Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

CONDITIONS AS IN FRANCE BEFORE REVOLUTION. Riot, Rapine and Rebellion Are Rampant and No One Dares Predict What Result Will Be—Wife Beater Nearly Killed by Mob. Russia is still in the throes of riot nnd disorder and rebellion. Count Witte is meeting with little success. He is called a dictator and has the confidence neither of the Czar’s government nor of the masses. The troops at Riga, the capital of Livonia, revolted and started fires which destroyed much of the city. In a series of riots at Mitau, the capital of Courland, 300 persons were killed. In southern Livonia the revolutionists liberated the prisoners and killed the assistant district governor and his secretary, throwing their bodies into the river. Landlords are being butchered on their estates and the great country houses are being pillaged and burned. Idle workingmen in St. Petersburg have pawned everything and thousands are starving. Children are dead of hunger and their bodies are unburied. Russia’s condition is like that of France before the revolution.

STUDENTS HOOT PRESIDENT. Nicholas Murray Butler Object of Hostile Demonstration. The remarkable spectacle of an entire college student body in open rebellion resulted at Columbia in New York from the faculty’s refusal to permit football and other intercollegiate competitions. More than 1,300 students gathered in one body hissed President Nicholas Murray Butler, hooted members of the faculty and half-masted the university flag. The underclass cane sprees were made occasion for this expression of disapproval, unprecedented in college annals. The members of the faculty present at first were inclined to smile at what they thought was a piece of childishness, but as the demonstration continued and grew in bitterness they realized the depth of the student dislike for their president.

NEARLY KILLS WIFE BEATER. Nebraskan Who Abused His Spouse Is Clubbed and Left to Die. Because he did not leave town ns ordered by the court, Henry Haack of Cole Ridge, Neb., convicted of beating his wife, was the victim of mob violence. With his nose broken, all the clothes torn from his person, a jaw fractured, hair torn from the scalp, both eyes swollen shut, his body bruised, his lungs full of water, he was left to die by a lonely road. Hours later a sympathetic farmer found him, unconscious and readj- to expire; He brought the unfortunate to town and sought medical aid. It is thought Haack cannot live.

Fires Cost Capital SIOO,OOO. Two early morning fires caused an aggregate loss of SIOO,OOO in Washington, D. C. At one of them four women were rescued, being carried down ladders when nearly overcome by smoke. The H. H. Juelg Piano Company, 1206 G street Northwest; P. H. Heiskell Jr. & Co. on C street, the Hodge & McDowell Co., and Hendrickson & Co., the commission houses of Isaac Wallerstein, Joseph Ferraro, and Ellis & Co. were the losers. Killed with Red Hot Poker. The body of George Beluchi, an Italian shoemaker, was found in his home in Cincinnati, death having been caused by a red-hot poker which thrust into his abdomen. His money was untouched. The police are looking-for a woman acquaintance of Beluchi and her male companion? who disappeared after having had a quarrel with the shoemaker.

Wreck Cansen Biff Loss. Four persons were seriously injured and more than SIOO,OOO worth of freight and rolling stock was destroyed in a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad near Hartsdale, Ind. A fast through freight train running nearly sixty miles an hour in a dense fog dashed into an open switch, derailing the locomotive and sixteen cars. Corey Settles with Wife. Mrs. Eaura Cook Corey, wife of the president of the United States Steel Corporation, according to reports from Pittsburg, accepts her husband’s offer to give her $1,000,000, make their son his sole heir and break with Mabel Gilman if she will abandon her plan to sue for divorce. Sick for Thirty-six Yearn. Barbara Scheiderer, a wealthy woman, died in Marysville, Ohio. She had been sick for thirty-six years. Miss Scheiderer leaves her estate to her sisters, Mrs. Braun of Marysville and Miss Lizzie Borger of Missouri. Empire Seoren a Home Ran. The Connecticut Baseball League lost its chief of umpires when Tom Reilly was elected Mayor of Meriden by a vote of 4,808 to 4,010 for George M. Curtis, the Republican candidate.

