Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1906 — PASTOR A SWINDLER. [ARTICLE]

PASTOR A SWINDLER.

a,:,. , A. .V. , CONVICTED OF LAND FRAUD AGAINST GOVERNMENT. Rector of In I.end, S. I)., Found Gnilty of t!6n»p|fl»t (rally to Obtain 20,000 Acrr» of Nebraska, I .and. * ,-• •• .. 4 - Charged With conspiracy to defraud the United States out of 20.000 acres of land In Hooker county, Nebraska, Rev. George G, Ware, rector of a ehuTdi nr Lead, S. D., and president of the D. H. ICattle Company of Nebraska, was found guilty bv a jury in Judge Monger's eourt In Omaha on every count of the two indictments on which he was being tried. The case has been one of the hardest fnnglit of nil the land fraud proceedings. The Department or Justice was understood to be especially anxious for a conTietion, for the reason that Ware was considered one of the worst offenders Against the homestead laws. The evidence in the case showed that systematic filings by inmates of the GrandLlsLand soldiers’ home and by old soldiers from Towa and' othcr. points were matlo in be--half of Ware through the instrumentality of Frank W. I-tambvrt and Harry Welch, co-defendants, in the case. Lambert and .Welch pleaded guilty to the charge of ■pMagpiracy. The i«e»aity b* two years’ imprison m<*m in the penitentiary and n maximum fine of SIO,OOO, The Ant’s attorneys gave notice of appeal.

BANDITS TERRORISE CITV. Two Men Are Shot Down nml Another Terribly Renton I’p. •' Five armed men terrorized'the yillngo of East —Youngstown, (th-io. early - theothcr morning, shooting two imm mid terribly boating a third. The robbers made a raid on a saloon operated by Michael and Alexander Dyokivic, brothers, nnd, With revolvers drawn, ordered them to jglre up their -money. They showed resistance and-each robber- shot at them, all five bullets taking effect. The robbers then escaped, taking SSOO with them. The two victims may die. Jacob D. Eidelman. a butcher, was beaten into insensibility on the doorstep at his shop and robbed of about s2t*o by the same men.

SESTEVi R BOV FOB MURDER. r - Jnry Say* Hr Mn*t -Go to Heformstory for Burntnic Brother. David Gill water, the 13-year-old boy who murdered his baby brother by burning him to death last November, wns before the court in ChtHieothe, Ohio, and through his' attorney entered a plea of guilt y and was sentenced to the reform school until he is 21 years old. The boy was indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree, but owing to his youth the jury recommended him to the mercy of the court. and asked that he be pent to the industrial school.

SIX WOMEX DIE IN' FIRE. AH BodlM Recovered Were on Top Floor of Dowell, Mum., Hotel. At least six persons lost their lives in a fire which partly destroyed the Richardardson hotel, one of the leading -public houses in Lowell, Mass. The fire started a few minutes before 2 o'clock and the flames rapidly communicated to various part® of the structure. A large number of guests were in the hotel and those who were in the upper part of the building hnd little chance to escape by the stairways. The firemen found the dead bodies of six women in the top floor of the hotel.

Another Graft Case Trauredy. The second suicide since the investigation of alleged graft in the St.'Louis police department began came the other day. when Fatrolmnn John A. Scollard shot himself. The deed was committed fifteen minutes before Scollard was to have appeared before the police board to ats»:er to charges of immorality. He declared that he was innocent of any wrongdoing.

Cantaloupe Kl*s I* Killed. M. O. Coggins, millionaire commission merchant of Pittsburg, was killed by a runaway horse which he had tried to ride. The horse had but lately been purchased from Vice President Fairbanks. About ten years ago Mr. Coggins cornered the Rocky Ford melon market. He put $423,000 into the deal and cleared about sl,000,000. A War <o*t* 000,000. An official report submitted to the Japanese diet shows that the actual outlay for the war from the beginning of hostilities to their end in September was for the afmy $495,000,000 and for the navy $90,000,000, a total of $585,000,000. Korucry Case 1* Dropped, The cane against Charles K. Lehrberg of Bt. Louis, arrested in Cincinnati last November on a charge of forgery in the third degree, was nolle prossed in St. Louis. e~

Captain of Slocum ( onildril. 7 The captain of the burned steamer General Slocum has been convicted at New York of criminal negligence and sentenced to Sing Sing for ten ybars. ■' „■ TK.rn* **' t " I Murderer of Ulrl to Haas. Austin Francis, convicted of the murder of his sweetheart, Winona Newton, aged IS, was sentenced in Kansas City to be hanged March 15. ‘ 1 Woman Discovers IS New Stars. The discovery of ..twenty-five new variable stars by Miss Henrietta S. Leavitt by a recent examination of plates taken frith a 24 inch telescope is announced at the Harvard observatory, Plot to Kidnap Tailor, Mayor Book waiter ot Indianapolis says be was offered a bribe of $25,000 by a Kentucky lawyer for permission to kidnap W. 8. Tsylor, former Governor of thaCState, who waa wanted for alleged complicity in the murder of Wiiiiam Coe i||p' V- - y ' Vi