Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

NOME HAS BIG BLAZE!. Alaska City's Temporary Setback Amounts to $125,000. Recently Nome was subjected to a most disastrous fire. Tbe blaze started in a building at the corner of Stedman avenue and First street and soon leaped across to the old court building. Later the Washington Trading Company’s building and the Smilie-Campbell building caught. The fire department encountered the greatest difficulty in fighting the flames owing to the hose being filled with ice. Judge E. P. Ryan and his wife barely escaped with their lives, losing all their possessions in the way of furniture and clothing. The total losses 1 are placed at 9125,000. Business has been resumed and the effects o-f the fire , are not expected to result in more than a temporary blow to the prosperity of the , town. The results of the winter's work i prove emphatically that Nome is a winter camp. Within a radius of eight miles about the city dumps have been piled up \ which, on conservative estimates, will yield $500,000 and this in spite of the ; lack of proper appliances and high price ! of fuel. With an ample coal supply at reasonable prices for thawing winter work .can be prosecuted on a large scale. PLUCK FOILS TRAIN WRECKERS. Operator, Although Drugged, Worsts Miscreants and Saves Express. Ten minutes’ before the Philadelphia express on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway reached Big Mountain signal cabin, one mile east of Shamokin, Pa., the other night, two well-dressed strangers entered the office and by a ruse succeeded in drugging the telegraph operator, Lawrence Hannan, and Thomas Horan, who was with him. Hannan grew dizzy and felt his senses leaving. He saw one of the strangers working a switch, and at the same moment heard the whistle of the coming express. The other stranger stood in the doorway. Hannan threw himself on the man at the lever, pushed him to the door, and the two robbers went out as the express thundered past in safety. Hannan staggered to the telegraph key. His brain reeled, but he managed to tell the Shamokin office that the express had come and gone in safety. Then he set the danger signal for all trains and lost consciousness. Half-naked and almost oead, he and Horan were found in the signal cabin by trainmen. CHICAGO LUNATIC IS KILLED. Terrorizes People at Rockford Till Policeman Slays Him. A. G. Peterson of Chicago was killed at Rockford, 111., by Policeman Sully after the former bad terrorized every person in the Illinois Central station and had narrowly missed shooting a number of waiting passengers. Sully’s act is believed to have saved the lives of several persons. Peterson entered the station with a bag of doughnuts and a revolver in his hands. He placed the doughnuts in the center of the floor and began to fire at them. As the passengers ran out of the room he shot at them, too, the bullets just missing some of them. After Peterson had driven baggagemen, ticket agents and operators into the station tower he shot at Policeman Sully, who returned the fire with fatal effect.

Battleship Oregon’s Peril. The battleship Oregon had a narrow escape from serious damage if not from complete destruction at San Francisco. All hands were at work transferring ammunition to lighters, preparatory to the ship going to Bremerton, Wash., for docking, when one of the big 13-inch shells fell from the deck into the bottom of one of the lighters. The men who dropped the shell held their breaths, as they expected the huge projectile to explode when it hit the lighter, but nothing happened. Changes in Diplomatic Service. Herbert W T . Bowen succeeds Minister Loomis in Venezuela, the latter being sent to Portugal. Lloyd C. Griscom, charge d’affaires at Constantiuople, is made minister bo Persia, and is succeeded by Spencer Eddy of the Paris legation, who in turn is succeeded by Arthur B. Blanchard. More Pay for Kailway Men. When the Lehigh Valley Railroad employes in Easton, Pa., received their May wages, every man employed in the shops and at cleaning and inspecting cars learned for the first time that his wages had been increased from 15 to 30 per cent. Think Crew of Thirty Loft. It is almost certain that the fishing schooner White Wing, Captain John Johnson, owned by the Icy Strait Packing Company, has gone to the bottom with the crew of thirty somewhere between the north end of Vancouver Island and Moresby Island. First Move in Tariff War. Government officials see the first move in a general war by Europe against American-.taVff in the action of Russia in imposing retaliatory and higher duties on resin and bicycles imported from this country, ‘ and s ot Italy in advancing rates on plows. Winconnin Claims the Honor. The battleship Wisconsin will contest honors of being the fastest vessel of its class with the Illinois, which now holds the record. In a trial remarkable speed was shown, the big fighting machine making 18.0 knots an hour for two hours under forced draft. , Senator Clark’s Son Weds. At Butte, Mont., Miss Mabel Durfiehl Foster was married to William Andrews Clark, Jr., son of Senator \V. A. Clark. The father of the groom presented his son with a check for SIOO,OOO. Both Duelists Are Killed. A. M. Leary and J. L. Davis fought a duel at Waynesboro, Miss., in which both were killed. The trouble was the result of t family feud.

