Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

LIVES IN PRISON 43 YEARS.

Man' Convicted of Murder Dies Protesting His Innocence. George Knight, whose prison service of forty-three years is a record unequaled, died at the State prison at Thomaston, Me., aged 83 years. He had been in poor health -for several years, but had been buoyed up by the hope that he would be pardoned. A few days ago in a fit of despondency, he‘■slashed his throat with a razor and gradually his life ebbed away, following the loss of blood and the shock to his system. On his death bed he was pressed to make a dying confession, but he continued to assert his innocence to the last and his final words were: “I have told all I have to tell. I never murdered my wife, never.” Knight was convicted of the nmrtltuvnf his wife Qct. 6. 1850, iu Poland. He was an industrious farnffer and married the widow of his brother, she being 61 and he 40. The disparity of their ages was a source of domestic difference. One night during his absence she was found with her throat cut and he was convicted on circumstantial evidence, the strongest piece being the testimony of a girl that she saw the shadow of a man resembling Knight in the house that night. He was sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. SHOT IN THIEF CHASE. Marvin Kuhns, Who Escaped from Ohio Penitentiary, Is Located. A desperate fight between the police and a criminal took place at Logansport. Lid., when officers undertook to arrest a man wanted at Warsaw for horse stealing. During the day the police had received an order to look out for a man and stolen team, and located them at the livery barn of Frank Sellers. When they started to make the arrest the officers were ignorant of the identity of their man, but as soon as they caught sight of him he was recognized by Chief of Detectives O. A. Sommers of the Panhandle, who chanced to be with the officers, as Marvin Kuhns, the noted Ohio criminal, who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary on Nov. 29. Kuhns at once opened fire on the officers with two revolvers and a running fight followed which was continued to beyond the eastern city limits. Here the officers ran out of ammunition. Benjamin Dean, one of the policemen, was seriously wounded by Kuhns, who escaped temporarily.

FIERCE FIGHT IN OKLAHOMA. Two Deputy Sheriffs Arrest Three , Rowdies and All Are Wounded. Near Mountaiuview Station, O. T., Deputy Sheriff Jesse W. Morris and Special Deputy Alfred Acress attempted to arrest George 'Williams, Mart Williams and George Call, a half-breed Indian. A desperate fight ensued. Deputy Morris received a bullet .through the right lung. Acress is shot through the right knee, the Indian has two bullet wounds in his body and one in his nose and cheek, while George Williams has wounds in the left leg and Mart Williams has one through both jaws. The outlaw's are all under arrest. Six Hurt in a Wreck. Four persons injured, many passengers shaken up and thrown into great excitement, three locomotives and three gravel cars wrecked and traffic interrupted for two hours resulted from a head-on collision between a construction gravel train and the St. Louis express on the Chicago and Alton road near Sag Bridge, thirty miles out of Chicago. The failure of a flagman to carry out instructions was the cause of the accident! (ollege Building Burned. The main building of lowa State College at Ames was almost destroyed by fire. The fire originated in the boiler room from a pile of kindling and only a portion of the four-story structure remains. About 450 students roomed in the main building and were glad to escape with their lives and many with numerous burns: The structure was erected over forty years ago and the loss will be over SIOO,OOO. Ferrell Hopes for Mercy. Gov. Nash of Ohio has called a special meeting of the board of pat lons to consider the application on behalf of Rosslyn H. Ferrell for a commutation of sentence. Ferrell is under sentence to be electrocuted on March 1 for the murder of Express Messenger Lane. The date of the meeting was fixed by the Governor for Jan. 10, 1901.

Steel Rails for Norway* Negotiations are in progress for the chartering of -five tramp steamships which will carry from Philadelphia 11,800 steel rails to Norway. The orders for ils will he placed by tlm state railways Of Norway with the Feudal sylvania Steel Company and the Man| land Steel Company. F aw In Anti-Clsnrette Liw. It has been decided that the anti-cigar-ette law passed by the Tennessee Legislature jn 1899 is unconstitutional and void. The act as recorded in Nashville does not bear the signature-of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. I ala’ Exp'os o n a Tunnel. Gas that, bifd accumulated in a new railroad tunnel exploded, killing four men and injuring six others. The tunnel is being built on the cut-off of tlie Union Pacific road between Aspen and Hilliard, Wyo. Victory for em'-erancO People. The temperance people of Massachusetts have w-ou a great victory in the municipal elections* reducing by 8,000 Boston’s majority for license and making many additions to the no license column in the 300 or more towns. - Nuns Narrowly K«cape "*enth» Fire destroyed the Bister of Mercy convent and Catholic school In Fort Dodge, tow*. The inmates narrowly escaped

