Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — SAYS SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAYS SHE WAS HYPNOTIZED.

Novel Defense in the Trial of a Nebraska loung Woman. A remarkably sensational, trial for at*tempted murder is about to begin at Hastings, Neb., when Miss Viola Honlocker will have to answer the charge of sending poisoned candy to Mrs. Morey, the wife of her employer. The alleged crime was committed last April and almost since then Miss Horlocker has been in a private sanitarium at 111. Miss Horlocker is a handsome girl of about 30 years of age. She was employed as a stenographer for the law firm of Tibbetts & Morey of Hastings. She belongs to a good family and had lived nearly all her life in the town. ‘Miss Horlocker was a good stenographer, and well posted on legal matters. She was on very pleasant terms with Mrs. Morey, the wife of one of the members of the firm. She often called at her house and frequently went bicycle riding with Mr. and Mrs. Morey. When the wife was away the girl and her employer frequently went wheeling together. This occasioned gossip, but Mrs. Morey never showed the least jealousy. , The talk was always more jocular than malicious. Mrs. Morey iq an artist and has a studio in the business part of the town of Hastings. On Tuesday, April 10 last, when she returned from hinch, she found a box of candy at the door. Tied to the box was a card of a young lady friend and a line added, hoping Mrs. Morey would enjoy the home-made sweets. Opening the box Mrs. Morey found bonbons and candied fruits. While she was eating a piece of the candy several friend* entered. Each took a piece of the candy, but all noticed a peculiar taste and did not eat any more. A few moments later' the young lady whose name was on the card entered, and Mrs. Morey thanked

her for the gift. While the young lady was protesting that she had not sent th* candy, one of the guests dropped into a chair, deathly sick and pale. Doctor* were hurriedly summoned, and their in* vestigations showed that the candy had been poisoned with arsenic. All the ladies who had eaten the candy were mad* ill, and several narrowly escaped death. Suspicion at once fell upon Miss Horlocker. The purchase of the candy wa* traced to her and she was arrested. Her mother and sisters protested -that, she was ill and in no condition to appear at the trial. At the preliminary hearing she became nervous, broke down and made a scene and had to be taken in a carriage to her home. The hearing was adjourned, bail being fixed at $5,000. Soon after this she was placed in the retreat at Jacksonville. The chief interest in the case He* in the fact that the defense of the young woman will be hypnotism. Mis* Horlocker says that the sending of- the candy was under the influence of a will stronger than her own, but she ha* given no hint as to whom she suspects of exercising the hypnotic influence over her. There are many who scout the idea of hypnotic influence. They say Mies Horlocker was infatuated with her employer and therefore bad an object in wishing the “removal” of Mrs. Morey. Th* agent of Wm. W. Astor at London confirms the report that an English syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of Astor’s American property. * The amount offered is $150,000,000. A special from Victoria, B. C., says that Private McVeigh of the Wyoming infantry was court martialed and is now under sentence of death at Manila for **- •saulting an officer named Wrighter. Henry Ende, Chicago, shot and killed and hanged hlmashL

Won’t Find the Issue. Bryan has indicated his purpose to make the big standing army the burden of his attack upon the administration in the campaigns of this year and next. He will try to make the people believe that this army was organized for the purpose of /oppressing them, and he will raise his hands in holy horror at the specter of militarism. But when Bryan takes the stump this fall he will find that Issue disposed of. The big standing army to which he expects to point will not be found in the United States as a menace to the liberty of the people. Every company of it will be In the Philippines or on the way there. The troops are being raised to fight the Philippine rebels and not to oppress the people of America, and Bryan and thd other Democratic demagogues know that. A story has been circulated to the effect that a big reserve of the new army was to be kept in this country. The story reached the ears of Secretary of War Root. That official denied it emphatically. Every one of the volunteers, he declares, will eat his Christmas dinner in Manila. Of course, it will be difficult to prove that a standing army engaged in putting down an insurrection on the other side of the Pacific ocean can be a menace to the people of the United States, and in view of the circumstances the Democrats will be foolish to try It.— Cleveland Leader. Hard Times for One Class. The effects of a protective tariff are probably felt nowhere In the country more than In Pittsburg. Consequently the following statistics, compiled by the New York World, are of more than passing Interest: Area of Pittsburg’s industrial Klondyke, 180 square miles; number of Industries being operated on full time, 118; number of men employed in these, embracing all classes, 270,000; average wages per day, $2.15; range of wages, $1.75 to $7 per day; number of idle men, none, except from sickness; number of mills and factories unable to run full time by reason of scarcity of labor, 60; railroads unable to move freight promptly because the traffic is 30 per cent, larger than all the freight cars in service; gross dally value of trade in Industrial Klondyke, $6,000,000. When it is remembered that the foregoing statements are published by a journal that has lost no opportunity for denouncing and ridiculing the Dingley tariff bill, they, form pretty good evidence that there is more comfort in the present situation for industrial toilers than for free-trade theorists. And It should also be remembered that most Industries throughout the country are nearly if not quite as active as those of Pittsburg. These are hard times only for those who are bunting antitariff .arguments.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.

