Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH THE MARKETS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

THE MARKETS

BLAME NEGROES FOR DEATHS. Three Soldiers Expire in Great Agony, as if Poisoned. Three soldiers at Fort Fremont, near Beaufort, Ga., met mysterious deaths in four days. First W. E. Wright died suddenly. He was the son of one of the wealthiest department store owners in Indiana. His term, of enlistment expired about a month ago and his commander tried to persuade bird to return home, but he insisted on re-enlisting. The second victim was Emmet Easterling, of South Carolina, who was a clerk at post headquarters. Both men had been drinking freely of the contraband liquor sold by the negroes near the post. Finally the third victim, a private, died, and it was rumored the deaths were the result of a conspiracy on the part of the negroes to avenge alleged indignities. All of the victims are said to have died in extreme agony. All the circumstances went to show that the men did not die of alcoholism, but had been poisoned. The greatest consternation prevails at the post and in Beaufort.

LOT SAVES A FORTUNE. Chicago Real Estate the Means of a Man's Salvation. A piece of Chicago realty which John A. McShane was on the point of losing through foreclosure has redeemed his broken fortunes and made him a millionaire. Mr. McShane, who was formerly United States Congressman from Nebraska, was. prior to the hard times, one of the wealthiest men in the State. He was overburdened with mortgages and taxes, however, and the Chicago land was the final remnant of his fortune. This he traded before the great oil boom in February for a lease near Beaumont, Texas, and has realized on it a little over $1,000,000. Mr. McShane moved from Omaha to Chicago several years ago, but Is now in the latter city. Mr. McShane was backed by Kountze Brothers of New York and Omaha. TRAIN ROBBERS ARE FOILED. Attempt to Blow Up Bridge in Wyoming a Failure. An attempt to blow up a bridge and wreck an express train on the Union Pacific six miles east of Green river, Wyoming, was frustrated by the accidental discovery of 800 pounds of dynamite hidden in a deep ravine. The explosive was removed to another place and officers set to watch. Two men mounted and heavily armed went to the spot where the dynamite was found. When they discovered that the powder had been moved they put spurs to their horses and fled to the mountains. TRAGEDY NEAR NEWPORT, OHIO. Robert Arey Kills James A. Hamilton and Himself. James A. Hamilton, separated from his wife and desiring to obtain proof against her in divorce proceedings, took a witness and watched her house one night, two miles north of Newport, Ohio. At 2 a. m. he saw Robert Arey appear at a rear door of the house. An encounted followed. Hamilton was shot and killed, and Arey then shot himself and died.

Three Men Killed in a Fight. Two men were killed and one mortally woundeded at Corbin, Ky., in a fight growing out of an attempt to arrest Andy Cox. Deputy Sheriff Branham demanded his surrender. Cox’s reply was a bullet, which instantly killed Branham, and Cox then turned and fired on Chief of Police Silas Wilder, who was advancing on him with a drawn pistol. Wilder was mortally wounded, but killed Cox by shooting him through the heart. Bnrned in an Alcohol Bath. Weir Allen, a 9-year-old deaf mute, was burned to death at the State institute for the deaf, dumb and blind, at Berkeley, Cal. The boy was being bathed in alcohol by George Hoffman, an attendant. Hoffman lighted a cigarette and threw the match in the alcohol, which immediately took fire. Tries Hard to Kill Wife. Adelarro Joyal, a Canadian Frenchman, -who recently commenced a divorce suit at St. Cloud, Minn., against his wife, nearly succeeded in an attempt to kill her, shooting her ten times. * However, the doctor says she may recover. Joyal is in jail. Jealousy was the cause of his crime. Oregon Home Ahead of Time. The battleship Oregon has arrived at San Francisco from the Orient. Preparations had been made to make the homecoming of the famous vessel memorable, but they were anticipated by the arrival of the vessel twenty-four hours earlier than was expected. Officers Kill an Outlaw. In a fight between officers and desperadoes at Metcalf, Ariz., Antonio Teareal, one of the outlaws, was killed and one of his companions pounded. Teareal and three others were wanted on several charges of roberry. Veteran Fire Chief Resigns. Fire Chief Swenie has resigned command of the Chicago fire department after fifty-one years of service. The step was taken on the advice of his physicians. ■ * Little Girl Burns to Death, The 6-year-old daughter of Frank Wakerman was burned to death in Anderson, Ind., and in trying to save the child the mother was so terribly burned that she will probably die. Fine nnd Imprisonment. Loveless, Weber and Kanter of Chicago have been found guilty of conspiracy and tampering with civil service and sentenced to the penitentiary and to pay a fine of SI,OOO each. Platt Amendment Is Accepted. The Cuban constitutional convention baa accepted the Platt amendment by a vote of 10 to 11. The resolution to accept was carried without discussion.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.20; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,40 cto 41c; oats, No. 2,26 e to 27c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, 60c to 71c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.85; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; com, No. 2 42c to 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to" 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.10; hogs. $3.00 to $0.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 28e; rye, c No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs. $3.00 to $6.05; sheep, $3.00 to $3.65; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; com, No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,58 cto 59c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.10; hog's, $3.00 to $5.80; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto <2c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28c; rye, No„ 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 3,40 cto 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,55 cto 56c; pork, mess, $14.65. Buffalo— Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.45; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.15. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $6.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; com, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western,' 14c to 15c. HEIRS WILL jj 1 VIDE MILLIONS. Gilman’s $5,000,000 Estate Already Apportioned in Connecticut. Frazier Gilman, half-brother of the late millionaire tea merchant of Bridgeport, George Francis Gilman, has reached New York from Georgia to confer with certain of the full-blood relatives with a view to settling the dissensions among the various members of the family. He said: “We have reached a virtual agreement, according to which the estate is to be divided equally among the full-blood and half-blood heirs. The Connecticut laws may administer the estate in one way, but the family will divide up the money in its own way after the laws get through. We don’t want to have any lawsuit in this matter. We find that the estate is worth about $5,000,000.”

