Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

. -HFORGE PAPERS FOR SALE. Wholesale Business Done in Franinlent Naturalization Certlßcatei.' Three Italians arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields in the federal building in New York are, so the ■secret service agents say, the leaders of a plot to forge thousands of naturalization papers. This would include the forging of thev United States seal, the signature of Commissioner Alexander and the naturalization certificate itself. The prisoners are Roberto Bunaro, a foreman of laborers; Roeco Figulio, a printer, and Giuseppe Caparelli, a foreman in the department of 6ewers. According to the secret service men Bunaro is the banker in the plot. A small printing establishment in Hoboken was purchased and in this office, which was run in Figulio’* name, the plates were made and forgeries committed. The establishment was then moved to New York and the certificates circulated. The secret service men say the certificates had been sold from $5 to SIOO each to Italians and that at least 1,000 have been issued. Commissioner Shields held Bunaro in SIO,OOO bail and Figulio and Caparelli in $5,000 each to await the action of the grand jury.

VERDICT THROWS NO LIGHT. “Death at Hands of Persons Unknown,” Is Verdict at Kokomo. “Death at the hands of persons unknown,” has been the coroner’s verdict in three mysterious murder cases at Kokomo, Ind., the last being when Coroner Harrison made this finding in the case of Louis Yeager, who was found dead in his buggy with a bullet in the brain. Yeager was killed while returning from visiting his betrothed, Myrtle Finley of Hemlock. Two weeks ago Francis Sutton was likewise slain at Hemlock, after visiting his sweetheart. Stella Peters. A few weeks ago Jacob Dotterer of the same locality was murdered at his home., LOSE IN A $1,000,000 SUIT. -T— - : ' Heirs Seeking Priddy Estate in Kansas City, Mo., Defe ited. In Kansas City Judge Andrew F. Evans in the Circuit Court decided against the heirs of Mrs. John Priddy, who brought suit to recover residence property in that city valued at $1,000,000. The property originally was a farm owned by Thomas Jones, who came to Kansas City from Kentucky in 1839 and who left the land to his nine children, one of whom was Mrs. Priddy. Mrs Priddy died and was buried iu Oregon in 1892 and suit was brought by G. W. Priddy and other of her heirs. Must Pay High for Coal. 1 Situated within a few miles of rich coal fields, Columbus, Ohio, will be forced to pay $5 a ton for bituminous coal next winter. The Ohio coal trust has already raised the price 25 cents a ton, -although it ordinarily drops in summer. It is also announced that Columbus will lie taken from the favored list in revenge for the quo warranto proceedings brought in that city last winter to dissolve the alleged coal trust. Patient Man Seeks Divorce. Because his wife had deserted him twenty-three tirties, Samuel Enders of Joplin, Mo., has filed suit agaiu>t her for divorce. In his petition Enders states that he has been put to great inconvenience and expense in prevailing upon his wife to return to him after each of the other twenty-two desertions, and that “patience has at last ceased to he a virtue.” Wagon Builders’ Strike Ends. The carriage and wagon builders of Philadelphia who went on strike on March 2 for higher wages and shorter hours, reached an agreement with the employers. A compromise scale was agreed upon. Fifty-four hours are to Constitute a week’s work and the men rire to receive time and a half for overtime. Forty-five Families Homeless. that started iu a garbage box destroyed nineteen buildiugs at Seminary and Lill avenues and Dunning streets, Chicago. Forty-five families were rendered homeless, while the financial ’loss was $200,000. Many persons iu attempting to save household property had narrow escapes.

Gov. Yates Signs Bills. Governor Yates, of Illinois, has signed the Mueller municipal ownership street railway bill, but objects to many features of it. The Torrens law amendment bill making compulsory the registration of all land titles of flecedents has also been signed by the (governor. Bridee Fall»i Seven Are Injnred. The Rock Bottom bridge, which spans the Susquehanna river in Binghamton, N. Y., went down under the weight of a street car. Six passengers were in the car besides the mutorrmm.nnd conductor. All were mure or less injured. Get* I'lve Year* for Frand. Nathan Levin, saloonkeeper, president of the Hebrew branch of the Jefferson Club, was‘found guilty at St. Louis on charged <lf naturalisation frauds, and sentenced to five years in the Missouri penitentiary. Ilarriman Operated Upon. E. H. Ilarriman, president of the Southern Pacific, has been operated upon at New York for appendicitis. Operation was suyct'saful and speedy recovery is expected. ‘ Clothing: Manufacturer* Burn Out. The big clothing establishment of Stronss, Eisendrath & Co., in Chicago, was destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at $500,000. Energetic work by the firemen saved adjoining structures. Old Cariboo Brown la Dead. With the death of Henry F, Brown, or “Old Caribou Brown,” as he was known, there passed away one of jbe