srw American Ministers. Third Assistant Secretary of State Peirce has been selected ns the first minister from the United States to Norway. David E. Thompson goes to Mexico and Lloyd C. Griscom to Brazil. M. P. Kora to Prlaon. Hugh Wntt, the former member of the British Parliament charged with inciting hired agents to murder his divorced wife, Julia Wntt, and Sir Reginald Beauchamp. was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Mother of Joaquin Miller Dead. Mrs. Miller, the aged mother of Joaqnin Miller, the port, died nt the poet’s residence. "The Heights.” a short distance back of Oakland, Cal., nged (nearly HO years. She will be buried in the little graveyard back of the house.

FAMOUS CHURCH IN STRAITS. Plymouth, Brooklyn, that Paid Beecher SIOO,OOO a Year, in Debt. Historic Plymouth church has come to such financial straits that a meeting was hefd the other night in Brooklyn to devisg ways and means to increase the revenues, which have so dwindled as to show a deficit in the last year, against a surplus thirty years ago, when Henry Ward Beecher was paid a salary of SIOO,OOO. The meeting was in no sense a reflection on the ministration of Dr. HiJ’is, but rather an indorsement of his untiring efforts in the face of extraordinarily adverse circumstances. The old Brooklyn Heights families who were the mainstay of Plymouth have disappeared through death or removal. This was in part the explanation made by Deacon 8. V. White, who presided over the meeting, at which Dr. Hillis, Gen. Horatio C. King and Col. William C. Beecher were the most striking figures. The deficit in the Plymouth exchequer from 1900 to 1905 was SB,OOO. For the present year it has been SI,OOO. Benjamin F. Blair, who read the financial statement, outlined a plan which he believed would bring in greater revenue. There are now forty-six pews, he said, which are expected to produce SII,OOO, but produce only $5,000, because occupied by strangers, who do not contribute. Dr. Hillis said his salary was SB,OOO and he received about $3,000 from a syndicate which prints his sermons. He expressed willingness to bear his share of the burden.

OHE SHIPMENTS INCREASE.

Season's Record Shows 6,000,000 Tons Over Any Preceding. The ore shipping season of 1905 has closed with • record exceeding by more than 6,000,000 gross tons that of the banner year of 1902. There have been forwarded by water from the Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin ranges of the Lake Superior region to lower lake ports a total of 33,400,000 gross tons, an amount which would have been larger had it not been for the disastrous gales of the closing days of November, which curtailed the movement. Official figures from all ports are not yet available. Approximately, the record stands as follows: Duluth, 8,508,443; Two Harbors, 7,779,850; Escanaba, 5,225.000; Superior, 5,100.000; Ashland, 3,500,000; Marquette, 3,000,000.

Buy Site for Hebrew ColleKe. Land for the site of a new union college to take the place of the various Hebrew colleges throughout the country has been purchased in Clifton, a Cincinnati suburb. The site is near the University of Cincinnati, on the hilltops north of the city. Work will begin immediately. The buildings already planned will require an outlay of more than $200,000. Ranchmen Are Shot Down. Robert W. Rutherford and M. *C. Murray from Philadelphia were killed by highwaymen on a ranch at Diaz, a small settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico. A man named Finstad of Los Angeles and another known as “Shorty” were wounded. The robbers escaped. No details of’ the fight have been received. Buy President'* Birthplace. The organization formed to purchase the house in which President Roosevelt was born nt 28 East 20th street in New York City and present it to the nation, has completed the details of the purchase and secured possession of the property for $60,000.

