Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1899 — Page 7

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SCENE OF G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT AT FAIRMOUNT PARK, PHILADELPHIA.

CHILDREN PERISH BY FIRE.

Six Lives Lost in Burning of St. Agnes’ Convent, Sparkili, N. T. Six lives were lost by the burning of the St. Agnes’ convent at Sparkili, five miles south of Nyack, N. Y., early Monday morning. Four persons were burned to death and two others died after being rescued from the burning buildings. Four sisters jumped from windows, receiving serious injuries. Two will probably die. St. Agnes’ Home is conducted by the sisters of St. Dominic. Sister N. Peter is the superior, and under her are thirtysix professed nuns and three novices and three postulants. Rev. Philip Aheam is the chaplain. The convent was used as a home for homeless children. Several hundred waifs were in the building when the fire broke out. When the flames were discovered the sisters and Chaplain Ahearn hurried through the dormitories awaking the 300 boys and fifty girls who were sleeping there. The startled, half-awake children, as soon as they appreciated the cause of the excitement and realized that their home was burning, fled in all directions like frightened sheep. The sisters heroically endeavored to restrain them, but to no avail. They rushed down the stairs in a panic. Some fell and were trampled upon by others. The sisters and chaplain remained behind alarming the children until driven from the rooms by flames and smoke. The four sisters who jumped from the windows remained too long, and the flames cut off their escape by way of the stairs. The hotne was composed of six frame (foldings. The three main structures, where the fire originated, are joined. A stiff breeze was blowing at the time, and the flames spread through the building with great rapidity. The three buildings comprising the main structure and one of the detached buildings were burned to the ground. The hospital building and one small outbuilding were saved. The scenes outside of the burning institution were heartrending. The children, many of whom were waifs of New York, were huddled together on the hillside just north of the burning convent. Some eighty sisters, who also made the convent their home, stood by, dressed only in their night garments, comforting and quieting their frantic charges. In the midnight darkness the white-robed figures presented a strange spectacle. As day dawned the news of the fire spread to the surrounding country and scores of farmers drove to the scene. The children and sisters were loaded into wagons and driven to Blauvelt Convent, which is situated about one mile away. The fire was the third that has occurred in St. Agnes’ Convent within a short time. Whether or not they were Of incendiary origin has never been determined, but the fact that Monday night’s fire started in three separate places convinces the authorities that the circumstances are suspicious. The property loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO.

"BLOODY TENTH" AT HOME.

Pennsylvania Volunteers Back from the Philippines. The Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers passed through Chicago Sunday afternoon on their way home from the Philippines. Bronzed by the tropical sun and \inured to war by service first in Cuba against the Spaniards and later in the far away Philippines against the wily forces of Aguinaldo, the boys of the “Bloody Tenth,” Pennsylvania’s pride, were cheered at every station as their train sped on its way to Pittsburg. Col- Sanborn had extended the Pennsylvanians an invitation to stop over in Chicago as guests of the First Illinois infantry, but Col. Barnett found this impossible, and the three sections of the troop train were delayed only long enough to make the transfer from the Chicago and Northwestern to the Pennsylvania line. The regiment roll contained 756 names —733 privates and twenty-three officers. It lost twenty-one men in the Orient, fifteen being killed in battle and six dying of fever. The occasion of the Tenth regiment’s home-coming was made a holiday throughout a big section of western Pennsylvania. Pittsburg and Allegheny were thronged with hundreds of thousands of persons who came to welcome the heroes home. President McKinley was there, as was Maj. Gens. Merritt and Greene. Gov. Stone delivered the formal address at Schenley Park, and the countless throng then singled out the soldiers and proceeded to make an idol of each, irrespective of rank. The President reviewed the regiment and made a speech. More than $50,000 was spent to make the welcome a royal one.

NINE SOLDIERS DROWNED.

Raft Breaks la Crossing: a River-Gen-a era! Wheeler at Manila. .Monday morning a reconnoitering party of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, under Captain Crane, in crossing the Mateo river the raft on which they were floating split in two and nine men were drowned. The United States transport Tartar, from Ban Francisco, with Genof tbe Nineteenth infantry on board, has arrived at Manila. ....r’ i ‘

BUSINESS SITUATION.

