Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. * CEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - -

FROM LAKE TO GULF.

IMPETUS GIVEN TO MOVEMENT FOR WATERWAY. Permanent Orgnnhafton I« Formed to Promote New Boole tor Shipptnfr—Alimony Lowered on AcDcspite rumors that a railroad lobby was at work to~rr«Bfc dissension among the delegates to the deep waterways convention in St. Louis. the assembly. before its final adjournment, formed a permanent organization to be known as the Gulf to the Lakes Deep Waterways "XssoHatTom TW TuU>nsc- -of f*- -Organisation were explained in a lengthy address to the public, while the benefits to be derived by the State of Illinois from the proposed lake-gulf water route were set forth in a speech Dennett at a banquet at the Jefferson hotel. Ihe proposed deep waterway is to extend from the Chicago drainage canal through the Valleys of the llosplninos and Illinois rivers to the Mississippi river at (>rafton. —111.. —and- Uhenee down the M Bippi to St. Louis, and is to have a niin- ■ imum depth of fourteen feet throughout. It is recommended that* for lh<* of meeting the probable future.deeds of navigation that the minima m depth over the miter sills of the locks should be twenty-one feet in the initial construction. The excessive, cost of the project as shown by the engineers’ estimates, was due mainly to the existence of the prominent l harrier between the great lakes and the Mississippi valley. This chief obstacle to the prosecution of the project has been removed by "th o ’drh Ih a ge’cifn aT~ A croriling to the. risrfrnnTrs ba-srd upon recent surveys by the United States engineers, the work remaining to -lie done in order to complete the deep yvati’rway channel to St. Louis will cost $31,000,000.

PREDICTS DOOM OF CITIES. Aatroloicer Lints Chicago .Among Thone that Will Stiffer. ••Twenty-nine of the largest cities of the work! are doomed. Earthquakes, flood and fire will wreak the vengeance of God on the cities and their inhabitants within the next t wenty-fourmonths. This wholesale destruction is to be God’s judgment on four nations. The doomed cities are New York. Albany. Buffalo. Landing. Boston. rhiladelpb.ia. Washington. Kichmond, V.i„ Pittsburg. Columbus. Indianapolis,- Cincinnati, Louisville. Nashville, Muskegon, Milwaukee. St. Louis. Hannibal, Mo„ St. Joseph. Omaha. St. Paul. Minneapolis and Denver; also Ixmdon. Paris and Rome." This is the prophecy of Edmund Scribner Stevens of Washington, 72 years old, who says he is an fferT COST OF LIVING CITS ALIMONY. Hish Price* In Cleveland Cause Judjre to Make Hullng. The increase in the cost of living in Cleveland will probably cause a reduction in alimony allowances. Judge Beacum in a case brought before him ordered a reduction of the amount. The man. who was earning $55 per month, hid been ordered to pay S3O a month alimony. “A man cannot live in this 'own in these days of high prices on $5 a week.” said the judge in allowing a reduction. Other judges say they will probably grant reductions in cases pending before them.

Charged with land Frauds. Gigantic- Union Pacific land frauds in Wyoming are laid to connivance-4»y officials of the Interior Department at Washington in direct charges made by Artemus J. Smith, a Colorado mine dealer, who says patents worth nvllions were issued in spite of protests and offers of proof of fraud made by him years ago. Kentucky lln« t’onl Famine. A severe coal famine exists throughout Kentucky. Dealers in Lexington. Lawrenceburg. Paris. Georgetown. Harrodsburg. Danville and other towns nre out of ooal, which cannot be secured from mines because railroad companies say they have not enough cars to supply the demand. SubnierKed l edge Sinks Ship. False Spit, a sunken ledge near Boston light, caused the wreck of the schooner Mary E. Newton, the crew of the schooner saving their lives only by lashing themselves to the mast stumps until help arrived. Captain E. M. Aylward of Melrose and a crew of three men suffered greatly from exposure.