RAID A SHOPLIFTERS’ LAIR. Police Recover Valuable Property iu a Flat in Chicago. By raiding a flat at 2839 Cottage Grove avenue detectives from central station in Chicago secured over $2,000 worth of valuable dress goods, silks, furs, cut glass and chinaware, gloves, jewelry and paintings. An inventory of the was taken and during the day representatives of several downtown stores called and identified the goods. Complaints had been lodged with the detective bureau against a mysterious gang of shoplifters and four sleuths from the central station were detailed on the case. After a week’s work they arrested Grace Allen, or Ryan, and James Ryan, and charged them with the thefts. When their clothing was searched pawn tickets representing SSOO were discovered.

LOOTED SAFE FOUND AT TOLEDO. Pacific Express Company, Its Owner, and Officials Are Secre'ivc. A looted iron safe, containing empty money bags and waybills and belonging to the Pacific Express Company, was found on the river bank two miles south of Toledo, Ohio, by fishermen. Company officials are secretive, but practically admit a mysterious robbery, and the best information obtainable is that wheu the safe left Toledo it contained at least SO,OOO in gold. Louisiana Men Kill Negroes. Two of the negroes implicated in the murder of John Gray Foster were lynched by a mob at Benton, La. One was Frank, commonly known as "Prophet” Smith, who as the head of the “Church of God” movement in that section was blamed as being responsible for the sentiment against the whites which led to i the death of Foster. The other was F. D. McLand. Chicago Man Kil ed in Arkansas. Edward W. Stover, superintenderit in the White River Valley for the AyerLord Tie Company of Chicago, was killed in a gasoline yacht at Seven Mile, Ark. Mr. Stover was struck by the limb of a tree and knocked against the wheelhouse, his skull being crushed and death resulting in a short time. Killed in Building Wreck. A section of the roof of the Baltimore and Ohio roundhouse at Newark, Ohio, caved in, killing one man and injuring three others. Ernest Jackson, aged ID, was crushed about the chest and died. One man was dug from under an engine uninjured German Crown Prince Attacked. While the Crown Prince Frederick William was on his way from Minden to Bonn a drunken individual approached his carriage at Bochum, Westphalia, and aimed a blow with a stick at the window at which the crown prince was seated. Ponble Shooting in Clncinn«‘i. Driven to despair by jealousy, William Mott, 29, shot his wife and John Clancy. 21, whom he found with her nt the Great Western Hotel. Cincinnati. Mott gave himself up ami said he hoped he had killed Clancy. * Big Lumber Yard Destroyed. Fire has destroyed all the lumber m the yard Of the Ontario Lumber Company at Freuch River. Out., on Georgian! Bay, amounting to 15,000,000 feet and valued at over $200,000. Tennessee Bara Out Women. Under a ruling from tWt> State Supreme Court bench, in which there was a plain-spoken dissent, women ennnot practice law in the Tennessee courts. Not Kidnaped, bnt Drowned. , Jerome Brown, the 10-year-old boy missing from his home in Chicago, was found drowned in the loha- He had fallen from a piev

