Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. a MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

RAIDED BY ROBBERS.

M’CO YS BURG, IND., IN POSSESSION OF BURGLARS. Four Stores and Postofllce Are Plundered— Large Safe Blown to Pieces— Settlers Already oil Uintah Lands Which Will Be Opened in March. The authorities of MeCoysburg. Ind., bare notified the Chicago police to look out for burglars who raided the town the other night, robbing four stores and the postoffice, blowing open safes with nitroglycerin, stealing a large sum of money and valuables and escaping without arousing the sleeping inhabitants. The places robbed by the burglars nre: Walter Lee's hardware store. .Tames McDonald’s general store, Reed McCoy's store, George Danford's store, the postofflce. Money drawers, safes and the stocks in the stores are rifled. Tools with which to break into the stores were obtained from a blacksmith shop. In the postoffice the richest booty was obtained. There a large safe was blown to pieces with nitroglycerin. All the stamps and money, including some church funds that had been deposited there, were stolen. The amount stolen is: not given out by Postmaster McCoy, but it will reach several hundred dollars. HUNDREDS SEEK UINTAH LANDS. Begin Gathering, Although the Reservation Does Not Open Till March. Although the Uintah Indian reservation in northeastern Utah is not to be thrown open for settlement until next March, already prospective settlers are beginning to camp on the boundaries of the reservation and trouble with “soouers” is anticipated before the date of opening. It is estimated that at Ashley and Vernal COO men are waiting for the opening. The reservation includes some of the richest farming and grazing lands in the State and is rich in minerals. SLAIN OVER LACK OF BOOTS. Italians Refuse to Work in Swamp, Attack Foreman and One Is Killed. In a riot near Rochester, N. Y., one man was killed and three were probably fatally injured. A man named Dean was foreman of the construction gang for the Rochester and Syracuse Trolley Company at that point.' He ordered the men, all Italians, to get into the swanip further, but they refused because they had no high boots. Dean insisted. This angered the men, who attacked him with knives. Found Dead After Fierce Struggle. Holcka Bay Schmitt, a Swedish girl, was found dead in her apartments in New York. The police believe she. was murdered. The room in which the body lay was filled with gas, eight jets being turned on. There were evidences of a stereo struggle, and the detectives think the girl was strangled or smothered to death. Finds Wife) Dies with Her. Joseph Capple, a hotel-keeper of Chauneey, N. Y., after saving his aged mother and father and „three children from his burning hotel, lost his own life by rustling into the flames when he learned that his wife had not escaped. The bodies of Capple and his wife were found later in -the cellar lying side by side. Steamer Germanic Burned.* The steamer Germanic, owned by C. L. Hutchinson & Co., Cleveland, coal laden, stranded at the head of Stage Island, in Lake Huron, and burned to the water's edge. An effort is being made to sare the cargo.

* Germans and Italians Mil. A mob of Italian students in Milan attacked Germans as a result of the anti-Italian rioting at Innsbruck, Austria. Both governments are at work trying to smooth over the difficulty, but the two peoples are inflamed. Fire at liattle Creek, Mich. Fire in the heart of Battle Creek’s business district damaged the Noble block and Annex building to the extent of $50,000. The blocks are both threestory structures owned by the Alonzo Noble estate. Pennsylvania Train in Wreck. Train 19, known as the Cleveland and Cincinnati express, a fast passenger on the Pennsylvania Railroad, ran into a light engine at Portage, Pa., in a heavy fog and three trainmen were injured. V ■ ... ■■ Bark Goes Dowm| Eighteen Perish. The German bark Fionier of Bremerhaven, from Buenos Ayres for Hamburg, has been lost with its entire crew of eighteen. Maine Wreck as an Exhibit. A salvage company has bought the bulk of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, and will tow it to Coney Island, where it will be placed on exhibition. Bank Robbery in Becker, Minn. Burglars entered tLo»bank at Beeker, Minn., broke open the safe with nlti%glycerin, secured $3,000 in currencyand made their escape bn a haiidcugtf 1 - . /;V X ;

KILLED IN TWO DISASTERS.

