Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — LAY TOO LIGHT RAILS [ARTICLE]

LAY TOO LIGHT RAILS

I ERROR IN BUILDING SIBERIAN RAILWAY. ot Heavy Enough for the Traffic that la and Will Be rer It—Ohio Horae Thief ded. iron, manager of the Sareering Company's locomotive ijni Novgorod, Russia, which iploys 10,000 men, is visiting Paterson, N. J. “The indusssia,” said Mr. Dixon, “are The Russians are a slow>le, but they are steady and 6 Transsiberian Railroad is ted from Moscow to lrkootsk, f about 1,800 miles. East of e road is in operation In it were. That is to say, it been connected all the way Vladivostok. An unfortunate the building of this road is fht rails have been used, and > too wide apart. When its was begun nobody realised ity of the undertaking. The jeen greatly in excess of all t, and I fear that the road »nd the wear and tear. It an enormous sum to rectify at this late date.” TEAMING A SIDE LINE. irmer Landed in Jail After n Years of Crime. to his own story, Frank was taken to Xenia, Ohio, in jail on the charge of horse s had a remarkable criminal ■ claims that his mother is l resides in Paulding County, it he has for some time been farming, and for the last ten ated, he has been engaged in ses as a side line. He said he ight or ten horses at different lad never before been appreis work. He said that one of rses was recently killed by nd, as he needed another s place, he left his farm in r and went up to near Xenia, e animal belonging to John tow when he was arrested, a plea of guilty to the charge aling and was sent to jail in 500 bond. FOR THE PENNANT. f the Clubs in the National Western Leagues, ling of the clubs in the Nairn race is as follows: ..00 28Cincinnati ...45 42 ..53 33 Pittsburg ... .45 43 1.51 35Louisville ...38 48 ..50 36New Y0rk...35 50 ..50 36Washington. 34 57 ..46 40Cleveland ...15 74 is the standing of the clubs :ern League: i. 51 33 St. Paul 39 46 . 50 37Milwaukee ..38 45 ..45 39Buffalo 37 46 ..44 41 Kansas City..3s 52 farmer Attempts Suicide. iUer, aged 50, residing near Ohio, tried to kill himself by throat and then setting his Miller would have died soon, tily rescued him, and, by the sician, may save his life. He r farmer, and gave no reason i act. reck in Wyoming. gine going west on the Union ded with an overland passene and one-quarter miles west Wyo. Fireman Koneld was ineer Walter Marsh of No. 4, S’ a resident of Laramie, was fatally injurRped, dying a few minutes after being pickup. Both engines and mail cars were 1 demolished. Killed and Hurt in a Wreck. It ' Erie passenger train No. 7, west bound, Rdnshed into a freight express which had Ipiieen derailed a mile east of Laekawaxen, s' | Pa.. and was wrecked. Four cars, inllpiuding two sleepers, were burned. Two persons were killed and twenty-one in-gF-Jured. The wreck was caused by a land- _______________ I | Her Body Cut to Pieces. m The aged wife of John Pritzke was If I; found dead at her home in North Little | p Rock, Ark. The body was horribly mu- | (Bated, having been chopped to pieces i-j | with an ax. Near the body sat John | Pritake, the husband, in a dying condiL|;tion from wounds inflicted with an ax. | IpThe house had been robbed. S; Hold-Up Crowded street Car. | jpA. trolley, car, loaded with eighty pasp|;*engers, mostly women and children, was g held up by four highwaymen in BrookPfrUja. The conductor was beaten nearly to death and' robbed of all the money in his H||m9Mes6ion. The robbers were captured. | . Couple Killed by Lightning. \ |"B. H. McConnell and his wife, an aged ; E||ouple, were killed by lightning at their UMJie near Cottage Grove, Tenn. Both r ■■fed their clothing burned off. ■■■■■ - ' | Chase Sprague Dead. ; |||Krg, Kate Chase Sprague died at Edge- | her country home near WashingI Pint in her fifty-ninth year. [ Two Die in Electric Chair. I ;v Louis Pullerson and Michael McDonald j; Hjffij* pat to death by electricity in Sing I Woman Shoots a Persecutor. I |;Miss Fannie Goodwin, milliner at Fair- | ilpv?, Ky., shot and mortally wounded Iflin Allegree. She charged that he IWieoWl#i#rltons notes, made remarks,

