Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — ATTACKED BY CODRT. [ARTICLE]

ATTACKED BY CODRT.

CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE HELD UP TO REPROBATION. - Federal Judge Declares That the Institution Permits Transactions Contrary to Daw— Englishmen to Take Instruction in Farm Mechanics. Judge Shiras of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, in a decision in the case of the Board of Trade, vs. .Christie Company, a Kansas City litigant, declares that the Chicago Board of Trade is little more than a bucket shop. The language of the court, concurred in by Judges Vandewenter and Sanborn, is as follows: “The evidence clearly establishes the fact that the Chicago Board of Trade maintains in ita exchange a place wherein transactions coming within the inhibition of the statutes of Illinois are permitted and carried on and the preparation of and sending out of quotations of prices based on forbidden transactions are intended to aid the members and outsiders as well in engaging in speculative gambling on the rise and fall of the market in plain violation of the statute.” WOMAN MURDERER 18 DEAD. Sentenced for Life and Pardoned Eater, Mrs. Victor Expires Free. Mrs. Sarah M. Victor, aged 76, who was convicted in one of the most noted criminal cases in the history of Ohio, is dead. She was convicted at Cleveland in 186 S of murder in the first degree, being charged with poisoning her brother. Owing to popular prejudice against inflicting the death penalty on a woman Mrs. Victor was sentenced to solitary imprisonment for life. She was pardoned by Governor Foraker in 1880 and after her release wrote a story of lief life. £>he always protested her innocence. TO LXARN AMERICAN METHODS. Party of Englishmen Will Take Conraa in Farm Mechanics at Ames, la. Prof. C. J. Zinther of the department of farm mechanics at the lowa State College has received a communication from G. F. Rush of Kent, England, asking for information in regard to this department. Mr. Rush is organizing a par ty of Englishmen to study agriculture in this country. The party is planning to come to the United States next spring. They will visit Ames to take the work in farm mechanics as students. Fierce Class Rnsh in Kansas. On the big stage of the Washburn College chapel in Topeka, Kan., in front of an audience of 800 people, there was a fierce color fight between the girls of the freshman and sophomore classes. Thirty-five sophomore girls tried to “rush” forty freshman girls off the platform. Tables and chains were overturned, the president’s chair was smashed to pieces, clothes were torn, hats were loot and eyes blacked in the rough and tumble fight. League Pitcher Goes Mad. After felling his nurse by a terrific blow on the head with a stove poker Edward Doheny, the Pittsburg National League baseball pitcher, for more than an hour held a score of neighbors and several policemen at bay in Andover, Mass., with the same weapon. Finally he was overpowered, examined by two physicians, adjudged insane and committed to the asylum at Danvers. Try to Break from Prison. As a result of a well-organized and partly successful attempt at a wholesale delivery of prisoners at the Utah State penitentiary one prisoner was killed, one guard was shot and wounded, another was beaten almost into insensibility, ’ three prisoners were wounded and two others under death sentences escaped. Sixteen Hurt in Wild Car. Sixteen people were injured in the runaway of ear No. 9 on the Bryn Mawr division of the Pittsburg, McKeesport and Connellsville electric road. The accident was caused by Motorman John Carr leaving the front platform. The car ran down n hill, crashed into the curb and was demolished. Mr*. Dwight L, Moody Dead. Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of the famous evangelist, died at her home in East Xorthfield, Mass. Mrs. Moody had been suffering for some time from an internal trouble. Not So Much Bnilding Done. Large cities iu the country show an enormous falling off in building operations during the present year because of labor troubles and the increased price of material. Boy Is Sentenced for Life. Ivory Rogers, the boy who confessed to the murder of Mary Prokash. a 13-year-old girl, near Stillwater, Oklahoma, pleaded guihy in court and was sentenced to prison for life. Railroad Karniags Greater. R. G. Dun’s Weekly Review shows railroad aarnings 8.1 per cent over 1902; exports for week $1,185,G46 under 1902; irregular trade conditions shown by Brad street's. Vote Down Mnnicipal Ownership. Municipal ownership was defeated in Ban Francisco by the voters, who refused to issue bonds to take over the Geary street cable line. Bnrglara Rnrpriaed and Taken. BobbCrs entered the Court house at --Olivet, 8. D.. kart were surprised at their work before tmy succeeded lu opening the safe. One was captufed. One of those who escaped was wounded.. lajnrei in Auto Accident. Albert T. Boa*art was seriously hurt In an automobile accident at the Kansas City Driving park, where the first’annual race meet of tbe Kansas City Antonio bile Assoc La tion was held. Boasart’s machine while st a standstill was smashed by s machine driven by D. F. PtaaseL