Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — WANT LAKE TRAFFIC [ARTICLE]

WANT LAKE TRAFFIC

p' ■ — ' CANADA IS MAKING EFFORTS TO OBTAIN IT. Deepening of St. Lawrence Canale | Will Be Completed by SeptemberMinimum Depth oT Fourteen Feet Assured— Suicide at Minneapolis. The work of deepening the St. Lawrence canals, which has been going on ■ for many years, is now übout completed, and it is announced that by September, at the latest, there will be a channel fourteen feet in depth from Lake Ontario to Montreal. Heretofore some of the canals were only nine feet deep, and for this reason the lake freight steamers have had to transship at Kingston. With the deeper channel they will be able to come through direct from Port Colborne on Lake Erie, the head of the Welland canal, to Montreal, and there transship their cargoes to ocean-going steamships. At Montreal, it is said, the Government has decided to erect, as a public work, an immense grain elevator. As the reward for all this capital outlay, running high up into the millions, Canada expects to deflect a large amount of grain from the Erie canal. NOTED CHARACTER IS SLAIN. Doable Mnrderer of Appanoose County, lowa, Himself Meets Death. Wells township, lowa, was the scene of another murder one day recently, i which resulted in the death of Brazil D. * Courts, a notorious character who has to his record two murders within the last fifteen years and for one of which he served a term in the penitentiary. John Frazee is guilty of the crime of killing Courts. The men had long been enemies and, meeting in the highway, Frazee, after a few words, raised a shotgun and killed Courts instantly. The shooting was but a few hundred yards from where Moore killed Shearer last December. * Frazee gave himself up. While Courts was a notorious character the sentiment of the people is against his slayer. SOLDIER MAY HAVE BEEN SLAIN. Mangled Body of Discharged Volunteer Found in South Dakota. The mangled body of Howard 11. I Craig, sergeant of the Sixteenth company of United States volunteer signal corps, was found on the railroad track four miles east of Jamestown, X. D., with strong indications of murder. The crime was evidently committed for the purpose of robbery, but the man’s discharge papers were still on the body, by means of which he was identified. He was a native of St. Louis. Howard H. Craig was a telegraph operator. He was 24 years old and enhsted in the army from St. Louis. SUICIDE'S BODY IDENTIFIED. Man Who Shot Himself at Minneapo11®, Minn., Is B. C. Hinnant. f-' The identity of the man who shot himself through the heart at Lake Harriet, near Minneapolis, was disclosed by Mrs. F. L. Hanna, who recognized the body as that of B. C. Hinnant, one of her boarders and cashier of the construction department of the North western Telephone Company. Hinnant came from Texas two years ago. About six years ago he married a Miss Clarke of Hillsboro, Texas, and it is said that family trouble drove him to suicide.. Race for the Pennant. The standing of the clubs in the National League rac" is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...53 24Cincinnati ...36 38 Philadelphia. 47 27Pittsburg .. . .35 40 Boston 48 28New Y0rk...33 42 Chicago .....43 30Louisville ...30 44 Baltimore .. .43 31 Washington. 25 51 St. Louis... .44 32 Cleveland ...13 63 Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis. 43 30 St. Paul 36 37 Indianapolis. 39 30 Kansas City. .34 39 I Detroit .... .37 35 Milwaukee *. .33 39 Gnd Rapids. 36 35 Buffalo 30 43 Brutality of White Cap Baud. James Irwin, a half-witted individual, has incurred the displeasure of a gang of * toughs at Black Springs. Ark. He was !, stripped, rubbed with lye soap and shaved from head to foot, being badly lacerated in the fiendish operation. He was then brutally beaten and finally placed in a rain barrel and churned up and down until consciousness left him. Several arrests have been made. Feuds Result in Murders. Another feud has broken out in Clay County, Ky„ by which five men lost their lives. These fatalities resulted from a pitched battle fought near Little Goose v creek, three miles from Manchester. The feud dates back nearly two years. Arrested for Counterfeiting. Frank Cody, Sam Towns and George Smith were arrested in Evansville, Ind., ‘ charged with counterfeiting. They admit- . ted making dimes, quarters and dollars , and said they threw their molds into ' Pigeon creek. ! Fatally Stabbed in a Saloon. At Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph Riley, a woodworker, with a wife and six ehillibbed in the abdomen Return to Work, rers at Conneaut hare out on a strike all he dock company aeind of the strikers. [ Paper Plant, e purchased the exJessup & Moore Paladelpfiia, the Drexel entire capital stock petition of the plant ictically the same in St. Lonis. of Sommers Broß., irse collars and legras totally destroyed is estimated*at $75,-

