Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — MAN LOSES A CORPSE. [ARTICLE]

MAN LOSES A CORPSE.

DEAD BODY DISAPPEARS ON A RAILWAY JOURNEY. Its Custodian, M. N. Beach, Becomes Insane in Consequence of the Affair, and Is Placed Under Restraint—Mail Service Interrupted at Panama. M. N. Beach of Stockton, Cal., is insane at Norwich, Conn., the result of losing a corpse he was eouveying from Stockton to Olyphant, Pa. Mr. Beach reached Norwich over the Ontario and Western, registering at the Palmer House. He acted strangely and said that while escorting the body of Mrs. Hill from Stockton to Olyphant he lost it at Oswego and took the wrong train. Papers in his pocket substantiated his assertion. He left the hotel and soon afterward was seen trying to crawl into a child’s snow house. Later he attempted to break in the door of a prominent residence, searching for the corpse, and was locked up Ity the sheriff. In his ceil he raved in delirium and the authorities had difficulty to restrain him. The body which went astray later arrived safely at Olyphant.

UNION LABOR LAW DEFEATED. Ohio Employer Has the Right to Discharge Any Man for Cause. Ohio’s statute which is intended to prevent the discharge of workingmen for affiliation with trades unions was declared unconstitutional by Judge Pugsley of the Common Pleas Court in Toledo. Lamont Bateman, general manager of the Toledo tube works, discharged Alonzo Cole. The latter promptly brought suit before a magistrate and Bateman was fined. The case was then carried into the Common Pleas Court by the indictment of Bateman by the grand jury. Judge Pugsley heard the argument on a demurrer which set forth that the law was unconstitutional and that the facts did not constitute a cause of action. The court holds that the discharge in this case was not such an act that the employe was compelled or coerced to leave his union, and that his discharge was a lawful act. He holds that the statute is purely class legislation and unconstitutional.

DISTURBANCES IN PANAMA. Mail Service Interrupted by Operations of the Troops. It is now admitted that the disturbances in Panama, Colombia, are serious, and the authorities are beginning to pay attention to them. Mail service has been interrupted in consequence of the operations of the troops. A revolution in Colombia, is of especial importance to the United States because of the guaranty made by this Government to preserve free transit between Colon and Panama. New Ships Being Built. There are all of twenty new vessels being constructed by the leading steamship lines for the transatlantic service between New York and foreign ports. In addition to these there are at least five new liners ,that are nearly finished and will be placed in commission in the early part of the coming season, besides a large number of vessels that will carry freight exclusively. Death in a Wreck. A passenger train on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad was wrecked near Channing, Texas. The coaches caught tire and the entire train except one coach burned. It is reported six qr seven people were killed, among them the Wells-Fnrgo express messenger. Chapman. Workman Killed by Machinery. J Henry Hurlburt, a workman iu the Lyons Paper Company’s mill at Clinton, lowa, met a horrible death. He fell against a swiftly revolving shaft, which caught his clothing and hurled him with great force against the side of the building. His body was crushed into a shapeless mass. Miss Sampson Now a Wife. The wedding of Miss Hannah YY’alker Sampson, youngest' daughter of Rear Admiral YVilliam T. Sampson, to Ensign Wat Tyler Culverius, U. S. N., took place at the commandant’s residence at the, Boston navy yard and was attended by many army and navy officers and their families.

Marsh Is Found Guilty. Arthur F. Marsh of Allegan, former inspector general of the Michigan National Guard, tried on an indictment charging him with feloniously conspiring with certain of his official associates to defraud the State, was found guilty by the jury at Lansing. Toll Bridges Blown Up. One hundred and fifty masked men blew up two bridges aud burned two tollhouses on the Logansport' and Burlington pike in Indiana at midnight on a recent nigh?. The road is the only toll pike in the county, and those oldiged to patronize it have been hostile for vvenr. Rescue of British. A dispatch from Bloemfontein says that Col. Porter,, with ninety cavalrymen aud two guns, charged a large body of Boers and rescued ninety-one British prisoners, including eleven officers, who were captured at Komsprult on March 31. The British suffered no casualties. Fire Ruins Millinery Stock. ' Fire in the McClintock building at Pittsburg caused a loss of $75,000. The fire damage was but $25,000, $15,000 of which falls ou Stanton’s Elite photogrnph gallery.- The remaining SIO,OOO is distributed among the numerous tenants. Mortgage Against the Western Union. A mortgage for a loan of $20,000,000 wap filed in New York by the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company as trustee against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Olga Ncthersolc Upheld. “Snpho” was officially declared a proper play by the New York jury before which Miss Olga Ncthersolc and her associates were tried for maintaining a public nuisance. General Bidwell Passes Away. A dispatch from Chk-o, Cal., announces the death of Gen. George Bidwell. Geu. Bidwell was the prohibition candidate for President in 1892. Journalist Ends His Life. F. O. Dickenslieets of the Kansas City Journal killed himself at the Jackson Hotel, Atlanta, by taking morphine.

