Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

TO FIRE ON SEAL PIRATES. Russian Order to Pnniah American Poachera on Siberian Coast. In a dispatch from Odessa the correspondent of the London Standard says the Russian minister of agriculture and state domains, M. Yermoloff, has announced that he has now taken effective measures for the suppression of the systematic poaching operations of Americans and Japanese among the seal and other sea animals on the northeastern coast of Siberia. Although anxious to comply with the reiterated representations of Russia, the Washington and Tokio governments have failed to put an end to this illicit fishing in Russian waters. M. Yermoloff, continues the correspondent, now gives formal notice that American and Japanese poachers captured within the limits of Russia’s maritime jurisdiction on the Siberian coast will be liable to three months' imprisonment and their ships and cargoes to confiscation. This order will be enforced by three fast gunboats. No discrimination will be made. The commanders and crews of poaching vessels will be subjected to the same punishment. In case of refusal to surrender or attempt to escape, the commanders cf the Russian gunboats are empowered to fire upon and sink the "seal pirates.” FINDS CANADA DEFENSELESS. English Investigator Reports Superiority of American Forts. The London Daily Express says that Col. Ferrers Townshend has returned to England after having inspected, on behalf of the war office, the forts on the Cana-dian-American frontier. Col. Townshend says that the British fortifications all along the frontier are absolutely inefficient, while the American forts are well equipped. Referring to Col. Townshend’s statement the Express says: “In the event of war between Great Britain and the United States the Yankees would easily march over the frontier and seize Canada before anything could bo-done to resist them.” The statement is made that there are one cartridge and' shell factory in Canada and little ammunitionin the dominion. The Express puts the following headlines over the article: “Defenseless Canada.” “Antiquated Forts and Not Much Ammunition.” DOUBLE MURDERER IS SHOT.

Nebraska Liveryman Wounds Niegenfind and Makes Him a Prisoner. Niegenfind, the dual murderer from Pearce County, Neb., was shot and seriously wounded by a resident of Winside in a corn field near by. He fought against capture until his revolver was empty, but Ms aim was wild and he injured neither of his pursuers. He is now under the care of doctors. Niegenfind killed his divorced wife and -her father and wounded his mbther-Tn-law ’amT’sister-ih-law and then fled. Rewards aggregating SI,OOO were offered for his capture. It was reported that he was in the vicinity of Winside and David Leary, a liveryman, went into the country to search for him. RACK ROW IN BELLAIRE SCHOOL. Principal Forces White Girls to Kiss the Colored Pupils. Indignation exists at Bellaire, Ohio, over the alleged actions of J. D. Deafenbaugh, principal of the Fifth Ward School. There have been some differences between nine white and nine colored girl pupils, which culminated in an open fight. The principal gave his ultimatum that the white girls must all kiss the colored girls or take a whipping. Frghtened, they complied. The parents are highly worked up over the affair and the school board will call an extra session to investigate the matter. Two Dead and Forty-four Hurt. The Royal Blue flyer on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern was wrecked at Leesburg, Ohio. The train ran into an open switch while running fifty miles an hour. The engine exploded and the engineer, Philip Roe, and Fireman Charles Studer, both of Chillicothe, were killed. Every coach on the train left the track, and it is asserted forty-four persons have been injured, though none fatally so. Molasses Combine Formed. The American Molasses Company has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J„ with a capital of $3,000,000, divided into sl,500,000 preferred, bearing 7 per cent noncumulative dividend, and $1,500,000 common stock. The company is to deal in sugar, syrups, glucose, molasses and similar products. Collision on Chicago “L,” In a tail-end collision between two South Side elevated trains in Chicago five persons were injured and 200 others were thrown into a Wild panic. The fault, according to the officials, was with the motorman of the rear train, who failed to stop his charge as ordered by the safety signal. Threat to Kill Roooevelt. Joseph Schmitz, aged 40, is held by the Cincinnati police pending investigation of a statement that he has threatened the life of President Roosevelt It is declared he made the threats to people in Everett street and the police are searching for the men to whom he made the threats. Six Thousand Homeless in India. Twenty-five villages have been swept away and 6,000 persons have been rendered homeless by floods due to the overflowing of rivers in the southern part of the presidency of Bengal. To Stop Persecution of Jews.. Note has been sent to the powers by Secretary Hay calling on them to stop the persecution of Jews in Roumania and demanding the enforcement of the Berlin treaty. Shoots His Daughter Dead. Mrs. Minnie Robinson of Elrod, Ind., Fas shot and killed by her father, F. A. ftheam, while she was acting as peace-

