Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — BOBBERY OF MAILS. [ARTICLE]

BOBBERY OF MAILS.

LARGE SUMS STOLEN BETWEEN MEMPHIS AND ST. LOUIS. Foatoffice Inspectors Making Vigorous Investigation, but Find No Trace of Pouch or Thief—Pena Nelson Believed to Have Poisoned Herself. . It is reported in Memphis, Tenn., that drafts and checks representing many thousands of dollars, sent in two mail pouches from Memphis to St. Louis, have mysteriously disappeared. Postofflce officials say the pouches were routed via Hoxie, Ark., where a transfer of mail is made. Feb. 27 a mail pouch routed from Memphis to St. Louis was stolen near Poplar Bluff, Mo. A secret but vigorous investigation has since been made, but no trace of the pouch or thief has yet been discovered. It was learned that* complaints have been received at the postoffice inspector's office in St. Louis of the loss of drafts, money orders, checks and currency in that pouch to the amount of almost $40,000. The Bank of Oran, Mo., reports the loss of $4,000 in checks which were being sent to the International Bank in St. Louis, The other losses have not been made public. SLAIN BY POISON IN FOOD. Ohio Woman Dice and All Rest of the Family but One Is Sick. Mrs. Daniel D. Bowdle of Ludlow avenue, Cincinnati, is dead and her husband and two daughters are seriously ill from arsenic eaten with breakfast food. The food was purchased in an original package at a near-by grocery store and was prepared by the family cook, Agnes Manning, who has always had the im-. plicit confidence of the family. Before Mrs. Bowdle died she told the physician that she had a box of rat poison in a certain place. Search revealed that it had been removed and was nearly empty. Mrs. Bowdle said she had not removed it and that it was full when she last saw it NEW THEORY IN POiSON CASE. Pierre, 8. D., Authorities Believe Rena Nelson Committed Suicide. The authorities in Pierre, S. D., after a thorough investigation, believe that Miss Rena Nelson committed suicide after fixing up the box of poisoned candy in an attempt to make trouble for Mrs. Sherman Dye of Boone, lowa, who, she thought, stood between the marriage of herself and Sherman Dye. It has been learned that Miss Nelson purchased a box of Candy in Pierre on the day before she claimed to have received the box from Booue, and a thorough search has . failed to find a similar box in Boone. NEW JERSEY MOB IS BAFFLED. Coolness of Officials Prevents Lynching of Girl's Assailant. Five hundred persons stormed the Borough Hall at Perth Amboy, N. J., intent on lynching. Sylvanus Eggleston, who had been shot a short time before, but not seriously injured, by Edward Dugan, the father of a G-yeax-old girl whom Eggleston had attacked. Eggleston was smuggled out of Perth Amboy and was taken to the county jail in New Brunswick while a mob was gathering at the railroad station to kill him. Dugan is under arrest. Wreck Bank; Get No Cash. Robbers blew the First National Bank building nt Firth, Neb., to pieces in an attempt to loot the safe, but failed to secure the treasure. J. W. Dean, who runs a restaurant adjoining the bank, was locked in his place of business to prevent him from interfering. The robbers were seared away by citizens before they could blow open the safe. Wife Murderer Is Hanged. Louis 11. Mott was hanged in Missoula. Mont., for the murder of his wife, at whom he became enraged last January because she sold his laundry business while he was absent. Lemoine Mott, a wealthy miller of Des Moines, expended wealth nnd influence trying to save Mott, who was his nephew. Hiccoughs Himself to Death. Edwin Caldwell, a Wealthy farmer of Laporte County, Ind., dieel Friday, having hiccoughed himself to death. He was stricken the previous Monday and the physicians were unable to account for his condition. lie hiccoughed without cessation until death ended his intense agony. Prisoners Put to Death. Forty-four prisoners in Korea have been put to death in three nights by the sword or noose, and the powers may interfere in the wholesale slaughter which the government has adopted to clear its prisons. Six Hurt by an Explosion. An explosion of n gas tank in a restaurant owned by Cropper Brothers in Pittsburg, Kan., injured six persons, three of them seriously, nnd caused n property loss of $5,000. The entire building was wrecked. Dewey and Cowboys Acquitted. Chauncey Dewey and his two cowboys, Clyde Wilson mid William J. McBride, were acquitted of the murder of Burchard Berry at Norton, Kan. Negroen Boycott Legislator. Delegate William G. Kerbin of Worcester County, who has been pushing the “Jim Crow” bill in the Maryland Legislature, has been boycotted by negroes. Thieving Bellboy Sentenced. James Walters, "former bellboy in the Colonial Hotel. San Francisco, who stole the diamonds of Baroness von Horst and was arrested in Mhiiicnpolis. was senfenced to serve five years in State prison SIOO,OOOOII Lpss by Flames. The plant of the Bayway Refining Company in Eliznbetbport, N. J...wa» i’ckl rayed by fire. The flames spread to the plant of the Pennsylvania and Delaware Oil Coutpany. cud the wurehoua rn I part of the dock were burned. T!, i* CBKI.OOO.