TO IMPROVB PEARL HARBOR. Naval Authorities Anxious to Begin the Work Deemed Necessary. The naval authorities want Pearl harbor, which they regard as the moat important post of the United States in the Pacific, made available for naval pur poses without further delay, and an appeal will be made to Congress to authorize the necessary improvements. The board which has been studying plans for the most effective and economical utilization of the harbor has completed its work and favors the immediate expenditure of $500,000. which, with the money already •appropriated for dredging, will make the harbor accessible and provide all the land required for further improvements. WAR HAS BEEN AVERTED. Minister Merry’s Success with Nicaragua and Costa Kica. Dispatches received by Acting Secretary Allen at Washington from Captain W. W. Meade, commanding the cruiser Philadelphia, and Commander Duncan Kennedy, commanding the Detroit, report that no trouble exists iu either Nicaragua or Costa Rica. The news confirms information received by the State Department showing that Minister Merry has been successful iu the use of his good offices in averting war between the two republics. TRY TO KILL G. B. COX. Unknown Plotter Sent an Infernal Machines to a Cincinnati Politician. Dynamiters made an attempt at Cincinnati to murder the family of George B. Cox, tbe Republican leader, and to destroy his home. Persons unknown placed on the ,veranda of the Cox residence a package addressed to Mrs. Cox. Mr. Cox turned the box over to the police and they found it to contain an infernal machine. There was some doubt the motive in the case after the discovery.

Fatal Fire Over an Island. J. Sheaf Casey of St. Joseph, Mo., captaiu of Company F, Fourth Missouri volunteers, during the war with Spain, was shot and killed near Troy. Kan., by Edward Young, a farmer. Casey recently squatted on a small island iu the Missouri river six miles southwest of St. Joseph. Young claimed the land, and a quarrel and the murder resulted. Young gave himself up. Many Lives Lost in Wreck. A passenger train was run into by a freight train on the Mexican National Railroad near Toluca, Mexico. An American telegraph lineman and a third-class passenger were killed outright, and twenty other passengers died before being taken away. Cat Gives Alarm of Fire. The largest student uoardiug house in Ithaca. .N. Y., was burned the other night. The liradlady. Mrs. Stillwell, says that she believed her life and the lives of all the occupants were saved by a favorite cat. which went mewing up and down the halls. Murdered by Robbers. At YY’iniield, Kan., robbers rifled the Santa Fe depot and shot and killed D. C. Coates, the night operator, in escaping. They secured only a few cents. The killing was evidently committed to prevent identification. Steamer Jennie George Sunk. The steamer Jennie George, owned by the Catlettsburg and Piketown Packet Company of Catlettsburg. Ky„ sunk near Paiutsville, Ivy., with all her cargo. The boat was worth (8,000. Thirty pnssenbers barely escaped. Ravenna, Mich., Swept by Fire. The village of Ravenna, Mich., was almost wiped out by fire Wednesday evening. Tbe loss is (300,000. The tire was caused by an explosion of coal gas in Barnoswiski’s saloon.

English Are Repulsed. There has been heavy fighting between Brandfort and Bloemfontein, South Africa. The YVakkerstroom and Ermelo commandos attacked 7,000 British and drove them back with heavy losses. Aguinaldo Is Found. News from the Philippines received by the transport Sheridan shows that Aguinaldo is in Singapore. The Singapore papers make mention of the fact and publish short interviews with him. Fire at Johnstown, N. Y. At Johnstown, N. Y., fire practically destroyed the leather dressing establishment owned by Topp & Y r osburgh. The estimated loss is (50.000. Mayor for Cincinnati. The Republicans of Cincinnati hnve elected Juls Fleischman. a millionaire distiller, as Mayor.