Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

CONDENSED NEWS

Jesus Rodriguez, of Victoria, Tex., attempted to drive a neighbor’s horse from his field and was kicked in the stomach, dying in a short time. John D. Morton, charged with the murder of Marion Thomas, was acquitted at Columbus, Kas. At Muncie, Ind., after having waited ten years for her husband to return to her, Mrs. John Benjamin has filed suit for divorce. , D. M. Strong, a prominent attorney of North Bend, Neb., died of injuries received by being struck by a train, Lusn Thomas, a negro, shot and killed another negro from Forrest City, Ark., near McNeil. Both men were working on the Cotton Belt extra gang. At Evansville, Ind., the attorneys in the case of Wilbur S. Sherwell, the former policeman, charged with choking to death three women, have agreed to nave the case called in September and set down for trial. Sherwell has been in jail nine months. Luther Orr committed suicide at Greenfield, Tenn., because of disappointment in a love affair. Dr. McFall of Mattoon, 111., ha«s deeded his farm of i,v acres near that city for a Protestant hospital. Others have donated $20,000 in cash. The total endowment is $60,000. A fight in Cabin Hollow, near Middlesboro, Ky., between rival dive owners resulted in the death of Henry and James Shackleford, brothers, and the fatal wounding of Smith Overton. In a collision between a wagon and ~ street car at Houghton, Mich., Cyrille Boivin was fatally injured and Andrew Gaffney severely injured. Boivin died later at St. Joseph’s hospital. He was 45 years old, married and has ten children. The authorities of the northern tier of Indiana counties are alarmed at the action of Berrien county, Mich., in expelling the berry-picking tramps on account of the mysterious murder of one of their number. Measures will be taken to prevent their crossing the Indiana state line. A total loss of $20,000 was caused by a fire at Lexington, Mass. Andrew Carnegie has offered $25,000 to Lawrence, Kas., for a library, on the usual terms. Fire at Hubbard, Tex., destroyed a brick block and five wooden buildings, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Clarence Vawter of Indianapolis, 18 years old, committed suicide at Russellville, 111., because of domestic trouble. Frank Jones and John Johnson, negro murders of Israel Badetsky, a Hebrew peddler, were hanged at Ellicott City, Md. Democrats of the fifth congressional district of Ohio renominated John 8. Snook of Paulding and indorsed the Kansas City platform. The American Library Association closed its session at Magnolia, Mass. Dr. James A. Hosmer of Minneapolis was elected president. At Valley City, N. D., Jennie Daley was shot and killed in a quarrel by William Bennett, her partner in a restaurant, who then committed suicide. James Wharton, a traveling man of Atchison, Kas., was accidently shot and kihed in a restaurant at Leon, la., by Lou Betrick, the proprietor. The London Board of Trade has awarded a handsome piece of plate to Captain Freeman of the British steamer Roddam in recognition of his gallantry at St Pierre, Martinique, when that town was destroyed. 'Fire yesterday destroyed the business portion of Rugby, N. D., with a loss of $40,000. The residence section was saved. D. M. Strong, an attorney of North Bend, Neb., died from injuries received by being struck by a train near Fremont, Neb. While attempting to board a moving train D. M. Strong, an attorney and once Prohibition candidate for governor, of North Bend, Neb., was thrown under the wheels and fatally injured. The Republican convention of the fourth West Virginia district renominated James Anthony Hughes. A British cabinet meeting, at which Lord Salisbury presided, was held at •bls official .residence in Arlington street for the convenience of the premier, who is recovering from a chill. The house committee on public lands favorably reported the bill establishing the Wind Cave National park in South Dakota. The locality is said to embrace extinct geysers, a subterranean cavern and other natural wonders. Jackson, Miss., police have arrested a man giving the name of John Thorpe and claiming to represent a Chicago lumber firm, whom they suspect of being Charles Kratz, wanted at St Louis in connection with bribery charges against Aidermen Kratz and Murrell of that city. Otto Steffen, a fireman on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, who was to have been married to Miss Car He Rick of Boscobel, Wis., in a few days, was Instantly killed by striking his head on a bridge over the Wis «onslD river at Merrimac.

