Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — THIEVES ARE CAUGHT [ARTICLE]

THIEVES ARE CAUGHT

| POSTOFFICE ROBBERS ARE IN CUSTODY AT OMAHA. | Two Men and Two Women. Wanted for Theft at Boulder, Col., In the Law’s Clutches Frame Buildings Burned at Coney Inland. After a long chase the Government secret service men have jailed the gang that robbed the Boulder, Colo., postoffice last ■ month. The prisoners are George Bomboy. )tto Noffka, alias “Kid” Mason, and two women who traveled with them. The property stolen amounted to nearly SSOO. The robbers were traced to Omaha, and from there it was learned they departed for Kansas City. “Kid” Mason and one j woman returned. That night their house g was raided. Mason and the woman were taken to the City jail, where they told the •tory of having gone to Kansas City with Bomboy and the other woman. They described the house where they stopped and : told the officers many facts connected with ; the robbery. The officers started for Kansas City, taking the Bomboy woman along to point out the location of the house. The Woman made a clean breast of al] the facts connected with the robbery. AH of the parties will be taken to Denver, where I the three men have already been indicted by the United States grand jury. g| FIRB AT CO.NEY ISLAND. ? Seven Blocks Burned Over, Damage Amounting to $350,000. Fire started in Buschman’s pavilion, if Coney Island, N. Y., and spread rapidly until seven blocks of frame buildings had been destroyed. A conservative estimate of the loss is placed at $350,000. Police- ; man Thomas Lynch and Firemen George Taggart and William Aldrich were pain- * fully but not seriously burned w hile rousing the sleeping occupants of several g threatened buildings. Richard Downs ? and William Durkin, 18 and 15 years, re- > spectively, who were asleep in the Zaza Hotel, were severely burned about the body. The police believe the fire was of incendiary origin. ’ SUICIDE BECAUSE OF DEBT. Architect William F. Hackney of Kansai City Shoots Himself. William F. Hackney, architect to the Kansas City Board of Education and one of the aity’s foremost men of his profession, committed suicide in his office by | blowing ouXhis brains. He left a note to ’ the newspapers stating that he was hopelessly in debt, that his income was not ’ sufficient to maintain his family as they should be kept, and that he had decided “to quit business.” He leaves a widow and one daughter. Mr. Hackney went P there irrlßß7 from Des Moines, where he Was married and where he was one of the | architects of the lowa State Capitol. Bace for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ... .24 10 Baltimore ...18 16 fit L0ui5....22 11 New York... 12 20 g Boston 21 12 Louisville ...12 21 Philadelphia. 20 ISPittsburg ... .12 21 Chicago 20 14 Washington. 11 23 | Cincinnati ..18 13Cleveland ... 7 23 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: ’ • W. L. W. L. Milwaukee ..16 11 Indianapolis. 12 12 fit Paul. ... .14 HBuffalo 10 13 Minneapolis. 14 12Columbus ...10 13 Detroit 14 12 Kansas City. .10 16 ' Sues the State for Falary. | J. M. Allen, a member of the House of Representatives from Athens County, 0., has sued the State for S6OO, the amount of his salary for a year. The Auditor of State and Speaker Mason, who refused to sign the voucher, are made defendants. The Auditor refused to issue the warrant on the treasurer because Allen holds the place of confidential clerk to his fatherin law, the Columbus pension agent, at a •alary of $1,600 a year. SIOO,OOO Loss at Cleveland. B Fire started in the Ohio Sash and Door Company’s big factory at Cleveland. The flames repeatedly communicated to nearby buildings. Beyond a severe scorching, however, nothing was destroyed except the Ohio Sash and Door Company’s plant •nd lumber piles. The total loss is about SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. Nebraska Boad I» Sold. [ The Sioux City, O’Neill and Western ' Railroad was sold by Special Master in J Chancery E. S. Dundy of Omaha to RobL ®rt E. and William S. Tod of the firm of J. Kennedy Tod & Co. of New York, which holds $2,340,000 of first mortgage bonds against it. The purchase price was $1,750,000. The road extends from Sioux City to O’Neill, Neb., 129 miles.

Rich Mine Near Victoria, W. 8. Harris, manager of the Harvey mine of Granite creek, B. C., reports that at about the 70-foot level, 120 feet in the tunnel, the mother lode was struck, showin* about two feet of rich galena. The claim showed assays as high as $5,580, and on several occasions the assays have gone from S4OO to $2,000. K Treaty Ratified by the Creeks. ,/ The official count of votes cast by the Creek fiation of Indians at the February ; election shows that the treaty proposed by the Dawes commission is ratified by a majority of 485. sfe'' Rosa Bonhenr Xs Dead. Rosa Bonhenr, the greatest woman Minter of the age, died at Fontainebleau, Kse -■ Explosion Kills Two, ' One man was instantly killed and an- ' other so badly injured that he died soon . after by the explosion of a steam drying cylinder in the dyeing and finishing mill of James Martin & Co. at Philadelphia. KThree others were injured, one probably Labor Riot at Buffalo. In a fight between Italian and Polish laborers on the Central docks at Buffalo I JLouis Hemlock, a Pole, was shot in the hack and Castigalia Calejero was cut on

