Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

DEATH TO INSULT. President of College Dies of Illness Caused by Students. Dr. J. M. Ruthrauff, president of Wittenberg College. Springfield; Ollio/Tortner “president of ~Ca rrtrage ~ College at Carthage, 111., died suddenly in the office of Attorney John .L. Zimmerman, where he had called on business. The physicians called in ascribe the death to congestion at the base of the brain, It~ is charged that Dr. Ruthrauff’s death is partly due to an insult from the senior class. Others say that he worked himselfto death. The insult coming from -the senior cla S 3 waa its inv ita tion to Dr. S. A. Ort to deliver the baccalaureate address, a duty which usually devolves upon the president. The senior class in the tLeologiCTt~dei>ffrtn~ieiit gave out that Dr. Ort would preside at the annual commencement held Sunday night. Dr. Riithrauff exerted his authority and took charge of the exercises. The sentiment against Dr. Ruthrauff was caused because he refused to permit the graduating classes to secure commencement speakers, instead of writing essays for the occasion. Dr. Ruthrauff was 5G years old. SEVEN DROWNED IN BOAT CRASH. Tug Rams and Sinks Launch and Sunday School Girls Perish. •Seven young members of a Sunday Behoof .class of tbe First Baptist Church were drowned in the Maumee river just below Toledo, Ohio, as the result of the naphtha launch Frolic, on which they were taking a pleasure ride, being run down by the tug Arthur Woods of the Great Lakes Towing Company’s fleet. The launch is owned by Joseph W. Hepbum, who invited eleven young people to take an evening ride. On the return trip from Lake Erie the fatal collision took place; Hepburn says he saw the lights of the approaching tug. and thinking it was bound straight down the river he turned to the cast. When'nearly abreast of the launch the tug suddenly I turned to the east in order to make the dock at Ironville, and before the launch could get out of the way it was struck and turned over. The launch sank about 100 feet from the dock. CUDAHY CLAIMS RICH STRIKE. Cripple Creek Venture Is Said to Have Proved a Bonanza. Michael Cudahy and associates in Cripple Creek, who bought over 200 acres north of Spring Creek on Rhyolete Mountain, Colo., now claim a bonanza at a depth of 227 feet. Miners affirmed there wasn't an ounce’of mineral in tiiat territory, and now the wise ones are wondering whether Mr. Cudahy was played for a fish or had inside information as to the real value of the formation. Persons unknown supposed to be representing Mr, Cudahy have secured options on over 2,000 acres of land around Barnard creek, and a general rush of prospectors is onr~for Rhyolete and CopperMounAains; ———-—- ■ —————— Several Stores Burn. —At .St. Edwards,—Neb., fire destroyed seven stores and one residence, among them being three of the largest buildings in town, A number of persons living in the Egan block, which was partiallyburned, had narrow escapes. Escape bystairways was cut off, and they were compelled to climb down an electric light pole. Three were slightly injured. The loss will reach §25,(k)0, partially insured. Mock Marriages May Be Valid. Great consternation" among "the “Mienv" bers of Jewish society at Yonkers. N. Y.. has been the outcome of the recent Purim ball. During the evening 100 couples went through a mock marriage ceremony. Now the rabbi who officiated is said to have declared that tbe couples so married are bound in the eye of the church, j and. therefore, tn the eyeS’U'Mhe taw. Ft. Louis Exposition Building Sold. The St. Louis exposition building was sold at public auction for <1280,000 to Frederick W. Lehmann for the St. Louis Union Trust Company. The sale was forced by the bondholders,’ who were surety for a mortgage for <1150.000. The building will be torn flown to make way for a library building. “Bucktails” Officer Kills Himself. Col. John G. Jewett of Saugerties. N. Y.. committed suicide by shooting. During the Civil War he was lieutenant colonel of the Pennsylvania "Bucktails.” a famous sharpshooter regiment. -Business : troubles are assigned as the cause ot suicide. Wire Planta to Unite. The Cuyahoga Wire and Fence Company of Akron, Ohio, capital stock §l.000,000. has absorbed the Cuyahoga Steel Wire Company of Cuyahoga Falls and the Hartman Manufacturing Company of Newcastle, Pa. The main offices will be at Cuyahoga Falls. Helped John Wilkes Booth Escape. Mortimer Bainbridge Ruggles ot Virginia. who, while an nid to his father, Gen. Daniel F, Ruggles of the Confederate army, assisted John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, to escape into Virginia, is dead in New York City from dropsy.. He was 58 years old. Tornado Does *IOO,OOO Damage. The Shenango tinplate works in Newcastle. Pa., the largest tinplate works in the world, were almost wrecked by a tornado. Every stack was torn from Its foundation and hurled through the roof of the building, steam pipes were broken gnd torn away and tbe roof torn off. Novel iat Ford la Rlsin. Paul Leicester Ford was shot and killed in New York by his brother, Malcolm )V. Ford, the athlete, who committed suicide a'ter a quarrel over money matter*. Oil Burned in New Yoik Fire. Fire started in tbe cooper house of the Swan fit Finch oil refioery, on Staten laL and Sound, below Elizabethport, N. J.

