Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

WHITE CAPS FLOG HUSBAND. Wife-Beater la Severely Punished by Masked Men in Indiana. Willard Gore of Young America, Ind., accused of habitually beating his wife and child, was taken to the woods recently by sixteen of his neighbors, tied- to a tree and given a flogging. Three buggy whips and a blacksnake were worn out on his bare back. The White Cappers were masked with muslin over their faces. Faint and covered with blood, Gore dragged himself to the office of Dr. Lybrook, who dressed the wounds. Gore will leave the country as soon as his wounds heal. Gore came to Young America three years ago from Walton Slid married Mrs'. Chandler, a widow, who owns a farm near the village. He was a widower with a 5-year-old son. Ajs an instance of the. cruelty Gore inflieted on the son and his stepmother it is. related that to save the boy from punishment Mrs. Gore climbed on the house roof to get a hat the child had thrown there. She fell from the roof and alighted on an inverted harrow', the teeth of which ran through her feet, inflicting frightful injuries, followed by lockjaw. While lying helpless it is alleged that Gore came home drunk and kicked her. The same night an organization was formed to White Cap the wife beater and the-work was carried out. WANT NEW RESERVES OPENED.

Losers in Lawton Lottery Start Another Movement. A movement has been started at Lawton, Okla., among the home seekers who lost to have the government open up-the three reserves in the land lottery which it set aside in the Lawton district before the opening. At a meeting of one hundred or more of them it was decided to petition the Interior Department at once to take such action. These reserves embrace 532,500 acres, or about 3,330 quarter sections. The land was held in reserve, it is believed, because the government anticipated that the cattlemen who had all of the Kiowa-Comanche country leased for pastures would not be .able to find pastures in Texas or other cattlegrazing sections readily. If the cattlemen can round up their cattle and get them to the government reservations this fall, the home seekers argue, they can find pastures somewhere else by next spring. The home seekers are willing to buy the land outright from, the goy-. ernment.

KICH MINKS OF ASBESTOS. Block* Welshing 400 or 500 Pound* Fount in Black Hill*. A remarkable discovery of asbestos has been made near Keystone, S. D., in the vicinity of the Wealthy mine by Chet W T hee!ock and Louis Everly. They unearthed large blocks of asbestos weighing 400 to 500 pounds and the quality is pronounced excellent. The ground has all been located on the ledge. Development work is in progress and it is considered one of the most important discoveries made in the Black Hills. Asbestos has been found in other places in the Hills, but not in such large ledges as this. Melancholia Causes Suicide. The body of Miss Emma Tizzard was found in the well in the rear of the family home at Eaton, Ohio. She had been suffering with melancholia and during the early evening became ill, supposedly from having taken poison. A brother who lay in the doorway to prevent her escape fell asleep. Some time during the night Miss Tizzard tiptoed her way over 1 his body and lifting the cover from the well, leaped in.

Drink* Poison and Jumps. Louis Helpern, a young man who about three mouths ago tried to jump from the Brooklyn bridge, committed suicide by swallowing chrbolic acid and then throwing himself from the fourth story of a New York tenement-house. Young Helpern left a note saying that he was tired of life. Noted lowa Woman Gone. Mrs. Mary Newberry of Dubuque, widow of Judge Austin Adams, once chief justice of lowa’s Supreme Court, is dead, aged 83 years. She was prominent in literary circles, State and national, a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson and schoolmate at Cleveland of John Rockefeller and Mark Hanna. Exposition Kuilding Burn*. The exposition building at Kansas City, erected during the boom of 18.87, at a cost of over $200,000, was destroyed by fire in less than two hours the other afternoon. It had not been occupied for ten years. 1 rove* of Chinese foraine. Chinese Inspector Ralph Izard, in an interview says Chinese are coming in at present by the hundreds, and if it keeps on they will have to build new and bigger jails*the whole length of the Canadian border. Population*ot Canada. The total population of Canada, as shown by the new census, is 5,300,000. The increase is only 460,761 over the figure* of ten years ago, or an increase of less than 9.7 per cent. Hanker I* Kent to Jail. The Commercial Bank of Andrews. Ind., closed with only $25 cash on hand. President Key has been arrested and 12,000 depositors, mostly farmers, fear loss at all their savings. Fxpret* on Electric Cara. The Everett-Moore syndicate, which controls a number of electric railways in Cleveland and adjoining counties, Is about to establish a package and freight cairylng system of its own. _ t ■ , 5 Seriously Hurt by Eiplotlna. William F; Coston, the manufacturer of the Coston marine night signals, was seriqnsly injured In an expjoainn which occurred at his works on Staten Inland. One building was deatroyed.