President Well Satlafled. President Roosevelt before departin; from Colon for Porto Rico, declared the conditions in connection with the const ruction of the Pannma canal satisfactory with only one exception. Sifthlonrn Get St.OOO. The safe in the State Rank of Maramec, Pnwnre county. Okla., was blown open by nitroglycerin and the robbers escaped with SI,OOO. V CauKht in Flywheel. Louis W. Kirkland, aged 33. had his skull ground off by being cnurht in a flywheel In Pittsburg, and died almost instant lys Explosion Wreck* Steamer. A Canadian steamship sank in Lake Superior near Thunder Ray as the result of a boiler explosion shortly after the crew embarked in midst of a Lard storm. Pnwillat Beaten to Death. Mike Ward, the Canadian lightweight pugilist, died in Grand Rapids. Mich., from the effects of the 'terrible beating he received from Henry Levis, the eastern lightweight, who knocked him out in the ninth Inning of a ten round go. Aerial .sarl<allon Solved. Flight of more than 500 miles at a speed of fifty miles an hour in a Hying machine which is practical and durable now is an easy,matter, say the Wright Brothers of Dayton. Ohio', in * report to the Agio duh of America.

TO FIGHT OIL TRUST.

BUIT IS BEGUN AGAINST STANDARD COMPANY. Attorney General Moody Starts Proceedings In St. Loafs Under the Sherman Act Against Parent and Seventy Const!tuent Corporations.Attorney General Moody, acting through tlie resident United States dis- ' tFi<-t attorney, liegan proceedings

W. H. MOODY.

seven individual defendants. The Attorney General asks that the combination be declared unlawful pud that it be enjoined from entering any contract or combination in restraint vrf trade. The following statement was prepared and made public by Attorney General Moody: “In June. by direction of the I’Tesident. Messrs. Kellogg and Morrison were rippointed by me special assistant attorneys general to act "with Assistant to the Attorney—Genera 1 Purdy to make an investigation of the relations of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey to the business of refining,, transporting, distributing and selling oil throughout tlie United States; to ascertain nil the facts, awl to -reportwhether or not in their opinion there lias" "Been - IT violationof the Sherman anti-trust law by the Standard- OH Company of New Jersey or the persons or corporations associated with or managing it Counsel have completed that duty and the report of their investigation has received careful consideration by the President and his Cabinet.'

Chartres Set Forth by Moody. “The Information available to the department tends to show: | . That the various corporations and limited partnerships under the control, in the manner hereinafter stated, of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey produce, transport and sell about 90 per cent of the refined oil produced, transported and sold in the United States for domestic use, and - about the same proportion of relined oil exported from the • United Slates. That this share of the business has been procured by a course of action which, beginning in 1870, has continued under the direction of the same persons, in the main, down to the present time. That these persons now surviving are John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry 11. Rogers. Henry M. Fltgler, John D. Archbold, Oliver 11. Payne and , Charles M. I’iatt. I That the design throughout of the persons having control of the enterprise has been to suppress competition in the production, transportation and sale of refined oil. and to obtain, as far as possible, a monopoly therein. That between IS7O and ISB2 the design was effected through agreejjents made between many persons and corporations engaged in this business. That during the seven years following the same individual defendants, as a majority of the liquidating trustees, were pretending to liquidate the trust, but as a matter of fact were managing all ot the corporations in the same way and exercising the same control over them. That the individual defendants, ?n 1899, increased the stock of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey from $10.0G0.(G0 to $110,000,000; that said company was then a producing and selling cotpora'ion, and that they added to its corporate powers the power of purchasing stock in other companies and practically all of the powers exercised by the trustees unde- the j unlawful trust agreement of 1882. That the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, then taking the place of the trustees, acquired all of the stock of the corporations theretofore held and controlled by the trustees, paying therefor by the issue of its own shares in exchange ; that the president of the board of trustees became the president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and that the same persons (the individual defendants) who had directed the business of the trust thou assumed the dir°c

