Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1901 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIAN*

RAID JEWELRY STORE

BURGLARS MAKE A HEAVY HAUL IN CHICAGO. Blow Safe with Dynamite and Make Off with Stock Valued at $4,000 — S7OO in Cash Also Taken—Land Keceipta Increase. The jewelry s.tore of Bernard J. Hagamaun, in Chieago, was entered by. safe blowers, who escaped with booty valued at nearly $5,000. The b'ttrglars tore off an iron rod which protected a rear window to the building and drilled holes in the door to the safe. With an explosive the door was blown from its hinges and the contents of the safe placed at their mercy. Mr. Hagamann’s entire stock was in the strong box, and everything was taken with the exception of a few watches owned by railroad men. Besides the jewelry S7OO was taken. The robbery was not discovered until 7 o’clock, when the jeweler went to his store to open it for the day’s business.

PROGRESS OF IHE RACE. Standing of League Clubs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing, of the clubs in the Xational League: W. 1.. . W. L. Pittsburg ...60 40 Boston 52 56 Philadelphia 62 47 New Y0rk...42 60 Brooklyn .. .62 IS Cincinnati ...43 50 St. L0ui5....59 49 Chicago .....45 66

Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. ’Chicago ....65 42 Philadelphia. 56 51 Boston 64 44 Washington. 46 58 Baltimore ...56 46 Cleveland ...44 62 Detroit 57 51 Milwaukee . .37 71 INCREASE IN LAND RECEIPTS. During Year 15,062,796 Acres Disposed of and $4,972,160 Taken In. Blager Hermann, commissioner of the general land office in Washington, has completed-his annual report, which shows that during the year 15,662,796 acres of the public domain were disposed of, and that the receipts of the office were $4,972,160. The receipts exceeded those of last year b3’ $592,402 and the land disposals by 2,108,908 acres. Rob Village of Its Water. An immense cavity in the earth 250 feet below the surface was struck by oil drillers at Dalton, Ohio, and into this has poured the water supply of the village. Wells at surrounding farms have also been drained. The drillers say the only hope of regaining the water supply is the possibility of striking a subterranean lake below the eavity. Girl Prevents Prisoner* fromlEscapibg Katherine Hotz, daughter of daiier Hotz, prevented the success of an attempt to deliver thirty-three prisoners front the Madison County jail at Edwardsville, 111., made by James Johnston, under indictment for murder. The girl discovered the men in the act and her screams brought aid. Attempted Train Wrecking. On a recent night, for the third time within a year, an attempt was made to wreck a Minneapolis and St. Louis train near New Ulm, Minn. The north bound passenger train ran into a pile of ties on the track, and four other piles were found within a mile. „ Will Wed a Count. , The London Central News says the engagement is announced of Miss Helen Morton, a daughter of ex-Vice-President Levi P. Morton, to Count Boson de Perigord, the second son of the Prince of Talleyrand. Insanity Officials Cleared. The Indiana State board of charities completely exonerated insane hospital officials in its report to the Governor on its recent investigation. The board declares that no sane persons are now confined in these institutions. Hnnt to Succeed Allen. William H. Hunt, formerly associate judge of the Montana Supreme Court and latterly secretary of the Island of Porto Rico, has • been appointed governor of that territory by the President, to succeed Charles H. Allen. Cashier Acknowledges Gnilt. George M. Foster, former cashier of the failed South Danvers National Bank of Peabody, Mass., pleaded guilty to making false entries and misapplying the funds of the institution. •' Young Minister Drowned. Rev. Walter Lowrie, assistant to Rev. Wilson Merle Smith, the Central Presbyterian Church of West Fifty-seventh street. New York, was drowned at Newport, R. 1., while bathing. Workmen Hurt nt Capitol. By of a false roof over the Fnited" States Supreme Court room at the capitol in Washington several men were badly injured. Spanish War Hero Dies. Gen. Willium Ludlow, hero of two wars and former military governor of Havana, died of tuberculosis at Morristown, X. J. Kills Her Husband and Herself. In San Francisco .Mrs. Arthur C. Rudolph shot and killed her husband and then killed herself. Jealousy was the cause. Fatal Fire in Tenement. Three lives were lost and nine people were badly burned in a fire which started in an old four-story frame tenement at 219 Graham uveuue, Williamsburg, N. Y. The fire was started by a woman trying to replenish the fuel in an oil stove while the wick was afire Punishment Cause* Suicide. Recuuse bis father had punished him. George Hull, aged 12, lay down ou the Hooking Valley trucks nt Fostoriu, Ohio, and let a train run over hint. He was the son of a laborer.

