Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — PARIS STRIKE GROWS [ARTICLE]

PARIS STRIKE GROWS

FRENCH METROPOLIS HAS 60,000 IDLE MEN. Present Labor Troubles Have Extended So as to Interfere with Work on Exposition—San Francisco Counterfeiters Produce Big Bills. rituation Is Alarming. The strike of the laborers in Parts has extended to nearly all the building trades, and it is feared the railroad men will join in the-movement. Work on the exhibition buildings and underground railroad has completely ceased. About 60,000 men have gone on strike, and the situation is causing consternation. The attitude of the strikers is increasingly aggressive, and fights between strikers and socalled “blaek J legs” are incessant, involving the intervention of the police, troops and mounted republican guards, who have been obliged to repeatedly charge the strikers. The quarters in which rioting has taken place are patrolled by strong detachments of police and troops. There are great apprehensions lost the agitation turn the strike movement to political ends. WOMAN STRANGLED IN DENVER. Mrs. Voglit, a Clairvoyant, Found Dead in Her Apartments. Mrs. Julius Voght, a clairvoyant and medium, was found dead in her apartments on Champa street, Denver. She lay ou the floor, face downward. A twisted towel was tied tightly around her neck and there is no doubt that she hud been ‘strangled to death. There is no clew to the murderer, but the police believe that the deed was committed by the same

strangler who murdered three women on Market street in that city in 1894. Shortly after these murders Mrs. Voght informed the police officials that spirits had given her, while she was in a trance, a description of the strangler, but he had never been discovered. It is thought the murderer of Mrs. Voght either believed she did know something or he was also a believer in “spirits” and decided to put her out of the way and possibly save himself from exposure. BOGUS BILLS ON LARGE SCALE. Silver Certificates of SIOO Counterfeited in tbe West, It is said that United States secret-ser-vice officers, aided by ..Chief Lees, have discovered that large numbers of counterfeit SIOO silver certificates have been produced in San Francisco. The operators are reported to be under police surveillance. The Call asserts that 5,000 of these spurious bills were sent into tbe Klondike district. They are readily exchanged for gold dust and their falsity was not discovered until the returning miners tried to pass them in Portland. The paper is said to be of government make, ns are also the various inks, with the exception of that with which the number is printed. This is of au ordinary quality and cannot withstand the action of acid. GARCIA ON HIS TOUR. Agent of the United states to Induce Cubans to Disarm. General Garcia left Santiago de Cuba on his mission through Santiago province, acting as an agent of the American Government, to arrange the details for the disbandment of the Cuban army in the east. He will confer with the military commanders in the outlying districts, using his strong influence to induce the peaceful disarming of the Cuban soldiers ‘and their return to work. Enemies Burn His Property. Dr. Harrison, an old settler and the richest man in Newton, lowa, incurred the enmity of unknown persons upon being .charged with selling whisky in his drug store. The other night the drug store, livery stable and a dwelling owned by the doctor wore burned by incendiaries. While the fire was raging the doctor’s residence and private stables in another part of the town were blown up by dynamite aud partially destroyed. The family narrowly escaped death. Dr. Harrison’s loss is $15,000. Big Log Rnft Found, The big lumber raft which has been floating around the Pacific for two weeks bus been towed into port at San Francisco by tugboats. The original raft was built ut Astoria. Ore., and was taken in tow for Sail Francisco, but had to be abandoned during a storm. The portion saved is 350 feet long and worth $75,000. Drowned in a Creek. As Mrs. Adam Troutman and children were returning home from a visit with Shelby, Ohio, relatives iu a carriage, the horse backed off a bridge, precipitating the whole load Into the creek. A child abort 2 years old was drowned, the mother rt adored Unconscious. Ktninj. Mill Destroyed. TLj Standard Consolidated Mining Company’s 20-stamp mill ut Bodic, Cal., was totally destroyed by tire. The fire started in the boiler room. The adjoining officer and the cyanide plant were saved. The estimated loss is $50,000, partly insurer. Mrs. McKinley's Brother Killed. Gtorge D. Suxton, the only brother of Mrs. William McKinley, lies dead at the Canton, Ohio, morgue, murdered by a woman. Mrs. Anna George, an intimate friend of tin* dead man, is under arrest charged with having fired the fatal shots. No Vorc llanglne*. Alfred Williams, convicted of the murder of John Gallo, in Lynn, July 22, 1897, Wms hanged at Salem, Mas*. This is the ln«t hanging Massachusetts will ever know. In the future the penalty for nil capital offenses will Ik* electrocution. Big ltittle*hip Launched. The muuunotli United States battleship Illinois, one of the three latest additions i<> the navy and probably the most powerful flght'in: tuoehiue afloat, was launched at Newport News, Vn„ under auspicious ! circumstances. » Bn.v State for Silver. The Democrat* ot-Massachusetts ttomi- ! anted Alexander 1). Bruce for Governor. | The platform declares for silver and oppose* expansion. Democrat* : weep Georgia. The Democrats elected all State officers in Georgia by majorities approximating 70,000. Allen l>. Clioud)**' was chosen Governor.

