Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — TICKLE WITH POISON RAPIERS. [ARTICLE]

TICKLE WITH POISON RAPIERS.

Covrrnmriil Aikrd to Sippma Mphl Haiders la Paaay, P. I. Night raiders, who steal upon their sleeping victims' dwellings with poisoned rapiers, and, inserting them through cracks in the floor or walls, sting the sleepers to death, are causing terror in the Province of Antique, Island of Panay, P. I. The points of the instruments ■take no perceptible wound, and onlywake the victims by a tickling se&sarion. In a few days the victim dies. So frequent have deaths resulted that the military and civic authorities have been called upon to suppress the raiders. People have been advised to stuff up the cracks in the floors or to sleep high. The authorities are. doing everything in their giower to capture the gang. Mr*. Warner Wiaa Salt, Judge Cochran of Clinton, Ill* has ruled against Vespasian Warner, commisaiotxT of pensions, and In favor of his ■tepmofber in the sensational suit over the Warner millions. l ho> ra Kpidrnilr la Thlaa. The epidemic of cholera among the Chinese in the lower Yangtse ports is spreading. About 200 persons die dailyin the streets of Wn-Hn, Province of Xgan-liwei, and Kiu-Kiang, Province of Kiang-Sf. Richard Maaalrld Dies. Richard Mansfield, the best known actor on the American stage, died Friday at his summer residence. Seven Oaks, Ocean avenue, New London. Conn. Death was jHrectly due to disease of the liver, aggravated by compilation a.

f CARS CRASH) SCORE HURT. Flit Chicago Train Smashes Trolley ■ > Coach Crowded wllh People. A score of persons were injured, one dangerously, in a terrific smasbup on the St. Paul railroad in La Crosse, Wis. A fast Chicago’ passenger train ran into a street car which was crowded with passengers. The heavy train remained on the track and the passengers in its coaches were uninjured except for a severe shock. The engine, was badly wrecked, however, and it was two hours before the track was cleared and a new engine obtained to continue the journey. Tb p train was due in North La Crosse at a. m., but was late. At the grade-crossing the motorman did not see the approaching enJtiije, which was going unusually fast for a. train entering the city. It is regarded as miraculous that all the passengers Qn the crowded street car were not killed outright. The street car contained sixtyfive persons. A great panic ensued among the passengers, and for a time it was feared that many had been killed, and ambulances and a corps of physicians were hastily dispatched to the scene. James Gaskell, aged 00, had both legs broken and crusjied and was taken to a hospital in g serious condition.

Nebraska mob lynches man. Hans* Laborer Who Killed Farmer and Wife Last Spring. Loris Higgins, who A murdered W. L. Copple, a farmer, and his wife, near Ttosalie," Neb., May 12, was lynched at Bancroft Monday. Sheriff Young of Thurston county went to Omaha Sunday night to get his prisoner, who had been in the Douglas county jail since his capture, and took hint to Bancroft on a train which arrived there about 8 o’clock in the morning. Twenty men took Higgins from the sheriff, hauled him off in a dray and hung him to a tree. When the sheriff left for Omaha Sunday he was accosted by citizens at Bancroft, who asked him what he would do if they should attempt to lynch Higgins. “Shoot the first man who tries it,” he said. “Well, we just wanted to know. —Chances are you will have soma shooting to do.” Higgins’ crime was a wanton one. He had worked on the Copple farm and had some trivial dispute with Mr. Copple. Anger over this is the only suggestion of a reason for the murder of the farmer and his wife. He killed both in the barnyard with a gun. Ha was a-young man, and after his arrest become radically religious, participating in every service held at the jail.

BOY STABBED BY FATHER. Interferes When Parent* Quarrel and I* Slain by Frenmied Sire. While his mother, in whose defense he gave his life, wept hysterically at his bedside, John Oster, Jr., 23 years old, died in Mascoutah, 111., early Wednesday from knife wounds inflicted by his father, 60 years old, at the family home during the night. The elder Oster is a man of violent temper and during a quarrel with his wife struck her violently in the face. The son rushed to his mother’s assistance and was attacked by the father. During a struggle the old man drew a knife and stabbed his son repeatedly in the body. The wounded boy fled from the house pursued by his frenzied father*. The latter is lame, but kept up the chase until the son collapsed near the home of a neighbor, who saved him from further injury. Y’oung Oster was carried into the house and attended by a physician, but he had lost so much blood during the pursuit that he was unable to rally. He died a few hours later. The mother is broken-hearted, and demands the prosecution of her husband, who has been arrested.