Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

BANK SAFE DYNAMITED. Burglars Make Haul of $3,000 Cash at Cary, 111. The private bank of L. E. Mintch at Cary, 111., was robbed early Wednesday morning of about $3,000 in money, besides some notes and securities. About 2 o’clock n loud explosion aroused the town, and two men were seen running in the direction of Fox river. Investigation disclosed the bank safe wrecked by dynamite and papers and books scattered over the floor. A posse was organized by Anton I’iclien, chief of police, and, divided into squads, began a search of the entire surrounding country. It is supposed the robbers went down the river in a boat. Carey is on the Chieago and Northwesterb" Railroad's St. Paul division, about forty miles from Chicago. The windows of several houses were broken by the dynamite explosion. The Mayor of Cary rang the town bell, and in ten minutes the entire population was gathered about the wrecked building. A slight description of the men has been furnished the searchers by Mr*. James Wolff, who saw them at the bank in Cary. Thero were two of the robbers. One appeared to be dressed like a prosperous merchant; the other had a suit of rough clothes and a wide-brimmed sombrero of light color.

OUSTED OFFICIAL FLEES. Detroit Commissioner Said to Have Misapplied Public Funds. Commissioner of Public Works Dewitt 11. Moreland of Detroit, Mich., one of the appointees under the “ripper” act of the Legislature.,of two years ago,, was removed from office by the City Council the other evening ns the result of an investigation of his office which has been going on for two weeks. It is charged that he lias misapplied public funds and solicited bribes from contractors. Mayor Maybury at once appointed his cousin, William H. Maybury, chairman of the Democratic County Committee, to succeed Moreland. Moreland has disappeared, but it is learned from a source worthy of belief that he is in Mexico or on his way there. LIGHT ON COLLEGE EXPENSES. One Yale Man Spent $25,000 in Four Years and Another $550. A chapter on the finances of the class of 'O3 at Yale is disclosed in the publication of a table giving the expenses of individual members during the four years. The lowtestcost for one year was SIOO, spent by a man who used only $550 during his whole course. The highest individual expenditure in one year was SII,OOO. The maximum cost for four years was $25,000. These figures show an increase per man of $452 oyer 1902, when expenses were above those of preceding years. MANEUVERS OFF OYSTER BAY. A Naval Demonstration in August Where President May See It. A great naval demonstration ha - been planned to take place off Oyster Bay about the middle of August. President Roosevelt will review the North Atlantic fleet, under command of Rear Admiral Barker. Forty-five vessels at least will participate. This will include six battleships, five qruisers, four gunboats, eight or ten destroyers, three traiaiilg ships, eight supply ships and colliers and nine tenders and tugs. The review by the President is to be part of the summer practice program for the home fleet announced by the Navy Department. Ccach and Hearse Plant Burned. Fire almost destroyed the massive plants of the Riddle Coach aud Hearse Company at Ravenna. Ohio, creating a loss of $250,000. Of this amount only SIO,OOO was covered by insurance. It was the largest tire in the history of Portage County, aud for a time it wa£ feared that all the business places along' Main street would be destroyed. Company Makes Concessions. The strike of the Union Electric Company’s conductors and motorinen at Dubuque was settled through the good offices of the municipal affairs committee of the Dubuque Club. The compuny agrees not to discriminate against union men, and made other important concessions. Home for Consumptives. What is said to be the first municipal tuberculosis sanitarium In this country has been opened in Cleveland. All patients under treatment for tuberculosis in the city hospital will be removed to the new institution and treated according to the latest scientific methods. Man and Boy Drown Together. Broker F. C. Fuller and his 13-year-old son, jlarold, who went rowing in Lake Erie at Cleveland, have not been heard of. or seen since. A boat that is identified the boathouse keeper ns the one engaged by Fuller was found off shore, upside down aud empty. Educate for Political Life. Andrew D. White, in address at semicentennial of his class at Yale, called upon wealthy Americans to give $14,000,000 to endow professorships and fellowship* in American universities to fit youth for office holding. Rln Grande’* High Water. The high water* of the Rio Grande north of CT Taso, in New Mixico, have driven hui died* of families from their homes, an 1 there hnve taken refuge in the foothil Is. Trade Report by Bradetreet'e. Bradstnet's reports trade conditions irregular. With actual business allowing for six months better than for 1902, and prospects gbod for future; June railroad earnings 9 per cent over 1902. Has Spent $8,000,000 on Fair. Th* world's fair company expended $8*500,000 In cash up to the firrt of the present month, a* shown by the report

