Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — TOWN IS BURNED UP. [ARTICLE]

TOWN IS BURNED UP.

GERONDALE, MICH., MEETS A FIERY FATE. Two Hundred Persons 1 Are Homeless and Property Loss Amounts to Many Thousands of Dollars—New York Central Strike-at Buffalo Is Settled. A special train on the Wisconsin, Michigan and Northern road returned from the fire scene, bringing news of the burning of the dense forest north of Geroudale, Mich. The town was burned and UOO people are homeless. A small sawmill, owned by Albert Ge’artts, is in ruins; value $20,000; no insurance. The loss of timber is estimated at $53,000. Lumber camps owned by George Brooks, Davis & Stitt", Joe Turcatte apd Charles Barnard burned. The entire winter’s cut of cedar and pine is lost. BUFFALO STRIKE SETTLED. Other Railways Will Abide by Action of New York Central. Tlie railroad strike at Buffalo is considered practically settled. It is understood that the Nickel Plate has agreed to abide by the action of the New York Central, and it is believed that the Erie, Lackawanna. Lehigh and Western New York and ’Pennsylvania will acquiesce in the arrangement. The concessions made by the New York Central will, it is said, mean SIOO,OOO a year added to the expenses of the road at that end of the State, as compared with what they were prior to March 16.

BIG STRIKE Three Thousand Men Idle on Lines Between St. Louis and Parkersburg. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern has a strike on of large proportions. All the section men and extra gangs from St. Louis to Parkersburg, W. Ya., hart* gone out. About three thousand men refused to go to work on a recent morning. They demand $1.50 a day. The section men have been receiving $1.15 and extra men 5d.25. _ Passenger Car Runs Away. On the Gainesville. Jefferson and Southern Railway, at Belmont, Ga., a passenger .coach became detached from the train and ran down the track four miles across . the high trestle over alnu't creek. Beyond the trestle on a sharp curve the ear jumped the track. Several people in the coach received serious injuries. Architectural Ironworkers Out. Cincinnati architectural iron workers have decided to strike because their demands had been acceded to by but one firm, the Stewart Company, whose employes are not" in the union. About 800 men are involved. The demand is tor a ninediour day. with the same wages as is paid for ten hours. Striking Coal Heavers Riot. Four men were wounded, one probably fatally, during a labor riot on an Archer avenue car in Chicago. A dozen shots were fired, every window iu the car was shattered and passengers, fled, panicstricken. The fighting was between coal heavers employed at the E. L. llendstrem & Co. coal docks and seven Woman Sets Fire to a Baby. Mrs. Thomas Cunningham, wife of alandscape gardener living in South Brooklyn. ~N. Y„ went into a trance, and while oblivious of what she did kindled a fire iu the baby carriage, standing beside her kitchen stove, and burned her 3-year-old daughter Mary so seriously that the child died within a few hours. Son and Fortune Missing. The Chicago police are looking for Thomas Neven, a 17-year-old boy, who is alleged to have robbed his widowrd mother, Mrs. M. J. Neven, of gold nuggets, diamonds and valuable papers said to represent $70,000, after attempting to poison her in her apartments at 290 Illinois street, that city. “Peaceful.” Man Kills Two. Robert tend William Chambers, two prominent young men of "Webb, Miss., went to the plantation of T. B. Abbey to search for sonic negroes. They met Abbey,, and in an altercation Abbey shot and killed them both. Abbey has the reputation of a quiet ami peaceful citizen. Deny Blame for Train Wreck. The through passenger train froiii the east on" the Great Northern was thrown from the track in the ..-aids at Great Falls. Mont. Passengers in one car were badly shaken up. but no serious damage was done. Strikers claim that they had nothing to do with it.

Indian Avenges Son’s Death. In a quarrel near Niobrara, Neb., Bird Head, a Ponca Indian, was killed by Harry Laravie, same tribe. Laravie gave hitnsflf: up to Bird, Head’s father, who first shot him dead and then crushed his head with an ax. Christian Ticket Named. 'l'he united Christian party, organized at Rock Island, JU., nominated as its first candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States Rev. Silas (’. Swallow of Harrisburg, Pa., and .John G. Woolley of Chicago. 1 New York Liquor License Fees. The total receipts for liquor licenses in New York City for the coming year are $4,859,815. This is $6,000 more than was paid last year, and includes the fees for licenses from saloons, hotels, restaurants, drug stores and clubs. Is Agninaldo Dead? There areJiep-isteut rumors that Aguinaldo has been killed by the Igbruttes. There is no proof that he has been alive since Maj. March pursued him into the Benquet mountains. Chance to Scott County. At Frankfort, Ky., Judge Cantrill ordered a change of venue to Scott’County for the trial of Powers, Davis. Yotitscy and others charged with complicity in the Goebel murder. Death of Edward <>. Leech. Edward O. Leech, former director of the miut, who underwent an operation’ for appendicitis in Mount Sinai hospital, New York, on April 12, died in that institution. Death Comes at Murder Trial. Thomas E. Porter, a wealthy farmer, whilf attending a murder trial at Sedalia. Ho., became excited, was seized with heart trouble an’d expired before he could be put to bed.

