Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1901 — THROWS ACID AT GIRL [ARTICLE]

THROWS ACID AT GIRL

UNKNOWN FOE SEfeKS TO DISFIGURE MISS HAWKINS. Fifth Murderous Attack Made Upon Same Tonne Lady In the Past Four Months—Weather Conditions Delay Planting, but Help Wheat Crop. Murderously assaulted five times in less than four months is the experience of Miss Lillian Hawkins of- Ashtabula, O. The latest attempt was made the other night, when the young woman was attacked at the home of Will Bliss. At 8:30 o’clock, when Mrs. Bliss was out, Miss Hawkins answered a ring at the door. As she stepped into the doorway she shaded her. eyes with her hand, and to this, it is believed, she owes her life. A shower of carbolic acid, thrown by some one just outside, struck Miss Hawkins. A shot from a revolver followed, the bullet missing the intended victim. The young woman fainted and physicians and the police were summoned. She was found suffering from severe burns on. the forehead, cheeks, hands and arms, but her eyes were not touched. Tracks of a man’s shoes were lost at the sidewalk. On Dee. 6 last, Miss • Hawkins, who is a beautiful young woman, 20 years old, was taken from a sick bed by masked persons, one of whom was a woman in man’s clothing. She was bound, gagged and tied' to the bedpost and chloroformed. She was found some hours later unconscious and nearly dead. On Jan. 3, Miss Hawkins ate poisoned apples, which had been smuggled into her possession, and was sick for several days. She has been repeatedly followed, and on two other occasions was attacked, but managed to escape.

BRADSTREET’S TRADE REVIEW. Report Made on Weather and Crop Conditions—Prospect Is Favorable. Bradstreet's says: “Weather conditions, except in the Northwest, kave been rather unfavorable to planting and ground preparation. This is particularly true in the South, where cotton planting is retarded. Heavy fertilizer shipments point to a large increase in acreage in the South Atlantic States. On the other hand, heavy snows in Kansas and Nebraska and no less heavy rains in the central West have benefited winter wheat prospects, which in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri are reported excel u lent. Ohio’s wheat condition, shows marked improvement over last year. In California weather conditions have not been favorable, and deciduous fruits have been hurt by frosts. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,698,693 bushels, against 4,499,635 last week, 3,886,693 in the corresponding week in 1900, 3,384,800 in 1899 and 3,778,726 in 1898. From July Ito date this season wheat exports are 155,821,428 bushels, against 151,019,613 last season and 188,348,800 in 1898-99. Corn exports for the week aggregate 2,900,341 bushels, against 3,582,943 last week.”

CAR FALLS WITH A BRIDGE. Fifty Persons Hurled to Canul Bed by Mishap at Syracuse, X. Y. By the collapse of a bridge over the Oswego canal at James street, Syracuse, N. Y., a car on the old East Side Suburban line of the Syracuse Rapid Transit Company, in which were forty passengers, was thrown to the canal bed, thirty feet below. Several persons who were crossing the bridge at the time went down with the car, while a horse and loaded lumber wagon piled on top of the heap. About thirty persons were injured. It is not believed that any deaths will result, "although several persons were dangerously hurt. Fortunately the canal was not filled with water. I Convicted of Burglary Charge. Walter Wingerter, son of a wealthy Akron, Ohio, jeweler, was convicted of participating in the riot of last August. Wingerter was indicted on the charge of rioting, burglary, using dynamite and arson, but was tried ou the charge of burglary, the specific accusation being that he assisted in securing gnus and revolvers from the store of the Stawftml Hardware Company. Wingerter is only 20 years of* age. Engine Strikes Big Rock. As the result of a freight wreck on the Wheeling and Lake Erie road near Jewett, Ohio, Engineer Fisher of the train and an unknown man who was in charge of some stock cars were killed. The wreck was caused by the engine striking a large rock that had fallen from the embankment into a deep cut.

Sells at Knorinous I’rofit. It is reported that Dr. Ash. a former resident of Toledo. Ohio, has just sold to John D. Rockefeller for $1,000,000 100 acres in northern Wisconsin which Mr. Ash purchased in 1884 for SI,OOO on speculation. The tract is said to include the only natural harbor in northern Wisconsin. Noted Criminal Is Couaht. Two of the Cbardon bank robbers were run down and arrested at Willoughby, Ohio. The elder of the two. a heavy set man, was recognized by Marshal Connell of Paiuesville as a notorious pickpocket and criminal. Boy Cuts Another's Throat. During a fight at Qdon, Ind.. Harley Lamb, 17 years old, killed Walter Co*rrell, aged 22, cutting his throat from ear to ear. Both were of prominent and wealthy parents. Lamb is under arrest. Indicted for Fraud by Mail. Ernest J. Wolters, who was . recently taken into custody by the federal authorities charged with using the mails to defraud in an alleged attempt to blackmail United Status Senator Kearns, was indicted by the federal grand jury In Omaha. Mississippi Navigation Opens. Navigation on the .upper Mississippi river Is now formally opened. Raft boats and packet* are coming out of their winter quarters uud goiug after rafts at vavious point* along the river.