Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

SAYS HE BLEW UP THE MAINE. Spanish Officer Did It to Cause War and Revenge Himself on Weyler. A remarkable story is published in an Omaha paper regarding the blowing up of the battleship Maine. The report say* that information has come from the Pine Ridge agency that a Spaniard on a ranch had confessed while drunk to blowing up the ship, saying that he did so in the hope of causing war between the United States and Spain. . The tale goes on to the effect that the Spaniard was once an officer in the Spanish army in Cuba, and that during Weyler’s campaign he became angered at the brutal treatment accorded prisoners, and said so, Weyler at once ordered him under arrest. The Spaniard’s name is said to be Manuel de Silva Braga. He was discharged from the army after a court martial. The blowing up of the Maine was done to get even with Weyler. Braga knew all about the harbor and was familiar with explosives. His first idea was to blow up a Spanish ship, but finally decided upon the Maine as the best calculated to get Weyler out pt-power. Dressed in his army uniform he had no trouble in passing the guards in. the fortification, and with his own hand he touched the button that destroyed the Maine. Instantly he changed his clothes and escaped on a schooner as a sailor. - —-- ACTRESS ROBBED OF CHILD; Mrs. Laura Richards Reports Daughter’s Abduction in St. Louis. Mrs. Laura Richards or Kline, as she is known among vaudeville actors, claims that her little daughter Sallie has been abducted by some one anxious to make money from the child's talents. On a recent afternoon Sallie was sent out from their temporary home in St. Lortis to buy bread. She has not returned. Her mother has reported the matter to the police and fears she never will see tbo girl again. She says that less than six months ago her little son Bertie Richards, half brother to Sallie, mysteriously disappeared and has not since been heard of. Bertie and Sallie were members of the Kline trio of juvenile performers, who have appeared in Eastern vaudeville houses during the past two years and were attractions of St. Louis summer gardens last year. Mrs. Kline says they earned $l5O a week each.

RAID ALMOST COSTS A TOWN. Citizens Wreck Dakota “Blind Pig,” but Have to Fight Fire They Set. Desperate but unsuccessful efforts have been made to get rid of a “blind pig’’ at Leola, the county v seat of McPherson County, S. D. The place was kept by a man of the name of Odenbach. Citizens gathered in force and upset his building. A stove set fire to the structure and the hardest work of the raiders was devoted to putting out the fire and saving the town from destruction. Odenbach had his shanty placed right side up and then got H” license from the county commissioners to conduct a saloon. Patient and Doctor Both Die. Mrs. Edmund Bachus, Jiving on the fourth floor of an Elm street apartment building in Cincinnati, was taken suddenly ill with_hearjt trouble. Dr. G. H. Thurman was called. She died just as the doctor entered the apartments, end the doctor died immediately on entering from exhaustion, caused by climbing the three flights of stairs. Farmer Shoots a Woman. Near Shawnee, Kan., Carl Fishnet, a farmer, shot and probably fatally wounded Mrs. Mary L. Wallace. She was traveling overland in a covered wagon from Rich Hill to Custer County, Neb,, with her family, and was accused of stealing corn. —■- Army Captain Seeks Death. Captain W. J. D. Horne of the Ninth Cavalry, United States Army, made a sensational attempt to commit suicide in the street in San Francisco, by cutting his throat with a butcher-knife. As the knife was blunt, the wounds are not dangerous.

Policeman Shoots Two. Policeman Cruze shot and probably fatally wounded Lon and Alex Nelson in Knoxville, Tenn. Cruze was returning home from the police station when, he claims, he was fired*upon, and on investigation found the-Nelsons, with other men, on a near-by corner. Give Up Hope for War Ship, Hope for the safety of the British warship Condor is all but abandoned. Naval men at Victoria, B. C„ are convinced that she went to the bottom during the recent typhoon while on her way to Honolulu. Ended His Life in a Saloon. W. H. Martin, an insurance solicitor. Committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while in a saloon on Jefferson street, Louisville. He was to have been married in three weeks. The cause of the suicide is not known. Perish in a Burning Mine. A fire broke out in the new slope No. 7, at Dow, one of the principal tributaries of the Choctaw Coal system, near Hartshorne, I. T. 'lt is thought that fourteen men perished. t Seven See Parente Killed. At Eureka, Cal., J. H. G. Saffol, a res-taurant-keeper, shot nud killed his wife in the presence of bis seven young children. and then ended his life. Domestic infelicity was the cause of tho tragedy. George H. Phillipa Fails. George 11. Phillips, the former corn king, has been forced to the wall on the Chicago Board -of Trade. Inability to cover margins on a long line of rye caused the failure. Two Hurt in Wreck’?" A fast Panhandle passenger train, from New York to Chicago, and some time behind its scheduled hour for arrival.

