Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERN OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERN OF THE EARTH

KILLED BY MATE OF BOAT. Christopher Leonidas and Son* Patent Medicine Salesmen, Shot Down. Two Chicago patent medicine salesmen, father and son, attired as cowboys, were shot and killed by the mate on a river steamer, Who was exonerated by a coroner’s jury. The dead men registered as Christopher Leonidas and son, 489 Wabash avenue, Chicago. The shooting occurred at noon as the steamtf Dubuque, running between St, Louis and St. Paul, was pulling out from Davenport on its way up the river. First Mate Dan Breen, whose home is at Dubuque, quarreled with the two passengers over the classification of baggage. The mate fired five shots and put two bullets into the body of one of his victims and one into the other. Both men died as they were being taken from the landing to the hospital. The men-killed went on board the boat at Bock Island in the morning. They were dressed as cowboys, and each wore a heavy leather belt on which was hanging a holster containing a revolver. Their hair was long and braided and a large bloodhound was fastened by a chain to one of their boxes. According to evidence givenbymembersof the crew and passengers the men were in the act of drawing their weapons when Mate Breen shot in self-defense. TRIES TO SEE MRS. M’KINLEY. £ Crank Has Important Disclosures to Make Concerning Plot. George Fisher, giving Pittsburg as his home, made an attempt to see Mrs. McKinley at Canton, Ohio, asserting that he had important disclosures to make to her of the plot which led to the assassination of her husband. The colored porter told Fisher that Mrs. McKinley was too ill to see anyone. Fisher then went to Mayor J. H. Robertson and told him his story. He had been in Cleveland, where he made an unsuccessful attempt to see Senator Hanna. He says that the anarchists have set a price of $60,000 upon his head and that five attempts have been made to assassinate him. The township trustees bought the man a ticket to Pittsburg to get him out of the city. FIND JEWELS STOLEN AT YALE. Negro Swteper Arrested by Police with $2,000 Worth of Plunder. A large number of articles of jewelry, including rings, scarf pins and cigaret cases set with precious stones, and valued at $2,000, have been found by the New Haven, Conn., police as a result of the arrest for theft of Dorsey 0. Suarzey, colored, who until recently was employed as a sweep in Vanderbilt Hall, one of the Yale dormitories. Initials on many of the articles indicate that they are the property of Yale students, including Reginald C. Vanderbilt, John Garvin and others.

President’s Daughter Falls Off Saddle. There was almost a tragedy in the Roosevelt family at Oyster Bay, N. Y. Little Ethel, out galloping with her older brothers, fell from her horse because the saddle girth slipped. She was dragged fifteen feet in the mud, and the few who witnessed the accident thought she would be killed. But her own pluck and horsemanship saved her. She got up unhurt and finished her ride with the boys. Chicago’s School Population. The population of Chicago has been decreased by 145,985 souls according to the figures of the school census. According to the figures of the enumeration just completed there are 621,262 minors in Chicago. The school census of 1900 showed that there were 873,247 minors in the city. Metal Workers Badly Burned. Fifteen ipen were burned, one fatally and eight seriously, at the Homestead steel works at Pittsburg. A ladle filled with molten metal was being lowered into the pit when the drum of the crane broke and the seething metal was thrown over the unfortunate men. Forty Hurt at Election. A special dispatch from Rome says that socialist riots occurred at Orte, Italy, during the municipal elections. The polling place was wrecked and several policemen were stabbed. The police and the military fired on the mob. Over forty persons were wounded. Dives Off Brooklyn Bridge. A man committed suicide by jumping from the Brooklyn bridge. A rope was thrown to him from a passing tug, but he refused to seize it and soon sank from view. In bis hat, which bears the mark “South Norwalk, Conn.,” he left four $1 bills. Response to Governor Taft. Gov. Taft has received reply of the Vatican to his last note on Philippines. Recall of friars within time specified is declared impossible. Form of proposed contract for disposal of church lands is submitted.

Fortune to Housekeeper. The will of J. E. Perrin, a bachelor, who died recently, was filed for probate at Springfield, Ohio. It bequeaths his $200,000 estste to his cousin and housekeeper, Miss Margaret Sturgeon. Other relatives are ignored. Death of a Famous Horse. Linden Tree, the fine Arabian horse presented by the Sultan of Turkey to Gen. Grant, died at the farm of Gen. L. W. Colby of Beatrice, Neb., aged 38 years. Whole Counties Under Water. Heavy rainfall caused extensive loss in many States. In lowa whole counties were under water and hundreds of families abandoned their homes. Widower Is Left $19,380. At Louisville, Ky., William Botto has been given leave to collect his pro rata of $35,000 left in trust for him by his

