Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

PRISON FOR WHITE CAPS. Terms of Fifty Years and Less Imposed on Mississippi Men. David Posey was convicted of manslaughter in the Circuit Court in Brookhaven, Miss., for the killing of Ben Bayless, a negro. The defendant said the killing was justifiable, as he found the negro stealing corn. The jury was out less than an hour. After the usual motion for a new trial, which was overruled, Judge Wilkinson sentenced Posey to twenty-five years In the penitentiary. Judge Wilkinson passed sentence on ten other men, as follows: Oscar Franklin, life imprisonment for the murder of Eli Hilson, a negro, and Will Franklin, D. W. Smith, Elias Smith, R. L. Smith and Elbert Gil), each fifty years in the penitentiary for manslaughter In killing •'Henry List, a negro. These two killings were the whitecap cases, which aroused the indignation of citizens and caused the formation of the Law and Order League. John Smith and John McNulty, negroes, w|io were convicted of murder, received life sentences. Sam Posey, who pleaded guilty to two charges of whitecupping, and was convicted of highway robbery, was sentenced to ten years on the robbery charge and five years on each of the whitecapping charges," a total of twenty years. COLUMBUS STORES BURN. Hole Is Scorched in Middle of Ohio Capital’s Business District. Fire in the business center of Columbus, Ohio, destroyed property valued at $150,000 to $166,000. Flames started in the Mithoff Building on High street and spread to adjoining property. Five firemen were hurt by an explosion while fighting the fire. Losses on buildings— Mithoff block, $15,000; Wheeler block, $2,500; Deshler block, SI,OOO. Losses on stock —Krauss, Butler & Benham Co., $100,000; Osterman & David, $10,000; Wheeler Grocery Company, $13,000; Gross Brothers, florists. $1,500: New First National Bank, $500; Charles Dickinson, oyster dealer, $500; Annelle Laken, woman’s exchange, $500; Parisian Cloak Company. $800; Amos Millinery •Company, $100; Hartpence Dental Supply Company, $8,000; Joseph Hirsch, saloon. $500; tenants of Mithoff block, SI,OOO. All are fully insured. The course of fire was defective electric wiring or a natural gas explosion. FIRE BURNS $250,000 IN BILLS. Money Shipped by Banks Is Destroyed in Express Car Fire. The Adams Express Company loses nearly a quarter of a million dollars by a fire which destroyed one of its cars on the owl train on the Boston and Albany railroad. The loss includes bunk bills and coupon bonds, all negotiable paper, in transit from New York banks to other banks.

Ohio Banks in Trouble. The First National Bunk of Conneaut, Ohio, and the Matine Bank of Conneaut Harbor did not open their doors for business Tuesday. The suspension resulted from runs on both concerns during the last few days. Officials say the concerns are entirely solvent and declare that business will be resumed again in a short time. Long Distance Wireless Work. Regular communication has been established between Kansas City and Chicago by the DeForest Wireless Telegraph Company. Fifteen aerograms were received in Chicago Thursday direct from the western city. The distance is 460 miles and the successful operation of wireless telegraphy for this distance on land breaks all records. Frightful Cost of War. According to Count Okunia. the exPrime Minister of Japan, the war with Russia is costing his country $5,000,000 a week, and the Czar’s Finance Minister puts Russia’s expenditure at $6,250,000 a week. At this rate Japan lias spent $l9O 000,000 and Russia $225,000,000 on the war since it began. President to Make Speech. President Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to attend the Lincoln day dinner to be given by the Republican Club of New York Feb. 13. The invitation was extended by WiHintn D. Mtifphy, of New York in behalf of the club. The President will deliver an address at the dinner. To Colonize Italians. Agents of the Italian government/ who have been for some time on a eelonization scheme, are said to have purchased 8,000 acres of land in Newton county, Missouri, ami 5,000 Italians, through government aid, will be sent to establish a colony. Eight Are Killed in Beds. Eight persons were killed in Minneapolis about 1 o'clock Tuesday morning xjihbn the wall of the O. H. Peck building on Fifth street south, which was left standing by the fire, toppled over in a high gale and struck the Crocker hotel. Nude Body Found. The body of a young woman was found In the mountains near Colorado Springs, Colo., without a vestige of clothing and w.'th the features burned beyond recognition and the deepest mystery shrouds the case. Revolt in Paraguay Wins. A cablegram has been received at the Bute Department in Washington from the acting American consul at Asuncion, Paraguay, stating that the revolution has been successful and that peace has been proclaimed. Moves in Eastern War Game. Eight Russian torpedo boats have escaped from Port Arthur during a severe storm, according to a London report from Chefoo. St. Petersburg hear* through Gen. Kuropatkin a report that

