Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

AMERICANS READY TO FIGHT. Will Resist Forcibly Any Further Exercise of Cuban Authority. Three hundred American citizens, property owners and residents of the Isle of Pines, says a Havana correspondent, are preparing to resist forcibly, if necessary, any further exercise of sovereignty tlu-re by the Cuban government. Formal demand has been made upon Minister Squiers for the protection due to American citizens on Amerieau territory and Mr. Squiers is conferring with President Palma. American residents on the island say they own and occupy more than two-thirds of the land there. They assert that the Cuban government is levying oppressive and unlawful taxes in the Isle of Pines and spending the proceeds in the island of Cuba. Administration of justice in the Isle of Pines is said to be unreliable. The protesting Americans say they have settled in the island with their families end mean to stay. Before investing their money in the purchase and improvement of real estate they received official assurances from Washington that the Isle of Pines was territory of the United States. They refuse to pay further taxes to llie Cubans and ask that steps be immediately taken to.establish a government in the island under American authority.

ENTIRE TRAIN BURNED. Dastardly Work of Wreckers in Missouri Results in Death of Engineer. North-bound express No. 104, of the St. Louis and San Francisco road, was wrecked four miles south of South Greenfield. Mo. The entire train, consisting of baggqgp car, mail car, smoker and common coach, chair car and one sleeper, left the track, caught fire and was consumed. Fred Fisher of Fort Scott, the engineer, was killed instantly; Fireman E. Gilbert of Fort Scott was seriously hurt, and several passengers are reported slightly injured. The wreck occurred just off a trestle, and at a sharp curve, while the train was running at a high rate cf speed. The switch had been set deliberately for the side track and the lights had been turned to indicate a clear track. It evidently was the work either of train robbers or of persons maliciously inclined.

i MANY MARCONI STATIONS. Wireless Service Will Soon Be Extended to Ail Farts of the World. John Bottomley, general manager of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, announces that work will, soon be begun for the installation of wireless stations capable of covering pretty much all the world. “In view of the opposition,” Mr. Bottomley, “it is impossible for me to tell all our plans at the present time, lmt a number of stations will-be aet up very span. There is no reason that I know of why communication cannot be established between New York and San Francisco soon. We are at present making arrangements to put a number of our stations at points along the Pacific.

Death Prophecy Comes True. Samuel Hiuckline, a wealthy truck farmer of Foxburg, N. J., had his fortune told by a woman. She predicted that Hinekline would die before 9 o’clock that night. He w6»t home ami told his wife what the palmist had said. They had a good laugh over the matter, and thought no more about it. At 8:45 o'clock Hinekline fell over dead. Murderer Given Thirty Years. 1 At Hertford, N. C., after being out twenty-four hours the jury in the Wilcox murder case returned a verdict of murder in the second degree and the defendant was sentenced to the penitentiary for thirty years, the full limit of the law. He was charged with the murder of Ella Cropsey. Mystery in au Explosion. Two Fissures in the earth about three feet deep, a few inches wide and threequarters of a mile, long are the only evidences of a mysterious explosion which shook Whitman, Mass., just before daybreak. Houses were shaken violently and crockery was broken in several residences. Salt Laden Bark Goes to Pieces. The bark Abiel Abbott, salt laden from Turk’s Island for New York, went aground near Ship Bottom Light, off Atlantic City, N. J., and went to pieces. Five of her crew and nine men were picked up by the life-savers, but it is believed the other four were killed by falling wreckage. Bis Fire in Kansas City. Fire in a five-story building at 512-51 S Delaware street. Kansas City, caused SIOO,OOO loss, distributed as follows: Jones Bros.’ Dry Goods Company, which used the upper floors for a warehouse, $60,000: Ilotheuberg & Schloss, wholesale cigaruiakers, $30,000; building. SIO,OOO. Suicide Not J. Wilkes Booth. C. M. Clark, of Oklahoma City, states that D. E. George, who committed suicide at Enid, and left a note to the effect tbnt he was John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, had no oonnection with the death of Lincoln. Preacher Has Seven Wives. At Port Gibcou. Miss., in the trial of the Rev. Marion Lane, or Jean Skyles, for bigamy in marrying Miss Terra Whitestoiie, of Wilkinson County, the evidence discloses the fact that Lnne lias seven wives, all living and undivorced. Canal Treaty with Colombia. After a long delay nud suspense a treaty for the construction of the Panama Canal by the United States lias boon signed by the diplomatic representatives of this country nud Colombia. Madden and Kelley Plead Oniltjr. Euclid Madden and James T. Kelley, Indicted for manslaughter, in connection Jffith the accident at Pitts£?ld, Mass., last

