Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

Bracing. a Baeginc Gate. The plan of preventing gates from sagging, shown in the illustration, is one of the best used. It has the merit of being ehenp and decidedly effectual. lAs will be noticed from the drawing, the posts are sunk in the ground two feet or more, and the ends set into a heavy sill. This is best done by mortising the sill. Both posts and sill should be well covered with tar to prevent rapid decay. On this sill is then built a wall of stones to within eight inches or a foot of the surface of the ground, and on this wall is laid a heavy piece of studding which is spiked to the posts. In the absence of stones, braces

BRACES FOR A GATE.

of heavy studding mny be run from the bottom of each post n?xt to "the sill up to the top piece of studding; the stone wall, as suggested, makes the stronger foundation. Built in the manner indicated, the gate will work for years without sagging.—lndianapolis News.

tßasiing Hogs for Bacon. - The demand for bacon hogs, a streak of lean and a streak of fat, is increasing yearly. Consumers are less inclined than ever to eat fat bacon and their demands must be met if one desires to make the maximum of .profit in hog raising. True, the demand for heavy hogs is great and will continue, but such animals do not bring the good prices that are had for the bacon hog. Little has been heard' of the Tam worth, the ideal bacon bog, of late and mainly because breeders have found that the bacon hog is more a matter of proper feeding than of breed. Tlie Tamworths seem peculiarly suit, ed to feeding - for bacon at the lowest cost, though any breed can be properly fed and at comparatively small _cost. For the growing pigs a ration of two-thirds oats and one-third com gives good results. Bran. combined with- skim milk or whey with ground peas is a good ration for older hogs, the milk to be increased as the fattening period is begun. Probably the ideal ration for the bacon hog afimr It Is half grown Is eorn-meal, oats, aim barley mixed with skim milk. This furnishes the desired streak of lean and streak of fat In the bacon and gives us an animal of medium weight, which will bring a good price qn the market.

A Swing Stanchion. A stanchion which will swing sideways and not forward and back has been asked for by a subscriber. The

SWINGING STANCHION AND STALL.

accompanying illustration allows bow It can be made. This is an ordinary chain hanging swing stanchion, with blocks on the floor and from the crosspiece above on each side, to prevent the forward and buck swing. This will allow it to move sideways. Rntber than go to this trouble, why not tie the cattle by the neck —Farm and Horae.

The Pe»t of Wild Carrot, The wild carrot is causing the farmers a great deal of difficulty. It is increasing in many sections. In n bulletin Issued by tbfe Maine Experiment Station It is stated that as this weed is a biennial plant, if It can be prevented from going to sisal for a term of two years. It will be eradicated. This would mean mowing it as often as it came into bloom, two or three times hi the season. Home hare been quite successful in killing it out by pasturing the fields with sheep. Cows do not like carroty hay. Horses will eat it. even if containing a very large proportion of the weed. But it Injures health and spirit if fed to excess. Savior Tomato Heed a. Dtaoanl large, gross fruits, which, although they contain a number of seeeds, generally produce a large proportion of- rough tomatoes. Having chosen good specimens, squeeze ont the needs Into n vessel, and stand in s ■warm place. In a few days the mass twill hare undergone fermentation, and pulp sod seeds will bar* separated.

Cleanse thoroughly by throwing the whole intb a large basin and adding water, skimming off the skins and pulp and any seeds which rise to the surface. Afterwards dry the seeds in the sun, sprinkle with sulphur and store in a dry place. 'JS ~ " L ——

Crimson Clover. In almost any section the best plan for~sowing crimson clover Is to sow it during the last cultivation of the corn or, ’ if necessary to cover It properly, make an extra cultivation and harrow the seed In well, if the weather is at all dry. Use the best seed obtainable and, If possible, obtain Americangrown seed, using, under average conditions, fifteen pouncLs of seed to the acre. According to locality, crimson dover may be sown during July and August, and even In sections where It partially winter kills It may be considered as valuable to the soil, for It will make sufficient growth from the time of sowing to frost time to be worth all It cost for plowing under in the spring. The writer has A strip of ground on which he has worked patiently for five years a stand of clover, and only the last year was the work successful; yet we feel that the portion turned under In the spring, which passed safely through the winter, was worth to the soil all It cost.

