Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1899 — BIG NATIONAL PARK. [ARTICLE]

BIG NATIONAL PARK.

mMmmjjmtiMgti > t ,■: , /V. PLAN SUGGESTED BY TWO MININ.;- NESOTA MEN. jfp \tavors the Util'zation of 800,000 Acres of Reservation Lands for the Pnrposs— Await Action by CongressBrooklyn Morder and Suicide. Dr. Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota and also president of the proposed Minnesota National Park Association, and Thomas Shevlin of MingphtpoHsi have prepared an entirely new ’scheme for the park. They discard as impracticable the proposition to acquire nap .necessary lands by purchase, and present the following scheme: The utilization of 800,000 acres of the Indian reservation in and about Leech and Winuibogishish lakes, with the possibility of an extension of the park confines uorth to the Canadian border at a future time. The town of Walker is left outside the park lines, as is Deer River on the east. The value of the land to-day as it stands is estimated at about $3,000,000. All the land is Government land. It is a reservation for the Indians, but nevertheless part of the public domain, and without action on the part of Congress may not be made to respond to any other use. It Is believed Congress will readily consent to converting the land to park purposes. SOLVE, BLACK HILLS MURDER Confession in the Case of Miner Eugene *V‘‘ Cntlinan, Found Dead. The secret of the murder of Eugene Cullinan, a Black Hills miner, who was found dead in his cabin Aug. 8. is out, Oliver Benson, one of the accomplices, having confessed. According to Benson’s «worn statement, Benson, accompanied by Clinton Dotson and Elias Polsengex-, from Helena with wagon and team, the same outfit that was captured by the officers, and Aug. 7 camped near the cabin of Cullinan in Deer Lodge County. The following morning Dotson and Polsenger left Benson and went to Cullman’s cabin. Three shots were tired within the cabin.' Dotson and Poisenger returned and told Benson what they had done, bnt said they got no money. The three men are under arrest.

RACE FOR THE BKNNANT. Standing: of the Clubs in the National • and Western Leagues. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: §g§ W. L. W. L. Brooklyu —BO 36 Pittsburg .. .60 58 Boston .... .73 44 Chicago .:.. .60 60 Philadelphia 75 46 Louisville .. .53 65 Baltimore ..66 48 New Y0rk...49 67 St. L0ui5.... 69 54 Washington. 41 76 Cincinnati ..66 52Cleveland ...19105 Following is the standing of the club* in the Western League: W. L. W. L Indianapolis 70 43 St. Paul 56 62 Minneapolis. 73 46 Milwaukee ..52 63 Grand Rap..6o 59 Buffalo 50 69 Detroit 59 59 Kansas City. 49 68 KILLS WIFE AND SELF. Michael Burns, Temporarily Insane, Murders and Commits Suicide. While their 8-year-old son was sleeping in the next room of their tenement house in Brooklyn, N. Y.,’Michael Burns shot and killed his wife. Annie. He then went out and got a drink aud returned home and cut his own throat. Through it all the boy slept, and it was not until he had been taken to his aunt’s home that he learned of the double crime which left him an orphan. It is said that Burns was jealous of his wife’s fondness for her relatives, although he is said to have gotten along fairly well with her. He is thought to have been crazed temporarily. Three Lost from a Tug. The tug Red Cloud of Lorain, 0., was wrecked off Cedar Point. Three lives were lost. Engineer John O'Donnell and Fireman James McDonald managed to reach shore after a hard battle with the Waves. Capt. Fred Hale, an extra fireman and a small hoy, who took refuge on a raft, were not seen after leaving the tug. Murder Mystery in Nebraska. The woman who registered at the Lindell Hotel at Hastings, Neb., as Mrs. W. L. Lee and who died of poison Wednesday evening, Aug. 9, has been identified as Miss Laura Lee French of Burlington, lowa, and it is almost au assured fact that the girl did not commit suicide, but was murdered. Held Up on His Own Ranch. Masked robbers held up Robert June, a cattleman living south of Hope, Kan., and secured $2,100 which June had just received as the proceeds of the sale of his year’s herd of cattle. June and his family were covered with shotguns while the house was searched. The robbers escaped. Fatal Row Over a Bar Bill. | Philip Myers, proprietor of the Frankliu Hotel bar at Lorain, Ohio, was shot and killed by Frankling- Wheeler, representing a New Jersey life insurance company. The men had quarreled over a bar bill which Myers claimed Wheeler owed. Death of Chief Black Hawk. I Black Hawk, the most noted of the fjfchiefs of the Wisconsin Winnebago Installs, died in the town of Brockway, Wis.. aged 90 years. Wedding Guests Made Sick. :;Twenty-five guests at a wedding in tMiddletown, Conn,, were poisoned by catlag ice cream. Moving Troops in tbe South. Mjjjte War Department has given inptructions for the removal of the United |||itea troops garrisoning Fort St. Philip and Jackson barracks near New Orleans. This action is purely precautionary and iptjffb* from tbe difficulty experienced in jptting the troops out of Key West. ewen Browned at Halifax, N. f. ||A»attbo«t was sunk near the mouth of f|§ttf«x, N. 8., harbor aud seven lives lost, the victims all belonging to B|g|it3r, There were eleven persons in

