Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

BOY SWINDLER TAKEN

SELLS MOONSHINE STOCKS TO UNSUSPECTING BUYERS. After Being Arrested, New Jersey Lad Makes Full Confession in Court— GoVeEtßaMSrt'tOOwii All Wireless Telegraph Stations—News Notes. Charles Tj. Murphy, a country youth, was committed to jail in Newark, N. J., in default of SI,OOO bail ou a charge of swindling. When arraigned before United States Commissioner Whitehead he admitted that he had purchased a mail order list of persons living in rural districts and that he had written to many of these persons and asked if they did not wish to purchase stock that would yield “a profit of 50 per cent." The boy remembered selling P. J. Robb of Salem, Ohio, the complainant against him, $75 worth of “Lunar Oil stock,” also of selling SSO worth of the same stock to Captain Cairns of Lima, Ohio. This stock, he admitted, existed only in his imagination. He also sold Western Union telegraph stock and “Marconi Wireless” stock, his part of the transaction ending ou the receipt of the money. ’ Young Murphy lived with his parents in a ramshackle cottage in a farming district outside of Berkley Heights, N. J. He received his mail at Scotch Plains under the name of James B. Murphy.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Three Princi* pal Leagues. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ...23 11 Pittsburg ....16 16 Chicago 21 10 Brooklyn .... 13 20 New Y0rk...21 10 Boston 11 20 St. Louis.... 16 15 Philadelphia.. 524 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 22 10 Chicago 18 16 Cleveland ...18 12 St. Louis 14 17 Philadelphia.. 19 13 Detroit 11 20 New Y0rk...17 14 Washington... 623 Standings in the American Association, are as follows: W. L. W. L. Milwaukee ..19 11 Louisville ....17 18 Columbus ...IS 11 Minneapolis.. .13 17 St. Paul 18 13 Toledo 10 18 Indianapolis.. 17 14 Kansas City.. 9 19

CONVICTED AS BABY FARMER. David F. Mosier Found Guilty by a Philadelphia Jury. After short deliberation the jury in criminal court No. 2, in Philadelphia, returned a verdict of guilty against David F. Mosier, tried in connection with death of infants. Sentence was suspended pending a motion for a new trial. Bail was denied. Mosier, who was known under several aliases and as “doctor,” was the witness who testified against a woman who kept a baby farm and who was charged with making away with infants intrusted to her care. It was he who declared he had seen babies thrown into a furnace in the woman’s home. It was alleged that he was a member of a syndicate of baby farmers.

GOVERNMENT TO OWN WIRELESS. Marconi Plants Forced from America —Messages to Be Free. Government ownership of all wireless telegraph stations at points where cver-the-sea communication is possible has been decreed by the cabinet in Washington, and the Navy Department is putting the order into effect*, . One result •will be that Marconi will be forced to move his stations to Canadian soil. In place of the Marconi station on the Nantucket lightship the department will establish its own plant, using a modification of the Slaby-Arco system in its eight stations. The government will make no charge on messages to and from ships at sea. Great Victory for Japanese. - Following the capture of Kinchow, the Japanese stormed Nanshan Hill, 2,100 feet high, surmounted by a heavy battery, and covered with trenches and j. mines. After sixteen hours of fighting they charged up the steep sides, aided by the fire of three gunboats in Kinchow Bay, and drove the Russians back. A Russian report places the Japanese loss at 12,000 killed, and another report says the Russian loss was heavier. Heroes Diej Fund Appealed To. The families of Gideon Marshall and Ferdinand Pillette, who lost their lives in Pittsburg in a vain attempt to rescue Arthur Truby from a well, will benefit by the Carnegie hero fund, if a movement already started is successful. One member of the fund commission has expressed a favorable opinion. McDonald Found Not Guilty. James McDonald stands acquitted of the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer, the Bedford, Ind., High School Latin teacher, and his attorney, R. N. Palmer, has promised to reveal the guilty person. The jury was out two hours and thirty minutes and took seven ballots. Firebugs Cause a Big Blaze. Incendiaries set Tire to Strecker’s livery barn in Marietta, Ohio. The entire structure, together with Smith’s oil well tool works, part of the Marietta Distilling Company, and three small frame houses, were burned. There is said to be strong evidence ns to the incendiaries. Commits Suicide in Paris. Viscount d’Oyley, the youngest son of Dr. John Evans, a prominent American in Paris, committed suicide because his income wns cut off when he eloped with an attractive Peruvian. Battle in Tatung Pass. Fifteen thousand Russians, advancing on Fengwangcheug in the belief that the town had been abandoned, were met in Tatung Paas by 30,000 Japanese, and 4,000 Russians fejl, according to a report from Newchwang. lt is said also that 1,000 Russians surrendered.

