Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

TWO OUTLAWS ARE ARRESTED. “Sol" Temple and William Henseley Taken at Leavenworth, Kan. "Sol” Temple, a member of the old Ellsworth gang of outlaws, which several years ago operated extensively in Southern Kansas and Oklahoma, has been arrested at Leavenworth, Kan., together with William Jones, alias William Henseley. They were taken by two detectives near Fort Leavenworth in what is known as the “Klondike” saloon district outside the army reservation. They had, it is alleged, planned a raid on the saloons, and had cut the telegraph and telephone wires to Leavenworth to make escape easier. Temple surrendered only when a revolver was placed at his breast. Jones snapped his revolver twice at the officer who had covered him, but it failed to fire, and the officer shot him in the neck. The wound is serious, but not fatal. Temple will be taken to Pond Creek, Oklahoma, where he is wanted on several charges and for breaking jail twice. Jones, or Henseley, is about 22 years of age, and says his home is at St. Joseph, Mo. Temple's identity was not known at first until examined by two detectives brought from Kansas City. He went under the name of Murphy.

FOUR PERSONS BURNED ALIVE. Woman and Three Children Perish in Blazing Tenement. A whole family was burned in a Tenn avenue tenement fire, in Pittsburg. The mother and three children are dead and the husband is badly burned and is now at the hospital. An explosion of an oil can was the cause of the fire. The dead are: Mrs. Sophia Ratza. aged 30 years; Viola Ratza, 8 years; Kashuer Ratza, a Buy, 5 years; Wabock, a boy, aged 2 years. From what can be learned Mrs. Ratza was preparing breakfast in her apartments on the third floor of the tenement house. The fire in the kitchen stove was not burning as quickly as she wanted it to and she took an oil can and poured some of the oil on the fire. In a moment a blaze from the grate of the stove ignited the oil in the can and an explosion, which was heard throughout the house, followed. ACCIDENT NEAR MUNCIE, IND. Two Stre-t Cars Collide and Many Narrowly Escape Injury. At 1 o’clock on a recent morning a west-bound special interurban electric car on the Union Traction Company line west of Muncie, Ind., ''dashed into the regular passenger car from Indianapolis, the switch having been tampered with. The vestibules in both cars were smashed and Motorman Willard Ellar of Muncie had a narrow escape. The special was filled with 125 colored people from Anderson, who attended a colored social event in Muncie. Many persons in both cars were slightly injured. None reported as serious.

Prisoners Attack a Priest. Duriiig a melee at the county jail in Omaha Dean Campbell Fair of Trinity Cathedral was rudely jostled and barely escaped into the corridor with the aid of a jailer. The dean had been giving the prisoners good advice of a somewhat personal nature which was resented by several of ihe audience. Other prisoners took the clergyman's part and a general fight ensued, in which the pastor's following was about to be vanquished when the jail attendants came to the rescue. Mixed Paint Trust. It is reported that negotiations are on foot looking ,to a consolidation of large mixed paint concerns. One report has it that the company will engage in all branches of the paint business, including pigments, oils, turpentine, varnishes, chemicals, brushes and glass, and that a $100,000,000 company will be organized. Eleven Injured in Wreck. Eleven passengers were badly injured by an unexplained accident to a westbound Denver and Rio Grande passenger train one mile west of Marshall Pass, Colo. The Pullman sleeper broke loose from the train, turned a complete somersault and plunged down a fourteen-foot embankment. Killed in Self I efense. At Nevada, Mo., in the preliminary examination before Justice Poage of L. E. Bryan, who killed John Davis in that county on July 3, the case was dismissed by the prosecuting attorney, the evidence tending to show the killing was done in self-defense. Brooklyn Bridge Disable 1. Several suspension rods of the north cable of the Brooklyn bridge were discovered to be broken. Car service and team traffic were suspended as a precautionary measure until it was ascertained the damage was slight. Debt Leads to a Murder. George Young, a barber of Ilion, N. Y., was shot dead by Henry Brown, as a result of a quarrel over a debt of $16 which Young alleged was owed him by Brown. Both men bore excellent reputations. She Cslle 1 the Judge a Liar. Mrs. Annie Blehr of Cincinnati, in open court at Batavia, Ohio, called Judge Parrot a liar,, and was sent to jail until she retracts tie statement. This she says ■he will never do.

