Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BIG INSURANCE FRAUD CHARGED W. M. Hahn, Vice President of Manhattan Fire, Indicted for Larceny. William M. Hahn, vice-president <»f the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, has been indicted in New York, charged with the larceny of $39,360 from that institution. District Attorney Garvah directed Detective Brindle to go to Mansfield, Ohio, where Hahn is under arrest, and take him to New York City. Requisition papers have been signed by Gov. Nash of Ohio. The Manhattan Fire Insurance Company failed with over $600,000 liabilities, and when the receiver took possession of the company on-May 7, 1901, the assets were but S2OO. This was three months after a statement had been filed with the insurance department, showing a surplus of assets over liabilities of about $40,000. An investigation was started by the district attorney's office at the request of the insurance department. It was found that most of the books and correspondence had been taken out of the State and were beyond the reach of the courts. Enough wag discovered, however, to find one indictment against President Daniel Myers sor 1 the alleged larceny of $27,000. Investigation showed, it is alleged, that the accused men increased the capital stock from $250,000 to $500,000 in order to satisfy the insurance department. They then borrowed on the stock and paid the money to the company for their shares. When insolvency was threatened they paid oil their personal indebtedness tn the Bank of Mansfield in the sum of $39,360 on their joint note, for which the bank held as security 300 shares of the stock of the Manhattan Insurance Company. It is the intention of Hahn and his attorneys to have the trial in Ohio instead of in New York. GIRL BURNED ATT THE STAKE. Realistic Climax to School Presentation of “Althea” at Detroit. The closing exercises at St. Vincent’s school in Detroit, Mich., came to a most realistic finish the other evening during the production of the drama “Althea” by the pupils of the school. Miss Annie McMahon was playing the title role and the audience was closely following the lines telling of the persecution of the Christians by the Greeks. The heroine iu the closing scene of the last act was burned at the stake in the midst of wild excite- 7 ment. Miss McMahon as Althea was dressed in a Grecian gown of flimsy material, and when she was tied to the stake and the fire started her dress caught in the flames and the next instant she was writhing in agony land her flesh was burned and blistered. She may not recover. FOUNDRY COMBINE FORMED. Oraauized Under New Jersey Charter with $40,000,000 Capital. Formal announcement of the organization of the American Steel Foundries Under a New Jersey charter, with an authorized capital of $40,000,000, half 6 per cent cumulative preferred stock and half common, has been made. The new corporation acquires the following plants and properties: American Steel Castings Company of New Jersey, Reliance Steel Castings Company (Limited) of Pittsburg, Pa.: Leighton & Howard Steel Company of St. Louis, Mo.i Franklin Steel Casting Company of Franklin, Pa.; the Sargent Company of Chicago, Ill.; American Steel Foundry Company of St. Louis, Mo.

Held to Grand Jury. After three hours’ deliberation, a coroner’s jury declared Orlando E. Miller, president of the St. Luke Society, and Henry Clark Davis, general manager, responsible for the death of Aiderman William E. Kent and others in the Woodruff Hotel fire of J tine 9 in Chicago. The others connected with the institution who were held pending the result of the coroner’s investigation Were discharged. Portland, Ore„ Block Burned. In Portland, OreJj fire destroyed an entire block of frame buildings. Thirtyfive horses belonging to the WakefieldMorse Transfer Cbmpany, burned to death, among them three valuable pacers. Cfombro C., Anna J. and Maymont. The total loss is about *35,000 and insurance $20,000. Muy Be ’Frisco Murderer. Telegrams from Sedro, Wash., says that a man confessing that be ia one of Nora Fuller’s murderers has surrendered to the city marshal at that place. He says he is John Bennett, for whom the San Francisco police have been searching several months. Jealousy Cause* Two Deaths. At Springfield, Mass., Mrs. Antone Mueller has been shot to death by Joseph Bencker, who then committed suicide. The murdered woman’s husband discovered the bodies on returning from hi* work. Jealousy is supposed to have caused the tragedy. Ohio Corporation Tnx Holds. An important decision has been announced by the Ohio Supreme Court sustaining the Willis tax law, levying a fee of one-tenth of 1 per Cent on the subscribed capital stock of private corporations, which, it is estimated, will yield the State an annual revenue of *400,000. Two Blain in a College. Daniel McClinton, a porter at Surgeon’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, in a tit of insanity shot and killed Dr. Ivison Macadam, professor of chemistry, and Janies Forbes, the professor's assistant. ' Agkrecata of Appropriations. Appropriation* by first session of Fiftyseventh Congress aggregate over *027,(**>,<loo, Largest sum ever voted except in |ime of war. Two Victim* of a Boycott. > George Elwin, a member of the Pueblo |Colo.. Cook*’ and Walters' Union, was and instantly killed and Police <>ffi