Give* Church to All Creed*. Dr. August Schmidt, a German physician in St. Louis, has given money for the erection of a church in South St. Louis, in which all denominations will be equally free to worship. There will be no sermon, no choir and no collection plate. Soldier* Manaacred by Mob. Soldiers killed 120 persons at Krassnojarsk, Russia, and wounded several hundred. One hundred soldiers were massacred by a mob in Tukum, Courland, and troops in revenge killed or wounded many pensonts. Wi*cou*in'a Governor Resiirn*. Gov. La Follette of Wisconsin handed In his resignation to the Legislature on the final day of its session at Madison, announcing that he will retire, from his present post Jan. 1 to enter tlie United States Senate. Walsh Bank* iu Liquidation. John R. Walsh’s three banks, the Chicago National. Home Savings and Equitable company, in Chicago, have been placed in liquidation after an investigation. The local clearing house guaranteed payment in full. Thirty Prraon* Killed in Riot. Serious anti-foreign riots among coolie laborers in Shanghai resulted in thirty persons being killed and several Euro-

peans being injured. It is said the moving causes for the outbreak were the anti-American boycott and a general feeling of hostility to foreigners. The German consul was stoned and the American vice consul and several other foreigners were injured.

CROP RETURNS ARE TOLD. Complete Statement for Year Insned by Department of Agriculture. Final returns to the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, according to a bulletin issued Wednesday afternoon, show the acreage and production (bushels) of the principal farm crops in 1905 to have been as follows: Acreage. Production. Corn 94,011,369 2,707,993.540 Winter wheat 29,804,018 428.462,834 Spring wheat 17,999,061 264,516.655 Oats 28.046,746 953,216.177 Barley 5,095,528 136,651,020 Rye 1,662,508 27,616,045 Buckwheat 760,118 14.585,082 Flax seed 2,534,836 28,477,753 Rice 460,198 12.933,436 Potatoes 2,996,757 260,741,294 Hay 39.361,960 *60,531,611 Tobacco 776,112 **633,033,719 ♦Tons. **Pounds. The average weight per bushel is shown by reports received by the bureau to be 58.3 pounds for winter wheat and 32.7 pounds for oats.

PENSION PLAN ADOPTED.

Vanderbilt Lines Decide to Provide for Aged Employe*. The boards of directors of the Vanderbilt roads, embracing the New York Central, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroads, have decided to establish a pension bureau for each road-to take care of faithful employes who have been in the service for a great number of years and are no longer fitted for active duty.

BRIDE DIES, SAVING STEP-SON.

Young Woman, Fatally Burned, Carries Infant to Safety. Mrs. Michael Schultz, a bride of a month, died in Paynesville, Minn., as a result of burns received while she saved her 3-year-old stepson from death by fire. A lamp fell from a shelf and broke, throwing burning oil over the woman and child. Mrs. Schultz carried the infant out of doors and smothered the flames in a snowbank. She then collapsed and died after suffering intensely. Gem Importation* Grow. Imports of diamonds and other precious stones have reached the remarkable total of $37,000,090 at the port of New York for the present year. Not only has the annual increase of from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 been kept up, but the banner year of 1904 with $26,092,275 worth of gems, has been beaten by nearly SII,OOOXIOO. Jilted on Hi* Wedding Day. Miss Nora Whitlock, a well-known Omaha girl, married Willard Teeters of Lincoln Monday, the day set for her marriage to William Neuman of Blair. Neuman and his best man came to Omaha for the wedding, only to receive a telegram from the girl telling of her marriage to the other man. Cattle Dyina, of Thirst. The unprecedented calm which has prevailed in Kansas for a week has driven cattlemen to desperation and caused great suff r--ig among cattle for lack of water. r ■ bly half the cattle in the State ar< \ pendent on windmills for water, and when the windmills fail the water fails.

Pullman Porters Organise. A Pullman car porters’ union which is intended to include every negro railroad employe in the service in the United States has been organized by the porters, case and dining car men running into New York City on the various lines. Shot by Unknown Aasaaain. Clarence Albright, while seated at his breakfast table in Kingman, Kan., was shot and killed by an unknown assassin, who fired through the window. The murderer escaped. Albright was well known throughout that part of Kansas. American Pork la Barred. The order in council prohibiting the importation and slaughtering of hogs in bond from the United States will go into effect in Canada Jan. 1. Its object is to prevent the importation of disease. O’Shea Gets New Trial. Victor Roland O’Shea, convicted in Chicago of the murder of his wife, has been granted n new trial by the Illinois Supreme Court. Friendly Boxina Match Fatal. Before the eyes of his two brothers, Patrick Reynolds, 21 years old, was killed in n friendly boxing bout with Frank Shanahan, 10 years old, in Philadelphia.

