Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1903 — MOUNT LOSES A PEAK. [ARTICLE]

MOUNT LOSES A PEAK.

£OLUMBIA’B CREST BRQKEN OFF BY EARTHQUAKE. Hnjr« Mass of Rock Slides Down Into Valley with Ramble mud Roar—Peddler Saepected of Crimea That Terrorised a PenneylraiAa District* The earthquake felt at a number of points in eastern Washington the other day is believed to have broken off the highest peak of Mount Rainier, tumbling it over the southeastern slopes of the mountain into the valley the Natchez river. The earthquake was accompanied by loud reports, heard in Yakima valley, ,100 miles distant from the mountain. These reports sounded like the firing of heavy cannon. State Senator Ruth of Olympia and G. E. Hoggins, a cattleman owuing ranges on ' The Southern" slope of the mountain, state that they witnessed the sliding off of the mountain’s peak. Ruth was visiting Huggins’ ranch. They were surprised by an earthquake Bhock and instinctively rushed to the door to look at the mountain. They saw that the southeastern peak had broken off and the entire mass was tumbling down the slope of the mountain. The sliding of rocks was accompanied by a tremendous roar, which increased in intensity for some time. For two hours it was impossible to see just how much of the peak had broken loose, as the track of gigantic avalanche was enveloped in dust The first great slide was followed by others of lesser magnitude, and for thirty-six hours the roar was successive. When the atmosphere cleared it was seed that where before was to be seen nothing but a dazzling white field of dnow there was now a broad black streak of bare rock. This peak was known as Columbia’s Crest, being more than 14,500 feet high.

ARRESTED FOR TOWER MURDERS Peddler ( Charged with Crime, Thought to Have Terrorized District. Edward Moyer, a peddler, was arrested at Sunbury, Pa. Moyer, who formerly lived at Danville, was upon suspicion of having murdered Clendennin, a telegraph operator at Brown's Tower. It is believed by the police that he is responsible for the series of murders and robberies in the locality. Suspicion was directed to Moyer by a brakemnn named Robinson, who resides at Jersey Shore. According to his story he met Moyer at Jersey Shore the day of the Clendennin murder going in the direction of Brown’s Tower. When the news of the murder was learned Robinson discovered Moyer on a Pennsylvania freight train and followed him as far as Sunbury, on the same train, when Moyer managed to elude him. Bide Gifts; Find a Burglar. Mrs. Auna Lendis and her sister were hiding Christmas presents Intended for their children, when they discovered a burglar under a bed in Mrs. Lendis* home in St. Louis. They dragged him out by the heels, and Mrs. Lendis sat on him while her sister ran for a policeman. In the Interval Mrs. Lendis searched the prostrate burglar’s pockets, recovering $135 belonging to her husband and her son’s watch. Max Nordan a Target. A miserably clad man fired two shots at Max Nordau, the litterateur and vice president of the congress of Zionists, at a Zionist ball at the Salle Charms in Paris. One of the shots grated Nordau, while the second wounded a guest. The would-be assailant was arrested. He gave his dame as‘ Chaiu Sclik Louban, and said that he was a Russian revolutionist. ~ ' » Monte Carlo on Icy Sea. Last summer, by express direction of President Roosevelt, the Department of Justice ordered the Federal authorities to prohibit gambling at Nome and other Alaskan towns. Chafing under this restraint, the sporting element of Nome is erecting a casino on the ice of Behring Sea, three miles from shore. The building will contain gambling balls, a theater, saloon, dancing pavilion and hotel.

Fatal Fire in Tennessee College. Four persons are known to have been killed and perhaps thirty others injured, nineteen of them fatally, iu n fire in Nashville, Tenn., which consumed the Central Tennessee College for Young Negro Women, a department of Walden University. The property loss is estimated at $25,000. Prison for Bank President, At Guthrie, Okla., Judge Haider sentenced Rufus R. Connella, the bank president, to ten years’ imprisonment at hard labor for forgery. Mrsl. Kate Wyatt, indicted for harboring criminals, received a sentence of two years at hard labor. Threaten to Blow Up Cars. A strange letter, threatening to blow -up an express train unless $5,000 is paid, has been received by the officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and the line is closely guarded. Death of F. R, Condart. Frederic R. Coudert, the famous American authority on international law and orator, died from an attack of heart trouble at Washington. Open New Williamsburg Bridge. The new Williamsburg bridge', connect the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, was opened Saturday. tired in the*, plant of Tack Company by an dumping of fire tons of hot slag Into a P®°» 0t i Charged with Land Frauds. John A. Benson, a wealthy real estate operator of San Francisco, charged By the Interior Department with being the head of the alleged land frauds in a dozen Western Stales, has been arrested at Washington, charged with bribing a representative of the department *