Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — CONVICT RUNS AMUCK [ARTICLE]

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.