Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1900 — SHOOTS THREE MEN. [ARTICLE]

SHOOTS THREE MEN.

AN INSANE MAN IN CINCINNATI THEN KILLS HIMSELF. Willram Gard Runs Amuck, Attempting the Lives of Inoffensive Fellow Workmen, Fatally Hurting One Spring Ttadc Waits on Demand. In a fit of temporary insanity William Gard, aged 23 years and single, shot three men and then killed himself in Cincinnati. Ghrd was a varnisher in the employ’ of a safe company and a man without any bad habits. While the employes of the works were taking their noon lunch Gard, without provocation or warning, commenced tiring promiscuously at them. A riot alarm was turned in and patrol wagons hastened to the scene. It was found that E. Miller of MaSisonville was shot in thebead and injured fatally. Thomas Waldron, was shot through the nose and John Guthjahr was shot through the shoulder. All the victims are at the hospital and doing well, except Millen Gard took an" electric car for the home of his mother, and shot himself as soon as he reached home, dying instantly. DROWNS HIS CHILD AT A PUMP. Terrible Deed of an Unnatural Indian Territory Father. Frank Haskey was arrested at Fry, I. T., and placed in jail. He is charged with munlering his 10-year-old son in a brutal manner. First' he held the boy against a red-hot cook stove and seared his skin. Then he took him to a pump in the back yard and tied him under the faucet. He then pumpe<) water on the lad’s head until he was drowned. The neighbors came ov°er and took Haskey in charge. Lynching was only averted by the arrival of officers. The son is not known to have committed any offense. Haskey has been in the penitentiary for stealing. IN A WAITING STAGE. Retail Dry Goode Trade Quiet Pending Effect of Spring Demand. Bradstreet's says: “It has been a quiet week in distributive trade except at some few western centers, this being especially true of the dry goods business. Wholesale trade in this line has been generally completed, and, pending the effect of spring demand upon the retail trade, the markets are in a waiting stage. As regards prices, the feature of the week has been the strength manifested by agricultural products and provisions. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 2,962,349 bushels, against 2,903,495 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregated 3,193,638 bushels, against 3,123,848 last Week."

HIRED GIRL POISONS FOUR. Administers Arsenic in Oatmeal Mush Served at a Meal. An attempt t'o poison a Cincinnati family resulted in the serious illness of four persons—Mrs. F. A. Aiken. Miss Allie M. Galvin, Harold Winold and Francis Winold. The persons poisoned had eaten oatmeal for breakfast. They were imniedi ately and violently attacked. A physician was quickly called, and all were placed out of danger. Suspicion pointed to the servant girl, Violet Foster, w‘ho was arrested, and admitted that she had procured the arsenic and put it into the oatmeal. She said she was instigated thereto by C. O. Winold, father of the children. Former Speaker Commits Suicide. Lore Alford, a leading lawyer and former speaker of the lowa House of Representatives, was found dead in the bath room of his residence in Waterloo, lowa. He had cut his throat. Mr. Alford had been a sufferer for years from a stubborn stomach disease, which led to despondency and melancholia. Returns a Trophy of Battle. The battle flag of the Gate City guards of Atlanta, Ga., has been returned to survivors of that company of Confederate soldiers through George L. Emminger of Toledo, Ohio. The flag was captured by John Howard. He died several years ago, and his wife, shortly before her recent death, gave it to Emminger. Mob Assails Miners at Work. The striking miners at the Horatio mines of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company at Dubois, Pa., attacked tinfew men who have remained at work. There was a pitched battle in which shots were fired and three persons severely injured. Murdered at a Death Watch. Near Crockett, Texas, while W. 11. Oliver and J. A. Castling, brothers-in-law, and their wives were sitting up with the corpse of E. M. Moorehead, father-in-law of the mon, the latter quarreled and Oliver was stabbed to death. Big Strike at Online, Tex. All the machinists in Munger's cotton, machinery manufacturing works at Dallas, Texas, the largest of the kind in the world, went on strike. The men refused to do double »ork required by the company. * Suicide of Wife Murderer. Amos Elder, who shot and killed Ins wife at Oil City, I’a.. recently committed suicide in the cemetery. He first visited the grave of his wife and then shot bituacif through the head. St. George Mivurt Is Dead. Dr. St. George Mivart, a well-known physician, died suddenly in London. EBjKTe Fast Run of Iron * teeds. " From Los Angeles, ('al., to Chicago, a distance of 2,2(15 miles, in fifty-seven hours and fifty-six minutes, is the record coast run hung up by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc when the “Peacock special” pulled into the Chicago depot the other nighr. L Hot Fight at Karec. & After a hot fight the troops of Gen Roberts drove the Boers from some kopjes they occupied near Knree siding station. The British loss was over l<*o

