Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1903 — SUFFERS FOR FRIEND [ARTICLE]

SUFFERS FOR FRIEND

SICK MAN GOES TO PRISON IN PLACE OF PAL. Pleads Gnilty to Theft to .Save ChumWhose Kamlly 'Micht Suffer If He Ua(l to Go-Professional Cracksman Hired to Rob Safe. George Grnut pleaded guilty in the District Court iu St.’ Paul,'' Minu.. to stealing jewelry belonging to Georgia Ivripps. He says he accepted a prison tenn. though innocent, to save a friend. To go to prison means sure death to him. His health is such that physicians say fee cannot live a year behind prison ■baifft Grant did not tell the story of a his sacrifice to the court or ask for mercy. Judge Orr sentenced him to the penitentiary on the reformatory plan. “I nut going to prison because I don’t want my pal to be taken from his wife and children," said Grant to a reporter. “I did not steal that jewelry nor know of the theft until my friend bought drinks with the money fi<T got. 1 have been drinkhtg and trying t - forget that the doctors bad told me I' bad not long to live. My friend and I had been drinking together “tn ti saloon. He got into the house and stole the jewelry and then pawned it. 1 helped him count up the proceeds, but this was all I had to do, with the theft. The fellow I was with is a married man., He has a wifi and three children, who would be destitute ts his support were taken from them. What was the use of toy ‘squealing’ on him?" CHICAGO KELLY CRACKS SAFE, Professional Hired ts Aid in I„ootin;j County Treasury; M. A. Wilson is on trial in St. Francis, Kan., charged with robbing the county trensury of Rawlins County a year ago. N. B. Foster and Mrs. Newsome. alleged accomplices of Wilson, turned State's fvidenee. Foster testified that at Wilson’s request'he went to Chicago and engaged the services of Ed Kelly, a professional cracksman. Kelly, he said, came to Ivnnsas, his expenses being paid by Wilson, and made the robbery a success. For this he received a share in the plunder. Mrs. Newsome said Wilson told Tier of the plan to rob the treasury. Kelly was arrested iu Chicago a few days ago by Sheriff Lucas of Shawnee- County and is now in the county jail at Atwood awaiting trial.

rubbers blow up depot. Hold Up Br id jje tender nnd Watchman, ' Fijiht Policeman and Get $lO. Five masked robbers appeared in Pavonia, the eastern section of Camden, N. J.. held up a bridge tender and a watchman, blew up the Pennsylvania Railroad station, looted the safe of $lO and escaped after a running duel with two policemen. The station was Wrecked by the dynamite used itr blowing the safe. After the robbery the bandits held up the crew of a switch engine who were making up a freight train, nnd at the points of revolvers compelled Edward Appleton and Henry Smith, the engineer nnd fireman, to leave the vicinity. Redaction of Pnv Expcnte^, It is learned in Duluth, Minn., that notices of reduction of salary to employes of the Steel Corporation arc being prepared. Clerks have been busy with the pay rolls for days classifying the employes as to income. ,9-The expected reduction will range from .1 to 25 per cent. It unexpected-they will he effective Jan. 1. Yale Has Heavy Fire Loss. Yale F diversity sustained a severe loss when the forestry school building was completely gutted by fire. The loss .involved is estimated at over SIOO,OOO on the building alone, while many fine specimens of plants nnd trees, which cannot be replaced, were destroyed. The fire started, it is believed, from an overheated furnace, *■ ■ 1 ~ Union Is Fined SI,OOO. " , For the first time in the history of Illinois a labor union was fined for the violation of a strike injunction. Judge Jesse Holilom, of the Superior Court of Chicago, fined Franklin Union. No. 4. $1 .000 for the alleged violation of the injunction issued on the complaint of the Chicago Typotlietae Oct. 10. Fire Destroys Floor Mills. , The mill and elevator of the RussellMiller Milling Company, in Valley City. N. D., were destroyed by fire, eutailiug a loss of over $75,000. The damage to the mill and coutents amoflots to $45,000. The elevator was valued at SO,OOO. and contained 40.000 bushels of wheat, which was insured for $29,000. Dan’s and Bradstreet’s. Better iron trade is reported by Dun’s «ud Bradstreet’s weekly reviews. The pig iron, output declined to 1,000,000 tons for November; railroad earnings 4 per cent over 1902.

Buchanan (iocs to Panama. \V. I. Buchanan was cho>eu special minister to the Panama republic by President Roosevelt and left for his post on Tuesday. . He declined a permanent appointment forHmsiness reasons. ■ Republican Convention Meets Jnne 21. The Republican National Committee has chosen Chicago as t|ie place and June 21, 1904, as the date for holding the nest national convention. Several Killed in Train Wrecks. Two train wrecks in lowa cost eight lives, while fifteen persons were injured. Flames swept one wreck and a baby was burned to death before the eyes of the survivors. A freight wreck in West Virginia claimed the lives of five men. Mercury 13 Below Zerr, A coW wave caused a number of deaths and much suffering in Chicago. The minimum temperature was 13 de- A Trees below at 8 a. m. and the average temis-roture throughout the day 7 Ue--ffrees below zero.