cer Joseph H. Sheppard was dangerously wounded by Jacob Dodson, as a result of the boycott by the Cooks’ and Waiters’ Union against the Riverside restaurant. Elwin was acting as a picket and was attempting to turn people away from the restaurant when the trouble started. SPECIAL SESSION FOR OHIO. Legislature Will Need to Replace Lawn Declared Void by Courts. An extra session of the Ohio Legislature seems certain, as the Supreme Court has held a number of important laws to be invalid. Decisions handed down Thursday declare the Cleveland city government and a special law enacted for the city of Toledo, taking rthe control of the police out of Mayor Jones’ bauds, to be unconstitutional. In the Trauger case the court directs Gov. Nash to appoint a Lieutenant Governor. The court sustained the validity of the Royer act, which limits' the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to a certain clusss of cases and takes away 95 per cent of its jurisdiction in appeal cases. Tuesday the court held special salary laws for county officers to be unconstitutional, so that matters in the cities' named, as well as in forty-two of the eighty-eight counties, are left in a chaotic state. JUSTICE EJECTS THE MAYOR. Disorderly Scene in Zanesville Courtroom with Police Chief an Actor. Mayor James L. Holden was forcibly ejected from the court of Police Judge Reed at Zanesville, Ohio. The Mayor asked that an affidavit against a woman charged with intoxication be withdrawn and when the judge refused he insisted that he bad the right to withdraw it. The judge ordered Chief of Police Tracy to eject Mayor Holden from the court room. The Mayor resisted and Tracy’s brother and others went to the chief's assistance. During the melee the Mayor struck the chief on the jaw and the latter landed on the Mayor's head with a club. Aftdr the Mayor had been put out he invited the chief to step out, too, but that official declined. SLAIN BY JEALOUS HUSBAND. Retired Grocer Killed by Nebraska Man, Who Attempts Suicide. John Hand, a retired grocer, was shot and killed at Seward, Neb., by Alexander Lange, who afterward shot himself. The men had met in the street and quarreled. Lange accused Hand of carrying on a flirtation with Mrs. Lange. The former grocer made a reply that incensed Lange and then he started to walk away. He was shot in the head, dying instantly. Lange left his victim lying iu the street, walked to his own barn and there fired two bullets into his brain. Physicians say he will die. VESSEL AFIRE IN MIDLAKE. Steamer Leland in Flames, but Crew Puts Out the Blaze. The steamer Leland, with the schooners Racine and James G. Blaine in tow, was reported to be afire when about ten miles out from the ship canal at Houghton, Mich. The life-saving crew went to the rescue. At first the crew could see flames and smoke, but when seven miles from the craft the - flames disappeared. The steamer Carthagena passed the Leland shortly afterward and as she gave no signal of distress, the life savers were satisfied that the crew of the Leland had extinguished the blaze.

Magazine Explodes Near Madrid. A gunpowder magazine at the encampment at Carabanohel, five miles from Madrid, exploded. Two men were killed and fourteen were injured. The shock was felt for miles. Scores of houses were damaged, the doors of the royal palace were thrown open by the force of the explosion and many windows were smashed. Bribers May Be Extradited. An important addition to the extradition treaty between Mexico and the United States was signed by Ambassador Clayton and Ignacio Mariscca, minister of foreign relations. By virtue of the addition the crime of bribery is- added to the list of extraditable offenses. Striking Employes Discharged. The Union Pacific has discharged the remaining 500 men employed in its shops at Cheyenne, Wyo., making 650 in all. This includes thirty boilermakers and helpers, who struck. The order discharging the men states that the shops are to be closed permanently. Missouri Miner Drowns Himself. William Brown, a miner of Minden, Mo., afraid of being lynched for the murder of a fellow-worker, jumped into the Elk river near Lanagan and was drowned. Brown had been arrested for the murder of Joseph Stager, whose dead body was found under a bridge. Body of Jesse James to Be Moved. The body of Jesse James, who was buried in his mother's back yard near Excelsior Spring*. Mo., immediately after he was killed by Bob Ford at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1882, is to be taken up aud reinterred at Kearney. Blamed foi Mine Horror. The coroner’s jury which has investigated the cause of the Fraterville mine explosion at Coal Creek, Tenn., May 19 reached a verdict against ths Coal Creek Coal Company officials and against the State mine inspector. It. A. Shiflett. Wilson Sticks to Brotherhood. John T. Wilson, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen, refused Canadian Pacific offer of *25,000 bonus and salary of *5,000 a year and decided to stick to tbe brotherhood. Changes of French Representatives. Edmond Bruwaert, French consul general at New Tork, is to be minister to Cuba. His probable successor tsTlenri Merou, at present French consul general at Chicago.

