Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1899 — DEAD IN ENGINE CAB. [ARTICLE]

DEAD IN ENGINE CAB.

NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN RUNS WILD. Engineer’s Head Crushed In snd the Crew Not Informed of It—Preparing for the Entertainment of International Endeavorers at Detroit. A railroad engineer insensible and bleeding in his cab, the fireman unsuspicious that anything had happened to him, and the train with its load of passengers speeding on in the night to probable destruction, was the combination of circumstances that almost resulted in a tragedy on the New York Central road. The engineer had looked from his window to see if one of the driving boxes was again burning, forgetting the cut with its jagged rocks. Suddenly the back of his head was struck and crushed. He was flung against the side of the cab, and then, limp and unconscious, he hung from the window, his body almost half out. Glenwood, the next station, was approached swiftly and passed and as the train whirled by Nelson, the surprised fireman, called to the engineer and clambered out of his place. He found the body of his comrade hanging from the window, swaying and every moment threatening to fall. He quickly closed the throttle and set the air brakes and then dragged his companion back into the cab. Conductor Stone came hurrying up, the train was run ahead to Yonkers and the passengers never suspected that they had been taking a wild ride behind an uncontrolled locomotive with a strong chance of going off a curve into the Hudson river. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR PLANS. Part of the Program for the Coming Convention in Detroit. Secretary John Willis Baer of the United Society of Christian Endeavor has announced some of the details of the program for this year’s international Endeavor convention, to be held in Detroit July sto 10. Wednesday, July 5, will be given up to business meetings. July 6 the convention will listen to President Clarke’s annual address and the secretary’s report, and denominational rallies will be held in the afternoon. At night there will be two great tent meetings. For Saturday afternoon a grand outing to Belle Isle has been planned. ALLEGED NICARAGUAN COUP. Story that New York Capitalists Seek Permanent Control of Canal. The Kansas City Journal prints a lengthy story to the effect that New York financiers whose contract to build the Nicaraguan canal expires October next are believed to be back of a scheme to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government in order to secure from a new Government concessions which will enable them to permahently control the building of the canal. John Drummond of Virginia, who recently visited Kansas City, the story alleges, endeavored to interest Kansas Cityans in the scheme. Mutterings in bantiago. Considerable dissatisfaction is reported at Santiago because of Gen. Brooke’s order that hereafter only SIO,OOO shall be expended for public work in Santiago province every month. This has thrown 2,000 men out of work and mutterings of a crisis in Cuban affairs are heard as a result, but Gen. Brooke belittles it and says it is an old story of Santiago citizens wanting the use of all money received at that port. Few Concessions Asked. Contrary to the general expectation that American capital would seek early investment in the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, following the American occupation, the fact as stated by officials of the War Department at Washington is that so far very few applications have been filed for grants, franchises or concessions for the construction of public works of various kinds. Depot and Warehouse Burns. At Charlotte, N. C., fire destroyed the Southern Railway freight depot, a cotton compress, the joint property of the Southern and Seaboard railroads, a large storage warehouse, 4,000 bales of cotton, intended for export to England and Germany and several hundred tons of commercial fertilizers. The loss will be about $400,000. Ohio Wheat Crop Condition. The crop report issued by the Ohio department of agriculture shows that wheat was materially injured by the recent cold spell, but the condition, compared with an average, is 89 per cent. The general average in January was 100 per cent, though there was a little damage from white fly and grub. Death of Lord Herschetl. Lord Hcrschell, one of the high joint commissioners from Great Britain, died at Washington. He fell on a slippery sidewalk and broke one of the pelvic bones several weeks ago, and this finally caused his death. Lord Herschell was lord chancellor of Great Britain.

Publishing: Firm to Dissolve. William Rose has be*en appointed permanent receiver for the Brentanos, publishers of New York, Washington and Chicago, in a suit brought by Simon Brentano against August Brentano and Arthur Brentano, his partners, for a dissolntion of the firm. fewer Pipe Combine. Articles incorporating the sewer pipe syndicate were filed with the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J. The corporate name of the company is the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company. The authorized capital is $30,000,000. Two Miners Fatally Bnrned. By an explosion of gas in the No. 1 shaft of the Kingston Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, B*-> David A. Thomas and Harry Evans were fatally burned and Wassill Shradack was killed. Wages Advanced in Cotton Mills. The operatives of all the cotton mills in in Lowell, Mass., were notified the other day that an advance in wages generally, restoring the reduction of January, 1898, will take effect on April 3. Buried Under Snowslide. Five men and a woman are buried under an avalanche of snow which came down Granite Mountain, near the Magna Cbarta mine, at White Pine, Colo. Dewey Mode Admiral. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Rear Admiral George Dewey to he admiral of the navy.

