Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

CHICAGO LEADS IN HEALTH. Mortality Rate for 1901 Was Only 13.88 Per 1,000 Inhabitants. According to the official reports of the Marine Hospital for last year, just compiled, Chicago was the healthiest of all the large-cities of the United States In 1901. The figures show a mortality of 13.88 per 1,000, which is less than the report shows for the previous year. Other cities appear in the following order: St. Louis, 17.67; Philadelphia, 18.27; Cincinnati, 18.88; San Francisco, 19.34; Boston, 10.70; New York, 20; Baltimore, 20.23; Washington, 21.14, and New Orleans, 21.44. The most unhealthy large city in the United States was Charleston, S. 0., death rate 29.11. The town of Ellsworth, Wis., population 1,500, was the healthiest place in the United States, only two persons in the town dying. lowa leads the States, with a rate of only 9.20 per 1,000 of population. The Middle Western States had a far better health record than those of the East, and the far Western better, as a rule, than the Middle Western. In Louisiana, as usual, the death rate was highest, 20.65, but the neighboring State of Arkansas had a record of 10.6 per cent. GAINS IN POSTAL BUSINESS. Reports of Chicago Office Show Large Increases. Growth in the business of all divisions of the Chicago postoffice is shown In a number of reports for the fiscal year ended June 30. In the registry division especially a large gain is reported. The number of registered articles handled during the year was 5,917,510, as against 5,276,901 In the preceding year. The gain was 12.13 per cent. In the last quarter the number of pieces handled in this division was 1,473,132, compared with 1,842,597. In June alone 464,563 pieces were handled. The division of second-class matter also did a large business. The receipts from such postal matter were $580,876 for the fiscal year, as against $578,876 in the preceding year. The number of pounds of second-class matter handled last year was 58,087,600. SWINDLES ILLINOIS CENTRAL. Employe on a Southern Division Uses Bogus Pay Rolls. The Illinois Central has lost over $5,000 In the last few months by an ingenious swindling scheme which is being investigated by the grand jury. Some one in the roadmaster's office at New Orleans and probably 100 negroes are involved in the scheme. Old-time rolls, properly indorsed by the foreman, supervisor and roadmaster on the cover, were secured and removed from the covers, and fictitious rolls were inserted between them. Then the name of the section foreman yai erased by the use of acid date altered to fit the occasion.

MANY HARVESTERS WANTED. Thousands of Laborers Needed in Canadian Northwest. It is estimated that from 20,000 to 25,000 harvesters will be required in the Canadian Northwest. The Canadian Pacific Railroad is arranging with the Allan and Beaver steamship lines to briug laborers from England at exceptionally cheap rates. General Manager McNicholl is at Winnipeg and hopes to avoid a grain blockade this year. The road, he says, has purchased 100 new engines aud will have 10,000 cars available. Public Ledger Is Sold. The Philadelphia Public Ledger has been purchased by Adolph S. Ochs from George W. Childs Drexel and the Drexel estate and possession was at once given Mr. Ochs. The price paid is not made public, but it is reported on good authority that more than $2,125,000 is involved in the transaction. Oats on a Level with Corn. . July oats touched the highest point in thirty years on ’Change in Chicago Wednesday and closed at 67 cents, exactly on a par with the July corn price. This is a distinctly novel situation, the difference in price usually being about 10 to 15 cents in favor pf the yellow cereal. Put Poison in Ice-Cream. Because his sweetheart, Mary Robertson, had rejected his proposal of marriage, James Larsen, a young Kansas farmer, poisoned her, causing her death, and then shot and killed himself. She ate ice cream into which he had poured strychnine. Spider’s Bite Kills Woman. After hours of untold suffering Mrs. Henry Dalton, of Pittsylvania, Va., died from the effects of a spider bite. The insect that caused Mrs. Dalton's death was concealed in a pair of stockings. She was bitten dn thh instep and lost consciousness in a few minutes. Jeffries Wins the Fisht. James J. Jeffries still holds the title of champion pugilist of the world by defeating Robert Fitzsimmons in the eighth round of a fast and furious battle at San Francisco Friday night. Brawn and muscle told against science and skill handicapped by age. Body Sewed in ■ Sack. While swimming in the bay near Fort Hamilton, N. Y., four boys discovered the body of a man tied in a gunnysack in the bushes. The throat was cut and evidence showed the victim had not been dead many hours. Britain’* Only Hope. Senator Drummond of Montreal tells the House of Commons committee that the only hope for Britain to compete with the United States on the ocean is to have a new subsidized line of fast steaasers. _____ To Teat Oleomargarine Law. At a meeting of but terine manufactarers held in Columbus, Ohio, a plan of action was decided upon to test the constL

