Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

HIS NAME AMONG THE DEAD. Soldier Reported Killed in Rattle Returns to His Sister’s Home; When Mrs. Katherine Follard, -*>f Jamestown, N. Y., opened the dOor of her home the other afternoon in response to a gentle knock and beheld a silverhaired gentleman standing there who announced himself as her brother the lady drew back' as though she had seen a ghost. She recognized the caller as one who for many years had supposedly been dead. Now this brother, F. A. Smith, of Aberdeen, Kan,, and Mrs. Follard are enjoying each other's society after a separation of forty-five years. Smith went to the front with the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war. As a sergeant he fell supposedly mortally wounded at Newmarket, Va., and with other prisoners was removed to the Andersonville prison, where he languished for about nine months. He was reported among the dead to the War Department and official information of Smith’s fate was forwarded to his relatives, who afterward changed their location. When liberated Smith, unable to find his relatives. went to Kansas. At the last G. A. R. reunion he learned where his sister lived. MURDER AND BURN FATHER. Three Boys in Nebraska Take Revenge for Alleged Cruelty. Gerhard Borchers, a farmer who lived several miles northeast of Humphreys, Neb., has been killed by his son Herman, aged 14 years, who used a shotgun, ■which he had purchased for that purpose. Then, with the help of his two brothers, August, aged 10 years, and John, aged 8 years, Herman dragged the body of his father to a straw stack and set fire to it. The three children were taken into custody. Each of the children practically told the same story, the only variance being in the degree of culpability in the killing accorded each. Herman, who is said to have fired the gun that killed his father, implicates his younger brothers equally with himself, whife they put the blame on him. The only motive for the crime given is that the father, with whom the children had lived alone since their mother’s death, had not treated them kindly. Neighbors of Borchers say they know of no cruelty on the part of the former. >■ BATTLE WITH MASKED ROBBERS. Safe Blowers Secure $6,000 from State Bank at Greenwood, Wia. The State Bank of Greenwood. Wis., was entered by four masked men and SB,OOO in gold and currency fetolen. The men blew open the vault and safe with dynamite. The noise of the explosion attracted several citizens, including the cashier of the bank, who happened to be; on the street. - The citizens surrounded the building, but in spite of the trap the robbers fought their way through and escaped. A dozen shots were exchanged, but no one was hurt. The thieves escaped with a team which was in waiting, leaving, however, a bottle of nitroglycerin, a.sledge and professional burglars’ tools. The bank will resume business ns soon as.a new safe can be delivered. Depositors will not lose aught of their deposits.

Will Set American! Free. Ambassador Qlioate has reported to the Secretary of State at Washington in response to instructions in relation to the repatriation of American citizens detained by the British government as prisoners of war in Ceylon that Lord Lansdowne has informed him that it is purposed to send the prisoners in question to the United States by the first steamer. Senator's Son Found Dead. George Vest, Jr., son and private secretary of Senator Vest Of Missouri, died at the Columbia Hotel in Washington. When the clerk called at the room he found Mr. Vest dead. The immediate cause of death was convulsions, due to acute gastritis. Mr. Vest was about 42 years old. He leaves a widow and children. : —r~ Stage Coach in an Accident. The stage coach which runs between Ouray, Colo., and Red Mountain met with an accident on one of the steepest grades of the road, and together with the fourteen passengers 'fell down the mountainside 300 feet. One of the horses was killed, and the coach rolled over several times in its descent. All the passengers were hurt. Accidents in the Mines. Four fatal accidents occurred in the Wyoming region, Pennsylvania, within twenty-four hours. James Boyle was killed by a fall of coal in Conyngham mine. Joseph Mathews was killed by the falling of the roof of a mine at Sugar Notch. Two foreigners sustained broken backs by falls. War Renewed in Hayti. A troop of 1,200 Fotichardists which entered Port au Prince, Hayti, returning from the campaign against Gen. Fjymin, had a conflict with the civil authorities. There was heavy firing throughout the night. Seven persons were killed and many were wounded. The situation is grave, threatening a new civil war. Motorman and Conductor Held. Euclid Madden and James T. Kelley, motorman and conductor of the electric car which collided with President Roosevelt’s carriage Sept. 3, waived examination on a charge of manslaughter at Pittsfield. Mass., and were held to the grand jury. Killed by Good Fortnne. With a fortune of $160,000 to be turned over to him, John H. Heaton, of Havre De Grace, Md., died suddenly, following a stroke of paralysis, believed to have beetucaused by excitement relative to receipt of the good news. Review Statehood Claims. Senator Beveridge of Indiana has gone to Washington to confer with IL B. Nixon, financial clerk of the Senate, and

