Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH THE MARKETS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

THE MARKETS

SAVES SHIP FROM BURNING. Steamer Hennepin Has a Narrow Escape from Destruction. The steamer Hennepin of the Soo line, bound from Buffalo to Gladstone with a cargo of general merchandise, was on fire in Lake Michigan for eight hours and was only saved from complete destruction by the assistance rendered by the steamer Cuba. The crew of the Cuba noticed a vessel on fire when off Seul Choix point, in Lake Michigan, and their steamer was at once headed toward it. They found the Hennepin burning around the engine room and the smoke. was so thick that the engineers had been ‘ driven from their posts. The Cuba took a line from the burning steamer and started to tow it toward the straits of ; Mackinaw. The Hennepin’s crew worked I manfully to save their boat, however, and when near Wapgoshance they succeeded in putting the fire out. The blaze had originated under the boilers and the deck beams of the boiler deck, four in number, with stringers and stanchions, were destroyed. After the crevV of the Hennepin had declayed that they needed no further help the Cuba was turned toward the straits again and the Hennepin started for Gladstone. KNIFE GIVES DUMB BOY SPEECH. Jacob Pulver Loses an Eye, bat Is Able to Talk. Surgeons are puzzled over the remarkable recovery of speech by Jacob Pulver, who had been dumb since birth, but through a knife flung by his sister’s hand recovered the power of speech. Pulver, who is 14 years old, resides near Fultonville, N. Y. His sister, in a fit of anger, threw a knife at him and her aim proved good, the blade penetrating the eyeball. Up to this time he had been afflicted with an impediment in his speech. Dr’. Knistern was called and decided that an operation would be necessary to save the boy’s eye and probably his life. He was placed under the influence of opiates on the operating table and the injured member removed. When he recovered consciousness were astonished to see him sit up and begin talking. The operation had removed the impedi meat which had caused his dumbness, and though he will be partially blind, he has been compensated by fully recovering his speech. SHOT TO DEATH BY TRAMPS. Policeman’s Son Killed While Helping Arrest the Vagrants. At Carrollton, Mo., Charles McKinney, a son of Policeman McKinney, was shot and killed at 2 o’clock the other morning while assisting his father to arrest a gang of tramps. Three of the gang were arrested and placed in jail. Half a dozen others escaped and were pursued by the sheriff and a posse to a point three miles south of Carrollton, where they were surrounded. Here a lively fight ensued, the tramps exchanging shots with the posse. Two more of the tramps were finally rounded up, but not before the sheriff’s horse was shot from under him. The others escaped to the woods. Prof. Herron and Mias Rani Marry. Announcement is made of the marriage of Prof. George D. Herron and Mias Carrie Rand, the ceremony having been performed in the apartments of Charles Brodie Patterson of New York. Rev. William T. Brown, pastor of Plymouth Church, Rochester, N. Y., performed the ceremony, which was extremely simple, there being no vows taken by either party. Crew Leaps from Burning Vessel. The American ship R. D. Rice, which arrived at Kobe from Philadelphia April 10, was totally destroyed by fire a few days later, together with 35,000 cases of kerosene. She had discharged 25,000 cases. The crew jumped overboard, swimming to the British ship Dumfrieshire, lying close by. Boat Is Blown to Atoms. The Laurine, a 14-ton freight boat plying between Booneville, Mo., and Rocheport on the Missouri liver for the new railroad, is a complete wreck, having been blown to atom* by explosives stored on board, and two laborers are believed to have been killed. Negro Burned at the Stake. Fred Rochelle, a negro, 35 years old, who murdered Mrs. Rena Taggart, a prominent white woman of Bartow, Fla.. was burned at the stake in the presence of a great throng. The burning was on the scene of the negro's crime. Fatal Boating Accident. A rowboat, containing a merry party of eight young persons, was swept over Flat Rock dam in the Schuylkill river and seven of them—five girls and two boys were drowned. The victims were all Philadelphians. Shoots Herself in Tul pit. Miss Agnes Long, at Sycamore, Ind., shot herself through the heart in the Methodist Church pulpit. She went to the church alone for organ practice. The l>oily was discovered by her brother For a Creed Summary. In adopting the majority report of the committee on creed revision the Presbyterian general assembly went on record formally ns favoring a new summary of the confession. Morocco Snbmitn to France. Morocco complied with all the demands of France in regard to the Algerian Morocco frontier dispute and the outrages Inflicted on Ftjpneh subjects. Population of Australasia. The new census returns give the population of Australasia at 4,550.651. This is an increase of 740,756 since the last enumeration. Train Wrecked by Dynamite. A Great Northern freight train collided Iwith a dynamite car at Tacoma, Wash. The engine and train were totally destroyed.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 'to $5.80; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.65; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; coin. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats, No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye. No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 11c; potatoes, 42c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattie, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.80; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to" $4.00: wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.65: wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. / Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep,' $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye. No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white. 30c to 31c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 3,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess, $14.62. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3“.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra,. $4.50 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.20; hogs, $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2, 49c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 12c to 13c.

