Mrs. Postlewait made a sensational confession in which ehe declared she herself had killed Boyd. Harry later confessed the crime and said Clark had furnished the weapon a.'d advised the killing. The State claimed as the motive that Boyd were rivals for the smiles of the attractive Mrs. Postlewait. The trial of Mrs. Postlewait and her two sons will occur later. DEATH IN RAILWAY WRECK. e- ■ ■■ One In KHied and Twenty Are Injured Near Dallas, Texas. A Houston and Texas Central train plunged through a 15-foot trestle over Chambers creek, forty-seven miles from Dallas, Texas, injuring at least twenty persons, one fatally. The one fatally injured is Judge G. W. Davis of Oak Cliffe. L. A. Daffan. division superintendent, had three fingers cut off and head gashed. R. D. Berry of Dallas, division freight agent, was pinioned under the wreck in the water and would have been drowned had not an unknown woman passenger held his head up until men came to his rescue. B. T. Moore of Dallas had both legs broken and was injured internally. The wounded were taken to Ennis for treatment. The trestle gave way just as the train struck it, throwing the sleeper and chair car into the stream. CRUSHES BROTHER’S SKULL. Awful Mistake of a Woman LivingNear Kenton, O, George Charlton, living two miles east •f Kenton. 0., will probably* lose his life through a strauge accident. About midnight, hearing a noise in his chicken coop, he went out to investigate. Soon his sister heard a scuffle, and, grabbing an ax, she ran to her brother’s assistance. Finding, as she supposed, the thief on top, she struck him a fearful blow with the ax, but soon discovered it was her brother she had hit. His skull was crushed in, and the doctors have but little hoj>e of his recovery. The burglar proved to be a junk peddler. He was arrested. Omaha’s Mayor Out of Office. The Nebraska Supreme Court has dedared that Omaha’s Mayor, Frank E. Moores, was not eligible to office when dected two years ago because of a technical point in his accounts as District Court Clerk. A new election, therefore, must be held, although W. J. Broatch, whom Moores succeeded, claims the office now because he was elected to serve until his successor was elected and qualified.

Five Men Are I'rowned. Five men were drowned in St. Mary’s River by the foundering of the lighter Monitor. The Monitor was in tow of the tug Bruce and was loaded with iron ore taken from the schooner Carrington, ■which was stranded in the river. In turning the red range light on the way to Point Aux Pins the lighter foundered. The bodies were taken to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Rubber Fhoe Combine. President E. S. Converse*, of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, made the following statement: "Terms have been arranged between the Boston Rubber Shoe Company ami the United Stales Rubber Comimny, whereby the latter acquires control of a majority of the $5,000,000 capital stock of the Boston Rubber Shoe Company.” standing of the Clubs, Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L Boston 91 44 Philadelphia. 07 04 Baltimore ...80 48 Pittsburg ... .07 71 Cincinnati ..84 55 Imuisville ...01 75. Cleveland ...75 59 Brooklyn ....49 78 Chicago 70 03 Washington, 44 90 New York.. .72 03 St. Ixntis 33 97 Financial Concern Gora Under. The New England Loan and Trust Company of New York, which has long been regarded as the atrongeat of the financial concerns that exploited Western mortgages, has gone into the hands of a receiver, Otto F. Bonnard, president of the Continental Trust Company, having been appointed. Her Fody Faked to ■ Crisp. At Auburn. Ky., Mrs. Rainey Johnson, aged 32, committed suicide in a horrible manner, while insane. She saturated her clothes with kerosene and then applied a lighted match to them. Enveloped in flames, ehe ran screaming from the house to the street, and did not stop until burned to death. Tornado in Ontario. A tornado struck Merrhon. Ont., with terrible violence, killing live persons and injuring many. Tornado nt Lima, Ohio. A tornado swept over Lima, Ohio, and vicinity, doing an immense amount of damage. Elmer Baty of Beu ver Ham wns crushed to death beneath u bam. Fully fifty people were Injured, two it is thought, fatally. The damage will aggregate $200,000. Miss Davenport Fomcs Away. Funny Davenport tMrs. Melbourne NacDoweli), the nctrv**. died at Doxbury. Maas. She had been ill for several months. Her death was caused by enlargement of the heart.

