Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — PERIL IS INTERNAL. [ARTICLE]

PERIL IS INTERNAL.

THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT. Granting of Constitution Might Stimulate Enthusiasm and Insure Raising of an Army Rig Enough to Crush Jape—Ohio Man Lives in a Tree. t ■ A secret report from St. Petersburg depicts the internal situation of Russia «s becoming most serious. The preservation of present institutions is threatened, the military failures in the far East having strengthened the opinion that the evils are due to the present organisation of the country, in which a change is necessary. The hope is expressed that the Emperor, seeing the danger, will be induced to grant the country a constitution, in which event it is asserted the enthusiasm of the people ■would beeome so great as t 6 make it possible to raise an army and collect the means necessary to defeat Japan. Otherwise, the report says, it is believed all the efforts made at St Petersburg will be futile, as besides the war in the far East Russia will be obliged to face a latent if not an open revolutionary movement at home, depriving her of the assistance of the most progressive elements of the empire, such as the Poles and Finns.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Two Principal Leagues. The clubs in the National League are •tanding thus: W. L. W, L. New York...lG GSt Louis 11 12 Cincinnati ...18 9 Boston 9 15 Chicago 13 9 Pittsburg 8 14 Brooklyn ....12 10 Philadelphia.. 517 Following is the standing of the clubs in the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 18 5 Cleveland ....10 11 New Y0rk...13 8 St Louis :* 11 Philadelphia.. 13 8 Detroit S 15 Chicago 13 12 Washington... 317 TREE-TOP HOUSES IN VOGUE. Ohio Man Who Was Cured of Consumption by Living Like a Bird. O. D. Steinberger, the man who lives In a tree near Springfield, Ohio, has gone into the business of building houses in tree tops. He already has built three, and expects that all his neighbors who happen to be afflicted as he has been will try nature's cure of open air. Mr. Steinberger claims lie lias been restored to health by residing in a tree top through the greater part of the year. George Quick, 70 years old, is one of the latest persons to take up this form of tuberculosis cure.

Stop Funeral to Unionize It. In St. Louis relatives of Mrs.l Tillie Wilbert delayed her burial two hours, dismissed the non-union undertaker and the carnages he had furnished and had the funeral unionized. The body was removed to a casket furnished by a union firm, and in two hours a procession of union carriages was in line. Mrs. Wilbert, who was an enthusiastic member, requested that she be buried by her, union. Massacre Men and Women. Missionaries bring advices of an atrocious massacre at a little colony on the west coast of British North Borneo. A band of rebels from the interior are credited with killing 130 men, women and children, most of Chinese coolies, but a few English, wounding many others and burning the houses and huts. Sawdust Explosion Costly. •An explosion of sawdust in the furnace of the Day Lumber Company’s mill in Portland, Ore., started a fire which destroyed that mill and also those of the Multnomah Trunk and Box factory and the Ira F. Powers Manufacturing company. The loss probably will exceed $250,000. Sleuth Napping) Papers Gone. Depending upon the shabbiness of his grip to render safe the contents, Postoffice Inspector Crawford, of Indianapolis, /ost documents that he has been months in collecting. He set the grip down 5n the St. Louis Union station waiting room and when he returned it had disappeared.

Charged with Killiffffieo, John Brown, of Richardson, N. D., is under arrest charged with the murder of his 12-year-old son while in a fit of anger. The father buried the body immediately. It has been exhumed. Russians Lose 1,500 Men. Russians are reported to have suffered defeat in a battle with Kuroki’s forces at Hsiu Yen, with a loss of 1.500 killed and wounded. The town is directly in the advance to Hal Cheng. Actor Given Judgment. _ A Jury at Sherman, Texas, gave Lonis James, the actor, a judgment for $lO,000 against the Oriental Hotel Association of Dallas for libel. Suicide in Coast City. William H. Constance, a lawyer nnd insurance man of Chicago, committed suicide at Portland, Ore., because of financial reverses. Concessionaire’s Sudden Death. H. Mannsse of Chicago, a Pike concesalonaire, was taken ill in a barber (hop near tint world’s fair, St. Louis, and died in an automobile en route to a hospital.

New York Postmaster to Retire. •»* Postmaster Van Cott of New York has been ordered to retire from bia office at the end of bis present term by the President, and his son has been deposed from his position as superintendent of delivery. , ' Mad Dos Scares Boy to Death. After being chased several blocks by n mad dog, 7-year-okJ George Aid of Philadelphia staggered up the steps of Jiis home and feTl dead In the arms of his mother, who had heard hia screams and dost reached the door. 1