SAFE BLOWERS GET $4,000, Rob Bank at Bradner, Ohio, and Escape on Hand Car. The Bradner branch of the Mechanics Bank of Fostoria, Ohio, was wrecked by robbers about 1:30 on a recent morning and $4,000 stolen. Two charges of high explosives were used by. the robbers, the first blowing the outer door off the vault and the second opening the strong box. Night Watchman J. H. Denny discovered the men and fired two shots at them, which they returned. They then escaped on a Hocking Valley handcar. The building presents a shattered appearance, the entire glass front having been blown out and the doots being in the cellar. The walls also w?re cracked by the force of the explosion. It was the rule to keep but $2,000 in the branch bank, but owing to the illness of one of the clerical force the money had been allowed to accumulate. The loss is fully covered by insurance against burglars. Generous to Columbus, Ohio. It was announced at the annual commencement of the Columbus. Ohio, Art School that Emerson McMillen of New York had offered to give a site valued at $30,000 and a sum not to exceed SIOO,000 for the erection of an art museum, providing an equal amount was raised by the people of Columbus by popular subscription. Leaps to Death from Bridge. Ted Lorberg, 32 years old, a shoemaker, despondent because he was threatened with consumption, jumped from the east end of the Eads bridge, at St. Louis. He had not gone far enough out on the bridge to be over water, however, aud he fell on a box car on a track near the river bank eighty feet below. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Fight Robbers) Saves “L” Cash. A Metropolitan ticket agent made a desperate fight against holdup men in Chicago and saved al! but $4 of the money in his office. The man is S. J. Powers. He was beaten almost into unconsciousness and his wrists and arms were cut by one of the robbers, but they were able to carry away but a small part of the SSO which was in the station.

Constitution Follows the Fing. In deciding the DeLima case against the federal government the United States Supreme Court held that the constitution followed the flag into Porto Rio, and that the island, at the time the duties were collected, was a territory of the United States, but not a part thereof within the revenue clause of the constitution. Nash Loses Use of Leg*. Gov. Nash of Ohio is suffering from nn accident which befell him near Denver. The physicians say that while in that high altitude a blood vessel burst either in his brain or spinal cord. The effect was to impair the use of his legs. The Governor is forbidden to leave his bed or make any exertion whatever. Strike of Miners Ends. A. Robertson & Co., operating the Corbin and Excelsior collieries at Shamokin, Pa., agreed to hereafter pay their employes semi-monthly, whereupon the strike of 1,000 men and boys was declared off. Quantity of Broomcorn Burne-I. Two hundred arid twenty-five carloads of broomcorn held for two years to frustrate a possible corner in that commodity were burned, together with a warehouse nt Eighty-first and Wallace streets, Chicago, entailing a loss of $220,000. Twenty-one Miners Kille'. At the Richland mine of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company, two miles from Dayton, Tenn., a terrific explosion of coal dust resulted In the death of twenty-one men, all white, and most of them married and with families.

