Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

BRITISH FLAG DOWN.

EDWARD’S ENSIGN LOWERED BY AN AMERICAN. Had Been Ho eted Over Customs Agent’s Office at Skaguay on Order From Ottawa—Failure of New York Bank Creates Only Local Disturbance. The steamer Islander from Skaguay brings news of an exciting flag episode. E. S. Busby, Canadian customs agent at Skaguay, acting on instructions from Ottawa, hoisted the British flag on a pole above his office. Incendiary remarks followed the hoisting of the ensign, and <’’.i the following morning a tall, athletic looking man glanced up at the flag, and stopping at the foot of the staff, took out his pocket knife and, cutting the halyards, pulled down, theeniblein of Great Britain. Customs Agent Busby hurried to the defense of the flag of his country, but was too late. The man who had pulled it down was George Miller, an attorney of Eugene, Ore., and ,a brother of Joaquin Miller, the California poet. C. L. Andrews, United States deputy collector of customs, had investigated the action of the Canadian office in raising the British flag and Mr. Busby had showed hfan a letter from the chief customs offl<jal of Canada wjnyh §tat<?4 can custori?? officials operating on Cana: dian soil in conditions corresponding to Mr Busby's office were permitted to fly the flag of their country. The question, which bids fair to assume international proportions as soon as the news of it ’can reach Ottawa and Washington, is being discussed, with the mass of sentiment in favor of the man who hauled down the flag. BANK FAILURE NOT REFLECTED. General Prosperity and Fine Crop Ontlook Maintains Confidence. “It does not follow because bad banking methods have caused one of the smaller New York banks to close its doors, with attendant circumstances that create discussion in Wall, street, that general business is in any way affected by or at all responsible for the trouble. The country is undeniably prosperous, and with prospects of an abundant harvest to supply our own needs and increasing European deficiencies the situation is viewed with confidence. A few more labor disturbances have arisen, but others have been settled, notably the dispute over the tin plate scale. Some disagreements in the coal regions at times assume a threatening aspect, but the troubles have been local and do not affect the mining industry. Reports from the country speak of a continued active movement of merchandise with the job bing trade and embracing nearly all lines.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of R. G. Dun & Co. It also says: "Failures for the week numbered 204 in the United States, against 207 last year, and 23 in Canada, against 21 last year.” , PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Standing of League Clubs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...32 23 Brooklyn ....30 2(1 New Y0rk...27 21 Boston 25 25 St L0ui5....31 26 Cincinnati ...23 30 Philadelphia 30 26 Chicagol9 40 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....37 20 Washington. 25 22 Boston 31 19 Philadelphia. 21 32 Baltimore .. .27 20Cleveland ...19 34 Detroit3o 26 Milwaukee ..19 36 Shoots Wife After Quarrel. At Dayton, Ohio, Mamie Jarvis, 24 years old, wife of Ricard Jarvis, aged 28, a laborer, was shot three times by her husband. The other day Charles Zimmerman of Troy, Ohio, went there and met Mrs. Jarvis. Both left together and did not return until the next morning, when Jarvis took his wife to task and a quarrel followed.

Cornered Nezro Kills Two. Cornered in a house by a determined band of infuriated citizens bent on meting out summary justice to Peter Price, a negro, charged with insulting a young woman, Price in his desperate efforts to escape cut and killed George Hooks and F. M. McGran and seriously cut Charles Davis. The affair occurred at laeger, W. Va. Felix Close. His Doors. Felix of Paris, the world’s greatest dressmaker, closed his doors in bankruptcy. He was long looked upon as the king of France’s largest industry. The cause of the failure is the Palais de Costumes at the exposition. Frank Miller 1b Hanged. Frank Miller, a notorious safe robber, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala. The crime for which Miller was hanged was the murder of Policeman J. W. Adams one night in March, 1900. Samuel Gompers Hurt, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, fell from a street car in Washington and is suffering from concussion of the brain. Two Boys John Lyson, aged 14, and Howard White, aged 12, were drowned while swimming in Green river, below Curdsvllle, Ky. Vacation for Glass Workers. Al) the flint glass factories of the country operating under the scales of the American Flint Glass M orkers Union have closed for periods ranging from four weeks to two months. Tully 40>000 men and boys enjoy the customary summer vacation. Three Men Klllel br Tdsrht-tinr. During a heavy electrical storm at Bradl, Ind., lightning struck a barn on J. C. Halbert’s farm, instantly killing Frank Bridgewaters, Anderson Webster and a man named Wiggle.

