Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1903 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

GOVERNMENT FOR MOKOS. Legislative Council to Be AppointedWood Probably First Governor. The Philippine Commission has enacted a bill providingjor the government of the Moros. Governor Taft and Major General Davis jointly drafted it. The measure practically, makes the Moro province an autonomous colony of the Philippines, which the Philippine government controls, and creates an appointive legislative council to provide local laws, the Commission reserving th*v right to amend or annul them. The council is to be composed of a governor, secretary, treasurer, engineer, attorney anti superintendent of schools. Governor Taft will appoint these officials. The-Aill will extend the jurisdiction of the Philippine courts and constabulary to the province and will recognize Moro laws which do not conflict with American laws. The measure also directs the codification of tribal laws, creates Moro courts, provides that the Philippine courts shall try cases between Moros and Christians, gives the province its net customs and forestry collections and authorizes the council to abolish slavery. The province is divided into five districts —Sulu, Zamboanga, Lanao, Cotabato and Davao. The bill provides for partial military government, and it is expected that General Leonard Wood will be the first governor of the Moro province.

LOOTS BANK | SHORT $280,000. Alabama Institution Is Wrecked anJ Its President Flees. With President T. J. Cornwall in parts unknown and short nearly $280,000, the Bessemer Savings Bank, at Bessemer, Aik., one of the strongest institutions in the district, has closed its doors and asked for a receiver. President Cornwall left three notes explaining the shortage. In one, addressed to the public, he says he lost money trying to make back $42,000 he lost in a legitimate business transaction. In a letter to his wife he stated that lie. would not commit suicide, but would let her know if he died. In a third letter, addressed to Cashier Cockrill, he states that he had nothing left to do but “wander on the face of the earth or become a convict in the State mines.” The bank will probably not be able to meet a payment of more than n very small percentage of its deposits. The bank was organized in 1891 with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, and had deposits of about $260,000. EPIDEMIC CAUSED BY PENCILS. Supplied to Public School Pupils and Used by Diff-reiri Classes. Because the children in the practice department of the State Normal School ■t Oswego, N. Y., had to use the same public pencils among themselves, diphtheria has spread among them to the extent of sixteen cases.' Eight cases were reported recently, and this led to an investigation by the Board of Health. After a class finished its drawing lessons the pencile were placed in a desk and the next class used the same sticks. It was impossible to restrain the children from putting the pencils in their mouths. Heads World’s W. C. T. U. In Geneva, Switzerland, at the convention of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Lady Henry Somerset was re-elected president of the organization and Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens of Portland, Me., was re-elected vicepresident at large. Mrs. Clara Parrish Wright of Paris, 111., was elected supertendent of the young woman's branch. Runaway Cars Wreck Train. A Big Four train was wrecked at the Mascatuck bridge near ,North Vernon, Ind., by colliding with a runaway section of another train. Trainmen saw the runaway apparoaehing, and td avoid meeting it on the trestle, which is 85 feet high, put on all speed. They had barely reached the other side and jumped when the crash came. No lives were lost. Boy Kills His Two Brothers. In a spirit of playful warning. James Smith, 14-year-old son of John Wesly Smith, a wealthy farmer, of Coshocton, Ohio, pointed a gun at his two brothers, and by the accidental discharge of one barrel both of the lads were killetk Albert, aged 10, died instantly* and Eugene, aged 19, was blinded and fatally wounded.

Twenty Dead Near Clifton, Ariz. News has come of n cloudburst near Clifton,\Arix. A wall of water eight feet high rushed down Chase creek. Several bodies hgve been recovered, and it is believed the number of drowned will reach twenty. Chase Creek was inhabited mostly by Mexicans employed by the Arizona Copper Company. Marriage of Gov. Bailey. Willis J. Bailey, Governor of Kansas, and Mrs. Ida B. Weede were married in the auditorium of the First Congregational Church at Kansas City, Itev. J. F. Fificld officiating. There was no music, no ring snd no attendants, the Ceremony being as simple as it was possible to make it. : Lightninc Kills Your Men. Johu VViuklor, John Shook, 8. E. Rebam and Clark Fisher were killed by lightning'near Sterling, Ohio. The men were framing a barn and carrying a heavy timber on their shoulders when lightning struck the beam and tore it to splinters, killing the four men instantly. Tby Pistols Cause Kpidem'c. An epidemic of lockjaw prevails in Pittsburg. Five deaths occurred within three days, sud another patient is in a critical condition. All the victims were boyi who were injured by the use of toy pistols*. » kensga Tribesmen Given Punishment [ The rebellious Zenaga tribesmen who recently attacked sad tried to ambush Governor General Johuart and his escort trsrs given a seven punishment by

