Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — Page 3

OHIO RIVER FLOOD.

HIGH WATER CAUSES HAVOC THROUGHOUT VALLEY. Greateat Deluge Since ISS4 Reported at Cincinnati—Other Cities for 400 Miles Along River Sustain Heavy Damage. The Ohio River has overflowed its banks for more than four hundred miles, thousands of people are suffering for the necessities of life, and thousands more are homeless. All indications point to the greatest flood since that of February, 1884. In Cincinnati all school buildings and cliurches in.the East End were opened as temporary homes for the persons who own, homes and whose homes were invaded by the river.' The street car lines in both the East and West Ends and in the suburbs on both sides of the river were crippled. About two thousand people on a hill known as Turkey’ Ridge, in the East Eiid, were isolated by the flood, which. cut them off from the mainland. The regular packet service between Louisville and Cincinnati, which has - not been interrupted for years, was given up, the steamers being unable to pass under the bridges. The Federal government withdrew several boats running south, owing to the difficulty of making landings. It is estimated that 10,000 people were forced to move from their homes. In manyplaces furniture was packed in the streets, with no protection from the heavy rain. The greatest flood known in twenty years is devastating the towns and country. It is impossible to place an accurate estimate on the damage that has been done already. Every town along the river is suffering from crippled communications, limited fuel supply and a shortage of food, and thousands of men are idle because the flood has cl«*ed factories and stopped practically all industries. Repetition of the disastrous flood of April, 1898, tn which twenty-nine people were drowned, was feared at Shawneetown, 111. As a result of the flood in the Ohio River, the dike which protects the city broke and the water rose

SCENE ON THE RIVER FRONT CINCINNATI.

so high above the level of the city that serious* Consequences were considered unavoidable. Shawneetown lies in an elbow of the Ohio River and protected by a dike on the east and south from the water. When the river is in flood the surface of the water is from six to eight feet above the street level in the lower part of the town. During the previous flood the lower part of the town was under water for several days and a heavy property loss was the result. The dikes were repaired after this calamity, and it was believed that they could withstand anv Sftage of water which might prevail in the river. 1 Flood conditions were ijejtorted all over eastern Kentucky.

Briet News Items.

Raisuli’s stronghold. Zinat, was destroyed by fire by Morocco troops and the bandit chief fled to the mountains. Pitman Pulsifer in the navy year book iccords the fa<jt that armor plate has been reduced from $604 a ton in 1887 to $345 in 1005. • ,1. _ President Harris of the Terry Peek. S. D.. Miners’ Union, distributed the first lelief money to members who are out for an eight-hour day. The Staten Island Anti-Nuisance League had four Baltimore'and Ohio engineers arrested for blowing whistles on switching engines. Advices received at Victoria, B. C.. state that forty Jajianese vessels and 44)0 poachers arc missing on the Kamchatkan peninsula since 1904. The London Mail says the British niivy will be reduced after the February maneuvers. Three battleships w<Tl he taken from the channel fleet. Officers of several vessels Altering the port of Seattle have resigned because the companieg,. have refused to grant'them overtimq at 00 cents an hour. J, Ogden Armour is said to be considering plans for a model city for the workmen who will be employed in the new Armour plant at Minneapolis. John Burns died at the St. Paul, Minn., hospital from injuries received by falling down the stairs leading to the Salvation Army hall on East Seventh street. Lieut. Swanson and, Traveling Manager Hall are held by the police awaiting the outcome •( th* coroner’s investigation.

MADE PRISONER BY HEALTH.

Mra. Ea<e Has to Be Guarded Arainat the Mendicant*. Mrs. Russell Sage has been obliged to abandon temporarily her New York City house and remain in strict seclusion her Long Island home —striven to shelter by the army of mendicants besetting her, as well as the throngs of the merely curious, anxious to gaze upon one of the richest women in the world. Personally she is inaccessible to acquaintance and stranger alike; only a few of her most intimate friends break through the human cordon with which she has surrounded herself. Nearly all her mail goes to her town house in New York, where it is looked after by a corps of secretaries. Not even personal communications reach

MRS. RUSSELL SAGE.

het. Cablegrams, telegrams, special delivery letters, all are intercepted. At her country home any one seeking an audience with her must run a long gauntlet of guards, and in the end, nine times out of ten, will never see her. Secretaries form the outer bulwark of the wall of defense. Getting past them, one encounters her lawyers, her physicians, and even her clergyman, all of whom unite in shielding her from visitors who might prove importunate. Personal freedom she enjoys but little. It is said that she has come to suspect/wen a num-

ber of old friends of mercenary motives, and that not a few have proved themselves mere fortune seekers. In the seclusion of her country home she lives the life of a recluse, virtually seldom going beyond the gates. Great wealth has brought its disadvantages as well as its opportunities.

