Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE F OUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

SETTLER WINS BIG LAND SUIT. Fisherman Defeats Armour Pucking Co. and Greet WeStern Railwaj'. lu a suit for the possession of forty acres of accretion land, lying south of the Missouri river, in Kansas City, Kan., valued at $200,000, S. K. Howe, ah old fisherman, was given a verdict in the District Court at Kansas City against the Annour Packing Company and the Chicago Great Western Railway Company. Many years niro Howe located on an ,isl■and in- the Missouri river, iust opposite the Armour packing plant. In 1894 the Missouri river changed its course and the land, which was originally an islatid, be-"' came a part of the mainland. As an island, the property was practically worthless, but when it became a part of the mainland it adjoined the land of the Armour Packing Company, and its value was great. The accretions become.greater, and the trestle.' over which the Chicago Great 'Western enters Kansas City,' Was built on a part of the new land. In 1895, the Armour Packing Company brought proceedings to; eject 11 owe, who insisted that tho property was his by settler’s right. Tito case was brought originally iu a justice court, taken to the County Court, and finally to the District Court, where Howe was given a decision. The Supremo Court remanded the case back' to the District Court upon a showing- that the original proceedings had not been begun in the proper way. —-ROB-REGISTERED MAIL BAG. Money from Chicago Hank Disappears in Transit to Michigan. Although the postal inspectors have been been workiug on the case for several days, no clew • has been found to the disappearance of a $3,000 money package stolen from the mails while in transit from Milwaukee to Iron' Mountain, Mich. The package was consigned from a Chicago bank to Iron River, Mich. The packet reached Milwaukee in safety and was put in a pouch which could not be opened until Iron Mountain* was reached, the registered marl being redistributed at tlte latter point. The clerks at the Iron Mountain office noticed nothing wrong wit it the pouch, but when it was returned to Milwaukee a slit in the bag showed how the money bad been stolen.FIND lilt IDES AT FOOTBALL. Two Chicago Students Wedded, but Secret Is Kept Four Months. Miss Frances Coleman and Miss Irene 11 owe, of Minneapolis, have kept the secret for four months that their real -names 'are Mrs. DelUert I’, Dumas and. Mrs. John Sessions. Their husbands are Minneapolis men who will graduate this year front the Northwestern Medical College, Chicago, The girls attended the Chicago foot-ball game in November and were-tui tort allied by the youngmenrWho finally proposed marriage. After the ceremony the brides returned home. The families are all satisfied since learning the fact. _____ Expert Finds Huge Fraud. New warrants have beeu issued for the Frank C. Andrews;: vice-presi-dent of the wrecked City Savings Bank of Detroit. £ud Henry 11. Andrews, cashier- -ttf +be btt itk. vnr-crnnplaints signed by F. \V. Ilayes, the expert accountant who is representing the city anil county officials in the investigation of the affairs of the wrecked bunk. Birthday of Cuban Republic. The birthday of a republic has been decided upon at tile White House. President liooscvelt, on behalf of the Unit 'd States, and Setter Estrada Palma, slur President-elect of Cuba, agreed upon May 20 as the date for the inauguration of President—Pa+ma~ and -tbe-'-Gurbafl—re-public? Official orders to that effect have beeu issued. Yield** to United States. General Smith, who is in command of the American forces on the island of Samar. P. 1.. had a three-hour interview with the insurgent general Uuevarra and several officers of his command. It was arranged that the latter, with the entire force, under his command and all their rifles, would surrender April 15.

Postal Company Wins. The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company has won its suit against the Oregon Short Line ltailrojjd -Company for the right of way for a pole and wire line front Butte, Mont., to various points in Montana and through to Ogden. Utah. Men will start to string the wires at oncer Many Artists in Contest. Thirty-seven American artists have entered the competition for the construction of the proposed Orant statue or memorial to be erected in Washington, for which there is an appropriation of $250,000. „ Marry at Height of 3T.1 Feet, Standing on the parapet encircling .the dome of the' capitol at Washington. 375 feet above the level street, Senor Andres Diaz y Pairo of Cuba and Miss Catherine MeConacbie were united in marriage. _ Progress of St. Fuir. Work on the World's Pair at .St. Louis has progressed so far that it is possible for a casual visitor to make out roughly the main features of the picture which is to be painted on the site with buildings, lagoons, trees and avenues. Fire In Kaunas City. Fire iu Kansas City destroyed the building oernpied by the National Paper Box Company, entailing a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. SSO|IKX) Fire In Ohio Town, j The business section of Bethel, ttj/». was destroyed by fire, including the postoffice. Tie loss is $50,000. Russia to Uuit Manchuria. . The Pekin correspondent of fbe London Times cable* that Paul Loss.tr,-tin* Busman minister to China, and Prince Chiug.

