Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BANK ROfiBERS AT WORK. ♦KI ■■■ Pitched Battle Between Thieves and Citizens at Danville' Ohio. One of the most daring attempts at bank robbery in the history of Knox County, Ohio, occurred at Danville. Five charges of dynamite were used and the bank building as well as the vault wrecked. The explosions aroused the citizens, and a pitched battle took place, during which the tETeves7 of whom there were eight, took to flight. They were followed to Buckeye City, where they had rigs in readiness, and drove hurriedly away. Pursuit was at once taken up and a number of shots were exchanged until Adrian’s woods were reached, where the vehicles were abandoned by the robbers, who sought cover. In the buggy was found a large quantity of chickens, potatoes and edibles of various kinds, which is taken to indicate that the gang intended to hide themselves in the thick woods somewhere and camp out until the exctement incident to the robbery had died down. At least one of the robbers was wounded in the fight. Banker Wolfe says that little of value was secured so far as he can now tell. MAN AND BOY SAIL A BIG SHIP. Make a Run of 500 Mile* Because Crew Was on Strike. Onpt. Peter Blake of the two-masted schooner R. Kanter is the hero of lake vesselmen. The R. Kanter, 112 feet long,-Sailed from Chicago Oct. 1 and was en route to Pine Lake, Mich., after a cargo of lumber. In leaving Chicago his crew went on a strike. He was not discouraged and with the assistance of a 16-year-old helper decided to make the voyage alone. The boy is not a sailor, and was Qf assistance only in such work as a “landlubber” could do and in preparing the meals. The journey is 500 miles round trip and was a remarkable one. The schooner carries immense canvas and the voyage was unusually rough. Both captain and boy passed an almost sleepless time, but they brought back to Chicago the largest cargo for a two-master that has been reported for years. Capt. Blake saved $l6O in sailors’ wages by the venture. He has presented the boy with a suit of oilskins and a pair of rubber boots. SEVENTH ROBBERY AITEMPTEF. Gang Discovered in Ohio Town Escapes on Handcar Without Bootv. A gang of robbers blew open the outer doors of a big safe in the store of C. Ingraham & Co. at Curtice, Ohio. They were discovered in the act and aroused ■■citizens with loaded guns, who took after the robbers, of whom there were about a dozen. It was evidently the same gang How looting that section. Many shots were exchanged, but the thieves made good their escape on a handcar, which they abandoned at Trowbridge, the next station east, and escaped to the woods. They left behind various tools and a bottle of nitroglycerin, but secured no booty. This is the seventh time the same store has been attacked by burglars. Once they carried off the entire stock, which was loaded into wagons. Twenty Lives Lost in Storm. The worst typhoon in ten years has been raging in the Philippines. Its center has been about sixty miles from Manila. Eight miles of railway have been destroyed, and half of north and central Luzon has been submerged. A majority of the telegraph lines have been damaged, and government and other vessels have suffered, twenty persons being killed in Manila bay. The town of Baler has been demolished. Famine in Russian 1 istricts. It can now be foreseen that the widespread crop failures, the consequent famine and the relief work of the government and of philanthropists will be engrossing subjects in the Russian empire during the approaching winter. The struggle to keep the peasant population alive until a new harvest will be harder than has been known since 1891-2. Officer’s Wife Leaps to Death. Mrs. Parmenter, wife of Lieut. H. E. Parmenter of the navy, died as a result of injuries received by jumping from a window of the Portland apartment house, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Parmenter had been in ill health, and had been afflicted with melancholy, which sometimes took the form of acute mania. Predicts a Locust Plejrue, John B. Smith, New Jersey State entomologist, predicts a plague of the 17year locusts next year, and has issued a bulletin to the fruit growers and farmers of the State that it will be unwise to put out any young, fruit trees this fall or next spring. Postoffice Robbed of $4,000. At Moodus, Conn., burglars cracked a safe in the postoffice and departed unseen and unheard by any of the residents with $4,000 worth of stamps and $l2O in cash from the money order drawer and the postal funds. No mail in the office wa» disturbed. Plan a Girl*’ Model Hotel. The Woman’s Model Lodging House Association has decided to establish a down-town hotel for self-supporting young women in Chicago. The new hotel Will board young women at low rates. The highest rate will probably be $5 and the lowest $2.50. Fiigel Buys New Store. It is announced that a new stock com pany, of which Henry Siegel of the firm of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Chicago, is to be the president, bought the department store of Simpson, Crawford & Simpson in New York, the cash consideration being over $5,000,000. Fatality on a Hunting Trip. While hunting near Albert Lea, Minn., August Paulson, cashier of the First National Bank, was accidentally shot by a younger brother. The top of his head was blown away, death resulting instantly.

