Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER. \ • INDIANA.

DUAL LIFE EXPOSED.

WIFE DISCOVERS DEAD HUS. BAND WAS BIGAMIST. ■«ldler*s Second Marrlmcr Rcvrnlcd by Claim (or I’cnalon—Lad of Nine Years Haa I.cl Life of Ucmpcrndo for Some Time. Samantha E. of Hazleton, Ind.. who has been seeking a pension because her husband was a veteran of the Civil War, -was discovered that a second wife of Pearson has been drawing the pension for years. Charles R. Pearson, on whose aecoypt the pension was issued, has been dead seveij years, lie was mar-' tried in Omaha, ar/1 his second wife has resided there since their marriage. Mrs. Pearson No. 2 was unknown to the first wife, who says she was never divorced from her husband. .It. was when slie made application for pension and began to search the records of the District Court in Omaha that she learned of her husband's alleged dual life. Now Mrs. Pearson No. 1 is taking legal steps to secure what she claims belongs to her. and her attorneys will ask the pension bureau to discontinue the pension to Pearson’s second wife. The two women have not met each other, but considerable litigation is expected. Pear son was a member of an Indiana rogiincut.

dEsperaii® erHixi: years. Robbed More. Shot Woman, Annulled Friend util (trt. Sentcnee. Loon Greenwood, aged 0 years, who is considered the most desperate- youngster ever arraigned in Manchester, N. 11., was sentenced to the State industrial school during his minority by Judge Peasloe. ment charging him with an assault on Miss Emma Lomire Inst February. Greenwood robbed a grocery store on Nashua street and with the money he stole purchased a gun at a local hardware store. He met M iss Lem ire on McGregor bridge while on her way to school and, taking deliberate aim, fired at her.' The bullet struck her in the forehead, inflicting a dangerous though not fatal round. Greenwood was indicted, but the case wa> continued for sentence during good behavior.' A few days ago he assaulted a companion and told him if he disclosed the crime to the authorities he would kill him. As a result was brought into the Superior Court and sentenced.

Odd Statistics on Chinese. — l.l Bt■ ygj.■*the immigration Up , ’ seo shove that, ac- ... —JQ*. „®ft?wViaims of all the Chinese mho swear they are native horn, every Chinese woman in this country must have tiepn the mother of thirty-eight children. This interesting condition was made known when the figures collected from various points in the country were tabulated. : Hudson Hirer Boat Burns. The steamer City of Troy was burned to the water's edge at Dobbs Ferry, X. Y. All the sixty-five passengers were landed safely. The steamer was completely deBtroyed, with its cargo of freight and thirteen horses. Edwin Gould's dock, to which the steamer tied up wl en it was found impossible to control the flames, was also burned. Remedy I* with Stockholder*. Attorney General Stead, after a two — weeks’ inquiry into the wrecking Tis the Alton Railroad by E. 11. Ifarriman and his associates: repotted to Governor Dencen of Illinois that action against the syndicate lies with the stockholders, as a movement on the part i>f the State to abrogate the charter\>f the road would injure innocent investors. ln*nne Woman Burned to t)e:i(h. Mrs. Laura Backus. an insane patient, lost Iter lift* in a-fire which destroyed-t-he-Grand View Sanitarium in South Win 1hnm. Conn. All the other patients were taken safely out of rite building. al?ho-.v27f several of them had to be removed by force. . Tlie property loss is s_’>.<***. Republican* Favor Roosevelt. A cam-a-s ~ r • HJHItSS by. thA N.-w York Herald shows "a strong sentiment for the renoruination of President Roosevelt in T.HiS, but the gene vl opinion is that he cannot throw his strength to anyone else and that he was not hurt by the controversy with Harriman. l'luht Over Wage*t TWO l»en<l. Jacob Grinstad. a fanner near Fergus Falls, Minn., was shot and killed by Hans Gilbertson, a farm hand in his employ. yhn then killed himself. Xhc lllUl'lli.T- and. suicide followed a quarrel over Gilbertson's wages. 4 Miner* Borned to Death in t'nbln. J. B. Williams and Sam Xesbit. miners, were burned to death in their cabin uear Packard Station. Ariz. Their < barred bodies were found in the ruins of the cabin. Gen. nnrrlllit* Aaanaalnatcd. General Barrillas. ex-President of Guatemala, was assassinated in a street car in the City of Mexico. Campbell to Sueeeed Bnaae. State Senator Daniel A. Campbell has been appointed postmaster for Chicago. Found Guilty of Doable Warder. In Bemidji. Minn., the jury trying James Wesley on the charge of murder In the first degree, for the killing of X. O. Dabl and his daughter about April 7. 1904. returned a verdict of guilty. The penalty is death by banging. -v Fatal Storm la Gals State*. Probably twenty lives sere blotted out by a tornado which swept across portions of three gulf States. The storm was distinctly traceable for a dfktance of 300 mies and took about eleven boars in crossing this rone.

