Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1905 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. ,j' QEO. fi. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

CLING TO FOOTBALL.

GAME NOT TO BE ABOLISHED, BUT REFORMED. Representatives of Several Colleges Vote Belief that It Is Good Sport, hnt Needs Changing—Klondikers Miss a Good Thing. L Football is not to be abolished, not even in the smaller colleges. By a-vote of 15 to 8 the delegates to the McCracken conference, which was held at the Murray Hill hotel in New York, adopted a resolution declaring that 'it was the opinion of the thirteen college representatives present that football should not be abolished but reformed. The resolution was in the form of an amendment offered by West Point to a resolution introduced by New York university abolishing the game as it is now played altogether. No sooner had the resolution been offered than Lieut. Col. Robert L. Howze, who with Capt. Fainter E. Pierce represented the military academy at the meeting, was on his feet with a protest. He declared that football was a mighty good game and that West Point would never vote for its abolition. He admitted, however, that the sport was in urgent need of reform and offered a resolution advocating the reform and not the abolition of the game. After an hour’s discussion, in which nearly everyone present aired his views on the situation pretty thoroughly, the amendment was adopted. Considerable importance attaches to the action of West Point because it was learned from a trustworthy source, that Harvard approves the plan for reforming the game presented by West Foiut. OIL BOOTS WITH AMBERGRIS. Alaskan Gold Hunters Seoop Fortune front Sea and Bo Sot Know it. George Schaer, who has just returned from Alaska, has discovered that he and his companions greased their boats, oars, masts and everything else that needed it with ambergris, worth S2O an ounce, and threw away more than they used, in the belief that it was ordinary grease. Schaer, being a provident fellow, saved five ounces in a pickle bottle for future use. The bottle was dropped into his bag and forgotten. The other day, curiosity to kjiow what the stuff was led Schaer to show it to a Seattle druggist, who offered $73 for the contents of the bottle, then the truth dawned upon him. He says he and his companions found the stuff in quantities in arctic waters, but never dreamed .of its value other than as a good lubricant. SWALLOWING FIX NO ACCIDENT. Kansas Supreme Court Rules Out Claim for Insurance Benefit. Swallowing a pin is not an accident, according to a decision handed down by the Kansas Supreme Court, overruling the verdict of a lower court in favor of E. Barnes, a traveling salesman, who was laid up several weeks after an operation for the removal of a pin from his stomach. He held an accident policy and sued ffie company for SSO a week while he was disabled. No Coal Strike Next Spring. There will be no strike of the anthracite miners next spring. A tacit agreement has been drafted by the representatives of the miners and operators. This statement was made by one of the largest individual operators in the anthracite region and confirmed in substance by an official of the L uited Mine \\ orkers. T. W. Lawson Mortgages Home. Thomas AY. Lawson has within a few days mortgaged his home on Beacon street, Boston, for $205,000, and gossip is busy with his financial affairs. It is said in some quarters that his Jiattle with the “system” has been a and that liis bear campaign in the stock market has cost him the greater part of his fortune. Fonn<l Novel Chair at Yale. Yale has received from two anonymous donors not connected with the university by graduation or otherwise, a gift of $75,000, which, subject to certain annuities, will be used to found a new and somewhat novel lectureship, entitled “The Inter-Relation of Religion, Science and Philosophy.” Ward Makes Shortage Good. John E. Ward* ex-adjutant general of Indiana, removed from office by Gov. Hanly, has paid into the State treasury tke full amount of the shortage; charged against him. Great Lakes Take Many Lives. A total of 215 lives were lost on the great lakes during the season of navigation just closed, the figures being much larger than for any previous year since the advent of big steel ships. Dr. Hnrt Changes Plen. Dr. Oliver B. Hart, who killed Irene Ivlokow, 10 years old, Oct. 5, in Rogers Park, a Chicago suburb, lias withdrawn his plea of not guilty. Judge Barnes took the ease under advisement. “Bnffalo Bill's” Horses Killed. All the horses belonging to “Buffalo Bill’s” wild west show were killed at Marseilles, France, in order to prevent the spread of glanders. Aged Blinker Barns In Ilonse. James L. Blodgett, a hermit banker of Hermitage, N. Y., perished in his bouse, which burned to the ground. He was n millionaire and graduated from Yale college with the class of 1850. Admits f 1,500 Theft. Patrick Monahan, treasurer of Briggs local, No. 1,3*10, United Mine Workers, wus arrested in Scranton. Pa., for stealing $1,500 from the local’s treasury, He admitted Ills guilt and said lie lost the money in gambling and dissipation. He was sent to jail.

