Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1898 — JURY DID NOT AGREE. [ARTICLE]

JURY DID NOT AGREE.

RIEGER AND COVINGTON TO GET NEW TRIAL. Tidal of an Important Casein Coilnection with a Bank Wrecking at Kan* sas City—Providential Coming ot Aid Eaves an Alfcskan Vessel. Will Be Tried Again. A jury in the United States District Court ot Kansas City, which has been trying I>. V. Rieger, ex-president, and Robert D. Covington, ex-cashier of the failed Missouri National Bank, on indictments charging embezzlement and misappropriation of that institution’s funds, disagreed and was discharged. The jury had been out for two days. A new trial will doubtless be set for the April term of court. The doors of the Missouri National Bank were closed by the United States bank examiner Oct. 26, 1896. The bank had between 2,200 and 2,300 depositors, and carried $1,500,000 in deposits. It failed in the. panic of July, 1893, but was promptly reopened. Shortly after the second failure Messrs. Rieger and Covington were indicted by the grand jury on three counts, embracing embezzlement, abstraction and willful misapplication of the moneys nml credits of the bank. When National Bank Examiner Foreman took charge of the institution he had Expert E. B. Moxey examine the books. Mr. Moxey was the principal witness for the Government. .He attempted to show how thousands of dollars of the bank’s money had been used by Rieger and Covington to support enterprises in which they were interested. The receiver has been able to pay but a small dividend to the depositors^

TOWED OUT OF DANGER. Steamer Utopia Nearly Meets with Disaster in Alaskan Waters. The steamer Farralon, Captain Roberts, has arrived at Port Townsend from Skaguay, bringing news of disaster to the steamer Utopia which nearly sent that vessel and all on board to the bottom of Gastineaux channel. As the Farralon was entering the channel she found the Utopia drifting helplessly toward the reef extending from Point Ardena on Admiralty Island. The Utopia had lost her propeller and a terrible gale was blowing, with the thermometer below zero. The Farralon succeeded in getting a hawser aboard and the Utopia was towed out of danger and taken to Juneau. On her up trip the Utopia, while rounding Cape Fanshaw, thirty miles west of Wrangcl Narrows, was set on fire by a lftmp exploding. The fire destroyed the pilot house, wheql gear and several staterooms. Captain Roberts reports the weather in Alaska unusually, severe. LAKE BOATS IN COLLISION. Colgate nml the Globe Seriously Damaged at Duluth—Nobody Hurt. There was a serious head-end collision in the Dulutli harbor at 1:30 the other morning between two very large steel steamers just inside the canal piers. The vessels were the Globe and the whaleback James B. Colgate, and both are badly damaged. Their forward bulkheads kept them from sinking on the spot. The Colgate is resting on the bottom near the Inman tug office, and the Globe was towed into the Omaha slip, where she rests on the bottom. No one was seriously hurt, although some of the crew asleep forward had narrow escapes from drowning. Panic in Paris. While n religious ceremony was in progress in the vestry room of the Churoli of St. Germain des Pros, at Paris, where many girls from the schools were in attendance, the cinematograph lamps were suddenly extinguished and a fearful panic ensued, everybody instantly recalling the charity bazaar lire. The priests finally succeeded in allaying the panic, but not before forty girls were injured by trampling, many being seriously hurt. Candy Poisons Young Women. At Youngstown. Ohio, Miss Katherine Williams and Miss Gertrude Schuinau are seriously ill from eating chocolate creams. Both were taken sick within a short time of each other and physicians called in pronounced the young ladies suffering from the effects of eating poisoned candy. Race Riot Is Fatal. At Anniston, Ala., negro soldiers, members of the Third Alabama (colored) regiment. lay in ambush, shot at individual white soliftors and forced a squad of the provost guard to retire after an armed conflict. When the squad returned with re-enforccmcnts the negroes had disappeared. Workman Will Lose Both Legs. Joseph Schroppler, while being chased by a workman in a factory at Trenton, N. J., tumbled into a vat of vitriol. Not realizing his danger, after Ixfing helped out, he started for home, but on the way the acid began eating into his flesh. Both legs must be amputated. Eastern Shoe House Assigns. The firm of Colburn, Fuller & Co., l>oot and shot manufacturers of Boston and of Dorry. Mass., made a voluntary assignment. The liabilities are estimated at $300,000, largely in notes. Gold Drowned. A party of fifteen gold seekers, including Rev. Mr. Webber, a Mornvinn* missionary, was drowned by the wrecking of the schooner Jessie at the month of the Kuskowu river in Alaska. Great Fire lit Ban Francisco. The Baldwin Hotel and theater in Snn Francisco was destroyed by fire. There were 800 persons in the building. Many are supposed to have perished. The loss Is about $2,000,000. Thousand* Burned to Death. Oriental advices say that the houses destroyed by the recent grout lire at llaukow numbered more than eighteen thousand. and that 3.500 persons were burned to death. Hobson to Have a Sword. The Alabama House of Representatives has ratified a joint resolution appropriating SSOO to buy a sword for Lieut. Hobsou ot Mcrrimnc fame. Two Women Burned to Death. At Huntington, W. Va., Mrs. Nancy Staley and Minnie France, her niece, were burned to death by fire in the flats on the river front.

