Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — ANNOYER IS CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

ANNOYER IS CAUGHT.

HAO WRITTEN INSULTING LETTERS TO PRESIDENT. jrfT , : i ■ Apprehended in Prtblle Library In Vaatclalr, X. J., While Inditing Another Critical Epistle— Kniil»frr Saw Way Oat from Wreck;. John Peabody, who jive* just over the •, Orange mountains near Montclair, S’: .1., was arrested by secret service, officers from Washington, on a charge of annoying President Roosevelt. For months the President, it is allegodrbae been receiving letters attacking him for his position on the Panama canal question, on railroad rebates and in fact on every prominent public matter that has come up for discussion. These letters are said to hare been offensive and- were mailed at different points, some at Bloomfield, some at Montclair, aud others at Verona, jN. J. The Writer gave his name, "hut not his address, and there was much difficulty id ’’finding lilm. The detectives, say he was finally found in a public library in MontMair, where he was prepaying another letter when lie was arrested. Peabody was taken before the authorities and at ter a severe lecture and upon promising ' to cease annoying the President with lm letters, he was allowed to go, BAZEnS MAY LAND IN PRISON. Father of Ohio Schoolboy Killed by Treatment Will Prosecute. ... Criminal prosecution and a suit damages fro’" * 1 death of Cecil Leap, a IG-yoar-old high School boj trf -Hillards, Ohio, who was hazed by eight of his comrades and sue cumhed to his injuries. Charles Leap, . the boy’s father, has engaged aa attorney tb~.look ~up "the evidence, trad the county prosecutor and coroner are investigating with a view to action. The lad was taken by Iris comrades during the recess hour and bounced on a rail until he dropped frtrai exhaustion to the ground. The physician who attended him said he was injured at the base of the brain, at the base of the spine and internally. MAN CHEATS DEATH BY GRIT. m Freight Engineer, Under Wreck, Savva Way Ont Before Explosion. With one leg crushed and broken, Grover Hinderer, aa engineer on the Burlington railroad, lay on bis back for an hour Eawing through heavy timbers under which he was pinioned after a wreck near Wood Station, I}L He succeeded in releasing himself and crawled from the debris a few minutes before the boiler of his engine burst, exploring a car of powder. The explosion demolished the debris uipJef which he had been crushed. Boodler Deserted by Wife. Edmund Bersch, formerly a member of the St. Louis house of delegates and the first man to be convicted of hoodliug, wu released from prison at Jefferson City the other day after serving his sentence, and returned home. None of his relatives wss present to meet him at the station, and he learned that he had been deserted by bis wife, who has procured g divorce. Firs Die fa Dynamite Bloat. In an explosion of dynamite at the works of the Dolese & Shepard Company at Gary, 111., five men were killed and many others hurt, two of them probably fatally. Two stone crushers, a barn and a tool house were destroyed, and damage to the of $25,000 was done. About lfo workmen were about the place when the explosion occurred. r

Xrgro School Lair la Valid. The Kansas Supreme Court has decided that the law passed by the last Legislature providing for separate high' schools for the whites and negroes at Kansas City, Kan., is valid. The decision jpaves the way for the Legislature to paSAefn act separating the whites from the negroes in ait the schools of the State. AuaalU Head of Soldiers’ Home. James Long, an inmate of the State soldiers’ home in Hot Springs, S. D., was arrested and placed under SSOO bonds by Judge Applegate on a charge of assaulting Col. Goddard, commandant of the home, with a piece of lead pipe. Interference by another inmate of the home saved the commandant’s life. Earth Opens in Italy. At Genzano, a town of 8,000 inhabitant in the Province of Potenza, Italy, the earth suddenly opened the other day, engulfing ten houses and shattering many others, which threaten to fall. Many persons were buried in the ruins. A (round In New York Harbor. Two out of four battleships under command of Admiral Evans ran aground in New Tork harbor aDd a third struck one of the stranded vessels, the Illinois alone •scaping mishap. Great Flywheel Burst*. Ths large flywheel, weighing eighteen tons, of the Corliss engine and power house of'the Morgan Engineering Works at Alliance, Ohio, burst, wrecking one end of the building. Decatur Acquitted of Kailua:. Midshipman Stephen Decatur, Jr., tyas acquitted by the court-martial at Annapolis of the charge of basing. “Qua Grab” Ordluaure Illesral. Omaha “gas grab" ordinance has been held illegal hi court, and the Mayor and! other officials were rebuked for the mMsnres employed to force the passage of the act in the City Council. Earthquake Wreck* a Town. Earthquakes, succeeding each other, occurred st short interval* and property suffered in Mssayra, Nicaragua, to ths extent of about $500,000 and ths town will be destroyed if another shock occurs. There were no personal calamities. j* r •