John Wilburn, living near Collinsville, Tex., was shot and killed by James Dial, a neighbor, with whom he had a quarrel over a fence. Brycie Thompson, who was badly ourned by a powder explosion while taking part in a spectacular show at Houston, Tex., died of his injuries. The tank steamer Pinna left Port Arthur with a cargo of 25,000 barrels of refined Texas petroleum for Plymouth, England. This is the first shipment of kerosene from the Guffey refinery. Daily prayers for rain are now being offered in a dozen towns in Texas, but so far no rain has fallen in any of the vicinity where the meetings are held. Joe Crenshaw, of Alvord, Tex., was hit in the head with a scale weight and probably seriously injured by Pearl Reynolds, who is under arrest. A large barn in Henderson county, Ky., belonging to Thomas Mann, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $5,000. James P. lyharton, traveling representative and part owner of the McClelland Cigar company of Atchison, Kas., was accidentally shot and killed at Leon, la., by L. P. Detrick, proprietor of a restaurant at that place. They were friends. Wharton was 36 years old and leaves a widow and one child. / Rev. Joseph Loving, a pioneer Baptist preacher of Texas, is dead at his home near Bartonsville, aged 93 years. Mrs. Anna Spence Woffe, one of the most notable pioneers of Carthage, 111., died aged 80 years. She had been a resident of Carthage for fifty years. Jennie Moore Vaughters committed suicide at her home north of Vincennes, Ind. She was a wayward girl, whose parents had closed their doors upon her, and she became desperate and took morphine. Emory Alexander was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary at Hiawatha, Kas., for the robbery of T. C. Horr, a traveling man of Frankfort, Kas. Walter Graham, a wealthy stockman near Kokomo, Ind., fell from a tree and was killed. The silver jubilee of Auxiliary Bishop P. J. O’Reilly was celebrated at St. Patrick’s school, Peoria, with a program arranged by the pupils. F. O. Hewes was arrested at Warren, Ohio, charged with sending obscene matter through the mails at Springfield, 111., where he worked for a patent medicine company. Charles D. Warner, aged 24, son of Major William Warner, United States district attorney, was found dead in a Kansas City rooming house. He is supposed to have committed suicide by taking morphine. He had been drinking.

Dr. Jacob F. Meyer was shot through the heart and mysteriously killed at Buffalo. His wife, who has told disconnected stories regarding a scuffle with tne doctor, is held by the police, though no charge has been entered against her. It is announced in London that' Sir Christopher Furniss, the well known shipowner, has bought the Gulf Line of Greenock. The line consists of six vessels, aggregating 19,502 tons. H. H. Rand of Wisconsin has been appointed assistant superintendent of the salary and allowance bureau of the postoffice department at "Washington. The Royer Wheel works at Aurora, Ind., were partly burned, earning a loss of $75,000. Over 300 hands are temporarily thrown out of employment H. L. Frank of Butte, Mont, has sold a three-fourths interest in his coal mines at Frank, B. C., to a French syndicate for $1,300,000. A payment of $85,000 has been made to bind the sale. The Frank mines are in the Crow’s Nest region. The French senate began the discussion of M. Rolland’s bill providing for the reduction of the term of military service to two years, which, as the premier, M. Combes, announced in the ministerial declaration, the government will support. Albert G. Smith, one of the most prominent young men of Lafayette, Ind., committed suicide by taking morphine. The deed is attributed to despondency over the deaths of his wife and daughter within the last year. The borough council of Poplar, London, England, has accepted an offer from Andrew Carnegie of £15,000 for the establishment of free libraries in the borough. The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union at Baltimore appointed a committee to consider a proposition of the feeders to withdraw from the union and form an independent organization. Application has been made in the supreme court by the Colorado Bar association to have disbarred from practicing law Sidney H. Dent, a referee in bankruptcy. Mr. Dent is a relative of Mrs. U. S. Grant. The French minister of the interior has accepted the proposal of the director of the hot baths establishment of Aix-les-Bains that henceforth French and foreign doctors’ children under age and women will be allowed to partake of the waters gratuitously at any time of the year. Owing to the rapid spread of typhoid fever the schools of Monroe, Wis., have been closed by order of the board of health. Churches, Sunday schools and the public library have been closed and public gatherings of all kinds nrohibited. C. A. Sykes of New York was elected president by the National Dental Trades association, which closed its convention in Detroit. R. Bruce Mason of Helena was nominated for congressman on the 986th ballot by the Democratic convention of the first Arkansas district.

