Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

TRAINS CRASH IN CITY STREET. ■ '-BM _ . Three Dead, Fourteen Injured in Passenger Collision at Ada. Ohio. During a blinding snowstorm at 5 o’clock in the afternoon two trains on the Pennsylvania system collided on the main street of Ada, Ohio. Three persons are dead and fourteen or more injured, one fatally, as the result of the accident. The accident was one of the worst that ever occurred on that division of the Pennsylvania system. Tfain No. 35, west bound for Fort Wayne, had started out of the station, but at the main street crossing was compelled to stop by an accident to the air brakes. A flagman was sent back to notify No. ID, a fast train going in the same direction, which was several minutes late. On account of the snowstorm the engineer on No. 19 was unable to see the signal in time to slacken speed, and his engine, running forty miles an hour, crashed into the rear of coach No. 35. The latter train consisted of two coaches, the rear one being a combination baggage and passenger car, with another passenger car in front. Both xvere telescoped and scarcely a passenger escaped injury of some sort. KICK A REAL GOLD BRICK. W’all Street Brokers and Messenge Boys Scorn Bar of Shiniug Metal. The wise ones in Wall street who think they know a gold brick when they see it took passing kicks at a shining bar of metal in lower Broadway, New York. This brick of real twenty-two-carat gold, worth hundreds of dollars, was kicked al»out the financial district by messenger boys, jocular brokers and knowing financiers for an hour or so, when a stupid looking youngster who had never heard a joke in Lis life came along and picked it up. The owners were found to be assayers on John street and the boy was handsomely rewarded.

TORTURED BY THIEVES. Woman’s Feet Burned Before She Revealed Hiding Place of $225. Levt Eicher, 95 years old, anil his wife, residing in Springfield township, Pa., were tortured by masked thieves until they told where their- money was hidden. The robbers held n lighted lamp to Mrs. Eicher's feet and burned thetn until the flesh fell off "before she would consent to show them the strong box where $225 in bills was bidden. Then they bound their victims to a bed with ropes and left them, taking a horse and saddle from the barn. Eicher, it is said, recognized one of the thieves. Bank Is Betel Blameless, The Nebraska Supreme Court gave a decision in favor of the Omaha National Bank in the case wherein the State of Nebraska sued for the recovery of $210,(XX), the proceeds of a warrant presented by former State Treasurer Joseph S. Bartley. It was on the cashing of this warrant that Bartley -was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Seven Men Killed in Wreck. As a result of a rear-end eollisioff between a passenger train and a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cochrane station, just above Duquesne, Pa., seven men are dead, one fatally hurt, and five others are injured. Four of the men were roasted alive. The accident was caused by the carelessness of a freight brakeman, who has fled. Cole Younger Seeks Pardon. Cole Younger applied to the Minnesota board pf pardons for a full pardon. He has been on parole from the State prison for a year nnd n»half. The terms of the parole forbid him to leave the State or to exercise any rights of citizenship. The purpose of this application is to enable Younger to return to his old home in Missouri. Small Blaze Claims Four Victims. Fire iu the Hotel Somerset in Chicago caused the loss of four lives—those of a mother and three daughters. The flames were confined to five rooms on the fifth floor, but they burned so fiercely for a few minutes that the victims were unable to escape, three being overcome in the building, while the fourth jumped from a window and was killed. ; Powers Sign Joint Threatening Note. At a meeting in Pekin nil the foreign ministers except Minister Conger signed the joint note informing the Chinese government that a failure to fulfill its obligations to pay the war indemnity on n gold basis, as provided for by the peace protocol, would entail grave consequences. Girl Sells Her Inheritance Right. With the possibility of beriming a countess nnd the heiress of nn Italian nobleman. Miss Florence I. Bruton of Alameda, Cal., 18 years old. hns bartered her inhrritanceirigbts for $9,000 in American gold. , Eighteen Perish at Sea. News of the wreck of the Norwegian bark, Priuce Arthur, and the death by drowning of eighteen of the crew was received. The Prince Arthur was bound from Valparaiso, for British Columbia to load coal. Toy Pistols Killed Many. The roll of victims who met death by lockjaw as a result of burns inflicted by toy pistols during the holidays reached seventeen when 9-year-old Frank Hume of Portsmouth. Va., died of his injuries. Aoonymoua Gift of SIO,OOO. An anonymous gift of SIO,OOO to a proposed fund for a memorial to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in New York ha* been made. It is expected the fund will reach a total of SIOO,OOO. Hundred* in Fare Panic. One of the moot disastrous fires in th* history of Ixindon. Ont., occurred in th* bls phot of the McClary Manufacturing

