Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

HUSBAND IS HEAD OF FAMILY. Ohio Court Adds Legal Confirmation to Fact Generally Acknowledged. The Supreme Court of Ohio has decreed that the husband is the head of the family. He may choose any reasonable place or mode of living and the wife must conform thereto. The liushand may decide who shall be visitors at the home, even if the wife owns the home. In the Erie County case of the State of Ohio agninst Oscar W. Green this quostion was brought to the attention of no fewer than four courts. It all grew out of a domestic quarrel. Oscar Green did not want iiis mother-in-law, Mrs. Martha Hebblethwaitej to visit him nnd his wife at their home. He gave the mother-in-law notice to that effect. But Mrs. Hebblethwaite eam& just the same. The son-in-law met her at the door and refused to allow her to enter. Mrs. ' H'eDbletliw.nite caused the arrest of Green, lie was found guilty in the police court and fined $lO and costs for assault and battery. The Common Pleas Court nfllrmej (lie finding and the Circuit Court reversed the action on the ground that Green was the “ruler” of his “castle.” The prosecutor carried the case to the Supreme Court and that court has said the Circuit Court was right.

SIOO,OOO BLAZE ?N CINCINNATI. Fire Causes Bis Loss to Ponnsford & Co.’s Stationery Store. A fire in the old Thomas Wriglitson building in Cincinnati, starting from spontaneous combustion iu the basement of the Pounsford & Co.’s stationery store, caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. John J. Vohling, the aged janitor of the Pounsfr rd store, who with his family occupied rooms on the third floor, was overcome by smoke and was carried out by the firemen. He may die. His son, aged 17, rescued tlie daughter, aged 19. The principal loss fell upon Pounsford & Co., estimated nt $70,000. The building, owned by the University of Cincinnati, was damaged to the extent of $5,000. Beth are fully insured. Minor losses were sustained by other occupants of the building, and of the adjoining building, including John Holland, gold pen manufacturer, and Rudolph Wurlitzer, dealer in pianos and music struments. These losses were mainly from water. SLAIN IN WIFE’S SIGHT. Kansas City Printer Murdered in His Home by Two Negroes. Clarence Meyer, aged 22, a printer, -was terribly slashed and killed in his home in Kansas City some time during Tuesday night. According to Mrs. Meyer, who reported the matter to the police, two negroes entered the house nt 2 o’clock in the morning. While one held the woman to prevent her giving the alarm, the other struggled with Meyer, slashing him with a razor on the head, throat and body. Mrs. Meyer became unconscious and did not recover until .many hours later, when her husband dead. The house had beeu ransacked. * Bookbinders Quit Work. Eight hundred' bookbinders quit work in Chicago, tying up that branch of tiie printing business in about sixty shops. The strike was called after all but two of the employers affected had offered to make an agreement with the unions. Two of the largest firms—the R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company and Rand, McNally & Co.—refused to sign the closed shop agreement.

Chariton, lowa, Has Big Fire. Fire of incendiary origin damaged all buildings on two sides of the public square in Chariton, lowa, the loss being about $25,000. Two men who were caught stealing goods from one of the burned stores are held on suspicion of being the firebugs. The fire broke out in an empty store near the city hall and spread rapidly. Woman Smoker Emls Her Life. At the coroner's investigation into the suicide of Mrs. Jennie Price in Philadelphia, Mrs. Rebecca Price, her sister-in-law, testified that Mrs. Price was in the balyt of smoking at least fifty rignrettes a day. She was found dead in her rocm and an empty carbolic acid bottle showed the manner of death. Bniclde of an Indiann Sheriff, John C. Huffman, sheriff of Greene County, Indiana, committed suicide by shooting himself. He had considerable property, but is supposed to have been heavily indebted, especially as surety on notes, over which fact he brooded. He had been sheriff since JaD. 1. Court Rules on Value of Sexes. It was decided in the Circuit Court in Newark. N. J., that a boy’s life is twice as valuable as that of h girl. This ruling grew out of the Newark street car accident in which nine high school pupils were killed by a train. Rosebnd Rcscvation for Settlers. The President has signed the proclamation opening the Rosebud, S. D., Indian reservation to settlement The reservation contains 416,000 acreo, nnd will be opened at 9 o’clock a. m. Aug. 8. Drink ond Cigarettes Cause Death. In Laporte, Ind., Howard Fogle died in terrible agouy from meningitis brought on by excessive drinking of pop, eating popcorn and smoking cigarettes. He was 15 years old. Reign of High Prices. Labor Commissioner Wright has issued ■ bulletin showing that ths average pries of all commodities in ths United States in 1908 was the highest in ths lest thirteen years. 'Wakes on Dissecting Table. John Cupsick, a miner, was tsken ill in Hasleton, Pa., several days ago sad later was pronounced dead by ths doctors. As he had no family or friends

