Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1904 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

PAYS HIGH FOR A HUSBAND. Pittsburg Girl Will Settle Count’s Debts and Give Him SIO,OOO a Year. Count Cini, an Italian nobleman, grandnephew of the late Pope Leo, will In the spring lead to the althr in London Miss Elizabeth Howe of Pittsburg, one of the wealthiest of the city’s wealthy young women. Some months ago this wedding was announced, but for some reason not then explained, it did not take place, the understanding being that all was off. Now it lias been announced again, and gossips are busy. The Pittsburg girl out of her vast estate has ngreed to pay all the debts of the count, providing they do not run over $50,000, and to guarantee him SIO,OOO a year for life. About a month ugo there was a hitter setto when the count came to Pittsburg. Like others of the nobility coming here for a rich wife, Count Cini was broke nnd heavily in debt. Ho asked that $70,000 be handed to him with which to settle his debts and also that he be given $15,000 per year for life. This the Pittsburg girl and her relatives refused to think of, and in a rage Count Cini went'to Canada. Lately, however, another statement was issued, and the count decided that he might worry along with his creditors on $50,000 in hand and a life annuity of SIO,OOO. This was agreed to nnd they will wed in London. Count Cini hails from Rome. Miss Howe is 40 years of age. The count is much younger. FERRYMAN’S SKIFF UPSETS. Four Passengers Drown in Storm on St. Clair River. The rowboat of William Briggs, N the night ferryman between Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Ont., was upset near the Sarnia dock and four men were drowned. Ferryman Briggs left the Port Huron dock with six passengers in his rowboat. A high north wind was blowing and a heavy sea was running on the river. The boat pitched and tossed on the waves until within about 100 yards of the Sarnia dock. Then a heavy back swell from the shore suddenly capsized her. Ferryman Briggs, John Dobson, an engineer of St. Thomas, and Daniel Fish* er, a conductor of Ridgetown, Ont., saved themselves by hanging to the boat, but the other four passengers were drowned. PREACHER STOPS LYNCHING. Feeling Runs High in Roseville, Ohio, Qver Incendiary Fires. Three alleged incendiary fires occurred in the village of Roseville, Ohio, during twelve hours. The money loss is small, but the excitement of the residents reached a crisis when a crowd of meft gathered in the center of the town intent upon doing violence to two men. Kid Wilson, colored, and Charles Carnes, white, who had been arrested on suspicion. Rev. Luther J. Smith, the Methodist minister of the town, mounted a box and dissuaded the crowd from doing any unlawful act. The authorities believe they know who the firebug is, but deem it unsafe to take him into custody now, fearing violence of an extreme character.

Negroes Escape from Fire. Thirty negroes, men, women and children, penned in on the second and third floors of a burning Morgan street lodging house in St. Louis, saved themselves from death by jumping from windows into tarpaulins held by firemen, by groping their way to the street down smoke and flame filled stairways and by climbing through a scuttle to the roof and thence to adjoining buildings, to be taken down by firemen. Amateur Robber Is Caught. William Holden, a farm hand, during the noon hour Tuesday entered the Platte Valley Bank in Platte Center, Neb., demanded the bank’s cash and, on the refusal of Cashier Barney Schroeder to surrender it, shot the latter in the breast, inflicting a serious but not fatal wound. He escaped in a buggy without securing any money, was pursued and captured by Sheriff Carrig after he had fired at his pursuers. Brituln in Grip of Storm. Keen frost and heavy snow squalls nre reported from all parts of the United Kingdom. A gale raged ell night along the coasts, driving vessels to shelter and seriously dislocating the telegraph wires, and especially in the north of England and in Scotland. Blinding snowstorms caused deep drifts and rendered traffic difficult. Will Drop Smoot Fight. Despite appeals made by women's clubß, the W. C. T. U., and religious bodies and church societies, it is the present intention of the Senate committee on privileges nud elections to recommend that Reed Smoot be allowed to retain his seat in_.the Senate. 30,000 Destitute from Flood. The Tafautse islands, northeast of the Celebes, Mnlay urchipelngo, have been visited by a disastrous hurricane, causing the sea to rise to such an extent that it flooded the islands and left 30,000 persons destitute, their homes, boats and plantations being destroyed. Bwis» Treaty la Blgned. Secretary Hay and Mr. Probst, the Swiss charge d’affaires, hnve signed an arbitration treaty on behalf of the United States nud Switzerland. It follows the lines of the American and French arbitration treaty. Been Increase in Crime. Stnrtling increase in crime in the United States is shown by S. S. McClure, who attributes grave conditions to tho misrule of a “criminal oligurchy,” general disregard of the law and failure to enforce the statutes. Must Return Fraud Money. In the United States District Court in Buffalo Judge Hazel, in the case of the government against Fred C. Nagle,

