Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — TALK AND FEATURES. [ARTICLE]

TALK AND FEATURES.

BOTH ARE TRANSMITTED BY NEW TELEPHONE. Appliance Invented that Enables Peraons Using Wire to See Each Other’s Fqces—Boy Bookmaker Held for Theft of $25,000. A telephone arrangement by which a person speaking may also see the face of the person at the other end of the line •has been invented by J. B. Fowler of Portland, Ore. Two months ago Mr. Fowler conceived the idea which, followed out, resulted in an apparatus which he exhibited Friday for the first time. How far it will be possible to see the faces over the wire is yet to be demonstrated. To the observer appears an apparatus much resembling the front end of a large camera. There is also a telephonic transmitter. To see over the wire one puts his eyes to the tube which corresponds to the lens of a camera. Miss Lillian Fowler went to the other end of the wire, twenty-five feet away in another room, and where any reflection by mirrors was out of the question, and her face showed as distinct and clear as in a miniature painting. As she spoke her lips were seen to move. The observer was in darkness, that he might see the more clearly.

STRIVING FOR PENNANTS. Standing of Clubs in the Four Principal Leagues. The clubs of the National League now stand thus: W. L. , W. L. New Y0rk...99 35 Louis..... 65 67 Chicago SO 52 Brooklyn ....50 84 Pittsburg ...77 52 Boston 45 88 Cincinnati \a.73 59 Philadelphia. 41 93 The table below shows how matters stand in the American League: W. L. W. L. New York.. .SO 50 Cleveland ....69 60 Boston 81 52 St. Louis 56 74 Philadelphia. 72 54 Detroit .' 56 76 Chicago . .77 58 Washington.. 32 09 Standings in the American Association are as follows: W. L. W. L. St. Pau1....94 50 Louisville ...78 69 Columbus ...85 61 Indianapolis. 68 83 Milwaukee ..85 63 Kansas City.sß 90 Minneapolis. 78 64 Toledo 42 lOS The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Colo. Springs.B2 54 Des Moines... 74 68 Denver .....82 56 St. J05eph....53 86 Omaha S 3 59 Sioux City.... 42 93 ‘ hold BOY FOR $25,000 THEFT. Arrested at Race Track, Where *He Thrived as Bookmaker. Charged with forgery and the embezzlement of sums amounting to .$25,000, Frank O'Donnell, an IS-year-old Brooklyn boy. was arrested at the Brighton Beach race track upon the complaint of Edward H. Floyd Jones, a lawyer, in whose office he was employed until a few days ago. Young O’Donnell was found by the police to be doing a good tgisiness as a bookmaker, having in his employ half a dozen sheet writers and runners. He is charged with raising his salary cheeks and altering figures in the books of an estate. Jewish Massacre in Germany. More than fifty Jews were killed and 100 were seriously wounded in the German town of Sasuovitch by a mob which attacked its victims on the Hebrew New Year. The brutality of the mob is said to rival the Kishineff massacre in horror.

St. Louis Day at Exposition, St. Louis day, the banner event of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, brought out a crowd of 385,000. Parades, speechmaking, song and tireworks contributed to the success of the occasion. Negro Woman a Lawyer. For the first time in the history of Kentucky a negro woman has been admitted as a member of the bar, and licensed to practice law. She is Mrs. S. J. S. Wite of Louisville. “The Breakers’’ in Ashes. The Breakers at Long Beach, Wash., one of the finest summer hotels on the north Pacific coast, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is $07,000. There were no guests in the hotel. Italian King Grants Favors. The King of Italy, in honor of the birth of a son, granted amnesty to deserters, shortened the terms of punishment for certain crimes and gave $200,000 toward a fund for aged workmen. $2,076,000 for Monastery Lands. The Philippine civil commission is preto pay to the Augustinian order of friars $2,070,000 gold for the lands in the islands held by the order. Halifax Saved from Destruction. A sudden veer of the wind saved the business section of Halifax from flames which destroyed $500,0U0 worth of property on the water front. Car Barna Destroyed. Ten firemen were injured in a blnze »Inch destroyed the Union Traction Company's barns nt Western avenue and Flournoy street, Chicago. Prince Bismarck Die*. Prince llerl>ert Bismarck, son of the “iron chancellor," diet! in Frederichsruhe after a lingering illness. Death of Ex-Gov. W. G. Rich. William G. Bitch, ex-Governor of New Mexico, is dead at Engle, Sierra county, near which place he was engaged eil in ranching. Mr. Bitch was born in 1830 in New York ami was educated for the law. —rt , Students In Fierce Fight. Six students were injured, one of them probably fatally, in n class rush between freshmen and sophomores nt Wittenberg College, Springfield,.Ohio. John Snyder of Springfield was kicked in the stomach •“ d Jk - ” “