Miners Fall to Death and Reservoir Bursts Killing Seventeen Persons. Thirty-live persons were killed Wednesday in two terrible disasters in the United States, eighteen in a Pennsylvania coal fill tie and seventeen through the breaking of a water reservoir in South Carolina, • The milling accident occurred in one of the shafts of the Delaware, wnima-aml WesternA'oinpauy's mines, about eight niTles-south of Wilkesbarre,~at Nantieoke. When the men Started- to work eighteen entered the lowering machine. A few fi-et below the siirfact 1 tin l steel cable of the carriage. connected with the hoisting engiin\ broke. Instantly the heavy car shot downward with frightful velocity and it and,the men were crushed at the bottom of the shaft, several hundred feet below. Frantic efforts were made at once to reach the men atid rescue them if any had survived. It was necessary to construct a temporary elevator, however, and every one of the eighteen miners was dead when their fel-low-workers reached the bottom of the shaft. Six feet of water was in the bottom of the shaft, and the men who were not killed by the fall were drowned. The accident was caused by machinery in the engine room going wrong. Details from the frightful disaster at Winston-Salem, S. C., where seventeen persons are known to have been drowned, are meager, hut it is believed - that many others lost their lives. Tlie Winston, reservoir, situated on top of a high hill, burst, and the water swept down the valley with terrific force, carrying everything before it. Houses, trees, animals, human beings, fences and crops were swept away by the onrushing flood. Houses were crushed like eggshells; trees were snapped off or pulled up by the roots. There was no chance of escape by anything in the path of the water. The residents of the valley had no warning of the approaching catastrophe, and men, women and children were killed almost liefore they realized what was happening.

RUSSIA’S BALTIC FLEET.

Squadi on Under Way for the Far East to Meet the Japanese. The Baltic fleet which Russia is sending to tiie far Bast consists of seven battleships, two armored cruisers, seven protected cruisers, twelve destroyers, one repairing and one hospital ship, one ice breaker, a distilling ship and a

DETACHMENT OF THE BALTIC FLEET.

large number of colliers. Four of the battleships, the Barodino, Orel, Imperator Alexander 111. and the Kniaj Sowaroff, are of the first class; three are of about 13,(190 tons displacement and develop 10,000 horse-power and 18 knots speed. The batteries consist of 4 12-incll, 12 0 inch, 20 3-iuch, 20 3-pounders and 0 *l-pounder guns, and from four to six torpedo tubes, two of which are carried under water. Their normal coal supply is 1,250 tons, with a maximum capacity of 2.0(H) tons. They were launched at various dates in 1901 and 1902 at St. Petersburg, and v ere given their trials late in 1903 or early in 1904. The Imperator Alexander 111. on her official trial at Kronstadt averaged 17.30 knots in four runs ovor a measured mile, and developed 10,205 indicated horse- i>ower, on a coal consumption of two pounds per horse-power for each hour. It was intended to send her to the far Hast in the early spring, but her tests appear to have taken place before she was fully completed. The other battleships are the Oslabyu, of 12,074 tons, launched in 1898; the Nnvarin, of 10,200 tons, launched in 1891, and the Sissoi Veliky, of 10,400 launched in 1894. Two armored cruisers— 4 ,| I *.>)isK■,i. ~f 5.552 tons, iu; 1 -• :i lss.; ..ml .'C'Uf ->~

FORTS DEFENDING PORT ARTHUR IN WHICH GREAT GAPS HAVE BEEN MADE BY JAPANESE

Official reports from Port Arthur, made public by imperial headquarters in Tokio, show that the latest Japanese attack is by far the greatest since tiie beginning of the siege and apparently will end with the reduction of the most important forts guarding tiie north and west sides of the citadel. The terrible fire of hundreds of great siege and naval guns by the Japanese have battered large holes in tiie forts crowning many of the hills, notably Sungshu, Rihlung and Keekwan mountains, two of which are shown in the map, and the Itz (Etseshan) fortifications. Following the successful bombardment the Japanese have captured the trendies supporting many of these positions, and from this vantage point the miners and sappers have discharged mines of dynamite against the walls of the forts, tearing great gaps in them.

