Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

HERO IN POTTER’S FIELD. Bwrrlvor of the Mountain Bleado'w Massacre Buried. The burial in the potter’s field at Mendotn, 111., of Daniel Conklin was a pathetic ending of a famous career. He was the old trapper and scout with Pawnee Bill’s Wild West show and was killed recently by a falling tent pole in a severe storm. “Daring Dan,” as he was known, was born in Boone County, lowa, in 1833. He was one of the last of Kit Carson’s famous band and a survivor of the Mountain Meadow massacre. He served as a United States scout from 1855 to 18G1 and was one of the party which found Gen. 'John C. Fremont. He enlisted during the Civil War as a private in a Vermont regiment. The Mountain Meadow massacre, from which he escaped, was one of the most atrocious deeds ever committed by the western Indians. It occurred iif Sauta Clara County, Utah, and, it was supposed, under the instigation and direction of the Mormon leaders. A party of 120 emigrant settlers on their way through Utah to California had aroused the suspicions of the Mormons and at the place named were surrounded by Indians under Mormon control and brutally Only a few members of thA party escaped. In 1874 an investigation of the affair was ordered by the United States government and John D. Lee, a Mormon bishop, and others were indicted, tried and condemned. ‘ • Lee was executed March 2, 1877, being shot on the spot where the massacre took place.

CHICAGO CANNERS STRIKE. Walk Out When Demand for Higher Wanes Is Refused. One thousand Chicago packing house canners walked out Thursday, joining the striking sausage makers and making the number of idle workers about 2,400. Thera are sixteen other -branches of the organized workers yet to make demands and more than 32,000 stockyards employes stand ready to support the strikers. The packing trades workmen have been united in a compact organization controlling almost 53,000 or more woVkers. Every canner at the yards will quit work On orders from the union, according to the leaders, and similar moves throughout the industry would make it possible for the unions to tie up the meat supply of millions, of people. The canners demanded an increase of 25 cents a day. The packers offered to increase unskilled 1 cent an hour, but refused to give the higher paid workers any more money.

BANKER MAKES CONFESSION. Accused of Forging Names to Notes to Secure Loans. William A. Patton of Lesuer, Minn., cashier of the defunct Farmers aud Merchants’ Bank, a privato institution owned by himself and. his father, William H. Patton, has been arrested on complaint of Herman Otting, who alleges that Patton forged his name to a promissory fitote for $2,000. Patton admits the'charge. Paifbn is also said to have negotiated a SIO,OOO loan from a St. Paul bank and one of $20,000 from a Mankato bank. World’s Fair Workers Strike. Eight hundred laborers, members of the Laborers’ Protective Union of the American Federation of Labor, have quit work at the world’s fair in St. Louis. The walkout, the met! claim, was because the exposition company has not complied with an agreement by which the issue of employing non-union laborers was settled.

Bryan Defends Himself. At New Haven, Conn., William Jqnnings Bryan replied to cast upon him by Henry Stoddard, Mrs. Bennett's attorney, in the contest over her husband's will. He made an impassioned defense of himself in court, and defended the bequest of $50,000 which Philo S. Bennett made him. ' Judge Stoddard's speech was unusually bitter. New Gold Strike In Alaska. What is probably the greatest gold strike since Indian George Carmack discovered the Klondike seven years ago, is believed to have been made in August, when five miners discovered rich placer 'gold diggings oi, the headwaters of the Sushitna River* western Alaska, sixtyfive miles froth Shjde Creek.

Stewart of Nevada Marries. The marriage of William Morris Stewart, United States Senator from Nevada, and Mrs. Mary Agnes Cone, at Atlanta, Ga., was a surprise, not only to the friends of the Senntor, but to the members of bis family os well. Senator Stewart is 7G years of age. His bride is 40 years old. Terrible ETcctric Shock. Will Millenberg, au electrician at Pocatello, Idaho, has received a shock frt>m a wire charged with 33,000 volts of electricity, and physicians say he will recover. His body was badly burned by the current, which was so powerful that the nails in his shoes weye melted. “L" Road in Trouble. The Chicago Lake Street Elevated s ßailroad Company passed info the hands of a receiver on the petition of two stockholders, who declared the corporation insolvent. Judge Tutliill appointed the Equitable Trust Compauy to take charge. Lower Price for Friars’ Land*. The Philippine friars have materially reduced the price they are asking for their insular lands, and consequently both Gov. Taft and Mgr. Guidl now hope the sale will be completed before Mr. Taft leaves for America!. sf —— Gambling Is No Defense. At Fargo, N. D., Judge Pollered has held that speculating in options is no defense in the cose of the John Miller

