Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — BURGLAR IS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

BURGLAR IS KILLED.

fRECEIVES A FATAL WOUND IN Battle with officers. and Patrolman Bear Teatij asouy of Convict’s Marksmanship— SB Choctaw Brides in Great Demand by Impecunious White Men. p A desperate fight took place at Colum- £ bus, Ohio, between Charles Dumont, an Tex-convict, and Detective Abe Kleeman | and Patrolman George Gaston. All i g three were wounded, Dumont fatally. | Dumont was wanted for burglary and the & Officers Were watching for him on HarE/rison avenue, when he came along on a bicycle. They called upon him to stop, but he kept on, at the same time drawing a revolver and shooting at his pursuers. Patrolman Gaston was the first to go down with a bullet in his head and an- ! other in the arm. Dumont lost his balance and fell from his wheel, but sought ; refuge behind a telegraph pole and eon- ■ tinned firing at Detective Kleeman. Dumont received three wounds in the body. Dumont is 25 years of age. He was rej cently released from the penitentiary and ‘was known as a* desperate man. CHOCTAW BRIDES IN DEMAND. Whites Wed in Haste Before Intermarriage Law lakej Effect. i Tams Bixby of the Dawes commission, ■ who is in Kansas City, says that there 5 has been a great rush among white men to secure Choctaw brides in consequence * Of a ruling by the commission that inter\marriage after Sept. 10 would not entitle intermarried whites to participate in the allotment. The price for a Choctaw lii cense for an intermarriage is SIOO, but ' the thrifty whites who wed Choctaws will receive 550 acres of land apiece as ’ the dividends of their investments. It is estimated that every one of the 16;000 Indians of that tribe will get that amount iof ground, so that impecunious whites have no trouble in borrowing the price of a marriage license by pledging their pros- ' pective allotments. RACK FOR THE PENNANT. Standing of the Clubs in the National and Western Leagues. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn .. .84 37 Chicago 65 61 Philadelphia 78 47 Pittsburg .. .62 62 ■ Boston 75 48 Louisville ...51 67 Baltimore ..71 50 New York... 50 72 . Cincinnati ..71 54 Washington. 42 79 St. Louis.... 71 56 Cleveland ... 19 112 «*» Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L Indianapolis 75 47 St. Paul 57 69 /Detroit 64 60 Kansas City.s3 70 J Grand Rap.. 63 62 Buffalo 53 70 | VALUABLE DAIRY COWS DIE. Death Caused by Lung Apoplexy at Toronto Exhibition. The directors of the Toronto, Canada, j Industrial exhibition have been engaged ‘on a peculiar case. A dozen valuable dairy cows exhibited died early in the week, and it was suspected that they had ' been poisoned. On investigation it was | found that the cows had died of lung apoplexy. Now it is believed that death was caused by milk being pumped into 5 their udders in order to inflate them, after they had been milked out clean by the officers on the evening before | judging. No one charges the owners of ■ the cows with fraud, but the exhibition i directors showed their disapproval of the practice by canceling all prizes awarded ’ to the cows in question. K TWO FIREMEN ARE SUFFOCATED. K Lose Their Lives While Trying to Save S? a < hild from Death. fc Two members of the fire department ” and a child of 4 years were killed by | gases in a vault in Cincinnati. Monroe h Dent, aged 4, fell into a vault ami the K fire department was appealed to for aid. I Thomas Bland and Harry Heinsheiiner ■ responded with a ladder and, descending, B were suffocated by the gases. Their L bodies and that of the child were recov:ered. May Unite Textile Unions. Twelve prominent labor men, delegates Bfrom the six big textile unions of this g country, in Boston formulated a plan for ’■ the federation of the several textile organizations, with the ostensible object of E signed the agreement recommending a general federation, which will be reported - to the big unions. An Unsuccessful Search. €■'. The steamer Antarctic, which left Heli singborg, Sweden, on May 25 last, with 4 an expedition under Prof. A. G. Nut|horst, was spoken off The Skaw, the ’ northern extremity of Jutland. Denmark, £ on her return from her search along the northeast coast of Greenland for Prof. ; Andree. She reported that she bad found b no trace of the missing aeronaut. Cod Fisheries Are a Failure. K Fishermen who have returned from gthe cod fishing grounds on the Labrador Lt coast report a serious condition of affairs. |'The cod fishery has been almost an absopiute failure and all vessels are returning E with small fares. James B. Eustis Is Dead. g James B. Eustis of New York, former|;ly of New Orleans, ex-United States SeniJator end ambassador to France, died at R. 1., of pneumonia. Train Falls from a Trestle. ■ Near Columbia, 8. C., 200 feet” of tresfctlO OH the Columbia. Newberry and I.iuI'rens road over Broad river gave way linnder a train load of granite. Several Efeira and an engine fell fifty feet into the water. Four men were killed. Polar Star is Threefold. ‘ &-prot. Campbell of the Lick ObwrvagSter' has discovered that the polar star is two of the bodies rev.lv- ’ about the third body.

