Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. Hlßfi"*'~ r ’ —■" -'■ ' OEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • • INDIANA.

WILL RECALL TROOPS

RUSSIAN FORCES TO feE WITH* DRAWN FROM MANCHURIA. Immediate Evuruation Tnkfn »* A»■nrnnrr erf Peace nnd Good F^ilto ,_ mm Pmri of Cl«r’» QtH^rn mon«— - Aiurrr Hunband Kills Wife. ,f The Russian government has decided to withdraw its troops from Manchuria immediately,, instead of awaiting the date. April 35, fixed by the Russo-Japanese agreement. Tfic'governments of China and Japan have been notified of the decision nnd of the steps already taken by Russia. thus assuring the completion of the evacuation at an early -dato. ThO «lecision Is considered as cortettisive proof of the '.'pacific intentions of Russia and also that she has no future plans concerning Manchuria. The first step in the proj>ose<] internal reorganization, of the Russian navy was taken the other day by the issuance of a. .uka.se reversing Jhe.syw tern of decentralization that has'existed for the- last ten years and Concent rating the power and responsilrflity Tot the >1 ip: tion of the fioet in the hands of the minister of marine. Under this new order Admiral Piknff. who was appointed-a few days ago -to succeed Vice Admiral Biriled as commander -in chief of tlte fleet, becomes virtually the commanding admiral and is in direct charge of all ships, their personnel and the technical strategic administration of the navy.

TEI.I.S OF CANADA’* KHIIAIIMIII’. Serrrtary Itoot l’lc»«ed with Ilcceptionn Given Him In Dominion. Secretary Root luis tviurned to Wash ington front his visit t*& Canada with the most pleasant impression, lie took occasion repeatedly to spca)t of the very satisfactory reception which he had nnd of the good sense and friendship which had been shown by Canadian officials with whom he came in contact. “My visit to CVnada." said Mr. Root,', “grew out of an entirely social matter, and more importance has Wen .attached to it officially than it deserves. As to' questions which are pending between the States and Canada, those are matters of• which I cannot speak.” It is understood in Washington that Secretary Root’s visit to Canada really paves the way to an adjustment of differences between the two countries on the arrival here of James Bryce, the new ambassador, on Feb. 28.

MAX KILLS SLEEPING WIFE. Ilaabnnd Then'l’lre* llullct Into Own Drenxt nml May Die. Peter Schlef, 40 years of age, shot and killed his wife ns she lay asleep in bed in IVtroit, and then fired a bullet ihto bis own breast, lie is believed to be dying in a hospital. The shooting followed a long heated quarrel with his wife the previous night. The couple had quarreled frequently of late. They have seven children ranging from 2 to 17 years of age. Mrs. Schlef cauie from Chicago a few days ago. Old Masters Held Indeeent. The Omaha courts have decided that works of art by famous painters, including Van Dyke, Rubens and Van dor Werff. are indeeent and that reproductions of them cannot be sold in Omaha stores. For persisting in their sale John Greenberg was fined and warned-that on the next occasion he would be sent to jail. Big tfltto* Mill Hums. Five boys were, burned to death and a number of men and women were injured in jumping from the -windows when one of the largest mills of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, makers of cotton goods, was destroyed by fire in Dover, -X. 11. Explosion Kills Twelve or More. Twelve tnen or more were killed and a hundred others were jo soiled from death after an exciting struggle in the Pennsylvania’s company's coal mine at Loreutg, IV. Va. The disaster was due to an explosion of fire damp. Five of the dead were Americans, the others Italians. Xlne Are Blown to Piece*. Nine men. all foreigners, were blown to. pieces by a dynamite explosion on the Tidewater railroad near l’earisburg. Va. The laborers were at dinner aud a quantity of the explosive which was being thawed in front of a fire blew up. $200,000 CourthouNC Destroyed. The Columbia County court house in Hudson, N. Y,. was burned with a loss of $200,000. The building was erected in 1000 and was a three-story structure of white marble: *' __ Mother and Son Perl*h In Fire. Rachel Pyles, aged SO, a soldier's widow, and her son Jonathan. 3S. both deaf, were burned to death in a log cabin at Dixon's Mills, Ohio. Neighbors found tbe skeletons among the ruins. Higher Wggea for Textile Workers. The 60,000 textile workers of Philadelphia have been virtually assured an increase in wages of 10 to 15 per cent. The schedules will go into effect Feb. 1. Xatnral Ga* Shortage. With tbe mercury hovering about sero there was much suffering from a natural gas shortage in Pittsburg. Allegheny and all the surrounding towns. Lover of 13 Year* End* Life. • The body of\ Join* L. Ilart. aged lft. was found liangibg in tbe barn of;* relat tive at Stowe, near Pottstown, Pa. II is act of self-destruction is attributed to a playful remark made by a young girr companion, who said she did not like him. c ; Rattle Company Kell* Out. The CatU« Company, the largest range cattle company Ml the West. h*« sold Us entire herd,of 80,000 head dl cattle in South Dakota and will go out of business. E. H. Harrimau is a member of tbe firm.

