Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — COAL IN KLONDIKE. [ARTICLE]

COAL IN KLONDIKE.

' S&w • ’ SCARCITY OF FUEL NO LONGER FEARED. K~l» ,C<f§r V. jKSuormous Deposit Discovered Within Sixty -five Miles of Dawson Railt*Md Built to It—Circus Rider Stabs Hie Father-in-Law. News brought from Dawson, Alaska, « by Captain T. W. Draper, late of the regiment, United States engineers. states that the Yukon fuel probf Jem has been solved by the discovery of an enormous coal deposit sixty-one miles •. from Dawson and a mile and three-quar-v ters back from the river, which the North American Trading and Transportation is developing. Draper says: “The company has constructed a railroad j* from the river to the mine, which carlies two veins, one of eight feet and the P Other fifteen. While on this property I conducted a series of scientific tests, I which were highly satisfactory. StrangeC. ly enough, we found the coal still frozen at a depth of 250 feet It is so hard that | it has to be blasted out. One ton of the : coal is equal to two and a half tons of | Cordwood. Undoubtedly there is enough | coal there for all the river steamers and t to make the use of cordwood a thing of I the past. The Canadian Government ' took 250 tons of the first consignment, which was selling at S3O a ton when I H CIRCUS RIDER USES A KNIFE. B.Mrneat Melville Stabs George Heffner, His Wife’s Stepfather. Ernest Melville, a famous circus rider, is in jail at Orange, N. J., for stabbing bis wife’s stepfather, George Heffner. > Heffner and the Melvilles have lived, together since last spring, when the latter returned from Europe. The two men / have not been on friendly terms for some ftime. After some words Heffner accused || Melville of spying on him, and proceeded | to knock the latter down and sit on him. s Melville grabbed a carving knife from the dinner table and stabbed Heffner three times as they struggled on the floor. r RAISE PAY 3F LAKE ENGINEERS. Give a Higher Increase than Asked-Others Get More Wages. As a result of a meeting of the executive committee bf the Lake Carriers’ As|J aociation at Cleveland, the wages of near- . ly 16,000 men employed on the vessels of the great lakes will be raised from 10 to g2O per cent This includes 2,000 engineers, who demanded an advance of 12% per cent and threatened to strike. The ?: engineers will receive an advance of 20 ■? per cent; first and second mates, 20 per gpieent; all other members of crews, includP ing firemen, wheelmen, lookouts .cooks, I deck hands, 10 per cent. FIRE FOLLOWS A HURRICANE. Flames at Montserrat Burn Structures Left by the Storm. Plymouth, capital of the island of ’ Montserrat, W. 1., reports the destrucI' tion by fire of many buildings, which had I escaped the recent hurricane and most of ' the remaining ruins, greatly intensifying I the distress of the populace, which is ILgrowing demoralized over the tardy and inadequate relief. The laborers refuse to unload the relief cargoes unless paid dou- *• Race for the Pennant, The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...92 40 Chicago ....70 66 Philadelphia 87 51 Louisville ...69 70 Boston 83 53 Pittsburg ...67 71 Baltimore ..78 55 New Y0rk...55 79 St. L0ui5...77 62 Washington. 49 88 . Cincinnati ..76 63 Cleveland ...20 125 Miss Horlocker Taken to Hastings. Miss Viola Horlocker, charged with at- £ tempting the life of Mrs. Charles F. T Morey, her former employer’s wife, by S sending her a box of poisoned candy, has been taken to Hastings, Neb., from the t Oaklawn Sanitarium, in Jacksonville, 111., | for trial. eix Dead in a Train Wreck. Six passengers were killed and five injured in a collision on the Denver and Bio Grande Railroad a half-mile west of 4 ’Florence, Colo. The Phillips-Judson exfx curaion train from the east ran into an east-bound freight. K-' Another Gasoline Disaster. r‘.- Nine persons were badly burned at a 0 fire in a lodging house in the south end of Boston. The fire was due to the ex- ¥ plopion of gasoline, with which a woman was filling a lamp, mistaking it for kero- £ ■ • Earling Elected President. | Albert J. Earling has been elected t president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and jjt Paul Railroad to succeed Roswell Milnewly created position of chairman orttiP4aQard of directors. Americana Lose a Vessel. The insurgents have captured the UnitStates gunboat Urdaneta in the Orani river, on the northwest side of Manila officer and nine of her crew Leases Many Mills. The Duluth-Superior Elevator ComBMjte&.haa leased for one year all the ele£t|ors Of the United States Flour Milling at the head of the lake. * Wreck on Lake Shore. One man was killed and four others injured in a wreck between two ; Shore passenger trains at FourFinds a Long-Loot Fortune. , Mrs. JoJ’ia Benbeard, a widow, living . a t ..Wichita, Kan., in looking over some BMiletters, found a deposit certificate for which her brother. W. L. Richtttarwl in the Hniik of r l'r€ jnh Trenton Tenn to her credit Jan. Hni" t‘ia g Collision

