Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — SUSPECTS ARE HELD. [ARTICLE]

SUSPECTS ARE HELD.

WESLEY REYNOLDS. - ■ jU Elias Wagner and Clarence Dunham Ara Placed in Jail at I>a Porte, In* diana—Honduras Has Revolution on Hand and Two Alien Armies Invade. Two men suspected oif being impli- > rated in the murder of Wesley Reynolds have been arrested and lodged in tire’ county jail at La Porte, Ind. s They are Elias Wagner and Clarence Duuhhm. They were arrested as the result ,pf a long investigation made by Thomas Buras, a Monon Railroad detective, ami Officer Wvinhardt of Lafayette? Wagtier was arrested at Ips tome at McCool* and officers surrounded Dunham’s home and took him into custody. Neither of ■the men offered resistance. The detectives are confident of Obtaining the ? 1,250 reward for the capture and conviction of the murderers of the young bank watchman. was killed the morning of Nov. 30 by men who forced an entrance to the Westville bank. In the fusillade of bullets Reynolds fell mortally wounded, but not until he had wounded one of the robbers.

SAVES LIVES OF PASSENGERS. Union Pacific Brakeman’s Coolness Prevents Terrible Accident. With death, in the form of a runaway train drawn by two engines, staring them in the face, the lives of 200 passengers on the Union Pacific's Pacific express were saved at Big Springs, Neb., by the coolness of Brakeman Senter, who rushed to a switch and threw the oncoming Atlantic express into a head-end collision with the famous Overland Limited train, •completely demolishing three engines, •but preventing the runaway from crashing into the-rear-of the Pacific express. It was ascertained iater that the air brakes on the Atlantic had refused to work. TWO ARMIES INVADE HONDURAS. Nicaragua Troops Sent to Fight Rebels and Salvadorian Soldiers Aid Them. .... Nicaraguan forces under the command of Gen. Vasquez, sent to help President Sierra of Honduras to cope with t|ie revolution begun by Senor Bonilla, have occupied Choluteca City, milesFoutli of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. Gen. Ortiz, with Salvador troops,, has invaded Honduras to assist Bonilla. Bonilla himself has occupied the town of Ocotopec. fifty miles north of San Salvador, and is now advancing towards San Antonio del Norte. CZAR COMES TO FINNS’ RESCUE. Orders $3.6(10,000 Spent in Railways and Bank to Loan Money. The Czar has personally intervened in behalf of the famine-stricken Finns, and I has ordered that extensive relief works be started without delay. Railroads costing $1,000,000 will be built at once. A $2,000,000 loan for other railroad eons truction has been authorized, and a bank with a capital of SBOO,OOO established to loan money to peasant farmers. An appropriation of’ $140,000 has been made for the drainage of swamps.

France Acrees tn Terms. Mi Jusserand, the French ambassador, and -Herbert W. Bowen, the Venezuelan pleniiwtentiary, have signed a protocol for the settlement of the French claims against Venezuela by a Joint eoimnis.-ion to mqct at Caracas and for the reference to The Hague tribunal of the contention of tire s.llied powers for preferential treatment in the satisfaction of their demands. Mother Blinds and Stays. Mary Anderson, wife of a wealthy --farmer near, Columbus,-Neb., threw carbolic acid into her. husband's face, blinding him, and forced* - her 10-y Car-old daughter to drink a probably fatal dose of the acid,* and then committed suicide by drinking a large dose. . Oomestle 1 trouble \sith herjinsbiml prompted the deed. Expected War Seems Unlikely. Conflict between Russia, Austria, Balkans and Turkey is unlikely to mate- ■ rialize this year; Albanians are expected to rebel instead; railroad construction has been stopped and Austrian troops are on guard. Austrian Consul Is Killed. Charles Martin, the Austrian consul in Balfhnore, and alao prominent in business and social circles, was killed by a fall through an elevator shaft. He was married a week before to a Philadelphia girl. - - Russian Consul Is Murdered, M. Rulong, the Russian consul at Mitrovitza, Albania, has been murdered by Albanian*. The consulate was established in 1902 in the face of the bitter mid persistent opposition of the inhabitants., Klnrdere! by Burglars. s.’ E. T. Burdick, president of the Buffalo envelope works, was found dead in his room With his skull crushed. The indications are that the murder was committed by burglirf. * Hizoots Oisohntvcnl JPnplli. Reubdffß. Fitts. ,y»rincij>al of tlwJpglu School at Inman, H, C., slg>t and killed . Ed Foster, a 17-j*eqr-old« pnpH whom- he was Jo chastise.- . , Ismkences ‘WndH.Cp Deaths Al Wade; couvit-ted of-lhc muftb-r of Miss Hate Sillivan and denied chanen.'y. was mUitenat Toledo, Ohio, to death in thoibcrtriJ chnir. ' Vfaauuh/ KUI. Hkm.eOT. BdMfinTn T. Go£<i w 'l°» njod 7f>, re I" to bo- worth about IWWiQ, ofle *** r>' best fanoweu in eenfrtl Ken —S?dBL Walked into n ' fa||lnme 'putwteuxoiver ■ ta. fais A'beck ami fired, | killing himself. 'Chicnironri In Asphyxiated. The dead body i ’bf Clirrlf* W. Clayton, . who apparently had been asphyxiated by •lattffnl ifttf, wad found in Iris room at Dayton, Ohia. „ day tot* , was 22 years old. and came from Chicago.: p 0 bad •ecgretl erpptojmmt as a t-c. '* ■v -’ r