Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — CLERK’S ODD ERROR. [ARTICLE]

CLERK’S ODD ERROR.

MAY CHANGE OWNERSHIP OF WESTERN RAILROAD. >’ ««etr Mistake May Make Difference Of f 30,000,000 to Sew York Man and Relative*—<C*»* Decided In Favor of Joseph Letter. The error of a law clerk many years •go may mean a fortune to Russell Sage Raphael of New York and his mother and •isters. Many years ago Nathan Raphael, • close friend of Russell Sage, purchased $680,000 worth of second mortgage bonds of the Wasatch and Jordan. Valley Railread Company, which owned a line in Utah. The interest on the bonds of the road was defaulted and the first mortgage was foreclosed, cutting out the holders of the second mortgage securit es. A short time ago ftussell Sage Raphael, a son of Nathan Raphael, began suit in the federal court on the bonds, and secured a judgment for $1,680,768, including interest. This judgment has been returned by the sheriff as unsatisfied and has been Bed in court. While working up This case Mr. Raphael’s lawyers discovered that when the first mortgage was foreclosed the holders of the second mortgage. probably by a clerk’s error, were not made parties to the suit. This, it is 'claimed, invalidates the foreclosure l>roceodings. The old railroad property, which now belongs to the Denver, Rio Grande and Western, is said to be worth about $30,000,000. The second mortgage bonds Issued by the original road amounted to SSOO,OOO. It is not known who awns the other $120,000 of these bonds.

BASE BALI, STANDINGS. Games Won and Lout by Clnbs In Principal' "Lmkhm. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L.‘ W, L. Chicago ....11 2 Boston 6 6 New York. .10 3 Cincinnati... 4 ~.8 Pittsburg... 7 3 St. Louis.... 3 12 Philadelphia. G 5 Brooklyn.... 1 9 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. AC. I* Chicago.. ..* 9 4 Cleveland. ■.. 5 7 Philadelphia. 8 4 Washington. 4 New York. . 7 4 Boston 4 8_ Detroit S 5 St. Louis.... 4 10 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. L. AC. L. Columbus... 8 2 Milwaukee... b G Louisville.., 5 3 Kansas City. 3 5 Toledo G fj Minneapolis.. 2 7 : W. 1 W.-i u Des Moines. 7 3 Linc01n...... 5 5 Sioux City.. 6 5 Omaha 4 6 Dencer ..... 5 5 Pueb10....., 4 7 LEITER IS CLEARED BY JURY. Verdict of Acquittal In Last of Coal Cases at Benton. The jury in Benton. 111., returned a verdict of acquittal in the case of the people against the Zeigler Coal Company, charged with employing mine examiners without certificates of competency. The case grew out of the explosion in the Zeigler mines two years ago. The motion of Joseph Leiter for a new trial in the case of similar character, in which he was convicted in February, was overruled and the case taken to the Appellate Court on appeal. This is the last of prosecutions-instituted .against Mr. Loiter and fatS'Compnny as a result of the explosion. STORM WIPES OIT VILLAGE. Ei(ht Lives Known to Have Been Lost In Texas Tornado. One village was totally destroyed, ex tensive damage was done to property and crops at other points and eight lives are known to have been lost as a result of a storm that was general over Texaslate Saturday and which at several points assumed the proportions of a tornado. The little village of Hemming, in Cook County, was practically wiped out and five persons are known to have been killed there. At Sulphur Springs hail banked in drifts from a foot and a half to two feet deep and stalled all trains. Fo«r Killed In Explosion. Pour miners were killed nine severely injured in an explosion on the sixth level of the Morgan slope at the Black Diamond mine of the Pacific Coast Company, twenty-five miles from Seattle. Wash., on the Columbia and Puget Sound railway. Forty men were waiting to be dropped into the mine when the explosion occurred. Bomb Sent to Postal Official. An infernal machine was discovered in the private dr*wr of Postal Inspector Hennen. is Toledo. Ilennen turned it over to secret service officers. Inspector Holmes Of Cincinnati was notified and secret oerviee men put to work immediately. Every employe of the Toledo poatoffice has been sworn to secrecy. Fraacla Murphy Blind. Francis Murphy, the “apostle of temperance,” has retired from active campaigning, according to messages received from Mr. Murphy's home at Los Angeles. He is said to be almost entirely blind. Mr. Murphy is 71 years old. Prince Falla from Hone. - *-• Prince Eitel Friedrich.- Emperor William’s second son, fell from his horse during a cavalry drill on the Doebritze grounds, near Potsdam, and alarming reporta regarding his condition were spread. The latest information :is that he will recover. lodoform's Finder a Salrlde. Prof. Albert Ritter von Mosetigh-Moor-hof. the famous surgeon and introduce! •f iodoform, threw himself into the Dan obe in Vienna, while suffering from mental trouble, and wu drowned.