Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

PLAN NEW TROLLEY LINE. Steel Trust Officials Backing a Road to Connect with Lake Steamers. Prominent officials and factors in the big steel trust are backers of a lake steamer and long distance trolley line to connect Chicago, Milwaukee, Benton Harbor, Grand Rapids and intermediate points. They have launched the West Michigan Traction Company and are already at work. The company bus for its object the construction and operation of a trolley line from Benton Harbor to Grand Rapids, tapping the rich fruit and celery territory of Michigan. In addition, a Line of steamers from Chicago to Benton Harbor and Milwaukee will be maintained. For this purpose several fine boats of high speed are being built at Toledo. The company has a capital of $1,000,000 and will bond the road for two and one-lialf times that amount. President G. O. Hadley of the American Sheet Steel Company and George H. Moore, secretary and treasurer of the same concern, are directors in the traction company, but refuse to disclose the names of their associates. Thirty miles of the trolley road will be built this fall and winter, and in the spring it wiV be extended to Kalamazoo. Work os the terminals at Benton Harbor has begun. MILLIONS IN A GOLD MINE. Rich Find Discovered by Two Brothers Near Tucson, Arizona. Charles R. and Porter W. Fleming of Tucson, Ariz., arrived there from the Galluro mountains, where they report a remarkable gold discovery. The rich find is located seventy miles north of Tucson and the vein of. ore, according to the Flemings, is 200 feet wide and 0,000 feet in length. A canyon cuts through the vein for 200 feet, exposing the ore on either side the entire length of the cut. The Fleming brothers assert that from the bottom of the canyon to the surface the outcroppings of ore will run from $5 to SI,OOO to the ton. They estimate the amount of gold in sight at the enormous sum of $7,000,000. The Tucson Star is authority for the statement that the story told by the Fleming brothers is authentic, and that it has verified the facts as above given.

RISK LIVES TO SAVE SHIP. Firemen Snatch Gunpowder from Flames, but Vessel Burn’. The three-masted British bark Grissel was damaged by fire and sunk at her dock in the East river, New York. At the risk of their lives firemen and policemen went into the hold and removed 250 cases of gunpowder which were part of the cargo. The cases were thrown overboard as fast as passed up. The cargo of the ship consisted of 30,000 cases of petroleum, which were stored in the lower hold; general merchandise in the middle hold and the gunpowder and 250 cases of loaded cartridges in the top hold. The loss is estimated at about $150,000. Attempt to Kidnap Rich Boy. An unknown man approached a party of children playing in the street in Williamsburg, N. Y., and tried to induce Edward Dressell, 8 years old, to take a walk with him. The boy declined. The man then seized the lad and ran toward a waiting cab. The other children frustrated the would-be kidnaper. William Dressell, the boy’s father, is a wealthy merchant.

Indian Girl Sues for Land. Margaret R. Margrave, an Indian girl, a member of the Sac and Fox tribe, has brought suit against the Uuited States in the Federal Court to gain possession of a tract of land in Richardson County, Neb. She asserts the land was allotted by the government to her aunt in 1890. The aunt has since died, Miss Margrave being her only heir. Skeleton Found in Debris. A human skeleton was found in the debris of a saloon formerly conducted by Robert Clark at East Converse, Ind., now in prison for a murder at his saloon two years ago. The skeleton is thought to be that of Clinton Buchanan, who disappeared mysteriously three years ago with a large amount of money on his person. Allejr'id Embezzler Located. A. W. Miller, formerly city clerk ot Sandusky, Ohio, who left there last February, being alleged to have made away with nearly SIOO,OOO of the city’s funds, has been located at Havana, Cuba, and Chief of Police A. C. Weingajes and City Solicitor Henry Hart have gone after him. Freed on n Technicality. Ellis Glenn, the famous “man-woman,” is free. Judge Jackson in the United States court at Parkersburg, W. Va„ delivered a long opinion in the habeas corpus case releasing her from further trial, on the old indictment. rnpil in Clasi Miooti Self. Because he thought himself ill treated at home, 14-year-old Harry Poses attempted to kill himself at the Jefferson ■chool in Minneapolis. He was not seriously injured. A panic in the school building was narrowly averted. Disirer Buried In Quicksand. George Winter, a laborer at Indianapolis, was caught in quicksand while excavating a well, and, although his fellow laborers worked three hours in efforts to save him, he finally was swallowed by shifting earth and smothered to death. Operation on Minstrel West. “Billy” West, the minstrel, has undergone at Lane hospital, San Francisco, an operation for the removal of a cancer In his mouth. The operation was successful. Afghan Ameer Die*. The Ameer of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, died after a brief illness, and as far as can be learned his eldest son, lisblb Oullah Khan, has taken the reins of government.

