Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — BANK ROBBER TAKEN. [ARTICLE]

BANK ROBBER TAKEN.

A SHERIFF'S POSSE CAPTURES 1 OUTLAWS IN WYOMING. Ij/i«oner Identified One Who Aeeiet- / ed in Looting Bank at Cody—Girl in New York Is Acquitted of Killing Her Baby with Benzine. Sheriff Fenton and posse of Big Horn county captured Bob nirwin, one of the men who made a descent on the Cody bank Nov. 1 and killed Cashier Middaugh, near the mouth of Gooseberry creek, fifty miles north of Thermopolis, Wyo. Erwin, who had been in hiding at the ranch of a friend, learned the coming of the officers and attempted to get away by cutting across the mountains. He eludeu the officers for a time, but one of the deputies returning home met Erwin at the mouth of Gooseberry canyon, recognized him and held him up With a rifle until Fenton and the other officers arrived. There is no doubt as to the identity of Erwin, although he refuses to talk. A. B. House, who was sent to the penitentiary the other day from Fremont county for holding up a gambling house, was another member of the Cody outlaw band.

GIRL ACQUITTED OF MURDER. She Wai Accused of Killing Baby with Benzine. The spectators in the court of general sessions in New York cheered when the jury returned a verdict of acquittal for Clara Adler, aged 18, who was accused of killing her baby. The members of the jury took up a subscription and gave SIOO to the defendant, whom they had just set free. Miss Adler admitted that the child had died of benzine asphyxiation, but asserted that the poison fell into the child’s mouth by accident when the mother attempted to commit suicide by drinking it. Miss Adler thought it was carbolic acid. Her friends knocked the bottle from her lips as she was about to drink. ~7Derrick Rams Battleship Texas. Breaking five great cables as if they had been threads, the 100-ton floating derrick Hercules, moored to the side of the new battleship Connecticut, broke adrift in the navy yard basin in Wallabout bay, New York, and crashed into the stern of the battleship Texas, smashing several plates and so damaging the war vessel that it will have to go into the dry dock. Towns Suffer for Water. Towns in the Turtle creek valley of Pennsylvania have been in dire distress for lack of water. Pitcairn, Stewart Station. Trafford City. Wilmerding, part of Braddock and several other smaller towns were high and dry through the breaking down of the Pennsylvania Water Company’s engine, which had been weakened by extra work. Fire Panic in City Hospital. Hundreds of patients in the city hospital on Blackwell's Island, New York, were panic-stricken Vhen flames in the laundry, a detached building, threatened the whole institution. The panic spread to the Home for Aged and Infirm, near by. Sixty-five laundresses were in peril, but were saved by the firemen. The damage is $30,000. Copper Losses Cause Suicide. R. H. Roberts, a prominent business man of Pittsburg, killed himself in a New York City hotel as the result of heavy losses in Amalgamated Copper stock. John D. Rockefeller and 11. 11. Rogers are said to be on the verge of a breach. Russians Strengthen Vladivostok. A Korean who recently reached Wonson from Vladivostok states that the Russians have strongly fortified the city and are gathering Vast stores there. Plans have been discussed for a winter campaign, and a force is said to be moving south from the Tumen River. Sioux City Stores Burn. Thousands of Christmas shoppers were imperiled by a fire in ..the retail center of Sioux City, lowa, which destroyed twenty-five buildings, covering two blocks, causing a property loss of $2,000,000. Wish the Hickory Preserved. Wooden vehicle manufacturers of the ■United States have asked the government to devise means of checking tin* ravages of species of insect that threatens the extinction of the hickory timber of the country.

Hay Memorial Chapel Burna. The Hay Memorial chapel, given to Westminster school by Secretary Hay in memory of his son, Adelbert S. Hay. was burned in Simsbury, Conn. The chapel was built and dedicated in 1902. Servia Abolishes Free Newspapers. King Peter of Servia has signed the press law, Which practically abolishes freedom of the preps in Servia, though aimed principally at the iinti-dymistie and opposition papers. Suspen led for Gould Hazing. Foijr members of tiie.jsophqmore class of Columbia University were'suspended for attempting to luize Kingdon Gould, and the students in a mass meeting petitioned the faculty to reinstate the men. Greatest Holiday Trade Ever Known. Holiday trade this yertr is the greatest ever known, according to the weekly reviews. Business began earlier than usual aud shows accumulating strength. Filipinos Ki 1 Thirty-eight Scouts. The f’ulajanes have ambushed and killed at Dolores, ou the island of Samar, a lieutenant and thirty-seven enlisted men of the Thirty'-eiglith ‘company of native scouts. Nan Patterson Case Heaulta in Mistrial After delilierating for twenty hours the jury in the Nau Patterson murder case in New York reported twice that it could not agree and was discharged. Two men are believed to have held out for conviction of the actress of ki.'ling “Caasar" Young.