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

KILLS HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF. Nicholas RJeblinger Slays Spouse Because She Refuses to Live with Him. Brooding over the separation from his wife, with whom lie had spent twentyone years of married life, and angered because she would not. return to him, Nicholas llieblinger killed his wife Theresa and then cut his own throat with the same razor. The double tragedy occurred in the residence of the woman’s son, by another marriage, in Chicago. Kieblinger was a laborer, but had worked little during the last five years, his wife supporting the house by washing. She left him July 3, saying that her married life was unhappy. Many times he urged her to return to him, but she refused. The other day he approached her as she was peeling potatoes, and drawing a razor threatened to kill her unless she would return to him. Frightened, the woman ran to the front of the house; but the door was locked, and the frenzied Ims->-band caught her by the neck. He bent the woman back over his knee and cut her throat. Dropping the body, lie sat in a chair before a mirror and severed his own throat. The woman died on the way to the hospital, but he was dead when the police arrived. The crime was witnessed by two grandchildren. TEMPLARS IN TRAIN WRK.K. Engineer Killed l FiremanFatalty Hurt) but Passengers Escape injury. At 12:45 o’clock Monday morning a Baltimore and Ohio special train, containing eleven coaches filled with Knights Templars on their way to the conclave at Louisville, was derailed near Barnesville, Ohio, and two lives were probably lost. Every coach was derailed. The cause wus the striking of two horses. The Knights Templars were from Pittsburg. Four miles below Barnesville the train was running at a speed of sixty miles an hour when, with no warning, it was derailed, every coach following the engine off the track. The scene of the wreck was in a dense woods. Milo Francis, the engineer, was instantly killed. His home was at Newark. Ohio, as is also that of Fireman Rosseonn, who was fatally hurt. None of the passengers was injured. WOMAN’S NIGHT OF TERROR. Thrilling Experience of Mrs. Dodd of the Schooner Scribner. Mrs. Silas Dodd, wife of the captain of the schooner Eliza Scribner, from Boston for Savannah, which was beached off Fire Island the other day, had a thrilling experience before she was rescued by the life-savers. When the vessel struck a sunken wreck and begau to let in water Capt. Dodd ordered the small boat over the side and provisioned. He told his wife to get into the boat and at his command cut the towline running to the schooner.. He gave her a sheath knife. AH night the woman sat in the small boat. In the darkness she could barely make out the hull of the schooner. Every minute she expected to hear her husband cry put to cut the liue. When the lifesavers reached her she was in a semiconscious condition. Now in Morgan’* Control. After all sorts of hitches the deal for the-sale of the Bethlehem Steel Company was financially consummated the other afternoon, when $4,032,000 was paid for 168,000 shares a few minutes before the close of banking hours. It was financed by J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., who are now in control of the Bethlehem Steel Company as owners of considerably more than a majority of its entire capital stock. Sent Back to Penitentiary. Stirred by popular indignation and stung by repudiation voted in the Republican State convention, Gov. Savage of Nebraska has recalled his parole of Joseph S. Bartley, the defaulting State Treasurer, and Sheriff Branson at once took Bartley to the penitentiary. Preferred Death to Prison. B. F. Jossy, an immigration commissioner stationed at Tucson, Ariz., committed suicide by shooting himself. He was charged with smuggling Chinese across the border from Mexico and implicated with him was Collector of Customs Hoey of Nogales. Arranging to Sell Islands. The number of islands in the St. Lawrence Thousand Island group to be placed upou the market by the Dominion department of the interior number approximately 500. They are distributed over the river between Kingston and Brockville. France’s Population Grows. The official final census returns show the population of France to be 38,641,333, an increase in the lust five years of 412,364. The increase is mainly in urban centers. Projects Many Lines. The Santa Fe Railroad Company lias secured a charter to build fourteen separate lines of railroad, with a total length of 815 miles, to be operated ns the Eastern Oklahoma' lines. Pennsylvania Hotel Burned. The Rankin Hotel at Rankin. I’n., was destroyed by tire. The flames spread so rapidly that the guests barely escaped with their lives and lost almost all their clothing. The loss was about SIO,OOO. Erie Gets Another Line. Railroad officials high in rank make the statement that Erie system has been finally taken over the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad. Machine At Colon. The warship Maehias has arrived at Colon prepared to defend American interests. Ranger reached Acapulco on Its way to Colombia. To Wed J. P. Rockefeller, J*V> Senator and Mrs. Nelson W, Aldrich, of Rhode Island, announce the engagement of their daughter, Abby, to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

