Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1903 — FROM THE FOVR QVARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOVR QVARTERS OF THE EARTH

TELLS ODD STORY OF ROBBERY. Mr*. F. F. Adams, Jr.f-ef Milwaukee, Says Woman Took $ 15,500 from Her. Remarkable In several ways is the story told by Mrs. F. F. Adams, Jr., who says SIO,OOO in cash and a check for $2,500. was taken from her on a Northwestern train when she was returning to Milwaukee from Chicago. According to her story, the money was drawn from the First National Bank of Chicago and was part of an inheritance. She arrived at the Schlitz Hotel, Milwaukee, in a hysterical state and declared that a woman, heavily veiled, had beaten her into insensibility in a toilet room on the train, and when she recovered consciousness her money was gone. Trainmen and officials of the road deny any knowledge of such a robbery, and for some unknown reason Mr. and Mrs. Adams are extremely reticent concerning the affair. He says his wife is prostrated. It is rumored that Mrs. Adams not infrequently is attacked by hysteria. Before marrying Mr. Adams, about a year ago, she was engaged in domestic work, it is said. Her husband is vice-president of the F. F. Adams Tobacco Company. Officers of the First National Bank deny all knowledge of Mrs. F. F. Adams. No account in that name is to be found the records of the bank and none of the paying tellers recalls having paid out any amount to a Mrs. Adams.

MAINE 18 NOW "DRY'* IN FACT. Authorities for First Time Strictly Enforce Prohibition Laws. Within a few days Maine is likely to be in fact what it is supposed to be—-a prohibition State. Never until now has constitutional prohibition prohibited the sale of liquor anywhere in Maine if a saloonkeeper was willing to submit to -arrest and fine about twice a year. Even in the city of Portland the late Sheriff Pearson was unable to stop the sale, though he had an immense force of deputies and the courts on his side. Now, however, the judges of the Supreme Court have given notice that the possession of a United States internal revenue liquor stamp will subject the 'possessor to a jail sentence instead of the usual fine, and all over the State hotels and restaurants the other night closed tljsir bars, wholesalers went out of business, and within n week every retailer will have quit selling. Some think the judges intend to make prohibition so obnoxious the people will repeal it. * FIVE ARRESTED AS LYNCHER?. Governor of Alabama Orders Prosecutions as Result of Mob Law. As the result of the lynching of Andrew Diggs, a negro, near Scottaboro, Ala., for attempted assault upon Miss Alma Smith at Larkinsville, Gov. Jelks has ordered an investigation and the arrest of those composing the mob. This is the first lynching that has taken place in Alabama in many mouths, and the Governor is determined that—all members of the mob shall be punished. Warrants were issued for the arrest of fiveprominent young men of Larkinsville, charging them with complicity in the lynching. Tornado Kills Eight People. A tornado in Jaekson County, Minn., killed at least eight people. Among the dead are Mrs. Joseph Fritclier and two children, who lived two miles north of Heron Lake. Near Wiudom Don Gallagher, a wealthy farmer, and two daughters were killed. Their home was destroyed. Many buildings were destroyed and the storm is reported to have been the worst in many years. Train Accident Imperils 200. Two hundred passengers on the Big Four Chicago night express narrowly escaped death at Clark’s Hill. Ind. The south-bound train was standing on the siding when the big express train from Indianapolis thundered into the siding and through an opeu switch to the other end. So great was the velocity of the train that the rapidly moving engine practically buried itself in the ground.

Wage Scale for Year Accepted. The annual wage scales of the Amalgamated Association of Irou and Steel Workers have gone into effect and all the plants in the country are reported in full operation. The signed scales received at headquarters complete the list for union mills. Get SO,OOO from Carpet. The carpets of the adjusting rooms of the United States mint in San Francisco were taken up a few days ago and treated to a process for removing the gold dust. A bar of gold valued at $9,000 was the result. The earpets were laid six yegrs ago. Death Due to Strike. Violence of rioters among striking trade unionists in Chicago is responsible far another murder. Thomas Mullen, an ■employe of the Illinois Malleable Iron Company, died as a result of injuries received in a brutal assault. Crew Has Narrow Kacape. The lumber steamer Thomas D. Stimsoa was burned and scuttled at the Flats above Detroit. The flames spread so rapidly that the crew barely escaped with their lives. The boat was valued at $25,000. Dam Breaks and Floods Valley. Between fifty and one hundred persons were killed by a cloudburst and breaking of a dam at a pleasure park in a ravine near Jeannette, Pa. Cuba Signs Treaties. The treaty covering the naval and coaling station bases and the treaty placing the Isle of Pines wholly under Cuban sovereignty have been aigned at Havana. laiterarbaa Lines Are Leased. The Union Traction Company of Indiana, with 200 miles of interurban boss connecting Indianapolis with Muaciat I *

