Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

KIDNAPED FOR RANSOM.

Btory of Capture of Miss Stone, American Missionary in Turkey. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions is in receipt of information concerning the capture of Miss Stone, the American missionary, and ope of her helpers by brigands in Turkey. The capture was made on the afternoon of Sept. 4, while Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilka, the wife of an Albanian preacher, were traveling with friends from Basko to Djumao. There were nearly twenty persons in the party, which was captured by the bandits in a narrow valley. The captives were compelled by the outlaws to ascend a mountain. The brigands were dressed like Turks, although they spoke Bulgarian. The next morning the two women were missing, and only a small guard remained, as the main body of bandits had decamped. The other prisoners were robbed of their belongings and released. Twenty-four hours after the two women were kidnaped.for ransom the authorities learned of it, but the band had made good its escape. The American Board of Missions has notified the State Department at Washington that it has a representative in Constantinople who Wjl) arrange the pnee*of ransom to W paid. RACE RIOT IN TEX AS TOWN. Negro Killed and Two Men Wounded at Somerville, Texas. A race riot started at Somerville, Tex., Monday night about 10 o’clock and several hundred shots were fired before the negroes finally broke and fled. One negro, name unknown, is dead, and two men are seriously wounded. B. W. Lorffe was hit in the left side and will probably die. J. O’Brien is wounded in the thigh. Gov. Sayers dispatched ti-oops from Brenham, fourteen miles from Somerset, and a large number of armed citizens accompanied them. The troubles arose over the employment of a negro brakeman by a railroad, the road paying no attention to warnings to. discharge him. A train was fired on with the above results, the trainmen and their sympathizers returning the fire of the mob.

HARD TO INVADE NATAL. Rivers Flooded and Lyttleton’s Troops Re'dy to Meet Botba. The moment for a serious invasion of Natal, if such a plan has been in Commandant General Botha’s mind, has passed. Both the Buffalo and Tugela rivers are in flood, while Gen. Lyttleton's troops are sufficient to deal with the enemy should he elect to cross the border. It is thought probable that Botha’s plan of seeming to threaten Natal was adopted to keep the minds of the burghers occupied, and so divert attention from the expiration of the term of grace allowed by Lord Kitchener's latest proclamation. Admits Plot, bnt la Not Believed. Edward Saftig, who was arrested at St. Louis on a charge of petit larceny, told Chief of Detectives Desmond a circumstantial story of a plot to kill President McKinley, in which he, Leon Czolgosz and Frank Harrigan, who 'is described as a New York anarchist, were the principals. Saftig said he was in Buffalo at the time of the assassination and aided Czolgosz in his preparations for the crime. Saftig’s story is discredited. Fhoots His Wife; Cuts His Throat. In a fashionable resort in Omaha R. P. Sleeper surprised his young bride and shot her three times while she reclined upon a conch. Then, as if to add a fitting climax, Sleeper emptied the remaining chambers of his six-shooter in a frenzied fusillade evidently without specific aim, and tossing his empty pistol nside, he gashed his own throat with a knife. The woman’s wounds are fatal. Ten Acres in Ashes. Fire devastated an area of ten acres on the Northwest Side of Chicago, jumping the north branch of the Chicago river and sweeping a big coal yard, a group of iron works and a tannery, besides threatening the homes and lives of htHtdrods of dwellers cottages. A steamer moored in 'fuFnver was also destroyed. The damage runs close to $400,000. fchley’i Chief Counsel Ties. The Schley court of inquiry was brought to a sudden termination for the day eighteen minutes after convening Tuesday morning by the announcement of the sudden death of Judge Jeremiah Wilson, senior counsel for Admiral Schley. Nebraska Law* Foiin 1 Void. Judge Smith McPherson of the federal court at Council Bluffs held unconstitutional the Nebraska law defining trusts and , declaring combinations illegal, also the act intended to prevent Insurance companies from combining and a third act fixing yardage rates at stock yards. Professor Kilts Student. Passengers arriving at Springfield, Mo., on the 'Frisco's St. Louis train report that a professor in the State School of Mines at Rolla, Mo., killed a girl student because of jealousy and then fled, afterward killing himself when capture was imminent. Grand Trunk Elevator Bnrned. The Grand Trunk elevator at Point Edward, Ont., nos destroyed by fire, together with its contents, about 50,000 bushels of wheat. The origin of the fire was spontaneous combustion. The structure was valued at $60,000. Fatal Dispute Over Claim. L. C. Bishop, superintendent of a mining company operating at Chico, Mont., shot and killed J. M. Cunningham, a miner, in a dispute over a claim. Rancxnn I cn'gni His Post. Admiral Sampson formally resigned h'a post as commandant of the Charlestown ■svy yard and departed for Fort Hamilton, N. Y., where he will visit a sister.

