Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1901 — BRITISH FLAG DOWN. [ARTICLE]

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.