Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1899 — PLANS FOR CENSUS. [ARTICLE]

PLANS FOR CENSUS.

OFFENSIVE QUESTIONS ARE TO / BE OMITTED. President and Director Merriatn Hold everal Conferences on the Subject \ l.lqpcr from Toronto Ends Hia Life with a Revolver in Chicago. Agents taking the next census will not be required to offend the public by inquiring into family secrets and asking questions calculated to provoke a tight. The number of questions has been greatly reduced aud they are simpler than before. Director Monism has recently had several conferences with President McKinley, and the President maintained that it was unwise to ask questions that tend to humiliate a citizen. The general range of the work, which will be taken up next June, has been gone over. The list of questions prepared by Director Merriam has beeu approved by the President and will soon be printed. One of the queries that aroused the most antagonism in 1890 w as whether a person had any acute or chronic disease, and this, along with similar inquiries, has been omitted.

PAYS. FOR WRO.xG WITH DEATH. E. J. Brown Commits ?n:cide in a < hicago Hotel. A revolver shot brought to a tragic climax an elopement when E. J. Brown of Toronto took his own life at the Queen Hotel in Chicago. Brown went to Chicago three weeks before with Mrs. Violet Holden, also of Toronto. Two of Mrs. Holden’s four children, aged 1 and 2 years, accompanied the couple. Brown had squandered over the card table SSOO ■with which Mrs. Holden had intrusted him, the proceeds of the sale of a small meat market business Mrs. Holden left in Toronto in order to make her abode in Chicago with Brown and her two children. Mrs. Holden and her year-old son were in the room when Brown shot himself. BIG FIRE LOSS I.x CINCINNATI. Railroad Warehouse Destroyed aud New Union : tation Damaged. At Cincinnati, fire was discovered in the Big Four warehouse, occupying a block bounded by Central avenpe, Pearl, Plum and Second streets. A general alarm soon called the w r hole department to the scene, as the fire rapidly spread to other railway buildings, including the freight sheds, where forty loaded freight cars were burned and thirty that were not loaded. Some passenger coaches were also badly damaged in the yards. The warehouse is just across the stredt-.from the new passenger station, which wasfebadly damaged that no morning trains could leave that place. The loss is estimated at over $1,000,000. F'isrht Persons Injured. Train No. 4 of the Indiana, Decatur and Western Railroad went into the siding at Montezuma, lud., the other morning. The rear sleeper did not clear the main track and was struck by a fast freight train west-bound. The sleeper was upset and seven persons were hurt. The car caught fire and was ruined. Zinc Mines Are to Be Closed. ' The zinc mines of Missouri and Kansas are again shut down. The Zinc Miners’ Association has so decreed. The shutdown is to be general and will continue till further notice from the association. About 95 per cent of the mine owners are members of this association and are pledged to abide by its action. Nineteen Years of Freedom. Thomas F. Neil was arrested at South McAlester, I. T., charged with a murder committed in Cleburne County, Arkansas, nineteen years ago. An alleged accomplice of Neil has served fifteen years in the penitentiary for the crime. Neil escaped dn being taken from,the jail to the court. Jail for Former Bank President. Leonard B. Imboden, president of the Planters’ Bank of Kansas City, which was suppressed by the State officials several months ago,, was found guilty in the criminal court of forging a draft for $15,000 and w r as sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Is Now a Princess. The marriage of Miss Julia Dent Grant aud Prince Cantacuzene, according to the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, took place at AH Saints’ chapel, Newport, It. I. The ceremony was performed#according to the rites of the Greek Church the previous day.

Klown Up by Dynamite. W. C. Linn, one of the oldest residents of the Black Hills, was killed at Galena, S. D., while thawing some dynamite in his cabin. He was a first cousin of President McKinley. ionx Chief Is Killed. Conquering Bear, a prominent Sioux chief from Pine Ridge agency, camped at the Omaha exposition grounds, was almost instantly killed by jumping from a trolley car while it was moving. Five Dead in Freight Wreck. A bad wreck occurred on the Great Northern road a short distance west of Glasgow, Mont. Five men were killed and two others seriously injured, all employes of the company. Chinese Railway Loan. Arrangements have been completed by the Russo-Chinese Bank at Peking for a loan of 1,200,000 taels for the construction of Lung-Chau and Nan-Ning-Fu Railway.

