Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1900 — A UNION OF MILLERS. [ARTICLE]

A UNION OF MILLERS.

COMBINE FOR MUTUAL INTEREST IN SOUTHWESTt — Surplus Output Witt by This Means Be Disposed Of \o Greater Advantage than by Individuals New- York Firm Contracts for 12,000 Bird Bodies. The millers of Kansas, Oklahoma and Kansas City, after a three days’ conference, have decided to handle their surplus output through a stock company to be known as the Kansas and Oklahoma Milling and Export Company. The cpn--t-erti will be capitalized for $250,000; alt paid up. Tlie stock will all be taken by millers in that section of the country. The company will.either buy tbe surplus product outright ajr will dispose of it to the best advantage at a small commission. This: is left optional with the. utilizers. Each miller is to store his surplus in his-owir mi 11. and is to report daily the amount of his surplus. A committee was appointed to draw up a charter and to perfect the organization of the company. All of tin- stock lias been subscribed! PITI.FUL SLAUGHTER OF BIRDS. Cot ham Millinery Firm Contracts for Twelve Thousand Bodies. Nothing lias pcoiirrod for many months to so stir up the feelings of the Atldubonists ai d others who are opposed to the xrantro slaughter'*>f'birds for their plumage as has the'news of the big contract which has just been closed by a large millinery firm in Xew York. The contract is made with parties in a certain county in Delaware, which abounds with the smaller species" of birds. Its terms call for the birdies of 12.000 birds, for which from 10 to 50 cents apiece is to be paid. The particular varieties specified in the agreement include meadow larks, bluebirds, red-wing blackbirds, crow blackbirds, English sparrows and baby owls. COLVILLE RESERVE OPENING. j Would-Be Settlei-s Already Gathering { lor tlie May Season. It is understood that the north half of i the Colville (Indian reservation in Wash- 1 ingtdn will be thrown open for settlement i about May 1. The district contains rich ! agricultural, timber and mineral lands, and boomers are—already——gathering at Spokane and other towns to rush across the line. “North hair 7 comprises 1,500,000 acres, 300,000 of which was allotted to the Indians under the treaty of cession. The mineral portion is known to contain immense bodies of low-grade ores.

SHOT ANI) KILLED BY HIS WIFE. Charles Adams Meets a Sensational Death at Cincinnati. Charles Adams, a passenger agent for the Union Pacific, with offices in the Curew building, Cincinnati, who went there with his wife from Omaha last October with their two children, Irving and Fay, aged 2 and 5 years, was shot and killed by his wife, Jessie Turman Adams, in the'Print rose flat, in Race street. Mrs. Adams said her. husband-threatened her life, that lie held her oldest son hy the heels, head downward, outside of a fifthstory window and had been habitually cruel. Stabs a Rival with Scissors. At Omaha Mrs. Daisy Morrison stabbed Vina Williams with a pair of scissors, inflicting tin ugly gash in the left arm. Miss Williams warded off a blow aimed at her heart. Mrs. Morrison sent • for Miss Williams and accused her of seeking to win the love of. Mr. Morrison, her husband. The latter's screams brought assistance in time to save belli fe. Humiliation for Finland. The Cologne Gazette announces that the Czar has abolished the rule which provided that district governors of Finland should take a special oath upon entering the Russian state service. This oath was framed on the status of Finland its a grand duchy, and its abolition has crushingly impressed the Finns. Burlington Train's Escape. The Chicago-Denver flyer on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway, known as “Xo. 1,” had a slight accident at Tower 510, twenty-five miles west of Ottumwa, lowa. The engine and front truck of the baggage car left the track. No person was injured.

Clothing Manufacturers Assign, lienry .1. Sehloss and Nathan J. i Sehloss, who composed the firm of N. J. j Sehloss & Co., formerly manufacturers ■of *-lot hi it g iii New York, have filed a peit it ion in bankruptcy. Liabilities $755,- • 000, no assets. j Rev. Thomas K. Beecher Stricken, i Rev. Thomas- K. Beecher, brother of | ileury Ward Beecher and pastor of Park ('liitri 11, Elmira, N’. V.. was stricken with | paralysis on his return home from evening service Sunday. • I-’ouiulr.v mid Mui-liiiu- Shops Burned. I At Entbreeville, Term., lire destroyed j the foundry, machine shops and blaek- ! smith shops eoniu-eted with the plants jof the Virginia Iron. Coal and tjqke I Company. Loss SOO,OOO. General El well Is I trail. Gen. John J. ,El well, one of the bestknown citizens of Cleveland, and a hero of the civil war, is dead. Death was due to old age, but probably hastened by injuries received during the war. ; Im Killed by HU Own Trap. W illiam Pearce, a farmer living three miles west of De Soto, Mo., was accidentally shot and killl-d by a set gnu which he bad himself placed in his corn j crib for thieves. Roberts Enters Bloemfontein. The British general, Roberts, has entered Bloemfontein in triumph, and has announced that the Orange Free State Government has ceased to exist. Lives Lost iu Collision ut Sea. A Yarmouth dispatch reports that the steamer Connie collided with another steamer off Sable Island and the captain and twenty-one men were drowned. Famous Authoress Murries. A cablegram annonuges the innrriaie of Mrs. Frances Ilodgson Burnett, the famous novelist, to Stephen Townsend. London, her secretary. Nearly All Records Saved. The Montgomery County Court house at Clarksville, Tenn., was destroyed by j lire. Most' of the records were saved. Loss $125,000, insurance $75,000. j

