Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — FOR A WOMAN’S LOVE. [ARTICLE]

FOR A WOMAN’S LOVE.

®«)TIVE FOR THE ODESSA, NEB., Hr MURDER CASE Was Infatuated with I.aue'a |d|Swife, and the Double Tragedy Was sR-the Consequence -Prices of Staples at Notch Since 1891. IK-fee wife of Fred Laue has made a conwhich clears up the Odessa, Neb.. Blfeirder mystery. She made the confes■Kja to a brother and uncle of her lius■Mfed and later to the county attorney. Mmris-io the effect that Dinsmore first |KMKmed his wife in the rooms of the upstairs. He then came down i^tafowned her of what he had done SSKd that he was going to finish the job. went into an adjoining room, where I was sleeping, and shot him. Laue killed instantly. Mrs. Dinsmore loisoned, prussic acid being used, it iposed. After shooting Laue Dinsbrought the body of his dead wife into the kitchen and left it where s found by the neighbors w hen they called in. The motive for the crime hfatuation for Mrs. Laue. [GHEST FOR EIGHT YEARS. M of Staples Stronger than at Any Time Since 1891. .dstreet’s. says: “The last month of ear has opened auspiciously, finding *nd industry generally well em1, demand treading close upon and passing.supply, labor troubles avertsome instances by widespread adin wages, of small importance ex||||Spt in one or two cities, and with the ■HKfceral level of values of staples at the Mgßfchest point reached for eight years past. WllKdiday demand has opened well and eolnKctions from retail trades therefore show’ improvement. The strength of Hjeals, notably wheat, this week, is a ||BHjection largely of decreased at Northwest. Wheat, including flour, ■Klpments for the week aggregate 5,133,rcwl bushels, against 3,690,400 bushels |||HK.week. Corn exports for the week BHKregate 3,813,699 bushels, against 4,89K&14 bushels last week.” STEAL HORSES FROM INDIANS. on the Osage Reservation Suf|Hr fer Large Losses of Stock. MK Horse thieves have been at work in the ■■Bfage reservation, not far from Guthrie, Iffijwk., on a wholesale scale and nearly 100 have been stolen, thirty from one ex-Chief Big Heart. Under the States laws horse stealing in lureservations is not a felony and the when convicted can only be a and short jail sentence. Thieves have gUpbvered this and are flocking to the and going into the business, can readily afford to spend a few in jail if thev can steal a number horses or cattle. lIIEmIIRDF-K AT BIG CYCLE RACE. Square Audience Thrown Into ■Hr ■£*-. Panic by a Shooting. HH&n hour after the big bicycle race end- ' d in Madison Square Garden, New York, HlKd during the excitement attending a HE-mile pursuit race, Frederick S. Slater N. J., seated in one of the ■Hper boxes, was shot and mortally Bounded by Willis Rosser, 19 years old, ||gt medical student. The shooting occur■■Hd as the result of a quarrel over p bet. ■ Office Robbed of a Big Sum. office of the Pacific Express Comin Cheyenne, Wyo., was robbed the night of several thousand dollars. |Hwhen Agent O. C. Brownlee entered the MKtt in the morning he found the safe BBpen and the money gone. The express HK&pany officials refuse to state the §lH«mount of nionev taken, but it is reported |B| J Figures on Sugar Cane Crop. HHkrhe entire crop of sugar cane and beet &v Hr 1899-1900 will amount to about 8,000.tons —about the same amount as last ■Bmp— according to carefully prepared stasubmitted to the State Depart by United States Consul Diederich SHfe Magdeburg. Germany. Of this amount HUhe United States uses about one-fourth. HH | Chicago Man Ends His Life. ■HHLr. Howe of Chicago died at the hospital in Los Angeles, Cal., self-inflicted gunshot wounds. He HB>Ot himself with suicidal intent at Santa HBunn on Nov. 15. His family, from whom estranged, live in Chicago. BB| gfc. Holds Taylor Is Elected. ■Mftt Frankfort. Ky., the State board of BKiptions gave out an official finding that ■ft 8. Taylor for Governor and the rest aMjfefhe Republican ticket have been electgyo,l th *' face of returns. ■B Abbot to Head Press Bureau. . llt was announced that Willis J. Abbot, 'known in newspaper circles throughHBfct the United States, has been selected Io take charge of the press bureau of BHil'Deinocratie national committee. Ms WsrU British in Rout. MBiSen. Gatacre’s force was forced to from before Stormburg by the The British troops v ere led into K>f> by false information furnished by Hl Many Miners Killed. igßrgMore than thirty miners were killed of gas in a mine at CarKills Himself for Love. tSSS ’WASqUited love caused George Specs, iff young »nan at Newark, Ohio, to commit LNelson Weeks Escapes Trial. The indictment against Nelson Weeks N- J., charged with hav■Houfaiied the death of Aimee Smith. 22 ' fa Of age, at the Victor Hotel in New March 8, 1897, has been di--3 ? there was no chance of <*n- —•— o* vVliitCf »» arc Auvunci’d*

