Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BIG FIRE AT HAMILTON, OHIO. Large Dry Goods Store Destroyed and Bank Building Damaged. A most destructive fire started at Hamilton, Ohio, about midnight Thursday and was not under control until 4 o’clock the .next morning. The large dry goods store of T. V. Howell & Son, where the flames originated, was destroyed. The Second National Bank building, adjoining the Howell block on the west, was damaged considerably by fire and water, but the bank escaped with slight damage. While this fire was burning another broke cut in Walnut street in a small grocery, and Cincinnati was asked for help. Two engines were sent in response, but when they arrived the fire was under control and they were not taken from the train. The Walnut street fire was easily extinguished. Hicks’ stationery store, in the basement of the Howell block, whs destroyed. The large carpet store of Creighton & Hoeven, adjoining Howell’s, was saved from serious damage. The losses are estimated at a quarter of a million, mainly Howell’s and the Second National Bank. The loss of T. V. Howell & Son is estimated at $200,000; Second National Bank, $40,000; Holbrook Brothers* dry goods, $12,000, and Heck, stationer, $2,000. Several offices of dentists, physicians and architects were in the Howell block, and were destroyed. No statement of the amount of insurance carried has been made. MYSTERY IN COLLEGE FIRE. lowa Agricultural Institution at Ames Suffers SIO,OOO Loss. The south wing of the main building at the lown State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts at Ames was destroyed by fire. The north wing of this building was destroyed in a similar manner in December, 1900. The portion now burned has been condemned by the State architect and was to have been torn down to make room for a new building provided for by the last General Assembly. The loss to building and contents will not exceed SIO.OOO. The valuable botanical collection and equipment, together with the museum and the oflice and school furniture, were saved. The origin of the fire is a mystery, as there was no fire about the building during vacation.

GREAT HIGHWAY PLANNED. New York and Chicago Association Formed to Improve Route. The New York and Chicago Road Association has been formed to promote the building of a short cut highway from New York to Chicago. The idea of the association is to reduce the distance of 957 miles to 850 miles and put the roads in good condition. The association is composed of representatives of the automobile, cycle and. road-making assoeiations. Col. A. A. Pope is president. The intention is to have the road run through Newbury, N. Y.. Binghamton, N. Y., Elmira, N. Y., Horning, N. Y., Jamestown, N. Y., Conneaut, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, Sandusky, Ohio, South Bend, Ind., and Hammond, Ind. Many Stores Are Burned. A chemical explosion in Terry’s drug store, which fatally injured Dr. W. B. Terry, at Princeton, Ky., started a fire which destroyed the Urey block, the opera house, Terry & Frayer’s drug store, A. Cash & Brother's dry goods house, Henry & Butler’s dry goods store, the Cumberland telephone exchange and the Postal Telegraph offices. The total loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Sells Himself to Pay Debt. Jerry Lov."r-,'hn. negfo JaHifOr of »3xate Supreme Court at Knoxville, Tenn., has sold himself to Gerald Stuart, clerk of the court, for SI,OOO. For this sum he agrees in a written contract to serve and obey Stuart as his legal master from now until the time of his death. Logan has lately been worried by debts, which he will pay now from the sum to be paid him for his liberty. Makes 72.8 Miles an Hour. The Twentieth Century limited on the Lake Shore made the best long-distance run ever made by the train. The run was made between Kendallville, Ind., and Toledo. The distance of ninety-one miles was covered in seventy-five minutes, which is at the rate of 72.8 miles an hour. Morris Buys Big Beef Plant. Nelson Morris & Co. of Chicago have purchased the business of the United Dressed Beef Company, whose main plant is at Forty-first street and First avenue, New York City. It is said the consideration was $5,000,000. Chicago Policemen Killed. Charles T. Pennell and Timothy Devine, patrolmen connected with the West Lake street station, were shot and killed in Chicago while in the discharge of their doty. The murderers are at present unknown.

Three Men Dodge Avalanche. Rocky Mountain sheep scratching above them hurled rocks upon a party of Western Union men working on the side of Pike's Peak. J. P. Cook of Chicago, J. J. Dickey of Omaha and Maj. Seels narrowly escaped death. New Find at Cripple Creek. A strike of sulphide ore carrying 4,000 ounces of silver and a large percentage of copper has been made on Ball HUI, the center of the Cripple Creek district, Colorado, at a depth of 1.305 feet Exposition Gold Dollars. Two hundred and fifty thousand gold dollars, one-half to contain the head of Thomas Jefferson and the other half the head of William McKinley, will be coined for the St Louis exposition. ■U.-U, , . i , , , Ten Thousand Rendered Homeless. The State Department has - beeu informed that the provisional' government of Hayti has notified the United States