Chicago Correspondence: The underlying features of the business situation are still of a promising character. The few changes that have taken place lately have been for the better, and the result of this is that the feeling of confidence in the future is gaining strength. There is no longer any apprehension felt in regard to the money market, borrowers and lenders alike being now pretty well satisfied that nothing approaching a tight market can be brought about. The West seems abundantly supplied with funds and apparently able to provide for the moving of the crops this fall without any great an\ount of assistance from the Eastern financial centers. Furthermore, the present condition of the foreign exchange markets makes it certain that any important advance in interest rates in this country would at once start a gold-im-porting movement of considerable proportions. The stock markets this week have continued to gain strength. Efforts on the part* of the professional bear element to depress prices for the standard railroad shares have been defeated simply because of the fact that the actual business position of the country is hostile to such operations. In some of the purely speculative stocks shake-outs have occurred, but the investment properties have not only stood their ground, but many of them have made further advances. London has been quite a heavy

Disembarkation of the returning volunteers at San Francisco, Cal.

buyer of American specialties, and commission houses have also been much more active, indicating that public interest in the, market is steadily increasing. Activity characterized the week’s speculative business in grain, and the volume of dealings in provisions was quite up to the average. Prices did not vary much from those prevailing at the dose of the previous week. Estimates of the amount of wheat raised this year displayed a tendency to agree upon a crop of about 525.000,000 bushels. Almost equal edncuirence in the requirements of the importing countries was shown in tbe estimates of foreign statisticians, which did not vary much from 345,000,000 bushels. Of that total they calculate 220,000,000 bushels will be needed from this country, or a weekly supply throughout the season of about 4,150,000 bushels. Allowing for the surplus left over from the previous season’s most abundant crop, the indications are there is less wheat this year than last year by at leflst 100,000,000 bushels to supply equal requirements. If these calculations prove approximately correct prices should rule higher this year than last. The corn crop still gladdens the hearts of its cultivators by its splendid promise, and two weeks more of favorable weather should put the bulk of it beyond harm’s reach. The deficiendee of last season’s corn crop are beginning to be demonstrated to the discomfiture of a party in the market that sold for delivery at an earlier date than new crop supplies can be available.

Telegraphic Brevities.

• John Insho, 107, died at Caney, Kan. Harter’s bicyde factory at South Renova, Pa., burned. Loss, $20,000. Peter Bantler, aged 8, Water bury, Conn., died from a kissing bug’s bite. Big cattle syndicate is said to have dosed options on 300,000 bead of cattle ' Lizzie Macnicbol, the opera singer, died of her exertions.

TREACHERY NOT SURPRISING.

No Loyalty Among Filipinos to Be Kx pec ted. The news from the Philippines, showing the treachery of the natives who have been trusted and placed in prominent positions by the Americans, has not occasioned any surprise at the War Department. Recent developments have

convinced the officials that it would ba folly to look for loyalty ampng the natives at this time. Secretary Root was positive that the experiment of installing native mayors could not be a successful one until better assurances shall have been made that peace will be restored. The announcement that the native mayor of San Pedro Macati used hla office as a recruiting station for the Filipino army occasioned amusement rather than resentment, but instructions have

WELCOME HOME.

been issued to guard against similar occurrences In the future. Secretary Root accepts the situation as another proof of the fact that more troops are needed ix the Philippines. It is believed that these reports wIH have a tendency to make the policy of the Americans much less lenient.

ACCEPTS AMERICAN RULE.

Sovereignty of United States Over Jolo Archipelago Acknowledged. Gen. Bates returned to Manila from tbe Sulu with a treaty signed with the Sultan. The Sultan agrees to all th# American terms proposed and recognizes the absolute sovereignty of the United States, which he never did for Spain. The Sultan collects no revenues, but will receive an annual salary for maintaining law and order. Several of the principal chiefs are also salaried. Gen. Bates had diplomatically gained the friendship of all the powerful chiefs and bad tbe Saltan rebelled his overthrow conld have been easily accomplished.

BROKE HER RIBS WITH A HUG.

