Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

MYSTERY ENDS A ROMANCE. Wife of Harry Churchill of Omnha Is Sought by Her Mother. Fearing that her daughter is dead, the mother of Olga Pries Churchill, 2218 North Nineteenth street, Omaha, hass asked the police of Chicago to find out whether she has been killed or committed suicide. The girl, who is only 16 years old, ran away from the Nebraska city a year ago and married a young man who was employed for a time on the Goodrich steamer Sheboygan, running from Chicago. He returned to Omaha several months ago, and Mrs. Pries, mother of the girl, begged him to tell her where her daughter could be found. He said she was at 3705 Indiana avenue. Letters sent there were not answered, and when the police investigated they found that neither Churchill nor his wife was known there. Olga Pries and Harry Churchill met two years ago this coming autumn. She was a pupil in the senior class in the high school and he was on the football team in the same school. They had known each other for years, but it was not until he bucked the line in a mass play and was hurt that they came to see each other in more than the light of schoolmates. He was carried off the field unconscious. When he regained his senses it was her hand which was holding a cup of water to his lips. Mrs. Pries is a wealthy woman. The Churchills arc not. The young husband claims that his youthful wife —she is only 16 years old—was at the Indiana avenue address he gave her mother when last he heard from her.

BUBDUE JAILER AND ESCAPE. Seven Prisoners Take French Leave of Couacil Bluffs Cells. Seven desperate prisoners, whose leader was Andrew Thompson, overpowered Jailer George W. Martin at Council Bluffs, lowa, forced him and his wife into a cell at the muzzle of a revolver, locked them in and made their escape. Martin was delivering the evening meal to the prisoners when they attacked him. Mrs. Martin heard the scuffle and undertook to give n revolver to her husband. The prisoners took the weapon from her, locked her and her husband in a cell, secured the keys and escaped. BUYS A BIG PACKING PLANT. If. J. C. Kenyon Secures Valuable Property at Lincoln, Neb. W. J. C. Kenyon, general manager of the South Omaha stock yards, has purchased the stock yards and the packing plant of the Lincoln Packing Company at Lincoln, Neb., and 3,000 acres of grazing land adjacent. Mr. Kenyon will take possession at ouee, and Harry L. Carpenter of Omaha will have charge of the property. Mr. Carpenter said that the packing house would not be operated at present, but the yards will be enlarged from time to time. Minister Confesses Arson. Kev. James Laurier Rogers, formerly a wel(-known Baptist minister, who recently embraced Mohammedauism, has confessed himself guilty of arson, and is in custody at Santa Cruz, Cal. He set fire to several buildings at a dairy where he was working. His motive for the crime, he says, was revenge, on those who had compelled him to do menial service. Model Mill City Burned. Ruddock. La., the ideal mill city of Louisiana and the lifelong dream of Charles 11. Ruddock, the millionaire lumberman of Chicago, was almost wiped out by lire. It is impossible to estimate the loss at present, for the whole place is in a panic over the destruction of the immense plant of the Ruddock Cypress 'Company. Krupp Has New Projectile. According to the Boersen Courier Herr Krupp has brought to perfection a gun the projectile from which is capable of penetrating the best atul thickest armor plate be tunnufact ures. Emperor William lias already witnessed trials of this gull and has exacted a promise from Herr Krupp to reserve it exclusively for the utfe of the German navy.

Fire Attacks u Uiis Car riant. The planing mill and wood-working shop oT the Illinois Car and Equipment works at Hegewisch. a Chicago suburb, were totally destroyed by tire. The loss Is estimated by flu|>erintendent Aberauer st 5100,000. Two thousand men are thrown out of employment. Murder by an Old Soldier. Richard J. Sands, an old soldier, killed Mrs. Anna McCiiutock at a boarding house in Columbus, Ohio, by cutting her throat and attempted to kill the proprietress, Mrs. Victoria ltichardaon, who witnessed the murder. Drinking and jealousy was the cause. Railroad Gets New Chief. Circulars anuouuec the appointment of Chief Engineer John Stevens as general manager of the Great Northern system, Including proprietary lines, and W. W. Broughton as general freight agent of the eastern end of the system in charge of lake traffic. ______ Detroit Girl a Peeress. Another Detroit woman joined the ranks of Detroit titled women when Miss Martha Palma, a wealthy young woman and daughter of one of thi most prominent families, married Count Dourent Meichei Cbampeanx of Chateau Ville Neuvc, Cote d'Or, France. Four Wretches Garroted. Benabe Acevedo, Jose Torres, Ramon Troche Cadeno and Juan Torres, the four men found guilty of murder, robbery and outrage, committed in October, 1898, at Gnayo, a suburb of Adjuntas, were garroted at Ponce, Porto Rico. End of Chicago Teamsters' Strike. In an all-night conference, arranged by the Illinois State Board of Arbitration, the representatives of the big Chicago

