Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1899 — MURDERS HIS RIVAL [ARTICLE]

MURDERS HIS RIVAL

KUIOUSY LEADS ERNEST BAR* I CUS INTO CRIME. i!sF -• ■, I Mt Kills George Schmidt and Stabs | fthe Latter’s Father—Trouble Over a g I Yoang Lady's Favor-Five Persons | Renowned la Lake Huron. | Gallipolis, Ohio, Ernest Barcus I stabbed and instantly killed George JSchmidt, his rival for the hand of Rose I |Bideinore, and also stabbed Martin I Mchmidt, George’s father, so seriously gßhat he will die. He then made an atiWjfrPt to murder the girl, but his nerve ■||kiled and he took to flight. Barcus’ jealBousy led him to follow George Schmidt, ■Who had taken Miss Sidemore to his j Uffither’s home to spend the evening. I Iwhen he got to the house he raised a disHpttoance. The elder Schmidt tried to WRersuade him to leave the premises, Barcus drew a knife and j plunged it into his side and breast. | K&midt’s son went to assist his father, |Khly to receive a fatal knife thrust in the pieart Barcus escaped, but was pursued E'by four.officers, who captured him a few Emiles below Bladen. I FIVE PERSONS AKE DROWNED. jKfelsooner Hunter Sa v idee Capsizes I a Squall on Lake Huron. I 'The schooner Hunter Savidge capsized l||n a squall on Lake Huron when off KJPoint Aux Barques, Mich. Five persons ■hrere drowned. They are: Thomas Duby, Mpiate of the schooner; Mrs. John Muller-Ig-areis, wife of the owner; daughter of ■ Captain and Mrs. Mullerweis; Mrs. F. | pfearpsteen; Sharpsteen, son of Mrs. ■jF. Sharpsteen. The schooner was withK»ut a cargo and was caught in a squall ■Which threw her on her side. The boat ■was built in 1879, and rates only 154 Ujtet tons, being 117 feet long by 26 foot | Eheam. The schooner left Port Huron j jjjfor Alpena in command of Captain | jPlharpsteen, who had with him his wife, jjpbrs. John Mullerweis, wife of the owner Ht the vessel, and her daughter were also Mill board. : RACE FOR THE PENNANT. ■t . Jgßtunding of the Clubs in the National | and Western Leagues.J | The standing of the clubs in the NaMMOmI League race is as follows: r W. L. W. L. j 67 41 New Y0rk...46 57 wSt. L0ui5....58 48Washington. 36 69 Following is the standing of the clubs filn the Western League: W. L. W. L jKndianapolis 63 35 St. Paul 49 55 ißpmnneapolis. 64 41 Milwaukee . .44 55 MfeGrand Rap..c>4 bl Buffalo 44 61 j|-Detroit .....50 52Kansas City. 42 60 [ I INDIANS KILL A GAMBLER. |®Two Hundred Red Men Employed in Railroad Work Threaten Tronble. L Two hundred Indians in Foreman U Mink’s grading gang at Navajo Springs, KAriz., threaten to exterminate all the E whites in that section. They were paid KhS recently, and proceeded to gamble and ■drink heavily. A gambler named C. H. ||Landreth, after a quarrel with some of | them, assaulted one, shooting and stab- | bing him seriously. The tribe armed Blthemselves with all weapons in the camp, Emot the gambler seven times, scalped thim, and mutilated his body beyond recKOgnition. Machinery Hurts Three Lads. The three sons of Martin Winkle of ■Luckey, Ohio, were injured fatally at a R#me kiln near Toledo by being caught in |the machinery. The youngest, 6 years Bold, got too close to the machinery and | was caught in the shafting. The other I’boys tn attempting to rescue him met ■with similar fate. Millions of Eggs in a Deal. KAt Kansas City, contracts were closed Hfor the sale to a syndicate of Eastern i commission merchants of seventy car gpoads of eggs now in store at Topeka, B Abilene and Concordia, Kan. The sellers Kirill realize 16 cents a dozen. K'. Trolley Cara in Collision. |g A head-on collision between two trolIBiey cars occurred on the Norristown, EChestnut Hill and Roxborough Railway, Kin Plymouth township, Pa. Thirty perpßons were injured, two men and a womKm probably fatally. Church Sacked in Pari-*. There was a riot in Paris Sunday that Redeveloped into almost a revolution. St. H Joseph’s Church was sacked by a crowd K|f anarchists. Three hundred and eighty persons were injured. Sixty police agents j|were wounded. Killed for Raiding a Melon Patch. Kjgißkrry Staininger, 17 years of age, was killed and Frank Murdoch, also IT years old, mortally wounded by Henry iKßartholmus, whose watermelon ; patch Ej »ix miles east of Ouray, Colo., they were | | Mother Drowns Herself and Boy. At Pierre, S. D., Mrs. Jennie Weston fcMsrowned herself and her son Bertie, aged A, years, in a cistern at the family home. PFamily troubles are supposed to be the Wijßfe ot the tragedy. Fira in Mining Town, Fire has utterly destroyed the busi- . egg portion of the city of Victor. Col., ‘causing a loss estimated at 12,000,000. —.— Catholic Church la Burned. By the explosion of an altar lamp at Une Church of the Good Shepherd in To|fedo the building was destroyed and with Wall fl»e altars and statues. The flames iBBiBa noticed too late to save any .of the material within the building. | The leas is $15,000 on the building. | Big Coal Breaker Burned. £ Mount Lookout breaker at Wyoming, by the Temple Iron and feU Company, was burned. The origin the fire is unknown. The loss is about I