the Russians have retaken 203-Meter Hill. Tokio says the Japanese have captured two more important positions near Port Arthur. FORCED TO TRAVEL AS MAN. Mother of Kansas Girl Causes Arreat of Her Uncle for Abduction. J. W. Lawrence, a middle-aged bachelor, is under arrest on a charge of abducting his 17-year-old niece, Loie Minard, and compelling her to disguise her sex and travel over the country with him in a “prairie schooner” for nearly n J ear. Lawrence was visiting at the home of his sister, Mrs. Minard, at Concordia, Kan., last March and fell in love with her pretty daughter. When he left Concordia ho took the girl without the knowledge or consent of her mother. Search was instituted for the missing girl, but no trace of her was found until the other day, when she was found with her uncle. On leaving Concordia Lawrence, it is charged, compelled his niece to don male attire and to submit to having her brown hair cropped close. Thus disguised she accompanied him in his wanderings over the country, passing as a young man. The couple traveled in a wagon, picking tip sucfiTwork as they could find to do as they wandered from place to place. Lawrence will be taken back to Kansas for trial. CANADA TO BUILD SHIPS. Cruisers to Be Constructed as Part of Laurier’s Program. The action of the home government, says a dispatch from Montreal, in withdrawing the Atlantic and Pacific fleets from Canadian waters will result in the construction of three cruisers by the dominion government as a start in the naval program which Sir Wilfrid Laurier has in mind. For a long time the premier and his colleagues have felt, the correspondent asserts, that Canada should undertake the construction of a navy which in time would give the coast line an adequate defense. The training of naval reserves, which is now in progress in West Indian waters, is part of the program, and it is expected that an announcement in this connection will be made at the coming session of parliament.

RETURNS $40,000 OF FUNDS. B. B. McGreevy Admits He Was President of Defunct Nebraska Bank. Henry McDonald, captain of Rangers at Phoenix, Ariz., has recovered from Bernard B. McGreevy, president of the defunct Elkhorn National Bank of O’Neill, Neb., bank paper to the amount of $40,000. McGreevy for the first time admitted he had been president of the institution, having previously insisted he was only bookkeeper nnd that if there was a shortage it was the fault of Cashier Patrick Hagerty. Captain McDonald says $15,000 of recovered money is on deposit in an Arizona bank and $25,000 in a Nebraska bank under an assumed name. No Constitution for Russia. Emperor Nicholas has formally notified the country that agitation for a constitution and the convocation of a national assembly is useless. Such is the construction placed upon the indorsement written in his own band on the resolutions telegraphed by the Chernigov Zemstvo. Shoots Woman Who Rejects Him. Fred Jones, clerk in a store at Newfane, shot and killed Mrs. Abbie Goodrich and Constable William C. Graj' in Lockport, N. Y., and then killed himself. Jones was a suitor of Mrs. Goodrich, who was a widow. She objected to his attentions. Leaps from Bridge to Death. John Parkers of Martin's Ferry, Ohio, bade a couple of friends good-by, climbed on the railing of the terminal bridge in Wheeling, W. Va., and dropped to the ice, sixty K feet below. His body £roke through the ice nnd probably will never be recovered. Two Leaders Are Dropped. H. E. Nivin of Berthoud, Colo., and J. W. Whitehead of Medina, Ohio, leaders in the Rural Carriers’ Association, have been dismissed by the Postmaster General because of their alleged efforts to influence legislation. 12,804.616 Pay to See the Fair. The experts who have been going over the books of the World's Fair to get the actual number of admissions paid and free, find that the total was 19,694,855. Of these 12,804,616 were paid and 6,890,239 free. Ex-Chief Ames Gets a Pardon. Former Chief of Police Ames of Minneapolis, under a six years’ sentence in prison, has been given a full pardon. He was convicted of receiving bribes from women of the town. Acid Thrown on a Woman. Mrs. Teresa Grimm, living with her husband in Chicago, was disfigured with carbolic acid thrown, she states, by a former employer. She charges that he was actuated by jealousy and revenge. Boiler Explosion Kills Four. Four men were killed in a boiler explosion at the sawmill of B. F. Redline, near Rohrsburg, Pa. The men comprised the entire force of the sawmill. Indictment for Perry Found. The grand jury in Chicago voted a true bill, charging arson against Isaac N. Terry, former bank president. Honor 1 to Judge Parker. Bench and bar of New York City gav* a dinner to Alton B. Parker to honor his return to tho practice of law. Oppose Inaugural Ball. Opposition to th* time-honored inaugural ball ha* arisen among members of Congress and th* affair may be dropped.

