Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — LONG FIGHT IS WON. [ARTICLE]

LONG FIGHT IS WON.

CITY BUILT IN A DAY. ' Prairie in the Morning and Organised Before NightfalL The greatest town-building record in Oklahoma has been won by Mountain View, Washita County. The other day the town site was a prairie. The same day it was surveyed and platted and a large portion of it sold and settled upon. Washita river was bridged and a vast amount of accumulated freight was moved and located. The town was organized and officered and all lines of business and professions started. The town in one day became a city of nearly SOO, with W. T. V. Yates as Mayor, Senator G. W. Bellamy as treasurer, and Col. John Kerfoot as police judge, with a full complement of councilmen and minor officers of an organized town. Some of the lots sold as high as S9OO within thirty minutes from the time the surveyor drove his stakes. Mountain View is the western terminus of the Rock Island extension across the Comanche and Apache country. NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES. Snake River, in Alaska, Reported to Exceed the Klondike in Richness. The San Francisco Examiner prints a story regarding the new gold discoveries at Point Nome, in Alaska, which its advices declare to exceed in richness those of the Klondike. The strike is on the Snake river and its tributaries, about twenty miles back from, Cape Nome and 120 miles from St. Michael’s—just outside the St. Michael’s military reservation of the United States Government. The mines are all in American territory. Reports from miners on the ground say that it is only six feet to bedrock and the ground is alleged to pay from the surface. A stampede from Dawson and St. Michael’s to the new gold field is predicted. EIGHT KILLED BY A CYCLONE. Hondo Coal Mine Buildings in Mexico Are Demolished. A terrific cyclone struck the Hondo coal mines, 100 miles south of Eagle Pass, on the Rio Grande, in Mexico. The offices, the hotel, the depot and other buildings were wrecked, and a number of freight cars were blown into the prairie. Eight are known to have been killed, among then?! Lawrence McKinney, son of the superintendent. Others are believed to be in the ruins. Superintendent McKinney and many others were badly bruised. CROWDED ROOF GOES DOWN. Fifty Persons Are Precipitated Thirty Feet, and Three Are Badly Hurt. During the performance of the Buffalo Bill show at Cumminsville, Ohio, the roof of old Turner Hall, which commanded a view of the show from across the street, was covered with 300 spectators who had paid 5 cents each for the privilege. When the show was half through a portion of the roof, with fifty people on it, went down, a distance of thirty feet. Three are known to be dangerously hurt. All the others were more or less bruised and cut. Horrible Affair in Michigan. At Howard City, Mich., Joseph Harvey killed his wife, his uncle. Robert Pierson, and his grandmother, and mortally wounded his 3-months-old child and his father-in-law, John Logenslayer, and finally shot himself, inflicting a wound which is not expected to prove fatal. Harvey’s uncle and grandmother lived a mile north of town. The murderer went there in the evening. He asserts that Pierson, his uncle, was quarreling with his grandmother and that he interfered; that thereupon Pierson stabbed and killed the old lady, aged 70, and that he (Harvey) retaliated by shooting his uncle. After shooting Pierson Harvey stabbed him three times. Harvey then returned to his home, two miles southwest of town. Arrived there he shot his wife twice, killing her. He then fired at his 3-months-old baby, the ball going into its arm. Next Harvey entered his father-in-law’s room and shot him twice, inflicting, however, no fatal injury. He then turned the revolver on himself, shooting himself in the neck. Harvey’s wife, when attacked, was sitting up with the remains of her mother, who died a few hours before. Harvey was arrested. American Wants Damages. After a confinement of about six years in a political prison in the republic of Colombia, Archie McCarter, a civil engineer and contractor prominent in Fort Scott, Kan., until 1891, when he left for Yucatan, has been liberated and returned there. He has made a demand upon the Colombian Government for $150,000 indemnity, and has gone to Washington to enlist the aid of the Government in collecting it. McCarter had been absent from his home city about three years'before any word was received from him, and then a letter addressed by him in a Colombian jail was received by a friend. It bore the censor mark of the commander of the prison, who, in a postcript, said that no communication would be allowed to pass to or from the prisoner touching the cause of his confinement. Supposing him to have offended the Government in the promotion of some big enterprise, no serious effort was made by his friends to learn the facts in his case, and he being a man of no family, there was no one deeply enough interested to appeal to the Government for an explanation. He claims to have been thrown into jail on suspicion of being a filibuster, for which suspicion there was no ground, and declares he was denied a hearing. Sultan Has to Pay. , Rear Admiral Howison, on boa,rd the United States cruiser Chicago at Tangier, demanded of the Sultan of Morocco a settlement of the claims against him by American citizens. The admiral gave the Sultan notice that he would have to settle within twenty-four hours or the city would be bombarded. The threat was effective, as soon afterward the claim was settled. Cyclone in Kansas. A cyclone visited Mulvane, Kan., and blew down twelve frame business houses •nd the Methodist Church. A small cyclone passed over Wichita, and five miles east of there it dropped to the earth and picked up five farm houses. Mr. Jacobs, while out feeding stock, was hit on the head by flying debris and fatally hurt. Pastor Now a Millionaire. Rev. Edward Morgan, late assistant rector of the Church of the Good Samaritan in San Francisco, is reported to have been made a millionaire by the death ot an aunt in New York. Wrecked on an Island. The British ship Loch Sloy, from Clyde for Adelaide and Melbourne, was

