Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1901 — SUIT OF VAST IMPORT [ARTICLE]

SUIT OF VAST IMPORT

CASE BROUGHT TO TEST POWER OF CONGRESS. Refers to Levying of Special Taxes oa Alaska Mining Companies and Affects Relations with Porto Rico and Philippines—Summoned by a Vision. Cases have reached the Supreme-Court of the United States which, in the opinion of officials of the Department of Justice, will cause the court to withhold its decisions in the pending insular cases for several weeks, if not months. Up to this time it has been the impression that the decisions would be rendered in time for the President to discuss the Philippine question in the light thrown on it by the opinion of the court in the fourteen diamond rings case. The suits to which reference is made are known as the Alaska license cases. The first is the action of a man of the name of Corbus against the Alaska Treadwell Mining Company. Corbus is a stockholder in that corporation, and he sues to recover the license fee paid by the company for the privilege of doing business in the territory. The question involved is whether Congress has the authority to pass a taxing law applicable only to a particular territory, as it has done for Alaska. Ail mining and trading companies there must pay a license fee before beginning business. The cases attracted no attention until a hint was sent to the Department of Justice that the question had a bearing on the issue in the second Dooley case, which involves the right of Congress to levy duties on goods going from New York into Porto Rico. HIES AS SHE PREDICTED. La .Porte Girl Sees a Vision Which Presages Her Demise. Lela May Shippee died the other night at Laporte, Ind., in strange fulfillment of her prophecy of her own demise. Several day ago Miss Shippee beheld a vision in which the realities of the future life were vividly revealed. The vision brought great joy to her, and she predicted that within two days she would die. At the time of the vision Miss Shippee was ill. She at once rapidly grew worse, and until she passed into unconsciousness she could not be shakeit in her belief that she had been called from this life in the vision. Military School i« Ashes. Jarvis Hall Military Aeademy at Montclair, eight miles from Denver, Colo., a school for Boys maintained by the Episcopal Church of the diocese of Colorado, was burned to the ground. The loss is estimated at $75,000. Seventy-five students roomed in the building, but all escaped without injury. The origin of the fire is unknown. Almost Lynched by a Mob. While the sheriff was taking Isaac Alley, charged with assault, to the Highmore, S. D., jail a mob attempted to take the prisoner from the officers with the evident Intention of lynching him. The sheriff summoned assistance and the mob was dispersed. Ten or twelve of the would-be lynchers were arrested and fined for interfering with an officer. Robbers Torture n Family. Burglars tortured Balser Race, a wealthy farmer, residing north of Massillon, Ohio, and hCs family until they produced bank certificates for SI,OOO and S4O in money. The hair of the victims was burned and they were threatened with being roasted alive. The burglars escaped in rigs stolen from Race's barn.

Fulfills Her Suicide Pact. Emma Sanger, 35 years old, committed suicide in Chicago by hanging herself at the home of her sister, Miss Ida Sanger. The woman's home was in St. Joseph. Mich., where her mother, Mrs. Charles Mollhage, and relatives live. She is believed to have been suffering from an attack of temporary insanity. Rosxwell, N. M., Inundated. Ross well, X. M., was flooded by a cloudburst, which occurred about twelve miles west. The water on Main street was three feet deep. No loss of life has been reported, but several buildings have been washed away. Scaffold Breaks and Kills Two. J. A. McDonald and Joseph Kolb, carpenters at work on the new Catholic school house at Elyria, Ohio, were killed. A scaffold upon which they were at work broke and they fell forty feet and struck on some stones. One Hundred ond Seventy Drowned. It is announced i* a dispatch from St. Petersburg that scores of fishing boats were wrecked and that 170 men were drowned during a recent storm on Duke Baikal. Killed by His Son. Dan M. Hogan, Sr, well-known Chicago bookmaker, was shot and killed by his son while in the act of abusing and beating his wife. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justified homicide. Perilous Ksilloon Voyage. Nine occupants of an escaped balloon reached San Francisco after thrilling experience, having been swept out to Bea and back again during their ride. More Taxes for the KnelUh. Sir Michael Hlcks-Beach, in a speech at Bristol, England, declared that cost of war Is enormous, and intimated that taxes will be increased. Hope Brooks ot Uinglnc. Louis Council, a negro convicted of assault, was hanged at Fayetteville, X. C. When the trap was sprung the rope broke and the negro’s body fell to the floor. Another rope was secured, and the prisoner coolly walked on the scaffold. In a few minutes he was dead. Dako Arrives at Home. The Duke and Duchess of York hare arrived at Portsmouth after tbeir tour of the British possessions, and were received la state by King Edward and th« channel sauadron.