Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — BOY TRAIN ROBBERS. [ARTICLE]

BOY TRAIN ROBBERS.

PRISONERS IN KANSAS REFORMATORY CONFESS. Part'cnlars of the Missouri Pacific Hold-Up Near Leeds, Mo., Toldby One of the Participants—Strength of the Business Situation. Hold-Up Mystery Cleared Up. Seth Rosebrook and Chad Stowell, youths who were arrested last September for holding up a farmer and who were sent to the Hutchinson, Kan., reformatory, are said to be responsible for the Missouri Pacific hold-up and express robbery near Leeds, Mo., Sept. 23 last. This is the robbery for which Jesse James, Jr., is now under indictment in Kansas City. Deputy Sheriff Williams, who has been working on the case for some time, claims that young Stowell has made a written confession and divulged where the booty, SII,OOO, is hidden in the woods about seventy-five miles east of Kansas City. Stowell told many details connected with the robbery. THE TRADE SITUATION. It Is One of Quiet ‘- trength—Collections Are Almost Uniformly Good. Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: "The situation is one of quiet, sustained strength. In wholesale distributive trade annual inventories have occupied attention, and distribution in this branch is, therefore, of only seasonable proportions. Rdtail trade reflects the quieting down of the eager demand ruling before the holidays, but it is significant that the majority of the reports received since Jan. 1 in this and in the wholesale branch refer to collections as almost uniformly good. Export trade, particularly in cereals, continues well up to maximum figures, while reports from the new great industries of the country are favorable. Bank clearings for the week reflect exceptionally heavy annual settlements in a total of $1,765,900,000, nearly $40,000,000 larger than ever before reported. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 6,860,268 bushels, against 6,292,625 bushels last wepk. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,844,288 bushels, against 3,659,745 bushels last week.” DIAMOND THIEF CONFESSES. Stole Gems in Toledo and Pawned Tliern in Chicago Last May. The mystery of several diamond thefts was made clear at Columbus, Ohio, by the confession of James Lynch, colored, and the arrest of James Nelson, formerly coachman for E. L. Hinman, a wealthy Columbus citizen. Lynch was arrested several days ago, charged with the theft of an overcoat. He made disclosures to the effect that he was concerned in the robbery of the residence of George F. Pomeroy of Toledo, where diamonds valued at $6,000 were secured. Lynch confessed also to the Hinman robbery. He claims that after the Toledo robbery he went to Chicago with most of the property on his person. He says he pawned two diamonds May 18, after he had been identified by James Donigan, a tailor. Thousands of dollars’ worth- of property was recovered. All Car* Are Stopped. The East Liverpool-Wellsville,o., street railway was completely tied up the other day. Trouble had been brewing for several days between the employes of the road and the management. It originated in the discharge of Motorman John Stodghill, one of the oldest men on the road. The men claim that he was discharged on account of his association with union affairs. Life Lost on the Fast Mail. The first accident’ to the Union Pacific fast mail ’occurred when the train was running at a high rate of speed, thirty miles west of Laramie, Wyo. The side rod of the engine broke, tearing away the cab and tearing up the track for a considerable distance before the train came to a stop. Engineer Mark Wright of Laramie was struck by the rod and instantly killed. Was Killed by Robbers. The night telegraph operator of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Bingen, Pa., was murdered by unknown parties. He had reported his last train at 12:45 a. in., and at 1:30 a. m. a freight conductor discovered his body, still warm, at the desk in the depot office. The place had been looted, and a struggle had evidently taken place. Costly Tennessee Disaster. Four men dead, two injured, one of these perhaps fatally, and the loss of property of the Southern Railway to the amount of about SIOO,OOO is the result of a wreck which took place on the Knoxville and Ohio branch of the Knoxville division of the Southern Railway, one and one-half miles west of Elk Valley, Tenn. Killed by an Explosion. An explosion of gasoline occurred at Pemberville, Ohio, in the hardware store of Kell & Son. The building was badly wrecked and Augustus Kell, the junior partner, was so badly injured that he died in an hour. His right arm was blown off and the right side of his face was badly torn. Hotel Fire in Pittsburg. A fire which broke out in the Hotel Richelieu at Pittsburg resulted in a property loss of only about $15,000, but three lives were sacrificed and five people were badly hurt. Fifield to Succeed MorrilL Gov. Smith of Vermont has appointed Benjamin F. Fifield of Montpelier as successor to the late Senator Justin S. Morrill. Bank Robbers Frightened Away. The outside doors of the Vault of the Phenix, R. 1., National Bank were blown out by dynamite, but three men who attempted to rob the bank were frightened away before they could gain access to the interior apartment, where the money and other valuables were kept. Many Killed by an Explosion. A big boiler being tested in Hewitt's shipbuilding yards at Barking, England, burst and the superintending engineer and eight men were killed. About forty persons were injured, some fatally. Severe Storm in the South. A severe windstorm swept ost>r Mobile, Ala.; Jackson, Miss., and the intermediate country. The wind blew down telegraph lines, wrecked houses and uprooted trees. A heavy rain that followed caused extensive washouts on railroads in central Mississip.