Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — HUNT A HYPNOTIST. [ARTICLE]

HUNT A HYPNOTIST.

SOUTH DAKOTA MOB ANGERED BY LECTURER, Young Man 1» Put Into Trance and Buried, and Later Attempts to vlve Him Are Unsuccessful—Twenty Tears for Vitriol Throasr. All the residents of Lament, S. D., are excited over the results of a visit of a traveling hypnotist aud the condition of Ole Rasmussen, Who lias been in a trance for several days. The hypnotist gave an exhibition at Lamont, during which he put young Rasmussen to sleep and then buried him. The next evening the subject was “resurrected” find taken to the school house, which was crowded. The lecturer then attempted to restort the young man to consciousness. Hit first attempt failed to produce the d« sired result, and so did the second au{ third. The lecturer began td show signs of uneasiness, but most people in the am dience thought his work to be a part of the performance. After repeated efforts with the same fruitless results the lecturer became excited, lost his self-control, fainted and fell to the platform. Realizing the desperate situation, the audience was instantly In a state of greatest excitement The lecturer was trampled under foot by the infuriated mob and would have been killed but for the presence of a few men, who took him to a farm house and locked him in a bed chamber. In the midst of the uproar at the school house the hypnotist regained consciousness and fled through a window. After a moment of hasty consultation physicians were sent for, but of the half a dozen or more who have visited Rasmussen not one has been able to revive him.

VITRIOL THROWER BENTENCED. Judge Shows No Mercy for Haa Who Blinded Woman He Loved. Peter McCarty, convicted of throwing vitriol Into the face.of Mrs. Anna Haslan, completely blinding her, was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary by Judge Stone in Cleveland. The prisoner came into the court room expecting n light sentence, or even absolute freedom, because of his proposal of marriage to his victim. The judge declared that McCarty would have bqen more humane had he killed his victim. Concerning the proposal of marriage the court said: **lt would be farcical for me to release you now, even if I had the power, wlich I have not.”

TOWN WRECKED BY CYCLONE. Two Persona Killed Ip Storm in Caddo County, Oklahoma. Two persons were killed and nine injured, two perhaps fatally, and half a dozen farm houses demolished by a tornado that formed three, milbs north of Hydro, Okla. The tornado traveled over a course from northeast to southwest, sweeping nearly everything before it for a distance of four miles. Farmhouses, barns and fences were completely wrecked and crops ruined. The property loss is estimated at $50,000. Consolidated Grocers Quit. The Consolidated Grocers of America, with stores in Peoria, Chicago, St Paul and Galesburg, has been sold. The concern had two stores in Peoria, one in Galesburg, four in Chicago and one in St Paul. The capital stock was $1,500,000. H. W. Mctjuaid of Des Moin&s and W. V. McQuaid of St. Paul are the purchasers. W. V. McQuaid will conduct the stores himself. Says State Fnnds Are Wasted. Attorney General H. J. Hamlin of Illinois declared at the laying of the corner stone of the new DeKalb County court house that 25 per cent of the appropriations made by the Illinois Legislature is wasted before the funds reached the institutions for which they are appropriated. Three men, he said," are employed by tile State wheje one man could do the work.

Fifteen Killed in Wreck. Fifteen persons were killed and twoscore injured in tbe wreck of a special football train on the Big Four Railroad near Indianapolis.- Nine of the dead were members of the Purdue University football team, which was on its way to Indianapolis to play the Indiana State University eleven. Swiss Crank Wants Protection. A Swiss crank tried to 6ec the President in Washington and appeal for protection from Dr: Kjoeh, who he said was pursuing him in an’ air ship, bent on his destruction. Ralls Wreck Train. Train wreckers loosened rails, causing the Santa Fe Colorado to Chicago flyer to crash through a bridge over the Apishapa Creek in Colorado. Thirty persons were injured, but none killed. Politicians Come to Blows. Ex-United States Senator N. C. Blanchard and Gen. Leon Jastremski, candidates for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Louisiana, came to blows at a Joint debate at Ponchatoula. ■ Parks Attain Convicted. “Sam” Parks has again been coiivicted at New York of extortion and overthrown by Frank Buchanan, who denounced him before his union and secured vote for peace. Workmen and Police Clash. Paris riots between workmen and police resulted in 145 being* injured. Tonne Woman Murdered. Police at Allentown. Pa., are mystified by the murder at Miss Mabel Bechtel, whose body was found in an areaWay of her home, with the skull crushed. Company Deliberately Wrecked. Receiver Smith, of the United States shipbuilding combine, has made a sensational report, giving details of the formation of the trust and charging “falsification, swindling and fraud in its for-' motion,” and a deliberate plan to wreck the company and deceive the investing public. prwsfwve _ .