A RECORD-BREAKING TRIAL.

i i DHHonlty In Selecting Jury Adds to Notoriety in GHhooley Case. It took GO days and cost Cook County about $40,000 to se.’ect twelve jurors to try Charles Gilhooley and several associates who are charged with having killed Carl Carlstroni, a non-union ■carriage worker in Chicago last spring. Gilhooley and his companions are said to be “sluggers,” and alleged to have been in the employ of one of the unions. They were indicted for felonious assault. There were summoned as veniremen 4,150 men, of wlionr, 720 were excused without examination or could not be found. Not all of these were examined, but 1,931 men had to be examined before the number’required by law could be found. In this respect the case is without a parallel in American legal annals. Two weeks were consumed without the selection of a single juryman. It took from Sept. 18 to Dee. 2 to complete the jury. Of the veniremen, singularly, fewer were excused because of prejudices tlieyjhad formed than because of the educational test. The latter seemed to be the great obstacles. At least one-third were unable to understand ordinary English terms and many were without sufficient knowledge to have understood the instructions of the court. Over 100 were unable to use intelligently in sentences such words as “caution,” “implied” and “provoked.” ■'* The assault wAs'committed April 13. Caiistrom, the victim, was a non-union employe at the carriage shop of Fred Meckel. A strike had been declared against the company, hut Carlstroni refused to quit. It is alleged that for sls the alleged “slugger” on trial agreed with representatives of the Carriage and Wagon Workers’ Union; their co-defendant, to punish Carlstroni. On the evening of the assault he was returning home when he was set on by three men, afterward identified by eyewitnesses as Gilhooley, Looney and Feeley. He was left apparently dead, but recovered consciousness at the Washington Park Hospital. lie died April 27 from pneumonia, thought to have been superinduced by injuries due to the assault. On May 13 Gilhooley, Feeley and Looney were arrested by detectives under Inspector Lavin. A few days later Newman, Casey and George Miller, of the union, were arrested. They were alleged to have admitted to the police a bargain with those previously arrested for the assault on Carlstroni. This was followed by the arrest of ILeideu, Novak, Deutsch and Meller, who also are alleged to have confessed to the police. All except Meller, then president of the union, have withdrawn confessions. Meller, after having pleaded hot guilty, changed his plea to guilty before Judge Chetlain. The arrest of Edward Shields followed in a few days, but George Mullen, formerly recording secretary of the union, apd indicted with the others, avoided arrest.

MURDERED WHILE PRAYING.

The Diabolical Crime of n North Carolina Physician. For uniqueness of method the case of Dr. J. B. Matthews of Greensboro, N. C., charged with murdering his wife, is without parallel. Mrs. Matthews was suffering from morphine poisoning and Dr. J. P. Turner had been called in, with two other physicians. Matthews declared that she had taken the morphine and as she was unconscious there was no way of ascertaining anything to the contrary. She was, however, responding to restoratives, although very near the border of death. AAdiile the doctors were working over her, he left the room. Shortly afterward he returned and noted carefully the progress toward recovery. From his medical knowledge he knew that in a few minutes she would be out of danger. Turning to Dr. Turner he said: “Doctor, I want to kneel at my wife’s side and pray for her. AA’ill you not please leave the room?” “You may kneel and you may pray,” was Dr. Turner’s answer, “but I will not leave tlie room.” Down on his knees went the husband. Clasping the clammy hand of his dying wife, he began to pray. His appeals to God and heaven were audible in the far corner of the apartment, to which Dr. Turner had retired. Soon another sound became apparent, the moaning of the woman. One quick glance showed Dr. Turner that his patient was -writhing in agony. Springing to the bedside lie threw back the coverlet, and found that Matthews had plunged a hypodermic syringe filled with strychnine into his wife’s body. Turner’s hand closed on Matthews’ collar. Pulling him to his feet, lie threw him half across the room. Then he took the syringe from the husband’s hand and ordered him Jjjrom the room. But ’he was too late. Ten minutes later (the deadly poison had taken effect. The Woman was dead. Matthew-s makes a plea of insanity. It is believed that he gave her the morphine which caused her first battle with

