Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. —g=S==g l-T" - ■ ■— OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA,

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WINS DESPERATE BATTLE WITH jSAVAGE BEAST. Animal Attack* Mra. liinavmnn in Wood* Ncnr I.ak-e ha«ka. Minn.— Expreaa Robber* in Teia» Throw M<***cntrer from Train. Mrs. Ilinseinan. living near Lake Itasca. Minn., fired eight ibullets into a lynx which attacked her’before the animal was killed. Mrs. Ilinseinan was oil her way from her home to where her husband was at wrwk in the woods when she met the animal. The lynx crouvhfd ns if intending- to spring -upon- her. Mrs. Hintman fired one bullet intb the lynx, but only wounded the beast. Th<-n. rapidly retreating, with the lynx crawling after her. she fired seven more shots into its body. The lynx fell dead at her feet. The animal was 6 feet long from the end of its nose to the tip of -its tai). BILL FOR €1 BAYS TO PAY. ExprnarK of I'nited State* in Pacifying lalnnd Benches 52.500.000. incurred by tlie United States in sending an army of pacification to Cuba aggregate about $2,500.000. according to figures prepared by the War Department. The navy has made no extra charges for the part it has taken in the maintenance of peace in the island, but the marine corps has charged for the organization of a brigade of marines to ‘ assist in preventing trouble. It has not been determined when this money shall be obtained from Cuba. Congress authorizes] the collection of as much as Cuba can spare and virtually has allowed the War Department to exercise its judgment in this matter. EXPRESS ROBBERY IX TEXAS. Mrux-ngrr on Intcrnationnl Trnin I* Throw* Oat and Safe I,noted. As train No. 4 of the International and Great Northern, north bound, was leaving Elkhart. Texas, the other night. Express Messenger Winsley Womack was knocked on the head and''thrown out of the car. He was not missed from the train until Palestine was reached and a little later a telephone message was received from him at Elkhart, stating that be had been assaulted by robbers. The safe in the car was open when the train reached Palestine. Dowir'w Heir I* to Return. Deacon John Lewis, an offiriiri of the Zion church, who arrived in Guadalajara. Mexico, recently to look over some mining investments in the State of Jalisco, has received the news of his appointment as first apostle of the church by the' last will and testament of John Alexander Dowie. Lewis says the news came as a surprise to him and that he will return to Chicago immediately. Nation Worth *107,104,102.410. The official report just issued by the census bureau estimates 4he national wealth in 11*04 at $107,104,192,410. as compared with $88,517,300,775 in 1900. The bulk of this wealth consists of real property and improvements taxed, valued in l!*04 at sss,slo.22B ! (WL___llailroads and their equTymienv Tn lfK*4 were valued at *11,000.000.000. *200,000 Fire in Pitsburg. A dangerous fire following an explosion occurred in the plant of the Baird Machinery Company on Liberty avenue, ntgir Twenty-fifth street. Pittsburg. The flames spread to the adjoining buildings on either side. Loss is estimated at $200,000. Killed on "Way to Stfiiday School William Hayden, IS. son of Richard Hayden, a wealthy farmer, was killed in a runaway accident near Marysville. Ohio, while driving to Sunday school. He was hurled against a telephone jmle. fracturing his skull at the base of the brain and his forehead was caved in.Abu«eft Blind Son; W hltecnpped. 1 Moses Shoemaker, a farmer living near Kyger. Ohio, was visited by a mob of white caps, .who whipped him nearly to death because he was reported to have maltreated his blind son. Shoemaker's condition is critical. Poisoned by Beef Hash. Nine hundred veterans in the soldiers* home at Leavenworth. Kan., were poisoned by ptomaine in beef hash, and several hundred are critically ill. One of the vet eraus has died. Burglar* Get *IB.OOO in Gems. Eighteen thousand dollars' worth of Jewelry was stolen from the home of Charles Morgan, sop oT the founder of the Morgan steamship lines, at bis home in Orange, N. J. ____________ A Elgbty-flve Persons Killed. Eighty-five are reported to have been killed and 150 wounded so far. as the result of disorders in Moldavia. Nicaraguan* Rout Enemies. Nicaraguans have routed Salvadorean* and Hondurans in a three days’ battle, in which 1,090 Salvadoreans were killed. J Tea Die !■ Explosion. i A report reached Sergeant, Ky.. that ten miners were killed by an explosion in the Colonia) mines near Dorchester. Kidnaper la Found Guilty. The jury in the case of Joshua Harrison, charged with the kidnaping and murder of Kenneth Beasley. the O-yegr-old non of former Stau< A'enator Beasley, rendered a verdig* of guilty in Elizabeth City, N. C _ I**" Trust Im Bible Publication. An international combine of Bible societies. Mid to be using the same methods | aa the oil and sugar monopolies, is declared to exist. Small bodies attempting to spread the scriptures a re' being brought to terms or forced to abandon their work.

