Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. ■« I -JLIJ I I-' ■ If J ’«■ ' ‘l' ■ 1 ’ QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

TWO MEN KIDNAP NUN

MAKE ESCAPE WITH HER IN WAITING CAB. ••txe T«*ch*r In Dalwth Sehonlroom in Broad Daylight—Relatives May Bo Rexpoaxible—Mother Boor Makes Trouble. Sister Borromea of St. Clement’s Catholic school in Duluth was kidnaped by two men, who have disappeared. The sister was teaching in the primary room at 1:30 in the afternoon, when the two men entered, seized her and carried her half « block to a cab, thrust her in and dashed away. Her young pupils were spellbound with terror and stood mute for several seconds. But when the sister was being borne screaming to the street they regained their senses and raised an outcry, which alarmed the entire neighborhood. Hundreds of persons gathered and gave chase to the fleeing carriage. Several blocks from the school it turned toward the hill and disappeared. The police were notified and every officer in the city was warned to look for the kld- — nspers, A sjiecial detail of six meu was also put on the case, but no traces of the nun or her assailants had been found up to midnight. The abducted woman is 24 years did, and is the daughter of Edward Deigle, superintendent of the St. Paul Terminal railroad yards. lie is a nonCatholic and opposed to his daughter’s taking the veil. She was to make the final vow, binding her for life, on July 11. The children at the school say she greeted one of the abductors as "Father." It is believed that relatives are responsible for the abduction.

BASE BALL STANDINGS. Games Won mid Lost by Clubs in Principal Leanne*. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago ....33 OBoston ......17 26 New Y0rk...29 14Cincinnati ... 17 27 Philadelphia 26 17 Brooklyn ....15 28 Pittsburg ...21 18 St. Lou i 5.... 13 34 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....29 15 New York.... 19 21 Cleveland ...26 16 St. Louis.... 18 27 Detroit 24 16 Washington. 14 26 Philadelphia 23 20 Boston 14 29 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. 1.. W. L. Columbus ...28 16 Toledo 22 22 Minneapolis. 23 19 Milwaukee ..21 24 Kansas City.2l 20Louisville ...18 24 Indianapolis 25 24 St. I’aul 19 28 -WESTERN LEAGUK. " i<”* "■ W. L. W. L. Des Moines.. 24 16 Ben ver .......20-17. Omaha 26 20 Sioux City... 19 22 Lincoln ...i.23 19 Pueblo .13 31

BEAR TIES IP RAILROAD. Besieaes Two Operators Who Had Captured Her Ona pr in a. A mother bear in quest of her young tied up the Kemmerer division of the Union Pacific railroad system. IncidentAlly, she two operators at Bryan* Wyo., prisoners in their sleeping apartments for hours, while angry trainmen •wore at having to stop at a place whete stops were not scheduled. A telegrapher invested in two, cubs, the offspring of the mother who for days had hunted high and low for her children. She peeped into the bunkhouse of the operators, who fortunately had seen her coming, and nt a lively rate had proceeded to bar the door which leel into the station. It took 300 Creek workmen to dislodge thebearand release the operators two hours later.

Protext at Hoaiery Display. The Omaha board of fire and police has been asked to take official cognizance of the imitation legs which adorn the show windows of the large department ■tores of the city, and over which are drawn many styles of women's delicate hosiery. The request comes from a selfconstituted committee of the Woman’s Club. No Fnarcotlon for Harriman. E. H. Harriman is immune from criminal prosecution at the hands of the government because of hir testimony before the interstate commerce commission. President Roosevelt and his advisers decided at conferences at the White House, in which a new campaign against trusts and lawless railroads was discussed. Worden Wina Race of Flotilla. The Worden finished first of the torpedo boat destroyer flotilla in the run from New York to Cape Henry, Va. Her time was knots per hour from Scotland Lightship to Cape Henry. Mob Fl*ht* la Ruxh for Land. A mob of homeseekers battled fiercely with tha mounted police in Prince Albert, Sask., in the rush to seise the kinds which have been taken away from tbs Doukbobora.