SENATOR ALGER DEAD.

Former Secretary of War Suddenly In Wap*:»!»»«; I on. L Ren. Ituswdl .A. Mger. Senator from. -Michigan and former Secretary of War, died suddenly in. Washington Thursday. Mr. Alger was recently defeated for reelection by Wlili'am Alden Smith' in a hot Tight. Mr. Algor lived in Detroit. Gen Alger was born Felt. -7, 183 d, in Lafayette township. Medina county. O. Since his* 11th year he had an active and eventful career which has brought to him in abundance both wealth and public honors, lie was tin orphan before. he was 12, and worked on a farm for seven years, earning enough money In this way to eii aide tjhn tostudy in the ’winters- at the Richfield' (Ohio) Academy.——T:~.v:: 2.-uL2i____: -.w. After teaching schojol for two years, he was admitted to the bar in 1859, beginning to practice, law in Cleveland, In 1800 he moved to Michigan, ■ entering the pine lumber business, which ultimately made him a millionaire. In Sep-., tom her. iSdl. he enlisted in the Union army and rose rapidly from the ranks, becoming successively captain, major,

RUSSELL A. ALGER.

colonel nnd major general of volunteers. He was brevetted major general in June, 1805, and after his retirement went back To his lumber business in Michigan, founding Alger, Smith & Co., now ope of the leading lumber firms of the country. lli> was elected Governor of Michigan in 1885 by the greatest majority that had ever been given in the State up to that time. In 1.888 lie was a leading candidate before the Republican national convention for the nomination for tlie Presidency. lie was- elected Commanderdn-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1889, serving one term. In 1879 President McKinley selected him for the portfolio of war, which he held two years.

URGES SHIP SUBSIDY.

President Says Federal Aid ot Steamer* I* Xeeded. “It would surely be discreditable for us to surrender to our commercial rivals the great commerce of the Orient, the great commerce we should have with South America, and even our own communication with Hawaii and the Philippines,” declared President Roosevelt in a special message sent to Congress urging the passage of a ship subsidy bill. In his message the President says: “The urgent need of our country making an effort to do something like its share of its own carrying trade on the ocean has been called to our attention in striking fashion by the experiences of Secretary Root on his recent South American -tour. -The".great continent to the south of us, which should be knit to us by the “closest commercial ties, is hardly in direct commercial communication with us at all, its commercial relations being almost exclusively With gtiropC. Iu the year ending June ,‘>o. 1905. there entered the port of Rio ,do Janeiro over 3,(XX) steamers and sailing vessels from Europe. but from the United States uo steamers and only seven sailing vessels, 'two of which were in distress.” One prime reason for this condition, the President says, is that business on the sea is done not in a world of natural competition hut of subsidized competition. State aid to steamship lines, he says, is as much a part of the commercial system of the country as State employment of 'consuls to promote business, aud adds: “Our commercial competitors in Europe pay in the aggregate some twenty-five millions a year to their steamship lines. Great Britain paying nearly seven millions. Japan pays between three -and four millions. By the proposed legislation the United States will pay relatively less than any one of our competitors pays "Three years ago the trans-Mississippi congress formally set forth as axiomatic the statement HUT every ghtp T 9 tt missionary of trade, that steamship lines work for their own countries just as rp.ilroad lines work for their terminal joints and that it is as absurd for the United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute its product as it would be for a department store to depend upon wagons of a competing house to deliver its goods. "Moreover, it must be remembered that American ships do not have to contend merely against the subsidization of their foieign competitors. The higher wages and the greater cost of maintenance of American officers and crews make it almost impossible for our people who do business on the ocean to compete on equal terms with foreign ships.” The President says the proposed law is not experimental, but is based on the experiences of other countries, and ia conclusion expresses a hope for the enactment of some law like the bill at present pending in Congress.

News of Minor Note.

Gen. Muggiolo. commandant of French Mtillery, ts dead in Algiers. The Cuban law commission, which conlists of/twelve members, of whom three are American, are understood to be divided on the suffrage question.

THAW TRIAL BEGINS.

