Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — GIRL’S HAND CUT OFF. [ARTICLE]

GIRL’S HAND CUT OFF.

NEW YORK ICEMAN MUTILATES A CHILD. Attack of Rail Temper Arouses Mob, Which Tries to Lynch Guilty W retch Leading Rost oil Doctor Accused of Making Counterfeit Money. With one vicious stroke of his' ax Alexandra Corrotoro, an iceman who has a depot: in the: basement of 500 t\ est •It’d street, New York, cut off tlie hand of 7-.vcar-o]il Lillian Carson tins nfternnun. The chi hi fell mi conscious. An angry mob chased Corrotoro 4h rough the streets, threatening to lynch Min, hut lie eluded them and hid in his house, where he was arrested. He was held 4u $ 1,000 bail when arraigned in court. It has been a cutout of the children of the vicinity to gather little pieces of ice from the wagons that visit the neighborhood, and no objection lias ever been made by the icemen. When the little girl saw Corrotoro at work chopping a block of ice in his basement she went down quite naturally and reached out her hand for a small piece. “Take away your hand,” snarled Corrotoro. Evidently the child did not understand, for she took the fragment of ice, but before she could withdraw her hand Corrotoro brought his ax on it, severing it at her wrist. STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Four Principal Leagues. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. XT Wi LNew York.. .09 127 St. Louis 50 49 Chicago 00 37 Boston 38 03 Pittsburg .. .56 39 Brooklyn ... .34 05 Cincinnati .. .59 42 Philadelphia. 27 71 The table below shows how matters Bland in the American League: \V. L. W. L. Boston 59 39 Cleveland . . .51 42 Chicago GO 40 Detroit 41 55 New York... 57 38 St. Louis 37 54 Philadelphia. 54 40 Washington.. 22 73 Standings in the American Association are as follows r IV. L. W. L. St. Pau1.....71 41 Minneapolis.A 54 54 Columbus ...05 44 Indianapolis. 54 59 Milwaukee ..05 47 Kansas City. .41 09 Louisville ...02 50 Toledo 32 80 The following is the standing of the clubs iu theWesteru League: W. L. W. L. Colo. Springs.s6 38 Dps Moines.. .53 52 Denver 59 40 St. Joseph.. . .43 55 Omaha ,56 47 Sioux City... .31 66 MINT IN HOUSE OF PHYSICIAN. Leading Boston Doctor Accused of Passing Spurious Bills. Dr. F. Sauft, one of the leading physicians of the Roxbury district, Boston, was placed under arrest, charged with passing a counterfeit §2 bill. A search of his home on Center street disclosed $lO,000 in counterfeit $2 bills, a photographic apparatus such as is used by counterfeiters’and a quantity of paper similar to that on which the bills were made. Six Firemen Badly Injured. Six firemen, among them Chief Kehoe, were so badly injured flat one will probably die and SBO,OOO damage was done by fire in the Printers’ Exchange iu Minneapolis. The companies occupying the building were the Bliss-Painter Clothing Company, loss, $45,000; Minneapolis Printing Company, loss, $20,000, and the Printers’ Supply Company, loss, $15,000. Takes Poison by Error and Dies. As a result of taking .poison, which she supposed td be cream pf tartar. Mrs. Jennie Helm, wife of Moritz Helm of New York City, died at the Lindell Hotel in St. Louis. Frank Farthing, a young drug-»elerk of Odin, 111., who sold the poison, was held pending the corqner’s inquest. Priest Falls from Window. Rev. Michael Healey, pastor of St. Mary’s church of Tiffin, Ohio, was found lying unconscious on the coucrete walk between the church and parsonage of St. Columba’s church, Youngstown, Ohio. He died without regaining .consciousness. Father Healey some time during the night fell from a second story window. Robber Gives up $30,000 Loot. Securities, cash and diamonds valued at $50,000, which had formed part of the loot of the Bear Mouth train robbery, have been recovered. John .Christie, arrested in Hope, N. D., guided Special Agent McFetridge to the place where the cache was made, eight miles below, the scene of the robbery. Aerolite’s Fall Causes Shock. A meteor or large aerolite, taking a northerly direction, struck the earth near Meadville, Pa, A terrific explosion accompanied the compact With the earth, followed by a high wind lasting fifteen seconds. The explosion shook buildings in Titusville, twenty miles away. Japs Win Big Naval Buttle. Admiral Kamimura’s Japanese squatlsnmshed the Czar’s Vladivostok fleet in a bloody and desperate battle lasting five Lour*. Ten Die in Potomac. In the capsizing of a naphtha launch during the annual Potomac regatta at Washington ten persons lost their lives by drowning in the Potomac river. Defaulting Treasurer Wanted. The State Department has asked for the extradition from Beavermouth, B. C., of William Bakka, who was treasurer of the lied Lodge of Miners in Montana and is charged with having stolen $1,050 from the union. • v Admiral Schley "Rubs It In.” Naval circles are stirred by Admiral Rehley’s article in a prominent periodical on the battle of Santiago,'in which he refers to himself as being in personal command. It is believed that no official notice of it will be taken.