Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS

EVANGELIST IS A FORGER. Confesses on Being Arrested for Uttering a Bogus SIO,OOO Draft. A. A. Arthur, aged 71. who has made his home in Hiawatha, Ivan., since last September, representing himself as a retired preacher and evangelist, was arrested there by a St.' Louis detective on the charge of forging a check for SIO,OOO at Paris, Texas. Later Arthur admitted his guilt and agreed to return to Texas without ft requisition. Under the name of “H. H. Boyd” Arthur conducted revival meetings at Paris last summer. In August he deposited a draft for SIO,OOO in a Paris bank. The draft was regularly made out to “H. H. Boyd” and bore the signature of M. M. Stevenson, cashier of the Georgia National Bank at Athens, Ga. Arthur drew out $2,500 of tlje money and disappeared, after, which it was discovered that the draft had been forged. The detective who arrested him said that Arthur is a wellknown forger and is wanted in several States; that he served a sentence in the lowa State penitentiary and served a term in a Chicago-jail before going to Texas. Arthur is 0 feet tali, weighs 200 pounds and has white hair and beard. CHINESE UPRISING IS FEARED. Great, Wealthy Society Said to Be Bei hind Plan Aimed at the Dynasty. - A state of evident anti-dynastic unrest, h'hich is likely to culminate in an uprising, is reported to exist in tlje northern part of Honan and Shantung and the southern section of Chili provinces by a Herald correspondent at Tientsin, who has just finished a 1,000-mile journey through that part of Cliind., The threatened uprising is not likely to b,e confined, but might spread to a majority of eighteen provinces. This movement, the correspondent continues, is not Boxer fanaticism. It is widespread, well organized and well armed and known as the Kolachui. Prominent and wealthy men are members of all the northern societies, controlled by a strong central authority with headquarters in south China.

KILLS WIFE, FRIEND AND SELF. Indiana School Teacher Slays While in Jealous Frenzy. Jealousy of bis young wife drove Wilson Burns, a school teacher of Rochester, Ind., to kill her and Joseph Cripe, with whose mother the ydung woman had sought refuge. Then, walking to the home of his sister, three miles distant, he blew out his brains. The only witness of the tragedy, Miss Martha Braman, is lying in a critical condition from wounds sustained by stray shots. Three months ago Mrs. Burns left her husband because of his cruelty. He was 52, while she was, 28 years old. She was employed, by the Cripes to care for the aged mother, and because Cripe bad escorted her to church on several occasions, the husband threatened to kill both. Enjoins Harvester Trust. Attorney General Donovan of Montana has begun proceedings in the Supreme Court against the International Harvester Company for alleged violation of the State anti-trust laws. The court was asked to issue an injunction to prevent their company from operating in the State. A temporary restraining order was issued. Russian Vessels Sent to Bottom. The Russian squadron at Port Arthur has been practically wiped out. Official Japanese reports state that three battleships have been sunk, another ironclad disabled and two cruisers put out of action. Only one large craft, the Sevastopol, remains, and she is protected by a hill.

Wreck Bank by Explosion. With five heavy charges of nitro glycerin a party of six or eight cracksmen wrecked the safe in the Bank of Metamora, Mich. The explosions wakened citizens of the village nnd a number of them rushed out, armed with revolvers. The men boarded a passing freight train and escaped. No money was secured. Confidential Man Is Short. Charles Frost, 43, for a number of years confidential bookkeeper for Tarleton, Coy & Irons, and Henry Arnold & Co., two National stock yards (East St. Louis) firms, was arrested in St. Louis. A warrant sworn out by William Coy charges Frost with being $1(5,000 short in his accounts. Millionaire Slain and Robbed. Charles Goldstein, a millionaire, with large business and mining interests in Dallas nnd in Dawson City, Alaska, was murdered in Dallas, Tex., and the body was robbed of $2,000 in money nnd diamonds valued at SSOO, a costly watch and other valuables. New Trial for Powers. In Frankfort, Ivy., the Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Circuit Court in the case of Caleb Powers, now in jaii at Louisville under sentence of death for complicity in the murder of William Goebel. This gives Powers n new trial. Finds Wify Dead on Floor. After climbing through a window at midnight and lighting, the gas in his home in Chicago, Thomas .1. Walsh found his wife dead on the floor. She had apparently,(died sitting on the floor with her back to a chuir. It was believed the woman died of heart disease. Her Income Is $2,400,000. ■ * The income of Berthas Krupp, who owns nearly all the $40,000,030 capital of the Krupp company, is $2,400,000. the company having just declared a 0 per cent dividend. Few of the Banka Failed. W. B. ltidgcly. Comptroller of the Currency, in his annual report tofys during the last year twenty-six national