August, in which William Craig, President Roosevelt’s bodyguard, was killed, retracted a previous plea of not guilty nnd pleaded guilty. Madden was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment end to pay a fine of SSOO. Kelley’s ease was placed on file. DOZEN KILLED IN A WRECK. Freight Cara Loaded with Workmen Crash Into Rotary Snow Plow. Twelve men dead and ns many more injured is the result of the tail-end collision that occurred on the Great Northern road five miles west of Chiwnukum, Wash. An extra train from Snohomish, loaded with lumber and three cars containing laborers, ran into a rotary snow plow, killing or injuring all of the twen-ty-five workmen. Ten cars were piled in a heap, with nine victims of the wreck uuderneath. The names of the dead-are-not obtainable. The engineer, L. E. Adams, and Fireman Lewis Becker of the freight escaped. The box cars that were used for transporting the crew were coupled next to the engine, with the cars of lumber behind them, and when the crash came the lumber telescoped the box ears loaded with’human freight, killing and maiming the crew. Only two men escaped and they were thrown into the air, landing thirty feet away on an embankment.

MISTAKE CAUSES EXPLOSION. Two Men Killed by Dynamite Blast in Wabash Tunnel at Pittsburg. Two men were killed and four seriously injured at 7 o’clock the other morning in the eastern end of the Wabash tunnel at Pittsburg, by an explosion of dynamite, caused, it is said, by some one’s turning ou the electrical current without receiving the proper signal. Blasts had been prepared by the night .crew in the eastern end of the heading and Day Foreman Florence had gone in with Night Foreman Taylor to see what had been done. With the foremen were four workmen. As the party was going toward the charges of dynamite some one at the top of the shaft turned on the electrical current without notification and when Taylor, who carried the wires, inserted them in the charge of dynamite the explosion followed.

SLAYS WITH HATCHET. W. F. Lewis Brains Mrs. Stella Wright in*Chicago. After braining his housekeeper, Mrs. Stella Wright, w-ith a hatchet in the kitchen of his home in Chicago, William F. Lewis sought in vain for another victim of his murderous rage. Failing to find the man lie sought, Lewis returned to the South Side and was about to enter the home of a sister when he was captured by detectives A struggle followed, during which he cut -his own throat after admitting the murder of the woman. He probably will die. AMERICANS GET A CONCESSION. Right to Prospect for Minerals on Big Territory In Siberia. The right of Americans to prospect for gold and other minerals in eastern Siberia lias been granted. Within the area 200,000 square miles bordering on Bering sea and the Arctic ocean given as mining, trading and development concession to the Northwestern Siberia Company, the same privileges have been extended the American prospector as Russians. The news of this concession on the part of the company came ju a cablegram from John Roseue of Seattle, the Amerieau managing director of the corporation.

Germany Has 6,601 Millionaires. The number of millionaires in Prussia has increased since 1899 from G,OIO to 6,601, according to the general tax returns. The late Herr Krupp's fortune shrunk during the last three years $19,750,000, being now assessed at $40,750,000. . Funtons Scout a Suicide. George Van Bureu, one of the most nbted characters of the Northwest, committed suicide in a cabin in Rattlesnake Valley, north of Missoula, Mont. After a protracted spree he placed the barrel of his rille against his heart and pressed the trigged with a stove poker. Gets Two Years for Perjury. Charles F. Jvelly, member and former speaker of .the St. Louis house of delegates. was couvicted of perjury in connection with the Suburban Street Railway franchise deal and given two years in the penitentiary. He still has to stand trial on two charges of bribery in conuecWomeu Killed in Panic, Fire in n factory building at the corner of Crosby and Houston streets. New York, adjoiniug a five-story tenement and a cigar factory, resulted in a panic in both places, during which four women lost their lives. Two Die at Yates Center, Kan. A Missouri Pacific passenger train waa wrecked while entering the yard* rt Yates Center. Kan. A coal train whicli had taken the switch was too long, and one car had been left on the main track. The engineer and fireman are dead. Swedish King Is HI. * Following the advice of his doctors. King Oscar of Norway and Sweden has decided to intrust the government temporarily to Crowu Prince Gustaf, who will assume the regency at once. Gwirgla nnd South Carolina Shaken. Two shocks of earthquake were generally felt in Savannah, Ga. News from the settlements along the coast indicate that there they were of a sufficient violence to put houses to rockiug. Holds Maricin Dials Illegal. Superior Judge Slossburg In San Francisco decided that dealing in margins was illegal. The decision affects nearly all brokers in the city.

