Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

GIRL HEADS ROBBERS' BAND. Vaudeville Actress ,la Arrested Leading a Brigand Life. Attired in a sailor’s custom of white tnd blue canvas which set off her figure to the very best advantage, Theresa McDougall, the acknowledged leader of a large band of thieves, was arrested by Deputy Talyerds, of Rochester, N. Y., and his assistants. For some weeks complaints have been coming in to the Sheriff of the depredations committed by this band of tramps in the vicinity of Chili, N. Y., but it seemed almost impossible to locate the rendezvous of the band. The other night the Sheriff got a clew which led him to an abandoned farm house on Block Creek, where he surprised the captain and her lieutenant, W. H. Smith, both of whom were taken into custody. The leader was known to her band as “Jimmie McDougall,*' and that Is the name she gave to the officers. After spending several hours in a cell she broke down and sending for the matron she confessed thatahewas a woman. After being properly clothed in garments of her sex the girl told her story. She said her maiden name was Theresa McDougall, and that she was 21 years old. She was formerly an actress on the variety stage in Cleveland, her home. Several years ago she quit the stage and married Max Denhart, a stage carpenter. The girl said her husband abused her and she, becoming tired of living that life, resolved to run away. She had no money, so adopted the dress of a man in order to rough it in her travels without exciting suspicion. She left Cleveland over ten months ago, accompanied by W. H. Smith, the two beating their way on freight trains as fares Rochester, where they encountered the others that went toward making up the band of which she was the captain. KILLED IN TRAIN COLLISION. Misunderstanding Results in Fatal Wreck Near Collins, lowa. In a collision between a freight train and a work train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, four miles east of Collins, lowa, eleven men were killed outright, two have since died and about thirty were injured seriously. The trains came together in a deep cut and on a sharp curve, when it was impossible for either engineer to see the other train more than three or four car lengths away. Each train was making good speed, the freight to make up lost time out and the work train to reach a point to meet the freight. The flat cars on which the laborers rode were telescoped and the men thrown in all directions and buried under the debris. It is said the wreck was due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of the conductor of the work train. MANY SHIPS TO BE BUILT. Yards on the Lakes Are Engaged for Whole Winter. It is expected that $10,000,000 worth of steel steamships will be built on the American side of the great lakes for service In 1903. Twenty-four freight ships are under contract and every berth at the lake yards is filled for the entire winter. No more can be taken to be done before late In the summer of 1903. As for two or tferee years past the new construction is by individuals and the iron ore and steel making companies that have large Beets seem to be drifting out of the idea of owning more vessels. The present season will be the most active in the history of ship building and transportation ever known on the American lakes. Sight Returns at Prayer. Mrs. Sarah Nessler of Denver, Colo., who has been blind for seven years and whose affliction was pronounced incurable by oculists, says she has recovered her sight in a miraculous manner. While praying at a revival meeting of the Holiness sect, sometimes called “The Jumpers,” she says a white light broke upon her eyes and soon she was able to distinguish objects. Capital Is Now $10,000,000. The Southwestern Slate Manufacturing Company of Slatington, Ark., has just filed articles of incorporation increasing its capital stock to $10,000,000. The stockholders are principally Eastern capitalists. The company has slate quarries at Slatington, and a railroad is to be built at once from there to Hot Springs. Admits He Slew His Son. On his deathbed William Thompson of Vilas, Colo., has confessed that he killed his son, Benjamin, aged 13, and that Zeb Nicholson, who was convicted of having murdered the boy and is serving a sentence of ten to twenty years in the penitentiary, is innocent. Train Hold-Up Prevented. An attempt to hold up the Great Northern eastbound overland train near Everett, Wash., proved a failure. Bandits fired three volleys at the coachers, but the train crew refused to stop. A cook In the dining car was slightly wounded. Inventor’s Widow a Suicide. Mrs. Anna V. L. Pierson, widow of Dr. William Hugh Pierson,,said to be the inventor of celluloid, committed suicide by hanging herself at her home in Glen Ridge, N. J., owing to continued ill?' -health.: ;: Shoots Himself on Lake. A man rented a boat at the foot of Jackson boulevard. Chicago, and rowed out on Lake Michigan. There he shot hitqaelf.,/The name of the man as. -not known. Boy Tries to Murder GirL Because she told him that she did not love him, Fermin Santos, 12 years old, tried to cut the throat of Conchita Perdomo, aged 10, at Tampa, Fla. Disabled Boat Towed Into Port. The Italian steamer Sardegna, from' Genoa and Naples, arrived in New Yofk towing the American schooner Notice of

