Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1902 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

NOTED GAMING HOUSE RAIDED. Police of New York Break Into Canfield’s Fashionable Place. Canfield's fashionable gambling house, on Forty-fourth street, New York, was raided at 1 o’clock the other morning. The raiding party was composed of District Attorney Jerome and Assistant District Attorney Baldwin, and Inspector Brooks, Captain Lnntry and twelve policemen. The police were armed with axes and clubs. A crowd was at their heels. The great doors were locked and the house was dark. “Break open the doors, the windows—anything," was the order. No sooner had the order been given than a crash was heard and an ax smashed in the panel of the door. Then two policemen with heavy clubs battered at the strong doors until with a crash one of them gave way. Several gambling layouts were seized, but Canfield was not arrested. Richard A. Confield’s gambling house is believed to be the finest resort of its kind in the world. It was fitted up at a cost of over $500,000. It was there that Reginald Vanderbilt was reported to have lost $120,000 soma time ago. -•——— MAIL AND BIG SUM STOLEN. Sack Containing $23,000 Disappears at Danville, Ky. A sack of mail containing $14,000 In drafts and checks from the internal revenue office at Danville, Ky., and $9,000 in bank checks and drafts, besides registered letters from various parties, was stolen or lost between the Danville postofflee and the depot or on the Cincinnati mail train several days ago. James Hocker, the carrier, says he delivered the sack to the mail agent on the train, but the mail agent says Hocker did not. It was after dark and there were a large number of sacks and the general impression is that the sack was stolen at the depot. BILVER DOLLARS ARE BASE. Expert Thinks Half Circulating Coina May Be Counterfeit. The statement was made at a meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce by Francis C. Moore, a well-known financier, that of 80,000,000 silver dollar! now in circulation it is likely that not less than 40,000,000 are counterfeit. Mr. Moore stated that the president of one of the leading banks in New York City had informed him that of 350 silver dollars turned into the subtreasury by the institution of which he is the head 170 were confiscated by the government as being counterfeit. CREMATED IN WRECK RUINS. Three Lives Lost, Several Cara Burned and Quantity of Mail Destroyed. A passenger train on the Queen and Crescent Railroad ran into a box car that had blown on the main track at Sunbright, Tenn. A fireman and express messenger are supposed to have beeu cremated in the fire which destroyed the mail car, baggage car, express and two passenger conches. The remains of a negro tramp have also been found in the wreck. No passengers were hurt. Two locomotives were demolished. Fire at Hancock, Minn. At Hancock, Minn., fire burned an entire frame block except one building on the corner. The losers are L. B. Wheeler, jeweler; I. T. Tolifson, druggist; Stone, Munroe & Stebbins, furniture and hardware; Dr. C. L. Gates, office and contents; Herman Schlieps, saloon, and E. A. Duteher, grain and land office. The loss is $25,000, and half insured. lowa Woman Indicted for Ferjury. Mrs. Ella Gallaugher, who was recently acquitted at lowa City of the murder of her husband, has been indicted for perjury. She cannot be located and is reported to have gone to Canada. She is alleged to have sworn falsely in her owh defense. Charles Holada, who pleaded guilty to complicity in the crime, is a witness against her. Lead Trust Nearly Ready. The proposed consolidation of the lead manufacturing companies of the United States is approaching completion. It is understood that under the plan of consolidation the National Lead Company will become a holding as well as an operating company. The National Is now capitalized at $15,000,000 preferred and $15,000,000 common stock. Recommend Oklahoma’s Admission. The bill for the admission of Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico to statehood was reported to the Senate Wednesday morning by Senator Nelson, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute admitting Oklahoma and Indian ! Territory as one State under the name ! of Oklahoma. President Roosevelt’s Message. President Roosevelt's message to Con- | greas urges legislation for regulation of I trusts, warns against radical tariff ! changes ns menaces to prosperity, urges appointment of expert commission, and indorses reciprocity plan of securing rei dnetion of duties. Noted Clown Hart in Gale. Daring a gals that blew over New Or--1 leans the borne of Prof. John Denier on Metarie ridge was blown down. Denier was fatally and his wife dangerously hurt. Denier is well known in athletic circles. At one time he was widely known as a down. : -i-.~ - —-——-1 Stamps Were Stolen. Erwin and Edward Fuller, arrested | while trying to sell $1,500 worth of posti age stamps in Chicago, are implicated in I Ponca (Okla.) robbery by figures “1— 30,000” written on stamp sheet; postmaster there recognised figures as his. WIU Be Tried a Third Time, s The Court of Appeals at Frankfort, Ml-, for the second time reversed the Judgment of tbs lower coart in the mbs

