Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — REVOLT IN COLOMBIA. [ARTICLE]

REVOLT IN COLOMBIA.

NEW INSURRECTION TO KEEP THINGS LIVELY. Insurgent Leader Peacefully Takes Town While Opponent Is Telegraphins; for Help—Prophesies General Use of Automobiles as Farm Wagons. The steamer Lo Calvados of the French Line has arrived from Cartagena and Savanilla, with nows of a rebellion and state of anarchy in. the' Colombian department of Bolivar, which arose from the determination of the government <at Bogota to oust Diego De Castro from his position as commander in chief of the military forces in Bolivar. It was deemed prudent to do this, because General De Castro, Acting in conjunction with Francisco Insignares, civil governor of Bolivar, sent an expedition up the Magdalena River the latter 'pagt Of last month to Calamar to stop government troops who were coming down the river.General Manjares reached Barranquilla, where General De Castro is stationed, about the end of January and informed De Castro that he held papers from President Marroquin making Manjares commander in chief of. the military and naval forces of the department. De Castro refused to give Up his post, claiming that he held his appointment from General Reyes, who had been designated supreme commander of all Colombia’s military forces. Manjares then went to Cartagena, Inhere he induced General Arango to turn over to him the command of the troops in Cartagena. As soon as this had been done Manjares, with a battalion of the troops, tqpk a train for Calama. He , telegraphed to Cartagena to send him 500 re-enforce-ments. The government at Bogota also sent down 4,000 troops to support Manjares. While De Castro was at Gamarra telegraphing to President Marroquin Manjares and his command marched into Barranquilla and seized the city without firing a shot. TOPEKA HAS A $493,000 FIRE. • 4 —■ Spectators Hurt by Exploding Cartridges in Burning Buildings. Fire destroyed the Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile Company's building and stock lit First and Kansas avenue: the Sells building, adjoining, occupied by the McCormick Harvester Company and W. I. Schick, in Topeka, Kan. The total loss is estimated at $493,000 and that of the Parkhurst-Davis Company at $250,000, with $125,000 insurance. Several thousand cartridges stored on the third floor of the Parkhurst-Davis building exploded, and half a dozen spectators were hurt by flying shells. The fire was started by an explosion of chemicals. JOKER SLAIN BY HIS VICTIM. Youth Who Seeka to Frighten Negro Taken for Burglar. Fred B. Watson, aged 17, as a joke attempted to frighten the men sleeping tin his father’s livery barn, in St. Paul, was mistaken for a burglar and killed. Followed by his older brother, young Watson entered the barn, but instead of being frightened, David Parker, a negro, one of the men in the barn, struck the leader of the supposed intruders on the head with an iron bar. The young man’s skull was broken and he died in a few minutes. Parker surrendered to the police, is thought he will not be prosecuted.

AUTO AS FARM WAGONS. President of Motor League Predicts a Rustic Revolution. “Automobiles will soon bo taking the place of wagons on many farms in the □United States and Canada,” declared Isaac B. Potter, president of the American Motor League, before a banquet of the league at the Victoria Hotel in Chicago. He said that soon thousands of the vehicles will be speeding “to town” with the farmers’ produce. The speaker said that already a large number of tillers of the soil had invested in automobiles. Plan to Huy Lincoln Home. The birthplace of Abraham Lincoln in Laßue County, Kentucky, is now advertised for sale for taxes. The little cabin in which the great American was born is greatly dilapidated and is being used as a barn. In view of these facts. Representative W. C. Black’ introduced a bill in the Kentucky lower house to appropriate SIO,OOO for the purchase of the old farm and cabin and the erection of a suitable monument.

St. Louis Brewer Shoots Himself. Depressed by the death of a favorite son three years ago and the recent demise of a dear friend, William J. Lemp, president of the Lemp Brewing 'Company, committed suicide at his residence in St. Louis by shootiug himself In the right temple with a revolver. He died an hour after firing the shot. Montana Shooter Acquitted. John Dotson, who has been on trial nt Missoula, Mont, for the alleged murder of Frank O’Dell, has been acquitted. The jury was out five hours. Dotson was alleged by the State to have been drinking and in firing through the wall of a building in an attempt to shoot the proprietor of a saloon, killed O'Dell. Japanese Soldiers Drowned and Slain. The Japanese are reported to have lost 1,800 by the sinking of a transport and 410 in a hand-to-hand bayonet attack from Cossacks while attempting to land near Port Arthur. * Cotton Crop Sold Five Times Over. Recent wild specrulation in the cotton market are said to have resulted tn the •ale of 50,000,000 bales or five times the total amount of the crop. - Nina Teamsters Found (luilty. In New Haven, Conn., a jury found nine union teamsters guilty of conspiracy in trying to injure the business of certain trucking firms during the teamsters' •trike Inst spring. The defendants were indicted on six .counts and were tried Jointly. A senteuce of three months in Jail for,each defendant was imposed. IK i ’