WIT.L DISCHARGE 75,000 MEN. Wholesale Reduction of Forces on Railroads of the Country. The reduction of the working forces of the railroads in this country is more extensive and radical than was thought a month ago would be necessary. Present indications are that not less than 75,000 employes will be dropped from the railroad pay rolls. A large proportion of these are losing their jobs under orders from company headquarters to dismiss from the freight departments every person not absolutely needed. Train hands, station men and clerks have been receiving notices to quit since April 15, and by June 10 it is expected that the weeding-out process will have been completed. With the exception of the panic period, beginning in 1893, this is the most wholesale reduction of railroad working forces known at any one time. THEATRICAL MAN SHOT BY WIFE. Mrs. Frank Burt of Toledo, 0., Painfully Wounds Husband. Frank Burt, a theatrical manager, was shot by his wife in Toledo, Ohio. The alleged jealousy of Mrs. Burt and domestic difficulties had led to a separation. Mr. Burt was standing in front of Burt’s Theater, when his wife appeared, drew a revolver and fired, the bullet entering his face. Mrs. Burt was arrested. Burt owns two theaters in Toledo, and is lessee of theaters at Limit,, Youngstown and Bowling Green, Ohio; Fort Wayne and Evansville, Ind.; Erie, Pa., and Wilmington, Del. Mrs. Burt was released later on SI,OOO bail. She is repentant and would like to nurse him if permitted. Mr. Burt is believed to be out of danger, though his face may be badly disfigured. WAR SHIP SEEKS UNCANNY ISLE, United States Cruiser Sent to Find Mysterious Land. The Navy Department at last has begun a systematic search for “The Lost Island of the Pacific.’’ Somewhere between Honolulu and San Francisco is a mysterious bit of land which sailors believe is bewitched. At intervals it rises slightly out of the water or lies just below the surface where it threatens every passing vessel. Most of the time it sinks to unfathomable depths. The cruiser Tacoma has sailed from Honolulu on the quest.

DEEP SNOW IN MONTANA. From One to Six Inches Recorded in the Northwest. The snowstorm that began Tuesday morning lasted twelve hours and was general over Montana and the Northwest territories. The snow ranged from one to six inches and the lowest temperature was 27, at Marysville. The moisture will prove of great benefit, as the ground was very dry. Sheepmen do nol report any loss. Most of them had twenty-four hours’ warning of the approaching storm, and all the sheep were under shelter?’ FARMERS BEGIN WORK ON SHOPS. Corner Stone of Co-Operative Harvesting Machine Company Laid. The corner stone of the machine shop of the Farmers’ Co-operative Harvesting Machine Company was laid in Springfield, Ohio, with ceremony. William N. Whitely is head of the enterprise, which is backed by the grangers of the country. The shops will make everything in the way of agricultural implements. The company expects to employ 3,000 men. Fifty-three Filipinos Slain. A report has been received stating that a massacre had taken place near Malabang, on the southern coast of Mindanao. Fifty-three Filipino men, women and children, the families of employes of the United States military government at Malabang, were surprised at midnight while asleep by the Datto Alis and a band of Moros from the Rio Grande valley, and slaughtered. Twenty-Two Horses Perish. Lightning caused great damage at the stock farm of Dunham, Fletcher & Coleman, near Elgin, 111. One of the largest barns on the place, containing twentyfour blooded horses, many of them imported from France, was burned to the ground, and only two of the animals were saved. Ten Suffocate in Tunnel. Ten miners were suffocated by gas and‘sulphur fumes from a small locomotive in the tunnel workings of the Summit Branch Coal Company at Williamstown, Pa. The accident was one of the most peculiar in the history of the anthracite mines and no reason for it can be assigned by the officials. Defeat for the Japanese. The Japanese were defeated in a battle at Kinchow, according to reports freceived in St. Petersburg. They were lured into a defile swept by two Russian guns and their ranks decimated. The Russian loss is 141 men, and it is believed the Japanese loss is much greater. Freight Handlers on Strike. Freight handlers have been called out on strike at all points on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between New York and Boston, and the commerce of the Atlantic coast is badly crippled. Attack on Port Arthur. Fifteen thousand Japanese were killed and wounded in attempt to storm Port Arthur. Russian loss was 3,000, according to telegram said to have been received by Foreign Minister Lamsdorff at St. Petersburg. Would-Be Assassin Is Dead. The body of Peter O. Elliott, who was arrested several months ago in Washington, D. C., on suspicion of being a lunatic, with probably murderous designs on President Roosevelt, wns found In Minneapolis hanging from a bridge. Honors for Young Oriental. Chao Chu, son of Wu Tingfang, former Chinese minister to the United States, has been graduated at the head of his class in the Atlantic City high school. There were thirty-one pupils in the class. Woman Insulted, Slays Man. Joseph Hastings, 45 years old, was ■hot and killed by Mrs. Frank Hicks in Indianapolis. Mrs. Hicks says Hastings, whom she had known for two years, had insulted her during a call, whereupon she used her revolver with telling effect Burn Up Old Pianos. One thousand old-fashioned pianos were burned on the beach at Atlantic aty by dealers.