of the auditing committee of the national commission at work in St. Louis. Contracts have been let by the exposition company that will approximately complete the expenditure of the $10,000,000 required by the act of Congress before any of the government funds are available. SAVES TRAIN FROM DISASTER. Action of a Brave Engineer Prevents Loss of Life. Engineer G. A. Duval of a local freight train on the Ohio river'division of the Baltimore and Ohio risked his life near Parkersburg, W. Va., Jo save the lives of the rest of the crew and to prevent his train from being blown up. A car loaded with powder and next to the engine caught fire. Seeing the burning car and knowing what it contained, the engineer coolly stopped his train, had a brakeman cut the train off behind the powder and then ran ahead with the burning car, leaving it at a safe distance from the rest of the train. He hnd barely time to escape with his engine before the explosion. Only slight damage was done to train or track, but the car was blown to splinters. No one was hurt, owing to Engineer Duval’s presence of mind and courage.

HOPE TO MOVE BIG RIVER. Government Engineers Will Try to Shift the Missouri’# Bed. United States engineers under Captain 11. M. Chittenden of Sioux City, chief of engineers for the Missouri river, with the United States steamer Robert and a fleet of towboats will attempt to move the Missouri river a mile at Yankton, S. D. The river has backed away from Yankton for years until a sand bar a mile wide lies between the city anil the river, which interferes with traffic crossing the river from Nebraska. United States Senator Robert J. Gamble of Yankton induced the War Department to attempt to bring the river back to the town. The engineers will build a series of parallel dikes perpendicular to the Nebraska bank, hoping that this will start the river to cutting the sand bar. KILLS SWEETHEART IN RAGE. P. H. Worden of Carmel, N. Y., Attempts a Triple Murder. Angered over her refusal to marry him, P. H. Worden killed Edith Roscoe by cutting her throat. He then attacked •Mrs. Sherman. Roscoe, sister-in-law of Miss Roscoe, with a hammer, crushing her skull and inflicting fatal injuries. Worden then shot himself, but may recover. The tragedy occurred at the Roscoe home on a farm near Carmel, N. Y., where Worden and Miss Roscoe were visitors. The 'cause assigned for Worden's acts is that he was insanely jealous of Miss Roscoe and killed her in a rage because-she declined to marry him. His attack on Mrs. Roscoe is thought to have been due to Worden’s belief that she had influenced her sister's action in refusing him. Blast Injures Three. The explosion of an ammonia carboy on the fourth floor of the main building of the Citizens’ Brewery of the United Breweries Company, Main street and Archer avenue, Chieago, wrecked the entire upper part of the building, blocked the streets with bricks and wreckage, broke many window panes in the vicinity and injured three men. The damage to the building is estimated between $lO,000 and $15,000.

Hoas'a a Girl iu a Sack. Mrs. Mary Patterson is under nrrert at "New Iberia, La., charged with murder. The woman became enraged at her stepchild, a little girl' of 10 years, and after beating her, tied her in a corn sack and suspended her to a limb of a tree. She then made a fire beneath the tree and piled on a lot of paper to intensify the heat and smoke. The sack caught fire and the body, falling out, burned to a crisp. - Mob Haaga Child’s Assailant. Case Jones, the negro accused of assaulting 12-year-old Margaret Bruce at Elk Valley, Tenu., was caught and immediately taken before the little victim, who identified him. Jones broke down then and confessed his crime. He was promptly strung up aud his body riddled with bullets. lowa Democrnta Ignore Silver. lowa Democrats in convention refused to indorse the silver platform as framed by W. J. Bryan and his followers at Kansas City three years ago. A full State ticket, headed by Jeremiah B. Sullivan, of Creston, for Governor, was nominated. Irish Laud Bill la Saved, The Irish land bill has passed the danger point. The concessions made by the government satisfied the nationalists, and amid cheers of all parties clause 3 of the hill was adopted by the English House of Commons just before midnight the other night. - Deputy and Prisoner Killed. At Olive Hill, Ky., Deputy Marshal Gu* Hall was shot and killed by Everett Baity while trying to arrest him. Marshal Lewis White, who was called to the scene, shot and killed Baity instantly. Miss Ida Barber Married. * At Canton. Ohio, Miss Ida Barber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Barber, and niece of Mr*. McKinley, became the wife of Luther, second son of Supreme Court Justice William 11. Day. Pleads Guilty of Peonage. John W. Pace, au Alabama planter, pleaded guilty to eleven Indictments on charge of peonage and was sentenced to. five year*' imprisonment in each cue, to be served concurrently. Emperor Inspects Kesrssrt*. Emperor William Inspected tWt flagship Kearsarge at Kiel, and WHs impressed with the efficiency of the men and neatness of the big war verneh

