THEIR MONEY Indians Threaten to Break Open a Bank at Dowagiac, Mich. MANY OF THEM ARE WELL ARMED Battle With Ore Thieves at Victor Colo. -Headless Body Found Near Railroad Tracks--Nebraska City Strike Settled--Other News. Three hundred Pottawattamie Indians are on a rampage at Dowagiac, and are besieging Lee Bros'. bank, which they threaten to break open if they are not paid the money they expected to receive for signing over their claims to lake front land in Chicago.
Many of the Indians are armed. The town marshal has sworn in a number of depnties, All. other citizens are keeping indoors, fearing to leave their, homes. The Indians came to town to get $38,000 which was to be paid them by an agent of the Chicago syndicate to which they have signed over their power of attorney to act in the lake front land case. The Indians were to have received $100 euch.
Just as the agent was about to issue the money An order was received from the probate judge of the county instructing him to make payment only to the guardians of the Indians. The judge feared the Indians would spend the money in saloons, and after becoming intoxicated cause trouble. Every one is hoping that the Indians will grow quieter as the night wears on. If any attempt should be made to wreck the bank a serious conflict is sure to follow. BATTLE UNDER GROUND Ore Thieves Make Desperate Fight In Independence Mine.
A desperate battle four hundred feet under ground between ore thieves and officers and trusted employes occurred in the Independence mine on Battle mountain, near Victor, Col. Between fifty and seventy-five shots were exchanged between the opposing parties. Lee Glockner, a member of the company's force, was shot twice, but not seriously Injured. The fight was most determined, but the pirates finally gained the upper hand and forced the company's men to retreat toward the big shaft, giving the thieves an opportunity to escape. The management of Stratton's Indeyendence company of London, England, which owns the Independence mine, has been aware for a long time that rich deposits of sylvanite in the mine were being systematically robbed, the stealings amounting to thousands of dollars a month.
Detectives were employed and it is said the thieves were detected in the act of looting a rich seam of ore. They escaped through the underground workings connected with an adjoining building. Shoplifter Arrested. Mrs. George Ratcliff was arrested at Emporia, for shoplifting.
Emporia merchante have bothered greatl during the holiday rush by shoplifters. A number of special detectives have been on duty. Officer John Ringer caught eight of these thieves in four days. Nearly every store was worked more or less. Boys women and girls were captured.
It is thought the stealiag will cease now, as the stores are not so crowded, but while it lasted it was the worst seige of its kind Emporia ever experienced. Rebbed the Night Agent. Frank Ray, who claims to be a soldier returning to his home in Kentucky, was convicted in the circuit court of holding up with a revolver and robbing the night agent at Offerlee, December 31. Liveryman Robinson, of Holly, in search of missing hosse, dropped into court and recognized Ray as the party who had hired it several weeks ago and forgotten to return it. William Beezley prosecuted the case.
Fined for W. W. Waterman of Chapple, swore out a warrant before County Judge O'Neil, charging Harry Paisly Frank Camp, Albert Taylor and Chas. McAvoy with destroying property belonging to school district No. 27, to the value of $80.
Sheriff McEldowney went out after the boys and returned to town with them, where they fixed the matter up by paying the costs and damages, amounting in all to $100, Four Brides Were Sisters. Miss Bertha Chapman, Miss Lucy Chapman, Miss Anna Chapman, and Miss Kate Chapman of Wakefield, were married to Fred Montell, William Montell, Samuel Windser and Matthew H. Spooner. The brides were all sisters and the wedding took place at the home of their parents! The clergyman was the Rev. John Chapman, brother of the brides.
Mutiny Cases About February The federal convicts who are charged with complicity in the murder of Guard John B. Waldrupe, in the recent mutiny at the federal prison, will not have their preliminary until after the January term of the United States dietrict court. It is thought that the cases will be called about February 1. Murderer Hanged. Murderer Hanged.
