Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1900 — GOVERNOR IN PERIL. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR IN PERIL.

MOUNT OF INDIANA NARROWLY ESCAPES INJURY. Republican Nominee Durbin with Him in Cab Accident in Street in Indian-apolis-Missionary Returns to His Family After 18 Years’ Absence. Gov. Mount of Indiana and W. T. Durbin. Republican nominee to succeed Mr. Mount, had a narrow escape from death in front of the Denison Hotel in Indianapolis. They came out of the hotel hurriedly, and. jumping into a cab, ordered the driver to make all possible haste to the union station, as they wished to catch the train to Peru, where the Governor was billed to speak. The driver turned'his horses rapidly upon the street car tracks, and just as he did so the gong of a College avenue car sounded ah alarm. The car was upon the a cab before the driver could turn from the track. One of the horses was knocked down by the rapidly moving car, the driver was knocked from his seat and the cab was partly overturned. Gov. Mount and Col. Durbin were thrown from the cab as it careened under the strain from the collision and both fell to the street. They quickly regained their feet, neither tieing badly hurt, but both being severely shaken up. Gov. Mount received a few bruises upon his arm and Col. Durbin a slight scratch on the face. AERONAUT DASHED TO DEATH. Electricity from a Trolley Wire Responsible for the Accident. Prof. L. J. Kahler, the young aeronaut who had been making daily ascensions at the street carnival in St. Joseph, Mich., was hurled from his balloon in the presence of 5,000 people and dashed head first to the pavement below. Doctors examined the boy and discovered a crack in the head running from the right ear almost to the left. He died. The car of the balloon struck against the trolley wires of the street railway line. A moment later, and the loop of the parachute had caught around the same wires, the balloon swinging clear and continuing its upward course. The sparks from the severed the ropes connecting the parachute, which was suddenly carried up and swung in an immense circle around the trolley. When the parachute had reached the utmost point in its circle Kahler fell. MINE DEAL FOR $13,000,009. English and American Syndicate Buying Walsh’s Ouray Property. The Denver News announces that Thomas F. Walsh will receive $13,000,000 for his Camp Bird mine at Ouray, Colo., from a syndicate of English and American investors, headed by Alfred Belt, the South African diamond ki*g, and J. Pierpont Slorgan, the New York banker. It is said a draft covering the first payment is now on deposit at the First National Bank. John Hays Hammond, the mining expert, arrived at Ouray to make a final examination of the mine on behalf of the syndicate and it is expected the deal will be closed within a very few days.

SURPRISES HIS FAMILY. Husband Returns Home After Absence of Many Years. James Chapman, who went to Alaska as a missionary among the Indians eighteen years ago, returned to Akron. Ohio, recently. He lids long been supposed dead. Chapman’s wife, who secured a divorce several years after he went away, is now married to Charles K. Ives. She did not recognize her former husband and their children did not know him. Spaniards Scuttled Ships. Lieut. Hobson, naval constructor, who has just arrived from the Orient, is quoted by the newspapers as saying that the Spaniards scuttled their ships at Manila. He declares, so these interviewers state, that he examined the hulls of the wrecked vessels and not one was hit hard enough below the water line by shell from Dewey’s fleet to cause her to sink. Elopes with Her Uncle. Seventeen-year-old Annie Johannis, daughter of Prof. Adolph Johannis of 614 East Ninth street, New York, has eloped with her uncle, Franz, and her grief-stricken father, who has searched for days and nights to fiird her, swears to kill her companion. Heiress Jilts a Veteran. M. Bramham, aged 50 years, a Confederate veteran, came to Painesville, 0., from Charlottesville, Va., to wed an heiress whose acquaintance he had made through a Chicago matrimonial agency. The heiress changed her mind and he left town single, penniless and wiser. Hammer Blow Blinds Man. While working in the Hidden Fortune mine, owned by Otto Grantz, north of Lead. S. D., Captain Grant Tod of Lead was accidentally struck in the back of the neck by a mining hammer. The blow shattered the nerves in such a way that total blindness has come to the man. Germany Makes a Demand. Germany defines its attitude on the Chinese question in a note to all the powers demanding that, as a preliminary to peace negotiations, leaders in recent outrages shall be punished. Kills Wife an ! Himself. Near Junction City, Ore.. Herman Petersdorf, a German farmer, murdered his wife by brutally beating her to death with a club, and then committed suicide b >" taking poi Son. Two Ships Sink in Collision. The British steamer Gordon Castle and the German steamer Stormurn met incollision in Cardigan bay and both vessels sunk. Twenty of the persons on board the Gordon Castle were lost. ■ Suicide in Waldorf-Astoria. John C. Hayes, a well-known broker in woolens, committed suicide in the Wal-dorf-Astoria, New York. He shot himself in the right temple while in the basement. Darias of an American Boy. A young American, 15 years old, Hazden Bartlett Harris of New York, accompanied by two guides, has returned from a complete ascent of the Gros Glockner, the highest of the Austrian Alps. Last Balaklava Hero Dead. The last of the Balaklava survivors, James A. White, is dead.' He had lived near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, since 1857.