ENTIRE TOWN ORDERED BOLD. P*as Lake Intruders Aimed A tin Final Government Action. Secretary Hitchcock has finally dlsposgof the Casa Lake, Minn., controversy. e announced that the Government would sell in parcels the north half of section 15, which comprises nearly the Whole town of Cass Lake. The 500 or more intruders are located chifefly on this half section and on the northeastern part of section 16. They will have to move from section 16 as soon as possible. The lecision of Secretary Hitchcock closes the controversy over the proposed ejectment of the intruders from the Cass Lake Indian reservation lands. Senator Nelson, who subsequently left for Norway for the first time since he left the land of his birth, was present when the announcement was made, and expressed his satisfaction. This places the 320 acres of lands open to aU for purchase. The half section wiU be advertised for sixty days, and probably fifteen days more will be allowed before the sale, when the intruders must take their chances in the purchase of the lands or remove from them. TRIES SUICIDE IN DENVER JAIL. Chicagoan from the Klondike Cute Hie Throat While Insane. With the sharp edge of a tin can T. J. Swansborough, formerly of Chicago, tried to cut his throat. He was at the time confined in the city jail at Denver, Colo., where he had been placed because of actions indicating insanity. He made several bad gashes in his throat, but was Been, overpowered and taken to a hospital. Swansborough arrived in Denver from Seattle, Wash. He gave the clerk at a hotel several hundred dollars and a watch, but got them back and insisted on giving them to a policeman in the street. The officer locked him up. During the night Swansborough raved continually about a murder he thought he had committed in Chicago. He recently returned from Alaska. The hardship of mining in the Klondike and the effects of the altitude of Colorado are believed to have unbalanced his mind. He was on his way to visit relatives. FIRE CAUSES PANIC IN A HOTEL. Sixty Girls Narrowly Escape Death in Flames in New York. Fire caused a panic in Smith & McNeill’s hotel at New York. Hundreds of guests were in the restaurant when the alarm was given, and they stampeded to the street. When they found that the fire was confined to the roof they returned to their meals, but on the upper floors the police , and firemen were busy saving sixty pqjiic-stricken servant girls. The fire started in the laundry, where twenty girls were at work. Many of them attempted to jump to the pavement, five floors below. Seven had to be carried out through the smoke by the police and one cook was terribly burned. She was taken to the Hudson street hospital. The property loss is $50,000. AMERICAN FARMER FOR TURKEY D. A. Kent of lowa Will Be tbe Sultan’s Advising Agriculturist. Prof. D. A. Kent, late of the lowa State Agricultural College, has been selected as an instructor in farming to the Turkish Empire. The Sultan of Turkey needed a man who could make the soil of the Ottoman empire blossom with wheat and corn and fruits as well as with roses, and he had his representative at Washington look out for the proper person. All American farmers looked alike to members of the Turkish embassy, and they appealed to Secretary Wilson, who recommended Prof. Kent. And the lowa city man has signified his willingness to accept the mission. ESTIMATE ON GOLD YIELD. Conani at Dawson Saya the Klondike’s Year’s Total Is $10,000,000. Information from the Klondike has reached the State Department at Washington from United States Consul McCook at Dawson. The consul says that $10,000,000, instead of $20,000,000, in gold will cover the product for the last twelve months. He adds that reports from Alaska indicate that more gold will be found there than ever will come out of the Klondike. 1 Quarrel Ends in Killing. Matt Stanford shot and instantly killed Preston Carson near Washington College, Tenn. He then went to Carson’s home and fired five shots into his house. The shots hit two of Carson’s chUdren. Stanford fled, but was caught and lodged in jail. The men had quarreled over a cornfield which Carson was working oh shares for Stanford. Fortune for “Joe” Womack. “Joe” Womack, the discoverer of Cripple Creek camp, which brought fortune to scores of people but failed to do anything for him, is not to be forgotten. A pioneers’ society has been organized at Denver with the express purpose of arranging for the endowment of the old prospector with a little fortune of SBO,OOO. Claim Agaiuet the Transvaal. R. E. Brown, an American citizen, has filed a claim with the State Department for $2,000,000 against the Transvaal Government. Brown was engaged in mining in the Transvaal and the title to his claim being questioned it was thrown into the courts. Bny a Big Antimony Mine. Charles L. Taylor and John M. Fulton of Reno, Nev., have bought from Samuel Hunt, Orin Bennett and S. D. Thacker the largest antimony mine in the United States, there being over 20,000,000 pounds of high-grade ore in sight. The mine is in Humboldt County, Nev. Telegraph Messengers Go Back. The strike of Western Union telegraph messengers at Pittßburg is ended and the boys are all at work again. They claim the company has promised to concede their demands, but this is denied by the officials. Frame of Steel Collapses. By the collapse of the steel frame of a new building being erected for the Westinghouse Electric Company at East Pittsburg, Pa., Charles Fister of Kingston, Md., was killed and five men injured. Hail Takes Calamba. An expedition comprised of troops from San Pedro Macati, Pasig and Morong, under Brig Gen. R. H. Hall captured Calamba, an important trading town on the south shore of Laguna de Bay. fan Domingo Ruler Main. Dominican renubiic was assassinated at