WINS BRIDE LIKE LOCHINVAR. lowan Induces Girl to Elope Three Days Before Wedding. When Miss Irene Wood, a pretty school teacher of Leadville, Colo., sent out invitations to her wedding with Jesse Irons, a mine owner of Aspen, she sent one to ; her old fiance in lowa, C. A. Peterson, a farmer living near Mount Aetna. Instead of writing to congratulate her Peterson took the next train to Leadville, met Miss Wood, pressed his suit with such success that just bpfore Irons arrived in Leadville to wed his fiancee this young Loehinvar, who came out of the East, and Miss Wood were on their way to Denver, where they were married by Itev. M. A. Rader. Refuse to Take Oath of Office. By a vote of 50 to 37 the constitutional convention which assembled in Richmond, Va., declined to take the- oath of office which involves a pledge to support . the constitution of the United States. The reason given was that it might interfere with the avowed purpose of the convention, which is the disfranchisement of the negro.

Live Wire Kills a Woman. Miss Lucy Hanna, bookkeeper of the Marietta, Ohio, Daily Register, was killed by a shock from a live wire on an incandescent lamp. Heavy electrical storms put the transformer out of order. Miss Hanna stepped on an iron door sill with the heavily charged wire in her hand and was killed instantly. Kills His Mot her-lu-Law. - Crazed by love for his young wife, whom it is said he had driven from his home in Chicago, Robert Fulford, a prosperous Chicago contractor, killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jennie McCord, and then blew out his brains. The tragedy occurred on the McCord farm at Ilderton, near London. Ont. News of Suicid s Suppressed. An epiflemia of suicides, which has caused in the towns and county two dozen suicides or attempts in as many months, has led the Mayor and Board of Health of Emporia, Kan., to forbid the publication of details of the crimes in local papers. Brinies Suit for Alimony. Clara B. Newberry filed a suit in Sandusky, Ohio, against Spencer B. Newberry and others praying for alimony and an injunction. Mrs. Newberry is a daughter of Andrew D. White, United States ambassador to Germany and former president of Cornell. Wealthy Farmer Hangs Himself. H. M. Engle, a wealthy farmer living near Rochester, Minn., committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn while his family were away on a Sunday school picnic. ' Murder and 6uicide. Lewis Hartman, a New York commercial traveler, killed Rose Violetta, an actress, at the Great Northern Hotel, in Chicago, and committed suicide.

