Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

NEGROES PLAN TO SEIZE HAITI. Colored Prize Winner at Yale Offered Presidency of the Movement. A scheme for American negroes to form an army, seize Hayti and make it an American republic has been broached to William Pickens, the colored member of the junior class of the academic department of Yale, who won the Ten Eyck premium at the annual prize speaking. He is the only negro to win this prize at Yale ia the university’s history. Pickens says that he has been Offered “Tire"presidency of the llaytTair republjitafter the conquest of the L. Mnsgrove is secretary. of-'Tlfe movement. He is located at Sturgis, Ivy., the headquarters .of "the junta. A canvass has begun, according to a letter from Mr. Musgrovc, for raising funds to equip an irrmysT’AmeHean negroes, the purchase or lease of a warship, provisions and arms. The army is to be known as “The Sons of Freedom.” The government is to be administered by a tion, of which all the members of the society are to be stockholders. All land titles and franchises are to be vested in the State' All dangerous and iucprrigible'eriminnls are to be provisioned and set adrift on the sea to seek other shores. HELD FOR MURDER OF GIRL. Two Fuspected of Killing Banker's Daughter Who Shielded Father. Miss Sturtevant, daughter of Treasurer James S. Sturtevant of the Medford, Mass., Co-operative Bank, was shot and killed at her home by an unknown man, who attempted to rob her fnther._a»l»e was returning from n bank Tneeting with a satchel filled with checks and money. The assassin then his bicycle and fled. An Italian who answered his description was arrested two hours later on suspicion. Tlis man arrested gave his name ns Carpasso Lourbreid. He is an Italian and cannot speak English. Another arrest was made, a stranger having been taken into custody. The only fact against the men in custody is that both answer the description of the person who killed Miss Sturtevant. IRISH IMMIGRATION LARGER. Immigrants for Four Months Are 8,200, as Against 4,002 Last Year. Great increase in immigration from Ireland is shown by the record of the first four months of this year, eompared'witli the same period of other recent years. Statistics given out the other day show the arrival in New York of 8,206 Irish immigrants for the four months ending April 30, against 4,002 for the same period last year. For several years there was a falling off in Irish immigration. All other nationalities which come here show a larger percentage of males than females, but of the Irish coming-this year about 70 per cent are females. Many are girls in their teens. SERVED SENTENCE AND APPEALS Ex-Convict Declares Innocence and Wants to Clear His Name. After serving the full four years of his penitentiary sentence, C. B. Siders, aged 70 years, appeared in the Criminal •Court at Kansas City and sought to appeal his case to the Supreme Court. Siders wishes to clear his name of a crime of which he asserts he is innocent. He was convicted of embezzlement of money secured in a land deal while acting for a Platte County woman. To Reclaim Alkali Lands. The Agricultural Department of the United States government is about to undertake to demonstrate to the farmers in the Yakima valley* of Washington that many thousand acres of alkali lands in that vicinity can be reclaimed and within two years mad# the most valuable agricultural lands in the section. Similar demonstrations are to be made in other parts of the country. Gold Is Found in Maine. Mack Keith of Auburn, Me., believes he has struck a veritable Klondike. He has organized a company and work will begin at once on the property. The place where the gold has been discovered is near Bretton's Mills. The vein is fifty feet wide and shows -for nearly two miles. Offer Folk $15,000 Residence. Prominent business men of St. Louis, j headed by N. \V. McLeod and E. S. | Lewis, wholesale merchants, have tenI dcred Circuit Attorney Folk a house | worth $15,000 ns an expression of their | appreciation of his work in unearthing i municipal corruption. Reck Falls on Men. Six men were killed and five others j injured, three of them fatally, by a slide | of rock at Eggleston Springs, oil the Norj folk and Western Railroad. A huge I mass of solid stone gave way on the j mountain side,, striking the gang of laj borers at work fairly. Rural Delivery Official Ousted. Postmaster General Payne has dis- | missed A. W. Machcn, superintendent of theiree delivery system, appointing SI. C. Fosiies to the position. The system also passes under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Omaha Re-elect* Moores. Mayor Frank E. Moores. Republican, was re elected in Omaha after a spirited campaign. The remainder of the ticket i* divided between Republicans am] Democrats. Chinese Leper Escapes. Dong Gong, the Chinese leper who was in close confinement at quarantine, about two mile* below Jefferson bar' racks. St. Louis, for the last year and a half, has escaped. Pastor Acquitted of Murdar Charge, Rev. Frederick C. Wellner- was acquitted of the charge of mnrdering James K. Hatfield, a young man of Kirby Knob, Ky. t employed by Wellner aa a. farm