TRAP FOUR MOONSHINERS. Defiant Gang Finally Captured Without the Firing of a Shot. United States marshals surrounded a moonshiners’ camp in Oregon County, i Mo., and bagged a gang consisting of four i men. All their illicit whisky was-con-fiscated and the still destroyed. The men were taken to Poplar Bluff and arraigned before United States Commissioner J. 0. Brian, bound over to the Federal Court and taken to St. Louis for safe keeping. The gang has long defied the United States authorities, but their capture was effected without the firing of a shot. SEARCH ENDS IN DEATH. Missing Farmer’s Relatives Seek Him in Mine and AH Three Die. + . When William Flick, a farmer of Rimerton, Pa., did not return from the mine on his farm, to which he had gone in the morning to dig a load of coal, his sister started in search of him. She entered the mine and stumbled over her brother’s body and was unable to arise. Later the mother of the two, frightened by their absence, went to the mine. She, too, was overcome. A rescue party found the three victims. They lay together and were dead from damp. BIG STEEL MILLS RESUME. Several Plants Closed Since Famous Gates Order to Start Again. Oliver’s south side plant of the American Steel and Wire Company has resumed operations at Pittsburg and orders have been issued to start the Anderson plant and the rod mill of the same ■concern. The mills have been closed since the Gates order last April. The resumption is caused by the return of confidence in the iron and steel trade and the heavy demand for wire and nails. Employment will be given to several thousand men in the district. Brokers Fail for $2,000,000. Hatch & Foote, a stock exchange house with offices at 3 Nassau street, New York, after a career of thirty-six years, was forced to assign. One partner, Charles B. Foote, crazed and dying at Oceanic, N. J., is charged by his lifelong associate with having wrecked the concern through unauthorized speculation. Killed by a Policeman. Edward Morse, just returned from Nome, was shot and instantly killed by Policeman Fred A. Ribbach at Seattle. Ribbach found Morse and two coinrades attempting to commit burglary in the White Chapel district and tried to arrest them. G. E. Townlee Found Dead in Bed. George E. Tow-nlee, aged 65 years, one of the best-known business men in Indiana, was found dead in bed at Indianapolis. He was of the firm of Fred P. Rush & Co. His wife and children are in Europe. Population Near 76,000,000. William R. Merriam, director of the census, predicts that the census of 1900 will show 7 the population of the United States to be about 76,000,000. This is not an official forecast, but is the opinion of Mr. Merriam. Broom Corn Goes Up. The price of broom corn jumped from SBO to SIOO a ton the other day. The shortage of the crop cannot longer be disputed, for the baling of the brush has shown greatly reduced tonnage in central Illinois. Kansas Bank Robbed of $25,500. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal at Topeka. Kan., received notice by mail of the robbery of the State Bank of Bushton. The robbers made a clean sweep of it, taking $5,064 in money and $20,000 of discounts. Yerkes Buys London Railway. The London Times confirms the report that Charles T. Yerkes has purchased the franchise of the Charing Cross. Euston and Hempstead underground railroad. Big Fire at St. Petersburg. The Hoth English rope works of St. Petersburg were burned, with a loss of $750,000. Slain by Slavs. Massacre of 5,000 Chinese by Russians on the Amur river .in Manchuria is reported by a Russian correspondent. Elections in Cuba. Cuba’s elections passed off quietly. The Nationalists triumphed in the province of Havana. Actress Belle Archer Dead. Belle Archer, the actress, died at Warren, Pa., of apoplexy.