Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1899 — REPORTER IS A KING. [ARTICLE]

REPORTER IS A KING.

' HE IS SHANGHAIED INTO A THRONE. Brunk of a Boaton Newspaper Maa Fold to Have Made Him an Assistant Potentate—State Law May Compel Hallways to Stop Trains. The captain of the American bark Gerard C. Tobey, at Tacoma, tells a strange story of a reporter for the Boston Journal, who was shanghaied and put aboard his ship while intoxicated at New York. At Shanghai he deserted, but upon arrival at Hong Kong the captain was surprised to find he had preceded him there. King O'Keefe, the absolute ruler of the Island of Yap and other islands believed to belong to the Caroline group, had taken a fancy to him. and had made the Boston journalist assistant king and sub-ruler of the next most important island. When the captain left the journalist, who was known as “Charley” to his sea-faring friends, was flying high and ruling his subjects in a lordly manner. MAY COMPEL TRAINS TO STOP. ■ . ' Supreme Court Gives an Important haling Regarding Railroads. ; - A decision of considerable general inter- - est has been delivered by the United States Supreme Court. With three jus- ; tires dissenting the court held that a State has the [wwer to compel a railroad to stop H trains at certain cities prescribed by State # statute. The case was brought against the Michigan Central Railroad Company by the State of Ohio, which had passed a law providing that if the railroad ran three trains a day through certain towns they should be compelled to stop for passengers. The railroad contended that this was interference in interstate commerce. Justice Harlan, delivering the majority opinion, said a contrary ruling would enable the railroads to build up the great cities of the East and West at the expense of the small places on the way. SAT BURIED MAN WAS ALIVE. Widow of Levi Weinburg at Omaha Objects to the Interment. Uevi Weinburg was buried at Omaha, and many of his friends thoroughly believe the coflin contained a live man when the clods were thrown upon it. Weinberg was a local merchant, who appar- | entljr dropped dead. His friends prepared the body for burial. When the coffin I was ready to be carried to the cemetery Mrs. Weinburg refused to permit the interment, asserting that she believed her husband alive. A physician at that time was hastily sent for and pronounced the man dead. The wife and many friends were not satisfied, and the funeral was postponed two days. No signs of life appearing, the body was at last buried. SILK FIRMS BURNED OUT. : ■ Fire In New York Causes Damage Amounting to SIOO,OOO. Fire did damage estimated at SIOO,OOO ’■ in the buildings in Broadway, New York, occupied by the spool-silk manufacturing ’firm of Belding Bros. & Co.. Hamburger A Hohman, cigars; the Postal Telegraph ■Company; Blums’ railroad ticket office, ' and Gumeinger & Co., silk manufacturers. Both of the silk firms had large stocks on hand, most of which is said to have been damaged by the smoke. tg Nervy Robbers in St. Louie. Three highwaymen terrorized Broadway, between Clark avenue and Gratiot ■ street, in the business district of St. Tianis, and almost disrupted street car | traffic. The trio held up nine cars on the Broadway cable line. They were armed with revolvers and more than twenty ■ shots were fired by them and conductors and gripmen. Tragedy of the Sea. The Italian bark Barbara Luigi, Capt. p Scotto, from Pensacola for Genoa, went ■ ashore on the Little Bahama bank, and proved a total loss. Three of the crew k were drowned and two died as the result of exposure to the weather. Clerk Captures a Burglar. j W. H. Gresham, a nephew’ of the late Walter Q. Gresham, and who is a clerk in the St. Peter, Minn., postoffice, caplured a burglar who was in the act of / breaking into the postoffice and marched - him to a police station. Floating Elevator Burned. The floating grain elevator Columbia, ’/ "valued at $200,000, was burned to the P water’s edge and is now lying a total loss on the Hoboken, N. J., flats. She was owned by the International Grain Elevat- ■ ing Company. K Bounty Appropriation Veto. Gov. Lind of Minnesota vetoed the bill t appropriating $20,000 to pay bounties on Ibeet sugar, in accordance with the county | law passed two years ago. He announced himself as opposed to bounties on princiRiver Fteamer Sunk by Ice. » The steamer Fairplay, plying between g; White House, Ky., and Sandy River | was sunk by ice at Catlettsburg, Total loss, $40,000; insurance, S2O,Buya North American Review. George B. M. Harvey has bought the I'Worth American Review at New York It from Lloyd S. Bryce and David A. Mon- « roe. The price is reported to be $225,000. Bodies of Murdered Men Found. K The bodies of Frank and John Valdez, have been found near FloresHwflle, Texas. The men were murdered R Robbers Secure No Booty. SfAt Delaware Water Gap, Pa., PostBpaster Hauser shot and fatally wounded Ebne'et a gang of three burglars, who had WBjered the postoffice and tried to blow Kpeu the safe. The wounded burglar reto give his name. The thieves did Mr. Hitchcock in Office. Eibau Allen Hitchcock of Missouri, repajßitly United States ambassador to Rus- ’ hit taken the prescribed oath and fiitoWpßd upon his duties as Secretary of Interior in Washington