tutionality of the recently enacted oleomargarine law. A New York firm of constitutional lawyers has been retained in the case. The contention will be that the act is class legislation. HEARTY GRIP COSTS A HAND. Breaking of Bonea Reanlta in Com- —-—~ pelting Amputation. According to a Des Moines, lowa, special, Captain J. N. McClanahan, a prominent politician of Corydon and ex-grand master of the Masonic order of lowa, has lost his right hand from the effects of a handshake with a friend whom he had not met for a number of years. The meeting between the two took place several months ago, and the grip received by his friend was so hard that several of the small bones were broken and afterward caused a cancerous growth. He was in a Chicago hospital for several weeks taking treatment and was advised by the surgeons to have the member amputated. The operation took place recently. Miss Minnie E. Bowman of Lancaster, Pa., has a broken wrist as the result of the cordial handshaking of a young Philadelphia athlete. The young man did not realize the force he was applying, but the girl is seriously injured. FAILS FOR NEARLY $400,000. Suspension of Cuban Cuttie Importer May Cause Other Crashes. The house of B. Duran, Cuban cattle importer, at Havana, has failed for nearly $400,000. Two general commission houses in New York are said to be among the creditors for $150,000. The crash came like a thunderclap and may result in other suspensions. The assets of the failed firm are said to be about one-half of the liabilities. Mr. Duran is a cattle importer, buying cattle in Mexico, South America and Mobile. The immediate cause of the failure was the death’ from disease in Cuban pastures of 4,400 head of cattle, the Cost price of which was over $120,000. This is the first failure of any consequence in several years. DEMANDED $2,500 OF CASHIER. Lone Bandit Makes Unsuccessful Attempt to Rob Bank. A lone robber attempted to hold up the Fortville Bank at Fortville, Ind., shortly before noon the other day, and at the point of a revolver demanded of the cashier $2,500 in cash. Upon the latter’s refusal to comply the robber fired at him, ran out of the bank and started for the woods. A posse followed, and after surrounding and shooting him forced him to surrender. Later the bandit was taken to Greenfield for safe keeping, where he confessed to a fellow prisoner that his name is C. A. Hall and that he is a plumber. He also said his home is at Marlon, Ohio, and that he had been employed in Indianapolis. WOMAN TO BE EXECUTIONER. Sheriff Promises She May Hang Her Father’s Slayer. When Boisey Bryant, colored, is hanged at Adel, Berrien County, Ga., Aug. 22, he will be launched into eternity by ’ the hand of a white woman. B ryant was convicted of the murder of W. A. Hyers, ths marshal of Adel, who was trying to break up a gang of negro “blind tiger” keepers and gamblers. Miss Hyers, daughter of the murdered man, wrote to Sheriff Swindell, requesting the privilege of springing the trap at the execution of Bryant, and the Sheriff replied that he would comply with her request. TO TEACH AMERICAN HISTORY. Grand Army Plans for Memorial University at Mason City. The Grand Army of the Republic committee named by Commander in Chief Eli Torrance in connection with the establishment of the memorial university at Mason City, lowa, by the American patriotic societies met at Minneapolis and agreed that besides the colleges of medicine and liberal arts to be founded there should be a college of American history, with a four years’ course. It was announced that the institution would open Sept. 10 with a good attendance. Calls Ohio Solons. Governor Nash issued a proclamation Tuesday convening the Ohio Legislature in special session Aug. 25 to provide for the government of municipalities-rthe Supreme Court having set aside existing laws—and to repeal the Royer act almost wholly depriving the Supreme Court of jurisdiction.

Cbolera Breaks Ont Anew. Cholera, which had been diminishing for a week, suddenly increased to seven-ty-eight cases in Manila Saturday, the largest since the outbreak. The removal of the quarantine on fruits and vegetables possibly accounts for the renewed outbreak. Wreck on the Pan-Handle. The eastbound Pan-Handle limited train was wrecked near Xenia, Ohio, at midnight Thursday. Three passengers were burned to death in the sleeping car and the engineer and fireman were killed. A coal car escaped from a siding and caused the collision. To San Francisco on a Horae. Claude Micheion, of Dayton, Ohio, la en route for San Francisco, to which city he expects to ride on one horse in fiftynine days. He is riding for two prizes. McLaurin Declines. Senator McLaurin of South Carolina has declined a tender by the President of the vacancy on the United States Court of Claims. _____ Fair Dedication Day Set, The dedication of the world’s fair at St. Louis will take place in the palace of liberal arts April 30, 1903, with pageantry and or«tory.

