Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1901 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

ELOPE ON ONE HORSE. Maid and Suitor Ride Sixty-five Miles to Be Married. Miss Belle Bray of Heath, Neb., has proved as loyal and as daring as the fair Ellen of young Lochinvar in keeping troth with a sailor worthy but out of favor with the girl's parents. She was married to her cousin, T. J. Bray, after a ride of sixty-five miles by night, a single horse carrying the two young fugitives. Miss Bray chafed under the isolation of the plains. During a visit to Cheyenne an attachment sprang up between her and her cousin, who is employed in that city as a clerk. Ranchman Bray had more lofty ambitions for his daughter, and refused the young man any encouragement. When he found that-the suitor was still persevering he forbade the young man to come upon the premises. Young Bray visited a neighbor of the Brays on the best steed, as be thought, in all the range country. The neighbor's sympathy was enlisted and that night Belle Bray slipped away from her father’s home. She mounted before her lover and the good horse carried them toward Cheyenne. “There was running and racing on Burnaby lea” when the disappearance was discovered. The young people had too long a start over the father and his ranchmen. FALSEHOOD ANNULS A POLICY. United States Appellate Court Holds Insurance Agreement Invalid. The validity of an insurance policy depends on the truthful answer to questions propounded by the company when application for insurance is made, according to an opinion handed down by the United States Court of Appeals at St. Louis in the ease of John Q. Meyers, administrator of the estate of Paul B. Swetlick, against the Home Life Insurance Company of New York. The plaintiff was a Kansas farmer, who died in November, 1892, and his heirs sought to recover $25,000, in which amount his life was Insured. At the trial it developed that when Swetlick applied for the policy he denied he had any other insurance, when in reality he had. The Circuit Court found for the plaintiff and the insurance company appealed the case. 'Judge Elmer B. Adams, who delivered the Appellate Court’s decision, remanded the case to the Circuit Court for a new trial. * ISLES ARE AMERICAN. The Supreme Court Decides Against Government. By the decision of the United States Supreme Court the Philippine Islands are domestic territory of the United States, this status being acquired at the moment of the ratification of the peace treaty with Spain. This decision was handed down in the case of Emil J. Pekpe vs. the United States government, commonly known as the “Fourteen Diamond Rings” case. Betrayed by Red Necktie. Elmer Peeore was placed in the federal jail in Guthrie, Ok., charged with having rifled the mail between the small towns near the border of the Indian territory. The officers suspected Peeore and laid a trap for him by placing a red necktie and a pair of beaded gloves in one of the mall sacks. They apprehended him later, wearing these articles. Price of Timber Is Raised. The pyee list committee of the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen’s Association agreed to advance the price of lumber from 50 cents to $3 a thousand, according to grade. A similar advance was made July 5. The committee says the immense demand is responsible for the action. Keeps Drink from Tn’iana. Judge Sanborn of the federal court at South MeAlester, I. T., has decided that after Indians become citizens they are still wards of the government and that after Indian territory has been allotted and the Indians are voters it will still be a crime to sell whisky to them. Burglars Make Rich Hanl. At an early hour the other morning the people of WilUnmsville, 111., were startled by a terrific explosion. It was found that burglars had entered the State Bank and blown open the safe. They secured $4,000 iu cash and several thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry. Pie* in Trolley Accident. During a snowstorm at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a trolley car became unmanageable aad ran into the Hudson river. B. Baruth of New York was drowned, an.l an insane prisoner named Oliver, who was being taken to the Mattewau asylum, escaped from his keepers. American Force Embarks. The Navy Department has received the following cablegram from Captain Perry, commanding the battleship lowa, at Panama: “I have re-cuibarked all of our force from the isthmus, perfect security of transit being effectually restored.” Little Girls Burned to Death. Nellie Kelly, aged 5, and her 10-months-old sister Ella set fire to their clothes while playing with matches at Philadelphia and were burned to death. Mrs. James Kelly, the mother, was severely burned while trying to save them. Stowaway Will Probibly Die. A man traveled ns a stowaway from Germany to New York on a slow freighter, boxed in a packing case, was found unconscious and is likely to Jose his life from loDg deprivation of food, water and frfcsh air. Cotton Moved on Flat Cnra. Traffic is so heavy in the South that cotton is moved on flat cars and merchandise in express cars. Much cotton has been ruined for want of cars. Killed by Apache Indians. John Baker, badly wounded, reached Bisbee, Texas, with the news of an attack by Apaches upon a camping party