CLASH OVER THE TAX CLAIMS. St. Louis County and the State of Minnesota at Loggerheads. St. Louis County, Minn., of which Duluth is the county seat and in which nearly all the great ore deposits are foung, is threatened with a suit from the State, and wlhen it comes up will raise two important questions in a counter claim. A few days ago the county, in sending the State the amount of its apportionment of its taxes, took out $17,300.24. the State’s share of the county’s losses in dead banks. The State has disregarded this and drawn for the* full amount and will sue if it is not paid, which it will not be. The county will put in a large counter claim on two points,; The first is on the iron ore tonnage, which was declared unconstitutional. Under it the State took half the tax and the county will sue for the difference between that and what it should have had, one-tenth., Another point is the railroads’ gross earnings tax. The county will claim that it should have been apportioned Anong the counties in which the railroad property is situated instead of the State using it, and will sue for its share. The amounts involved will be several times the State’s claim. ■ORGANIZING A BRASS TRUST. New York Concerns Start Movement for a $5,000,000 Combine. President Hewitt of the Brady Metal Company of New York and the Buffalo Brass Company of Buffalo, N. Y., are said to be interested in a plan to form the leading brass works as far west as Chicago into a $5,000,000 trust. L. Miller of the Galena Oil Company is also said to be in the deal. Options have been obtained on fifteen of the largest plants, embracing all the principal concerns except the Atlantic Brass Company of Jersey City. The following plants will be included: Brady Metal Company of New York, Buffalo Brass Company, Buffalo; Ajax Metal Company, Philadelphia; Hewitt Manufacturing Company, Chicago; Moore, Jones & Co., St. Louis; Damascus Bronze Company, Pittsburg; United States Bronze Company, Cleveland, and the Fulton Brass Company, Detroit. TO COVER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. New Long-Distance Telephone Enterprise Projected. Hopkins J. Hanford, general manager of the Kinloch Telephone Company, went to St. Louis from Minneapolis, Minn., recently to arrange maps and profiles for a gigantic new long-distance telephone enterprise which will cover all important points in the Mississippi valley. The proposed company will be incorporated Oct. 1, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. paid up. It will be known as the Kinloch Long-Distance Telephone Company, and will extend many miles to the north, east, south and west of St. Louis. The company is the outgrowth of the Kinloch Telephone Company of St. Louis, which organization has recently made a large extension in its local service, involving an additional expenditure of $212,000 on its switchboard facilities. STREET CARS ARE BOMBARDED. I ! • ■ ' i Cleveland Strike the Cause of a Riot iu Which Pistols Are Used. A street railroad strike riot occurred in South Brooklyn, a Cleveland suburb: A meeting of strike sympathizers was held early in the evening. When it broke up the crowd collected on Pearl street, and the first car that came along was thrown off the track by an iron catch basin cover placed on one of the rails. Stones and clubs were thrown at the car and the crew hit. Another car soon appeared, and it also was derailed and bombarded. Word of the trouble was received at the Holmden avenue car barns near by, and a force of street railroad men was armed and sent to the rescue. When the reenforcements arrived they began to shoot their revolvers into the air and the crowd broke and ran.

SPANISH OFFICERS TO GO FREE. Captain of Cristobol Colon and General Parede Acquitted. •The trial of Captain Diaz Morou, who commanded the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon at the battle of Santiago de Cuba, and Gen. Parede, who was on board the Colon, on charges arising from the destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago July 3 of last year, was concluded at Madrid, both the accused officers being acquitted. Lightning in a Crowd. Lightning struck among a gang of men on the grounds of the fair association at Camargo, 111., while the fair was in progress, and ten were thrown to the ground, two being instantly killed and two fatally hurt. Many women were shocked and stunned. The bolt struck on rhe north end of the grand stand, which was filled, just a short time previous. Nearly all of the killed and injured were young men and they were seated at supper when the bolt came. Wreck Blocks Lake Traffic. The steel steamer Douglas Houghton, the largest ship on the lakes, was sunk across the channel of St. Mary’s river at the sailors’ encampment and effectually blocked the passage of all Lake Superior commerce for several days. The Houghton came into collision with her tow, the Fritz. Both were loaded with iron ore. Rockefeller Gives to Brown. John D. Rockefeller has given $250,000 to Brown University, Providence, R. I. This is the first substantial lift toward the $2,000,000 endowment fund which the corporation of Brown University has been trying to raise for the last five years. Makes a New Record. The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived at New York from Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg after a record passage of five days eighteen hours and fifteen minutes, beating her own westward record. St. Louis-New York Line. The Hollander Line will soon open its service between New York and St. Louis. The steamship Catania will sail from New York to Mobile, whence the Mobile and Ohio Railroad will be used to- St. Louis. Three Miners Are Killed. Three miners, Fred Hamilton, Clarence Hardesty and Eliza Powers, lost their lives in Highland mines, near Fairmount, W. Va., the result of a powder explosion, followed by a fire started by the falling of a lamp in a keg of powder. Lone Island Hotel Burns. The Garden City Hotel at Garden City. I* L. owned by the A. T. Stewart etatf. was burned. Loss $155,000.