Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1904 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. r '» ' ■■■■ ■ vr . ' RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

KILLS GIRL AND SELF.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN MINNEAP- * OLIS STREET. Dnal Crime la Attributed to Insanity Caused by Insomnia—Funeral of Paul Kroger la Held at Pretoria—Bonus Offered for Babies. Driven insane by insomnia, Frederick B. Richmond, formerly assistant city clerk, and salesman for a large Minneapolis grain firm, shot and killed his fiancee, Miss Lina Christianson, and then committed suicide on the steps of the Church of the Redeemer. The double tragedy threw into a panic the throngs of holiday shoppers that filled the street. Miss Christianson, who was employed as manager in a downtown department store, was returning to her work when Richmond joined her. They seemed in the best of spirits, according to friends who passed them. When in front of the church Richmond- drew, a revolver from his coat pocket and. without warning, fired. Miss Christianson threw up her arms blindly and fell. Richmond leaned over her calmly and fired twice more. Then he waved his arms at those who came running to the scene. Before any could disarm him he had fired a bullet into his .brain, falling beside the body of his victim, dead. The wedding of Miss Christianson and Richmond was put off several times because of his ill health. Of Into he was unable to sleep and complained of suffering tortures. His friends are convinced he was unbalanced mentally. KRUGER NOW RESTS IN AFRICA. Funeral of Former Transvaal President Held in Pretoria. Two thousand burghers attended an Impressive service at Fretoria prior to the burial of the body of former President Kruger, Britons and men of the veldt mingling on the friendliest terms. Speeches of eulogy were delivered by Generals Louis Botha, Schalkburgher and Christian DcWet. General Botha read a letter from Mr. Kruger exhorting them to preserve the Boer national spirit. The funerhl procession was composed of fully 1,200 persons, while the route through which it passed was thronged. Flags were half-masted, bells tolled and minute guns fired. Mr. Kruger was laid beside his wife. By the king’s special request a salute of 21 guns was fired as the coffin was lowered.

Bonus for Babies. The Shawnee County (Kansas) Commissioners are doing all in their power to discourage race suicide. They hare adopted a rule giving each county employe whose family is increased by the birth of a baby an addition in salary of $5 a month. The commissioners have even gone so far as to offer a raise of $lO a month in case the employes add twins to the family circle. Many Sbeep Killed. Six thousand head of sheep slaughtered of an approximate value of $20,000, without a single indictment from the grand jury, is the record of the past season in central Oregon. At different times in the past the cattle interests have been accused of having an organization which has been responsible for these depredations. Rebates a State Issue. Discovery by the Wisconsin railroad commissioner that more than $4,000,000 has been paid in rebates to shippers by the railroads during the last seven years has brought the issue of State and national supervision of rates before the Legislature, where the question will be fought out. Shaw Is to Stay. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, will be invited by President Roosevelt to remain in the cabinet after the 4th of March. It is understood that similar invitations have been or will be extended to Mr. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Our Foreign Commerce. Foreign commerce of the United States for the calendar year js.»likeloM® establish a aew record, despite the fact that there hns been n slight falling off in exports. The total of exports and imports combined may exceed $1,000,000,000 for the first time in the nation’s history. Growth in Religious Bodies. Nearly all religious sects report larger percentage of increase in membership than in previous years, and in siweral of them the ratio of growth exceeds the ratio of increase in population. Mormon Defies Senate, A Mormon official in the Smoot inquiry defied the Senate committee by saying he would not produce the church records if demanded without the sanction of his church chief. Subscription for Unemployed. Subscriptions are being taken up throughout England to care for the unemployed. The London fund, started by royalty, has reached $130,000. Want Duty on Lumber. Lumbermen of British Columbia will make a strong demand on the Canadian parliament for a duty on lumber imports from the United States. City Like a Sepulchre. A refugee just from Port Arthur describes the city ns all desolation and likens it to a sepulchre. Visitor* Are Barred. No more visitors for Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, champion borrower of the age, is the order of the United States Court to the authorities of the Cleveland jail In tfbich she is held a prisoner. Chickens Cause Fatal Fight. Because John Davis’ chickens scratched up Mayor Murrell’s front garden the two men had a shotgun duel in the street at Church Point, La., resulting in the serious wounding of Davis and Instant killing of his 2-year-old child by a stray abut,

CARNEGIE HAS STRIKE CURE.

