Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1899 — INDIANS ON WARPATH [ARTICLE]

INDIANS ON WARPATH

I PpHilkats looking for trqu- | ; SgfcßLE IN ALASKA. I pßucfca Armed with Rifles Drive Away I Workmen Who Are Blasting Out a I - WniilMtwo Killed in a Fight with I IfThe Chilkat Indians in Alaska are on I RF warpath. Twenty bucks armed with I Hies gathered from their several villages I; Along the Chilkat river and marched to 1 Point, eight miles from Haines’ 1 where eight white men were I Misting rock for a trail to Klukwan, a disI ifjjtnce bf twenty-five miles. The Indians 1 PNve the whites away. Word was imme--1 Kffliately teent to the United States marshal I land commissioner at Skaguay and to I MfjSapt. Cheatman, in command of the I Hpoops at' Dyea. Sixteen soldiers, under 1 Of a sergeant, were at once sent I *|s : Haittes’ Mission. It is understood that I I||jarties who are opposed to the construcI gPon of the new trail have incited the InI Hokos to make trouble. 1 ilfW sß WHIL,E fighting fire. i Eflne Fireman Crushed to Death and Six I Badly Hurt at Dayton, Ohio. I I A fire which broke out from incendiary I causes in the big lumber yard of the A. I IGrebhart Lumber Company at Dayton, 0., 1 in the death of Thomas Lawler, a 1 and the severe injury of six other 1 jKpremen. A high wind carried blazing 1 IMArks from the burning lumber to the 1 mot of St. John’s Lutheran Church on I -Hkst Third street, setting that building on I Hire. Lawler was standing in the church I Hfektibule when the belfry timbers fell on I Bpim. The other men were hurt by the I Hones and bv falling. The material loss | Aggregates s7s,<X*o. 1 Hp BliCE kattek with robbers. I Hbaptain of tlie Ogden Police Force 1 ;C_»l»d One Desperado Are Killed, i ipPwo desperadoes held up several men j Spear Brigham City, Utah. The sheriff of yßox Elder County and a posse pursued the I Bobbers and came up with them eight 1 X miles from Ogden. The robbers fired on i ithe posse and a number of shots were ex--1 The robbers then escaped to the I hills. Captain Brown of the Ogden police , force went to the assistance of the Box I Elder County sheriff and the robbers were fijtgain located in the hills and another batII ISe took place, in which Capt. Brown and I Wo*' ot t * le r °bbers were killed. The other I. I robber was captured. I . IS. Race for the Pennant. I IpThe standing of the clubs in the Nafilonal League race is as follows: I W. L. W. L. I wjjjk. Louis . ..10 2Boston 7 7 | .10 4 Louisville .... 6 6 1 »Oliieago ..... 9 6 New York.... 4 8 1 IjPCißeinnati ... 7 sWashington ..4 10 C I rooklyn .... 8 OCleveland .... 2 8 i ... 8 6Pittsburg .... 1 8 1 Hplßowing is the standing of the clubs i Mm-the Western League: I W. L. W. L. |Buffalo>.... 4 1 St. Paul 2 2 I Kansas City. 3 1 Columbus .... 2 3 1 IpDetroit ..... 3 2Minneapolis ..1 3 I Iplflwaukee .. 2 2 Indianapolis . 1 4 I L Killed for Revenge. I f News has been received at Little Rock, I §“Ark., of the assassination in Yan Buren 1 of the son of Hugh Patterson, I Hfrbo was murdered in December, 1897, by 1 Jlrfe Mills and Will Hardin. Mills was I Kanged a few days ago and Hardin was I SWhot to death in jail. It is believed that I Ipoong Patterson was murdered by friends 1 |of Hardin for revenge. I Bjfefany Hnrt in Railway Wreck. I PTwo persons were killed, eighteen seriI jßjrlT injured and fifty others badly hurt 1 HU the result of a wreck which occurred on 8 Rochester and Lake Ontario Rail--8 Mfcwad about one-half mile north of RochesI K***! N. Y. Two cars on an excursion train I Mped with passengers left the track while > Bounding a curve at full speed flhd were 8 Mmfiirely demolished. 1 Bp Not Ready for Statehood. 1 Epen. Henry, the American military gov--1 ,yeTnor Of Porto Rico, has informed the in--1 Mplar committee recently sent there from 1 that he does not believe the j < PortO Ricans should be encouraged to look f§ Iferward to statehood in the American | ipJliion. He thinks they will do better ungfpfcyr « territorial form of government. 1 E.: Anglo*Russian Agreement. !' KiSreat Britain and Russia have come to 1 mim Agreement on their spheres of influence If Ht China. Dispatches from St. PetersI MBp-'fi* London, which are generally $ jKjfedited. state that an international pact I HK'Bie subject has been signed. 1 Killed by a Railway Train. 1 gjigtfl. Hugh D. Greer, a well-known exE ' ffrolMllljrktr soldier, who served through 1 the civil war under Geu. Forrest’s comI pknd, was accidentally killed by a South|J < Mjptt*ilway train at Buntyn station, TenMfilii 11, j, States Shaken Up. » p- Several towns in southern Illinois and Hjttdian* and northern Kentucky were E ifhaßen by earthquake shocks. No loss of I but several persons were K|Spred and many buildings rendered unl g# , ® pffgriorer Claims Self-Defense. pglftiry Gannaway, a well-known saw- » ■> F-lman, was stabbed to death near llflKj, T., by William Wathen. surrendered and claims self-de- — •< mf'- by Flames. HU than 250 persons were left homere in Chicago,which started in