Wentworth** Way with Sheep Poe*. A friend was telling me a day or so ago that when a boy he lived near Old “Long John” Wentworth, of Chicago, who at one time kept a number of sheep on his lands near that village. He said that once when he had some of them killed by dogs he had his help go round and see some of the dog owners and they all reported that they “kept their dogs in the house.” “Very well,” John, “it may be wolves, and we’ll put out poi@on,’”‘and he did so, but gst dogs galore, as they were up against the deadly stuff In the middle of the night, when they should have beßn in their accustomed places holding down the bed clothes to the feet of their humane owners, “Old John” went fuf-ther, and if the wolves were in it, got them also. Catching a young one, he put it with some dogs having the mange, inoculating it thoroughly. He turned it loose and it wasn't long until they, too, were “good” dead ones.—Upland Letter in Indiana Farmer.

Cheap Way to Subsoil. Have your blacksmith make you an iron foot from an old wagon tire, In shape as you see in cut. Bore a small

hole through the beam will be sufficient. Then have a clamp made, B, with threads cut ou each end so you can tighten; this clamp to be placed just in front of cross bar between handles! By using iron wedges you can set to any depth desired. Use a 7or 8 inch shovel on this foot as you would on common single stock.—W. T. Oliver in Epitomlst.

Hungarian Grass. Hungarian grass is a good crop to sow late for fodder. Like millet, it will producers heavy crop on good land, and; can be cured and housed so a&» to keep with lees trouble than fodder corn, and many prefer It, though not as much weight can probably be obtained from an acre as from com. Hungarian gnus grows rapidly and can be fed green like corn cr be dried for winter use. If sown thinly, the stalks are stout and somewhat woody, but if sowed very thickly it will be shorter and will not support its own weight. There is a medium, however, and one should seek to strike it. This crop can be raised on sod land from which a crop of grass has been taken if the season is favorable. It like* warm weather. Fine crops have been raised, from seed sown as late as July. It is better to use some fertilizer if the seed is sown late or on any land that Is riot already in good condition.

Fruit from Africa. One of the interesting exhibits that may be seen in the horticultural department at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis next year will be the fruits from South Africa. The managers of fruit farms of the late Cecil Rhodes, nt Cape Town, have announced their intention of placing fresh fruits on exhibition each week. Even in London this feat has never been undertaken. South African plums have been on sale fu New York, Boston and other markets the past win'ter, and no reason appears why the proposed exhibition should not be a success, with the help of cold storage.

Philippine Gardening. Recent attempts to raise garden vegetables iu the Philippine Islands bavo met with brilliant success in the case of eggplant, tomatoes and peppers, while fleets, turnips, lettuce, endives, spinach, and radishes do fairly well. Wtiny other kinds were tried without much succesp. (irapes and some other fruits promlsejyell, aud there is some hope for new Industries in cotton, Jute, and coffee. The “Dairy Shark*' I J. A. Crokett, dairyman, Utah Agricultural College, has recently sent out warning to the butter makers of his State against a “dairy Bhark" who Is disponing of a process whereby he claims the yield of butter Is increased from 530 to 100 per cent In excess of that made in (he ordinary manner. Same old fraud that bobs up now and again. All farmers and dairymen should leave all such fellows and their "process’' alone. —Dairy and Cream-

hole through beam in your two-horse plow, behind where the upright joins beam, at A, also, have a fork made in the brace, so one

POLITICAL COMMENT.

Panama Will Stand. No sensible person in the United States will allow himself to be deluded by the stories which may come from time to time of vast demonstrations to be made against Panama by Colombia. Nor will any one be affected by the stories that Colombia will not recognize Panama's independence. Many years pased before Spain recognized the independence of Mexico, Peru, Bolivia and the rest of the countries which broke away from her in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Mexico had not formally recognized the republic of Texas at the tiine of hex annexation to the United States, although nine years had passed since San Jacinto. The failure of Colombia to give her endorsement to the new republic will have not the slightest effect on the status of that government. The United States has given full recognition to it. The other countries, on the American continent as well as in Europe, will follow the United States’ example. Let nobody have any doubt on this point. There are two reasons why Colombia will never regain control of Panama. Colombia lacks the military and naval power to conquer the isthmus, even if the United States kept its hands off. The United States is bound by its treaty of 184 G to protect the isthmian railway from Interruption by any party, and it will perform its duty to the extent of Its power. This would prevent Colombia from invading Panama, even if it were strong enough otherwise to overcome the physical barriers on the land side or had a navy powerful enough to convoy troops and make a landing on either qpast at the isthmus. There Is not the faintest chance that the old regime will ever be restored in Panama. Colombian authority is as dead on the isthmus as Spain’s is in Cuba and Porto Rico. No pronunciamentos which may emanate from Bogota in the next few weeks need excite anybody In the United States. This is a revolution which will not go backward.