AMERICAN SHIPS AT KIEL. United States European Squadron Sainted by Kaiser’s Fleet. The United States European squadron, Rear Admiral Cotton in command, reached its anchorage opposite the yacht clubhouse at Kiel, Germany. The fleet commanded by Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia, consisting of eight battleships aud six cruisers, siilut£d the American vessels, and the band of the German flagship played “America.” Hundreds of the townspeople gathered on the piers and slopes of the narrow bay and cheered as the squadron arrived. Prince Henry sent his navigating officers and the captain of the port down the bay early in the morning to greet the Americans. They met the latter at Orlateau as the squadron was firing its first salute off the fort of Friedrichsort. The flagship Kearsarge swung into her mooring next to the Hohenzollern, followed by the SaD Francisco, the Chicago aud the Machias. All the German ships were dressed i'n the visitors’ honor and flew the Stars aud Stripes. The Stars and Stripes were also raised over the yacht club and on the hotels in the vicinity. The commanders of the American ships called on Prince Henry, who immediately returned their calls.

STATUE OF HOOKER UNVEILED. Gena. Miles, Bates, Merritt. Brooke, Howard and Others Present. _,The equestrian -statue of Gen. Joseph Hooker, erected upoq the grounds of the State house in Boston, was dedicated. Preceding the unveiling ceremonies a great parade was held in which scores of the most distinguished military men of America participated, together with regular army, cavalry and infantry, marines and blue jackets. Gov. Bates occupied his place as •on'.niander-iu-chief of the military forces of the State, while in the line were Lieut. Gen. Miles,"Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. John R. Brooke, Gen. Oliver O. Howard, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, Gen. Alexander S. Webb, United States army, and Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain. Master Joseph Hooker Wood, grand nephew of Gen. Hooker, pulled the cord which released the veil. OHIO SCHOOLMA’AMS ON STRIKE. Adams Township. Champaign Q>nnty, Offers to Compromise. The school board of Adams towmship, Champaign County, Ohio, cut teachers’ salaries to S4O a mouth a short time ago, and every one of them went on a strike. They persuaded others to give them support, and no applications were filed. The township superintendent found another job. As no one could be induced to come at the salary offered, the board has offered a compromise of $45. It is not known whether the “spunky” teachers will accept, as they asked SSO. WILL TEAR DOWN $7,500,000. Pennsylvania Railroad Clears Four Blocks in New York. Pennsylvania railroad men have begun to demolish buildings on $7,500,000 worth of property. The work will not stop until nearly four entire blocks in New York City hare been cleared. The wreckers will tear down 400 buildings, including three churches, a hospital and a home for boys. The blocks to be razed are bounded by Seventh and Ninth avenues, Thirtieth and Thirty-third streets. They are the site of the projected railroad terminal station and the new uptown postofflee.

Yale Is the Victor. For the firrt time on record Yale triumphed over Harvard in all three of their boat races in the annual regatta on the Thames. The wearers of the blue won the eight-oared varsity race by three and one-half boat lengths, tho freshman eight-oared race by two and a quarter lengths and the varsity fouroared raA3 by one and a half lengths. Two Held for Postoffice Robbery. Postofflee Inspector Drake and the local police have arrested three supposed leaders of a gang of country portofflee robbers who have been working North Dakota for several months. The mt« nre Alex. Bell, Andrew Hendel, alias May, and one named Gray. Gray was arrested at Bottineau, where the "postoffice was plundered some time ago. Laborer Heir to $2,000,000. George Howard McDonald, a Boston laborer, Is said to have been poedtively identified as the sole heir to $2,000,000 cash and gold-mining claims valued at many times more left by an uncle, William McDonald, who died recently in California. Chinese Starving to Death. The famine iu Kwang-Si, China, is growing woree, the starving population being estimated at 200,000. Deaths occur daily. The British authorities in Hongkong, aided by public subscription, hfivc been sending aid for two months. Supposed Thieves Taken. John Engvhal, an alleged diamond thief, was arrested at the Victoria Hotel in Chicago, where he was working as a bellboy; Charles Ueinlein, taken as confederate, confessed to $15,000 jewel robbery at Los Angeles. Special Legislative Session. The special session of the Legislature colled by Gov. Bailey to enact a flood relief measure has begun in Topeka, Kan., enough members having arrived to asanre a quorum in both honses. Escaping Gas Perils Family. Ga* escaping fborn a range in the kitchen at the home of John Davidson in Chicago earned the death of one man, while the householder, hi* wife and 0year old son had a narrow escape. Kaiser’s Frteadty Speech. Emperor William, sneaking at a dinner at Kiel, said Germany and the United States are too cloeely knit by ties of blood to admit of antagonism.