Providence, R. 1., from Brava. Cape Verde Islands, with sixty-four persons on board. Captain Montana of the Sardegna said he found the Notice disabled and drifting helplessly with the gulf stream. John F. Pina, the schooner’s mate, reported that the Notice was disabled by a squall. SHIP SENT TO BOTTOM. City of Venice Strack by Seguin and Three of Crew Drowned. The steamer City of Venice was struck and sent to the bottom of Lake Erie in fifteen minutes by the Canadian steamer Sequin off Point Rondeau at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning. Three of the Venice’s crew went down with their ship. The lost steamer was bound down Lake Erie from Lake Superior with a cargo of 2,500 tons of iron ore and was on the Buffalo course when she met the Canadian boat. Many of the passengers of the ill-fated ship jumped overboard in the panic following the collision, but were saved. The loss will be one of the most serious of the year to the marine insurance companaies, as the Venice was valued at SIBO,000, and insured for nearly that amount. The’Wilson, lost off Duluth, was of higher value, but was not insured. The VenIcewas owned by the McGraw Transportation Company of Bay City, of which Thomas Cranage is the head. She came out in 1892 and measured 2,107 tons. Her dimensions were: Length, 301 feet; keel and beam, 42 feet. The Sequin is a small steel steamer of 828 tons. The City of Venice went down«4n very deep water less than fifteen minutes after the collision. After standing by for an hour the Seguin beaded for Cleveland with the survivors. The cause of the collision is not known. There was no fog and the night was fairly clear. The lights of the City of; Venice were burning brightly. BOY RECOVERS FROM LOCKJAW. Antitoxin Injected Into the Spinal Cord Effects a Cure. Physicians connected with Harlem hospital, New York, have announced the recovery from lockjaw and discharge from that institution of Joseph, a son of “Silent Mike” Tiernan, who was for many years a member of the New York baseball team. On the Fourth of July he shot himself in the hand with a blank cartridge. He was taken to the hospital on July 12. Lockjaw was well developed and it was decided to inject antitoxin into the spinal cord, and not into the brain, as in previous cases. The injections were made between the first and second lumbar vertebrae. On the fifteenth day the jaw relaxed. COUPLE ADOPTS 22 CHILDREN. Michigan Farmer Wanted a Boy and GottheWhole Asylumr" Mr. and Mrs. John Shandrow, who own a fruit farm near South Haven, Mich., are childless, and, having decided to adopt a boy, wrote to the Smith Foundling Asylum in Minneapolis asking that several children be sent for a summer’s outing, with the privilege of choosing from them in case they so desired. The institution promptly forwarded twentytwo boys and girls over 3 years of age. The couple has decided to adopt all of them. ESCAPED PRISONER KILLED. Son of Man Whom They Are Robbing Kills One of Two Fugitives. Fred Herron, white, and Robert Johnson, a negro, prisoners in the county jail at Leavenworth, Kan., overpowered the guard and escaped. The next morning they entered the house of Carl Gitsch, on a farm four miles south of the city, held a pistol to Gitsch’s head and demanded his money. A young son of the farmer came downstairs with a shotgun and killed Herron. Johnson fled and has not been captured. Americans Buy Friars’ Laud. Reports current in Vatican circles in Rome are to the effect that an American syndicate has purchased the land of the friars and religious orders in the Philippines. Government officials at Washington say that it is a wellknown fact that companies have taken over considerable of the friars’ property, but the conditions of the transfer and its purpose are yet a secret. Love Conquers Their Temper. Thirty-six years ago Capt. William W. Smith quarreled with his first wife and left their home in Illinois, going to Sharon. Pa- Ten years ago he married Ora Sawyer, who died ten years later. Recently a reconciliation took place between him and his first love and the pair remarried. Fire Destroys Buildings. Fire of incendiary origin broke out at West Alexandria, Ohio, and burned six business houses and two residences. The Arcade Hotel guests were driven from rooms before they had time to secure their personal effects. Heroic work saved the hotel. Loss $15,000. Boer War May Be Renewed. The Giornale de Italie at Rome pub-' lishes an interview with the son of exSecretary Deits of the Transvaal, who dias arrived at Naples, in which Reitz declares that war in the Transvaal wiU recom m en ce a few years henee^ — Watchman Found Dead. Daniel Sweeney, a watchman employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna jy, Western ijnaoany-Mthe-Rrigs cdliiwy in Hanover township, Pa., was found dead in a field. Proclamation of King Edward. On the eve of his coronation King Edward issued a proclamation to his subjects. thanking them for sympathy and prayers during his recent illness. Family of Five Burned to Death. Leo Wilder, wife and three children K’ere burned to death at their country ome near the village of Elliott, CaL 1