of three in the San Bernardino mountains in Mexico. His companion, Walter Kelly, was killed and J. Withersall escaped without injury. Tho attacking party fired | into the camp from ambush. When Kelly and Withersall ran the Indians set up a chorus of yells, rfhooting Kelly down. HORROR IN BROOKLYN HOUSE. Weak-Minded Girl, Caged Like Beast by Father, Is Fonnd. A young girl, caged like a wild beast in a wooden pen in a dark back room, with only a few square feet in which to turn between the hard, bare walls wherein she is boxed; with food fed to her as if she were an animal; with a fearful odor filling the air she had to breathe, is the horror that has existed for mouths in the little two-story frame house at Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Two years ago Christina Doran, daughter of a well-to-do plumber, disappeared. She had nevfer been bright and her half-idiot-ic mind had grown weaker and wilder every day. Her father, Edward Doran, is a man who attended to his own business and demands that other people attend to theirs. He imprisoned his daughter, hired an old woman to take care of his house and to be the keeper of his caged daughter. Then he went about his work, he and his son, as if there were nothing to disturb the peace and happiness of their home. FORM BIG PITTSBURG COM3INE. Philadelphians Unite Street Railway, Electric and Gas Companies. Without a dissenting vote the $115,000,000 trolley deal went through in Pittsburg. On Jan. 1 the Philadelphia company will assume control of the Consolidated Traction Company, the Monongahela Street Railway Company, the Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Company, the Southern Traction Company, the Suburban Traction Company, the Pittsburg and Charleroi Street Railway Company, tho East McKeesport Street Railway Company, the Monongahela Heat, Light and Power Company, and some smaller interests. Every trolley line in Pittsburg, Allegheny and surrounding towns will be taken in. BALSBURY IS GUILTY. Verdict Retnrned in Bribery Case at Grand Rapids, Mich. The Syperior jury in the bribery case against City Attorney Lant K. Salsbury at Grand liapids, Mich., returned a verdict of guilty after deliberating all night. Salsbury was indicted by the grand jury last summer on the charge of accepting a bribe of $75,000 for his assistance in pushing through a deal by which the city of Grand Rapids was to award to Eastern capitalists a $4,000,000 contract for furnishing the city with water from Lake Michigan. Indicted with Salsbury were Henry A. Taylor, a young New York millionaire; Attorney Thomas McGarry, and Stilson V. McLeod. ROB A FARMER. AND ESCAPE. Masked Men Commit Bold Depredation in Nebraska Town. John Rose, a grain dealer of Rosemont, Neh., was beaten unmercifully and robbed by masked men near his home. The citizens of Rosemont turned out en masse in pursuit of the robbers. They came across one of the men in a school house about four miles northeast of Blue Hill. He fired three shots at the posse when it attempted to approach and succeeded in holding the crowd off with his gun until he could make good his escape. Played William Tell. Charles Marshka, 8 years old, was probably fatally wounded at Bowling Green, Ohio, by a companion, who was emulating the example of William Tell. A tin can was placed on Marshkn’s head as a substitute for an apple. His companion’s dim was bad and the bullet lodged in Marshka’s head. Two Hurt in Wreck on St. Panl Rond. An express train over the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad ran iuto a light engine on an open switch between Glen View and Shermerville, about fifteen miles out from Chicago, aud was wrecked. Two persons were injured. One Million Dollars for an E'evator. The Van Dusen-Harrington Elevator Company has bought tile sixteen-tank elevator of the Pioneer Steel Elevator Company in Minneapolis, with a enpneity of 1,000,000 bushels, for a price approximating $1,000,000. Liverpool Bank Robber Caught. Thomas Paterson Goudie, the defaulting clerk of the Bank of Liverpool, England, was arrested-at Bootle, a suburb of Liverpool, lie had $1,500 in his pocket when captured, although he is aeeused of, embezzling nearly $1,000,000. Omaha’* Powers Restricted. The Supreme Court of Nebraska has reversed its decision of three years ago and deprived the Mayor and Cily Council of Omaha of .the power of appointing police uud fire commissioners, vesting it iu the Governor. Bank Robbers Reappear. The safe in the Bank of Holly, Colo., was broken open with nitroglycerin. The outer works of the safe and the office fixtures were wrecked,, but tho burglars failed to open the inner strong box, where all the funds of tho bank were deposited. Appropriations Not So Large. Estimates of appropriations required for the government service for 1903, presented to Congress, foot up a total of $610,827,688, which is $18,000,000 less than the estimates for 1902. Lively Day in Alliance, Ohio. At Alliance, Ohio, the other day three robbers entered two houses, held up seven persons on the streets, stole a horse and buggy and escaped.