tion of the business of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and ever since have continued it. That the purpose and effect of the use of the Standard Oil Company of New I Jersey as a holding company was precisc- . ly the same as the purpose and effect of the appointment of the trustees hereinbefore referred to —namely, to suppress competition between the corporations an if limited partnerships whose stock was first held by the trustees and then by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. That by the foregoing methods, aided by the establishment of railroad rates for transportation which discriminated in favor of the corporations whose stock was held by the holding company, that company hajj been enabled to obtain, in large section* of the country, a monopoly of the sale of refined oil, with the result that the prices to the consumer within the territory where the monopoly prevails are very much higher than within the territory whore competition to some extent still exists. John D. Rockefeller Indicted. John D. Rockefeller, M. G. Yllaa, treasurer of the Standard OH Company of Ohio; J. M. Robertson, secretary. nnd 11. P. Mclntosh, din J-tor, were Indicted at Findlay by the grand jury. l>efore which 4he recent oil Inquiry was n*>|M<ned by County Prosecutor David. Remb warrants for Ro-ke-feller and the others Indicted wtv Issued Immediately and placed In the bands of Sheriff Groves. Advertise in this paper.

Thursday against the Standard Oil of New Jersey under . the , Sherman anti-trust act by tiling in the United States Circuit I Court at St. Jxmis I a petjtlbjiJiileriufty I against it and its I seventy constituent | corporations an d partnerships and

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.

ANNA GOULD DIVORCED.

Count Roni Loses, mul Wife and Fortune Are Gone Forever. Final separation from home and Income is the cruel fate' meted out by French justice to Count Boni de Castellano, tlie wife-beating spendthrift, who had won the affection and fortune., of Jay Gould's daughter and rapidly dissipated both. The decision, granting a divorce without even an “alimentary allowance,” handed down in Paris by the Tribune of the First Instance of the Seine, Judge Ditte presiding, gives Countess de Castellane the custody of her children, who, however, may not be taken from Fr.-tm-e without the consent of their father. The end of the’famous case" came suddenly. The court brushed aside the demand of the court’s lawyers for an examination of witnesses, and, as expected, the public prosecutor did not even ask to be heard. In granting the countess the custody of her children the court allowed, the count only the usual rights to see them and share in the control of their education, which was not contested. The count is given the right to see the Children at stated periods at the home of their grandmother, and to keep them a month annually during the holidays. Boni’s demand for an “alimentary allowance of $50,000 annually” was pronounced by the court to be without foundation in law and was rejected. The only point decided In the husband's

THE DIVORCED PAIR.

favor was the order that the countess may not take the children from Franco without their father’s consent. The count appointed the president of the chamber of notaries to liquidate the affairs of the husband and wife.- The Judgment was given with costs against the coll nt. Anna Gould, youngest daught& of ; the late Jay Gould, was married to Count Ernest Boniface de Castellane, eldest son of the Marquis de Castellane, at the New York home of her brother, G(s>rge J. Gould. March 4. 1595. the late Archbishop Corrigan officiating. Miss Gould’s dowry was understood to have been $18,000,000, and it was stated that her Income was SOOO,OOO a year. Immediately after the marriage the couple left the United States for France, where the extravagant manner In which they lived attracted attention. About five years after the marriage Count and Countess de Castellane were reported to be financially embarrassed. it being alleged that the count had spent about $7,000,000 of his wife’s money. An adjustment of tlie affairs of the couple became necessary and considerable litigation followed, with the result that the Gould family intervened and the Income of the countess was reduced to $200,000. Feb. sos the present year Countess de Castellane entered a plea for divorce. The three children of the Castellane* are George, Boni and Jay. the youngest being the namesake of bls mother’s father.

Humorous News Notes.

Japan is for the open school .door. That $75,000,000 soap trust sounds like a bubble. Ohio has knocked the piers from under the Bridge Trust. They will have to stop making currant jelly out of cows’ hoofs. Cuba wakes up with a headache, empty pockets and owing money. What we really need is government ownership of Congressmen. The wild automobile is orte thing that doesn't discriminate in favor of the millionaire. Philadelphia indulges in the kind of dramatic criticism the hens lay. Gov. Mngoon is going to clean Cubs up if the cyclone don't do it for him. Germany ate 1.568 dogs and 81.312 horses last year. This is enough to giveChicago a jealous fit. i The skeleton of a horse 40 feet high has been found in Wyoming. They'd be wonders in a steeplechase.- ----- As long as we get over a million imtoigrants a year the race suicide movement doesn’t seriously affect tile census returns.

