Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1903 — BRANDED WITH IRON [ARTICLE]

BRANDED WITH IRON

BAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL K -«f BOYS SUFFER. Jhnxt Rite* of Secret Society that Enjoins Silence About Proceeding* by Solemn Oath—Youth Shoots to Death Girl Who Jilted Him. A secret fraternity lias been discovered in Mission high school in San Francisco, which suhjects its members du initiation to branding with a red-hot iron and to beatings and mutillation, which oft«en render thejictims uneonseious and nsnally jesulSin their sickness for days. The society, which is known ns the Alpha Mn fraternity, has spread through the high schools and the technical schools of the city, so that it has considerable active membership, proud of scars and brands that will remain through life. But for the torture to which Albert Short -of 211 Clipper street was treated at an initiation the character of the society might not have been discovered. Young Short may die as a result of the brutal treatment he underwent, but he refuses to give any information, saying he is bound by an oath not to reveal the secrets of the lodge room. Sylvester B. Boarman, who lives at Castro and Eighteenth streets, submitted to the torture to prove his fitness for membership in the fraternity. He admitted, with a show of pride, that he was branded with a red-hot iron. “That was not the worst -of it by any menus,” said he. BIG SHOVEL, WORKS BURNED. Flames In Plttaburs: Canse a Loss of $200,000 to $250,000. -—The Hubbard Shovel Works, one of the largest manufactories of the kind in the country, employing close to 1,000 men and covering a ground space of nearly five acres in Butler street, Pittsburg, near the Sharpsburg bridge, was _ almost totally destroyed by fire Before the lire department arrived the structures were a mass of flames, and as the water was short it was but a short time until the plant was almost completely wiped out. J. W. Hubbard, president of the company, says the loss will be between $200,000 and $250,000, with but little insurance. youth murders sweetheart. Shoots from Timber at Roadside and Is Captured by a Posse. Because she refused to keep company „ with him any longer Leslie Angel, an IS-j ShtrTnnd almost iustanfly killed Ella Green, 22 years old, while Hie girl was sitting in her mother's lap In a buggy on their way home from a trip to Burton, Kan. The boy rushed from the timber near Wichita and discharged a shotgun so close to the faces Of the occupants that the Green woman's clothing was burned. She died Three hours later. The boy was found hiding on his father's farm. He. is in jail and heavily guarded. , o ■ Union in Contempt. Judge Jesse Holdom. of Chicago, decided that Franklin Union of Pressfeeders was in contempt of court as an organization, for appointing and permitting pickets to interfere with the rights - of individuals who had tnkeu the places of striking press feeders. Sight Fails Judge Brown. .Henry Billings Brown, associate Jus-,-lice of the United States Supreme Court, is threatened with total blindness. He has been informed by his physician that the entire loss of hip eyesight within a weds is now indicated. Crippled by Shovel Trust. The stockholders to.f the Danville Bessemer Company met in Camden, X. J., and by an overwhelming vote decided to dissolve the corporation. Ruinous competition of the shovel trust was assigned as the reason for dissolving.

Knrns at Season's Close. Fire destroyed the big lake steamer J. Emory Owen, which raced into Sturgeon Bay, assisted by three other steamers, flames bursting from every hntch- ■ way. The crew was saved. Powers May Administer Macedonia. Russia and Austria propose that the powers administer Macedonia aloDg the *ame general lines ns they have applied to Crete. It is likely the scheme will commend itself to all but Germany. Rise Against Christiana. A dispatch from St Petersburg says-a report is current in Port Arthur, originating in Chinese quarters, of an antiChristian rising in the province of Szechuan. Smuggled Chines; Drown. A wagon load of Chinamen who were being smuggled iuto this country was overturned near Buffalo and fell into the Erie canal. Four of the Chinamen were drowned. Paint Factory Earned. The paint works of N. Z. Graves & , Co., at Broad street and Geary avenue, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO, fully insured. Hailroad Darnings Increase. f, November railroad earnings are reported by Dun’s weekly review at 4.86 per cent over 1902; better feeling credited by Bradstreef • to weather. Boiler Skate Inventor Dead. | Thaddeus A. Neeley, inventor/of the adjustable roller «kate, died in Muncie, Ind., of cerebral hemorrhage. omm Eastern Counterfeiters Arrested. Ten members of a dangerous gang of SWUOterfpfters have been afrestc<l in~Xew York and Revere. Mass., and machinery material for making a million do] { lari* worth of spurious curroncj cap- ' fared. 4 r ■ —— Lose Flna Paintings. Paintings of Charles R. Hall and hi* I brother, both of Omaha, which were valued at $200,000 and several of which ; were intended for exhibition at the. Ft. a Louis exposition, have been lost in trai> M*it from Seattle.