banks were placed in charge of receivers. In six instances the receivers were discharged and the banks permitted to resume business. Eight, he says, were due to fraudulent management or dishonesty of cashiers. LEADS DOUBLE LIFE. Superintendent of a Printing Concern Turns Highwayman at Night. To furnish a pretty flat for his young wife and enable her to travel abroad with him, Edward B. Clark of Chicago says he supplemented his earnings as a respectable workingman in the daytime by highway robbery at night. With Herbert Boyer he is locked up at a police station, charged with four daring robberies. Clark by day has been foreman in the printing department of the Dennison Tag Company. Boyer has been employed at Band, McNally & Co.’-s. Both confessed to Inspector Lavin that they had committed the following robberies in the last few months: Hotel Cecil, $52; Frank Leon!, $150; saloon 3210 Cottage Grove avenue, S3O; saloon Thirty-ninth street and Indiana avenue. Oiark says the proceeds went to buy pretty things for his home. Among the appointments of his .apartments; is a grand piano fs>r which his highwayman’s pistol enabled him to pay. ‘ He has-confessed that four years .ago, while traveling to Japan, he killed : a sailor and threw his body overboard. Clark is 30 years of age, good looking, and well .dressed. None was .paore surprised when Ijlie news, of his arrest as a robber’became known than the taen with whoip he worked daily in. the printing shop.

MINE FIRE IMPERILS 100. Flames Sweep Through Shaft Near Peoria, 111,, Driving Men Out. The Shell mine, at South Bartonville, one mile south of Peoria, 111., was discovered to be on fire in the main entry at the foot of the shaft at 8:30 o’clock Friday morning. One hundred men were at work in the mine at the time, and for a while great excitement prevailed. The men, however, were taken to a second shaft a half mile distant and all made their escape, some of them being overcome by smoke and gas. The origin of the fire is a mystery, but it is supposed to have started from the lamp of the trapper boy, igniting some straw. Eight mules were overcome. The fire communicated itself to the w'oodwork of the shaft and worked both ways from its starting place, upward through the shaft and toward the interior of the mine. The property loss will be heavy. FIGHTS THIEF AS STORE BURNS. Thrilling Battle at Murray, Utah — Bandit Makes His Escape. Locked in a life-and-death struggle, Christopher Tripp and a masked bandit fought in a burning building at the little town of Murray, Utah. Neither man relaxed his grip until their clothing was afire. Then both crawled through the dense smoke to the outer air. The>.highwayman, armed with a revolver, tried to hold up Christopher nnd Samuel Tripp in their brother’s store. He fired at Christopher when the latter resisted. In the struggle that followed ‘he stove was overturned. The fire cons the store, n meat market nnd a vaenn. building, the damage amounting to SIO,OOO. The bandit escaped.

TRIES TO BRIBE) IS KICKED. Referee in Bankruptcy Resents Offer to Change Report. Attorney Michael Doran, Jr., who was appointed referee in bankruptcy by Judge Lcchren of the United States District Court iu connection with the affairs of a St. Paul firm of woolen merchants, was approached by a member of the firm for information ns to what report he would make to the court. Mr. Dorau informed him that the report must be unfavorable. -Mr. Doran’s visitor returned later and handed him a roll of money, whereupon the referee knocked him down nnd kicked him out of the office. ■ Death Closes a Tragic Role. Eva Ray Hamilton, alleged to be the woman whose career was linked with the tragic death of Robert Ray Hamilton, is dead. She died in a charity ward in St. Vincent’s hospital. New York, nnd was buried in the common plot in Mount Olivet cemetery. Receivers for C. 11. Slack. Henry L. Wilson, nn attorney, and Godfrey 11. Ball, grocer, have been appointed receivers for Charles H. Slack, a Chicago grocer. Proceedings iu involuntary bankruptcy have been begun against Slack by James P. Smith & Co., wholesale grocers. Mafia Claims Another Victim. The Mafia is supposed to have added another to its" list of victims when Joseph Shereto, an Italian barber, who came to Kansas City from Chicago, dropped dead oil the street'at midnight, his heayt pierced by a bullet fired by an unknown nssassirft Great Slump in Wall Street. Pyramided profits nnd paper values in stocks were scattered by an almost record-breaking slump iu Wall street, in which Amalgamated Copper was the loser. Lawson gloats over the crash, but bankers nnd brokers see only good iu it. Aged Slayer Is Electrocuted. William Nichols, aged (58, convicted of the murder of Alfred Minnrd, a Civil War veteran, at Kenton. Ohio, in .Inly, 1903, was electrocuted iu the annex at the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus. Robbers Are Scared Away. Robbers blew open the safe in the People's Bank at Jolley, lowa, but Were frightened away before they secured any booty. A running fight followed between tiie robbers and citizens.

