Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — COAL FOR WARSHIPS. [ARTICLE]

COAL FOR WARSHIPS.

TO BE SUPPLIED FROM WEST INDIAN POINTS. Navy Department to Establish Stations from Which Approaches to Gulf of Mexico May Be Protected—A St. Louis Chinaman Murdered. At the suggestion of Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the bureau of equipment, a comprehensive scheme has been adopted by the Navy Department under which coaling stations will be placed at strategic points in the West Indies, so as to give the United States control of the Virgin, Mona and Windward passages and the approaches to the Gulf of Mexico. It is proposed to establish coaling stations at Culebra Island, lying between Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands; at Mayaguez, which lies on the western shore of Porto Rico and controls the Mona Passage, and at Guantanamo, on the southern side of Cuba, or at Nipe Bay, on the northern coast, either of which controls the Windward Passage. Coal sheds and piers are already in course of construction 7* Dry Tortugas which will enable a fir T operating from that point to preven* an enemy from entering either thrqp* e Yucutan or Bahama channels.,.* , e coas ) survey is making surveys to , a 8 and and Porto Rico, and,A , EaK ' 6 and Yankton are doing sim” as work mCu a. PRIEST IS TO PRI3ON * Nebraska p^ etor Refuses to Give Bond 3 an Appeal Case. Ktional fight between members of Catholic Church at Tecumreached the point where Rev. Sperlein, the priest in charge, lEnIPbMM III jail- A month ago Father SsjjMMrh-niUPil to gain possession of |||||||||Mi property, held by the faction him. In the collision which Property was damaged and Father Sperlein had ■HHMBid was fined $75. He appealed ||||l|H||®triet Court and on refusing to SSOO was sent to jail. The |||||||M|reurrects a quarrel which has IMgMiug for five years, with which >S’-3.^';B n:,cum of Lincoln is closely conwhich has twice had the atBEHHHgtho authorities at Rome. MYSTERIOUSLY SLAIN. Oriental’s Head Shows the gM&tHrks Hatchet Blows. ■MHaortem examination of the re |B|J|lfA Hue Chow, the Chinese merchant dead in St. Louis the othSffisgsSsgfeals five deep cuts and a round skull, such wounds as would be made by a hatchet. It is believed now that he was murdered and his body placed where it was found. Jue Tom, a cousin of the dead man, said that the hat found with the body did not belong to Chow, and that a handkerchief, also discovered near by, was not Chow’s property. The police have no clew as to the perpetrator of the crime. Canadian Gold Output. Recently published official figures show that in 1898 the Canadian gold output was $13,700,000, placing Canada in fifth place as a gold-producing country. Of tfie total product $10,000,000 was taken out of the Klondike. Official estimates place the output from the Klondike this year at $30,000,000, and British Columbia is also expected to do much better than in previous years, so that Canadians hope that Canada will soon be near the top. Fire at Logansport. Fire broke out in the store of B. F, Keesling at Logansport, Ird., and was not brought under control for three hours. Following are the losses: City National Bank, building and fixtures, $10,000; P. W. Moore, building, $10,000; G. W. Burrow estate, building, $5,000; Dewenter & Co., men’s furnishing goods, $15,000; B. F. Keesling, drugs, $15,000; Logansport Wall Paper Company, stock, SIO,OOO. Combinations with Large Capital. Four more trusts, with capital of $280,000,000, are in course of formation. They are: The American woolen trust, $65,000,000; the cotton trust, $80,000,000; the worsted trust, $75,000,000, and the carpet trust, $65,000,000. The International Smokeless Powder and Dynamite Company, with a capital of $10,000,000, has been incorporated in New Jersey. Eleven Burned to Death. Fire broke out in the five-story dwelling at 2 East Sixty-seventh street, New York, the home of Wallace Andrews, president of the New York Steam Heating Company. The fire spread very rapidly and when the firemen arrived in response to the first alarm they found the interior of the houses all in flames. Eleven lives were lost. Amateur Photographer Killel. Samuel M. Graham, well known throughout central Pennsylvania, was instantly killed near Phillipsburg, Pa., while attempting to get a kodak pciture of a large stump which was being blown out of the ground with dynamite, a sliver striking him on the neck and nearly cutting his head from the body. New Rond from Alliance, Neb. General Manager Hoidredge of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, officially confirms the story that a road is to be built southwest from Alliance, Neb., on the Billings line, to a point on the Denver line of the road. He stated that most of the right of way had been purchased. Kills His Wife and Himself. The dead bodies of Weston B. Turner and his wife, a well-to-do couple, each about 60 years old, were found in their home at Falls Church, Va. Turner evidently had shot his wife while she was asleep and then put another bullet through his own head. Allen L. Dalrymple Killed. Allen L. Dalrymple, assistant superintendent in the railway mail service, was instantly killed by a train at the union station in St. Louis. Mr. Dalrymple was attempting to board an outgoing ’Frisco train, but missed his footing and fell under the wheels. Woman Elected City Clerk. , A daughter of CapL D. S. Elliott of the Twentieth Kansas regiment, who was killed at Manila recently, has been elected city clerk at Coffeyville, Kan., without opposition, her name being on both tickets. Fire Loss in Montreal. Fire partly destroyed the Dominion metal works, Garth & Co., proprietors, on

