Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — LURED BY GOLD BRICK [ARTICLE]

LURED BY GOLD BRICK

YOUNG ENGLISHMAN ATTRACTED TO THIS COUNTRY. X<ittle Affair in Which the”. Sum of SIO,OOO Was Saved by Chance Strike of Freight Crews on the Colorado Midland Railway. Narrow Escape of SIO,OOO. Algernon Wood, a rich young Englishman, nearly lost SIO,OOO the other day in New York. “Con” Cadigaii, the cleverest gold brick artist in the United States, nearly got it. Captain McClusky saved it. Cadigan is locked up arid for some time will be unable to work the most up-to-date gold brick swindle that ever had birth in the busy brains of these active and original artists. Cadigan successfully lured the son of a rich, recently deceased Englishman to this country by a charming romance of rich gold mines, the product of which he wished to share- with the dead gentleman, to whom he was indebted for his marvelous success in life. This information was'all contained in a letter which “Con” wrote to the Englishman and which was naturally opened by his son. Only a chance visit to a lawyer and Captain McClusky saved that SIO,OOO. ROBS CLUB OF JEWELS. Metropolitan of New York Loses Thousands of Dollars in Diamonds. Jewels worth many thousands of dollars have disappeared from the office safe of ■the Metropolitan Club in New York. Edward 11. Jones, member of the law firm of Eustis. Jones & Govin, special counsel for the United States in the Spanish prize cases, ajid a member of the Metropolitan, has offered SI,OOO reward for the recovery of his gems, which belonged to him and To J. P. Scott of Philadelphia, son of the late Col. Tom Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The robbery is a very mysterious one and no clew to the missing jewels can be found. The Metropolitan is known as the Millionaires’ Chib, on account of the preponderance of rich men in it. Its home, at the corner of Fifth avenue and Sixtieth street, the handsomest in the world. FREIGHT CREWS STRIKE. Colorado Midland Employes Refuse to Handle Three-Engine Trains. The running of trains on the eastern division of the Colorado Midland Railway was stopped by a strike. The trouble originated when a crew was called upon to lake out a three-engine train. The men claimed that the company made an agreement some time ago not to run three-en-gine trains, and no crew would respond to the call. The strike involves about fifty men. The passenger business has not been affected. Serious Fire in Brooklyn. Fire at pier 39, East Hver, Brooklyn, did damage to the amount pf $500,000. Among the heaviest losses is (that of George L. Hammond, owner of i the naval stores, which is placed at $100,000; the Andorenha, owned by F. W. Roberts of Liverpool, England, and valued at $300,000. She was consigned to Halli Brothers, commission merchants. The blazing vessel was towed down to the Gowanus flats and probably will prove a total loss. The Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company, according to the best estimates, will lose $150,000. Ohio Miners Back at Work. At Pomeroy, Ohio, the miners’ strike, which has existed since March, is broken and the miners’ organization is disrupted. The Pacific mine started up and the men wrambled to get in at the reduced wages. The Spillman mine at New Haven, W. Va„ is the only one in the Pomeroy bend now idle. The approaching winter and the refusal of the company stores to longer give credit broke the strike. Five Sailors Kidnaped. The bark Highland Light, which has been loading coal at the Smith Cove bunkers, Seattle, Wash., did not sail the other day for San Francisco, owing to an unforeseen occurrence. According to the •atory of the captain, two boats loaded with men came out to the Highland Light and boarded her. They were armed with pistols and took five sailors away by force. Kills a Drummer in Texas. At Houston, Texas, M. Pareira, a drummer, whose home was at Albany, N. Y., was shot and Instantly killed by George He Moss. Pareira is alleged to have offered a gross insult to Mrs. De Moss and •die told her husband on her return home. Attacked by Chinese Soldiers. The Pekin correspondent of the London Daily T elegraph says: “Chinese soldiers attacked a party of English engineers at the Marco Polo bridge, on the Pekin-Han-kow Railway. Two engineers were injured and a railway coolie was killed.” Mother and Daughter Killed. While walking on the tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad on their way home from church, Mrs. Cornelius Shea and her daughter Margaret were struck by a passenger train at Leadville, Colo. Both were killed. Only One Was Saved. It has just developed that the German bark Satisfaction sunk during the recent gait* in the -North sea. The captain, his wife and the crew of nine were drowned, being all on board except a boy, who was saved. Nccruci Shot Down. During the progress of a bloody nt eta War at Hi .ictsvllle, Miss., nine negroes and one white man were killed. Oh id Bank Cloaca Its Doors. The Comptroller of the Currency was advised that the First National Bunk of Lisbon, Ohio, capital $50,000, had closed the doors. The dispatch from the bank examiner snid the failure of the bank appeared to buvtf been caused by mismanagement. Found Dead in His Bed. Captain Thomas B. Carter, chief of the secret service bureau for Kentucky, Indioim and Tennessee, wns found dead in tied in his room in Sclbaeh’s Hotel nt 1/ouisville, Ky.

