Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BLAIN BY BANK ROBBER. C. E. Osborne Killed While Trying to Prevent a Burglary. Clint E. Osborne, assistant postmaster and proprietor of the general store in Warren, Mich., was shot dead by one of a gang of robbers that had entered the Warren Bank and blown open the safe. There were three or four men in the gang of burglars. About 2:30 a. m. they drove into town and broke into the bank. They drilled the safe and Inserted a large charge of nitroglycerin. The explosion aroused Osborne, who telephoned to one of his neighbors that he thought burglars were at work in either the bank or postoffice. All the telephones in the village are connected at night, and it is thought that the cracksmen heard the bell on the bank ’phone ring and listened to Osborne’s conversation. Osborne then started down the street, and had gone but a short distnnee when one of the robbers acting as an outside guard shot him in the face with a charge of buckshot, killing him iustantly. Then, without securing anything from the safe, the burglars rushed from the bank and fled to where they had tied a team of horses. They drove rapidly away. MASKED ROBBERS MURDER MAN. While Unlocking Safe for Highwaymen Bookkeeper Ie Slain. Joseph W. Shide, bookkeeper in a feed store at Dayton, O., was murdered by two masked robbers early the other evening. Shide and a clerk were in the office when the two robbers appeared and bade each throw up his hands. Then one of the robbers fired a bullet into the bookkeepers’ left leg and demanded that the bookkeeper open the safe. Shide was bending over and in the act of unlocking the safe when he was fired upon in the back by one of the robbers. The bullet pierced Shide’s breast and he fell dead. The robbers rifled the pockets of the dead bookkeeper, getting, it is supposed, about $20. The robbers then fled down the railroad track and escaped.

BIND ANG GAG THREE MEN. Desperate Attempt to Rob Exchange Bank at Akron, Ind. Akron, Ind., was the scene of a desperi ate attempt to rob the Exchange Bank. The town was entered by a gang of safe "blowers at 2:30. They captured and bound the two night telephone operators and cut all telephone wires leading out of the local exchange. They also bound and gagged a physicinn whose office is in the same blotfk with the Exchange Bank. The first explosion of dynamite at the bank roused the citizens and they hastened to the scene with firearms. Many shots were exchanged, but the robbers escaped without booty. The bank building was wrecked. The gang fled in a stolen rig. Alleged Coin Maker Caught. While hidden in a closet in Chicago Secret Service Agent Porter saw Fred Romberts enter the place and gather together a number of batteries and a lot of metal which is said to have been used making bogus half dollars. The officer sprang from his hiding plaqe and captured the man. A moment later John Cooney entered the room and also submitted to arrest.

Engines Hit Street Car. Two engines crashed into a street ear at the southeast crossing of the Belt Railroad in Indianapolis, killing Conductor Barney Sweeney and seriously injuring Frank Pitts, motorman; John Heckman, a brakeman, and Miss Bertha Young. Sweeney’s head was severed The accident was caused by the slipping of the street car brake. New Islands for Britain. According to advices from Sydney by the steamer Aorangi, H. M. S. Sparrow has returned from a protracted cruise through the south sea group. During the cruise the warship’s officers annexed Suwarrow. Ysabel and Gholsoul islands for Great Britain. St. Louis Flyer Wrecked. The St. Louis flyer on the Big Four was wrecked on a high embankment half a mile west of Avon, Ind. Three passengers were seriously injured and a dozen or more were slightly hurt, but all are expected to recover. Terrorized by Armed Bands. In spite of the comforting assurances that the Macedonian agitation is ended numerous armed bands continue, says a dispatch from Salonika, to hold their ground in the inaccessible districts and sporadic disturbances are constantly reported. Puts Bullet in Uis Brain. Charles M. Moore, a member of th& firm of A. J. Whipple & Co., stock brokers at 145 Monroe street, Chicago, killed himself at his home by shooting. Whether the shooting was by accident or design is not positively known. Ruin in Fatal Hurricane. A hurricane has swept ovej San Urbano. province of Buuta Fe. Argentina. A hundred houses were destroyed, live persons were killed, many were injured and railroad nnd telegraphic communication was interrupted.