president-.of . the Chinese foreign office, have agreed upon the main conditions ot the Manchurian oon volition ami that the ■early signing of the aificeineiit is ospocted. The evacuation of three provinces is to. be carried out iu three successive periods of six months, REJECTED Si;rroß BECOMES heir. Hud Yont:g Woman Waited She Might Have Wedded Sweetheart. Had .Miss Ilattie Lininieriek, of Topeka, Kiii»., waited twenty-four hours longer before rejecting her lover, C-lar-enee Palmer, because of his poverty, her excuse would not have been valid. On the morning after she wrote .her letter rejecting him he received a letter from an Ohio attorney, telling him that his uncle had died and left him SIO,OOO. Both letters reached him ou the same mail. Palmer hoped that his sweetheart might reconsider her decision after hearing of his good fortune, and went immediately to her home, to find that she had left the State and kept her destination a secret to avoid his continued attention. Before leaving home. Miss Limmerick told lier father and mother that she could not marry .Clarence because he was too poor to support her. KILLS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE. Cincinnati Man’s Deed the Culmination of Row Over Fence. C.' N. Pendleton, a real estate dealer, is iu jail, at Cincinnati on the charge of murder, having shot and killed M is. Ann a Baker. The two lived on adjoining lots in the east end of the city and had quarrels about a division fence. The other morning the quarrel was resumed and Pendleton shot the woman dead. Her husband, a one-armed man, ran to her rescue too late. Pendleton fired three shots at him. and the.il Baker wrent-lied —the revolver from him and would have shut him if there had been anothei load in the weapon. Neighbors held Pendleton until officers took him. VALET JONES WILL GO FREE. Man Whose Testimony Convicted Patrick to Escape Punishment. District Attorney Jerome of New York was asked What he intended to do with Charles F, Jones, valet of Millionaire William Marsh. Rice, who testified that lie killed Rice at Albert T. Patrick’s request. Mr. Jerome replied: ‘'lt is frequently necessary to ullow men manifestly guilty to go free. In this case we never could have got a conviction without Jones' testimony, and in such cases it is often well to grant the witness immunity.” Guilty of Burning Factory. At Reading. Pa., a verdict of guilty was returned against N. 8. Wertheimer of New York, formerly of Reading: Sylvan Priedhtmiec, formerly of Reading,- Pa., now of Newark, N. J., and Daniel Boger of Newark, charged with conspiracy in burning Wertheimer's shirt waist factory on Sept. 15. 1900, with the view of collectmgTOo.uuu insill'iUU-b TlMin lliii'lytwo companies. Cave-in at Pennsylvania Mine. Sixteen dwellings were wrecked at Hamtown, a small mining village near Wilkesbarre. Pa., by a cave-in at the abandoned No. S colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. A broken water main is flooding the mine and the cavity is extending. Huge fissures have appppared in the streets of the town and many houses are iu danger.

Damage by Storm in soutli. Vicksburg, Mis*., and section have been the center of unusually heavy precipitation, the heavy rains causing much damage. Railroad tracks and bridges nave been washed away. The - most serious effects will be felt by the fanners, whose freshly plowed lands are badly washed on hillsides and in creek bottoms. Blown His Uctul to Atoms. George W. Carter, age 30 years, a farmer and stock buyer, six miles south of Morristown, I ml., placed a stick of dynamite in his mouth, touched off the fuse and literally blew his head to atoms. Carter had been in ill health for several months. Orders American Meat. Tho British government has mndf a contract with the London branch of a large American packing firm for 220,000 cases of canned beef to bo delivered in London for the Britisli army and for 500,000 pounds of sliced bacon in tin cans for prompt shipment. Veto by Governor Cnmmiiis. Gov. Cummins of lowa lias announced his veto of the Molesberry bill, better known as the “merger measure.” The bill removes the limit of indebtedness per mile that may be contracted by railways running through lowa. To Shut Down Mines. The Massillon Coal Mining Company, the combine which recently obtained control of practically all the Masillon, Ohio, district mines, lias announced that tire of the niiucs are to he shut down. About 700 men are employed in these mines. Senator Piatt Soon to Marry. The report is bei*g circulated in Washington that tho engagement of Senator T. C. Platt and Mrs. William Janeway of that city is to he formally announced shortly;' ~ —; —- • w Convicted by Cubun Court. Havana court sentenced Neely, Rathbone and Reeves to ten years’ imprisonment and a heavy fine for frauds in postil service. ■ . - Murderer la Executed. ' At Fort Saskatchewan. N. W. T., C. B. Bullock of Nebraska was executed for the murder of I.cod Staiuton April 20 last. Mins Stone Kn Route Home. ' Miss Ellen M. Stone, the Anierieau missionary, has started for London. Thence the will sail for America.