FATALLY BEATEN BY GIRLS. Miss Bitner of Allegheny Punished for Making Unpleasant Romarks. Miss Nora Bitner, a highly respected yotmg woman of Allegheny. Pa., was beaten so badly by three girls, none of whom is over 15 years of age. that she will probably die. Her assailants—Mamie Wright, Eophie Mickle and Victoria Bennet —are in jail. Miss Bitner, with a young woman companion, was walking along East Ohio street, and -in passing a group of young girls at ploy made some jocular remark concerning the party, whereupon one of the youngsters grabbed her by the' hair and pulled her to the ground. While prostrate. Miss Bitner was kicked on the head and beaten into insensiblity. TRIED TO KILL THE CZAR. Wreck His Train While Returning '■* from Denmark. A dispatch from Elbing, the seaport of West Prussia, says an attempt was made upon the life of the Czar while his majesty was returning from Copenhagen. Just before the Czar’s special train crossed the bridge between Boehmenhoefen and Lagern a switchman discovered that the bridge had been barricaded. By almost superhuman efforts, as a result of which he is now in a hospital, the switchman succeeded in removing the obstacles sufficiently to permit of the passage of the imperial train. Wind Wrecks Oil District. A terrible windstorm in the oil district of Los Angeles, Cal., caused much damage. Two oil tanks, holding 1,000 gallons of oil, were punctured by falling derricks and the oil ran through the streets. Houses and barns were crushed under the falling derricks. No casualties are reported.

Cattle Die in a Blizzard. Reports from the cattle and sheep raising districts of northwestern Texas, Oklahoma and the Indian Territory show heavy losses because of the blizzard In those sections. Thousands of head of sheep, half-grown calves and cows have perished. Perished In the Blizzard. George and Ed. Cotter, married farmers, were found frozen to death near Ash Grove, Mo. The day before they went to Ash Grove and drank considerable. They started to their farms and were caught in the blizzard. It is supposed they fell from their horses. thi Id Frozen to Death. A man named Cranwell, his wife and child, 7 years old, were caught in the blizzard some miles from Viola, Kan. . The horses could not move in the sleet and the family remained in a wagon for two nights and a day. The child was frozen to death. Double Tragedy Results from a Fend. A report of a double murder comes from Hartshorne, I. T., where two brothers named Green shot two Russians named Morris and Buttawinski. killing both of them. The tragedy is said he the outcome of a feud having its origin in Russia. Ohio Bank Robbed at Noon. AtHJtica, Ohio, the Wilson Bank was robbed while the officials were absent for a period of fifteen minutes at the dinner hour. Two thousand dollars in registered bonds and $5,600 in coupon bonds nnd $5,600 in gold and currency were taken.

Big Blaze nt Racine. The plant of the Racine, Wis., malleable and wrought iron works was destroyed by fire. Loss, insurance, $40,000. Perfume Factory Burns. The soap and perfume factory of Allen B. Wrisle.v, in Chicago, was burned, entailing a loss of $105,000. Carlist Arms Seized. A quantity of arms destined for the Carlists has been seized in a house in Bilbao, Spain.