The McKinley Policy. It is American first, last and all the time. It never halts, never hesitates, whether the question be the defense of American industries or the defense of American dignity. McKinleyism and Americanism are synonymous terms.” The one involves the other. Listen to ! what the President of the United States said in his address before the Catholic summer school at Plattsburg, N. Y., Aug. 13, 1899: “The flag symbolizes our purposes and our aspirations; it represents what we believe and what we mean to maintain, and wherever it floats it is the flag of the free, the hope of the oppressed; and wherever it is assailed, at any sacrifice It will be carried to a triumphant peace.” I This utterance was greeted with ringing cheers, all the reports agree in saying. Its lofty purport appealed instantly to the intelligent minds to I which it was addressed. It appeals to every true American throughout a country consecrated to freedom and progress. It ought to make the small coterie of “flre-in-the-rear” anti-Ameri-cars feel smaller and smaller. Nn-thwe»tern Harvest Hand*. The farmers of the Northwest are kicking again, but it Is a different kind of a kick from that of three years ago. In those days of ’96, when lamentations for the crime of ’73 filled the air . of the Northwest, the burden of comI plaint was scarcity of work, scarcity of dollars and the too large purchasing capacity of the dollar when acquired because of the cheapness of everything. This year the times ore I out of joint for the farmers because of the scarcity of men to work in the harvest fields. Wages are offered ranging from $2.50 a day and board for common harvest hands to $6 a day for | threshing machine engineers, and even at these figures it Is well nigh Impossible to get men enough to do the work. , Everybody abb to work seem* to be

having something else to do that is more congenial or more profitable than harvest field work. If Brother Bryan would make a tour of the Northwest at this time he could still expound 16 to 1 —l6 jobs looking for every idle man, and his explanation of the phenomenon would be interesting in view of ths doctrines he preached in the last campaign year.—Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald. Gloomy Day* for Copperhead*. The feelings of the copperheads as they read of the preparations in this country to stamp out the rebellion promptly must be about as gloomy as those of their friend Aguinaldo. The ten regiments already filled are rapidly getting into shape to aid the veterans of Otis’ army when the word for the general advance comes at the close of the rainy season. The ranks of the ten regiments authorized a few days ago will probably be filled by the latter part of September. Otis will have three times as many effective men with him by February next at the latest as he had at the opening of last February when the war began. These preparations to stamp out Aguinaldo are calculated to have a depressing influence on Atkinson, Bryan, Garrison and the rest of the Aguinaldists. “Antirlmperlalism” will begin to look sick when MacArthur, Wheaton and Lawton start out to round up the Tagals a few months hence.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat Work the Man. The following advertisement appears conspicuously in a leading Northwestern newspaper of recent date: WANTED —Laborers are needed In the harvest fields of, Minnesota and especially in the Dakotas. Harvest will soon begin, to be followed by threshing. Good wage* are offered and low rates of transportation are offered by the railroads. Here is an opportunity for all that are unemployed.—St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press. This is a time when work seeks the man, and no man need search for work. It is a time of McKinley and prosperity. Cause for Chastened Satisfaction.

John Bull—We don’t worry about merchandise balances so long as our deficit is made good by returns on foreign investments and profits on our ocean carrying trade. Uncle Sam—Well, if you’re satisfied we are; but what is to becom& of British industries if your American debtors keep on increasing their payments to you in the shape of manufactured goods, in place of raw materials? ■ 1. The President** Policy. It makes the President’s meaning so plain that the dullest can take it in, and the most dishonest cannot any longer pretend to be in doubt about it— Hartford Courant As time goes on, the conviction has become stronger with all thinking men that the President took the only course possible in regard to the Philippines.— Springfield Union. The politicians seeking by intrigue and every other artifice to trap this sincere and mastetful man might jnst as well give up and save their credit and their reputation.—Cedar Rapids Republican. That is a brief statement of an enlarged and profound policy. It is the condensation of columns that have previously been written, and contains all the promises of the original proclamation to the FiHplnos.—Buffalo News. How much higher, and purer, and healthier is the tone of these exalted sentiments than the tricky and treacherous utterances of a Bryan who dares to slander the flag 'of his country by saying that it carries tyranny and oppression to the Filipinos instead of the light of liberty and civilization.—Leavenwortb Times. # There is nothing of equivocation here, and the candid, emphatic manner in which this declaration of the purpose of American loyalty and patriotism is made, coupled with the surrounding* and the circumstances in which it wa* made, should silence for all time the carping critics who were so sternly re* buked.—Baltimore American.

MISS VIOLA HORLOCKER.

Bryan—Eh? Ah, excuse me; I didn’t see you.