Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERN OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERN OF THE EARTH

saved by bh*ve ©hh* ■■■y , - •mommui Passengers on Boat Led Thirteen MiTeTOver the Ice. A party of travelers has arrived at St. John, N. 8., after a thrilling experience on the ice. The party was led over thirteen miles of floes from an imprisoned steamer to I’ictou Island and thence to tho mainland j»y two young Boston women. The steamer Minto, which runs from Nova’Scotia to PPificte*Etlwhfd i fsland, became icebound. Among the forty passengers. on board were two young women named Dent, who had received word that their parents were dying in Boston. When they realized the situation of the Minto they expressed determination to 4tart for the mainland on foot. Another young woman and four young men were willing to join them. The sun’s rays on the ice were blinding, ami after the party had struggled along for several miles one of the, young men sank from exhnnstinc.ii. The remainder of the ,distance, however, was covered, although the young women were obliged Constant-’ ly to assist the exhausted man. After remaining on the ice forty-eight hours the Minto managed to work herself free. She then ran over to her sister ship, the Stanley, which has been imprisoned in the floes longer than six weeks, and put forty tons of coal on board. The Minto has arrived at Georgetown, Prince Edr ward Island. OHIO FAMILYIS TORTURED. Masked Men Beat and Burn Even Infant and Agg.d Fora lytic. Eight masked bandits tortured members of the Christian Jochlin family, living just outside of Toledo, Ohio, for five hours in an effort to learn the location of a supposed hoard of $20,000, while two accomplices stood.guard outside. All escaped without leaving a clew to their identity. They secured SBOO and some jewelry. An infant girl of 18 months and an aged paralytic man were among the seven persons tortured. Before leaving the house the bandits cooked and meal. Torches and ropes were used in the tortures. All of tho inmates of the house were (flubbed to insensibility before a word was spoken. PLAN A BIG TROLLEY SYSTEM. Eastern Capitalist s Preparing to Build n Network of Roads. A company has been formed to build trolley lines between Erie, Canibridg’e Springs, Union City and Corry, Pa., and from Corry to build a connecting line with the proposed Warren and Jamestown lines, thus giving connections with Jamestown, Chautauqua, 'Lakewood, Mayville and Frewsburg, N. Y. Eventually, it is claimed, the lines will be extended as far south as Pittsburg, west to Cleveland and east to Buffalo.

M. E. INGALLS NOW IN POLITICS. President of “Bin Four” Railway System Agrees to Run for Mayor. M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four Railway system, will be the regular Democratic candidate for Mayor of Cincinnati. He signified his acceptance in a letter to the committee of twentysix. It Is believed that Jfr. Ingalls’ entry into city polities means his candidacy for the governorship of Ohio thia .'ear, and perhaps for the presidential nomination next year. St. Joseph Factory Destroyed. The Cooper-Wells kujjting factory in St.' Joseph, Mich., the 'largest hosiery plant in the State, way discovered on lire ■nt 4 o'clock the other morning, and an hour later the plant had been destroyed. An’electric lamp in the carding room'exploded and the flames caught a cloth partition. The plant will be rebuilt. The 'loss is SIOO,OOO, with $55,000 insurance. Lives Lost in Fire The Burbank building in Lowell, Mass., caught fire at 3 o’clock the other morning mid the flames soon* spread to the Belvidere Hotel next door. Seven or eight lives were lost in the fire. The Burbank building contained many lodging rooms. The Howe- block adjoining was also destroyed. Kills Betrayer—Shoots Self. In Lincoln, Neb., Jennie Thomas, n •tenographer, 24 years old. went to the room of Fritz Broderson, eWk in a Lincoln commission house, and shot him dead. She then shot herself in the head and will probably die. The young woman says Broderson refused to keep his promise to marry her. Flames Ruin Case Plow Plant. ’ The mammoth factory of the J. I, Case plow works was partly destroyed by fire at Racine, Wls. The grinding,’ polishing, ercctipg and paint rooms and a large stock of plow goods are in ruins, together with all the machinery. A large three-story brick building is also in ruins. The loss will exceed $100,1)00. Fanta Fe Depot DestrbyedJ The large freight-depot-of the Atchison, Topekn and Santa Fe road st-Four-teenth and Hickory rtreets, Kansas City, and ninety freight cars, with their contents, were destrpyed’tnr fire.] The damage is estimated, at kWOJMXL a Battle with Striking Miners. In a desperate battle with Winchustera at .Wright’s cqiU works in Raleigh County. W. Va., between striking coal miners anfl a force of ’tlpited States’ deputy' marshals right petsons were killed and sixteen wounded, two of, them mortally. President Sends Special Messace. . President Rodserelt sent a rpecial rti.4sage to Congress Friday asking passage of bill reducing tariff on. Philippine products and quoting Gov. Taft as to grave need of islanders for such relief. Clrcns Winter Quarters Burn. Aju explosion ots kanoaene oil lamp in ons •f.lV»bricl( bwiHwgt qt Uje Barnum A Bailey circus, winter quarters in