THE MARKETS

common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $6.52; sheep, fair tachoice, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 71c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, No. 2,32 e to 34c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, new, 80c to 90c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice liftlit, $4.00 to $6.00; S sheep. common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; Vheaf, No. 2,67 cto 68c; Corn, No. 2 white, 59c to 00c; oats, No. 2 white, new, 37c to 38c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $0.00; hogs. $3.00 to $0.25; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50’. wheat. No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, No. 2, 54c to 55c; oats, No. 2,36 cto 37c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.35; hogs, $3.00 to $6.40; sheep, $3.00 to $3.25; wheat, No. 2,72 c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 57c to 58c; oats, No. 2 mixed, new, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 60c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.15; hogs, $3.00 to $5.95; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2*, -71c to 72c; corn. No. 2 | yellow,“7>oc to otic; oats, "no. 2 white L ?~ r ut , i,3Sc\ ad". rStV* Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 71c; corn,’ No. 2 mixed, 57c to 58c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $5.90. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. 68c to 69c; corn, No. 3,54 cto 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c: rye, No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,63 cto 64c; pork, mess, $14.15. Buffafb—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to prime; $3.00 to $6.60; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; lambs, common to choice, $4.50 to $5.85. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $6.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.80; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2, 59c to COe; oats, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; butter, creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, western, 14e to 17c.

SOMNAMBULI >T HECKS TRAIN. A Sleepintr Brakeman Turns Switch, Ditching Missouri Pacific Cars. What is believed to be the first Instance of the wrecking of a train by a somnambulist occurred on the Missouri Pacific Road at Birch Switch, near Garnett, Kan. The brakeman on a freight train that was on the siding lay down oil the ground for a nap. Two fflst freights passed in safety, after which the brakeman in his slumbers got up, opened the switch and then lay down again. Soon a passenger train came along and crashed into the side-tracked freight. The engines were wrecked and the fireman of the passenger was seriously injured. REFUSE TO LUKN UP MONEY. Minnesota Authorities Decline to Comply with Provisions in Will. Mrs. William Townsend of Brookings, S. D., has returned from Faribault, Minn., where she had been to look after her interests in the estate of her uncle, Harvey Scott, who died Aug. 1, leaving property to the amount of about $60,000. Of this amount there is $25,000 in government bonds and notes. In his will he ordered $25,000 to be burned and willed that $5,000 be given to his housekeeper. The authorities have refused to destroy the money as directed in the will and it is likely the heirs will secure their rights. Killed by Queer Explosion. While charging the soda fountains in George Ott’s drug store at Ashley, lnd., the clerk Fred Nicoli, supposedly made an error in mixing the gas and an explosion resulted. Fragments of the fountain struck Nicoli on the head, killing him, and knocked Ott unconscious, injuring him probably fatally. The damage to the building is "slight. •i-'old to the Great Western. Announcement is made that arrangements have been completed by the Chicago Great Western for the purchase of the Green Bay and Western road. The Green Bay and Western main line is from Green Bay to Marshland, Wis„ with a branch connecting with the Chicago Great Western at Winona, Minn. Shoes For Poor Children. Following a custom tnat she adopted last year, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy signalized children’s day at the State fair at Concord,*N. H., by giving a pair of shoes to every deserving child in Concord who makes his or her needs known at that time. Shoots a Dangerous Man. Orlean Emerson shot and killed Dick Burrell at Brownstown, lnd. The murder occurred in Emerson's drug store. Burrell was always a dangerous man when drinking and had killed two men in his time and had served a term in prison. Gen. Fablus J. Mea l la Dead. Gen. Fablus J. Mead, who had a notable career during the Civil War, died of consumption nt the family home. Gen. Mead served all through the Civil War and enjoyed a close friendship • with Gens. Grant, Logan and McClellan. • Fire Destroys Armour Plant. The cold storage plant of Armour & Co. at the Pennsylvania freight yards in Jersey City was completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $50,000. The fire was caused by an explosion of chemicals used in the ice plant. lederal Party Reorganized. l’he federal party has been reorganized at Manila, and Jose Albert, a prominent nutlve physician, elected president. The new board outlined a strong pro-Ameri-can policy. . Stnge Coacb Is Held Up. The stage running to Mendocino wns held up ten miles from Ukinh, Cal. The express box was taken and two passengers and the driver robbed.