MISSOURI TROOPS IN WRRCK. " j.t ' Mobil* and Ohio Train la Ditched and Sixteen Soldiers Injured. The Mobile and Ohio train bearing to their homes the members of the Second Missouri volunteer regiment, mustered out at Albany, Ga., was wrecked two miles south of Tupelo, Miss. Four coaches were hurled down a 20-foot embankment and sixteen soldiers were hurt. That none was killed outright is miraculous. The position of the cars was extremely dangerous after the first crash, as they hung over the brink of a trestle that crosses a stream twenty feet below. Fortunately they held (heir position. Train Men Win a Strike. A strike of the train hands employed on the Brooklyn bridge. New York, occurred the other day, and after congesting traffic for twenty-five minutes ended in favor of the men. The cause of the strike was a new time and pay schedule prepared by the elevated railroad company which cut down the earnings of the men. About 5,000 people cross on the elevated cars to New York every hour between 6 and 9 o’clock in the morning. The strike started at 7 o’clock, and the thousands of travelers were compelled to either walk across the big structure or take the trolley cars. The surface cars soon became jammed with an impatient mass of disgusted citizens. The railroad company took down the new schedule and put up the old one, and at, 7:25 the strike was over and the trains running again as usual. Novel Tax for Canada. Mr. Harcourt, treasurer of Ontario, says that the increased taxation rendered necessary to cover the loss of revenue caused by the anti-TTnited States lumber regulations would be largely of a novel character for Canada. He proposes to tax on a mileage basis electric and steam railway lines, telephone and telegraph lines within that province and the gross income of banks, insurance, investment and loan companies and all other financial corporations. Big Walkout in Arkansas. Reports from the coal mining district in western Arkansas indicate that the wholesale walkout of the miners has begun and that the biggest strike of recent years in the Southwest is on. At the mines of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, in the territory, the 1,500 union miners heretofore employed are out and their places are being filled as near as possible by 200 non-union men. Dying of fcnrvy at Dawson. Advices from Dawson say that men are dying of scurvy in the suburbs of that city. Recently John McPhail was found almost dead in a tent on Victoria Gulch. His food was gone and he was waiting for death, unable to do anything to help himself. His partner had been taking care of him, but was stricken with scurvy and hastened to Dawson for medical aid. Purchase of Oil Territory. It is announced at Scio, Ohio, that the, Allegheny Gas and Oil Company of Pittsburg, Pa., has closed a deal with the United States Oil Company of West Virginia for 500 acres of valuable oil territory owned by the latter concern in that field. There are twenty-three producing wells on the property, and forty-five more are being drilled. Granite Cutter* Strike. At Quincy, Mass., the conference committee from the Granite Manufacturers’ Association and the Granite Cutters’ Union failed to agree on a bill of prices and as an outcome about 1,200 granite cntters struck. The cutters insist as a minimum price 30 cents an hour. The manufacturers offer 25 cents as the minimum. Assets Are Nothing. Halsey C. Post of Sandusky, Ohio, filed a petition of voluntary bankruptcy in Toledo, giving liabilities of $325,000 and no assets except some stock in Toledo enterprises, which he says are of no value. Pacific Steamship Foundered. The Pacific Mail steamship Starbuck, Captain Brugiere, foundered twelve miles from Amapala, on the Island of Tigre, off the coast of Honduras. No lives are reported lost. Lumber Dealers Fail. George Leoffert & Sons, lumber d&alers of Sharpsburg, Pa., have filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities $126,000, assets $6,000, principally open accounts. Jealonsy Causes Murder and Suicide. At Endicott, Neb., Burt Grandy shot and killed Clyde Cole and, escaping to the woods, put a bullet through his head. B&>t.b loved Miss Gertie Hickey. Sagaata Has Resigned. Premier Sagasta and the Spanish ministry have resigned.