packing houses and their striking teamsters made mutual concessions, and a Twaerfnl-^wtthiumnrt^-Trf—the —strike was reached. The night of peace negotiations was preceded by a day of wild rioting, over 100 persons belug injured and many arrested. " "——.— ■ king of manua breaks out. Rebels at Uncle Ram's Idea of a Proper The King of Manua lias started a rebellion against the United States. He is a South Sea Island potentate unde. - the rule of Uncle Sant. The King’s subjects and the people of Tutiiila do not like each other. They ore not on speaking terms. They long have wanted to fight each other.) Now the people of Manua, aad particularly the King, are as angry as hornets because the high court of Tutiiila has decided what is the proper manner of serving out kava, the native drink of the South Sea Islands, and the high court’s decision is backed by the United States. His majesty has informed the government officials at Pango-Pango that the high court’s deidsion had no influence with him and that hq would not be ruled by Tutuila if he knew it.

FIREMEN STOP TRACKLAYING. Mayor of Blair, Neb., Employs Unique Plan to Avert a Riot. At Blair, Neb., a riot which would have ended in bloodshed was averted shortly after midnight by the quick action of Mayor Haller. The Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railroad Company had been denied by the City Council the right to lay certain tracks. About midnight a construction gang of 200 men began laying tracks. The Mayor was informed and ordered the men to cease work. They replied tauntingly and the Mayor ordered out the fire department and a stream of water was turned on nnd the men scattered. Revolvers were drawn, but hundreds of citizens arrived and tore up the track, carted it away, and hold the ground under arms.

ROBBED OF TRUSK AND $3,100. Man Accused of Wrecking Kentucky Bank Is Victim of Theft. J. M. McKniglit, the former bank president who is now appealing from a conviction in the federal court for wrecking the German National Bank of Louisville, Ivy., notitied the police that he had been robbed of a trunk containing $3,100. besides clothing and other articles of value. Mr. McKnight said the trunk Lad been taken from the Victoria Hotel while he was at one of the parks. Show Gratitude to Kitchener. After a debate in which the Irish Nationalists, led by Redmond and Dillon caused a scene of disorder in scoring the commander of the South African troops, the British House of Commons voted, with forty-four objecting ballots, to grant Lord Kitchener the £50,000 gift recommended by the King. Tears Up Undelivered Mai 1 . A. J. Brannan, a substitute mail carrier in St. Paul, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Spencer, charged with tearing up letters instead of delivering them. Brannan is not suspected of theft, as the fragments of letters found indicate that he did not even look at the contents. Find Camorta Wreck. The British steamer Camorta, from Madras for Rangoon with 650 passengers, all natives, which was believed to have foundered May 6 in a cyclone, has-been discovered sunk at Barague Flats, in the Irrawaddy delta, directly in the track of shipping. The topmasts of the vessel protrude above the surface of the water. Big Wire Mill for Beaumont. It has become known in business circles in Beaumont, Texas, that the American steel and Wire Company had, through an agent, secured title to 100 acres of land in the southern part 6f town, and that it was intended to erect a $5,000,000 factory on the site Need Not Admit Sovereignty. The Birmingham Post, organ of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, Bays that owing to his age and infirmities the British government has waived its claim for the acknowledgment by Mr. Kruger of British sovereignty over the Transvaal. Most of Conrtland, Neb., Destroyed. A cloudburst destroyed the greater part of Courtland, Neb. Seven inches of water fell, devastating the fields. Several buildings have been wrecked by the storm, and it is feared a number of people are killed.

Refuses Big Annual Pension. Gen. Maximo Gomez has published an open letter, in which he refuses to accept the annual pension of $6,000 provided fonhim in a resolution which is now before the Cuban House of Representatives. Will Keep Hands Off. President Roosevelt finds he cannot comply with request of New York Board of Trade that he intervene to settle miners’ strike, the law cited by that body having been repealed in 1898. , One Thousand Lives Destroyed. Volcano Tacana, in Guatemala, destroyed town of Ratalhulen and killed 1,000 persons. Mount Pelee again in violent eruption. Gold in Kansas Shale. Ernest Fahrig, a Philadelphia chemist, reports that Kansas shale will produce sl6 in gold to the ton and there is a rash of prospectors to Rock Hill City. Degree for Mark Twain. Mark Twain received the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Missouri. Indiana Democratic Convention. Indiana Democrats nominated a Bute ticket and adopted a platform without mention of Bryan or silver

