Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — FLOGGED TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

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I TAW INDIAN PUNISHED UN. DER TRIBAL LAW. nnate Redskin Was Coavlcted ttle-Stealing— Bin Increaae in !©at Product—Plan to Combine era— Fnnston Gets a Sword. was much excitement among the at Sans Bois, Ind. T., Saturday, ; dusk John Mays, a Choctaw, was flogged to death. The punishiflicted on Mays was for cattle , and was in accordance with an etaw law. which provides for the )f 100 lashes on the bare back of mber of the tribe found guilty of ne of cattle stealing. Mays was in the act of driving several hunad of cattle, the property of anldian. to the railroad station. He jnce arrested, and found guilsentence being that he be tied to a nd flogged. If an Indian withthe severe punishment meted out in 100 lashes he is given his freeit few have lived through half of lishment. Mays was flogged in the pof several hundreds Indians. A of Creeks and Cherokees witnessflogging, but no whites were ado the stockade. When the fiftieth vas applied Mays made frantic efwrench himself from the post, the lirly pouring from the streaks of his back. As the seventieth lash ren he collapsed and lay limp at ke. He was unconscious at the h stroke, and at the eighty-sixth it md that he was dead, • CREASE IN COAL PRODUCT. States Now Stand Second Only to the United Kingdom. oal production and consumption of rid during the past fifteen years sented in some tables prepared by usury bureau of statistics. These lat, while the United Kingdom is ■ largest coal producer, the United s a close second and if the present gain is continued will soon bele leading coal producing country vorld. The coal production of the Kingdom in 1897 was 202,000,000 lat of the United States 179,000,is; Germany, 91,000.000; France, )00; Belgium, 22,000,000; Austro•y, 12,000,000; Russia, nearly 10,- ; Australasia, nearly 6,000,000; over 5,000,000; British India, 4,- ; Canada, nearly 4,000,000, and 1,000,000. No other country reacti)o,ooo tons in production. ERS PLAN A HUGE TRUST. Dictate the Price of Wheat and Other Cereals. intic agricultural combination, the ments for which have been maklast three years, has come to The headquarters of the combina- > in Philadelphia and the work is on through the local granges of the s’ Protective Association. The to hold wheat and other grain iny in common elevators. In this the farmers of the country will lly control the market. The oron, it is said, has been introduced the Farmers’ Protective Associa- > every State in the Union. STIAN SCIENTISTS MEET. 1 Communion of the Sect Held in the Boston Church. innual communion service Qf the church of Christian Science in the First Church of Christ, Scivas held Sunday. The service was subject of the sacrament. The ■ship enrolled on the books of the church up to May 29 was 12,114. vere about 2,550 candidates. This ike now a total membership of 15,000. IO SWORD FOR FUNSTON. era of Gallant Kansan in Kansas to Honor Him. is return from Manila Gen. Fun--11 be presented with a S6OO sword admirers in Kansas. A fund of uount has been contributed in s ranging from 10 cents to $lO. An ar a specially made and engraved has been placed with an Eastern Race for the Pennant. standing of the clubs in the Na/eague race is as follows: (•n ... .32 llCincinnati ...29 19 .... .28 13Pittsburg .. . .17 23 > 26 17New York... 17 24 lis... .25 17 Washington. 14 29 Jphia. 24 17Louisville ...13 29 >re ...23 19Cleveland ... 8 30 iving is the standing of the clubs iVestern League; polis. 20 16 Detroit 17 17 ikee ..20 16Indianapolis. 16 17 al 18 16 Buffalo 15 18 ms ...19 17Kansas City..l3 19 9. P. Bland Seriously 111. -essman Richard P. Bland is seril at his home in Lebanon, Mo., and ids are alarmed over his condition, last two months he has been eonhis room, attended daily by a phyZola Returns to Paris. Zola, whose defense of Dreyfus is exiling himself to escape punishr the courts, has returned to Paris ugland. Battle Near Manila. men killed and nine wounded —a fourteen to the Americans—is the two days’ campaigning by Hall’s der Gen. Lawton during terrible trough Cainta, Taytay, Antipolo rong. The insurgents’ loss is reo be heavy in killed. led No Flrg Protection, residences on Lookout Mountain, to the ground. The mounf Sin ha* no fire protection, and although hundred people were present they i

