Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — DAWSON NEEDS HELP. [ARTICLE]

DAWSON NEEDS HELP.

MANY MINERS ARE SICK AND J DESTITUTE THERE. Congress Will Be Asked to Assist in Relieving Distress—Scurvy Mas Made Its Appearance—Fatal Accident on the Union Pacific. Hard Times in Klondike. According to late advices from Daw•♦son, the United States Government will be called upon to relieve indigent miners in the Klondike. The Dawson Nugget says there is a strong movement on foot at Dawson to send a representative to Washington for the purpose of enlisting the United States Government in the cause of aiding in remedying the great ■distress which prevails among the miners of the Yukon. The hospitals are overcrowded with indigents, and the finances of these institutions will not allow of any more wholesale charity. The Yukon •Council declares itself already out of funds to care for the indigent sick. Donations for the care of the sick come in regularly, but in small amounts, while at this present moment nothing less than $9,000 per month will come anywhere near taking ordinary care of the poor fellows without money. The dreaded scurvy has xnade its appearance, and none but those connected with the hospitals know of its extent. The fact is that the amount of distress there has outgrown the total charity of the place, and $200,000 will be needed to relieve the distress of this winter. Food is there in plenty, but it takes money to buy it. TRAIN DESTROYED BY FIRE. Lives Reported Lost by Collision on Union Pacific. At Sunol, fifteen miles east of Sidney, Neb., the Union Pacific fast passenger train, with two engines, ran into train No. 2. Engineer Dell Bonner of the latter train had orders to meet the fast train, and the brakeman was just in the act of opening the switch when the double header came thundering along at forty-five miles an hour and nearly one hour late. Both trains were on the main track. The engines were badly demolished and the entire fast passenger train was destroyed, excepting the mail car and one sleeper. The composite car of No. 2 was also burned up. Fireman Coleman was killed. Engineer Bonner was internally injured and had several ribs broken, and Engineer Eli was badly scalded. Several passengers were badly hurt. DISASTROUS WRECK. Overturned Cara Catch Fire, Which Communicates to a Warehouse. A disastrous freight wreck was caused on the Wabash at Belleville, Mich., by freight No. 60 running into the rear end of an extra freight that was lying on the •main track near Harvey Johnson’s bean storehouse. The engineer and fireman saved themselves by jumping. An Overturned stove fired the wreck and fire freight cars, the caboose and the bean storehouse were burned and the wrecked engine badly damaged by the fire. The loss on rolling stock is estimated at from $25,000 to $30,000, with $3,000 loss on the storehouse. MURDERS WOMAN WITH OIL. Cincinnatian Pours Oil on Clothing and then Sets It on Fire. Ida Price was fatally burned in her room in a flat on West Sixth street, Cincinnati, by having coal oil thrown over her clothing and then fired. Her screams brought help, but the door was locked. The door was broken in, the flames put out and the woman taken to the hospital, where her injuries were pronounced fatal. She was able to say that William Kennedy was the man who tried to burn her to death. He had locked the door to insure her death. He is under arrest. She died the same night. Broken Rail Causes Accident. A Great Northern train struck a broken rail at Hatton, N. D., throwing three cars from the track, one catching fire. Conductor Walter O'Kane, Ole Bolster of Moorehead, J. M. Johnson of Northwood and Mrs. P. M. Penniser of Maryville were seriously hurt and two others slightly injured. Governor Brady in Washington Gov. Brady of Alaska has arrived in Washington to urge haste in territorial matters. He says many of the people who rushed into the Klondike region are coming out, largely because of the high taxation. Many thousands'of people, he Bays, already have started for the Atlan district. ' - Dakota Divorce Law Changed. . The Senate of North Dakota has passed by unanimous vote the Lamoure di- , vorce bill, amending the residence provision of the divorce law to twelve months and providing that none but residents of the United States may begin actions. Massachusetts Bank Robbed. The safe of the First National Bank of Ash burnham, Mass., was blown to pieces by dynamite. The interior of the bank was badly wrecked and all windows were blown in. A sum of money estimated at $1,500 to $2,000 is missing. Catastrophe in the East. I A local passenger train going west and an excursion train going east met head on in a deep cut at sharp curve on the Lehigh Valley Road near West Dunellen, N. J. Thirteen persons were killed and "fhirty-five injured. T Will Drop the Contest. ’ 'lt has been decided to drop the governoriMhip contest in South Dakota on account the great expense, which is placed at pjjjswbsbly SIO,OOO, and the fact that the fcfttoie to carry such a contest through ’“Would be so long that no party benefit «uuld accrue. U;? Wife Murderer Electrocuted. . Bailey Decker, colored, was put to by electricity in Sing Sing, N. Y., prison for the murder of his white wife. while drunk, killed his wife in a

