Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1899 — WORK OP THE FLAMES [ARTICLE]

WORK OP THE FLAMES

BAD EARLY MO3NINQ FIRE IN PITTSBURG. Two Business Buildings l Destroyed and Others Badly Scorched—The Loss Will Reach $210.000-United States Gets More Space at Paris Exhibition. « ■ ' Property on Market street and Third avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., valued at $210,000, was destroyed by a fire that for a time threatened several large business blocks. The fire broke out about 3;30 a. m., and burned fiercely for three hours. J. J. Welden’s seven-story grocery and the Novelty candy works were completely destroyed, and a number of adjoining buildings were scorched, among them Kunkel’s dry good store, “The Fair.” The losses are: James J. Welden, stock, $85,000; building, $60,000; Novelty Candy Company, building and stock, $50,000; Kunkel & Co., stock, $12,000, building $3,000. The fire is believed to have been caused by an explosion of gas. BANDITS RAID CUBAN TOWNS. _______ . / I Robbers Sack Five Villages and Fight the Native Troops. Bandits sacked the villages of Saro, Huti, Peregrina, Canelon and Sama, all in the northern pant of Santiago province, Cuba, and another party of fifteen attacked San Andres, about twenty miles northwest of Holguin. The outlaws robbed the houses at each place, securing principally groceries and clothing. The Cuban general, Salazar, with seven men, pursued the bandits and overtook them in the Vijalu mountains, where a hot fight ensued. The robbers were eventually driven from behind the rocks and retreated, leaving one dead —a negro—four horses and several bundles of plunder. The dead man was identified as Domingo Martinez, a Jamaican, who had long resided near Holguin. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor of Santiago de Cuba, addressed the governor general, saying that the planters in the neighborhood of Holguin have been conniving at the operations of the bandits in order that American troops might be stationed on the plantations. Gen. Wood says that the reports of outrage are exaggerated. SPACE GIVEN AT PARIS FAIR. Total of 300,000 Square Feet Allotted to American i xhibite, Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1900, has been officially notified of the allotment of 56,500 square feet in the Vincennes annex, divided as follows: 21,500 square feet for railroad exhibits, 4,300 for automobiles, 8,000 for bicycles, to be housed in a building erected by the American manufacturers; 19,400 for operating machinery, 2,700 for life-saving exhibits. This makes a total of 300,000 square feet of space allotted to American exhibits, or double the amount of the original grants.

Bank Goes to the Wall. Bank Examiner Pope took charge of the assets of the State Bank of West St. Paul, Minn., and ordered further suspension of business. The depositors will be protected. The last statement shows the total resources to be $105,784.98, of which loans and discounts amount to $60,159.53; of the liabilities $35,604.26 is in time certificates. Sinking Lightship Saved. Wireless telegraphy was first put to practical use when the Goodwin Sands light ship was struck by a passing vessel, and the crew, utilizing the wireless telegraph apparatus, notified South Foreland, England, that their ship was sinking. Tugs* were thereupon dispatched to the assistance of the light ship. To Make Spurious Shillings. United States secret service men captured in Brooklyn, N. Y., a well-equipped private mint almost ready to turn out English shillings made of genuine silver and so perfectly like those made in the mints of her British majesty that experts would have been unable to detect the counterfeit. Kills Wife and Daughter. Edward Oswold, an instrument maker' at Camden, N. J., stabbed to death his wife and 8-year-old daughter. He then attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. A 6-year-old daughter escaped the fate of her sister by running into tbe street. Unknown Man Killed by Cars. The mangled remains of an unknown man were found scattered a distance of two miles along the tracks of the West Shore Railroad just east of Fairport, N. Y. The remains were those of a man of medium size and of sandy complexion. More Money for Berea College. President W. G. Frost of Berea College is in receipt of a letter from D. K., Pearsons, the Chicago philanthropist, offering another gift of $50,000 to the endowment fund of the Berea College on the same conditions as the former gift. Britain Will Aid Pacific Cable. The British Government has decided to contribute an annual subsidy, to the full amount recommended in tie report of the Pacific cable committee of 1896, for the construction of a Pacific cable from British Columbia to Australia. Railway Loop for Toledo Exposition. The Ohio Centennial Company and the representatives of the railroads entering Toledo met and made arrangements to allow all roads to enter the exposition grounds by means of a loop, tbe railroads all using .one depoL Destroyed an lowa’Asylnm. The hospital building of the State Asylum for the Feeble Minded at Glenwood, lowa, was destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is unknown. No lives were lost. Loss $25,000, no insurance. ____________ • ' f :V Looks Dark for Dreyfus. ~ David Christy Murray is authority for the statement that a council of generals held at Paris has decided that under no circumstances shall Dreyfus be liberated. Killed by a Trolley Car. J. W. Breed, president of the Central Credit Company of Cincinnati, was killed instantly in that dty by an electric car. He was 00 tear, old.

