Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

CREEKS DEFY GOVERNMENT.

Conservative Indians Terrorized by the ‘'Snake Bands,” E. K. Frazier arid othersfrom the country west of Eufaula, I. T., bring reports of fresh outrages perpetrated by the Creek Indians known as the “Snake bands,’* who uro arresting and whipping the more conservative Indians. They have revived the ancient Creek laws and are seizing filing papers from Indians who have tiled on allot incuts. They whip all Indians who file and threaten to cut off the ears of filers for the second offense. The ‘"Snake” crowd are even whipping the other Indians for renting land to white people. The country is terrorized and the insurrectionists are armed to the teeth, collectiYig heavy fines in cattle and property from the conservatives. A detachment of the Light horsemen of the Snake band rode into Eufaula and posted unsigned notices to the following effect: ‘/Hickory Ground, Creek Capital—To Whom It May Concern: From now on all Indian citizens employing white labor shall be fined SIOO, and shall receive 50 lashes upon the bare back; also, all persons renting land to white tenants. Any improvements ihade in the Creek nation by white men shall be confiscated and become the property of the Creek nation.”

SUICIDE BY FORCE OF WILL. Frank Klufsky Abstains from Food for About Eight Weeks. Frank Klufsky, living at 15 Pelton alley, Cleveland, undertook, about "eight weeks ago, to starve hiniSelf to death. He has succeeded, and death has come to his relief. His case is one of the strangest on record. He was always eccentric, but he had extraordinary will power, and he used it to a degree few people could equal in successfully resisting all attempts on the part of his wife, friends and physicians to prevent his extraordinary death. At one time he possessed considerable means, but lost nearly all of his money and worry over his troubles weighed heavily on his mind?" About eight weeks ago he announced his intention of refusing to eat. He spent the days lying on his bed in a stuffy little attic room and meditating on his troubles. He became savage and morose in disposition and refused the food his wife prepared. He fixed his death to take place as soon as he had sold the little property remaining to him. Recentlj’ he made the sale, turned the SSOO which resulted over to his wife, and seriously entered on the business of dying. True to his prophecy, he passed away in less than a week after the sale. DISCIPLINE A COLLEGE RIGHT. Principle Settled in Decision Against an Ohio Law Student. Student Harry Koblitz, last year a sophomore in the law school of the Western Reserve University, was refused admission to the institution by the faculty at the beginning of the present school year, the ground being misconduct. The law student brought suit against hia reluctant alma mater to compel her to allow him to complete his education, basing his argument on the ground that when he matriculated he made a contract that the school could not repudiate. In the Circuit Court in Cleveland the student was defeated. Fatally Burned Under a Car. At Vicksburg, Miss., Emma Marshall ran in front of an electric car, was knocked down and the car passed half way over her before Motorman Williams succeeded in stopping. Spectators who saw that the child was- alive and safe so long as the car remained standing yelled to Williams not to move, but he misunderstood them and turned on all the power. There was a flash, a tongue of blue flame came out from under the car and the little girl was burned almost beyond recognition. Millions for Poor Woman. Mrs. Thomas J. Brown of Rochester, N. Y’., has just been informed that she is the legitimate heir of Amos Barkley, a London ship owner of vast wealth who died early in the century and for whose fortune, estimated at $16,000,000, there has been n bitter strife. Mrs. Brown is the wife of a day laborer and works hard to assist her husband. Great Purchase of Coal Lands. J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York have purchased 75.000 acres of coal land in Greene County, Pa. The deal is one of the largest ever closed, in western Penß•ylvania. It is said that the Morgan syndicate paid S2OO an acre. Encampment for Cleveland. Cleveland is the place and Sept. 9 the date fixed by the executive committee of the national council of. administration of the G. A. R. for the annual encampment of that organization. The encampment was to have been held in Denver, Colo. Edward VII. King. King Edward VII. of England is the ruler of the British Empire, and official notification has been received by him to the effect that he is expected to take up the reins of government without a moment’s delay. Four Fatally Hurt. Two freight train engines collided in the yards at Warren, Ind., on the Clover Leaf, because of misunderstood orders. One engine was overturned. Trainmen Prillman, Brickenstaff, Mills and Harmen were fatally injured. Gets Life Imprisonment. Solomon Bear, who murdered his son Isaac on Aug. 6, 1900, two miles north of Churubusco, Ind., was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Noble Circuit Court. ' Store and Bank Robbed. The store and bank of J. A. Rushing & Son at Walnut Springs", Texas, was entered and the vault and safe blown open with dynamite. The rsbbers got between $3,000 and $4,000.

MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.65; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, Nd. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 18c; potatoes, 43c to 48c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.30; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto7s c; corn, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.40; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38e-to 39e; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36e to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c.t0 25c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.70.. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 71c to 72c; co®. No. 3,35 cto 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27 z e; rye, No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,58 cto 59c; pork, mess, $13,50 to $14.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.80. New York —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.55; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, western, 19c to 20c. VIC TORY FOR WESTERN UNION. Msssouri Court Decides that State Cannot Tax Company’s F anchise. Judge Henry of the Circuit Court in Kansas City handed down a case of national importance when in a written opinion he decided that the State of Missouri, represented by the State Board of Equalization, had no right to tax the franchise of the Western Union Telegraph Company. When’the State Board of Equalization last met the Western Union turned in the valuation of its assessment of actual property which the board paeticalJy doubled and added the words, ""and op all other property, $862,000.” It was to this that the company objected, contending that the board had assessed this value against its fauchise. Payment was refused and the State brought suit through the county collector.

MAY BAR OUT STANDARD OIL. Texas Campanies Plan Combine to Keep Trust Out of State. The recent “bringing in” of the great oil gusher near Beaumont ahd the demonstration that the oil field promises to soon rival any in the United States in point of production, together with the further evidence that the Corsicana district is also growing rapidly in that direction, has caused a movement by the several private individuals and independent companies who have producing oil wells in Texas toward organizing a combine with a view of shutting the Standard Oil Company out of Texas entirely. Five Chinese Girls Sold. Five Chinese slave girls, were sold at public auction in San Francisco, as publicly as though they had been in Canton. These girls were the property of-Gong Gow, an old Chinc.se who has liept for years one of the dens in Chinatown. He wanted to go back to China, so he advertised the furniture and chattels of his establisliment at auction. The girls sold at from $1,700 to $2,500 each. Trains Goes Through Bridge. A Wisconsin Central repair train went through a bridge which had burned at Forest Junction, two miles from Fond du Lac, Wis. Five persons were injured. The property loss will be quite large. It is thought the tire started from burning coals which dropped from an engine on the wooden support of the bridge. Fast Train Jumps Tracks. The Cleveland and Pittsburg flyer jumped the track at Glenfield, the wreckage blockading all four of the Fort Wayne tracks. Engineer Holland w-as probably fatally hurt, but the railroad officials say all passengers escaped in3 ur *’ a Pursuers Shot by Bandits. In a battle between a posse of officers and citizens and a band of robbers at Flippin, Ky., Rev. 11. K. Dempsey, a Presbyterian preacher, was shot and instantly killed and his son George, 18 years of age, was mortally wounded.

Priest Is Stabbe l by Robber*. The Rev. Father J. Lenuert of Chicago was waylaid by footpads in New OHeans and dangerously stabbed in the back. He encountered the footpads in a dark place. They were three in number and all negroes. Woodman Meeting Date Changed. The executive council of the Modern Woodmen of America has changed the date of* the opening of the biennial head camp of the society at St. Paul from June 4 to June 11. Punished for Murderous Assault. Walter W. Reinstock of Hackey, Ohio, who recently assaulted and mutilated Nellie Morris, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Meet Death in the Flames. ' One man was burned to death, two fatally injured and a dozen others slightly hurt by a fire in the lumber town ot Ashtola, Pa.

