Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

CABMAN FINDS A FORTUNE. He Restores $7,800 Worth of Gems to Owner, Who Gives Him S3OO. A guest at the Far Rockaway Beach, Long Island, hotel, who is registered as Mrs. Sarah Katz, reported to the police that she had lost $7,800 in jewels. She was sure some bold, bad robber had seen her diamonds and grown so'" jealous of her that he had come in the night to despoil her. The other day a cab-horse was silently contemplating a group of bathers and from time to time shooing off the flies from his legs by playing a sand-jig on the beach. James Murray, the driver, was awakened from bis midsummer reverie by something that glistened, and it yvasn't gold, either. The glistening stuff was right underneath the horse’s hoofs. The driver took his time about finding that what he saw was a jewel-bag full of gems. They were Mrs. Katz's. She had carelessly taken them with her when she went over to hear what the wild waves were saying. The story of the wavelets was so charming that she forgot all about her $7,800 worth of jewels. James Murray is an honest cab-driver. He always obeys the regulations. He restored the diamonds and other glittering things to Mrs. Katz, ami she ended the last chapter of the story by giving him S3OO in real money. LONG-LOST DAUGHTER FOUND. Mysterious Disappearance of Sadie Edmunds Nine Years Ano Solved. George T. Edmunds, of Plymouth, Pa., has located his daughter, Sadie, who, nine years ago, then 18, disappeared from her home in Alpena, Mich. It was thought she had been downed or murdered by a jealous lover. Two weeks after her disappearance her mother died from grief. One month later her sweetheart died from the same cause. Her father was so affected that he left town and moved to Plymouth. There he' started in business anew, but brooded over the mystery. A few weeks ago the daughter, while at Thousand Islands, read in a Wilkesbarre paper of an accident to a man of her father's name. She employed a detective, who investigated and acquainted the father of the daughter’s whereabouts. A happy visit followed. The daughter at the time of her disappearance -married a man now living in New Orleans, La. She is Mrs. Lawrence Brice. Fatal Duel A Fousrht. As a result of a desperate duel with Winchester rifles which took place on Norris avenue, of Memphis, one man is dead, two others are seriously injured and a fourth is a fugitive from justice. The tragedy grew out of a dispute between ’ Edwin Blalock and Robert Wright, Jr. The fathers backed the boys up, and the two families lined up with rifles on neutral ground. To Exten 1 Yukon Railroad. During the next two years the White Pass & Yukon railway is to be extended 200 miles, from White Horse to Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon, 200 miles above Dawson. It will obviate the necessity of steamers passing through the dangerous Five Finger rapids, where strong steel cables are now in use lining them up and down. The cost of the extension will exceed $3,000,000.

Enters Lake Freight Trade. Lyman C. Smith, the millionaire typewriter manufacturer, intends to enter the great lakes freight carrying business, and as the first step in this line he says he has decided to let contracts for the con struction of ten large lake freight steamers to be ready for business next May. The boats will be run between Buffalo and Duluth in the grain and ore trade. Jeer* Drive Man to Suici le. George McCabe, 46 years of age, committed suicide by cutting his throat. Members of the man’s family say that McCabe was driven to desperation by the jeers of his fellow workmen at the Worthington Hydraulic Works in Brooklyn, where a strike has been in progress, and he had continued at> work. Woman Destroys Sandusky Saloon. Mrs. Josephine Dashault, wife of Capt. D. A. Dashault, one of the most prominent men in Sandusky, Ohio, saw her husband coming out of Ritter's saloon and immediately wrecked the place. Armed with bricks and stones, she destroyed the front and the glassware of the saloon. Lake Superior Island Lost. Steamboat Island, one of the Apostle group, off Chequamegon bay. Lake Superior, has disappeared. Before the last storm, and for time immemorial, it was a small island of sand and rock overgrown with trees. Now it has gone anil a rocky reef several feet under water marks its place. It is now a danger to navigation. , Fun Down by Northern Queen. The whaleback barge .Sagamora waa sunk in a collision with the Northern Line steamer Northern Queen near Point Iroquois, Lake Superior. Of the crew of eight men two were drowned and one is missing. There was a dense fog at the time of the collision. Dr. Milo B, Ward Dead. Dr. Milo B. Ward, aged 50 years, died in Kansas City. During the Spanish war he' was appointed to the volunteer army by President McKinley, being coinmissioned a Major Surgeon and assigned to duty at Chickamagua. Prisoner < nts Hie Throat. John Gulick, who is confined in the county jail at. Shamokin, Pa., charged with the murder of his mother and brother, cut his throat with a table knife, and was dying from loss of blood when be was discovered. He may recover. Two Kil’el in Street Fisht. In a street fight at Isoline, Tenn., a mining town, Policeman Pink Pass and W. E. Knox were killed and Shirley Pass, son of the policeman, was probably fatally wounded.

