Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — BIG CAR FERRY SINKS [ARTICLE]

BIG CAR FERRY SINKS

. f i 11 1 — GRAND TRUNK TRAIN IS PUT ASHORE JUST IN TIME. Thrilling Race for Safety on Detroit River—No Great Damage la Done— Bank Swindler Makes Big Haul with Raided Check* in Toronto. , The Grand Trunk car ferry Huron ran aground in the slip at Windsor, Ont., with fully ten feet of water in her forward compartment. She ran afoul of a huge boulder the previous day, hut it was supposed no damage was done.. She made two trips nfterward. Onrhelnst trip she carried a passenger train from the Brush street depot in Detroit, and when in midstream it was discovered that the boat was leaking badly. By crowding on steam the ferry reached the Windsor slip and the train was got off with difficulty. Despite the efforts of st<um pumps, she sank. BIG HAUL BY BANK SWINDLER. Stranger Dupes Toronto Institutions by Raising Checks. A bank swindler made a heavy haul in Toronto. A stranger, claiming to live in Halifax, opened an account in the Imperial Bank, depositing SSO. Shortly afterward he presented a check for S2O, which was marked by the ledger keeper. Shortly before 1 o'clock during the rush preceding the close, this check, raised to $2,455, was presented to the teller and cashed. The same procedure was adopted at the Bank of Commerce, where a check raised from S2O to $2,000 was cashed. It is believed. several other banks were victimized. DEATH OF A YOUNG PREACHER. Killed by a Train as He Was Starting to Illinois to Marry. Rev. Edwin .T. Oliver, aged 2S. pastor of the Evangelical Church at Peru, Ind., while returning from conference, jumped from a Wabash train in front of another and was crushed to death. The accident was due to his haste to catch another train at the crossing. He had just been transferred to East Germantown by the conference. He was to have departed the same night for Aurora, 111., to marry Miss Selfriuk, daughter of Rev. .1. B. Self rink. Prof. Herron to Wed Again. Mrs. E. D. Itaud and Miss Carrie E. Rand have sold their property in Grinned. lowa, and will return to New York at once. On good authority it is said that Miss Rand and Prof. George D. Herron will be married in a few weeks. The judge who a few weeks ago granted Mi's. Herron a divorce from her husband refused to sign the'decree until the check for SOO,OOO alimony was in his hands.

City Is Moved Six Inches.

A portion of Butte, Mont., believed to embrace the larger part of the big hill upon which some of the Anaconda mines are located, has made a very, perceptible movement southwestward. At the foot of the Anaconda hill the slide pushed the tracks of the street railway line about six inches for a distance of about 300 feet along the road. r Mrs. Nation Is Fined S3OO. Mis. Carrie Nation, who was in Kansas City arrested /or obstructing the streets, was fined S3OO and given eight hours to leave the city. Fifteen minutes later she boarded a street car for Kansas City, Kan. Pending her absence from Missouri the collection of the fine will not be enforced. Japan Fends Ultimatum. Japan has issued an ultimatum to China that Russia must be ejected from Manchuria, the alternative being that occupation of that province shall become international instead of solely Muscovite. Three Killed at a Crossing. A party of four persons, while crossing the tracks of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at South Wilkesbnrre, Pa., were run down by the Buffalo express going north. Three of the party were killed and one injured. Fire Destroys u C’onrt House. A new chapter was added so the county seat war in Montgomery County, Mo., when the court house at Danville and a part of the county records were destroyed by fire. It is thought to be the work of an incendiary. Hnrlington Freights in Collisoin. Disregard of orders caused a collision of two Burlington freight trains near Omaha, in which 200 head of live stock were killed. Engineer Hoffman was severely injured and two engines and a dozen ears were demolished. Drops Dead in n Livery Ftable. Richard Hardy of Brooke County, \Y. Va., walked into a livery stable at Steubenville. Ohio, and said, “I’m not drunk,” and fell over dead. AY ill Reopen the Old Mines. After lieing closed for a decade, the famous silver mines of Toinbstonev'Ariz., will soon he reopened, because of the increased demand for silver. Col. John R. Mustek Feud. Col. John R. Mustek, prominent in Missouri and the West as a novelist, magazine writer and politician, died suddenly in Omaha of heart disease. Border Bandit Killed. “Red” Weaver, a well-known border character and a reputed member of the famous “Black Jack” gang of bandits, has been killed at Alma, X. M. Falling Hoof Kills Two. In Graham County, Kiln., the dirt roof of the sod house occupied by S. Hostetler fell, killing Mrs. Hostel ter and cbfid and breaking Mr. Hostetler’s leg. Rain had poured down all over that section, .sod houses had been soaked and ail were in a dangerous condition. General IkClnrg Head. (Jen. Alexander*!! McC’Jurg of Chi eago, the firm of A. C. Me. Clurg & Co., Ifook publishers, died at St. Augustine, Hfa. Denth was caused b.\ a-L.