former postmaster at Dunkirk, and his bondsmen to recover $2,492 alleged to have been illegally paid to John A. Link for services in the postoffice which It was claimed he had never performed, directed tile jury to find a verdict for the government for the full amount and interest against Nagle. PLOTS LAID TO UNION. Molders Held for Cincinnati and Kentucky Murder and Dynamiting. Murder, dynamite, injunctions and jail cells are prominent acts nnd settings in the tragedy that is being enacted in Cincinnati .and in Newport and Covington, Ivy., as the result of the strike of the molders that has been in progress for months, and the authorities are guarding against further trouble. Charged with various offenses, six men were put under arrest in Cincinnati and others are under surveillance. The latest trouble was when an attempt was made to blow up two of the Kentucky foundries by placing dynamite in the molds. There was little damage. Fred Rauhauser, Jr., son of a union molder, was arrested, and the police say he lias confessed to placing three cartridges.,. His father also was arrested, and the police declare ho was Implicated by a confession of the son. Several times last week there were dynamite attacks on various plants, but severe damage was averted. Rewards have been offered. On Oct. 7 Samuel Weakley, a non-union molder, was killed, and Frank Brown, who accompanied him, narrowly escaped. A large force of detectives from Chicago is still working on different cases involved in the affair. One charge is that there was a union plot, to poison men at a Cincinnati boarding house.

FLEEING BOY ELUDES HUNT. Kidnaping Hinted At In Case of Wealthy Virginia Boy. Trace of Stephen Putney, Jr., son of one of the wealthiest men in Richmond, Va., has been found in Kansas City, but according to information received by the St. Louis police he escaped from the room where he was discovered. He is thought to have been kidnaped while attending the St. Louis exposition. Langhorne Putney, half-brother of the missing boy, went to Kansas City to take up the search. It is stated, however, that Langhorne Putney has received a letter telling him that his brother would return if he followed certain directions and dropped a package containing $2,000 at a certain place. Chief of Police Iviely of St. Louis declined to discuss the case further tiian to say that he was positive that the boy was not being held for a ransom. Mr. Putney, when seen before departing, declared that he had not received a demand for a ransom. Nebraska Bank Goes Under. The Elkhorn Valley Bank in O’Neill, Neb., failed to open for business the other day and its president and cashier could not be found in the city. The affairs of the bank, according to a statement given to the press by the wife of Bernard McGreevy, the president, are in a bad condition. Cashier Patrick Hagerty, it is alleged, overdrew bis account in large amounts. Ohio Trolley Car Cut in Two. Sixteen persons were injured in a collision between a fast south-bound train on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Road and a trolley car on the Northern Ohio Traction Line, near Bedford, Ohio. The electric car was cut completely in two nnd the wreckage thrown sixty or seventy feet to one side. Five Italians Die in Fire. Five Italians perished in a fire which destroyed the old Noble grain warehouse at North Bend, Pa., where sixty or more Italian railroad laborers have been sleeping. One of them was washing a pair of overalls in a pail of gasoline when a spark from his pipe fell into the pail. Naval School Near Chicago. After n long and bitter tight the authorities at Washington decided in favor of the Lake Bluff, 111., site for a naval training school, much of the credit for Chicago’s triumph being due to business men who gave time and money to aid the project. lowa Farmer Slays His Son. John Bloom, a wealthy land owner residing eight miles south of Shenandoah, lowa, shot and instantly killed his eldest son, Frank. The fatal shooting grew out of a family quarrel. The father gave himself up immediately after the shooting. He claims self-defense. Blow Up Bank and Get $3,000. A number of men blew up and practically destroyed the building of the Southern Maryland Savings Bank in La Plata, Md., robbing it of $3,000. The robbers made their escape after cutting the telegraph and telephone wires. Rewarded for Kind Act. Dr. C. A. Flower of Kittanning, Pa., who befriended a Hindu boy at the Chicago world’s fair, has been discovered by the youth, now a wealthy prince, and has been given slo,obo and a life position as a reward. 77 Perish in Black Sea. The Greek steamer Elpis, long overdue, now is regarded as lost. It is believed. she sank in a recent gale in the Black Sea nnd that her entire crew and a number of passengers were lost, a total of seventy-seven persons. Bteamshlp Kroon land in Port. Steamship Kroonland, which was erroneously reported foundered, arrived safely in New York with 1,288 steerage and 156’cabin pnssengers. Reducing South’s Representation. Gen. J. Warren Keifer will ask Congress to pass a bill reducing the South's representation in Congress and the electoral college.