TROOPS IN THE YUKON American Soldiers Will Be Distributed at Various Points. The distribution of United States troops in the Yukon for the winter will be as follows: Lieut. Edwin Bell, with thirty-five men, at Rampart City; Lieut. McManus, with seventy-five men, at Circle City; a company will be left at Fort Yukon and Capt. Richardson will make his headquarters with forty-five men at Eagle City. Capt. E. S. Walker will remain at St. Michael’s with seventy-eight men. He will keep in close touch with the Golvin bay new mining district, and should any call for relief be sent from Kotzebue sound he will co-operate with the reindeer superintendent in alleviating the trouble. There are ample storey at St. Michael’s for all purposes, and it is believed that the winter will pass without any destitution. About 300 men employed on the different transportation companies will winter at St. Michael’s. WIRE STRIKE IS OVER. Nearly All the Men Will Instantly Be Put Back to Work. By a unanimous vote, at a meeting of the striking wire drawers held at Cleveland, Ohio, the strike was declared off, Half an hour later National Secretary Walter Gillette and local officers of the Wire Drawers’ Union, with about forty of the strikers, marched to the office of the American Steel and Wire Company and announced the fact. After a brief conference Superintendent Nye was called in. He announced that all the old employes who ddsired to return to work could do so. as far as there were vacancies. This will provide places for all but a few of the strikers. HAS HIS NOSE PARED DOWN. Richard Smith’s Eight-Inch Proboscis Reduced. When Richard Smith of Indian River, New York State, returns home his friends will hardly be able to recognize him. This is due to an operation successfully performed in New York City at St. Vincent’s hospital on Smith’s nose, which has been reduced to a normal appendage. His proboscis was formerly eight inches long. \ ———————— Cuban Securities Desired. According to a story cabled from Madrid, it is believed at the Spanish capital that an Anglo-American syndicate is being formed to buy up Cuban bonds, and this is taken as good evidence that a satisfactory arrangement of the Cuban debt problem is to be made, and gives great cheer to the Spanish officials. There are two outstanding issues of Cuban bonds — one for $124,000,000 0 per cents, issued in 1886, and the other for $175,000,000 s’s authorized in 1890. Of the latter $141,000,000 was reserved to retire the 6 per cent bonds, while the remainder were sold at 95. The 6’s issued in 1886 were sold at 87. In each case the bonds are for SIOO each, or 500 pesetas, and they mature in fifty years from date. The amounts outstanding are $124,000,000 of the 6’s and $126,500,000 of the s’s; $300,500,000 altogether, on which the annual interest is $16,765,000. The interest is payable in London, Havana, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. The loans are secured by all of the revenues of the island of Cuba and are guaranteed by Spain. There was a prior issue of Cuban bonds in 1880 to pay off the loan advanced by the Banco Hispano Colonial to fund the Cuban floating debt and to exchange for these bonds the 6 per cent obligations of 1878. There were $75,000,000 of these bonds of ISBO and they were converted into bonds of 1886 and those not converted were paid off. Lynching Damage Law Valid. At Urbana, Ohio, the Circuit Court has handed down a decision in the case of Ben Church against Champaign County for $5,000 damages. The suit grows out of the lynching of Click Mitchell two years ago, and is brought under the law which gives the nearest of kin $5,000, The common pleas court held the law unconstitutional. The Circuit Court held it to be constitutional. The case will now go to the Supreme Court—, Millionaire Soldier Dies. Graham A. Young of Louisville, Ky., son of an earthenware manufacturer who left a fortune of $1,000,000, died in the post hospital at Willet’s Point, L. I. He enlisted in the engineer corps unknown to his mother, returned from Porto Rico three weeks ago, and was stricken with typhoid fever. Mr. Peck Gets More Space. When Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the exhibition of 1900, arrived in Paris the space allotted to the United States at the exposition grounds was 175,000 feet. Mr. Peck's first gain was 6,000 square feet, and he has just secured 22,000 square feet more. Poor Outlook in Manitoba. Of an estimated yield of from 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels of wheat in Manitoba, it is now calculated that only about 8,000,000 will be thrashed, and the remainder, standing in stacks and stooks, is threatened with total destruction. The outlook is exceedingly gloomy. Wife Murderer Hanged. Joe Ott, who pleaded guilty to killing his wife, was hanged in the jail yard at Granite Falls, Minn. Ott made n statement from the gallows expressing sorrow for the crime. He killed his wife on the evening of Mny 18, 1898, by beating her brains out with a "billy.” Divorce Law Is to Ftand. Episcopal bishops in council at Washington, by a vote of 31 to 24, rejected propositions bearing on the subject of remarriage of divorced persons, designed to take the place of those now in existence. The present canons on that subject, therefore, remain in force. Boom Dewey for Preaident, The friends of Admiral Dewey tire determined to present his name to the American people as a candidate for the presidency. At least such is the statement made on the authority of Senator Proctor of Vermont, one of Dewey’s closest friends. Jones’ Narrow Escape. While returning to Walker, Minn., from a council with the Bear Island Indians, Commissioner Jones had a narrow escape from drowning, the steamer Flora, which had carried him. being wrecked close to the dock by running on to sunken timbers. Fever Quarantine Removed. The Mississippi State Board of Health has removed the quarantine/ Mississippi is now open to the world and all refugees may return. Killed by Dynamite Explosion. Three men were killed by an explosion of dynamite on the Government'canal at Duluth, Minn.