BOMB IN ST. PETER’S.

ROME’S FAMOUS CHURCH SHAKEN BY EXPLOSION. Wild Panic Among Thounanda Who Throng; Basilica Follows—Not One I Hurt and Edifice Is Uninjured— Deed la Strange Myatery. -r— ■ -—r- - ______ . A bo,rab containing high-grade gunpowder was exploded Sunday in St. Peter’s Cathedral; at Rome. It is thought the bomb Was for Papal Secretary pt State Cardinal Raihpoli, who celebrated high mass, the occasion being the ami:ersaVy, p.f the consecration of the cathedral to St. Peter, whose body lies in a silver shrine not far from where the explosion occurred. His Holiness, Pope Pius, heard .the mullled report i n his apa rs men ts in: the Vatican;“and, fell" to, his in a prayer ful- iiiercy for. the offender when he was informed what had happened. Cardinal Rumpelt frequently has expressed his fearlessness of the anarchists and this gives rise to the rumor that the band which has been causing deaths in Home intended to end his life. The tomb c,f Clement Sill., over which the bomb exploded, was not injured in any way, not was the high altar, at the base of which the full force of the explosion was felt. Despite the fiiiorii.i''.us charge of gunpowder, not even the p.-i cement shows much evidence of what .happened. At the time of the explosion Cardinal Rainpoli had already taken his departure from the cathedral. He had scarcely reached the outside world before there was a re,ar and a cloud of dust and smoke sprang up at the end of the right aisle which is near the great altar Of St. PetromHaT There- was. ing roar which shook the great edifice and rang through its lofty arches ns never-a sound has before. Congregation Stunned. Fo.r a moment the great congregation remained as if stunned. Then pan'c seized upon them and with one impulse they surged toward the great doors, screaming and fighting their way out. regardless of the efforts of the canon of the cathedral to. calm their fears, He shouted to them again and again that there was nothing to fear, but his voice

was lost in the tumult. Only those near him could distinguish a word that he said. A few who were clo.se to the altar stopped, but the rest continued their headlong flight. Men, women and children In a struggling mass crowded the aisles, shrieking in terror, and a number were seriously bruised and injured. LnrKCNt Church in World. St. Peter's Cathedral is the largest in the world, though for magnificence it is far outstripped by St. Paul's in London, and from an architectural viewpoint, notwithstanding the great, array of distinguished men who have from time to time superintended its construction, it is declared to be a lamentable failure. Its building was begun in 1450, but it was not until 1626 that the completed structure was consecrated by Pope Urban VIII. The cathedral occupies the site of the old basilica of St. Peter's, which was founded by Constantine in the year 306 A. D.. tttfd according to church history merits the spot, of St. Pc tot's grave and is to the scene"of his martyrdom. The cathedral, in the fprm of a Latin cross, is Gl3 fret long and 150 feet across the transepts. It is surmounted by a dome which rises to the top of the great cross, which surmounts it, 434% feet above the pavement. The diameter of the dome is 195 U, feet. The facade of the cathedral is 668 feet long and 145 feet high. Five open arches lead to n magnificent vestibule 439 feet long, 47 fret wide nnd 65 feet high.

one Out of Seven Divorced.

Commissioner of Labor Stafford of California has just published statistics for the last fiscal year, which show that there w«*re 2,133 divorces during the year wnd 17.932 marriages in that Ftate. Of the divorce actions, 586 were brought by husbands and 1.045 by wives. A total of 484 were married less than five years. 7!M» from live to ten years and C>4!» from ten to twenty years, nnd 294 more than twenty years. The ratio of the divorced was one out of seven marriages, and 1.536 children were affected by the separation of thrir parents.

BIG CROPS AND CAR SHORTAGE.