INDIANS DYING OF STARVATION. Kiowas and Coinanches Are Reported in Great Need of Food. The Kiowa and Comanche Indians on their reservation in Oklahoma are. in dire neetMft food. These Indians appeal tc the whites in the Eastern States to help then out before all the tribe dies of starvation. Reports from there say several Indians near Mountain View have died and fifty more are on the brink of starvation and will die unless food is sent soon. Merchants on the reservation Have refused the Indians credit and hence the two tribes are. without food. The Kiowa and Comanche reservation, comprising 3,000,000 acres, is soon to be opened to settlement and these Indians will be homeless. WIDOW IS ACCUSED OF MURDER. Mrs. Frost Is Arrested in NebraskaSaid She Poisoned Her Husband. At Y'ork, Neb., Mrs. Margaret Frost, widow of William Frost", who died a few days ago, supposedly of strychnine poisoning, was arrested, charged with the murder of her husband. She is now in the county jail, where she will remain pending the inquiry of the coroner’s jury. She was arrested on what is known as a coroner's warrant. It sets forth that there is evidence tending to show that Mrs. Frost gave her husband poison.

TRAGEDY AT PEORIA. Bertha Hoffman Found Dead—Charles Briggs Is Arrested. The dead body of Bertha Hoffman, aged 19, the daughter of a Peoria cigar manufacturer, was found in the woods i.ear Prospect Heights. There was a bullet" wound in her head, and her right hand clutched a revolver. Charles Briggs has been arrested on suspicion. Briggs told the police that the girl committed suicide while out riding with him the other evening. Fiery Destruction at Beaver Dam Fire broke out in the engine room of the Beaver Dam, Wis., Malleable Iron Works and destroyed the plant, with a loss of over SIOO,OOO. The fire also communicated to the freight depot of the Chicago,' Milwaukee arid St. Paul Railway, which, with five loaded cars and contents, was also destroyed with a loss of SIO,OOO. Use Strategy to Be Wedded. D. Rosenberg, living at the South Side Hotel in St. Louis, and Miss Goldie Borland of Chicago, who has been visiting friends—the re. wo re married quiet 1 y by Rev. H. J. Messing. In order to marry without the knowledge of their parents or friends the young couple pretended to have had a quarrel. Both now explaining matters to their relatives. Killed in a Mine. More than 200 meh -were killed and more than a score of others will be crippled for life as the result of an explosion in tunnel No. 4 of the Pleasant Valley coal mines, located at Winter Quarters. 100 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah. ■ _ Big Oil Combine in Wyoming. One of the largest oil combines in the West filed articles of 'lncorporation at Cheyenne, Wyo., under the name of the Superior Oil Company, capital stock $lO,500,000. The syndicate is organized as a consolidation of several companies operating in central Wyoming. Find a Big Zinc Vein in Ohio. At Findlay, Ohio, a vein of zine was found at a depth of 900 feet by workmen drilling for oil. The vein is thirty feet thick. Great excitement prevails. Op-' timists claim the Joplin field will be rivaled. - Rolling Mills Shut Down. The East Side rolling mills at Toledo, *u;hich art* a part of the Republic Iron and Steel Company’s system, have shut down indefinitely, throwing 300 men out of work. Lack of orders is given as the cause of the suspension. Mill and Elevator Burned. At- Marietta, Ohio, the Phoenix flouring mill and grain elevator burned to the ground with all the contents. Loss SIOO,000, insurance $30,000. Claude M. Johnson Resigns. Claude M. Johnson, chief of the bureau of engraving and printing at Washington, has tendered his resignation to Secretary Gage. Grantsburg Swept by Fire. Grantsburg, 111., was almost totally destroyed by fire. Only two business houses, the postoffice aud a saloon were left standing. Death of Munkacsy. A dispatch from Bonn says that Michael Munkacsy, tlie celebrated painter, died in an asylum there.