Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — RAIDED BY ROBBERS. [ARTICLE]

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 ;