Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

MAKE BIG HAUL AT BANK.

Burglars Carry Off Between SB,OOO and $ 10,000 at Eldorado, 111. A posse of citizens in Eldorado, II!., fought a rille and revolver battle with a band of burglars who had blown open the vault in the bank of C. B. Burnett & Sons. The thieves escaped with between SB.OJO aiid SIO,OOO. The bank is in a substantially built brick structure, with heavy iron bars over the windows. Few persons are abroad in Eldorado after midnight, and there is no police protection. The village was'awakened by a terrific explosion. Burnett and his sons, who live nearby, were the first to reach the scene. They were armed with revolvers, and sa’w several men running from the front door of the bank. The thieves detected thein, and in a moment the two parties were fighting desperately. Before piany shots had been fired re-enfofeeincnts came for the bankers. The other residents were armed with shotguns ami rifles, and two even carried axes. The rescuers were running in a band down the main street when the burglars fled, firing as they ran. The posse, in the darkness, fired at the flashes of light made by the weapons of the robbers. The hunt continued in this manner for nearly half a mile. The scene presented in the bank was one of ruin. Nitfoclycerin was used, and the large door of the vault was blown nearly across the oilice. The windows were smashed, a desk was knocked to pieces, and the protecting inner door of the vault was broken into bits. The steel cash boxes had been removed with their contents, nearly all in gold.

DUEL IN EXPRESS CAR. Two Messengers Battle with Pistols on Train Ont of Chicago. A desperate revolver duel under circumstances which railway men say were never paralleled took place early Wednesday on a flying Wabash train bound from Chicago to St. Louis. For twenty miles, with the train rushing and rocking thr.righ darkness, two employes of the Pacific Express Company, barricaded behind piles of express packages, sought to kill each other. The battle ended on arrival of the train in Decatur. The men engaging in the desperate encounter were John T. Ryan, 3620 West Sixty-fourth place, and Edward Greene, living in Hammond, both trusted employes of the company for many years. Both Greene and Ryan were wounded three times. An hour after the fight in the car Messenger Ryan whispered from a cot in the Wabash hospital in Decatur that he had suffered in defense of the property intrusted to his care. He declared Greene had invaded the oar with intent to rob it and that the duel followed the invavasibn. Greene told a different story. Land Fraud Suits Bear Fruit. As a result of the vigorous prosecution of land fraud cases in Oregon about 20,000 acres of school land in the Blue Mountain forest reserve has been abandoned by locators, who forfeited In the neighborhood of SIO,OOO. It is assumed that the land had been located by “dummies” and that the persons who provided the money became frightened. Dastardly Attempt at Poisoning. An attempt was made to poison the family of John Williamson in Washington, Ind. The father, 8-year-old daughter and s'year-old son may die as a result. The family had returned home from a funeral and drank water from the well. Examination shows arsenic had been placed in the pump.

Gov. Hoch Starts Suits. Gov, Hoch of Kansas has filed suit in the State Supreme Court demanding the impeachment of Mayor Rose of Kansas City. Kan., and James S. Gibson, county attorney of Wyandotte county, and for the revocation of the city’s charter because saloons are allowed to remain open. Solon Guilty "in Land Fraud. In Portland, Ore., the jury in the case of Congressman J. N. Williamson, Dr. Van Gessner, his partner in the live stock business, and Marion R. Biggs, a lawyer, returned a verdicWconvicting the defendants of subornation of perjury in securing men to fraudulently locate on government land. Spokane Has $200,000 Fire. A tire broke out in the heart of the wholesale and shipping section of Spokane, Wash., at 2:35 Tuesday morning which completely destroyed three brick buildings. The total tire loss will approximate $200,000. The Cudahy Packing Company stock was damaged $40,000.

Suicide Fails: Asks Daitinges. Because a revolver which he had just purchased to commit suicide missed tiro twice, Paul Sehlarduin has began suit against a hardware firm in San Bernardino, Cal., for the price of the weapon and damages for its failure to kill him. Sehlardum is 60 years old. Becoming despondent, he decided to kill himself. Five Killed; Twenty Injured. A rear end collision between the east-, bound New York limited express f vulu Kt. Louis ami a local passenger train standing at the Paoli. Pa., station of the Pennsylvania railroad resulted in the death of five men and the injuring o f more than twenty others. Smithville, Gino, Bank Closes. The Smithville Banking Company’s bank at Smithville. Ohio, closed. No statement of the cause could be obtained. The bank was one of a chain of small institutions organized by L. J. Alcorn of Toledo. Rich Mun Wed* Pretty Nurse. Frank R. Kimball, prominent in Boston business life and one of the wealthiest residents of Salem. Mass., has been married to the nurse who cared for him

duping a severe’illness following his first wife’s.death, and the news, when it became public, caused much comment. The .}iride_was Miss Katherine A. Arnold, a handsome girl from Nova Scotia.