ROBBERS RAID A FARMBoUSB. amuasm * .'‘/V MrwMaruhall and Daughter, Near Fullereburg, Held Up by Four Men. One-half mile west of Fullersburg, 111., on the old Chicago-Mississippi pike, lives Mr. Marshall, a widower, with his only child, a daughter. Marshall is a man of modest means and seemingly dot a shining mark for hold-up men. Just as he was closing the house on a recent night he was summoned to the door, and on opening it saw four men standing in the shadow by the porch. “Our horse has fallen and hurt himself. Can you lend us a lantern?” politely inquired one of the men. Marshall turned toward the kitchen to comply with the request, and as he did so one of the men stepped forward and dealt him a stunning blow on the base of the brain with a slungshot. Marshall was bound while still unconscious. Miss Marshall was also bound and a heavy muffler tied over her face. The house was then searched and $6 was secured, which the robbers took away with them." WRECKED ON SCOTTISH COAST. Many Vessels Caught in Terrific Gale —Heroic Rescue. A terrible storm swept over the Scotch coast at Frazerburgh, a town on the northeast coast. Three, hundred fishing craft were caught in the gale. The crew of the Diadem of Cullen, a town on Cullen bay (North Sea), was saved by the gallantry of James Brown, a discharged Dargal hero, who swam to the boat with a line. When this line had been fastened to the endangered craft the spectators who gathered on the shore dragged the Diadem through the surf and landed her safely. The schooner Pioneer, from Sunderland to Banff, with a cargo of coal, is ashore and will become a total wreck. The railroad passenger steamer Red Gauntlet has been wrecked at Piadda light, south of the Island of Arram. The passengers and crew of the vessel have been landed at Whitjing Bay.

DISEASE ATTACKS ARMY MULES. Wholesale Slaughter of Animals at Fort Leavenworth Expected. Glanders has broken out among the Government mules and horses at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., intended for service in the Philippines and there is much consternation among the army officials over the disease. Three hundred mules and horses are afflicted and eighteen mules have been shot. A wholesale slaughter Is imminent. Veterinary surgeons are at work and the animals will be inoculated with a new preparation. There is a scarcity of the kind of mules the Government wants. The loss of the horses’ would be less important than the mules. The quartermaster will immediately advertise for bids to duplicate the animals that are shot. This will delay the shipment of these animals to the Philippines. ROBBERS WIN IN CHINA Kill 250 Soldiers and Occupy All Com* manding Points. Five hundred soldiers were surrounded at Cotkon, on the West river, China, by 10,000 robbers and a desperate fight occurred, ending in a victory for the robbers, who hoisted their flags upon all commanding points and occupied the villages in the vicinity. Two hundred and fifty soldiers were killed and 100 wounded. Two thousand more troops have left Canton for the scene of trouble. Conductor Shot a Passenger. James Ackman, a Big Consolidated street car conductor, was placed under arrest in Cleveland. The conductor claims to have been insulted by a passenber named Charles Linkenberger, because he was operating one of the company’s cars. After some bantering the passenger tried to throw the conductor from the car and the latter drew his revolver and sent a bullet through Linkenberger’s arm. Receiver for T. H. Groves. George W. Cady has been appointed receiver for Thomas H. Groves, proprietor of the Chicago Bankrupt Store, located in Cleveland until very recently, when the stock was removed to other points. An involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed against Groves by three of his New York creditors, who claim that Groves’ liabilities amount to $125,000. May Not Practice Osteopathy. The State Board of Health has refused certificates to several applicants who wished to practice osteopathy in South Dakota. The reason assigned by the State Board of Health for rejecting the applications was that the schools where the applicants studied were not regularly conducted schools of osteopathy. Arrests and Fines Himself. Dr. J. R. Trovinger, who is Mayor of Arlington, 0., has had himself arrested for fighting and' fined himself $1 and costs, which he promptly paid. He has also had John Houdeshed, a hardware merchant, with whom he was fighting, arrested and gave him similar punishment. Three Killed by an Express Train. Franklin Hassler, son of the proprietor of the Highland House, above Wernersville, Pa., and two guests, Hilda H. and Gertie Fleischman, of Harrisburg, aged 20 and 22 years respectively, whom he was driving to the station, were killed by the Lebanon Valley express. Ohio Saloons Increase in Number. A statement completed by the Auditor of State of Ohio shows that there are 10,874 saloons in the State, a gain of 698 since the July statement of last year. The total revenue is $548,116.69. The beer and whisky license in Ohio costa $250 a year. Gould Match Plant Closed. Edwin Gould’s Continental Match plant at Passaic, N. J., valued at $500,000, closed for good. Over 500 employes, including 300 girls, are thrown out of employment. Some weeks ago Gould sold the plant to the Diamond Match Company for $1,000,000. Wedding Day Is Set. The wedding of Miss Julia Dent Grant of Chicago to Prince Cantacuzene, it is formally announced, will take place Sept. 25. The nuptials will take place at Newport. Bishop Henry C. Potter will officiate. Eighteen Die in a Mine. By an explosion of fire damp in the Llest colliery, in Glamorganshire, Wales, eighteen persons were killed and many others placed In great danger. Call for More Troops. An order has been Issued at Washing ton* fOF £€*FViC6 IQ tnA r* uiiiODlDCS I