Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

WANTS OLD BONDS FOR FUEL. Order for Greenbacks Purports to Be from Mark Twain. The following letter was received at the Treasury Department in Washington the other day: “Now York City.—The Honorable the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.: Sir —Prices for the customary kinds of winter fuel having reached the altitude which puts them out of reach of literary persona in straitened circumstances, I desire to place with you the following order: Forty-five tons best old dry government bonds, suitable for furnace, gold 7 per cents, 1864 preferred. Twelve tons early greenbacks, range size, suitable for cooking. Eight barrels Reasoned 25 and 50 cent postal currency, vintage of 1866, eligible for kindlings. Please deliver with all convenient dispatch at my house in Riversdale at lowest rates for spot cash and send bill to your obliged servant, Mark Twain. Who will be very grateful and will vote right.” MRS. ADA DENNIS IS DEAD. Victim of Mysterious Attack in Wash* ington, D. C., Passes Away. After hovering between life and .death since last December, Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis, the victim of one of the most mysterious attacks in the history of the District of Columbia, died nt the Garfield hospital in Washington. With her death the last hope of the solution of the mystery has disappeared. Mrs. Dennis came from Gettysburg, Pa., and married Walter Dennis, a Washington actor. She was found Dec. 10 insensible in her bedroom. Various theories were advanced as to the motive of the crime, but ho definite clew was ever obtained. She~fievef~ recovered sufficiently to talk rationally. SUNDAY SHAVE NOT NECESSARY. Wisconsin Judge Pecides Against a , Barber Who Worked on Sabbath. t In a decision nt La Crosse, Wis., Judge Fruit of the Circuit Court decided that sharing on Sunday was not a necessity if it was done in a public shop. In the case of The State vs. Rice the defendant was charged with violating the Stnte laws, which provide that none but necessary work be done. Rice shaved a man in his shop at Tomah on Sunday and was arrested for it. The attorney for the defense argued that it was necessary for a man to be shaved on Sunday in order to make him presentable to go to ch urch. IS HEIR TO A CHICAGO ESTATE. Nephew of Late J. T. Wills Is Found Working on Ohio Farm. 11. J. Hnviland, a Chicago attorney, administrator of the estate of J. T. Wills, went to Toledo, Ohio, in search of J, J. - Smith, nephew of the deceased, who is heir to $70,000. Hnviland found Joseph James Smith employed ns a man of all work 'on the farm of Hiram Worden, three miles from Toledo. Smith fully established his identity nnd his right to tin* fortune, and he and Hnviland departed for Chicago. •> Three Nation* Make a Pact. From authoritative sources the correspondent of the Associated Press lias learned that France, Great Britain nnd Germany have concluded an agreement for the military evacuation of Shanghai by their forces. These negotiations also have brought about an important extension of the open door policy, as urged by Secretary Hay. —==- —- Will Live with Sewed Heart. Mrs. Annie’ Kingsley, a stab wound in whose heart was sewed' up with six stitches at Bellevue hospital, New York, is progressing satisfactorily and is expected to recover. Her husband, who is held by the police, has been remanded to await the outcome of the remarkable surgical operation. Will Merge Seventy Mills. It was authoritatively announced that the Southern Textile Company, letter known ns the Fries mill merger, will become effective Dec. T. A committee assigned the duty of fixing the valuation of the seventy mills iu the merger will meet in Raleigh. N. C., Oct. 23, when every plant will be valued by experts. Coal Strike Declare! Off. By a unanimous viva voce vote the convention of United Mine Workers nt Wilkesbarre, I*a„ accepted President Roosevelt’s arbitration plan. The resolution as adopted carries with it a declaration that the strike is off and provides for an immediate resumption of work. Vote Against Bale of Islands. At Copenhagen the Inndsthing rejected the second reading of the bill providing for the. ratification of the treaty between Denmark and,the United States In regard to the cession of the Dunish West Indies to the latter country. The vote stood 32 to 32, a tie. Another St. Louis Indictment. Edward Butler, the millionaire politician, waa indicted by the grand jury in Bt. Louis on the charge of paying to Delegate Charles F. Kelly a $47,500 bribe for aierobers of the house of delegates’ combine, who passed the ten-year lighting bill Nov. 28, 1899. Ohio Legislature Enacts System. The State legislature has adopted n municipal code for Ohio which provides an entire new system of government for saventy-two municipalities. The vote in the Senate was 21 to 12 and in the Louse 65 to 35. Baer Advances Prices. Anthracite coal price has been advanced 50 cents by President Baer to cover’ extra expeases of miners' strike and |iosaible increase in wages; 70 per cent of miners have failed to get jobs back. Train Is Death’s Scythe. While 6,000 people were waiting beside the track for the special train bringing Senator Hanna to Marion, Ind., a freight