Bay« Moat Effective la Agreement Providing for Arbitration. “The most effective cure for strikes and lockouts is a trade agreement providing for arbitration,” declared Andrew Carnegie in an address that Ralph M. Easley read for him at a meeting of the National Civic Federation held in New York City. “We should always remember with satisfaction that peace reigns in six-sev-enths of the industrial world,“ said Mr. Carnegie. “There are only 7,000,000 out of 22,000.0(H) engaged in gainful pursuits, in mechanical and manufacturing occupations. Now we hear nothing of war in the agricultural branch, which of itself has more than 10,000,000 of workers. In domestic service, comprising 5,500,000, all is peace; perhaps in this department the relations of employer and employed are most satisfactory of all. “These lead us to the cause of much of the tension and strife found in the manufacturing and mechanical departments. It rests just here: The former bring in the personal equation, and into the latter nowadays that scarcely enters. It is these personal relations, the knowh

ANDREW CARNEGIE.

edge of the virtues of the employer and employed revealed to each other, creating mutual regard, that establish the reign of peace in agricultural and domestic service. “As far as the largest manufactories and mines are concerned I think the great corporation engaged in a dispute with its men makes a mistake if it adopt the policy or even consider it of running the works with new men. The hest workmen are not idle and to employ the only class that can be obtained is to lay the foundation of serious-future trouble.”

GILLESPIE HEARING OPENS.

Indications Point to Stubborn Legal Fight at Rising Sun, Ind, The famous James Gillespie murder trial at Rising Sun, Ind., is on again, arid developed new sensational features right at the beginning of the taking of testimony. Before a jury was secured 208 talesmen were examined. The jury ■was on the first day taken to-the scene of the murder and after the customary instructions of the court Acting Prosecuting Attorney Harry McMillen presented the State's case. Immediately on his conclusion and before the taking of testimony began attorneys for the defense caused a sensation by filing a mo-

JAMES GILLESPIE.

tion to dismiss the defendant from_ custody because of an alleged misstatement of Attorney McMillen in liis opening remarks to the jury. Judge Cornet took the motion under^advisement, and ordered testimony to proceed. The introduction of evidence began with calling Mrs. Gillespie, mother of the defendant and victim. She is 81 years old. She told of her daughter’s household work, the shooting and finding the body on the floor. The charge against James Gillespie is that he killed his twin sister Elizabeth.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The Russian government will float another loan in France. The Cuban cabinet set aside a credit for the sanitation of Santiago. The sixtieth birthday of Que«u Alexandra was celebrated in London. Porfirio Diaz was inaugurated President of Mexico for the seventh time. The talk of an alliance between Russia and Japan has been revived in Europe. Premier Tisza,-of Hungary was stoned by a mob while attending a meoting at Gyoer, The endless wrangle between the Irish political leaders is demoralizing the peasantry. German, French and American experts are to be employed in building a new Russian navy. ‘ England is uneasy regarding the commercial relations between Canada and th# United States. China has refused the offer of tbs French Bank to establish the Imperial Bank of Chian. There was so much disturbance In the Austrian Reichsrath that it was closed by the President.

BUBBLE HAS BURST.

CHADWICK MYSTERY OF MILLIONS ENDED. In Bank's Strong Box Carnegie Name Is Fonnd on Paper of the Face Value of 51C, 400,000 Signature la Declared a Forgery. The Chadwick bubble has burst completely. In the history of ftenzied finance it will form a part of the chain of wrecks that have strewn the path of coveteousness since the flotation of the great. Mississippi Company by John. Law of Scotland and France. Mrs. Chadwick’s mysterious securities, when exposed to the light of day, instead of being worth millions of dollars, were found to he nothing but so many sheets of worthless paper. Cleveland attorneys declare that it was the evident purpose of Mrs. Chadwick to borrow as large a fortune as possible on the notes signed “Andrew Carnegie,” evidently forgeries, expecting that before the expose came the steel magnate would die. She was sure, according to this theory, that a settlement with his heirs would be a very easy matter. The bubble was pricked when A. A. Stearns, the Cleveland attorney for Herbert D. Newton, of Boston, the creditor primarily responsible for bringing the meteoric career of Mrs. Chadwick to an end, made an authoritative statement that the mysterious package of securities left with Iri Reynolds included paper of the face value of $15,240,000, which bears the signature “Andrew Carnegie,” and Is regarded as worthless. There is a note for the modest sum of $3,000,000, bearing the name of the Iron master, and the other $10,240,000 is represented by a trust agreement