KIDNAPERS MAKE OFF WITH GIRL Father feenres Custody of Seven-Year-Old Daughter and Vanishes. Margaret Tyler, 7 years old, whose mother died two weeks ago, and who at that time was placed in the keeping of l Mrs. M. F. Green, is the latest victim of kidnapers iu Chicago. The child was taken by force from the home of Mrs. Green by Bert A. Tyler and .a man who passed under the guise of being a constable. Shortly after the birth of Margaret, Tyler and his wife became divorced. The" child was given to the mother by the court at that time and she kept the little girl up to the time of her death. When she died her name was Mrs. J. J. Waite, she having been married to Mr. Waite about two years ago. The couple lived together at 22158 Magnolia avenue and at the death of Mrs. Waite she requested that Margaret be not returned to her father. Accordingly the stepfather sent the child to the home of Mrs. Green to live. BIG BOOM l.v BUSINESS. Country Merchant* Flock to Chicago to Huy Fall Goods. Chicago's barometer of general prosperity, the country merchant, is giving , j greater promise of a profitable fall aiic wnittfr uhsuiess uliin* ever ‘ u&Afrer -i/lib' wholesale merchants already have reaped part of the harvest. Dealers from all parts of the South, the middle West and the far West have beeu flocking to Chicago for a month and, with coats off and sleeves 'rolled up, have worked zealously in selecting stocks of goods. Men who have been in business outside of Chicago for years and have never visited the central market are coming in daily, says the Chicago Post, in order to buy to better advantage, their business having increased sufficiently to justify them in spending from a week to a month in Chicago. There is a perceptible falling off in the sales of cheap grades of goods. VICTIM’S FATHER SAVES NEGRO. Parent of Mistreated Child Refnses to Lead Fort Smith Mob. The life of Louis Smith, the negro whom a mob threatened to lynch at Fort Smith, Ark., was saved b‘y the father of the child assaulted by Smith. When the mob was preparing to attack the jail a leader was sought, and Watson was asked to head the lynchers. He advised that the law be allowed to take its course: This caused the mob to abandon its intention, and the negro was removed from the jail to Little Rock. I ! ying Patient Walk* Himself Well. D. E. Lombard, who rose from bed upon which he had been confined to die of typhoid fever at Columbus, Ohio, and mysteriously disappeared one night recently, has returned to his home. Since • he left home he Has been wandering about the country, getting his meals ns best he could, and has walked the fever out of him. Although weak, he is, now practically well. Havana Official Is Robbed. E. C. Westall, chief of ther money order bureau of the Havana postofflee, left the office as usual with the surplus remittance to pay into the treasury. The amount was $4,000. He took au omnibus and, to his statement, placed the packet containing the money on the seat by his side. When he reached his destination the package was gone. Parrel Companies Combine. The Grant cooperage, one of the largest industries of Ashtabula, Ohio, has entered into a combine with the Tomlinson Barrel and Machine Company, of Chicago, and the Veneer Barrel and Package Compnny, of Cleveland. The new corporation’s capital stock is $500,000. Robt. G. Evans Dies Suddenly. Robert G. Evans, United States District Attorney for Minnesota, who last winter was a prominent candidate before the legislature to succeed Senator Cushman K. Davis in the United States Senate, died suddenly in Minneapolis from heart disease. Negroes Are Not Eligib’e. That negroes are barred from enlistment in the First Cuban Artillery is stated by a correspondent at Havana. One hundred and fifty "Cubans” ’will be enlisted. All must be 21 years old or more, and white. Killed in Hunting Mishap. John Andrews was instantly killed ty? John Romers, who mistook him for a bear and sent a ballet through his heart at short range. The men were with a party enjoying an outing nt the Lewis ranch near Red Lodge, Mont. Marine Boilers Blow Un. Explosion on steamer City of Trenton, near Philadelphia, killed eleven and injured twenty-three. Four persons are missing. Fire fallowed, and survivors had to leap into the river. The deserted vessel ran ashore. Double Crime at RenllsvDle, Ohio. At Uenllsville, Ohio. .VVUlinm Montgomery, a well-to-do farmer, while intoxicated, fatally shot his wife and then turned the revolver ou himself, committing suicide. . Colombian Rebels Bur a Veaael. Information has beeu obtained by agents of the Colombian government that a vessel now at a New Jersey port had been engaged by the insurgents for a filibustering expedition. Cleveland, 0., Claims 402,428. A conservative estimate would place the population of the city of Cleveland to-day at 402,428. These figures disclose a remarkable growth for the city during the past year. Panic in New York Park. An accidental explosion of a "human bomb” in a ISew York park threw thousands of pleasure seekers into panic and resulted In injury to many.