Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1906 — GUILTY OF PEONAGE. [ARTICLE]

GUILTY OF PEONAGE.

SEVEN. MISSOURI MEN CONVICT* ED AND FINED. Owner of Swamp Farm Kept SfgroM •nCondltlon Amoimiins to Pitte;.. tieal Slavery—High Cost Prevent* Building: la San Francisco. X ■ -- Charts M. Smith, his son, Charles M. (Smith, Jr., and five tenants on' the SnuTtr" farms in New Madrid county. Mo., were found guilty of peonage in the federal court in Cape Girardeau, After overruling a motion for a new trial Judge Pollock sentenced the elder Smith to imprisonment for three and one-half years and - lined him ss,<*Jo. The son was given.... ft similar fine and sentenced to imprisontnent for two years. The five-tenants ofthe Smith farms, who aejed Jn the capaoily of guards and overseers, were given terms of from one to two years and fined in amounts ranging from $159 to $599. It was shown during the trial that the Smiths brought about forty negroes.frorif Memphis, Cairo and other river points to their farms in New Madrid county for -the purpose of-converting n vast area of swampy, land into tillable soil. The blacks testified that they were worked and whipped by armed taskmasters from daylighttill dark, and herded like sheep in misera- .. trie quarters by night, their eoiuiiiiun praeti cully being slavery.

OX THE DIAMOND FIELD. ProgreM of Clobi in lUuv tor Ilitae Ilall Pennant*. NATION At. LF-ACUTE, i H : W. L W. L. Chicago ...107 54 Cincinnati .. Oil 81 New York.. 89 51 Brooklyn ...58 81 Pittsburg ... .83 54 st- Louis... .5* 92 Phii'delpltia 00 75 Poston .....45 95 AMERICAS LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. New Y0rk..85 54 St. Louis... .70 t>B Chicago ...,S4 50Detroit 05 75 Cleveland . .80 59 Washington. 52 89 Phirde]|»hia 75 92 Boston 40 97 WESTER* I.EAGt'E. W. 1.. W. L. Des Moines. 94 445 Sioux City.. 04 70 Lincoln ....70 09Denver 05 75 Omaha .....08 08 Pueblo 50 81 Fnisco building checked. Cost of Labor nml Material Prevent* Ereetlon of High-Class Slniftiirm. The Downtown Property Owners Association of San ..EcaJlfiseo has aflapidLa. resolution declaring the increased cost of material and labor since the fire is preventing the erection of large and permanent buildings. A committee will confer with the trades council to arrange, if possible. that the wages in all the building trades be fixed at the rate existing prior to the fire, and continue two years. The committee is also instructed to interview all building material tradesmen aud secure assurances of fixed prices. Many N'fgroea Killed. Twenty to thirty negroes were killed In a rac6 war at Atlanta, Ga., as the result of a series of attacks upon women. A great mob sought to exterminate all the blacks, and the police were helpless to restore order. The Governor ordered out the militia. Jdllco, Tcnn., Almost Wiped Ont. Fifteen persons are believed to have been killed, probably thirty injured, and almost the entire business section of Jellico, Tenn., wrecked by a terrific explosion of dynamite in a car in the yards of the Louisville and * Nash ville railroad.

Killed by Black Hand.

Standing on the porch of his home at Berwick, Pa., Dominick Caulse, an Italian, was shot to death by unknown men. The authorities believe he was a "Black Hand” victim. De«rrter E>da Life In River. Arch Ellis, a colored deserter from the United States army, made his escape from the officers at Guthrie, Okla., and was found dead in the Cottonwood river. Russian Democrats Win. The Constitutional Democratic party of Russia won a great victory, forcing the goverouhent to withdraw its opposition to to a congress of the party. Lars Corner Stone In Chicago. Vice President Fairbanks laid the corner stone of Cook county’s new court house in Chicago and in his speech severely criticised the tenets of William J. Bryan. Coaa prom iaea with >a«e Heirs. Mrs. Russell Sage compromised with dissatisfied hsirs by doubling their legacies and the will of her husband has l«vti ataitted to probate without protest. CalM States Ship May Be lost. The United States gunboat Helena, which carries a total of 150 men. Is reported to haTe been lost off the coast of China. Two Wanes and Man Draws. Two women and a man were drowned by the swamping of a rowboat during a fierce squall in Maumee Bay at Toledo, Ohio. Btc Increase In Corn Crop. Mr. McNabb, Secretary of Agriculture •f Oklahoma, estimates an increase in eorn acreage of 35 per cent over last year. -■ The average yield, he says, will toe fifty bash els, or a total of 125,000,000 bushels. Henry Loss on I.nmber. '- Fire In the lumber yards of Lieberman, Loveruan & O’Brien at Nashville, Tenn., destroyed 5,000,000 feet of quartered oak and poplar, one dry kiln and three drying sheds. The loss is betwsen 1125.000 and #150,000,