EVELYN AND HARRY THAW AND MEMBERS OF THE LUNACY COMMISION.

RULES HARRY THAW SANE.

I.annoy ('nmnilNklan Innnlmona In tong-Delnjed Verdict. Harry K. Thaw was unanimously deflnreil sane by the lunacy commission and a new tnriTtghfi f fyrfl tlm flildous~ case 4-y • tile "protest s of Disti'TFF AHo r - m*y Jerome, who said lie would carry the ruling to the appellate division of the supreme court on a technical paint. The ruling of the commission that had been appointed to determine tlie present state of mind of the slayer of Stanford White came as a victory for the defendant and his family. Thaw was not in court to hear the decision. The Jury which hak heard the testimony against him was also excluded and both prisoner mul jurors were out of range of the district attorney’s heated discussion with Justice Fitzgerald. All the members of the Thaw family, including the mother and wife of the defendant, were present, however, and their keen delight over the announcement of The favorable report from the lunacy commission was turned into alarm at the unexpected attitude of the district attorney, whose threat to take the matter before the appellate division of the court seemed to Involve another serious delay in the long-drawn-out trial. The uews of the commission's unanimous verdict as to his present sanity was carried to Thaw in the prisoner’s pen. He expressed satisfaction, surprise. There has not been a time since the commission was appointed that the defendant has not been wholly confident of a favorable decision. He declared that he felt especially lucky, because the day was the second anniversary of his marriage.,

CONSTANTINE IS CAUGHT.

Alleged Slnyer of Mr*. Gentry Taken After I.oiik Chase. Accused of the murder of Mrs. Louise Hughes Gentry. Frank Constantine admitted to the Xew York police Unit he Is the man whom the Chicago authorities have sought for fifteen months. Since the murder of the woman on Jan. 6, 1006, Constantine, who admits he was with her at the time of Ikt death, has been a fugitive, fleeing from the police first to Italy, then back to the United States, to South America; and back to the United States again, lie was about to embark for a second trip to ITaTy Ivlien he'waTcaviglffrTTe ehrmm the woman committed suicide and says that he tied because he was afraid he would he accused of the' crime and would be uaablo to prot*e his innocence. The murder of Mrs. Gentry was par-, ticujarly bruta_L.her head- being almost severed from her body by a razor slash. Constantine had boon a lodger at the Gentry home several weeks. He posed as a man of wealth. He sai l that he was the son of Frank J. Constantine. the wealthy real estate man of Xew York. Mrs. Gentry had been >J.iss Leu iso Hughes, an artist of some prominence. She had been married to Gentry about one year. Once, it was reportefl. she told the wife of the janitor that she was afraid she would be killed. She gave no explanation for this assertion. After Constantine’s disappearance- a number of suspects were arrested in different part* of the continent.

No Chinese on Canal Work.

Several of the party of forty-six congressmen who have recently returned from inspecting the work on the Panama canal, made the statement that they had not seen a single Chinaman at work on the isthmus. They also reported an intense feeling against their employment. Congressman C. S. Smith of California said that the laborers are taking oußnbout 31.000 cubic yards of dirt every day, with •n average of 800,000 cubic yards a month. About 52,000,000 cubic yards are still to be removed. He says there are 35,000 men on the pay roll. About 5,000 are Americans, about 9.000 Jamaicans, and the rest are Gallegos.

Responsibility of Corporations.

Chairman Gary of the United Status Steel Corporation, which does the most extensive business of any company in the world, in a New York World interview gave it as his opinion concerning the present firancnl and political disturbance that the cure for public hostility toward the railroads and other corporations would be simple honesty in their management and that large aggregations of wealth should be under control of some kind, whether federal or otherwise.