PUTS PARADISE IN AFRICA. »' I ■ St Louis Green Grocer Founds Sect with a Peculiar Creed. A strange religious sect, which calla its organization the Church of God and which has a most peculiar creed, holds meetings every Sunday afternoon at Thirteenth and Benton streets, St. Louis. John Cheary, an aged dealer in poultry and vegetables at Biddle market; is its founder, teacher and financial backbone of the body, which is composed of thirteen persons. The “elder,” as Mr. Cheary is termed, holds that the garden of Eden was in western Africa and as Noah fled to the east of Nod he must therefore have settled on the same continent. Here, Cheary holds, Cain fell in with a strange company, being physically similar to man, but his inferior in intelligence. One of these, asserts Elder Cheary, became the wife of Cain. To prove that he does not look upon these views in a spirit of levity and that he is endeavoring to amass all the knowledge of the Bible he can, he inserted in the papers the following advertisement: "SSO Reward —I will give the above reward to any one that will produce evidence that the negro is a descendant from Ham, Noah’s son, or Cannan, Ham’s son. John Cheary, 18 Biddle market, city.” Cheary is 64 years old, married, the father of six children, who are his stanch disciples, and is said to be very well to do. RICHES FOR INVENTOR. GlaeemakingMachine Brings Fortune to an Ohio Workingman, When F. L. Fink visited a glass factory ten years ago and was told by one of the men as he watched the glass blowers at work that a man who would invent a way of making window glass without blowing would make himself immensely rich. Firrk started thinking. He was then a farmer 21 years old. Now he is 31 and rich. His relatives and friends made so much fun of his devotion to what they called his “fool invention” that he went to Cleveland and worked in a brass bed factory. For ten years he has put every dollar he earned beyond what it cost him to live into his invention. He recently found it impossible to work out details and made W. D. Lee, mechanical engineer, an equal partner. Their patent papers have been sent in, and representatives of the so-called glass trust Tiave been for days endeavoring to buy the patent. The inventor refused an offer of SIOO,OOO. Fink’s process forms sheets of glass directly from the molten material without blowing. ALFONSO ANDMOTHER QUARREL Young King of Spain’s Manners Since Coronation Have Been Insufferable. Since the coronation of King Alfonso the quarrels between him and the Dowager Queen Maria, his mother, have been so frequent and violent that they have become a veritable scandal. Her slightest effort to guide the monarch is answered in a tirade of stable boy proCanity. Recently in the presence of servants the young King informed his mother that he would expel her from the palace if she did not respect his wishes. Alfonso’s manners- have been generally insufferable since fits coronation. Confesses Long Series of Murders. Jane Toppan, who was sent to’ the Taunton, Mass., insane asylum by a jury at Barnstable, where she was tried for the murder of Mrs. Mary D. Gibbs, has made a confession to her senior counsel. Judge Fred M. Rixby, that she killed thirty-one persons. The victim* were patients whom she had nursed.

Fire Ruins a Utah Town. Mercur, the great cyanide gold camp, and the second largest mining town iu Utah, was practically wiped out of existence by flames. The origin of the fire remains a mystery, except that it began with an explosion of some kind in the upper story of Preble block, in which the Oquirrah Hotel .was located. — Menaced by Grasshoppers. Millions of grasshoppers are attacking the grain in the Hill river district near Mclntosh, Minn. The State entomologist is assisting the farmers in combating the pest, and “hopper dozer*” are iu daily use. Unplowed stubble is the cause of the trouble. Robbers Get Rich Booty. Burglars forced an entrance to Petry J. Blough’s general store at Hooversville, Pa., blew open the safe with nitroglycerin, secured *I,(XW in gold, *1,200 in currency and checks, from *16,000 to *20,000 in judgments and promissorj notes, and *SO worth of postage stamps. Chicago Man Sentenced. A man giving the name of John Eagon. Chicago, has been sentenced to five year* in the State prison for trying to work a three-card monte game on B. O. Sims, a prosperous farmer of Audrain County, Mo. A man giving the name of Hill, aldo in the game, made his escape. Bryan Criticises Grover’s Speech. W. J. Bryan has issued a statement, denouncing Grover Cleveland for Tilden Club speech and declaring harmory cannot exist between believers in Democratic principles and those Cleveland advocate*. Nash Appoint* Harry Gordon. Gov. Nash of Ohio has appointed Harry L. Gordon, an attorney of Cincinnati, Lieutenant Governor, to succeed Carl L. Nippert, resigned. This action I* in nccordance with the decision of the Supreme Court holding that a vacancy existed. Bliss Renominated in Michigan. kl Mka n 1 * <>a ■■ »—.- ■ its pimttvaii mnvi nirrn r* iiotti inated Gov. Bliss on the first bal'ot, giving him 811 vote* to 214 for Stearns, Ms leading opponent. Honorary Degro* fbr Wood. Among the honorary degree* conferred by William* College was that of LU D. upon Gen. LeoMrd Wood.