EIGHT HURT IN BROOKLYN FIR& Three Women, One Holding a Baby, Fall from Third Story to Street. Three women were probably fatallj hurt and five firemen were injured severely in a blaze that destroyed two buildings in Brooklyn, N. Y. Three upper floors were occupied by three families, consisting of fifteen persons. Th« flames spread upward so quickly that when the sleeping tenants were aroused by the smoke and crackling flames they found all escape by the stairways had been cut off. Bella Hill, Florence Seabrook and Hetta Richardson, all of whom lived on the fourth floor, made their way down one story and out on to a cornice. Mrs. Seabrook had her baby in her arms. The cornice gave way beneath the combined weight of the women and they were thrown to the ground. Mrs. Seabrook clasped the infant to her bosom in such!a way that when she Btruck the sidewalk the little one escaped injury. The women were hurriedly carried to a hospital, where their injuries were pronounced fatal. Eight families, comprising thirty-four persons, escaped or were rescued from the building adjoining that in which the flames started. In the work of rescue two of the firemen hurt fell from a ladder two stories above the street. HAZERS USE ELECTRICITY. Imitation of Death Chair Said to Be Employed in Torturing Students. The San Francisco Examiner tells a story of hazing practiced by students of the Hopkins Institute of Art in that city, which in one case, it is said, resulted in serious injury to the youthful victim. A student named A. T. De Rome was strapped to a chair with a metal seat, it is said, nnd an electric current was turned on the chair. As a result, according to the story, De Rome’s body has been paralyzed from the hips downward. Other cases of mistreatment of new students by the upper classmen are narrated in connection with initiation ceremonies. FASTS 41 DAYS! DIES AT END. Cincinnati Clergyman Succnmb9 at Close of Self-Imposed Privation. On the final day of his forty-one days’ fast Rev. D. C. Buckles tvas found dead in bod in a .hotel in Addyston, a Cincinnati suburb. ..His sister, who also undertook the fast with her brother under the impression that they were obeying a divine command, consented that the door he broken down. Within the room they found tlie body of the clergyman. Rev. Mr. Buckles two years ago was converted to the “Holiness” faith. WOOSTER BANK CLOSED. National Institution Posts Notice that It Will Go Into Liquidation. The doors of the Wooster, Ohio, National bank were not opened the other day. The following notice was posted: “This bank closed by order of directors, to go into voluntary liquidation.” President L. P. Ohliger was absent from the city and no statement as to the cause of the closing could be obtained. A financial statement issued by the bank in September showed deposits to be $381,000, loans and discounts $351,000, cash on hand SBO,OOO, due from banks SGO,OOO and bonds $144,000. The capital stock was SIOO,OOO.

To Punish Careless Ninirods. The long list of dead and longer list of wounded as a result of careless hunting during the present big game season in Minnesota will result in a bill being introduced at the coming session of the Legislature making that kind of homicide manslaughter. S. F. Fullerton, Stave game warden, will prepare the bill. Collision ill Arkansas. The Hot Springs special on the Iron Mountain road struck a freight train at Swifton, Ark. Fireman Wells Harvey was killed and twenty persons were injured. Mrs. J. A. Corry of Seneca, 111., with internal injuries, and John Givins of Buckeye, Mo., were the most seriously hurt. Thieves Prey on Mikado’s ConsM.' Prince Sunanru Fushimi, a cousin of the Mikado of Japan, who is visiting the world’s fair in St. Louis, has been the victim of robbers. While the prince and his suite were out on the exposition grounds burglars entered his apartments at the Buckingham Club and stole jewels valued at $5,000. * Crew of Seventeen Perish. Tho Swedish steamer Burg from Grimsby, England, with a cargo, foundered at the entrance of Arko sound. The entire crew, numbering seventeen men, perished. It Is believed the vessl grounded and that her boilers exploded. Admits Stealing $20,000 In Jewels. Schuyler Baird, an employe of a Louisville transfer company, was arrested add confessed to having broken open the trunk of Mrs. Sam H. Holley of Lexington, and robbing it of $20,000 worth of jewels while taking It to the depot. Pennsylvania Breaks Record. Tho cruiser Pennsylvania in her trial trip broke all records for speed and economy In fuel consumption on heavy fighting craft and becomes the new queen of the American navy. Ask to Elect Lawmakers. Representatives of the Russian zemstvos adopted a declaration in favor of the election of a body to frame the laws of the empire and urge a general amnesty for political prisoners. Spanish Bark Founders. Spanish bnrk, with fifteen men, foundered in the recent Atlantic gale, after a British steamer had stood by for tw.o days and had made vain efforts at rescue. "*)