ROOSEVELT VS. HARRIMAN.

EDWARD H1. HARRIMAN.

President Roosevelt emphatically denied the statement contained in a letter published in Xew York purporting to have been written by E. H. Harrlman to Sidney Webster of New York In the latter part of December last. In the letter the statement is made that at the request of Roosevelt he (Hardman) assisted in raising a fund of $250,000 to be used in carrying New York for the Republican party at the election which wns then approaching. This statement the President characterizes as a “deliberate and wilful untruth —by right it should be characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. I never requested Harriman to raise a dollar for the presidential campaign in 1904.” With the full knowledge and consent of the President, details were given out at the White House of the amazing combine which the President says exists among the Harriman interests to defeat any candidate for the presidential nomination who bears the indorsement of Roosevelt. The President now claims that not only his candidate for the Presidency, hut his policies, will be attacked by the men, who have pledged a $5.000X00 fund to carry out their scheme. E. 11. Harriman declined absolutely to talk about the report from Washington that a fund of $5,000,000 had been raised to prevent the nomination for President of a man of President Roosevelt's choosing in 1008.

BISHOP DIES ABROAD.

Bov. J. -\. I'll* Gerald Stricken witti PI Ml flay While nt IlSßgkSng. Bishop James X. Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal - church, who died at Hongkong while making his quadrennial

msnop FITZGERALD, mission stations. lie left Montreal Oct. 27. accompanied by Mrs. Fitzgerald, his two daughters and son Roy. to visit the Methodist missions in Southern Asia, took part in the public celebration »«f the founding of thp mission in India at Bareilly, Dee. 28, aud was to have represented the Missionary Society at the China centeunial of Protestant missions at Shanghai. l?is daughter,'Cornelia, died at Penang, in the Straits Settlements, on the way to India. Bishop Fitzgerald was born at Newark, N. J. He joined the Newark conference Ln \S62. After acting as recording secretary of the Missionary Society from 1880 to 188 S he was elected bishop. He was formerly presiding elder of the NewartrNewton and Jersey City district.

Interesting News Items.

Damage amounting to SIOO,OOO was caused by three tires in the Chattman mill at Philadelphia. r^r *’ Arthur Bean killed his wife with an ax at North Baltimore. Ohio, and then committed suicide by shooting himself with a Flobert rifle. Lightning struck the glaze mill of the Austin Powder Company at Fall Junction, Ohio, causing an explosion which resulted in the killing of two men and the destruction of several thousand dollars’ worth of property.

visit to the mission stations. was till years old and had been a bishop since 18SS. Pleurisy was the caT.se of death. His home was iu St. Louis. Bishop Fitzgerald was engaged in making one of the quadrennial visits which the bishops are required to pay to the

TORNADO KILLS TWENTY.

Terrific- AVlndslorm Demolishes Alexandria, I,n. A cyclone occurred at Alexandria, -La-.--E-riday which at least twenty persons were kTtted-aii^_jnore than 100 injured. The <r cm is repdned-tojwpft been one of the worst ever seen in that seeftPn of the State and wrought appalling ha vocT A great port of the town is in ruins. Fifty houses have been torn to bits and several storps and factory buildings demolished, while scores of other buildings were badly shattered. Alexandria is located near the center of the State and is an important railroad and commercial city, with a population of about 7,000. A wide swath was cut by the cyclone through the town, extending for miles through a rich and populous farming district. The damage to buildings and crops will amount to millions. According to reports the cyclone struck .the town about 2 o’clock in the morning. It came with scarcely a warning note. The sleeping citizens were aroused by a tremendous, terrifying roar of wind that was scarcely heard before it seemed to fill the whole air of the town with a deafening crash. Houses toppled down like cards or were lifted completely from their foundations aud dropped many yards away a shapeless mass of timbers with their occupants crushed in the ruins. Roofs i were torn off and went sailing throngh the air like huge kites. Trees were uprooted and tossed a hundred feet ■into the air, and some of them were carried miles away. The air was filled with flying timbers and many persons were struck by these as they rushed from their tottering homes. Men, women and children and animals were caught up by the mighty current of wind aud some of them were carried a block in the air. The storm was over in a few minutes.

RAILROAD WAR AVERTED.