BRITAIN BUYS*TEXAS CATTLE. Makes First Purchase of Total of 50, 000 to Stock Boer Farms. One of the most comprehensive deal* in Texas cattle had its initiation in the shipment of <j>so bead of stock from Pensacola. Fla., the other day. The shipment was made by Maude & Carrew and is the beginning of shipments of thousands of Texas cattle to be used in restocking Boer farms tn South Africa. Walter D. Maude was at one time a member of the Sixty-seventh Highlanders, later the owner of the Moon ranch in the Texas Panhandle, and later a lieutenant in a British regiment in the Boer war. At present he holds a major’s commission in the British army. Richard Carrew, the other member of the firm, is the owner of the Windhorst ranch in Clay County, Texas. It Is understood that these two men have a contract to supply the British government with breeding cattle in South Africa. The shipment from Pensacola consisted of blooded stock, none of which was over 3 years old. It is the purpose of. Maude & Carrew to follow this shipment with others aggregating 50,000 head. The point of debarkation will be Natal, and thq point of shipment in this country in future will be Galveston, EX-MILLIONAIRE TRIES TO DIE. John W. Howry, Once a Rich Michigan Lumber Dealer, Takes Poison. John W. Hoivry, once ' a millionaire lumber dealer of East Saginaw, Mich., attempted suicide by taking morphine at a rooming house in Kansas City. He probably will not recover. Financial reverses were the cause of the deed. He is about 70 years old. He planned to die deliberately and arranged details relative to the disposal of his body. His heavy breathing attracted the attention of a boarder, who notified the police. J. H. Howry and H. K. Howry are sons of the old man and are interested with him in several New Mexico cattle ranches.

EXPRESS LINES SEPARATE. United States and Pacific Companies Dissolve Joint Agreement. The joint agreement between the United States and Pacific Express companies has been dissolved and separate agencies have been established in St. Louis and elsewhere. The main offices of both companies are in St. Louis. The United States Express Company operates over the Baltimore and Ohio, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Chicago and Alton and Wabash systems. The Pacific company has the Wabash, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Texas and Pacific and Great Northern systems. Lumber Mills in a Union. A combination of twenty of the largest lumber manufacturing plants in Cook County, 111., has been effected, nnd within two weeks a new corporation, the American Snsh and Door Company, will be in operation. Organization has been perfected under the laws of New Jersey, and the new company will have a capitalization of $3,500,000.

Mexicans Rout Yaqui Indians. A battalion of the Mexican army, commanded by Gen. Torres, head of the army in Sonora, fought a desperate battle with 300 Yaqui Indians at El Tanque, near Hermosillo. Forty Yaquis were killed and twice that number wounded. The Mexicans lost fifteen men. The Yaquis escaped toward the Mazatan Mountains, leaving their dead. Election in Oregon Is Close. Practically complete returns from twenty-eight out of the thirty-three counties in Oregon, and estimated majorities in the five remaining, give Chamberlain, Democrat, 258 majority for Governor. The entire Republican ticket, with the exception of the Governor, is elected by from 7,000 to 12,000. Mexicans Ambushed by Yaquis. The uprising among the Yaqui Indiana of Mexico is becoming general. A detachment of seventy-three men from the force of Gen. Torres, who is pursuing the Yaquis in the Mazatan mountains east of Hermosillo, was ambushed and thirty of the number killed. Only one escaped unhurt. Wins English Derby. An Irish horse, ridden by a Yankee jockey, won the English Derby at Epsom. Ard Patrick, owned by J, Gubbins of Limerick, with “Skeets” Martin of Pennsylvania in the saddle, carried off the greatest of turf honors. King Edward and Queen Alexandra were spectators. Girl Killed by a Farmhand. A jealous farm hand, named John Linnett, killed Belle Brown at Milwaukee, and after escaping was captured by a posse. Both were employed by John Mulaney, a farmer near Lake Beulah. It is supposed a love affair is at the bottom of the trouble. New Representatives at Washington. Great Britain announces selection of Michael Henry Herbert as Lord Pauncefote's successor at Washington, while Spain will send Senor de Ojeda to succeed Duke dc Arcos, transferred to Brussels at his own request. —— Will Succeed Martinelli. A dispatch from Rome says that Monsignore Falconio, the papal delegate in Canada, has been definitely selected to succeed Cardinal Martinelli as papal delegate to the United States. Murderer Given Life Sentence. August Jahnke has been convicted at Alliance, Neb., of the murder of Michael Sierk and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. The jury was out a week. World's Greatest Hotel Planned. New York is to have the most magnificent hotel in the world. It will be twenty stories high and cost $10,000.000