Aged Woman and Four Small Children Are Killed in Missouri. Mrs. Jane Tettaton, an aged widow, and four children ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, were murdered and their bodies partly cremated in theJamily residence at Malden, Mo J. H. Tettaton. stepson of the woman who was killed, is under arrest. He tells conflicting stories about the tragedy. He says be was at home talking to the murdered woman when two men entered with revolvers and demanded money that he had taken to her to effect a settlement on some land matters. He says he refused to turn over the money and they opened fire; that the widow was shot at his feet, and that he ran into the yard and was there cut and clubbed into insensibility. Thirteen trifling knife wounds were found on his face. At the death of Washington Tettaton, the woman’s husband, two years ago, J, H. Tettaton was selected to administer the estate. 111-feeling sprang up and lawsuits followed. The woman agreed to settle certain claims for SSOO, and young Tettaton was to give her the money. The last seen of her alive was when she went with him to the house, supposedly to make the settlement. coiners in state prison. Colorado Convicts Make Bogus Dollars of Babbitt Metal. The discovery has been made that some very successful coiners have been operating inside the State penitentiary at Canyon City, Colo. The counterfeits are silver dollars and it is believed they are made of a combination principally of babbitt metal, which was used in setting the gratings during the construction of the prison. It is supposed they were made in plaster of paris molds. The coins were first detected by merchants who sold delicacies to the prisoners. This led to an investigation and twenty-eight of the bogus dollars were found in the possession of the prisoners, though no clew was obtained as to the identity of the coiners. The coins are well executed. HEIRESS TO HALF A MILLION. Claim of Girl Arrested at San Francisco for Vagrancy. A young woman known as Mildred Wislon, who was arrested at San Francisco on a charge of vagrancy, claims to be heiress to property valued at $500,000. Daniel Webster, an engineer at Mare Island, who raised the girl, says she was born at Burke’s Point, Butler County, Mo., and is now 16 years of age. Her father, whose name was Whittaker, owned nearly half of Butler County, and she and her sister, who is now living at Cairo, 111., were the sole heirs to the estate. The girl recently ran away from her home in Vallejo with a soldier who has gone to Manila. WINDSTORM WORKS DAMAGE. One Person Killed and Several Injnred • Near San Antonio, Tex. Several Texas towns were visited by a terrific wind and hail storm that followed a heavy rain. At Lytle the building on the “XL” ranch was demolished and a Mexican cowboy killed. At Weimer the home of City Marshal Insall was blown down and Mro. Insall and her two children injnred. The school house at Medina was overturned and the teacher, Miss Minnie Halstead, received internal injuries. Two pupils, Tom Maston and Henry Willard, were seriously injured. Military Riot at tan Francisco. What came near to being a dangerous riot occurred near the Presidio reservation, San Francisco, Cal., when a large body of white troops from the Presidio burned to tbe ground a saloon known as the Presidio Clnb case and resisted arrest by colored troops of the Twentyfourth infantry and the local police. The police fired upon the rioters to intimidate them and several hundred arrests were made. Tbe trouble grew out of injuries inflicted on C. L. King, a soldier in the Twenty-third infantry, the previous night in the saloon. The soldier was so badly beaten that his life was despaired of. Several hundred of his comrades marched on the saloon. The keeper saw them coming and fled. They bombarded the place with stones and then set it on fire. The provost guard, which happened to be drawn from the colored regiment, and a large detachment of local polfce had much trouble in quelling the rioters. All the offenders were raw recruits. Great Strike in Copper. IL is reported that the largest copper ledges ever discovered in the West have been found in the Carbon district north of Mount Ranier, and sixty miles east of Tacoma, Wash. The ore is said to be similar in character and geological situation to that found in Montana, and to be fully as rich as that of the Butte mines. Chester Thorne, president of the National Bank of Commerce of Tacoma, has had prospectors at work in the> new district for two years. It is stated that a large force of men will engage in the work of development as soon as the snow disappears. Evidences of a Murder. Hilary S. Starr, superintendent of the Oak Knoll ranch, Pasadena, Cal., has disappeared and the indications are that he was murdered. His brother Charles was assisting him about half a mile from the ranch house, and went to his cabin to put on his working clothes. When he returned twenty minutes later Hillary was nowhere 'to be fonnd. Not far from the door of the pump house there was evidence of a fearful straggle having taken place. Illinois Troops in Riot. The final night of the Second Illinois regiment’s stay in Augusta, Ga., was celebrated with a riot at midnight, in which Private James G. Gilliland was shot, probably fatally, by Lient. John Mayeski, and a lynching bee was only prevented by the strongest efforts of Col. Moalton. The soldiers had' set fira to sheds near the camp, and the lieutenant, who was officer of the day, was trying to suppress the disturbance. v - Russianizing Finland. The Governor of Finland has obtained authority from the Czar to exile all people suspected of hostility to Russia and to the work now in progress of “Russianizing” Finland. Tbe order affects thousands of Copper Trust a Fact. It is claimed that the great Anaconda mine has entered the combine. The capi- [ tfl! stock*, it il thought, will he * O'lF'b' 1 hc‘"t Qofi % '