The political metamorphosis which has established the republic of Panama; under a United States protectorate is timely for more reasons than one. It is a warning to the colonizing, or wouldbe colonizing, nations of Europe that the guardianship of the hemisphere is in the hands of the United States. A good deal is heard every year or so about large European colonies of one sort and another being planted here and there in South America, especially in Brazil, Venezuela, Chili and the Argentine Republic. Those colonies will have no political Influence in any shape. They will not affect the status of those South American nations In their respective spheres. The government of those countries will be in the hands of their own citizens, and will be exerted from their own capitals, and not from any part of Europe. The revolution at Panama, the recognition of the new republic and the dominance of the United States at the Isthmus throws a light on those points which will be read around tlie world. The administration at Washington, behind which stands the American people, is master of the situation. Whether a United States army goes to the Isthmus or remains away will depend on the administration’s views as to the exigencies of the situation at that place. President Roosevelt's acts on the isthmus and ills recognition of the isthmian republic in 1903 are as momentous in the history of the Western hemisphere as were Monroe’s hands-off-the-American continent warning which was sounded in 1823, and 1903’s acts supplement those of 1823. St. Ixmis Globe-Democrat.

Farmer* and the Tariff. The Hon. Horace Boies raises the question whether the farmers of lowa are in any way benefited by a protective tariff. lie tries to show that they nre not benefited by protection and, that they wpuhl be better off without such a tariff. He quotes no facts. His whole argument is purely academic, and not very good at that. His conclusions are not accurate, and his assertion that the farmer would be benefited by the removal of the protective tnriif is not correct.

By far the greater portion of (he products of the farms of this nation is consumed by the people within its territory- The Treasury statistics of exports and Imports show this. Of the people of the United States, who are the consumers who buy farm products? Do the farmers buy their own products? Do the farmers sell to farmers? Most certainly they do not They sell to people not engaged in farming. Who are the men not engaged l(i farming? They are the professional men and merchants and manufacturof the people belong to the laboring men in another group. The great mnss of the people belong to laboring classes. The greater portion of the products of the farms are, therefore, sold to the laboring men. How much these laboring mem will buy depends on their standard of living and. their purchasing power. Anything ttant decreases the purchasing power of the laboring IPOD, therefore, disturbs tha market for products of the farms of lowa and the other States of the country. < If men have not the money with which to buy the products of the farm, the farmer cannot sell, or. If be sell at all. It must be to people In other countries and bit prices must fall to

pay the cost of transportation to the foreign market. The farmer is vitally interested in any proposition which, if adopted as a policy, will decrease the purchasing power of those who consume his products. He is vitally interested in the welfare of the laboring men of the country.

' ■ V Let us see what the lessons of facts and history are. In 1892 a Democratic President was elected on a tariff reform platform. As soon ijs possible a tariff law tvas enacted that put everything as nearly as possib|e on a freetrade basis. The result was that business was disturbed; manufacturers were compelled to close down their plants; railways to lay off men and stagnation in the industries of the country followed. Two million five hundred thousand men became idle. They were drawing no wages. Their purchasing power was reduced almost to nothing. Every wage earner represents on the average, a family of from two to seven people. Usually the family is represented by five, but to be conservative, let it be represented by four. The disturbance of business that followed the tariff change in 1893, therefore, was directly felt by ten millions of people in the United States who were obliged to lower their standard of living to the plane of bare existence, and ‘some were compelled to subsist on the charity of the people. As this number of people was about one-eighth of the population of the country, and all other people were economizing as much as possible on account of the hard times, think you the farmers were not interested? Did they get high prices for their products? Did they sell as many bushels of wheat, as many cattle, as many hogs, as many potatoes, as much butter and as many eggs aSi they do when every one is able to buy all that he wants to eat and all that his family wants to consume? —Davenport Times.