WEEK’S DOINGS IN CONGRESS

Business Transacted by the House and Senate in the National Capital. SENATE PASSES PANAMA BILL By a Vote of 42 to 34 the Upper House Shatters the Life Work of Senator Morgan, Who Fights for Nicaragua to the Last. Tuesday, uune 17. Mr. Quay gave notice in the senate at the conclusion of the voting on the isthmian canal question he will move to discharge the committee on territories from further consideration of the bill providing for the admission as states of the territories of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. Bills were passed to regulate the commutation of United States prisoners for good conduct; to amend the act providing for a permanent census office, so as to include “unskilled laborers” in the list cf those employed not included in the civil service; to provide for refunding taxes paid on legacies and bequests for uses of religious, charitable or educational character; for the. encouragement of art, etc. Tne rest of the day was devoted to debate upon the canal bill. The house agreed to the conference asked for by the senate on the antianarchy bill. Passed bills to amend the bankruptcy law; providing for the punishment of United States prisoners for crimes committeed while confined in state institutions; to increase the fees of jurors in United States courts from $2 to $3 per day; to allow appeals from final rulings of the general land office to the supreme court of the District of Columbia; to incorporate the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, and to ratify the agreements negotiated by the Dawes commission with the Creek, Kansas or Kaw Indians of Oklahoma. The bill to ratify the agreement with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians was under consideration when the house adjourned at 10:30 o’clock, a night session being held. A house bill to provide for the opening to settlement of 480,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma was defeated. Wednesday, June 18. The senate took up the house resolution providing that the conference committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill be authorized to consider and recommend the inclusion of necessary appropriations to carry out omnibus public building bill, and it was agreed to. A bill to restore to the active list of the navy Surgeon John Walton Rose as medical director was passed. The nomination of Captain Charles E. Clark of the navy to the grade of* Rear Admiral was confirmed. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was sent to conference. The general deficiency appropriation bill, the last of the supply bills, was passed by the house. In the course of some remarks early in the session Ms. Cannon declared that if he could have his way Congress would adjourn sine die before July 4. A night session was held at which the house considered bills reported from the committee on Indian affairs. Thursday, June 19. The senate passed the canal bill with the bpooner Panama amendment by a vote of 42 to 34. There was some debate over the trouble into which the senate has got with the house over amendments to the army appropriation bill, and a conference with the house was finally asked, ignoring the “offensive” message which caused the trouble. The conference report on the bill to prevent the false branding or labeling of food or dairy products was agreed to. A bill was passed to set apart certain lands in South Dakota as a public park, to be known as the Wind Cave National Park. The senate then went into executive session and soon afterward adjourned. Debate upon the Philippine bill occupied most of the day in the house. a bill was passed to amend an act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. Friday, June 21. At the opening of the session of the senate a partial conference report on the sundry civil bill was presented by Mr. Allison and.agreed to. The senate insisted on its amendments still in disagreement and Messrs. Allison, Hale and Cockrell were named as conferees. A bill appropriating $25,000 for a monument at Fredericksburg, Va., to Gen. Hugh Mercer, a proposition authorized by congress in April, 1777, was discussed. The bill went over on objection of - Mr. Warren (Wyo.). The senate agreed to the conference report on the military academy appropriation bill, thus finally disposing of the measure. Debate on the Philippine civil government bill continued in the house

Loses Husband and Money.

St. Paul, Minn., special: After less than two months of married life with her second husband, whom she believed to be a German count, Mrs. Otto Kern, formerly Mrs. Gustave ' Nagel, is minus her husband and $3,000.

Four Americans Misding.