MOB BLOWS UP GAS PIPE LINE. Kansans Use Dynamite When Legal War on Work Fails. A band of 100 men from Independence and Coffeyville, Kan., blew up the pipe line of the Kansas Natural Gas Company, destroying nearly a mile of the pipe. The mob was heavily armed and every member wore a mask. Dynamite was resorted to by those opposed to permitting the piping of gas out of the State, the company having purposed to pipe the gas to Kansas City, Joplin and other Missouri towns. The mob was orderly, and, although the guardians of the company’s property were compelled to step aside, no violence was done them. A gang of Italian workmen guarding tools were driven away and the tools destroyed. The people of the gas belt have organized, and. with the motto, “Kansas gas for Kansas,” have striven to prevent the building of the pipe line. They have been defeated repeatedly in the courts, and last week the Supreme Court issued a sweeping injunction forbidding any interference with the work. TROOPS BUSY IN PHILIPPINES. Gen. Wood Reports Army in the Field Quelling Uprisings. Gen. Wood, commanding the department of Mindanao, Pumppine division, in his annual report to the War Department says that the troops of the department have been in the field a great portion of the year quelling armed uprisings and preventing slave trade and kindred abuses. -en. Wood adds: “The establishment of civil government and the extension over the Moros of certain laws and regulations has caused some excitement and at times serious resistance, especially the law prohibiting slavery. In some sections active hostility has been engendered ..y our presence, especially in the Lake Lanao region, where almost constant murderous attacks on workingmen and soldiers were the rule until the effects of the recent expeditions to the Taraca side of the lake, combined with expeditions to other sections of the Lamao, were felt by the Moros.

BOY TIED UP BY THE THUMBS? Overseer of Poor Farm Reported to Have Inflicted Cruelties. Alleged cruelties inflicted on the children at the poor farm in Brule county, South Dakota, have caused a sensation. One little boy was reported to the overseer as having stolen an orange at school and when accused of it refused to confess. It is charged that the overseer broke a whip on the child and, still failing to get a confession, proceeded to tie him up by the thumbs. An investigation is on foot and the matter will be brought to the notice of the grand jury. GROWTH BY ALL CHURCHES. Denominations in America Gain Decidedly in Membership. Nearly all religious sects in America show a larger percentage of increase for 1904 than in previous years. The Episcopal church gained 3 per cent. The country's population growth is estimated at about 2 per cent. The Episcopalians number 807,351. The Presbyterian rate of increase was 2% per cent, the total membership being 1,094,908. The Methodists gained 1 4-5 per cent. The body has now 3,064,735 members. Sailors Are Vindicated. Vindication for all the officers and men on the Massachusetts is contained in the report of the board appointed by the commandant of the League Island navy yard to investigate the recent accident on board that vessel in which the death of several men was caused by the blowing off of a gasket. Railroads Caught Unprepared. An unusually early movement of grain has caught railroads unawares, and Chicago is deluged with between 6,000,000 and 9,000,000 bushels of cereals, vainly awaiting transportation to the seaboard and intermediate distributing points. More is on the way and the urgency is great. loVa Bank Closes Doors. The Dedham Savings Bank of Dedham, lo\va. has been closed and the president, J. CC L’aton, who left ostensibly for funds, cannot be found. He is said to be short about $20,000 and the bank has commenced suit against him for the amount. The bank had $60,000 in deposits. Heavy Loss at Washington. The Metropolitan Clubhouse, the home of the most fashionable club in Washington, was ruined by fire, causing an estimated loss of $60,000 to SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. The fire was caused by a spark from an electric wire. Bishop Richard Phelan Dead. After a lingering illness of three years, due to the infirmities of old age, Right Rev. Richard Phelan, bishop of the Pittsburg diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, died at St. Paul’s orphan asylum, Idlewood, surrounded by his relatives and many church officials. Decision* by the Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court decides that all railroad cars, including locomotives, must be equipped with uniunifonn automatic couplers. The old Nebraska-Missouri boundary dispute it decided in favor of Nebraska. Indictment* for Chadwick*. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick and her husband, Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick, have been indicted by the grand jury in Cleveland for forging and uttering a note bearing the name of Andrew Carnegie. Thieve* G*t $3,000 in Jewelry. In Atlanta, Ga., th* Peachtree street residence of J. K. Orr, one of Atlanta’* wealthiest men, was entered and robbed of more than SB,OOO worth of jewelry.