Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1904 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. E. MARSHALL; Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIAN*.

CODY ASKS DIVORCE.

SAYS HE IS AFRAID WIFE WILL POISON HIM. "BtiffaloBill" Wonts Lcjol Separation from Woman lie Married Thirty* eight Years Ago—Great Tunnel Under Hudson River Is Completed. Col. William F. Cody (“Buffalo BUT"! has asked a divorce from liis wife, to whom he was married thirty-eight years ago after a romantic courtship. He dkttlgey her with cruelty and haying made an attempt tQ poison hint, Mss. Cody denies the accusation and declares she will contest the suit. She goes even farther, and. while declaring her iovalty to her husband, promises she will disclose chapters in his life that will not do hint credit. The suit has caused much surprise in North Flatte, Neb. The papers were filed two months ago in Wyoming, but Col. Cody .kept, the matter secret. Col. Cody met his wife in St. Louis at the close of the Civil War. She was a belle, wealthy and a leader in the set whose fealty had been pledged to the lost cause. The' scout pushed his suit with all the dash that had gained him fame in the field, and. despite the oh-, jeetions of the young woman's parents, they wen? married. They have had five sons, all of whom are dead. Col. Cody, by his dashing work as scout in the Indian campaigns in the West, his marvelous execution with the rifle in supplying meat for the workmen linking the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans with the steel bands of the Union Pacific Railroad and his later success in Amen ica and throughout the civilized world with liis “Wild West” show, is an international character. He is almost ns well known in London, Paris and Berlin as on the streets of North Plat: or the rolling plains of Wyoming, where one of his largest ranches is situated.

DIG TUNNEL COMPLETED.

Bore Connecting Jcr»ey City and New York Finished Thirty Years. Begun thirty years ago and twice abandoned for long periods becafise of accidents and financial difficulties, the driving of the bore of the Hudson river tunnel, connecting Fourteenth street, Jersey 'City, with Morton street, on Manhattan Islands was finished shortly before noon Friday, three days before the builders had expected. A few hours later President William C. McAdoo of the New York and New Jersey Railroad Company, the contractors of the work, and a party of officers and, guests made the journey from one end of the completed tunnel to the other. So great had ' been the accuracy of the plans of Chief Engineer Charles M. Jacobs’ That when five ends of the tunnel met there was not the variation of a hair in the courses of the Jersey section and the New York heading. When the hydraulic jacks sent the shield forward for the last time and the last ring of plates was placed in position it was found that the joining of the two sections had been exactly in line, both as to level and direction.

Russians Leave Port Arthur. Reports, although somewhat conflicting are that the Russians have evacuated Port Arthur, leaving the city in flames. As a result o's Thursday's- bombardment by the Japanese, thirty-eight Russian soldiers were killed and more than 100 wounded. The Czar's troops are reported retreating from Korea to occupy their strongholds in more northerly districts. Assails Farmer, Kills Self. Robert Williams, a farm hand at Welcome, Minn., attempted to kill his employer, William Plumhoff, first knocking hint down with a pitchfork and then cutting him badly in the throat. Williams then went to the house, secured a shotgun, placed it on the stairs, and with a forked stick pressed the trigger. His head was blown off. The man evidently was crazy. Negro Resists Mob; Is Killed. An unknown tal>en from the jail by a mob at Mojave. Cal., and after being tarred and feathered was killed, either by being struck on the head with an iron bar or by a bullet. He had been arrested for an attack, and a coat of feathers was the only punishment, intended, but the negro resisted and his death followed.

Experiment on Human Heines Ends The poison test undertaken by the Alpha Sigma (Homeopathy) fraternity nnd four “co-ed" medical students in Ann Arbor, Mich., has come to an end. The human test tubes have suffered no great inconvenience except occasional headaches. Out of the nineteen who started In the race fourteen finished. Marx Confesses Another Crime. • Bandit Marx in a new confession in Chicago snjs he led the tower W train robbers and that most of the SIOB,OOO, which the rnilrond officials say was secured, was destroyed by dynamite, used to wreck the safe lu the express car. Car Ham Murderers to Hang. Death on (lie gnllows is the fate decided on for Harvey Van Dine, Peter Niedemeyer nnd Gustav Marx, the Chisago car barn slayers, whose escapades were attended by eight murders. Patti Tour Not a Failure. Mine. Patti is well satisfied with her American tour, which netted her $210,000. She snys she knows her age, but denies Hint she lias wrinkles and is not sure that this farewell tour is the last. Mark Dnnn Banned nt Ft. Joseph. Mark Dnnu was hanged in St. Joseph, Mo., for the murder of Alfred Fenton, a wealthy young farmer of Ruslivills.jMo. The closiug week of Duun's life was marked by a sensational escape and recapture. 1 j Augustus Cook Is Dead. Augustus Cook, fntlier of Eleanor Robson and one of the best-known actor? on the Amerlenn stage, is dead at hia New York home from cirrhosis of the liver nnd dropey. He was born in England fifty years ago.

THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST

During last week there was a slight raising of the screen which had hidden events in the far East and we were enabled to catch a glimpse of Japanese naval activity. Seven vessels, foftr of them protected cruisers, appeared at Yladivostock and shelled—some of the,Russian defenses and tlie city. The Japanese did not approach nearer than five miles and did not draw the Russian fire, the shore batteries' evidently being umlcsirous to disclose the position or caliber of their guns. What the Japanese purpose was is left to conjecture, though it is generally believed that they wished to locate the Russian batteries and to ascertain if the Russian fleet was in port. According to the Russian account of the bombardment the fortifications sustained no losses. One woman was killed in the city by an exploding shell and five sailors were wounded, while a couple of buildings were struck and one of them destroyed. The bombardment left unsolved the whereabouts ot the Russian Yladivostock squadron, consisting of three armored cruisers and a protected cruiser. An unconfirmed report from Tokio says that the fleet was seen off Wonson, on the cast coast of Korea, and another report would indicate that the Russian vessels were covering Russian land movements at the mouth of the lumen River, far to the north of Wonson and south of Possiet Bay. Over the operations on land the mantle of silence and secrecy rested all week, and only the fitful flash of rumor from time to time relieved the situation. The opening ot hostilities ashore, according to the belief expressed in Tokio, isllikely to furnish Russia with as great a surprise as did the jnnval actions. Events, it is said, Will show the capac-itj/ of the men who are directing Japanese affairs and the quality of the troops at their disposal. Meantime,. o%e thrtiji seems to be pretty well established and that is tjie impracticability of conducting land operations on an extended scale in Korea until the opening spring. The roads which are not quagmires are covered with ice and heavy movements are impossible. A London

TORPEDO BOATS SUNK.

Russia and Japan Lose One Vessel Knell in Battle. One Russian torpedo boat destroyer and one Japanese torpedo boat were sunk in a fierce engagement off Port

ADM. MAKAROFF.

Russian fleet by a complete change of (Jactirs. As soon as lie appeared lie ordered the removal of the battleship Uetviznn, which was stranded at the mouth of the harbor, and burred the channel nt certain stages of the tide, making the egress of battleships impossible. Then he directed a sortie of the torpedo-boat liotilla, supported by a part of the Russian squadron, against the Japanese squadron. This is the first time torpedo bcfiits have engaged each other at sea. Although the odds were ngainst the Russians, as the Japanese flotilla was supported by the cruiser squadron, the Russians made a lteroic dash for the foe and apparently had the better of the combat, sinking a Japanese torpedo boat, until the cruisers got within range nnd -one of the lntter's shells crippled the Btereguschtehi. Not much importance is attached to the bombardment, oil account of the great distance of the enemy from the batteries.

Japanese Woman Is a Heroine.

A daring nnd clever font lias been performed by a Japanese woman who escaped from Dalny by means which are still shrouded In secrecy, snys a dispatch from Tientsin. It is said she secured official plans of the harbors of Dalny and Port Arthur, took them to Tokfo, getting away simply as an ordinary refugee. A decoration for her heroism la the reported reward

Arthur when Admiral Marakoff sailed out to give the enemy battle. The Russian torpedoboat flotilla left Port Arthur at daylight Thur sd a y morning and attacked the Japanese fleet. Each side lost a boat iu the engagement. Admiral Marakoff inaugurated his assumption of the command of the

JAPS LANDING UNDER FIRE.