NOT SAVED BV REPRIEVE. Murderer Whose Legal Execution Waa Postponed Is Strung Up. ' Charles Francis Woodward, the murderer of Sheriff William C. Ricker, who was sentenced to be hanged at Casper, Wyo., tlie other day, but was granted a reprieve, was lynched by -a mob of 200 men. An organization was formed during the night, and crowds began to gather in the vicinity of the jail early in the evening. About 3 o’clock the mob descended on the'prison and the leaders demanded the keys from the sheriff. lie refused to give them up and the crowd got hammers and beat down the door. Once inside the jail a rope was thrown around Woodward’s neck and he was dragged from (he building, taken a block away and hanged to a tree. Less than half an hour was occupied with the hanging. Woodward attempted to talk to the leaders, but they refused to hear him. An immense crowd saw the lynching. After j the lynching the mob dispersed and the ! majority of those from out of town left for their homes. The crime for which Charles Francis Woodward paid the penalty with his life was committed the erening of Jan. 2 at Woodward's ranch, near Garfield Park, in the Rattlesnake Mountains, seventy-five miles west of Casper, when he shot to death and mutilated the body of Sheriff William 0. Ricker of Natrona County. MISSOURI MINERS STRIKE. Eight. Hundred Men Go Out in District No. 25, A general order has been given by President George Richards of District No. 25, U. M. W. of A., declaring a strike upon tlie Murlin Coal Company mines in Missouri. The walkout affects 800 miners, who left their posts divided in the following counties: Macon, 400; Randolph. 250; U;iy, 200. The cause leading to the suspension was the discharge ot a miner in Randolph County for some minor offense. The executive officers of the union and the management of the coal companies could not agree as to who was at fault.

GAS KILLS FAMILY OF THREE. James Towns, His Wife nud Daughter Perish Side by Side. The bodies of James Towns, his wife and their 11-year-old daughter, .lying on one bed, were found in their home in Chicago. The room was full of gas, which had caused the death of the three. The gas was escaping from a pipe near the bed. A tap or piny had been removed from the pipe, which the police take as certain evidence that the man committed double murder and suicide. Harvard Is Given $450,000. George Smith, adopted son of James Smith, founder of the Smith Academy, and his wife, Persia Smith hr his will filed for probate in St. Louis, left $450,000, the bulk of his-estate, to Harvard University. The money is to be used in building three dormitories, one to be namhis adopted parents. Gen. Delarey Not In It. Reports of the result of the combined movement of British columns against Gen. Delarey have enabled Lord Kitchener to announce the capture of 135 prisoners, three fifteen-pounders, two pompoms nnd quantities of stock, wagons, etc. Gen. Delarey appears to have evaded Lord Kitchener's corilou successfully at the offset. Money King's Auto Amnck. Chauffeur Charles Pda met drove George J Gould'sbig automobile at a wild pace along the SquanknuFroad from Allaire to Lakewood. N. J.. anil caused two rttn-awaynrerrh-nts, in which three persons were injured. It is feared that one of the injured lias sustained a fracture of the skull and may not live. Shakes Earth for Miles. John Duran, a teamster employed by the Hercules Torpedo Company, waa blown to atoms while loading a wagon at the magazine north of Finlay, Ohio. Seventeen hundred quarts of nitroglycerin exploded, making a shock that was felt for forty miles. Site for McKinley Shaft. The Ohio Senate has adopted Wirt’s joint resolution, granting the citizens of Columbus the right to occupy sufficient space near the Higlit street entrance to the capitol grounds to erect the proposed memorial to the late President McKinley. The memorial will cost $20,000. Otis Retires from Service. Gen. Klweli S. Otis, for the lust eighteen months commander of the department of the lakes, has retired from the active work of the army, after nearly forty years of almost continuous service. The successor to Gen. Otis will be Gen. Arthur MacArthur. Pauper Heir to Fortune. Joseph Zane. a pauper, has left the almshouse for Boston to secure bis share in the estate of an uncle, says a Baltimore special. The estate is valued at $500,000. and the former is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Dr. Gray Is Cleared. Dr. Robert 15F Gray of Garden City, Kan., is not legally responsible for the death of his patient. Miss Irma Brown. The jury which tried him for murder in Judge Ball's court in Chicago so decreed when it brought in a verdict of acquittal. Knitter's Son Is Not Coming. Some American papers have, announced that Prince Adalbert would shortly visit the ..United States on the training ship Charlotte. The report is without foundation. Hanna Denies n Rumor. Senator Hamm has written to a Wisconsin matt stating he is iu no sense a candidate for the Presidency and asked his friends to discourage any morement for Jcim.