RICH MAN’S SON IS CAUGHT. M. C. Findlay, Jr., Captured After a Chase—Forgery 1b Charged. Melville Chester Findlay, Jr., son, of a wealthy Kansas City business man, is under arrest in Chicago charged with passing a forged draft on Capper & Capper. The clerk who accepted the worthless paper saw Findlay standing on the street in the evening and started after him crying “Stop, thief!” The chase was taken up by several policemen, followed by a crowd of men, and Findlay wa« finally cornered in a blind alley, where he surrendered. The prisoner has been in* similar trouble before. Dispatches from St. Paul say Findlay went by the name of Melville Chester, Jr., there and ljater sailed under the alias of Jordan J. Hill, claiming to be a relative of James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad. The young man will be held for several forgeries alleged to have been committed in Chicago within the last year. MISS E. M. FLAGLER MARRIED. Gainei Notoriety Six Years Ago by Killing a Colored Boy. Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler, daughter of the late Gctn. D. W. Flagler, was married in Washington to Dr. George W. McKeen Of Badeek, Cape Breton. Six years ago Miss Flagler was the.central figure in a peculiar murder trial, and being one of the belles of the capital, attracted much attention. She shot a colored boy who was stealing apples from her father's'~#rchard, and after a long hearing was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, fined SSOO and held in custody in the court house for one hour. Miss Flagler retired from society after the trial, and was next heard from ministering to the poor of Canadian seaports. It was at one of these places she met Dr. McKeen.

SCHOONER LOf-Tf• MEN DROWNED. Surviving Women and Children Left on Cabot Island for Two Days. The schooner Czar, bound to Labrador with fishermen and their families, seventy persons altogether, was driven ashore on Cabot Island, on the north coast of Newfoundland, in a dense fog and gale. Four men wore drowned and six others were injured, but the women and children were all landed safely. The survivors were on the island two days without food or shelter. Then another vessel, passing toward Labrador, sighted their distress signals, rescued them, and landed them on the mainland, whence they will return home on board a mail steamer. The Czar became a total wreck and those on board of her lost all their belongings. Indians Are Not Hostile. Reports of troubles with the Indians near Fort Washakie, Wyo., are unfounded. Col. Jesse M. Lee, commandant at Fort Leavenworth, asserts that the Indians have made complaint that the agent has not given them sufficient seed grain to plant and thereby raise their crops, but this is found to be simply a complaint Train Wreckers Are Foiled. An attempt was made to wreck the Philadelphia express on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Christiana, Pa. The train was preceded a few minutes by a slow freight train, drawn by one of the heavy locomotives. This struck the obstruction and cleared the track without doing any serious damage. 1 ■ S Deed of Jealous Husband. Crazed by jealousy, Elijah Heathcote. a Des Moines, lowa, contractor, entered the apartments of his wife in the Darrow block shortly after midnight the other night and poured the contents of his revolver into her body. Four bullets took effect. The couple had quarreled frequently of late. Bullet in His Brain. Frederick G. Roelker, one of the bestknown members of the Cincinnati bar, was found in bis bedroom with a bullet in his brain. The first impression was that it was a case of suicide, but the family physician after an examination stated that the shooting was accidental. Corn Speculator Speaks. George H. Phillips, the Chicago corn operator, was given a banquet by National Grain Growers’ Association at Minneapolis. In a speech he advocated the establishment at Chicago of immense government granaries and a $50,000,000 farmers’ bank.-

Robbed on “L” Road Platform. After beating and robbing J. L. Travis on the platform of the Twenty-sixth street station of the Alley “L” road in Chicago, two colored highwaymen ran along the elevated structure to Twentysecond street and then disappeared. The robbers stole a gold watch and sl2. Trainmen In a Wreck. A head-end collision occurred on the Louisville and Nashville railroad two miles south of Colesburg. Ky., between a, freight engine and a south-bound passenger train. No passengers were hurt, but seven trainmen were injured, none seriously. Insurance Conspirator* Are Guilty. Unger and Brown were found guilty in insurance conspiracy case in Chicago, the jury being out but fifty-five minutes. Judge Tuley ordered the Indictment of Weckler, who conducted the Bpurious inquest on Marie Defenbach. Naval Commander Kidnaped. Commander B. F. Tilly of the United States navy was kidnaped in San Francisco by two thugs \yho gave him knockout drops and left him in an insensible condition the sea wall, where he was found. ■ Man Killed by a Street Car. Russell Bement, aged 26 years, was killed by a street car in Terre Hauta. He was the youngest son of George W. Bement, one of the leading business men in western Indiana.