Manila cablegram: Grave fears are entertained for the safety of four American school teachers of Cebu. Thuy left their homes June 1 and have not been heard from since.

from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m., and at a session held at night Mr. Jones (Va.), ranking minority member of the insular affairs committee, concirded his speech begun Thursday. The other speakers were Messrs. Hamilton (Mich.) and Kahn ( Cal.) for the bill and Mr. Patterson (Tenn.) against it. A bill was passed to recognize the military service of the officers and enlisted men of the First regiment of Ohio light artillery. This regiment served three months at the opening of the civil war, but was never formally mustered into the United States service. The uouse declined to concur in the canal bill passed by the senate Thursday, and three conferees were named. Saturday, June 21. In the house Mr. Hull (Iowa), chairman of the committee on military affairs, called up the conference report on the military academy appropriation bill. Mr. Hay (Va.), Mr. Clayton (Ala.) and Mr. Mann (Ill.) criticised the action bf the house conferees in agreeing to the number of cadets at West Point proposed by the senate. Mr. Mann said that recently the number of cadets had been increased 100. The increased membership of the house would/ further increase the cadets thirty and now it was proposed to increase that number still further. He did not believe in legislation in the direction of a great increase in the standing army. Mr. Hull and Mr. Parker (N. J.) defended the conference report, arguing that the increase was necessary in order properly to officer the army. Finally the conference report was adopted, 88 to 59. Mr. Cannon (III.) then called up the conference report upon the sundry civil bill. He explained that the agreement was only partial, items carrying $1,283,000 being still in controversy. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) moved that the house concur in the senate amendment for a memorial bridge across the Potomac to cost not to exceed $2,500,000 and appropriating SIOO,OOO for the preparation of plans. This was voted down without division and the bill was sent back to conference, after which the debate on the Philippine bill was resumed. The senate was not in session.

COST OF THE PHILIPPINE WAR

Total to Date, Including Outstanding Obligations, Is $170,326,586. Washington dispatch: The total cost of the Philippine war, including outstanding obligations, up to the present date is $170,326,586. Secretary Root gave out this information in response to the senate resolution of April 17 asking for this information. He explained that $50,000 was advanced for the expenses of the Philippine commission originally from the United States treasury, but this amount was afterward made good by the Philippine treasury. For railroad transportation of troops and supplies to and from the Philippines since the peace treaty was ratified the cost has been $4,803,448. Secretary Root says that large quantities of valuable property, such as ships, lighters, etc., horses and mules, wagons and harness, clothing, equipage and ordnance, medical, signal and engineer the cost of which is included in the foregoing statement, still remain on hand in the Philippine Islands for use.

SQUATTERS OUSTED BY COURT

Steel Company Wins Its Suit Against Residents of Jones Island. Madison, Wis., special: The Illinois Steel company wins out in its suit against the Jones island squatters, the supreme court reversing the decision of the Milwaukee circuit court in favor of the latter. The decision holds that the steel company, at the time of the commencement of the action was the owner of the premises in dispute by title under government patent, and that the motion of appellant for judgment in accordance therewith should have been granted.

CHURCH FOR UNION LABOR MEN

Workers of Marion, Ind., Plan Undenominational Organization. Indianapolis dispatch: A church for organized labor in which denomination will not be considered is to be established at Marion, Ind. Any person who worships God can become a member. Already much has *?en done toward the promotion of a congregation and the central »rades council will be asked to take charge of the matter within the next ten days and see that the church is established It will be called the People’s church.

Indicates Smith’s Acquittal.

Washington dispatch: Gen. j. K. Smith, who recently was court-mar-tialed in Manila, has been instructed to proceed to San Francisco and there await further orders. Although not officially admitted, the fact that he has been called home is accepted in military circles generally as practical confirmation of the press dispatches from Manila that he was acquitted.

“A Bas Loubet!” Costs 1,ooof.

Paris cablegram: A Rouen tradesman named Foucault has been fined 1,000 francs for crying “A bas Loubet! while the president was on his way to the Paris culinary exhibition.

Castellane’s Corsets.