correspondent reports that the Japanese advance will not be begun until 100,000 troops and supplies for them are concentrated at Ping Yang. At the extreme northeastern end of Korea, where the Japanese landed 2,500 troops at Plea skin Bay, Cossack scouts report that the advance-of. this force was checked by avalanches and that one-third of the column was invalided. Yarious unconfirmed rumors state that Russian troops in northern Korea will fall back to the line of the Yalu River and that there the opening land battles of the struggle will be fought. A dispatch from Tokio says the Russians are fortifying Antung, a Manchurian town near the mouth of the Yalu River and will make it a base of resistance. - . Meantime the sending of reinforcements to the far East is being rushed with feverish haste by Russia. The railroad line across the Ice on Lake Baikal was opened early In the month and between 3,000 and 4,000 men are being sent over It daily, according to some advices. An echo of the battle at Chemulpo, Korea, in which the Russian cruisers Korietz and Yariag were sunk by their commanders, after having been damaged by Japanese shells, comes from St. Petersburg, where the official report of M. Pavloff, the Russian minister at Seoul at the time, has been received. He states positively that a Japanese torpedo boat was sunk; that the forward turret and the commanders’ bridge. on the Asama were demolished and that the cruiser Tackacki foundered. The morning after the battle he reports that eighty dead and wounded were removed from Japanese vessels to a transport for Japan. Bombardments extending over a period of eight hours at Port Arthur, the toss by Russia of two torpedo boats and one torpedo boat destroyer, and cablegrams bringing news that 2,000 Russian soldiers already have been killed or wouridecT in the fighting in Korea, and Manchuria, while 2,000 others have died or been invalided by frost-bite, constitute some of the late events in the war.

A military train bound for Irkutsk, eastern Siberia, was derailed near Tomsk. Admiral Birilef has inspected the ships which ure nt Kronstadt preparing to be put in commission. George Kennnn, the noted traveler nnd writer, expresses the hop£ and belief that Japan will win. An imperial ukase has been issued prohibiting the exportation of horses from Russia until further notice. Russian nnd Japanese mounted scouts met north of I’ingyang. After n brief engagement the Russians retreated. A London military correspondent says it is Russia's time to strike the Japanese Armada or abandon hope of interfering with its lnuding. It is reported that the Russians have 15,000 tons of coal at Wiju which they keep drenched with kerosene in readiness to burn should the Japanese land there. Vice Admiral Knraimura, in command of the Vladivostok naval expedition, reports that he searched the coast after bombarding the city, but was unable to find any Russian warships.

RUSSIA WARNS CHINESE.

Troops of Yuau-Shi-Kai and Ma Must Be Kept in Subjection, Russia has served notice on China that the latter must not send troops beyond the great wall and that she must exercise her influence to restrain the Chinese bandits, who are partially under the Control of Chinese officers, from interfering with the railroad and telegraph lines. A refusal to heed this warning will be considered a breach of neutrality. The,Chinese troops which threaten to make trouble are those of Gen. Ma and Gen. Yuan-Shi-Kai, the commander-in-ehief. The latter is the viceroy of CheeLee province and his troops originally were organized by the late Li Hung Chang. Therefore they are subject to provincial instead of imperial control. A St. Petersburg paper declares Japan is beginning to lose her illusions regarding Anglo-American support, but still looks to China, forgetting that Chinese intervention will he the signal for the interference of European powers.

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

BANDITS TO HANG.

Chicago Car-Barn Murderers Given the Death Penalty. Gustav Marx, Peter Niedemeyer and Harvey Van Dine, the “Chicago caf-bam bandits,” must hang for the murder of Francis W. Stewart in the Gist street barns cf the City Railway Company. Such was the verdict of the jury returned in Judge Kersten’s court at 10 o’clock Saturday morning. The decision came as a surprise, for the long deliberation—since 12:15 p. in. led to a belief that lighter punishment was in store for at least one of the defendants. . When court convened the mothers of Van-Dine and Niedemeyer were in the room. They looked worn and sad. Ynn Dine turned and smiled at his mother while the jurymen were filing in. Mrs. Marx was at home in a stato of prostration. When llie jurors appeared they were pale and disheveled. The verdict was read. Then the formal question was asked of each: “Was this and is this your verdict?” An affirmative reply was given by each of the twelve. Mrs. Niedemeyer stood in the center of the .court room for over an hour after the verdict came. She seemed to be in a daze. Standing near the chair where her son had sat, she held her hands over her face and said to attorneys and friends: “Lot mo alone.” Mrs. Van Dine pitched and then recovered herself. One juror, Charles Walton, caused the long delay. He insisted that Van Dine had some good in him because he did not kill Cashier Edmond, who was in the car barn at the time of the raid. With the exception of the Luetgert trials, the case has been the longest drawn out and most expensive ever tried in the Chicago criminal court. The work of securing a jury commenced on Jan. G. Four weeks were consumed in filling the panel, one juror having been dismissed after he had been accepted because of his false answers to questions put him in qualifying for service. The time of the jury was GG3 days, which, at $2, makes a cost of 91,200, exclusive of mileage and their board at the hotel. The time of the court, prosecuting attorneys, police and deputy sheriffs represents an outlay in salaries of $50,000, exclusive of the cost of the stenographic report of the case. ».■ Another item of expense in the case was the pay and mileage of some 700 veniremen who were summoned for jury service and not accepted. This will aggregate at least $1,500. Other expenses, including expert testimony, expenses of travel of detectives, ami the fees and mileage of witnesses, who were called from Indiana, Denver and other points outside the State, will bring the total expense of the trial to about SGO,OOO.