NO TUNNEL PLANNED). ■ Great Engl nee ring: Feat Being Con* ■idered In London. Tbe project for a tunnel from England or Scotland to Ireland is very much to tbe fore just now in London. It is announced that no fewer than five separate projects are under consideration. The difficulties in the way are great, tile depth necessitating steep gradients for the distance traversed. The shallowest sounding is seven-ty-five fathoms, and the distance, according to one scheme, is forty miles. The estimates of cost vary from £7,000,000 to £16,000,000, but tbe advantages would be enormous. The journey to America would be shortened, according to the Arnold-Fos-ter map, by 950 miles. It is thought probable that the Irish railways will combine to take up one scheme or another, in the hope of obtaining a Government guaranty. BURIED ON HlB RANCH. Finding of Bheep Herder's Body Furnishes Proof of Murder. Parties arriving from Byers, Colo., report the finding of the body of Otto Goette, or Brown, as be was commonly known, a sheep ranchman, who was murdered on his ranch Sept. 30, 1898. Goette disappeared and his 2,000 sheep were afterward sold in Omaha. A draft for the receipts of the sale was cashed at the Colorado National Bank in Denver by R. H. Beeler.' It was believed that Goette was murdered and suspicion pointed to Beeler as the murderer. Efforts were made to capture him, but all trace of him was lost at Salt Lake. The body of Goette had been buried near a stream on his ranch and the spring rains had unearthed it. A large hole in the skull corroborated the murder theory. Fatal Explosion in a Factory. By an explosion of benzine in Fleer’s chemical works at Philadelphia two N men were killed, two others are unaccounted for and one woman was fatally injured. A score of persons were more or less seriously injured. The factory is a total wreck, and buildings for a distance of half a square were partially demolished. In some instances windows in structures two squares away were shattered. So far as can be learned there were but six men in the chemical works when the catastrophe took place. One of these was blown high in tbe air, and his body struck the ground twenty-five yards from tbe mill. The other was- burned almost to a crisp. Fully a hundred houses were more or less damaged, those in close proximity to the chemical works being so badly wrecked as to probably necessitate their condemnation. Poisonous Snake by Mall. An attempt to kill George E. Sterry, Jr., secretary of the firm of Weaver & Sterry, New York, was made when an asp was sent him through the mail. The address written in faded ink on the box that held the snake was in a woman’s hand. When opened the snake fell on Sterry’s bands, but by his quickness the merchant escaped injury. Mr. Sterry has put the case in the hands of detectives. Negro Killed by Negroes. Charles Williams, a colored man, who killed Laura Canafax, a negress, was pat to death by men of his own race at Galena, Kan. Twenty-five masked negroes battered down the jail door and fired at ‘ him through the bars of his cell, killing him instantly. Smallpox at Kansas City, Kan. A negro broken out with smallpox soreß and delirious from the disease ran through the streets of Kansas City, Kan., the other evening. His capture by the police revealed the fact that the disease is epidemic among the negroes of that aity. Indians Dying of Smallpox. The Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma are being carried off by smallpox. There are 300 full-bloods in the tribe, and since Feb. 1 132 of them have died of the disease. _ Death of Sheridan Shook. Sheridan Shook died at Red Hook, N. Y. He was 77 years old. For many years he was proprietor of the Union Square Theater and of the Morton House, New York. Eleven Victims of Fire. About 300 bouses of the town of Guta, Hungary, have been burned. The charred remains of seven women and four children have been recovered from the rains. Mine Owners Refuse Offer. An offer made by Gov. Jones to arbitrate the differences existing between the mine owners and miners in Arkansas has been refused by the operators. Bishop Watterson Dead. Rt. Rev. John Ambrose Watterson, D. D., bishop of the diocese of Columbus, Ohio, died suddenly the other day. .IAd&ET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c; batter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 55c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats. No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c. to 30c; rye. No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 'to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4-75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 82c to 33c; rye, 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 28c to No.^^B7c good shipping steers. New York Cuttle $3*25 to $6.00* hop.