Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — WILL TRY SOLDIERS. [ARTICLE]

WILL TRY SOLDIERS.

INDICTED LIEUTENANT AND PRIVATE TO FACE COUNTS. T. . * War Department Orders Trial of’Men Indicted for Killing PittaburK Uit,iaen fa 1004— Platinum Found Near Ohio Town. . | ' . ■ y The War Department has seijt instrnctions to the office of the' United States district attorney in Pittsburg that the lang-delayed case of Lieut. Ralph H. Drury, U. Sf A.. and Private John DoWd of the Ninth infantry, under indicemcnt for the killing of William 11. Crowley, a citizen, of Pittsburg, be tried without .farther delay.. The case has been hanging fire since the shooting of Crowley. Sept, 13, 1904. when Dowd took refuge in the arsenal, remaining there for three weeks, protected by Lieut. Drury. Later Judge Acheson of the Federal Circuit Court decided that Dowd and Lieut. Drury should be turned over to the civil authorities, and this decision was sustained by the United States Supreme Court. Since then the defendants have tried to have a date set for their trial, but without success. According to the military authorities Crowley was detected in the theft of copper roofing belonging to the government and was shot while trying to escape arrest. DROWNS IN WIFE'S SIGHT. Mun Attempt* Ilcscne of Boy and BothLow TbelrULve*. Before the eyes of his young wife, George Davis, aged 25. lost his life in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue John Arke. an S-year-old boy. from drowning. The boy went out on the ice of the Rockaway river at Morristown, N. J., and broke through. Davis and his wife saw Arke drop into the water, and Davis cut down the clothesline in bis yard and tied one end about his waist. lie gave the other end to his wife and started toward the boy, who was floundering about in the broken ice. Lying down Davis reached out and seized Arke, and shouted to his wife to haul in on the rope. She drew her husband back from the hole until the boy was out of the water. As she started to pull again the rope broke and the man and boy slid back into the water and were drowned. PLATINUM FIND STIRS TOWN. Ediaon'a Birthplace, Milan, 0., Make* Dlwovery in Hnron River. Milan. Ohio, the birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, the electrical wizard, is greatly excited over the finding of largo quantities of platinum in the Huron river at that point. County Surveyor Smith has been making a survey of the river, but declines to make jiny statement. L. L. Stoddard, a banker, some time ago exhibited some specimens of mineral products taken from the river boil to Mr. Edison. .Aft er making an investigation the great inventor and scientist said the discovery would make all Milan rich. Shot Four Times In Flight. During a shooting affray in a billiard room in Tullahoma. Tenn., Mel Parker was wounded four times and is reported to be dying and Henry Brinkley was shot in the hack. James Holt in the hip, J. D. Baxter in the back and Tom Pratt in the head. The origin of the trouble is apparently unknown.

Explorers Perish in DcwrL The remains of Prof. Thomas Grindell and his party, who deft Douglas. Ariz.. in June, 1904. to explore Tiburon island, in the gulf of California, have been found in a desert-in Sonora, where they perished. evidently for want of water. The identity was established by letters addressed to Grindell. I<> Die in Electric Chair. In Dayton. Ohio. Roy Fowler was sentenced to die in the electric chair May 29 for the murder of his sweetheart, Mamie Haggerty, on Aug. IS. The murder followed the girl’s refusal of Fowler’s proposal of marriage. Another Cuban Revolt Predicted. Washington officials are worried over - the problem likely to confront them after the Cuban election -next month, when' a new revolt is expected, which may force an effort to annex the island. Death of Prominent Merchant. James E. Holden, general manager for Marshall Field & Co., died at his home in Chicago after an illness of three months. Russian General Is Murdered. Gen. Litvinoff, governor of the province of Akmolinsk. Asiatic Russia, was assassinated in the street near his office by two unknown men. Hill Announces Retirement. James J. Hill announces that he will retire from active business July 1. and will be succeeded by his son in control of enterprises. Railroad President Dies. Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, died suddenly of heart disease. - * t . Mono Acquitted of Perjury. Col. W. D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, was acquitted by a New York jury of the charge of perjury. Claims Pullman Relationship. A 5-year-old child, whose mother claims lie is ttefwirt a nephew of George M. Pullman, and who will receive $50,000 in Pullman stock on his majority, was found freezing and in rags in New York Kslter'ii Fourth Koi to Wed. Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schles-wig-Holatein-Sonderburg-Gluecksburg has been betrothed to Prince Augustus William. Princess Alexandra is a niece of the empress, and the young people are also related remotely on the male side. Both were born in 1887.