John Rinkard, convicted of the murder of his wife at Marion, in June, 1900, was hanged at the northern Indiana prison. DYING IN SQUALOR Wichita Girl's Pitiful State of Destitution. Gasping for breath on a miserable cot in a tenement house at Wichita, eighteen-year-old Laura Robinette is slowly dying of consumption, while her mother and three sisters are almost destitute of food and clothing. Such was the condition in which Police Matron Ella Glenn Shields found the family while on her rounds of mercy, and she has asked the charitable citizens to give aid. The dying girl, surrounded by these miserable conditions, makes the case an exceedingly pitiful one.
There are five members in the family, a widow and four daughters. They occupy two small, squalid rooms in the upper story of a large house, which is also inhabited by several other families. Until last week the family occupied but one room, but the condition of the dying girl demanded that she have bi better quarters, and although penniless and not able to furnish her with the luxury of a better room, the other room was finally secured. The family owns but one small bed and a cot. and the dying girl of course occupies the bed.
The appearance of the rooms clearly indicates the destitute condition of the family. There is practically no furniture in the rooms, and what there is is broken and almost Since they came to Wichita Mrs. Robinette and her daughters have received aid from county, but it was rather quantity than quality, and food furnished the sick girl was not such as she should have had. The King's Daughters have furnished aid in the past. Mrs.
Robinette receives a little money every month from a married daughter who lives in Indiana, but this is not even sufficient to pay the rent of the poor rooms they live in. The case is a peculiar one for prosperous Wichita. He Quit the Church, The Rev. J. Whiston, pastor of the Christian church of Hiawatha, has tendered his resignation on account of criticism because he said in a sermon that doubtless when.
"'we reached the other shore we probably would find there many who never belonged to any church." This belief was too far advanced for a halt dozen members and rather than have even one against him the pastor resigned. In his ministry he has added seventyfive members to the church and raised $2,500 for improvements to buildings. The church has had thirteen pastors in the eleven years and the retiring pastor's record is the best of any. Be, fore coming to Hiawatha Mr. Whiston was a successful merchant.
He will return to mercantile work. May Buy an Island. Negoitations have been practically completed for the sale of Staiger's Island to the board of airectors of the Kansas state penitentiary. The board is in session at the penitentiary at Lansing. There are about one thousand acres involved in the transaction, It is understood that the owners of the island agree to sell it for $15 per acre, including coal rights, and to look for the next legislature for their money, a provisional contract to be drawn now and the transfer of the property to the state to take place at once.
The owners of the property are Vinton Stillings, John H. Atwood and Jacob Rodenburg. The members of the board spent a day investigating the property. Took Carbolic Acid. Miss Mattie Anderson, the 19-yearold daughter of N.
M. Anderson of Coffeyville, took carbolic acid with suicidal intent and died. Miss Anderson's death Is the result of an unhappy love affair. Her parents objected to her going with the young man of her choice because they did not think him suitable. Miss Anderson left a note saying: "I will bid you all adieu this evening.
I have stood it as long as possibly can, and will take this and put a stop to this foolishness. I hope this will be a warning for girls from this on. Tell everybody I did this for the one I love." Dead Body on the Track. The body of L. H.
Garretts, an digent carpenter of Rogers, was found near the railroad depot shortly after train No. 25 had left the station. The body had been literally beheaded and only fragments of the head and cap could be found. The coroner's jury found Garrietts was accidentally run over by the train, exonerating the railroad company. There were no witnesses to the occurrence and the public opinion rather defines it as premeditated self-destruction.
Shoots Two Brothers. Policeman Cruse shot and probably fatally woundee Lon and Alex Nelson, of Knoxville, Tenn. Cruse was going home when he claimed he was fired or and on investigation he found the Nelsons with some other men on a nearby eorner. A difficulty ensued in which Cruse shot the two Nelsons. It is al leged that an attempt was made sever.
al months ago to assassinate the man. NEWS IN BRIEF. Henry C. Payne has been sworn in as postmaster general. Senator Foraker was formerly reelected by the Ohio legislature.
Spinners at Maynard, have struck and fifteen hundred may become involved. The London foreign office issued the correspondence on the isthmian canal treaty in the form of a parliamentray paper. This correspondence adds nothing of interest to the known facts UNDER THE WHEELS Grand Island Man Almost Instantly Killed. TO DEPART FOR OKLAHOMA Diamond Robbers Make a Rich HallKansas Man and His Housekeeper Robbed and Murdered--Fire at Linwood--Other News. Anton Bischeld, aged fifty-eight, of Grand Island, was accidentally killed while hauling a load of baled hay.