hand near MitfoTSvttle,~Ohlo. The State charged that Wellner fraudulently placed $2,000 insurance on Hatfield’s life in favor oY Mrs. Wellner. and then killed him with a club. The defense contended that Hatfield met his death by being run over by a farm wagon. » l PARROT SAVES OWNER'S LIFE. Accident to New Jersey Man Cause* Bird to Cry for.JfClp. J Attracted by... cries' of “Murder!” neighbors of ■ George "B ."And re wsof Washington, N. J.. rpn to his house to find out the cause. They knew the cries were made by his -parrot, but they had never heard it scream so loud before. Andrews lay on the floor unconscious, bleeding from a great gash in his neck. He had been rCpafrilig the eelttng and had fallen from a stepladder, striking-a stove. A physician took^six-stitches to close the wound and said that in only a few minutes Andrews would hqye been dead. This is not the first time the parrot has looked after the welfare of Its owner. Some years ago the libuse next door caught fire. The parrot’s screams awakened Andrews in time to arouse his neighbors before much damage was done. FIND TRAMP AND KIDNAPED BOY. Archie Davies, Missing for Months, Konntl at Dawrenceville, 111. Archie Davies, the 13-year-old son of O. L. Davies of Kansas City, and a tramp who had kidnaped him, were found-nrtlie railroad yards at Lawrenceville, Ilf., by Sheriff Peter J. Carr. The boy at first seemed to be of the tramp and could hardly be induced to talk, but he finally said he is Archie Davies. When captured the tramp swore and commanded the boy to keep silent. The tramp gave his name as Frank Wflinouth, and denied the kidnaping. Mrs. Davies has traveled in search of her boy for six months. It is said that this is the second time Wilmouth lias enticed the boy and taken .him all over the country, forcing him to beg and steal. LEPER WORKS IN LAUNDRY. Sufferer Whp Fled Quarantine Found Washing Clothes. Dong Gong, the leper who escaped from quarantine in St. Louis, was afterward captured in a Chinese laundry on Cottage avenue. Patrons of the laundry are in great alarm and in many cases have made bonfires'of the clothing washed there. The proprietor has been compelled to leave the neighborhood. " Twenty Hurt in Car Crash. Twenty persons were injured, a few seriously, in a collision between two south-bound electric cars at West Fortythird and Halsted streets, Chicago. One woman was taken from the wreck into -a shoe store. It is feared she is fatally injured. Others were thrown about the cars and sustained Injuries from broken limbs and bruises. Aeronaut to Search for Pole. Charles E. Rilliett of St. Louis has gone to New York to join the Ziegler polar expedition. He is an aeronautic engineer and an accomplished machinist in many lines. The'balloon to be used by the expedition was manufactured at Quincy, 111., under the direction of Rilliett. Harvard Man Long Missing. William Whitwell, a Harvard senior and substitute guard on [last year’s varsity eleven, has been missing from college since Feb. 27. He left hurriedly without taking any effects on hearing that his father, Dr. Whitwell of New York, was dangerously ill. He did not reach home and his father since has died. Mrs. Burdick Gets Children. By a decision of the County Surrogate at Buffalo, Mrs. Alice Hall Burdick will get the custody of her three children. The Surrogate declared null and voW—thg provision in Mr. Burdick’s will which directed that the children should be under the guardianship of his executors. Willis Sweet Is Named. Willis Sweet of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, has been appointed Attorney General of Porto Rico to succeed James S. Harlan, who recently resigned. Mr. Sweet was at one time associate justice of the Territory of Idaho, and later represented hi,s State in Congress. 7“<.i Wrecked on Nova Scot in Coast." The fishing schooner Gloriang, from Gloucester, Mass., went ashore at Thrum Cape, N< S., and was broken up. Captaiu George Stoddart nnd fourteen men out of eighteen comprising the crew were drowned. Most of the crew were natives of the* Bs'tish province. Spotter Is Discharged. Reports from Horton, Knn., stnte that the Rofrfc Island Company discharged the alleged spotter. George Bell, and tlint the eighty striking machinists returned to work. All of the 600 shopmen had threatened to go out unless Bell was discharged. To Unite Powder Works. President T. C. Dupont of the Wilmington, Del., powder firm of E. I. Dupout, De Namours & Co., atul head of the combination of eastern powder .concerns. has been in San Francisco tryiug to add to the eastern amalgamation the powder companies of California. Ames Is Held Guilty. Dr. Albert Alonzo Ames, four times Mayor of Minneapolis nnd central Ggure in the system of “grnft” that .held sway in that city dnriug 1901 nnd 1902. was found guilty of accepting a bribe of SOOO. The jury deliberated for twenty-four hours. Many Drowned After Collision. Over twenty persona were drowned off the Virginia coart: through the sinking of the Clyde ltae steamship Saginaw by the Dominion liner Hamilton. Her stern was cut off and she ssnk in ten minutes.