of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers, sentenced to life imprisonment for alleged complicity in the murder of William Goebel. The court divided on party lines, the four Republican judges voting for a reversal and the three Democratic judges dissenting. CLEVELAND FIREMAN KILLED. Falling Wall Buries Engine Company and Crushes Out Life. While members of the Cleveland fire department were still fighting the Games in the ruins of the Likly & Rocket factory at Case and Hamilton Streets, part of the fall fell on engine company 14, burying the men in the debris. Those who were thus caught were Captain Daniel Finucan, James I. Osberger and Arthur Garner, who were working just outside ttofe wall; Lieut. Robert McKenna and Hoseman Samuel Jones, Charles Nieding and Patrick H Joyce, who were on the inside. Ambulances were called and the firemen soon rescued from the ruins all but Joyce, whose body was not recovered before noon. He had been crushed to death, beneath many tons of brick and mortar and heavy machinery. The other firemen caught under the wall will ggp cover. POLICE EXPOSE A DUAL LIFE. Philadelphia Manufacturer Is Alleged to Bie Housebreaker Also. George Dickinson, Jr., a member of the well known firm of Weyl & Dickinson, manufacturers of novelties at Philadelphia, is the man arrested by Policeman Carroll after a severe battle which sent both Carroll and his prisoner to the hospital Dickinson is stated to have posed as a reputable business man and to have been a burglar at night, and while the man’s dual life and his record were being exposed over fifty people inspected the $2,500 \yorth of silverware, jewelry and bric-a-brac which represented all of Dickinson’s booty that has thus far been recovered by the police. DARING ROBBERY IN IDAHO. Three Men Hoi 1-Up 35 In a Gambling House and Get SI,OOO. A special from Pocatelo, Idaho, says one of the boldest and most daring holdups in the history of Idaho was committed there when three men entered -the Eagle club rooms and robbed the house of about SI,OOO. Two of the men advanced with drawn revolvers into the room, in which there were not less than thirty-five men. The third man then marched around to the games and gathered up thq money. The two hold-ups who had the guns fired a volley into the ceiling before they departed. Boy May Be a Murderer. An arrest growing out of the death of George F. Leyb. the nged and wealthy maker of surgical apparatus," who died in his store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after drinking poisoned beer, is to be made soon. Robert Westphal, the 14-year-old boy who was employed by Mr. Leyh and who was with him when he drank the beer, has disappeared. The boy and his employer had had a quarrel. May Disrupt Furman College. Dr. Gordon B. Moore, professor of philosophy at Furman (Baptist) College, Columbia, S. C., was asked by the trustees to resign. Ilis teachings are alleged to be unorthodox and almost heretical. The students have decided to leave in a body if I)r. Moore is removed. Part of London Is Sold. Eighty-two acres of freehold property in the district of Kensington, Loudon, was sold at auction for $2,825,000. The property contains 1,450 residences, shops and hotels, the rents ranging from S4O to SB,OOO per annum. The name of the purchaser was not divulged. Banker Commits Snicide. Howard T. Goodwin, treasurer of the bankiug and brokerage firm of Cassatt & Co., committed suicide in Philadelphia by shooting. He was found dead iu the firm’s office in the Arcade Building. No cause is known. He was 32 years old. Will Coin More Silver Money, The French Chamber of Deputies has ratified .an additional monetary convention between France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, authorizing each country to issue additional silver coins to the value of $2,500,000. Miners Killed in Snowaltde. A meager report has just reached Baker City, Ore., of an immense snowslidc which occurred at Cornucopia. No details are obtainable save that two miners were killed and an immense amount of damage done. City Marshal Kilts a Man. City Marshal Felipe Baca of Socorro, N. M., shot nud killed David Baca, a prominent citizen, at the Windsor Hotel. There had been trouble of long standing between the men. Guatemala's Death List. From the Guatemalan coast the Pacific Mail steamer City of Sydney brings the news that the deaths resulting from the recent eruption of Santa Maria volcano number about 3,000. Premier Sagasta Resigns. Premier Sagaata of Spain has resigned. He had an audience with King Alfonso, at whicE he presented hia resignation and intimated that tho step was irrevocable. k Fatal Flash in Steel Works. One man was killed and five others seriously injured at the works of the Sharon Steel Company at Sharon, Pa. Tlie accident was the result of a “flash" from an open hearth furnace. JRThitecap Raiders Found Not Oailty The jury in the case of the aeven dumps of Marion. Mass., charged with participating in the famous Marion whltecap raid, returned a verdict of not guilty for all of them.