Death and Damatre by Storms. Twenty-nine persons were killed, scores were injured and great damage was done by storms of wind and rain which devastated portions of the West. Saves *IOO,OOO on *OO a Month. The police graft inquiry in Kansas City has brought out the fact that Lieut. William J. Morely Is worth $100,(XX). accumulated, as his wife said, *by hard work and saving.” llis salary is S!K» a month. Three Killed la Kaee Ft*ht. Two negroes were hanged, another shot to death and two beaten, while four white men were shot and Seriously wounded as the result of a race war clash on the Kirk plantation, thirteen miles southeast Of Yasoo City, Miss.

HAYWOOD TRIAL ON.

' J '* OPENING OF FAMOUS IDAHO murjder CASE. Harry Orchard, Self-Confexaed Slayer of Ex-Governor Steanenbei-g, Tells Hla Story on the Stand— Prosecution’a Start line Charge*, Boise, Idaho, correspondence: Harry Orchard, the witness who was to lay the foundation for the case of the State of Idaho against William D. H,aywood, charged with the murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg, went on the stand at Boise Wednesday, real opening of the case. Orchard by his own confession is the actual murderer of Steuenberg. Haywood is the first person to be tried on the charge of that murder and the self-confessed murderer Is expected, accordingT6~tbe statement of the prosecuting attorney, to convict Haywood. - The specific charge against Haywoou Is that he was accessory before the fact to the murder of Frank Steunenberg, former Governor of Idaho. Steunenberg was blown up with a dynamite bomb as he entered his front gate on the night of Dec. 30, 1905. In everyday speech, the charge is that Haywood

knew was to be killed and helped plan the murder. Under the law of Idaho, as of most other states, an accessory before the fact is deemed equally guilty with the actual murderer. Chief Prosecutor Hawley presented the introduction to the alleged trail of blood that runs through half a dozen states and leads finally to the doorstep of Frank Steunenberg, who was blown to eternity, according to the prosecution, as a part of a conspiracy within the Western Federation of Miners—a conspiracy directed by Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone and executed by Harry Orchard, Steve Adams and Jack Simpkins. In the remarkable statement to the jury by J. H. Hawley for the State, a number of overt acts were charged against the “inner circle" of the Western Federation of Miners. Mr. Hawley, however, stated that he was holding other cases in reserve. These he agreed to submit in writing to counsel for the defense, but he said that, it would be preferable for the development of his Sase if for the present the announcement -were withheld from the public. It is understood that the list of murders and other crimes charged against the Western Federation numbers at least twenty-six, but the specific cases mentioned by counsel for the State in his opening address were some six or seven. These murders are not confined to the State of Idaho,*but extend to nearly every mining point in Colorado, where there have been mining troubles, and to other states. William D. Haywood, it is declared. Is not on trial for being an official of a labor union. He is not on trial in any representative character whatever. He is on trial, simply as a citizen, for helping to murder another citizen.

GOLD MINE IN WHEAT. <

Oor.rament Expert Telia How Riche* May Be Won. "A handful of wheat Is worth leas than a cent; and yet a single kernel in that handful may easily be worth half a million dollars. la it not worth a littla effort to discover which is the half million dollar kernel?" ''V The Assistant Secretary of Agriculture in Washington was explaining one of the wonderful things of modern plantbreeding science. Mr. W. M. Hays was brought up in the Minnesota experiment station and is one of the authorities on this subject. “In fairy stories there were magic peas and magic beans, which had wonderful power concealed within them," Prof. Hays continued. “But nothing in those fairy is really more wonderfuli than the simple facts, Tbe-magie of heredity make*a single' kernel of wheat equal to a gold mine, a single kernel of corn worth a king's ransom, a small and despised apple seed equal in value to the revenues of one of our richest commonwealths. “It is the power to transmit certain qualities that gives the value. One seed has it and another has not. That is the whole proposition. “Old Peter Gideon bought 10,000 apple seeds, and grew 10,000 apple trees. There was one in the 10,000 that had the power to ripen good fruit in the Minnesota winter. That was the magic seed. That seed has been the parent of all the fruit in the great Northwest. Its latent power was literally worth a king's ransom.