The flames spread rapidly, burning several tanks containing 1,500 barrels of crude oil. Thousands of barrels of refined and crude oil were stored in the yards and in the shipping sheds, and all wefe consumed. As the fire reached the big tanks they exploded, sending tlie d>uriring oil high in the air and scattering it over new material. The loss was <IOO,OOO. ATTACK ON M’LAURIN IN HOTEL. Hotel Proprietor from South Carolina Assaults the Senator. With coat off and sleeves rolled up, Arthur A. Gates, proprietor of the Mansion House nt Greenville, S. C.,'rushed at Senator John C. McLaurin in the writing room of the Raleigh Hotel in Washington. The Senator clinched with his assailant, there was a struggle, and only the interference of Loomis BhiybH’k. JI former South Carolina federal office holder, a friend of both combatants, together with the manager and employes of the hotel, prevented serious injury to Senator McLaurin. The combatants were finally separated, leaving the hotel by different doors, and Mr. Gates took a train for his home an hour later. Mr. Gates had been in the city for several days, and he has several times been seen in the _company_of Senator McLaurin, Apparently the two men wereTfrni friends, and not until the struggle came, with all its Sliddenness. was it known that bad blood existed between them. His friends cannot explain Gates' sudden and seemingly unprovoked attack. FATAL WRECK NEAR AMES, lOWA Curs Jump Track and Tramp Is Killed and Mail Clerks Injured, A wreck occurred on the Chicago and Northwestern at Ames, lowa, at 1 o'clock Thursday morning. A tramp was killed and Mail Clerk Griffin of Des Moines was seriously injured. Mail Clerk Graves of Chicago was buried under mail sacks and badly bruised, and Mail Clerk Alexander Turk of Chicago had his hand and arm injured. Train No. 10 was approarirrng the town limits from the west "tvirFmlseTen3ef~bT the engine, two mail cats, and two express cars left the track, plowing into the gravel, but tot overturning. The track was torn up for a distance of 200 yards and traffic is being delayed. The tramp was riding on the front eoaeh. Considerable mail matter was water-soaked and destroyed. A soft roadbed is supposed to have been responsible for the wreck. ALMOST DIE ON LONG TRIP. Two Chicago Boys Try to Steal Short Ride and Are Taken to Baltimore. Two l.>j ear-old Chicago boys called X>n Gov. Nash at Columbus, Ohio, to request aid in getting back home. Both boys said? they had entered a freight car with the intention of stealing a ride to some town fifty miles out of Chicago. At the dawn of the fourth day the door was opened and the boy-r were in Baltimore Ohio,—They were- very weak, but managed to crawl out of the car. They are now working their way home. Fnlls to Bottom of Gulch. Engineer Michael J. Riley and Brakeman A. L. Little were killed by an engine crashing through a trestle near Everett. Wash., to the bottom of a gulch twenty-five feet below. The men were in the employment of the Snohomish Logging Company. Another train crashed through the same trestle, but the engineer and fireman escaped by jumping. Fights the Colorado Line. Freight traffic on the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railroad, recently purchased by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, was completely suspended the other day as the result of warAdedared by the Wabash Railway Company the Terminal Railway Association. Falls from a High Cable. While S.(XX> people were watching the feat of Achille Phelion at the Eagles’ carnival in Nashville, Tenn., the equilibrist fell from the cable nt the top of the spiral tower and plunged headlong to the platform beenath. It is feared his injuries are fatal. Big Winnipeg Elevator Burned. The steel tank elevator D, at Fort William, Man., of 1.500,000 bushels’ capacity, caught fire. The machinery and tower were destroyed, also eight cars of wheat standing near. The damage is I estimated at §BO.OOO to §100,(HUI. Boston Barber Bill Killed. The bill to authorize licensed inn holders in Boston to provide barbers for their guests Sunday until noon was killed by a large majority, on a voice vote in the Massachusetts House. British Killcl in Wreck. Ler.l Kitchener reports another accident to a train bound from Pretoria to Pietersburg. northern Transvaal. The cars were derailed at a curve and an officer and ten men were killed. President of Haiti Retires. Gen. Tiresias Simon Sam. President of the Haytian republic, has resigned his office. The Haytian Congress will assemble nt once to elect his successor. The city of Port au Prince is quiet. Cuban Flag Over Morro. Cuban flag was raised over Morro Castle for the first time, the occasion being the arrival at Havana of President-elect Palma. Eruption Kills Thirty Persons. Eruption of La Soufriere on the Island of St. Vincent killed thirty persons and covered plantations with ashes, causing great damage. Volcano Overwhelihk Rt. Pierre. Thousands were killed in the Island of Martinique and the entire town of St. Pierre was destroyed by a volcauo. Death of Wisconsin Official. Lieutenant Governor Stone, of Wisconsin, died at his home in Watertown.

