Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — MISSING FOR YEARS. [ARTICLE]

MISSING FOR YEARS.

MAN LONG THOUGHT DEAD RETURNS TO HIS WIFE. Muncie Woman Mourhed Absent Husband and Welcomes Him Fondly Upon His Return—The Unsettled Weather Causes a Quiet Week in Business. After years of separation, each person mourning the other as dead, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Wilson have been reunited in Muncie, Ind. Several years ago Wilson became involved in trouble, the secret of which he never divulged. He left his home, deserting his wife and one child, went West, and amassed considerable money. Finally he gathered together his belongings and started for Muncie. Little did he expect that he would find his wife there, but inquiry proved that she was employed as a domestic in the family of John Max. Wilson .went to the Max home and rapped on the rear door. To his amazement his ■wife answered the knock. Mrs. Wilson threw her arms about her husband’s neck and cried hysterically. Wilson, his wife and daughter are now comfortably situated in a little cottage, but the secret of his departure he still refuses to divulge.

RECORD OF A QUIET WEEK. Unsettled Weather Curtails Distribution and Retards Speculation. Bradstreet's says: “Unsettled weather - conditions have operated to curtail retail and jobbing distribution this week, and imparted a quieter tone to several lines ■ indirectly associated therewith. Stock speculation, too, has been less rampant, and last week’s record of bank clearings has, therefore, not been equaled. There is, however, little or no apparent loss of basic strength, and, indeed, the general level of staple prices has been slightly advanced. This latter movement is most notable in the iron and steel trades, in raw cotton and to a lesser degree in the cereals and some hog products. Wheat, including flour, shipments, for the week aggregate 3,827,296 bushels, against 4,062,020 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 5,235,568 bushels, against 3,976,914 last week. FARMER IS HEIR TO SBO,OOO. Saved Man’» Life Twenty-five Years Ago and Is Beneficiary of Will. Franklin B. Aim-worth, a poor former near Binghamton, N. Y., has fallen her to SBO,OOO for saving a man’s life twentyfive years ago. Ainsworth was driving along the road and seeing a man struggling in the water, went to his rescue. The half-drowned individual asked h:s rescuer’s name and remarked that Ainsworth would hear from him some time. Recently he receiver! a letter from a lawyer in Philadelphia stating that a man had died in that city who had left his money to Ainsworth because he had once saved his life. Man Is Boiled to Death. Citizens of Pagosa Springs, Colo., discovered the body of a man in a hot spring. The body was found to be liter- ’ ally cooked, the temperature of the untempered water of the spring being over 160 degrees. Investigation disclosed the fact that the man was a stranger who had given the name of Smith and nothing was discovered that would solve his identity.

Discover* 11 New Plant. G. H. Zscbeck, a botanist of Chicago, who has been visiting in St. Louis for several days, has made a discovery in one 6f the parks which he believes of importance to the botanical world. He is pietty certain that he has discovered a new plant, which he will investigate and namePanthers Devour Two Children. The killing of two children by panthers In La Salle County, Texas, has aroused the ranchmen and cowboys of that part of the State, and a big hurt is being organized for the purpose of ronnding up and slaughtering all the panthers and wolves to be found in La Salle and adjoining counties. Shoots Wife, Kills Self. William Goepper, a Cincinnati street K tailway conductor who had been drinking I? heavily, attempted to kill his wife with ” * dumbbell and seriously injured her. When he thought he had killed her and t-hs neighbors closed in on him he killed himself by shooting through his head. Joe Mnlbatton in au-Asylum. Joe Mulhatton, known as “king of Hers" among traveling solesmen, was •ent to the insane asylum at Phoenix, Aris. His trouble is attributed to ovetIndulgence in alcoholic stimulants. He has been operating a mine bear Florence. Thefts Net $1,000.000. Henry Seelife, a swindler whose stealings may aggregate $1,900,000, and who has been a fugitive from justice for four nnn, was arrested in New York City. He Is said by the police to have been swindling Chicago merchants. fwenty-aix Lives Lost. Twenty -six lives were lost by the wVxX ot th* iro n coasting steamship St. month of Seven Islands bay •a the coast of Ifbrador. Not a soul was saved to tell the story of the loss. Three Die from Kxploeion. While lightering the cargo es the stranded steamer Isaac HJllwood in Mud lake, Michigan, the forward boiler of the lighter Stewart blew up, killing three •sen -and injuring six others. Chicago Commerce Faile Off. Chicago’s commerce for the year 1900 will show a great falling off as compared 'to that of previous years, says Lyman E. Cooley. The engineer • further declares ' that, the commerce of the city has not > DUtintained a relative growth equal to that of other parts of the worid. . *■„ •/•. «OX Blays Hb Playmate. tfen lfetUn.. a 10-y ear-old boy, IAKiS-yeaboid son of J. F.. Fennell to IKh at W«»tJh»ion. W. V*. The tra-