Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1902 — INJURY IS A MURDER [ARTICLE]

INJURY IS A MURDER

FATHER SEEKS MAN WHO TACKLED HIS SON. A Football Player Who Said Before Game that He Would “Lay Out Jordan” Keeps Identity Secret—Railroad to Pension Old Employes. .¶ Charles Jordan of Sioux Falls. S. D., Whose son, Harry Jordan, was killed in a football game Sept. 25, has searched for six weeks to find who caused the fatal injuries in order to arrest him for murder. Jordan, who was a member of the Sioux Falls college team, was fatally injured when tackled by a player on the University of South Dakota team in a game at Sioux Falls. The boy’s father found that the man who tackled his son had said before the game that he was going to “lay out Jordan,” and immediately went to Vermilion and tried to find' out who tackled the youth, but to no purpose. Since then he has detailed private detectives on the case, but they have failed.

CONGRESSMEN IN WRECK. Feely and Hopkins, of Illinois, Shaken Up, with Dolliver and Others. Chicago representatives and members of Congress from States other than Illinois were slight sufferers in a railroad wreck at Carbon, Pa. The Baltimore and Ohio train No. 6, on which they were speeding toward the national capital, ran into an open switch and collided with a freight train. All the passengers, among whom were Congressman John J. Feely, of Chicago, A. J. Hopkins and J. Ross Mickey, of Illinois, were badly shaken. The engineer was killed and three other persons were severely hurt, one of them a passenger. Other passengers aboard the train were Senator Dolliver of Iowa, Judge Walter I. Smith of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Congressman Chester I. Long of Medicine Lodge, Kan.; Congressman John H. Stephens of Vernon, Tex., and Congressman John Snook and his wife of Ohio. PENSIONS FOR OLD EMPLOYES. The Union Pacific Railroad Completes Rules for System of Retirement. Rules and regulations for a pension system, which will go into effect Jan. 1, 1903, have been completed by officials of of the Union Pacific Railroad by which its old employes will be retired on pension. The details of the system will not be made public until later, but it is officially stated that the details of perfecting the system have been worked out and the regulations printed. It also is stated that it will involve the annual distribution of over $300,000 and is intended to cultivate a closer relation between the railroad and its employes. Peasants Horribly Tortured. Mail advices from Constantinople say: “In spite of all official denials, the Porte is adopting barbarous methods in crushing the Macedonian peasants. In the face of promises of free pardon to those who returned to their homes, Christian villagers have been shockingly tortured to make them betray alleged concealed depots of arms or give information regarding the working of the Macedonian committees. To Represent Ohio at St. Louis. Gov. Nash has appointed the following members of the Ohio commission for the St. Louis exposition: W. F. Burdell, Columbus; L. E. Holden, Cleveland; Edward Hagenbach, Urbana; Newell G. Cannon, St. Clairsville; David Friedman, Caldwell; M. K. Gantz, Troy; David H. Moore, Athens. The commission is to erect a building and prepare exhibits at the exposition. Gives Life for Gold. Wesley Reynolds, a youth of 16, displayed rare heroism in a single-handed fight with four bank robbers at Westville, Ind., and lost his life to a desperate struggle, which he kept up after having been twice wounded with bullets. The robbers obtained no booty. Alton Train Held Up. Within a few miles of the scene of some of the most noted crimes of the days of Jesse James and his accomplices, two men made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the east-bound Alton passenger train at Independence, Mo. A plucky brakeman resisted and drove them off.

Explosion Causes Thirteen Deaths. .¶ Boiler explosion in the plant of the Swift Packing Company at the Chicago stock yards caused thirteen deaths, twenty more being injured. Buildings were destroyed and shock like that of an earthquake was felt. Murder in Second Degree. .¶ Frank Smith, aged 25, who shot and killed Perry Oxley and Charles Brown at Gloucester Aug. 20, was found guilty of murder in the second degree at Athens, Ohio. New York Fire Chief Dismissed. .¶ Edward F. Croker, chief of New York fire department and nephew of Richard Croker, has been dismissed following conviction for appropriating public property to his own use. Josephine Was No Wife. .¶ Judge Clifford, in Chicago, decided that Josephine Moffit has no wifely claim on William Wallace Pike. Appeal from the decision was taken. Dr. Parker Is Dead. .¶ Dr. Joseph Parker, minister of the City Temple, expired at his residence in London. The noted preacher had been seriously ill for nearly a year. Aged Couple Burned Alive. .¶ Benjamin Watson and his wife Elisabeth, an aged couple, lost their lives in a fire which destroyed their small cottage at Newport, R. I. Mrs. Watson in going upstairs with a lighted lamp in her hands made a misstep and fell. Y. M. C. A. Building Burns. .¶ The main building of the Twenty-third street branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association in New York was badly damaged by a fire that broke out in a store in the basement. The loss is estimated at $20,000.