crashed into the rear end of the Panhandle train from Cincinnati, at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossing at Western avenue and 49th street, Chicago, and, though a score of men and women were severely shaken by the-im-pact, only two men, attaches of the train, were severely hurt. BHAK KN DX EXPLOSION. Nitroglycerin Magazines Blow Up Near Marion, Ind. Fifteen hundred quarts of nitroglycerin stored in two magazines owned by the St. Mary’s Torpedo Company and Empire Glycerin Company in a ravine two miles and one-half southeast of Marion, Ind., exploded, shaking the entire northeastern part of the State. Business blocks, and dwelling houses shook and swayed as if rocked by an earthquake. A yawning hole in the bottom of the ravine was all that was left to tell the story. It is thought that the explosion was caused by a gas jet in one of the magazines, which set fire to the buildings. So far as known no one was injured. Telephone inquiries indicate that bouses were shaken fifty miles away. HEADLESS BODIES FOUND. Evidence of Murders Comes to Shore on Puget Sound Islands. - People of Whidby Island are in a state of excitement over the finding of another headless body on the beach near Fort Casey, Wash’. Recently a body was found with the head and hands cut off and the clothing removed, and later another body was found,, with the head severed. As no residents of the island are missing, the mystery increases and the authorities are of the opinion that murders have been committed at a point up the sound, that the heads have been severed to prevent identification and the bodies cast into the water. A fact which increases the mystery is that the same man found both headless bodies. DEFEAT FOR STEEL COMBINE. Supreme Court Wrests u Rich Land Claim from the Trust. A decision was handed down by the United States Supreme Court at Milwaukee in the famous section 30 land cases in favor of Margaretha Lonstorf, Frank W. Eaton and Leonidas Merritt. The decision affirmed the opinion of the Supreme Court of Minnesota and is a complete victory over the Midway company and the United States Steel Corporation. By the decision title is given to 320 acres of land on the Vermillion iron range, Minnesota, and is so valuable that the United States Steel Corporation, it is said, is ready to pay $8,000,000 to the victor in the long struggle for ownersTHfr'.

Poolroom Is Terrorized. Two young men of slight build, with handkerchiefs tied across the lower portion of their faces, entered Harry B. Chick’s pool room at 907 Baltimore avenue, Kansas City, and with drawn revolvers commanded the proprietor, cashier and three other employes who were in the place to lie down on the floor, secured about $2,500 and escaped. Morris Plant in Kansas City. Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer, through his confidential agept, Joseph H. Agnew, has purchased a big meat warehouse in the west bottoms formerly occupied by the Cudahy Company as a market, at Kansas City. It is stated that this is the first step of the Chicago packer to establish a plant in Kansas City. King Shields Army. At the opening of Parliament by King Edward public interest was centered in the two leading issues of the nation—the Boer war and the Irish question. The King's speech from the throne “defended the conduct of the war, and despite reports of cruelties by the British soldiers praised their treatment of the Boers. Oath Taken by Payne. In the presence of the President and his cabinet, the entire Wisconsin delegation in Congress, Gov. Durbin of Indiana, Senator Hanna and a number of other friends, Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin was sworn in as Postmaster General in the cabinet room at the White House. Sacrifice Big Medicine Man. "Padre,” a big medicine man of the Yuma Indians, who lived on a reserva..tion near Yuma, Arizona, has been offered as a sacrifice, in accordance with Indian custom, andlhas expiated the sins of the tribe, which are held responsible for an epidemic of smallpox. Two Killed in Train Wreck. Through malicious tampering with a switch on the Rock Island road two lives were lost, seven workmen were injured and many were placed in peril in a collision between a freight and u work train nt O’Keene, O. T. Chicago Railway Station*Aflre. Fire in the ticket office of the Union station. Canal and West Adams streets, Chicago, imperiled sixty railway employes, caused a' panic among 200 patrons of the roads in tire big waiting room and wrecked $12,000 worth of property. Louis Botha Escapes Capture. I.ord Kitchener reports to the London war office that Gen. Louis Botha has escaped Gen. Bruce Hamilton after a seven miles' chase. One Boer was killed and thirty-three taken prisoners. Some rifles, cattle, etc., were captured. Gorman Elected Senator. Arthur Pue Gonnan has been elected by the Maryland Legislature United States Senator to succeed George L. Wellington. The total vote was: Gorman (Dem.), 68; Jackson (Rep.), 52. Robtxfrs Got $2,000. - The People’s Bank nt North Enid, O. T.J was robbed of $2,000. The burglars blew open the safe with dynamite. There is no clew twtlra-identity of the robbers.