MURDERED IN A CHURCH. Principal of a Texas fctaool Shot Down by the Head Janitor. While services were in progress at the First Christian Church, at Dallas, Texas, Prof. Lipscomb was shot down by John T. Carlisle directly in front of the pulpit from which the preacher was speaking. The wounded man attempted to grapple with his assailant, but was mortally injured and sank into the arms of friends. He lingered unconscious for an hour and expired in his wife’s arms on the altar. Carlisle was turned over to the police, who had been summoned by some of the panic-stricken congregation. When seen at the police station he appeared to be under the influence of liquor. He refused to make any statement. Prof. Lipscomb was principal of the Central high school, and went there four years ago from Nashville, Tenn. Carlisle until recently was head janitor of the high school. It is believed that his removal actuated the shooting. He attributed his loss of position to Prof. Lipscomb's influence. MOTHER AND CHILD REUNITED. Boy Kidnaped Twenty-five Years Ago Finds a Lost Parent. F. O. Getchell, an insurance agent living in Cleveland, who was kidnaped when an infant twenty-five years ago, and his mother have been reunited. The mother, Mrs. Emma Smith, came from Birmingham, Ala., where she was located after a long search and was met at the train by her son. The meeting was an affecting one, the mother, who is GO years of age. being accepted by the son without question. The story Mrs. Smith tells of the kidnaping is to the effect that the infant was taken by a relative to New Orleans and there placed in an orphan asylum. The boy remained there until he was 15 years of age, when he came North, and after living in various places he went to Cleveland. He is now married and has two small children.

DEIGNAN PUTS HONORS ASIDE. I lowa’s Merrimac Hero Declines Naval Academy Appointment. Secretary Long at Washington has received a letter from Osborn F. Deignao declining the appointment to the naval academy offered to him in accordance with an act of Congress'. Young Deignan’s declination is due, it is said, to his belief that he would find it extremely difficult to pass the examination for admission. With a view to aiding him in every possible way the Secretary offered to permit him to enter the academy without the usual entrance examination; but, while appreciating this concession, the young man deemed it expedient to give up altogether his dreams of a career in the service. NEW WHISKY TRUST FORMED. Dlstillinsr Company Incorporated with $125,000,000 Capital. The big whisky trust, with $125,000,000 capital, w’hich has absorbed the old whisky trust and its principal rivals, filed its articles of incorporation at Trenton, N. J. It is the third in point of size of the immense industrial corporations in existence, two greater being the Federal Steel Company and the lead trust. The companies absorbed by the Distilling Company of America, as the new corporation is called, are the American Spirits Manufacturing Company (the old whisky trust); the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company, the Spirits Distributing Company, and the Standard Distilling and Distributing Company.

TWO BRITISH SHIPS LOST. Crew of One Perished Twelve Men from Other Missing. The British ship City of York has been wrecked off Rottnest Island. Seven of the crew were saved, but the captain and eleven men are missing. The City of York, Captain Jones, sailed from San Francisco for Fremantle, Australia. She was built at Glasgow in 1869 and was of 1,167 tons net register. The British ship Carlisle Castle was lost in a storm off Rockingham. The crew perished. The Carlisle Castle, Captain Lindsay, of 1,344 tons net register, left the Clyde for Fremantle, Western Australia. She was built at London in 1868. Brings a Klondike Fortune. The Alaska flyer Humboldt reached Seattle with 150 Ivlondikers and about $500,000 in dust. The richest man on board was C. A. Voskeller of Chicago. He shipped $183,000 by the river before leaving Dawson, and brings the balance of a $200,000 output with him. He has been in the Klondike for three years, and got all of his gold from one Bonanza Creek claim.

Fcore of People Hurt. With a shock like that of an earthquake and a report that was heard for two miles a premature explosion took place in the quarry of the Artesian stone and lime works in Chicago, which was followed by a shower of stone, injuring a score of persons, breaking hundreds of windows and creating a panic among the inhabitants of that district. Chicago Thief Sent to Prison. Philip Lambete, alias George Schey, of Chicago, charged with taking SIO,OOO from the desk of the paying teller of the Metropolitan National Bank June 22, pleaded guilty in Boston and was sent to the State prison for a term of not less than two and a half or more than three and a half years. Kills His Wife and Himself. Frank Tepley, a well-to-do Bohemian farmer tea miles from Stanton, Neb., killed his wife with a carpenter’s hammer and then committed suicide by taking poison. He objected to his wife visiting a disinherited daughter and son-in-law. Grocers’ Trust Is Organized. The combination of wholesale grocers of Illinois, lowa and Missouri, for the purpose of. purchasing goods in large quantities, took definite form when the Western Brokerage Company was incorporated at Des Moines, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. Smelters Compelled to Close. One thousand men employed at the Omaha and Grant smelter at Omaha are idle as a result of the closing of a number of furnaces. The company saya it is due to the coal famine incident to the .strike of Illinois and lowa miners. Will Build in England. It is announced that the Westinghouse flectric and Manufacturing Company of ittabnrg will build works at Manchester, ngland, and employ 5,000 men. All Unite on Taylor. '< 1 W. S. Taylor was nominated for Govern op by .acclamation by the Republic**' ptate convention at Lexington, Ky. <