Prayers for Rnin Answered. The grain States had their prayer for rain answered the other nigljt and the threatened destruction of corn, wheat, and other cereals has been partly stopped. Pchley Inquiry Coart Named. Secretary Ixmg has named Admiral Dewey and Rear Admirals Kimberley and Bonham, retired, as the members of the Schley court of inquiry. Great Davea-port Fire. Fire in Davenport, lowa, destroyed property worth $700,000 and rendered homeless hundreds of persons.

MANY ARE HURT IN WRECK. Serious Accident on the Mexican Central Near Montezuma. A serious accident occurred on the line of the Mexican Central near Montezuma, Mexico. . Several passengers on the train were severely injured, some of whom are exp'ected to die. A Pullman car, which had been sidetracked to allow another car to be coupled to the train, got beyond control of the brakemen and started down a steep grade. The train backed up to catch the flying car and on reaching it a collision occurred. Althongh the ear was not derailed, the passengers within received a terrific shock and the car was considerably damaged. BOY SJlVes A TRAIN. Finds Rails Warpe 1 by Heat and Warns Just in Time. A 1 Vickery discovered that the track of the Tennessee Central Railroad half a mile from Crossville, Tenn., was twisted and warped by the scorehing heat of the sun, and flagged a passenger train just in time to prevent a frightful wreck. The rails and ties were twisted out of line a distance of ten feet. The train was crowded, and every passenger signed a petition to the president of the road for an annual pass for young Vickery.

Kansas City Concern Fails.

The Traders’ Grain Company .of Kansas City stopped payment, and it is said the liabilities amount to $150,000. The company operated on a capital of $20,000. The failure was caused by the advance in both corn and wheat, aided by the heavy buying orders of country customers. . New Prince of Wale*. On his return to England in November next the Duke of Cornwall will be made Prince of Wales. As soon as preparations are finished at Buckingham Palace, King Edward and Queen Alexandra will remove there from Marlborough house, which will be handed over to the new Prince. Report to Cost a Million. The management of the Union Pacific has decided to spend nearly $1,000,000 in establishing a resort on the site of the natural Indian fort on Dale creek, 8,400 feet high in the Rocky Mountains, a short distance southeast of Sherman, Wyo. - Mystery in Shaft Death. J. L. Collins, 52 years old, was killed in a peculiar elevator accident iu the Masonic Temple in Chicago. He was caught between the open door on the fourteenth floor and the bottom of the car and dashed to the basement to instant death. Proclaims Free Trade. The President has issued his proelamatioif establishing free trade between Porto Rico and the United States and declaring the organization of a civil government for the island. The proclamation is purely formal. Noted B<ndits Given Work. Coleman and James Younger, after their twenty-five years in the State prison, will begin work as salesmen for a St. Paul dealer in gravestones and monuments. Warden Wolfer has signed the contract for their new work.

Ship Meets Disaster.

An explosion of petroleum on board the American schooner Louise Adelaide, in the harbor at Stockholm, Sweden, resulted in the death of Cnpt. Orr, ten members of the schooner’s crew and four Swedjsh customs officials.

Wrecked by Exploaion of Oil.

A terrific explosion of petroleum in the most thickly populated quarter of Batum, Russia, wrecked the whole center of the town. It is impossible to estimate the loss of life and property, but in both cases this is very large.