PUPILS GO ON BTRJKE. Defections in Two Pdrochlal Schools at Omaha. ■ Not only is Omaha’s business almost paralyzed by union troubles, but now the public schools are threatened, for the sdhool children are striking. About-hf-ty" took the initial step at-the-tf'CTy Family.parochijilisM*h#rlTs securp shorter hours. -They immediately sent out picket's .andinduced about the same nmubrr to join them from the St. Ph i lomClTas school at the" "afternoon recess. There is also a union being formed pf the ehildreu in the public schools, and at Ivellom, a graded school, a walk-out is threatened If one of the teachers is not removed. Tlpjstrike at the Holy Family Cliurclr school was a business-like affair. The school has about fifty pupils, half of whom are boys. There was a general secret conference and it was decided that school hours should be from 9:30 to 11:45 instead of from 9 to 12, and 1:15 to 3, instead of 1 to 3:30. Accordingly the boys left the school at noon and agreed not to return until their demand was granted. —r >* TORTURED BY A PRESIDENT. Refugees in Nicaragua Shot After Trial as Rebel Conspirators. Central American advices steamer .Colon tell of the torture of prisoners by President Zelaya of Nicaragua:'' Senor Castro, a Salvadorean refugee, was arrested with another suspicion that he was involved Lb the revolution against Zeiaya and plotted to blow up the military quarters at Managua. The prisoners were dragged forth to the public square of Managua with heavy chains on their wrists and ankles and a mob congregated about them. They were then called on to confess, but they denied all knowledge of the plot. Then soldiers were instructed to administer repeated hypodermic injections of salt water. Finally the prisoners were brought to trial. A fair adventuress was the only witness. She declared that Castro and his companion had disedssed the conspiracy, in her. house while, they, were her guests. Castro and his companion were shot and their bodies burued. INDIANS CAPTURE MILLIONAIRE Col. Martin Ericson Hel l for $500,000-' Ransom by the Yaqnis. ' Col. Martin Ericson, a millionaire, "has been kidnaped by the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico, who hold him for a ransom of $500,000, which he has refused to pay. Gen. Mena has ordered botlr Col. Kisteritsky and Gen. Lorenzo Torres to set in motion all the military forces at their disposal toward rescuing Col. Ericson. Just two weeks ago Col. Ericsoti left the City of Mexico for Sonora, where he had secured a concession of valuable land along the Yaqui river. While on the journey he was surprised and taken captive by the Indians. Chicagoans Bnild a Store. Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel, of Chicago, have begun to demolish buildings on the southeast corner of 6th avenue and 14th street. New York, and will build a large department store. The structure wil front 280 feet on 14th street, covering the entire 6th avenue block front south to 13th street. It will be ten stories high, with basement and subbasement, taking in more than 40,000 square feet of retail selling space. Mysterious Shooting in-Bank. Phineas Ballard, janitor of the First National Bank, of Charlotte, Mich., was found in a dying condition at the bank, having been shot twice through the body with a revolver kept in the paying teller’s cage. The lock to the rear door was unfastened, indicating that some one lin'd passed out. The theory of suicide is also advanced, as nothiug was taken. Killed by Freak of Chinee. Walter S. Bronston, aged 31, city solicitor and prominent in politics in Kentucky, shot himself accidentally at Lexington, Ky. He was packing a grip preparatory to going to Richmond. In 'transferring a revolver from a drawer to the grip it fell, struck the dresser and was discharged, the bullet entering the stomach. V Work Train Is Derailed. Twelve men, imprisoned in a derailed work train on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, were either killed outright or burned to death in the debris near Port Arthur, Ont. Eight others were fearfully burned and some of them will die. The train was running nt high speed when it was derailed, presumably by the breaking of an axle. ■ Tnrks Lose in Big Battle. An engagement between Turkish troops and a band of revolutionists is_ reported to have taken place in the Monastir district of European Turkey. Both sides .suffered considerable losses. Ten Turkish officers are said to haVa been killed. Theater to Teach Gospels. To teach the gospel through the eye by means of a religious theater in New York is the plan of Herbert Booth, son of Gen. Booth, whose sensational resignation from the Salvation Army is still a mystery. ' Attempt to Loot Ohio Bank. Five masked men attempted to loot the Farmers’ Rank at Ohio City, Ohio. The doors of the safe were blown off. bnt no money was taken. Night Watchman McConnell was bound and gagged and locked in a box car. Dennison's Body Found. The body of Charles G. Dennison, of Chicago, who disappeared from Buffalo March 18. has been found in Niagara River near the falla. Brother Slain in Fight. W. Perry was killed by hia brother, G. D. Perry, during a family quarrel at their home near Vanndale, Ark. He was exonerated before the County Judge.