death. Wilson Evans, director of the Commercial museum of San Francisco, who has been studying the commercial relations of Chili and the United States, will advocate the establishment of a commercial museum at Valparaiso in which samples of all classes of American goods will be displayed. Arthur T. Knight, who, while working as a laborer, was killed at Kansas City as the result of blasting, was a telegraph operator whose home was at 126 AVidman place, Detroit. Knight, who was 20 years old, had been unable to secure work ns a telegrapher. Liabilities of $410,334 aud assets of uncertain value were scheduled by Seth rerkins, a prominent contractor of Boston, in a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The petition showed $75,000 duo to the United States government for taxes and other claims.

LONDON IS ALARMED.

RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE UNEMPLOYED. Marchers Wave the Red Flag, Chant the Marseillaise and Hoot Royalty In the Streets—A Grave I’ rob lelll for the Nation. London Correspondence: A new problem has arisen in England, a problem graver than any question of foreign affairs, more momentous than any disputed imperial 'policy. It is the problem of the poor of London. <r These people are not to be numbered by’ the tens of thousands or by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions. They form an enormous 1 proportion of the inhabitants of the greatest city in the world. The stranger sees few of them comparatively. He sees a splendid metropolis, magnificent public buildings, brilliantly lighted streets, parks and squares and avenues. He sees gorgeous tlieatei's, luxurious clubs, cathedrals arid museums, well-stocked stores and busy offices. An occasional beggar in the Strand or Piccadilly, an emaciated crossing sweeper, or a pitiful flower girl may excite momentary pity and evoke the virtuous glow that comes from charity bestowed, but that is all. The shame of London is hidden. It is in the quarters never visited by the well-to-do that it has its habitation. The skeleton has existed in the closet for scores, hundreds of years, but the door has been locked, the horror veiled. It is veiled no longer. Once, a dozen years ago, the poor of London broke their bounds. They marched, thousands strong, to the West End, and they swept the police away

MARCH OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN LONDON.

like chaff before the wind. Shop after shop they looted. Plate glass windows* were smashed and gold and jewels were seized. Tlie whole thoroughfare was wrecked before law and order obtained the upper hand. The outbreak was soon over, but in a couple of hours tlie forces which had hitherto been successfully suppressed had given London a shock from whicli it took a long time to recover. But at length it succeeded in stifling its fears. The British public has read of outbreaks in other countries, of riots in Russia, of Socialism’s strides in Germany, of revolts on the part of faminestricken peasants in Italy and Spain. It has read of all of these things in its somewhat Pecksniffian morning newspapers and has thanked God that England is not as otbpr countries are. It has remembered the AVest End riot but has regarded it as a warning, not of tlie power of the submerged, but of tlie necessity of possessing an efficient police force. All the blame of the uprising of a dozen years ago was placed by the British public on the police. The chief result of it was, not legislation to decrease the misery in the East End, not earnest inquiry as to what was wrong in the British economic system, but the resignation of a quite harmless, conscientious and hard-working police commissioner. Public In Frightened. And now the British public is frightened again; terribly frightened. The police force of Loudon is more efficient than ever before; the trade of England is more prosperous—according to me

Biggest Bird that Flies.