wife, Mrs. Florence Irvin Botto, who was over 70 years old when she died. Botto is slightly over 20 years of age. The estate did not pay the amounts bequeathed by 40 per -centand Botto’s share was $21,000 and, subtracting what he paid the other devisees, he has $19,250 in cash. LAKE BREAKS ITS BOUNDS. Nebraska Summer Resort Is Left Overlooking; a Dry Basin. The summer resort of Pries Lake, ten miles above Omaha, on the Missouri river, was wrecked on a recent afternoon when the hill at the eastern end of the lake gave way under the strain of the water and fell into the Missouri river, followed by all the water in the lake. Two hotels, both crowded, and numerous cottages owned by wealthy people are left high and dry on the banks of what was up to this time one of the finest summer resorts in eastern Nebraska. For tp’o weeks it had rained daily in that vicinity and the streams flowing into the lake brought great volumes of water down. The lake had been further deepened by bqilding a high dam at the lower end. Several days ago, when the water in the lake began running over this dam, men were put to work strengthening the barrier. It was thought that all danger had passed when without a the banks burst out. HORSEWHIPS OHIO PASTOR. Prospective Son-In-Law Uses Vißorous Measures to Aid Elopement. Rev. D. S. Helms, pastor of the Methodist Church at Fayette, Ohio, received a horsewhipping from his prospective son-in-law, Mr. Rice of Montmorencie, Mich. ■Mr. Rice was engaged to marry Miss Blanch Helms, but the minister opposed the match and the lovers took things in their own hands. They were about—to. drive off in a buggy when Mr. Helms got hold of a rear wheel and held back. Rice reached for his whip and dealt several slashes over the clergyman’s head. The eloping pair being released drove to Adrian, Mich., and were there married.

TO EXPLORE LABRADOR WILDS. Willard Glazier Heads an Expedition in Interest ot a Railroad. An expedition under the leadership of Col. Willard Glazier of New York, numbering twelve persons, has left St. Johns, N. F., on boat’d the steamer Virginia Lake to explore the unknown wilds of Labrador. Col. Glazier’s expedition was organized in Boston. Among its members are representatives of leading American universities. It is reported that the object of the expedition is to determine the feasibility of a new railroad line for the Atlantic shipping combine. Crushed Under Falling Barn. At Waseca, Minn., Adam Bisham, Jr., his two sisters and the hired man took refuge from the storm in the barn.. The barn was blown down. One of the daughters was killed instantly, and Adam, Jr., was so crushed that he died. The other two occupants were rescued from suffocation only after long hours of work by the neighbors. Queen la Nearly Killed. Shortly after Queen Alexandra passed on her way to open the coronation bazaar in London, the decorations across Langham place, heavy and sodden with rain, were caught, in a squall of wind and fell, dragging down a mass of coping from the top of All Souls’ Church. Miss Strathy, believed to be a Canadian, was killed and several persons were injured. Traction Strike Warded Off. The strike of the conductors and motormen of the Cincinnati Traction Company did not materialize. Prompt action of the company in discharging twenty-five union men and securing others in their places had the desired effect and not a man quit work. Five Firemen Meet Death. Five firemen were killed in a disastrous fire which started in the old street car stables aj Front and George streets, Toronto, Ontario, now occupied by P. McIntosh & Sons, and spread to the wholesale hay and straw warehouse of Gadsby & McCann. Striking; Freight Handler Killed. John Landers, a striking freight handler, died in Chicago from injuries received in a brawl of half a dozen of his fellow-members of the union. His throat was cut from ear to ear and his head almost severed. Five of his associates are under arrest. For England in a Launch. In a 38-foot launch, Christ etied A. A. Low, after the Mayor’s father, and accompanied only by his 16-year-old son. Captain Henry Newman; New England boatman, sailed from New York for Southampton, England. Bad Blaze at Beatrice. Neb. A special from Beatrice, Neb., rays two grocery stores and Klein’s big deparb ment store have been on fire. The water works at Beatrice were closed by the floods and the city was practically without Are protection. Coronation Bet for August. King Edward will be crowned between Aug. 11 and Ang. 15. The pageant through the streets and the ceremony at Westminster Abbey will be much curtailed from the original plan. Two Die in Mill Explosion. R. D. Ollinger and a boy named Combs were Killed, and Bony Pritchard was fatally injured by the explosion of Ollinger’s sawmill about a mile from Beattiville, Ky. The mill was demolished. Fourteen Men Art Injured. Fourteen men working on the new plant of th* Armour Packing Company in East St. Louis were Injured by a bolt of lightning that struck the building during a heavy rain and thunder storm.