most picturesque characters in all the frontier history of the great Southwest. Brown was for a quarter, of a .century one of the most notable figures in the gambling circles of Tucson, Ariz. He made and lost a dozen fortunes over the gambling table, but throughout his checkered career he maintained the name of being honest. FORTUNE IN BEING ROBBED. Massachusetts Woman Given $40,000 by Miser Who Stole Her Purse. As recompense for having stolen her poeketbook in 1888 George H. Todd, a miserly traveling peddler of Utica, N. Y., ha 3 bequeathed $40,000 to Mrs. Peter Jordon of Brockton, Mass. Todd had always been looked upon as penniless, but after his death a wallet was found in his pocket containing a bankbook and securities worth more than $40,000. This amount was accumulated through niggardly saving, the scantiest of living, suffering in cold weather for want of proper clothing, going without food rather than buy. Todd had carried a tin box for fifty years from one end of the country to the other, always selling something and invariably begging his meals and lodgings. For the last ten orfifteen years he had used a wheelbarrow and his tall, gaunt figure had become a familiar object in all parts of the country. WESTERN UNION LOSES. Telegraph Company Hit by Decision in Pennsylvania. The United States Court of Appeals in Philadelphia held that the Pennsylvania Railroad had a legal right to remove the poles and wires o-f the Western Union Telegraph Company from the railroad’s right of way. The decision affirms a judgment of the West Pennsylvania United States Court and reverses a judgment of the New Jersey United States Circuit Court. The Pennsylvania court refused to grant the petition for an injunction sought by the Western Union Telegraph Company against the Pennsylvania Railroad, ami the New Jersey court granted the injunction.

STORM WORKS HAVOC IN OHIO. Property Damaged by LightningNarrow Escape* from Death. Much damage was done in the Ohio valley by cloudbursts and lightning. No lives were lost, but many peopje were shocked by lightning that struck houses, barns and telegraph poles. The interurban electric lines are still badly disabled. A ear on the Mill Creek Valley line was struck by lightning and set on fire at Carthage and the passengers narrowly escaped death, all being unconscious for a short time. Much damage was done at Delhi, Home City and Fernbank. FORTUNE FOR MISSING MAN. Walter L. Chapman Heir to $30,000 at Kansas City. Walter L. Chapman, whose whereabouts is unknown, is heir to more than $50,000 under the will just probated at Kansas City of his father, Dr. Andrew L. Chapman, a grandson of the poet, Thomas Campbell. Walter Chapman ran away from home thirty-five years ago on account of a schoolboy fight, and is now 50 years old. Nothing has been heard from him for fifteen years. Death and Loss in Blizzard. The heaviest cattle and sheep loss in the history of Montana, the damage of which will foot as high as $5,000,000, has been caused by the terrible snow storm which has been raging for three days. In some sections fully 90 per cent of the sheep on the -ranges have perished. Three herders at least wandered away in the blinding stoim and froze to death. Storm Sweeps Over Guthrie, Ok. A tornado struck the western edge of Okla., and, following" the ridge, blew down many trees and demolished several chimneys. Between the Cottonwood and the Cimmnron Rivers it blew down the new story and a half house of William Murray end also the old one near by. Mr. and Mrs. Murray escaped injury by going to the cyclone cellar. Ohio Town Badly Scorched. The business section of Dunkirk, Ohio, was almost wiped out by fire. Eleven business blocks and three residences were burned. The heaviest losers were Makou & Co.,' the First National Bank, Lydeck Brothers and the Dunkirk Telephone Company. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Laughint; Kills a Woman. Mrs. Minnie Summers. 84 years old, is dead at her home in New York City ns the result of laughing. While entertaining friends she laughed heartily at a funny story. Suddenly Mrs. Summers ceased laughing and her head dropped forward on her breast. She was unconscious and died iu a few minutes. Yeager Suspects Released, Frauk and Dillard Eads and Logan Ingles, of Hemlock, arrested for the murder of Louis l'enger and Francis Suttbn. of Oakwood. in the intervillage feud, were released from custody at Kokomo, Ind., by order of Prosecutor Cooper. The accused proved an alibi. Russiaa Crops la Fine Shape. The correspondent of the London Standard at Odessa cables that the crops in South Russia are in splendid condition all around and thnt this year's yield promises to be better and larger than any for ten years pjut. Oldest Postal Employe Dies. Thomas Card, the oldest postofflee employe in the United States in years of. service, is dead at his home in Toledo, Ohio. • Loan Causes Dissatisfaction. There is dissatisfaction at London over allotment of Transvaal loan; big investors arc alleged to have been favored at the expense of the small subscribers.