JOHN R. WALSH INDICTED.

True Bill with 182 Counts Returned Againat Chicago Bunker. John R. Walsh was the subject of a sweeping indictment returned in the federal court at Chicago charging misappropriation of funds of the Chicago National bank, of which he was president up t > tlie time of its failure in December, 1005. The indictment was voted by the special grand jury which was called to consider the Chicago. National failure. It contains 18’4 counts, covering ninetytwo transactions involving $2,634,877.77 of the bank's funds. The true bill was received in court by United States Dis- . trict Judge A. B. Anderson of Indianapolis. who fixed the amount of Mr. Walsh’s bond at $50,000. Imprisonment is the penalty provided for the crimes charged .in the indictment, there being no provision for a discretionary fine. The penitentiary term provided is five to ten years on each of the *lB2 counts, a possible sentence that would'tun hundreds of years beyond the end of Mr. Walsh’s natural life. The indictment, which is drawn under section 5200 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, charges Ml. Walsh with being responsible for startling conditions in the Chicago National bank, andthe unusual number of counts is the result of the government’s intention to frustiate, if possible, any technical objections by meeting the eventualities of variations' in proof when the case comes to trial.

Author in the Navy.

James B. Connolly, the well-known author of sen stories, has enlisted in the navy for two years, on the suggestion of President Roosevelt. Mr. Connolly was drafted for duty an, a clerk on the battleship Alabama. It is expected thaU he’ will do for the,American navy what Kipling has done for the British army.

Saves Treasury $1 0.000.000.

That duties must be jmid on imported goods by weight at date of entry is the rule established by a decision of the highest court, instead of at the time of with* drawal from bonded warehouse. In the case of such goods as tobacco, hides, wool, sugar, etc., that absorb moisture, a considerable different** in weight often occurs between the dates of arrival and withdrawal, and it is estimated that duties already collected a mounting to $lO,000.060 are saved to the treasury by thia

COLLISION ON THE BIG FOOR RAILWAY.

Twenty-five Persons Are Killed in Disastrous Wreck. MANY ROASTED ALIVE Queen City Special Smashes Into a Freight at Fowler, Ind. Combination Car of Paaaenger Train la Crushed. to Splinters and Takes ' Fire—Those Who Did Not Die by Shock Are Slowly Burned to Death —Fog Obscured a Signal. Twenty-five persons were killed in the wreck of Big Four passenger train No. 38 near Fowler, Ind., Saturday, twenty of whom were burned alive, and forty others were injured. Those killed were nearly all in the combination car, which took fire and burned. The sleeping cars were not wrecked. The wrecked train was Queen City Special, east-bound, front Chicago, and Was going fifty miles an hour. Owing to a dense fog the engineer of the flyer was unable to see the light on the semaphore, which directed him to stop, as a west-bound freight had the right of way. The train dispatcher, knowing that the dense fog would prevent the trainmen from seeing the block signal, went outside and waved his lantern frantically and fired at least half a dozen shots from his revolver, but the train went crashing by and a moment later the crash came, the passenger running into the freight, head on. The tender of No. 38 telescoped The baggage car, the rear end of the tender cut through to within ten feet of the rear of the smoker. The firemen of both trains were killed instantly, but the engineers escaped by jumping. The report of the collision was heard all over the town. Fire bells and whistles called the people to the aid of the injured. Immediately following the crash The wreckage caught fire and the people were burned before they could be extricated from the ruin& The heat of the burning cars was so intense that the rescuers could not gos near enough to help.

Crushed Like au Eggshell. The trains met three-quarters of a mile east of Fowler. Both were at top speed. When they struck the engines were welded together. The combination car, first in the passenger train, was crushed like an eggshell under the impact of the sleepers behind. Before the grinding, splintering mass had time to settle bright flames sprang up in half a dozen places. The combination car was smashed to kindling and much of its wreckage, tossed up on the hissing locomotive wreckage, burned fiercely. In a few minutes the wind had driven the fire back into the first sleeping car. Its occupants knew the car would burn and before the fire attacked it had fled, some of them in night attire. All the coaches, except the sleepers and the private car of Vice President Schaff, were destroyed. Of the pasengers known to have been in the combination coach at the head of the train only five were rescued. Most of the others died horrible deaths by fire and steam, pinned in the wreckage of the car.