CONVICT RUNS AMUCK

SHOOTS TWO GUARDS AND COMMITS SUICIDE. Attack Is Without Warning One Guard Will Die and Would-Be Rescuer Is Wounded—Narrow Escape for a Wisconsin Congressman. Frank Greene, a bank jobber in the penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, shot two guards and then 1 put a bullet into his own brain, dying instantly. Guard Henry Gearhart of Ironton was wounded twice in the breast. Prison physicians say he cannot live. Guard Albert Hubler of Trumbull County was shot through the arm. Greene was working, in the shoe shop. Without warning he started to fire at Guard Gearhart. The two men were three feet apart. He fired twice at Gearhart and both bullets took effect. Guard Ilubler rushed to the aid of Gearhart and was wounded. Greene used' the last shot in the weapon upon himself. Wa.rden Hershey says he does not know what caused Greene to run amuck. The prisoner was ill with typhoid fever several weeks ago, .and it is surmised that ho may have suffered temporary mental aberration.—Greene was received June 11, 1901, to serve ten years for burglary. He was sent up with a gang of six men convicted of blowing the Somerset bank. The gang was a desperate one. Greene had not given the prison officials much trouble, although he had been reported twice by Guard Gearhart for trivial offenses.

FIRES AT A CONGRESSMAN. Unknown Man Shoots Through Car Window and Barely Misses Victim. Congressman Henry A. Cooper narrowly escaped being killed by a bullet fired through a car window on a Northwestern train. He and Mrs. George A. Yule of Kenosha, Wis., were sitting together near tire rear of the car and just as the train pulled out of Clybouru Junction a pistol ball was fired through the window. It shattered the glass and passed within a few inches of the Congressman’s head, burying itself in the other side of the car. Congressman Cooper was slightly cut by the broken glass falling on his head. Leaps to a Sudden Death. Julian Courts, claim clerk of the Henderson route and son of C. W. Courts, a banker of Russellville, Ky., jumped from the tenth story of the Columbia building in Louisville. The body was crushed to an unrecognizable mass. Courts had gone much into society, had accumulated a great many debts, and his creditors were pressing him. Tyner Is Acquitted. Within twenty-two minutes of the retirement of the jury in the case bf James N. Tyner and Harrison J. Barrett, tried in Washington on the charge of conspiracy in connection with their duties in the Ipw office of the Postofflce Department, a verdict of not guilty was returned.