“So the best grain in our Northwest States is all the offspring of a single stalk of wheat numbered 476 of the 1892 plot. This was the most promising plant grown from 400 seeds selected from the best then in existence. But, by seating this plant aside, and raising from it several crops of seed, a new strain was developed, ’Minnesota 169,’ which grows from one to two more bushels to the acre. “Do you realize what it means to add a single bushel to the yield per acre? In ten years it would add $200,000,000 to the wealth of the country. But at ths Minnesota experiment station selection and hybridizing has already produced a gain of 25 per cent in yield. Thia per cent, if generally applied, would add to the world's supply of wheat 625,000,000 bushels. At 80 cents a bushel this would bs worth $500,000,000 a year. “The cost of breeding this wheat is about one-tenth of 1 per cent And yet some business men say that the man of science does not realize about business values? “Tbs beauty of plant-breeding is that any farmer can do it for himaelf. Patience, rather than learning, is what is required. A fanner, nr small gardener, has only to select his subject and go to work at It. He may originate—or discover—a new sort which will be a gold mine to himself and to his section of the country."

Told in a Few Lines.

Fire at Carnegie, wiped out the entire business section of the town, entailing a loss of $65,000. Nathan Hawk, a veteran of the Mexican war and the man who in 1848 first brought east news of the California gold discoveries. Is a hale and hearty citizen of Folsom. Cat

FILIPINOS ARE IMPROVIDENT.

Cornell < Professor Says They Laelf Thrift Snd Self-Control. ; The educational and social problems of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico claimed the attention of the members of the American academy of political and social science at the recent annual meeting of that body in Philadelphia. Prof. E. M. Kemmerer of Cornell university, in speaking of the Philippine savings bank, said that the first postal savings bank was opened for business at Manila on Oct 1 of last year, and by Jan. 31 of this year there were sixty-two banks in operation in various parts of the islands. At the end of December, three months after the first bank was established, there were 621 depositors,-having on deposit $92,500. The principal classes of depositors in the order of their numerical, importance were clerks, professional men, laborers, soldiers and sailors and policemen. He said: “A striking fact in the figures is that of the 621 depositors up to Dec. 31 500 were Americans and ninety were Filipinos. The evidence is sufficient to prove a strong witness to the truth of the Filipino’s reputation fo,rimprovidence, and in so doing to show the imperative need of an'educational institution like the postal savings bank and of carrying on a vigorous educational campaign through Jhe schools and through the officers of the bank in the interest of teaching the saving habit to the rising generation of Filipinos. For until the Filipino has learned the lessons of providence, thrift and self-control which the saving habit exemplifies and inculcates he cannot expect any_high degree of either economic or political independence.”

CALLED WASHINGTON TRAITOR.

Ensliah Girl Start* a Riot in an OniahaHlghSchool. In Omaha the other day a school girl started a riot bydescribing George Washington as a traitor. The girl is a pupil at the high school. She was born in England and still sees history through British eyes. In the course of the history class recitation the teacher unsuspectingly made laudatory remarks regarding the “Father of his Country,” which were more than this English-bred miss could brook, and she broke forth vehemently with "George Washington was a

base traitor. He abandoned the mother country and raised arms against her. He was the real Benedict Arnold of the revolution.” Instantly the class was in an uproar, but the English girl held her ground and it was several minutes before quiet was restored

KILL HOPELESS CONSUMPTIVES.

Noted Specialist So Advises National 'Tuberculosis Convention. Dr. S. A. Knopff, the famous New York tuberculosis specialist, who was decorated by Emperor William of Germany for his work in fighting the white plague and who received a prize of $5,000 so» the best treatise upon that disease, startled the national tuberculosis congress at Washington by advising that hopeless sufferers from tuberculosis be killed quickly and painlessly by heavy doses of morphine. He said it was his practice to do that, and he regarded it as a -sacred duty that the end might come quickly and painlessly. The committee on medication had mads a report condemning the use of morphine and its compounds in these cases, and a bitter debate was in progress when Dr. Knopff spoke. Doctors Flick and Landis had approved the ‘report, but favored using creosote in advanced cases. Knopff was opposed to the use of creosote, but ■aid he did use herbin and codein, both of which contain morphine or cocaine. One of the plans indorsed by the congress is to organize classes of consumptives among workingmen and school children for home treatment instead of in hospitals and sanitariums. Or. Fulton said the secret of the success of tbs home treatment was that not only the patient, bnt the entire family, learned the road to health, while the man who returns from a sanitarium usually cannot change his family's mode of life. Dr. Lowman . urged the seclusion of consumptive school children tn special classes, which, so far as possible, may be taught in the opeß air.

