Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERN OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERN OF THE EARTH

GANG COMMITS MANY CRIMES. R . ... Robbers Holdtfco RailvraT Agents sn«l Plunder the Station#. The sensation caused by the murder of William Cl eml.cn nib, the operator in Brown tower, near Jersey Shore, Fa., and the robbery soon after of tlie agent at Alle'fiwood. fifty miles east of the tower, was increased the other day when jt was known that there had been a third crime of a similar nature. John Dalton, thq night watchman at the Philadelphia and Beading Railway station nt Girardville, was attacked by four masked men at midnight. They locked him in a room, robbed him of $75 and stole three valuable express packages. Dalton jumped from a window and'raised an alarm. A of citizens responded and started in pursuit of tin; burglars, who escaped to the mountains. Shots were exchanged with the men. Girardville Is fifty miles southeast of Allenwood, where Murrell J. Hafar, the Reading telegraph operator, was assaulted, robbed nnd chloroformed within a short time after Clendenniu clicked off on the wire ns he was dying the message that told of his fate. It is supposed that the mysterious robbers jumped on a fast freight after killing Clendennin, rod,e to Allenwood,-there robbed Hafer and fled. \

DYN AMI TERS TIE UP ROAD. Pennsylvania Traina Are Halted by Discovery of Ousted Men’a Plot. What is supposed to have been an attempt by discharged employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to blow up railroad property with dynamite was discovered in Cincinnati. Six sticks of dynamite were found in the company’s yards under a ‘‘bumper” on -track No. 5. They were found by Frank Carr, a yard clerk,;., who gave an nlarin, and all incbitnlig and outgoing trains were brought to a standstill until a thorough search could be made to ascertain whether more of the deadly explosives was hidden along the rails. No more was found, however, and the six sticks were taken in charge by the police. Those tfcqnaint'od with dynamite sny the six sticks would have blown the .building in the vicinity 'to atoms and caused much loss of life if set off by a passing train.

OLD COUPLE BURN TO DEATH. Man la Suspected of Klllinc His Wife and Settinu Fire to Home. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, GO years old, were burned to death in a. fire which consumed their home. The couple lived alone outside of the city limits of Grand Rapids, Mich. The fire was discovered by neighbors, Imt before any help could be given the old people—tlie building collapsed. Tliere is a stroifg suspicion that the fire was preceded by a murder and suicide. The Smiths had not lived happily together, and only last Saturday Mrs. Smith told a neighbor that she was afraid of her husband; that he had threatened her, saying: ‘‘lf it were not for the law I’d murder you.” Smith also had told this neighbor that he intended to get rid of his wife. G. A. R. Encampment Date. General John C. Black, commander-in-chief of tire Grand Army of the Republic, has arranged detnils for next year's encampment with the local G. A. It. committee in Boston. It was agreed that the encampment will begin on Aug. 15 and that a parade not exceeding two miles in length will be bold on Aug. IG. It was estimated that at least 75,000 veterans would be in line.

Explorers Given Up as Lost. The latest mail steamer from the cOast of Labrador brings no report of the party headed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., of N'ew York, which started from RigoJet, Labrador, Aug. 1, t#» explore the interior of Labrador. The coast is blocked with ice floes and snowstorms have covered the country with snow to a depth of fifteen feet. Running Car Is Burned. * A car on the Missouri Pacific fkst mail train from St. Louis caught fire en route and was consumed with its contents, ,twenty tons of second and third class mail. The car waS detached from- the rest of the train and none of the other [cars was damaged. 200 Die in Indian Flood. A telegram has been received from the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, saying that, according to reports received nt Madras, a flood in the I’alar river destroyed half of the town of Vanizajubad}, in the Salem district. Tiro hundred persons were drowned. Robbetl. at Door of Home. Miss Stella N’ijt/.kc, a stenographer, was robbed and beaten by two highwaymen in the doorway of hey home in Chicago. The robbery occurred about 11 o’clock, just a moment after the young woman had parted with her escort at the door.' * ' •* _ Kentuckians in Fatal Duel. R. K. McCnndless ami George E. Price fought a duel jo Edmonton, Ky., both using pistols nt jclosfc range. Price died instarttV and McCnndless Was mortally wotjjpded. Tbelfinuije of the tragedy is not known.