DIE IN BURNING HOME.

Gasoline Stove Explodes in Fort Dodge, la.; Moth’er Seeks to End Life. Five children were burned and asphyxiated in a fire which destroyed - the home of Frederick Adamson in Fort Dodge, lowa. The dead are: Edna, aged 10; Armas, 8; Clarence, 6, and Ernest. 3 years old, ■ all children of Adamson, and Raymond Secord, the 3-year-old son of David Secord. Adamson had gone to work and the mother was visiting a neighbor, leaving the"gasoline stove burning. In the meantime the Secord youngster toddled up the stairs and awakened the four sleeping children. They were all playing in their nightgowns when the stpve exploded. A num'tier of persons saw the fire, but could do nothing; and it was with great difficulty that; the mother was restrained from throwing herself in the flames. The children - made no effort to leave, but covered their heads with their night clothes. Firemen were unable to enter until they-had flooded the house with water. When they reached the five children, all were dead.

TYPHOON KILLS MANY. Eleven Americans and Twenty-four Natives Drowned on Coast. Reports from places along the path of the recent typhoon on the Island of Luzon, P. 1., and the southern islands indicate great loss of life and property. In the waters surrounding Samar and other islands many coasting essels and island transports have been wrecked. Eleven Americans and twenty-four natives were drowned. At the town of Sorsogon fifteen natives were drowned. The loss on hemp plantations is estimated at $1,000,000. The army transport Juan Rodriguez is ashore at Legaspi. In the interior of Samar thousands of natives are homeless, and the same reports come from many of the other small islands. The army posts in the southern islands have been destroyed. The civil and military authorities are rushing aid to the suffering people in the form of supplies of food and shelter? Owing to the. . destruction of the telegraph system, reports are meager.

HANGS HIMSELF BEFORE POLICE.

Prisoner Bars Officer from Cell and Then Kills Himself.'

‘‘You never; will take me into court,” said John Hill, 40, when an officer entered tlie cell room in Two Harbors, Minn., to tpke him to court to stand trial for fighting on the street. Hill then barred the cell door, drew a cord from his pocket, tied the end to a bolt in tlie cell, the other end abound his neck, and hanged himself. In vain the policeman pulled at the cell door. He was forced to stand by and’watch the prisoner die. It was fully half an hour before the cell could be opened. When officers finally got in, Hill had been dead ten minutes. - ■» Murder Fol.ows Flogging. Dr. Alpha Mann was shot and instantly killed on the main street of Kaw City, Okla., by Dr. J. D. Irwin, who afterward loft the city, making good his escape. The shooting was the result of a general town quarrel following the public flogging of Joe Buffet, a merchant, who was recently arrested for attacking a small girl. J

Earthquake in Sweden. A severe earthquake was felt at Lundby, Hisingen Island, Sweden. It cracked tlie walls of houses and left fissures on the surface of the ground. Subterranean rumblings were followed by the violent rocking of houses and the splitting of inner and outer walls, driving people to seek safety in the open air. Taft Party Lands in San Francisco. Secretary Taft and more than fifty of tlie party which visited the Orient have landed in San Francisco. The Secretary, in an interview, says the Philippines show great gains, that the Chinese boycott will fail and that Japan really is glad of peace. Receiver for Dry Goods Firm. On application of Lindeke. Warner & Sons, wholesale dry goods •merchants of St. Paul, United States Judge Amidon appointed A. 11. Lindeke receiver for Johnson & Sloan, Retail dry goods merchants of Minneapolis. The liabilities, it is said, will be about $200,000.

Ohio Bank Safe Blown Open. The safe of the Bank of Osborn, Ohio, was blown open at 2 o'clock the other morning by burglars. The report of the explosion aroused the inhabitants and caused great excitement in the town. The safe blowers escaped, but the amount of booty is not known. Kansas City Bank Goes Under, The Kansas .City State Bank. Wiley O. Cox-, president, failed to open its dors Monday, having gone into voluntary liquidation. The bank had loaned $168,000 to the Batik of Salmon & Salmon at Clinton, Mo., which failed last J uly. Bank President Is Arrested. President J. A. Erickson of the Minot, N. 1).. National Bank, now in the hands of rs receiver, has been arrested on a warrant charging him with making a false report to the Comptroller of the Currency. Bond was fixed at SIO,(MX). Omaha Council men in Jail. Five Omaha Councilmen were sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt in trying to pass a gas franchise extension ordinance in defiance of a court order.

