Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — SEEK KLONDIKE GOLD [ARTICLE]

SEEK KLONDIKE GOLD

Bcpedition of politicians t I STARTS FROM NEW YORK. ■tenstor Jones of Nevada Is President Iffijrf the Company Which Has Rich B Alaska Mines—Soldier at Presidio [Attempts to Do Murder. , kA new Klondike expedition has started Krem New York. A steamship was at Beattie ready to start for the American B°l d fields, which are a thousand miles Kearer the United States than Dawson ■City. The expedition differs from most Joining ventures in that its capital stock 811. *U subscribed. The principal officers Bare Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, ■Resident; James Oliver, vice-president: ■Oliver H. P. Belmont, secretary and ■treasurer. The party expects to stay six-K-days at the mines controlled by the Kanpany. A mining expert of interv/iBtional reputation will be taken along, as Kreil as a cargo of machinery with which Ko develop the property, which includes ■both quartz and placer mines. The mines ■were secured a year ago and have been ■extensively worked. A camp of consider■iabie proportions, called Belmont, after ■the secretary-treasurer, has been estabAU the insiders are politicians, ■and they expect to get rich out of their Boldings. TRIES TO COMMIT MURDER. ■Unprovoked Shooting of One Private ’ by Another at Presidio. [[Private Wesley Kirby of Company H, ■Twenty-fourth infantry. was shot ■through the leg by Private Frank WigKail of the same company at the headBfcoarters at the Presidio, San Francisco, ■The wound is serious and it may be necBfgsary to amputate the limb. Eye witKtesses state that the shooting was entire■ly unprovoked. Kirby was blacking his ■shoes when Wigfall loaded his rifle and ■fired. Seeing that the shot had not provgled fatal, he was reloading his gun when ■lt was taken from him by other soldiers, ■Who hustled him into the guard house. No ■cause is assigned for his attempt to comKnlt murder. ■boy confesses cruel murder. ■Tells of Choking a Girl Cousin and , Throwing Her Into a Well. pJohn Kornstadt, a 16-year-old boy livElng in the southeast part of Harper CounEty, confessed to having murdered his Bjgousin, Nora, the 10-year-old daughter of ■ Tony Kornstadt. He says that he first ■Assaulted her and then, after choking her I into insensibility, threw her into an abanIdoned well, where she was found after a along search. She was alive when found, ■ but died an hour after being taken out of ■ the well without having recovered con[sciousness. John was suspected from ■te start and there was strong talk of [lynching him, but the action of the corotner’s jury in returning a verdict which Mid not implicate him made the people [slow to act. [Hydrophobia causes panic. [Epidemic in Oklahoma Spreads from Animals to Humans. of Jennings township. Ok., fare greatly excited over the prevalence of [hydrophobia among all animals. More [than 100 hogs and as many cattle have , died. besides some horses and mules. Sev[*ral persons who have been bitten by Mogs or other animals are said to be sick. A vigilance committee is killing off all the [dogs in the community and all other aniImals which seem to be affected. Race for the Pennant I The standing of the clubs in the Nai tional League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. | Brooklyn ...45 15Cincinnati ...28 29 Boston 38 20 New York... 29 31 LPhiladelphia. 35 21 Pittsburg ....24 32 I Chicago .....36 24Louisville ...21 38 I St. Louis... .34 26 Washington. 18 43 I Baltimore ...32 25 Cleveland ...10 46 I Following is the standing of the clubs I in the Western League: I ’ W. L. W. L. [lndianapolis. 30 23 Milwaukee .. .26 28 I Columbus ...28 24Kansas City.. 22 31 [Detroit .....28 26Buffalo ......21 32 ft Flames to Hide a Murder. t Fire in Laurel, Del., destroyed seventyI eight buildings, including two hotels, a [bank. the postoffice, two drug stores, [nearly all the business houses and the E/bomes of the most wealthy residents of Lthe place. The loss is estimated at over [5200,000, insurance $20,000. It is believ|ed that the fire was caused by incen[diaries who wished to cover up a murder. Drowninc of Miss Lena Falk. ..Miss Lena Falk of Chicago was drownLed at Put-in-Bay while rowing with a [male companion. The sea was rough and [the boat capsized, drowning the woman [before help could arrive. The man was preecued after some difficulty. K: Chicago Stock Yards Tied Up. A strike of 3,000 men in the large packting houses at the Chicago stock yards paused the suspension of hog killing oplifstions, and but little canning is being Great Strike Ended. Ila agreement, has been reached by Haereiand street car men and the comgpany by which the strike is called off. Cznr Ha* Another Daughter. I;: The Empress of Russia has given birth /to a third daughter, who has been named .Train Robber Get* Twenty Year*. &/ Jennings, one of the train robbers at Mo., on trial for complicity in Ke Macomb hold-up in January last, for Bjjttii. robbery "Jack” Kennedy was giv-B-geventeen years in the penitentiary, K|« found guilty and sentenced to twenty Ask* China to Apologize. Fliche, interpreter of the French Btien at Peking, has been struck by a BA Freneh minister demands a public A»uog'n , ’i anien.