Anderson, Elwood, Marion, Logansport and other cities, and with a capital stock of $8,500,000 and a bond issue -of the same amount, has been leased for ninetynine years to the Indiana Union Traction Company, which has a capital stock of $5,000,000 and an authorized bond issue of the same amount, with $1,000,000 issued. LOVER ISHOOTB GIRL’S FATHER. Fosse Seeks Charles Hayden of Miller's Station, Ind. An interrupted elopement, followed by a duel in which the father of the young woman was shqt and wounded by thelover, so aroused the citizens of Miller’s Station, Ind., the other night, that a posse was organized to search for the young man. The principals in the - tragedy were Charles Hayden, who owns a large tract of land near Miller’s Station; James Taylor, and his 18-year-old daughter Anna. Taylor received a flesh wound in the leg. Hayden had been forbidden by Taylor to call on the young woman, and the couple arranged to elope. Taylor detected his daughter and Hayden leaving the doorwny at 8 o’clock in the evening. “I thought that I told you to keep away from this house,” raid Taylor. “What are you doing here?” “We are going away to get married,” replied Hayden. “You nre not going to do any such thing,” said the father, and he drew a revolver, and, pointing it at Ilayden, told him to go. Ilayden also was armed and both men fired at the same time. Tnylor dropped to the ground with a bullet in his right leg. Hayden was not injured. The daughter remained with her father and Hayden escaped. MINT BREAKS THE RECORD. Made 101,894,205 Coins in a Year for United State* Alone. The fiscal year of the United States mint in Philadelphia was a record-break-er in the number of coins, medals and dies struck, and the increase in the production was accomplished without nny material increase in expenses. According to the report mude by Superintendent Landis to the Treasury Department at Washington, -tire coinage was 19,578,706 pieces greater Ttrtm The previous year, an increase in medals 7,032--pieces and an increase of 309 diesr For the United States government 101.984,205 pieces were coined, for the provincial government of the Philippines 14,479,894 pieces, for the Colombian government 1,350,000 pieces and for—the--Venezuelan government 750,000 pieces. ‘ -

Put Corey in Command. William E. Corey, president of the Carnegie Steel Company, has been appointed by the finance committee of the United States Steel Corporation an assistant to President Schwab, with full powers. It was officially announced that Mr. Corey is to perform the active duties of the presidency and Wall street takes this to mean the eventual retirement of Mr. Schwab ns head of Mr. Morgan’s biilion-dollar trust. Highest in the World. Plans for n gigantic city office building and terminal for railways and bridges .were presented to the board of estimates in New York by Bridge Commissioner Lindenthnl. The building is to be fortyfive stories high and its ultimate cost $50,000,000. The plans look to the immediate appropriation of $9,000,000. The building rises 650 feet above the curb line. Big Packing Honse Barns. The main building of the Hammond packing plant at St. Joseph, Mo., was destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $1,500,000. Three men, it is said, lost their lives in the flames. One of them is reported to be Charles Miller, fire marshal at the plant. Two men were injured. Kidnaped Child Recovered. Little,.Alice Furlong, who disappeared from he* home in Chicago a few days ago, ’has been found, alive, well and happy. The woman who is thought to' have kidnaped her, Mrs. Hazel Avery, is a prisoner at the Desplaines street station, and a man who accompanied her is also held pending an investigation.

May Control Book Papers A report is current in paper-making circles to the effect that the book paper mills of Wisconsin and Michigan will sell their output through the General Paper Copipany of Chicago, a combination or selling agency formed a few years ago by the news print mills of Wisconsin and Minnesota aud a few in Michigan. Alfred Knapp Jury Fecured. A jury has been secured in the Alfred A. Knapp murder trial at Hamilton, 0., and the opening statements of counsel made. The attorney for the defense denied that Knapp admits his guilt which shows that Knapp's confession to the oheriff and others will be repudiated. lowa Republican Convention. The lowa Republican convention adopted the Allison tariff plank, a declaration more conservative than the original “lowa idea.'\ Gov. Cummins and other State officers, with one exception, were renominated. Plan War on Beef Trnst. Agents of the United States Packing Company, organised under the laws of Colorado in October, 1902, to compete with the beef trust, have arrived in Kansas City to consider the question of establishing a $1,000,000 packing plant there. New Department of Commerce. The new Department of Commerce, of which George B. Cortelyou is head, was opened with address and scripture reading. It includes corporations and manufactures bureaus. Over 200 Mlnara Killed. Two hundred and thirty-four minors are believed to have been killed by an explosion of gas in the Union Paatte mines at Hanna, Wyo. J v