Lessons in Sex Physiology.

Referring to the recent movement started by the Society of Sanitary and Moral American Prophylaxis, the New York School Journal now declares that the necessity of recognizing sex in the practical teaching of pupils in the public schools is before us in a greater force than ever before. Dr. Mary Putnam, who had investigated the schools of twenty cities, found no attention given to sex instruction, except in three girls’ high schools, where women physicians gave brief talks on topics relating to childbirth. The result was that shamg, mystery and actual evil were “associated with sex in the minds of children, especially those over 10 years old.” She opposes the doctrine of leaving the matter alone on the ground that disease will punish the guilty, as many innocent-ones are infected for one guilty one. Dean Balliet of the New York school of pedagogy say the subject has passed the stage of inquiry as to whether these subjects shall be taught, for the present question is how the subject is to be presented. John R. Elliott of the New York ethical culture schools opposes the plan of having a physician brought in to teach sex knowledge, as' it increases the wrong notion that the subject is unusual, and he. makes the practical suggestion of using the boy and. girl leaders to influence their mates in the right direction.

Interesting News Items.

A report that France had ceded Tahiti to Great Britain is officially denied in Paris. The equestrian statue of Gen. George B. McClellan in Washington will be unveiled on May 15. Gov. Magoon signed a treaty of extradition between the republics of Cuba and Santo Domingo. The Paris Journal says that Jacques Lebaudy, the self-styled “emperor of the Sahara,” is making a tour of the United States -« — ;

COMMEPCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. R. G Dun & Co.-, in their weekly review- of trade in the Chicago district, says: “The volume' of production in the leading industries is seen to compare favorably with that at this time last year, and an increasing supply of bank deposits affords more encouragement to mercantile borrowers to enter upon financial commitments. Satisfactory hba dway isma de in reducing re tnil stocks here and throughout the interior, although some heavy winter lines drag from lack of seasonable temperatures. “New demands for pig iron are the most conspicuous feature in manufacturing this week, spot supplies commanding a stiff premium and Ifeavy tonnage being entered for the closing months of this year. Contracts for rails have been liglit,- but this is rather a relief to the mills, the capacity of which is engaged further ahead than ever before. “Heavy factory construction involves consumption of an enormous quantity of structural steei and further demaud is noted for plates and wire. The carshops, forges and shipyards are less pressed with additional orders, but these lines now run to the limit of capacity and have forward business for most of this year. “Dealings in the hreadstuffs exhibit a slight gain in activity, prices making recovery from their late low level, while the market for provisions and live stock remain exceptionally firm. “Snowstorms in the Northwest have added to difficulties in transporting freight, making deliveries more complicated, and there is smaller marketings of crops, but rolling stock is constantly being augmented and making railroad facilities more ample in the West “ReceiptSsOf hides, 2,779,610 pounds, compare with 2,755,538 pounds last week and 3,564,067 pounds in 1906. Lumber receipts were 32,056,000 feet against 41,680,000 feet last week and 28,331,000 feet a year ago. “Railroad earnings still exceed those of a year ago. The total movement of grain at this port declined to 6,945,333 bushels, against 9,990,207 bushels last week and 7,998,945 bushels a year ago. “Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 22, against 26 last week and 25 a year ago.”

NEW YORK. Retail and wholesale trade, industry and transportation alike feel the effect of varying adverse weather conditions, which retard or check activity and make the congestion visible some time ago in railroad matters even more acute. The comparative quiet now witnessed in many lines is not unwelcome to many, who have been jkept pushed steadily to fill orders. Relatively the most active line at present is that of dry goods, particularly cottons, which are strong and tending upward, with the mills heavily sold ahead. Collections are irregularly slow, feeling the weather conditions even more than new demand. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending Jan. 17 aggregated 2,636,460 bushels, against 4,073,110 last week, 3,448,862 this week last year, 1,138,974 in 1905 and 4,690,200 in 1902. For the past twenty-nine weeks of the fiscal year the exports are 104,633,074 bushels, against 77,237,654 in 1905-06, 38,015,198 in 1904-05 and 159,267,684 in 1901-02. (ftrn exports for the week are 1,906,873 bushels, against 1,296,187 last week, 5,944,571 a year ago and 3,186,529 In 1905. For the fiscal year to date the exports are 29,007,148 bushels, against 54,505,421 in 1905-06 and 24,705,409 ir 1904-05. —Bradstreet's Commercial Rfc port.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.20; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.65; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 41c; oats, standard, 33c to 35c; rye, No. 2. 64c to 66c; hay, timothy, $13.00 to $17.50; prairie, $9.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 28c; eggs, fresh, 25c to 28c; potatoes, 32c to 40c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.75; hogs. $4.00 •to $6.60; sheep, $3.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2,38 cto 40c; oats. No. 2,35 cto 37c; rye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $4.00 to $<5.65; hogs, $4.00 to $6.72; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2. 74c to 76c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 38c; rye. No. 2,70 cto 71c. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.80; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to SB.OO. New Yorjr—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, Nd. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn. No. 2,49 cto 50c; oats, standard, white, 42c to 43c; butter, creamery, 25c to 29c; eggs, western, 25c to 29c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 43c; [ oats, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; rye. No.

