Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1899 — G[?]H JOINS LOVERS. [ARTICLE]

G[?]H JOINS LOVERS.

SL SUICIDE OF A KANSAS I- GIRL. ■gp < ®-'Kills Herself on learning that B .r Affianced Husband Had Been ||si»ot Dead at Malolos—Proposed PotHnhes Combine Is Dead. WThe Filipino bullet which laid Alva Dix Hr on the battlefield of Malolos was a ■fesenger of death to Miss Mary AVilHb, the young woman to whom he was ■gaged. Robbed by the cruel fortunes of ■hr of her sweetheart, Miss Wilson comKtted suicide at her home in Augusta, Kan., rather than carry her grief longer ■lnis world. Alva Dix was a private in Khipany G, Twentieth Kansas volunHfefs. Before he enlisted to fight for his ■untry against Spain he was a prosper- / farmer in Wilson County, and one ■t the most popular young men of his ■ighborhood. He had been courting Miss Hnlson for some time previous to his en■fement, and just before he joined his ■giment became her affianced lover. A Kt days ago Miss Wilson saw her lover’s ■me in the list of the killed during the ■thting before Malolos. While making ■ effort to conceal her sorrow, she said ■thing to her parents to indicate that ■b contemplated suicide. The other night ■ben she retired she wrote a note to her ■per and mother, telling them that she Kd not care to live any longer since Alva ■as dead, and left it on a table in her ■am. Some time during the night she ■ok morphine and ended her life.

■BURNED HOUSE AND PATIENT. Bexan’s Horrible Treatment to Stamp H' Ont Smallpox. Ugifews was received at Temple, Texas, ® a grewsome affair occurring at Cop■feras Cove, a small village on the Santa A man named Chalk con■fected smallpox and died from the disHuse. It has not been learned whether ■pdical aid was in attendance, but it is ■attain that fear of the loathsome disease Raused his neighbors to shun his presence. MKer his death the people, being paniclltricken, set fire to the building in which ■e body lay, and everything was consum■L Smallpox has been prevalent in all ■hts of Texas the past winter, and nuraHtpus heroic expedients have been resortLA to, but none so extreme as in this case Hive been reported before. KPOTTERIES COMBINE FAILS. ■proposed Organization Falls Through I i: Because of Overcapitalization. [KiThe American Potteries Company, the name given to the proposed $27,000,■BO trust to include the potteries of the ■hited States, is dead. The projectors, it j Ksaid, spent $250,000 in trying to effect He organization, but failed because of Hwrcapitalization. They could not per■te investors to buy stock. It is said Be property to be included was intrinsic«ly worth $7,000,000, but had been apfor sale to the trust at $12,000,■9O. The trouble arose in convincing inBstors that dividends could be paid on ■5,000,000 more than the highest valuaR To Allot Creek Lands. B In accordance with the circular notice Kited March 7, 1899, the Dawes eommis■on has opened an office at Muscokee, ■ T., where citizens of the Creek Nation ■ad Creek freedmen whose rights to cit■pnship are unquestioned may select 160 Bbres of land from the Creek domain, as ■pvided by the rules and regulations Hade by the Secretary of the Interior unKr the provisions of the Curtis act. f L Big Money for a Husband. f Henry H. Croley, a wealthy farmer of K«a Salle, N. Y., announces that he will [give $50,000 to any man who will lead his Saughter, Miss Clara Croley, to the altar, She lucky man to be acceptable to both Hither and daughter. The candidate for ■he hand of Miss Croley must be honest, Bfoer, industrious and bear a good characFatal Accident at Joplin. ®Five men working in a deep, narrow Ech at Joplin, Mo., lost their lives by ive-in that caught them from both 3, Four of the men were buried unh? eighteen feet of earth and rock and Heir bodies have not yet been recovered, ■b* man named Neighbargar, was covKed to the waist and died from his inHgries before he could be dug out. Winter Wheat Badly Hurt. KWarm weather has enabled the Ne■aska State Board of Agriculture to get ■very fair idea of the damage to the winKr. wheat of the State. Reports from Ke various counties south of the Platte jHlicate that the loss is the heaviest in the Mate’s history, being more than one- | E Routed Out the Guests. ■Fire which started in the servants’ din■fe room of the Coates House, one of E|hsas City's leading hotels, at 2:30 in ■e morning. routed out all the guests, but extinguished before any damage of was done. No one was inft:' Ba rones# de Hirsch Dead. ■Bhroness Claire de Hirsch de Gereuth, ■glow of Baron Hirsch, the famous phi■■thropist, is dead at Paris. She had Hmn sick for some time- She leaves sev■mß'HWMop pounds sterling, chiefly beto charity. I K' Noted Railway Man Dead. |||l. 4. Waterman, treasurer of the MichCentral Railroad, died at his home in ■fc —————— g fJtcidiaiiß Kill Sixteen Whites, ?r-Bb* report of the murder of sixteen from Kentucky has been reiffcftd «t Juneau, Alaska. No details are Hj|*nd,but the story is to the effect that H&hld seekers were killed while asleep Bpbjdians, who wanted their kits and Murders Landl a<l y•