DETERMINE TO DIE TOGETHER. Towns Man Kills Himself, but the Girl Loses Nerve and Faints. Balked in their plans to get married. Miss Lulu Ford and Benjamin Wilhite of Dade County, Mo., concluded that life was not worth the living, so they sought death together. Wilhite was 18 years old and Miss Ford a year younger. The couple had been sweethearts from childhood, but tbeir relatives considered them too young to marry. W’ilhite called on Miss Ford. In order that they might confer without interruption he proposed a drive. “If we cannot marry let us die together,” Raid Wilhite. The girl assented. He had a revolver and proposed that each commit suicide. They drove to a lonely spot, left the b.uggy and went to the side of the road. He kissed her for the last time and while his arms were still about her neck, he raised the pistol and sent a bullet through his heart. Miss Ford picked wp\ the weapon and turned it toward herself. The trigger refused to act and before she could try again she fell in a faint over the body of her lover. She did not recover consciousness until picked up by passing farmers. NEW WALL COLLAPSES. Three Laborers Severely Injured by Accident at New York. The wall of the new building at 126 West Eleventh street, New York, caved in, severely injuring three laborers. Their names are: John Donlon, fractured skull; Louis Gosso, fractured skull; Frank Forisso, lacerated chin and internal injuries. The cause of the accident is unknown. The men are employed by Contractor Joseph Cody. The men were in an excavation. Old buildings had been torn down and the men were digging for a new building. A sustaining wall, 35 feet long and 10 feet high, fell and buried nine workmen.

Each Loved the Other One. The double wedding of Frances and Mary Dipcomb, sisters, and daughters of Henry Dipcomb, a prominent citizen of Malinta, Ohio, to Davis Rendice and Geo. Lafiam, his chum, has brought out a little romance which is decidedly out of the ordinary rum Some weeks ago Miss Mary Dipcomb became engaged to Davis Rendice. About that time her sister and Geo. Lafiam also decided to marry, and it was proposed to have a double wedding. Great preparations were made and nuffierous invitations sent out. The boys were almost daily visitors at the Dipcomb home, and all seemed to be going merry as the proverbial marriage bell when one afternoon the young men found Miss Mary quite disconsolate. Her sister questioned her, and, to her amazement, learned that while she was engaged to marry Rendice she loved Lafiam better. Mutual confidences were passed, and Miss Frances also admitted that while she was engaged to Lafiam she loved Rendice better. A consultation between the four ensued, with the result that there were mutual releases and mutual pledges anew. The double wedding came off at the Dipcomb home. The guests were at a loss to understand the situation until the mother of. the girls madd full explanations. Alaskan Travel to Be Easy. R. P. Elliot, an extensive mine owner of Dawson City, Alaska, is stopping in St. Louis. Mr. Elliot has just returned to the United States after an absence of nearly a year and a half, which he has spent in the gold fields of the Klondike. He is full of enthusiasm over the new country. He left Dawson City in March and will return late in the year. He said: “The Yukon and White Pass Railway is now completed from Skaguay to the summit of the pass, a distance of about eighteten miles, and for a distance of about twelve miles farther the roadbed is ready for the rails. The grading is being done right up to within a few miles of Bennett, and by July 4 the management expects to have trains running between Skaguay and Bennett, where passengers can take a steamer to White Horse rapids, thence by the tramway around the rapids, about four miles in length, to the other side, where he can take a steamer direct to Dawson. When these connections are made the trip from Seattle to Dawson can be made in from ten to twelve days. It will be trip.” 1 Vessel Burns at Her Dock. The German bark Ariadne caught Are while lying at the Standard Oil Company’s pier No. 2at Bayonne, N. J. The flames spread to the pier, which was destroyed, together with about 600 barrels of oil. The Ariadne was burned to the water line. The loss on the Ariadne is estimated at $25,000, on the pier SIO,OOO and on the oil $2,500.

New Bonanza Silver Mine. A letter from Durango, Mexico, says that Fred L. Morris, secretary of the Missouri Valley Trust Company of Kansas City, and H. E. Ellison of Abilene, Kan., who have been prospecting for some weeks In the mountains, have struck a bonanza silver mine that promises a fortune. They claim to have $200,000 in sight. Havoc of Storm in Nebraska. A heavy windstorm struck Hastings, Neb., and did much damage. A long row of railroad sheds on the south side of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad was demolished and fifteen or twenty small houses of laborers were blown down. So far as known no one was injured. Wrecked a Colorado Mine. Four Italians have been arrested for alleged participation in the destruction of the Lasal mine in Colorado. Two hundred pounds of giant powder was exploded near the mouth of the mine. The mine is owned by a Michigan syndicate. The men were recently discharged. Feven Men Killed. A terrible explosion occurred at the military laboratory at Copenhagen. While workmen were engaged in filling shells some of the latter exploded and killed seven men. and severely injured a noncommissioned officer and two workmen. Suicide of a Wealthy Cattle Buyer. The body of J. J. Travis, a wealthy cattle buyer of St. James, Mo., was found In a room at the Hotel Pine, St Louis. The room was full of gas from an open jet and the windows were tightly closed. Woman Indicted for Perjury. Marie M. Burroughs, who filed suits amounting to $1,000,000 for damages against the cities of Toledo and Fremont Ohio, has been indicted by the grand jury for perjury. Filk MUI Burns. Nightingale’s silk mill at Paterson, N, J., was destroyed by fire. The factory was a three-story frame structure and contained 200 looms. The loss is estimated at $50,000.