Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

SUICIDE OF CAPT. J. F. THAYER. Former Volnnteer.of America Had Deserted Wife for Milliner. Capt. Jesse F< Thayer, of Lincoln, Neb., recently an officer in the Volunteers of America, committed suicide in Jefferson Square, Omaha, by drinking a mixture of whisky and cyanide of potassium. As soon as he had drained the contents of the bottle, he fell upon the grass and expired almost instantly. Capt. Thayer was publicly horsewhipped on the streets of Lincoln a few days ago by his wife, for paying too much attention to Miss Della Haschenberger, a dressmaker inthat city. Later, in company with Miss Haschenberger, Capt. Thayer went to Omaha, having first resigned his commission in the volunteers. In the pockets of the dead man was found a letter addressed to his brother, A. A. Thayer, Austin, 111., pleading for forgiveness and declaring that he wanted only peace. AFTER PREACHER’S SLAYERS. Rev. C. W. Hipes Gives Names of the Men Who Assaulted Him. | Rev. C. W. Hipes, the aged pastor of the Dunkard Church at Kidder, Mo., died the other night of injuries inflicted upon him by several members of his congregation last September. , -Mr. -Hipes took some of his flock td task from the pulpit one Sunday and that night he was waylaid and terribly beaten. He recognized his assailants, but refused to tell who they were beyond saying 7 thpy were some of those he had admonished. When he was dying from his injuries, he told the names of the men who assaulted him and warrants charging them with murder have jn>en sworn out. TRY TO KEEP THEIR LAND. Indians Hope t® Prevent the Openinc * of Their Reservatio’n. Chief Lone Wolf and eight other Indians who went to Washington to attend the hearing of the suit brought to prevent the government from opening the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian lands in Oklahoma to settlers, have returned home. Notwithstanding the decisions against them, Chief* Wolf, through an interpreter, expressed strong hope that his trip east would yet bear fruit. ‘‘Judge Springer will appeal to the United States Supreme Court,” said he, ‘‘andwe think we will get justice.” ; —• >■ Grain Dealer Goes Under. Following the failure of William M. •Sturges, owner of the Sturges Bank, and the appointment of a receiver for the Mansfield Machine Works, came the fail- 1 ure of Lyman A. Strong, of the Strong Elevator Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, who also had an interest in the grain firm of Strong & Lauk, of Bucyrus, Ohio. Strong was a depositor in the Sturges Bank. Private Bank Fails in Ohio. i The Sturges Bank at Mansfield, Ohio, failed to open its doors the other day, and is in the hands of a receiver. The closing of the bank was followed by the assignment of Willis M. Sturges, its owner, and by the appointment of a receiver for the Mansfield Machine Works, capital $300,000, controlled by Mr. Sturges and his associates. Arrest Results in Suicide. Thomas Davis, of Frankfort, Kan., shot himself three times fifteen minutes after he had been arrested for embezzling from the Austin and Western Manufacturing Company or Chicago, for which he traveled, selling road graders. It was alleged that he sold machines and failed to make returns. Oberlin Receiv“« Another $50,000. President John Henry Barrows has announced the receipt of a check for $50,000 from “a friend in New England” toward the completion of the $500,000 Rockefeller endowment fund for Oberlin, Ohio, college. It is necessary yet to secure $150,000 to assure Mr. Rockefeller’s conditional gift of $200,000. Big Machine Works Burns. At Youngstown, Ohio, the plant of William B. Pollock & Co., builders of blast furnaces and steel mill machinery; was destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $150,000, covered by insurance. The company is now erecting a larger plant, but it will not be completed for some time. India Loses Many by Famine. The census completed in March, 1901, shows that the increase in population in India during the past ten years was only 5,000,000 to 6,000,000, instead of the normal 19,000,000. The loss represents deaths from famine and the deaths in consequence of the famine. Rent by Mo|ten Iron. Three tons of molten iron accidentally overturned into a stream of cold water at the Illinois Steel Works in South Chicago caused an exploSibh th'at killed one man instantly, taalmed And' injured others; and tore away 100 feet of .the walls of blast furnace No. 4. ‘ Repeals 'of CBew on ’Fnperior. The steamer Preston, Capt. Barlow, of Toledo, was wrecked on Lake Sup/jripr, and thirteen, or all but one of the persons aboard her, were rescued after the display of much heroism by Capt. McDougall and his men of The steamer Athabasca. 1 Wine Poison* Eight Boy*. Steven Kay, ased 14, is dead and seven other boys are-dangerously ill as a result of drinking wine containing belladonna at New Haven, W. Va. Lightning Causes a Collision. Lightning bolt struck a trolley car on the Chicago and Milwaukee line, disabled the coach and caused a collision in which eleven persons are more or lesp injured. Ohio Mill Company Fails. Receivers have been appointed for the Shelby Mill Company at Mansfield, Ohio. The capita] stock is $125,000 and liabili- ’ ties are over $250,000.'