CATHOLIC KNIGHTS WILL ADMIT WOMEN AS MEMBERS. Convention at Kansas City Takes Important Action—Complete Change of Front—Big Western Buyers Form a Poultry and Egg Combination. Catholic Knights of America concluded a ten-year fight at Kansas City when they voted to admit women to membership in the order. At first the resolution proposing this change in the constitution was voted down, failing by thirty-four votes to receive the necessary two-thirds majority. The next day there was a complete change of front. A reconsideration of the previous action was moved and carried and a vote retaken without debate. The result was the surprising total of 432 votes in favor of the women to 29 against them. The convention greeted the result with tremendous applause. Though women will be admitted under the amended constitution, they will be permitted to carry but SI,OOO insurance, or one-half the amount that is allowed to men. Women will be permitted to join between the ages of 18 and 40 years. TRUST IN CHICKENS AND EGGS. Poultry and Produce Shippers to Control Western Trade. A poultry and produce trust organized at Fort Scott, Kan., is the latest and most unique evolution of modern commerce. J. B. Jean of Wichita, W. B. Hurst & Co. of Fort Scott and W. B. Redfearn of Springfield, Mo., the three largest exclusive poultry and produce shippers of the West, who hate buying stations in the principal towns of Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and other States, have consolidated business in a stock company, with headquarters at Springfield. They will control the poultry and produce market in all communities where they have stations. They deal principally in -chickens and eggs and handle many train loads daily. SPEAKS AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS. Columbus, Ohio, Man Breaks a Long Involuntary Silence. For the first time in fifteen years, R. W. Wagner, a prominent citizen of Bucyrus, Ohio, was able the other day to speak. In 1885 he was afflicted with illness which left him mute. Long treatment by skilled physicians failed to restore the power of speech, and he had despaired of ever recovering, but while holding a little child on his lap, he was seized with a sudden desire to speak to her, and to his surprise was able to do so. His voice has an unnatural sound, but aside from this he speaks as well as ever. Would-Be Poisoner’s Trick. Mrs. Charles U. Martz, wife of a prominent Kirksville, Mo., man, received a beautifully chased silver wine flask, filled with what purported to be sweet wine. No marks other than the address were upon the package. The wine was given to a chemist, who analyzed it, finding enough arsenic in the contents to have killed a dozen persons.

One Suicide Causes Another. The suicide of Mary Vlack, a farmer’s daughter, at Beemer, Neb., was followed by another, that of a young man who is said to have cherished a tender affection for her. Young Jos. Hamby called at the Vlack home and asked permission to see the young woman’s remains. He entered the death chamber and immediately shot himself, dying instantly. War Over County Seat. Hearing that a force of 500 citizens of Elkins, W. Va., was on the way to Beverly to remove the county records pending the settlement of the question of the location of the county seat, citizens fortified the county buildings and prepared to resist the Elkins people. The latter turned back on hearing of these preparations. Racing Steamers Collide. As a result of a competition between McConnellsville and Zanesville river packets, the Valley Gem and Zanetta, in racing for Taylorsville locks on the Muskingum, collided, and the whole side of the Zanetta was crushed in. By heroic efforts of the crew the boat was kept afloat and no lives were lost. Terrible Chlorate Explosion. A fearful explosion occurred at Kurt’s chemical works, St. Helen’s, England, killing four persons and seriously injuringtwenty. Fire broke out in the chlorate house and eighty tons of chlorate exploded. Subsequently the boiler burst and the whole works were razed. The total loss was about SIOO,OOO. Many Die in a Wreck. A collision of passenger trains occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Exeter, about six miles south of Reading, Pa., and a great number of people were killed and injured. The number killed is stated to be twenty-five. Fully fifty others are injured. Dreyfus la to Return. 'The Paris Petit Bleu says that ten members of the republican guard and four gendarmes left St. Nazaire, France, on board the steamer Lafayette recently to form an escort to bring Dreyfus to France •nd that his return may be expected by the end of June. Thieves Rob a Brewery. Six burglars, masked and armed, at the point of their pistols, overpowered Emi) Meyer, the watchman, and Frederick Festing, the engineer at the Bavarian brewery, at Wilmington, Del., and then blew open the safe in the office, securing over $1,400. Indians Attack Herders. Weasel Skin and some other Indians have terribly beaten a number of Mexican herders near the lower Florida mesa, near the Animas river, Colo., and kiDed five head of horses and a large herd of sheep belonging to the Mexicans’ employers. Four Killed in a Wreck. ' A construction train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad went through a trestle near Newcastle, Pa., killing four men and injuring a number of others. The train went over a 70-foot trestle into Spangler’s run. Ex-Governpr Flower Is Dead. Ex-Gov. -Boswell P. Flower ®f New York died at his club house at Eastport, L. I. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure superinduced by acute indigestion. He was ill for only a few i hours, |