Christian Scientist Fined. B. B. Newcomb, a Christian Scientist advocate, has been arrested and convicted in court at Arapahoe, Okla.‘. on the charge of refusing .nodical nid for his daughter, who died of typhoid fever. The judge fined Newcomb SIOO and costa. f trike Negotiations Broken Off. Authracite operators refused to coufur with Mitchell, thus destroying all prospects for a settlement outside the com-; mission appointed by President Roosevelt. Pay Indians for Lsnl. The Secretary of the Interior has approved an agreement which has been pached between the government and the

Mille Lac Chippewa Indians in Minnesota under which the Indiana take $40,000 in compensation for their removal from the lands they now occupy outside the reservation. Most of the Indians will settle on the White Earth reservation and others on public lands in the neighborhood. BIG FIRE IN WEYAUWEGA, WIS, Bank and Two Stores Destroyed with Damage of $40,000. Fire which started in the general store of Loos & Co. caused a loss of about $40,000 at Weyauwega, Wis. It destroyed the Loos store, the hardware store of Uttermark Brothers and the bank of Weed, Bumaer & Co., the only bank in the city. At one time the town was threatened, as the buildings ure for the most part of wood and the water supply was exhausted. The town has only a hand engine and takes its water from cisterns. The water to be obtained in this way was soon used, and there was not sufficient hose available to reach to the river, so a bucket brigade was organized, which did splendid service. A telephone message was sent to Waupaca for the fire steamer of that city, and in an hour and a half it was on hand. This engine saved the block and possibly the city. BRIDEGROOM KILLS HIMSELF. Iowa Man shoots Himself While the Wedding Guests Wait. Bert McNutt, aged 26, committed suicide at his parents’ residence in Des Moines, lowa, by shooting himself through the head. He was to have been married at noon to Miss Maggie Guth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Guth of East Des Moines. The wedding party assembled, but young McNutt did not appear or send any explanation for his absence. Mr. McNutt’s parents remained at the Guth home with the other guests until middle of the afternoon, when they returned to their home and found their son’s body. Young McNutt left a note affectionately bidding farewell to his affianced, but giving no explanation of his suicide. '' Friends say he had acted strangely for several days and they think he was demented.

RAILROAD WAREHOUSE BURNED. Union Pacific Loses $175,000 at Omaha —Charged to Incendiary. Fire completely destroyed storehouse No. 2 of the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, together with its contents and several freight ears, most of which were loaded with supplies. Purchasing Agent G. W. Griffiths said the building contained fully $150,000 worth of stores, most of which were castings, iron pipe and other heavy material, all of which is rendered useless. The building is a complete loss, which brings the total loss to $175,000. The cause of the fire is unknown, but officials of the railroad express the belief that it was incendiary. Love Letters to Order. “Sentimental Tommy,” claiming to be in reality a well-known novelist, has opened an office in New York and will write love letters for people afflicted with the tender passion, promising to make them correct and poetic and saving his clients from humiliation should they get into court, as so many sentimental missives do. Postoffice Robbery in Indiana. The postoffice at Clark’s Hill, Ind., was entered and the safe dynamited. About S3OO worth of stamps were taken. The safe was demolished, together with the office furniture. All the mail pouches were looted, but there was not a large amount in them. There is no clew to the robbers. Killed in Railroad Accident. Passenger train No. 32 on the Pennsylvania road ran into an, open switch at Snfford station, Ind. Engineer George H. Frazier was killed instantly and Fireman Lou Grant was fatally injured. Baggagemaster John F. Clayton was seriously injured. Three of the passengers were slightly injured. Land Entries Are Held Up. All entries of public lands in California, Washington nnd Oregon under what is known as the "timber and stone" act have been held up by the government on account of alleged wholesale speculative frauds. A rigid investigation will be made. La Soufriere Has Another Eruption. A violent eruption of La Soufriere, the fifth big outburst since the catastrophe of May 7, took place Wednesday. Georgetown and the village of Chateau Belair, situated on the west coast of St. Vincent, were again evacuated by their inhabitants. Heir to Wealth Found Dead. Richard Power, said to be one of the heirs to a $3,000,000 estate in Los Angeles, has been found dead in his lodgings in Boston. He was a nephew of Pierce Power, a California pioneer who died a year ago.

Tragedy in Texas. C. J. Horton, County Commissioner of Runnells Couuty, Texas. _alioL. l -nnd tlustantiy killed Earl Moore and Str-t*nor-ton and then committed suicide. No cause ha* been assigned for the tragedy. Riot in German Reichstag. Vice-president of the German Reichstag was compelled to suspend sitting of the house on account of riotous acta during the debate on the tariff bill. Weekly Trade Reports. Weekly trade reviews report that cold weather has increased distribution in certaiu line*. Railroad earnings am maintained and car shortage continues. Bids Adlan to Whites Emperor William, in hi* farewell audience with Amhamsador White presented him with the gold medal of the empire for science and art.

ELGIN COMPANY TO REVIVE.