hrrange for a tour through New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma proposed for a subcommittee of the Senate committee on territories. The trip of the subcommittee is preparatory to the consideration by the committee of the application of r hese three territories for admission to statehood. MINING KING SENT TO JAIL. '.-/f Letsou Ballett, Convicted of Fraud, Is Sentenced in lowa. Judge Munger of the United States. District Court at Des Moines refused to grant Letson Balliett, known as lhe “mining king,” a new trial and sentenced him to pay a fine of SI,OOO and to spend a year in the county jail. Balliett was convicted this spring of using the mails for fraudulent purposes. In 1000 he poF 7 chased what is known as the White Swan mine, at Baker, Oregon, which had been deserted by the owners, and began to exploit it through advertisements, selling stock on the monthly payment plan. It was shown at the trial that more than SIBO,OOO was received by Balliett from small investors all over the Unjted States. It was also shown that not a dollar was expended upon the mine, although representations were made to the contrary in the advertising matter. Balliett gave notice of an appeal. The case has been tried twice and has cost the government $50,000. INDIANA POSTOFFICES ROBBED.

Burglars Dynamite Safes and Get Away with Stamps and Cash. The safe in the postoffice at Cloverland, Ind., was blown open the other night by five masked men and the contents, consisting of several hundred dollars in stamps and cash, carried away. Robert Tabbert. who was passing the store in which the. postoffice was located, was captured by the robbers and tied to a chair, where they left him when they finished their work. There is no clew. Burglars blew the postoffice safe at Culver, Ind., and got away with SI,OOO worth of stamps. There were-three explosions of dynamite and the safe door was blown through the side of the building. The robbers escaped. FORM BICYCLE TIRE TRUST. Directors of Chicago and Indianapolis Concerns Elect Fame President. An informal combination of the Hartford Rubber Works, the Indianapolis Rubber Works Company and the Morgan & Wright Company has been effected. Lewis D. Parker, president of the Hartford Rubber Company, of Hartford, Conn., has been elected president of the Indianapolis concern and of tfie Morgan & Wright company, their former presidents having resigned. The three corporations will retain their individuality, but all will be operated on a community of interest basis under President Parker's supervision. ESTIMATE FOR BOER COLONIES.

Additional Grant of $40,000,000 May Be Allowed for the Year. A civil service estimate has been issued in London placing the additional amount required as a grant to aid the Transvaal and Orange River Colony during the present financial year at $40,000,000. The sum of $15,000,000 is to be devoted to grants to burghers, $10,000,000 to British sufferers by the war, and $15,000,000 is to be used for loans promised by the 'terms of surrender to aid in resettlin gthe colonies.

Higher Wages for Carmen. Thirty-five hundred trainmen in the employ of tile “Union Traction and consolidated lines in Chicago receive an increase in wages of over 10 per cent dating back to Sept. 15, according to the findings of the board of arbitration, which made its report, after having had the demands of the street car men under consideration for nearly two months. Republicans and Democrats Win. In the general election on Tuesday Republicans carried Illinois, Indiana. lowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania. South Dakota, Wisconsin. Rhode Island, Delaware and Oregon went Democratic by small majorities. Big Iron Furnace Explodes. The big ir6n furnace of the River Furnace and Dock Company in Cleveland, blew up with terrific force. Although fully 125 men were at work near the furnace no one was seriously injured. A number, however, sustained severe bruises and cuts. Commander Takes Up Dnties. Commander Thomas J. Stewast, the recently elected chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, has announced that he has formally taken up the duties of his new office, and has issued his inaugural address to the old soldiers. Freight Agent Kills Himself. John B. Barrett, local freight agent of the Detroit Southern Railroad, committed suicide at Springfield, Ohio, by shooting himself twice in the right temple. The deed was committed in the Elks’ lodgeroom. Steals Engine for a Ride. A tramp, stole a locomotive from the Rock Island yhrd at Albert Lea, Minn., nnd went north at express speed. A pursuing party went after the fugitive and five miles out found the engine. The man who stole it had disappeared. Mitchell Presents His Case. President Mitchell has filed with the strike arbitration commission statement of miners, giving arguments why demands for advanced wages, shorter hours and recognition of union should be granted. _ Official May Hit* Perished. Superintendent Egan of the Great Northern is lost in the Montana mountains. Severe storms have been prevailing. and it to feared he may hare perished.