TO EXPLORE NORTHERN ALASiva. Government Party on Its Way Through Vast Unknown Area. A United States exploration party arrived in Dawson early in June on the way to northern Alaska to explore one of the widest unknown areas in the vast- territory. It is headed by W. C. Mendenhall, geologist, and L. E. Reaburn, topographer, who are accompanied by five men. The party was to leave Dawson about June 10, going down the Yukon to Fort Hamlin by steamer, thence overland by the Dahl river trail to the middle fork of the Koyokuk to Bergman, where supplies were shipped for the party last year. Thence they go up one of the southward-flowing tributaries of the Koyokuk, by the Alashuk, thence over the trail to the Kowak and down the Kowak to- Kotzebue sound, opening into the Arctic ocean a short distance north of Bering strait. This is the first government party ever detailed to this field, which has been visited by but few white men. Mendenhall will gather geological information and Reaburn will make maps of the country traversed. INSANE ENGINEER IN THE CAB. * ——— Excessive Heat Drives Dan Henyon Mad at Evansville, Ind. Dan Henyon, an engineer running between Evansville, Ind., and Louisville on the Texas road, went insane from excessive heat and ran away with his engine. He jumped on his engine in the yards below town two miles and made the run to Evansville unaccompanied. He tore up switches and came near running into a passenger train. The engineer on the passengef saw the engine coming and, realizing something was wrong, took to a switch. When Henyon was taken from the cab he was a raving maniac. RUTHVEN TRIES SUICIDE. Wife of Condemned Murderer in Ohio Cuts Her Throat. Lizzie Ruthven, wife of Edwin Ruthven, the Cleveland murderer, who is under sentence of electrocution at the Ohio penitentiary, attempted suicide bi - cutting her throat. Disappointment over the refusal of the Governor to -Commute her husband’s sentence was the cause of the deed. A special guard was placed over Ruthven to prevent his making a similar attempt. Mrs. Ruthven is serving a term in prison for receiving stolen goods. Plate Scale Signed. The conference of the American Tin Plate Company's officials with the representatives of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers resulted in the signing of a new wage scale. The workmen asked for an advance of 10 per cent. Under the new scale they will receive an advance of 2 per cent. Nearly 30,000 men will be benefited. Paper Box Combine. Brown & Bailey, Edwards & Docker and the Dockwood Folding Box Company are the three Philadelphia concerns which will join a combination of board mills and paper box factories in course of formation, with a capital of $00.0U0,000. The organization will include practically all the important concerns associated with the paper trade in the country, Blacks May Change Color. Prof. Johnston of the University of Kansas has discovered a means by which he expects to make the negro white. Prof. Johnston’s method consists of inoculating the negro with the germs of leucitis, or albinism, a harmless disease which produces those oddities of nature known as albinos. Wrecked on the Ohio. While the towboat Princess of Wheeling was passing up the Ohio river near Vanport, Pa., it was struck by a wind storm and sunk in ten feet of water. The cabin and stacks were carried away and the boat is badly wrecked. The owner. Captain T. M. Garlick, and four men escaped on a small boat. New Plan to Get a Wife. Ernest Still, a Glencoe, Ok., bachelor, proposes to put himself up to be raffled off. The young ladies who are to invest are to pay $5 a ticket and he expects to sell between 2,000 and 3,000 tickets between now and the opening of the new country. Fatal Fight Over Town Lots. As a result of a quarrel over town lots in Addington, in Kiowa Indian reservation, Okla., R. S. Castleberry shot J. M. Wambold, president of the First National Bank, three times, the balls entering Wambold’s stomach, inflicting mortal wounds.

