Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1900 — FINNS COMING HERE. [ARTICLE]

FINNS COMING HERE.

OPPRESSED BY RUSSIA, THEY FLEE TO THis COUNTRY^ Nearly Two Hundred Persons Have Arrived in Philadelphia and Thousands of Others Will Follow—Bounty Offered for Dead Hold-Up Artists. The Red Star lino steamship Switzerland, which has arrived at I’hiladelphiafrom Antwerp, brought nearly 200 Finns, who are said to be the first of many thousands fleeing from the cruelty of the Government of the Czar of Russia. The party will locate in Minnesota, lowa and Montana. They claim that the Czar, instead of appointing Finns.to govern the country, had put Russians, whp have dealt harshly with all, especially the very poor. Rather than submit, it is said, there is to be a general exodus to the United States, and certain districts where the land is owned by the royal family are being depopulated. Cossacks were stationed on the frontier to prevent the Finns’ departure, hut, they crossed the border at unsuspected points and reached Belgium, whence they sailed for this country. BOUNTY ON DEAD HIGHWAYMEN. Police Chief of Kansas City, Kan., Offers $25 a Body. R. J. McFarland, chief of the Kansas City, Kan., police department, has hung tip a bounty for the bodies of all highway robbers killed in the city while in the act' of committing robbery or directly thereafter. The price that the chief promises to give for the body of each highwayman —the money to be paid out of his salary—is $25. The reward is open to members of the force as well as any citizen. There have recently been many highway robberies on the Kansas side of the river. Lone Robber Holds Up a Train. A lone robber wearing a mask held up the south-bound Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs train four miles south of Humlmrg, lowaT Tile train was in charge of Conductor McGee. Flagman Yloore was first accosted by the robber at the .rear end of the train. Using Moore as a shield the robber went through the sleeper and chair car, getting S2OO in cash and a gold watch, lie pulled the bell cord and when the train slowed down jumped off and escaped in the darkness. Barber Slain in His Shop. Robert W. Gilchrist,‘proprietor of a barber shop at 1764 West 22d street, Chicago, was shot and killed in his shop while preparing to shave a customer. The murderer opened the door of the shop, and taking careful aim with a rifle, tired. Gilchrist died instantly and the man who did the shooting escaped. The police were given a good description of the murderer by a barber employed in the shop. Tarred and Feathered. At Gretna, Neb., a mob took Louis Figg and wife, alleged religious fanatics, from their beds and treated them to a coat of v tar and feathers. It is alleged that Figg and his wife have caused a number of women to forsake home, husbands and children and take up residence in the Figg "heaven.” Two Women Swallow Poison. Stella Harrington, married, and Lydia Jordan, unmarried, young women of Elkhart, Ind., took morphine with suicidal intent. Miss Jordan died, leaving a note proclaiming her love for Mrs, Harrington’s husband. Mrs. Harrington will not give any reasons for her attempt. Cape Nome’s Rich Gold Field. Eastern advices stfy that' more than 5,000 square miles of gold-bearing territory in western Alaska has now been prospected and found rich, according to Nome advices brought to Dawson by R. R. Mcßae and E. H. Nagle, who left Nome City in January. Tbree-Cent Fare Ordinance Invalid. Judge Swan in the United States District Court at Detroit rendered a decision which denies the validity of an ordinance passed some months since by the City Council requiring the street railway companies to reduce rates of fare to 3 cents. lowa People Go to North Dakota. A special train on the Northern Pacific took to Jamestown, N. D., 300 settlers from lowa bound for McLean County and other points on the Jamestown and Northern. All have money, and will begin farming, with all the horses and machinery necessary. Cashier Murdered iu Chicago. Annie Strother, night cashier in Louis Swan’s restaurant, No. 150 Twenty-sec-ond street, Chicago, was shot and instantly killed at 1 o’clock the other morning by a well-dressed, heavily veiled woman. The murderess escaped. Jealousy is thought to have been the motive. Mysterious Tragedy in Seattle. An unknown man was shot and instantly killed on a well-lighted business street in the heart of Seattle, Wash. The police say it is a case of suicide, but circumstances throw an air of mystery around the tragedy. Bank Robbery lu Seattle. An unarmed thief, while a companion held the teller in conversation, took sl,000 iu currency from the counter of the First National Bank of Seattle and walked out with it. Both robbers escaped. Town Wiped Out l>y Fire. Ivuskonook, a railway town on Kootenay lake, B. C., terminus of the Bediingtou and Nelson Railway, was swept away by tiro. Many hundreds of families were made homeless. Killed by an Explosion. One person was killed and four were seriously injured by a terrible explosion of collodion in tin* photographic supply house of Thomas M. McColliu & Co. in Philadelphia. Large Wagon Works Destroyed. The Flint wagon works at Flint, Midi., wore totally destroyed by tiro, causing u loss of over $200,000. The plant was insured for $120,000. Five hundred men are thrown out of work., Against Porto, Rican Tariff. The lowa House of Representatives unanimously declared by resolution against the Porto Rican tariff bill now before the United States Senate. Fire Among the Seeds. At Lawrence, Kan., fire destroyed the office building and warehouse of the seed firm of Barteldes & Co, The building contained‘sso,ooo wortl} of seeds.