THEATER FIRE KILLS FOUR. Tenants of Building Are Suffocated by Smoke at Lorain, Ohio. Foui- lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the Overbeck theater in Lorain, Ohio. The dead are: James Dwyer, 28; Mrs. William Marsh, 24, and her two children, Grace, aged 3 years, and Clifford, aged 7 months. The Marsh family had apartments in the front of the building on the third floor. William Marsh was stage manager for the theater. Dwyer, another employe of the theater, slept in the basement, where the fire originated, from which escape was cut off. Mrs. Marsh and her children were suffocated by the smoke which poured up the narrow stairway. The loss on the theater, which was comparatively a new one, is $35,000. The loss on the entire building is $50,000. The theater was owned by the Verbeck Amusement Company of Oil City, Pa., and leased by H. H. Dykman of Elyria, Ohio. A dozen persons living in the building had narrow escapes from being suffocated. The fire department did not have a ladder sufficiently long to reach the windows where the imprisoned persons were and William Schultz, a merchant, climbed to the top of the longest ladder, raised and held a second ladder to the window where the frantic men and women were waiting for help. They climbed down the improvised escape and Schultz stood in his perilous position for thirty minutes while the descent of the tenants was made over his body. Eight persons were rescued in this manner.

NEW YORK DOCKS O?I FIRE.

Ferry House of Lackawanna Road Burned— Loks $650,000. Fire started in the offices of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad at the foot of West Twenty-second street, New York. It spread rapidly to the offices of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the ferry house on the south. The fire soon was brought under control and the ferry houses of the Erie and the Pennsylvania railroads were out of danger. The ferry house of the Del-aw-are, Lackawanna and Western was in ruins and almost a complete loss, while that of the Jersey Central was badly damaged. One shed and section of the dock belonging to the Erie railroad also were partially burned. The loss was $650,000. Lose* Eye from Ammonia. Mrs. Ina Berry, w’ho recently defied arrest for four days in a railway coach in which she had fortified herself at Girard, Kan., underwent an operation in Kansas City, in which her left eye was removed. The eyesight had been destroyed by the ammonia used by her captors in driving the woman from the coach.

Million Dollar Baby Is Born. Another milliou-dollar baby was born Wednesday. _ The little one is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Clark, who are at San Mateo, Cal. As soon as the birth of the child was announced Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, the grandfather, announced that he would settle $1,000,000 up6n her. C«ar Refuse* Minintera’ Plea. Former Gov. William R. Taylor of Wisconsin, who was sw-ept into power by the “granger” movement and who first established the principle of State control of railroads, is beggared by speculation and has entered a semi-charita-ble home for the aged near Madison. Foot Ball Forbidden at Columbia. Football in Columbia University is abolished. This action is of the university council. Not only must football go, but President Butler was asked by the council to take steps to eliminate all intercollegiate sport at the institution. Mr*. Wilaon I* Acquitted. Mrs. Edward R. Wilson, who shot and slightly wounded her husband, who deserted her and her child, has been acquitted by a New York jury and a collection for her was taken up in the court loom. Reform School Burn*. The boys’ reform school of the District of Columbia, some distance outside of Washington, caught fire and the main building, in which were housed 300 boys, was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000. No lives were lost. Death of Henry E. Weaver. Henry E. Weaver, the well-known Chicago coal merchant, died suddenly while at the dinner table at his home, surrounded by his family. He was stricken with apoplexy and expired before assistance could be rendered. Attempt to Kill Gen. Reyea. The State Department in Washington has received Information that an attempt was made in Bogota to dispose of President Reyes ns an incident to a plot for overturning the government. Many prom- i inent men have been arrested.