INSULT TO AMERICA.

JAMAICAN GOVERNOR EJECTS UNCLE SAM’S TARS. Briton’. Pride Is Hurt by Seeing American Marine, in Kingston Street., and He Refuses to Let Them Aid Earthquake Victim.. Practically ordered from the island by Governor Swettenham. thW American battleships Indiana and Missouri and the gunboat Yankton, under command of Admiral Davis, ceased their work oPmercy at Kingston and sailed away for Cuba. With them went the ship's surgeons -and marines who had acted as nurses. Behind they 'left scores of victims of the, earthquake, with broken limbs, fractured skulls and ghastly wounds, who w'ere begging for assistance. They had applied in vain for treatment at the government hospital, and many were dying for lack of medicines and attention which the island authorities did not have, and seemingly were making no effort to obtain. Governor Swettenham, from the first, resented the presence of the American marines on British soil. His pride revolted w-hen he saw the blue jackets efficiently guarding the consulate, directing the work of clearing the streets and overawing the lawless crowds of blacks in a manner which the local authorities were unable to do. This feeling culminated in a sarcastic letter to the admiral peremptorily requesting him to re-embark all the details of men which had been landed. - Admiral Davis was shocked at the Governor’s attitude, and being desirous of doing everything possible for the helpless and suffering populace, paid a visit to the Governor. There he was received with scant courtesy, and as he left announced to the Governor that since he desired no further assistance, be had taken the liberty to countermand the order of President Roosevelt for the naval supply ship Celtic to proceed to the island and distribute its cargo of supplies among the needy. Later Admiral Davis said that immediate cdmpliance~wlth Governor Swettenham’s request was the only course consistent with the dignify of the United States.

MORE THAN 35 DEAD.

Forty Hurt In Indiana Accident Due to Explosion of Powder. Nearly forty lives were lost in a Big Four wreck at Sandford, Ind., Saturday night The cause of the disaster has not been fully explained, as several theories are advanced. The result was terrible. The shock was felt for thirty miles, many believing it an earthquake. The three coaches of the passenger train were filled. The entire train, including the locomotive, was blown from the track. The coaches were demolished. the engine was hurled fifty feet and the passengers either blown to pices, consumed by fire or rescued in a more or less injured condition. At least thir-ty-five injured, some fatally, are at the hospitals id Terre Haute and Paris, 111. Several are also being cared for at Sandford. According to trainmen of the freight, the explosion of the powder was caused by the concussion made by the passing passenger train, which was slowing down for the station at Sandford. Another theory is that gas escaping from an oil pipe line near by entered the car containing the powder and a spark from the passing engine ignited the gas.

