Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — HEAD IN A PACKAGE. [ARTICLE]

HEAD IN A PACKAGE.

GREWSOME TOKEN SENT TO A CHICAGO BANK OFFICIAL. Detective Sent to Honduras in Search of a Defaulter Comet to Horrible Bnd— End of September Brings About Brighter Outlook for Business. The sight of the head of a private detective received and unwrapped by a Chicago bank official is said to be the cause of the latter’s absence from his office. The sending of the head is still a mysterv and none of the local bankers would admit that their institution had been the recipient of the grewsome article. Despite their denials the story found credence among many men who sre familiar with the details. Several years ago, So the story runs, a bank cleik defaulted with SB,OOO. He fled to South America and found his way to Spanish Honduras, where there is no extradition treaty. The bank officers learned of his whereabouts and sent a private detective after him, with instructions to secure him at all hazards. Later the detective wrote that he had determined to kidnap the man. After this letter there was a long silence. While the bankers were confidently expecting word that the man had been captured the package containing the detective’s head was received. BETTER INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK. Little of Significance to Be Extracted from Price Movement. Bradstreet’s says: “The month of September closes with a rather better outlook in the industrial world than was apparent a week or ten days ago. But little of significance is to be extracted from ♦he movement of prices. Wheat has been somewhat irregular and prices shift listlessly. Corn, though inactive, showed strength, presumably on small supplies of ‘spot.’ Spot cotton is up on the week, but the general market has fluctuated nervously. A satisfactory activity in distributive trade, checked to some extent in certain localities by unseasonable weather and in others by a tendency to curtail operations pending the outcome of the electoral contest, is disclosed by telegraphic advices. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4/242,810 bushels, against 3,535,857 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,156,171 bushels, against 2,134,205 last week.”

Murray Bay Quarantined. Many members of the large American colony at Murray Bay, the fashionable watering place of the lower St. Lawrence, are in a sorry predicament, being quarantined for scarlatina in their families and unable to leave for home. The disease first declared itself in ths household of Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court. Fatal Wreck at Durand, Mich. A fast freight train crashed into a switch engine on the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railroad at Durand, Mich , killing Engineer Thomas Hamlin of Detroit and Fireman John Linden of lonia. Twenty-four loaded cars were burned and both engines were demolished. Gas Ends His Life. W. T. Casgrain, a civil engineer, who was for fifteen years in the employ of the United States government, committed suicide in a room at the La Vita Hotel, No. 211 Dearborn avenue, Chicago. Casgrain lived happily with his wife and two children and was supposed to be in comfortable circumstances financially. Contests on the Diamond. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...76 51 Chicago .....61 70 Pittsburg ... .74 57 St. Louis.... 59 69 Philadelphia 69 60 Cincinnati ...58 72 Boston 64 63 New Y0rk...55 74

Cousin of Gen. Grant Dead. Capt. Frederick Dent Sharp, IL S. A., retired, cousin of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, died in Kansas City from an overdose of bromide, taken to relieve pain. Capt. Sharp was totally blind, and it is supposed he was unable to properly gauge the quantity of-the drug. Priest Grabs the Robber. Father Fitzpatrick, >pastor of the Holy Family Church at Omaha, had a desperate battle with a burglar in the church, but finally won his fight and notified the police. At the station the man gave the name of James Wilson and said he was from Helena, Mont. Woman Burned to Death. Mrs. R. C. Pickett was burned to death at her home in Minneapolis. A lamp she carried exploded while she was in the bathroom and despite the desperate es- - forts of her husband to rescue her she was burned to death before his eyes. Big Dry-Goods Store Burns. The dry goods store called La Vajenda, which is situated on the Plaza, opposite the cathedral in Mexico City, was burned. The loss is estimated at $750,000. Russia Acts in China. The Russian minister and troops have been withdrawn from Pekin.' The action fa taken to be a protest against the aims of Germany. New Premier for Quebec. g. N. Parent has accepted the premierdhrfp of Quebec, to succeed the late Premier Marchand. Indian Chief Five Years Old. A* a result of the murder of Chief Charley on the Lac du Flambeau reservation, Wisconsin, the dead man’s son, Neganigifig, aged 5 years, has been pro dalmed chief of the Chippewas. Causa, the murderer, had a narrow escape after the murder from infuriated Indians. Firemen Hurt in Collision. Four firemen were injured, one fatally, In a collision -at Ashland avenue and Fifty-first street, Chicago, engine com- , wany No. 49 being run into by an electric 'V’.'