STRANGLED BY THIEVES. Williamsburg Man Murdered and Hia Wife Seriously Injured. Andrew Cassagne was strangled to death by three men in the tenement in Williamsburg which he occupied with his wife. According to the story told to the police by Mrs. Cassagne, she had left the room for a few minutes. Returning she found her husband dead on the floor beside the bed, while three men stood over him. She ran to her husband’s side, but was grasped by two of the men, who choked her nearly to insensibility, while the third man searched the room, finding SSOO under the mattress of the bed. Meanwhile Mrs. Cassagne had contrived to reach the door opening into the hall, and kicked upon it to cal) for help. Her assailants relaxed their grasp upon her throat and she was able to scream, which she did just as the three fled from the tenement with the money. There were dark blue marks upon Mrs. Cassagne’s neck, bearing out the story of the assault upon her. MINERS’ STRIKE SETTLED. Work in the Third Pool Resumed--2,000 Affected. The coal miners’ strike in the third pool at Monongahela Cityi Pa., is over and work has been resumed in all the pits pending a settlement of the differences by arbitration. Both sides have agreed to abide by the decision of the arbitrators. The acceptance of the arbitration proposition is regarded as a victory for the miners. Under the terms, of the settlement the operators have agreed to withdraw the suits against the strikers who are now locked up in the Washington County jail charged with riot and to refund the money withheld from the employes under the individual contracts. About 2,000 miners were affected by the strike, which threatened t© spread to all points in the Pittsburg district. RUSSIA’S GAIN. Number of Valuable Concessions Are Given the Czar’s Government. A dispatch to the London Globe from Hong Kong purports to give details of the secret convention signed at Peking. It appears that Hsu-Ying-K’Ouoi, of the Chinese foreign office, thereby concluded an agreement with St, Petersburg by which China ceded Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-Wan, stipulating that only Russian and Chinese warships enter or dock at Port Arthur. Russia, it also appears, gets the exclusive use of the inner harbor of Ta-Lien-Wan, the sole administration of the ceded territories, and a tract of land north of Ta-Lien-Wan is designated as a buffer belt.

Tidings from China and Japan. Advices from the Orient by the Empress of India state that China and Japan have been visited by thunderstorms and disastrous floods, in which many hundreds of people have lost their lives. The region north of Ah Shang Mountains has been inundated for hundreds of miles by the Yellow river. Several hundred thousand persons have been plunged into the deepest distress and many into absolute penury, which local authorities are unable to alleviate. British Consul Butler, at Kiung-Chow, has requested the American consul, Dr. Bedloe, at Canton, to urge the viceroy to send soldiers to Nodoa, near Hoihow, to protect the lives and property of American missionaries in that district. Rev. Dr. I*. W. McClintock and Rev. W. J. Lewerett of the American Presbyterian mission, district of Hainau, were obliged to fly for their live* and seek protection of the British consul at Hoichow. Reports of the rebellion in Hainau indicate renewed outbreaks of the treed society, rt band of thieves nnd robbers who have been strengthened by pirates. This lawless army has committed many depredations in the Hoihow country. ‘ End of a Long-Standing Fend. Word has been received in St. Louis of a desperate and fatal duel between Mate Park Davis and the night watchman on board the steamer Mayflower of the Diamond Jo line, which left there the other night for Memphis. Both men are dead. For some time there had been a feud between the two men. When the boat was tied up at Hugs’ landing, one mile from Creston, Mo., the quarrel between the watchman and the mate broke out afresh. ,The former attacked the mate with a knife. For some time the struggle lasted, both participants rolling about the deck, to the horror of the passengers, who were unable to interfere. Finally, when the mate, who had been cut iu numerous places, was about to give up, he succeeded in pulling his revolver. With a well-directed shot be laid the watchman low. Stephen Hugs, the proprietor of the landing, went up town for an officer and returned with Deputy Coroner Bel). They found both the mate and the watchman dead, lying ou the blood-covered deck. Forest Reserve la Extended. The President signed an order altering the boundaries and area of the Black Hills forest reserve in South Dakota. A portion of the reserve was unsuited for timber growing, and this has been excluded and a large tract extending into Wyoming. 443,000 acres, has been added to the reserve. This action was taken at the solicitation of the people living in the vicinity of the reserve. Exposition Building Burned. The Exposition building at Tacoma. Wash., the largest structure of its kind in the Northwest, was completely destroyed by lire. Fifteen minutes after the flames wore discovered breaking out in the building the vast structure was a mass of fire. The building whs owned by the Tacoma Land Company. There was no insurance. The total loss will aggregate SIOO,OOO. From Court to Altar, Cupid played a funny prank at Mexico. Mo. In the a|Mtee of an hour Thomas Lewis secured a divorce from his wife nnd remarried her. in his petition for divorce he chargt'd his former wife ami preaent bride with trying to kill him with n knife and an iron poker nnd that she cared more for others than she did for him. Alaskan Railway in Operation. The first railroad built in Alnskn is now operating between Hkaguny and Lake Lindeman, n distance of twenty miles. The promoters of the road are confident that by next spring the road will be extended to Lake Bennett, twenty-five miles far ther. Bt. Louis Street Railway Line Bid In. The Fourth J* rect and Arsenal Street Railway at St. Louis was sold nt public auction on foreclosure. It was bought in for John 11. Overall for SIOI,OOO. It is believed he purchased the road ou behalf st the bondholders.