legation that' Gonavos, Pont de Paix, Petit Goave and St. Mare are in rebellion and that the government troops captured Petit Goave after a strong resistance Many lives were lost. Firmin’s force set fire to Petit Goave before abandoning the place, which was totally destroyed. Ten thousand people are reported homeless and in dire want, FRIGHTENED INTO CONFESSION. ■?' . ___ ‘ ' • Mrs. Wiurchowski Admits That Hus* band Was Slain by Boarder. Mrs. Ignatz Wiurchowski has made a written confession to the Cleveland police that the man who shot and killed her husband was Charles Janaski, a former boarder at the Wiurchowski home, and who is alleged to be infatuated with Mrs. Wiurchowski. Mrs. Wiurchowski and her husband were on their way home late Sunday night when a man rushed from the bushes and killed Wiurchowski instantly. Mrs, Wiurchowski told the police that it was a robber that committed the crime. Since the commission of the murder Mrs. Wiurchowski and Janaski have been under arrest. The other night two of the city detectives went through the crime in mimic as nearly as possible from Mrs. Wiurchowski’s description. One detective acted as escort for Mrs. Wiurchowski, while the other rushed at them from die bushes. When the revolver was pointed at the detective’s he'ad the woman went into hysterics and cried out: “My God! it’s Charles Janaski.” The confession was verified later and written out FOUND IN FATHER’S BARN. ■" - ’ ’• Chatham, N. J.. Divinity Student Discovered In the Hayloft Reading. Wilberforce Ogden, the young divinity student who disappeared from the home of his father, William Ogden, at Chatham, N. J., on Aug. 4, and for whom a persistent search has been made ever since, was found in the loft of his father’s barn, where he was comfortably ensconced in the hay and engaged in reading, a. book. Young Ogden returned some months ago from the Vermont Theological Seminary, his health having become impaired by hard study. When found he told his father that he had been hiding in the barn ever since his disappearance and that he had lived on food which he obtained in nightly visdts to his home. He appeared to be in good physical health, but his mind is still affected.

FARMERS 1N550,000,000 COMBINE. Co-operative Company Formed to Secure Better Prices. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State at Pierre, S. D., by the Farmers’ National Co-opera-tive Exchange Company, with a capital of $50,000,000. The principal object of the corporation is to enable farmers •to secure better prices for their produce, and sell grain, live stock and all kinds of produce on commission and otherwise. A chain of grain elevators, warehouses, cold storage plants and stockyards will be built. TRAGEDIES AT "BLIND PIG.” Proprietor Shoots Customer and la Killed by Deputy Sheriff. At Edmore, N. D., Carl Okelson, with three other men from Walsh County, went to a “blind pig’* run by Frank Pelke. When Pelke opened the door he shot Okelson in the face. When Deputy Sheriff George Hanson and Constable John Johnson, with a warrant, went to arrest Pelke the latter drew a revolver, but Hanson w-.«.'tdo quick and snoi'rilm iju*<ne left side. Pelke died an hour later. Okelson is not expected to live. Harvester Firms in Giant Trust. Most of the large harvester manufacturing concerns of the country have been united as the International Harvester Company, with a capital of $120,000,000. Incorporation papers were filed at Trenton, N. J. It is understood that among others interested is the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company of Chicago. Sheriff Shot by Chicken Thieves. Sheriff W. C. Barnhill of Henry County, Ohio, was shot and probably mortally wounded by chicken thieves. He was summoned to the southern part of the county, where some farmers had three thieves with wagons located. When Barnhill and two deputies attempted to arrest them they showed fight. Minister Kills Himself. Rev. Dr. M. M. Sweeney, pastor of the Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church, Bellevue, Pa., committed suicide at his residence by cutting his wrists. He bled to death before his condition was discovered. Dr. Sweeney suffered a stroke of apoplexy two weeks ago and it is thought was temporarily deranged. Weds at Age of 84.

James Moonan of St. Louis, aged 84 years, not only outwitted his two score descendants in his elopement with a woman herself a grandmother, but landed in jail as well. She is Mrs. Josephine Marti. * r Big Cattle House Falla. The Riverside Ranch Company of Ashland, Neb., owned by George E. Ricker & Co., suspended payment. The company is the largest breeder of thoroughbred Hereford cattle in this country, selling mostly in car loads. War on Dirty Money in Cleveland. Health Officer Friederich has begun a war against the use of dirty money In Cleveland. He says there is more dirty money afloat in Cleveland than in any other city oatside of New York or Chicago. . ' Bethie he m Steel Company Sold. The Bethlehem Steel Company, for which Charles M. Schwab paid $7,500,000, has been sold to the United States Shipbuilding Company at a figure stated to be $26,000,000.

