Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — CAPTIVE BRIGAND IN DESPAIR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAPTIVE BRIGAND IN DESPAIR.

Musolino Threatens to Kill Himself in Prison in Italy.

Latest reports from the pi’ison of Urbino say that the noted Italian brigand, Joseph Musolino, is extremely downcast

and rigid precautions are taken to prevent him from committing suicide. The capture of Musolino was kept secret for a week or more by the Italian government. For three years hundreds of soldiers and police had been sent into the province of

Reggio with the object of catching Musolino and had failed. It was some time, therefore, before they could believe that the man who was caught so far away in the province of Pesaro could be the redoubtable brigand himself. Brig. Beilis, however, and a Calabrian peasant named Crilli, who had twice been wounded by Musolino, were confronted with him and identified him ns the very man. Musolino'a career as an outlaw "began three years ago, when he was liberated from what he considered an unjuat imprlsonment. He vowed to kill the fifteen witnesses who were responsible for his conviction, and he Is said to have actually dispatched twelve. Governmeat Buys Indian Land. Maj.'McLaughlin, special agent of the Interior Department, has concluded a treaty with the Fort Totten reservation Indians of North Dakota and the government. The Indjana agree to sell 104,000 acres for $550,000, the sum of $145,► 000 to be paid after ratification and $20,000 a year for twenty years. W. D. Shepard of Salina, Kan., has been appointed lieutenant in the provisional forces in the Philippines. He has fought in Cuba and in the Transvaal.

JOSEPH MUSOLINO.