Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1898 — PROM THE FAR NORTH [ARTICLE]

PROM THE FAR NORTH

THE YUKON IS FILLED WITH SLUSH ICE. Travel to Dawson Suspended—Railway from Vancouver to Lake Atlin Gold Fields-American Awarded $40,000 Damages Against Peru. Copper Discoveries in Alaska. The steamer Cottage City has arrived at Victoria, B. C., from Skaguay, Alaska, with a large number of passengers. They report that the Yukon river is now filled with slush ice and that travel to Dawson is suspended. It is also reported that a new lake has been discovered in the Atlin country. It is fully as large as Lake Atlin. The official gazette gives notice of the intended construction of a railway from North Vancouver to the Lake Atlin gold fields, via Bridge river and Lilliolet. There is said to be strong financial backing behind the scheme and work will be pushed immediately. Native float copper has been found on Chitna river, 175 mile® from the mouth of the Copper river, and a party of fifteen will remain there over winter' to prospect for the main copper deposit. Nieholi Knnst, chief of the Copper River Indians, claims to know the exact location of a copper deposit, but he refused offers of several hundred dollars to guide people to its location. Indians use copper for making bracelets and other ornaments, as well as for cooking utensils, and the chief claims the whites will limit the supply and thereby deprive many Indians from means of making a livelihood. MUST PAY MAC CORD. United States’ Controversy with Peru Settled by Arbitration. The award of the chief justice of Canada, to whose arbitration was submitted the claim of Victor Mac Cord against the Government of Peru for damages sustained by reason of imprisonment during one of the revolutionary outbreaks. Mac Cord is awarded $40,000. The payment of this amount will close a diplomatic controversy which has been in progress between 'the United States and Peru for some years, this Government having heretofore persistently but fruitlessly urged reparation for Mac Cord. Mac Cord was the consular agent of the United States at Arequipa, Peru, in 1885, and also superintendent of a railroad. During a revolution be was thrown into prison and his life threatened. His original claim was for $200,000.

DECLINES TO ROB A SOLDIER. St. Louis Burglar Respects a Patriot and Returns Booty. “I am a burglar, but a patriot. I may be wicked, but I would not rob anyone who defended my country.” This inscription was found on a piece of brown paper in the trousers pocket of Eugene P. Walton, a furloughed member of the First Mississippi volunteers, when he awoke the other morning at his boarding house in St. Louis. The burglar was not so considerate of the other guests in the house, for he took everything in sight belonging to them. He had searched Walton’s pockets, but finding papers which showed him to be a soldier replaced the articles and then wrote the foregoiug note. Mr*, Botkin Indicted. Mrs. Cordelia Botkin must stand trial nt San Francisco in the Superior Court on the charge of the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning of Dover, Del. The grand jury, after a prolonged session, has voted, to indict her* The evidence collected there and in Delaware was presented to the grand jury and action was hastened at the request of Detective McVey, who said he was anxious to return home.

Leiter Buys Locomotive Works. It is stated at Providence, R. 1., on authority which appears to be unquestionable that Joseph Leiter, who during the last year startled the world by his extensive wheat dealings, has purchased the famous Rhode Island locomotive works and that it is his purpose to begin the manufacture of locomotives under the patents the concern holds. Caught 27,805 seals. The official statement of the sealing industry for the season just closed shows a total of only 27,805 skins for the fleet of thirty-five schooners, by far the lightest catch \n years; also fewer schooners have been employed. The catch is divided thus: Asiatic coast, 440; Columbia coast, 10,055; Bering 5en,”17,870. KYplOaion Kills Thi'cfc Men. By the explosion of a boiler i *the Calumet and Hecla stamp mills at Lake Linden, Mich., John Gillion and William Boyer of Lnk« Linden and William Hellon of Bruce Mines, Ont., were instantly killed and Daniel La Frnneer fatally injured. The cause of the explosion is unknown. French Cabinet Resign*. Gen. Cbanoine, French minister of wnr, tendered his resignation nnd abruptly withdrew during the opening session of the chamber of deputies, and Premier Brisson’s appeal for support of the Government was voted down. The entire cabinet later resigned. Kiltht Henuicn Picked Up. Eight seamen, comprising the crew of the brig Starlight, bound from Hayti to New York with lpgwood, were picked up from two open bonts and landed nt Baltimore. Their vessel had been wrecked nud they had been atloat in the bouts for eighteen hour*.

