Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1903 — SALOONS MUST CLOSE. [ARTICLE]

SALOONS MUST CLOSE.

PROHIBITION TO BE THE ORDER IN TEXAS Compromise la Reached by Which RriskioK Places Will Be Allowed to Remain Open Until January 1 Mine re Oct Eight-Hour Day. Prohibitionists and the foes of the movement have reached a compromise. Under it the safoons in Texas will remain open until Jan. 1, and then prohibition is to become effective throughout the State. This ptarks the end of a bitter fight. In the list few months more than 200 counties have ‘"gone dry,” among them Rusk County, which the antis selected in which to make a test fight. There have been many injunctions issued to both sides, and the last one prohibited the publication of election returns. . It was in effect until Nov. 13, when there was an agreed motion to dissolve, and on a compromise the suit was filed in Galveston in the Civil Court of Appeals. The petitions on which most of the suits were based set up that women congregated about the polls and sang hymns, that church bells tolled and organs played, causing tumult sufficient to' make the election void. FORTY KILLED IN A WRECK. Chicago Express Runs Into Train Car* rylng Illinois Central Laborers. Forty are dead and twenty-three injured as the result of a rear-end collision between two passenger trains on the Illinois Central. Of the dead thirty-eight, are negroes. One white man, Edward Kiser, a passenger from McComb City, is dead. One white woman is known to have been killed, but her name has not yet been ascertained. , Three other white persons were badly injured. Twenty negroes were seriously hurt. The collision occurred at Kentwood, ! La. The McComb City accommodation was on the track at Kentwood when the Chicago express crashed into it, tearing wide open the two rear coaches, filled with negro section hands. The wreckage caught fire. " EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR MINERS. Strikers in North Colorado Coal Field Return to Work. As a result of the concession of an eight-hour day by the operators all of the striking miners in the northern coal fields of Colorado have returned to work. Tb.is was practically agreed upon at a conference in Louisville, Colo., between the operators and a committee representing all of the onions in the district. John F. Ream 'of Ohio, a member of the council of mine workers, said the men would agree to a I*o per cent reduction in wages If given the eight-hour day.

Four Convict* Escape by Rope. Four prisoners escaped from the Ohio penitentiary in Columbus by climbing to the roof of the cells through a ventilator and sliding down a rope made of strips of leather belting to the lawn id front of the prison. Wholesale Milliners Fail. Strause & Co., importers and wholesale in millinery goods at- Philadelphia, have been adjudged bankrupt. The liabilities are estimated at $210,000 and assets SIOI,OOO. Indicted in Atnm Scandal. William Ziegler, head of the alleged halting powder trust,' -vyas indicted by the grand jury at Jefferson City, Mo., on the charge of bribery in connection with the alum bill in the Legislature of 1901. Declines Carnegie Rift, After five months of debate and eoilaideration the council of Grants Fass, Ore., has declined the offer of SIO,OOO made by Andrew Carnegie for a library for the city. i Almost Lynch a Negro. A negro who attempted to rob a man and shot two policemen in' Washington narrowly escaped being lynched in Jackson Square, opposite the residence of President Roosevelt. Weekly Trade Reviews. Stnples were higher on Nov. 1, according to R. G. Dun's general review; November railroad earnings are 4.8 per cent over 1902; expanding exports are reported by Bradstreet’s. Strike When Pay Is Cut. As a consequence of the general reduction in wages in the iron trades, the mills of the Inland Steel Company; the chief industry at Indiana Harbor, lud., closed for an indefinite period. Breaks Leg at Football, In a football game in Nashville, Tenn., • between teams of the University of Tennessee medical department and Univeraity of Nashville McFerrin, right half back of the latter, broke his right leg. Becomes Mexican Citizen. W. S. Cockrell, son of Senntor Francis M. Cockrell t»f Missouri, is reported to have foresworn allegiance to the United States and become a citizen of Mexico. Explosion in Dog Pound. An unexplained explosion destroyed the New York dog pound, injured five men, one probably fatally, and killed hundreds of dogs confined in the place. Chautauqua Steamer Burnt. The City of Chicago, the largest steamboat on Chautauqua lake, was burned at Jamestown, N. Y. Finns F*U to Reach Czar.' A committee of expelled Finns, headed by Count Mnnnerlieim, endeavored to secure an audience with the Czar to present a memorial, but failed. Moron Slay Three American Foldiera. Since the departure of Major General Wood for Jolo the Moms in the neighborhood of Lake Lnno, I*. 1., have grown troublesome. The guard over a boat near Mnriubou was attacked. Three members of the Twenty-eighth Infantry were killed and one was seriously woundad. The Moros were beaten off. ■So:**, >- k' 1 1