FORMING TRACTION TRUST.

Rockefeller’s Associates Secure Control of Ohio and Indiana Lines. The Standard Oil group of New York financiers has obtained control of traction securities in Ohio and Indiana with a par value of $83,105,000. at a reported cash outlay of $<50,000,000. Other simfkr»r transactions are known to be pjendj ing. The positive statement was made by a prominent Cleveland financier and was supported by the statement of. a I’hiladelphia banker, that the New Aork Standard Oil coterie is back of the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia. This company is working in Ohio through agencies—'the Elkins\V idener-Dolan syndicate and Randal Morgan, vice president of the gas company. The former syndicate bought the Cincinnati street railway properties and took over the Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo, the McCullough lines in Indiana, and several others. The latter has justbought the Tucker-Anthony properties, the Columbus, Buckeye, Lake and Newark, and the Columbus, Newark and Zanesville. It is also admitted by Philadelphia interests that control is sought of the Appleyard properties, known as the Columbus, London ami Springfield, the South Market street in Columbus, and the Dayton, Springfield and Urbana. The statement is made by several authorities that once these purchases have been made it is the intention of the United Gas Improvement Company, representing Standard Oil interests, to form a holding company with a capitalization so $50.000,0v0.- This will take over the securities of all of the various companies controlled.

BOY BURGLARS HOLD RECORD. Two Youths Who Have Robbed FiftyNine Places in Sixty Days Caught. Two youths, one 19 and the other 15 years old, who were arrested as they were leaving an upper East Side theater in New York, are charged with having shared in fifty-nine burglaries in the last sixty days in one Harlem police precinct. Tho younger' lad declared himself to be the son of a prosperous confectioner. He said his" companion apd a third boy not yet captured had made away with the proceeds of their robberies. They had used him because of his small size to climb tire escapes, crawl over transoms and to enter apartments by way of the dumb-waiter shafts.

SCHOOLBOY KILLS HIMSELF. Dispirited Because Parents Would Keep Him in School. Frank Hallwood, aged IG, son of Henry S. Hallwood, inventor of the Hallwood cash register, committed suicide in Columbus, Ohio, by shooting himself through the head with his father's revolver. The boy's mother found him lying in the family carriage in the barn in the rear of the Hallwood home. Tlje boy was a pupil at the Douglass Avenue school, but had been dispirited because his parents are said to have insisted he should continue his studies instead of going to work. Catch Bunk with Forged Check. The National City Bank of New York figures sensationally in two affairs. It is learned that the institution parted with securities valued at $359,090 in exchange for a forged check the other day. Its officials anticipated a refunding operation in government bonds with profit and rivals see a leak in Treasury Department information.

Fairbanks Buys Theater. A deal has been made whereby Vice President Fairbanks, his brother, N. W. Fairbanks, and a company of local capitalists came into possession of the site of the old Fountain Square theater in Springfield, Ohio. They paid $92,000 for it, and announce that they will begin at Once the erection of an eight-story office building and theater. Husband to Get the Alimony. Mrs. Robert A. Newlyn was granted a divorce and was ordered by Judge Smith in Common Pleas Court in Cincinnati, to pay Newlyn SI,OOO and $lO a week. The woman is given custody of the three children. Newlyn relinquishes all claims to dower right on the property of Mrs. Newlyn. Joint Wrecker Sent to Prison. In lola, Kam, C. L. Melvin, the joint wrecker, was sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five nor more than ten years on the charge of burglary and for not less than one nor more than five years on the charge pf stealing dynamite. Indictments for Sherrick Defu'cntlon. The grand jury in Indianapolis has leturned two indictments in connection with the Sherrick defalcation.. Ono is against Sherrick for misuse of the State's funds and embezzlement, and the other is against some one else whose name cannot be learned.

Morgan Acquir.s Another Million. The purchase of the Cincinnati. 11.-tm-i Jion and Dayton railroad by the Erie, which is controlled by J. I’. Morgan, realized a profit for the big financier of $1,000,000, Wall street men say. Another big gain is in sight in the bond issue. Ofliciala Sign Pence Term*. Premier Bouvier and Prince Von Radolin, the German ambassador, have signed the Franco-German accord concerning the Moroccan conference, thus definitely terminating the difficult negotiations. Cunoc Up*ct*|Two Drown. Willie FI. Bonham. 19 years old, and Lucy D. Miles, aged 10, of Indianapolis were drowned at Broad Ripple park while out in a canoe. The boat upset. Bonham's father la publisher of the Daily Pioneer at Deadwood, 8. D.