STEAMER AND CONSORTS LOST. Tried to Make Tobermory Harbor During Fierce Gale and Went Ashore. News of disaster to the steamer Wetmore and her consorts, the Brunette and King, is brought by members'of the crews of the wrecked boats. All three seem to be total losses. The Wetmore, which was towing the other boats, tried to make Tobermory harbor, in Georgian bay, in a heavy gale and snowstorm. The steamer missed the harbor and went ashore in an uninhabited part of the rocky Georgian bay shore. The Brunette and King soon after followed the steamer, in going on tho rocks. The steamer’s wheel was broken, and in the seas, the boats began pounding. As it seemed dangerous to remain on board, the crews took to their lifeboats, and reached dry land at Babbitt Island. There they spent the night. The following morning they were rescued from the island and taken to Wiarton. Tho men say the Wetmore was breaking up the last time they saw her. The barges wero in a dangerous position. All three boats were loaded with lumber at i’arry Sound for Buffalo. BURGLAR WAS TOWN MARSHAL. Ignored Complaints in Official Capacity, as He Couldn’t Arrt st Self. For about eighteen months the general store of John Banta at Wiltshire, Ohio, has been robbed very often, and up until a few weeks ago there was no clew to the intruders.' The village marshal was appealed to in vain. Finally Detective George Hai-rod of Fort Wayne went to work on the ease and found a wagon load of the stolen goods, which had been sold to farmers, in the vicinity of Iloaglin, Ind. A description of the men who sold the articles tallied with Charles Fainter, the marshal of Willshire, and Charles Tague, a bartender. They were arrested and both pleaded guilty and are now In the county jail awaiting sentence. Fainter was elected marshal of Willshire last spring, and according to his own confession he was a professional burglar before he was elected marshal and night watchman*of the village. FOOD PRICES Ai<E HIGHEST. Recent Negotiations for Necessaries Overtop Kecords of Four Decades. Dun's index number says: “If a man purchased his supplies for one year on Dec. 1 they would have cost $101.37, while the same quantities of the same articles would have aggregated only $7:{.45 on July 1, 1897, the lowest point on record, and $121.75 on Jan. 1, 1860. These price records are compiled by multiplying the quotations of all the necessaries of life by the per capita consumption. Prices are now at the highest point m many years, and, in fact, surpass all records since the present improved methods of manufacture and distribution have been in use and agricultural operations were first begun on the present extensive scale with labor-saving machinery.” Osteopathv <* Made Legal. By the decision of the Supreme Court in Ohio an indictment charging H. H. Gravett of Darke County with unlawfully practicing osteopathy is annulled. The court holds that the practice of osteopathy is the practice of medicine and that it will be necessary for osteopaths to be examined as the doctors of any other school. Woman Wliip« Alleged Slanderer. Considerable excitement was created in High street, Oxford, Ohio, when Fanny Redd attacked Walter Beadenbaugh with a buggy whip. She rained on the blows thick and heavy. Beadenbaugh fled. The woman said Beadenbaugh had circulated false stories about her. Convicted of 'lriple Murder. At Dover, Me., a verdict of murder in the first degree has been returned against Henry Lumber, a young French Canadian guide and woodsman. His crime was a triple murder, the victims being J. Wesley Allan, a prominent farmer, his wife aud their daughter, aged 16. Secretary Gage’. Annual Report. Secretary Gage in his annual report favors a central bank, legislation so as to secure a more flexible currency, repeal of the war taxes as the best way to reduce revenues and the upbuilding of the merchant marine by a system of subsidies.

Gold Process I* Worthlejs. The secret of extracting gold in large quantities from worked-out ores left by C. C. Wynn, the chemist who died In Denver a few days ago, is now declared to be an old, worthless process long ago tested and discarded. Auto Racer Badly Injured. William Thompson received injuries by being thrown from an auto on the half mile track at Minola, N. Y. He was with Foxhall Keene and young Willie Iv. Vanderbilt. They were trying to beat records when" the accident occurred. Three Pea l and Many Ilnr*. Three persons killed and thirty-eight injured is the result of n head-end collision between two passenger trains on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad near Malvern, Ark. The dead and most of the injured were negroes. Boston Banks Vote to Join. In Boston the directors of the State National Bank and of the National Hide ami la?utber Bunk have voted to recommend to their stockholders the merging of the business of the two banks. Cuts Throat on Board Train. Matthew Bucklund cut his throat with a razor on an east-bound Lake Shore, passenger train ns the train was passing through Port Clinton, Ohio. The cut was fatal. Laborer Kills Himself. Owiug to alleged family troubles Jacob Hettinger, a laborer, aged 30, committed suiiidt by shooting at Newark, Ohio. »