Fatally Hurt at Fire. Abraham Custer was fatally injured duriug a tire at U. Herkshcr & Sons’ furnaces at Norristown, I’n. Joseph Van Dusky was badly burned. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Fitzsimmons Wins from Gardner. Boh Xitosiumious wns victor over George Gardner in twenty-round fight at San Francisco; Fit* was greatly superior la strength and skill and Ugrduer was badly punished. Die In Fire In timaha. Four men burned to death and property lom amounting to $300,000 is the result of a fire which broka out In the

-wholesale -grocery house of Alien Brothers, Xyuli and Jones streets, Omaha. In addition to the big live-story building oev enpied by the Allen Brothers, that oecii—pied by the,Pacific Storage Company adjoining was 'also consumed", together with most of its contents.-* ' A i NEELY MUST LOSE PLUNDER. Federal Conrt Insists Money Given as Bail Belongs to Owner. Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court in New York handed, down an opinion overruling the motion made by Charles F. W. Ngely, convicted in Cuba of appropriating of its postal funds while acting as director of finances of the postoffice In Cuba, to vacate the attachment filed by the United States against $20,000 cash bail deposited by Neely with the registrar of the United State* Circuit Court in that district. Neely’s counsel had move<j the dismissal of the attachment and civil proceedings on the ground that the act of amnesty passed by tire Cuban Congress in May, 1902, whereby all Americans convicted of crime in Cuba during the occupancy of the island were pardoned, removed with it all penalties and disabilities nnd that the money should therefore be re-, turned to him. In his opinion Judge Lacombe says: “It is difficult to understand by What process of reasoning a provision as plain ns this (amnesty act) can be so construed as to transfer the title to property from the true owner to the thief Who stole it.”

FIRE AT ALLEGHENY, PA. A Disastrous Result Prevented by Prompt General Alarm. ?Lo\fcer Allegheny, Pa., was threatened with a disastrous fire the other day, but prompt action in turning in a general alarm and the good work of the firemen prevented a serious- blaze. A boy employed in the plant of the Martin Hardsoeg Mine Drill and Tool Company dropped a lighted torch in a pile of waste, and in a few minutes it was burning fiercely. The flames spread to the plate glass warehouse of Conroy, Prugh & Co, and the Damascus Bronze Works. Several barrels of oil stored in the Hardsoeg building sent a fiery shower among the firemen. ■ One man was painfully burned. The flames were quickly controlled, however, with a loss of about $30,000 to the Hardsocg company. BIG FLOUR EXPORTS TO JAPAN. Minneapolis Millers See Indications of Preparations fog War.” " Minneapolis millers report extraordinary increase in the flour export trade with Japan. In September the trade more than doubled. In the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1901, the exports were 243,540 barrels; m the same perdiod of 1902 they were 307,736, while in the nine months of this year they were over 800,000 barrels. This tremendous increase is believed to be significant of preparation for war with Russia by Japan. While the purchases have been made through the ordinary channels, it is .believed that the Mikado’s government has inspired them. Murderers Captured by Police. Harvey Van Dine and Peter Niederfneier, companions of Gustav Marx in the Chicago onr barn murders, and Emil Roeski, associated with the trio-in other crimes, wore captured in Lake County, Indiana, after the most desperate man hunt in the histofy of Chicago. The outlaws mortally wounded Policeman Driscoll, wounded Detective Zimmer and a brakeman, and killed a second brakeman before being captured. Each of the oils; laws was wounded.

Cotton Mill WagC9 Are Cut. A 10 per cent wage reduction has gone into effect in a majority of the cotton mills of New England. In Fall River 35,000 operatives are affected, in Rhode Island 20,000 and in other places about 10,000. Before the month is ended practically every cotton mill in New England will be working on the, wage scale in effect before March, 1901. Hard Outlook for Sheep. Fifty per cent of the sheep ot eastern Washington and eastern Oregon will perish this winter on account of lack of liaj* aud feed on the ranges and the hard winter which stockmen believe is before them, says Charles McAlister, a sheep raiser of eastern Washington. One of Car Barn Murderers. Gustav Marx, slayer <Jt Detective Quinn in Chicngo, has confessed that he was implicated in the City Railway car barns murders as well as three other murders. Three alleged accomplices were named to the police. Adopt Treaty Aguinnt War. The Rome correspondent of the London Daily Mail says that during the conference at Windsor between King Victor Emmanuel and King Edward a permanent Anglo-Italian arbitration treaty was approved by both tnonnrclis. Charge! of Cruelty Made. Charges of cruelty to insane patients in the Manhattan State hospital on Ward’s Island, in New' - York, are made by Miss t ;Pli*abetli Kumiss of Waterloo, who has just returned after spending two weeks as/an attendant in that institution. Feven SJaio by an Indian. A special ftbm Winnipeg says: “A South Piegan Indian, under the influence of liquor, rah amuck on the South Piegan reservation. Before he could he secured he had killed lii* wife and other members of the trib^. , ’

Match Cokbett and Hanlon. Young Corbett and Eddie Hanlon have been matched to fight in San Francisco Dec. 29. The men will meet at 129 pounds for the featherweight championship of the world, the battle to 1>« twenty founds