Woman Killed by Thugs. Mrs. William C. Gotshall, wife of the president of the New York and Port Chester Railway Company, was probably fatally Injured by a stone thrown by one of a gang of East Side roughs in New York City while she was riding in an automobile with her husband. Finds Bacillus of Dysentery. Castellani, the bacteriologist, has discovered the bacillus of dysentery, says a dispateh from Colombo, Ceylon. He is conducting the final experiments and will read a paper on the discovery before a medical association. Tent Hurts Many m.Fall. Five persons were seriously and scores were bruised in the collapse of Har» greave’s circus tent at Fort Plain, N. Y. A fierce gale came up during the afternoon performance and blew down the main tent. , % ~~~~~ x Destroy Many Towns. According to a dispatch from the Vali of Bitlis\ Asiatic Turkey, seventeen villages have been destroyed by Armenian insurgents\ in the district of Sassun. More than\3oo Armenian families have taken refuge at Mush, a town in Bitlis. Twenty Hurt in a Wreck. Twenty persons were injured in a wreck on the Cleveland" and Pittsburg road near East Liverpool, Ohio. The train had ruujnto freight cars that had broken loose and got on the track. Missing Man’s Body Found. The body of George W. Prall, secretary of the Elgin National Watch Company, missing since Nov. 28, 1903, has been found in the Calumet river near Chicago. Fireworks Factory Blown Up. One man and two boys were killed and six men and two girls seriously injured by an explosion which occurred in the fireworks factory of Jose Sclone, pn the outskirts of Camden, N. J. How Coal Price Is Made. Willingness of the public to pay the present prices for coal and not the cost of production is the basis of quotations, says George F. Baer before the interstate commerce commission. Boat Blast Kills Thirteen. Thirteen persons were killed, three fatally injured and five slightly hurt by nn explosion of boilers which demolished the towboat Fred Wilson off Riverview Park, Louisville. No U. S. Representative Wanted. Colombia has given notice that no American diplomatic representative is desired at Bogota, and Minister Russell has been detained at Panama by \yashington orders. i Bonesteel, 8. D., Is Booming. In less than a month Bonesteel, 8. D., has grown from n village of 800 to a 3,000. Homesteaders are rushing there ready for the opening of the Rosebud reservation. Parker Bays He Is Big Enough. A well-known Washington correspondent quotes Judge Parker as saying privately that he believes he is big enough to be President and that he could leant the high duties of the office. Klnchau Taken by Japanese. A dispatch from Tokio saya the Japanese have stormed and captured the town of Klnchau, about thirty-two miles north of Port Arthur.

ONE WEEK OF THE WAR

MARCH OF EVENTS IN THE FAR EAST DURING SEVEN DAYS. Russians, Disorganized by the Tain Battle, Seem to Have Stopped Running and Turned on the Japs, Who Have Met with Severe Repulses. Seven days have seen no little change in the relative prospects of the contestants in the far East. A week previous the Russians were on the run everywhere. Disorganized by the disastrous battle on the bank of the Yalu, General Kuropatkin’s forces were supposed to be lying in terror at Liaoyang, and considering an immediate further retreat. The Russian general staff made what was considered a most natural declaration, that the army would fall back not only to Mukden, but far beyond it, to Harbin, and the general comment was that retreat might even already be cut'off. , From numerous sources came reports of large bodies of Japanese troops as far north as Mukden.

It now transpires that the Russians never fled as far as Liaoyang; that they have not considered a further retreat; that, on the contrary, they have been able to push their foe back to within fifteen miles of Fengwangcheng and that there is no Japanese force near Mukden. It still appears to be the fact that the Japanese vastly outnumber the Russians; the latter may eventually be forced back to Mukden, where a decisive battle Is still to be expected; but, in the meantime, not only is Liaoyang not taken, but every mile of the way between it and the present Japanese position is likeJy to be contested. There is nothing in the news of the week to make improbable the ultimate success of the Japanese in their Manchurian campaign, but it is evident that that success will not be easily achieved. If the rainy season has indeed set in, the fact constitutes a Russian advantage; it nyiy postpone Japanese aggression some months. In the meantime, Cossacks may be able to worry their enemy considerably. Furthermore, the delay is held to be an opportunity for those Russian reenforcements which have been so long coming across Siberia. In the interim, however, the Japanese armies in

JAPANESE PROTECTED CRUISER YOSHINO.