COLONEL ASTOR AS ENGINEER. Millionaire Railroad Director Pilots Lake Shore Fast Mail. For a short time Wednesday the identity of Col. John Jacob Astor, millionaire, was lost in that of Col. Astor, railroad engineer. Attired in blue jeans, overalls and buckskin gloves, he piloted the fast mail on the Lake Shore road through a wild twenty miles, which were made in a trifle less than twenty minutes. Col. Astor was on his way to Chicago to attend the annual meeting of the directors of the Illinois Central Railroad, and when South Bend was reached at 5:05 in the morning he persuaded the engineer to let him hold the throttle during the run from that point to Laporte. He is familiar with every detail of construction and management of a locomotive. SHOOT AND ROB PAYMASTER. Bandits in Kentucky Wound P. T. ColKan and Take $2,000. Peter T. Colgan, paymaster of the Virginia Iron Furnaces, was waylaid, shot and robbed of $2,000 about midway between Middlesboro, Ky., and the furnaces. Colgan had drawn the money from the bank and was taking it to the office to pay the hands. The robbers hid behind trees, shot Colgan, seized the money and ran. A large crowd started In pursuit, but the robbers succeeded in reaching the mountains. In their flight they dropped SSOO. Colgan will recover from the wounds. Ganc of Burglars I* Caught. Three men and a young woman are locked up in the Tombs in Boston with nearly fifty charges of breaking and entering houses hanging over the men and that of disposing of stolen property over the young woman. She is the wife of one of the men. It is estimated that the amount of stolen property recovered will reach $5,000, and that the amount stolen is between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO. Armour Gets Apple Corner. The Armours of Chicago have succeeded in getting a corner on the apples about Binghamton, N. Y. The crop is the lightest in years. New York and Pennsylvania farmers sold their crops as they stood on the trees. Already the price has advanced to $3.50 a barrel. Apple Crop of 1901, The apple crop of 1901, according to the final report of the American Agriculturist, is placed at 23,000,000 barrels, against 48,000,000 barrels one year ago, and nearly 70,000,00 barrels in the bumper crop year of 1896. Lipton to Try Again. At Chicago Athletic Club banquet Sir Thomas Lipton declared his wish to enter the list for the cup again next year, and the announcement' evoked a wild acene of cheering. A loving cup was presented to the Shamrock’s owner. Missouri Hazers Suspended. Twenty-nine students were suspended from Missouri University for hazing. They will not be allowed to re-enter school until each of them has made a written apology to their,victim and pledged themselves to good behavior. New Trial for Molineux. Roland B. Mollneux, convicted of the murder of Catherine J. Adams in New YoriK has been granted a new trial on the founds of error in admitting evidence of another death. Rnssian Students Fight Police. One thousand students wrecked the Governor's house at Kitchcneff, Russia, and fought police. Eleven killed, thirtysix wounded. Kentucky Horseman Shot. John a well-known Kentucky horseman, was shot and fatally wounded in the court room at Reed Station,

WOLFE REVEALS DEEP SECRET. Prominent Mannfacturer Sought to Escape Clutches of Blackmailers. Robert F. Wolfe, president of the Wolfe Brothers’ Shoe Company of Columbus, Ohio, has freed himself from the clutches of a gang of blackmailers by disclosing a secret which he has zealously guarded for a quarter of a century. Wolfo led a roving life until he was 18 years of age, wh en he settled atCatar act r In d., where he had relatives. There he was arrested upon a charge of assault with intent to kill while attempting to avenge an insult to a cousin. He wa^ convicted and served a five years’ term in the penitentiary. When, released he went to Columbus with nothing but a kit of shoemakers’ tools. He prospered and is now one of the leading shoe manufacturers of tho Uflited States. His prison record became known to a few men who compelled him to purchase their silence. The demands of the blackmailers increased in proportion to his wealth. Mr. Wolfe finally decided to free himself by publishing a full recital of the circumstances of