TO PROSECUTE DRUGGISTS. Board of 'Pharmacy Prepares Cases Following Tests in Chicago. Acting upon evidence in its possession the Illinois Board of Pharmacy is preparing to prosecute more than 100 Chicago druggists for dealing in adulterated drugs. The evidence lias been procured and chemical tests have been made which prove the presence of alien matter in the prescriptions which call for pure drugs. In nearly 20 per cent of the samples obtained there was not ever, a trace of the drug called for in tiie prescription. Prescriptions were sent to -139 druggists signed by Dr. J. Scott Brown, calling for pure aristol. Dr. J. A. Wescner conducted the tests. The results, Dr. Weserer said, showed the following: 23 prescriptions, no trace of aristol; 60 prescriptions, SO per cent impurity; 10 prescriptions, 20 per cent impurity; 9 prescriptions, 10 per cent impurity; 31 prescriptions, pure. “Druggists linv# been misled Into purchasing a substitute for aristoj by unscrupulous salesmen, who. have palmed off on them a substance' which in many cases is nothing more than earth,” said Dr. Wesener. “This! stuff was sold to them cheap.” THOUSANDS ARE OUT OF WORK.. New York Breaks All'lts Records-in the Number of Idle Men. Charitable institutions in New York City report that never 3 before have they been called upon to assist so great a number of unemployed men. According to statistics at th municipal lodging house in Ist avenue nearly 40 per cent more idle men needed help in November than .was the case a year ago. During that month 7,787 persons, 90 per cent being men, were cared for. This is more than 2,100 over the corresponding period last year and this month shows so far even a greater rate of increase. Bellevue Hospital reports a similar state of affairs. Officials connected with the charitable organizations attribute much of the increased distress to the completion of the subway—not so much on account of the completion of the construction work, which of course threw men out. of employment, as to the fame of the tunnel, which has attraetd thousands to New York in the belief that they could obtain at once lucrative eftiploymeut.

MISSING HEIR IS LOCATED. Windfall for Man Who Is Working in a Foundry. After working for thirteen years at the plant of the Phillips & Clark Stove Company in Geneva, N. Y., for from $2 to $2.25 a day, George McCullough finds himself one of thirteen heirs to an estate valued at $325,000. The estate was that of his great grandfather, Janies Churchill, who died twenty five years ago at Erie, Pa. McCullough was notified of his good fortune by an uncle, who has been searching for him for several years in order to close up the estate. His only clue was that the missing heir worked in a stove fouudry, and after visiting many places he finally located McCullough. Rich Man and Family Murderad. Some time the other night Ben B. Hughes, a wealthy merchant and planter of Trenton, S. C., and his entire family were murdered and the house burned. At 5 o’clock iu the morning the fire was discovered by residents living near the Hughes home, who raised an alarm. Many Die in Mine Explosion. Monger details of au explosion in a coal mine at Burnett, about fifty miles from Tacoma, Wash., have been received. Ten bodies had been taken out and it was positively known that five workmen were still in the mine. W. E. Mason Leads Fruit Deal. The American Fruit and Steamship Company lias been organized in Mobile, Ain., w.ith a capital of $5,00u,000 and will begiiPoperations Jan. 2. Two steamers have been chartered. William E. Mason of Chicago is president. Religious Festival in Rome. The fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception was celebrated in Rome with great splendor, the Pope unveiling a statue of the Virgin bearing a diamond crown. French Deputy Found Dead. M. Syvelon, the French nationalist deputy who struck Gen. Andre during debate, was found dead in his study, a victim of gas fumes. His trial was set for Friday, and there is mystery as to whether tie was slain or is a suicide. Lolita Armour Walks. Lolita, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, has returned from Europe witii her mother. Dr. Lorenz's treatment for congenital hip dislocation has ' been entirely successful arid sue walkr well. Czar Will Send Third Fleet. The Czar lias decided to send a third fleet from Russia to the fur East, according to a report in St. Petersburg. It is to consist of seven battle ships, live cruisers and forty other craft, nnd it Is hoped that it will be ready in two months. Postal Haul of Over $1,200. The safe of the Point Pleasant, W. Va., pos f office was dynamited and $1,050 in stamps, $1(50 in cash and a number of registered letters were taken, the value of-which is not known. Take Mrs. Chadwick Into Custody. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was nrrested iu the Hotel Brcslin. New York, by Federal authorities, who charge her with chettiug defalcation by a national bank officer. Rh’fe is said to be sick. Peary Is Acquitted. Isaac N. Perry was cleared of tho charge of arson by Justice Frank Foster of South Chicago after arguments by the attorneys for the defense.