New York dispatch: A pair of dainty lace-trimmed corsets—addressed to the Count de Castellane—were sold among the unclaimed goods at the appraiser’s store. They were appraised at 56.75, but brought only $3.

Bride Is Worth $1,000,000.

Niles, Mich., dispatch: Miss Anne Lewis Beeson, daughter of William Beeson, deceased, was married to Thomas Lyon Purdy of New York city. The bride is worth $1,000,000.

SUPPLY OF GOAL SAID TO BE SHOOT

Secretary Wilson Asserts There Is Not Enough to Last Three Months. STRIKE MAY NOT BE GENERAL Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana Delegates to the Convention Expected to Stand by Their Contracts with Operators. Secretary-Treasurer Wilson of the United Mine Workers estimates that if a general mine strike is called the supply of bituminous and anthracite coal above ground will not last three months. According to his estimate, if the national convention in Indianapolis on July 17 should vote for a general suspension of work in support of the anthracite strike, the industrial machinery of the United States would be so handicapped for fuel that thousands of factories would have to suspend work. Wilson has statistics showing there are 450,000 miners in the country, scattered through thirty states. The miners in twenty-four states would be involved if there should be a suspension of operations. The Indiana operators have a short supply of coal on hand. Probably the largest supply of coal is in the bins at Buffalo, N. Y„ and other cities along the great lakes. The supply is shorter than usual. May Prevent General Strike. At the coming convention the belief is that western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois will take a hand against a general strike. These states have contracts they do not want to break. The combined vote of the competitive district with that of lowa is expected to prove strong enough to prevent the success of the proposition for a general strike. There are a number of states whose agreements expire July 1, and it will depend largely on the outcome of the deliberations between their operators and miners as to where the balance of power will lie in the convention. May Get Coal from Wales. The coal strike in the anthracite regions is compelling many of the large New York dealers to look abroad for relief. Manager Herbert of the firm of Herbert & Co. said that he had communication with some of the anthracite mine owners in Cardiff, Wales, for the importation of a supply of anthracite coal. The coal he desires, he says, is the broken anthracite suitable for use in locomotives and furnaces. This class of coal, he said, previous to the strike, sold for about $4.50 a ton. He expected, if he made a deal with the Welsh mine owners, it would cost $8 a ton in New York.

R. N. RAMSAY’S ESTATE MUST PAY STATE BOND

Shortage of the Late James D. Baker, Former Warden at Chester, Must Be Made Good. Carlyle, 111., dispatch: The supreme court of Illinois has decided that the state of Illinois is entitled to $17,539 from the estate of the late Rufus N. Ramsay, formerly state treasurer. During the administration of John P. Altgeld the office of warden of the penitentiary at Chester was held by James D. Baker, now dead. When he retired he was discovered to be short as warden and treasurer of the hospital for the criminal insane at Chester the above amount. Ramsay was one of his bondsmen with Henry Setter of Lebanon. A claim for the shortage was filed against the estate of Ramsay and allowed. The claim was contested by the administrators. The circuit, appellate and supreme, courts in turn affirmed the lower tribunal.

FEAR GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE

Five Hundred Acres in Minnesota Are Covered with Eggs. St. Paul, Minn., special: Residents of Otter Tail county, northern Minnesota, are fearful of a grasshopper plague. Five hundred acres of land there are reported to be covered with grasshoppers’ eggs. The matter has been referred to the state entomologist. State Auditor Dunn says there is $4,000 left from a legislative appropriation to fight grasshoppers.

Valet Jones Gives Bail.

New York dispatch: Charles F. Jones, the valet of Millionaire William M. Rice, who was chloroformed at his residence in Madison avenue, and for whose murder Adolph T. Patrick, a lawyer, was convicted in general sessions a few months ago, was admitted to bail by Recorder Goff in the sum of SI,OOO.

Many Times Married.

Belleville, 111., special: Mrs. Magnolia Harwood, aged 36, and Andrew J. Melvin, aged 80, both of O’Fallon, 111., were married nere. This is tne fourth matrimonial venture for the bride and the fifth for Mr. Melvin.