to bury him his body was sent to a Philadelphia hospital for dissection. When placed on the table, and just as the knife was about to be put to him, Cupsick arose anil wanted to know why lie had been “undressed.” SLEEPING YOUTH A BURGLAR. He Wakes Up When Within Reach of Booty, Runs Home and Tells Father. While walking in his sleep Hardin Hughes broke into the postoftiee in Albany, Mo:, early on a recent morning and was trying to open a cash drawer when he woke up. Frightened at his -predicament, the youth ran home nnd told his father, a Baptist minister, or what had occurred. Father anil son then aroused the postmaster and with him traversed the route traveled by the boy. This is what they discovered: The somnambulist left his bed, secured a brace and bit, juid went to the postofflee, four blocks away. Securing n box, he climbed high enough to bore holes through a door and turn the lock. Tlfen entering, he went to a delivery window, climbed eight feet into the private office, and bored three holes into a cash drawer. , WRECK IS DEATH TO TWO. New York, New Haven and Hartford Express Leaves the Track. Two men were, killed when the Adams express section of the Federal express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad left the tracks while crossing the Byram river bridge at Port Chester, N. Y. After leaving the bridge nnd running about forty feet the locomotive and tender and two express cars plunged down a 77-foot embankment. None of the cars went over, the breaking of the coupliug between the tender and the first car preventing the--' whole train from being carried down into the river. Lawrence Ivegan of Dedham, Mass., engineer, and John T. Howes of Boston, Mass., fireman, were killed. One of the guards on the money car was slightly hurt. None of the other guards or train hands was injured.

GOTHAM CHILD’S BODY FOUND. Mysterious Disappearance Is SolvedWas Wedged in a Chimney. The body of Josephine MeCaliill, the child who mysteriously disappeared from her Home at’ 1838 Third avenue, New York, a number of days ago, has been found wedged in a chimney of a building adjoining her home. She has apparently been dead for a week, nnd there are, gashes about the head and neck, which may be indications of murder. A Chinaman in the neighborhood is suspected and is under guard. The child’s body had fallen or been thrown Jh rough the opening at the top of the chimney, which is but eight or nino inches inside measurement. It was necessary to remove the wall to recover her body. Once a Judge) Now a Convict. William 11. Becker, once judge in n Dakota Circuit Court, was sentenced at Kansas City to two years in the penitentiary. With William I. Canfield nnd J. T. Morrow, Becker opened the Mutual Benefit Bank. They were convicted of receiving deposits when they knew the bank Was insolvent. Lumberman Shoots Deputy Sheriff. While trying to enforce an injunction on J. F. Dietz, who was holding up a log drive in the Thornapple River dam, near Chippewn Falls, Wis:. Deputy Sheriff William Elliott was siiot nnd killed by Dietz. Dietz and his family, armed with rifles, had held up the drive for two weeks. Seventeen Americans Slain. Lieut. Winfield Harper nnd thii-ty-nine men of Company F of the Seventeenth United States infantry, were caught in an ambush by several hundred Moros. Two American officers and fifteen men were killed and five men were wounded. The ambush occurred at Simpatom, Island of Mindanao. Philippines Judge Named. Secretary Taft has appointed Charles S. Lobiugier a judge of the Court of First Instance iu the Philippines. The appointee is a young lawyer of Omdia, a writer on legal topics and at one time was a member of the Supreme Court commission of Nebraska.

Fire Doss of SIOO,OOO iti Town. The entire business seetion of Steelville, Mo., and many dwellings were destroyed by fire discovered in a large dry goods store. Forty business buildings have been burned. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $20,000. Parker Forces Control Convention. The Parker forces controlled the Indiana Democratic convention. While forcing the adoption of resolutions instructing for their candidate, they managed to keep the Heurst men from bolting. Coroner Calls Wentz a Suicide. The coroner's verdict in the case of Edward L. Went*, the young Philadelphia millionaire whose body wns found in the Virginia mountains, was that he met his death by “suicide or accidental killing.” Russians Blow Up Port Dalny. Viceroy Alexieff has telegraphed to the Cenr announcing that the Russians have blown up the docks and piers at Port Dalny, presumably to render more dim. cult a Japanese landing at that point, J Commits Rulcldc at His Home. Eklward A. Gott,*n well-known lawyer of Detroit, formerly connected with the Wabash legal staff there, committed suicide at his home. Financial troubles are said to have caused the act. Kills Robins and Is Fined $lO. Mrs. Mary B. Ganler, a wealthy Lincoln, Neb., woman, waa fined $lO and costs in a justice court for hiring small boys to shoot two robins ou her lawn.

