Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — MANY ARE MIGRATING [ARTICLE]

MANY ARE MIGRATING

BUSINESS OUTLOOK AT DAWSON IS UNPROMISING. ■Sh! - Hundreds of People Seek More Conganial Climes Government Belief Expedition Arrives—lnsurrection In Costa Rica Is Qnelled Without Delay.

L The business outlook for Dawson durI lug the year is most unpromising. HunKdreds of people are migrating to more conKputltl climes, and retail traders complain * that they have more outfits offered for ® sale than purchases sought. Even the |f saloons and gambling houses are reported ; to be making no profits. No new gold dis- | coverles of importance are reported. The ! first installment of the United States relief expedition reindeer arrived there in i; charge of the Lapland herders. The last | day’s run was sixty miles. Large num- | bers of the reindeer are said to have been slaughtered by Indians, who mistook them |-. for wild game. The remnant will be driven to Circle City. ENTIRE FAMILY 18 POISONED. | Mysterious Attempt at Wholesale Murder Puzzles Camden, N. J. iP ; . At Camden, N. J., the authorities have begun an investigation of what they bell* lieve to have been an attempt to kill a whole family by poisoning. Mrs. Rebecca ft. Morgan, a widow, resides with her son | Henry, his wife and two children, Mrs. '% Clara Carter, a widow, and Charles Ap--1 plebach. The latter is a street car motor- ’ man. The other morning Applebach, as was customary, ate his breakfast much ■ earlier than the others of the household, n After the others had partaken of breakfast they all became very ill and Dr. Wallace McGeorge, who attended them, says the symptoms were those of arsenical poi- ■ toning. The detectives refuse to disclose I the name of the person they suspect. OUTBREAK SOON QUELLED. Attempt at Insurrection In Costa Rica a Failure. I Bernardo Calvo, the minister of Costa Rica at Washington, has received the following cable message: “Last Saturday a large group of malcontents made an assault on the artillery barracks, which were surrendered by the officer of the guard, who was the son of the leader, ‘Frederico Velardo. The attack was immediately repulsed. Cols. Arreyo and Antilion were killed. The unfaithful officer was immediately executed. Public tranquility has been restored. Perez Zeledon, Secretary of State.” Wages of Many Men Advanced. The wages of all day laborers in the tin - plate plants of the Newcastle, Pa., dis- ¥ trict have been advanced from sto 10 per cent. The advance will affect between 1,200 and 1,500 men. The Reese-Ham-mond Brick Manufacturing Company at Jeannette has advanced the wages of its 250 employes from 5 to 20 per cent, and the Williamsport Nail Company has made a 10 per cent advance.

Twelve Hart in a Wreck. Train No. 10 on the Lake Shore road collided with a switching engine at Westfield, N. Y. Both engines were totally wrecked, but the engineers and firemen of both escaped without serious injuries. One mail car was overturned, but the clerks escaped serious wounds. The other coaches of the train remained on the . track, but the passengers were badly shaken np. Kill Three and Born Bodies. Ten miles west of Watonga, Ok., the charred bodies of three persons, with heads, hands and feet burned off, were found in the ruins of a burned house. The bodies are those of Mrs. Edwards, Parthenia Smith and Willie Jones, all colored. The evidence shows that they were murdered and the house burned to hide the crime. Valnable River Boat Sank. The Ryman Line steamer H. W. But- £ torff, valued at $15,000, one of the finest boats in the Cumberland river trade, was sunk near Clarksville, Tenn., after having been blown against a bridge pier. The passengers and crew escaped. Was Entering Wrong Bouse. Thomas Nolan, aged 18 years, son of a well-known oil producer, was shot in the back and probably fatally wounded while trying to effect an entrancelfifo the house of former Senator Lewis Emery at Bradford, Pa. Falling Wall Does Damage. By the falling of a high wall of the Odd Bellows’ bnilding at Kingston, Ont., burned recently, the furniture store of T. F. Harrison & Co. was damaged to the extent of SIO,OOO. Joseph Gould was injured. Merriam for Census Director. The nomination of William R. Merriam of Minnesota to be director of the census was confirmed in the executive session of the Senate without opposition. Kipling’s Daughter Die*. Josephine Kipling, the 6-year-old daughter of Rudyard Kipling and the oldest of Ms three children, died of pneumonia is New York. Confesses to Slaying Five. John Gilbert, in his cell in the county jail there, confessed to murdering his wife god four small children near Enterprise, Kan. • Storm’s Havoc in Tennessee. A cyclone which swept across east Ten- ’ nessee resulted in serious loss of life and [■ destroyed property valued at $3,000,000. Texas Banker Kills Himself. The body of D. P. Ewing, a member of the firm of the Tyler Banking Company, was found in the Tyler bottling works at Tyler, Texas. Near him was fonnd an empty morphine bottle, indicating suicide. > Deceased was under several indictments for violation of the State banking laws. Drowned in Swollen Stream, s The body of Nathaniel Mitchell, a prom- ■ * incut farmer, was fonnd in Upper Twin . creek, near Cblllicothe, Ohio. He waa drowned while crossing the swollen