CIRCUS TENT IS BLOWN DOWN. , Three Thousand Spectators at Grand Island Are Endaneered. A tornado 0 swept over Grand Island, Neb., doing immense damage to crops, trees and buildings' and causing two deaths, so far as reported. In the city 3,000 persons were collected under the Gentry pony and dog show tent when the storm struck it, wrecking the immense canvas and causing wild panic. In the crush one of the spectators was fatally hurt and many others were more or less injured. Prof. Gentry, the owner of the show, estimates his loss at $20,000, several of- his finest trained animals being killed or crippled, while the equipment is a complete wreck. TROLLEY CARS COLLIDE IN STORM Connecticut Outing Parties Have Narrow Escape Near Bridgeport. During a storm the other evening two trolley cars, carrying about 200 passengers, came into collision on the Shore Road four miles west of Bridgeport, Conn. The car going west was filled with women and children bound for an outing, and was in charge of Motorman Fessenden. The one going east was also filled with pleasure seekers, including the Bridgeport base-ball nine. Many of the passengers jumped. About twenty persons were injured. Hoosac Tunnel Docks Afire. A fire which for an hour threatened to do great damage broke out on pier 5 of the Hoosac Tunnel docks in Charlestown. The pier, which is the Boston terminus of the Warren Line Steamship Company, was destroyed, with a large quantity of merchandise. Six freight cars on the dock were consumed. The loss is placed at $200,000. Roof Falls on Large Crow 1. While the betting ring at Overland Park, Denver, was crowded with people a sudden gale lifted the roof over them from its bearings and dropped it in a mass upon the crowd. About a, dozen persons were hurt, some of them lyProfeaaor Kills Himself. Rev. Greenough White, late professor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, was found dead in his room at Sewanee, Tenn. He had taken his life by drinking»carbolic acid. Prof. White had been mentally unbalanced for some time. » .. ... Degth in Gas Explosion. Ftour mefi were ' fhtally and three otihlrs seriously injured b# a gas explosion in- pit No. 1 of the series of shafts of the new waterworks at Torrence road, Cincinnati. The explosion is supposed to have been due to a small vein of gas that was struck in the excavation. Lightning Kills Eleven. Lightning struck the Robbins pier in Lake View, Chicago, and killed ten boys and a man who had been fishing and sought shelter from a storm. One boy escaped death, but was severely shocked by the lightning. Big Blaze iu Missouri Town. The business portion of Polo, a town of 1,000 inhabitants in Caldwell County, Missouri, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of over $50,000. The bank of Polo and twenty buildings were consumed. Quantity of Dried Frnit Burned. Four hundred and fifty tons of dried fruit was destroyed by the burning of the fruit packing house of George N. Herbert, near San Jose, Cal. Loss about $60,000; insurance, $40,000. South Dakota Keuator Dies. Senator James H. Kyie died at Aberdeen, 8. D. He bad been ill for some time and ten days ago complications of functional heart trouble and malaria set in.

