Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — DYNAMITE BLOWS UP. [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE BLOWS UP.

EXPLODED BY FAST FREIGHT TRAIN ON B. & O. Driver of Wagon Loaded With 7.»0 Pounds of Dynamite Stops His Horses on Track—Special Carrying Morgan and Archbishop in Collision. Fast freight No. 04 on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck a wagon loaded •with 750 pounds of dynamite at Lite, crossing at North Branch. W. Va. Two persons were killed and nine were injured, three of them seriously. The Baltimore and Ohio tower was wrecked, as were several resiliences near by. James Laing, who drove the wagon, escaped with only trivial injury, as did the two horses, alt hough the latter were blown fifty yards into a field. According to eye witnesses, Laing, hearing the train, became terrified and stopped on the track. The wagon was three feet of clearing it when the engine struck the rear end, carrying it fifty feet before the explbsion. STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Four Principal Leagues. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. J" New York..lol 39 St. Louis. ...68 71 Chicago 56 Brooklyn ....54 88 Pittsburg ...SO 50 Boston 47 94 Cincinnati ..79 60 Philadelphia. 47 95 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. New Y0rk...83 51 Cleveland ..'.72 62 Boston 85 53 St. L0ui5....59 78 Chicago ....SI 5S Detroit 56 79 Philadelphia 73 59. Washington. 34 103 The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L Omaha 89 60 Des Moines. .79 69 Colo Springs.B4 58 Sioux City... 43 98 Denver .... .86 60 St. Joseph.. .54 90

MORGAN AND PRIMATE IN CRASH. Special Carrying Financier and Archbishop Hits Engine. A New York Central two-car special train, carrying a party that included the Archbishop of Canterbury and J. Pierpont Morgan, struck a light engine at East Brookfield, Mass. The special was running at sixty miles an hour, but no one, even the crew of the light engine, was hurt. Mr. Morgan was at breakfast and was considerably shaken up, as were the others in the party. Mirrors and other articles were broken by the impact. The special remained on the track and carried the light engine 100 yards. The party was on the way from Bar Harbor to Washington. Parker's Letter of Acceptance. Alton B. Parker, in his letter accepting the Democratic nomination for the presidency, criticised the Republican party on its stand in connection with the tariff, the acquisition of the Panama strip, government expenditures, the postal frauds and reciprocity. He said the determination of the procedure against trusts lies with the judiciary and not the executive branch of the government. Deputy Shot During Riot. G. W. Fidlar, a deputy guarding the property of the Pittsburg Steel Company's plant at Glassport, Pa., was fatally shot in a riot among about twentyfive strikers and the same number of men employed in the mill, and deputies. William Stewart and George Carl, nonunion men employed in the plant, were badly beaten with clubs and stones. Labor Agreement Refused. The Deering, McCormick and Plano plants of the International Harvester Company, in or near Chicago, idle since Sept. 10, have resumed, but a renewal of last year’s agreement with organized labor has been refused. bixty-two Persons Killed. Sixty-two persons were killed and 120 were injured in a Tennessee passenger collision on the Southern railway. The blame is laid to disregard of orders by tjie crew of one train.

Great Corn Crop Expected. Estimates based on conservative reports from all the leading corn States place the total yield at 2,24(5,000,000 bushels, a figure which has been exceeded in only two previous years. Gen. Harrison Allen Dead. Gen. Harrison Allen, deputy auditor for the Post office Department, died suddenly at his residence in Washington, aged 69 years. Firemen Killed in Collision. Two firemen were killed and niiie passengers injured in a collision on the Long Island railroad, caused by the failure of a switchman to close a switch. Southern Editor's Plan. Editor John Temple Graves of Atlanta, Ga., openly advocates lynching and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan to keep the negroes in subjection. Chicagoan Gets a Big Job. D. 11. Burnham, the famous Chicago architect, has been chosen to devise plans for beautifying San Francisco. Week’s Commercial Reports. Increased volumes of trade in the country, at large are noted by Dun’s and Bradstreet’s reviews. Child Rescued by Woman. Observing that two men were not frying to rescue 6-year-old Leonard Beach from drowning in a pond in Middletown, * N. Y., Mrs. John Guyer sprang into the water and saved the boy. Jewels and Furs Stolen. Jewelry and furs valued at nearly $4,000 were stolen from the home of a wealthy resident of Philadelphia. While It is said to be probable that the robbery was done by professionals, there was intimation of possible sensational developments. '