THOUSANDS WILL NOT WORK. Many Porto Ricans Prefer to Live Upon Charity. President Hoff of the board of charities at San Juan, Porto Rico, has tabulated statistics received from the superintendents of the various districts throughout the island regarding the effects of the recent hurricane. The figures are as follows: Population, 916,894; indigent poor, 291,089; sick. 11,858; dead as the result of the hurricane (first reliable figures), 2,619; number of men working for food, 11,713; rations issued each week, 293,147. Surgeon Smith has returned from Yabucoa, which was the region that suffered most from the hurricane. His official report says that thousands of men are drawing rations and refuse to- work. The planters are grumbling because they cannot get men to work, and the surgeon advocates stopping the issuance of Government supplies. Many surgeons and superintendents in other districts make the same reports. Governor General Davis was interviewed on this subject. He admitted that thousands of undeserving persons were being fed, but said if the Government shold stop giving out food, other thousands of deserving persons would starve. He intends to enforce stringent regulations on this point hereafter. temporary clerks barred. Attorney General Griggs Gives an Opinion of Importance. The Attorney General at Washington has given an opinion to the State Department which is of great interest ,to the large army of Government clerks in that city who are on what is known as the temporary roll. The officials of the State Department decline to permit the publication of the opinion, but from other sources it is ascertained that the Attorney General holds that the amendment to rule 8 of the civil service rules, recently made by President McKinley, applies only to those persons holding temporary appointment in the Government service at Washington, who were certified by the civil service commission for such temporary appointment. The effect of this opinion is to completely shut out from possibility of transfer to the permanent rolls of the departments all persons holding temporary appointments not certified by the civil service commission.

SOCIETY WOMAN’S DEATH. Mrs. Henry Oliver, Lincoln, Neb., Not Saved by Christian S cience. Mrs. Henry Oliver, wife of the owner of the Oliver Theater, and prominent in social circles in Lincoln, Neb., died suddenly after having received Christian science treatment. Mrs. Oliver refused to consult a physician until a few hours before her death. Then she was in such a condition that the physician could do nothing for her. She died at the home of a professional Christian science healer, having been taken there at her own request and against the wishes of her friends as soon as her illness came on. She grew steadily worse and was in a semi-conscious state when first seen by a physician.

SPANIARDS GO AS DEADHEADS. ■— lA — — - Twenty Leave Chicago on Tickets Purchased for Five. Just before the Santa Fe train reached Wichita, Kan., the conductor noticed a movement under some seats occupied by five Spaniards ticketed from Chicago to Galveston. Upon removing coats, blankets, rugs, etc., he found a woman. Close investigation disclosed five women and ten children. They could speak no English. Three of the women had Spanish silver coins braided into their hair. After a brief parley the matter was adjusted and the party resumed its journey. The scheme worked from Kansas City to Wichita. The twenty passengers left Chicago with only five tickets. ILLINOIS CAR WORKS ON FIRE. Planing Mill at Hegewisch Destroyed with a Loss of $150,000. The planing mill of the Illinois Car and Equipment Company at Hegewisch, near Chicago, was destroyed by fire, and for a time the entire plant of the company was threatened with annihilation. The loss, it is estimated, will reach $150,000, the greater part of which is on the machinery. This was only recently placed m position and is of the latest and costliest pattern. The property was fully insured.

Killed His Abusive Father. Elijah Hall shot and killed his father, Henry Hall, in Pike County, Kentucky, for abuse of his mother. The father was a preacher, but was very quarrelsome and abusive toward his wife. The son interfered in one of these scenes, and receiving some abuse from his father, in a moment of passion shot him dead and fled. Paints and Oils Feed Fire. Fire almost destroyed the six-story brick building at Nos. 35 to 59 North Jefferson street, Chicago. The great promptness of the firemen’s response and the number of engines placed the fire under control within half an hour after the first alarm was given. The building is owned by J. Harley Bradley. The loss on the building is SIO,OOO.

Admiral Monte jo Punished. Rear Admiral Montejo, who commanded the Spanish naval forces in the battle of Manila bay, and who has been on trial before the Supreme Court at Madrid, has been condemned to retirement without the right of promotion. Massachusetts Democratic Convention The Massachusetts Democratic convention nominated a State ticket headed by Robert Trtat Paine, Jr., of Boston for Governor. George Fred Williams heads the State delegation to the national Democratic convention. Hatfield la Sentenced. Elias Hatfield, Jr., who was convicted of murder in the second degree, was sentenced to t,welve years’ confinement in the State penitentiary by Circuit Judge Doolittle at Williamson, W. Va. Gift of 9300,000. Through the beneficence of Edward Tpck of New York the endowment fund as Dartmouth College in Hanover, N. H., has been increased $300,000. Greet Drydock Begun. Active work on the construction of the new $1,000,000 drydock for the Newport News, Va., Ship Building and Drydock Company has been begun. College Building Burns. The Culpewer-Shannon College building at Lebanmi, Mo., that was built at a coat of $75,000, burned. The fire caught from a defective flue.