French artillery. Figuig, their stronghold on the eastern border of Morocco, was under heavy bombardment for three hours. Great destruction was wrought to the cheap houses, the mosque was destroyed and a great number of natives suffered death. ROBBERS RIFLE EXPRESS CAR. Board Erie Train at Englewood and Arc Arrested at Huntingdon. The other night at midnight an express car attached to the east-bound train on the Erie Railway was entered by robbers just outside of Englewood, Chicago, and completely looted. The robbers threw undesirable express packages along the road all the way -from Hammond to Rochester. A freight train followed the express car and discovered the packages beside the track aud notified the officers at Huntington, where the express car door was forced open. As this was done one of the robbers dashed out, firing two shots from his revolver, and made his escape. The police then made their way into the car and found two other robbers hidden behind some packages. They were covered with revolvers and placed under arrest. On their persons were found a large number of valuable goods. The interior of the car was looted, as every package with the exception of one had been pried open. This package contained about $7,000 worth of valuables. The freight train picked up $4,000 of goods. ROBS A FELLOW TRAVELER. Chicago Man Admits Hia Crime and la Locked Up. David 3. Standiforth, a traveling salesman who says he lives in Chicago, admitted in police court at Cleveland that he had robbed a fellow traveler on a train between Chicago and Cleveland of two gold watches and then expressed the goods to Chicago to a false address. The police found the watches in Chicago at an express office. Standiforth, who is about 28 years old, says he does not know why he did it, and his conscience troubled him until he.confessed He says he and Thomas Monahan, a railroad officer, were in the same sleepingcar section, and while slept StandiforTH took the watches. He is in jail.

NATURAL GAS SUPPLY SHUTOFF. Five Thousand Indianapolis Consumers Left Without Fuel. The Indianapolis Natural Gas Company shut off the gas from its maius the other morning nnd 5,000 domestic users suddenly found themselves without fuel. In many of the homes and in a number of restaurants the morning meal was being prepared and the gas went out under the cooking eatables, forcing the housekeepers to resort to various shifts to get breakfast. The company threatened to discontinue the service last October, but suit was filed and a temporary restraining order was granted. The court finally decided in favor of the company and now it has carried its threat into execution. Heavy Fire Loss in Rochester. Damage estimated at $600,000 to SBOO,OOO was caused by fire in Rochester, N. Y. The blaze started in the Paucost building, which, with the Brick Presbyterian Church, adjoining it, was destroyed, and an entire row of houses in Fitzhugh Street and several buildings in State and Allen streets were damaged. There was no loss of life. Washington Official Under Arre t. For the alleged embezzlement of $75,000 from the funds of the District of Columbia Janies M. Watson, Jr., a clerk in the office of the auditor of the district, was placed under arrest. The specific charge was the embezzlement of SB,OOO, but it is known that the total amount missing will reach at least to the figure first named and may exceed it. Forest Fires in Minnesota. A forest fire has been burning in the vicinity of Ely Lake, Minnesota, doing great damage to standing timber nnd destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of cordwood. Unless rain falls soon the loss of timber will be enormous, as fires can be seen burning in a dozen different directions. Pekin Buildings Destroyel. The extensive building occupied by the board of reveuite was destroyed by fire in Pekin. The board of rites building was torn down by the soldiers to prevent a spread of the flames to the buildings of the foreign section, which qdjoiued. The revenue building contained 4,000,000 taels. Slaughter in Servian Palace. King Alexander of Servia and Queen Draga were assnssiuated at midnight in the royal palace at Belgrade by emissaries of the Servian army, and Prince Karageorgevitch was proclaimed king. With the king nnd queen were murdered the premier, cabinet ministers and other , officials. Five Negroes Put to Death. Four negro men and one negro woman killed, eight or ten badly beaten and most of the other negroes in the community ordered to leave is the result of the shooting from ambush of Mr. Craft aud the wounding of Mr. Boyls by negroes at Forest, Miss. • McCormick-Hauna WeddingOne of the most notable weddings ol the year took place in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Cleveland, when Mias ltutb Hanna, daughter of Sepdtdi M. A. Han na, was united in with Joseph Medill MeCormick of Chicago. President Roosevelt was a guest. Runaway Cor Cumi Death. One man was killed, two fatally Imrt hurt and-several others badly injured in a runaway car accident on' the Alum Rock Park electric railway at San Jose, Cal Deputy Assessor Edwin F. Goodrich was ViCed outright.