MADE A THIEF BY GAMBLING. Theoloarical Student in Denver Robs Chn’-ches to Play Cards. A Catholic by birth and education in Germany for the priesthood, Casimir Elwich, 32 years of age, confessed to the police in the presence of Father William Morrin, pastor of St. Francis de Sales Church of Denver, Colo., that he robbed the parish residence a week before. Elwich says that for six years he had made a constant practice of robbing Catholic churches and parish priests. His plan was to watch until some woman knelt to pray. Then he would pick up her purse from the pew. Elwich robbed the priests jvho aided him and plundered their churches. He admits that from the Catholic Church at Cripple Creek he stole SB7. With that he went to Denver and lost it at roulette. The prisoner says he is addicted to gambling and this habit incited him to steal.

LIVELY TORNADO IS KANSAS. Wind Gets Violent at Kilmer and Damaues Several Building-’. ■ A lively tornado around Kilmer did much damage. Several buildings were unroofed and one farmer’s buggy was carried through the air 200 yards and landed upside down upon a wire fence. Farmer Weidling suffered the most loss. His fine two-story house was completely unroofed and wrecked by the wind and flood of water that deluged the unprotected rcWms. Orchards and crops suffered. Insult to German Flair. ■ Although he wrapped himself in the German flag and claimed the protection of the Kaiser’s ensign, Col. Abel Murillo was forcibly removed from a HamburgAmerican liner at Cartagena, Colombia, and placed under arrest, despite the formal protests of the captain of the vessel, as well as those of the German vice consul at Cartagena. Bank Funds Recovered. Detectives employed, by an Akron. 0., bank arrested two men in a-Goshen, Ind., gambling house and recovered about $16,000 in currency and gold coin which was stolen from the bank ten days before. The prisoners were taken to Elkhart, where they led the way to the hiding place of the money. Brook'yn Fire Kilts Three. James McCoy and his two children. William. 16 years old, and Edna, 14 years old. were burned to death in a fire in their home in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Mary McCoy, the mother, was probably fatally hurt by falling from a window to the ground. ’ xp’o’ion Wrecks n Yacht. Gasoline oil wrecked Vernon C. Seaver's yacht Kid at Chicago by an explosion that injured four men aboard and set fire to the boat. The club house of the Columbia Yacht Club was also damaged by fire. The men aboard narrowlyescaped with their lives. Riot in a Kansan Town. Eight thrashing machine crews reached the town of Colwich, Kan., the other day and because they could not get liquor they smashed five joints and in addition wrecked a number of pumps. The citizens organized a party to cause itheir arrest, but the thrashers made them reMnniln Civil Charter Passed. The Philippine commission has passed the Manila civil charter, which will go into effect immediately. The rate of taxation on real property has been amended, it being fixed at 1 per cent for the present and 2 per cent after 1902. Flood at Cornwall, Ont. Four lock gates were carried away in Cornwall, Ont., canal, and navigation was suspended until they could be replaced. The water in the level, which is a mile long, flooded the surrounding land to a depth of seven fee*