THREE FIGHT, ALL KILLED. Struggle in Texas Postoffice in Which ATI Meet Death. News reaches El Paso of a fight at Sanderson. Texas, in the desert 300 miles oast of El Paso, which resulted in the killing of H. S. Biggs,- magistrate and school teacher; Ed Bell, a citizen, and R. C. McMahon, deputy sheriff. Only meager details have come. As far as learned the quarrel arose at the postofflee between Ed Bell and 11. S. Biggs over a letter. Bell had been working for McMahon. Biggs was a very quiet man and was not known to have had any previous trouble. He had been a school teacher in Sanderson for eight or nine years. The story goes that when Biggs and Bell had a row McMahon tried to separate them. Biggs fought desperately against the two men, as McMahon, it seems, turned on him during the fight. Biggs shot Bell through the head, killing him, and was in turn shot through the body by McMahon. While lying on the floor of the postofflee he took aim at McMahon and fired one shot, fatally wounding the deputy sheriff, who died a few hours later. WORSE THAN AFRICAN SAVAGES. Physician Declares Wealthy Americans Are Extremely Immoral, Dr. It. St. John Perry declared before the State Association of Physicians at St. Paul that in immorality and intemperance Americans of wealth and apparent respectability were worse than African savages. “Christians look with abhorrence on Mohammedans who take plural wives and are true to them,” he said, "yet manyof our Americans indulge in thriee the wives of-the ignorant savage and are untrue to all. Vice and immorality are rampant among ail classes. Physicians can hear witness to this. To gauge the state of American manhood otic has only to'bount the thousands of fallen women in every city.” TORNADO HITS THE WEST. Wind Wrecks Many Building* at Merrill, lowa, oni Horton, Kan. A tornado with force enough to twist one of the main elevators of the Frank Ileese mill from its foundations, demolish small buildings and crush in plateglass fronts, visited lowa, News has reached Topeka from Horton, Kan.,* of the visitation of a tornado at that point. The Uniom Hotel was unroofed and the livery stable of George Sprague and the blacksmith shop of Moose Bros, blown away. Several smaller buildings near, of littlerraHieY Iv»re also destroyed. One or two persons were injured, but it is thought not fatally.

End Mobile and Ohio strike. The strike of the trainmen and switchmen of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad has been declared off by agreement. They went on strike May 9 for a 10 per cent increase in wages. The road agrees to advance wages 7 and 10 per cent for freight and passenger service respectively, and to take back strikers as rapidly as vacancies occur. Mob Drives Negro Out of Town. John Dixon, colored, was driveh from Fremont, Ohio, by a mob after an exciting encounter, in which his home was stoned. Dixon had been employed at the Clauss shear plant, and did not go out when the strikers did. His wife and children escaped the fury of the mob by going to jail. Dixon escaped to Norwalk. , Mnst Fay for Thieves’ Loot. Judge Walter Evans of the United States Court at Bowling Green, Ky.. has ruled that men in charge of postoffites must pay to the government any amount burglars may steal from the offices. The decision is considered important as establishing the liability of postmasters for funds and supplies. Failure of Chicago Fruit Firm. Receivers have been appointed for the big fruit corporation of Porter Brothers Company of Chicago. Little is known as to the firm's financial condition, but rough estimates place the liabilities at $300,000. Outside ventures by the president of the concern are alleged to have proved disastrous.

Deficit Due to Machen. A deficit or $227,300 has been discovered in the Postofflce Department because of Superintendent A. W. Mnchen’s unauthorized expenditures and his disobedience of the Postmaster General’s orders. No action has been taken by the latter official. Head of Big Steel Company Dies. Benjamin F. Jones. Sr., member of the advisory board of the Jones & Laughlins Steel Company, kimited, and for many years head, of the immense manufacturing interests, died at his residence, Allegheny, Pa. The end came unexpectedly. , Trolley Cara in Collision. Six persons were hurt because of a-col-llsion between two trolley cars in Cleveland, Ohio. There was much excitement on both cars, and the injured persons were trampled upon in a mad rush by the passengers to try to get out of the cars. Firea About Pittsburg. The plant of the Glenshaw Glass Company at Glenshaw, the pTanT o? the WTttmer Briek Company, the Jackson and Murray hotels and the residence of John H. Meyers were burned in Pittsburg. The loss is SIOO,OOO. Cuban Republic a Year Old. First anniversary of Cuban Republic wasf celebrated at Havana with review of politfe and fire departments by President Palma; congratulations were received from Secretary Root. Permanent Treaty with Cuba. A permanent treaty between the United States and Cuba, including all the provisions of the Platt amendment, haa been signed at Havana.