ROBBERS STEAL A BUILDING. Structure Hauled Away, the Thieve* Attempting Also to Sell Lot. Two robbers paid a Visit to Newburg, Ohio, the other day, and not only stole a building from another man's lot. but after they had entirely removed the structure, tried to sell the lot itself to people residing in the vicinity. The stere building is the property of David Waiters, who used it as a marble shop during the summer. Que day Walters found occasion to go to his shop, and great was his astonishment to find that his building had entirely disappeared and that there was not a chip left on the ground to" mark the site of the structure. He at once instituted an inquiry among the residents of the locality, and found that two men had come there early the previous morning with a team of horses and a hay rack and had proceeded to tear the building down and load it on their wagon. The buildidg whs practically a new structure, one story high and about 20x 30 feet in dimensions, and the burglars worked hard nearly all day tearing it down and loading the timber upon their ■ wagon. FOUNDS COLORADO SANITARIUM. General William J. Palmer Gives $250,000 for the Purpose. Gen. William J. Palmer has given 100 acres and $250,000 to found a sanitarium in Colorado Springs, Colo. As already planned, two buildings will cost $200,000 and $50,000 respectively. The first will accommodate 100 patients, who are able to pay a fair price for treatment. The class who can pay little or nothing will be accommodated in the other building to the number of fifty. Revenue from the larger building will mainly support the smaller one. The site will be east of the city to secure the purest air and freedom from dust and smoke. The Childs-Drexel Home for Printers will be a near neighbor. STEAL SIXTY DIAMOND RINGS. Robbers Smash Jewelry Store Window and Shoot at Proprietor. Whlie Main street, in Cincinnati, was crowded with pectple robbers smashed a show window of William Fink’s jewelry store and stole a tray containing sixty diamond rings, valued at $2,500. Mr. Fink pursued the robbers, but was delayed by being forced to break open the door, which the robbers had fastened on the outside With a rope. The robbers escaped after firing several shots at Mr. Fink.

BOX FUGITIVE ARRESTED. Military Prisoner Who Escaped from Steamer Is Canght. Frank Holt, the military prisoner, who escaped from Alcatraz Island by concealing himself in a box which was taken on the steamer McDowell, is in custody again. He got out of the box on the vesssel, saluted the officer of the deck when he landed, obtained $2 from a stranger to whom he told his story, rented a room an 1 was arrested the first time he ventured out. Train Held Up by Robbers. A south-bound Kansas City Southern passenger train was held up half a mile north of Spiro, Ok., by seven masked men. The express and mail car were entered. The local safe in the express car was opened, but nothing secured from it. The robbers tried to open the through safe, but failed. Then they rifled the mail car. Gusher in New Territory. One of the most important developments at Beaumont, Texas, is the discovery of a gusher which is not on Spindle Top Heights. It is a hundred feet from the hill, 199 feet from the nearest well, ffnd In a territory where two or three gassers have failed, so far, to develop into oil spouters. e .Fire in Loa Angelea, Cal. In Los Angeles, Cal., the Rees & Wirsching block was almost totally destroyed by fire, together with the saddlery establishment of the Hayden & Lewis Company and the coffee and spice house of Newmark Brothers. Loss $150,000. Girl Kills Little Sister. Nellie Corneilison, the 11-year-old daughter of George Corneilison, a laborer, cut tho throat of her 3-year-old sister Laura in a stable at Wichita. Kan. The child died soon afterward. Her father’s razor was the weapon used. No motiye for the crime is known. Dry Goods Stock Destroyed. At Stillwater, Minn., fire destroyed, the dry goods store of Peterson, Papineau & Co., and a number of people had a narrow escape from death. The plate glass windows were blown out by an explosion. Wborkerwnnd School Children Donate. Col. Myran T. Herrick, the McKinley Memorial Association, says few contributions have been received from wealthy men. and that the bulk of the memorial fund has come from wageearners and school children. Held to Grand Jury. Lieut. John W. Stark of the Virginia State Guard, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails to the President of the United States, has been held to the grand jury, which meets at Richmond, Va., in April. a Crime. That to hare smallpox is a Crime because of the possibility of preventing it by vaccination is declared by Dr. H. M. Bracken, secretary of the Minnesota Board of Health. Shirt Factory Is Destroyed. The fouy-story building at 1008 St. Charles street. St. I-ouis, occupied by the Premium Shirt Manufacturing-Company, was burned and the contents destroyed, causing an estimated loss of $250,000.