Company. A boy working in the stamping department dropped a burning match into an oil vat and with a report like a cannon the oil burst in a sheet of flame and spread over the first-floor. The employes rushed from the building in a panic. The loss is $300,000. WRONG WOMAN IS SUSPECTED. Mrs. Laura Stackhouse of Marietta, Ohio, Confesses to Crime. Mrs. Laura Stackhouse, alias Laura Miller, alias Irean Monsell, has confessed at Marietta, Ohio, that she was the woman who has been using _tbe mails for fraudulent purposes in advertising that she was seeking a husband and then securing money from men who answered. The arrest of Mrs. Stackhouse clears Mrs. D. O. Hazelrigg, wife of a prominent oil operator of Williamstown, W. Va., who had been held under surveillance by mistake. The women are said to be “doubles,” frequently having been mistaken for each other on trains and at meetings, as well as at the postoffice. MONEY LENDER IS KILLED. Pittsburg Man Robbed and His Skull Fractured in an Alley. Andrew Overick, proprietor-of a Polish boarding house, a -broker and a money lendeb, was found unconscious in Mulberry alley, Pittsburg, with his ■. kull fractured. He did not regain consciousness and died the other day at the West Penn hospital. Overick always carried large sums, and as his pockets were rifled, the police are inclined to think his murderer made a rich haul. A former boarder is suspected and the police are looking for him. Overick was 32 years old and married. STRIKES GOLD) DIES OF JOY. Prospector After Making a. Rich Discovery Expires on the Spot. David Thompson, one of the best known prospectors in-the Black bills, over which country he has hunted gold for seventeen years, the other day struck a ledge of great richness, and after tdn minutes of demonstrations of delight fell to the ground in a fit. A few moments later he was dead. An examination made later by physicians showed a blood vessel in the brain to have been ruptured. Blind from Face Powder. Miss Nellie Sullivan, a nurse, while weeping at the funeral of her grandmother in Middlebury, Vt., brushed some face powder,into her eyes - with her handkerchief. A few days later she became blind and went, to a hospital. It is stated that the powder had ruined the sight of one eye and there was but little hope of saving the other. Gives $1,500,000 Hospital. Henry Phipps, formerly a partner of Andrew Carnegie, has given $1,500,000 to establish in New York an- institution for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, which will be called by his name. The donation was given in the form of $300,000 cash, with the rest of the sum as an endowment with an annuity provision. Rejected Actor Ends Life. William J. Percival, leading man with the Metropolitan stock company, and known on the stage ns Jack Landon, killed himself in the presence “of Miss Anna Nelson, the leading lady of the company, because she refused to marry him. The company was playing at Greenwood, Neb. Know Hits the Trusts. Attorney General Knox, on request of Senator Hoar and Congressman Littlefield, has submitted a remedy for trust evils, including a law against rate discrimination and interstate commerce in products of illegal combines. Action by Congress seems unlikely. Carnegie Library in Washington. The public library for which Andrew Carnegie gave $350,000 was dedicated at Washington with addresses by donor and President Roosevelt. The former had given 730 library buildings and plans to donate 800 others now asked for. Nebraska Woman Held for Trial. After a preliminary hearing which lasted ten days Mrs. Lena Lillie, charged with the killing of her husband on the night of Oct. 24. was held to the District Court in SIO,OOO bonds at David City, Neb. The bond was at once furnished. Cleveland Y. M. C. A. Suffers. Fire partly destroyed the central building of the Young Men’s Christian Association at Cleveland. The losses to the association and to merchants occupying stores on the ground floor, will aggregate SIOO,OOO. The fire started in the kitchen. Fire at Leroy* N. Y. Leroy, N. Y., suffered a fire loss of $75,000. The fire was caused by n gas explosion in the rooms of the S. Oatka Mose Company. The postotfice was burned and much mail destroyed. The Lampson House block nlso was burned. Business Block Burns. The new Houlton block, containing Houlton’s bank, the opera house, three general stores and postoffice, was burned nt Elk The loss la $75,(XX), partly insured. Business Conditions Satisfactory. Weekly trade reviews report proinptcollect ions nnd satisfactory business conditions, fuel shortage being the only disturbing element. Nebraska Rank Robbed. The Bank of Louisville, Neb., was broken into and robbed of $4,200. The robl»er» drilled into the safe from the rear, avoiding the burglar alarm. Daniel H. Haitian Dead. Ex-Gov. Daniel H. Hastings died at Bellefonte, Pa., of pienro-pnenmoaia, after M illness of four days.