BAPTIST MEMBERSHIP *,141,90* Report of the Secretary of Miasionary Union Encouraging. Monday’s session of Baptists at 8«n Francisco was devoted to the eighty-fifth anniversary of the American Baptist Missionary Union. The secretary, the Rev. H. C. Mabie of Boston, showed the present membership on this continent to be 4,141,995. Of preachers 1,558 are engaged in nominally Christian lands and 1,274 in heathen lands. Missionary churches number 1,815, with 205,306 members. The Baptists are supporting 460 foreign missionaries. The Rev. Dr. T. J. Morgan of New York made a brief address at the morning session, referriftg to the peace congress npw in session at The Hague. He offered the following" to be sent to Ambassador White: “A million Northern Baptists, represented in annual convention, invoke upon your conference the benediction of the Prince of Peace.” A motion to cable the message was adopted unanimously. TO FIGHT DISEASED MILK. Coming Convention of Physicians Will Study Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is to be considered at a convention of Chicago physicians, which will be called at an early date. Particular attention will be paid to the spread of the disease germs by the sale and use of milk. Last December a committee of twentyfive members was appointed from the Chicago Medical Society, at the suggestion of Dr. Reynolds, health commissioner, to make arrangements for a convention. That committee appointed a subcommittee of five members, who are now considering the matter, and they will make a report soon.

NEW SET OF REVENUE STAMPS. Larger Denomination Needed Because of Large Consolidations. Denomination stamps are to be added to the current set of documentary revenue Stamps of the face value of SIOO, SSOO and SI,OOO. The SI,OOO stamp will probably be the first one issued. The stamps will be numbered consecutively so that a record can be kept of each specimen. The Issuance of these stamps is the result of the demand for stamps of large denominations by reason of the consolidation of large concerns and their capitalization at large figures. ONE KILLED, MANY INJURED. Northern Pacific Express Train Crashes Into an Electric Car. The Capitol express on the Northern Pacific crashed into a Grant street electric car in the suburbs of Seattle, Wash. Twenty-five passengers were thrown into Elliott bay and the electric car left wrecked on the trestle. Edward Broad received fatal injuries, and died later. Two others are dangerously injured, and fifteen others were badly hurt. It was thought possible that one or more of the passengers were drowned in the bay. Cuban strike Ended. The payment of Cuban soldiers was continued at Havana Monday, and more men presented themselves to receive their tuoney than on either of the two preceding •flays. One hundred and fourteen men [Monday received $75 each at La Punta, and 103 of them turned in their arms. "Sixty-nine of the men belong to the HaTana regiment commanded by Col. Mirere, while the others belonged to Gen. Gomez’s personal command and the Franrisco Gomez and Goicuria regiments. At jeast 100 others applied for money, many bf them with arms, but their names were either not on the lists or their papers were irregular. When night came there were still men waiting to be paid. Owing lo the difficulty of hunting for names on the lists and the difficulty of identification the payments are necessarily slow. The American military authorities and Gen. Gomez and his friends were jubilant over the change from the previous day, when only thirty men drew their money. Sev-enty-five dollars is more money than many of the soldiers have seen for years. No Armj Increase. The President has decided not to call ;?or the 35,000 volunteers or any portion Of them at present. It can be stated on authority that Gen. Otis wants only 30,000 men in the Philippines. He makes the simple request that the American forces there be kept at that strength. As the volunteer soldiers are returned theft places will be taken by regulars, so that the strength of the American army in the orient is as low now as it will be permitted to get.

DeweT May Be Quarantined. The plague is likely to complicate the home coming of Admiral Dewey. Various governments have already declared severe quarantine regulations against all Egyptian Red Sea ports and Hong Kong, where the fresh cases and the number of deaths have nearly doubled in the last week, the new cases numbering 143 and the deaths 134. Admiralty officials say that warships have no privileges as regards quarantine beyond those of merchant ships. Work of the Wind. A terrific cyclone passed through a portion of Mills County, lowa, and as a result one person is dead and eight are dangerously hurt, at least two of whom will die. The property damage is about $40,000 in houses destroyed and stock killed. The casualties are confined to the family of John Roherburg, a prominent farmer of Mills County. Roherburg, his wife and six of their children are the sufferers, Tillie, a 14-year-old girl, being instantly killed. Nebraska Town Burned. Firebugs destroyed the business portion of Curtis, Neb., Tuesday morning and the loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The fire started in the implement house of P. Johnson & Co. It quickly spread to the north and the business portion of the town was destroyed. Yellow Jack's Appearance. State Health Officer Blunt of Texas received a telegram from City Health Officer Souchon of New Orleans stating that yellow fever had again made its appearance in that city. Big Dewey Day Fond. The New York Board of Aldermen, by a practically unanimous vote, ordered the Board of Estimates’ apportionment to set aside $150,000 for the celebration of Dewey day. Nine Hurt in a Wreck. In a head-end collision of passenger trains on the Louisville and Nashville road near Nashville, Tenn., nine persons were injured, two of them seriously. Henderson Gets Ohio. Congressman David B. Henderson of Dubuque is Ohio’s choice for Speaker. The State Republican delegation declared in his favor by a vote of 11 to L