Arrest Macedonians.

Athens cable':Many persons : a<> cused of being agents of the Macedonian committee have been arrested here. It is alleged that tney are here in an attempt to stir Macedonians in Greece to revolution.

ELEVATOR MEN MEET DEFEAT

Illinois Supreme Court Declares That Warehouse Law Is Void. NOT IN INTEREST OF PUBLIC Owners and Lessees of Public Houses Prohibted from Storing Their Own . Grain and Mixing It With That Carried for Customers. By a decision of the supreme court of Illinois, elevator men are prohibited from traffic in their own grain in public elevators. The court declared unconstitutional an act of the legislature which made it lawful for owners and lessees of public warehouses to store their own grain and mix it with the grain of others. This marks the end of a fight between elevator men and brokers which has been carried through the courts and through the legislature. While both representatives of the elevator and brokerage Interests declared that the conditions under which the fighti began had changed, and that the law “had become a dead letter,” the brokers were rejoicing in their victory over the elevator men. In giving the decision the supreme court declared that the act of the legislature which made it lawful for the public warehouse owners to store their grain in the elevators was "manifestly not for the protection of producers and shippers of grain, but against their interests.” Purpose of the Law. “It had for its purpose,” continued the decision, “the exemption of public warehouses from the discharge of public duties Imposed on them for the protection of producers and shippers, the performance of which is clearly necessary for the protection of such Interests." The act was passed by the legislature in 1897, and was for the purpose of defeating an injunction issued by the Cook county circuit court to prevent the elevator men from storing grain in the public warehouses. Numerous charges were made against the legislature when the act was passed. The attorney general had secured injunctions restraining the firm of Carrington,Hannah & Co. and eight other companies, from storing their own grain in public warehouses. A fine of SIOO had been imposed for violation of this injunction by one of the elevator owners, and the case had been appealed. While it was being heard the legislature passed the act making the injunction lawful and permitting the storing of grain. Legislature Powerless. After the cause came to the supreme court Hannah died, but the Northern Trust company, as his executor, was substituted as appellant, and the judgment given runs against the estate. In rendering the decision Justice Boggs, who wrote the opinion, quotes at length the constitutional limitations on public warehouses and calls attention to the importance attached to this matter by the framers of the constitution. It declares that a public warehouseman of class A could not, under the provisions of the constitution of 1870 and the act of 1871, store his own grain in his own warehouse, grade tttfe same, and mix it with the grain stored there by his customers, and adds: “We entertain no doubt that it was beyond the power of the general assembly to confer on such warehouseman the right and power to do so by the amendatory act of 1897.”

RIFLE RANGE DATES ARE FIXED

Program for National Guard Practice at Camp Logan. Springfield, 111., special: The dates when the various organizations will go to the Camp Logan rifle range, for a tour of practice duty, instead of coming into camp here to participate in the annual encampment of the Illinois National Guard, have been agreed upon. They are as foHows: Artillery battalion, July 7 to July 12; First Infantry, July 13 to July 21; Second Infantry, July 22 to July 30; Seventh Infantry, July 31 to Aug. 8; Eighth Battalion, Aug. 9 to Aug. 12; First Cavalry, Aug. 13 to Aug. 20.

Freed of Suspicion.

St. Louis special: Mrs. Annie Mullering and her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who have been mysteriously missing since the morning of May /, appeared at the police station, where Hermann Mullering, the husband and father, had been held prisoner, suspected of double murdor.

Killed by a Negro.

Little Rock, Ark., special: James Cross was shot and killed by a negro named Martin Nash near Pendleton. Nash was wounded by shots fired by Captain Cross, father of the dead man, and another son, but escaped.

Eleven Pilgrims Wounded.

Madrid cable: As a result of a serious conflict among the pilgrims at a religious fete which was being held at Avilla, in the province of Asturias, eleven of the pilgrims were seriously wounded by bullpts.

Want Control of French Schools.

■ Paris cable: A new conflict is threatening between France and Turkey owing to the demand of the Port* that it be given control of the curriculum of the schools of the Frenc* Coagregationalists in Turkey.