RETURN SANS TREASURE. Men Who Sailed to Hunt Hidden Gold on Cocoa Island Unable to Find It. The elaborately equipped expedition which set sail from Victoria, B. C., early in January on the brigantine Blakely to search for the mythical treasure of Cocos Island has returned, like other expeditions which have visited the island, without having seen a sign of treasure of any kind. This latest expedition was an utter failure. The instruments which were to locate buried wealth failed in all instances except in giving the members work in digging in different parts of the island. The Blakely was 101 days reaching the island from Victoria, getting a taste of heavy weather which prevailed at times, and arriving at the island April 17. After a day’s reconnoitering the instruments were brought out and the men started work at a place to which the apparatus pointed. After sinking a shaft twenty feet deep, another trial was made with the so-called gold finder, and it pointed in another direction—in fact, every time it was brought out it pointed in a different direction. Finally, getting disgusted with it, Captain Whiilden decided to test it with some gold coin on the beach. It failed to find the coin, and then a search for the treasure wa,s made independent of it. Holes were sunk where the crew of H. M. S. Imperius and the schooner Aurora had searched, 1 without better results. Provisions getting low, it was decided to make-a start for home, and after a supply of corn had been loaded the vessel was turned northward. This was May 11, only twentyfive days having been spent on the island. Captains Whidden and Hackett still believe the treasure is there, but place no confidence in the instruments of Messrs. Gilbert and Enyeart. SAVES CHILD FROM FLAMES. Great Bravery of a Young Girl Jja Cleveland. But for the cool bravery of Frony Rushton, a 12-year-old girl, John Farrar, aged 2, who lives next door to her, would have been burned to death by his 4-year-old brother Dewey, in Cleveland. The two little boys were left alone in the house. The Rushton girl, hearing the boy screaming, ran to the door of the Farrar house and found his clothing in flames. The elder brother was holding him in a corner of the kitchen stifling the hoy’s screams by pressing his hand over the little fellow’s mouth. The boy had locked the screen door and the girl could not get into the house. She called to him to open the door, but W refused to move. She then frightened him by telling him her father was coming, and the boy ran into a woodshed adjoining the house. Quickly the girl ran to an open window and called the litfTe fellow to her. His clothing in flames, he ran to her and she dragged him through the open window. She then beat out the flames with her hands. The boy was badly burned about the body and face and his hair was partly burned off. FOUND DEAD IN CENTRAL PARK. Multimillionaire’s Son the Victim of Foul Play or a Suicide. A body found in Central Park, New York, with a bullet hole in the head, has been identified as that of Herman Kellar, said to be the son of a Breslau multi-millionaire. Kellar resided in New York City. His widow says he left home on July 17 and that bank deposits of several thousand dollars to his credit have been withdrawn. The pockets of Kellar’s clothing were torn out. and when his body was found no pistol had been discsovered near the spot. Don Cameron Badly Hurt. While former United States Senator Don Cameron and Mrs. Cameron were driving from Fort William, Invernessshire, Scotland, to Invernlochy castle, Lochaber, which he has leased for the summer, the horses shie<|,.and the carriage collided with a cart. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron were thrown out. The ex-Senator was severely injured. Killed in a Runaway Auto. Mrs. R. B. Swing of Valparaiso, Ind., was killed at Pittsburg in an automobile accident. She was riding in Schley Park when 'through the loosening of a screw an automobile in which she was ridiug coursed wildly along a driveway. r Jhe woman Nrinted from the rush of air and fell from the runaway machine. Corpse Found on Prairie. The body of a young woman was found on the prairie at 74th and State streets. Chicago, and later identified as that of Minnie Mitchell, and the policehave found evidences of murder. The disappearance of William Bartholin, her lover, and his mother deepens the mystery. Pool Ends Elevator War. The Elevators Association and the Western Elevating Company at Buffalo, N. Y., reached an understanding with the result that all the elevators of the two organizations are now in single pool. >.The elevator rate war is practically over. The elevator rates have been advanced. Inheritance Law Is Void.. The State of Minnesota has rto Valid inheritance law on its statute books. Judge Bunn of the Ramsey County Court Folds that the invalid. Decisions of other courts already have found irreparable flaws in the laws of 1897 and 1902. Sixteen Men Reported Dead. Sixteen men are known to have been killed and some others are reported missing as the result of an explosion of gas in one of the mines of the Union Coal and Coke Company at Bowen, Colo. 'Andrew D. White Resinas. Ambassador White mailed his resignation as minister to Germany to the United States several days ago. It.ia to take effect early in November.