BUYS COFFIN, DIES AS TOLD. Parley Rice, Wealthy Michigan Farmer, Heeds Warning of Spirits. “I’ve come in to buy my coffin. I’m going to die Sunday night at 12 o'clock.’’ These were tlie wonls L’ndt'rtaker Harrington of Kalamazoo, Mich., hcard-<rom the lips of an elderly man who apiieared to be in good health. On Sunday night at 12:15 o’clock Parley Rice, one of the wealthy farmers of Kalamazoo County, passed away at his home in Comstock township. ’He was an ardent spiritualist and claimed “spirits” had told him he was to pass away Sunday night at midnight.—Rice firmly believed he had received warning of his final summons and set about making preparations for his funeral. After ordering his coffin aSd shrotfd Rue went liome and wife ami hired man to watch over him, for his end was at hand. Sunday he became ill, but his family did not regard his illness as setibus. At midnight his wife came to his bedside and joked him about his prediction that he was to die at that hour. “It's 12 o’clock now,” she said. “Well. then, the old clock must be fast,” replied the sick man, calmly. Fifteen minutes later he was a corpse. big plantFmenagkd. Eire Starts in German-American Packing Company’s House. Fanned ly a northwest gale, which tartied blazing embers into flimsy hog and cattle pens, millions of dollars’ worth of property in the Union stock yards in Chicago was endangered by a fire which started in the German-Americaq lkreking Company's plant and assumed such a threatening aspect that repeated calls for assistance were sent out by Chief Musham, A loss of §IOO,OtIQ was entailed before the blaze was under control, falling principally upon the plants of the Ger-man-American Packing Company and the smokehouse of M. G. Wile, which are contiguous t o and leased fr<>m the Norlll American Company, which also suffered some loss. All the buildings were tilled to their capacity with packed melts and provisions ready for shipment,. SENDS CONVICT TO THE NORTH. Governor Pardons Negro on Condition He Becomes Citizen of Massachusetts Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas has pard’oijed Andrew Thompson, a negro, on condition that Thompson go to Massachusetts within the next thirty days with the intention.. of ..bfifPßUßg :l citizen of that State. Thompson was convicted ot assault with intent to kill and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The Governor makes the following indorsement on the application for pardon: “Having heard many expressions of sympathy by the ’ citizens of Massachusetts for what they were pleased to eall the poor oppressed negro of the South. 1 do grant unto Andrew Thompson, a negro, a full and free pardon op condition that he .become—within the next thirty days a citizen of Massachusetts.” Accident Made Him Insane. Deprived of his reason liy a tall from a train, Amos Cleverede, GO years of age, was found by a number of Denver and Rio Grande employes wandering aimlessly about tile little station-at Wigwam, Colo., in a pitiable condition. A ticket which the unfortunate man had showed that he was on his way home to Oregon from Philipsburg, Kan., to join his wife and children. Horrors of Volcanic Eruption. Streams of lava from Mount I’eloe destroyed three more cities in Martinique with population of 14,000 and threaten to devastate whole northern end ot island. Five thousand refugees, burned and without water for days, crowded the hilltops. Fatalittes ow the island may ■ aggregate 50.000. Naval Cadets Who Passed. Among those who .have passed all the examinations and are full-fledged naval cadets, class of 1906. are the following from the middle West: George E. Lake, Illinois; W. B. Howe, South Dakota; Ixmnox Grant, Missouri, and W. F. A msden, Kansas. Metal Poliahcrs Strike. Four hundred union metal polishers went on strike at Cleveland because their employers refused to grant a ninehour working day. As a result a number of shops were closed. Several of the larger concerns granted the demand of the men and are not affected. Rock Island Plans Extensions. The Rock Island road is negotiating for the purchase oT the Chicago. St. Louis and Peoria line, with the purpose of making a new road from Chicago to St. Louis, and also is planning a new line from St. Louis to St. Paul. Rebel Shells Kill 500. Advices , received from -WusChon, China, say the rebels bombarded N.m-Ning-Fu for three hours, using modern' field guns. From 300 to 400 of the inhabitants were killed. The rebels subsequently withdrew to the hills. Husband Shot Dead by Wife. William Murphy, aged 36, a St. Louis electrician, was shot and killed by his wife. The murder was the result of a quarrel and Mrs. Murphy declares she acted in self-defense. Hunt & Hutchings Suspend Busineoa. Hunt & Hutchings, one of the largest brokerage and commission firms In Louisville, Ky.. nnd a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, has suspended business. Aeronauts Killed at Paria. >- Air ship La Paix exploded while making ascension at Paris and Senor Severo, the Brazilian aeronaut, and an assistant, who were on board, are killed. Statehood Bill Passes. The House passed statehood bill for Arizona. New Mexico and Oklahoma. Republican leaders meeting defeat in to prevent favorable action.