THEY ARE GAMBLING DEBTS. Board of Trade Deals So Construed by the lowa Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of lowa has decided that a note or account for moneys involved in board of trade deals cannot be collected at law in the State. E. W. Gifford gave a note for $425 to J. T. James & Co., Des Moines, to pay for margins advanced by the firm. The note was sold to the People’s Savings Bank, which sued. The court holds that the transaction was purely gambling. It says: “Any purchase of property not intended to be actually delivered, or in which the settlement is to be made by paying the difference between the market values at the time of the deal and the time of settlement, is gambling, and debts thus incurred cannot be enforced at law.” “TICK-TACK” MAN IS KILLED. Postmaster McLaughlin Shot by His Friend at Jamestown, Ohio. At Jamestown, Ohio, Postmaster Geo. A. McLaughlin is dead as the outcome of a thoughtless piece of “pleasantry,”i killed by his most intimate friend. The Postmaster late the other night, with some boy friends, was putting a “tick-tack” on the window of the home of E. E. Ginn. Mr. Ginn, hearing the noise and thinking to frighten the boys, fired a shot through the v in d° w > killing Mr. McLaughlin instantly. McLaughlin had been recently appointed postmaster. She Whipped the*Mayor, The most sensational scene ever enacted in Bellefontaine, Ohio, took place on Main street the other day when Miss Minnie Crawford, a milliner, assaulted Mayor John R. Cassidy and unmercifully lashed Jiim with a rawhide. Some weeks ago 'Miss Crawford was subpoenaed as a witness in a case in the Mayor’s court. Miss Crawford did not testify in the case and afterward threatened to bring suit against those who had subpoenaed her. Mayor Cassidy was asked some time ago to vindicate Miss Crawford, but refused and, it is said, she has since been on the warpath. She stationed herself at the People’s Bank, and when Mayor Cassidy was about to start up the steps to his law office she rushed at him and, drawing the whip she had concealed in the folds of her dress, rained blow after blow on his head and shoulders. Mayor Cassidy sought refuge in a drug store, but the woman followed and only desisted when caught and held by employes of the store. When released she walked out, disheveled and triumphant. Heavy Floods in Germany. Incessant rains have produced disastrous floods in Germany, especially in the eastern Oden district. At Oderouin, Austrian Silesia, an immense district has been inundated. At Bitterfeld eleven persons were drowned in attempting to cross the river Muldo. Values Laborer’s Life at SIO. Judge Robinson of the Superior Court at New Haven, Conn., named $lO as the value of a laborer’s life. The verdict was rendered in the suit of Antonio Petrillo, employed on the Consolidated road and killed by a passing train, instant death being proven. Kansas City "Warehouse Burns. The big five-story warehouse of the Newby Transfer and Storage Company, at Kansas City, was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at over SIOO,OOO. James G. McNollis, a fireman, foreman of No. 4 truck company, was killed. Anti-Trust Law Passed in Texas. The Texas Senate has passed finally its anti-trust bill. When originally introduced the bill was identical with the Arkansas law. It has been materially amended, however, and is decidedly more drastic in its provisions. Five Persons Burn to Death. The residence of Dr. L. C- Bagwell,, east of Dalton, Ga., was burned. Dr. Bagwell, his three children and their negro housekeeper were burned to death. It is supposed a lamp exploded. Klondike Warehouse Burns. The North American Transportation and Trading Company of Chicago lost $30,000 in a fire at Hamilton, on the Yukon. Over three hundred tons of valuable goods were burned in the big warehouse. Defaulting Teller Sentenced. William N. Boggs, the defaulting teller of the Dover, Del., National Bank, has been sentenced to five years in the Trenton, N. J., penitentiary and a fine of $6,500. Fatal Boiler Explosion. Three men were seriously and two probably fatally injured by the explosion of a boiler at the works of the New Jersey Irou and Steel Company at Trenton.