A Unique Business.

A Cleveland man has started a business which promises to lie a great success. He has hired an office, a large number of expert stenographers ami a number of telephones. Business men call up by .telephone, dictate their letters oyer tiie wire to a stenographer and the letters are inter sent back by messenger lioys to be signed. *

The President’s Thanksgiving H| Prociamation

Ry the President of the United States of America, a proclamation: It has pleased Almighty God to bring the American people In safety and honor through another year, and in accordance with the long unbroken custom handed down to us by our forefathers, the time has come when a special day shall be set apart in which to thank Him who holds all nations in t.he hollow of Ills hand for the mercies thus vouchsafed to us. During the century and a quarter of our national life we as a people have been blessed beyond all others, and for this we owe humble and heartfelt thanks to the author of all blessings. The year that hiuy closed lias been one of peace own borders ns well as between us other nations. The harvostsjMjdß vy abundant, and -- iSI with band or

RUSSIANS ADMIT BLUNDER; SHELLED THEIR OWN SHIPS.

From a reliable source the Associated Press learns that the circumstances of the firing as detailed by Russian of-

jficers closely resemble the sac-ts reported by the admiral of the fishing fleet. When abpeast of the trawlers the Russian squadron was formed in two divisions, the cruisers steaming east and the battle ships west, the latter getting among the fishing craft and open-

ing fire. When nearly clear of the fishing craft, which were heading toward the battle ships, some Russian shells flew over the trawlers and struck cruisers, one of which, the Aurora, was hit several times and some of her men were wounded, including a priest, who died. The transport Anatol apparently became tangled among the trawlers, which she mistook for torpedo boats and signaled for aid, thereby leading the officers of the battle ships to believe the trawlers were attacking the Anatol. This, coupled with the alleged appearance of two mysterious torpedo boats steaming toward the battle ship, resulted in the fatal cannonade.

In this great republic the effort to combine national strength with personal freedom Is being tried on a scale more glruntlc than ever before in the world’s history. Our success will mean much not only for ourselves, but for the future of all mankind; and every man or woman iu our land should feel the grave responsibility resting upon him or her, for in the lust analysis this success must depend upon the high nvi»fHtHVof our individual citizenship, U{fo]rT!7c way in which each of us by himself iielghbujHc Niu* Roosevelt, B B K ■ occupations HI ■ T ’• hi I ||. •, - , bill MMfeiiigjfiiaiajiii ,| \ i" i "f i i n in i.nmi.j t '-'I t in' si :ii ~r iin i . h, ,i d - mi ih. i iu i.f lst '■ay "f Niminher In 3//B 1 1 -"" 1 one I 11 1 ‘ l l -.i 111 1 nine - nil , f t lie In.ljpei'.h n. ..I jJSH I r. larj of Slat.

■»rt of the Pacific Coast year ended June 30 figs of *5,902,972 «ud L 185,029, a decrease of due to poison, the Kress man D. G. at MiddlesborouKh, i dins had his body bid the brain, stomItaken to Louisville kr. S. E. Woody, lof -Chicago, repreIkseociatkm of Fostnl with Postmaster Bphington. He urgclerks and in to night work. will be taken

ROJESTVENSKY.

REPLIES TO PARKER.

ROOSEVELT VIGOROUSLY DENIES JURIST'S CHARGES. President in a Signed Statement to the American People Answers Accusations of His Opponent , Characterizing President RoOsevelt on Friday night gave out a signed statement to the American people in answer to charge*; Made against himself and Mr. Gortelyou in public speeches by Mr. Parker, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. The categorical denial of charges as given out by tiie President follow: The statements made by Mr. Parker are unqualifiedly and atrociously false. If elected I shall go into the presidency unhampered by any pledge, promise or understanding of any kind, save my promise made openly to the American people that so far as in my power lies l shall see to It that every man lias a square deal, no less and no more. The statement that Mr. Cortelyou had any knowledge gained in any official capacity whereby lie was enabled to secure and did secure any contributions from any corporation is a falsehood. The assertion that there has been any blackmail, direct or indirect, by Mr. Cortelyou or by me, is a falsehood. Tiie assertion that there has been made in my behalf and by my authority by Mr. Cortelyou or by anyone else any pledge or promise, or that there has been any understanding as to future immunities or benefits, in recognition of any contribution from any source, is a wicked falsehood.