MINTS MAY COIN HALF CENTS. Governaient Realizes the Growing Demand for the- Small Piece. A half-cent piece is one of the possibilities of the future. It is seriously proposed to turn out of the mints a corn of this denomination, which, it is claimed, is needed in trade, especially in the small shops and at the bargain counters. For some time the treasury officials have been aware of a growing popular demand for half-cent coins. The big department stores in some sections of the country are. the chief advocates of such an addition to~the monetary denominations, and now a bill has been prepared calling such a coin into existence. Llalfcent pieces were once issued by the Government. They went out Of use about half a century ago. The 1-cent coin then contained twice as much metal as the present coin of that denomination. The checks or coins issued by the department stores are of copper, and this could, of course, be the metal used in the hew coin should the Government decide to issue ft. TO EXTEND RURAL DELIVERY. Postal Officials Will Confer with Special Agent Hammer. Special Agent Francis M. Dice, in charge of rural free delivery, with headquarters at- Indianapolis, has requested Alfred Hammer with him for the purpose of extending the important service. Mr. Hammer has made an enviable record in his line,in Michigan and Indiana and is deemed to be especially fitted by the department for executive direction. There will be a reassigumpnt of the territory embraced in the division in which Agent Dice is the chief, made necessary by the late appointment of several new agents. The department informed Mr. Hammer that it was thought that under his supervision the successful establishment of rural free delivery would be facilitated and a uniform method and system of procedure would be affected. Mr. Hammer is at present special agent of rural free delivery at Chicago. NEWS FROM CAPE NOME. Winter Has Been Very Mild—Dawson’s Spring Clean-Up. - The steamer Danube brings news of the arrival at Skaguay of probably the last travelers who will come from Nome this winter. Mcßae and Nagle, who were deputized to carry to San Francisco the report of the engineer on the railway to be built from Port Safety to Cape York, came up the river in forty-six days with a single team of dogs. They say the winter has been unprecedentedly mild at Nome, that all necessaries of life are plentiful and cheap there and the streams in all directions are prospecting well. The discoveries on the Siberian side are being left alone, as it has'been given out that foreign miners will not be permitted there. At Dawson preparations were being made for the spring clean-up, which is estimated at from $12,000,000 to $30,000,000.

INTRODUCED HIS OWN RIVAL. Jealousy Prompts a Brooklyn Youth to Commit Suicide. Albert Miller, 20 years old, who lived with his parents in Brooklyn, N. Y., committed suicide at the Clarendon Hotel, Brooklyn, by swallowing carbolic leid. The young man- left no letter explaining the suicide, but jealousy was undoubtedly the cause. He had been paying marked attention to Miss Grace Ross. Several mouths ago he introduced to Miss Ross J. Harvey White, and when young White began to call at the house with equal regularity Miller grew despondent. Boy Slayer Is Cool. Remarkable coolness was displayed by Albert Stedge, 17 years old, of Chicago, after killing William Hobson, a boarder in his mother’s house, in defense of his mother. He struck Hobson in the head with a barrel stave in front of his home, and then calmly went into the house, told his mother what he had done and went to bed, leaving the body of his victim lying on the walk. Stedge was arrested. Short Line to the West. Immense corporations are backing the promoters of the Uniontown, Waynesburg and West Virginia Railroad Company. They see in it a short route to Chicago and the West, which to them means cheaper freight rates. Chicago is brought thirty-eight miles nearer to the coke regions of Connellsville, and the distance between the Fayette fields and Cincinnati is reduced seventy-one miles. Thief Murders a Marshal. Ellsworth Evans, alias “Jocko Jones,” shot and instantly killed Assistant City Marshal William Hennecke at Boonville, Mo. When shot Marshal Hennecke was attempting to arrest Evans after the latter had roßbed a cigar store. Evans was captured. Guilty of Swindling a Bank. James Baxter, a broker, and Ferdinand Lemieux, accountant of the defunct Banque Ville Marie, at Montreal, accused of conspiracy to defraud the bank, were found guilty. The jury recommended mercy on account of Baxter’s age, about 70. Japan’s Crown Prince to Wed. Minister Buck, at Tokio, has informed ' the State Department at Washington I that official announcement has been made i ot the betrothal of his imperial highness the crown prince to Princess Sakado. The wedding probably will take place during next May. is . .ound, Beaten and Robbed. Mrs. Charles Pisdl was bound and gagged and robbed of a watch and money at her residence in Bloomdale, Ohio. She was prostrated by the severe treatment she received in her battle with th" robber. Stork Visits Palace. The first child ever born in the palaeo at Havana, so far as is known, is an American girl—daughter of Governor General and Mrs. Leonard Wood, now a few days old. Capital Is $00,000,000. Articles of incorporation of the Electric Engine and Power Company of New York were tiled under the laws of Arizona nt Phoenix. It has a capital of $00,000,000 in 0,000,000 shares. Volcanoes Do Great Damage. Oriental mail advices state that Amayama and Kirishima volcanoes in Japan have been in eruption since early in February. The crops have been destroyed over a great area. Falling Girders Kill Two. ‘One man was killed and another fatally injured by the fall of several large iron girders in a new school bouse in New York.