Bischeld has been for many years an employe of the Union Pacific shops. Recently he made arrangements to go to Oklahoma. His wife and four of the children had already gone down to the new country. He was to leave on the 22d instant. About dusk he was driving towards the city, but a mile north of town, and in going through a ditch, the hay jogged and some of it fell down on the horses.
It appears he was also thrown. He fell under the wheels of the wagon and his ribs were crushed through his lungs. Some of his older children were in the city and they were immediately called to his side, the men who had helped him load the wagon seeing the accident and at once going to his help. He lived to recognize his children for last time and then breathed. his lsat.
He leaves his family well provided for, the insurance in four organizations being $9,000. The wife and four children have been notified and will return to grand Island on a very, sad mission on the first train. Bischeld was a German, had lived in Island over twenty years, had married for the second time, the first wife having preceded him in 1880, and, leaves ten children. DOCTOR IS ALIVE After Reading His Own Obituary, Writes a Letter Denying His Death. Dr.
Sidney J. Goodmanson has been sitting in his dental office at Webster, S. for a month, reading his own obituaries. The Illinois, Washington state and Nebraska papers have repeatedly stated he had been lynched in the back woods of Oklahoma county, Washington, for the murder of his second wife, and all efforts to locate him were unavailing until Goodmanson himself wrote to Attorney Argo of Sioux City asking if he shoul not bring suit for libel against the Washington papers. Several years ago when Dr.
Goodmanson was living at Pender, he was tried on the charge of murdering his first wife, who was Miss Laura Roder of Tiskilwa, whose body was disinterred after burial at Ptinceton, and in whose stomach strychnine was found. Her husband was acquitted, the jury accepting the claim of the defense that she committed suicide, taking the poison as she was going up the steps to her husband's office, where she died. He married his second wife in Washington, and the fact that his whereabouts were not known led to the story that indignant citizens had lynched him for killing his second wife, who is alive and living with him at Webster. A GOOD INDIAN. Hanged For Horse Stealing Before He Reaches Home.
Word comes from the Rosebud Indian agency. that John Yellow Wolf, discharged from the Lawrence county, South Dakota, jail two weeks ago, was hanged for horse stealing before he reached the reservation. When the Indian left Deadwood he was given an old horse and saddle on which to make the trip overland. Shortly after passing Rapid City he left the old horse and proceeded on a better animal that he caught out of a pasture. The theft was detected, pursuit was given, and a few days later the Indian was found hanging to a tree near White river, a short distance this side of the reservation.
The news was received by young Crow Dog, son of old Crow Dog, slayer of Spotted Tail, who is serving a year's sentence in Deadwood. It is not known who composed the lynching party, although it is said to have been stockmen. Range Destroyed by, Fire. A special from Great Falls, says: Extensive prairie fires are reported on the other side of the International boundary. Practitally all the range between Milk river and Lethbridge has been swept by the flames.
Many hundred tons of hay have already been destroyed. The fire extended to the valuable sheep ranches in the Sweet Grass hills and the owners of flocks in that vicinity are confronted by the serious: necessity of securing new winter quarters. Killed By a Cave-In. In a cave-in at the Ada mine at Carterville, four miners lost their lives, another was injured. fatally and several others seriously hurt.
The cave-in was caused by a premature explosion of dynamite, and blocked the entrance to the mine. It took several hours work by the men from adjoining mines before the imprisoned miners were reached. Two Women Burned to Death. Mrs. Lars Hanson of Milton, S.
was burned to death while starting a fire with kerosene. Her sister, Mrs. Lottie Doty of Chicago, who was visiting her, went to the rescue and was so badly burned that she died. AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS Money Need for the Nebraska Exhibit at Louis. To the citizens of Nebraska: The Louisiana purchase exposition at St.
