Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — BOY SWINDLER TAKEN [ARTICLE]

BOY SWINDLER TAKEN

SELLS MOONSHINE STOCKS TO UNSUSPECTING BUYERS. After Being Arrested, New Jersey Lad Makes Full Confession in Court— GoVeEtßaMSrt'tOOwii All Wireless Telegraph Stations—News Notes. Charles Tj. Murphy, a country youth, was committed to jail in Newark, N. J., in default of SI,OOO bail ou a charge of swindling. When arraigned before United States Commissioner Whitehead he admitted that he had purchased a mail order list of persons living in rural districts and that he had written to many of these persons and asked if they did not wish to purchase stock that would yield “a profit of 50 per cent." The boy remembered selling P. J. Robb of Salem, Ohio, the complainant against him, $75 worth of “Lunar Oil stock,” also of selling SSO worth of the same stock to Captain Cairns of Lima, Ohio. This stock, he admitted, existed only in his imagination. He also sold Western Union telegraph stock and “Marconi Wireless” stock, his part of the transaction ending ou the receipt of the money. ’ Young Murphy lived with his parents in a ramshackle cottage in a farming district outside of Berkley Heights, N. J. He received his mail at Scotch Plains under the name of James B. Murphy.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Three Princi* pal Leagues. The clubs in the National League are standing thus: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati ...23 11 Pittsburg ....16 16 Chicago 21 10 Brooklyn .... 13 20 New Y0rk...21 10 Boston 11 20 St. Louis.... 16 15 Philadelphia.. 524 Following is the standing of the clubs In the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 22 10 Chicago 18 16 Cleveland ...18 12 St. Louis 14 17 Philadelphia.. 19 13 Detroit 11 20 New Y0rk...17 14 Washington... 623 Standings in the American Association, are as follows: W. L. W. L. Milwaukee ..19 11 Louisville ....17 18 Columbus ...IS 11 Minneapolis.. .13 17 St. Paul 18 13 Toledo 10 18 Indianapolis.. 17 14 Kansas City.. 9 19

CONVICTED AS BABY FARMER. David F. Mosier Found Guilty by a Philadelphia Jury. After short deliberation the jury in criminal court No. 2, in Philadelphia, returned a verdict of guilty against David F. Mosier, tried in connection with death of infants. Sentence was suspended pending a motion for a new trial. Bail was denied. Mosier, who was known under several aliases and as “doctor,” was the witness who testified against a woman who kept a baby farm and who was charged with making away with infants intrusted to her care. It was he who declared he had seen babies thrown into a furnace in the woman’s home. It was alleged that he was a member of a syndicate of baby farmers.

GOVERNMENT TO OWN WIRELESS. Marconi Plants Forced from America —Messages to Be Free. Government ownership of all wireless telegraph stations at points where cver-the-sea communication is possible has been decreed by the cabinet in Washington, and the Navy Department is putting the order into effect*, . One result •will be that Marconi will be forced to move his stations to Canadian soil. In place of the Marconi station on the Nantucket lightship the department will establish its own plant, using a modification of the Slaby-Arco system in its eight stations. The government will make no charge on messages to and from ships at sea. Great Victory for Japanese. - Following the capture of Kinchow, the Japanese stormed Nanshan Hill, 2,100 feet high, surmounted by a heavy battery, and covered with trenches and j. mines. After sixteen hours of fighting they charged up the steep sides, aided by the fire of three gunboats in Kinchow Bay, and drove the Russians back. A Russian report places the Japanese loss at 12,000 killed, and another report says the Russian loss was heavier. Heroes Diej Fund Appealed To. The families of Gideon Marshall and Ferdinand Pillette, who lost their lives in Pittsburg in a vain attempt to rescue Arthur Truby from a well, will benefit by the Carnegie hero fund, if a movement already started is successful. One member of the fund commission has expressed a favorable opinion. McDonald Found Not Guilty. James McDonald stands acquitted of the murder of Miss Sarah Schaefer, the Bedford, Ind., High School Latin teacher, and his attorney, R. N. Palmer, has promised to reveal the guilty person. The jury was out two hours and thirty minutes and took seven ballots. Firebugs Cause a Big Blaze. Incendiaries set Tire to Strecker’s livery barn in Marietta, Ohio. The entire structure, together with Smith’s oil well tool works, part of the Marietta Distilling Company, and three small frame houses, were burned. There is said to be strong evidence ns to the incendiaries. Commits Suicide in Paris. Viscount d’Oyley, the youngest son of Dr. John Evans, a prominent American in Paris, committed suicide because his income wns cut off when he eloped with an attractive Peruvian. Battle in Tatung Pass. Fifteen thousand Russians, advancing on Fengwangcheug in the belief that the town had been abandoned, were met in Tatung Paas by 30,000 Japanese, and 4,000 Russians fejl, according to a report from Newchwang. lt is said also that 1,000 Russians surrendered.