VALISE STRAP A NOOSE. Charles H. Williamson Found Hanging in Briggs Mouse, Chicago. The body of Charles H. Williamson, a traveling salesman, -whose home was in Philadelphia, was found hanging in room 310 of the Briggs House, in Chicago. A strap from his valise and a towel were attached to his neck aud to the door of the clothes Closet. He had been obliged to bend his knees so that he might not touch the floor and when police of the Central detail cut him down his legs were still bent. He was dressed only in a night shirt. He was about 50 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall. He left half a dozen letters, carefully sealed and addressed. On a sheet of the hotel paper he wrote: ‘‘Send telegram to Dr. James Williamson, 3327 North 21st street, Philadelphia, Pa.” No motive has been learned for the suicide. ARIZONA TOWNS BURN. •> Damage at Williams ssoo,ooo—Globe Suffers Loss of SBO,OOO. The town of Williams, Ariz., was practically destroyed by fire. The loss cannot be specified, but cannot fall much short of $500,000. Williams is a railway and lumbering town on the Santa Fe Pacific Railway, and has a population of about 2,000. Its main street, sac-. ing the railway right of way, was remarkable for the possession of a number of frontier drinking salo’ons in a row, housed in rough frame buildings. At Globe fourteen buildings were destroyed by fire of an unknown origin and ten families of miners, are homeless. Loss, SBO,OOO. FINDS SON MOURNED AS LOST. Father Reunite! to Boy He Thought \\ a* browned at Johnstown. At the time of the Johnstown disaster the wife and child of Henry Smith, of Springfield, Ohio, were on a train speed- ’ ing east to visit relatives. The train was swept away by the flood, Mrs. Smith was drowned, and it was supposed that the boy, then 2 years old, shared the same fate. Recently Mr. Smith received information that a boy bearing a birthmark which answered the description -of one borne by the son was living at Youngstown. Mr. Smith arranged to see the boy; and identified him as his son, now nearing manhood. Americans Buy. Diamonds. Proof of American prosperity is illustrated by the activity of the American gem buyers. In every diamond market in Europe are seeking to secure precious stones for the American market. At the sales at Paris, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam the American buyers are securing the most costly gems offered. ‘ Frank J. Patterson Dead. Frank J. Patterson, tice president of the National Cash Register Company, died at Dayton, Ohio, of heart disease. He is survived by a widow and three children. Mr. Patterson had been engaged for thirty years in business in Ohio, first in Southern Ohio coal mines and later in the manufacture of cash registers. ’ Man and Wi r e Are Suicide*. At Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Fannie Wilson committed suicide by taking morphine. Her husband, known as “Texas” Wilson, upon hearing of his wife’s act, left the city and his body was found in the suburbs. An investigation showed that death was caused by opium poisoning. Fatal Fire in Butte, Mont. Two dead, three severely if not fatally injured and a score more or less hurt is the result of a fire at the Pullman lodg-ing-house at Butte, Mont. A number of men were experimenting with a gasoline lamp, in a saloon on jhe lower floor of the lodginghouse when the lamp exploded. Flans Bia: Match Factory. The Washington Match Company has been incorporated at Tacoma, Wash., with a capital stock of $1,200,000 by exCongressman James Hamilton Lewis and associates. It proposes to erect a factory 200 feet square and four stories high. Flames Ruin Dressed Beef. The big dressed beef storage warehouse of A. A- Jewett & Co., Philadelphia agents of Swift & Co., of Chicago, was almost destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $300,000. The immense stock carried by the company was nearly all destroyed. • > Paroled fbr Discovery’® Sake. S. R. Dawson, inventor of Damascus steel process, jvho has served half of ten years’ sentence for killing his son-in-law of a day, has been paroled by (Jov. Shaw of lowa, that his valuable discovery might not die with him in his cell. Cornell Eisrht Wins. Cornell eight won varsity race at Poughkeepsie, Columbia second, Wisconsin third. Record for the course lowered fifty-one ihd two-fifths seconds. Courtney’s men won race for fours and 'Penasyivania eight the freshmen’s event. More Armenians Killed. Reports from Mush, in Kurdistan, say the Kurils are plundering villages and have killed fourteen Armenians in consequence of the belief that the latter murdered a Kurdish notable, who was sheriff of Aghan. Strike Riot tn Telluride. Col. Striking miners at Telluride, Colo., engaged in a riotous attempt to stop operations at Smuggler-Union property. Two men are killed and several wounded. Troops were ordered out and held in readiness in expectation of further trouble. Chicano Makes a Record. The celebration of the Fourth in Chi cago makes a record for the city. Thera are do fatalities, no big fifes, fewfcr accidents than usual and less disorder than has been known for yean.