concerning an alleged Inheritance placed in Mr. Carnegie’s keeping, the estate of a supposed uncle of Mrs. Chadwick, named Frederick R. Mason. In another packet there also is a promissory note for SI,BOO, signed by Emily and Daniel Pine, and a mortgage securing the same. This Carnegie paper with tho $1,250,000 in notes bearing the iron master’s name previously accounted for bring the total of this class of "securities” to $10,490,000. With the denouement concerning the securities there comes the story of ruin wrought by Mrs. Chadwick’s operations and the consequent failure of ths Citizens’ National Bank of Oberlln. Irl Reynolds, it is declared, is a sufferer financially as well as otherwise through being the prize dupe of the case. The fulthful guardian of the securities on which the Chadwick financial system was based for three years or so. It Is stated, let Mrs. Chadwick have nearly all the money he possessed, but his entanglements are personal and do not Involve the Wade Park Banking Company, of which he Is secretary and treasurer. It Is among those of meager circnmstances, however, that the greatest real suffering falls. From Oberlln It Is reported that the student body of tho college located there hns been hard hit At least fifty students had their savings on deposit in tho Citizens* National Bank, and these have been wiped out. Many of theao students, so mo of whom are in their senior year, will bs obliged tb leave their college course uncompleted ns a result of losing all. Several student boardlng-

house keepers also have been bankrupted by the failure. Coincident with the examination of the package of securities the Federal authorities got busy with the organization of the special grand jury called to investigate the Chadwick case. The basis for the system that has wrought havoc to an extent yet unknown, for the stories of ruined homes through loss of savings are only beginning to come in, is now shown to be strikingly akin to that by which the bankers of France were defrauded of millions in the Humbert case, which is of such recent as to be almost contemporaneous history. Mrs. Chadwick’s inheritance seems to be as mythical and her benefactor as fictitious as the inheritance from The imaginary American millianaire that was supposed to be in Mme. Humbert's safe. That Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick, now in Europe, was in the plot with his wife to borrow vast sums on bogus securities is the assertion of Iri Reynolds, treasurer of the Wade Park bank, trustee for the mysterious package of Chadwick “securities.” Dr. Chadwick, he asserts, also knew about a trust agreement, bearing the name of Andrew Carnegie, deposited with Reynolds, asserting that Mr. Carnegie held securities worth $10,240,000 belonging to Mrs. Chadwick. It is now said that although the notes bearing Carnegie’s name were forged Mrs. Chadwick caunot be prosecuted for forgery, as slie.did not attempt to sell the notes.

A Dazzling Chapter. It was in 1897 that Dr, Leßoy Chadwick, a widower of no especial prominence and having a small practice in bis profession, brought a bride to his native city of Cleveland. They had been married in Pittsburg. She was fair of face, a trifle over 40, and possessed of a magnetic manner. Still she attracted no attention until she

MRS. CASSIE L. CHADWICK.

and her hubnnd moved into a mansion ou Euclid avenue and began to show evidences of enormous wealth. Entertainments were given at the house costing thousands of dollars. Tho stores of the city began to consider her their best customer, for she bought in large amounts and always paid cash. On a Christmas eve she invited her husband to go to the theater. Bofore leaving the house she hud a talk over the telephone with a furnishing house. When Dr. Chadwick returned home with her the lnteror of the house had been completely transformed In equipment, as though some fairy godmother had waved her magic wand over it Not a piece of furniture, not a hanging, rug, picture, ornnment, not a single thing that had formerly been there remained. Everythin;' was new. Seine time ago she too’ twelve young ladles out of Clevelo d society on a trip abroad. When they returned she had a miniature on porcelain of each one. These she had framed In 18-carat gold and presented to the young ladles ns souvenirs. One of her favorite pastimes was to walk Into a store and ask to be shown diamond rings. She would buy half the contents of a tray—enough to pay th* rent of n castle. Once she sent a Toronto Jeweler abroad to buy n certain gem for her and Ire traveled 12,400 miles to got It, she paying his expenses and $3,000 for the gem. She bought fifty-six rings of one firm. One day she purchased eight, pianos and had them sent to friends. She gave her cook a sealskin coat which reached to the ground.

GREAT LOSS BY FIRE.

