Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — MAN THOUGHT DEAD RETURNS. [ARTICLE]

MAN THOUGHT DEAD RETURNS.

Kidnaped Jaat Before Wedding, Escape* In Mexico from Captor*.

Like one risen from the grave Frank Montgomery, 25 years old, has returned to the home of his parents in Lancaster, Pa., after an absence of more than a year. Montgomery left Lancaster last August for Gapland. a town in western Maryland, to wed Miss Malvfna Castle. He states that while walking along the street he was felled by a blow on the head. When he recovered consciousness he was in a strange country in the custody of four men. They finally entered Mexico and one night last June Montgomery escaped near the town of Alafto.

Two-Year-Old Boy la Acquitted. ‘T will not hold this defendant on circumstantial evidence alone. He is therefore discharged and the prosecutor will pay the costs.” There was a wild shout of applause from 300 spectators. It was the case of Frank D. Fisher of Hadewood against George Wilson Shaffer, aged 2 years, and the hearing was before Magistrate W. P. Armstrong in Pittsburg. The charge was malicious mischief, Fisher saying the child bad dug a hole in his lawn. Brokea Rati Causes Accldeut. Twenty-one persons were injured, none of them seriously, by the derailment of a north-bound train on the Southern railway at Red Hill, nine miles south of Charlottesville, Va. The entire train except the engine and tender was overturned. Powder Blast Kills Two. Two men were blown to pieces when three tons of nitroglycerin exploded with terrific force at the Dupont de Xemoures powder works at Sobrantc, on the bay shore, sixteen miles north of Berkeley, Cal. Mutiny on IT.l T . S. Warship. The officers and men of the United States cruiser Raleigh, at Honolulu, complain of having no shore leave for the last two months. As a result there has been almost a mutiny on board. The coaling of the cruiser has been delayed. Toledo Sobers 5150,000 Fire. Fire of unknown origin, which started In the upper stories of the Moreton Truck and Storage building in Toledo, Ohio, caused a loss estimated st about 1150,000 to $200,0001 The building was occupied by the International Harvester Company. # Many People for Csss4u Lord Strath cons, in an interview in New York, said that before the end -of the century Canada’s population will be as great as that of the United States BOW.