THREE BODIES IN RUINS. | Fred Marte, with Wife and Child, j Burned in the Arlington, Chicago. Twenty-four families who occupied apartments in the Arlington flats, Grand boulevard and Forty-first street. Chicago, were driven from cozy firesides the other night by flames that consumed the building in less than half an hour. Fortunately for all but three of the hundreds of persons who lived in the building the fire started before many of them had retired. Five minutes after 10 o’clock an explosion of gas in the basement shook the structure. Men, women and children rushed down the stairways into the street, and before some of them had reached the lower floor the big apartment building was a roaring furnace. The loss of life w’ould have been terrible had the flames broken out two hours later, after the occupants had gone to bed. With the exception of a few articles of jewelry and clothing, nothing was saved by the tenants. The building was worth $50,000 and is a total loss. The loss to the tenants will be about the same amount. No trace of Fred Marte, his wife and his child has been found, and undoubtedly they met death in the flames. QUARREL OVER DEATH. Physicians in Omaha Declare It Was Due to Vaccination. Pretty little 11-year-old Dora Weatherman is dead at Omaha, Neb., and the representatives of the various schools of medicine In Omaha are quarreling as to the cause. One element says the death of the child is the direct result of compulsory vaccination, which was recently established in the Omaha schools. Another ridicules such an idea. The child died of lockjaw. Dr. Teters was in attendance in the last hours of the little sufferer. He is vigorous in attributing death to vaccination. Other physicians agree with Dr. Teters that lockjaw was the result of vaccination. CHOKED TO DEATH BY TOOTH. Ohio Citizen Strangled by Swallowing a Loose Molar. H. J. Ferguson, a prominent resident of East Toledo, Ohio, choked to death ou a tooth. The other night one of his teeth became loosened and he tried to pull it. He was not successful. The next morning while eating, the tooth became loose and dropped into his throat, causing him to choke. His efforts to extricate it made the situation worse. Before medical attendance could be secured he was dead from strangulation. Postal Improvement for Porto Rico. Captain W. H. Elliott of New’ Castle, Ind., director of posts for the island of Porto Rico, has gone to San Juan ou the transport Mississippi, together with Messrs. Macias and Nixon, his assistants. He carries instructions to institute an independent form of postal government on the entire island on March 15 next. This will be the adoption in its entirety of the postal system of this country and will be identical with the postal system just inaugurated in Cuba. It w’ill place Porto Rico on the same postal status with respect to the United States as all countries belonging to the universal postal union. Orders have been given for the printing of a complete set of stamps for Porto Rico, simply surcharging tile United States stamps by printing the words Porto Rico across the face. All postmasters will close their accounts in the name of the United States, furnishing a statement of all transactions and returning all stamps on that date, and open accounts afresh. The international money order rates will continue permanently, both as applies to Cuba and Porto Rico, and when Chief Clerk Gadsden of the money order system, detailed as special commissioner to those islands, finishes his work in Cuba he will proceed to Porto Rico, probably by March 15. and establish a domestic money order system there. Smallpox Among Indians. A special from Morse, I. T., says: “A courier arrived here from Muskogee, in the western part of the Creek nation, bringing news that smallpox is raging in that section and that not less than thirtyfive persons had died of it in the last few weeks. The victims were negroes Snd Indians. All of western Oklahoma has quarantined against the infected district, and the Muskogee Board of Health and City Council will take steps to establish a quarantine in this section.” To Settle Central Pacific Debt. A definitive agreement for the adjustment of the debt of the Central Pacific Railroad to the Government has been made between the Government commission and the bankers representing the railroad. It is understood the plan- contemplates the payment Of $58,000,000 to the Government in semi-annual 3 per cent notes, the last expiring ten years from date. Thpse notes will be secured by a deposit of Central Pacific 4 per cent bonds. Lumber Piles Destroyed. A fire that broke out in Akron, Ohio, destroyed the immense plants and office building of the Thomas Building and Lumber Company. The property loss will amount to SIOO,OOO or more, largely insured. The entire business portion of the city was threatened for a time. Sparks and burning embers were carried several miles. Millions of feet of lumber was destroyed. Toledo Maa Cleverly Robbed. George Woodmancy of Toledo loaned his gun to a stranger, who said he wanted it for a neighbor, who desired to shoot rats. After getting possession of the firearm the stranger drew a bead on Woodmancy and compelled him to turn over his watch and cash. Fatal Ma rd I Gras Shooting;. During the progress of a colored Mardi Gras ball in St. Louis a quarrel arose between two negroes and one of them drew a revolver and fired. His intended victim dodged and the bullet struck Bedford Cunningham, an innocent bystander, inflicting a fatal wound. Will Liberate Filipino Drisonera. It has been decided at a Spanish cabinet council to liberate the Filipinos who had been deported to the Caroline and Ladroue Islands, in order to influence the Filipinos to release the Spaniards they hold prisoners. Chautauqua's Founder Die’. Lewis Miller of Akron, Ohio, died in the Post Graduate Hospital at New York as the result of an operation. Mr. Miller was president of the Chautauqua Assembly and with Bishop Vincent founded it. Temperance in the Navy. Secretary Long has issued an order prohibiting the sale or issue to enlisted men of malt or spirituous liquors on board ships of the navy or within the limits of naval stations.