MINNEAPOLIS DEVASTATED BY FIERCE FLAMESL N Part of BnaineM Section la Destroyed— Property Worth $700,000 Goes Up in Smoke and Three Men Are KilledBig Stores Ruined. Three killed and property valued at $700,000 destroyed is the result of a disastrous fire which, for nearly six hours threatened the destruction of the entire business portion of Minneapolis Tuesday night and enrly Wednesday morning. The entire fire department of the city, assisted by relief companies from St. Paul, battled heroically with the raging flumes, which were fanned by a brisk northwest wind, until 4 o’clock before the fire was placed under control. The firemen permitted the fire to burn itself out in one or two of the buildings almost destroyed and directed most of their work entirely in an effort to save the buildings in close proximity. The fire started in the photographic svipply house of O. H. Peck & Co., on sth street and Ist avenue south, and in less than one-lialf hour this building was a mass of wreckage. Next to the Peck building is the furniture supply house of Boutelle Brothers, the largest house of its kind in the Northwest. Sparks Cause Other Fires. This building soon caught fire and burned, the sparks from it, wafted blocks by the cold north wind, causing several small fires throughout the city. Firemen of Minneapolis and St. Paul paid no attention to the burning buildings but gave all their efforts toward saving property within the block by throwing water on the adjoining property. Boutell Brothers’ and Peck’s stores are total wrecks, and though the Powers Mercantile store was saved from the flames it was damaged to the extent of a million or more by water. Every electric light in the city was burned out and the dense smoke greatly hampered the firemen in their work. One man was killed by the burning of a live wire which dropped in the street. It is reported that many others have beenHnjured by wires. In the front of the burning Boutell Brothers building there stood a street car totally demolished by a fallen electric line pole, from which several live wires were burned. Without doubt the conflagration was the most disastrous that has ever visited the city, through the loss of life and property, striking the richest and biggest firms of the city. With the firemen working on Boutell Brothers’ building, the walls fell with a crash. Two firemen were seen in ths glare that lighted the whole city to be buried beneath the avalanche of brick and mortar.

WHAT PLEASED FOREIGNERS.

The Splendid Display of Bntter at the St. Louis Fair. The crowning triumph of the farm exhibits in Agricultural Hall, St. Louis, from the viewpoint of foreigners, was the skill shown in butter in the large glass case which contained the trophies. These consisted of scenes, figures and busts made entirely of butter. Among the noticeable ones was Missouri’s Representation, a heroic, sitting figure of a woman, and on either side were cows’ heads, upon which rested the woman’s hands; an equestrian statue of President Roosevelt in Rough Rider costume and also his bust; a good-looking milk maid smiling and standing beside a cow with a pail of milk in her hand; another maid in the uct of milking a cow and sending a stream into the moutli of a cat standing beside her —these figures were lifesize. Father Hennepin in the act of discovering St. Anthony’s Falls, Minn., required 1,000 pounds of butter to delineate. Beside the discoverer there was an Indian and a French soldier in the canoe which was gliding in the river towards the falls. Two of the figures were erect, and all life-size. The busts of Lincoln, Gnrfield and Grant were fine. Liberty Bell and its crack was there in size and fidelity. The dairy school house of Ames, lowa, stood for the construction skill in churned milk. California’s contribution was her coat of arms with heroic female figure and two wolf dogs. Shaded grapes gave variety to the coloring of a wine color hue. This was considered the most beautiful in the collection. A huge horn of plenty with the corn coming out in generous quantity completed this fascinating exhibit. All told some 20,000 pounds of butter were used in these representations.

Boston Trolleys Under the Sea.

Boston’s underwater trolley route, the tunnel to East Boston, the island wards in the inner harbor, which have a population of 00,000, is a municipal project, built under the direction of a city commission, which built the Tremont street subway, and which is now building another long subway in Washington street, the main business street of the city. The subway is 7,400 feet long, 24 feet wide and 22 feet from floor to roof. It runs 2,700 feet under the waters of the harbor, and the remainder is under ths streets at the terminals. Its lowest point, in the center of the harbor, is 90 feet below mean high water. It has taken four years to build it and the cost is well inside the first estimate and the appropriation, $3,000,000. Tho tunnel is said to be the finest in the world.

Interesting News Items.

Quentin Roosevelt "spelled down” tho entire school in the institution where hs is laying the foundation of his education. President Roosevelt’s secretary has issued a denial of the story published in the Boston Herald that his children tortured n turkey scut to the White House for the Thanksgiving dinner. Because of a love nffair, Hugh 8. Webster, aged 23, a draftsman in the employ of a Camden, N. J., company, has committed suicide in Newport News, Va. John Winters, Harry Wolburn and Henry Clay were dropped 700 feet and killed by the breaking of a cable in ths Loop River mines near Toloquon, W. Va. The Secretary of the Interior has set sslde for irrigation purposes the North Platte project, Wyoming, 13,700 seres; the Colorado river project, 13,440 seres in California and 23,000 seres in Nevada, sod the' Milk river project, Montana, 40,080 acres.