Grain Company against John A. Hlovstad. The Miller company bought grain from Klovstad and under his orders purchased options for certain amounts. Wheat went down and Klovstad refused to pay. When sued he claimed it was a gambling debt, but under the judge’s ruling will have to pay. MISSOURI HAS AN EARTHQUAKE. Recent Disturbance Call* Attention to Some Historic Facts. An .earthquake along the western banks*of the Mississippi in southeastern Missouri occasioned considerable alarm the other evening. The shock was felt as far north as St. Louis, but the seismic disturbance lasted less than a minute and no damage was done. The disturbance waa generally felt over New Madrid, Jefferson and the surrounding counties. An interesting fact about this shock is that it occurred in the exact territory which, beginning iu 1811, was the scene of a series of earthquake phenomena that extended over a ? period of two years. Southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas suffered more from-.subterranean disturbances at that time than any other part of our domain within >the historic period. The region was inhabited chiefly by Indians. If it had possessed its present density of population the Shocks, which were very severe for several months, would have been numbered among the world’s great calamities.

INQUIRY IN BIG CITIES. Postoffices In Chicago and Other Centers to Be Probed. The announcement by Postmaster General Payne that the New York postoffice was to be investigated is the forerunner of similar announcements affecting Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and other large' cities. In San Francisco it is known that rottenness exists,- according to a statement made by an assistant postmaster general. He did not make the same charges against Chicago, but Said that practically all first-class offices would be given an overhauling, for the good of the service. The handling of mail bags and general supplies, railway mail contracts, rental of stations nnd substations, and other matters are to be investigated. PLANS TO BLOW .UP Y. M. C. A. Druggist Plots Destruction of Building to Get Insurance. Truman 11. Wheeler, a druggist of Lestershire, N. Y., planned to blow up the Y. M. C. A. building so as to collect insurance on his depleted stock on the ground floor. The timely discovery of the plot prevented a terrible explosion. With prison staring him in the face, Wheeler took poison and died. An explosion such ns Wheeler had planned would have wrecked the building and killed at least a score of persons.

$40,000 Fire at Poland, Ind. The general merchandise store of W. F. Ivattman & Co., Dr. Chambers’,,drug store, two vacant store rooms adjoining on the west, the K. of P. building and an undertaking establishment owned by Edward Tressel at Poland, Ind., were (destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $40,000. The loss of Knttmnn & Co. is $35,000. The fire was of Incendiary origin. Russo- Japanese Convention Signed. Official information from both Tokio and St. Petersburg is to the effect that drafts of the Russo-Japanese convention have been approved by the Czar and Count Lanisdorff, the Russian foreign minister. Only slight alterations in these drafts are needed to effect a settlement of all difficulties by amicable compromise.

Show Bills Cause Bank Ran* At Barnesboro, Pa., foreign mine workers made a run on the principal banking institution because of show bills displayed about town. The bills said something about bank troubles, and the foreigners asked no questions, but hurriedly withdrew their cash. To Knforce Open Shop. The Citizens’ Industrial Association of America has been organized in Chicago, its purpose being to guarantee to all men the right to work regardless union affiliations, to uphold the laws, to enforce the open shop and to promote industrial peace. Life Convict May Go Free. After serving sixteen years of a life sentence Elmer Sauley, a convict in the Michigan City (Ind.) prison, may be released. It is now said that Smiley's wife has confessed that she testified'dalsely l and that her husband is innocent. Fatal Fire at an OfUWell. While drilling an oil well at Baldwin, on the Ohio-ludiana line, the gas caught fire from the boiler, and three men were burned, one fatally. All the victims live at Lima. , 1 Reporta of Trade Reviews. Increased industrial activity is reported by Dun’s and Bradstreet’s ’ general trade reviews; setback in steel is shown. October railroad earnings were 5.9 per cent over 1902. One Suspect Commits Balcide. Thomas Bechtel, arrested at Allentown, Pa., in connection with the murder of his sister Mabel, committed suicide in jail; police declare bis death is confession of guilt. '1 , Fall of Tod Sloan. Tod Sloan, the former champion Jockey, is reported to l»e working as a chauffeur at Paris for a paltry salary and to lack clothes and a place to sleep. Funeral of Mrs. Booth-Tucker. Three thousand member* of the Salvation Army attended the special funeral services for Mr* Booth-Tucker in Princess Rink, Chicago.