Picturesque Parliament House Where the Second Russian Dounia Is Holding Its Sessions.

THE RUSSIAN DOUMA.

Ruaita'i Parliament Made Vp of Mnny Conflicting Parties. The second Russian Douma, nonholding sessions in the Tauride- palace at St. Petersburg, is the center of world-wide interest. The life of the solved by the Czar, but the present body, differing from the first, has welldefined aims and is expected to achieve a substantial program of constructive legislation. Unfortunately, however, the douma of J 907 is a hody of groups, so that any positive fiction must be effected through coalitions. Coalitions as a rule are not very stable, so that surprising changes may mark the career of the new Parliament. Still on Important matters it- should not be bard to secure working majorities such as are often found in the French Chamber of Deputies or- the German Reichstag, where the representatives" of the people are divided into manysmall groups. At present the douma consists of 495 members, with 29 more’ yet to be elected. These are divided into , Monarchists, or reactionaries. Moderates, Constitutional Democrats. Poles, Progressives and Socialists, or Revolutionists. In addition there are Independents, or unattached members. The Socialist group are the strongest numerically and the Constitutional Democrats rank next to them. In the organization of the douma the candidate of the Constitutional Democrats, Feodor Golovin, was elected, speaker, even the -Socialists throwing their strength to him in opposition to the Monarchical candidate. Golovin is a man of great energy and enjoys the confidence of the people. He is 40 years of age and was at one time president of the Moscow Zemstvo. With the exception of the Socialists, who are anxious to abolish throne and dynasty, and the Monarchists, who are opposed to constitutional government, all the members of the douma believe in constitutional government nnd it should not be bard, with this as a basis, to form a coalition which will give to Russia much remedial legislation.

KILL JEWS IN ROUMANIA.

Mobi Slaughter the Semite*, Sack Stores and Loot Home*. Masaeres of Jews that equal in barbarity the bloodiest ever perpetrated in Russia have taken place in Roumania. The most horrifying news comes from Podihilo, on this side of the border, from Kishineff, where at least 200 Jews have been killed and hundreds more wounded. In numerous districts of Moldavia a bitter warfare is being waged against the Jews, thousands of whom have been driven from their homes, robin'll, and mercilessly beaten by mobs of peasants. The starving and otherwise distressed Jews who have survived attacks anti massacres have a pjtea led to. King Charles for protection. Troops have been sent out iu response. The massacres at Podibilo were carried on through several days. The town's population of 7.000 was made up of 4.000 Jews and 3,000 Roumanians. The whole population was involved in the fighting, and in addition several thousand peasants from the country districts Assisted the. Roumanlan urban combat ant s. For the most part the Roumaninns •were armed. They attacked the Jews with ruthless hand, sacking stores, smashing windows, looting residences, and striking, shooting or cutting down ail who resisted. The Jews were stricken with panic immediately after the first onslaught of the anti-Semites. They locked themselves up in homes or places of business and barricaded doors, but barricades were shattered by the mob and many defenseless Jews dragged forth to slaughter. Detailed information of the loss of life and destruction .of projierty has not yet reached the capita), I The government has forces at work trying to restore order and ascertain the cause of the fighting. It appears that the town is practically tn ruins, and that many Jews are suffering'for want of food as well as from attacks by mobs. In the country districts of Moldavia the peasants continue to pillage and massacre Jews in spite of all that has been done by the government. It is hoped, however, that re-enforcements as soldiers will be able to quell the trouble.

THE TAURIDE PALACE IN ST. PETERSBURG.

THAW CASE DRAGS.