WARE IS DISGUSTED WITH OFFICE Pension Commissioner Resigns Because He Is Losing Money. Eugene F. Ware, commissioner of pensions, has gone to Kansas to look after his shattered law practice. He handed his resignation to President Roosevelt some weeks ago with (lie request that it be accepted immediately. The President declined to consider it at once and urged Mr. Ware to reconsider his determination to resign. “I had ft hard time getting you and I am going to keep you,” was the President’s remark. Mr. -Ware told—ft friend just before -leaving for Kansas that if the President did not accept the resignation within a reasonable time he would “just naturally quit.” lie is disgusted with the position and is losing money by remaining in office. Ex-Congressman Bine of Kansas is mentioned as a possible successor of Ware as pension commissioner. Melville W. Miller, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, was mentioned as a candidate for the place, but he said that lie would not touch it with a ten-foot pole.

BIG LAKE TIE-UP IS ON. All-Summer Idleness Is Begun by Union Vote. A tieup of navigation on the great lakes, which may last all summer and, vessel owners declare, will end the system of contracts with unions and establish the open shop, was begun the other night when the Masters’ and Pilots’ Association rejected by an overwhelming vote the offer of the Lake Carriers to pay last year’s wages and the long-drawn-out peace negotiations came to naught. This stand of 3,500 men forces to idleness about 100,000 of other organized vessel workers who have made satisfactory agreements with the vessel owners. Its effect on commerce in Chicago alone was emphasized by the cancellation of the marine insurance on a big fleet and the taking out of what is called a “port cover” to protect the vessels from loss when out of commission. Provisional charters for over 1,500,000 bushels of grain were canceled. It will be sent by rail to the seaboard. CHINA WANTS YANKEE SOLDIERS. Offers the Same Rank nnd Pay Officers Received Uncle Sam. Brig. Gen. Edmond F. English of Yankton, S. D., has written Captain William E. English, as commander-in-cjiief of the Spanish-American war veterans, notifying him that Prince Pu Lun, Chinese commissioner to the St. Louis exposition and next in line of succession to the Chinese imperial throne, has authorized him to invite American officers who served in t'lie Spanish war to accept commissions in the new Chinese army. The pay is to be the same as that given by this country, rank for rank. Gen. English has been appointed the American member of the Chinese general staff. He says ho expects to get several hundred American officers to take commissions. Rises in Shroud; Chant Ends. Six-year-old Martha Block, ill for four weeks of tubercular meningitis, died in New York apparently. An undertaker was called and the body was prepared for burial. Four hours later, while cantors from the synagogue were chanting psalms, the little girl opened her eyes, smiled and tried to sit up in her shroud. She may recover. Fire Ruins Big Elevator. At Fort Williams, Man., fire destroyed elevator B, containing 1.500,000 bushels of wheat. The high wind fanned the flames so that the adjoining buildings were badly damaged before the fire was extinguished. Tlie-elevator was valued at about $i,000,000 and about one-tliird of its contents was destroyed, making a total loss of about $1,500,000.

Railway Magnate Saves Girl. At the risk of his own life Lewis R. Hul, vice president of the Great Northern Railway and son of James J. Hill, saved the life of a 7-ycar-old girl, who narrowly escaped being crushed under the wheels of a heavy touring automobile driven by Mrs. John Fitchett, in St. Paul. / Greatest Commercial Crime. Justice Gnyuor of New York declared in an address nt Boston that the greatest commercial crime of the day uud generation was favoritism in freight rates, and that the government should appoint a general freight agent for each road. Sentenced to the Penitentiary. In Dover, Del., counsel for Mrs. Mary A. Powell, who was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing Estelle Albin, withdrew their motion for a new trial and Mrs. Powell was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Heiress' Skull Is Fractnred. Miss Beatrice Blake, daughter of Mrs. Arthur W. Blake, of Brookline, Mass., wns picked up in the road unconscious and with her skull fractured. Her memory is a blank. She had been riding a spirited horse. Miss Blake is an heiress. First Vessel Is Lost by Japan. The Japanese torpedo boat No. 48 was destroyed while removing mines from Kerr Bay, north of Taiienwsn (Port Dalny). Seven men were killed and seven were wounded. This is the first warship Japan has lost in the war. Cold Water Advocate Killed. The Rev. A. M. Collins, a temperance lecturer of Westerville, was killed by a passenger train at Oreston, Ohio. He waa crossing the track In an effort to reach the station platform. African Kxplorer la Dead.' Sir Henry M. Stanley. African explorer, died in Loudon of pleurisy, offer a fortnight's illness. He was 64 years old and a Welshman by birth.