Bie Steamer Wrecked. The Orient. Steam Navigation Company's steamer Lusitania. Captain McNay. from Liverpool for Montreal, having 500 passengers on board, was wrecked off Cape Ballard, N. F. Field Plans Gotham Store. Marshall Field, the Chicago dry goods merchant, will build a magnificent store on Fifth avenue, New York. His broker, George R. Read, has purchased the southeast corner at Thirty-first street. War Vessels in Collision. In the fleet maneuvers off the island of Tsumina three Japanese torpedo boats collided. It is reported that one of them sank and that several men were drowned. Medical College Damaged. College*»of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago was badly damaged by fire caused by lightning. Panic ensued in adjoining West Side hospital, from which sixty-three patients were removed. I Heir for Aged Couple. E. H. Palmer, 80 years old, and his wife, who is four years younger, of St. Paul, Minn., are the parents of a fine baby boy, who arrived a few days ago. He is their first child. Jessie Morrison Found Guilty. At Eldorado, Kan., Jessie Morrison, who with a razor slew the ten-day wife of the man she loved, Olin G. Castle, was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree. New York Bank Closes. Comptroller < Dawes forced the closing of the crippled Seventh National Bank of New York. Belief in Washington is that criminal prosecutions will follow because of over-certification of checks. German Bank Fails. The Eeipziger Bank, at Leipsic, Germany, has suspended payment, with liabilities of 90,000,000 marks and assets of 48,000,000 marks.

WOMAN DIES BY FIRE.

HER DEATH IS CHARGED TO BLACKMAILERS. Husband Had Refused to Notice a Demand for $5,000 and His Home Is Burned—Cattle Buyer’s Body Found Under a Culvert Horribly burned and death after intense agony was the fate of Mrs. W. C. Carson, wife of a Cowley County, Kan., farmer, all because her husband refused to deposit $5,000 in a place named by unknown blackmailers. Three weeks ago, Carson, who is wealthy, received an anonymous note requesting him to bury SSOO at the root of a telephone pole by the roadside under penalty of having his house burned. The suggestion was ignored. One week later another anonymous letter was received stating that if $5,000 was not deposited within a week his house would be burned and he himself killed. No attention was paid to the second communication, and on a recent night while Mr. Carson was en route to Oxford for mail the home was fired. Mrs. Carson was found about ten., feet from the ruins by Mr. Dunn, a neighbor, horribly burned, and insensible. She was taken home by Mr. Dunn, where she rallied enough before dying to relate her knowledge of the transaction. She rushed outside when she discovered the fire, but remembered some valuable papers and treasured old violin, and tried to save them. From that moment her mind was a blank until she awoke in the home of Mr. Dunn. ROBBED AND MURDERED. Body of Martin Ayres Found Under Bridge in Nebraska. The body of a man. supposed to be a cattle buyer named Martin Ayres, was found the other evening by farmers under a bridge in Daily township, sixteen miles west of Ponca, Neb. I'he mane head was crushed and his clothing showed evidence of a struggle. No money iVas found on the body, and it is thought that he was held up and murdered. Ayres was a stranger. Fatal Accident at Mine. While Sylvester Hadley, William Y\ hittington. Walter Hadley, Frank Sutton and Newton Hadley were building a tipple at the Zeller-McClellan mine, Brazil, Ind., the scaffolding broke and they fell thirty-two feet. Hadley and W hittington were fatally hurt and the three others were seriously injured. Bodies of Former Lovers Found. The bodies of Frank C. Forrest and Louise Strothoff were found in the road five miles east of Quincy, 111. He was shot through the head and she through the heart. They were former lovers and had quarreled. She is supposed to have been jealous of Forrest, who recently had been attentive to a Quincy girl. Four Men Fall to Death. As the result of the breaking of a temporary platform built on a scaffolding inside and bridging the top of a monstrous tank in the Eastern elevator at Buffalo, six men fell a distance of eighty feet. Four were killed, one instantly, and the others died within a few hours. Dies in the Electric Chair. Edwin Ruthven, colored, was electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio State penitentiary. The crime for which Ruthven, or Rutheben, as the commitment papers read, was electrocuted, was the murder of Police Officer Shipp in Cleveland on the night of May 6, 1900. Fatal Wreck on Wabash. The west-bound Wabash passenger train was wrecked at Cass station, four miles from Logansport, Ind. Fifteen persons are dead and twenty are injured. The train ran into a washout. West Virginia Again Stricken. Another cloudburst descended upon stricken West Virginia coal fields and damage to property is said to be even heavier than on the previous occasion. Nash Is Renominated. Gov. Nash was unanimously renominated for the office by the Ohio Republican convention. Curfew Law Doesn’t Hold. County Judge Smith at St. Paul. Minn., has declared the Nebraska curfew law unconstitutional.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $6.10; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2,42 cto 43c; oats. No. 2,26 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,46 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh. 9c to 10c; potatoes, new, 70c to 85c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.97; sheep, common to prime. $3,00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white. 28c to 29c. '» St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $6.05; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 65c; corn. No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye. No. 2,45 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,67 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, 54c to 55c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,50 c to 51c; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 65c to 66c; corn. No. 3. 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2*»vhite, 28e to 29c; rye, No. 1,47 c to 48c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess. $14.75. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $6.00: hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 to $6.35; steep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.00. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $6.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oata, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, 12c to 13c.

