Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1900 — C. P. HUNTINGTON DIES. [ARTICLE]

C. P. HUNTINGTON DIES.

Heart Disease Ends a Long* Energetic and Eventful Life. Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad and one of the wealthiest men in the country, is dead at Pine Knot Lodge, his summer camp near Durant, on Racquette Lake, tn the Adirondack Mountains. The great magnate was stricken before it was known that he was not well and long before assistance could be summoned he died. Heart trouble Is supposed to have been the cause. Almost everybody knows how Collis P. Huntington became what he was, and what he was before his rise. His story and the story of his three associates, all of whom are dead, is interesting. He had been powerful and great so long, however, that many have forgotten him 4s anything else. He was born Oct. 22, 1821, at Harwington, Conn. In 1861, the year of the outbreak of the rivil war, with Messrs. Stanford, Crocker and others, he organized a company to Construct the Central Pacific Railroad. Subsequently he was elected first vice president and general agent of the Southern Pacific Company and president of the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company. For thirty-five years he was actively engaged with these enterprises. April 9, 1890, he was chosen president of the Southern Pacific. He was also president of the Mexican International Railroad.

ELOPING PAIR NOT FORGIVEN. Groom and His Father-in-Law Have Lively Times in Missouri. John _R. West, armed with affidavits from his parents as to his age, eloped to Nevada, Mo., with Miss Ada Crouch, secured a license to wed, and then hastened to Lamar, where the couple were married. Ten minutes after the ceremony a message was received from the young woman’s father ordering the police to arrest them. They were taken to Sheldon, and while West was securing bonds the bride’s father, Dr. Croueh, hurried away with the young wife. When he returned West had him arrested on the charge of kidnaping, and in the midst of the quarrel that ensued Crouch shot at West with his revolver, but failed to hit him. Later Mrs. West left her home, where her father had taken her, saying she was going to visit neighbors. She joined her husband at his home. Crouch, learning of her being there, again took her home. West was arrested while on his way to his father-in-law’s house. He has sued Crouch for SIO,OOO.

TROLLEY CAR HELD UP. Conductor on the Omaha and Council Bluffs Electric Railway Robbed.__ Motor No. 79 of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company was held up and the conductor was robbed by two masked men about midnight the other night. As the motor stopped for a crossing and the conductor started to alight to go ahead two men rose from the darkness at the side of the track and boarded the car. One covered the conductor and the other the motorneer with their weapons. One of the robbers then took from the conductor his gold watch and his cash, amounting. it is estimated, to about SSO. The robbers then jumped from the car and disappeared in the darkness. There were only a few passengers aboard and they were not disturbed.

Fatal Wreck in Louisiana. A Southern Pacific passenger train was going at full speed across the trestle, over the Lacasi'ne bayou, near Lake Charles, La., when the tender jumped the track and broke loose from the engine. The engine went on and the nine coaches were thrown in every, direction. The trestle was completely demolished. On board the train were 150 persons, and the fact that only one boy was killed is beyond explanation. lowan Robbed in Kansas. H. S. Colby, of Post Junction, lowa, has complained to the at Salina, Kan., that he was robbed ,of $3,440 at Salina. He was on his way to Plainville to invest the money and changed cars there. After he got on the second train five men jostled against him and then left the train. Some distance west Colby discovered his loss.

Four Steamer Employes Drowned. Four employes of the steamer Hill City en route from New Orleans to Memphis, lost their lives at Blue Point Landing, Miss. ' The men were engaged in repairing the wheel of the steamer, when the plank gave way and they were precipitated into the river. Suicide of Insurance Man. Erasmus Fenner Henderson, president of Sam Henderson’s Sons & Co., a leading New Orleans insurance agency, committed suicide in his office by shooting himself through the head. Despondence over the death of his wife is believed to have unbalanced his mind. C Oliver Morton Dies in Alaska. A private telegram has been received announcing the death in Alaska of Oliver Morton, son of Oliver P. Morton, war Governor of Indiana. Morton went to Alaska two or three months ago on behalf of the Goivernment to look into the seal and fishing industries. Two Admit Using; Dynamite. Five men have been arrested by the St. Louis police in connection with the use of dynamite on the cars and property of the Transit Company. Maurice Brennan and F. E. Nortthway, two of the suspects, confessed. Fire Damage in St. Lon is. Fire damaged the building occupied by the St. Louis Manufacturing Company and the Laidig Manufacturing Company. manufacturers of office furniture and fixtures in St. Louis. The total loss is SB,OOO. Boni Is Hard Up. Count Boni de Castellano is financially embarrassed. His beautiful summer place, Chateau de Marais, is to be sold at auction. It is said in Paris that his wjfe, Jay Gould’s youngest daughter, declines to give him more money. Race War in New York. The murder of a policeman in New York precipitated a race riot, during which negroes were beaten indiscriminately. Police reserves were called out in order to subdue the mob. Politician Ends His Life. George M. Street, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Pulaski County, Arkansas, committed suicide by drowning in the Mississippi River at St Louis.