Louis, in 1903, will celebrate the one hundreth anniversary of the purchase from France of the Louisiana territory. By this peaceful transaction the area of the United States was more than doubled. The rapid development of this territory during the past century has no parallel in bistory. The United States government has recognized the importance of the great exposition 'which will commemorate the event of the acquisition of this territory, by an appropriation of five million dollars. The city of St.
Louis bas appropriated an equal amount, and the citizens of that city have subscribed ten million dollars more. In all there has been appropriated and subscribed more than twenty-five million dollars at this date. Nebraska is one of the most. populous and important states in this territory, but no appropriation has been made to defray the expenses of an exhibit of its resources at this exposition. Four years ago the trans-Mississippi and internation exposition, which brought great credit to this Suite, was liberally patronized by every state in the union and by private subscriptions or public appropriations was assisted by nearly every state in the west.
Recognizing the importance of the Louisiana purchase exposition, the many reason why Nebraska should be represented and the necessity for immediate preparation, the governor has appointed the undersigned commission, without remuneration to raise the necessary funds by private donations and to prepare and place on exhibit a proper representation of the products and resources of this state. We appeal to all patriotic citizens of Nebraska, to corporations, both public and private, to all interested in the welfare and prosperity of this state, and to all who have pride in its past and hope for its future achievements, to assist in this worthy enterprise. The credit and state pride of our commonwealth appeals to all patriotic citizens to do their duty in this emergency, and we ask for a liberal response, to the end that Nebraska may be properly represented at this great exposition. All contributions or future pledges should be sent to Mr. E.
E. Bruce, treasurer, Omaha, Neb. All newspapers in Nebraska are re'quested to publish this appeal. (Signed) GURDON W. WATTLES, J.
STERLING MORTON, C. H. RUDGE, H. S. WHITE, E.
E. Commissioners. Bold Diamond Robbery. Robbers secured between ten and twenty thousand dollars' worth of unset and set diamonds by stealing two trunks' from the baggage room at Glendive, a station on the Northern Pacific, and breaking them open. The trunks were the property of C.
B. Clausen, traveling representative of S. H. Clausen wholesale manufacturing jewelers of Minneapolis, The robbery was an unusually bold one, as four men were in the upper story of the station, asleep, and the express agent slept in a room adjoining the baggage room was forced open and robbers at work. The windows of the baggage room were forced open and through it the two trunks were hoisted out.
They were taken only a few feet from the station where they were broken open and the diamonds taken. Local officers have made one arrest upon snspicion. Southern Train Held up. The southbound Kansas City Southern passenger train was held up recently about 11 o'clock at -night near Spiro, I. by seven masked men.
The express and mail cars were entered. The local safe in the express car was opened, but nothing secured from it. The robbers tried to open the through sefe, but failed. Then they rifled the mail car and it is said, secured a quantity of registered mail. The scene of the robbery is fifteen miles from Fort Smith.
A report from there says that United States marshals are scouring the country in search of the robbers. Three suspects, miners, have been arrested, and taken Poteau, I. T. Railroad and express officials decline to state how much booty was secured. It is said, however, that the robbers got away with $2,000.
Both Found Daad. Carl E. Holt, aged fifty-five, and his niece, Miss Hilda Peterson, aged thirty, his housekeeper, were discovered murdered at the Holt home, three miles from Greenleaf, Kas. The old man was found in the kitchen with bullet hole in his head. The woman was lying on the back porch with one bullet hole through her head and one through her neck.
She had been outraged. The house had been rifled. The coroner's jury returned a verdiet that the two were murdered for the purpose of robbery. Holt had a thousand dollars in the house. The murderers stole the money and a fine team belonging to Holt.
Stabbed to Death. The Rev. Mr. Gidding stabbed to death his stepson, Harry Highfield, and was himself perhaps fatally injured, sustaining two fractured ribs, besides internal injuries. The affair took place three miles east of Shipman.
Ill. The tragedy was the culmination of a feud of long standing between the father and son, dating from the marriage of the boy's mother, five years ago. Highfield had just returned from three years' service in the Philippines. GAS LEAK IN MINE Causes a Terrific Colo. Explosion at Walsenburg, SIX KILLED AND TEN ARE WOUNDED Colombian Rebels Make an Attack on Panama Harbor--Fire at a Funeral -Two Suicides at Omaha--Bound Over to District Court.