Pittsburg Man’s Violent Love Making Gets Him in Tronble. By squeezing a girt so hard that he broke two of her ribs, David Campbell, a Pittsburg carpenter, has fallen into trouble. The complainant is Miss Alice Diie of the East End, who says that Campbell called on her and hugged her so violently that two of her ribs were broken. Campbell furnished bail for g hearing.

SCULPTORS DIE FOR DEWEY.

Two Artists Succumb to Effects of Toll on Triumphal Arch. Extreme overwork in the task of preparing portions of the triumphal arch beta* erected for the Dewey celebration caused the death of two sculptors G. Turina fell dead at his home, and a like fate befell Caspar Buberi. Turina was engaged in modeling a statue to Paul Jones, the naval hero of revolutionary days, while Buberi was assigned the work of making a medallion of Captain

FILIPINO LABORERS.

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Names of His Nine Children.

The Rev. Ralph Tollemacbe of London has nine children, whose names are as follows: • 1. Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toed mag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Anna Nevill Dysart Plantagenet. J 2. Leo Qulntns Tollemache-Tolle-j mac he de Orellana Plantagenet. j 3. Leone Sextus Denys Oswoif Frau- : datl Fillus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellanfl Plantagenet. 4. Lyonnlph Cospatrick Bruce Berkeley Zermer Tullibardine Petersham de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet. 5. Mabel Helmtngham Etbel Huntlngtower Beatrice Blazonberrie Evangeline Vise de Lou de Orellana Plantagenet Toedmag Saxon. 6. Lyonesse Matilda Dora Ida Agues Ernestine Curson Paulet Wllbrabam Joyce Eugenie Bentley Saxonia Dysart Plantagenet. 7. Lyona Decima Veronica Esyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Rowena Adela Thyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche Leilas Dysart Plantagenet. 8. Lyondella Fredegunda Cathberga Ethelswytha Ideth Ysabel Grace Monica de Orellana Plantagenet. 9; Lyonetta Edith Regina Valentine Myra PoJwarth Avelina Philippa Violantha de Orellana Plantagenet.

Shake Into Your Shoes

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Poorly Paid Literary Workers.

Some indication of the emoluments of English literature Is given In the fact that there are nearly 900 candidates for the secretaryship of the Cambridge University library, the salary of which is SI,OOO a year, rising to sl,500.

The Cannibal King.

“No,” said the King of Mbwka to the explorer, “I cannot say we would rather fight than eat, though it is a fact that we generally fight first and eat afterward.”

Chicago Great Western Increase.

The earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway, ‘-‘Maple Leaf Route,” for the second week of August, 1899, show an increase of $12,341.57. Total increase since beginning of fiscal year (July 1) to date, $97,788.60.

Whale’s Yield of Oil.

The average whale yields 2,000 gallons of oil.

Hall’s Catarrh Cure.

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Miss Lockheart’s LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM.

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“A Handful of Dirt May Be a Houseful; of Shame.” Keep Your House Clean with j SAPOLIO

“Mutilatied " of Trees.

▲ prefect In a certain French term* Issued a declaration ordering sevearw measures to be taken against dtvsßW malicious persons who amused thems selves by stripping tbe bark frsm tb# plane trees bordering the public promenade. “Tbe trees thus mutilated,” dm ran tbe affiebe, “present a most pltln-J bie appearance.” However, as, In spit* of tbe prefect’s declaration, tbe “mutilation” continued unabated, tbe worthy functionary summoned his head, clerk to consult with him on tbe matter. Thereupon the clerk informed bin* that, as the plane trees tbemseive# shed their bark every year, It won Mb be fntile to institute proceeding* against sneb incorrigible offenders. Tb* clerk Seemed amused, but tbe prefect; did not; anyway, the notices were r*>-’ moved with more than official din* dispatch.

The New Torpedo

A Swede has invented one operated hy \ Invisible rays of light, which enables it MM3 explode at will. In like manner Ho*tetter's Stomach Bitters conquers all stomach troubles. When a sufferer from constipation, dyspepsia or liver complaint takes the Bitters he is sure of a cure. ; A private revenue stamp covert tbe neck et the bottle.

Wild Animals Killed in India.

In 1897 1,569 tigers were killed !M|| India, 4,608 leopards, 2,053 bears, 3,l4*f| wolves and 105,000 snakes.

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