A WFUL CRIME STORY

HARRY ORCHARD RELATES A GREWSOME TALE. Ansasain, on the Witness Stand* Calmly Tells tbe Details ot a Series of Atrocious Murders—Swears He Killed Nearly a Score. Boise, Idaho, correspondence: The trial of Haywood at Boise brought to the witness stand one of the most remarkable assassins in the history of modern crime. He calmly related the details of a series of atrocious murders deliberately planned and carried out in cold blood. Persons who heard him say that his story gave the impression of truthfulness. However, many claim that this man was as ready to commit perjury as he says be was to slay with giant powder, dynamite bomb, poison, revolver or sawed-off shotgun.

According to his own story, Harry Orchard —who says he is 'a Canadian of the name of Alfred Horsley—killed men and destroyed property as a regular business and only for money. No Idea of loyalty for any cause or any person seems to have inspired him. Having wrecked a mine with a powder Blast and having failed to get his pay tor the work, he hastened to betray his tellow conspirators who were about to iestroy a railroad train. Being a mere hired bravo It Is not surprising that he made a full confession—if his story Be the truth —when caught after the nurder of ex-Governor Steunenberg. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, leading officials of the Western Federation »f Miners, appear in Orchard’s story as his patrons and paymasters. They, he says, told him what to do, paid him for his murders and helped him to escape capture when brought under suspicion. The whole nation takes the keenest interest in the developments of this great trial. _ Orchard swore that he had personally committed a full score of murders, nearly all of them at the instigation and with the approval of Haywood and his fellow officials at the Denver headquarters of the 'Western Federation of Miners.

His career of crime began in the Coeur d'Alene strikes of 1899, where he helped blow up the Wardner mill. The leader in this was W. F. Davis, afterward president of the Cripple Creek branch of the union. It was at Davis’ instigation, Orchard swore, that he also made and placed in the Vindicator mine the bomb whose explosion killed Superintendent McCormick and "Foreman Beck. This crime brought him directly to the notice of Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, the leading officials at the union headquarters in Denver. They praised his work, he testified, gave him money, and told him he "could not go too fierce to suit them.” Later they employed him and Steve Adams to murder Governor Peabody. An attempt by shooting failed, and Haywood called off one with bombs-because the executive board of the union was meeting and he did not “want anything to occur at that time." Then Orchard was directed by Pettibone to kill Lyte Gregory, a deputy sheriff who had incurred the union’s hatred. He and Adams lay in wait for Gregory and shot him down. They reported to Haywood, who approved and called it a “good jolx" Then Haywood and the others told him that there was trouble and a split threatened in the union convention, and that “If something was pulled off at Cripple Creek” the opposition would quiet down. So Orchard and Adams went to Cripple Creek and blew up the Independence station, killing fourteen men. On the return of these men to Denver, Haywood and the other leaders approved, and Haywood said that “it was a good thing; that things had gone all right in the convention.” It was thought expedient that Orchard should leave Colorado for a while, so he was supplied with money by Haywood and Pettibone, and went first to Wyoming and then to San Francisco, where be was to look up one Bradley, who had been a mine manager in the Coeur d’Alene. Apparently the idea was that the assassin might as well do some work on his vacation. He looked up Bradley, and, after failing to poison him by putting strychnine in milk left at his door, fixed a bomb which blew out the front of the house, but did not quite kill Bradley. When be told Pettibone that Bradley was not dead but merely deprived of hearing and sight Pettibone said It was better so, as it made living example.” At the close of his direct testimony Orchard was immediately turned over to the defense for cross-examination. During the time the witness was under the fire of Attorney Richardson’s questions a few more black spots In bls checkered career were held up to the light It was shown that he is a bigamist as well as a murderer; that he has one wife living in Canada and another in Cripple Creek, and that for a time he traveled through the country with the wife of another man.

Telegraphic Brevities.