MAY HAVE BEEN WIFE MURDER. Body of Mr*. Seth Davia, Wife of Suicide, Ha* Been Found. The finding of the body 'ot Mrs. Seth Davis, aged 49, with her skull crushed in. near Fottsville, Pa., is regarded as indicating that her husband, who hanged himself recently, had murdered her. The couple were last seen together by their daughter the day before her father's suicide, when they were supposed to be on the way to Pottsville. Only the man reached Pottsville, and there was strong suspicion that he had made away with his wife. The suspicion was strengthened when the woman did not appear at the funeral of her husbaml. SAYS WHEAT CROP IS AVERAGE. _____ I Yield of Minnesota, North find South Dakota Ha* Been Overestimated, The wheat crop of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota for 1901 :s 183,000,000 bushels, according to the estimates of H. V. Jones of Minneapolis. This is distributed as follows: Minnesota, acreage, 0,250,000: average yield. 12% bushels; total, 78,000,000 bushels. North Dakota, acreage, 5,200,000; average yield. 14% bushels; total, 75,000.000 bushels. South Dakota, acreage, 3,000,000; average yield, 10 bushels; total, 30,000,000 bushels. Suicide in Wichita Hotel. A respectable looking young man of 23 committed suicide at the Hamilton Hotel in Wichita, Kan., by taking laudanum. He tore his name off all his marked garments, including his hat, and loft an unsigned note asking that his body be kept for three days, when Elmer Scripture of Westport, Ind., would take charge of it Fast Gunboat a Wreck. H. M. S. Viper, the torpedo boat destroyer which broke all records and was the fastest ship afloat, was totally wrecked on the rocks off Alderney Island in the English Channel during the mimic battle of the British fleet engaged in the maneuvers. The entire crew was rescued and taken to St. Anne’s. B. & O. Flyer Leave* Track. The spreading of rails three'miles east of Nappanee, Ind., on the Baltimore and Ohio, caused the flyer to the east to be derailed. Six cars left the tracks while the train was going at the speed of sixty miles an hour, but the eighty passengers escaped with only a bad shaking. Killed in Railway Cra*li. A Pan-American special heavily loaded and a regular , train collided a few miles east of Lockport, N. Y., on the New York Central. Thomas Hyland, an engineer, and George Webb, trainman, were kiljed and a fireman was severely injured. Heat Kill* a Parriqide. At Marlin, Texas, Porter Sawyer, aged 18, shot and killed his father and was overcome hy heat and died while trying to escape. The boy became angry at his father for whipping a horse and, slipping up behind him, killed him with a rifle. No Strike of Railroad M*ij, Officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Railroad Truiuujen having headquarters in Cleveland believe there is little probability of railway employes becoming involved in the steel strike.

Think* We Will Fight Germany. Commander Murdock believes the United States will next fight Germany. He declares navy must be increased to check Kaiser in South America or Monroe doctrine must be waived. Memphis Car Jump* Bridge. A, trolley ear of the Memphis, Tenn., Street Baliway Company ran off.a bridge over Bayou Gayoao and five persona were injured more or less seriously.