train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ran through the crowd. A brake- rod on a flat car protruded over the aide and knocked over several people. Alexander Ford, 68 years old, an inmate of the soldiers’ home, was struck on the head, fracturing his skull. He will die. LIVES THOUGH HEART STOPS. Child Under Chloroform la Pronounced Dead, but Suddenly Revives. After haring been pronounced dead for six or seven minutes, Howard Smith, aged 5 years, suddenly regained the functions of life at Coudersport, Pa. While running through a dark room with a brass curtain rod in his mouth the boy bumped against a door, the tube cutting his throat. Three surgeons were called and it was hurriedly decided to cut by putting in a number of stitches, and the child, who had just eaten a big meal, waa given chloroform. In a few minutes the heart ceased to beat, the limbs commenced to stiffen, when suddenly one of the physicians who had started to work on the supposed corps by artificial respiration was surprised 1 to see. life reappearing. For fully six minutes the child's heart had ceased to beat. BAD INDIAN EXECUTED. Allen Walking Shield P»yn Penalty for Murder at Sioux Falla, 8. D. Allen Walking Shield, a Brule Sioux Indian, was hanged at Sioux Falls, S. D., for the murder of Mrs. Ghost-Faced Bear, whom Walking Shield shot and killed nt her home on the Rosebud reservation on May 2, 1902. Until the last the murderer maintained his stoical composure atiff even joked with the officers on his way to the scaffold. The night before his execution Wnlking Shield, as is the custom of Indians about to die, chanted his death song at sundown. The hanging was effected without the slightest difficulty. Walking Shield did not flinch when he stepped on the trap, but toid the deputies to “hurry up” as they adjusted *the rope and black cap. The trap was sprung nt 9:04 and the murderer was declared dead at 9:22. FIREMEN OVERCOME BY SMOKE. Many Have Narrow Escape from Death at a New York York Blaze. Fire destroyed a stock of sporting goods iu the warerooms of R. H. Ingersoll & Co. in New York. Two firemen were overcome by smoke nnd were carried to a hospital. A dozen men carrying a line of hose were confronted by flames which suddenly burst through the doors on the third floor. They were compelled to throw themselves down a stairway in order to escape. Several sustained minor injuries. Loss on building and stock is estimated at $50,000. il Soldiers Will Be Amused. Secretary Root has approved a preliminary plan for the expenditure of the appropriation of $500,000 intended to provide substitutes nt military posts for the canteen, which has been abolished by legislation. The intention is to provide reading rooms, gymnasiums and other amusements for the soldiers. The appropriation was made in the last army supply bill. Former Infidel la Dead. Marshall O. Waggoner, for sixty years a prominent attorney of Toledo, Ohio, nnd whose conversion from a widely known materialistic iufidel to an equally aggressive Christian upon the death of his wife was accompanied by the public burning of his extensive library at Toledo some years ago, died at Detroit, at the age of 1)0 years. Vessels Lost Off Alaska. The steamer Centennial, from Alaska, reports the loss of two vessels, the schooner Cdurtney Ford and the ship Louis Walsh, both of San Francisco, and the death of four men. The Ford went’ ashore on Izen Island the evening of Sept. 7 nnd the Walsh was lost on the spit near Dutch harbor during a gale on Oct. 14. Swayne's Army at Bohotle, A message received at the London foreign office from Gen. Manning, dated at Berbera, capital of Somaliland, announces that the force commanded by Col. Swayne, which was threatened with destruction by the army commanded by the Mad Mullah, has reached Bohotle iu safety. Minister Wu’s Son Drills. Chao Chu, the 16-year-oid son of Wu Ting Faug, the Chinese minister, has donned the service uniform of tJncle Sam and is drilling with a Krag-Jorgensen rifle. Chao Chu was admitted as a iuem~ !>er of the Morris guards, the crack private military organization of New Jersey. Fear Deficit in Philippines. The depreciation in the value of silver has cost the iusulnr government in the Philippines approximately $1,000,000 hi gold, as it is carrying $10,000,000 in silver. Further depreciation will increase the loss. The official rate'is $2.40 silver for $1 gold. Sultan Dislikes Miee Stone. The American board. In view of the hint that the Saltan of Turkey would regard Miss Ellen Stone, the ransomed n issionary, as persona non grata and refuse her permission to land in his dominions, will probably not assign her to her old field of work in Macedonia. California Venae Shot. Marion Nolan, known on the stage ae the “California Venus,” waa shot and killed at San Francisco by EdwurJ Marscliuts, a stenographer, who blew out hia own brains. The actress is said to hare repelled his advances. Bay* the Benton Journal. Frank A. Munsey of New York l.aa bought from Stephen O’Meara and hia associates all the stock of the Journal Newspaper Company, which owns and publishes the Boston Morning, Evening and Bunday Journal.