Manchuria will undoubtedly be tremendously augmented. Port Arthur still stands, and no serious effort has been made to capture or reduce it, although predictions were made in Tokio that the end of the week would see that city and harbor in possession of the Mikado’s forces. The first serious naval disaster of the war has overtaken the Japanese, though its effect is rather moral than actual. On the other hand, the Russians have again been compelled to sacrifice a magnificent vessel to their own stupidity. There is some reason to beli&Te that the Japanese have now between 40,000 and 50,000 men beleaguering Port Arthur, where there is a much smaller Russian garrison. If the Japanese really have concentrated so many men at that point and are bringing up siege guns, it must be their intention to push matters, even at the risk of a great loss of life. To let the siege or investment drag on until the Russian Baltic fleet reached the Pacific would be a hazardous matter. Operations at Port Arthur do not attract so much attention as those inland, far to the north, where Gen. Kuropatkin is facing the concentrating armies of the Japanese. Nothing has been heard of the army under Gen. Oku, which landed west of the mouth of the Yalu, and was supposed to be moving in the direction of Halcheng, about midway between Newchwang and Liaoyang, on the line of the railroad.

Gen. Kuroki's w’hereabouts is better known. Wednesday some of his troops bad reached a point about twentyeight miles north of Fengwangcheng. They were attacked, according to Russian reports, by several regiments of Cossacks and were driven back fifteen miles. This was at first described as a battle In which the Japanese suffered heavy loss, but It (loes not appear to have been much more than an affair of outposts, signifying little. This encounter throws a little light on the position of the Japanese, but not on their plans. The Russians have evacuated Newchwang, and presumably hold a line along the railroad extending from Halcheng nt the south to Mukden at the north. The Japanese are somewhere to the east of that line. According to Russian reports, 80,000 of them are still south of the Russian troops that are covering Liaoyang. It Is already a terrible war, and prospects of worse to come.

CAPTURE OF KINCHOW.

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Stronghold Taken by Mikado’s Men After Desperate Battle. Kinchow, a strongly fortified position near the narrowest point of the Liaotung peninsula, or “the Regent’s Sword,” as it is called by the Japanese and Chinese, was captured Thursday by Gen. Oku’s forces after a desperate battle. The first assault was delivered upon Nangkwanling, a little to the south of Kinchow. Here, apparently, the Japanese fleet gave assistance in the heavy bombardment. When this position was carried a fearful struggle followed for the great castle at Kinchow, which must have been strengthened very much by the Russians since it offered formidable resistance to the Japanese in the war with China ten years ago. Now that Kinchow has fallen and the Russians have retreated to the southward, the way seems open for a determined attack Upoh the approaches to Port Arthur, thirty-two miles to the south. Japanese losses in the fighting at Kinchow were estimated at 12,000, and reports put the Czar’s casualties even greater than this. The Japanese captured Kinchow the first time on Nov. 6, 1894. Two weeks later they were in control of Port Arthur. This was less than a month after

GENERAL STOESSEL.

their first lauding at Pitsewo. However, there is no comparison between the difficulties which are now to be encountered and those which were offered by the old-style guns and the not very determined soldiers of China. Russia has 30,000 men or more to defend Port Arthur. Gen. Stoessel is believed to be an officer of great ability and the highest determination. He is fighting to maintain the greatest of the fortresses in the far East. If Port Arthur falls the hope of Russia to put a victorious fleet upon the eastern seas falls with it, since the destruction of the great warships in Port

Arthur’s harbor and the loss of that base of naval operations would render the Baltic ships rather purposeless if they should make the long and perilous voyage to the Orient. The Japanese troops have swept all the Russians from their defenses west of Talienwan bay. It is now improbable that the latter will be capable of offering any further serious resistance in the territory north of Port Arthur. The Japanese estimate the strength of the Russians about Port Arthur at 20,000 men. The Japanese have 50,000 men at Kinchow. Chinese continue to escape from Port Arthur, but little reliance is placed on their statements. They say food is growing scarcer at Port Arthur and there Is good authority for saying the Japanese believe they can starve out the Russians in three months.

Reports 1,000 Japs Killed.

, The Russian Government received news confirmatory of the rumors in circulation that General Stoessel had made a successful sortie from Port Arthur, resulting in the defeat of the Japanese, with the loss of more than 1,000 killed or wounded. The Russians’ losses were 116 killed or wounded. The movement was carried out by a combination with a train bringing in war munitions and supplies nnd General Stoessel’s force, communications beihg maintained by wireless telegraphy. The Japanese barred the route between tho train nnd General Stoessel’s force, whereupon the Russians attacked and routed the Japanese. After the engagement General Stoessel’s force, together with the train, returned to Port Arthur.