his imprisonment. His manly confession has strengthened his standing in Columbus. FINDS EXCHANGE IS A TRUST. Kansas Court Decides Commissions in Live Stock Sale* Are Illegal. At Holton, Kan., Judge Gephart rendered a decision in the District Court to the effect that the charging of a commission prescribed by the Live Stock Exchange for the purchase or sale of live stock by the members of the exchange is illegal and cannot be collected by law. According to Judge Gephart the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange is a monopoly and an outlaw and its transactions are in violation of the statutes. The decision indirectly affects business- at the Chicago, St. Louis, St. Joseph and Omaha exchanges, which operate under rules similar to those of the Kansas City exchange and under State laws practically the same as the anti-trust law of Kansas. MOTHER R .COVERS CHILD. Find* Him Selling Paper* in the streets of I'enver. Mrs. Evan Jones of Plymouth, Pa., arrived in Wilkesbarre from Denver the other day with her 9-year-old son in her possession. Two years ago her husband ran away with the widow of his brother and took the child with him. Since then Mrs. Jones has been untiring iu her search for the boy. She was aided by the police in all the large cities in this country and in England and .Wales, where it was first believed her husband had gone. A couple of months ago she.received a clew from Denver and she weijt out there to investigate. Soon after she 4 .alighted from the train she found her boy in the street selling papers. DANCE LEAHS IO DEATHS. Two Men Bnrnjd, One Injured an 1 One Made Insane in Kansas. As a result of a quarrel at a dance in Lane, Kan., two men were burned to death, one was fatally injured and another is hopelessly insane. In the fight John Teehan was struck on the head with a blunt instrument and fatally injured. When it became known how seriously Teehan was hurt the other dancers scattered. Two of them, Eugene Cronan and J. McDonald, slept in an office near by and during the early hours of the morning the place was set on fire by some of tho other dancers and the two men were burned to death. The father of Cronan has gone hopelessly and violently insane. Pays $350,000 for Zinc Lands. A real estate deal of unusual importance occurred in Lafayette, Ind. The property in question consists of 60,800 acres of zinc lands located near Joplin, Mo., the consideration being $350,000. The purchaser is an English syndicate, which already has some twenty-five mines in operation on lands adjoining the tracts purchased. Boy Stolen by Gypsies. Frank Caves, aged 10 years, was the captive for a few hours of a band of gypsies who passed through Marysville, Ohio, the other day. A farmer, hearing the boy’s cry, forced the Rommanies to release him. The boy says that the gypsies threatened to shoot him for crying. Smith Head* the Mormon*' At the regular weekly meeting of the apostles held in the Temple at Salt Lake City, Utah, Joseph F. Smith was chosen and set apart as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in succession to the late Lorenzo Snow. TraßeAy on a Stock Farm. At the Agnew stock farm, near San Francisco. Chhrles Douglas attacked his wife and 15-year-old stepdaughter with a heavy water pitcher and seriously injured them. When the sheriff came to arrest Douglas he shot and killed himself. Found Dead in Pool of Blood. William A. Bishop, Waukegan, 111., lawyer, was found dead in a pool of blood in a loliely field near Rochester, N. Y., his throat cut. He left a note suggesting suicide, but the theory of murder was also well supported. . Montana Town I* Wiped Ont. Clinton, a mining town located on the Northern Pacific sixteen miles east of Missoula, Mont., was practically wiped out by fire, 'ten buildings, including hotel, saloons, stores and residences, went up in smoke. Bank Meaaeuger Diaappeara. George Armitage, messenger for New Amsterdam National Bank, disappeared under circumstances indicating robbery. Of $20,000 in drafts and checks which he carried, all but $9,996 is accounted for. Army Forger Gets Two Years. John M. Neall, formerly a captain in the United States anny, recently convicted of forgery at San Francisco, was sentenced to two years in San Quentin, Cal n at hard labor.