Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

RECALLS BIG CONFIDENCE GAME. Decision Involving Estate of Gny C. Barnum, an Adventurer. A decision rendered at Columbus, Neb., by Judge Griminson awarding the $30,000 estate to Guy C. Barnum to his widow, formerly Maria C. Delomcl of Galveston, Texas, .recalls one of the boldest confidence games ever carried offt in the West. Barnum was once associated with Charles B. Thompson 4a the Jehovah Presbytery of Zion, a community founded by the two men at Preparation, lowa, which once numbered over 1,200 members, possessed oyer $500,000 worth of property, and paid to the two loaders, who posed ag ‘‘o-verseera"- or. 2ste wards of God,” an income of $75,000 a year. The community flourished from 1855 to -IB6o;—when-it was brokcn up lry the ex~ posure of the leaders, who fled. Since then Preparation has disappeared and the property of the colonists has been apportioned among its members. Barnum a few years ago was worth SIOO,OOO. He had been a Senator in the Nebraska Legislature, and otherwise prominent in the State. But his reason left him, and he spent several years in the Nebraska asylum. When allowed his liberty he roamed over the country, spending his money right and left, and finally ending with his marriage in Los Angeles in 1809 to Marie Delomel. Barnum met the woman in the morning and married her in the afternoon. The other heirs fought the will giving her his property, but it has been sustained by the court. ASS A SSI NS ATTACK PASTOR. Dr. Honst of Elizabeth, N. J., Murked for Death l>y Assassins. Would-be assassius attempted to take the life of the Rev. Dr. Houst, pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Elizabeth, N, J., Sunday night. The police believe his assailants were Italian anarchists. Wnen President McKinley was shot Dr. Iloust preached a sermon in which he denounced the anarchists. Last November his son Ivan mysteriously disappeared and letters have since been received by the minister that, lead him to believe the anarchists have marked him and his family for death. An attempt has also bee-n made to kidnap liis little girl, but it proved futile. Dr. Houst had just returned from church vvhen attacked Sunday evening. He was stabbed with a stiletto and struck over the bead. Dr. Funk, who examined the wounds, said the stab was not serious, but -he blow ou the head might prove fatal. PASSAIC BOY FOUND DEAD. Fuils to Return Home from Stroll and Seureh Is Instituted. Peter Fengay, John Kenetz and Chas. Majacke, all aged about 10 years, went into the woods near Passaic. _N. J_„ for_a stroll. At 10:30 that night the boys had not returned, and, fearing some accident, a search was begun. The dead body of Kenetz was soou found in a field, with a bullet hole directly above the heart. The police were notified and the search for the comnanious of the dead boy was begun. It is supposed that the"three boys quarreled and that Kenetz was shot in the fray. Finest Station for Capital. Washington is to have what is claimed wilj be the largest and most beautiful railway station in the world. Plans for a union station to cost $6,000,000 ami to be used by all the roads entering the city, drove been submitted to the Senate committee on the District of Columbia by Daniel H. Burnham, architect for the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Will Found in Old Paper. Harvey L. Wkeeloek of Chicago tiled the will of Ills father, Jerome WlieMock of Worcester. Mass..in the Probate Court through his counsel. Henry F. Harris. Mr, Wheelock could not find the will for some time, but it was discovered’ rolled up in an old newspaper. It disposes of nearly sGiH),ooo»iu bequests. Band Buries Four Workmen. Four laliorers were buried by the cavein of a sand bank at Forty-eighth street and Eighth avenue. Brooklyn. Louis Tremaine was taken out dead; Carlo Cenato died oil the way to a hospital; Tony Castori was Injured inierUiltly, find niffy tie. and Angelo Moutellibo had three ribs broken. Thrcc-Ccnt Fares in Cleveland. The Cleveland City Council has pass 'd the 3-eeut fare franchise ordinance. There was no demonstration when the .vote resulted in 29 to 2 in favor of the passage of the measure. The franchise provides for nbout twenty miles of double track railway. Fire in Newark, N. J. Fire at Newark. N. J.. destroyed the big building occupied by the American Rofiuing nnd Crucible Company, the Calcutta Manufacturing Company, ami the Crystal Lead aud Chemical Company. Loss $ 75.000. Tornado Wrecks u Church. A tornado visited Scotch Plains, a Dunkard -settlement near Belleville, Kan., and did much damage. Several houses were blown down and the Dunkard ehnrch completely demolished. No lives were lost. Senate Passes Subsidy Bill, The Senate passed the Hanna-Fryc ship subsidy bill by a vote of 42 to 31. Six Republicans, including Allison, Spooner, Dolliver and Quarles, votod against the measure. No unfriendly amendment was adopted. Will Not Repay Htone Ransom. The Turkish government has made a flat refusal to repay the United States the $72,500 given to the brigauds as a ransom for Miss Stone aud her companion, Mnie. Tsilka. , Robbers Wreck Bank Safe. Bank robbers wrecked the safe of rile Citizens’ Bank at Star City, Ind. The heavy steel outer and inner doors were