SIX MEN found dead. Bodies of Members of a Party of ATaskan Gold Seekers Discovered. A tragic story comes from St. Michael. A party of men on the way to Nome re-, cently found the bodies of six men at a point near Cape Romanoff. It is presumed they all froze to death during some one of the terrible blizzards that prevailed last winter. The bodies were scattered at intervals —five of them about a quarter of a mile apart. Each was found wrapped in blankets, and each had some camp equipment near him, but no food. One of the dead men had been evidently either injured or sick, as he lay on a litter constructed of a pair of oars and a canvas sheet. It would seem that the storm must have overcome the men carrying him. Evidently becoming exhausted, they had abandoned him and wandered off, each for himself, to perish where found. General Randall thinks they were a party of prospectors, who. in an effort to reach St. Michael, ha,ff;. run out of provisions and perished from exhaustion and exposure. LYNCHED IN PUBLIC PARK. West Virginia Negro Pay 9 Penalty for Shoo ing Chief of Police. William Brooks, colored, was lynched in City Park, at Elkins, W. Va„ Mondav afternoon by a maddened mob of 500 half an.hour after he had shot and fatally wounded Robert Lilly, chief of police. Brooks was creating a disturbance in the lower end of town and when Chief Lilly tried to arrest him the negro fled into a house. The officer followed and clinched with him. While they were rolling on the floor the officer’s revolver dropped from his pocket and Brooks seized it and shot Lilly through the abdomen. Brooks then jumped from a window and was instantly pursued by the crowd which had been attracted by the fight. He was captured after a chase of half a mile and .carried to the park, where his body was soon swinging from a tree.

DID NOT WANT TO DIE RICH. Passing: of David Block, Who Distributed His fortune .Months Ajso. David Block, a well-known member of the St. Louis Merchants’ Exchange, died in moderate circumstances, though he might have passed away a millionaire. He believed with Carnegie that it was almost a crime for a man to die rich and several months ago, acting on this theory, he called his children about him on his birthday and distributed his fortune among them equally. Mr. Block was well known in financial circles of Chicago and New York. TO ENLARGE ENGINE WORKS. The American Locomotive Company’s Plant to Make 1,000 Yearly. The American Locomotive Company has appropriated the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of enlarging its plant at Schenectady, N. Y. It is stated that the capacity of the plant will be increased from 425 to 1,000 locomotives yearly. The idea is to make this plant the central one, and it will be developed to the greatest extent, although other plants are to be improved and enlarged.

Death in a J.onc Fall.

A young woman, supposed to be Mrs. B. De Graft of La Crosse, Wis., either jumped or was thrown out of a sixthstory window of the Hotel Morrison in Chicago and was fatally injured. The police believe an attempt was made to murder the woman and that her plunge was made through the window in an effort to escape. Americans Hurt in Russia. The wheel of a sleeping car on the Moscow-St. Petersburg express broke when the train was near Okoulowka. The car fell over on its side and thirteen persons were injured, among them Mrs. Beard of Boston, Mrs. Harmin of San Francisco and Mr. Calendar of New York. New Oil Field Opene'. An oil well which win drilled three miles east of Lima, Ohio, proves to be the biggest gusher in the Lima field. It will average several thousands of barrels a day. It is impossible to control the flow. The new well will open up a big territory. Mrs. Nation Sentence 1 to Jni*. Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined SIOO and given a thirty days’ jail sentence by Judge Ilazen in the District Court at Topeka, Kan., for disturbing the peace and dignity of the city by a Sunday joint raid last March. There is no appeal and Mrs. Nation must serve her time in prison. Boers Mmt Ficht It Out. It is reported that Gen. Delarey has informed the Ivlerksdorp commando that there is no longer any chance of European intervention, and that they must fight the war out to the bitter end entirely on their own account. Combine of Chair Companies Charles It. Flint is organizing a cbnlr trust, the capital of which is said to be The combination will include about forty chair companies, or practically all the big concerns in the United States. Fatal Walk on a Trestle. While walking on a trestle near Eve, Mo.. Grover Lemmon, aged 18, and Frank Long, aged 21, were run down by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas flyer and instantly killed. John Van Dusen. a companion, was badly injured. Maniac Runs Amuck.. Michael Kelly, a maniac, brooding over fancied wrongs, murdered John R. Garrett, a lumber merchant of Leavenworth, Kan., fatally wounded a physician, shot three policemen and a laborer and was himself killed by the officers. I. Juror! ja Trolley Collision. Seven persons were hart—one man seriously—in a collision between trolley cars Iste the other night on the trestle crossing Coney Island Creek.