Uncle Sam: “Don’t you gosh darned chumps know that the sun hain’t set yet?” —St. Paul Pioneer Press.

BIG BANK CLOSES.

Seventh National, of New York, in the Hands of a Receiver. Because it had loaned SI,GOO,(KM), or more than a quarter of its combined capital and deposits, to one brokerage firm,

PERRY HEATH.

and decided that this condition could not be fulfilled, and a notice of suspension was at once posted on the door. Only two days previous $983,000 in cash was paid into the bank in one lump by Gen. Samuel Thomas, to enable it to meet a sudden deihand on it, and incidentally to secure the presidency for his son, E. R. Thomas, but that was not enough to save it. Thursday, after a slight run, the directors found they would have to meet checks to the amount of $G44,000,-which were in the clearing house, and this helped them to their conclusion to close the doors at once, although they said they could have paid the debit balance. The desire not to be in the position of accepting deposits in a bank that might be insolvent also hastened their action. The bank’s failure hardly made a ripple in all street. There was a short flurry on the stock exchange, with quick recovery. Rumors that other banks were involved were quickly put at rest. The closed institution is the one popularly known as Perry Heath's bank, that politician and his brother being among its directors. The failure of the firm of Henry Marquand & Co., bankers and brokers,'the name of which has been connected with the embarrassment of the Seventh National Bank, was announced on the stock exchange Friday. _

STILL CRYING FOR THEM.

Kansas Wants 5,000 Men Besides Women to Cook for Them. Kansas wants men to harvest its wheat crop this year and can’t get enough 01 them. The farmers have called on Mis souri and the Eastern States for more harvest hands. Hundreds are being shipped into the State every day, chiefly through the Missouri free employment agency; but the agency is unable to supply men fast enough to meet the demand. The wheat crop of Kansas, though partly a failure in some counties, is still so large in other counties as to be bey on 1 the capacity of the people of the State to handle it. The tremendous success of last year’s wheat crop encouraged the farmers to plant a greater acreage than ever before. Orders for 5,000 men have already been sent out to harvest the great crop, and then to thresh it after it has been harvested. Most of the jobs offered are good for from I*o to 100 days, and there is a fair chance for steady employment for the rest of the year to the best men. Wages range from $1.50 to $2.50 a day according to the kind of work and include board and lodging. Women are wanted by the farmers wives to help to cook for the hungry farm hands, but it is next to impossible to get cooks. Good wagAs are offered, far higher wages than those paid in the city. The high wages paid by Kansas farmers for labor has caused trouble to the railroads are building extensions in southern Kansas and Oklahoma. The roads have been paying $1.50 n day for traek laborers, but these men have found they can earn $2 a day in th* harvest fields, and many of them have quit their jobs and gone to work for the farmers.

the Seventh National Bank of New York City was Thursday closed by Comptroller of the Currency Dawes. The Comptroller gave the bank until Saturday night to secure the repayment of the full amount of the loan. The directors met

SHUT OUT OF THE CUP DEFENDER TRIALS.

THOMAS W. LAWSON.

Thomas W. Lawson, whose yacht Independence has been shut out of the preliminary trial races for the America's cup, is one of the richest men in the country and one of the most liberal citizens of Boston. He is also a financier who has made his influence felt in Wall street so often and so profoundly that he is regarded with the greatest respect by the geniuses of speculation in that quarter. Mr. Lawson was born in Cambridge, Mass., forty-two years ago, and began his career as an office boy in a bank. His present interests are large and varied. One of his most noted performances was his consolidation of the copper mining industry.