blown from their "fastenings. Then the thieves tried to blow open the time-lock doors of the money vault, which contained $5,000, but before they could get the money tber were driven away b.v the citizens. For all their time and trouble the robbcrs secured only S2O in money. RULES BOYCOTT IS LEGAL. • S 3 ft * ~~t. 3 Missouri Supreme Court Decides in - Favor of Labor Unions. In the Supreme Court sitting en baac at Jefferson City, Mo., an opinion was handed down declaring that courts of equity have no power to enjoin labor organizations from enforcing boycotts on" corporations. The rendered by Judge Sherwood, affirmed-.the judgment: of a lower court which had refused the npplieation of -the Marx-fel ia-as jeons Clothing Company of St. Louis for an injunction to restrain Anthony Watson and other officers of a local Knights of Labor organization and a branch of the United Garment Workers of America in that city from pushing a boycott. The Supreme Court holds that if the labor, unions of the State are not permitted to tell the story of their wrongs or their supposed wrongs by word of month or with pen and print and to endeavor to get other persons to aid them by all peaceable means in securing redress of such wrongs, free speech is affected. LOANED $3,000,000 TO FRIENDS. Collis P. HuntiuKton Estate Will Lose Vast Sum Through Generosity. The late Collis I’. Huntington leaned at least $3,000,000 to personal friends who could not pay it back. The executors of the estate and the State’s'transfer tax appraisers have discovered this feature, and the executors say they cannot hope to realize any large sum from these -accounts. The total estate will amount to between $28,000,000 and $29.000,000 and the transfer tax to the State will foot up about SBOO,OOO. NO LIQUOR FOR”STUDENTS. Texas Saloon-keepers Must Not Sell to Them Says Supreme Court. Tinder a decision of the Supreme Court of Texas, just handed down, saloonkeepers may not sell liquors to students of educational institutions without making themselves liable to suits for damages. The word “knowingly” was inserted in the law governing the sale of liquor to minors by the last Legislature, but the court holds that this does not apply to students, who are not all minors. REFORM SCHOOL IN FLAMES^ 287 Initiates Believed to Have Got ■ -- V-- ' Out Safely. - ■ - . The State Sdliool of Reform at Lexington, Ivy,, in which 287 children are coufined, burned down. All the children are believed to have got out safely. At 1:10 o’clock the boys’ building collapsed.. The institution was erected at a cost of SIOO,000. There are eight buildings. Plot to Destroy Warships. A sensation-lias been caused in Vienna by the discovery of a plot to destroy rite Austro-Hungarian warships Habsburg and Arpad, which are stationed at I’ola. A large quantity of dynamite was recently stolen at Trieste and the government has been informed by an anonymous letter that the Habsburg and Arpad were imperiled. Three Workmen Killed. Three Slavish workingmen met death in the iron mills at Steubenville, Ohio. John Salvador and Michael Üboski were caught in a cave-in and smothered to death at the La Belle iron works. John Cibere’s head was crushed to a pulp between a buggy of steel and a railroad car at the National steel works. Damage Done by Field Mice. Theorists who have been figuring the matter state that the annual damage to the crops of Hancock County, Ohio, by field mice reaches the enormous sum of $20,000. Many farmers in the eastern part of the county threaten a wholesale purchase of cats. Ohio Coal Companies Unite. Tbe Continental Coal Company of Cleveland announces the purchase of the property of The Columbus Coal Company and the Summer Coal Company, whose output was handled by the General Fuel Company. The consideration Is unknown. Fight Duel to tlicjlcnth. Reese Evans and A. A. Smith fought a duel with Winchesters at eight feet distance at Purdy Station, Nev. Each received injuries from which death .resulted. The quarrel was over a strip of almost worthless land. Knew How to Fight. Lieutenant dropped at West Point for weakness in matbeuintics has returned wounded from the Philippines, where he fought fifty bolomen single-handed, killing three and holding the rest till rceuforeemeuts arrived. Irish Member Ruises Big Scene. One of the liveliest scenes witnessed in the House of Commons since the palmiest days of the Irish Nationalists ended with the suspension of John Dillon, due to his eulliug Joseph Chamberlain a liar. Leeds Buys Famous Villa. William B. president of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific ltailroud, has purchased from the estate of Henry Hilton the famous villa known as ♦■>tter Hocks, at Bellhaven, Conn. Bryan Moves to Farm, W. J. Bryan celebrated his forty-sec- I ond birthday by moving to his farm, where be will live in barn till new bouse is completed. Named for Alice Roosevelt. Emperor William has directed that a former torpedo boat, now used as a gnardsbip, shall be renamed “Alice Rodsevelt.”