Trust to include all trust?. Corporation Formed to Carry Oat a Newspaper Man’s Scheme. To combine the combinations or “trusts” is the object of au incorporation! the papers for which were taken out in New Jersey a short time ago. This movement is the outcome of the studies for many years of Russel! Thompson, a Cleveland newspaper man, working upon the problem of giving profitable employment to the immense productive capacity which, though obviously available, is not used. Mr. Thompson formed a corporation some months ago under the name of the Central Company, filing a charter at Trenton through a New Jersey registration and trust company. Several prominent business men in Cleveland have been quietly aiding and encouraging these preliminaries. Those who have financially assisted the promoter have extensive corporate and bnnking connections. Communications have been addressed to most of the consolidated directorates, announcing the project and explaining it. V CHICAGO TO HAVE EXPOSITION. Big Building Will Be Erected at Entrance to Stock Yards. A permanent exposition building for agricultural wares is to he established in Chicago. It will he located at the entrance to the stock yards and will cost SIOO,OOO. . The structure jvill he three stories high, modern and It will he built of stone, steel and brick aud as special features will have miniature coal mines and a beet sugar factory in operation. From the Secretary of State’s office at Springfield the incorporation papers for the company promoting the enterprise have been Issued to John F. Martin, Allen R. Smart and Leavenworth K. Davis. The exposition will be open every week day and there will be no charge for admission. Governors of several Western States have applied for space and manufacturers in the East will also have permanent exhibits. JIMINEZ IN SANTO DOMINGO. President Figuereo Resigns and Revolt Gaining—Santiago Taken. Juan Isidro Jiminez has arrived at Sanchez, Santo Domingo, on board the French steamer Georgos Croise. President Figuereo has resigned. The ministers will continue at the head of their various departments until a provisional government has been formed, after which the elections for president and vice-presi-dent will take place. Santiago, Moca, La Vega, Porto Plata, San Francisco de Macons and Bani have declared in favor of the revolution. Santiago was taken after a strong fight. It is expected that all the other places will submit to the revolution without any more fighting, principally owing to the fact that the president has resigned. SIX DIE IN AN ARIZONA FIRK. Roof of a Yuma Building Collapses on the Salvage Corps. The most disastrous fire in the history of Yuma, Ariz., broke out in the second story of E. F. Saginetti’s merchandise store, resulting in the loss of six lives and a total destruction of the store building and stock of goods. The fire department was unable to cope with the flames, owing to the lack of apparatus. Several men were carrying goods from the building when the second floor fell upon them, killing six and injuring many more. The loss is estimated at $150,000, with insurance of $50,000. Swindler Tries Suicide. Thatcher, the man who is accused of swindling citizens of Ohio, Michigan and other States, tried to commit suicide in London, England, by taking a huge dose of chloral, on account of the many Americans who went there for the purpose of getting back the money which he had induced them to give him in order that he might secure for them large unclaimed sums in chancery. Blows Up Home and Ends Life. Louis Burkhor, an eccentric and well-to-do German residing ten miles north of Shelbyville, Ind., quarreled with his wife, who went to the home of Thomas Soils for protection. An explosion was heard and the Burkhor homestead was found to be on fire. Burkhor had put dynamite under the* house and when the explosion took place and his home was destroyed he blew his brains out with a pistol. Will sing to Aid Husband. Mrs. Charles Van Studdiford, the beautiful wife of one of St. Louis’ most aristocratic sons, will return to the operatic stage to assist her husband in retrieving his lost fortune. Mrs. Van Studdiford was formerly Gracia Quive, who sang with the Bostonians. She forsook the stage to wed her millionaire St. Louis lover. Flagged by a Petticoat. A horse lodged in a culvert in Springfield, 111. Mrs. E. G. Britten discovered the horse’s predicament just before n Chicago and Alton passenger train came along. She ran forward, waving a red petticoat, which she procured at home, and stopped the train A Bridge Falls. While a herd of GOO cattle was being driven over a bridge which spans the big Carey river south of Elgin, Kan., the structure suddenly collapsed. John Kehen and Tom Baker, cowboys, aud 140 head of cattle fell to the stream, sixty feet below, and were killed. “Abe” Coakley Wounded. “Abe” Coakley, who is said to have been a partner of “Jimmy” Hope of Manhattan Bank robbery fame, was stabbed in New York. His assailant was Willing*!*Joyce, a hotel porter. Dives Safely from Eads Bridge. Harry Harmon dived backward from the Eatls bridge at St. Louis, dropping ninety feet, and suffered no injury. Harmon was attired in complete street dresg, except coat and hat, when he dived. ‘ ,•% 4 * Short in His Accounts. At Maryville, Mo., investigation of the affairs of Graves, who shot and killed himself, shows that he was $12,763 short in his accounts as public administrator. Gets Big Electric Order from France. A Cincinnati firm has received an order amounting to $500,000 from a French company for electric railway generators, to be shipped to France, China and South Africa. ■ $.. Cruiser Montgomery Damaged. The steamer San Salvador, !n leaving Rio Janeiro, came into collision with the United States cruiser Montgomery, caus-