—' BHOOTS TWO COMPANIONS. Kansas-YootE Kills. One Lad and Seriously Wounds Another. While four boys, ranging in age from 9 to 17 years, were hunting rabbits in Salt Creek- valley, west of Leavenworth, Ivan., John Butler, aged 9 years, was shot in the chest and killed by Emmet Lipp, 17 years old, and Lipp, after seeing what he had done, threw down the gun to the ground ip such a forcible manner that the second shell in the gun was discharged, the charge wounding Everert Lipp, brother of the careless youth. The four boys were playing near their homes and one-of them saw a rabbit. Emmet ran for and borrowed a shotgun from a country storekeeper, and upon returning John Butler started to run after the rabbit. Just ns he came within range Emmet fired. The wounded boy’s mother ran from -the house aixd, picking her son up in her arms, started back toward the home with him, but he died as she entered the door. The little fellow who was wounded by the accidental discharge of the gun is thought to be crippled for life. While it is not generally believed that Lipp intentionally shot Butler, he is being held in the county jail pending an inquiry by the coroner’s jury.

RENEWAL OF A FLORIDA FEUD. Three Murders Mark Beginning of a War of Extermination. The Richards and the Bennetts, the largest and most prominent families of Bradford County, Fla., have again declared war to the death. A feud which has slumbered for years has broken out afresh. Eight years ago the feud, rose, \yj\pn three of the Bennetts and two of the P.ichards were slain. Recently when Deputy Sheriff H. O. Richards went to the home of J. S. Bennett, the present head of the family, to arrest him on a charge of holding a pretty orphan girl, 16 years old, in a state of peonage, the three Bennett brothers came forth from their house at Lawtry armed with guns and shot him dead. A posse captured the murderers in an abandoned turpentine camp. Two killings have already followed the murder of the deputy sheriff. Each family has sworn to exterminate the other.

MENACE TO FISH POACHERS. Canada Orders New Fast Cruiser Built to Chase Americans. In order to protect Canadian fish from American fishermen the dominion governmenthas awarded a contract to the Poison Company for the construction of a cruiser to be used on the upper lakes. The sorry experience of the Petrel in her many stern chases of the fleet American boats has led the government to specify that the new craft shall be as fast as any on the lakes. The new boat will be ready in the Spring. Mother of Guerrilla Is Dead, Mrs. Caroline Quantrell died at the Ohio I. O. O. F. home in Springfield, at the age of 80 years. She liqd been at the home three years, coming from eastern Ohio. She was the mother of the notorious guerrilla leader, Col. Quantrell, who with a band of border ruffians burned and pillaged Lawrence, Kan., Aug. 23, 18G3, when IS3 persons were killed. Carter Leaves Prison. Cell No. 425 in the big federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., has been vacated. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engineers, 17. S. A., has paid the penalty for frauds in connection with the Savannah harbor work. Buoyant in spirits and still confident of liis ultimate acquittal in the eyes of the people of felony, Carter started alone for Chicago.

Firemen Killed in Cincinnati, One fireman was killed and seven injured -while fighting a fire which destroy* ed the five-story brick building of Smith, Myers & Schnier & Co., manufacturers of cigar box machines, nt 621 and 627 Front street, in Cincinnati. The loss is estimated at $60,000, partially covered by insurance. ' * Worit Flood Since 1824. The flood which has caused so much damage In St. Petersburg was the biggest since 1824. The intense cold is causing much distress among the homeless and the dwellers in cellars. lif the factory quarter 20,000 persons have been driven into the streets, many of them losing their all. To Declare War on Russia. Private advices from Peking say General Yuan Shi l\ai, governor of Chi LI province, has informed the Emperor that lie is prepared to declare war against the Rusaiuns in Mnnchuria. General Ma is 6nld -to be ready to march into Shan Hai Kwan at the head of 18,000 men. . Hlnshaw Released on Parole. 1 v Rev. William E. Hinshnw has been released ct» parole from jjie Indiana nonhem prison, where he had been serving v life sentence for the murder of bis wife in 1805 nt Belleville, Hendricks County •

Settlement of Mnnchnrlnn Question. Russia and Japan are said to have agreed to a tentative settlement of the Manchurian question, and now have only the Corean matter to dispose of. Some annoyance la caused in Russia by the aljpaft played by the United States. Had of Street Car Strike. The Chicago City Railway Company and its striking employes came to terms Wednesday end the men returned ttr work. Tire agreement reached is a compromise, both eides making concessions. Will Not Be a Candidate. Former President Grover Cleveland, In a letter to Editor McKelWayi of the Brooklyn Eagle, announces unconditionally and irrevocably that hie'will not'be a candidate for the presidedty.