More than two score of lives were sacrificed and three scores of persons received serious injuries in railroad wrecks in the United States the same day. Weather conditions, combined with the frailties of employes and defects in construction of roadbed and machinery, caused a dozen different wrecks in widely separated parts of the country, half of which resulted In fatalities. Fire, incident to the use of steam engines in connection with wooden cars, added to the horrors of a wreck caused by fog hiding a stop signal on the Big Four road at Fowler, Ind., in which villagers who rushed to the rescue were driven away by the flames, and stood helplessly by while the victims of the disaster were slowly roasted to death. Scarcely less full of horror was a wreck on the same railroad near Terre Haute, Ind., caused by a car of powder on a siding exploding and blowing to pieces a passenger train on the main track. Passengers and members of the train crew there met death or injury without warning. . , AU Desoto, Kan., a defective engiqe boiler blew up, hurling the fireman and engineer to death, and in Minnesota a fast train was ditched because of defects. in the track. Confusion of orders or heedless of signals caused disastrous collisions at Minonk, Ill.; Denmark, S. C.; Meridian, Miss., and Troupe. Texas, -while a washout was responsible for a wreck in Michigan, and one near Peoria.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Thomas Brown, well known as a whistler, died at the Riverside hospital in Yonkers, N. Y. He wnv 35 yrara old. ' Prof. Otto Benndorf, the archaeologist, is dead in Vienna. He was noted for his discoveries of antiquities in Ephesus. George J. Gould, talking in Pittsburg, said he thought the business of the country in 1907 would exceed that of 1906. Plans for a new twenty-story hotel to occupy the entire block jn Broadway from 32d to 33d street, New York, are being prepared.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1569—First English lottery took place. 1610—Galileo discovered Jupiter’s satellites. *l644*—Archbishop Laud beheaded. 1806 —Cape of Good Hope surrendered by the 'Dutch to the British.... Vienna evacuated by the French. 1813 —William Jones of Pennsylvania became Secretary of thq Navy. 1815—Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated British at Battle of New Orleans. 1840 — Penny Post introduced in England by Rowland Hi 11... .Chartist riding at Sheffield, England. 1841 — Samuel Scott, daring American diver, accidentally hanged himself on Waterloo bridge, London, while giving iglgftltJWE’"' «.. -—— 1842 — Francois Coppee, French poet, born. 1844—Sir Hudson Lowe, governor of St. Helena during Napoleon’s captivity, died. 1854 —Astor library, New York, opened. 1861—Steamer Star of the West fired upon at Charleston... .Jacob Thompson of Mississippi resigned as Secretary of the Interior... .Philip F. Thomas of Maryland resigned as Secretary of the Treasury. 1863 —Metropolitan Underground Railway, in London, ceremoniously opened. 1866 —Steamer London, from England to - Australia, foundered in Bay of Biscay; 220 lost. 1868 —Chinese government appointed Burlingame its special envoy to all the treaty powers. 1871 —Paris bombarded. —Prince Frederick Charles gained victory oven Chanzy at Le Mans. 1889—Upper suspension bridge at Niagara Falls destroyed by wind storm .... Thirty-three persons killed and scores injured in whirlwind at Reading, Pa. 1893 —Princess Marie of Edinburgh married to Crown Prince of Roumania. 1895—Royalist outbreak at Honolulu suppressed by Dole government.... Great street railway strike in Brooklyn. 1897 —Count Muravieff appointed Russian minister of foreign affairs Anglo-American arbitration treaty signed at Washington... .National? monetary conference met at Indianapolis. 1899 —Railroad wreck at West Dunellen,. N. J.; seventeen lives lost. 1960 —Chicago drainage canal opened. 1901 —Twenty-six lives lost in orphan asylum fire at Rochester, N. Y. tpo2 —Seventeen lives lost in Park avenue tunnel wreck in New York City Lewis Nixon chosen nominal leader of Tammany Hall. 1904 Chinese Emperor ratified commercial treaty with the United States. 1905 Five killed in railroad collision near Ripon, N. M.

FORM FOREIGN LANDS.

The upper house of the Austrian, or Cisleithan, rerehsrath has accepted without amendment the bill establishing universal suffrage, which previously had been passed by the House of Representatives. London - papers reported that James Bryce had refused a peerage and would go to the United States as ambassador without changing his name, and thus be the first plain citizen to represent his Country at Washington. Just as it came from the French Chamber of Deputies, the new church and state separation act was finally passed by the Senate, 190 to 100. This was-directed against those churchmen who had refused to accept the original separation law’ of 1905, and al) elergy who refused under orders from the Pope to give over possession of their residences and church properties to the state do so on penalty of losing pensions. While the priests have disregarded the law providing for religious associations, the laity have made .the necessary declarations to protect the churches and other places of worship. It is'presumed that the other ecclesiastical buildings will be rented to the bishops and priests at a nominal figure, just as the clergy who have said most without making, a legal declaration to hold a public meeting have had only nominal fines imposed upon them. The French minister of finance ha* ■ordered the mints to substitute on all coin the words “liberty, equality and fraternity” for the old device "God protect France.” Minister of Education Briand announced that the chnrch buildings taken possession of by the state would be devoted to educational and museum purposes, the seminary of St. Suluice at Paris becoming part of the Luxenbourg museum. The expelled sisters of the As sumptionists order left Paris for Belgium, in the midst of-a throng of sympathizers, who shouted; “Down with th* Vree Mason*."