ALIMONY IS NOT A DEBT. Can’t Be Discharged by Order in Bank* ruptcy Proceedings. Among the opinions handed down by the Supreme Court of Illinois recently was one of particular interest in alimony judgments. The case was that of Alta I. Been vs. Charles Bloomer. Contempt of court proceedings were brought against Bloomer in the Circuit-Court of Mercer County for refusing its mandate to pay alimony to his divorced wife. The proceeding was sustained and an appeal taken to the Appellate Court of the second district, which reversed the finding of the lower court. The Supreme Court reverses the opinion of the Appellate Court and affirms that of the Circuit Court. Among the many reasons set up by Bloomer for non-payment of the judgment was the fact that he had been discharged in bankruptcy proceedings from the payment of alimony. Upon this point the court says: “Alimony cannot be regarded as a debt owing from the husband to the wife, which may be discharged by an order in bankruptcy, whether the alimony accrues before or after the bankruptcy proceedings. The duty which the law imposes uppn a husband and father to support his wife and children is not such a debt as is contemplated by the bankruptcy acV It is a social obligation as„ as a pecuniary liability: it is founded upon public policy and Is for the good of society.” DEAD AT HIS FIANCEE’S DOOR. Young Pennsylvanian Probably Murdered — ame Was Wedding Day. Daniel Richards, aged 20 years, of Green Ridge, was found dead on the porch of the home of his intended bride at Mount Carmel, Pa., with a bullet hole in his right temple. Young Richards was to have been married the same day to Miss Elizabeth Walters, daughter of Harry Walters. The young man called at the Walters house the previous night and shortly after. 10 o’clock started for his home in Green Ridge, a distance of three miles. That was the last seen of him by any member of the family until his body was found on the porch the next morning. The weapon from which the fatal shot had been fired has not been found and the police officials are working on the theory* that Richards was murdered and his body carried to the Walters home. Miss Walters said there -had been no quarrel between them and that Richards appeared to be in unusually good spirits.

BABY KILLED, OTHERS HURT. Fatal Result of Reckless Driving by Two Young Men. Reckless driving on the part of two young men resulted in the death of the 2-year-old child of George Leibacher, the serious injury of his wife and lesser injuries to three other children near Sandusky, Ohio. Arthur Hartzel of Fort Wayne and Peter DuSnan attempted to pass the Leibachers on the Huron road and the two buggies collided. Both vehicles upset, the baby being thrown out on its head. Mrs. Leibacher may die. Hartzel, who was injured, was arrested on a charge of manslaughter. Shoats Down an Old Friend. Dr. J. G. Jessup, a dentist, was shot and fatally wounded at Berkeley, Cal., by Rev. Charles Adams, formerly an Episcopal minister. It is stated that Adums’ daughter called Jessup by telephone and asked him to come to her home and prevent her father from whipping her. When Jessup arrived at Adams’ house and remonstrated with him, Adams drew a revolver and shot the dentist through the breast. Explosion Wrecks Buildings. The J. B. Sickles Saddlery Company’s plant at Twenty-first street and Washington avenue, St. Louis, was destroyed by fire. The fire was preceded by an explosion in which the company’s private watchman lost his life. The explosion was a terrific one, shattering the buildings for blocks around. G. Van Ginkle Killed by Car. G. Van Gihkle, recently president and principal owner of the Dallas, Texas, Consolidated Electric Street Railway, which system he sold recently to an Ohio syndicate, was run over by a car on one of his old lines and so severely hurt that he died. Destructive Rainfall In Mlssonrl. A most disastrous storm of rain and wind visited Booneville, Mo. Tobe Fisher was killed in the main street by the falling walj/s of a large brick two-story building. A large brick foundry near the river front was completely destroyed. Louis Aldricb Hies in Maine. Louis Aldrich, best known in "My Partner,” and for some years since li|s retirement from stage life president Of the Actors’ Fund of America, died nt the home of his son-in-law,. Abbot Graves in Kennebunkport, Me. Boile- Explosion in Missonri. The boiler of a Chicago and Alton locomotive pulling a passenger train exploded nt Blue Cut, Mo., killing the engineer, George Gerew, and fatally injuring the fireman, Julius Crowley. Hoy Shoots Sister in Quarrel. During a quarrel with his 7-year-old ipster, Ward, the 14-year-old son of Thurlow Hineher of Brnddoek s Bay. N. Y„ shot the girl through the stomach with a revolver. She will probably die. Strike in Keystone Colliery. The 500 employes of the Keystone colliery at Hudson went on strike because the comptny “docked” the outside men, for the time the breaks were temporarily out of use. Houck Convicted of Murder. A jury at Mount Version, Ohio, returned a verdiet,of murder in the second degree against George W. Houck, who killed Sarah Jane Hess, a widow at« Bladensburg, March 10.