Finding the Fnnlt. The Democratic leaders in the House have been full of sympathy for the woes of Cuba. They have constantly found fault with the Republican majority for not making greater speed toward establishing those trade relations with Cuba so evidently demanded by her interests and our own. Yet when the bill to do these very things came up in the House on Mondaythe Democrats sought to kill it with an amendment to remove the differential duty on refined sugar. The direct effect of such amendment would be to transfer a large part of the su-gar-refining Industry from the United. States to Europe. Indirectly It would, destroy the sugar-growing industry of Democratic Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas by depriving it of a near-by market of refineries. Of course that was not what the Democrats really wanted to do. Had the Republicans accepted their proposal they would have run crying to the Senate to save a leading industry of three Democratic States from the destructive folly of their own Democratic Representatives. What they wanted to do was merely to “put the Republicans in a bole” by killing the Cuban treaty so they could denounce the Republican administration for failing to carry out a great national policy.

“We do the work and you find the fault,” was the phrase in which Speaker Cannon at the close of the Fifty-Seventh Congress described the attitude of the two great parties toward questions of national interest and honor. The accuracy of the description was again proved by the course of the House Democrats on Monday. 'And yet there 1 are thousands of wellmeaning Democrats who cannot undcrytand why the American people refuse to trust their party with the great hush ness of government. —Chicago Inter Ocean.

A Dismal Kailnrc. There never Mas a more dismal failure than that of the opponents of the isthmian canal, alddd by the Democratic party, to arouse popular clamor against the adminMration of President Roosevelt for its course in connection itli recent events involving the new republic of Panama. , Every criticism which has been put forth has fallen flat. As Ptof. Langley’s air-ship, when started from Its catapult, falls to dart into the blue empyrean for an extended voyage, but makes a bee-line for the river, where it buries itself out of sight In the mud at the bottom, so lias every antiadministration lie on the subject of the canal, the revolution and the recognition of the new republic, plumped by the shortest possible cut to oblivion, leaving Its promoters astounded as well as dismayed. ♦be people, on the other hand, have been quick to recognize the fairness, the patriotism and the practical wisdom as well as the energy of the administration, and are full of admiration for what lias been done. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay -havo brought about a situation of which the logical sequence is the prompt completion of an isthmian canal. It has surprises! and nonplussed the opponents of the Isthmian canal, who are left “without a leg ts stand on.”—Milwaukee Evening Wla» <-vital u. ,

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Suicide Wants Band Music at His Funeral -- Systematic Robbery of Railroad by Employes—Hoover Hanged at Michigan City—A. Day’s Mishaps.

“Men often make mistakes, but who has made a greater mistake than I?” wrote Dr. J. M. Willis, one of the most "prominent '.physicians of Alamo, before he took his position before a mirror and blew out his brains in the office building he had just had erected. The suicide caused a sensation. Tacked to the folding bed in his room was a large piece Of paper, on which were written some startling requests, which will be carried out. “I want my body cremated at St. Louis,” wrote the suicide. “The act which I am about to carry out is not the thought of a moment, but has been in contemplation for some time. I want a first-class band of national reputation employed to be present and furnish music for the exercises at my funeral, the Indianapolis military or Ringgold band at Terre Haute. I would not want any Crawfordsville band employed except as a last resort, because they are never under good organization and their music is not entertaining.”

Rob Railroad for Year*. The police of Indianapolis have uncovered one of the most sensational cases of -systematic robbery of a railroad Company that has come to light within recent years. More than forty employes of the Big Four company have apparently been engaged in the nefarious business Which has extended over a period of seven years. Goods, so far accounted for, amount to over $15,000, and new discoveries are being made every day. The thieves are freight conductors and other employes connected with the freight department. Mr. Kleemnn, claim adjuster, of Cleveland, Ohio, came to Indianapolis to confer with the detectives. He found evidence for the arrest of railroad men in different cities between Indianapolis and Bellefontaine, Ohio, one in Pittsburg and one in Philadelphia. Mr. Kieeman said most of the stolen goods were sold m small towns along the line of the rail-, road.