Railroads Unable to Supply Means of Transportation. There has never been a time, not simply this year,- but in any previous year, when there was such a pressing demand for all the rolling stock that all the big lines could muster, and that in serviceable condition, says the Boston Transcript. . Our overwhelming national production has apparently caught us unawares. The West is complaining loud~ly; almost angrily, -nf-var shortage, and the railroads are confronted with the heaviest responsibility in their history in the task of moving crops. Prosperity does not consist of abundance merely, but also of facilities for inoving and distributing that abundance to the points where de-mand-awaits .it in_the -quickest-time 'and at reasonable rates. But there are very many embarrassing hitches iu the present situation, which has become so strained that shippers- are in some cases actually -charging the traffic managers with inaugurating an artificial cat famine. .This, however, is not probable. We caiinot niiagiiie any advantage. present oi; urosiHLCtire. likely to accrue to the roads from a policy of having an.excess of perishable goods in tlie hands of producers or shippers ; but between the producer and the carrier are a large class of merchants, shippers and exporters, and they are the men who are feeling the nervous and almost panicky* strain that comes from congestion and delay. Tlie roads all through the West are operating their shops to their fullest capacity- to increase their rolling stock, and this condition of affairs emphasizes the fact that any considerable strike among .carsnop men would be particularly deplored at this time. : —:A—rnrirrrrt- of th is t rouble -is the difficulty experienced by the Aroostook farmers in Maine in getting their potato crop to market. The yield there is unprecedented, the estimate being 17,000,000 fyushels, but even with cellars an"d storehouses bulging, fear is entertained that cold weather will come before the imperfect means of transportation can relieve them. —We ran hardly hold the big lines responsible for this state of things, but it 4s -none the less a -minor manifestation of the same general shortage. It probably means, also, that railroad lines in northern Maine are becoming inadequate to the development of that section.

FEATURES OF PEARY’S DASH.

Important Scientific Resnltw of the Recent Expedition. Later messages from Commander to President Jessup of the Peary arctic club, told how he had reached Hopedale, Labrador, and was having his steamer, the Roosevelt, repaired and ballasted. The return voyage from the farthest north

point ever reached by a human being had been one of incessant struggle with ice floes, storms and head winds. Two rudders, sternpost, two blades of the propeller, four topmasts, spanker boom and one boat had been carried away, and they had been obliged to use interior portions of the ship to keep the fires going after the coal supply was exhausted. Peary also announced his purpose to make another attempt to reach the pole after getting fresh supplies and making repairs. His dash was impeded by several tons of dog meat spoiling, and the loss of other supplies by breaking of ice. Mrs. Peary, who started with her son to meet the explorer, at Sydney or farther north, said no words could express her elation and happiness over the fact that her husband was “the hero of the most successful polar expedition in the history of the world.” One important scientific result of this expedition is the explosion of the theory of palaeocrystic sea. This theory arose from the observation of peculiar floe Ice in the ocean north of Grantland by the British expedition under Capt. Nares in 1876. Hence the name of this part of the Arctic oeonrf. which means a sea of ancient ice. It was thought that it was covered with an expanse of enormously thick ice anti that the sea was shallow, Mie <loes resting on the bottom. Peary found the floc ice thick, but not of the in i nt variety supposed by Nares. The Ice as a sledge route failed him utterly* as it broke up into big and little islands under an unusually mild winter. Peary and his party saved their lives by converting eight dogs into food. * f— Hi Ml I, I „ I,;

News of Minor Note.