; PRESIDENT FAURE YIELDED. Inside Details of the Treaty Between France and Russia. - The Paris correspondent of the London Tinies, M. de Blowitz. reviewing events In France and in the sphere of French Influence during the last year, gives curious and interesting details as to the Franco-Russian treaty negotiations at St. Petersburg. He says: “The first article of the draft treaty declared that it'had not for its object any modification of the European territorial status quo. M. Hanotaux refused to countersign such a treaty, exclaiming: ‘Why, it is a repetition of the Frankfort treaty.’ Count Mura vieff responded: ‘You will never induce the Czar to sign a revenge treaty!’ Neither M. Hanotaux nor Count Muravieff would yield. The problem seemed insoluble, when Count Jluravieff had a conference with President Faure. who yielded, admitting that it was very undesirable to have such an article, but that, on the other hand, it would be impossible for him to return to France without a treaty. Accordingly the treaty was signed." CLEMENCY TOWARD INDIANS. McKinley Pardons the Troublesome Leech Lake Red Men. The President lias pardoned the twelve Leech Lake Indians, sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and fined at -the late term of the United States District Court for Minnesota for resisting the United States marshal in making an arrest. In his recommendation of pardon the Attorney General says: "The law has now been vindicated and the power of the Government established by. the stern and severe lesson administered. In my judgment no further punishment is necessary to enforce the respect of the Indians for the authority of the Federal court, and I believe that executive clemency shown at this time will bo beneficial.” The Secretary of the Interior concurred in these views. INJURED IN A WRECK. Illinois Central Passenger Train Is Derailed Near Metropolis, ill, A passenger train on the Illinois Central Railroad Company's St. Louis branch was derailed fifteen miles north of Metropolis, 111. Conductor William Mertz was seriously hurt. Fifteen passengers were injured, but no one was killed. Among those injured were: John Riddle. Creal Springs, 111.; Conductor William Mertz; Nellie Yarns, Clinton, Ill.; J. E. Bylatt; R. M. Hogan, Alton, Ill.; Nellie Wheeler, Great Bend. Kan. Every car was overturned, but the engine was not derailed. TRESTLE WAS BURNED. Discovery Prevented Danger of a Serious Wreck. By some means yet unexplained a trestle on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway near Lawrenceburg, Ind., was burned, making a gap of eighty feet. It is at a point where a west-bound train could not have seen it in time to stop, and a wreck would have been unavoidable. The fire was discovered by Operator Fisher of the Big Four telegraph office. Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern trains were run over the Big Four tracks until the trestle could be rebuilt. Accident Is Averted. An insane tramps, giving his name as W. R. Daehlman of Indianapolis, took possession of an engine on the Southern Railway, in the Citico furnace yards at Chattanooga, Tenn., while the crew was temporarily absent. Noticing the man in the cab, the engineer ran to the engine, and was just in time to catch it as the madman opened the valve and started the locomotive off at full speed. The engineer grappled with the maniac, who fought desperately, and only after a hard struggle was he overcome. The engineer succeeded in stopping the locomotive just in time to prevent it from dashing into a long line of freight cars on the siding. Strike Is Averted. Eight of fifteen foundries in Cleveland have conceded the demand of the coremakers for a wage rate of $2.50 per day. The general strike of coremakers therefore did not take place. The officials of the coremakers’ organization state that the remaining seven foundries are willing to compromise on the wage question, but anything below a minimum rate of $2.50 per day will not be accepted by the men. Engineer and Fireman Killed. Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 10, from Omaha and Kansas City to St. Louis, was derailed about one mile west of Jefferson City, Mo. Engineer Charles Clawson of Washington, Me., and Fireman Zoll of Sedalia were killed. All the cars, with the exception of the rear Pullman, left the tracks and ran into the bluff. It is due to this fact that no lives among the ninety passengers aboard were lost. Tragic News from Alaska. The steamer Rosalie brings news of a sensational lynching which took place at Eagle City, Alaska. Jack Jolly, a saloonkeeper and gambler, had collected a gang of toughs around him and was terrorizing the mining camps. He was waited on by a vigilance committee of twelve determined men and ordered to leave town. He refused, and the next day the vigilantes hanged him to the limb of a tree. Infernal Machine Explodes. By the explosion of an infernal machine in the railroad depot at New Albany, Miss., five men were terribly injured, some fatally. The machine was cleverly constructed and encased in wood in such a manner as to be set off by the opening of the box lid. It had been sent from Holly Springs, Miss., to a man at New Albany, who was under indictment for murder.

Bank Cashier Kills Himself. O. Perry Jones, cashier of the First National Bank of Phillipsburg, Pa., one of the most extensive coal operators in that section and largely interested in manufacturing enterprises, committed suicide. It is supposed that hard work and anxiety was the cause. ~r "Woolen Mills Go to Wall. The Assabet Manufacturing Company of Boston, with woolen mills at Maynard, has made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The concern is one of the largest woolen manufacturing companies in the country. Big Coal Strike Imminent, A general strike in the bituminous coal region is looked for on April 1, at the close of the term of the interstate agreement between the miners and operators. Fire in a Pennsylvania Town. Six business houses and dwellings in the business section of Turtle Creek, Pa., were destroyed by fire. The loss was $60,000.