Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1901 — TERROR IN ALTOONA. [ARTICLE]

TERROR IN ALTOONA.

THE PENNSYLVANIA CITY SEES A LIVELY BATTLE. Six Desperadoes Make Hard Resistance to Capture by Police—Business Man Shot and Killed in His Home by Neuro Burglar. Altoona, Pa., was terrorized the other day by six desperadoes, who fought a fierce battle with the police, one-of the bandits beihg shot in the face by Chief of Police Sedenburg. The trouble started in the Franklin Hotel, where one of the party of six grabbed a roll of bills from W. F.-Dunn, a restaurant keeper. Dunn snatched his money from the man, who started out to buy revolvers for himself and friends. When he returned the bandits wanted to search the hotel for Dunn, but were prevented. The police were called and the men fled. A posse of officers and citizens followed them. A ning fire was kept up for two miles, in the streets and through alleys. The men were caught and will be given a hearing at once and held for trial. The man who was shot gave his name as Bill Nye. He is not seriously hurt. It was only by hard work that a lynching was prevented. BOYS WOULD KILL ASSASSIN. Four from Minnesota Stopped En Route to Buffalo Four boys, ranging in age from 10 to 13 years, were taken into custody at Oregon,Wis. They were on their way to Buffalo to avenge the assassination of President McKinley. They were armed with a 45-caliber revolver and had planned to shoot their victim and cut out his heart. The boys hail from Pine Island, Minn., and left home with sufficient money to carry them as far as Oregon, where they became stranded and applied to the police to help them on their mission of vengeance. They are proud of their undertaking and the action of the authorities in holding them is a great disappointment. Money was telegraphed by their parents and the youngsters were sent home.

KILLED BY NEGRO BURGLAR. Cincinnati Business Man Murdered in Hia Home—Wife Wounded. At South Gate, a village near Newport, Ky., J. H. Badger, credit man and bookkeeper for the Robert Clarke Publishing Company of Cincinnati, was shot and killed at 3 o’clock the other morning by a colored burglar. Mrs. Badger was shot in the back, the revolver being so close as to set fire to her clothing. She is not dangerously hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Badger heard a noise and started downstairs with a lighted candle. The negro fired the fatal shot from behind a door and escaped. Fortune Offirei for Violin. Lyon & Healy of Chicago have offered $20,000 for the violin of the great Paganini which is now jealously guarded in the municipio of Genoa, the famous musician’s own town. The offer has been refused and a better price may be proposed. Collision Near Toledo, Ohio. A head-end collision between a special passenger train and light engine occurred in the C., H. & D. yards two miles from Toledo, Ohio, Seventeen persons were more or less’ injured, but only four of them were badly hurt. New Battleship in Commission. The battleship Illinois, the fastest ship of its class in the world, has been commissioned in the United States navy, Captain G. A. Converse assuming command with all the ceremony required by naval regulations. Sixty-five browned at Sea. Sixty-five and possibly more lives have been lost through the sinking of the British torpedo-boat destroyer Cobra in the North Sea, as the result of an explosion. Bank Robhe l of $5,000. The safe in the bank of J. C. Brainerd & Co. at Blooming Prairie, Minn., was blown to pieces by cracksmen. Between $4,000 and $5,000 in currency was taken.

To Pl-cs Bonds Here. The Kobe Herald says the Japanese cabinet is discussing the placing of Japanese bonds to the value of 50,©00,000 yen in America.