CRIME CHECKS GROWTH.

Chicatro Seriously Affected by Its Bad Reputation. ; Many of the business men o£*Chicago are becoming alarmed because of the effect which the city’s reputation far saime is having upon its growth. The increase ip population has been checked and, while there is still a gradual enlargement of the figures renresentimr the population, the people feel that it should bo larger and that what keeps it down are the reports constantly sent out from there, and for which there is ample basis, that crime is rampant and the police do not control it. The Citizens' Alliance has taken the matter in hand and will try to remedy the evil. “By virtue of its geographical and commercial location Chicago should be growing more rapidly than it is, - ’ declared James W. Nye, the new president of the alliance. “The wealthy men from all the central States should naturally gravitate to this city as to a center. They should come hero to live when they have' made their fortunes, and should add to the revenues of the municipality. We should -receive a great summer pilgrimage from the Southern cities. Our summer climate is unrivaled. But the people from the warmer sections of the land, seared away by the reports circulated of Chicago, pass us by and liasteu to the Northern resorts. “No city in the world has better and cheaper fuel. Our transportation facilities excel those of nny other place on the globe. Why, w T e ask, has Chicago’s growth slackened in the last few years? “Labor and capital have been fighting almost constantly. There has been too much of strikes, lockouts, boycotts, of intimidation-, aiul street rioting. Manufacturers fear to come here lest they become involved in the struggle, and many already in the city talk of moving away. The city ordinances are not enforced and the sky is overcast with smoke and the, streets go undefined. Remedy these evils and Chicago will at once take its place in the leadership of American cities.’’

BOOM FOR CANNON.

On Floor of the House Hia Name la Mentioned for President. After a day of anger, hysteria and panic, the national House of Representatives Friday evening adopted a resolution for the appointment of a special committee of seven to investigate the so-called Bristow report accusing members of having used their influence improperly and illegally to obtain from the l'ostottice Department increased allowances for clerk hire and rentals in postoffices in their districts. The excitement reached its height when William Alden Smith of Michigan dramatically eulogized the greatness of the House of Representatives, Which had been npsuiled by llie executive branch of the government, and closed by naming a candidate of the Republican pasty for President of the United States: “A candidate who would he a foe to corruption, the girat man who hits'given thirty years of h|s life to the service of the country—Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois.” This sensational declamation was greeted with wild applause.

Short News Notes.

11 is estimated Hint the damage caused by the earthquake at Lima/ Peru, will amount to $500,000. The Crystal ice plant and three Missouri Pacific cars were burned, nt Wichitn, Kan. Loss $50,000; insurance SIO,OOO. The Merchants’ and Miners’ steamship Essex collided with nnd sunk an unknown five-masted schooner in Chesapeake bay. The crew is reported to have been snved. The Essex was oulr alichtlv damaged