JESSIE MORRISON GUILTY.

Jury Convicta Her of Manslaughter in the Second Degree. At Eldorado, Kan., Jessie Morrison was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree, late Thursday afternoon,

JESSIE MORRISON.

ousy, it is alleged, was the basis for the tragedy. Castle, a clerk in the “Racket” store, was the beau of the town. In the store with him worked Jessie Morrison, the handsome daughter of a respected judge. She was in love with Castle, and it is supposed that his marriage to Miss Wiley enraged her beyond reason. Before death had blighted her faculties, Mrs. Castle made a statement to the effect that Jessie Morrison had come into her home, uninvited and unannounced, and had abused and threatened her, and that Miss Morrison had finally drawn a razor from the folds of her dress and committed the onslaught. Then Mrs. Castle died. Miss Morrison's defense was that, while passing the Castle home, the young wife had Called her in and accused her of indiscretions of which she was not guilty. In her anger, averred the defendant, Mrs. Castle ran to her dresser and, producing a razor, made a fierce and deadly attack upon her visitor. In the scuffle which followed. Miss Morrison said, she gained possession of the razor and defended her life at the cost of Mrs. Castle’s. In the fight for Miss Morrison's acquittal her father. Judge Morrison, bapottaacated all bis property.

for the killing of Mrs, Olin G. Cattle, Mrs. Castle was killed in her home with a razor after a struggle with Miss Morrison. No one saw the act. The husband of Mrs. Castle previous to his marriage had been attentive to Miss Morrison, and jeal-

KENNEDY IS FREE.

The Doctor Whose Trials Cost New York SIOO,OOO. Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, the New York dentist who has been tried three times for the murder of Dolly Reynolds, with

a conviction at first, which was set aside by the Court of Appeals and two jury disagreements later, is free, and it is understood that a nolle prosse will be entered by District Attorney Phil bin, so that he will not be tried again. The case was one of the most per-

plexing the New York authorities have had to deal with and also one of the most costly. The cost of the prosecutions of Kennedy will come very close to SIOO,OOO, and it may exceed that sum. The cost to the county of th& first trial was $15,000; the expense of the second ran up to $25,000. The third trial was the most costly. Ten exports were called in all. The district attorney offered to see that the defense's experts were paid. Ten at SSO per day for thirty days aggregate SIS,(MX). The stenographers’ fees will be fully $5,000. Salaries and witnesses' and jurors’ fees and other expenditures will bring the amount up to $40,000. Dr. Kennedy mortgaged his house on Staten Island and borrowed what money he could to defray the expenses of his first trial. At the end of that trial every dollar he had or could borrow had been spent. Then some of his neighbors on Staten Island and a few friends in New York raised a small sum of money to take the case to the Court of Appeals and got the Court of General Sessions to assign Cantwell & Moore to take charge of the case on appeal and to try the case a second time.

JOSEPH LADUE IS DEAD.

Man Who Discovered Klondike Falls Victim to Consumption. Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City in the Klondike, is dead. He passed away at his home in Schuyler Falls,

JOSEPH LADUE.

and finally located in the Yukon region in the early BO’s. He started a trading post where Dawson now stands ahd on the land he acquired was discovered the first gold that made the Klondike famous. He returned from Dawson to Schuyler Falls in 1897 to marry Miss Anna Mason. The wondrous stories told by him and other prospectors who came from Alaska led to the mad rush to the Klondike that year. Ladue has left estates in the Klondike said to be worth several million dollars.

Odds and Ends.

New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma are now the territorial candidates for statehood. Henry Oerlein, a farmer, committed suicide at his home near Black Jack, Mo., by taking strychnine. A tornado near Terrell, Texas, damaged several farm buildings and injured growing crops. A gypsy fortune teller who was arrested in Wyoming had bank notes to the amount of $3,500 in a' belt about hi* waist-

DR. KENNEDY.

N. Y., Wednesday evening after a long illness, having fallen a victim to consumption while in Alaska. He leaves a widow and one son. He was 46 years old. Ladue began his career as a prospector in early life. He pushed into the Northwest