NO WHITE MEN ON MINDANAO. C. G. Stone,-Who Studied the Island Races, Telle What He Found. A story disputing the existence of a race of white men on Mindanao island was told in San Francisco by C. G. Stone, who was recently a member of the army engineering corps in the Orient and who returned- recently. Stone was commissioned by Capt. Baldwin to make a tour of the island with the purpose, in part, of ascertaining the truth of the reports that a race of people distinct from the typical Moros inhabited the interior portions of Mindanao. Stone acquired the dialects of several tribes and was afforded unusual opportunities for investigation. He declares that the statements made as to the existence of native white men on the island are not founded on fact. He met many persons whose facial characteristics denoted Caucasian ancestry, particularly in the matter of complexion when contrasted with the Moro skin, but his inquiries led to the development that these lighter-hued people were descended from Castilians who had long ago settled on Mindanao and had married native women. LOVE CONQUERS FUTURE KING. Kaiser’s Son Threatens to Renounce Throne for American. Another victory for the all-conquering American girl! No less a person than the heir to the German Empire has been added to her string of royal lovers, for Prince Frederick William, eldest son of the Kaiser, is said to be willing to give up his right to the imperial throne for the sake of marrying Miss Gladys Deacon. Miss Deacon is the daughter of the late Edward Parker Deacon, who figured in a famous divorce suit in Paris a few years ago. She has refused to consent to a morganatic marriage with the joung prince, declaring that both a legal and religious ceremony would be necessary if the prince wishes to marry her. The prince certainly does, and has presented her with a ring which he had sworn to give only to his future wife. This action has led to a violent quarrel between the Emperor and his son, who declared that he would even renounce his rank for the sake of marrying the beautiful American. Prince Frederick William is 20 years old and is still a student at the University of Bonn.

PLOT TO BLOW UP PAUPERS. Dynamite Found in Inmate’s Room in Adams Infirmary. A plot to destroy the Adams County infirmary and kill the forty-four inmates was unearthed at Decatur, Ind. A. W. Butler, secretary of the State board of charities, was making an inspection of. tho buildings. In the room of Charles Echerman he found a pile of rubbish, which he ordered removed. Buried beneath the rubbish sixty pounds of dynamite, two fwn-pnnpd dypomite bombs and 115 feet of fuse were found. Echerman has been an inmate of the infirmary over twelve years. He was reprimanded recently and since that time has been sulky. When the discovery of the dynamite' was made he disappeared and no trace of him can be found. It is known thaf he has a dynamite bomb with him. One Pugilist Kills Another. Roy Streeter, a colored lightweight pugilist of some note, was shot and instantly killed on the street at Custer City, S. D., by another pugilist, John Gorman, better known as “Kid Hogan.” The men met and renewed a former quarrel, and Gorman emptied the contents of a shotgun into Streeter’s body. Gorman., ’isiniier - •""'J' ~~ Chain Mail Saves Life. Polish papers report that Prince Obolensky, Governor of Kharkov, Russia, who was shot at and wounded at Kharkov, received some time ago a formal sentence of death from the central revolutionary committee and since that time the prince has worn a waistcoat of chain armor, which saved his life. Skaguay Shaken by a Quake. A severe earthquake was felt at Skaguay, Alaska. The first shock was fifty seconds long. Several large plate glass windows were broken and chimneys in the northern part of the city tumbled down. The water in Lynn canal rose five feet very suddenly, then subsided as quickly. New York as Financial Center. Application to New York Stock Exchange to list imperial Russian rentes has been made through J. P. Morgan & Co., and is taken in Wall street as another step in recognition of city as financial center of the world. Charles Holada Makes Confession. At lowa City, lowa, Charles Holada has made a confession in which he states that James Gaullagher was murdered by Mrs. Gaullagher with bis complicity and that the crime was committed because he and Mrs. Gaullagher were in love.

Chosen Supreme Chancellor. Tracey R. Bangs of Grand Forks, N. D.. for the past two years supreme vicechancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has been exalted to the supreme chancellorship by the unanimous vote of the supreme lodge. ■, Youth Confesses Murder. Levi Perham, aged 19, at inquest over body of Marcus Rogen at Bennington, Vt., confessed that, assisted by Rogers' wife, he bound her husband, chloroformed him and threw the helpless man into the Wallgomsuc river. Finish Perilous Voyage. Capt. Newman and son Edward arrived at Falmouth, England, in thirty-eight foot kerosene launch, after perilous veyage across Atlantic. Extra Session in November. Advice* received in Washington indicate that President Roosevelt will call the-Benate in extraordinary session early in November. : . „