Tide of Public Sentiment Seems to Have Token a Torn. There seemed perceptible a turn against Thaw in the tide of sentiment last week. It is another case of sudden hero-worship failing to last. A New York correspondent says that if the case Had gone to the jury within aT week after Evelyn Thaw told her story the prisoner would have been set free an hour after the completion of the judge’s charge. Rut the trial is so prolonged that much of the effect is being lost. When Jerome, with his barbarous probe after facts, began to drag out the truth from Thaty’s expert doc-

ATTORNEY JEROME.

tors and to make them proye, however reluctantly, that Thaw either was and is incurably insane or never was insane, a good many people began to get the idea that the wonderful defense in the Thaw case is very much like a stage play, a highly artistic and emotional production. Jerome’s task is a hard one. The main purpose of his rebuttal will be to assail, so strongly as to destroy them, the “brain storms” upon which the defense has pinned its faith in Thaw’s acquittal. In this effort he will have the assistance of nine experts, and by the preponderance of numbers, dignity and prestige in the world of medical science of these men the prosecutor expects to bring the jury to the belief that when Thaw shot White he was thoroughly responsible and that he rationally deliberated and executed the murder. He is supported in his theory o; the crime by Drs. Flint, Mahon and MacDonald, who have studied Thaw throughout the trial. The task before Jerome's nine experts, all of whom may not appear on the stand but will take part in the preparation of questions is to account for every act by Harry Thaw on the theory of sanity. Each instance indicative of “brain storms,” according to the defense experts, is to bs logically and scientifically construed into proof of the mental soundness of Thaw, by the prosecution authorities on the brain. Mr. Jerome will have his alienists support the theory that If there was anything unusual or unnatural in the appearance of Thaw at the time he killed Stanford White the exhilaration of Intoxicants was responsible. The district attorney wilt also dtjvelop the theory that Thaw’s hostility to White was due to jealbusy, rational jealousy of his wife’s fondness for his rival. Although the general public has learned the details of but one quarre) among the lawyers who are defending Harry Thaw for the murder of Stanford White, it Is known among those who have been In close touch with the proceedings before the scenes of the great case—and behind them—that other disagreements, just ns violent, have raged from time to time among the six counsellors who are working so hard to steer for the young millionaire a course that dodge the reefs of the death-chair nnd the shoals of the madhouse. Yet the defense is moving forward in a fairly harmonious manner. Harry K. Thaw's fight to save the life the State contends lias been forfeited by the death of Stanford White will cost the young man close to $250.000 according to an estimate compiled from authoritative sources. The expense of the State's attempt to send the wealthy Pittsburger to the chair will be In excess of SIOO,OOO.

BLOW AT RAILROADS.

President Appoints Inland Watea Ways Commission. The development of a comprehensive system of rivers and canals in the United States is the object of the inland water weys commission created by President Roosevelt. The President announces that he is actuated solely by broad considerations of national IH/licy, anti that the railroads have shown that they are no longer capable of moving the crops and manufactures fast enough to secure prompt transaction of the business of the country, -and that the only complete remedy for the present ear shortage is a complementary system of transportation by water. Progress in inland transportation, having made a full revolution, has got back to where it started. The rivers were the highways of the pioneers. Their canoes and freight boats gave civilization to the wilderness. The first settlements hugged themuddy banks of western streams. The first crops were sent to market by river. Then the railroads came and river transportation was almost abandoned. canals which have been constructed at heavy cost before the railroads were built fell into disuse. Now the country has outgrown the railroads. In ten years the traffic of the northern interior States has doubled, though railroad facilities have increased only one-eighth during the same period. It seems probable that the discrepancy between traffic and train capacity will continue to grow greater as time goes on. The rivers must come into use again. This is recognized by President Roosevelt, who has appointed an inland waterways commission of eight -members, Its chairman being Congressman Burton of Cleveland, the chairman of the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors. This commission has for its task the formulating of a report giving the best methods of developing “a complementary system of transportation by water.” This is a hopeful sequel of the widespread movement which has been inaugurated by the commercial organizations of the Missisppi valley to secure the improvement of the inland rivers. One may suppose that the commission will approach the task assigned to it with a full realization of the importance which its recommendations will have to the entire country. It should work out a broad and systematic program for river Improvement to be made effective by Congress. To supersede the haphazard, logrolling appropriations of the past by appropriations made with system and knowledge must prove a great gain to the nation.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