DAKOTA DIVORCES ARE VOID. Federal Supreme Court Decides Casa Involving Nonresidents of State. Tile, United States Supreme Court has decided that divorces granted in Sou&h Dakota to non-residents are void. ' The case was that of Annie Andrews, against Kate H. Andrews and the question waa whether one or the other is entitled to administer upon .the estate of Charles S. Andrews, whom both women claimed ns husband. The t-eeord showed that Mrs. Kate Andrews was the first wife nhd that her husband secured a divorce in South Dakota after remaining there six month®, the time required by the State* statute. The Massachusetts courts held that the decree had been fraudulently secured arid, refusing to recognize it, reco'gnized the first wife as the legal widow. The federal Supreme Court’s decision, which was delivered by Justice White, affirmed the Massachusetts view. 7Fustic4 White said Andrews’ residence in South Dakota did not constitute legal domicile. Justices Brewer, Shiras and Peekham dissented.

TO TAKE CHILDREN TO FAIR. Capitalist HasPJan for Great Invasion of Bt. Louis. -. John It—Waller of Rockford, lowa, has unfolded to the world’s fair directors plans for taking 300,000 of the school children of his State to visit the St. Louis exposition next year. Mr. Waller is a farmer and capitalist. His idea is to organize excursions by train and by steamboat to St. Louis. He stated that a temporary village of two-story cottages will be built upon a fifteen-acre tracta te he used as dwelling houses or hotels. In addition to the cottages he says iiis plans include the erection of a separate building for hospital, library and restaurant purposes. Mr. Waller estimates that'the excursions can be carried out at a maximum cost of S2O to -each- pupil, which amount will cover transportation, board for one week, laundry and medical attention.

CAPITAL IS $10,000,000. N Eight Lake Transportation Companies Complete Merger. The Gilchrist Transportation Company, with a capital stock of $10,000,000, will be incorporated in Ohio within a few days, with J. C. Gilchrist, of as its president. The new company was formed by merging the Lake Shore Transit Company, the Globe Steamship Company, the Steel Steamship Company, the Inland Star Transit Company, the Vega Steamship Company, the Lorain Steamship Company, the Tyron Transit Company, and the Merida Steamship Company. The company will have about eighty freight carriers, ten of which ace Jarge jsteel steamers now being built. Killed by Cave-in at Natalie, Pa. A cave-iu occurred in a mine breach at Natalie, Pa., killing Joseph Petross and his sons—John, 11 years old, and Joseph, 9 years old —and fatally injuringhis eldest son, Michael, 13 years old. Petross and his three boys left home to procure coal and had been at work some time before the top of the break collapsed and caught them. Nebraska Law Knocked Out. The Nebraska Supreme Court ordered the dismissal of the suit against the Union Pacific Railroad Company for $635,000 for alleged, violation of the Nebraska maximum freight rate law. This declares unconstitutional the act creating the State board of transportation, which assessed the penalties against the road.

Mob Wants Prisoner’s Life. A desperate attempt to lynch Stephen Crandall, who was arrested as a suspect in connection with the shooting of Harry Patee, the bank cashier, was made at Perry, lowa. Three thousand men gathered at the jail, ropes were secured and preparations made to hang Crandall. Sheriff Holmes spirited the prisoner away. Populists Tire of Fusion. The executive committee of the Populist State committee has decided that hereafter the Populist party in Nebraska shall not be allied with the Democratic party. The Populists will risk their hope of success in future elections on independent action of their own direction. Colorado Senators Locked Up. Colorado State Senators were locked in the capitol under guard of fifty Democratic deputies, while two “Senates” practically were iu session; nineteen Republicans and Democratic minority each organized. Apostle Smoot Is Chosen. Apostle Reed Smoot, of the Mormon church, led all competitors iu the race for the United States Senate in Utah, nud was elected to succeed Senator Rawlins by large majorities in both house*. Bombardment of San Carlos. Three German warships bombarded San Carlos, Venezuela, firing hundreds of shots, killing twelve soldiers and many non-combatants and laying the forts in ruins. Injured in Fencing. A small bone in President Roosevelt’s right wrist was fractured during a fencing bout with#Geueral Wood. Physicians say it will have mended in a few days. Heyward' la Now Governor. -Dnnoau-dineb- Hayward has been inaugurated os Governor of South Carolina. James T. Sloan was sworn in as Lieutenant Governor to succeed James 11. Tillman. Lons la Named for Senator. At Topeka, Kan., Congressman Chester 1. Long was nominated by acclamation for United States Senator to succeed W. A. Harris by the joiig, Republican caucus of the Legislator*