Day Crowded with Mishap^. In Marion Friday was marked by accidents in which thirteen people were injured. Five were injured, four probably fatally, when the dwelling of G. B. Hight was wrecked by a natural gas explosion. The other mishaps were; Forrest Shetley, arm torn off in a fodder shredder; William Lemons, probably fatally injured by a falling log; Clyde Rush, a pupil in the public school, accidentally stabbed by a fellow pupil; Lola Carver, struck by a street car and seriously injured; Amel Cramer, seriously injured by fall; .Fred Rose, John Phillips and Elmer Ross, injured in the oil field.

Hoover Meets Death Penalty. \V ltli expressions of sorrow on his lips for the murder of Frank Sutton, his father-in-law, Edward Hoover of Indianapolis marehed unflinchingly to the gallows at the. State prison in Michigan City, and paid the penalty of his crime. Just before the execution, in a talk with the chaplain, Hoover said he had just realized the enormity of his crime, and was very sorry he had killed Sutton, who had always treated him right. Hoover’s wife left him because of his quarrelsome disposition, and in a fight with Sutton over this fact the latter was shot and killed.

Colored Roy Shoots Child. Michael Ingraham, an 11-year-old colored boy, living near Lawrenceburg, when ordered from the home of John Childers, deliberately fired a load of buckshot through the head of Mila Childers, 5 years of age. The boy escaped to the woods, but was persuaded to surrender. When asked why he had killed the child he said he wanted to kill some one and it might as well be Mila as anybody else.

State Items of Interest. Harry Ward died from burns received in the Montpelier fire. School rooms in Wabash are provided with n tin cup for each pupil. Fielding McKowan, 91, has brought suit f<n divorce from his wife, 89, in Marion. Labor troubles have started in Muncie over the organization of a blacksmiths’ uuion. Harvey Ralya, a Prominent inventor aa.l manufacturer of Anderson, has become violently insane. Kokomo is having such a boom that laborers cannot be found to do the work that contractors have on hand. * A brother-in-law of Edward Hoover is circulating a petition to have Gov. Durbin commute the prisoner’s sentence. John Hayden was sentenced by Judge Cobb at Vincennes to from ope to twen-ty-one years in State's prison for arson. The- City Council of Marion lias passed an ordinance regulating the speed of automobiles in the city. The limit is five miles per hour. In Goshen the saloon fight is so bitterly waged Hint whitecap notices have been sent to Rev. Alexander McLaughlin, who is managing the remonstrance fight.

Keymeur is to hold n special election ne.it month to decide whether or not a 2 per cent subsidy will be given the Indiana Central electric railroad company. Burns & Hobson, grocers, assigned to C, W. Rose in Martinsville at the close of business. Assets are $2,500, liabilities about $1,500. The assignment is a result of tiie shortage of Burns as city treasurer, which'shortage will be about $2,000. IJ is* partner was one of liis bondsmen. ~ 1 - 1 *—- ' 1 In attempting with a hammer to open the safe in the Big Four elevator at Warsaw, which had been previously- visited by cracksmen who were frightened away after inserting a charge of nitroglycerin. Elmer Kinsey and Delph Moore were Re¥erejyTiiJure<rTVy aliei ploSlon. George Tbeaman of Chicago, alias George Bender, arrested at Bremen for forgery, has confessed that his partner, Joseph Bonder of Hammond, sent him forged checks with bogus letters of instructions, by the use of which he cashed the checks. Among the names gsed waa that of Studebaker Brothers. -

TOM HORN IS HANGED.

Wytmlng Bad Man Kxtcuted Despite Threats of {teseue. Tom Horn, the Wyoming “bad man,” was hanged in Cheyenbe Friday. Tbd threatened attempt by cowboys to rescue the condemned man did not materialize, and the execution passed off qnietfy. For years Horn had been a detective for the so-called cattle barons,, and this business resulted in the commission of many heinous crimes. It was to the cattlemen, or to persons under their control, that the'public pointed as those most Interested in saving Horn’s neck. Even Gov. Clintterton was threatened. It is said that lie was informed that should Horn pay the penalty of his crime he (Chatterton) would not long survive. For weeks disturbing reports came from throughout the cattle region that Horn would never feel the rope, that his friends would rescue him, even if he were standing on the scaffold, and It was these reports that caused Cheyenne to be placed practically under martial law. Hundreds of militia guarded the county jail and rapi«bfire guns frowned front, the windows and ramparts of the prison on the various approaches. The sheriff and scores of deputies also were alert nnd apprehensilvfe. There was one man apparently more determined than- all others that Horn should not escape the gallows. This man was William Niekell, the aged father of the victim so savagely shot down by Horn. Night and day for two weeks the sturdy old cattleman paraded before the prison, declaring that it was only over his dead' body that Horn should be liberated, and he staid until the body </. the assassifii was brought from the gallows. * fs

