Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — TRUST LAW IS VOID. [ARTICLE]

TRUST LAW IS VOID.

MISSOURI JUDGE RENDERS AN IMPORTANT DECISION. S Maids that the Law Is Criminal and tliut Trust Members Cannot Be Compel led to Testify Against Themselves J —Accident on New York “L” Road. R Judge Gates of the Kansas City Circuit IhCourt decided that A. N. Doerschuck, fe druggist, was right in refusing to answer i questions asked him in a proceeding | brought by the Attorney General to show g that Doerschuck and other druggists were in a combine or trust. Judge Gates said: “If he was compelled to testify in iKthe case now pending he might have to g give evidence upon which an indictment | or criminal information might be based | and upon which he might be convicted of Kin misdemeanor. This cannot be permit- | ted. Our constitution vouchsafes to ev■?jery person, however humble he may be, J' the privilege and the right to refuse to | bear testimony against himself.” The great importance of the decision of J udge ’ Gates is in the fact that he holds that k the State laws regarding pools, trusts and t combines are criminal laws, and that a I person charged with violating those laws B cannot be forced to testify against him- ' ®elf. The last Legislature passed a law that if the Attorney General had reason K to suspect that anyone was a party to a E ttust he might, in a summary proceeding, | obtain his evidence. Under the decision by Judge Gates this law defeats itself I and is void. t ? TRAGEDY ON ELEVATED ROAD. H' Four Men Injured, One Killed and a Woman Dies from £hock. I Four men were injured and one killed B and a woman died from shock as a result H os an accident on the Brooklyn elevated Ktrtructure. An East New York elevated H train got stalled between Duffield and streets, on Myrtle avenue, BrookIpyn. Several persons got off the train and I attempted to walk over the structure to fi'the nearest station. The train moved 4, suddenly and threw several persons to the ' jMrvement below, a distance of thirty-five EYeet. William J. Moody, Frank Royn||eton and his brother William, Charles | Wright and Augustus Snyder were in■jured. The latter sustained a fracture of f the skull and died shortly afterward. LizBp® Hill, colored, was a witness of the afnccident and died from shock. | HENRI STIFT KILLS HIMSELF. ®Buicide at Denver Said to Have Been Once a Policeman in Chicago. i Henry Stitt, a brother of “Billy” Stift, .pugilist, committed suicide at Denver, Colo., by hanging. His body was found from a beam in the stable of ||the Vai Blatz Brewing Company. It is Bthought that the act was induced by debrought on by ill health. Henry HBtift was formerly connected with the poforce of Chicago, where he was drivR|er of a patrol wagon, until his health him. He was about 35 years of kSTART FIRES TO AID ROBBERY. OConfeeaion of a Negro Captured at Baker City, Ore. | Early on a recent morning five tires |Were started almost simultaneously in ■Mtfferent parts of Baker City, Ore. Two gi buildings were burned to the ground; A onegro named Charles Johnson confessed Ko starting the fires, and implicated a iJMexiean and a white man, who were arHMKted also. The negro says it was planIffihed to rob the faro banks and saloons Saßuring the excitement caused by the fires. | Kansas Telegraph Law Void. | The law passed at the last session of 1 jflie Legislature permitting a charge of Ejtaiy 15 cents for a ten-word dispatch beKansas points has been legally degSiared to be void. Decision to this effect Kiras handed down by Judge Stewart of Hthe Nemah County District Court in a test case. 1 Attempt to Wreck a Train. |;An attempt was made near Watertown, | Igß. D., to wreck a train on the Chicago ■gad Northwestern by placing obstructions I |Sn the tracks, consisting of planks spiked I Sown and ties piled across and braced [awith iron bars. A boy named McDowell I Bneovered the obstruction, secured a lanI Kft*n and stopped the train. | ’ Slain in Border Fight. I feAwother border war broke out between I Mfeericans and Mexicans at Naco, a little I IqßFn HwR lies partly in Arizona and | Bjwrtly in Mexico. Four Mexican officers I MW two Americans were killed and one I and two Americans wounded. I JsHle Five Wives Share Alike. I afearry St. Clair, prize married man of I ISjchester, N. Y., was sentenced by Judge I fcieriand on a charge of bigamy. St. 1 Pleaded guilty and was sent to Au- ■ prison for five years, one year for i wife he had married. g | Mormon Leaders Are Fined. H |£Five prominent Mormons were arrested B jf Richfield, Utah, and fined on the K|geof polygamy. The court warned B the fines imposed were not to be Knded as a criterion. Fire in a Card Factory. U a3h>e upper stories of the large frame g Hiding of the American Card Company, U si, the business section of Lowell, Mass., ■■■ burped. Loss $50,000. LjhhrVerk Ha. 476,717 Voters. The registration in Greater New York ® fepmpleted. The total registration was J 1 ij ' Gold Seekers Are Stricken. Kfrom Cape Nome, Alaska. Hi by the steamer Lakme. are that --ftihuld fever has broken out in the camp S form. The hospital is crowdS| Jthero DOW being 250 patients in it. been five deaths and others Fire Loss in r'outh I hicago. through a score :rf homes at DDfl and th** in-