Mediation Brings About Settlement Between Honda ami Men. Government mediation has proven successful in preventing the long threatening strike of trainmen on forty-two big Western railroads, affecting 514,000 employes, and endangering the commerce of the entire country west of Chicago. It is the first time the Erdmann arbitration act has been called Into play, and it has proved a success. Through the good offices of Chairman Atarttn A. Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission and < diaries P. Neill, United States Commissioner of Labor, the General Managers' Committee of the railroads ainl the Employes’ Committee, representing the unions of the trainmen and conductors, Thursday, reached an agreement which removes all possibility of the strike. The general managers’ committee granted a slight Increase to flagmen and brakemen. and the employes made all other concessions necessary to establish peace. The agreement goes Into effect as from April 1. By the offer of the managers’ committee made on Feb. 27, the employes receive an Increase amounting to $4,500,000 annually. The additional increase to the flagmen and brakemen amonnSlTo $300,000 a year. iTad the tuen accepted the terms of the managers’ committee, effective on March 1. they would have received $450,000 additional on their March pay. The principal terms of settlement in the threatened strike may be summarized as follows: Increase in wages of passenger conductors, $lO per month; baggagemen, $7.50; flagmen and brakemen. $6.50. Overtime in passenger service, on fifteen mile* nn hour basis, SJ> Cents an hour for conductors, and 23 cents for haggugemeu, flagmen and brakemen. Ten per cent Increase for freight conductors and brakemen.

To Test Ash Fuel.

The claim put forth by John Elmore, a poor cobbler of Altoona, Pa., that he had discovered a solution which, when added to a mixture of one part coal to three parts coal ashes, would make more heat than the original coal from which the ashes came, is to receive a definite commercial teat at the hand* of Jones A Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburg. If the claim of the inventor should be sustained it would mean much to the coal aud all manufacturing industries.

WILL OF DR. DOWIE.

DertaM Balk of Eatate to Extend Christian Catholic Church. The fast will of the late John Alexander Dowie has been filed for probate In the County Court of Lake County, at Waukegan, 111. It devises the bulk of tfie estate of the dead leader of Zion City to extend the Christian Catholic Church, of which he died the exiled and excommunicated head. To -the widow, Mrs. Jane Dowie, only the strict allowance demanded by the law is bequeathed, and to his son, A. J. Gladstone Dowie, from both of whom Dowie died estranged, the sum of $lO is devised. An attendant Barnett Burleigh. Is given £I,OOO, “as his fee and reward for the loyal service that God used him In, In the saving of my life iu Jaiualea:” All of the remainder of the property, the existence and value of which is clouded by extensive litigation, is devised to John A. Lewis, a friend and adviser of the dead prophet, who was in Mexico at the time Dowie died. In brief the provisions of Dowie's will are: : ; Orders payment of just debts. Gives widow, Mrs. Jane Dowie. only her dower and statutory rights in estate/ Gives son, Gladstone Dowie, $lO. Gives Barnett Burleigh SI,OOO for saving Dowie’s life in Jamaica. Gives balance of estate to John A. Lewis as trustee. Appoints Lewis spiritual successor as head of church. Directs continuance of church work by Lewis, using estate for purpose. If court finds Dowie had no legal title to property, directs selection of commis- . sion of five to determine, disposition of --whatever o i estate may be left. NameirTriTVTSr-Dieldlng 11. Wilhite and Janies F. l’eters exeeutors~ol~wltlT —

RELEASE JAMES GILLESPIE.

Supreme Court Soy# Trial of Alleged Slayer Was Invalid. By a decision of the Indiana Supreme Court James Gillespie of Rising Sun, serving a life sentence in the State prison for the murder of his sister, is set free. The decision is based on the ground that an error was committed in not granting a new trial. - It holds that further prosecution be abandoned. Miss Elizabeth Gillespie, a woman of middle age, was killed Dec. 3, 1903, by a load of shot from a shotgun fired through the window of a room of her home. Her brother, James Gillespie, to gether with Belle Howard and Mr. and Mrs. Myron Barbour, were indicted and placed on trial charged with the crime. The jury disagreed, and later Gillespie, who elected to be tried separately, was placed on trial and convicted in 1905. He was sentenced to prison for life. The other three defendants were later acquit-, ted. In the first trial, after the jury had been sworn, it was found that one of the jurors was a second cousin of the deceased husband qf Belle Howard, one of the defendants.