Bridgeport, Copn., caused a sloo,oo6,fire auto threatened the entire circus property with destruction. While the fire was at Its height a cornice fell, carrying to the ground with it twelve firemen who were at work on the roof. The men were considerably bruised. -POLYGAMY IN NUTMEG STATE.- - Rev. H. L. Hutchins Says Plural Marriage Exists in State. - - Rev. H. L. Hutchins, who has been making a tour of that State in the inferests of the Connecticut. Bible Society, read a paper at a meeting of pastors in New Haven that startled his hearers. Mr. Hutchins said polygamy is practiced in the eastern part of Connecticut. The degeneracy of the inhabitants of the town referred to, Mr. Hutchins said, was productive of murder:.and other crimes. Another feature of life in that section and in the northwestern part of the State was the existence of a class of illiterates. The speaker thought the inefficiency of the country school was largely respousibzle for such conditions, and he believed the church was not holding its own in these districts. BIG TUNNEL IS STARTED. Work Begun on the Pennsylvania’s Subterranean System. The first blow was struck the other day on the work of constructing the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel under the East and North rivers and through New York City. When the work on the great undertaking, which will eventually cost tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company about $50,000,000, was begun, there assembled at the first building to be razed the chief engineers, Charles M. Jacobs and Alfred Noble, and their staff - and a number of others immediately interested in the work. The shaft will be large. It will extend down to the level of the tunnel, and then the work will be pushed west under the river and east under the city, to connect with other sections. SOCIETY WOMAN’S ROMANCE. Cyrus Fie d’s Daughter Wed a Phyisician Who Attended Her. Standing beneath a wedding bell of white roses and lilies, Miss Mary Stone Field, daughter of tho late Cyrus W. Field, Jr., was married to Dr. Henry S. Pfeiffer in New York. The wedding was tho climax of a romance which- began when the young woman, overtaxed by social duties at home and abroad, sought rest in a sanitarium and found in the young physician, who was then chief of its medical corps, a lover, who now becomes her husband.

Grain Buyer Slain by Agent,. Who Wounda Son Also.— H. F. Stegald, agent of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at Benclare, S. D., shot and instantly killed Frank Bowen, a grain buyer of that place and owner of the townsite. Stegald was arrested. The men quarreled over a car demurrage. Bowen returned to the station to secure express- and, while signing for them the agent shot him, killing him instantly. A second shot Severely wounded Bowen’s 12 year-old sou.; I Echo of Grave Robberies." ’’’ Gov. Durbin of Indiana has signed the bill giving, unclaimed bodies to medical colleges for dissection upon payment of expenses of shipment. A report was circulated that the bill repealed the law under which alleged grave robbers in Indianapolis hav6 been indicted and that they would be released Without trial. Itdeveloped, however, that the fear was groundless. Steel Trust Plant Buras. The entire Works of the Schultze plant of the American Bridge Company, a part of the United States Steel Company, at McKees Rocks, Pa., was totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $200,000. About 200 men are thrown out of employment by it. Tanana Strike Said to Be Big. Letters received from Dawson assert that the gold strike in the Tanana dis trict is as rich as that made in the Klondike. Scores of prospectors in Tacoma, Wash, are gathering outfits and preparing to start for new fields. Governor After an Editors Gov. Richard Yates of Illinois personally threatened to have Percival L. liar den,’ editor of the Chicago Club Fellow, shot, and to pardon the shooter, if Mrs. Yates’, name is mentioned again in that publication's “squibs.” Two T 'atally Injured.

Charles Carter, freight conductor, 1 Ldndop,. Ohio, and August Hersbifer, brake-1 man, Columbus, Ohio, were fatally crushed at ’Middletown Junction, Ohio, by striking a freight'car while on a angine. Say German* Fucked. Veaacl, Venezuelan authorities accuse 'the Germans of-looting the* Warship Reslanrador before returning it to the govera.menl. German naval officers’deny' the -accusation. . . ... ' ’ . tZ . •. Wtorm• Bemoan Talanda. The Island of,Tutuila add the Samoan group generally hare boon visitedAj- a tremendous hurricane. The fur/ofxfce wind both on land and on sep wag terrific, and great damage was done. 1 Body 1a Found Petrified. * A body recently transferred from the cemetery 1,1 Wells. &|inn., to La Crosse, Mlnju.. l*a* be«u fouad to be pexritwd. - on s bodiffcfci ths graveyard.are in the same comFtion. I Earthquake In oath Dakota. \ Aa jartlmuake shock -wss felt at O<comj, It lasted several, adoot«e mid.was sever* enough to shaks down etdiss and .bwak As ifi WAM4 river.

