Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1900 — SHE COMES BACK RICH. [ARTICLE]

SHE COMES BACK RICH.

BOSTON TELEPHONE GIRL GAINS WEALTH. She Placidly Accom panted Her Brother to Atlin in 1896 and Dug Out Her Own Fortune-United Statea Supreme Court Draws Color Line. ' Carrying drafts to the amount of nearly $400,000, Miss Margaret Kelly, formerly a telephone girl in Boston, arrived in Minneajxdis on her way to Chicago. Then she will go "to Boston to see heft; parents and provide for their neceagr ties. Miss Kelly was one of five young women who accompanied their brothers from Boston to Atlin in the spring of 1896. “We had many hardships,” sal® Miss Kelly, “and several members of ourj party died. The McGuire girls and my** self opened a small hotel when w'e led Alaska. In the fall of dt for t,* speculators... 'invested -in move claims. ■ \l7worked two ,and cleaned upJjpfcT.CX'K) in six months. The cost of operation was tremendous. Eventually we sold them for $400,000 icash. We ylanped to go to Nome, but learned that region was poor, so we’ ‘came back. Before we went west my ibrother John was in business at Springjfield. My former vocation was that of ia telephone girl. I used to sit and say . hello all day long for $6 a, week.” VICTIM OF HAZING EXPIRE?. Former Weft Point Cadet Dleß After . * , Twdslearß of Agony. Oscar L. Bo&z, a former cadet at West iPoint Military Academy, who had been lying at the point of death at his home In Bristol, Pa,, suffering from injuries which his patwnts claim were were the result of hazitip at the academy over two years ago, died in agony. The cause of death Was throat consumption. It is alleged by the young man’s father that itabasco sauce was poured down his son’s [throat while the cadets were hazing him. jThe father also claims that red pepper *was thrown in the youth’s eyes, hot grease poured on his bare feet, a tooth knocked out and other fiendish methods «f torture indulged in.

DECIDES FOR “JIM CROW” CARP. United States Supreme Court Draws Color Dine in Travel. In an opinion; handed down the other day the United' States Supreme Court put the stamp o4its approval upon “Jim •Crow*’ cars—that is, Coaches exclusively for colored passengers on railroads. There was, however, one dissenting voice, that of Justice Harlan, who solemnly declared that no State 4i|d a right thus to classify dtixens of th|Rjnited States. The case was that o|r the State of Kentucky against the ‘Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, to compel it to use “Jim Qc“w" car's. The court decided for the State. Turkey to Pay Indemnity. Hassan Pasha, Ottoman minister of marine, ud Gen. Williams, representing the Cradtt) Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, have signed a contract for the construction of a c-ruiser’for the Ottoman navy. The price to be paid is £350,000, which includes £23,000 as indem-. nity to the-United States for losses sustained by Americans during the Armenian massacres. ’jFxpel Lloyd J. Pmith. Lloyd Smith, acquitted in the criminal courSpf a charge of shipping grain from the warehouse of the Chicago Elevator Company without canceling the receipts, %as found guilty by the board of directors of the Chicago Board of Trade and whs expelled from his seat in that organfcation. English in Kaiser’s Land. Annfhun cement of the nature of Emperor jVilliaui's decree regarding the reform Of the higher schools has aroused the widest interest in German educational circles. The principal feature recommended is the making of lessons in the English, language compulsory in certain classes, Methroning French. Explosion in Chicago Power House. (ien killed, a train wrecked and passengers and employes injured, le results of the explosion of a i the Northwestern Railway Cornpower house in Chicago. The j loss is about $40,000. en. White Pleats Guilty. W. L. White of Grand Rapids. ;ermaster general of the Michigan 1 Guard, pleaded guilty to the of complicity In the State miliithing frauds and was sentenced t Wiest to ten years in prison. Double Tregedy in Jersey. Frank Tuscani was murdered at Hackensack, N. J., and the man who slew him was then in turn stabbed repeatedly by the friends of the victim. It was practically a lynching on the part of friends. Total Population of Russia. The population of Russia was estimated at about 75,000,000 in 1801, the year of the emancipation of the serfs. It is calculated to be over 136,000,000, i<?Civ*tfrhg to a statement just published Gy the ministry of finance. Traina Collide ip Mexico. A terrible wreck, in which a score of persons were killed and about sixty hurt, occurred on the ifexican Central Railway between Tania nncha and Symon. - Dies From MCnrn Onttin sr. Eastwood Eastwmm. Mayor of Central Fall»7R» 1., diotk/rbm Wo<»||poisoßing resulting from a m t in fti« roe during the removal of a corn, * did not dem the'jfcpwtrio'm .at the time, but later the bflg medico* skjjl was employed in vain i»,< flnfe. ci;r<*. j