FOR CONTROL OF COLONIES. President Expected to Discuss New Department of Commerce. A dispatch from Washington says that President McKinley will, it is expected, devote considerable attention in his forthcomiug annual message to another executive branch of the Government, with a »abinet officer at its head, to have charge •f interstate and foreign commerce. It seems to be pretty settled that a recommendation will be made for a new Department of Commerce, but its full scope is still a matter for discussion, and will probably not be decided until various subordinate officials of the Government have submitted the data which they have been requested to furnish and there has been a general exchange of views around the cabinet table. As early as June last the President began Jo give consideration to this subject, and at that time called for data concerning the control of colonies by foreign powers, and of the extension of our commerce into foreign fields. A great deal of this information has been compiled and various officials of the administration are working on individual plans for the creation of such a new department as proposed. There are some differences of opinion as to putting the new colonial possessions under the control of a department to be devoted chiefly to commerce. CROWD CUBAN LABOR MARKET. Spain Assisting Idle Men to Emigrate to the Island. During the last sixty days there have arrived at Havana over 2,000 Spaniards, who say that it is impossible to obtain work in Spain and that the government is assisting them to emigrate to Cuba. It is believed that over 200,000 of them will come to Cuba within the next few months, rendering the situation on the island more complex. One of these Spaniards who recently arrived says that women are not assisted to emigrate, the Spanish government aiding only men over 18 years of age to leave the country. A large number of these immigrants desire to work in the mines, but the Havana merchants are giving employment to all for whom they can possibly find positions. Mrs. Letorde, wife of Military Governor Ludlow’s acting chief clerk, is dead from yellow fever. She was the first American woman since the occupation to contract the disease. Almost every case of the fever among the Americans is traceable to certain places frequented by them. THREE FIREMEN KILLED. Fire at Knightstown, Ind., Canges a Loss of SIOO,OOO. The, most serious tire in the history of Knightstown, Ind., broke out. Three lives were lost and property worth SIOO,000 or more was destroyed. The dead men were members of the volunteer fire department -and were fighting the fire when the front wall of a three-story building fell outward. They were caught by the falling bricks and crushed to death. The Masonic Temple, the largest building in the city, was in the path of the flames and was destroyed, together with the building occupied by E. O. Anderson, dealer in household goods; Green Brothers, saloon, and Davey Brothers, dealers in notions. The fire is supposed to have originated from an explosion of natural gas. STRIKE DELAYS LAUNCHING. Navy Not Likely Soon to Get New Tor-pedo-Boat Destroyer. The launching of the torpedo boat destroyer Bailey, built by the Gas Engine and Power Company of Morris Hqjghts, N. Y., for the United States navy, which was to have occurred recently, has been postponed indefinitely owing to the prolonged strike of the iron employed on the craft. The men quit work about two months ago and a settlement of the trouble seems as far away now as at the start. TO TERMINATE THE TREATY. Agreement Between Switzerland and United states Endangered. The State Department has regretfully come to the conclusion that the.existing treaty between the United States and Switzerland must be terminated, and steps in that direction will soon be taken. The necessity for this course arises from the action of certain of the State governments in enforcing local laws which in their operation prevent Swiss insurance companies from doing business in those States, thus violating the treaty.

Denver Poolroom Robbed of $4,000 Austin’s poolroom, the largest in Denver, Colo., was robbed of $4,000 by Robert J. Boykin, an ex-policeman, who has been for some time employed as special policeman at the club. The place had been closed for some time, but Boykin induced the cashier to return to the room and with a revolver compelled him to open the safe. He took all the cash, including S9OO in coin. He then made his escape. Interior Department Estimates. Estimates for the Interior Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, aggregate $170,500,000. This includes $145,172,000 for the entire pension service, of which $144,000,000 is for all army and navy pensions, the remainder being for agencies, salaries, etc.; the census bureau, $9,664,000; Indian service, $6,800,526; the general land office, sl,690,000; patent office, $1,051,190, and geological survey, $500,000. Fix an Alaska Line. Mr. Tower, the British charge at Washington, called at the State Department and handed tp Secretary Hay a note formally accepting for his government the proposition for the temporary boundary line proposed by Secretary Hay. America’s Cup Is Safe. The third and final race in the series for the yachting supremacy of the world was won by the Columbia, the American boat, defeating the Shamrock, the British challenger, by six minutes and thirtyfour seconds. Col. Schneider la Dead, e Col. Schneider, the former Austrian military attache at Paris, whose name has been prominently connected with the alleged treason of former Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French army, is dead. Female Bandit Is Recaptured. Pearl Hart, the Arizona woman bandit, who escaped from jail at Tucson, Arix., was arrested at Deming, N. M., where she arrived on horseback with a male companion. Accidentally Kills Himself. I Maj. Frank Kidder Upham, acting quartermaster and commissary of the SolI diers’ Home at Santa Monica, Cal., ac- ’ cidentslly killed himself with a revolver.