The town of Portia, Ark., was damaged by fire to the extent of about $50,000. The Southern Pacific Railway Company announces it wants 5,000 laborers. At the closing session Of the National Association of Rural Mail Carriers, Atlanta, Go., won out for the next convention. The convention met at Peoria. Alltcrt T. Patrick, convicted murderer, has requested Gov. Higgins of New York not to entertain an application for executive clemency, unless it comes from Patrick himself. ‘

INSOMNIA CURED

Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilla Restored Wrecked Nerves to Normal Condition and Good Health Followed. The sufferer from sleeplessness too often resorts to habit-forming drugs in order to secure the coveted rest. But Bleep obtained by the use of opiates is not refreshing and the benefit is but temporary at best. Mrs. H. A. Fletcher, of 59 Blodget gtreet,Manchester,N.H.,islivingevidence of the truth of this statement. Bhe says: “ I received a shock of an Bpoplectic character. It was so severe that the sight of my right eye was af’fected, causing me to see objects double. I was confined to my bed about four weeks, at one time beiug told by the doctor that I could not When I could leave my bed I was in such a nervous state that I could not sleep at night. I would get up and sit on a chair until completely tired out and then go back to bed and sleep from exhaustion. “I had been under the doctor’s cars for six weeks when my sister, Mrs. Loveland, of Everett, persuaded me to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pals People. I taking the piHs "with the. result that I soon experienced relief. One night soon after taking them I lay awake only a short time and the next night I rested well. From that time I slept well every night and soon got well and strong. I have recommended Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills a number of times, and my niece has taken them for weak nerves and poor blood and found them very beneficial.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have cured many severe nervous troubles, headache, neuralgia and sciatica as well as diseases of the blood such as anaemia, rheumatism, pale and sallow complexions and many forms of weakness. All druggists selT Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, or they will be sent by mail postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

No Other Course.

The daring explorer had reached the north pole. - . . “Well, which way now?” asked his assistant. The explorer looked irresolutely around the horizon. “Dashed if I know,” hg muttered. Then his brow cleared. > “Can’t you see?” he said. “We’ve found all the north there is. We’ll have to go south!” Merely stopping long enough to eat another dog, the party started in the general direction of the south pole.

How’s This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh than cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by bls firm. WADDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent r ree. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.

Willing; to Settle.

“Do you seriously mean, madam,” asked the claim agent, “that you are going to sue the company for SIOO,OOO damages because you were slightly injured in an unavoidable train wreck?” “I certainly do.” “That is preposterous. lam authorized to settle with you, madam, for SI,OOO. We will never pay 1 cent moreT’ “Well, then,” she rejoined, with a sigh of resignation, “I suppose I'll have to compromise on $50,000.” —Chicago Tribune.

Postmen Collect Debts.

A debt-collecting agency which is run as a part of the regular public postal system is the newest “improvement” of the postoffice of Austria. Despite the novelty of the enterprise, the plan has worked admirably, so that thousands of dollars are collected annually by the postmen throughout the Austrian empire. The system Is very simple. Suppose a tradesman in Vienna has an account due from a customer in, say, such a distant town as Budapest, which he wishes to collect. Distance does not matter in the least. He merely sends the bill to the postoffice in the capital, whence it is at once transmitted to the postofflee at Budapest. There the postman presents it to the Vienna postoffice, whence It Is delivered to the tradesman by postman. In the event of payment being refused, which, of course, sometimes happens, the creditor is promptly apprised of the fact, and valuable time Is thus frequently saved.

COFFEE IMPORTERS

Publish a Book About Coffee. There has been much discussion aa to Coffee and Postum lately, so muck in fact that some es the coffee Importers and roasters have taken to type to promote the sale of their wares and check If possible the rapid growth of the use of Postum Food Coffee. In the coffee Importers’ book a chapter Is headed "Coffee as a Medicine,” and advocates Its use as such. Here Is an admission of the truth, most important to all Interested. Every physician knows, and every thoughtful person should know, that* habitual use of any "medicine” of the drug-stimulant type of coffee or whisky quickly causes irritation of the tissues and organa stimulated and finally sets up disease in the great majority of cases if persisted in. It may show in any one of the many organs of the body and In the great majority of cases can be directly traced to coffee in a most unmistakable way by leaving off the active Irritant—coffee—and using Poatum Food Coffee for a matter of 10 days. If the result la relief from nervous trouble, dyspepsia, bowel complaint, haart failure, weak eyes, or any other malady set up by a poisoned ncrvotiv system, you have your answer with the accuracy of a demonstration In math*ma ties. “Thero'ff a reason’’ for Postum.