COLLISION ON NORTHWESTERN. Fireman Hack wall of Chicago Killed and Three Cara Burned. One man killed, three cars burned and a locomotive wrecked was the result of a collision between a passenger and freight train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, about eight miles south of Milwaukee. The freight train was standing on the main track, and the accident was caused by failure of Engineer Lane of the passenger to notice a block danger signal. The passenger train on crashing into the freight telescope the caboose, setting it on fire. The locomotive toppled over sideways, burying Fireman Thomas Duckwall of Chicago, whose dead body was taken out several hours later in a badly mangled condition. The engineer escaped. The flames communicated to the mail car and also to a freight car containing coke, next to the caboose, the three being destroyed. All the mail, with the exception of one or two sacks, was saved and the mail clerks escaped unhurt. BUILDING ALASKA RAILROAD. * Line from Skaguay to White Pass in Working Order. John Stanley, Mayor of Skaguay, Alaska, who is now in San Francisco purchasing apparatus for a fire department, says: “The Pacific and Arctic Railroad, now being built from Skaguay to Selkirk, is well under way. Rails have been laid to White Pass, and up to that point the road is in full working order. Over thirty-five tons of freight is daily shipped over this spur. Seven hundred men are working on the road. Last month the pay roll was $129,000. From White Pass to Lake Bennett, a distance of thirty miles, freight is transferred by sledges. Laborers on the roacy-eceive 35 cents an hour.” Woman Confesses an Old Murder.Eleven years ago. Louis Bali was foully murdered at Washington Court House, Ohio, his head being cut off with a razor, and his head and body laid across the railroad track in such a manner as to appear that he had been killed by a train. Abraham Huffman was arrested for the crime, but was released for luck of convicting evidence. Others were suspected, but it looks now as if the deathbed confession of Mrs. Jeffreys of Hillsboro, Ohio, just made in the presence of four persons whom she called to her death chamber, will reveal the identity of the murderer. Mrs. Jeffreys implicated herself, another woman and four men, giving their names. She said that she held Ball’s head while a man cut it off with a razor; that the blood was allowed to- flow into a tub, ! which was afterward concealed under a house, and that the other woman held Ball [ on her lap while his head was being cut , off. The men carried the body and head to the railroad track to cover up the crime, j The persons implicated live in and about , the city.

Woman Is Exonerated. George W. Clarke, under sentence to be hanged at San Quentin. Cal., for the murder of his brother, has made a confession, in which he states he alone is responsible for his brother’s death. Clarke was enamored of his brother’s wife and thought that should, his brother be put out of the way the woman would marry him, and he made the confession for the purpose of exonerating her of any complicity in the crime. Result of tlie Sugar Fight. All the sugar refining interests are now openly selling granulated sugar at 5 cents a pound. Owing to rebates to the grocers the net return to the refiners is such that the trade is agreed that the present price leaves no margin of profit to the refining interests. His Sum Left to U. of P. At a meeting of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania it was announced that Col. Joseph M. Bennett, the late merchant and philanthropist, had bequeathed to the institution a number of valuable properties valued at over $400,000. Fmoilpox in Ohio. An epidemic of smallpox has broken out at Wapakoneta, Ohio, but so far there have, been no* deaths. All the schools have been ordered closed, and public assemblages have been forbidden. The scare amounts to almost a panic. Dorn Richardsou Is Married. Dora Richardson, “child wife” of General Cassius M. Clay, and w ? ho was divorced from him a month ago, was married at Keene, Ivy., to lliley Brock, the farmhand to whom she was engaged. Big Bank Crocs Under, With $2,000,0CX) due to small tradesmen depositors, the Tradesmen’s National Bank of New York closed its doors.