Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1900 — HANGS TO A BRIDGE. [ARTICLE]

HANGS TO A BRIDGE.

A MUSCULAR HUSBAND SAVES HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF. Holds Woman in Suspension While Long Freight Train' Passes Over Them —Almost a Fatality—End of Coal Strike Improves Business. Mr. and Mrs. White of BLairville, Ta., had a narrow escape from death on the rails. They had been visiting in Homestead. They missed their train and started to walk to Blairville. They had to cross the high and long bridge across the Kisirdnacks river. When half way over the ywere overtaken by a freight train. Mr. White dropped down between the ties and held his wife suspended in the air, fifty feet from the water below, while the long train passed over them. Then, with great difficulty, he lifted her to the bridge again. His coat was caught by the train and was torn, so close was he to the trucks. - NEBRASKA MOB IS OUTWITTED. Attempt to Lynch the Slayer of Rule's Town Marshal Fails. Town Marshal Wake of llulo, Neb., was shot and instantly Killed by a drunken man whom he had placed under arrest, and the lynching of the murderer was averted only by the outwitting of a mob by the authorities, who hurried him secretly away from the town. William Hunt was the man’s name, and when Marshal Wake arrested him for drunkenness he resisted, and, pulling his revolver, shot the officer twice in the breast. He confessed to the crime and a determined mob quickly formed and advanced on the jail where Hunt was confined. The authorities received warning in time and hustled the man off to Falls City, the county seat. SETTLEMENT HELPS BUSINESS. Industrial Situation Is Improved by End of the Coal Troubles. Bradstreet’s says: “Perhaps the most notable feature of the week is found in the industrial situation, which has been distinctly improved by the apparently official and final action taken toward ending the anthracite coal miners’ strike. In view of the fact that most of the miners have obtained increased wages, the effect on business in the producing regions can hardly be otherwise than beneficial, while the trade at large must reap benefits from the return to normal conditions.” Finds W. M. Rice Was Poisoned. Little by little the mystery which has surrounded the death of the aged millionaire, William Marsh Rice of New York, is being penetrated. Prof. Rudolph A. Witthaus positively declared that bichloride of mercury had been discovered in the stomach of the recluse in sufficient quantity to have caused his death.

Floods in England. Violent gales, accompanied by snow and rain, hare swept over parts of England, causing floods. Tlie northern districts of the lowlands were flooded. At Newcastle, Hartlepool, Stockton, South Shields and elsewhere people have been compelled to seek refuge in the upper stories of their houses. Sues Three Cracker Concerns. Attorney General Smyth filed suit in the District Court at Lincoln, Neb., against the Jones, Douglass & Co. Cracker Company of New Jersey and the American Biscuit Manufacturing Company of Illinois, charging them with having combined as a trust in restraint of trade. Indiana Bank Is Robbed. The bank of Seeds Bros, at Bridgeport, Ind., was robbed of over SI,OOO in cash and many notes about 3 o’clock on a recent morning. Although the explosion aroused the citizens at the time, the robbers escaped. Strikers and Troop? Fight. Strikers in the cotton mills at Valley Field, Que., and militia, called out to suppress rioting, clashed with fatal results. Eight soldiers and fifteen strikers were wounded, two soldiers and one striker probably fatally. Kiplins Home Is for Sale. Rudyard Kipling has offered for sale, through a Boston real estate concern, his place at Brattleboro, Vt., the home of his wife’s people, which he built and it •was understood he intended to occupy permanently. Woman Ends Her Life. Mrs. Mabel Hanson, said to be the wife of a prosperous furniture dealer in California, committed suicide in New York by drinking carbolic acid. She and her ifyisband had separated and this is given as the cause of her taking her life.

Find Bonn* Money in Ensft The New York Produce Exchange Bank announced that it has detected a counterfeit of the new $5 silver certificate with the vignette of Red Jacket, the Indian chief. The counterfeit is described as a photographic process print. Bconrge Killing Northwest Indians. Advices from Omenica, B. C., say that scores of Indians are dying of a new scourge, similar to grip. Thirty-fire members of one tribe of 100 died within two weeks. * The scourge afflicts the males only. England Takes Powewion in Pretoria. The Transvaal has been proclaimed a part of the British Empire, the proclama- ■ tion being attended with impressive ceremonies in Pretoria. Plana Big Smelting Plant. The Imperial Gold Mining Company of Pittsburg, Pg., has secured a millsite in Dead wood, 8, D., where will be erected the largest cftatohi cyanide and chlorinating works in the Bl#ck Hills. Work upon the plant will; continence this full and if , ty to bp completed .by .spring-<leor*c.T-ewky ils Killed by » Woman. George Dc*ey, a .'well-known ‘citizen, sTna assnwriuateiJ in the Court liohse Fafk. Pine Bluff; Ark., by an unknown .gad mysterious Woman. After the fatal i ’'itsSln jd.' ,»* • . iiUot wCiiycu* KMFvZJfciL . f a**. ..u ....