Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

GREAT FIRE IN OSHKOSH. Lnmber and Mills Burned, Loss Being" Nearly $300,000. Fire broke out in the sawmill district at Oshkosh, Wis., ai-.d in three hours it destroyed nearly $300,000 worth of property, mostly lumber stock. The tire spread over an area of nine acres, the district burned being between Black Hawk, Osceola and Pearl streets and. the rirer. The Diamond Match Company ifj the heaviest loser, its loss being placed at $175,000. The company had-between/ 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 feet of match splint lumber, valued at from $25 to $35 per thousand. This was nearly all destroyed. The fire started in the dressed lumber shed of the Flollister-Ames Company and spread with remarkable rapidity throughout the lumber-yard. The Hoi 1 ister. Aines Company:places itsdoss at SBO,OOO. Jn the same block as the Diamond Match Company the Chailoner’s Sons Foundry Company suffered a loss of between $15,000 and $20,000, its wood pattern-shops and several small store buildings in which'were stored finished ice machines and shingle machines being destroyed. ...n : - i_PROGRESS OF CENSUS WORK. Enumeration Work.on Twelfth Count of People Is Completed. The twelfth census, so far as the enumeration work is concerned, is completed. There were 53,000 enumerators and 297 supervisors. The cost of the enumeration will be about $4,200,000. Most of the enumerators have been paid. The factory work also is about finished. All of the special field agents in the manufacturing and industrial lines will complete their work and be paid off by Xov. 1. The cost of this work will be about $250,000. The entire force in the census bureau in Washington is now engaged in tabulating the statistics gathered. Tht report of the census bureau, when completed, will occupy eight volumes of 1,000 pages each. Although the work of the present is heavier by several million inhabitants than ever before, Director Merriam thinks it will be ready for the public six weeks earlier than heretofore.

AWED BY STRANGE CALLERS. Woman at Brookdale, N. J., Is Victim of Persecution. Masked men, spooks, midnight visitations and mystery are mixed up in a story which Jacob Gilman, farmer of Brookdale, N. J., has told to the police. Gilman says his place has been visited in his absence by armed masked men, who threatened to blow his wife’s head off unless she signs a paper which they have presented to her. He says she was too frightened to note the contents of the document. After three visits Gilman aroused his neighbors, and the country about his- place was scoured, but not a trace found of the mysterious strangers. Gilman hired a man, but when he went tojhe barn to look after the live stock the masked men again visited Mrs. Gilman and threatened her. He then hired a negro for n body guard, but they again put in an appearance and fired three shots at her. Gilman will employ detectives.

Wholesale Evictions at Burt Lake. The Indians of the Indian village at Burt lake. Michigan, are homeless. The land which they lived on was sold for taxes two or three years ago rind on Oct. 4, 1899, they promised to go away in the spring if the writ of assistance granted by the Circuit Court was not served and they were allowed to stay. A few of them went away. The remainder have beem evicted and their homes burned down. United States Yield of Potatoes. The potato crop of the United States, according to Orange Judd Farmer’s final report at the practical completion of harvest, approximates 239,000.000 bushels, or nearly 5,000,000 bushels less than last year, and a fairly good yield compared with the average of the past ten years. Extremes in climatic conditions were responsible for holding the crop within bounds. The average yield is eightythree bushels an acre. Vast Shipyards Planned. Former Mayor Herman Walker of Guttenburg, N. J., with Hamilton V. Meeks, another rich land owner, announces that they have formed a syndicate of millionaires to establish on the Hudson, just above Guttenburg, one of the largest shipbuilding yards in the country. The plant, these men say, will give steady employment to 100,000 men.

Many Injnred in Collision. A I.ake Erie and Western switch engine struck a Brightwood car at Thirteenth street. Indianapolis. There were twenty-one passengers in the car at the time, and of this number fifteen wore more or less injured. The engine struck the front end* of the car, reducing it to kindling wood. Three persons were fatally hurt. Oil Thrower Ruing Tan Coat. The St. Louis police are looking for a man who is known only as “Jack, the oil thfower.” A yt?ar ago he ruined scores of women’s dresses by squirting oil o.v them, apparently from a syringe. His first victim this season is Mrs. Ida Schwartz, whose tan coat was ruined. Prince Appointed Regent. “King Oscar’s illness,” says a dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Stockholpi, “has developed into a serious inflammation of the lungs. The crown prince has been appointed regent.” Eight Perish in the Flames. > Eight people were either burnjtd to death or suffocated in a fire partially destroyed the three-story-a nd-nttic frame double tenement house 35 hnd 45}4 Hester street. New York. / * Coal' Strike Is Over. J A copference at Philadd phi-.J resulted in an agreement to nccedt* to dtAnands by the mine workers’ convention, which BUMuis end of the big jftrikle.

MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.65; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.82; sheep, fair to to $4.10; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, ,38c to 39c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eg§s, fresh, 15c to 18c; potatoes, 27c to 32c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.70; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, 'No. 2 white, t 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $4.65; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, Nq. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 22c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No: 2 mixed, Ac to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $4.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow,. 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, §le to 52c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 41e to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 5.3 c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.75. Milwaukee—Wheat. Xo. 2 northern. 74e to 75c; corn, No. 3,39 cto 40c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2; 57c to 58c; pork, mess, $13.00 to $14.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $5.85. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 19c to 22c; eggs, western, 19c to 21c. GIRL MURDERS FOUR HUSBANDS.

Indian Slays White Spouses to Prevent Them Learning a Secret. Mrtilie Fox Water, a pretty half-breed Osage Indian woman, has been arrested and placed in jail at Tulsa, I. T., on charge of having murdered during the past ten years her four husbands. She admitted having been the cause of their death, but claimed she did it in self-de-fense. Hers is a strange story. She is the descendant and only child of Fox Water, an old Osage warrior who died years ago. To her lie left the secret of a lost gold mint*; which she has since vis-' it£d secretly and carried from it enough gold to live in princely style and travel abroad. Ten years ago she was married for the first time, and a few jnoftths later her husband disappeared in some unaccountable manner. Since then she has been married three' times, her last husband having ibeeD discovered dead beside the road one day not long ago. His stomach was found to contain Slow poison. She was arrested on suspicion of having killed all four of them, and. to the surprise of the officials, admitted that she did. She claims that her selfish white husbands were not content with having what gold she gave them, but that -they wished her to reveal the secret, of the mine. This she would not do. They then attempted to follow her, and she poi-' soned them.

ROBS THE MAILS OF $15,033. Burglar Steals from a Postal elation in New York City. Tempted by the knowledge that thousands of dollars were within his grasp and fortified by an intimate acquaintance with postoffioe methods, some one robbed the United States mail of the entire receipts for the day of station H, the "second general postoffice,” at Forty-fourth street and Lexington avenue, New York. Such an occurrence is unprecedented in the annals of New York. Subordinate officials place the loss at from $15,000 to $40,000. ■ Ten Killed Over One Girl. George C. Beveridge, a resident of San Francisco and one of the owners of the famous Dolores jnine of Mexico, brings news of,a horrible tragedy enacted in the vicinity of his mine. A handsome young girl was abducted from her home by a man who was enamored of her and kept a close prisoner in a cave for three months. During that time ten men were killed because of her. Carloads of Oatmeal Paved. John Bruce ran a locomotive into a flame-sheeted shed,of the American CeA real Company’s plant at Chicago, where his conductor, Edward Kitchen, coupled the engine to five ears loaded with oatmeal. A minute Jater the cars, with flaming roofs, were pulled out into the open, where they were saved by firemen.

Shot by an Actress. Zorah Card, an actress, shot and probably fatally wounded Joseph Pazeri in Chicago. Taxon is a theatrical agent and is said to have written several letters reflecting on Miss Card. In answer to a note she called upon him. A quarrel resulted, during which the shot was fired. Wisconsin PoatofHce Robbed. At, Fond du Lac, Wis., the postoffice \ynh entered by burglars*and a large amount of stamps, motley and registered letters taken. The burglars used a “spreader” to remove the dial from the vault door, and dynamited their way through the second door. 1 Florida** Orange Crop. A conservative estimate of Florida’s orange crop this year placed the yield at 1,000,000 boxes. 'An extra large yield will be bad in Manatee. Hillsboro and DeSoto Counties. . Thanked by Chinese Emperor. Emperor Kwang Hsu, ruler of China, has sent to President McKinley his personal acknowledgment of the high services of this nation toward the restoration of peace in the flowery kingdom.

BUTLER STEALS CASKET OF GEMS. Servant of Mrs, Charles Pfizer Replaces Jewels with Large Nalls. Some of the splendid jewels with which Mrs. Charles Pfizer dazzled the frequenters of the New York horse show last winter disappeared 'from her summer home at Bernardsville, N. J., recently, and with them her model butler, known to her as David Richard. When Mr. and Mrs. Pfizer went to New York, Airs. Pfizer gave her jewel casket to her maid to keep. The maid secreted it in her room. David Richard went about in his silent fashion, ears and eyes wide open, mouth shut. “Going to church, David?” asked the maid on Sunday. “I think not, today.” said David. The silent butler stole over the house to see if everything was in order. He or some pne employed gobbled the jewel case of his mistress and substituted an equal weight of nails, xhe casket had contained a diamond necklace %orth $2,000, two handsome diamond rings, four dianfond sunbursts and a number of other pieces of jewelry, the whole valued at $20,000.