Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — WILL PRINT STAMPS. [ARTICLE]

WILL PRINT STAMPS.

-GOVERNMENT WILL CONTtbIUE TO DO THE WORK. v. ' - I Pn«tmß«ter Ornrrnl el y«n - Decidea It'Will, Not Pay to Let Con. tract _ OjtL»lderA—Ti«inj* Wove Streeps German New Gninvn. Postmaster General Cort.dyou has swarded to the bureau of engya-ving and printing of the Trepsury''"Bcpajtnient the contract for furnishing postage stamps and books of stamps for the postal service during the period of four years beginning Feb. 1. 1907. There were only twd'liidifers. the bureau of engraving and printing and the American Bank Note Company of New York. Had the award been given to the bank note company the annual saving to the government would have been about $17.000. In a meuiorapdunrMr. Corte lyort sn ys r ‘' 11 a ppen rs-to-be ■ the policy of the government to nianiifactor* its currency, revenue stamps securities. etc., by its own agencies and it would be contrary to that policy to —gj™ evnr tr> n private company the contract for the manufacture of postage stani!vs solely for- the purpose of sav i;>g an amount relatively small and largely problematical-.'’ TTD 41 W t VII K t U.S NA TI V KS. Heavy Lo«« of Life Reported in German New Guinea. Alarming earthquake shocks in Gorman New Guinea, the Bismarck arcliipclmzo, followed by tidal waves. causing much' loss of lif<- among the natives, are reported by the steasuer M ioweni from - the south sea. Tile effect was plain .ashore, fissures being visible in the mountain. A tidal wave swept the low-lying coast, devastatingl' the country for forty miles. At Chiassi island, in Dampier straits, the tidal wave wrought great havoc, hardly a native hut being left. Along the New Guinea coast Captain Rrcjawn saw- -fissures in the mountain Sides 200 feet long and 100 feet deep. Captain I‘rejawa was unable to estimate.the loss of life, but thought it considerable.

WIFE HEARS HUSBAND SHOT. Aged Farmer Im Killed Near His Home by -Unknown Man. Eugene Vohs, a wealthy farmer 62 years old. who lived near Louisburg. Kan., was shot to death within a short distort re of his home as he was returning from Louisburg. His wife heard the shot and found the body of her husband lying in the bottom of his wagon. There was a bullet hole behind his ear. Car! Baker, 20 years old. was arrested and held on suspicion. No motive for the murder is known. Strikes at Oil Pipe Lines. The Attorney General of Ohio has filed mandamus proceedings against the Buckeye Pipe Line Company”. This is considered the hardest blow against the Standard Oil Company. It is said that it might pay fines forever in criminal proceedings, but if this action is successful its greatest weapon of defense is taken away. Mormon Head Pleads Gnilty. Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, appeared in the District Court in Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to a statutory charge and was fined S3OO. The charge under which the Mormon prophet was arrested and fined was Smith’s forty-third child, born to ils fifth wife. German;- Wants Friendship. _-Germany is stretching out the hand of friendship, says Ambassador "Speck von Stemburg, in an address before the New York Chamber of Commerce, in which he urges that trade between the countries be stimulated and a better understanding reached by means of removal 4»fjgrW~ ent restrictions in the tariff. Fine* Father. Mayor and Self. New Britain. Conn., boasts a Spartan prosecuting attorney in Charles IL Mitchell. The other day he. fined his own father for not keeping his sidewalk clean. He fined the Mayor, too. As the supreme exhibition of his civic courage Prosecutor Mitchell issued a warrant for himself. The fines were for $2 each. Would Tax Ohio Ineem»». Gov. Harris of Ohio stated he would recommend in his first message to the Legislature the levying of a tax on incomes by the State of Ohio if a way can be found to enact a law that will stand the constitutional test. The Governor also favors a re-enactment of the inheritance tax law repealed by the Legislature. Floor Drnpn, Killln* One. Mrs. Rebecca Schwarts was killed and * score of other persons injured when the floor of the lobby of a hall, used on Sunday nights as a Jewish theater. collaj»oed in Newark, N. J. Some of the injured may die. Boy Kill* Boy While Huntln*. While hunting birds near Alexandria. Ohio, Fred Neehal. aged 9 years, was shot and killed accidentally by Clayton Mount, 13 yeans old. Five Boya Drown in River. Information received by mail at Montreal, Que., state* that five boys were drowned at Varennes, ten miles below there, on the south shore of the river. Hob. Train, but la Captured. A lone bandit robbed fifteen passengers on a train near Glasgow, Mo., but was aeen at work by a station agent who telegraphed ahead and arranged the capture of the man, who was placed In jail. Sees Flyin* Machine Sncceaa. At a session of the National Academy of Sciences in Boston. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell of Washington or pressed the opinion that the problem of flight bad been solved by Langley and his flying machine. The academy will reassemble in Washington next April.