COAL MEN ARK FINED. Judge Horton Holds Them Guilty of Conspiracy to Do an Illegal Act. Eighteen defendants, members of the Northern Illinois Soft CouJ Dealers’ Association, were found guilty of conspiracy to do an illegal act in restraint of public trade and were fined SSOO by a decision handed down by Judge O. H. Horton in Chicago. Nine defendant officers of the Retail Coal Dealers’ Association of Illinois and Wisconsin, who hud been found guilty aud fined SIOQ each on a pro foima verdict, were denied a new trial in another opinion. The two associations were indicted by the special coal’investigating grand jury summoned in January! The decisions are important in the disbanding of the organizations of dealers, and especially so because Judge Horton finds that the anti-trust laws of the State are sufficient to warrant convictions. “In • a proper case a conviction may be sustained in this State for conspiracy, under either the common law ot the act of 1874. or the anti-trust act of 1891,” Judge Horton says. “The averments of fact in the indictment are fully sustained, and, in my opinion, the iudictment is sufficient. Neither can the contention be approved that there is now a law in this State against a conspiracy such as is set out in the indictment and supported by the facts.” Eighteen corporations in the Northern Illinois Soft Coal Dealers’ Association are hit by the decision. OLEOMARGARINE DEALERS WIN. Massachusetts State Law Is Hard Hit by Decision of Judge. The Massachusetts State law against the sale of oleomargarine received a severe blow in the Superior Criminal Court in Boston, where Judge Bishop decided the case of the commonwealth against Carl Himberg in favor of the defendant. This was one of the famous oleomargarine cases, and was selected for trial as a test case. The decision vindicates the claims of the oleomargarine dealers on all points, and will probably overthrow the State law against the sale of the product. This decision determines the fate of nearly all the -other cases awaiting trial. 3 lt is probable that an appeal will be made to the Supreme Court. Judge Bishop rules in effect thnt it is not unlawful to .make and sell oleomargarine which resembles butter in color. There was no evidence of the introduction of any substance for the purpose of coloring an article which would otherwise be oleomargarine.

GOTHAM BUILDING TIE-UP ENDS. 6 y tr 100,000 Men Expected to Return to Work in a Few Days. The great building tie-up practically ended in New York the other day, when the lumber and brick yards throughout the city were thrown open for business. In n few days it is expected that between 100,000 and 130,000 men, idle since May 5, wiil be at work. A strike in the building trades in Westchester County, which has kept several thousand mechanics idle for two months and has cost, it is estimated, $1,000,000, is practically at an end. The men’s demands were not granted, it is stated. Several,of the building trades councils have dissolved, and it is said the employers will deal directly with the unions in the future. City Wngea War on Rats. Director of Public Health Martin of Philadelphia has issued an order for the purchase of ferrets and the employment of rat catchers. He intends by these means to make vigorous war on rats, with the intention of preventing the spread of a smallpox epidemic which now threatens the city. fnntn Fe Train in Crash. An east-bound through Santa Fe passenger train from the West which had been delayed four days in Kansas by floods ran into a west-bound Missouri Pacific freight train at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Both engines were badly damaged. One passenger was slightly hurt. Flood in East St. Louis, Thirty lives are believed to have been lost in the current which has been rushing into East St. Louis, 111., nnd the city is filled with water. Nearly all of the 30,000 people fled ns tfye result of the breaking of the embankments. Two Killed by Explosion. Two men are known to be dead, one is missing, and several injured ns the result of an explosion of a large quantity of powder on the drying home of the Weldy Powder Company, near Montzeri, Pa. The <nuse of the explosion is not known. Gen. Alex McCook Dies. ’ Gen. Alexander McDowell McCook. United States army, retired, suffered a third stroke of paralysis and died half an hour later at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Craighead, iu Day ton, Ohio.

Trade Review Is Favorable, Brndstreet’s weekly review reports iron production greatest ever recorded, with prices firm; other trade reasonably quiet; gross raijroad earnings for May 12 per cent over 1902; crop damage reports exaggerated. Fbn I* Given to Father. The long Chkse litigation is at last ended and Judge Kabb at Fowler, Ind., appointed Fred Chase ns th* guardian of the property and person of bis insane son and placed him under a $300,000 bond. Moat Ferre Thirty Years. James W'ileqpt, the murderer of Nellie Cropsey of Elizabeth City, N. 0„ will have to serve his sentence of thirty yesrs in the State prison. The Supreme Court affirmed the verdict of the lower tribuual. Newspaper Woman Crashed to Death. Clara Nichols, society editor of the Chicago Tribune, was crushed to death in an elevator in the Tribune building. Her relatives live at Alton, IIL *