Mrs. Botkin Gets a Stay. A thirty days’ further stay of execution has been granted by Judge Cook to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who was convicted of sending poison through the mails to Dover, Del. ■ ‘ Slain hy Kentucky Feudists. Eli Taylor was found dead in his father’s near Dory, Ky., his head having been pierced by a pistol ball. It is reported that he was a sympathiser in the Philpot-Griffln feud. Advance in Vehicle Bodies. Leading carriage and buggy body manufacturers of the Central States formed a combination at Indianapolis and raised prices on an average 20 per cent. Read’s < accessor Named, j Amos L. Allen, formerly private Secretary to Thomas B. Reed; has freen| Dominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Maine district /

SEVEN YEARS FOR A BANKER, Coart of Appeals Confirms Sentence of James H. Bacon. At St. Paul, Judge Thayer of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals the other day handed down four decisions. The most important one is that affirming the decision by the United States Court for the district of Utah in the case of the United States of America against J ames H. Bacon. The decision of Judge Thayer means seven years in prison for Bacon and he is ordered to surrender himself to the United States marshal for the district of Utah. Bacon was indicted, tried and convicted in the United States District Court of Utah for making false reports to the Comptroller of the Currency as to the condition of the American National Bank Dec. 28, 1893, al which time he was president of the institution. He was sentenced to a term of seven years in the Utah penitentiary. HU attorney appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, alleging' error in the trial. AFTER AMERICAN CAPITAL. Plan to Complete the Unfinished Porto Rican Railway. A scheme is on foot to secure American capital for the completion of the unfinished Porto Rican Railroad. Edward Lauterbach, acting for the interests now identified with the road, has consulted with the authorities at Washington as to the Government’s willingness to adopt the terms of a concession which the Spanish Government granted in 1882 for the building of the road. The matter is now being considered. About 130 miles of the railroad has been completed, extending around the eastern coast of the island, and has been operated since 1892. Fiftyfour miles has yet to be built. The securities of the company are owned chietl.v by French and English citizens. HANNA HAS A ->AK . OW ESCAPE. 1 rain Carrying Him to Middlcport, <»,, Serikes a Broken Rail. The southrbound train on the Hocking Valley Railroad carrying Senator Mark Hanna and Col. Nevin to Middleport., 0., had a very narrow escape from being wrecked at Addison. It was approaching the station at a terrific rate of speed, when a rail broke, splintering the floor of the smoker. However, it occurred on a curve and this is all that saved the train. Philadelphia Firm# Bnrned Out. A large tive-story brick building in Filbert street, Philadelphia, the first two floorkof which are occupied by the Macey Furniture Company, and the three upper floors by the Reliance Storage and Warehouse Company, was entirely destroyed by fire, together with its contents. The lc*s is estimated at about SIOO,OOO. /Pugilist Dangerously Hurt. Grass Valley, Cal., in a fight be- ' tween Jim Prendergast of Sacramento and Charles Hoskin of Grass Valley, Hoskin was floored three times and failed to come to when the referee counted off the ten seconds. He was probably fatally hurt. Twenty-two Buildings Bnrned. A fire that is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary the west side of Main street, New Madrid, Mo., destroying twenty-tjvo houses, offices and dwellings. The loss is estimated at SIOO,000, partially insured. The suspected incendiary escaped. Starving Cubans Fat Dogs Owing to the failure of crops in the province of Santa Clara, Cuba, many families in the country districts around Trinidad, it is said, are starving. It is added that all the cats and dogs there, and even iguanas and snakes, have been eaten. Woman Inherits a Fortune. Mrs. J. T. Van Smyth, wife of a Kansas City physician, has fallen heir to an estate in Rotterdam, Holland, valued at $1,000,000, left her by an aunt. Mrs. Van Smyth was Miss Lucille Livingstone of Richmond, Va. Founder of Wichita, Kan , Dead Willianf Griffenstein, the founder of Wichita, Kan., died at Shawuee, 1. T. He left Germany as a political exile and landed at Westport, Mo., in 1850. He was a well-known Indian trader and frontierman. Durand Bank Rohb?d. The safe in a private bank at Durand, 111., was blown open by robbers aud $3,500 stolen. The explosion was of sufficient force to partly wreck the building. The robbers escaped and there is no clew. Lake ftenmers on Fire. The pleasure boats Ivanhoe and R. J. Gordon burned to the water at their dock at the foot of Van Bnren street, Chicago. market quotations. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, 1 No. 2,32 cto 34cj oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c; butter, choice creamery, 22e to 23c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 35c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $5.00; sheep, commpn to prime, $3225 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 60c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25: hogs, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 64c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.00: sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 59c to 61c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,59 c to 01c; dovet seed, $6.20 to $6.30. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 1 Northern. 74c to 76c; corn, No. 3,32 ctq 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 27c; rye, No. 1,59 c to 60c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mesa, SB.OO to $8.50. Boffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choice. $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.30 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $8225 to $6.75: hogs, $3.00 to $5.25: she&s3.oo to $1.25;