MILLIONS FOR WAR. England Talk* of Borrowing $20,000.000 for Defense Work*. When the English House of Common* pent into a committee on the military works loan bill the other day, the parliamentary secretary of the war office, Mr. Wyndham, moved a resolution authorizing the introduction of a bill providing t loan of £4,000,000, repayable in yearly installments, for defense works, barracks, ■nd rifle ranges at home and abroad. He explained that this was merely a continuation of the policy laid down by the military works loan act of 1897 and pointed out that all British sea-borne commerce converged at a point between Cape Clear and Ushant, necessitating strategic harbors of refuge, all of which must be defended by heavy guns. In this manner ■nd on other works, he explained, it was proposed to spend £1,000.000 and on barracks the sum of £2,770.000 was to be upent, of which sum £675,000 would be expended on the present barracks. The balance would be devoted to the expenses of new situations, and Wei-Hai-Wel would absorb £150,000. YOUNG GIRL MISSING. Daughter of a Wealthy Manufacturer Thought ts Have Been Kidnaped. The citizens of South Framingham, Mass., and neighboring towns are greatly excited over the disappearance of Helen Eames, the 11-year-old daughter of Alfred M. Eames, a wealthy wheel manufacturer, who was last seen by those who knew her leaving her father’s office the other afternoon. Mr. Eames fears that the child has been kidnaped and the officers are working on that theory. The girl went to her father’s office on her bicycle. She remained in the building a short time and then started away, leaving her wheel there. Since that time no one remembers having seen her. Toward evening, when She did not appear at her home, her parents became anxious and finally asked assistance from the police. Search was carried on all night, but not the slightest trace of the missing child was found.

TORNADO IN SOUTH DAKOTA. School Children Are Saved by the Teacher’s Thoughtfulness. A small tornado passed through Trenton township, S. D., demolishing the school house and damaging the Buckley residence. Miss Kate McNamara, the teacher, dismissed sohool, taking the pupils to the Buckley cellar, thus saving their lives. Another teacher farther east sent the children home, but a heavy hailstorm followed the tornado and two of the little children came near being killed by hailstones. A little boy projected his sister by placing her on the ground and covering her body with his. The boy was rendered unconscious by hail and the sister escaped harm. One farmer lost his entire crop by hail. Others sustained more or less damage. FIRE IN OSWEGO HOTEL. Aged Gneat Suffocated and Eight Other* Badly Burned. The Eagle Hotel in Oswego, N. Y., was destroyed by fire at 5 o’clock on a recent morning. Mrs. Rachel King, an old lady whose home is in New Haven, lost her life by suffocation, and eight others were seriously injured. The fire started in the kitchen, and spread quickly. Several persons, including the proprietor and his wife, jumped from the windows on the second floor. The building was a frame structure two stories high, and was not valuable. Mrs. King occupied a front room and was dead when discovered. PARTY HEADQUARTERS ROBBED. Mysterious Burglary at Rooms of the Ohio Republican Committee. It was discovered the other day that the headquarters of the Republican State committee at Columbus, Ohio, had been entered by thieves and several desks broken open and ransacked. The fact that a large amount of lead pipe was cut and carried away by the thieves indicates that the only motive of the burglary was to secure plunder and that the thieves were not after documents or papers belonging to the committee. SIX PERSONS ARE DROWNED. Accident at Dunbar, Wi*.. Occurs in the Midst of a Storm. A telegram reached Rhinelander, Wis., from Dunbar, fifty miles east, on the Soo road, asking for six coffins, six persons having been drowned by the capsizing of a boat during the storm. The names of the dead are as follows: William Schubel, daughter Vina and two sons, aged 7 and 13 years respectively; Gust Frederickson, Charles Anderson. Schubel was a section foreman and the two last-named were railroad laborers. All lived at Kirton. British Steamer Founders. The British steamer Brookline, Baltimore for Port Antonio, Jamaica, arrived at Kingston, bringing an officer and three men of the British steamer Ethelwold, who were picked up eighteen hours after they had left the Ethelwold, then in great distress, to seek assistance. The Brookline promptly returned to the point where the Ethelwold was laboring when the boat put off. No traces of her, however, were found, and it is feared that the Ethelwold has foundered. Two Fires in Wichita. The Wichita, Kan., Mill and Elevator Company lost their buildings, machinery and 10,000 bushels of wheat by fire. The lose is estimated at $35,000, half of which is covered by insurance. At the same hour a fire on the West Side destroyed the Badger lumber yard and a barn, with a loss of $4,000; insurance $2,000. Incendiarism is charged.

Served More than Hie Sentence. John Jauslin, a Gallia County, Ohio, burglar, has been released from the penitentiary after serving thirty days longer than his sentence called for. Judge David Warner Jones, who sentenced Jauslin, says that, by an inadvertence, he made the record read two years, when it should have been eighteen months. Try to Break Jail. A desperate attempt was made to break jail at Hartville, Mo., by the Mac Comb train robbers, but it was frustrated by the guards. All the prisoners were then handcuffed. Henry B. Plant la Dead. Henry Bradley Plant, owner of the Plant railway system, a line of steamships and much real estate in the State of Florida, died at New York. Big Concerns to Combine. ■ It is announced that the Keystone Watch Case Company and the Riverside Watch Case Company of Philadelphia have consolidated. . ■