Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

CONFESSED A LIST OF CRIMES.

Supposedly Respectable Kansas Man Horrifies His Neighbors. Facts have come to light in the case of Isaiah Hiatt which are causing considerable interest in Kingman and Pratt Counties, Kansas. Hiatt lived in Kingman County and Liberty Township, alternating back and forth between the two. lie was a man of some means; was married and counted ordinarily respectable in the community in which he lived. A few days ago he fell ill, ani his doctor informed him that he would soon die. He became frightened and made a confession of his past misdeeds. Among other things he confessed he was living under an assumed name. He said he had murdered his first wife in Kentucky; had killed a neighbor and hid the evidence of his crime, giving the name of the man and recitiug the particulars. He also told of robberies, house breakings and numerous felonies and petty offenses. Soon after making his confession he died and the person narrating the circumstances said his neighbors were so horrorstricken that they refused to allow him a Christian burial, bin instead chose a secluded spot on his farm, dug a hole and dumped him in without a single pang or regret. CLOUDBURST IN MONTANA. Budden Flood Inundates Corbin and Great Damage Results. A Helena, Mont., special says: “O deluge of rain amounting to a cloudburst washed away nearly the entire town of Corbin, twenty miles south of Helena, and the Big J?eck concentrator there, according to messages received in Helena. So far as is known, there was no loss of life. The tracks and trestles on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern were washed out. Nearly all houses were washed away and practically all the concentrator was carried off, a mass of debris. A great mass of Water poured from the hills upon the town and struck the buildings with terrific force. The concentrator alone is worth thousands of dollars, and to this loss is added the dwelling houses and other buildings of the town.

STUMBLE INTO BOILING MUD. Tourists in Yellowstone Park Parboiled in Famous “Paint Pots.” Mrs. W. W. Wylie, who has just arrived at Helena, Mont., from the Mammoth Hot Springs, tells of a frightful accident befalling two women, mother and daughter, who were traveling through Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Wylie did not learn the names of the women. They were inspecting the famous “paint pots’’ at the Thumb in the National Park, when they fell into the caldron of boiling mud, waist deep, and were parboiled before they could be dragged out. The tourists accompanying them wrapped the sufferers up and conveyed them by boat to the Lake Hotel, where a physician dressed their burns, but gave no hope of thei.recovery. Starts New “Boxer” Move. A new “Boxer” movement is being started, according to Chinese intelligence from Sian-Fu. Pu Chun, the heir apparent, with other members of Prince Tuan's family, has gone to join Tuan on the borders of Mongolia and there are strong indications that Prince Tuan is preparing to march against the foreigners With" the tacit approval of the Empress Dqwager. . Crazy Man Confesses Crimes. Mrs. Ammenia A. Bullis, 60 years of age, was stabbed to death on a highway in the outskirts of Denver, Colo. Jessie Kinport, 14 years old, was assaulted and terribly mutilated with a knife at her home, and may die of her wounds. Carl Jensen, alias Johnson, aged 25, who is in custody, has confessed both crime*. He is believed to be crazy.

Street Car Line Sol'l. The directors and stockholders of the Hamilton and Lindewald Electric Transit Company have transferred the street car property and Lindenwald Park over to the Ohio Southern Traction Company, which runs from Cincinnati to Dayton, Ohio. The purchase price is said to be $250,000. Cards Lead to Fatal Duel. Harry Daley of New York, a health seeker, and Julius Aria fought a duel with revolvers in J. E. Lacome’s saloon at Santa Fe, N. M. Aria wns killed. Daley was fatally wounded and died a few hours later. They had quarreled over a game of cards. Live Wire Kill* Chicagoan. Ed Nelson of Chicago was killed by a live electric wire running into the barn of W. G. Wagner at Cameron. Colo.. at whose house he was a guest. Not knowing that he was entangled in the wire, Nelson turned on the current and was literally cooked. Blame Mafia for Murder., Dominico Antonio Salamando, 35 years old, who kept a drug store at 1271 Prospect place, Brooklyn, was found dead lying in the street a short distance from his home and is said to have been a victim of the Mafia. Fire at HI Paso, Texas. An explosion in the engine room of the El Paso, Texas, smelter started a fire. The fire was confined to the furnace department, and shippers having ore at the smelter will lose nothing. The damage cannot yet be estimated. Double Crime in Arkansas. A double murder occurred four miles from Turner, Ark. James Johns and a 17-year-old niece were murdered anil their bodies placed in a burning building. There is no clew to the perpetrators of the crime. Younger Brothers Fred. The Younger brothers have been released from prison by.the Minnesota pardon board after twenty-five years’ imprisonment. They must not leave the State.