MURDERER COMMITS SUICIDE. Turns Weapon on Himself After Shoot* in-r Woman and Child. A frightful murder and suicide occurred five miles south of Sherburne, Minn. Fred Yost, a prosperous farmer living seven miles east of Sherburne, was recently held to the grand jury on a serious charge, preferred by Eliza Kunkle, who has been his housekeeper for about two years. The woman was fearful of vengeance and removed to Frank Viebaban’s place, south of town. Appearances indicate that the woman saw Yost approach the house and hooked the screen and locked the door. Yost tore open the screen door and kicked in the door, where the woman confronted him with the 10-moaths-old child in her arms, lie fired with a 38-caliber revolver, the ball entering the child's forehead and emerging at the back of the head; thence tearing a groove through the door. The woman was shot through the fleshy part of tjie right arm, the bullet passing into the side. Physicians have no hope of her recovery. Yost then went to where his team was secured and deliberately placed the revolver against his right temple and fired. The bullet emerged from the opposite side of his head, Y’ost dropping without a struggle. BOY HANGS HiMSELF AT PEAY. Arkansas Lad Unconscious from a Mock Execution. , • Recentlj’ young Leemoyne Jayne was one of the 10,000 persons who saw Jim Anderson, a negro, hanged at Little Rock, Ark. When the execution was over the lad inspected the scaffold and a few days later completed a miniature scaffold. He invited his playmates to take the role of the condemned man. Failing in this, he sought to take the place of the executioner as well as the person condemned. He adjusted the noose and stepped on the trap. He had figured that he had enough rope to reach the ground. The sight of his body dangling in midair caused his playmates to spread the alarm and neighbors reached the scene in time to cut the body down before the lad was strangled to death. His neck was not broken, but he was tin conscious, and doctors give no hope for recovery. For this and the scenes enacted Gov. Davis has made known his intention to recommend the immediate repeal of the act which permits the liublic to witness hangings.

ROBBERS . O.C .URE VICTIMS. Family of Wealthy Ohio Farmer Visted by Brutal Bandits. Twelve masked men the other night visited the home of I’eter Drum, a wealthy farmer living eleven miles east of Bucyrus, Ohio, and after seizing and binding the various members of the family, proceeded to torture Mr. Drum in an effort to induce him to disclose the hiding place of money which he was supposed to have secreted in the house. The robbers obtained SSO, and tvere finally frightened away by the screams of the women, which aroused the neighbors. Negro Shoots Assailants. In Leake township. Ark., a party of white men sent word to Lige Siegler, a negro, that they would attempt to whip him, and received word back that some of them would get killed if they came. The party went out, and Siegler and his son shot at them, killing Lewis Haynie, brother of State Senator Haynie, and Hop Halton, a brother of John Halton, a prominent merchant at Stephens. Ba-I Men Break from Jail. At Devil's Lake, N. D., as Sheriff Hermann Ratien entered the cell containing. P. H. Pickett and George Kelly, the Churches Ferry safe blowers, they overpowered, bound and gagged him, taking the keys and locking him in the cell. They then released three other prisoners and the five made their escape. Actress Foils Robber. Jessie Bartlett Dafis, the famous contralto, used her beautiful voice in a very practical way the other night when she screamed so vigorously as* to frighten away a burglar who was trying to crack the safe in which the actress had $30,000 worth of jewelry, 1 o«•» of n Cap - Nome Steamer. The steamship Senator, at Port Townsend, reports that the steamship Charles I). Lane, on her way from Nome to Seattle with 175 passengers, went ashore during a dense fog on the west bank o/ Nunivak Island, She is a total wreck. Her passengers and "rew were saved. Mrs. Kennedy ’• Released. Lulu Prince Kennedy, under sentence at Kansas City. Mo., of ten years for killing her husband, Philip H. Kennedy, on Jan. 10 last, has been released fti bond of SIO,OOO, pending an appeal of her case to the State Supreme Court. Shot His Wife and Himself. E. Kirby, proprietor of the Park Hotel, Dodge City. Kan., shot and killed his wife and then shot himself, both dying instantly. The cause assigned is a disagreement over property. Kirby was 40 and his wife 36 years old. Concession for nn American. Gen. A. B. Nettleton of Chicago has signed a contract'with the Mexican government for the writer concession of the Mochis canal, in, the State of Sinaloa, for the purpose of irrigating a large tract for the cultivation of sugar. Corn King's Company Suspends. The George H. Phillips Company of Chicago suspended temporarily, owing to great confusion in accounts of the firm. Rush of work on untried clerks is said to have caused overpayments to customers of $350,000. Actor Ends His Own Life. Mark L. Wilson, aetjor, and theatrical manager, committed suicide in Philadelphia by inhaling illuminating gas. His health and finances were alike in poor condition.