Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — IS A LIQUOR DEALER. [ARTICLE]

IS A LIQUOR DEALER.

COURT SAYS THIS OF WESTERN EXPRESS COMPANY. Denies Right to Receive Orders For and Deliver Liquors in Prohibition North Dakota—Government Settles Up for Friars’ Lands in Philippines. Judge Phillips in the-United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, in affirming the decision of the federal court for North Dakota in the case of the government against the Western Express Company, decided that the express company in furnishing beer to customers was acting not as a common carrier t but as a wholesale and retail dealer in liquors. The lower court assessed the express company $3,800 for violation of the national excise law in selling beer at twenty-six stations on the Soo road in North Dakota, which is a prohibition State. The evidence showed that the agents of the express company would, on request, send orders to breweries for beer in quantities desired by the consumers.

SIXTEEN PERISH IN W ATER. Long List of Victimsis Result of Numerous Drowning Accidents. Six of the nine occupants of a launch were drowned in a collision with a barge in the Delaware river off Beverly, N. J. The other three were rescued by the crew of the tugboat Bristol, which was towing the barge. A gasoline launch, containing four passengers, making its first trip on the Mississippi river, exploded this afternoon near Ivory Station, Mo., and two of the passengers are believed to have been drowned, the other ■two being probably fatally burned. Five persons were drowned by the running down of a catboat by a tug off South Yonkers, N. Y. While returning from Beverly to Marietta, Ohio, in a motor boat M. L. Williamson, dentist; Probata Judge C. H. Nixon and Will Selby, son of a wealthy oil producer, went over a dam at Lowell in the Muskingum river, and Williamson was drowned. Dense fog caused the party t m' -s the canal.

FRIAR LANDS CASE SETTLED. Government Pays Dominican Ordea $3,000,000 in Adjustment of Claims. The question 'of the friar lands purchased in the Philippine Islands was practically settled the other day when the War Department, upon the cable request of the commission, directed the International Banking corporation in New York to pay to Francisco Gutierrez, representing the Philippine Sqgar Estates Development Cofopany and the University of St. Thomas, the sum of $3,521,057 (gold) in settlement of the claims. The payment is to be made in New York City, except the sum of $300,000, which is to be paid in Manila.

Thirty Injured in Wreck. West-bound Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 40, carrying cars from Kansas City and St. Louis, was wrecked five miles west of Fort Scott, Kan., the result of a broken rail. The baggage and express cars, mail car, smoking car, chair car and a sleeper left the track and turned over. Fully thirty persons were more or less injured, but no one was killed. Crew Leaps Into Lake. In a fierce storm on Lake Erie the steamer Sarah E. Sheldon went ashore four miles east of Lorain, Ohio. She carried a crew of thirteen men, a number of whom jumped overboard when the vessel began to go to pieces. It is believed that at least two of the crew were drowned. The Sheldon will be a total wreck. New Merit Rule Hits Consul. Alvin Smith of Ohio, consul at Trinidad, has been dismissed for inefficiency because of failure to make to the Department of State commercial reports on trade conditions. The case is the first under the President's new civil service rule permitting a secretary to remove an employe for inefficiency.

Alonzo J. Whiteman Convicted. The jury in the case of Alonzo J. Whiteman of Dansville, N. Y., on trial on a charge of defrauding the Fidelity Trust Company of Buffalo by means of raised and forged drafts, brought in a verdict of guilty. Sentence was deferred. Stricken in Hie Pulpit’. Rev. Dr. John F. Baird, pastor of the Linwood Presbyterian church in Cincinnati, was attacked with cerebral hemorrhage while in his pulpit. He was immediately carried to his home, but never regained consciousness and died several hours later. Move to Protect Schools. The Minnesota board of health has decided on the issuing of a circular to county superintendents of schools forbidding the employment as teacher of any person suffering from tuberculosis and debarring children suffering from that disease from admission to the schools.

Cool Burgeu Bingrs Ilia Last. “Cool” Burgess, the well-known minstrel, died in the general hospital in Toronto, Ont, of a complication of disease*. In the prime days of negro minstrelsy in this country Burgess was associated with “Billy” Emerson, "Jack” Haverly and “Cal” Wagner. Makes Copper Strike and Dies. After discovering rich deposits of native copper, following weeks of prospecting, William Didican of Schenectady, N. Y., was found dead from starvation on the plains west of White Oaks, N. M. Jape Suppress Rebellion. A revolution is reported to have broken out in the province of ChyungChyong, in northern Korea, and to be spreading to Kang-Yon province. The Japanese sent troops to suppress the rebellion after the Korean government had failed to take steps.