A dispatch from Rome is authority for the statement that the silence of th* Vatican regarding.the publication of th* correspondence of Mgr. Montagnini, formerly secretary to the nunciature at Taris, is due to the fact that the violation' of the nunciature by the French government is now in the hands of Austria. The question is being examined under its different aspects, meantime th* Vatican is in the position of a third party, and will remain passive, awaiting developments. The new Lord's day act has gone into force throughout Canada, with the exception of the province of Quebec. Som* of the things prohibited on Sunday by thia act are: Public entertainments given for money, baseball, football, gambling, racing, bunting, shooting, fishing, th* sale of intoxicating liquors (except by physician's prescription between the hours of 7 p. tn. Saturday and 0 a. m. Monday), the sale of cigars, the bringing into Canada or selling of any foreign newspaper, the selling of goods and th* carrying on of any business. When th* bill was passed by parliament, some of the members from Quebec having protesteel, a clause was added permitting such provincial legislatures as wished to do so to evade the law by enacting a measure of their own. The Quebec legislature was the only one to lake advantage of this by passing a bill practically maintaining existing conditions. Some complaints as to th* stringency of the new law ar* reported on the part of travelers.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Information comes from a highly creditable source that the administration has about decided upon a striking change ta its financial policy. The action, if taken, will reverse former Secretary Shaw in one particular and may eliminate certain railroad bonds from the position they now occupy as giltedged securities. There is an impression here that it may have been an intimation of what was to come that sent J. P. Morgan across the Atlantic before he had time to put the finishing touches to the conference which he tried to arrange between President Roosevelt and leading railroad presidents. Foreign capital, which is heavily invested in American railroad enterprises, gives every evidence of extreme sensitiveness over the present agitation. Former Secretary Shaw, in his efforts to establish an elastic currency, permitted banks to place with the treasury railroad and other bonds to the amount they desired, conditional upon the government bonds so released being made the basis for increased circulation, It is said the present bead of the Treasury Department considers such a jncthod~Of~ finance is unsatisfactory, not conducive to financial stability and not in consonance with the general policies of the government. Many persons think that the censuses are compilations of figures for the delight of statisticians. But all workers for special classes and special sorts of legislation know that a good census is the foundation of work. To provide proper education for the blind and the deaf it is necessary first to have a full registry of them. To know how to prevent and punish crime we must list and classify our criminals. It is next to impossible to legislate, even to think intelligently, about divorce until we have divorce statistics. These are examples of the kind of census that we still lack. There are only three States in the Union that have begun to make a prop er registry of the blind, only nine that publish divorce statistics. In time every State will have an adequate working census of every class and kind of person that needs public help, and the national census will combine and codify the State censuses. The Board of United States General Appraisers has many curious and Interesting questions to decide in regard to the classification of imported articles, and the rate of duty which they must pay. One of the latest decisions is that the flag of the United States is not a toy. A Japanese firm of Importers in Chicago had brought in a consignment of silk flags, each an inch and a half long, and asked that they be admitted at 35 per cent ad valorem. The appraisers, however, decided that the flags must pay a duty of 50 per cent, as manufactures of silk. “We do not think,” they said, “that the American flag, however diminutive, is commertially, commonly or nationally regarded as a plaything for children; and we find that the flags in dispute are not toys.” President Roosevelt issued an order barring from the United States the Japanese and Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled, who had received passports to go to Mexico, Hawaii and Canada, and who have heretofore used that means of entering this country. Coincident with this order the President has directed the dismissal of the two suits filed in San Francisco with a view to testing the treaty rights of Japanese children to enter the white schools. This was in his pursuance of his agreement to take such action When the San Francisco school board rescinded its original resolution excluding children from the schools. This the board has done. The attendance at prayers in the United States Senate is not large, but It always includes Senators Platt and Depew, who usually sit together and withdraw before the business of the day begins. Sometimes there are only five or six who assemble to hear Dr. Hale's invocation. Upon a recent occa sion there were seven, and a curious observer made a memorandum of theit names. In addition toThe always de 7 vout Platt and Depew there were Perkins of California, Smoot of Utah, Dick of Ohio, McCreary of Kentucky, and Clark of Montana. Pursuant to the enactment of the new immigration law containing the Japanese exclusion provision Secretary Root cabled Gov. Carter at Honolulu to notify agents of steamship companies that Japanese laborers in Hawaii, with passports only for the Islands, would not be allowed to proceed to the United States mainland. The new rules governing the admissibility of post cards to the mails require conformity in weight aiyl size to those printed by the government. The cards must not b£ folded, and the use of mica, glass, tinsel, metal and similar substances is forbidden unless the cards be enclosed in envelopes. The cards may be of any color or combination of colors which does not interfere with th* legibility of the address.