ROBBEXS WORSTED IN BATTLE. Citizens, of Eagle, Wis., Wound Ona Thief and Capture Another. As a result of an early morning encounter between a posse of Eagle, Wis., citizens and a gang of four burglars atid safe blowers four miles from that village, one robber was shot probably fatally, one was captured and the other two escaped. At 2 o’clock in the morning the robbers broke into the Witham livery stable and stole a horse and a double cutter, starting toward Mukwonago. The theft was discovered and the owner started after the robbers with a party of four, overtaking them near a clump of woods. The robbers nt once opened fire, which was returned by the posse, with the result that one was heard to scream and later, on their attempting to escape, fell. Another was captured and the other two escaped to the woods. The man vflio was captured had on his person two bottles of nitroglycerin and a complete set of burglar tools and two revolvers. HER HUSBAND’S BODY PICKLED. Mrs. Mclnerney's Long Search in Omaha and Chicago Rewarded. Mrs. Daniel Mclnerney’s long search for the body of her husband led her to Omaha and back again to Chicago's various hospitals and ended when she viewed the “pickled” remains in the dissecting room of the' anatomy department of the University of Chicago. Mclnerney is said to have died last September in the Cook County hospital in Chicago, and as •no one called to claim his body, it was given to Rush Medical College, being later transferred to the big school on the Midway. Though the Mclnerneys are said to have been estranged for a number of years, the object of the woman’s search was to give the body decent burial. She was granted permission to take the body away. Railroads’ City Land Can Be Assessed. Judge Newnham, of the Superior Court, handed down an important decision at Grand Rapids, Mich., affecting ■city taxation of railroad lands. It is the case of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad against the city. The city wins out in its contention that lands heretofore regarded as railroad lands, but used for other purposes, can be assessed. Woman Acquitted of Murder Charge. Mrs. Mary Katie Brown, of Clinton, Ind., who was charged with murdering Mrs. W. F. McDonald, was acquitted. The women took up a quarrel in which their children engaged, and Mrs. McDonald attacked Mrs. Brown with a poker, when the latter shot her. The jury was out only a few minutes. Street Cars in > Crash. Twelve persons were injured in a street car collision at Grand avenue and Palm street, St. Louis, oye being hurt internally. The accident'was caused by an x>pen emergency switch throwing a north-bound car to the other track in front of a swiftly moving south-bound car. Many Perish in Lisbon. A dispatch from Lisbon says that the whole city was thrown into a panic, owing, to the bursting of the reservoirs in the northern part of the town. The low lying districts were completely inundated, and many persons have perished. A large number of buildings were destroyed. Carrie Nation Causes Woe. Dr. J. T. McFarland, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest church in Topeka, Kan., was fined SIOO by the police judge'for contempt of court. Dr. McFarland severely rebuked the judge in open court for a fine imposed on Mrs. Nation. Millinery Stores Raided. A great surprise was sprung in Toledo, Ohio, when a lot of deputy game wardens made a general tour of the city, visiting every millinery store and seizing quantities of wings and portions of birds that are within the class specified by the game laws of Ohio as not game birds. Hunter Acquitted at Guatemala. Advices have been received from Guatemala that W. Godfrey Hunter. Jr., son of the retiring minister to Guatemala, has been acquitted by a native • court of the murder of William A. Fitzgerald, also an American citizen and former resident of Grand Rapids, Mich. Widow rs Noted Sonss Writer Earned. Mrs. Wylie, the widow of Stephen Q. Foster, the famous writer of old melodies, including “Old Folks nt Home,” was probably fatally burned at Pittsburg. While sitting in front of nn open fireplace the flames coinmuuicated to her clothing. Emma Calve Will Marry. It is announced in Paris that Emma Calve, the prima donna, will shortly marry Jules Bois. a journalist. Her marriage will not prevent Mme. Calve from fulfilling her engagement in tbo United States next season. Fire Loes nt Fargo, N. D. At Fargo, N. D., fire destroyed the Edwards building, owned by Alexander Stern & Co., and occupied by nntnerona 4>usiuess firms. The total loss is esfL mated at $200,000, with insurance ok $135,000. _____ Asthma Victim a Suicide. William Vohslage. 37 years old, on optician, formerly of San Francisco, but for the last three months a resident of Montclair, N. J., committed suicide by shooting himself in the left breast Ha was a victim of asthma. Sells Land for $1 <IOO,OOO. According to an agreement which has been placed on record E. J., known as “Lucky,? Baldwin ha* contracted with CoL Albert De teur of Loa Angeles, Cat, for the sale of lands within Rancho La Puente for $1,200,000.