CONGRESS

The Hoiise resolution for an adjournment from Dec. 21 to Jan. 4 was adopted by the Senate Tuesday. Jan. 21 was set as the date for the receiving of the statue of John J. Ingalls, given to Statuary Hall by the State of Kansas. The pure food bill was taken up on motion of Mr. McCumber, who spoke in support of the measure, saying the government should protect the country against adulterated food on the same principle that protection is given against counterfeit money. Mr. Platt of Connecticut and Mr. Spoouer thought the bill should be simplified. At 2 p. m. the Philippine Railroad bill was taken up, but as no one wished to speak a large number of private pension bills were passed. A resolution providing for the impeachment of Judge Charles Swayne of Florida wai adopted by the House without a division, after the previous question had been ordered by a vote of 198 to 61. In a debate of five hours Messrs. Palmer of Pennsylvania, Clayton of Alabama, Powers of Massachusetts, Heury of Texas, and Lamar of Florida advocated impeachment, while of California and Littlefield of Maine spoke in opposition.

The Senate on Wednesday received official notice of the determination of th* House of Representatives to present impeachment charges against Charles Swayne, Federal judge in the Northern District of Florida. A committee was appointed to prepare the details of the proposed trial. The Philippine government bill and the pure food bill were considered. Mr. Foraker presented a tariff amendment to the Philippine bill. Mr. Culberson (Texas) gave notice that he would offer several amendments to the bill, among them one striking out the entire section guaranteeing interest on the bonds of the proposed system of railroads. In the House further action on tho impeachment proceedings against Judge Charles Swayne was taken. From the Committee on the Judiciary Mr. Jenkins (Wis.) reported back the resolutions demanding an inquiry into the so-called steel trust, with the recommendation that the resolution lie on the table. The recommendation wa3 adopted. Mr. Baker (Dem., of N. Y.) moved an amendment to reduce from $25,000 to $24,000 the appropriation for testing coals and lignites. A bill was passed amending the revised statutes so as to give foreign authors the right to copyright in this country any time within twelve months after publication abroad; amending the revised statutes so ns to restrict patents on drugs or medicines to the process of manufacture, and not the product.

In fiie Senate Thursday a resolution providing for “proper action” on the charges against Judge Swayne when articles of impeachment are presented by the House, but fixing no date for the beginning of the proceedings, was adopted. The urgency deficiency appropriation bill was passed without debate. The Philippine administration bill was taken up and amendments were offered by Mr. McCumber striking out the provision for the guaranteeing of interest on railroad bonds to 2% per cent providing that they be guaranteed by the government of the United States, and prescribing a method for taxation of railroad receipts in the islands; by MeComas empowering tho Philippine commission to amend the tariff laws of the islands, by Mr. Culberson granting 20,000 acres of Philippine public lands for every mile of railroad constructed, by Mr. Bailey giving the Philippine government authority to regulate the charges of the aided roads and by Mr. Spooner restricting the authorization of municipalities to contract indebtedness to promote local improvements. By agreement the bill and the amendments will be voted on Friday. Mr. Perkins introduced a bill appropriating sl,400,000 for n federal building at Honolulu. Mr. Berry presented a memorial from the Cherokee Nation asking that Indian Territory be allowed a delegate in Congress. In executive session extradition treaties with Hayti and Cuba — the latter amendatory—were ratified and ordered made public. In the House a resolution discharging elections committee No. 2 from further consideration of the Reyuolds-Butler contest from the twelfth Missouri district because the contestant bad not complied with the law in regard to time in which testimony should be taken was adopted.

The day in the Senate was principally devoted to debate on the Philippine civil government bill, which finally was passed by a vote of 44 to 23. Mr. Beveridge, from the Committee on Territories, reported the statehood bill and announced he will make a motion on the first day that the Senate convenes in January that the consideration of the bill shall be entered upon at once. Representing the minority of the committee Mr. Bate notified the Senate thnt he would enter a motion to recommit the bill for the purpose of taking further testimony. Mr. Bard gave notice of an amendment confining the provisions of the bill to the State to be formed by the union of Oklahoma and Indian Territory and eliminating all reference to Arizona and New Mexico. Mr. Hepburn and Mr. McOumber sought to get up the pure food bill, but Mr. Lodge moved an executive session and his motion prevailed. The session of the House was given over almost exclusively to consideration of bills on the private calendar, a dozen or more being passed. The Senate amendments to the urgent deficiency bill were agreed to.

In the National Capital.

Two bills were introduced in the House for appointment of. a commission to revise the tariff. House renewed annual attack on civil service commission, and reduced salaries of committee stenographers. No effort was made to prevent the seating of Congressman Heflin, the Alabama representative accused of making an anarchistic speech. Senator Cullom praises the stand taken by the President on railroad rate evils, but says present laws are sufficient te meet the case if enforced. Senator Platt introduced a bill to reduce by nineteen members the representation in Congress of Southern States that have disfranchised negroes.