TRAIN PLUNGES INTO A CANYON. One Killed and Einliteen Injured in an Accident in Colorado. A runaway freight train on the dreaded Kenosha Hill, on the South Park Railway, in Colorado, caused the death of Webster Ballinger, the engineer, and injured eighteen employes of the railway. As the train crossed the crest for the plunge down the spiral descending into Platte canyon the brakes failed to work and the emergency call for hand brakes startled the crew and employes. Instantly laborers and brakemen were scrambling for tho brakes, as they knew their lives depended on quick action. In the meantime the train had gained a terrific impetus and at Sister curve, where the men could look straight down at the town of Webster, the train flew the track. The engine pitched down 300 feet into the gulch.

CONTEST OF 870 THIRD COUSINS. Peculiar "Will of a New York Men Leads to Fight Over Estate. A remarkable case is on trial in a special term of the Supreme-Court in Herkimer, N. Y. Menjo Shaul died and left $21,000 to bo divided between those related to him as third cousins. In his will he wrote: “By the term third cousins I mean the children of those persons who are related to me as cousins.” At least 870 persons from all parts of the United States are asking for shares in the estate. They are represented by for-ty-three attorneys. The cousins are divided into four classes, and the court will be called upon to decide which class is entitled to, the portion i»f the estate remaining after costs are paid. Telceroph Enters Klondike. The whole world was connected by electric telegraph with thq at 1:20 o’clock Tuesday The line, which is 2,200 miles lofijjf - .os at Atlin, WMte'Hors&i"Davfson and Kfiit Simpson and connects at the Alaskan boundary with the projected American government line from St. Michael. Cxolgosz Sentence 1 to the Chair. Sentence of death by electrocution during the week beginning Oct. 28 was pronounced upon Qzolgosz, and then the assassin of President McKinley was removed from Buffalo to Auburn State prison, where the sentence is to he carried out. Dakota Hat Small Tornado. A small tornado of wind, rain and snow passed through the western portion of Deuel County, S. D., doing grent damage. A school house and numerous farm dwellings were blown down nnd grain stacks were scattered nnd destroyed. Over two inches of rain fell. Nine Reds at Liberty. Because the prosecution could obtain no legal evidence of guilt against the nine Chicago anarchists who have* been held on a charge of conspiring to kill President McKinley, Judge Chetlain ordered them discharged. Killed for His Money. Orrvillc -I). Moses, a wealthy resident of Malden, Mass., was found dead in the Back Bay fens of Boston. It is believed by the police that he was murdered. Considerable money lie had in his possession is missing. First Trial a Flnke. First trial between Columbia nnd Shamrock for America's cup, on Thursday, was a fluke owing to neither yacht being able to finish within the time limit. The Columbia finished ahead. Water Fyetcm for llawal’« Chicago capitalists arc negotiating for n 09-year license to build n water system on the Island of Hawaii and sell the water for irrigation, domestic and power uses.

BIG STEAMER IN PERIL. With Rudder Gone, and Btorm Raging, Passenger* Trust in Providence. The steamship Oregon is safe, but iti improvised rudder, broken propeller and careworn passengers tell the story of ten days’ floundering around in the trough of the sea at the mercy of a gale, frequently so severe that it seemed as if nothing less than a miracle could savo the boat and its 500 passengers. The efforts of Captain Sealey and crew were finally rewarded with tho construction of an emergency rudder, which did its work, «nd then came a voyage of 1,700 miles at a snail’s pace. Short rations were ordered, and it was not until the entrance of Puget Souud became almost a certainty that regular meals were restored. The Oregon sailed from Nome with aJhill passenger list and $750,000 in treasure. Three days out it ran into a gale. The rudder post and rudder, were carried away and then one blade of the propeller was broken. Five days later the steamship Empress of was signaled and transferred a supply of food to the Oregon. The Oregon finally reached Port Townsend and was towed to Seattle.