BJG ROBBERY PLOT UNEARTHED. Scheme to'Ldot'Xll Hotels in Country .. Discovered. The New York, police announce that they have 'secured a confession from’ Louis F. Messier, the 18-year-old belL boy, who was arrested charged with jobbing hotels. Tlie confession, they say, - shows that Messier and Cullen, another bell boy, bad planned to rob hotels all over the country. Maps and diagrams of the interiors of the hotels, the names of prominent guests who made a' habit of stopping in 'them, and a synopsis -written in shorthand, under the name of caeh hotel, describing its plan, were found on both the prisoners. A dia'gram of the route jof the coronation procession of King Edward, with the names of prominent Americans present, and lists of the jewelry worn by- them at the celebration, was algo found in a trunk in the prisoners’ rooms. In his confession Messier! is said to have told the police that the “graft” in America had been so good that the trip to Europe had been abandoned. It is said that Messier and Cullen secured SIO,OOO in property from hotels and clubs in New York. TRIES TO WIPE OUT FAMILY. Youth Kills Father, Wounds Mother and Sister and Slays Himself. Earl Woods, the 17-year-old son of a farmer seven miles west of Frankfort, Ind., murdered his father, shot and fatally wounded his mother and sister, end then committed suicide. The motive of the boy’s bloody crime is not known. After the shooting the young man went to the house of a neighbor and said that robbers had entered th,e Woods home and killed his father, mother and sister, and that he had escaped after a running battle with the desperadoes. He apparently greatly excited and said he was organizing a posse to pursue his father’s slayers. Young Woods said he had no time for further words, as he had to run down She robbers, and he started toward the barnyard at the farmer’s home. After the boy disappeared behind the barn a shot was heard, and the farmer to whom the boy was talking the moment before hastened to the barn to find the youthful murderer dying with a bullet through his breast. ■

TO MEET WEEK OF AUG. 17. G. A. R. Encampment Date I" Selected at San Francisco. Gen. Thomas J. Stewart, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, members of the national council of administration, who accompanied him on his tour, and the local committee in charge of preparations for the coming national encampment in San Francisco, have decided to hold the encampment during ethe week of Aug. 17. Tickets will be placed on sale by the railroads Aug., 1 and will be good for stop-oeers both coming and going. The time limit probably will be sixty days. The executive committee will be empowered to invite President Roosevelt to attend the encampment. Drive Negroes From Town. Several days ago Sterling Aiken, a negro, shot and wounded Welton Thomas, a bookkeeper of Webrum, Pa. , Aiken escaped, but Webrum residents ordered all negroes in the town —about twenty—-to leave the neighborhood. As they did not obey after repeated requests the white residents attacked the negroes’ shack and putted it down. The colored men then boarded a (freight train. Falling Scaffold Injures Wo’rlcinen. Twelve men were injured, two of them probably fatally, by the collapsing of a scaffold at the new South Division High School building, at Thirty-ninth street and Prairie avenue, Chicago. The twelve men were thrown forty feet to the ground and fell among bricks and ’.umber. • ‘ Ex-Governor Bent to Jail. Ex-Gov*.! Eugene Sepiple, president of the Seattle and Lake Washington Waterwag Company, was ordered confined in the county jail in Seattle, Wash., until he complies with an order of the grand jury to produce records of his corporation before the body. $20,000 Farm for Y. M. C. A. David Brothers of Denver, president of the Colorado Fruit Growers’ Association, has given his fruit farm of thirtyfix acres, highly improved, to the Young men’s Christian Association of Colorado, to be used in connection. with the projected sanitarium for consumptives.

Henderson Quits Law Firm. Speaker Henderson has withdrawn from <he firm of Henderson, Hurd, Ler ehan & Keisel at Dubuque, lowa, of which he hai been a member for twentytwo, years, and, it is said, will Joni the New York law firm of which Thogqms B. Reed was a member. Expensive Fire in New Y--rk. Fife broke out in the clght-etoky building; at- 837 Broadway, New York; occuplecl‘ by Hackett, 'Cafhart & Co., clothierk< and mfreral other firm*. Before the flames wero extinguished damage of, $250,000 find been caused. . . Pro fee* DeatK to Tropics. . „ , Rather'than to go, to the Philippines, to tvJiich his troop bad been orAcrod,I’riva(e McDonald pt the Thirteenth cavalry, while In the barracka at Fort’ •Jkcogh, Mont., committed snieide 4 by shooting himself with a revolver. ChtucM Troops Are Slain... Flvs hundred Chinese imperial troops were ambushed by th# rebels of ths province of Kwang-Si and tdaiu. .The rebels ettptufed large supplies of arms intended for a besieged, garrison. at. • Palma Authorises Bond Issue.President Palma of Cuba has signed ths soldiera’ pay loan bill*,‘which authorises ths issue of bsnds-t<P fbo- amsunt of J 85.000,000. . , J