STALLED TRAINS FREE. Railroad Lines Closed by the Late Blizzard Are Opened. Traffic on the three: transcontinental lines which cross North Dakota has been resumed since the great March blizzard. The Soo was least affected. The Northern Pacific blockade lasted 131 hours, and the first train from the Pacific coast to arrive in Sti Paul after the sto*»j came in six days later. Six east-bound limited trains were caught in the drifts. Two of them' were annulled and the equipment was used in making up trains west of the blockaded area which were sent back to the coast to care for the business of the trains sent from St. Paul and caught by the drifts. The Great Northern-fa red worse than the other lines. The blockade lasted' 144 hours—the longest interruption of traffic the system has ever experienced. Although put to great expense* to clear the tracks and suffering heavy losses in traffic, the railroad officials were pleased with the heavy snow because it gives needed moisture to the Dakota wheat fields. This fact also seemed to please the new settlers, more than 2,000 of whom have passed through the St. Paul gateway to their new homes within twenty-four hours, coming from Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kansas and Missouri. SAFE BLOWERS CAUSE BIG FIRE. Start $150,000 Blaze in the Commercial Hotel at Marissa, 111. Safe blowers are responsible for a fire which destroyed $150,000 worth of property at Marissa, 111., Tuesday night. They entered the Commercial Hotel,' where fifty persons were asleep, shortly hefo re mid night, and blew the safe. .Obtaining $2,500, the. robbers escaped, leaving the building in flames. The fire Spread rapidly and was not checked before a dozen business buildings and several residences, with their contents, had been destroyed. The Commercial Hotel was burned to the ground. The flames then spread to the following buildings: Lyon <& White’s drug store, Fume's barber shop, Ilassoug's barber shop, Wilson’s millinery store, Brown & Co.’s grain elevator, A. D. Matthews’ grocery store, Hamilton & Co.’s bank, S. Rejaii's dwelling and icehouse, Lyon & White’s lumber yard and A. L. Kenna's residence. Several persons narrowly escaped death in the flames. REBEL EEADIiR GIVF.S UP. General Lukban’s Successor Agrees to Turn in -lOQ Rifles. Gen. Lukbau’s efforts to lead Guevarra, who recently issued a proclamation -declaring himself the stieeessor of Gcn.I.ukban in the Island of Samar, P. 1., to surrender have been successful. Both Gen. Smith, in command of tiie United States forces on the Island of Samar, and Guevarrn have agreed to an armistice to facilitate the collection of Guevarra’s men, with their rifles, when the formal surrender will be made. The arms will hi at the fort. Gen. Sndth cables tTnifGuevarra has 400 rifles,# and that- he guariftteesthepaoification of his men. ** ~~ ; • . ■ Tiffin Woolen Mills Close. The Tiffin, Ohio, woolen mills are in the hands of a receiver. Frederick Ba■ioian of Saginaw, Mich., one of the members of the firm, filed his petition in the United States court at Toledo, asking a "dissolution of partnership and the appointment of a receiver. The Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland was appointed. Three Newark Banks Unite. U. 11. McCaster, president of the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, N. J., has made public the plans under which several Newark banks are to be consolidated. The institutions are the Second National, German NaTioual and the State Banking Company. Lake Navigation la Opened. Navigation on Lake Erie was opened for the season of 1902 by the steamer City of Detroit of the Detroit and Cleveland line, which left her Detroit dock bound for Cleveland. The City of Detroit had a full cargo of freight aboard and seveyty-five passengers. Big Dock Fire in Hoboken. Fire at Hoboken destroyed the Phoenix Line and Barber docks, the steamer British Queen and a number of lighters. Nearly a score of persons were drowned or burned to death and the property loss is nearly $1,000,000. Refused by Harry Garfield. Harry A. Garfield of Cleveland, a son of President Garfield, has been offered the position of civil service commissioner to succeed William A. ltodenberg, resigned. Mr. Garfield declined the appointment. Assaults Rich Woman. Mrs. Ellen Carey, a wealthy old woman, who recently inherited several thousand dollars in cash from a sister, was mysteriously attacked in St. Louis by a strange man, who left her in a dying condition. * Six Life-Savers Lost. Capt. Eldridge of the Monomocy, Mass., life-saving station and fixe of hiscrew, who started to the relief of a distressed barge, were drowued by the caj>sising of their lifeboat. Only Surinam Ellis of seven men who started escaped, n- ■ ■ Danish Upper House Approves Bale. The landstbing, the Danish upper house, in committee of the whole and in executive session, voted to ratify the treaty providing for the sale of the Danish West ladies to .the United States. Paper from Borghniu Cane. Plans were completed at Appleton, Wis., for a paper mill to be bnilt at Independence, Kan. The new mill will manufacture paper from sorghum cane by an improved process.