Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — OWNS HIS OLD HOME. [ARTICLE]

OWNS HIS OLD HOME.

PRESIDENT BUYS THE M’KINLEY COTTAGE AT CANTON. '•• • ■ ■ P* Is the House Where He Took Hia iWlfe Immediately After 1 heir Mar-p*taffe-Illicit Distilleries Raided by Braitcd States Revenue Officers. V,-v ! • * ' McKinley has purchased the Hbmons “McKinley cottage,” at the corHk, of North Market street and Louis Bivraue, Canton, Ohio. The consideration pras $14,800. The papers have passed. Hp will secure possession under the oonHact and deed in October next. The Kroperty was not in the market. It was Bfeteared to President and Mrs. McKinlliy as their first home, where they beSlran housekeeping, and by tender mem■iries of sorrows there. The front veranfjda Bhows the most wear from the historic Campaign of 1896, when the noted home liras the political Mecca for nearly 1,000,pOO people. Before leaving Canton for llhe inauguration President McKinley Bfied to buy the home made doubly dear P him. It is not believed that Mrs. Hilartes would have sold the place to any|«ne else. It is believed to be the PresiEpent’s intention to spend a part of each Ipunmer in Canton. pBIGRAIDON MOONSHINERS. ptevenne Men Destroy Two Illicit Stills Near Chlckamanca Park. KtJnited States revenue officers raided Itwo illicit distilleries, operated within pHtree miles of Ohickamauga Park, Tenn. | Both establishments did a land-office buspness last year in supplying whisky to soli pliers at Chickamauga Park and had deEped arrest, the soldiers aiding the moon- ' shiners in keeping the officers off the Brack. Both stills were in active opera|JSon when raided. Thg first distillery Raided was conducted by Moses Long. ISPwelve hundred gallons of beer and thirfSr gallons of low wine were found and gfestroyed. The second still was about a Smile away, operated by G. W. Lanham.

| RACE FOR THE PENNANT. PBtandins of the Clubs in the National and Western Leagnea, The standing of the clubs in the NaEpfonal League race is as follows: W. L. • . W. L. • Brooklyn ...61 31 Cincinnati ..50 42 ; Boston .....58 34 Pittsburg ...48 46 IPhiladelphia 56 38 Louisville ...40 50 ißaltimore ..54 38 New York... 36 53 PSiicago ....51 41 Washington. 34 61 |St. L0ui5....52 43Cleveland ...17 80 | Following is the standing of the clubs pn the Western League: B|i; W. L. W. L. . Indianapolis 54 32 St. Paul 42 49 gPetroit 47 43 Buffalo 40 50 H&rand Rap.. 45 44 Kansas City.3B 55 YOUNG MAN SAVED. " He Attempts Suicide by Hanging, but Hia Sister Cuts the Nope. ' While temporarily insane Robert Law, pK young farmer near Yankton, S. D., took a clothes line and walked into a wooded ravine near the house. His sis--5 ter Ellen followed shortly after and was horrified to see her brother hanging from a limb and apparently dead. Terror lent bravery and power to the young girl, and she secured a knife from her brother’s pocket and cnt the rope. He was nearly to death, but owing to the prompt treatment he received he will reI cover. , CASE OF VENGEFUL ARSON. Ranchman on the Cheyenne River Vic|v, tim of a Malicious Relative. A. E. Rich, a rancher on the Cheyenne river, about fifty miles northwest of Pierre, S. D., has lost over $5,000 the I past ten days from incendiary fires. He ’ had just completed and moved into a fine dwelling, when it was burned, and . later a large barn and contents went up In smoke. The incendiary is alleged to be a relative who has a grudge to settle with Rich. , Colliaion at Tekanah, Neb. I A north-bound passenger train on the St. Paul and Omaha road was wrecked .at Tekamah, Neb. A switch had been ' left open and the train collided with a agravel train standing on the side track. E. C. Olesen of Sioux City, fireman of the gravel train, was fatally injured and two traveling men were slightly hurt.

■Hitnins Burns a Towboat. ■ a heavy thunderstorm the H: towboat Advance, which had He extensive repairs at MiddieHts, Pomeroy. Ohio, was struck Hing and consumed by fire. The ive escaped with great difficulty. Fatal Fight with a Moonshiner. ; Deputy United States Marshal J. A. ' Blair was shot and fatally wounded in |»Morgan County, Ky., while trying to arC rest L. F. Lewis, an alleged moonshiner. Blair killed Lewis after receiving his own desperate wound. K;, / James Baker Is Acquitted. I At Barbourville, Ky., the jury in the 1| ease against James Baker for the mur|r der of Wilson Howard returned a verdict of hot guilty on the first ballot. The ipElaker* say the feud is over on their || Millionaire's l>ive Is Fatal. J Walter B. Duryea. the only son of a Blew York millionaire, hazarded a dive was paralysed from the neck down. Will Fight the Wire Trust, mammoth new wire mill is being Ifjfeilt at Cuyahoga Falls, 0., incorporated a*Uhe Henry Wire Co. The plant, tons per*day and is designed to fight the — Cuts a i’oung Girl's Throat. '' -r- - iK *» I 11l J t i ... ,