KILLS CHILDREN AND SELF. New York Woman Hangs Her Littls Ones and Commits Suicide. Mrs. William Baxter hanged her 8yearold son Goodson, her 3-year-old daughter Gladys and then herself at Leroy, N. Y. There is no known reason for her action. Mr. Baxter had been at work about his place all day and at 0 o’clock went to the house for supper. He found the doors locked and supposed that his wife had gone awny. He waited outside for about an hour and a half and when she did not return lieiffinally pried open the window and entered*. His son’s hat was lying on the table and he .began a search., After looking the house all over he finally went to the kitchen chamber, which is reached by a ladder, there being no stairs. There, hanging side by side frorq.the rafters, were the bodies of his wife and two children. Apparently they had been dead about three hours. Mrs. Baxter had used a clothesline. There are houses on both sides of the Baxter house and it seems as if she must have administered chloroform or something to stupefy, the children before attempting to hang them, because no one heard them scream. Mrs. Baxter always appeared to think a great deal of her family. She was about 38 years of age. The night before she handed her husband a bottle of wine to drink. He took some and was rendered ill and in the morning consulted a physician. That the wine was drugged seems probable and what was left in the bottle will be analyzed. BIG DEAL IN ST. LOUIS.

Electric Light Concerns Consolidate with $10,000,000 Capital. It has been officially announced that N. W. Harris & Co. of Chicago, New Y’ork and Boston have purchased 000,000 5 per cent thirty-year bonds of the Union Electric Light and Power Company of St. Louis. This company is to be a consolidation of the Imperial Electric Light, Heat and Power Company ana the Citizens’ Electric Lighting and Power Company with the Missouri Edison Electric Company and will thus control practically the entire electric light and power business of the city. The company is capitalized at $10,000,000 and is at present erecting one of the largest central power stations in tti/ world at a cost of over $2,000,000 and with a capacity of 50,000 horse power. A tenyear contract has just been entered into with the St. Louis Trans.it Company to supply the latter with a minimum of 12,000 horse power.

FAMOUS CASE IS DISMISSED. Hillmon Insurance Litigation Ended After Twenty-four 'Years. At Leavenworth, Ivan., Judge W. C. Hook in the United States Circuit Court dismissed the famous Hillmon insurance case from the docket. This case had been in the federal court more than twen-ty-four years. It had had six long trials, was twice appealed and passed upon by the United States Supreme Court. The only stipulation made in the order was that each side pay its own cost. The original suit was filed against the New York Life, the Mutual Life of New York and the Connecticut Mutual. The New York Life settled after the sixth trial. The Connecticut Mutual, which only had $5,000 of the $25,000 life insurance on John W. Hillmon, appealed. Devastation by Grasshoppers. Prof. Cooley of the State Agricultural College at Bozeman, Mont., has returned from an investigation of the grasshopperridden district about Forsythe. He says the insects have devoured everything in a strip seventy miles long and fifty miles wide, hnd that as a consequence of their raids range conditions are the worst he ever saw. He says the plains are dotted with cattle that have starved to death. Messages Go Around World. The new Pacific American cable was opened by. President Roosevelt with a message which was flashed around the world in twelve minutes. Reply from President Clarence H. Mackay of the cable oompany girdled globe in nine and one-half minutes. Stabs and Kilts His 6on. At Richmond, Ind., Bernard Quinn, aged 74 years, stabbed and almost instantly killed ( his son, James M., aged 35. The deed was in self-defense. The son had been drinking and attacked the father, who used a small pocketknife in defending himself.

Maoiton House Destroyed by Fire. The Manitou House at Manitou, Colo., n three-story stone and frame structure of ninety-five rooms capacity, was destroyed by fire. The hotel will be rebuilt. The building and furniture cost about $75,000; insurance was $25,000.

Kentuckians Fight) One la Killed.

Bud Garth, member of a Todd County family, shot and killed Younger Watkins, aged 20, at the latter's home near Trenton, Ivy. A posse is searching for Garth, who has been twice in the penitentiary. Fourteen Wood- Workinir Plants Closed Fourteen furniture and wood working plants hnve been closed in Chicago on account of the strike of 1,500 craftsmen. Ten manufacturers, most of them small operators, signed the union rcale and rbeir factories are mining. Lives Lost in Clonlbnrst. Twenty persons, mostly Mexican farm hands and laborers, were drowned in a cloudburst in the southwestern section of Texas. Some reports place the number of deaths at a much higher figure. Knee Riot at Kvsnsvllle, Ind. Evansville, Ind., was terrorised by a mob that broke into jail to secure a negro and lynch him. Several negroes were killed In riots and a whitgboy is reported shot. Gov* ''pr ordered obt the militia.