EFFORT TO FREE MRS. MAYBRICK Reported That England’s New Ruler Js in Favor of Releasing Her. Clark Bell, president of the New York Medical and Legal Aid Society, has announced that his society has determined to take up the Maybrick case at once, and that the chances are now more favorable than ever for the pardon or acquittal, after fair trial, of the American woman under sentence of life imprisonment in England, charged with murdering her husband by poison. The taking up of the case is due to the . attitude which the new King of England is knownto have assumed toward Mrs. Maybrick. It. is said that he has made it no secret that he favors her release. For more than ten years the Medical and Legal Aid Society has been .active in its endeavors to secure the release of Mrs. Maybrick, believing that she was unjustly sentenced. The members of the society have never thought that Mrs. Maybriijk would be released as long as Queen Victoria lived. However, the sbeiety has continued to gather evidence to prove that Mrs. Maybriek was not fairly tried and that the judge who sentenced her. Sir Fitz-James Stephens, was of unsound mind when he tried her case. The most important evidence in favor of a reopening of the ease or the pardon of Mrs. Maybriek is a letter to Mrs. Maybrick, dated June 27, 1895, from Lord 1 Russell of Killowen. In it Lord ■ Russell declares that Mrs. Maybriek was never proved guilty. BOY KILLED WITH A CLUB. Mother Hears a Scream and Finds Him Weltering in Gore. Rochester, N. Y., is again wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement over a murder mystery and there is serious talk of organizing a vigilance committee to do the work the police seem unequal to. The victim this time is 16-year-old Lewis Meagher, who lived with his mother and half brother in a cottage in Mt. Vernon avenue. He went to bed as usual and his brother left him asleep when he went to work at 6 o’clock in the morning. Half an hour later the mother was awakened by a scream issuing from her son’s roo’m and, rushing in, found him lying in his blood, his brains having been battered out with a club or something of the kind. Mrs. Meagher thought she detected retreating footsteps as,, she opened the halt door, but saw no one. The police have no clue to guide them in their search for the murderer. MAN USES KNIFE AND PISTOL. Shoots a Baby ant Carves a Messenger Boy in a New York Flat. A cask of home-made wine, • which George Gavonetti made last fall when grapes were cheap, led to his undoing. He lived with Joseph Scorva in three rooms on the third floor of 399 Thirteenth street, Brooklyn. The other day he drank his wine freely. He Was in a frenzy a messenger boy went to the third floor, and rushing out into the hall tried to carve the boy with a big knife., Mrs. Ida Shapio ran out in time to get a stab wound, and Mrs. Fleming, who lives on the floor below, ran out with her baby in her arms to see what was the matter. The baby received a bullet in its head from Gavonetti’s pistol. The child is badly wounded.

Strikes Wreck and Sinks. The Norwegian steamer Talisman, laden with sugar from Demerara, while proceeding from her anchorage off Liberty Island at Newtown creek to discharge, struck what is supposed to have been a sunken wreck at the entrance to Newtown creek, opposite Blackwell’s Island, New York harbor, and knocked a big hole in her bottom forward, through which she quickly filled and sunk. Died in Cause of Science. Dispatches from Para, Brazil, tell of misfortune that has come to a British expedition sent to that city from Liverpool to study yellow fever. Dr. Meyers, a distinguished physician, recently conducted an autopsy on the body of a person who died from yellow fever. He became infected and died. Drunken Man’s Awful Deed. Frank Janssen, a barber of South Scranton, Pa., went home drunk from a ball, quarreled with his wife and threw a lighted lamp at her. It set the bed on fire, and as a result their 7-year-old boy was burned to death, and Mrs. Janssen was so badly burned her life is despaired of. Six Men Badly Scalded. While testing a filtering tank at Carnegie's Thirty-third street millin Pittsburg, a hot-water pipe burst and six men were terribly scalded. Engineer John Dickerson was thrown into another hotwater tank and will probably die. The others will recover.

Potter & Kirkham Fail. Wall street received a shock when the suspension of Potter & Kirkham, stock brokers at 57 Broadway, was announced on the floor of the Consolidated Exchange. Failure to collect, outstanding accounts is said to be responsible for the firm’s failure. _______ Eight Years for Bigamy. J. W. Keneval, a former resident of Chicago and inventor of a coking process, •was given an eight-year sentence at Knoxville, Tenn., charged with bigamy. Two of his reported three wives were witnesses. Prof. E. Gray Dies Suddenly. Prof. Elisha Gray, the world-famous electrician-inventor, who for thirty years was a resident of Highland Park, 111., died suddenly of heart disease at Newton, near Boston, Mass. Bad Fire in Milwaukee. > The big barn of the Wisconsin Lakes Ice Company at Third and Poplar streets, Milwaukee, was burned on a recent night. Twenty horses perished in the flames.