Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1900 — END OF HER ROMANCE [ARTICLE]

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———- ----- . .. - ; - i DAUGHTER OF RICH PARENTS DIES IN OBSCURITY. Wilful Beauty Mare All Prospects in Life by Marrying a Negro—Forgiven After Death—Strikers Compel Oliphant, Pa., Mines to Close. Disowned by "her family in life, Martha Martini won forgiveness by dying. Her family, one of the best-known in Boston-j —the Folsoms — to New York for her , body. The woman died in a little back room of a tenement house. Cerebral hemorrhage, induced by thereat, was the cause. The pet of indulgent parents, with everything that money might buy at her command, she grew up from childhood in willfulness. The first breach resulted when she was barely twenty, because she insisted on marrying Edward Cutter, one of Baek Bay’s well-known men, against her father’s wishes. Mrs. Folsom made the best of it and gave her daughter SIOO,OOO as a wedding present. This fortune Cutter spent quickly. After eight years of married life Cutter died. In 1894 she went to Providence, R. 1., to visit the famous Rufus Waterman. He had a colored butler named Martini. A strange attachment sprung up between the butler and the widow, and a few days later the Watermans and the Folsoms were shocked at their elopement. The Folsoms would not receive their erring daughter back. It all ended in the bare, cheerless back room. She died poor, an outcast, but with much of her former beauty left. All Martini says is: “We loved each other and were happy.”

STRIKING MINERS ARE WEALTHY. Trade Organization Has a Large Fund at Its Disposal. The report of the auditing committee of the United Mine Workers, made pub-lic-at Indianapolis, speaking of the special assessment of 25 cents a month per capita, says that there were more miners on strike on June 30 than when the assessment was ordered. On July 2 the organization had $70,368.05 on deposit in the Capital National Bank of Indianapolis. Many miners are urging that this large fund be used in caring for strikers and that the defense fund assessment be discontinued. SHUT DOWN THE COLLIERIES. All Mines at Oliphant, Pa., Forced to t Close by Strikers. Striking runners and drivers from the Grassy Island mine of the Delaware and Hudson Company at Oliphant, Pa., have forced a complete shutdown of the colliery and the Eddy Creek and No. 2 mines of the company at the same place. The officials refuse to confer with the strikers unless they return to work. The strikers demand a settlement on a basis similar to that given the Providence strikers—sl.so for first hands, $1.35 for second hands and sl.lO for beginners, boys not to receive less than 90 cents per day. Three Young Girls Are Killed. At the village Of Pre.scott, Ind., on the Big Four Railroad, a fatal accident occurred. Misses Mary Wheeler, Josie Zoble and Katie Schaf, three young girls of the neighborhood, in a two-seated spring wagon were crossing the railroad tracks when the “white, city special” bore down upon them, killing Misses Wheeler and Schaf otitright and fatally injuring Miss Zoble, who died soon after. Fatal Row in a Saloon. Jim Kennedy was ordered out of Frank Johnson’s saloon at Union City, Okla., for disorderly conduct. He resented it and drew his gun, shooting Johnson in the head. Johnson replied with two shots. Johnson is dead, but Kennedy will recover. The latter is under arrest, charged with murder. Prove Alibis in Murder Trial. At the conclusion of the preliminary examination at Anoka, Minn., the court decided to felease James Hardy and Elmer Miller, accused of the Wise murders, holding that their alibis were conclusive. Young Mattison, whose confession first directed suspicion to Hardy and Miller, was held for trial. Lost in a Utah Desert. News has reached Williams, Ariz.; of the death of J. M. Meneck upon the desert of southern Utah. Meneck left in June in company with four others, for southern Utah, in quest of a far-famed lost copper mine. He was a representative of the Smithsonian Institution.

