Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1899 — FOUND LOST FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

FOUND LOST FORTUNE

VALUABLE VALISE GOES TO HONOLULU BY MISTAKE. Lost in a San Francisco Hotel, It Is Recovered in the Hawaiian Capital with Contents of $50,000 Intact— Gnm-Chewer’s Month Paralyzed. R. B. who left Honolulu Aug. 30 on the steamship Australia, lost a valise containing nearly $50,000 in bank notes, bonds and sugar stock in the Occidental Hotel, just after he arrived in San Francisco. The valise was shipped by mistake on the Nippon Maru as part of the personal effects of Pqrser Rives, who discovered the mistake and left the valise on the Pacific MSil wharf. He evidently had no idea of the value of the contents of the valise, as he made no report to the steamship company’s agents, and the valise containing a small fortune lay comparatively unprotected among other uncalled-for packages, until adviqes received resulted in a search being made. The lost valise was found intact. PARALYZED BY GUM CHEWING. Indiana Girl May Die as a Resnlt ol Continual Mastication. Miss Lettie, daughter of Daniel Stutsman of Goshen, Ind., is suffering from a peculiar affection due to chewing gum. The young woman, who is a bright student in the high school, was an inveterate chewer of gum and a few days ago noticed that the left side of her mouth was drawing up toward the ear. The trouble grew worse and a physician sum-, moned pronounced it a case of paralysis of the muscles of the mouth due to continual mastication. BIG SHOW SHEDS BURNED. M Passenger Trains Stalled in the Mountains on Account of the Fire. One mile and a quarter of big snow sheds on the Central Pacific in the Sierras between Cisco and Emigrant gap burned early Wednesday morning, causing a loss of $50,000 and blocking all travel on the road for the whole day. That the fire was the work of an incendiary was shown by the fact that the Western Union wires and fire alarm to Cisco were cut. Fleet to the Philippines. President McKinley, upon the advice of Admiral Dewey, has ordered the armored cruiser Brooklyn and the gunboats Machias and Marietta to proceed to the Philippines. Admiral Watson’s fleet will be further strengthened in order to effectually blockade Luzon and prevent the Filipinos from receiving arms and ammunition. Wind Fails Yachts. A fickle wind that blew by fits and starts made a fluke of the first of the races for the America’s cup between the Columbia and the Shamrock, and it left them three miles from home when the time that they had under the rules to finish the course had elapsed.

Lights His Own Funeral Pyre. Louis Westerman .lighted his own funeral pyre at the county infirmary, Toledo, Ohio, by starting a blaze in a haystack with his pipel As soon as the flames spread he jumped in. He was burned to death and SSOO loss to a barn and implements > Plpt of Manila Fire Bugs. A plot by insurgent sympathizers to burn the residences of the governor general and the archbishop, as well as several government buildings and banks, has been revealed to Gen. Otis by the archbishop of Manila. The plot failed to materialize. Charles Page Bryan Returns. Charles Page Bryan, United States minister to Brazil, is in Washington on leave of absence. He presented to the President a bronze statue of the Brazilian goddess of liberty, sent by the people of Brazil. Cattle Raisers in Trnst. A trust in Texas cattle is in process of formation, to comprehend 12,000,000 acres of grazing land, 600,000 head of cattle and capital stock of $25,000,000. May Quash Dreyfus Verdict. A Paris correspondent says that Germany is about to hand over documents which will lead to the quashing of the Dreyfus verdict. Thanksgiving Day for Canada. Thursday, Oct. 19,' will be observed as Thanksgiving day in the dominion of Canada.