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 46c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 24c to 26c; potatoes, 43c to 49c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $4.90; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cte 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.65; hogs, $3.00 to $4.85; sheep, $3.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow. 35c to 36c; oats. No.-2, 22c to 23c; rye; No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.95; hogs, $3.00 to $4.95; sheep, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,54 eto 55c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.80; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 51-c to 52c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye. No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $6:00 to $6.35. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c: rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $11.25. ] Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, ; $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 | tp $5.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to i $4.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to j $5.85. j New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep. $3.00 to $4.37; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, I 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; ; butter, creamery, 25c to 26c; eggs, westJ ern, 28c to 29c.

TRAIN HELD UP AND ROBBED. Mails Rifled and Conductor Shot Close to New Orleans. Illinois Central passenger train No. 3 was held up by four masked robbers five miles from New Orleans, within full view of the electric lights. The mail ear was blown open with dynamite and the mails rifled, about 100 registered packages being secured by the highwaymen. A bomb was thrown into the baggage and express car .which completely wrecked the and flooded the car with milk from a stack of cans that were taken on at Hammond, La. The train was running slow because of the Valley Junction, near by, A red light was shown and the train | came to a stop. No one suspected a holdup owing to the proximity to the city. I Qonductor J. IV. Kennebrew wa“s order- | ed to uncouple the engine,- and when he refused he was shot through the back. Over 100 passengers were on the train, but none of them was molested.—

BANK ROBBED IN OHIO. Four Masked Men Secure Over $3,000 at Shanesville, Ohio, an l Escape. Four masked men held the town of Shanesville, Ohio, at bay early the other morning while they robbed the private bank of John Doerschuck, blowing open the safe with a heavy charge of nitroglycerin, and then made their escape with the contents of the vault. They left the town on a Wheeling and Lake Erie hand car. carrying with them betweey $3,000 and $4,000. The conditions surrounding the robbery are the same as those at Seville, a few days ago, and the belief is general that the same men did the work. Without Purse or Scrip. The Rev. Myron W. Reese of Laporte, Ind., and the Rev. Charles Stalker of Westfield have started on a missionary tour around the world. expect ttf visit all the missionary stations of the Society of Friends on the face of the globe. They will go in obedience to the New Testament command, without scrip or purse, believing that every need will be supplied. Standard Oil Company Wins. The Supreme Court of Ohio by an equally divided vote refused to hear the charges of contempt of court preferred by Frank S. Mannett, late Attorney General of Ohio, against the Standard Oil Company and its officers, including John D. Rockefeller. The information in contempt is by this decision dismissed.

Find Rich Gold District. A stampede up Fourth of July creek, a Kettle river, iu Washington, has J* in. Shot gold has been ground running $lO to Bute CuhfcydHHt The strike extends on rbotti sides oPuSe British-’AmermaiLboun-dary. . ‘ ■■ Mangled ®<jr Dynamite. While miners were attempting to thaw out some dynamite at mine at Trimble, Ohio, an explosion%ccurred which sboow the country for miles around. Both eyes were blown out of Dow Lefever, and John Moody and Charles Karns were seriously injured. Germnn Paper Sold. Die Illinois Stants-Zeitung, the leading Gernjan daily newspaper of the West, has been sold at auction in Chicago to Mrs. Margaret Raster, u creditor of the publishing company in the sum of SIOO,000. The consideration was $50,200. Children Killed by Timber Wolves. Two children named Bertrand, brother and sister, met a horrible death at Englishman’s River, on the northern British Columbia coast. They were attacked and killed Uy wolves. Won by McGovern. In a prize fight at Tnttersali’s in Chicago Joe Gaim was put out in the second round by Champion Terry McGovern. The mill lasted but f» fu minutes.

LOOT AN OHIO BANK.

