Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1907 — ITALIANS SAVE TRAIN [ARTICLE]

ITALIANS SAVE TRAIN

Laborers prevent terrible WRECK IN CONNECTICUT. Wr*r I* Stopped When Within Ten Feet of Street Excavation- —Three ‘Wealthy Men Convicted of Land Frauds in Omaha. #■ The east-bound New York-Boston express on the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad narrowly escaped plunging into a twenty-foot ditch while passing through East Hartford. Conn.. •hly the timely warning of members of a pang of Italian track laborers averting the aeeident. The Main street grade crossing is in process of elimination, the locks being, raised ten feet and the atreet lowered the same distance. The aast-bound tracks had been torn up at this point and a flagman stationed there to warn trains. He is said to have left his post unguarded. The express was approaching at a high speed : when the Italians, brooming a/.are Of the situation, rushed down the track and flagged the train, which was brought to a stop ten feet from the excavation. BASE BALL STANDINGS. Benin Won and I.ont by Clnta 1» Principal Lengnen. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago .... 5 1 Philadelphia. 4 2 New York.. . 5—2 Pittsburg.... 2 3 Boston 3 4 St. Louis.... 3 5 Cincinnati... 3 4 Brooklyn ... 1 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE, W. L. W. L. Chicago .... 6 3 805t0n...... 3 4 Cleveland.,. 4 - 2-Dctroit.... 3 4 New York. ..4 2 Washington.. 2 4 Philadelphia. 4 3 St. Louis.... 2 6 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W.-V.jL W. I» Indianapolis. 4 0 Milwaukee... 1 4 Louisville 3 0 St. Paul.— 1 4 Columbus... 4 1 Minneapolis.. 0 5 Toledo 4 1 Kansas City. 0 2 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. IDenver..... 3 1 Omaha 2 2 Des Moines. 2 2 Sioux City... 2 2 Lincoln 2 2 Fueblo 0 2

CONVICTED OF CAN'D FRAUDS. Tkrpr Wealthy Men Found Guilty by Jury In Omaha. Thomas M. Iluntiugtop. Ami B. Todd mud Fred Hoyt were convicted in the United States Court in Omaha on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government of about half a million acres of public lands in Sheridan and Cherry counties, Nebraska. These men were indicted jointly with Richards anil Comstock of the Nebraska Land and Cattle Company, who ■were ccmvictpd last fall. Huntington is o hanker at Gordon. Neb., and Hoyt is kis partner. Todd is from Denver. FIN'D A MODERN VALJEAN, Escaped Convtct, for Years a ( Respected Citiien, Is Arrested. William January, who escaped from the Federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.. nine_years'ngd after serving three years of a five-year sentence for roV bing a post office, was arrested in Kansas City. He had lived iu Kansas City for the past eight" years under the name of Charles W. Anderson. He had married, reared a family ami was respected. Youth Sent to Reformatory. John Gunderson, who confessed to the robbery of the Northern Express Company’s office in St. Paul by holding up Fred Zimmerman, a clerk, compelling the latter to hand over a package of money containing $23,000. has been sentenced to the St. Cloud reformatory. I-oss than three days elapsed from the commission of the robbery to the sentence of the court. Question Mr*. Eddy** Sanity. Examination of the mental condition of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy has been demanded by counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit for an accounting of her proi>erty in a letter made public at Concord, N. H., to which counsel for the defense have made no reply. Prison for Rank t'on*piratora. Former Judge Abner Smith, president; Gustave F. Sorrow, vice president, and Jerome V. Pierce, cashier, of the defunct Bank of America, have been found guilty in Chicago of conspiracy and consigned to the penitenti^.''Not Immunr from Knrthqaakn. Sir Robert S. Ball, the noted astronomer, declared in au interview in New York that while there never have been indications of earthquakes there, that city might be shaken at any moment. D. A. R. Cheoses President. Mrs. Donald McLean has been reelected president of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the congress in Washington, but the bitter fight has left •cars. Divorced and Wed* Former llaabnnd Mrs. Elisabeth Branstetter of Havelock, Neb., was granted a divorce in court and at once married A. J. Young, from whom she was divorced twenty years ago. Bride Weljth* 17(i| Groom S 3. Fred Whiteside, aged 21, of kittsburg and Miss Fannie Donovan of Chicago, aged 37, secured a marriage license in Marion. Ohio. Whiteside is only 4 leet 11 inches tall and weighs hut S 3 pounds. His bride is the same height, but weighs 175 pounds. * Indicted for lee Combine. The grand jury which gdjoumed a day wt two ago returned secret indictments against the members of the ice combine la Columbus, Ohio, on the ground that they had conspired in restraint of trade.