MILLIONAIRE CHAHGED WITH MURDERING WHITE. «5 ■ : ' * T “ ; .■. One of the thi*l ScauirUaUle Trial* in the ( rimiiial History of Xew 'York—Penult WalcUcit by X otaliloii in Two Con linen m. The great Thaw trial Is on in New York. The light to save Harry Kendall Tlmw tr.au death- in the decider fjiiijr fnrTTTr idltinj nr ifniitrft ntiin ford White began Wednesday morning before Justice Fitzgerald. The drawing .:of the jury to try the.young I'ittsbnrg millionaire, began with the opening of court. Long before the hour set for the trial, crowds Hocked to the Criminal Court's building and tilled the rotunda. An hour before the trial began the crowd was driven- into the street and every entrance guarded by police. Only talesmen and reporters were allowed to enter the qourtronm. The triali overshadowed the Mollneaux and Patrick trials* Over 200 newspaper men made application for admission to report the trial, No spectators were allowed in tlte- trial room, Thwmvvere fstrrespendents ' rrdni l'iiris. 'l.uii'i. n a nd~ J BtjrttTU and on the lower lloor. of the building cable and telegraph' offices were inStalled. Outside, crowds waited to get a glimpse of the prisoner as he passed’ over the bridge of sighs. It was only a fleeting glimpse of a shadow outlined on an opaque sheet of glass, but the curious had waited hours to see that shadow and they were satisfied. Tliaw cmne to bis- trial for-the murder of Stanford White on the roof of Matlisoa Square Garden on the night of June 25, last year. The millionaire A prisoner believed that White was seeking to separate him from his wife, the beautiful Evelyn Xeshit Thaw, the artist model. Emotional insanity is the defense offered to save the young Pittsburg youth from the electric chair. When Justice Fitzgerald took his seat in fourt and Ilarry Thaw had been brought from the prisoners' pen to his seat beside the counsel, table, a trial was begun that will remain perhaps forever on the pages of criminal history in New York without a parallel. All the elements of a tragedy are woven in the warp and woof of his case. All tile characters of the stage world and of the gay Bohemia of a great city; a titled sister, a countess;

SCENE IN THE COURT ROOM WHEN HARRY K. THAW WAS PLACED ON TRIAL.

In.the forrgrrund is shown D. M. Delmas, the lawyer engaged to save the life of Stanford White’s slayer; sitting facing him is District Attorney Jerome; to the roar of Ur. Delmas and a little to his left is the defendant; back of him sits his mother; at her left is her daughter, the Countess of Yarmouth, who came from England to aid her brother; on her right is Evelyn Xesbit Thaw, wif e of the defendant, whose beauty incited the enmity of the two men that led to the shooting in Madison Square Garden. -

a beautiful model known ail over the world; n famous architect whose love of youth .and beauty brought him violent death, and a youthful spendthrift

HARRY K. THAW.

millionaire play leading parts in this tragedy that had for'fts ending the shooting of Stanford White by Harry Thaw on the crowded and gaily-lighted roof of Madison "Square Garden. No mystery veils this remarkable case.

SHONTS QUITS CANAL POST.

Leave* to Become President of New York Interborongb. Theodore P. Slionts, chairman of the isthmian canal commission, has resigned to become president of the Interborough-

THEO. P. SHONTS.

being admitted, it follows that John F. Stevens, the engineer in charge of the construction of the canal, would not be

made subordinate to another official on the isthmus. There have been stories of disagreement between Secretary Taft and Shouts and it has been said that the President has not been satisfied with him. Still, these stories have always been denied at the White House and in the War Department, where it has been consistently held that Shonts was in perfect accord with the President and Taft. When Mr. Shonts went to Washington it is declared he did not at all realize that the actual control over the digging of the Panama canal had been officially placed in the hands of the Secretary of War. Out of this misunderstanding of official status there grew a social tempest which has bubbled up more or less in every 5 o'clock teapot in Washington.

Kansas Indorses Parole System.

The annual report o| the Kansas State penitentiary takes a strong stand in favor of the parole system, which has been under experiment for two or three years. The officers spy that persons discharged in this way are kept' in restraint and strengthened in a manner that aids them to become good citzetis. Few persons violate their parole and few are afterward returned for new crimes. On the other hand, two or three term persons are generally found to be those who hnve been discharged without restraint. Warden Haskell says that the parole law has passed the experimental stage and that of 133 persons thus released only thirtyfive violated their promise. The penitentiary was run a$ a net -profit of $674.010 in two years. It cost 8 3-0 cents a day to feed each prisoner, owing to the quantity of food raised on the farm.

EVELYN NESBIT THAW.