Absconder Konnd in London. Chief of Police Hanger of Louisville. Ivy., has received notification that Charles G. lleifning. who absconded from the Bank of Louisville with $8,200 several weeks ago, had been captured in Isindon, England, by the Scotland yard detectives. Waring Boh Yellow Fever. Commissioner William T. Jenkins of the New York health department gave tint an official statement to the effect that Col. George E. Waring. Jr., who returned to New York <>n the Ward line steamer Yucatan from Havana, had yellow fever. Knforccs Old Ku Klux Law. At Wichita, Kan., Hosea Ilnnkcrson has been arrested by United States marshal on the charge of conspiracy tinder the old Ku Klux law. 11c is charged witn trying to run settlers out of Oklahoma. Sixty Japanese Drowned. The Japanese steamer Mijngaia wns sunk off Kobe. Japan, almost immediately after having been in collision with the Japanese steamer Kinshiu-Maru. Sixty Japanese were drowned.

FIVE INDIANS ARE KILLED. Desperate Fight Between Whites and Redskins in Oregon. A young man who was a member of the sheriff’s posse has returned to Canyon City, Ore., with a report of a desperate fight between the whites and a renpgade band of Indians. The nineteen white men and five buck warriors were about forty feet apart when the battle began. George Cuttings, son of David Cuttings, received a ball in the left arm,’ and it passed through his lungs. He started, in company with M. Mosier, for Izee, near thg scene of the trouble. The wounded raftn became so weak that he was left near the trail propped up against a tree. When a searching party went to look for him they found his dead body near a spring, where he had crawled. The posse continued the pursuit, and after a running battle killed five ludians. Settlers have been sent to Canyon City for more ammunition, stating that the Indians are gathering around Izee in large Numbers. DEVOURED BY POLAR BEARS. Fate That Overtook Rune* Spiers* A Prospector in the Klondike. News was brought to Vancouver, B. C., by a party of Los Angeles men who went in over the Edmonton trail in an unsuccessful attempt to reach the Klondike of the death of James Spiers of South Carolina, who was killed and eaten by polar bears in the Peace river district. Spiers left camp alone to look for horses that hhd strayed away. Ten days later human bones were found near a mountain cave. A party camped there during the night and the next morning shot two large bears that were going into the cave. It is practically certaiu that the bones were those of Spiers. He had no weapons with which to defend himself. Dead Hands on tbc Lever. When night express train No. 12, eastbound, arrived at Susquehanna, Pa., tbs other night the engineer, Henry Kingsley of Susquehanpa, was found deqd in the gab with his head badly crushed. After the train left Binghamton, twenty-three miles west of there, trainmen and others noticed that the engineer failed to give the usual signals at crossings and at small stations and that the train was running at an unusual speed. Fireman Cowen noticed that the whistle was not blown for Susquehanna and, going forward into the cab, found the dead engineer. The train had run at a terrific speed for twenty miles without an engineer. Over 200 passengers were on board. It is supposed that the engineer was hit by a water crane at a point just east of Binghamton.

Sboots His Former Hostler. George F. Brunt, president of the Brunt Porcelain Company and one of the most prominent manufacturers in East Liverpool, Ohio, shot and killed his former hostler, Dudley E. Lee, colored. Brunt gave himself up, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in the second degree, waived a hearing and is now out on SIO,OOO bail. Cuban Prisoners freed. A dispatch from GibpaltaT 5375: Sixteen released Cubans frdrn Ceuta have just been sent to Now York by the American consul. About 260 remain at Ceuta. Their condition is distressful. More than 100 Cuban prisoners have died since the commencement of the war. Earthquake Shocks Ottawa. An earthquake 5 shock was felt in Ottawa, Ont. It was most marked on Sandy Hill and in the vicinity of Gilmore street. On the latter street several of the houses were shaken, awakening the inmates and causing great alarm. New Superintendent of Life Savers, Charles Morton, keeper of the Holland, Mich., life-saving station, has been appointed superintendent of the eleventh life-saving district, in which is comprised all of Lake Michigan. Hick Prices Paid for Cattle. Stock breeders from every section of the country attended Armour’s sale of Hereford cattle at Kansas City. Many head were disposed of and high prices were realized. Free Chinese Port. The Department of Stute at Washington has received information from the minister to China that the port of Taintau (Kiao-Chau) has been opened as a free port. Thanksgiving: Proclamation. President McKinley has issued his annual proclamation and set aside Thursday Nov. 24, as Thanksgiving day. Noted Painter Dead. Pierre Puvis dc OhftVaunes, the French painter, is dead at Paris.