Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — LECTURED BY JUDGE. [ARTICLE]

LECTURED BY JUDGE.

JURIST TALKS SENSE TO AMERICAN MOTHERS. Bays that Almost All International Marrinucs Are Unhappy anil Thinks Maters Should Wake Up Fire Destroys Stores in Nicholson, Pa. • Judge Foster in the St. Louis Circuit Court granted a divorce to Countess Marie It. F.'Pennloza from Count Henri De Fenaloza. In her petition the countess. who is a St. Louis heiress, charge ! that the count had spent her fortune and had paid attention to other women. One witness. Miss Christine Mena, testified that while he was still married to liis present wife the count had “proposed marriage to her. When charged that lie was a married man the witness testified the count admitted as much, but said he expected to secure a divorce shortly. In granting- the degree Judge • Foster commented on the n. don ’of the count, which, he said, was markedly similar to that in most all cases of international marriages. "It is always the way,” lie said, “that these foreigners treat their American wives. Ambitious mothers and cultivated daughters traveling abroad are constantly falling into such traps as these.- The courts are full of such cases. It seems to me that mothers ought to wake up some time. The plaintiff is, given her decree end the custody of the children.”

GIVEN TWO YEARS IN JAIL. Three Men Convicted of Postal Frauds Receive Maximum Penalty. August W. Machen, formerly general superintendent of the free delivery service; Dr. George E. -Lorenz of Toledo, Ohio, once postmaster of that city, and Differ B. Gross of Washington, convicted of conspiracy against tho government in connection with the supply of Gross fasteners to the I’ostoffice Department, were sentenced by Judge Pritchard in Washington. D. C., to two years’ imprisonment in the Moundsville (W. Yn.) penitentiary and to pay a fine of SIO,OOO each. The defendants immediately gave notice of appeal to the Court of Appeals and were released on $20,000 bonds each. PENNSYLVANIA TOWN BURNS. Seventeen Bnlldingn in Bnsiness Center of Nicholson Are' Destroyed. Fire destroyed the business portion of Nicholson, l’n.- Seventeen frame buildings werr rned, causing a loss estimated at $40,000. An overheated stove in the residence of Dr. Kelly was the cause of the fire. There is no fire apparatus in Nicholson, and assistance was sent from Scranton and Hallstend. Among the buildings destroyed were two clothing stores belonging to Leroy A Cohen, Frank C. Proper’s general store, Pratt's drug store, printing office of the Nicholson Examiner, large wool store and several dwellings. Explosion Causes a Panic. i An explosion of magnesium and alcohol used in taking a flashlight photograph at th'e clubhouse of the Strollers in New York during the progress of an entertainment was followed by lire and a panic among the 500 members and guests, during which the club’s private theater on the second floor, one of the most complete of its kind in the country, was completely wrecked. Governor Saves Negro Murderer. Governor of Mississippi, with a company of militia, transferred a negro murderer to the State capital to protect him from a mol) of a thousand men who proposed to burn him at the stake. Postoffice Conspirators Convicted. August W. Machen, George E. Lorenz and Samuel A. and Differ B. Gross were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government in the postal icasgl in Washington. An appeal will be taken. President Issues Canal Proclamation. President Roosevelt lias issued a proclamation putting into effect the Panama canal treaty, and ratifications were formally exchanged by Secretary liny andMinister Bunau-Yarilla.

' - Dick Nominated for Senator. Republican members of the Legislature In caucus in Columbus, Ohio, unanimously nominated Congressman Charles A. Dick of Akron for the United States Senate, to succeed Marcus A. Hanna. 730 Chicago Messeusrer Days Strike. Western Union messenger boys in Chicago, 750 in number, struck in sympathy with striking messengers nt the stock yards; there was no wage or hour complaint. “Old Abe’e” Remain* Dtirn. Wisconsin veterans of the Civil War mourn for “Old Abe,” the famous war eagle, whose remains were burned in the fire which damaged the State capital at Madison. Killed by Falling Scaffold. Fourteen men miraculously escaped death, one man was killed-and one injured when n high scaffold in the new postoffice building- in Chicago collapsed. The State of Trade. Dun’s Review of Trade says development of sprlug bn ! ness is slow, owing to cold weather; manufacturing reviving; war affects staples; cotton firmer. 922,000 Fire at Wapello, lowa. Fir# broke out in the general store of J. E. Garrett in Wapello, lowa, and before the tlames could be stopped $22,000 worth'of property was burned. Little Prince Henry la Dead. Prince Henry, the youngest son of Prince Henry of Prussia, died, aged 4 years. Tlio little prince had been unconscious several days as the result of injuries received in a fall while playing in the nursery. Hash Held Good Army Food. The commissary general of the army is in receipt of reports from subsistence officers who had to do with the recent experiments with hash. The reports nearly all were in approval of hash as ojo army food.