SAVES MANY LIVES IN PERIL. Wife of a Nebraska Farmer Prevents Accident to Train. The lives of about fifty people were probably saved by Mrs. Frank Zurcher, a farmer’s wife, living near Osmond, Neb. She stopped the train leaving Sioux City over the Pacific Short Line bound for O’Neill, Neb., before a short bridge that had been on fire and was unsafe. After fighting the flames with her son until they were extinguished the woman ran down the track and flagged the passenger with her apron. On the east side of the bridge there is a deep cut and a curve and it would have been impossible for the engineer to see the danger ahead in time to stop his engine and avert an accident. FiVK MEN BADLY INJURED. Fie ih Scraped from Their Bones by Breaking Plate Glass. Breaking glass at the plate glass works in Kokomo, Ind., inflicted frightful injuries on five of the ten men who were carrying the sheet upright from the annealing oven to the grinding table. The plate, which measured 122 by 190 inches and weighed 2,200 pounds, broke and came showering down on the heads and shoulders of the workmen. The victims’ scalps were cut from side to side and the flesh was literally scraped from the bones of their shoulders and arms. All five will lose their arms if uot their lives. Dowieites Invoke Force. A pitched battle in which 3,000 persons took part resulted from the invasion of Evanston, 111., by a band of Dowieites attended by one hundred Zion guards in uniform. Bad eggs, decayed fruit, stones and dead cats were thrown at the exhorters. The guards undertook instantly to punish those who had done the throwing. A wild riot resulted, in which the Dowieites were defeated. Judge Decides Against Picketing. At Hamilton, Ohio, Judge Fisher issued an order perpetually enjoining the striking machinists from maintaining pickets around the plant-of the Niles tool works. He held that the obvious purpose of picketing was lawless intimidation. Familr in New Jersey Incorporate-*. The Hyde family of Plainfield, N. J„ lias incorporated itself. Hereafter the $3,000,000 estate left by Charles Hyde will be known as the Union County Investment Company, with his widow, his four sons and his daughter as the six stockholders. Pnosengers Hurt in Wrec’.c. The New York express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad was run into by a switch engine and a cut of cars at the entrance to the Columbift, Ohio, union depot. Two coaches of the passenger train were demolished ami about twenty-five persons hurt. Mnrderel His Wife and Child. Sylvester Greeu of McDowell County, W. Va., fatally stabbed his wife nnd beat out the brains of his child with a rock because the wife refused him money with which to gamble. Green escaped to Kentucky. _ Suicide of Ambassador's Son. Frederick D. White, son of Andrew D. White, United States ambassador to Germany, while femporarily insane, shot and killed himself at his home in Syracuse. N. Y. Mr. White was 38 years of age. Did Not Want to Live Alone. Sylvester Brackler of Lima, Ohio, committed suicide with a razor after being served with divorce papers of his wife and going home and finding her gone. Ohio Democratic Convention. Ohio Democratic State convention refused to indorse Bryan and the Kansas City platform. Kilbourne was nominated for Governor,