WIT.L DISCHARGE 75,000 MEN. Wholesale Reduction of Forces on Railroads of the Country. The reduction of the working forces of the railroads in this country is more extensive and radical than was thought a month ago would be necessary. Present indications are that not less than 75,000 employes will be dropped from the railroad pay rolls. A large proportion of these are losing their jobs under orders from company headquarters to dismiss from the freight departments every person not absolutely needed. Train hands, station men and clerks have been receiving notices to quit since April 15, and by June 10 it is expected that the weeding-out process will have been completed. With the exception of the panic period, beginning in 1893, this is the most wholesale reduction of railroad working forces known at any one time. THEATRICAL MAN SHOT BY WIFE. Mrs. Frank Burt of Toledo, 0., Painfully Wounds Husband. Frank Burt, a theatrical manager, was shot by his wife in Toledo, Ohio. The alleged jealousy of Mrs. Burt and domestic difficulties had led to a separation. Mr. Burt was standing in front of Burt’s Theater, when his wife appeared, drew a revolver and fired, the bullet entering his face. Mrs. Burt was arrested. Burt owns two theaters in Toledo, and is lessee of theaters at Limit,, Youngstown and Bowling Green, Ohio; Fort Wayne and Evansville, Ind.; Erie, Pa., and Wilmington, Del. Mrs. Burt was released later on SI,OOO bail. She is repentant and would like to nurse him if permitted. Mr. Burt is believed to be out of danger, though his face may be badly disfigured. WAR SHIP SEEKS UNCANNY ISLE, United States Cruiser Sent to Find Mysterious Land. The Navy Department at last has begun a systematic search for “The Lost Island of the Pacific.’’ Somewhere between Honolulu and San Francisco is a mysterious bit of land which sailors believe is bewitched. At intervals it rises slightly out of the water or lies just below the surface where it threatens every passing vessel. Most of the time it sinks to unfathomable depths. The cruiser Tacoma has sailed from Honolulu on the quest.

DEEP SNOW IN MONTANA. From One to Six Inches Recorded in the Northwest. The snowstorm that began Tuesday morning lasted twelve hours and was general over Montana and the Northwest territories. The snow ranged from one to six inches and the lowest temperature was 27, at Marysville. The moisture will prove of great benefit, as the ground was very dry. Sheepmen do nol report any loss. Most of them had twenty-four hours’ warning of the approaching storm, and all the sheep were under shelter?’ FARMERS BEGIN WORK ON SHOPS. Corner Stone of Co-Operative Harvesting Machine Company Laid. The corner stone of the machine shop of the Farmers’ Co-operative Harvesting Machine Company was laid in Springfield, Ohio, with ceremony. William N. Whitely is head of the enterprise, which is backed by the grangers of the country. The shops will make everything in the way of agricultural implements. The company expects to employ 3,000 men. Fifty-three Filipinos Slain. A report has been received stating that a massacre had taken place near Malabang, on the southern coast of Mindanao. Fifty-three Filipino men, women and children, the families of employes of the United States military government at Malabang, were surprised at midnight while asleep by the Datto Alis and a band of Moros from the Rio Grande valley, and slaughtered. Twenty-Two Horses Perish. Lightning caused great damage at the stock farm of Dunham, Fletcher & Coleman, near Elgin, 111. One of the largest barns on the place, containing twentyfour blooded horses, many of them imported from France, was burned to the ground, and only two of the animals were saved. Ten Suffocate in Tunnel. Ten miners were suffocated by gas and‘sulphur fumes from a small locomotive in the tunnel workings of the Summit Branch Coal Company at Williamstown, Pa. The accident was one of the most peculiar in the history of the anthracite mines and no reason for it can be assigned by the officials. Defeat for the Japanese. The Japanese were defeated in a battle at Kinchow, according to reports freceived in St. Petersburg. They were lured into a defile swept by two Russian guns and their ranks decimated. The Russian loss is 141 men, and it is believed the Japanese loss is much greater. Freight Handlers on Strike. Freight handlers have been called out on strike at all points on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between New York and Boston, and the commerce of the Atlantic coast is badly crippled. Attack on Port Arthur. Fifteen thousand Japanese were killed and wounded in attempt to storm Port Arthur. Russian loss was 3,000, according to telegram said to have been received by Foreign Minister Lamsdorff at St. Petersburg. Would-Be Assassin Is Dead. The body of Peter O. Elliott, who was arrested several months ago in Washington, D. C., on suspicion of being a lunatic, with probably murderous designs on President Roosevelt, wns found In Minneapolis hanging from a bridge. Honors for Young Oriental. Chao Chu, son of Wu Tingfang, former Chinese minister to the United States, has been graduated at the head of his class in the Atlantic City high school. There were thirty-one pupils in the class. Woman Insulted, Slays Man. Joseph Hastings, 45 years old, was ■hot and killed by Mrs. Frank Hicks in Indianapolis. Mrs. Hicks says Hastings, whom she had known for two years, had insulted her during a call, whereupon she used her revolver with telling effect Burn Up Old Pianos. One thousand old-fashioned pianos were burned on the beach at Atlantic aty by dealers.