Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1907 — HORRORS OF FAMINE. [ARTICLE]

HORRORS OF FAMINE.

14,000 HAVE PERISHED IN RUS SIAN PROVINCES. Malignant Scrofula, Due to Inssufficient or Improper Food, Rages -- Indian Territory Lawsuit Baress Strange Compact Between Men. From official representatives in eastern Russia the government has recently received harrowing accounts of the misery and destitution prevailing there, especially in the province of Ufa. Up to the end of April 20,000 cases of malignant scrofula were registered, all the result of insufficient or improper food. More than 250,000 poor of the province are being fed in public soup kitchens. Since the beginning of the year the number of deaths due directly to famine is computed at 14,000. Relief work is chief - ly by private individuals and societies. The Russian government does little but muddle and interfere. The lower house of the Russian Parliament, by 176 to 146 votes, adopted the hill providing for the appropriation of $8,750,000 for famine relief purposes. The Poles and members of the group of toil abstained from voting.

BASE BALL STANDINGS. Games Won and Lost in Clubs in Principal Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....26 7 Boston 13 19 New York..26 7 Cincinnati ..11 21 Phil'delphia 19 12 St. Louis.... 9 25 Pittsburg ..17 12 Brooklyn ... 7 25 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....23 10 Philadelphia 14 17 Cleveland.. 22 12 St. Louis....14 20 Detroit ....18 12 Boston .....11 21 New York..15 15 Washington.. 9 19 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. W. L. Columbus ..18 13 Milwaukee ..16 17 Kansas City.l6 12 St. Paul.... 16 18 Minneapolis 17 13 Indianapolis 15 20 Toledo ..... 16 16 Louisville ...12 17 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Des Moines. 19 12 Denver ..... 16 13 Omaha ..... 19 15 Sioux City.. 13 19 Lincoln ....17 14 Pueblo .... .11 12 SUIT REVEALS FAUST IN LIFE.

Man Gets $12,000 to Kill Self in Year, Weds Heiress and Refuses. In Coweta, Ind. T., George Johnson, a wealthy stock man, has brought suit against Henry James for $50,000, revealing a modern drama of the Faust variety equaling Goethe's original. Johnson alleges that James made an agreement with him for a consideration of $12,000 to kill himself at the end of one year, thereby leaving Johnson $50,000 life insurance, which James had obtained in favor of Johnson. James took the $12,000. went to Sag Harbor, spent money lavishly and married an heiress. Johnson alleges that James both refuses to repay the $12,000 or kill himself, according to contract. Sees End of White Plague. Dr. Nicholas Senn. the famous Chicago surgeon, has aroused much comment in Omaha by the prediction that consumption will be entirely eliminated in twenty-five years. Dr. Senn has been led to this belief by the thoroughness with which all the large cities of the country have grappled with the disease in the last two or three years. Settles with Victim's Widow. Philip Schwartz, known as the "Duke of Shantytown," who is under indictment for murder in the first degree for shooting Policeman Satters in Cincinnati, paid $650 to the widow. Mrs. Satters had sued for $10,000, claiming that was the value of her husband's service to his family. The $650 was a compromise. Mrs. McKinley Is Dead. Mrs. William McKinley died at her Canton, Ohio, home without regaining consciousness after her recent stroke of paralysis. President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks attended the funeral Tuesday afternoon. Body Found in Trunk. The body of a murdered New York priest was found in a trunk left in a rooming house as security for a rent bill. Police are searching for two men who occupied the room. Much Money in Dividends. The principal corporations of the United States, numbering 320, will disburse in interest and dividends in the month of June the sum of $70,000,000. according to a report from New York. Death of Theodore Tilton. Theodore Tilton, who became famous as the plaintiff in the $100,000 damage suit against Henry Ward Beecher, died in Paris after thirty years of life almost as a recluse. Bank Robbers Get $1,200. Bank robbers cracked the safe in the bank at Winnebago City, Neb. They secured about $1,200. Tiger Kills a Child. A royal Bengal tiger at Twin Falls. Idaho, broke his cage, killed a 4-year-old girl, clawed many ponies and injured several people before being shot. Miscreants Wreck Train. Limited train No. 20 on the Southern Pacific coast line was wrecked at West Glendale, ten miles north of Los Angelos, Cal. The wreck was the deliberate work of train wreckers. One man was killed and twenty-two persons injured, three possibly fatally.