Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1906 — COURT UPHOLDS TAGGART. [ARTICLE]

COURT UPHOLDS TAGGART.

Decision Giving; Father Custody of the Two Boys la Sustained. Judges of the Circuit Court in Wooster, Ohio, refused to grant the continuance asked for in the Taggart case because of the absence of Mrs. Taggart. CapL Taggart was examined as to his ability to take care of the boys. The court then decided that the order of the court below should stand as to Taggart's custody of the boys, but reserved to Mrs. Taggart the right to come into the Circuit Court in the future and show that she is a proper person and able to care for the boys. In the meantime Mrs. Taggart is understood to be in Paris with her boys and it is said will remain there until Capt. Taggart departs with his regiment for the Philippines. Faithless Lover Causes Suicide. Hearing her sweetheart telling a young woman in another town, over the telephone, of his love for her, Miss Bessie Frazier, a telephone exchange operator at Lampasas, Texas, shot and killed herself. Miss Frazier chanced to make a connection on the line her sweetheart used in calling up her rival, and listened to the conversation. I nion Station for Kansas City. Six railroads entering Kansas City have decided to build a magnificent pas-senger-depot to represent a total cost of $20,000,000. The six roads interested in the enterprise are the Santa Fe. Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul. St. Louis and San Francisco. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. Chicago and Alton, and the Union Pacific. Bank Cashier Convicted. For the second time Robert Lingo fel ter was convicted of forgery in Newark, Ohio, after a two weeks* trial. Assistant Cashier John Moore was arrested for the forgery of Lingafelter's name. Moore signed Cashier Lingafelter's name, but says he put his own initials under the signature. Lon*worth-Roosevelt Nuptinla. Miss Alice Roosevelt was married to Congressman Nicholas Longworth in the White House in the presence of a brilliant gathering of nearly 1.000 leaders in official and social lifei The pair were favored with “bride's weather” and no incident occurred to mar the-event. Six Rutland Blocks Burned. Six large brick blocks in the business section of Rutland. Vt., occupied by nearly a score of firms and many' smaller tenants, were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at5750,0007’ Death Takes John A. McCall. John A. McCall, former president of the New York Life Insurance Company, died at Lakewood, N. J., after an illness brought on by the legislative inquiry. Fallierea Takes Oath. Clement Armand Fallicres has taken the oath of office as President of France and Loubet retires to private life. Murderers Show Nerve. Each carrying to the gallows the memory of a triple murder, John Mueller and Robert Newcomb were hung at the Cook county' jail in Chicago. Neither of the men showed Tear a* be went to execution. Sower Gaa Explodes In TunaeC. men were probably fatally hurt and another was injured in an explosion of gas in the bores Of the'eity water department at Polk and Clark streets. Ofat cago. The men were working in the bora seventy-five feet below the ground. The exoloaiuu was caused by sewer gaa. :