The Po litical Pot.

Reports from Jamaica show that Gov. Swettenham’s resignation has been received with general satisfaction. The Governor’s unpopularity is of long standing and has been brought to a climax by recent events. Secretary Taft has announced that Col. Goetlials succeeds Mr. Stevens as chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission and engineer in charge of the canal work. Col. Goetlials will receive .a salary of $15,000 annually. The President lias appointed George J. Woodruff of the forest service tobe assistant Attorney General for the interior, to succeed Frank L. Campbell, who has been transferred to- the position of special attorney in the Department of Justice. The Kentucky Court of Appeals has declared unconstitutional the redistricting act of 1900. This will remove seven Democratic members of the Legislature and render more doubtful tlie election of Gov J. C. W. Beckham to the United States Senate. United States Senator Cullom of Illinois, after emerging from an interview with President Roosevelt, said he had told the President that if he had his way he would try to put E. 11. Harriman in the penitentiary on account of the Alton -deal alone.

George W. Perkins, formerly the first tr* president <sf the York jpdfe'Tnsurnnce Company, hag sent to that company his personal check for $54,019, in reimbursement to the company of the contribution made from its. funds in 1904 to the expenses of the Republican campaign. In a newspaper interview, while he was en route from the South, John 1). Rockefeller declared emphatically that federal control of all the railroads would be a good thing for them, as well as for the general public. lie said that the railroads and other big corporations wore grently overcapitalized, and his only explanationof that policy by men with whom he had been associated was the temptation to make money faster. \ Former Secretary Shaw, speaking at the banquet of the South Carolina Society of New York, said it waa the duty of all citisens to go on record as promising the safety of railroad investments from the reckless manipulator, as well as from the reckless demagogue. As a punishment for those railroads which retaliate on lawmaking by reducing service or pay. Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, in an address at the banquet of the Cincinnati Receivers’ and Shippers’ Association, advocated limited railroad ownership, national. State and municipal, la supplement national and State control.

HONEST MEDICINE

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As Bad as a Blr.

There was once a sporty old Mr. Went to call on another man’s Sr. He dyed his mustache, To make a big mache — And left his trademark where he Kr. —New York Globe.

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With A Y.

There was a young lady named Alys, Of whom people stated in malys, During poverty’s reign ’Twas Alice—-just pleigp— But not since dad builded a palys. —Philadelphia Ledger.

Hen Lays Quinine Eggs.

Senator Butt of the Arkansas Senate hail just finished a little tale about feeding rnorphine to a jiointer pup and watching him dream when Rcprrsentative Be liossit said: r “Senator, your dog reminds me of my hen. Needing quinine one day, as vye often do in the bottom, I mixed up an ounce of the drug with molasses and rolled it out into pills. Leaving the stuff to dry on the front porch. 1 went into the house. “Returning, I saw the last of my pills swallowed by my hen. ‘ “Of course I thought her silly head would burst wide open. She simply commenced to cackle and has been laying two eggs a day ever since. And do you know. Senator, those eggs are the best chill tonic on tlie market. One of them taken internally will knock the sptits from any case of malaria in the State and shaking ague can’t stand before ’em an hour after they are eaten. I keep that hen dosed, I do.” —Memphis Commercial Appeal.

FIND OUT

Tbe Kind of Food that Will-Keep Yon Well. The true wny Is to find out what la best to eat and drink, and then cultivate a taste for those things instead of poisoning ourselves with Improper, Indigestible food, etc. A conservative Mass, woman writes: “I have used Grape-Nuts 5 years for the young and for the aged; in sickness and In health; at first following directions carefully, later in a variety of ways as my i taste and Judgment suggested. * “Rut Its most special, personal benefit lias been a substitute for meat, and served dry with cream when rheumatic troubles made it Important for me to give up the ‘coffee habit.' "Served In this way with the addition of a .cup of hot water and n little fruit It lias been used at my morning fneal for six months, during which time my health has ninch Improved, nerves hnvo grown steadier, and n gradual decrease In uiy excessive weight adda greatly to my eomfort.” Name given by I’ostum Cereal Co., Ltd., ■ Battle Creek, Mich. Rend the little book, “The Road to WellvUle,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.’'