YOUNG HEIRESS IS IN PERIL. Bold Extortioners Threaten Mary Shaw at Davenport, lowa. Mary Shaw, granddaughter of the late George S. Shaw, millionaire lumberman of Cloquet, Wis./'seems to by extortioners who are determined to secure a.portion of her money. Her father, E. A. Shaw, recently removed to Davenport from Atlantic, lowa, and the daughter has been attending a boarding school. Soon after arriving she received a letter demahdng that she procure from her father a sum of money, giving-direc-tions for depositing it where the writer could get it. The penalty of failure was to be an attack upon her married sister, ■Mrs. G. W. Mullins of Atlantic, that would deprive her of her eyesight. The girl showed the letter to her father and of course no response was ma<e to it. A few nights ago, as she was walking near her home, a man stepped from a place of concealment near the walk andmade a fresh demand that she procure the money and meet him at a place he appointed. The police were notified. The girl kept her tryst, but the bushes were so full of citizens and policemen that the robber probably took warning and fled. BRANDED BY BRUTAL HAZERS. New York Hisrh School Graduates Waylay Member Of Lower Class. The town of Batavia, N. Y., is excited over a case of brutal hazing. Great rivalry has long existed between the high school graduates anil the class of 1902, and the class fights have been most bitter. Things were brought to a climax the other night when John Swartz, a member of the graduating class, was waylaid in a lonely section of town, securely bound to a tree and his face painted with a mixture of acid and iodine, the figures “ ’O2” being clearly drawn on his left cheek. Blinded with pain, he was released and secured medioal aid in removing the stinging acids. The chances are that his face will always bear marks of the hazers’ brush. Throws Babes from Train. Mrs. Leontine Martinez, wife of a tenant on the Belle Alliance sugar plantation, pitched her two little girls from the rapidly moving train on the Bayou Lafourche, La., branch of the Texas and Pacific and then hurled herself after them in the belief that the train would not stop at her station. The 'babies are uninjured, but the mother's left foot is crushed and amputation will be necessary. Man Murdered by Robbers. Christian Stahl, a farmer living near Navarre, Ohio, was brutally murdered by two masked burglars, who broke into his house and demanded his money. Upon being refused, the burglars bound all the members of the family with ropes. After beating Stahl until Ire was unconscious the men left. There is no clew to the murderers. Ends Her Forty-Day Fast, Mrs. Aimed a G.ordonier of Toledo, 0., weighed 250 pounds when she began a fast on April 17, amFa few days ago she tipped the scales at 170 pounds, and says she never felt better in her life. She claims to have lived without partaking of a mouthful of solid food during all the time. Duluth Pavilion Destroyed 1 . The Incline Pavilion, a summer theater located at the top of «the bluff back of Duluth. 600 feet above the city, burned. involving a loss of SBO,OOO, insured for ’517,500. The fire was beyond the reach of water, and the whole city witnessed the great frame structure go up in a most spectacular blaze. Old Railroad tn B- Effaced. It is announced that the consolidation on July 1 of the Kansas City, Fort Scott ami Memphis and the ’Frisco railways will mark the complete effacement of the former road. The name of the new property will, it is said, be styled the St. Louis and San Francisco. Fur Seals in Antarctic. The schooner Edwin Roy arrived at Halifax, N. S.. from Cape Horn after a successful sealing trip of eight months. The schooner brings 1,600 skins of fur seals, and reports seals numerous in the South seas and no other vessel engaged on the fishery.

Two Killed on Union Pacific. The second section of west-bound Union Pacific freight train No. 11 was wrecked three miles east of Sharon Springs, Kan. The engineer and brakeman were killed. The track for a distance of sixty feet had been washed out. and the engine and two cars went over an embankment. Killed in Celt nt Memphis. Alexander Peden, a well-known citizen of Pulaski. Tenn., was killed in a cell of detention nt the Memphis police station, and N. A. Gillis of Cumby, Texas, is under arrest charged with the crime. Both had been arrested for drunkenness. Against Fecret Society Members. United Presbyterian general assembly has adopted report of judiciary committee, declaring members of secret societies ineligible to membership in the church and expelling those already members. Finds Work for Convict*. At a conference attended by Wyoming and Nebraska Congressmen, Senator I Hetrick of Nebraska exploited a plan to employ State and federal convicts, in the construction of canals and reservoirs for arid lands. * ' Victim of Murder Found. The murdered body of an unknown man has been found in a sand-pit nerfi* Courtney, N. D., and the marshal and a constable are in pursuit of the suspected murderer. ’ Kill* Himself In Fiancee’* Presence. While calling oi/his fiancee. Miss Josephine Verrey. Ward Nelson Copp, a prominent young man of Viaeland. N. J., shot and killed himself. Miss Verrey say* that the shooting was accidental.