TO DAWSON IN AN AUTOMOBILE. Frenchman Plans a Trip from Lake Bennett by a New Method. M. Jauue de Lamare, the editor of the Klondike Review, published in Paris, is cn route for the Klondike on his third visit to that region. This time he will try to make most of the land trip after reaching Lake Bennett on a gasoline automobile of live-horse power. The automobile willbe equipped With spiked rubber tires on two of the wheels and runners on the others, which will enable it to travel over the ice. When the ice breaks tip M. de Lantare intends to place the automobile in a huge canoe, and replacing the' wheels by paddles travel, down the Yukon. BNOWSLIDES DESTROY TRACKS. Overland Traffic on the Canadian,Pacific Interrupted. i No overland train arrived at Vancouver, B. C., for two days, all traffic being suspended by mud and snow slides in the interior. Heavy snow slides are reported from the Selkirk mountains, carrying down trees and immense rocks, sweeping away the cut bank truss bridge, 150 feet long, between'Bear creek arid Six Mile creek. , From Sandon'comes the news of an even-more serious disaster, A landslide :it noon demolished six houses in the lower part of the town, burying one of the tenants, William McLeod, beneath the mass of debris. BOYCOTT OF CHINESE MUST END. United States Court Permanently Enjoins Labor Union. Judge Knowles of the Uuited States Court at Butte, Mont., handed down a decision making permanent an injunction against labor unions and labor, leaders who lor years had prosecuted a boycott against Chinese and all employers of Chinese; ■ti - IjrTinderstood a claim for damages will now be presented to tho Federal Government by the Chinese minister. - Cigarmakers on a Strike. The biggest strike of cigarmakers in I ten years has been declared against the I firm of Kerbs, Wortbeim & Schiller of ; Xew York. More than 3,300 workers, ! 1.500 of whom are girls, after making a r demand of their- employers -for an jocrease in wages, quit work. I _ • Wrecked on Hoji-Sty Reef. News of the total loss of the Norwegian steamer Frannies with her valuable cargo of iron and steel on Ilog-Sty reef, north of (Juba, was brought to Philadelphia by the fruit steamer Admiral Schley. All persons aboard the steamer were saved. Shut Out of Japan, Oriental advices say that permission to do general business in Japan has been refused sixty foreign insurance companies, most of them American. Japanese officials say this results from the fact that the applications have failed to comply with the Japanese insurance laws. Intervention Means War. Great Britain, in her answer to the overtures for peace in behalf of Presidents Kruger and Steyn, serves notice on all the nations of the world that' she will not tolerate any interference by any of them with the prosecution of the war in South’Africa. Woman Burned to Death, Carrie Crawford, a young widow who lived in the Hennepin building at Minneapolis, lost iter life in tbe flames which destroyed the building. Her old father and her 3-year-old child were rescued. McKinley Financial Bill. President McKinley has signed the financial bill, and so completed the legislation that gives the United States a currency system based upon the single gold standard. Tobacco Warehouse Consumed. Fire at Miamisburg, Ohio, destroyed the big Rothschild tobacco warehouse and damaged adjacent buildings. A Chicago firm owned the warehouse. Loss estimated at $150,000. Drowned in the Missouri. Henry Bock, au old resident,* while attempting to cross the Missouri river on the ice at Chamberlain, S. D., broke through and was drowned. Fire ut Mackinaw City. Nearly the entire business portion of Mackinaw City, Mich., was destroyed by fire. The postoffice and several residences were burned. The loss is about $50,000. Footpads Murder and Rob. In Indianapolis John B. Stout, a respected citizen, was robbed and shot by footpads on his way home. He died.