KILLS TO PREVENT MARRIAGE. Rather than See Daughter Wife of Enemy’s Son, Father Slays Her. Because his daughter was in love with, and wanted to marry, the young and prosperous aoiLpf his enemy, Gust Olson of Glen, Minn., at midnight Tuesday night killed her with a butcher knife. For several months the girl had been clandestinely wooed by the young man, who paid court to her despite the threat made by her father that he would kill him on sight. Tuesday the suitor had a secret interview with the girl and the angry father appeared. He fired a revolver at the young man, but the shot went wild, and the man escaped. That night the girl prepared to leave home. Her valise was packed and she lay awake awaiting an opportunity to steal away, when about midnight her father entered, choked her into insensibility, and then killed her with a knife. Olson is in custody. LEAP FROM FLAMES TO DEATH. Four Men Killed in Trying to Escape . from Glucose Refinery Fire. Four men lost their Jives in jumping from lofty windows in corn-crushing plant of the Glucose Sugar Refinery Company, Beach and Taylor streets, Chicago, in a fire which did a damage of $400,000 to the establishment. Ten other men are said to have been buried beneath the falling walls of the structure, and four comrades of the men who were killed in leaping to escape the flames landed in the fire nets so badly burned and bruised that their lives were despaired of. Half a dozen spectators of the blaze went down with a portion of the sidewalk of the Taylor street viaduct, which collapsed, and one of these wns so severely injured that it is thought he, too, may die. APPLE CROP IS VERY LARGE. It la Estimated at $43,000,000 Barrels Throughout the Conntry. According to thg estimate of the correspondent of the N’ew England Homestead, the apple crop throughout the country this year will be 43,000,000 barrels, against 27,000,000 barrels Tn 1901. In the old orchard sections of the Middle and Eastern States the increase after last year’s failure is pronounced. In the central West there are also sharp gains, while in the Southwest, a territory last year favored by exceptionally good yields, tlie crop this season is deficient. As for quality, it is far from satisfactory In the Central and Western States, but in New England is very much better. SEVERAL DIE IN HOTEL FIRE. Burning of Tepee House at Fairview, B. C., Results in Fatalities. - The Tepee Hotel at Fairview, B. C-, was destroyed by fire. One body has been taken from the ruins and seven others are said -to be fatally injured. The fire started near the furnace room and the flames, shooting up the stafrwuy, quickly cut off escape except through the windows. The guests on the first floor escaped Asily, but many of those above were badly hurt, either by the flames or by leaping to the ground. Four Gunboats Ordered Up River. Four British gunboats stationed at Shanghai, have been ordered to ascend the Yang-tse-Iviang as far as Hankow because of the failure of the Chinese >huthorities to deal adequately with The murderers of Bruce and Lewis, two English missionaries who were killed In HoNan province. Death of an Inventor. Hector A. Holmes, inventor of the first patent twine binder, died at the home of his son. Dr. Bayard Holmes, in Chicago, aged 73 years. Mr. Holmes was a native of Vermont. For a number of years he was a resident of Hoosac Fallß, N. Y., and later of- Austin, Minn. Btorm Is Fatal at Nome. One of the worst storms that ever raged in Behring sea swept the Nome coast recently. Three lives were lost in the Nome sea and much damage was done to buildings along the water front. Three persona were drowned. Many Killed by Hurricane. A hurricane has swept over Port Diamente. Province of Entre Rios, Argentina. Fifteen persons were killed and many injured. A hundred houses were destroyed and several ships sunk. Nogvoya and other places also were damaged. Plot to Asaaaainate Lonbet Frustrated The Paris Figaro says a man wns detected attempting to climb a wall of the Elysee Palace. It la believed that he intended to hide in the palace garden in the hope of obtaining an opportunity to assassinate President Louhet Alexandra as Godmother. According to the Onlooker Queen Alexandra has promised to be godmother to the son of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, formerly Miss Zimmerman of Cincinnati, and the child will be named Alexander. Lead Trust Is Arranged. Nearly ail the details of the big lead trust are completed and the holding company, with a capital of $60,000,000, which is to be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey, wjll be formed by Jan. 1. " Three Robberies at Belgrade, Neb. Burglars blew open three safes in Belgrade, Neb., securing S2OO at the Union Pacific depot, $125 at the postofflcc and $l6O nt Cooley’s lumber yard. Bold to Montgomery Ward. At the Kansas City hone show Thornton Star, owned by J. A. Potts of Mexico, Mo., was sold to Montgomery Ward for La Belle Knoll farm for $2,500. s 'v Segregation for • University. University of Chicago trustees votedto segregate men and women students for two years; thirteen oat of sixteen favored the policy.