While Horn, it is Claimed, was guilty of many cold-blooded murders, the crime for width he was hanged was the killing of Wiflinm Niekell, aged 11, in Blue Springs valley, Wyoming, last July. Nickell’s father owned land that, as alleged, the cattle barons wanted, and, finding it impossible to make the old man relinquish his claim, decided that the murder of his son might possibly drive him from the country. Horn was hired to do the job„ and, though in earlier days the older Ts’ickell had befriended him, he eagerly undertook the desperate contract.- He seereted himself about 200 yards from Nickell’s house behind a pile of brush, nnd when the young boy appeared .took careful aim and fired. The bullet made a fearful wound, but not sufficient to unhorse the victim, who turned toward home and with his remaining strength urged his horse to a gallop.. Horn followed with desperate speed. A wire fence n few yards from the house prevented the escape of the wounded youth. He threw himself from the horse to unfasten the gate, but was so weak from loss of blood that this took much time. The gate finally yielded, but, passing through it, Niekell tripped on the wire and fell. Before he could recover the heartless murderer was upon him. The defenceless boy made a gallant struggle, but it was useless. Horn fired again with his rifle almost at the ear of the victim, and virtually blew his head off. Then he turned and coolly rode away. Horn made a full confession to Deputy Marshal Lasers. He said that he came to Wyoming in 1891 with fifty Texan desperadoes, and for years took a foremost part in the bloody wars between the sheep and cattlemen, killing many of the opposing faction, and slaying several ranchmen cold-bloodedly for a fixed price, paid by cattle kings. When brought to trial, the case was bitterly fought. ‘ The State spent $40,000 to convict Horn, and his friends as much to clear him. After his conviction, the cattlemen swore he should never be hanged, and mustered In force to rescue him, keeping up their threats and show of attack until the day of execution.

GOVERNMENT LOSES CASE.

Miller and Johns, Charged with Postal Frauds. Are Set Free. Daniel Voorhees Miller of Terre Haute aud Joseph M Johns of Rockville, Ind., were acquitted at Cincinnati of the

DANIEL V. MILLER

The federal officials acknowledge their disappointment in the fiual outcome. They state that this case was not like any of the other postal cases that are pending, as this one simply de*lt with the actiou’of Miller when he was an assistant attorney in the Postofflce Department.

Tiie specific charge against Miller and Johns was conspiracy to extort money from Ryan for allowing him to use the mails for questionable purposes. Ryan testified at the two trials that he paid Johns $4,500 while Miller was in the Postofflce Department so he could use the mails for “placing bets on races.” Ryan claimed he turned State’s evidence after repeated demands had been made on him. 'The examination of State Senator George E. Green on the indictment found ngninst him charging conspiracy with intent to defraud the government in connection with tho sale qf time recorders in the Postofflce Department was begun in Binghamton, N. Y., Friday before United States Commissioner Charles S. Hall. *fhe trial in Washington of August W. Mnchen, the Gross Brothers and Mr. and Mrs. Lorenz of Ohio, Indicted on the charge of defrauding the government by conspiracy iu connection with the wale of box fasteners to the Postofflce Department, has been postponed until Jan. 11. M. Manahan, a well-known farmer residing near Boling, Kan., was seriously Injured by -being dragged by a fractions team while plowing. He pat the linea around his neck. He got off with a broken shoulder and aoma severe scalp wounds. __ While Mrs. John Reeves, two and a half miles south of Blaine, Kaau, waa cleaning house aha knocked down a loaded shotgun. It waa discharged by ths fall aud tha contents entered her head, killing her instantly. She waa about 20 yean aid.

charge of conspiracy to extort a bribe from John J. Ryan, made by the Postoffice Department. The verdict of “not guilty” was received by the crowd with demonstrations that could not be suppressed by the court officers. The Jury at the first trial last month was unable to agree.