Metropolitan Company of New York, vice August Belmont. Slibnts is to get SSO.OUU a year. 11 was learned authoritatively that headquarters will be removed from Washington to'the isthmus and that a high-salaried chairman to serve in that capacity alone will not be named. This

W ORK Of MANY STATE LEGISLATURES

Gov. Ansel of South Carolina* in his inaugural, urged the abolition of the State dispensary and the outlawing of bucket shops. « Gov. George E. Chamberlain, in his message sent to the Oregon Legislature, urges the enactment of a law creating a State railway commission. Five bills calling for a,2-cent fare were introduced in the Legislature at Des Moines, lowa. Three bills also were sent in calling for the enactment of a primary law. Tlie lower house in Missouri at Jefferson City passed a bill taxing undivided

profits of 50 per cent of the capital stock of corporations, other than railroads. The lower house of the Legislature at Little Rock, Ark., defeated the Senate resolution commending President Roose-

STANFORD WHITE.

velt's action In discharging the negro battalion on account of the Brownsville riot. A bill was introduced in the upper house of the Legislature at Lincoln, Xeb„ designed to prevent the practice of tipping and making persons or corporations employing waiters or serrants who may demand or accept a tip guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. Trade activity is seen to be steadily progressive, money evinces an easier tone and the seasonable weather affords the necessary stimulus to effect clearance sales of winter stocks in leading retail lines. The period is now entered upon when merchants from the interior begin to throng the wholesale districts, and it is noted that visiting buyers appear in encouraging numbers and operate freely, the orders placed making an excellent aggregate in lineps, cottons, notions, clothing, footwear and household utensils. Store stocks here-and throughout the West have undergone satisfactory reductions, and this has made the outlook more promising for the future. Manufacturing conditions maintain their strong position, and agriculturists being well situated financially and looking for another year of prosperous crops, there is much confidence among dlst ri outers. Production in the leading industries remains of unabated volume and outputs are more than the railroads can promptly move. Further notable tonnage is boQked for pig iron, and capacity of the furnaces for- the entire year is now almost engaged. The car shops and forges obtain additional heavy specifications requiring completion at the earliest possible time, rails are in steady request and plates and other structural shapes, wife, pipe and merchant iron disappear readily among consumers. The absorption of forest products, woodwork and leather continues upon a scale indicating-that activity is unusually extended at many of the factories, and the markets for raw materials exhibit no change in firmness of prices and general demand. .Building permits this month include business structures to a larger extent than the same month last year. This feature causes a further rush to secure materials needed for construction during the coming spring and adds to the feeling that cost may advance. Primary markets for foodstuffs liax'e become more animated, and there is a better demand for wheat, corn and hog products at higher prices. The total movement of grain at this port, 7.775,•804 bushels, compares with 0,945,333 bushels last and 8,205,890 bushels a year ago. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 24, against 22 last week and 3G a year ago.—Dun’s Review of Trade. NEW YORK. While weather conditions are still a bar to widespread activity in trade and industry, evidences of improvement in spring demand and enlarging shipments are a feature of the week. Additionally favorable items are an expansion in the grain markets, long stagnant, based apparently on better export inquiry, rather more cheerful advices from South Atlantic States heretofore reporting trade and collections backward, a decided easing of money rates with a resumption of demand for commercial paper, and good reports from the winter wheat crop. Colder weather South has helped retail trade, and that section, aside fftm a few. localities, has done well this year, tig had a next to record cotton crop, selling at good prices. Iu the Northwest heavy snows have cheeked ’wheat movement, and coal trains still have the right of way in that section— Bradstreet’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.10; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $0.80; sheep, fair. to clioiqe, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, standard, 30c to 38c; rye, No. 2, GGc to 08c; hay, timothy, $13.00 to $17.50; prairie, $9.00 to $14.00; butter, choice creamery, 27c to 30c; eggs, fresh, 25c to* 28c; potatoes, 82c to 40c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.50; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.80; sheep, common to prime. $2.50 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 41c to 43c ( oats. No. 2 white, 37c to 39c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $0.75; hogs, $4.00 to SG.GO; sheep, $3.50 to $0.75; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2,41 cto 42c; oats, No. 2,30 cto 88c; rye, No. 2,01 cto 03c. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 To $0.70; sheep, $2.50 to $5.23; wheat, No. 1,75 cto 77c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 3 white, 39c to 41c; rye. No. 2,08 cto 09c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 78c to 81c; eosn. No. 3,40 cto 42c; oats, standard, 30c to 38c; rye, No. 1, 67c to 08c; barleyi standard, 50c to 58c; pork, mess, $10.05. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.15; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.10; sljeep, common to good mixed, SI.OO to $5.25; lnm&s, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.83. New York —Cattle, $4.00 to $0.10; hogs. $4.00 to $7.25; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 rqd, 80c to 82c; corn. No. 2, 50 cto 51c; oats,, naturnl white. 42c to j!3c; butter, creamery. 25c to 31c; eggs, western. 24c to 20c. Toledo—Wheat. No, 2 mixed. 76c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 41c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 37c to 39c; rye. No. %, 66c to 68c; clover seed, prime* $S.55>