maker in a quarrel between him and her husband. She received the bullet intended for her husband. Mrs. Robinson was the guest of her father and her husband came from St. Louis for a few days’ visit. The quarrel arose over the pay for the daughter’s board. - MISSING WIFE FOUND SLAIN. Mygtery in Death of Woman Taken from Ditch in New Jersey. Mrs. Annie Pulitzer, wife of Joseph Pulitzer, a tailor of New York City, who has been missing for three days, was found dead in a ditch which at high tide is known as the Morris canal, between the Hackensack and Passaic bridges, in Kearney township, just over the Jersey City line. That the woman was murdered there is abundant evidence, first in the mutilation of the body, there being two fractures of the skull, made by two blows, while a gash six inches long had been made in the abdomen. A leather strap had been wound twice around the body. Attached to the end of the strap was a hitching weight weighing twenty pounds. Evidence was discovered tending to show that two men were concerned with the disposition of the body. Bridgetenders John Kane and John Lynch said that late Tuesday night a -closed cab came along from the direction of Newark. Two young and well-dressed men sat together on the front seat. There were no lights on the vehicle and Kane saw that the curtains had been pulled closely. MYSTERY IN DOUBLE ATTACK. Montana Couple Seriously Injured— Man Lives, Head Half Severed. Ira Pressley a'hd his wife, whose home ranch is near Superior, are at Parsons hospital in Missoula, Mont., both near death and unable to tell who wounded them. Pressley’s throat is cut from ear to ear, and the woman is unconscious from a blow on the head that caused contusion of the skull. The man says he was in bed when his throat was cut, but says he does not know who did the cutting. How Pressley has continued to live is a wonder. His windpipe is completely severed and esophagus cut through clear to the back and. the head is almost half severed. By pressing the chin down toward the chest in such a manner as to bring the severed windpipe together, the inan can speak in a barely audible voice, and in this manner was able to answer a few questions. He denies having any trouble with his wife.

FAILURE AT MARSHALLTOWN. Rhoades-Carmean Buggy Company Forced to Make Assignment. The Rhoades-Carmen Buggy Company of Marshalltown, lowa, one of the largest manufacturers of carriages in the West, made an assignment. A. C. Price and A. A. Moore of that city were named as assignees, and the factory will be closed temporarily until an invoice is taken. The assets are scheduled at $266,567.66, and the liabilities at $212,262.73. There are about 100 creditors. The Marshalltown State Bank is the largest creditor, with a claim of $40,000, which the president of the bank says is fully secured. Mountain Smokes in Ohio. People living in the Paint Creek valley are alarmed over the issuance of smoke and sulphurous gases from Copperas Mountain, which can be seen from Bainbridge, Ohio. Ever since the first eruption of Mount Pelee in Martinique smoke has issued from Copperas Mountain at intervals. Within the last few days the smoke and gas have become especially noticeable. , Six Vessels to Cost $1,650,000. One of the most important additions to the lake fleets in years will be the result of an order placed withuthe American Shipbuilding Company of Cleveland by J. C. Gilchrist. The contract calls for the construction of six freight steamers of the largest type at a total cost of $1,650,000. Father Killed by His Child. Thomas McNulty, living in the Four Mile Country, a district some distance from Glenwood Springs, Colo., is dead as the result of a bullet wound in the head inflicted by one of two sons, Thomas and William, aged 12 and 9 years respectively. The boys and the mother have been arrested. Big Indian Tribe in Want. The Navajo Indians In Arizona, numbering 20,000 men, women and children, are rapidly approaching the starvation period and unless speedy aid is rendered them fearful distress and great loss of life will result. F. I. Monsor, the scientist. is authority for the statement as to their condition. 4_ Poatoffiee Building Wrecked. The postoflice building at Minot, N. D., collapsed and is a total wreck. County Treasurer John Lynch and N. Davis, a prominent attorney, were seriously injured, and about fifteen people are believed to be buried in,the ruins. The loss on the building is estimated at $7,000. Trainmaster Is Killed. Edwin E. Ives, trainmaster of the Huddle division of the Santa Fe Railway system, was killed at Emporia, Kan., by being run over by a switch engine, and E. Austin, trainmaster <>( the eastern division, was hurt. Acquitted of Big Theft. At Minneapolis the jury in the case of Harvey 8. Rogers, the distributing clerk on trial for one of the most gigantic* postoffice robberies ever known In the Northwest, returned a verdict of pot guilty after being out Dearly eleven hours. Panic Among Negro Worahlpera. Panic in negro church gathering at Birmingham, Ala., resulted in loss of at least seventy-eight and possibly 100 lives and injury to over 100 others. Woman’s scream, followed by cry of "Fire," caused the disaster.