BURNED AT THE STAKE. Nea--o Tortured to Death—Confessed Murderer of a Woman Killed. At Maysville, Ky., Dick Coleman, the negro murderer of Mrs. Lashbrook, was taken from the officers by a mob of 1,000 men and burned at the stake. The mob. led by the husband of the negro’s victim, dragged the shrieking criminal through the principal streets of the town, bound him to a small tree, set fire to brush and tow about him, and stood guard until be was dead.' All that was possible was done by the sheriff and guard to prevent a lynching, but in the face of such a mob of whites and blacks it was useless to attempt to do anything save deliver him up, which was done. A rope was thrown over the negro’s neck by the mob’s leaders. They carried Coleman to a small hollow near the railroad, where the leaders bound him tightly to a young sapling. Then they heaped a huge pile of brushwood and timber around him and fired the stack. The victim’s eyes rolled horribly. Some one slashed his eyes with a knife. Before the roasting began Coleman was almost dead. The rope had torn and lacerated his neck and bis face was terribly beaten up. WOMAN saved from suicide. Mrs. Ida Washburn About to Drown Herself and Her Two Children. Because her husband, who is a barber, had for years accused her of unfaithfulness and beaten her, Mrs. Ida Washburn of Chicago went to Lincoln Park to drown herself and her two small children. Before leaving her home she wrote the following note and left it for her husband: “Dear Jim—lt is better that we separate for good, since you do not believe in me. lam going to Lincoln Park to end it' all. Good-by.—lda.” D. J. Rood, Lincoln Park policeman, saw the woman kneeling at the water’s edge at the foot of Wisconsin street. The wind was blowing almost a gale and the children crouched against their mother. As the officer approached he saw the woman was weeping. Mrs. Washburn confessed she had come to the lake to die. She Was praying for forgiveness for what she was about to do, she said, as she had grown desperate because of her husband’s ill treatment. The policeman took her and the children to the station. DEVOURED BY CANNIBALS. White Man and Four Boye Killed on Admiralty Islands. Details were brought by the steamer Warrimoo from Australia of the atrocious murder of a white man and subsequent devouring of the body by the treacherous cannibals of the Admiralty islands. A letter dated Maniapea, New Britain, says: “Twelve months ago two young Germans named Metzke and Molte opened a trading station on the small Island of St. Andrew in the Admiralty group, to the north of German New guinea, and in spite of the fact that these natives are a most treacherous and cunning race, appeared to get on very well with them. The two traders decided to buy the island. Molte went to New Britain to arrange the deal, leaving Metzke with ten Solomon Island boys. Upon Molte’s return he found that Metzke had been murdered, together with four of his boys, and the bodies had been cut up, cooked and eaten by the savages.”

Anti-Dam age Contract Void. Judge Klein of the St. Louis Circuit Court in the case of Samuel G. Wilkinson against the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company rendered a decision in which he held that a contract even by an employe and made for a valuable consideration to release a railroad company from damage liability in case of personal injuries is contrary to public policy and cannot be offered as a defense to an action to recover damages for such injuries. Michigan Saw Mills to Close. Michigan lumbermen are making arrangements at Toronto to move their mills and a large part of their plants from Michigan to the Georgian Ray lumber district on Lake Huron. They say the judgment upholding Ontario’s right to prohibit the export of saw logs was so clear they have no hopes of being successful on appeal, and that all their mills in Michigan, being unable to get logs, are about to close. . Train Wrecks a Car. Forty men and women were crushed and bruised or hurled through space in a collision between a Wabash suburban passenger train and a cross-town electric car at Thirty-first and Stewart avenue, Chicago. The car was reduced to splin-' ters and scattered along the road, and the motorman, struck down at his post, was so seriously injured that he died two hours after the accident. Julia Marlowe a Petitioner. A feature of the opening day of the December term of La Moille County Court at Hyde Park, Vt., was the nearing of a suit for divorce brought by the wellknown actress, Julia Marlowe Taber, from her husband, Robert S. Taber. She alleges intolerable severity. New Planet Discovered. The European Union of Astronomers announces, through Harvard College observatory, the discovery of a minor planet of the tenth magnitude by Charlois. The object has a motion of minus 14 minutes in right ascension and 4 minutes north in declination. Evidence of Lake Disaster. The steamer Ramapo reported that while in Lake Erie twenty miles below Long Point, she passed through a quantity of wreckage, including a portion of a cabin. No distinguishing marks could be made out, but it is believed that some vessel must have gone to pieces. Rubber Trusts Consolidating Plants. The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company, known as the rubber trust, will consolidate the plant at Peoria, 111., with the plant of the India company in Akron, Ohio, tripling the capacity of the latter ylanL Pulled Down by an Engine. A controversy between the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and Foster & Miller, grain buyers, over an elevator the latter began to erect at Vesta, Minn., resulted in the structure being pulled down by an engine. Actor Emmett Has No Assets. Joseph K. Emmett, the actor, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York, with liabilities of $17,070 and no assets, except clothing, which is exempt. The debts were contracted from 1891 to 1896. Deserted and Penniless. Mrs. J. H. Finley was left at the Kirk Hotel, Zanesville, Ohio, without funds. It is claimed she has been deserted by her husband. The couple were married