JUDGE PARKER SPEAKS.

Reiterates Hia Charges Against Republican Managers. Declaring that President Roosevelt in his signed statement to the public had not met the issue created since the platforms of tiie parties were adopted, Alton B. Parker, in a speech before the Kings County Democratic Club in Brooklyn Saturday night reiterated his charges of trust contributions to the Republican campaign fund for the purpose of corrupting the election, but did not attempt to present proof of direct transactions between Chairman Cortelyou of the Republican national committee and the heads of great corporations. While Judge Parker produced no affidavits, as expected in some quarters, he took back none of tiie charges previously made, and taking President Roosevelt’s statement as an admission that the trusts had contributed money to the Republican campaign fund, he declared that such contributions, for the foul purpose intended, form the greatest evil against which tiie people of to-day have to contend. Assuming that the President intended to have the public infer that the trusts had contributed to both the Republican and Democratic campaign funds, Judge Parker said: ‘‘The President does not deny jhe contributions. Tin's is what he says: ‘That contributions have been made to the Republican committee, as contributions have been made to the Democratic committee, is not tiie question at issue. Mr. Parker’s assertion is in effect that such contributions have been made for improper motives, in consequence of threats or in consequence of improper promise, direct or indirect, on the part of the recipients.’ “That is the only paragraph in President Roosevelt’s statement which touches either directly or indirectly on the question as to whether the trusts have made contributions to the Republican campaign fund.”

LABOR NOTES

There are over 130,000 bnrbers and hair dressers in the United States. A recent census shows there are 13,000 people employed oit the world’s fair grounds at St. Louis. The next convention of the Bricklayers’ and Stone Masons’ International Union will meet in San Francisco Jan. 8, War *' At Fall River, Mass., 1,200 striking weavers passed a unanimous vote not to return to work unless assurance were given that no more than eight looms will be operated by one weaver. The Scranton, Pa., Central Labor Union has taken the initiative in that State in a movement to place unionmade goods more prominently on the market and make this class of wares appear more favorably before organisied workers and their friends. One of the biggest industrial establishments in New Jersey has adopted a scheme to prevent the employment of children under 14. The malingers of the concern have calks! before them all the contractors in their employ and all heads of departments and Informed them that if at any time while the present State law is in operation a child under the age of 14 is employed in the factory the responsibility will be laid upon the man in whose department the child is employed, the company will assume no part bf it. If the State officers find the law violated and the company is fined the money will have to be paid by the person in charge of the department in which the child was illegally allowed to work. There are 914,000 members of the French trade unions. The organizations, although small, with an average membership of only 170, are rapidly growing, their numbers having more than doubled within the last ejght or ten years. After much deliberation the French government has decided to span the Great Sahara from Sonth Algeria to the west coast with an electric cable. The line, which is from In-Salah, via Tidekalt and Tagenewt, to Timbnctoo, will be about 620 miles iu length and will cost *300,000. The work is to be completed in shout a year.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

Dun's weekly review of Chicago trade says: The business situa-

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tion generally presents additional evidence of reviving activity, collections show improvement and the defaults are of slight Significance. Gold exports and heavy operations In Wall street stocks attract some attention, but are devoid of direct bearing upon financial conditions here. While money is in ample supply to meet local demands, the maintenance of the prevailing cost Is diie to normal causes, most commercial banks being well loaned up and awaiting requirements of the approaching corn movement, which will involve employment of considerable. funds. Weather conditions were more favorable to steady sales throughout the retail trade. Wholesale dealings maintained the recent large aggregate. There was better buying of cotton goods, carpets and furniture, other selections being well distributed among the seasonable lilies. Heavy distribution on country and city orders for prompt shipment of . necessities and more discount sales are features of the current transactions in the jobbing district. Industrial concerns busy on present demands are steadily increasing in number, while new business is making headway, although there is no pronounced rush for requirements, except materials immediately wanted in the construction of new buildings, many of which are now being pushed forward to early completion.