Is the condor the biggest bird that flies? AVhile the heaviest bird capable of flight Is the bustard —a table of reference says it weighs from twentysix to twenty-eight pounds—its expanse ’OP wing, a trifle less than that of the wild swan, Is three or four feet less than that of tlm famous albatross, and only half that of the largest condor on record. - ~ In pqint of size the giant albatross

official returns —than for many years; the country is at peace, and its statesmen have so arranged things that it Is stronger, internationally than at any time in a dozen lustrums. And the red flag is being seen in the streets of the capital; the Marseillaise is being sung there, for the first time in its history. The spectre has ferown so big that it can no longer be concealed. Thoughtful people have been warning the others of its existence for scores of years. Poets have written of the tragedies of the bridges, aud of the East End, philosophers have discussed the causes of the terrible poverty of Whitechapel, sociologists have suggested remedies, philanthropists have given their lives and their money, the Kyrle Society has provided the poor with flowers and blue china. The public, as a whole, has remained indifferent. It has given its guineas in order to aid numberless funds (and to get a line of acknowledgment in the papers), but it has been serenely oblivious of the growth of the evil, an evil that now threatens to become a disaster. There has been evolved in London a race distinct, unlike any other race in the British Islands, with strongly marked characteristics, with alien features and habits. It is a race stunted in size, jsafiow-complexioned, darkhaired. Its moral sense is blunted, its mentality is low. It has even evolved a speech of its own, and a denizen of the East End now uses a dialect as distinct as an inhabitant of the Highlands or of Yorkshire. These are the people who smashed the jewelers’ windows a dozen years ago. Perhaps, were they only to be reckoned with, the British public would be justified in its complacent optimism, for the East Ender is a pitiful creature, without initiative and without even the courage of the Paris Apache or the Russian Uligan. But masses, even of the most eow-

ardly unit, are always formidable, and with leaders and a leavening of courageous men an army of poor-spirited human beings can become terrible. This is the condition that confronts the citizens of London. The East Enders, the Submerged Tenth, the who constitute the chronic unemployed, have found leaders and they, have found allies. The leaders are the Anarchists and Socialists; tlie allies are the thousands of workmen who are not chronically unemployed, but who have for months been unable to find work. The people who are suffering don’t know and don’t care particularly what has caused their misery. They only know they can find no one to employ tin m, and that in consequence they and their families have to go without food or apply to the Boards of Guardians for relief, They have been suffering in silence for a long time. A few weeks ago they began to murmur—collectively. The murmurings have been becoming louder week by week. The outcry of the people Is becoming coherent, definite; the mnSses are becoming more defiant. Recently Edward’s eldest daughter was hooted in the streets of Loudon as she was opening the tents provided by the King aud Queen to shelter the unemployed. « “Curse their charity!” cried the people. But what eau be done? At besi, as everyone admits, charity is the merest palliative, and sometimes actually harmful. Of a real remedy there appears no sign.

of the Southern ocean, with an average expanse of eleven feet four inches, has to yield to tlie condor of Chill, whose extended pinions have In many enses measured twelve feet, and hi one instance, cited by a Field writer, on good authority, the almost incredible width of fifteen feet. It would seem that the condor of the Andes Is still lord of the air by one foot. Old paperg,for sale at this office.

Greatest of All Idiots.

See the Practical Joker. He is not much of a sight, but still he is worth looking at as a Curiosity, as a Study in Uncommon Cussedness. The Practical Joker is the offspring of asiuinity run to seed. He is what was Left Over after the rest of the world was created. There was a Slight Surplus, a mere fraction, not enough to make a Complete Man, so the Scraps were scraped up, pressed together and molded into a Practical Joker. The Job was not patented. Nobody thinks enough of the invention to patent it. You couldn’t sell Practical Jokers for 3 cents a bunch if you should stand out on the corner of Fifth and Morrison streets and spiel till your vocal cords got tied into double bow-knots. The public is aware of the Shell Game when it sees the layout. The Practical Joker is an Escaped Idiot from the Idiotville Asylum, but he is by no means a harmless idiot. AY hen recognized he should he roped forthwith and hauled back to his native and natural environment, the Padded Cell.—Portland Oregonian.

Tennessee Praise.