FIRST REVOLT A FAILURE. phominican Revolutionists Did Not Intend to Kill Heureaux. Owing to the efforts of the Government of Santo Domingo to suppress news and Information about the recent assassination of President Heureaux and the reported revolution in Santo Domingo, the tacts in the case are difficult to obtain. But a dispatch received by a messenger who has passed through Hayti indicates that the assassination of President Heureaux was not on the program, the purpose of the revolutionists being to capture Moca with the president, thus decapitating the Dominican Government at the first blow, the insurgents not possessing the means of prosecuting a protracted conflict. The premature departure of President Heureaux threatened to frustrate this scheme, whereupon an enthusiast, who was watching the president’s movements, committed the act. A subsequent stack on Moca being repulsed, the insurgents withdrew into the fastnesses between Moca and Porta Plata, hoping to Secure sufficient accessions of men and arms to attack Porto Plata and prosecute the movement in spite of its initial failure.

SAYS BOUNDARY 18 MARKED. Miner Bays Russian Line Is IJeflned by Monuments. John Zachert, a mining expert of San Francisco, claims to possess information which he believes will have an important bearing on the Alaskan boundary dispute. Zachert declares that the old Russian boundary is defined by monuments placed at short intervals, and that inclosed in each is a chart of the Russian possessions. He is of the belief that the duplicates of the charts are on filg at St. Petersburg. Zachert says that an expedition would have little trouble in finding and following up this boundary line of monuments, and that the charts would prove of inestimable value in settling the dispute between this country and Canada.

TOWN BEING DEPOPULATED. Court Refuses to Enjoin Movement of Buildings to Rival Village. In a fight for prestige between the towns of Miller and St. Lawrence, on the Northwestern road in Hand County, S. D., Miller was victor, and so many buildings were bought and moved from St. Lawrence to Miller the former town is about wiped out. To prevent any further removals an injunction was sought on the ground that the value of obligations incurred by St. Lawrence was being impaired by this reducing of taxable property. Judge Gassy held this not to be good grounds for action and denied the relief asked.

GIVES POISON TO HER BABES. .Then Mrs. M. Stevenqon Tries Suicide— Six-Year-Old Daughter Dead. Mrs. Mary Stevenson, aged 25 years, of Detroit, gave morphine to her two daughters—Ella, aged 6 years, and Emma, aged 3—and then took a dose herself, with suicidal intent. The mother and both children were found together in one bed. Ella was dead and the mother and younger daughter were unconscious. Sol Stevefison, the woman’s husband, left her last spring, after some domestic trouble, and it is understood he is living in Chicago. It is thought she was driven to desperation on account of her inability to support herself.

Umatilla Fqnattera Must Move. Special Agent A. D. Thorpe of the Interior Department at Spokane, Wash., has received orders from Washington to visit the old Umatilla Indian reservation and take such steps as may be necessary to remove squatters. The reservation was ceded back to the Government and most of it has since been patented. Some of the undesirable land was not sold and this has been squatted upon. Copper Discovery in Alaska. C. G. Anderson of Fulton, 111., leading a party of twelve prospectors, has arrived at Dawson, Alaska, with sensational news regarding a copper find at the headwaters of the White river in American territory. Anderson and his companions are said to have found chunks of pure copper, ranging from the size of a hen’s egg to pieces weighing twenty-five pounds. Tramps Defy a Whole Town. : Fifty tramps took possession of the little town of Poseyville, Ind., and for three hours the officers were unable to do anything. They marched through the main streets of the town terrorizing the inhabitants and looting the residence of Mrs. Florence Duff. t

I Jamestown Chautauqna Anniversary. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Chautauqua assembly at Jamestown, X. Y., was celebrated the other night, and an anniversary ode by Miss Mary A. Lathbury was read by Prof. S. X. Clark of the University of Chicago. Buys Coking Coal Land. The Federal Steel Company, which recently sold over 1,100 acres ojf Fayette County, Pa., coal land to William J. Rainey of Cleveland, has purchased nearly 6,000 acres of coking coal land in the same county at a price approximating $2,500,000. Big Purchase of Coal Land, i Pittsburg aud Eastern capitalists have just purchased 4,000 acres of coal land in Westmoreland County, Pa., the consideration. it is reported, being $1,400,000. It is the intention of the new company to make coke of the coal and to begin operations at once. Kills Three Children and Himself: Charles Yager, aged 40 years, of Brandt, Pa., murdered his three small children by cutting their throats and then committed suicide by the same means. There seems to be no doubt that the father had gone insane during the night. Soo Canal Traffic Breaks Record. July freight traffic through the Soo canal at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., exceeded 4,000,000 tons, smashing all previous records, and surprising every one by its magnitude. Funeral Cortege in a Wreck. Two carriages filled with mourners in the funeral cortege of Mrs. Harry Smith were struck by a Consolidated Traction car In Pittsburg and nine persons were! severely hurt.