The car barn of the Buffalo Lake Erie Traction Company at Blaisdell, N. Y., was burned, together with twenty-five cars. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. The Iron Springs hotel, one of the largest summer hotels at Manitou, Colo., was destroyed by fire. Loss $75,000. The house had not been opened for the season. Albert Crowell of Henderson, N. Q, was. found dead in hie room in a New York hotel with a bullet in his brain. The police believe the man registered under an assumed .name.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

No important developments appear to detract from the underlying strength* which sustains confidence in the businessoutlook. Weather conditions were mainly favorable to operations and activity ismore evident in production and distribution. Leading retail lines find the generic demand steadily expanding, indicating that the purchasing power is undiminished, but there is some accumulation of lightweight apparel, which needs a warm wave to bring quick disposal. Wholesaledealings now show the effect of the between seasons period and current shipments dwindle, but forward buying for fall and winter supplies compares favorably with a year ago, and road sales_men obtain orders making a substantial aggregate in the principal staples. Notwithstanding the late spring and other adverse factors, farm conditions ii> both Illinois and lowa never before weremore encouraging, and land and stock values have advanced to the highest average. Mercantile credits remain quite satisfactory and money works easier, whiletrading defaults occasion little anxiety. Failures reported in Chicago district numbered 29, against 17 last week and 23 a year ago.—Dun’s Review of TradeNEW YORK. Cross currents in trade and crop conlitions prevent generalization. There hasbeen a further slight improvement in crop condition, This has made for a more optimistic feeling as to ultimateyields and future trade in the sections enjoying even, a small share of seasonable weather, but the great majority of cities and particularly those in the eastern half of the country complain of continued slow retail trade and collections. On the other hand the reports as to fall trade are quite satisfactory, a reflection possibly of the fact that retail stocks of heavy goods were well cleaned up last winter. Cropuncertainties and the fact that reorderbusiness this spring has been practically absent in many lines, however, induceconservatism as to future ordering and there is less disposition to embark freely in future commitments until the situation becomes clearer. Business failures in the United States* for th? week number 155, against 142" last week, and 162 in the like week of 1906. In Canada, failures for the week number 18, against 14 last week and 17 a year ago. Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for the week ending June 6 aggregated 5,263,138 bushels, against 2,401,994 last week and 3,301,007 this week last year. For thelast forty-nine weeks, 160,944,898 bushels, against 128,627,113 in 1905-1906. Corn exports for the week are 1,135,065 bushels, against 864,255 last week and 573,139 a year ago. For the fiscal year . to date, 68,748,026 bushels, against 108,506,840 in 1905-1906. —Bradstreet’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 54.00 to $6.75; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.32; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.85; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 96c; corn, No. 2,52 cto 54c; oats, standard, 44c to 45c; rye, No. 2,85 cto 87c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21.50; prairie, $9.00 to $16.00; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 24c ; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, per bushel, sl.lO to $1.30. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.35; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 t 056.32; $6.32; sheep, common to prime, $3,00 to $5.50; wheat,' No. 2,94 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 white, 53c to 55c; oats, No. 2 white, 46c to 48c. St. Louis:—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $0.25; sheep, $3.00 to $6.60; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.00; corn. No. 2,52 cto 53c; oats, No. 2,45 cto 47c; rye, No. 2, "81c to 83c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.85; hogs, $4.00 to *56.30; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, SI.OO to $1.01; corn. No. 2*mixed, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 2: mixed, 46c to 48c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 84c.. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, $2.50 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 55c to 57c; oats, No. 3 white, 48e to 50c y rye, No. 2,86 cto 88c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, SI.OO to $1.03; corn, No. 3,52 cto 54c; oats, standard, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 1, 86c to 87c; barley, standard, 78c to 79c; pork, mess, $16.20. Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.45; sheep, common to good mixed* $4.00 to $6.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.90. New York —-Cattle, $4.00 to $6.501 hogs, $4.00 to $6.75; sheep, $3.00 to $7.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 2,61 cto 63c; oats, natural--white, 51c to 25c; eggs, western, 15c to 17c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 93c to 94c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 47c to 49c ; rye, No. 2,78 cto 79c; clover seed, prime, $9.25,

Disasters Hurt Pacific Mall.

The annual report of the Pacific Mai) Steamship Company says that its earnings were $4,839,245, a decrease of $88.1,092, to numerous wrecka and to the effects of the San Francisco earthquake.

Price of Breadstuffs Up.

The threatened' shortage in the wheat crop and the high price of that commodity are now reflected in the boost in the price of flour, which has risen from $4.50 to $6 in the last month. If continued, this woukl necessitate a smaller loaf or a cent advance in price.

Iron and Steel Exports.

The bureau of statistics at Washington figures the of iron and steel exports for the fiscal year at $175,000,000, as compared with $57,000,000 in 1897'