Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1904 — REFUSES A FORTUNE. [ARTICLE]

REFUSES A FORTUNE.

DENVER PHYSICIAN WILL NOT TAKE $1,800,000.

Bays He Always "Paddles Hie Own Canoe," and Wants Sister to Accept Money—Workmen Are Waylaid and Beaten by Strikers in Louisville. Dr. William A. Harroun of Denver has refused to accept $1,800,000. The fortune has just been left to him. Me said it would be much better if his sister. Mrs. J. M. Lewis of Portland, Me., had the money. so he sent this telegram to her: “I will not accept a cent of money. It is all yours. This is final.” Ilarronn is the heir of James A. Harroun, who ’died a few weeks ago in Ireland. James

A. Harroun was a brother of Dr, liarroan's father and the last of the brothers to die. An agreement was made between the brothers that tlie last to die should leave all his estate to the oldest living son of any brother. This happens to be Dr. Harroun. The property consists of a large estate in Ireland with a big supply of cash. Dr. Harroun is not old and not wealthy. Dr. Harroun says he always has been able to make his own way. and he believes he always will. He adds that be is able to "paddle his own canoe. - ’

GIVES LIFE FOR HIS SINS. Conscience - Stricken Farmer Starves Himself to Death. A story of tire fanaticism which resulted in the death, virtually from suicide, of Mathias Brenna, has just been related at Cass Lake. Minn. He was a wcll-to-to farmer living in the town of Eden, near the village of Fosston, and had been possessed for some time with the hallucination that he must, on account of his sins, do penance by continuous fasting. For a year past he had taken nothing at his meals but bread and water, and a month ago decided to eat absolutely nothing until after March 24. Relatives attempted to force him to take nourishment, but doctors were called to assist in inducing him to feed himself, but all to no purpose, and. after suffering untold agony, Brenna died from actual self-imposed starvatioa. STRIKERS WAYLAY WORKMEN. One Man Shot and Four Badly Beaten at Louisville. " ’ Tn a general fight between striking butchers and non-union men who have taken their places in the plant of the Louisville, Ky., Packing Company forty non-union men were badly beaten , and one man was shot by a gang of strikers, who waylaid the workmen as they left the plant. Only two of the strikers, who are said to have engaged in the riot, are under arrest. They are J. T. W’olverton and Dud Smith. All of the injured men will recover.

THREE KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Albia, lowa, Bank Buildinc and Three Stores Demolished. An explosion in the Citizens’ National Bank building. Albia, lowa, resulted in three men being killed and several persons injured. The dead are: R. Ramsey, Edward Dougherty, Richard Grimes. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but it is supposed it originated in the heating plant. Besides the bank building, a clothing store and two grocery stores were destroyed by fire. The loss is $75,000. Former Chicago Pair Slain. Dr. F. W. Draper, county medical examiner in Boston, has examined the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Brown of Roslindale. formerly of Chicago, who died from bullet wounds the other day. and will report that they were murdered. At first it was siipposed that Brown had hilled his wife and then himself. Willis H. Wilson, a son of Mrs. Brown by a former marriage, is under arrest. Landslide in New York State. Inhabitants in the vicinity of Devil’s Hole, near Dansville.’ N. Y.. are terrified over an enormous landslide occasioned by some subterranean phenomena, as yet unexplained. The landslide occurred the other morning at 3 o’clock, a muffled explosion being heard at the same time, coming "from the bowels of the earth. —————— Quake Tears Down Houses. The steamer Newport, which arrived nt San Frandisco, brought news of an earthquake at Manzanillo, Mexico. A number of buildings were shaken down, but thegrentest damage was done to the big breakwater that is being built there by the Mexican government for the improvement of the harbor.

Death Due to Shoe Polish. City Chemist Kirchmaier and Coroner Eton of Toledo, Ohio, have decided that W. S. Rader, who died suddenly March 2, and whose death was attributed to cigarettes and dancing, was poisoned by nitro-benzole, an ingredient of shoe polish that Rader hud used. Prairie Fire in Nebraska. A prairie fire broke out near Basset. Neb., and burned a strip of prairie from the railroad north to the Niobrara river, averaging four miles in width. Numerous buildings were destroyed, and the loss will be large. Bryan Loaea Will Case. New Haven court ruled out the sealed letter In the Bryan-Bennett will case, defeating William J. Bryan in his suit for $50,000. An appeal will be taken. Rote Thorn Kills Woman. Mrs. Frances Daunbacher of Bloomfield, N. J., is dead from blood poisoning dne to the scratch of a rose thorn. While celebrating her 71st birthday recently she received a bouquet of roses and scratched her finger on a thorn. Vice Regal Residence Burm. Lady Minto, wife#f the governor gen- . eral of Canada, was rescued by servants from death in the blazing vice regal residence at Ottawa, where she was lying helpless with a broken leg. Others of the household had narrow escapes;