CONGRESS

The Senate Wednesday adapted a resolution by Mr. Hoar directing the committee on postofilces to investigate and report whether further legislation i-s needed to secure the rights of .person: who complain that their corresponded ?e is interfered with unjustly. Consider ition of the army appropriation bill wts resumed, aiul Mr. Bacon protest-el against the’acceptance of the statue o ' Frederick the Great, tendered by Km peror William, on the ground that Frederick (he Great was liot in sympathy with American institutions. Mr. Stewart replied that Mr. Bacon grossly misrepresented the character of Frederick. The discussion was dropped and the army appropriation bill was passed, as was the Philippine shipping bill. When the House met Bourke Oockrnn was sworn in. Ur. Overstreet sugge-l.d postponement of consideration of the Hay resolution bearing upon the Bristow report. Mr. Hay objected. Mr. Hepburn of lowa said-an investigation would -bring otit TmUaetS—BOt by- the-committee report, to which William Aldan Smith retorted that facts had h4en suppressed and could he discovered. Mr. Hepburn said no member of the House of Representatives desired to screen anyone. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, said he wanted the corruption in the Postoftice Department investigated, not by the friends of the men whoso guilt was suspected, but by a committee appointed by the Speaker. _ Mr. Overstreet spoke for an hour on the Hay resolution.

The Senate Thursday passed a number of bills relating to Alaska, but failed to act on ti.e measure authorizing the election of a delegate in Congress from that territory. Mr. Platt (Conn.) oppos-* ed the bill, and because of his desire for time for discussion it was not pressed. The Alaskan hills passed included those for improvement of roads, the maintenance of schools, the appointment of an additional judge and the extension of coal laws to the territory. A bill Wifs passed increasing to SIOO the pension of ex-soldiers and sailors who have become totally blind on account of service. In the House the Speaker announced the appointment of W. Bourke Cock ran of New York as a member of the committee on ways arid mpans. Mr. Overstreet secured unanimous consent for a continuation of the qi’der limiting debate on the report of the Postoffioe Department involving Representatives and Senators until 4 o'clock. Mr. Finley (S. C.) announced the death of his colleague, George William Croft. Resolutions of sympathy and regret were adopted.

The Senate Friday passed a resolution directing the interstate commerce commission to furnish the Serrate with a report of changes in the railway tariff rates for each yefir since ISOf), comparing the revenues received from them with the gross and net revenues that would have been received under the rates of 1599, A hill for. the enlargement-of th.o federal building at Nashville, N. C., and appropriating SOO,OOO for the purpose, was —passed. • The nomination—ofGen. Wood was taken up, and Messrs. Scott and Blackburn made spreche:; in opposition. After nearly seven li'ours of explanation, accusation and vituperative denunciation, the House ordered an investigation of postal affairs, only so tains members of the House are •ctgicernod. by a select committee of seven members to be appointed by the Speaker, who likewise, are to examine into the origin of the Bristow report so far as it con,cerns members of the House. There Were only two negative votes to* the order. The demand of the minority for a sweeping investigation of every branch of the Postoffice Department was not granted. The test on this question came on a vote over a point of order, wliifli resulted #T44 to 125, a strict party vote. During the debate William Alden Smith condemned the executive department for “its arrogant treatment of the only branch of the government in direct touch with the people of the country,” and shouted out the name of Speaker Cannon for President of the United States, which was received witli great applause. The recommendation of the committee that the Hay resolution lie on the table was voted down unceremoniously.

In the Senate Saturday the fortifications bill was taken up and nil of the amendments except those for the purchase of a submarine torpedo boat for experimental purposes and sites for defense in the Hawaiian Islands were accepted. Mr.- McLaurin (Miss.) took the floor to deny that the authorities of Indiunoia are engaged in arresting people for selling photographs of the President and Booker T. Washington. In tho House Speaker Cannon announced the special committee to investigate the "indictment” report from the Pqstofllce Department ns follows: McCall (Rep., (Ohio), chairman; Hitt (Rep., Ill.), Burton (Rep., Ohio), Motculf (Rep., Cal.), McDermott (Dam., N. J.I, Bartlett (Dem., Ga.) and Richardson (Dent., Ala.), Among the bills passed tvere the following: Directing the Secretary of War to expend $125,000 heretofore appropriated for a deep-water channel through Sabine Pass, Texas; the conference report on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bills; resolution calling on the civil service commission for information ns to how many times the civil service and regulations have been suspended since its operation was agreed to; making Salt Luke City a port of delivery, nnd 21>4 pension bills.

In the Notional Capitol.

Philippine bill, prepared by. Secretary Taft and introduced by Representative Cooper, authorizes $10,000,000 for improvement work iu the islands. President Smith of the Mormon Church told Senators that Congress ban no right to pry into liis private affairs, and that lie is willing to answer only to the Utah courts. Congressman Mann of Illinois Inis boon instructed by interstate commerce committee to prepare fuvornbie report on bis bill providing for the lowering of the tunnels under the Chicago river.