Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — BELOVED OF PRINCE. [ARTICLE]

BELOVED OF PRINCE.

KOREAN KING’S SON ATTRACTED BYAMERICAN GIRL. ' ~~ - - Eniwha WillWcd Miss Angie Graham K if Hi. Father Will Give Consent— Borcherevink Will Make Another Expedition to South Pole. Prince Euiwlia. the second soil of the King of ('orca. is infatuated with Miss Angie Graham, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of the Rev. Dr. C. B. Graham, presiding elder of Wheeling. W. Va., district M~.K. conference. The prince met Mis* Graham at the Ohio Wesleyan. UniVfersity, Delaware. Ohio, where Uith are students. Last fall when she went home for the holidays he went to Wheeling and stopped at a hotel, registered as P. P. Yee. It is said that they will be married after he graduates if his father's consent can be secured. FLAGS TRAIN TO GET REWARD. Kansas City Boy Confesses Tnrning Switch Near Independence. William Barnett, the 19-year-old son of a section foreman, has confessed to turning the switch near Independence, Mo., on the night of Jan. 1 and then flagging the Little Rock and Wichita express otr"the Missouri Pacific Railroad for the purpose of securing a reward from the railroad company for saving the train. When the train came to a standstill young Barnett informed the crew and passengers that he had seen two men break the lock on the switch, evidently with the purpose of holding up the train, and that be had scared them after an exchange of shots. Barnett displayed a hole in his coat, which he asserted was made by a bullet tired by one of the would-be road men. EEADY TO SEEK SOUTH POLE.

Borchgrevink Will Accept Offer to U—- Explore Antarctic Landa. S C. E. Borchgrevink, the antarctic explorer, in a lecture at Copenhagen nnnoanced that he had received an offer from America to conduct an antarctic expedition. He added that he-was willing to accept it. He believed that exploration of the huge continent around the south pole was one of the most important problems of the century. Stock Burned iu Prairie Fire. News comes from the southeastern part of Morton County, South Dakota, of the loss by prairie fire of 5,000 sheep and 300 head of cattle belonging to ranchers. The fire broke out during the recent high wind ahd spread with great rapidity. Seventeen ranchmen suffered severely, some losing their houses in the flames. Wind Wrecks Many Houses. Advices from Berrien and Worth counties, Georgia, are that a severe windstorm did much damage. At Omega, in Worth County, the hotel was blown down and a number of houses were unroofed. The wind swept a path 100 yards wide through the town, damaging every bouse and uprooting every 1 tree it encountered. Fire Damages Steel Plant. Fire almost destroyed the oldest portion of the W. Dewees wood plant of the American Sheet Steel Company at McKeesport, Pa. The fire originated from a broken gas pipe and the light explosion which resulted from the break set' fire to the wooden supports of the ingFive Hart in Trolley Wreck. , Five jiersons were hurt in a street railway collision at Pittsburg ami one of them is dead. A Liberty avenue <ar was standing in front of Superintendent ""Maxwell's • office in Homewood when a big Frankstown avenue car ran away on the grade behind it and crashed into the rear of the stationary car. Trouble with Indians Feared. The ArMpahoe Indians are starving. Kot a day passes but a band is in Lander, Wyo., begging. The Indians raised no crops this season and rations are not issued to them by the government, as their treaty expired last year. If they get desperate they may kill stock of settlers and serious trouble may follow. Club for Sunday School. Hie clubhouse John D. Rockefeller. Jr., is to build for his Sunday school class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, will cost $350,000. The young millionaire has in view two or three desirable sites not a block from the corner of Fifth avenue and Fortysixth street. Indiana Doctor's Horrible Death. Dr. George F. Shoey, a pntpiinent pby- \ sician, was burned to death in his room nt his boarding house at Medora, Ind. Other occupants of the house had u narrow escape. Railroad Man Passes Away. General Samuel Thomas, one of the best-known railroad men in the country, died at his home in New York City, aged 63 years. General Thomas was a native of Ohio. Blizzard in Middle West. .*>. Blizzard and heavy snow storms have been raging throughout northern Indiana, Nebraska, Michigan and Kansas. W. D. Beokett. Omaha lawyer, was frozen to death near the city limits. b Minneaoto Town Offered Library. - Andrew Carnegie has offered to give Brainard, Minn.. $12,000 for a library ■ite if the city will maintain and furnish the site. E&i Petition Taft to Remain. ' Six thousand Filipinos paraded at Manila and petitioned Governor Taft to remain. He declared that the appointment to the Federal Supreme bench already haa been refused, but that he now believes acceptance beat Rafe Blowing Easy in Village*. Fifty-alx banks hare been robbed in -In the United States during the last four month*, and seven iu Illinois. Cities are practically Immune, but uitrogly eerin I and electric lantern make safe blowing