HAZING PRANK PROVES FATAL. Student Is Dropped Fifty but Pool of Water Breaks Fall. Though every member of the faculty denies positively that such was the case, an attempt to haze astudent of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville resulted in an accident which nothing but a miracle prevented from being niore serious. J. L. Willford, of Memphis, was the victim of the prank, and unless he was internally injured, as feared, he will recover. A party of hazers seized him, but he escaped and fled to his quarters in Humes Hall. There the door he had locked was broken down' and he was seized and dropped out of a third-story window. A pool of water was all that broke his fall, a distance of fifty feet, and even then his shoulder was dislocated. His comrades, who regarded him highly, realized what they had done almost instantly, and have since done everything they could to atone for the trick. The utmost secrecy has been preserved, and local papers print stories to the effect .that it was altogether accidental. LAND OFFICE MAKES REPORT. Commissioner gays 10,488,535 Acres Have Been Disposed of During Year* The annual report of the commissioner of the general land office shows that the public land disposed of by the government during the year aggregated 19,488,535 acres, an increase of 3,925,736 acres over the previous year. Of the aggregate, 1,757,793 acres were sold for cash, 17,614,792 acres were embraced in miscellaneous entries, and the remainder were Indian lands. The commissioner makes many feeommendations and advises legislation giving the president general authority to set apart as national parks public laud tracts having scientific or historic interest or containing springs of medicinal properties. A little over 5,000,000 acres of land were certified and patented to railways during the year under the land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads. During the season the interior department allowed 1,197,000 sheep and 459,137 head of cattle and horses to graze in reservations. UPHOLDS THE ANTI-TRUST LAW. Nebraska Supreme Court Declares the State Statute Constitutional. The Nebraska Supreme Court has given a decision sustaining the constitutionality of the State anti-trust law, which had been attacked by the Nebraska Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association, as defendant in a suit for damages for forcing a retail dealer out of business. The law exempts laboring men. The court holds the association to be •.inlawful, but dismisses the suit as to the association, because it is not incorporated. The members of the association are held liable for damages' resulting from their acts. Fruit Ship Rams Schooner. The United Fruit Coinpany’s steamer Admiral Sampson reports that she collided with the three-masted schooner Charley Bucki, bound from Eddyville, N. Y., for Boston, about ten miles off the Cape Cod lightship. The schooner was sunk and Captain Freeman Huntley of Jonesport, Me., Ulmer Huntley, the mate, and two seamen of the Bucki were drowned. Six Hundred Workers Quit. Six hundred men and women employed at the Morgan & Wright factory of the rubber trust in Chicago have struck. The workers claim that the company is not living up to an agreement entered into with the union a few days ago, after a board of arbitration had adjusted grievances. Seven Killed by Yaquis. Persons returning to Arizona from San Marcial, Sonora, bring reports of a crime by Yaqui Indians. On the way to San Marcial, in company with half a dozen Mexicans, J. E. Sullivan, superintendent of a mine at La Meza, was attacked and the entire party was murdered. Wireless Dispatch Over Ocean. Signor Marconi, in Nova Scotin, has received a brief dispatch from his station at Poldhu, Cornwall, which was entirely distinct. This is the first full message which has ever been received, the previous work having been devoted to the transmission of a signal, the letter “S.” Premature Explosion Injures Fifty. By a premature explosion of fireworks in Madison Square, New York, ten persons were killed and nearly fifty seriously injured. The explosion took place among the fireworks that were to be set off to celebrate the announcement of ’he election returns. Two Die in Car Accident. A heavy trolley car on the Broadway line in Kansas City jumped the track at Fifth and Broadway and crashed into a saloon. Two passengers, a woman and a negro, were killed, and «ix others were injured. Reject Gift by Carnegie. The question of accepting #5165,000 from Andrew Carnegie for the erection of a library building in Albany, N. Y„ was put to a popular vote and defeated by an overwhelming majority. Prominent Man Under Arrest. Alan Gregory Mason, son of the founder of the firm of Mason & Hamlin and member of a leading Boston family, has been arrested, charged with “Jack the Slugger” crimes. Fatal Ftornu on Nome Coast. At least eight men were drowned, three vessels driven ashore and practically every lighter on the Nome beach wa. wrecked in a storm. i Industrial Activity Continues. Weekly trade reviews show continued activity in business, slow freight movement because of car shortage being only ' drawback. ■4F • ••*