BIG RAFT FOR THE PACIFIC. Fourteen Million Feet of Lumber to Be . Towed to Japan. A. W. Kennedy of San Francisco is having built at Seattle a raft containing 14,000,000 feet of lumber, 14,000 piies, which he will have towed to Japan. The venture is exceedingly risky, but 'very profitable if successful. When finished the raft will be 625 feet long and will draw considerable water. The company feels sure that there will be little trouble in getting the raft to port, but there is considerable complaint among mariners of the danger of the tow breaking away from the towing steamer and going adrift in tiie path of passing steamers. TRIES TO KILL PARIS JUDGE. Defeated Litigant Fires Three Shots at Presiding Magistrate. In the palace of justice at Paris an attempt was made to murder the presiding judge of the fifth court by a druggist named Bardin, who had just lost a suit. The judges had just taken their seats and counsel in another case had begun his speech, when Bardin drew a revolver and fired three shots at the judge, who had a narrow escape, the bullets grazing his head. Municipal guards threw themselves on Bardin and removed him to a cell, while the judge, with perfect coolness, said to counsel: “You can continue, maitre; it is nothing.” RAILROAD SOLD AT AUCTION. Kansas City, J*ittsburg & Gulf Railroad Under the Hammer for $12,500,000. The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad was sold at public auction at the depot iu Joplin, Mo., by E. H. Stiles, master in chancery, to satisfy a $23,000,000 mortgage with one year’s accrued interest held by the State Trust Company of New York. But one bid was made, that by Silas W. Pettit, chief counsel of the Philadelphia reorganization committee, of $12,500,000, the upset price. Passing of a Well-known Man. John Arende Bingham, former minister to Japan, former distinguished Ohio Congressman, one of the prosecutors of the assassins of President Lincoln, one of the leaders of'the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, and author of the fourteenth amendment to tho Constitution of the United States, breathed his last' at Cadiz, Ohio. His age was 85. McKinley to Be a Law Professor. Bishop Hurst in his sermon at the opening of the New Jersey M. E. conference, speaking of the American University at Washington, said that. President McKinley would at the conclusion of his services as a public officer accept the position of professor -of international law at the university. Emigration to the Northwest. It has been estimated by the officials of the various northwestern railroads centering at St, Paul that the emigration movement now under way from the older States to the Northwestern States from Minnesota west to Washington will exceed 20,000. Egg Shippers Unite. AtvJLa Crosse, a meeting was held of egg dealers and produce men representing western Wisconsin, southern Minnesota and northern Iowa! An -organization was perfected, to be known as the Interstate Egg Shippers’ Association, More Work for Miners. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company has announced that work at its numerous collieries near Shenandoah, Pa., will be increased to five threequarter days. Thirty-thousand mine workers are affected. Canadian Waterpower for Mining. The Seine river water power in the Ontario gold region is to be developed for mining purposes. It is estimated at 6,200-horse power and, the Ameriean-Ca-nadian Gold Mining Company will furnish the necessary capital. Track Slide in Mississippi. A disastrous track slide occurred on the Illinois Central one mile south of Jackson, Miss., and all trains were delayed several hours. Wrecks House and Injures Four. The dwelling of Henry Elsroth at Marion, Ind., was wrecked by a natural gas explosion and four persons were seriously burned. Postoffice Robbed of $5,000. The postoffice at Nogales, Ariz., was looted by burglars the other night of $5,000 in Mexican money. Great Turkish General Dies. Ghazi Osman Pasha, the defender of Plevna, and Turkey’s greatest general, is dead.