SI,OOO IN GEMS GONE. Jewelry Stolen from Wagon of Express Company in Chica*o. Mysterious disappearance in ' Cbi< 4go of a package of jewelry from a wagon of. the Wells-Fargo Express Company, consigned to 11. M. Houston & Co. of that city and valued at SI,OOO, is absorbing the attention of Capt. O’Brien of the detective bureau. The package was placed on one of the Wei is-Fargo wagons at the main J n -Chicago. When the wagon reached the Heyworth building the conductor was unable to find the package consigned to Houston & Co. „H£_at_once_.reported the fact t< the main ' otli 'e of the company and to the Jeweler and later to Capt. O’Brien. Suspicion wav at once directed to the conductor himself and ifis driver and they were arrested and taken to Capt. G’Brien’s office, where they were subjected to a severe examination. They gave their names as S K. Seeger and Harry Allen. Both denied any knowledge of the manner in y hich the package was lost and said'that in the dark it wouldTiavS Teetr"possible" for a robber to get into the wagon and carry it off. They will be held until the police are positive they are telling the truth. Capt. O’Brien believes that Seeger and Allen left the wagm unguarded in the street, and that the jewelry was taken in their absence. Allen said he stopped the wagon for a time at the Columbus Memorial building, but that neither he nor Seeger left he wagon. ROY SHOOTS TEACHERS. S ... j Enable to Get Permission to -Go lluntlna He Fires at Principal. Because his teacher refused to grant him permission to go hunting, James Dougherty, Jr.. 16 years o'd, shot and seriously wounded Prof. J. E. Kohler, principal, and Meade Snyder, his assistant, In Punxsutawney, "Pa. Following the afternoon session of school young Dougherty ran to his home, got a shot- - gun and. meet ing the teachers oil the. road from school, demanded that he be given permission tn go hunting. The teachers refused- again, and the boy fired at them. Prof. Snyder received part of the charge in his ’face, body and legs, while Prof. Kohler was slightly injured in the legs. Prof. Snyder’s condition is critical. Young Dougherty, was arrested. EXPECT BRIDGE DISASTER. Vice President Voices Views of Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, Recommendations made by the New York railroad commission designed to relieve somewhat the Brooklyn bridge erush found a startling echo when Vice President Calderwood of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company declared that the bridge was being worked to its limit •nd that his company lived in expectation of a great calamity there. Engineer Takes Wreck Blame. Weeping as he told his story, Frank Galuauer, engineer of the fi-'st section of the passenger train involved in the recent wreck at Woodville, Ind., which cost more than sixty lives, shouldered entire responsibility for the disaster at the coroner’s inquest in Valparaiso. As the result of his testimony he was arrested. Conductor Monte and Brakeman Woodward of the freight train also were arrested •nd all three were held in SI,OOO ball. Auto Burglars Get $5,000. The two men and a woman who have come to be known as the automobile burglars because of their fashionable mode of transit are credited with another haul in New York. It is reported that such a party entered the home .of Richard Wightman and took jewelry lo the value of $5,000. Heavy Fine for Caraso. Enrico Caruso, the Italian singer, was found guilty in New* Yorki of Insulting women and was sentenced to pay the maximum fine. ’ Prisoner was attacked as beast and degenerate and wept under fire, and a riot in the court room was threatened. . Find Expressman’s Corpse. The mutilated body of an expressman was found in an empty lot at Thirtyfirst street and Shields avenue, Chicago. The police attribute the murder to a gang ’ of robbers, and three arrests have been made. Dakota Coal Famine Serious. The coal famine in the Dakotas is carious and the railroads are confiscating ©oak