A courier from Pictou, a coal mining camp three miles west from Walsenburg, news that a terrible explosion occurred in one of the mines operated by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at that place, in which six men were instantly killed and ten or more wounded, many of them, perhaps, fatally. The mine immediately caught fire and is now a seething furnace. Among the dead are Frank Marquis, son of a well known business man of Walsenburg, and Harry Phipps, a brother of Superintendent Phipps of the Proctor mines. The explosion was caused by a large amount of gas which had accumulated in the mine during the night. A number of miners entered one of the chambers in which the gas had accumulated.
The men had unprotected lamps and the explosion followed. FRIARS MUST GO Secretary Root Says They Are the Canse of the Trouble in the Philippines. Secretary Root was heard on the question of the friar lands in the Philippines before the house committee on insular affairs. He said these land holdings constituted one of the chief causes of discontent among the people. They were the hotbeds of insurrection and had furnished Aguinaldo his chief appeal to popular prejudice.
The secretary said the religious orders SO fully recognized the bad condition of affairs that they were disposed to sell out, and he urged that the government should take advantage of the opportunity to remove the chief causes of discontent in the He did not believe condemnation proceedings would be necessary, as there were indications that a fair price could be agreed upon. A rough estimate of the value of the lands, he said, was from five to seven and one-half millions of dollars, America a money. Two Omaha Suicides. Paul Kroeber, a draftsman employed by the government until recently, hanged himself in his room at the Thurston hotel in Omaha. His body was not discovered until the door of the room was broken open.
Kroeber was born Saxony and was forty-five years old. He was stationed at one time at San Antonio and later at Atlanta. At the latter place he left his wife and children. He receceived 000 year salary, but had not sent his family any money for many months, spending most of his earnings in gambling houses. Henry Gregen, employed by Ernest Hofmeister, three and one-half miles from Benson, was found dead in a cow shed on the premises.
He had been to Omaha with his employer and had returned to the farm alone. Ten dollars and a check for $150 were found on his body. His mother, Sophie Gregen, lives at Grand Island. No cause for the suicide is known. Desperate Encounter With Wolves.
After a desperate struggle with a pack of wolves, Olaf Halesrud, a well known farmer residing about ten miles north of La Cross, lies in a critical condition with the flesh literally torn from his body in many places. Physicians say he cannot live. Halesrud was awakened by a disturbance among the animals in his barnyard. On getting out he was surrounded by a pack of wolves. He attempted to regain his house, but before he had gone twenty feet the wolves were snapping and snarling at his heels.
The farmer attempted to defend himself with a club, but several times he was forced to the ground with the wolves upon him. He finally sueceed in reaching the door of his dwelling, and, half fainting, he staggered in and drew the bolt. Steamboat Strikes a Log. The river steamer Frank S. Stone was wrecked by a floating log in Mobile river.
No lives were lost, though the steamer sank in fifteen minutes. The Stone carried twenty-five passengers and a crew of twenty-five and a large general cargo. Most of the passengers had retired but the officers gave the alarm and the passengers and crew were transferred to a barge the steamer towing and which was then cast adrift. The steamer Mary came in sight soon after, took the barge in tow and brought the snnken boat's passengers and crew to Mobile. The Stone was valued at $30,000.
Vincent C. Connelly, the barber apprentice, charged with murderous assault with a razor upon Andrew Christianson, at the livery' barn where the latter was employed on the night of December 31 at Lindsay, had his preliminary hearing before Justice Hudson and was held to the district court in $1,000, going back to jail in default of recognizance. Seven witnesses testified for the prosecution. No evidence was offered by the defense. A score of Lindsay's people were in attendance and manifested great interest in the proceedings.
WORK OF A WOMAN Kills Two Colored Musicians and Wounds White Man. William Slaughter and Ralph Johnson, colored musicians, were shot and instantly killed, and Powell Calloway, white, mortally wounded at a colored dance at Morris Creek, W. Va. Lillian Williams it was who used the revolver with such deadly results, each of the four bullets she fired taking effect but one. About midnight the Williams woman entered the hall evidently under influence of liquor.