HEED UNITED STATES’ PLEA. Powers Agree to Evacuate Chinese Port According to Treaty. Secretary Hay’s prompt action upon the appeal of the Chinese government through Yuan Shi Kai and Minister Wu relative to the evacuation of Tien-tsin has met with success. The foreign generals who have stood in the way of evacuation will receive instructions from their home governments’ and it is believed that Tien-tsin will soon be turned over to the Chinese authorities. Mr. Hay, doubting whether anything could be accomplished directly through the diplomats at Pekin, decided to address himself directly to the governments maintaining forces in Tientsin. Answers have now been received from nearly all these. The latest to come to hand were from France and Germany, and quite unexpectedly they all proved favorable to the United States’ contention. The powers are now agreed to instruct their generals at Tien-tsin to abandon the city, under the condition that, save the small police force of 300 men, the Chinese military must be kept at 'a distance of not less than thirty kilometers from the town. SAY WITCHES STILL LIVE. Carlisle Couple Tried for Claiming, Supernatural Powers.

A witchcraft case, the first since colonial times, was taken cognizance of by a Carlisle, Pa., magistrate the other day when Mrs. Susan Stambaugh and her husband of Mount Holly Springs appeared before Magistrate Hughes against Mrs. William Mcßride «nd Edward Zug, The Stambaughs testified that the accused persuaded them that their profiles were seen in a near-by mountain with needles stuck through their brains. These, they said, were getting rusty, and the lives of their living counterparts could only be saved by money offering before the needles broke. Many trips were made to Mrs. Mcßride and large sums of money paid, with provision for its return by the disclosure of a hidden treasure. The efforts of the Impoverished Stambaughs to raise money to pay the witch doctors gave their record publicity. Mrs. Mcßride and Zug were held for court.

CONVICTS DYNAMITE JAIL WALL. Bold Play for Liberty by Forty Prisoners at St. Joseph, Mo., Falls, Led by a vicious boy of 18, who is serving a six years’ sentence for highway robbery, forty convicted criminals made a desperate attempt to dynamite the walls of the jail at St. Joseph, Mo., hoping to kill the guards in the resultant confusion and thus regain their liberty. The originator of this strenuous scheme for wholesale blood-letting and jail delivery was Leek Allen. The explosion was terrific, but not enough of a breach was made in the wall to allow the egress of the prisoners.

EARTH CRACKS IN OKLAHOMA. Gas Escapes from Fissures at Tulsa — Causes Great Excitement. Great excitement was caused at Tulsa, I. T., over the discovery by surveyors working north of that place of cracks in the sides of mounds, as if from great pressure underneath. Gas is escaping from the fissures and a continual hissing and roaring can be heard. On the top of the highest hill there has been a volcano at work raising large bowlders and tossing them aside. Experts say that it is a great oil and gas field, and that pressure from a great depth has caused the commotion. Educators Want New Department The National Educational Association ha#" resolved to petition Congress to establish a Department of Education and make its head a cabinet officer; also urge the restoration of the Bible in the schools; grade teachers organized a national federation, with Miss Margaret A. Haley president. Gets Twenty-five Years. Jessie Morrison, convicted June 23 of murder in the second degree for killing Mrs. Olin Castle at the latter’s home in Eldorado, Kan., in June, 1900, by cutting her throat with a razor, has been sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Wireless System in Alaska. R. Pfund, an electrical engineer, has arrived in San Francisco on his way to Alaska for the purpose of establishing a wireless telegraph system between Fort Gibbons on the Yukon river and the fort at Bates’ Rapids, on the Tanana river, a distance of 195 miles. Noted Thread maker la Dead. Word has been received that William Clark, the thread manufacturer, died in England. Mr. Clark was one of the largest manufacturers of thread in the world. He was born at Paisley, Scotland, in 1841. Imbecile Lord Is Dead. The Earl of Arundel and Surryf- only son of the Duke of Norfolk, died at Arundel Castle, Sussex, England. This heir of the premier duke and earl has been an idiot and a cripple since his birth, Sept. 0, 1879.

Juliet to Bernhardt’s Korteo. Sarah Bernhardt has definitely announced that arrangements have been practically completed for Maud Adams to-play Juliet to her Romeo during the visit of the French actress to America in 1903. Beaten for Desecrating Flag. Charles Roberts, an Englishman, was badly beaten at Boston for desecrating an American flag and later fined $lO in the District Court. Fire at Wilminsrton, Ohio. At Wilmington, Ohio, fire caused $50,000 damage. The City Hall, Linton’s dry goods store, Stacey's Implement store and several dwellings were destroyed.