Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — TELLS STRANGE TALE [ARTICLE]

TELLS STRANGE TALE

MAN HAS EXPERIENCE UKE HERO OF FICTION. Lecac; Start* Train of Romaaiie Brent* that Sound Almost ImprobaUc—Maine People Abstain from Meat on Account of Extortion. ' ** ’ When Fred C. Dorway, late of Sudbury, Ont., arrived at the Palmer House in Chicago the other day, swathed in a blach frock *oat of clerical cut and wearing a mild manner and a pair of eyeglasses, he brought a story with him which be didn't expect many people to believe. The plot centers about an inheritance of SIBO,OOO left him by a benevoient old •woman, one Mrs. 3. 11. Jam"*, who died 'hbout two ytvirs ago -in New York LLa •uocorod her in a train wreck at Moose Jaw, a small station near Rush Lake, Manitoba, •where, he said, he was stationed in the winter of 1905 as chief train dispatcher for> the Canadian Pacific railroad. Her entertainment cost him $25. He sent her a bill after her return to New Tork. “Inside of a month I received a letter from some New York lawyer telling fare" that she had left me SIBO,OOO. Right there my 'troubles began,” he explained. Dorway said that be procured the services of a lawyer named J. J. Dunlop at Kansas City and met him later by arrangement at the FifthAvenue Hotel in New York. Here a stranger called on him one nigat and offered him a box of chocolates. “I ana sot a drinking man,” said Mr, Dorway. “but I do like chocolates. 1 ate ono and fell from my chair. I do not know what happened immediately after that.” When he came to himself, he heard the waves slapping against the side of a vessel, he •ays. For about eleven months, as ncally a* he eonld gauge, he stayed in the bold of the vessel, not knowing whither It was bound. One morning he knocked over a few of his guards and escaped at • port. From the conversation of the natives, who wore black skins, he inferred that he was in Mexico, and at Vera Cruz. After divers and trying experiences he ■walked from Vera Crua to Zacatecas, where he took a ship for San Francisco. After working as a telegraph operator in San Francisco and Salt Lake, he reached Chicago, where he met bis wife by appointment. BASE BALL STANDINGS. Came* Won and tost by Clnba In Principal Lraguei. The baseball season is ended, and the pennant in the National League goes to Chicago, that in the American League to Detroit The final standing of the clubs Jaugs follow*. NATION At LEAGUE. W. L. tV. IObicago ...107 45 Brooklyn ...65 83 Pittsburg ..91 63 Cincinnati ,’.66 87 Phii’delphk 83 64 Bo*ton .....58 90 New Y0rk..82 71 St. L0ui5....52 101 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. t Detroit ....92 68 New Y0rk...70 78 Phirdeiphia 88 67 St L0ui5....69 83 Chicago ....87 64 Boston .....59 90 Cleveland ..85 67 Washington. 49 102

MEAT WP| PEOPLE TO STRIKE. Rise in Prices in Ansnatn Starts Plans for a Bis Revolt. A novel effect of the rise in the price of food stuffs, {particularly meat, U raking place at Augusta, Me. Nearly 1,200 people of Kennebec county are in open revolt against the high prices demanded for meat and have pledged themselves to abstain from all meat for ten days. It is hoped by this method to force prices down. The date on which the strike will become effective has not yet been announced, but the fasting will begin in Augusta. Gardner, Ilallowell, Winthrop and several of the smaller towns at the same time. Mob Wounds Forty Policemen. Seditious agitation led to serious rioting in Calcutta, in which forty poljcemen were wounded. A meeting was being held in honor of the students recently punished for assaulting the police, and harangues were delivered advocating the establishment of self-government, the meeting of opposition' &y force, etc. These speeches worked on the crowd. - Robbers Kill Alabama Officer. One of the most daring and successful crimes ever recorded in the South was committed in Seddon, Ala., Saturday night when four masked robbers looted the First National Bank of $575,525, murdered Sheriff John Williams, who was endeavoring to stop them, and escaped with their booty, —; Mast H«b( Man) Jodge Faalnts. When about to sentence Peter Mathie•on, who had been found guilty of murder In the first degree, Judge McClen&ban, collapsed and was carried from the court room in Bemidji, Minn. lie revived within a few minutes, however, returned to the fburt room and sentenced the man to hang within ninety days. , ' *— • Blast Whitlock Renominated In the city convention the Democrats of Toledo, Ohio, nominated Brand Whitlock, present Mayor, for another term. Robbers Get »S,»00 from Bank. The State Bank of Dickey, Lamoure county, N. D., was robbed early the other morning by bandits, who aacured $3,900 from the aafe. / Mob Drives Hindoos with Shots. At Danville, W»*h., an angry mob drove a entail jmrty of Hindoos across the line Into Oamuk, sending a shower of missiles after them. A few shots were discharged at the Irefqiasaera, but non? was injjurbS, it W believed. The nindoor had found shelter in, a cabin at Danville, dodowhtg their escape from Panada