Chicago Promoters Said to Have Bought —Up Nearly All Creameries. Out of the defunct Elgin Creamery Company which failed some months ago is to come a new organization which will embrace nearly all the creameries in Illinois, lowa, Indiana and Wisconsin that were in the original organization. Several days ago Cobe & McKinnon, investment agents of Chicago, completed the negotiations for the purchase of over 200 plants. The purchase price is said to have been over $60,000. Monday at Madison, Wis., Judge Bunn in the federal court confirmed the sale of 130 creameries located in that State for $45,000. This sale was made under the court’s direction by reason of receivership proceedings. J. W. MclAnnon cf Cobe & McKinnon is in New York for the purpose of interesting eastern capital in the reorganization of the creamery trust and the expansion of the business beyond its former limitations. It is the intention to make Chicago the headquarters, with branches in Milwaukee, Dubuque, Davenport, I,a Crosse, St. Paul, Minneapolis and other distributing points. ' - *. • BLOWN UP WITH DYNAMITE. Saloon at Mahanoy City Wrecked and Other Buildings Damaged. The most destructive dynamiting outrage that has occurred in the coal regions since the strike began was perpetrated at Mnlianoy City, Pa., on a recent morning. The dynamite with fuse attached was placed on the bar of the saloon of Christopher Portland. The front part of the building was blown across the street and the adjoining buildings on either side were badly wrecked. Portland and the other members of the family were sleeping on the third floor and escaped without serious injury, although all were thrown from their beds. Portland’s two sons are non-union men and worked during the strike. HOLDS NEW CODE ACT VALID. Ohio Judge Sustains Law for Government of the CitiaA. The first attack on the constitutionality of the new municipal code .law of Ohio met with defeat in the court of common pleas at Cincinnati. JEhe case was brought at the request of a taxpayer to test the law. Judge Murphy overruled the plaintiff’s demurrer to the answer, thus sustaining the xconstitutionality of the law on all the points raised. It wgs alleged that the law was not uniform in its operation and that it was not legally passed. It is understood the case will be appealed to tlffi Circuit Court and then taken to the Supreme Court to settle the point of constitutionality finally. AROUND GLOBE IN 39 MINUTES. Prediction as *to Cable Message Time When Pacific Line Is Completed. “Mr. Secretary,” said G. G. Ward, general manager of the Commercial and Pacific Cable Company,, to Secretary of the Navy Moody, “about a- month ago a man in Boston sent a cable message around the world. He did it in thirtynine hours. On the Ist of next J uly, when our Pacific lines are completed, we will send a message from New York around the in thirty-nine minutes or less.”

Pleads Guilty to Thefts. Claude L. Stillman, the defaulting assistant secretary of the Murphy Varnish Company of Newark, N. J., formerly private secretary to Gov. Franklin Murphy, pleaded guilty to several indictments charging him with larceny, embezzlement and forgery. The amount of his peculations as stated in the indictments is $30,000. Gives Chili Large Area. The British award in the boundary arbitration between Chili and Argentina consists of a compromise between the claims of the two countries. The area in dispute amounted to about 55.374 square miles. The award gives Ch:li about 33,534 and Argentina about 24,840 square miles. Masonic Temple President Not Guilty. James H. Gorpiley, president of the Masonic Fraternity Temple Association, was acquitted” in Chicago of the charge of conspiracy to defrnnd the county by a jury in Judge Horton’s court. Ulie verdict of “not guilty” was reached after the jury had wrangled for seventeen hours. trewE capes Peril on Beached Steamer The crew of sixteen of the steamer Quito, three of them nearly dead from exposure, were rescued from peril oil that vessel, which ran on the beach near the harbor nt Lorain. Ohio, in n fierce northeast gale nnd will be a total loss. Flcht Duel Over a Girl. At Armourdale, Kan., Ernest Danins and Charles W. Tucker, packing house employes, fought a pistol duel over Mabel Randall, a waitress. Damns wns mortally wounded, but before he died lie shot Tucker twice, fatally wounding him. Masons Lay Hospital Corner Stone. The Ohio Grand I.odge of Free and Accepted Masons lnid the corner stone of the new Akron City Hospital. Dr. W. A. Belt, of Kenton, grand master of Ohio, was in charge. The hospital will cost SIOO,OOO. John L. Sullivan a Bankrupt. John L. Sullivan, former pugilist, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York to prevent his arrest for debt in Boston. To Throttle Train Robbers. Railroad and express companies bars joined forces for the purpose of throttling train robbing industry. Reward of $5,000 offered thief catchers. Closed to N«w England Live Stock. Great Britain has closed ports to live stock shipped from New England and is in fear of meat famine.

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