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Nurses the Man She Shot—A Burning Tent Causes Panic at Bull van Street Fair—Freight Wreck at Burdick— Toughs Mob Negroes. Maddened by insane jealousy, Frances B. Fry, a yo'ung woman wtyfi recently came to La Porte, from Chicago, shot an 1 seriously wounded J. Fry, a, saloonkeeper. The shooting took plane at Fry's country home. It is alleged that Fry had paid marked attention to the woman and she had insisted that their marriage take place. Fry refused to consent to an alliance and the other night, when’she found him in company witlr another woman, she fired a gullet- into his head. The woman is a nurse at his bedside at the Holy Family Hospital. Fatal Fire at p. Street Fair. A show tent belonging to a New York vaudeville company burned to .the ground at Sullivan, where a street 1 fair is in progress. A performance was going ou and the tent was .packed with women and children, who rushed oveKoue another in trying to get out. Several small children were trampled during the panic. Lillie May, aged 16, an actress, inhaled the flames to her fatal injury. She was badly burned abput the face and arms. A man was also badly burned trying to save some of the belongings! Beriotis!y Hurt in Wreck. Seventeen cars of a west-bound Lake Shore freight train were piled up in a wreck at Burdick. The air brakes failed to operate and the train was cut into two sections, which collided with terrific force, p nm 'i\mnvty.w‘ mawab I age. J. C. Teeter, of Garrett, received serious injuries. He was taking a car of cattle to Chicago and was pinioned in one of the wrecked cars, The other cars were loaded with merchandise and the loss to the company may reach $20,000. Negroes Mobbed by Rough*. The riotous gang known as the Bungaloos, which has defied the Indianapolis police authorities for several years, occasionally running amuck and usually singling out negroes for attack, gathered iu force the other night at Fairview Park, five miles from the city, and compelled every negro to flee for his life. There were a number of assaults, and one negro named Harris, who refused to leave when ordered, was knocked down with a boulder and his anti was broken. Find Oil at Hartford City. The biggest oil gusher yet found in that field was struck in wildcat territory on a small tract of land just east of the corporation line at Hartford City. The well is owned by Pierce & Thomas, and after being drilled fifty feet into the Trenton rock flowed over the casing. There is no salt water and very little gas in the well. The new strike opens a vast scope of new territory and there is a wild scram- , ble for leases in the vicinity of the well. State News in Brief. Richard Darling, a Pennsylvania brakeman, fell between cars at Donaldson, and was cut to pieces. His home was in Chicago. Leroy K. Stimmel, aged 16, Shot himself at Richmond and died soon after. It is not known whether the shooting was accidental. Miss Anna Ivohr, 19 years of age, a society girl of Mt. Olive, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, because she imagined her sweetheart, Albert Butts, was becoming cold toward her. The Margaret Smith Home for Aged Women at Richland has received from William B. Leeds, of New York, a gift of $25,000 in the name of his mother, Mrs. Hannah Leeds, who resides at Richland. The farm residence of Laurin Humbarger, in Thorn Creek Township, was struck by lightning and Mrs. Humbarger a fid her 14-year-old daughter were seriously injured. The house was badiy wrecked. Mrs. Lucy Washington, a colored woman 112 years old, who recently fell down k stairway in the county infirmary at Kokomo, and sustained serious injuries, is rapidly recovering and expects to live twenty-five years yet. Ora Jennings, wjio was umpiring a game of basebull nt Farmersburg, was struck over the head with a ball bat by Marcellus Forbes, one of the players, who was incensed by one of the decisions. Jennings’ skull is fractured, and he cannot recover. # Washington Collom, a merchant at Mill Creek, engaged in a fight at 3 o'clock in the motning with a robber whom’he found in his store. The two men fought a duel in the dark with their revolvers, four shots being exchanged. Then they grappled and begun beating each other with the butt of their revolvers until both were bathed in blood and their heads and faces were a mass of wouads. The robber became weak from loss of blood and Collpm finally felled'his antagonist. The robber refuses to give his name. It is believed Charles Campbell, of Lafayette, a soldier in the Spanish-Ameri-can war, was murdered in service, instead of dying a natural death, as relations have supposed. His regiment went to Savannah, on to Culin. His •body was sent to his brother’s home, in’ Albion, with a certificate of death from spinal meningitis, and the casket was not allowed to be opeued. Some of hi* friends raised his shroud, however, and found a gunshot wound, nud they recently told his father. The young man had hinted at trouble wjth an officer, and the war department will be asked to investigate. J. E. Black was caught in‘shafting and killed at the American Iron Company’s works, Muneie. About 600 glass workers will go West this 1 fall to man two new green bottle factories started near Sun Fritncisco by Isaac Humphrey. Joseph Berger, Goshen, has sued Miss Mary E. Hearer, an heiress, for SIO,OOO, for slander, alleging thnt she accused him of swindling her father. State Geologist Blatchley warns Indiana farmers to check the growth of the Texas thistle, a sample of which has been found In Hendridks Countv.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Captain Frias Rhodes,- who command* the yacht Constitution, the new cup defender, comes from a long line of sailing