SEWING MACHINE COMBINE. Corporation Will Control Business in Central West and the East, The formation of a corporation with $30,000,000 capital, to control the manufacture of sewing machines is the latest in the line Of trusts. Representatives of manufacturers have been meeting recently in New York arranging the details. The sewing machine factories reported to be In the corporation are: The New Home Company of Orange, Mass.; the House-hold-of Providence,, R. I.; the Domestic of Newark, N. J.; the Demorest of Williamsport, Pa.; the Williams Manufacturing Company of Plattsburg, N. Y.; the Standard and White Company of Cleveland, Ohio; the Davis of Dayton, Ohio; the Foley & Williams Manufacturing Company of Chicago and Kankakee, Ill.; the Illinois Sewing Machine Company of Rockford, Ill.; the Chicago Sewing Machine Company of Chicago; the National Sewing Machine Company of Belvidere, 111. Barnabas Eldredge, head of the National Machine Company of Belvidere, 111., is said to be slated for the presidency of the combine. SOLDIERS SHOOT AND WRECK. Another Outbreak by Troops at the Presidio Reservation. There has been more rioting at the easterly outskirts of the Presidio reservation, San Francisco, Cal. A band of soldiers gathered opposite Anderson’s saloon and began throwing stones in the direction cf Anderson’s place and the police were summoned. The soldiers then assailed the police with sticks and stones. Some shots were fired by the soldiers, who then rushdd across the street and proceeded to wreck Anderson’s place. They set fire to it, but the flames were extinguished by the fire department. The ■ soldiers then directed their attention to the saloon of Adolph Rehfield and partly demolished it, while other houses in the vicinity were also more or less damaged. The rioters were finally quelled and a patrol from the reservation forced them to retreat to the reservation. So far as can be learned no one was seriously hurt and only one slightly injured, a policeman being struck with a beer bottle. ROBBER USES DYNAMITE BOMB.

Wrecks Building and Kills Himself Trying to Loot a Bank. In Skaguay, Alaska, an unknown man walked into the Canadian Bank of Commerce, a revolver in one hand and a dynamite bomb in the other, and demanded $20,000, threatening to blow all into eternity. Cashier Pooley and Teller Wallace were the only two men in the bank. 'Wallace ducked to get his gun and ran quickly to the back of the room, calling to Pooley to do the same. “No you don’t,” yelled the man, and dropped the bomb. The clerks had just gotten out of the window. The bank was wrecked. The robber’s head was smashed and one arm was torn off. People living above the bank were blown into the air. Attack Upon Two Children. An attack upon two girls, aged 5 and 6, daughters of Charles H. Motzen, caused intense excitement at Hamilton, Ohio. A stranger enticed them away with candy, and when they tried to escape he seized them both by the throat and dragged them to a lot overgrown with high weeds. He struck one on the head with a blunt weapon and cut the head of the other. Steamer and Fourteen Lost. It is now learned that the British ‘steamer Nithsdale, news of the grounding of which on a reef south of Cardiva Island, in the Indian ocean, Sept. 8, was received recently, has foundered. Part of her erew has been brought to Colombo. The captain and thirteen men_are be. lieved to have been drowned. Henderson Not a Candidate. David B. Henderson of lowa, Speaker of the National House of Representatives and Republican leader, withdrew as candidate for Congress in a letter declaring himself opposed to wish of party in his. State and district for tariff revision and trust regulation. Bolt of Lightning Kills Two. Two boys, Frank Zatocek and Timothy Rundus, were killed by lightning near Belleville, Kan. The boys were two miles apart at the time, but both were killed at the same instant by being struck on the forehead by the bolt. Bartholin Suspects Ordered Released. Oscar Thompson, Edward Counseiman and “Old Dad” Classy, held in Chicago as accessories Jn the murder of Mrs. Anna Bartholin and Minnie Mitchell, have been declared not guilty of the charge and ordered released from custody. Embezzler Pleads Guilty. Edgar H. Neff pleaded guilty at Denver to the embezzlement of $8,520 from the Union Pacific Railway Company and was sentenced to serve two to five years in prison. Watchman Shot by Thieves. Charles Peterson, a watchman for the CMcago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, was shot and badly injured while arresting car thieves in the company’s Chicago yards. Peary Expedition Returns. The Peary Arctic Club steamer Windward, Captain Samuel W. Bartlett, has arrived at Sydney, N. 8., from Cape Sabine. All on board are well. Trade Reviews Show Activity. Weekly reviews of trade show continued activity, money stringency having tailed to check industrial operations or shake confidence. Queen of Belgium Dies. Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians, died of heart disease at Spa, after a long illness. San Fra avisos Xs Shaken. A slight earthquake shock was felt la San Fiancisco. No damage was dona.