» Dayton, Tenu., Dec. 11.—(Special.) —Among many prominent residents to praise Dodd’s- Kidney Pills is Mr. N. R. Roberts of this plate. He tells of what they have done for him, and his words will go deep into the hearts of all who are suffering in the same way. lie says: “I was a martyr to Kidney Trouble, but Dodd’s Kidney Pills completely cured me. I shall always keep them on haqd in ease there should he any return of the old trouble, but I am thankful to say they did their work so well there has not been the slightest sign of my old complaint coming back. The pain in my back used to be terrible. If I got down I liatl a bard job to get straight again. But my back is like a new one now and I can stoop'as much as I please. I don’t believe there ever was any medicine half so good aj Dodd’s Kidney Pills.”

VISITING OLD SOUTH.

No Other Building in America the Scene of More Thrilling; Events. An alert boy of 12 or 13 years, visiting in Boston for the first time, was asked what historical building he would like to visit first, and he replied very promptly: “The Old South Meeting-house. I like to see places in which there has been something doing in the past. They did things in the Old South Meeting-house, both before and during the Revolution, didn’t they?” Indeed they did! No building in America has been the scene of more thrilling events than has this ancient house of worship. Had this boy, who was eager to see, the Old South Meeting-house because of all that it stands for, been in Boston on the 29th day of last April, he might have gone into the time-honored old building in company' with hundreds of other boys, and a great many girls, who came from all parts of the city' to be present at the “Children’s Hour” in the “Old South.” This is a semi-yearly event in Boston. It is a part of what is called the “Old South AA’ork;” which is a good work, having for its chief purpose the twinging of the young people of Boston and America into an intimate knowledge of early American history. On this 29th day of April the Old South Meeting-house was packed with boys and girls from the public schools, to hear about AA’illiam Blackstone, the first settler in the city of Boston. A large orchestra of boys and girls from one of the public schools played patriotic airs, and I remember that at one “Children’s Hour” in the Old South two hundred school girls sang the ode which was composed and sung when President George Washington visited Boston in 1789. You see that they still “do things” of a patriotic nature in this old meeting-house—hallowed, as it is, by memories of AVashington and Adams and Otis and Hancock and all the good men and true who helped to give our country Its most valued possession independence.—St. Nicholas.

A BRAIN WORKER

Moat Have the Kind of Food that Nonrlshea Brain. “I am a literary man whose nervous energy is a great part of my stock in trade, and ordinarily I have little patience with'breakfast foods and the extravagant claims made of them. But I cannot withhold my acknowledgment of the debt that I owe to GrapeNuts food. “I discovered long ago that the very bulkiness of the ordinary diet was not calculated to give one a clear head, the power of sustained, accurate thinking. I always felt heavy and sluggish In mind as well as body after eating the ordinary meal, which diverted the blood from the brain to the digestive apparatus. “I tried foods easy of digestion, but found them usually deficient In nutriment. I experimented with many breakfast foods and they, too, proved unsatisfactory, till I reached" GrapeNuts. And then the problem was solved. “Grape-Nuts agreed with me perfectly from the beginning, satisfying my hunger and supplying the nutriment that so many other prepared foods lack. “I had not been using It very long before I found that I was turning out an unusual quantity and quality of work. Continued use has demonstrated to my entire satisfaction that Grape-Nuts food contains all the elements needed by the brain and nervous system of the hard working public writer." Name given by Postura Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason. Read the little book, “The Road to Wellvllle,” in plcga.