SLAIN ON UNIMAK ISLAND. Three Prospectors Kitted by Deserters from Fishing Schooner. According to advices from Dutch Harbor, via Sitka, on the steamship Queen, two white men shot down Con and Florence Sullivan and P. ,T. Rooney on Unimak Island last June. Owen Jackson, the only surviving member of the iHr, fated party, expresses in a statement the belief that natives shot down the defenseless prospectors. Other evidence, however, tends to make two deserters from a fishing schooner responsible for the deed. It has since been learned that when Rev. Mr. Scott, with a party of prospectors, was camped on Unimak Island about the...time of the murder two white men who had deserted from one of Lynn & Iloff s fishing schooners came to them and told a story of having stopped over night at another cuujp. where they found two of the prospectors dead uhd evidences of another, having left. Those men showed Scott about $1,200 in money, a Savage rifle, revolver and a gold watch. They said they were going back to bury the men. This was tbc last seen of them.™

DEATH STOPS WE ..DING FEAST. Tragic Death of a Pututh Man While at Worship. A religious service and preparations for a wedding-feast were abruptly terminated the other day in a tragic mauner. at Duluth, Minn. Moses Cohen went to the Jewish synagogue to worship. He left his family preparing a feast in honor of the marriage of his son Isaac. Friends and relatives from many Northwestern points were in attendance. During the progress of the religious service Mr. Cohen suddenly stood erect, his eyes fixed and staring. The next instant he reeled and fell to the floor unconscious. A panic was narrowly averted among the excited worshipers. Mr. Cohen was placed in the ambulance and was being driven to the hospital, but died- before reaching there. The remains were then driven to his home, which he had quitted but forty minutes before in apparently perfect health, and where preparations for the feast were in full progress. Word had not reached the house when the remains were driven there, and muclt excitement prevailed.

CONFESSES ■JHKbT OF CHILD. Actress on Deathbed Restores Girl to an Indiana Merchant. Tile death of Emma Andrews, an actress, in a cheap theater at Omaha, has disclosed that a waif in her custody is the daughter of John Richards, a wealthy Indiana merchant. The woman confessed 6n her deathbed that she had abducted the child when the latter was 5 years old. The baby had been intrusted temporarily to her care. Rev. A. W. Clark, who listened to the confession, at once notified Mr. Richards and has received a telegram from' the overjoyed parent. The girl is now 14 years old and is an accomplished singer and dancer. She has appeared on the vaudeville stage with the woman whom she believed to be her mother.

Killed by Nitroglycerin. A stock wagon loaded with 700 quarts of nitroglycerin was blown up at a railroad crossing one and one-half miles south of Bowling Green, Ohio. ’’Jack’ Radalbaugh, the driver of the wagon, was blown to atoms, only a small piece of his scalp being found. Remnants of two horses were scattered over adjacent fields. Pad Fire in Winona, Minn. Winona, Minn., experienced the worst fire in several years the other day, when -several manufacturing plants near the St. Paul depot were burned. The losers are the Wood Rim Company, Dotid Sons Company, coopers; the Winona Fence Company and David Walworth, dwelling- • Thousand* Die in Flood*. Great floods caused by the overflowing of the Yang-Tse have caused the death of many thousands in China. The river has risen forty feet and for hundreds of miles the country is a great lake, with only tops of trees and an occasional roof showing. “ . Make* a Fortune in Corn. Corwin H. Spencer, a prominent member of the St. Louis Board of Trade, has already cleaned up $250,000 on the big bulge in corn. He has cornered 1,000,000 bushels of the grain, which he expects to sell in September at the handsome profit of $400,000. Thieve* Get Rich Plunder. Thieves tunneled uuder the walls of the Selby smelting works at Vallejo, Cal., secured $280,000 worth ot gold in bars and escaped in a bout, leaving $50,000 in bars on the beach and SIIO,OOO in dust in the vault. Insane Deel of Jealousy. Private Louis Haggerty, Tenth United States artillery, killed his wife nnd then blew out his own brains In his quarters at the government barracks ori Sullivan’s island, Charleston. S. C. Jealousy was tho cause of the tragedy. Fall* root a Window. James Craig, a well-known attorney, formerly a millionaire who liberally patronized the stage, was fatally injured by falling from the second-story window of his home in St. Louia. Both arms were broken and his head was badly bruised. To Protect American Interest*. The Navy Department has ordered the gunboat Machias, no-v at Boston, to proceed to Hampton Roads and thence to Colon, at the eastern terminus of the Panuma Railroad, to look after American interests thfre. .* an Murdered and Robbed. On Clear creek, Kentucky, the body of J. B. Hawkins, a fruit tree peddler from Knoxville, Tenn., was found. . From marks. on the body nnd the condition of the .pockets it was evident that the man had been murdered atop l robbed.