EXPLOSION KILLS AND INJURES Accident Aboard Steamer at San Francisco Results in Boat’s Destruction. A disastrous explosion occurred on the steamer Progresso, in which Harry Corona and Rodney Gibson, employes of the Fulton iron works, were seriously injured. The Progresso was laid up at the Fulton iron works in San Francisco and was being converted into an oil burner, when one of her tanks exploded. A second explosion followed. The steamer was burned to the water’s edge and will be a total loss. Ten men were taken to the general military hospital at the Presidio, near the Fulton iron works. The Fulton iron works, a large industrial and shipbuilding plant, is located on the bay shore in the northwestern part of the city. The Progresso is owned by the Progresso Steamship Company of New York and arrived a few months ago from the Atlantic coast. BOAT WRECKED, CREW SAFE. Schooner Jesse Drummond Goes to Pieces in Lake Ontario. . The schooner Jesse Drummond was by storm on Lake Ontario. Her crew of Yeven persons was rescued by the life-saving crew of Coburg, Ont., which made two trips through the heavy seas in bringing the shipwrecked mariners into the harbor. The Drummond, with a cargo of GOO tons of coal, left Oswego Saturday, but was forced to seek shelter at Charlotte. She left Charlotte Wednesday and ran for Coburg. In the blinding gale a mistake was made in the harbor lights, and tlie vessel stranded in the full sweep of the seas. The situation of her crew became perilous, but the life savers reached the scene in time to take all the men. The coal cargo was fully insured, but the vessel was not. She was worth about $4,000, and was owned by Herb Milne of Oakville, Ont. CORNER IN RICE PREVENTED. Philippine Commission Forestalls the Plana of Native Operators. The price of rice has been broken In Manila and the native operators have insured the supply of this foodstuff at reasonable rates. The Philippine commission, when a rice famine was threatened at the beginning of November, appropriated $2,000,000 Mexican, and quietly purchased upward of 20,000 tons of rice in India and on the Asiatis coast to be sold to the sufferers at a cash price which It was thought would cover just the cost. This has prevented the •threatened corner. CATCH COUNTERFEITERS IN ACT. Secret Service Officers Raid Honse at Detroit and Capture Coiners. Secret service operatives raided a house in Detroit, Mich., and arrested Frank McTague, Henry E. Busenbark, and Neal Huard on the charge of counterfeiting. The officers caught Busenbark and Huard working with the molds. Thousands of dollars’ worth of spurious silver doling have been circulated in the neighborhood of Detroit. Thirteen sets of molds for silver dollars were found, together with a fine plating machine. Fatal Accident in a Kline. Elmer Ivischner, aged 32, a boss carpenter, and Gustave Strack, aged 19 years, were instantly killed while descending the Cranberry mine at Hazelton, Pa., in a car. Several other men in the car escaped serious injury. When near the bottom of the slope the main car was struck by a runaway truck. Kischner and Strack were knocked from the car nnd instantly killed. Kill and Escape on a Raft. The British ship Leicester Castle, from San Francisco, arrived at Queenstown. Her commander reported that Sept. 2 three American seamen mutinied, and Captain Peattie and his second officer were shot, the latter fatally, after an encounter with the mutineers, who left the ship on i raft in midocean. Dies at Imperial Shoot. United States Minister Buck died in Japan while at the imperial duck shoot. The cause of his death is supposed to hnve been apoplexy. Another report says Mr. Buck’s death was due to heart failure. The hunt was in the suburbs of Tokio. - No Coal in Freezing Omaha. The cold wave caused intense suffering among the poorer and even the fairly well-to-do classes in Omaha on account of the lack of coal. There was no anthracite to be had. Two Omaha schools and a large number of schools throughout the State were closed on this account. Rich Veteran a Suicide. Captain Edward Iv. Holton, nged 01 years, retired capitalist aud veteran officer of the Loyal I-egion, committed suicide by shooting at hia home in Westminster place, St. Louis. He was a victim of melancholia. Mormons Discourage Polygamy. President Joseph Smith of Mormon Church, ia an interview, declared the church does n6t sanction polygamy; only, members who had plural wives before anti-polygamy law was passed now possess them. Aged Sam Carson Dead. Aged Sam Carson was found dead in his hat far up in Santa Monica Canyon, Cal. He had been bitten by a spider. Carson was about 83 years old and claimed to be a son of “Kit” Carson. Murderer Sentenced to Death. Earl Whitney, of Nashville, Tenn., was found guilty at Lexington, Ky., of the murder of A. B. Olilun, a merchant, nnd hia punishment fixed at death. Advanca In Price of Stove*. The Ohio valley stove manufacturers, at a meeting In Coiambus, Ohio, decided to Increase the pdee of stoTM 5 per cent*