BUMPER WHEAT CROP. Estimated at 682,003,000 Bushels of J- printt an > Winter. Figuring on the basis of the government report, there is a bumper wheat crop this year. 399,000,000 bushels winter and 283,000,000, bushels spring, a total of 682,000,000 bushels. Corn is estimated at 1,966,000,000 bushels, a decrease of 134,000,000 bushels from last-year. The oat crop is short 117,000,000 bushels from last year, and is estimated at 692,000,000 bushels. Returns to the statistician of the Department of Agriculture on the acreage of corn planted indicate a reduction of about 400,000 acres-, or .5 per cent from the area planted last year. Of the twenty-two States having 1,000,000 acres or upward in corn in 1900. twelve show a decrease of about 1,300,000 acres, while in the remaining ten an increase of about 900,000 acres is shown. Of the twentythree States and territories having less than 1,000,000 acres in corn in 1900, only six report smaller acreages than were planted last year. The average condition of the growing crop is 81.3 V as compared with 89.5 on July 1. 1900, 86.5 at the corresponding date in 1890, and a tenyear average of 90.3. The condition in Nebraska is 88, in Illinois and lowa 87, in Kansas 74, in Missouri 70, and in Texas 64. In each of the twenty-two States first above referred to, except in Mississippi, Virginia, and South Dakota, where the conditions represented by SB, 92 and 89, respectively, correspond with their ten-year averages, the condition is more or less below such averages. TWO KILLED IN WRECK. Big Four Passenger Train Collides with Freight Cars. One of the worst wrecks on the Lake Shore road in years occurred in the center of Nottingham, Ohio. The southwestern limited on the Big Four from St. Louis, Cincinnati and other western cities, which goes on to the Lake Shore tracks at Cleveland, was ditched through collision with a portion of a freight train. Just what caused the wreck is not definitely known, but it is thought a part of a freight train that had broken in two had rolled on to the passenger tracks. No passengers were killed. The engineer of the passenger train and a postal clerk were killed, and three train men and two tramps were injured. When the front end of the engine plowed into the ground of the gully it became disconnected from the coaches that went over the embank; meat and turned sideways so that it pointed in the other direction. The mail car, crashed into the tender.

MISTAKEN FOK A BURGLAR.

Charles Waltz Shot and Instantly Killed at Barberton, Ohio. Charles Waltz was shot and instantly killed by John W. Edwards, a Barberton, Ohio, photographer, being mistaken for a burglar. Waltz, with some friends, stopped at Edwards’ house during the night and demanded admittance. A window was broken and Edwards fired through the opening. No further sound wag heard, but later a policeman found Waltz dead, shot through the heart. Insanity Law Is Useless. The grand jury at Indianapolis that has been investigating the insanity trust reported. It failed to return indictments against the parties involved because there had been no evidence of criminal intent. The report says: "‘There has been no violation of the laws of the State of Indiana, hut we are also of' the opinion that the law has been abused.” Kansas Crops Almost Destroyed. Kansas farmers will lose $100,000,000 because of the drought which during the last three mouths had almost ruined the corn crop, destroyed all hope for oats and seriously damaged fruit, hay and vegetables. The heat and lock of moisture have caused greater injury to vegetation than was ever before known in the State. Night Watchman Slain. Ole McMillan, a night watchman, was shot and killed by J. Metzuer while the latter was resisting arrest at Humboldt, lowa. McMillan’s body was riddled with a charge of buckshot. Metzner is said to have been intoxicated and was abusing his family when the officer attempted to arrest him. Child Ts Killed by a Bomb. A bomb or huge torpedo thrown into the yard at 2021 Curtis street. Denver, killed Esther Oliver, 5 years old, who was sitting on the porch. The child’s lower jaw was entirely torn away, and she lived but thirty minutes after th« explosion occurred. Kittretlge Is Senator. Alfred B. Kittredge of Sioux Falls, has been appointed by Gov. Herreid to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of James H. Kyle. He will serve until March 4, 1903, the date when Senator 1 Kyle's term would hnve expired. American Robbed in Paris. The residence of John Munroe, 1 Rue Do Longchamps, Paris, has i>een robbed of jewelry valued at 80,000 francs. The robbers entered an open window on the ground floor in the absence of the family and while the servants were at dinner. Treasurer Confesses Ar»nn. Treasurer E. Norlin of Kearney County, Neb., has confessed to robbing the treasury and partially burning the court house to conceal his crime. Of the $lO,000 stolen. $6,000 has been recovered. Hnntsvllle, Hi., Destroyed. Fire during the night destroyed th* business portion of Huntsville, 111. Four stores, a blacksmith shop and five residences were burned. Total loss, $20,000; partially insured. Bin Fire n t-prinaHeld, Mo. In Springfield, Mo., fire totally destroyed the three-story jobbing and manufacturing plant of the F. C. Herman Saddler}" Company. Lom, about $50,000,