CAPTAIN RHODES.

sons in sailing a racing boat. Since he was 12 years old ’Rias Rhodes has practically lived on the water. He’first commanded an oyster schooner. That was when he was but 16 years old. Later he wns the skipper of an excursion yacht/ in which capacity his skill attracted fche attention of a member of the New York Yacht Club, who gave Captain Rhodes his first command of a racing boat. He piloted the famous Lasca to many victories and took it to Europe in 1894, making the trip across the Atlantic in fifteen and one-half days. Captain Rhodes is 49 years old, in the prime of his strength and skill. Willie English of Jamaica Plain, Mass., has long been famous as the possessor of the finest crop of freckles in the State.

His entire face \fras covered with brown blotches as thickly I as is the hide of a leopard. recently his freckles have been the least of his troubles. The other boys called him “Spotty” because of them, but otherwise he did not consider them

worth a second thought. The other day, however, a complexion doctor who has just discovered a “sure cure for freckles” happened to run across Willie and looked upon his freckled face with envy. He started by offering Willie SJO a week to submit one-half of his face to the freckle cure and to serve meanwhile as a living advertisement of the efficacy of the remedy. It is said that this offer was multiplied by five before Willie finally consented to serve. Since that time he has sat ten hours a day ia the window of a Boston department store with one side of his face freckled and the /other half blooming with the unmarked roses of youth. By the time his contract expires his freckles will have earned him several hundred dollars. One year and six months ago Harry Cochran was a 14-year-old boy living on a farm near St. Louis. When his father

HARRY COCHRAN

of $15,000 a year, with the further certainty of enrning enough in addition to make his total annual income $25,000. Of course young Cochran is a jockey. He has been riding horses less than a year and a half, and has made a record which far eclipses any made in their youth by the famous “Tod” Sloan or the Keiff brothers. His greatest hit was made on the Lakeside track in Chieago, where he rode fourteen winners, eleven second horses and thirteen thirds in exactly ten days. As a result of the criticism which has followed the concentrating of the families of the Boers in so-called concentration

camps, the British government has appointed a committee ot ladies which is to go out to South Africa and •make a personal investigation. At the head of this committee is Mrs. Henry Fawcett, one of the most interesting of living Englisli-

women. She is the widow of the blind Postmaster General of England, and until his death was his constant companion and his greatest aid in political and other work. In politics Mrs. Fawcett Is a Liberal, and she has been long one of the foremost English advocates of the higher education of women. Charles E. Pickett, the newly elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order of

C. E. PICKETT.

Henderson from thd Third lowa District. Lind Reynolds and wife, of Linn, Mo., accused of killing an orphan child aged about 4 years, which they procured from the Christian orphans’ home in St. l*oui* and adopted .as their own, were Indicted by the grand jury for murder in the second degree and put under a bond of $2,500 each. Rosa Lee Johnson, aged 10, arrested for theft, jumped from the second story of the courthouse at Houston, Texas, and unstained fatal injuries. She was crazed by a fear of being sent to the penitentiarf.

masters. He is a tpa of that famous south shore of Long Island which ha» been the cradle of most of the captains of the cup defenders. His father, a white bid veteran -of 73, was a famous sailor man in his day and he gave the present captain his first les-

WILLIE ENGLIBH.

was good-natured Harry sometimes got hold of a hardearned quarter and on other occasions he earned a little change in one of the ways open to small boys. Now Harry Cochran, who has yet to celebrate his sixteenth birthday, has a guaranteed salary

MRS. FAWCETT.

Elks, is a native of lowa. He is only 86 years of age and a lawyer by profession. He has been prominent in fraternal orders for years, both as a Pythian and 'an Elk. As a Republican he has been prominent, aud his friends declare that he may yet become the successor of Speaker David B.