RUN BURNING SHIP ASHORE. Crew of Fedora Narrowly Escapes, witht Boat a Total Los*. The wooden steamer. Fedora, without cargo, bound from Duluth to Ashland, Wis., to load iron ore, caught fire when off Bass Island, and became a total toss. Her crew of seventeen men escaped, although they lost all of their clothing and effects. The fire originated in the engine room from an exploding lamp. The flames spread over the entire ship so fast that the crew were unable to do anything with the fire pumps, as the engine room was a mass of flames. The steamer was headed for the shore in a race to get to the beach. Land was finally reached five miles north of Bayfield and the crew escaped from the burning wreck in the clothing they had on. Captain F. A. Fick commanded the steamer and he lost a collection of bric-a-brac valued at several thousand dollars. After the Fedora struck the beach she was burned to the water’s edge. THREATEN TRAIN FOR GAIN. Blackmailers Arrested by Burlington Officials at Meeting Place. A few days ago Superintendent Hohl of the Burlington route .at Platte City, Mo., reecivld a letter, unsigned, mailed at Waldron, Mo., demanding of the Burlington that $4,000 be deposited by a light on the public road below Waldron or the tracks would be blown up with dynamite. Superintendent Hohl, Detective McMichael and Sheriff Elgin of Platte County went to the place at the appointed time and captured John and James Sanderson, one of whom has confessed, implicating his brother. They were taken to Platte City and are now in jail awaiting a preliminary examination. Negro Is Savel from a Mob. John Burt, a negro, who attacked Mrs. Dr. Wilda Hale at Edgar, Neb., and who was captured after being shot three times, was landed in the county jail at Clay Center, Neb. A mob gathered around the jail at Edgar the previous night and made an attempt to get at the man. A brother of the woman made an appeal to the mob to allow the law to take its course, and it dispersed.

Cable Company Incorporated. To complete, the needed link in a group of cable systems which then will girdla the globe and to gain cable connection with our new possessions in the Pacific are the announced objects of the new cable company incorporated with a preliminary capital of Sr9(MK)O. John IV. Mackey is at the head at the project. Fonr Firemen Injured. Four firemen were injured in a fire in the Johnson Chair Compnny factory in Chicago. The inflammable material stored in the building made the tire a 'EaSrOiMi-ioJght, but after nearly two hours’ work it w a'S'-rl f£ -C-52 rF&f.'* * The loss is placed at $75,000, fully insured. Shaft Moved raven Inches. The Never Sweat mine of the Anaconda Company at Butte, Mont., was compelled to close down because of the general sliding movement of the earth which has disturbed Butte for several years. The shaft of the mine nud the engine foundations are displaced seven inches. Bank Cashier la Indicted. Charles T\ Officer, son of tho lata Thomas Officer and cashier of the defunct private bank of Officer & Pusey at Council Bluffs, now in receiver’s hands, has been indicted on tho charge of fraudulent bankiog. Adopt United Btates Date, l'be Canadian government, which a few years ago abandoned the practice of observing the national thanksgiving on tho same day ns the United States, has just appointed the lust Thursday in November as Thanksgiving day throughout Canada. Cincinnati l'n«tne«a Mnn Killed. J. ,T. Sullivan, a prominent business mnn and member of the Cincinnati Board of Equalization, was caught between a bridge aud n street cur near St. Bernard, Ohio, and instantly killed. Blow Kills n Boxer. George Johnson, colored, aged 37, of Brooklyn, died from the effects of a blow on the point of the jaw, received in a friendly bout with Tommy West, the welterweight pugilist. City Treasurer Commits fnlclde. Illness and despondency caused Edward O. Jay, city treasurer of Elk Point, S. D., to commit suicfile by taking poison. John G. Nicolay Ii Dead. John George NTcolay, private secretary to President Lincoln, died in Washington, aged 70.