QUARREL RESULTS IN TRAGKDT. Suicide Follows Attempt to Murder Wife and Babe. After attempting to murder his wife and 6-months-old babe, Walter Miller, aged 30, foreman in the Detroit soap works at Detroit, sent two bullets into his own brain and died almost instantly. The couple had quarreled, and Mrs. Miller, with the children, had gone to live with her mother. On the night of the tragedy she went with her cousin to meet her husband at the latter’s request. Miller met her on the street and shot her in the back, thinking the bullet would penetrate his wife’s body and kill the baby in her arms also. The bullet, however, was deflected by a rib and did not penetrate. Miller then shot himself. Mrs. Miller is expected to recover. FIRE LOSS OF fIOO,OOO. Hershey Building at Reading, Pa., Destroyed by Flames. A fire which originated in the Hereby building at Reading, Pa., owned by Milton Hereby of Lancaster and occupied by the Lancaster caramel -rvirfvfi he is proprietor, did ove- SIOO,OOO worth of •' names spread rapidly anA- t-bmmunicated with the building of ■c*ard, Reber & Co., hardware dealers. The Hershy building was completely destroyed. Loss on building and contents $75,000. Bard, Reber & Co. lose $40,000 on their stock and their building is damaged to the extent of SIO,OOO, partially insured. Ten Persons Are Drowned. The little steamer Chilkat, with nineteen persons on board, left Eureka, Cal., and in two hours she was upside down on the bar and ten of those she carried were no more. Of the nineteen on the vessel thirteen were the officers and crew and six were passengers. Of the passengers, two were saved and four lost, and of the crew seven were saved and six lost. Missing Bill Is Recovered. D. H. Dickason, chief clerk of the Colorado House, disappeared near the end of the session and it was openly charged that he had ptolen the public utilities bill in, order to prevent its being signed before adjournment. When found Dickason was knocked down by a member of the House and was dragged to the Senate chamber, where he was forced to deliver the missing bill to the clerk. Gives to Conscience Fund. The Secretary of the Treasury has received in an envelope postmarked New York three SI,OOO bills, which came as an inclosure in the following letter: “The inclosed belongs to the United States treasury. Conscience demands its return. God knows the name and the sin.” Sues Physician and Wins. James Davidson sued Drs. Carratt, Anderson and Harris of Toronto for trespass and mutilation of his dead wife’s body and secured SBOO damages. The doctors held a post-mortem examination on the body. Wants Guatamelan Money. President McKinley has been asked to press the claim of R. H. May of Meridian, Miss., for $200,000 against the Government of Guatemala, the claim being based on a partially paid railroad contract. Struck by a Train. An east-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania road struck and killed two men and fatally injured another near Greensburg, Pa. The men were walking on the tracks and were rqn down. Talmage No Longer Pastor. The presbytery of Washington city at its semi-annual session accepted the resignation of Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of that city. ■ Woman Dies of Leprosy. Hannah Garey, aged 22, died near Junction City, Ohio, from leprosy, and a younger sister is suffering from the same disease. Warren Leland Is Dead. Warren F. Leland, proprietor of the illfated Windsor Hotel, died at the Grenoble Hotel in New York. Miners Said to Be Starving. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn has received information that miners on the Copper river are starving. . Bill Fixing Interest Beaten. The bill fixing the legal rate of interest at 5 per cent was defeated in the New York Assembly. Chicago Re-Elects Harrison.Carter H. Harrison has been re-elected Mayor of Chicago with a plurality of nearly 40,000.