MASKED MEN KILL SHEEP. Several Thousand Slaughtered in Wyoming. It Is learned that, in addition to killing a Mexican' sheep herder named Sam Galaxes and slaughtering several thousand sheep, a baud of 150 masked men in Wyoming surrounded the sheep camps and forced the sheep men to abandon their flocks. After killing one herd numbering some 2,000 sheep twenty-five other herds, amounting to about 65,000 sheep, were driven into the mountains and left to shift for themselves. Sheep meh have been threatened with instant death if they go after their flocks. The sheep are now the prey of wild animals, and if they escape this death the loss will be heavy, as they are nearly all ewes and lambs. The scene of the lawlessness is 115 miles west of Landers, in Fremont County. The Sheriff is powerless and the militia will be called out to protect the sheep men. x TRAIN ROBBERS SECURE 963.000. Bandits Hold Up Passenger Train on the Mexican Central. A north-bound passenger train on the Mexican Central Railway was held up by three American bandits near Bermeillo, Mexico, and the Wells Fargo Express car was robbed of a sum estimated at $53,000. One of the outlaws boarded the train at the station and became engaged in a dispute with the conductor about his ticket. The conductor, after a heated argument, stopped the train to eject the passenger. As the train slowed down two other robbers sprang into the express car and with drawn weapons compelled the messenger to open the safe. They took all the funds and vanished into the night, fturales were immediately dispatched in pursuit and they took up the trail at the depot where the train was stopped, following it into the mountains. B. & O. BOILER BURSTS. Explosion of a Locomotive at Ravenna, Ohio, Causes Havoc. While standing at the depot at Ravenna, Ohio, the boiler of a Baltimore and Ohio engine exploded with terrific force, completely demolishing the depot and killing Engineer Barnes and badly scalding C. B. Calby, of Shelby Junction, the fireman, and Charles M. Jones, a brakeman. The fireman and brakeman were sitting on the rear of the tender, and the engineer came from the depot, climbed into the cab, turned on the water and up it went. The engineer was blown back into the coal in the tender and was not found for a half hour afterward. His left arm was found a hundred feet away. The fireman and brakeman were blown fifty feet into an adjoining field. SEEKINGATTIURIKDTREASVRE. Schooner Sails for South Seas to Look for $70,000,000. The schooner Hermann has sailed from San Francisco for the South seas, ostensibly on a pleasure trip, but in reality, it is said, in search of buried treasure, amounting to $70,000,000, reported to have been hidden on an island by the mutinous crew of a Japanese ship. Captain James Brown, a retired mariner of the Atlantic coast is in command of the Hermann, and is accompanied by four or five Eastern friends. BOOK COMPANY IS OUSTED. American Concern Not Allowed to Sell in Kansas. The Kansas Supreme Court has Issued a writ ousting the American Book Company from the State and depriving it of the right to transact business as a corporation in the State until it secures a charter. The order was granted upon the petition of the County Attorney of Shawnee County, and grows out of the fight for the contract to supply the public schools of the entire State with school books. Loses $36,000 in Land Deal. Mrs. Julia Allen, of Chicago, has been victimized, it is claimed, out of $36,000 in a fraudulent real estate deal, involving property alleged to be located in Hot Springs, Ark., according to a communication to a real estate firm from Albert J. Norton and William Eugene Brown, Chicago attorneys.

Form New Party in Hawaii. The Hawaiian territorial convention of the Home Rule Republican party ended in a split between the two factions and Prince Cupid, with forty other delegates, bolted from the convention to form a new party in opposition to Delegate to Congress Robert W. Wilcox. Jamaica la for Annexation. All the planters of the larger West Indian Islands are talking of annexation to the United States, owing to their dissatisfaction over the small amount of money contributed by the imperial government to help the sugar industry. Millions Go from Ireland. The final summary of the Irish census returns has been presented to Parliament. It shows that during half a ceptury over 3,000,000 persons have emigrated from Ireland and that 80 per cent of these emigrants have gone to the United States. Battle Become* Wider. Strikes of anthracite coal miners, resulting in«the burning of bituminous coal, is forcing the problem of smoke prevention on New York and other Eastern cities, and the battle for municipal cleanliness becomes wider in scope. St. Louts Councilman Guilty. At St. Louis the jury in the case of Harry A. Faulkner, charged with perjury in connection with the “boodle” scandal, returned a verdict of guilty, fixing punishment at two yean in the penitentiary, the maximum being five years.