FOUR KILLED IN WRECK. Freiuht Trains Collide on Great Western Railroad—Victims Chicagoans. In a head-on collision between two freight trains on the Chicago Great Western Railroad, a mile east of Lombard, 111., four men were kjjled and three others were injured. Both engines were badly damaged, as also were fifteen of the eighteen cars which made up the trains. The men injured were trainmen. All the men either killed or injured live in Chicago. The wreck occurred on a straight stretch of track. It is the opinion that, as the morning was very foggy, the conductor of the freight train east bound did not see or did not read properly the signal displayed. SAVAGE LION WOUNDS TAMER. Attacks Man Before Crowd and Almost Tears Rim to Pieces. Edward Smith of Boston, a lion trainer, came near losing his life during a performance of the Katool animal show at Lemp’s park, St. Louis. Smith was in a lion’s cage exhibiting the animal. When he started to leave he turned his back on the beast for a second. Wallace, the

big lion, leaped across the cage, caught Smith by the back and threw him down, tearing liis clothing and badly lacerating bis back and side. Two assistants drove the lion back and saved Smith from death. Filipinos Force n Retreat. A detachment of the Twenty-first company of Macabebes encountered a Dirge force of insurgents near Lipa, a province of Batangas, I’. I. Lieut. Beau of the Macabebes was killed and one of the force was wounded. The enemy was strongly intrenched. After two hourjf fighting the Americans retreated, to await re-enforcements. It, Ac O. Buys a Railroad. The -Pittsburg and Western Railroad was sold at auction at Pittsburg to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at $3,000,000, subject to three mortgages amounting to $10,360,000. The sale was merely a matter of form and no bidders appeared against the purchaser. Kills in u Jealous Rase. Frank Hemingway, said to be the son of the law partner of Secretary of the Navy Long, was murdered at Savannah, Ga., by Nauon Cozier, a woman of some notoriety, who committed suicide immediately thereafter. Jealousy prompted the deed. I.ocktender Robbed and Killed. Holston Eaclius, loektender, was found dead, his body floating in the canal near his shanty south of Massillon, Ohio. Eachus received his month's pay the previous day, and as no money was found in the clothing on the body the police suspect murder. Four Lives Lost in a Wreck. One of the worst wrecks in the history of the Mohawk division of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad occurred at Oriskany, N. Y. Four railroad men were killed in the wreck and ono was injured. Heavy Rainfall in Galveston. Eighteen inches of rain fell in Galveston, Texas, within twenty-four hours, the heaviest precipitation in tho city’s history. Much damage was done to goods stored on ground floors. shat and Robbed by n Tramp. William H. Williams, 28 years old, who says his home is in Lima, Ohio, was murderously assaulted by a negro tramp near Stelton, N. J. Fear Lost Boy Is Kidnapped. Walter Mecklin, aged 3 years, disappeared from his home at Amanda, Ohio. It is believed that the boy has been kidnaped for ransom.

