Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — MONEY FOR BROTHERS [ARTICLE]

MONEY FOR BROTHERS

Hissing men to inherit vast FORTUNE. Father, Who Left Them in 1838, Hal Grown BnormoMly Wealthy In Brasil—Cotton Figure of Christmas Saint Starts a Big Fire. John Duncan Bruce McDonald, aged 04 years, and Richard Gordon Bruce McDonald, two years younger, have jointly fallen heir to 185,000,000. The land and Pie money are waiting for them in Bra1. The two men, who are brothers, canlot be found and the sum of $5,000 is offered for information leading to their discovery. In the year 1888 their father, Richard Bruce McDonald, bound them >ver to Dr. Gordon Campbell of Baltimore, left the sum of SIO,OOO for their maintenance and departed for parts unknown. He has just died in South Amerce at the ripe old age of 94, having prospered greatly. The last seen of the missus 1 irothers was almost two months ago. Uhey were then leaving Baltimore for a two weeks’ tour of northwestern Nebraska and the bad lands of Dakota. PETTIGREW SERIOUSLY HURT. Brother sf Ex-Senator a Victim of Assault or Accident. Fred W. Pettigrew, brother of ex-Sen-lator Pettigrew, lies in a critical condition tt his home in South Sioux Falls, S. D., s the result of a mysterious accident or (issault. Mr. Pettigrew left his house he other evening to do chores about the jyard. Soon afterward he was found in |the road near his home in an unconscious (condition. Two hired men who found him Bay they heard the sound of a team being (driven rapidly away a few minutes beE»re they discovered the prostrate form f their employer. | SANTA CLAUS STARTS A FIRE. (Cotton Figure in Ftore Window Responsible for $260,000 Blaze. A big cotton Santa Claus in the window of the GflJbe dry goods store at Wilkesbarre, Pa., caught fire and before the flames were under control the loss jwas $260,000. The places destroyed (were the Com Exchange building, $40,pOO; Weitzenkof clothing and shoe stores, |$100,000; Globe store, $80,000; Lanfield building, $25,000; Simon Long’s building and clothing store, $20,000. The insurance covers half the loss. i ____________ j Three Robbers in Ohio Town. ! The -establishment of the Archbald tanking Company at Archbald, Ohio, as looted by three robbeTs, who secured jabout $2,000 in gold and currency. Residents of the town who were awakened by [the thieves gave fight and one of the defenders, John Homayer, was wounded, being shot in the face. The robbers stole a. horse and buggy at the outskirts of the [town and fled. Robbers at Wilmington, Ohio. | Three masked men broke the door of ithe Baltimore and Ohio station at Wilpiington, Ohio, bound the operator, R. D. fWalm, rifled his pockets of $9.50 and (took $26.55 from the company’s cask (drawer. The robbers then visited Langidon’s mill across the street from the stajtion, blew open the safe, stole SSO and escaped.

j Finds Father's Body Cat Up. ' Tlie mystery of the disappearance last cummer of Robert F. Walsh of Brooklyn, nt one time an inventor of some prominence, was cleared up when it was found that he died July 21 in Bellevue hospital end that his body was sent to a medical ieollege for dissection. His son identified his clothing and what was left of the (body. Relief for Cherokee Indiana. ( The Cherokee National Council has passed a relief bill authorizing the distribution of $285,000 among the Cherokees. fThis will make a per capita payment of iabout $lO. The principal chief has approved the hill and it will be sent at once to the President of the United States for his approval. The payment will be made this winter. Milliona In Slot Machines. Melville Ritchie, secretary of tlie Municipal Reform League, estimates that there are 8,440 penny-in-the-slot ma(heines in Cincinnati, and that at least $3,080,600 is placed in them every year. His estimates are based on reports made to him by agents who have been investigating the subject.

Oiler’s Terrible Death. Geea Kovace met a terrible death la the li. H. Wolff Bicycling Manufacturing Company ia New York. While oiling tnachinery be was caught in the rapidly moving shafting, picked up to the ceiling, and whirled along on the belting the entire length «f the building, which extend* from block to block. Kat Two Litt'e Children. ! Two little children have been eaten by rannibals on the Samoan Island of Tutuila. Two of the man-eaters have been bunted down and killed. Girla Burn t<{ X’eath. In a fire at Bayou dfcHAlleinnndcs, La., {Miss May Ernest, aged 17, and Flossie jDelabretonue, aged 1 i years, were burned (to death. Offsra to Become ■ Slave. ' Tim Notts, a blind negro in St. Louis, (offers to exchange his freedom for sight. He ia willing to become the slave of any gihysiciau who will restore his vision. Dies in Bbow Near Goal. After wandering about in a blinding •nowstorm until exhausted and benumbed by the cold, Michael Holier of West {Rutland, Vt„ fell to the ground and was {frozen to death on the Plttsford road {within fifty feet of the house where he |iad intended to spend the evening. { Lawson Loses Millions. ' Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston copper bins, admits losing millions in the recent plump, but says he will not capitulate pr make any compromise with his enemies.