Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — FROM LAKE TO GULF. [ARTICLE]

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.