Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1904 — HAS TIME OF ITS LIFE [ARTICLE]

HAS TIME OF ITS LIFE

WEEK OF PLEASURE IN MINNESOTA VILLAGE. Young Mon Receives Small Fortune and Spends Much of It in Celebrating Event - Indiana W ife Murderer Is Given Life Sentence. .The village-of-•Northoino, northern ter-, minus oI the Minnesota and Intel-nation-al road, Beltrami county, Minn., is recovering from the time of its young life. Otto Schmid inherited from a German estate SIO,OOO and set a pace for money spending for a week that made life merry for 75 per cent of the 500 inhabitants. It isn't known how much of his inheritance Schmid siient, hut he was celebrating his good fortnne for a week and the uiotto, "Schmid pays for this" was on every lip. He lias some of the money left, a few thousands, perhaps. Schmid fouud it easy to enlist the enthusiastic support of all the “regulars." After getting them going right he managed by degrees to draw nearly the entire male population of the place into the fun. Schmid proved to lie a wonder. lie stood up under the ordeal like “one to the manner born,” He saw the others fall by tlie wayside one, two, three at a time and missed others who had fled from him when they could stand the pace no longer and looked and commented on these with seorii. Schmid refused to take change when he bought anything, and laid down a fresh hill each time, but he appears to have given no one a chance to rob him. He made the pace so strong that in some places merchants closed their places of business and pleasure lovers were in clover. Schmid says he has saved a substantial part of liis money and will invest it to good advantage. He was working around Northome for moderate wages when he inherited his money.

HURLS TRAIN FROM BRIDGE. B Broken Rail Causes Wreck and FortyFive Are Injured. Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 1, west bound from St. Louis to Kansas City, was wrecked at the water works bridge, two miles east of Holden, Mo., resulting in the iujury of forty-five passengers, ten of whom are in a serious condition. The accident was caused by a broken rail which projected from the track, catching the first coach behind the mail car, throwing it from the track down a twenty-foot embankment, and causing two other coaches, a Pullman and the diner, to follow it. The broken rail was on the bridge and the rear Pullman rolled off the bridge into the creek below and the passengers inside were all seriously injured. The engine, two baggage cars and the mail car passed the bridge in safety and remained on the track, but all the remainder of the train was derailed.

GIVES MURDERER LIFE TERM. Jury in Darling Case in Indiana Convicts Wife Slayer. After being out twenty minutes the jury in the trial of Clifford Darling in Versailles, Ind., charged with the, murder of his wife, whom he shot during a quarrel at the home of her father at Piereeville Thanksgiving day, returned a verdict of murder in the first degree and sentenced Darling to life imprisonment. When the verdict was announced Darling displayed no emotion. His attorneys pleaded insanity.

Veterans Are Dying Rapidly. Soldiers of the Civil War are dying at the rate of 150 a day, according to Pension Commissioner Ware. This is a higher rate than ever before. CommissiOjiier Ware, in reciting the benefits of executive order No. 78, which grants service pensions, declared it effects a saving of SIOO,OOO a year.

Nebraska Bank Is Raided. Cracksmen effected entrance t<> the building of the Bank of Plymouth in Plymouth. Neb., and exploded two charges of dynamite on the vault, partly wrecking the door and damaging the building. So far as can be learned no money was secured. Six Perish in Sunday Fires. Mrs. Rock Perry and two of her children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their home in Pittsburg. In Denison, Tex., three persons were burned to death in a tire that destroyed a rooming house. Killed Chloroforming a Dog. In Scranton, Pa., Philander K. Potter, who was scratched on the hand recently while chloroforming a pet dog which he believed to have hydrophobia, is dead alter two days’ severe illness. Mr*. Gilbert la Dead. Mrs. G. 11. Gilbert, the actress, died In Chicago, from a stroke of apoplexy. Mrs. Gilbert, in her Kith year, was playing "Granny” as her farewell to the stage.

Makes Request of President. The VV. C. T. D„ in convention iu Philadelphia, requested the President to see that treaties prohibiting the sale of liquor be observed in granting statehood rights to the Indian Territory.

Smoke Censes Theater Panic. Smoke from n bonfire in the street caused a panic in the Gotham Theater in New York. Almost the entire audience rushed out, but no one was injured.

Wreck on the Pennsylvania. Three men were instantly killed and ten or more were hurt in a collision on the Pennsylvania railroad. Passenger train No. 27, north-bound, struck a work train about three miles north of Columbus, Ind.

lowa’s Hamper Corn Crop. .Director John It. Snge of the weather and crop service estimates that the lows corn yield will go beyond his first figures of 800,000,000 bushels made several weeks ago. The total may reach 325,000,000 bushels.