CONGRESS

The Senate convened at noon Monday, and prayer was offered by Edward Everett Hale, the chaplain. Sixty-eight Senators responded to the roll call, and the oath was administered to the new members. Senators Ailison and Morgan were appointed to wait upon (lie President, with a similar committee from the House. Resolutions in memory of the late Senator Platt of Connecticut were passed. The House convened at 12 o’clock, and Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois was re-elected Speaker, over John Sharp AVilliams of Mississippi. Officers of the House were sworn in and the oath administered to new members. The rulea of the Fifty-eighth Coiigress were adopted, and seats were assigned by lot. Many important bills were introduced. ] The Senate gave practically all of its time Tuesday to listening to the reading of the President’s message. The document received the closest attention. President Roosevelt’s message received the attention of the House for two and a half hours, and it' was applauded. The House received and ordered referred to one of the regular election committees a protest from tne Fifth Congressional District of Illinois stating that Anthony Michalek, who was sworn in as a member of the House from that district, is not a citizen of the United States. Upon motion of Mr. Goldfogle of New York a, resolution was read expressing the sympathy of the American people for the distressed Russian Jews. The Senate began business in earnest Wednesday, several hundred bills and resolutions being introduced, A.resolution directing the committee on judiciary to inquire into and report whether under the Constitution Congress has authority to supervise marine, fire and life insurance was adopted without debate. At 1:5(1 p. m. the Senate went into executive session, confirming the appointments of Secretary of State Root, Assistant, Secretary of State Bacon aud Justice of- the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia McComas. The House, in committee of the whole, considered the emergency appropriation bill for the Panama canal, after the committee on rules had prepared a rule to force consideration of the measure, and providing for unlimited debate. _;J The Senate on Thursday adopted a resolution directing the committee on naval affairs to investigate the condition of the«old frigate Constitution with a view to its repair. Mr. Tillman’s re so- - lution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to campaign contributions by national banks was adopted. In executive session the nominations of Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, and Truninn 11. Newberry of Michigan, assistant Secretary of the Navy, were confirmed. The extradition treaty with Denmark was ratified. The House passed the Panama canal appropriation bill without opposition after adopting an amendment by Mr. Bonynge of Colorado cutting tlm amount from $10,500,000 to $11,000,000 and defeating amendments by Mr. AA’illiams of Mississippi limiting the appropriation to $0,858,333 and by Mr. Prince of Illinois fixing tlie |uin at $10,000,000. An amendment by Mr. AA illiams striking out the bonding feature of the bill under which a tax disability against the proposed bonds is removed was defeated, 152 to 107. An amendment by Mr. Burgess of Texas giving the Secretary of authority to fortify the canal at e'ach terminal also was lost. An amendment by Mr. Mann of Illinois requiring detailed statements of canal expenditures and estimates to be furnished to Congress at eacli regular session and restricting all expenditures to money appropriated by Congress was adopted, Both houses adjourned until Monday.

National Capital Notes.

Senator Kittredge presented to the President the other day eighty members of the South Dakota Press Association. Secretary Bonaparte has sent to the Speaker of the House an urgency deficiency bill calling for $1,000,000 for the navy. Bills were introduced in the House by Mr. Smith of Illinois for 1-eent postage and by Mr. Murdock of Kansas creating a commission to investigate railway capitalization. Senator Beveridge introduced a bill providing joint statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Teiritory and for New Mexico and Arizona. Tlie hill is identical with the one Introduced in tlie House by Representative Hamilton of Michigan. Captain Flank Frantz, who recently was nominated to he Governor of Oklahoma Territory, lias issued a statement objecting to the incorporation of a prohibition clause in the measure providing statehood for Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. “ - Representative Morrell of Pennsylvania introduced a bill providing that all persons desiring to operate automobiles passing from one State to another must obtain a license granted nfter an examination under the direction of the interstate commerce commission. Commander Cameron McR. AVinslow, formerly nflval aid to the President and now in ths command of the Mayflower, has been aelected to command the new protected cruiser Charleston, which will go to the Pacific station early in the year to become the flagship of the Pacific squadron, taking the place of ths Chicago, which is badly in need of repairs. Representative Hardwick of Georgia reintroduced a joint resolution declaring that it is tlie policy of tlie United States to grant independence to the Philippines ns soon ns a stable government is established in tlie islands.

Odds and Ends.

The paying out of the second half of the claims of Revolutionary soldiers of Cuba began Dec. 4. Mark Pitman, head master of tlie Choate school, founded b.v him in 1890 at Wallingford, Conn., d>ed, ageJ 75 years. i