Bradstreet’s weekly report on the general trade of the country la

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ns follows: Cooler weather has helped retail trade at the West and South. This Is' reflected in some reorder busle ness from jobbers and wholesalers, whose trade while steady, and bette* than fast year at this date, is not entirely up to expectations. This is possibly due in a measure to the close proximity of election, which is credited in a few reports with holding hack some business. The industries give quite satisfactory reports, iron In its cruder forms leading, with active demand at advancing prices. Seasonable conditions help the coal industry, but lack of water' In the coke regions and the same trouble In eastern streams tends to restrict some manufacturing operations. Collections as a whole are classed as good, being relatively best at the South. Railway earnings for the first half of October will run over 0 per cent ahead of those of 1903. There still appear unmistakable signs that caution and conservatism have not lost their value as yet, and that these qualities still weight the teudency toward optimism noted in recently preceding weeks. Features in this week’s dispatches arc the good reports from leading Western centers ns to retail trade. Eastern shoe manufacturers are well employed on late fall orders. Leather is firmer, and some upper leather has been advanced one-half cent per pound. Boston reports demand for cotten goods at first hands retarded by the .recent drop In raw material. Woolen goods have not sold as well as expected. Raw wool is less active at the East, but firmly held for what supplies are available. Anthracite coal is in rather better shape. Bituminous also Is picking up.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, *5.00 to *0.10; hogs, shipping grades, $4.50 to *5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.75 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, *1.15 to *1.16; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, standard, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,77 cto 79c; hay, timothy, *8.50 to *12.50; prairie, *O.OO to *11.50; butter, choice creamery, 2pc to 23c; eggs, fresh, 17c to 19c; potatoes, 30c to 38c. Indiau:g>olis—Cattle, shipping, *3.00 to *0.00; hogs, choice light. $4.00 to $5.10; sheep, common to prime, *2.50 to *3.00; wheat, No. 2, sl.lO to *1.17; corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 81c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $0.25; hogs, $4.00 to *5.20; sheep. *3.00 to *4.10; wheat, No. 2, sl.ll to *1.12; corn, No. 2, 49c to 51c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 30c; rye, No. 2,70 c tfc> 71c. Cincinnati —Cattle, *4.00 to *4.75; hogs, *4.00 to *5.25; sheep, *2.00 to *3.60; wheat, No. 2, *1.17 to *1.19; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; outs, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 2,85 cto 87c. Detroit —Cattle. *3.50 to *4.50; hogs, *4.00 to *5.00; sheep. *2.50 to *3.25; wheat, No. 2, *l.lß to *1.20; corn. No. 3 yellow, 59c to (50c; outs, No. 8 white, 310 to 33c; rye, No. 2,85 cto 87c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, *1.12 to *1.14; corn. No. 3,55 cto 57c; oats, No. 2 white. 31c to 32c; rye, No. 1, 82c to 84c; barley. No. 2, 52c* to 54c; pork, mess. *ll.OO. Toledo—Whent, No. 2 mixed, *l.lO to *1.19; corn, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 57c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; rye. No. 2, 80c to 81c; clover seed, prime, *7.45. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, *4.00 to $0.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, fuir to choice, $3.00 to *4.15; lambs, fair to choice, $4.50 to *5.75. New York—Cattle, *3.50 to *5.75; hogs, *4.00 to *5.50; sheep, *3.00 to. *4.60; wheat. No. 2 red, *1.17 to *1.19; corn, No. 2,58 cto 60c; oats. No. 2 white, 85c to 37c; butter, creamery, 20c to 24c] eggs, western, 22c to 24c.