TELEPHONK3 ON FARMS. York State Plana to Hitch Little Villages Together, f" A recent number of a telephone magazine'published in Chicago gives the number of independent telephone exchanges in New York State as 292, most of them used by small country communities. Ohio, where the independent telephone movement is strongest, has only 3G7, and Indiana 350. New Hampshire has only 24, Massachusetts 36 and New Jersey but GO. Now a movement is under way to unite these independent New York exchanges by building a loug-distanee trunk line from Buffalo to New York City, establishing connections with each a|nd at this end with an independent company which professes to have secured already contracts for 75,000 telephones in a partial canvass of the city and expects by the low rates it will offer to secure twice that number. The plan is to organize the village independent telephone ex if /changes into county systems with-a 10cent rate for all villages and cities within a county, whether they be one or 100 miles apart,/ and a correspondingly low rate for longMistance calls outside of the county. It is argued that with a rate so low telephoniug will very largely take the place of letter writing, and that so large will be the number of subscribers that the large expense of installing the system will quickly be made up despite the low rate.

KEEPS HIMSELF A PRISONER. Man Who -Disappeared Twenty-five Years Ago Found at Home. At Clyde, N. Y„ the startling discovery was made Tuesday that Arthur Hamilton, who disappeared in a night twenty-five* years ago, at a time when he was one of the most prominent young men in business and social life, had been in hiding all these years in the old Hamilton home. Hamilton’s mind is not in the least affected, it is said, and there is no explanation of his strange conduct. He simply went upstairs to his room and there he has remained ever since, attended by the members of his family. Hamilton has spent his waking hours of the quarter of a century in reading and smoking and hns never shown any restlessness.

PEONAGE CASES IN LOUISIANA. Federal Grand Jury Finds It Difficult ts Get Information. It is authoritatively learned that the federal grand jury, now in session at Shreveport, La., is investigating alleged cases of peonage in north Louisiana. Several witnesses were examined, a number being brought from Ouachita Parish. One negro witness was ordered imprisoned for testifying falsely before the grand jury. It is understood that a Ouachita planter is involved in the investigation. He is said to have kept negroes in bondage and on one or two occasions had six black employes stripped nnd badly whipped. The general belief is that the investigation will not produce practical results, owing to the difficulty of getting testimony.

New Consumption Cure. After a tramp cohering 8.200 milc§ and which took two years, Charles E. Norris, almost GO years old, walked, into New York from San Francisco. When he started Mr. Norris was afflicted with tuberculosis and weighed only ninety-six pounds. When he reached New York his lungs were'-sound and he tipped thescales at 137. Bluefislds Again Fire Swept. Cable advices from Bluefields, Nicaragua, tell of the destruction by fire of the southern end of the town, entailing a loss of nehrly $300,000. It started Sunday in a Moravian church, and a northwest wind drove the flames down to the coast, where the big business houses were located.

Tunnel Coder the Hudson. The first tunnel under North river is completed from the New Jersey shore to within seventy-.five feet of the New York shore. It is expected that trolley cars will be operated in the tunnel by next April. The tunnel is not large enough for railroad trains to traverse. Plan Another Big Iron Cut. Arrangements nre being completed for another curtailment in the production of pig iron throughout the country. Within a feta days a meeting of all the furnace men interested will be held in Pittsburg. Fear of Trouble Indicated. A prominent Washington correspondent calls attention to the hasty dispatching of 400 marines to the Caribbean Sea and to other indications that the United States is expecting a revolution or other trouble in Colombia. Block Syatem la Preferred. The American Railway Association has decided to abolish the train order system for the block signal system on double track lines. Safety, simplicity and cheapness will be gained by the change. Express Driver* Are Out. Drivers of St Louis express companies to the number of 400 went pn strike because the demands of the Paalfic Express Company’s employes for a wage increase Of 10 per sent have not been granted. Blair Under Fire. James T. Roberts, testifying before the grand in St Louis, charged Lawrence Blanr, son of the late Gen. Frank Blair, and recently general CQUD* sel pf the world's fair, with illegal transactions whiph netted him large sums. RtnlTtrVsr'LMß Company. On application of the State, through the Attorney General, a receiver was appointed for the Homestead Loan and Company of Indianapolis.