CONFBSSBD AN OLD CRIME. A. O. Hewitt Telle of the Poisoning of Samuel Penn at Chillicothet Ohio. Allen O. Hewitt, once a prominent attorney, died at the Soldiers’ Home at Chillicothe, Ohio, the confessed murderer of Samuel Penn, another young attorney. Some years ago Penn was mysteriously poisoned, a large quantity of strychnine having been placed in medicine he was taking. Hewitt was presumably his friend, but it seems he determined to murder him, and happened into the doctor’s office just as he was preparing some medicine for Penn, in which, while the doctor was absent. Hewitt placed the poison. The murder has always been one of the deepest mysteries of the county. Hewitt became a wreck in mind and body from remorse for his crime, and finally died at the home. DRIFTED FOR TWENTY HOURS. Fishermen Caught in Dake Erie Ice Floes Rescued. Five fishermen of Sandusky, H. C. Passon and his three sons, James, John and Charles, and Louis Roberts, have reached their homes after a most thrilling experience on Lake Erie. They went out in a small sail boat to lift their nets and were caught in a terrific storm, which carried away the spar of the boat and drove the ice down upon them so that they were for nearly twenty hours drifting helplessly about in a heavy sea among crushing and grinding ice floes, and in momentary danger of going to the bottom. They were t finally rescued. STEAMER NORSEMAN ASHORE. Crew of 102 Rescued by Life Savers Using Breeches Buoy. The Warren Line steamer Norseman, Captain Rees, bound from Liverpool to Boston, went ashore just inside Tom Moore’s Rock, about one hundred yards off the Nanepashemet Hotel, Marblehead Neck, Mass. Captain Charles of the lifesaving crew saved twenty-one men in the breeches buoy before daylight, and the remainder of the crew were taken off as rapidly as possible. The Norseman carried a crew of 102 men and no passengers. NBW PLOT AGAINST THE CZAR. Report from Copenhagen Says Frhperor’a Mother Is Implicated. L’Echo de Paris publishes a sensational dispatch from Copenhagen saying that a plot against the Czar, in which his mother and M. Pobyedonotzeff. the head of the holy synod, are implicated, has been discovered, the object of the conspirators being to take advantage of the condition of the Czar’s health to remove him from power and confide the government to his uncle, who is classed as a notorious reactionary.

Had Murdered Five Persona. E. Bates Soper was hanged at Harrisonville, Mo., the other day. He fell a distance of seven feet, breaking his neck, dying without a struggle. The execution was private and was witnessed by only forty persons. Soper was executed for the murder at their home at Archie of his wife and their two daughters, aged 4 and. 6 years respectively. Soper ran a butcher shop. One day in April, 1891, he announced that he had learned that there was a “blind tiger,” or an illicit saloon, in town and'that he could not live in a place so wicked. He sold his shop and disappeared. Four days later neighbors found the mother and children dead in bed. The heads of all had been crushed with an ax. Soper had left a note saying he could not properly support his family and that he believed they would be better off dead. Soper went to Portland, Oregon, and, taking the name of Prentice, married a respectable widow. In April, 1897, he deserted his second wife, taking their 2-year-old child with him. He afterward killed the child, choking it into insensibility and burying it alive. Later Soper, under the name of Homer Lee, leased and worked a small fruit farm near Ashland, Cal., where he was captured June 11, 1897. After being landed in jail at Harrisonville Soper confessed not only the killing of his wife and two children in Missouri and his child in Oregon, but admitted the murder, in 1880, of his father. Killed by a Mob. A special from Hollen, Kan., says: “Henry Sanderson, the young farmer who attempted to murder his sweetheart. Myrtle Fleisher, near Mayetta, and instead wounded Mrs. John Fleisher, her aunt, who was at her side, so that she died, was lynched by a mob from Mayetta. The mob. with Sanderson, marched to Banner creek, tied a rope around his neck, and fastened the other end to a beam. His neck was disjointed by the fall of twelve feet and death must have come almost instantly. The mob then quickly dispersed. The body was cut down by Sheriff Haas. None of the mob is known by the officials.” Stirring Up a Revolt. The American Indians of St. Regis reservation are egging on the Canadian Indians to revolt against the Canadian Government. It is expected that the Ottawa Government will look to the State of New York to aid it in quelling the disturbance. Between 200 and 300 of the Indians disarmed, beat, maltreated and nearly killed Inspector Hogan and Dominion Policeman Chamberlain and chased them and Constable Morris of Dundee from the reservation and kept the Indian agent. John Long, a prisoner for five hours. Bays a California Road. At Los Angeles, Cal., the Mount Lowe Railway was sold under foreclosure proceedings by the court commissioner for $190,000 to Arthur L. Hawes, who acted as agent for Valentine Peyton of Danville, 111. A majority of the stock was owned by the Singer heirs and A. B. Cody of Chicago, while Andrew McNally was also one of the committee that has been financing the enterprise.

Will Fail in a Tiny Craft. Capt. William A. Andrews, who crossed the Atlantic to Paris in 1878 in a small boat, the Nautilus, will on June 17 of this year start on another voyage across the Atlantic in a tiny craft. The boat will be constructed of aluminum and canvas, and will be small and light enough when collapsed to carry under the arm. The voyage, Capt. Andrews calculates, will take him sixty days. Many Hnrt in Train Wrecks. The south-bound Burlington passenger train from Omaha was derailed three and a half miles north of Parkville, Mo. Seven persons were hurt Several others received slight bruises. The whole train except the dining car rolled down a twenty-foot embankment. S. B. Armour Dead. 8. B. Armour, read of the Kansas City packing house of Armour & Co., and brother of Philip D. Armour of Chicago, died at his home in that city, of pneumom j j.