TWO YEARS IN BED

Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Cured Stubborn Rheumatism When Other Treatment Gaye No Relief. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have been curing the most stubborn cases of rheumatism for nearly a generation and thousands of grateful patients have given testimony that cannot be ignored. j Mr. Robert Odbert, a machinist, living at 201 Cameron Street, Detroit, Mich., had a very distressing experience with rheumatism for about twoyears.. He makes the following statement: “About the year 1887 I felt theeffects of rheumatism which gradually grew worse until I was compelled to give up work for a time. The years 4 of ’97 and ’9B I was confined to my bed most of the time. I was under doctors’ treatment but found no relief. My legs were swollen from the hips downward, and red blotches appeared all over them. Frequently they pained me so that I had to bind them tightly •with, strips of linen. This sometimes relieved the pain but at other timesfailed to do so. At times I had to crawl to my work, using two crutches. During these spells I suffered greatly from pain around my heart which I attributed to the rheumatism. “At last my mother wrote me and asked me to try Dr. Williams’ Pink. Pills. I*did and in a short time I found myself getting better and havehad no trouble since. .1 may here add that I consider myself perfectly cured. I have not had the least sign of thedisease since and feel better now than. I ever did. For these reasons I recommend Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to any one affected the same as I was.”:.. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are sold by all druggists, or sent by mail, postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents per box. six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y_

Constant Reminder.

Mrs. Kawler—Don’t you get lonesome when your husband has to go away onone of his long trips? Mrs. Crossway—Y-yes, but it alwaysseems as if he were here. I can smell his cigars all over the house.—Chicago Tribune.

Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There 1» only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it Isentirely closed. Deafness is the result, and. unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forevert nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh> that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. “Our School.” “Can’t yon say ‘Yes, Miss Willis’?” asked the kind teacher of the ragged street boy who was just entering school. “Sure I kin,” replied the youth, heartily. The New York Evening Post tells of another young teacher of a philosophic turn of mind. “I wonder,’ she said, looking smilingly at her small pupils, “I wonder who can tell what to-morrow is?” Up went the grimy band of the big “bad boy.” “Well, James?” “To-morrow,” said James, “is the day you apologize for everything that you did yesterday.” In this same school a little girl brought in a composition called "Our School,” in which she loyally praised the building, tehchers and children. Among other things she said: “Our assembly hall is by far the finest in the city. We gather in it every day, and our principal talks to u* This teaches us to listen to things, whether they are interesting or not” A Vivid Imagination. "Tommy,” called Mr. Stinjay, "what have you been doing?” “I bin skatin’,” replied the boy. “Nonsense! You haven’t been out of the house,” “Well, I bin skatin’ on make-believe ice with the skates you promised me last Christmas.” —Philadelphia Press. GOOD MATURED AGAIN. Good Humor Return* with Changt to Proper Food. “For many years I was a constant sufferer from indigestion, and nervousness amounting almost to prostration,” writes a Montana man. “My blood was Impoverished, the vision was blurred and weak, with moving spots before my eyes. This was a steady daily condition. I grew illtempered, and eventually got so nervous I could not keep my books posted, nor handle accounts satisfactorily. I can’t describe my sufferings. “Nothing I ate agreed with me, till one day. I happened to notice GrnpeNnts in a grocery store, and bought a package, out of curiosity to know what It was. “I liked the food from the very first, eating It with cream, and now I buy it by the case and use it daily. I soon found that Grape-Nuts food was supplying brain and nerve force as nothing In the drug line ever had done or could do. “It wasn’t long before I was restored to health, comfort and happiness. Through the use of Grape-Nuts food my digestion has been restored, my nerves are steady once more, my eye-sight is good again, my mental faculties are clear and acute, and I have become so good-natured that my friends are truly astonished nt tho change. I feel younger and better than I have for twenty years. No amount of money would Induce me to surrender what I have gained through tho use of Grape-Nuts food.” Name given by Postum Co.. Battle Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason." Read the lltthi book. "Ths Road. to WelivllJein pkgs.