Boers Examining Tennessee. An investigation of the land laws and other kindred matters in the State of Tennessee is being made by representatives of the Boers. It is reported that a tract of from 7,000 to 10,000 acres is desired and eastern Tennessee will be given preference of examination. Drop 100 Feet from a Trestle. Near Clifton, Ariz., a hand car with six Mexican employes of the Arizona Copper Company dashed over a trestle on the twenty-inch narrow-gauge road and dropped 100 feet to the bottom of a canyon. Two of them were killed and the others seriously injured. Roumanian Ministry Resigns. The conservative and constitutional parties of Roumania having formed a coalition, the Cantacuzene ministry has resigned, recommending the king to intrust to M. Carp the formation of a conservative coalition cabinet. Buoy Sunk by Andree Found. A telegram from Faroe says that an undamaged empty buoy marked “Andree’s polar expedition, 1896, No. 3,” has been found in the Atlantic ocean south of and neat the coast of Iceland. Company Refuses to Arbitrate. Frederick W. Lehman, attorney for the St. Lottis Transit Company, has made a statement that the Transit coriipany will not submit to arbitration the differences between it and its employes. Two Die from Kentucky Feu 1. In a three-cornered fight at Hawesville, Ky., between Allen and Frank Pulliam and Jack Hesson, Hesson was killed instantly and Allen Pulliam died three hours later! Indian Trouble la Settled. Capt. Mercer, Indian agent at Solway, Minn., says the Indians opposed the building of a school house, and while matters looked serious for a few days everything is now settled amicably.

ARIZONA INDIANS FACE FAMINE. Cattle Dying front Drouth and Food Supply Running Short, The prolonged drouth, probably unprecedented in the history of Arizona, has greatly augmented the sufferings of the famine-stricken Pima Indians on the Sacaton reservation. Members of the tribe have told Superintendent Cowan of the Indian school that their cattle are dying rapidly from starvation and thirst. Most of the Indians now depend for food On the few who still have provisions and the supply cannot last long. They are emaciated and suffering and unless the $33,000 congressional appropriation can be used at once private subscriptions or similar relief measures must be taken. FLOOD TAKES FIFTEEN LIVES. Cloudburst at Coleman, Texas. Turns Rivulets Into Raging Torrents. Sixteen lives were lost in the village of Coleman, Texas, in floods caused by a cloudburst in the mountains above the town. Tremendous rains in the vicinity for two days had swollen all the streams, and the cloudburst transformed them into raging torrents. Ten bodies have been recovered. It is feared that there has been heavy loss of life in the valley below the town, as the flood came at an hour when peqple were sleeping. . ROCKEFELLERS LOSE A LAWSUIT. Iron Mine Case la Settled Ont of Court by a Money Compromise. The suit of Wellington R. Burt against the Superior Consolidated iron mines, the Rockefeller syndicate, in which Mr. Burt claimed that unfair methods were being used to monopolize the iron ranges, has been settled, and Mr. Burt is a victor. By the terms of a lease, filed simultaneously with the dismissal Mr. Burt is to get a minimum of $50,-. 000 a year from his property. Nations Reach an Agreement. The Canadian minister of marine has announced that after several years’ negotiation an agreement has been reached among the governments ofThe United States, Great Britain and Russia as to the terms of arbitration of claims arising out of the seizure of American and British sealing vessels by Russian cruisers in the north Pacific in 1892.

Murder at a Picnic. A shooting affray occurred at Agricultural park, San Jose, Cal., resulting in the instant death of Joseph Cech and the fatal wounding of August Berger. The shooting took place at the picnic of the Brewers’ and Bottlers’ Union. Constable Fred Bergerot of Alvieo, who did the shooting, had been drinking heavily. Sign Three-Year Agreement. The Illinois Brick Company and the Brickmakers’ Alliance in Chicago have signed a three-year agreement, by which the employers are entitled to hire union or non-union men as they please, and the sympathetic strike question remains about as it was under the old agreement. Fire Destroys Trafalgar, Ind. Nearly all the business portion of Trafalgar, Ind.,.is destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated aLS3O,OOO. The town being utterly devoid of protection, no means of staying the flames was of avail. The cause of the fire is unknown. Rain Saves the Corn Crop. Rain has fallen over the entire corn belt of Nebraska and western lowa, the precipitation ranging from one to three inches, some points reporting even more. Experts all agree that this rain secures the corn crop. McGovern Is the Victor. Terry McGovern pounded Frank Erne into a condition of helplessness in the third round of their fight at Madison Square Garden, New York, when the seconds of the latter threw up the sponge. Charged with Manslaughter. Charles Holmes, captain of the yacht Idler, which capsized in Lake Erie and caused the death of six persons, has been arrested on the charge of manslaughter. Russia Ousts China’s Envoy. Russia has handed the Chinese envoy at St. Petersburg his passports and requested him to leave the country with the members of his mission. Death of Colonel Baker. Col. Adam S. Baker, president of the South Bend, Ind., Wagon Company and a pioneer citizen, is dead, aged 70. Congress Not to Aid. President McKinley and cabinet have decided to not call Congress in extra session on account of affairs in China.