Report 4,000 Russians Fall.

The Shanhaikwan correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle sends a report received from Newchwang that, on May 23, thinking that the Japanese had retired from Fenghuangcheng, 15,000 Russians from Halcheng and Liaoyang marched toward Fenghuangcheng. They were surprised by 30,000 Japanese in the Tatlenllng pass. The Russian casualties were 4,000 and over 1,000 Russians surrendered. The report does not state the Japanese losses.

Declare Japanese Ship Sunk.

The Russian authorities at Newchwang declare that a Japanese battleship hns been sunk by a submarine boat and that three sraft of this class are now at Port Arthur and another en route to Vladivostok by rail. A French priest just arrived at Newchwang from Mukdeu says 20,000 Russian troops are stationed there aud that an army of 100,000 men is at Liaoyang, with heavy reenforcements arriving daily. Fairmount College, at Wichita, is to have a new $20,000 men’s dormitory.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

One Hundred Years Ago. Arrangements were made for the establishment of a French army in Alsace and also In Hanover. As a testlmonlaj of the country’s high esteem for Lieut. Decatur’s gallant conduct In taking the frigate Philadelphia a commission as captain in the navy was Issued to him. The Secretary of the Navy ordered all officers at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York to close their recruiting offices and report at once to their respective ships. The American minister to France was in England in pursuit of agricultural Information; also, some said, with the view to obtaining a loan for the purchase of Florida. Seventy-five Years Ago.' Seven steamboats began the navigation of Lake Erie. Roman Catholics in ths country celebrated with much joy the passage of the Catholic relief bill by the British Parliament. Trial by jury in civil actions was introduced in Australia. Gold was discovered in Burke County, N. 0. Quicksilver was also found. Fifty Years Ago. The new treaty of alliance between England, France and Turkey was signed at St Cloud. The allied powers declared Greece in a state of blockade. The first railroad was inaugurated in Sardinia, running between Turin and Susa. The king and queen and a great concourse of people participated in the ceremonies. One division of the French army left Malta in order to occupy Athens. Forty Years Ago. J. Howard, Jr., a Brooklyn (N. Y.) newspaper man, was arrested and confined at Fort Lafayette, charged with the authorship of the famous “bogus proclamation” calling for troops. John W. W. Andrews, leader of the anti-draft riots ih New York, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison. The women of Chicago met to organize a dress reform movement, the object of which was to taboo Imported fabrics, and thus keep money in this country. The Union army had advanced fifteen miles beyond Spottsylvania courthouse in its movement on Richmond. The British steamer Young Republic, captured while trying to run the coast blockade, was taken into the port at Boston. Thirty Years Ago. After a long trial on the charge of heresy, of which he was not convictbed, David Swing withdrew from the Chicago Presbytery. Ten thousand members of the Dunkard sect met in conference at Girard, 111. The Episcopal convention In Philadelphia passed a resolution opposing the introduction of a Romanizing ritual In church services. The marriage of Nellie Grant, daughter of President Grant, to Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris took place in the White House at Washington, D. C. Bishop Cannon, Mormon delegate in the House of Representatives from Utah, declined to testify before the House Election Committee in regard to family affairs. A national civil rights bill was passed in the United States Senate. Twenty Years Ago. Lightning set fire to a Philadelphia oil refinery and 28,000 barrels of oil burned. Gen. Butler, at Lowell, Mass., accepted the nomination for President by the National Anti-Monopoly party. The Methodist General Conference at Philadelphia adopted a resolution opposed to licensing women to preach. Gen. John C. Black, at Danville, 111., announced his candidacy for Governor as leader of the antl-Harrison faction of Illinois Democrats. Ten Years Ago. - Gov. Altgeld ordered several companies of State Militia to La Salle, 111., to suppress miners’ strike riots, following an attack by 1,500 strikers on a coal shaft The bursting of an Alleghany mountain reservoir near Altoona, Pa., and the overflowing of water of a number of rivers laid Central Pennsylvania uni der a flood, with loss of life aud props •rty.