Proceeding to the centre of the room she ordered the musicians to play some rag time music and play it quickly. When her command was not complied with she whipped out a revolver from under her wrap and began firing at the orchestra. Slaughter and Johnson were almost instantly killed. Calloway was an onlooker at the dance and one of the bullets intended for a musician penetrated his back. Physicians pronounce his wound fatal.
The murderess escaped lynching only by the timely arrival of officers, who succeeded in getting her away and lodging her in jail. Fire at a Funeral. At the United Brethern church, near Humboldt, while Rev. J. M.
Hobbs was preaching the funeral sermon, flames burst through the floor beneath the casket and the church was almost immediately filled with suffoeating smoke. The panic-stricken mourners and friends of the dead escaped through windows and the corpse was momen tarily forgotten, but was finally rescued from the flames. The male worshipers formed a bucket brigade, and the flames were extinguished before the church was totally destroyed. The funeral cortege then proceeded to the cemetery, where the preacher finished the sermon at the grave. The fire was caused by an overheated stove in the basem*nt.
Infernal Machine in Mail. J. W. Martin, a postoffice clerk at Knoxville, was injured by the explosion of a package of powder, nitroglycerine or an infernal machine. He was stamping letters and packages and a package addressed to a hardware house exploded when struck with with the stamp.
Examination revealed on it the name of a New York smokeless powder, concern. The interior of the parcel showed a tin box in whieh the explosive had been packed. The local hardware firm disclaims having ordered such a package or having been notified of its shipment. The postal authorities have begun an investigation Arrests may follow. Saved From Conflagration.
Fire at Wakefield, which started in the Model resaurant, threatened to destroy the entire business part of of the town. The building containing the restaurant was destroyed entailing a loss of $1,000. William Saunders' harness shop in the structure was a complete loss, the value of the goods being $2,000. The postoffice was also burned, the loss being $800. Postmaster R.
C. Quimby placed all his stamps and other valuables in the safe, hence he will be protected. The city water pressure was good or the entire business portion of town would have been destroyed. One Boat Sunk. A naval battle is in progress in the harbor of Panama.
The revolutionary fleet consists of the steamers Padilla, Darien and Gaitan. They are trying to force a landing off Saoana. The government ships are the Chifean line steamer Lautaro, the Pacific Steam Navigation company's steamer Boyaca. The first named steamer was seized by General Alban and the other two have been chartered by the Colombian government. The government forces are throwing up entrenchments.
The United States cruiser Philadelphia is close to the scene of the fighting. Blows Her Head off. Louise Avery, twenty-three years of age, of Delaware, 0., committed suicide in a horrible manner. Her brother found her lying upon her bed with the barrel of a shotgun held by one hand against her temple. Evidences were found that the woman had taken paris green and morphine, but had finally resorted to the shotgun.
The entire) top of her head was blown off. The refusal of a man to marry her is said to have prompted the deed. Burrow Out of Federal Prison. Eleven prisoners, headed by Moriarity, the counterfeiter, escaped from the federal prison at McNeil's island on the coast of Washington, by burrowing through a cement floor into the air pipes. McNeil's island is ten miles from Tacoma and there is no way of getting to it except by launch.
United States Marshal Ide, with a large force of deputies are in pursuit. Medical Men Organize. The Platte county medical society has been organized with Dr. H. J.
Arnold and Dr. B. C. Tiesing, both of Columbus, as president and secretary, respectively. The first annual meeting will be held in Columbus Feb.
12. Priest Suicides. Frederick Krainhardt, a Catholic priest of Josphville, committed suicide at a hospital in St. Louis by hanging himself with a bedsheet. Rev.
Mr. Krainhardt was sixty-two: years old and had officiated in a clerical capacity at Josephville for thirty years, He had been taking treatment at the hospital for nervous troubles. Five joint keepers in Seneca signed a pledge to quit the liquor business forever, and it is interesting to note that Hoke Smith was one of them..