FARMER SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Jolm Cole, Returning Home with His Little Daughter, Is Slain. As a result of a neighborhood feud John Cole, a prominent farmer living north of Bloomington, Ind., was fatally shot. Recently Cole’s two sons were seized by a party of White Caps and terribly whipped for suspected acts which did not meet with the approval of their neighbors. One of the boys was later arrested and sent to prison on a charge of ill treating live stock on the farm where he lived. The other night the farmer was returning home, accompanied by bis 10-year-old daughter, after a shopping visit to Bloomington. About two miles from the city limits a shot rang out and Cole pitched forward. “I’m shot,” he managed to say to his daughter-. The horses, badly frightened, started on a run, but, the plucky girl caught up the reius and managed to keep them in the road until they dashed up to the farm bgvns. When Cole’s wife reached the scene she found her husband dead in the wagon and her daughter in a faint. WILD MAN IN THE WOODS. Startling Discovery Made by Two Hunters in Michigan. Adolph Meiser and John Slattery, two young men from Crystal Falls, Mich., who were hunting partridges on the headwaters of the Deer river, met what they assert was a wild man. His hair was long and shaggy and long whiskers nearly covered his face. The hunters got within thirty feet of the man before they saw him or he them, and all were surprised when the stranger snarled at them. Meiser attempted to talk to him, but all the response he ’could get was, “Public, public.” When Slattery and Meiser moved forward the stranger gave a terrible yell and darted into the bushes. He ran like a deer, bounding over the windfalls and stumps. The strange man was large, but had become emaciated from exposure and hunger. The clothes he had on were in shreds, exposing his body to view. He carried part of a gun barrel and a tent pole in his hands and when found was eating the carcass of a dead skunk. It is thought that the man, is some unfortunate hunter who has been lost in the woods and become insane from fright.

OLD DEATH MYSTERY SOLVED. Bones and Jewelry Found in Indiana Cellar fchow Murder. The mystery connected with the death of Cliff Buchanan, field superintendent of the Wabash Valley Natural Gas Company, eighteen months ago has been solved by workmen finding bones, a Masonic charm and a ring in the cellar of an old roadhouse burned down some months ago near Converse, Ind. The evidence is sufficient to show that Robert Clark, the proprietor, now serving a term in the penitentiary for killing “Jack the Zagger,” committed the deed. BOOKWALTER ELECTED MAYOR. Republicans Carry the Day at Indianapolis by 1,630 Plurality. The Indianapolis city election resulted in the success of the Republican ticket, Charles A. Bookwalter being chosen Mayor by a plurality of 1,600 over Charles Maguire, the Democratic candidate. Charles N. Elliott was elected city clerk and George W. Stubbs police judge. Thomas Taggart retires as Mayor after six years in office. Docks Swept by Fire. Fire which started on the immense coal docks of the Peabody Coal Company in Chicago destroyed the structure, together with the six-story building adjoining, occupied by the Globe Light and Heat Company, damaged the Northwestern Railroad freight house and burned a number of freight ears. The loss approximates $675,000, falling heaviest on the Peabody Coal Company. IV' Wrecked by Life of Broker. I.ouis Herrmann, well known in New Orleans business circles, wealthy in his own right and the husband of a rich wife, shot himself three times and died at the Hotel Dieu. His suicide is attributed by his friends to a wrecked nervous system, the result of several years in the cotton brokerage business. Boys Tie Up Glues Plants. The carrying boys in the ten glass factories at Massillon, Ohio, went out on a strike and as a result all Operations were nearly at a standstill. Eight hundred men and boys were thrown out by the strike. The boys, who hud been getting 60 cents per day, demanded 75 cents. Ohio City Badly in Debt. The city of Akron. Ohio, will probably be placed in the hands of a receiver. An injunction to restrain the city from selling the proposed issue of $168,000 worth of bonds will be asked for. The city is hopelessly in debt, having liabilities ranging around SIBO,OOO. 'Wedding of Million*. The wedding of Miss Abby Green Aidrich, daughter of United States Senator N. W. Aldrich of Providence, 11. 1., and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York took place at Warwick Neck, the summer home of the Aldrich family. Street Duel Fatal to Two. In Houston, Texas, Walter Mulch and Ben Regans engaged in a street duel, the former being instantly killed and Kogans mortally wounded. trouble, it is said, arose over a trivial affair. Airahlp Fucceasfult jr Maneuvered. M. Santos-Dumout, the French aeronaut, gave a remarkable exhibition in Paris, driving bis airship at will and closing the performance by guiding it into its station unaided. Mormon President T. Dead. Lorenzo Snow, fifth president and head of the Mormon Church, died suddenly at his residence in Suit Lake City.