Burjjlars Drill a Bank Vault, Take $2,130 and Then Escape. The boldest and most daring bank robbery in northern Ohio for many a year was committed at Seville. There were six men in the gang, who had carefully laid plans to rob the bank. Beginning their work at about 11:30. o'clock, they first broke into the carriage shop of Frank Beach, got what large tools they required to force open the front door of the bank, which they did, making sufficient noise to attract the attention of the town marshal, Howard Weaver, who went that way to see what the matter was. Instantly he was seized and forced to surrender. The. burglars took him upstairs to a room above the" bank and there tied his hands.and feet so that he d’as helpless and demanded that he keep quiet.' Leisurely the burglars went to work at the safe, drilling holes in it taking them nearly four hours, and bletv if open with dynamite. In the safe was $2,130, which they secured, SI,OOO in gold escaping their search among the packages. Some valuable papers were destroyed. The bandits stole a handcar and speeded dow T u the track of the railroad.

ROMANCE IN A MARRIAGE. Mrs. Sadie Pipps Becomes the Wife of Millionaire Roeer Morgan. Roger Morgan of Benton Harbor, Mich., president of the Hopper:Morgan Paper Company, was recently married to Mrs. Sadie Pipps. Mr. Morgan is a son of-President'Morgan of the national paper trust, and is said to be a millionaire. Mrs. Pipps is a handsome young woman. She may be 30 years old, though she looks little more than 25. Until last summer she was the wife of a wellknown traveling man in Benton Harbor, who appeared as devoted to her as she seemed fond of him. A year ago she met Roger Morgan. Before she knew it he was deeply attached to her. Her love for him developed as suddenly. A salt for a divorce followed, which the husband did not contest, and the decree granted. The world only knows, or thinks it knows, that Mr. Pipps gave up his wife because he loved her so much that he believed a millionaire could make her happier than he could. -

FATAL 'WRECK ON BURLINGTON. Fireman Shannon Killel and the Engineer Badly Injured. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway’s fast mail, No. 15, was wrecked two and a half miles west of Kirkwood, lowa. Fireman George Shannon was instantly killed. Engineer Samuel Dove was badly and Brakeman Thompson slightly hurt. The train consisted of an engine, tender and four mail cars. All i the cars were derailed and two storage mail cars caught fire and were consumed. The engine broke loose from the train and ran 2,000 feet beyond the cars. The crew consisted of engineer, fireman, conductor, two' braketlien and seven mail clerks. Fireman Shannon lived at Galesburg, 111. He leaves a wife and two children. The accident is supposed to have been caused by tb# breaking of a cracked wheel under the engine tank.

Ships Built in Five Months. The vessels built in the United States and officially numbered from June 30, 1900, to Nov. 30, 1900, were 495, of 149,963 gross tons. The principal items of the total are seven steel steamships on the great lakes (34,933 gross tons) and four smaller steel steamships (8,456 gross tons, which could pass through the new Welland canal), and one steel schooner barge (2,790 tons). Pine Lands Sale Held Up. Commissioner Hermann of the Interior Department has sent from Washington to Crookston, Minn., a notification to purchasers of White Earth piue lands that the validity of all sales depends on the approval of the department and that possession cannot be taken until such approval has been given. This is in effect a notice that the recent pine sale has been suspended, Lumberman Takes His Life. After being discharged from a Philadelphia hospital W. Charles Kaeracter went directly to the Reese House and committed suicide by taking poison. From papers found in the man’s clothes it was learned that he was the senior member of the firm of Kaeracter & W’aite of Brainerd, Minn.

Dies Poor on a Rich Lo le. John Thompkins, a well-known character of the Cripple Creek district, died at Independence after a lingering illness as a tenant on property Worth millions which he located. He died a pauper and will be buried through the liberality of mining men of the district. Illinois Anti-T.-nst Law Good. It was declared in a decision rendered by ,Tiu|iM*Usiloy, Waterman and Dunne, sitting' en Kane in the Circuit Court in Chicago, thnt’tbw anti trust statutes of Illinois, though unconstilutionul pn.v in force. More Riches for Mrs. Pewev, j The estate left by Mrs. Washington McLean is said to be worth nearly $2,000,000. Most of this will go to her children, Mrs. Geosge Dewey, Mrs. Ludlow and John R. McLean, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Falls Down Air Shnlf. A miraculous escape from instant death was experienced by Will Mcßride, aged 10 years, who fell down an air shaft of a mine at Jacksonville, Ohio, a distance of 115 feet. Though bruised Considerably he was practically unhurt. Will Restore Ruined City. Old St Joseph, Fla., the largest dty in that section in the eighteenth century, but long since extinct, is to be re-estab-lished. Burveyors are now engaged la replatting the town site.