Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — ESCAPES FROM GREAT PERIL. [ARTICLE]

ESCAPES FROM GREAT PERIL.

North Shore Fisherman Suffers Terrible Hardships in Small Boat. Andrew Tofte, a north shore fisherman of Tofte, Lake County, Minn., has just survived an experience of almost incredible hardship and peril. He went out in a rowboat to work- about bis nets when a northwest gale suddenly arose and blew his boat to the eastward. The tug Dowling started to the rescue and about four miles from shore the sea was so high that her master. Captain Taylor, turned back. It took the tug two hours to reach the shore. Tofte was given up for lost. Thirty-six hours later he returned. coatless and hatless, drenched to the skin and. benumbed with cold after two days and a night without- food. He could not get out of the boat without assistance when be reached the shore and was carried in a fainting condition to his home. Tofte’s boat drifted thirty-five miles to the east across the track of vessels. He 'saw several steamers, but could not attract their attention.

TUG MAXWELL BURNED. Crew of Boat Owned by Booth Packing Company Has Narrow Escape. The crew of the fishing tug William Maxwell had a narrow escape when fire broke out on the boat as she lay at her dock Michigan City dock. They had barely time to get to the dock, leaving all their clothing on board the burning boat. The decks and cabins were destroyed, and (he engine and boiler were badly damaged, but the hull may be saved. The Maxwell belongs to the A. Booth Packing Company. Fever Peonrging Cuba. Alarming news confirming the statements that yellow fever is epidemic in Cuba has been received by the surgeon general’s department in Washington. In Havana it is stated not a single block is exempt from the scourge, while in some as high as seventeen cases are reported. Cable Steamer a Totdl Loss. 11. H. Porter, a passenger on the Nome steamer Lane, reports that the cable steamship Orizaba, which was wrecked on Rocky Point reef,'■St. Michael Island, is a total loss. It was abandoned. The Orizaba was laying a government cable between,St. Michael and Nome City.

Kills His Sweetheart’s Father. Dr. Conda Beck killed William Barton at WH.vmniisville, Ind., because Barton objected to-Beck keeping company with his daughter. Two years ago Beck killed Miss Grace Cohee because she refused to marry him. He .was acquitted of the crime. . Ship Sunk and Many Drowned. News of a marine catastrophe as a result of which thirty-three persons, nineteen of Whom were foreigners, five hailing from the United States, were drowned, was brought by the Empress of Japan. 'The Norwegian steamer Callanda was sunk in a collision. Americans De.eated by Filipinos. A detachment of twenty men of the Twenty-fourth regiment, while engaged in repairing telegraph wires, at a point near San Jose, Nuevo Ecija province. Isle de Luzon, Philippines, were set upon by 200 rebels and were overpowered and scattered. Mrs. Manning Loses Jewels. Mrs. Daniel Manning, while leaving her hotel in Paris, lost a diamoud sunburst valued at $2,500. As a strange coincidence, both lady commissioners of the United States at the Paris exposition sustained a loss of jewels. Lav Claim to Great Fortune. The family of the late John Clark of New York have engaged counsel to try to obtain for them the estate of his brother, I inlay Clark, who died a few years ago in Australia, leaving a fortune estimated at $20,000,000. Arrested on Charge of Child Murder. Henry Howard Stewart, a stenographer employed in the Metropolitan Life Insurance building, New York, was arrested in his employers’ office at the instance of the Cleveland police, who want him for child murder. Dies in a Missouri Fire. Two business houses at New Bloomfield. Mo., linrned. D.\ C. M. Wright, who was sleeping in on» of the stores,* was burned to death. The financial loss is about $3,000. partly insured. Chinn Wants Peace. Minister Conger has forwoi Jed from Pekin an nppon! from China for the hastening of pence negotiations, an,3 an affirmative an>wer has been cabled by the State Department. Jr Dillingham In Chosen S?nntor«Ji Ex-Gov. W. P. Dillingham was alfmed United States Senator by the Vgfiuont legislature. The choice was Js a d# on the third ballot. ,