INVADE AMERICAN TERRITORY. Canadians Alleged to Have Changed Alaska Boundary Line. Miners who have arrived on the steamer Tees from the north say the Canadian officials on the Dalton trail have seen fit to change the boundary line to suit themselves. They have advanced a considerable distance into American territory, and, according to the story, have planted the British flag within seven miles of Haines Mission, the entrepot for the Porcupine district. The point to which the Canadians have advanced will throw a big area of the recently discovered mines of the Porcupine district into British territory if the, new boundary is allowed to stand. News is also brought by the Tees that a number of miners were frozen to death on the Atlan trail during a recent terrible cpld snap. The mercury fell to 58 below' eight unfortunates are said to have succumbed to the cold. Their names could not be learned. Several others were badly frozen. ROBBERS LOOT POSTOFFICE. Said to Have Secured $20,000 at Covington, Ky. The Covington, Ky., postoffice was robbed of stamps and money reported to amount to $20,000. The work was evidently done by men who had secreted themselves in the stamp department, as it was possible to do, provided the watchman, who is charged with looking after the carriers’ door, under the main stairway, neglected his duty. This door is never closed. Through it thieves could enter and secrete themselves behind mail sacks and see the stamp clerk put away his stamps and cash when he closed for the night. The robbery was first discovered by finding the large door where the mail wagons load wide open when the first employes reached the bnilding in the morning. The thieves evidently escaped that way. COTTON MILLS IN VENEZUELA. American Company to Erect a Plant at Caracas. Within six months Venezuela will, as a result of American enterprise, aided by concessions from the Venezuelan Government, begin to manufacture its own cotton goods. This is learned authoritatively from Dean Shibley & Co. of New York, who have managed the financial end of a newly incorporated American concern, which will operate cotton mills in Venezuela. It is known as La Venezolana Agodonera Sociedad Anomina, and is incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. The erection of a plant in or near Caracas will begin soon, and it is expected that within six months the mills, which will contain 250 looms, will begin the production of cotton goods for Venezuelan consumption.

SLAIN BY HONDURAN SOLDIER. State Department la Investigating Death of an American Citizen. Mr. Hunter, United States minister to Guatemala and Honduras, has been in Washington in consultation with the officials of the State Department respecting the course to be pursued in the matter of the killing of Mr. Pears, a native of Pittsburg and resident agent of the Honduras Mahogany Company, near Porto Cortez, Honduras. Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania has submitted to the department some data connected with the case from a brother of the deceased, who seeks reparation for his brother’s death. Pears was killed by a sentry owing to his failure to stop at the word of command. He did not obey because of his imperfect knowledge of Spanish. STEAMER MORAVIA WRECKED. Broken in Two on Sable Island —Nothing Known of Crew. The schooner Mondego, Captain William Corkum, arrived at Gloucester, Mass., bringing news of the loss of the steamer Moravia, Captain Witt, which sailed from Hamburg for Boston. Captain Corkum reports that he sighted the Moravia on the northeast bar of Sable Island, broken in two. The place where she stranded is twelve miles from shore, and as nothing could be seen of the crew two days after, when Captain Corkum sighted the wreck, he thinks the men are probably lost. New Veterans’ Association. A new association, to be known as the Spanish-American War Veterans’ Association, is about to be formed and a call has been issued for a convention to be held in Washington Sept. 4, 5 and 6. The proposed association will have for its objects the wiping out of sectionalism, the promotion of closer fraternal relations, the fostering of a more unselfish patriotism and the corporate effort to secure the enactment of legislation, in State and nation, in the interest of soldiers, the army and navy generally. Gen. Joe Wheeler (chairman), Brig. Gen. J. P. S. Gobin, Maj. E. C. Davis of Atlanta and Maj. Russell B. Harrison, provost marshal of the Seventh army corps, will act as executive committee. Cave-in Causes Fatalities. An extensive cave-in occurred in the Delaware and Hudson mine at Mill Creek, Pa., killing one man and severely injuring two others. A rescuing party found Thomas Coffield crushed to death, and hear by were Jacob Reinhard and Michael Yamroski, who had been caught under the same fall and badly crushed. They are still alive.

Saved in Nick of Time. William Goings, an Indian sentenced to death at South McAlester, I. T., for murder, was not shot according to the sentence of the Indian court. The habeas corpus writ issued by Judge Clayton of the United States Court was served on the Indian sheriff just in time to save Goixgs’ life. Goings will probably be remanded back to the Indian court for a new trial. Tried to Blow Up Train. Trainmen arriving at Chattanooga on the through passenger from Atlanta report having fonnd three large sticks of dynamite on the rear sleeper while passing Kenesaw, Ga. Recently several men were arrested below Kenesaw for car breaking, and it is supposed they placed the dynamite on the train to blow it up. Tried to Steal Cattle Train. H. L. Wells, who claimed to be president of the Mitchell (Neb.) Land and Cattle Company, has pleaded guilty of attempting to steal--a train load of cattle valued at $15,000 from Francis & Rowland of Newton, Kan., and was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. Important Italian Invention. Big. Cordosa, a distinguished Italian inventor, announces he has Invented a screw propeller which will double the «*“* <*“*• « h *“ **“ O'”* o * consumption.