Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QBO. B. MARSHALL, PublUhw. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA.

CHILD BURIED ALIVE

HORRIBLE CRIME CHARGED AGAINST STEPFATHER. Body o( Girl Thought Kidnaped la D«t l> on Farm—Farmer Enforce* da at Demands Upon Traction Company. Five-ycar-old Mary Robbins Newlin of Landenberg, Pa., who it was thought had been kidnaped, was buried alive, according to the appearance of the body, which was dug up on the farm of her stepfather. Irwin Lewie, the young stepfather, is held under the finding of the coroner’s, jury. He asserted his innocence. From all appearances the child was spiffed Titom Behind and gagged with a burlap bag. This was then pulled over her head and down on her neck, where it was tied with a tough hempen string. While the girl’s screams were stifled she was thrown face down into a ready made grave. As she lay on her face the grave was filled and the earth packed down. The girl disappeared Sunday, but the family said nothing till Monday. Lewis announced, with conviction, seemingly, thsJJhifiu stepdaughter bad been btdaaped. To get Lewis away from his home and to keep all the immediate members of the family away from it, a neighbor arranged for a general hunt through vacant houses and along the roads for a ne’er-do-well, one “Widdowes,” who had been seen sneaking about the barns on the Lewis place. During his absence the body was found.

BASE BALL STANDINGS. ' • ■' Barnes Won and Lost by Clubs in _ Principal Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago ....44’ 12 Bost<*> .....22 32 New Y0rk..34 10 Cincinnati ..23 34 Phil’delphla 32 22 Brooklyn .. .21 33 Pittsburg ..30 22 St. L0ui5....15 45 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W L. Chicago ....85 19 New Y0rk...23 28 Cleveland ..35 21 St. L0ui5....24 33 Detroit ....30 21 Boston 19 35 Phil’delphia 30 24 Washington. 17 32 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L W. L. Columbus ..35 22 Milwaukee ..27 33 Toledo 35 24 Louisville ...25 31 Minneapolis 31 26 Indianapolis 28 35 Kansas City2B 29 St. Pau1....25 34 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Des Moines. 33 22 Sioux City.. 24 81 Omaha ....34 25 Pueblo 19 89

Parmer, HU Wife and Daughter Hold Trolley Car. Armed with shotguns and an ax; Will* faun J. Posse, his wife and daughter held «p a Pittsburg and Butler trolley car ■with forty-seven passengers at Wildwood, Fa.. and prevented the crew from proceeding until a special car with company officers arrived on the scene. Posse had placed a barricade across the track and threatened to shoot any of the crew or 'passengers who would dare to try to remove it. He had been promised a depot when the company crossed his farm, and got tired of the delay. With the guns Posse talked business and had the officials sign the much wanted- papers. Site for T. W. C. A. Home. D. S. H. Johnston has bought the boybood home of Archbishop Ireland, and an adjoining piece of property on Fifth ■treet, St Paul, opposite the St. Paul Auditorium, and given the ground to the St. Paul Young Women’s Christian As•ociation, with the provision that a fund t>e raised to erect a suitable building for the work of the association. Pa»«fn«er< in Grove Danger. Two hundred passengers on board the Continental limited, east bound, on the Wabash railroad, had a miraculous escape from instant death when the train, running sixty miles an hour, dashed off the rails at Magee, Ind. The only seriously injured persons were the fireman and head brakeman and one woman p&saenger. P. 4k L. E. Train Derailed. At least one man was killed and ten passengers were injured, three fatally, shortly after 5 o’clock Saturday night, when the New Haven accommodation train on the Monongahela and Youghiogfaeny division of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad was badly wrecked in the yards at Pittsburg. A defective switch is thought to have caused the accident. Train Ditched | Two Killed. Two men were instantly killed and one aerfously hurt when a work train on the Northern Pacific jumped into a ditch at Detroit, Minn. The dead are Engineer Charies Anderson and Brakeman Len«min. Internal Troubles In Prnnee. Troops battled with striking wine growers in the south of France and several persons were killed and many wounded. Mobs besieged three citiea The rebellion has produced a government crisis. Life Has la Posad Gniity. W. F. Bechtel, former president of the Niarthscestern ..National Life Insurance Company of Minneapolis, was found guilty of grand larceny by a jury which bad been out for twenty-eight bourn, rtf ' B I' ____ Admits Stealing fSOO.OOO. Oliver M. Dennett, the New York broker who was arrested in connection with the theft of *500,000 in bonds from the Trust Company of America, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminally receiving •toted goods. The maximum penalty for the crime is ten years In prison. ■

GUILTY OF KILLING MAID.

Km. Knnfmnnn, of Sion* Fall, Cow ' vtcted of MaMlaaghtsr, Mn. Emma Kanfmann, wife of a prominent citizen of Sioux Falla 8- D., was convicted of manslaughter In the first degree. She has been on trial charged with causing the death, 'from brutal treatment, of her maid, Mias Agnes Pol re! a The minimum term of imprisonment fixed by the statutes for the crime is twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The conviction of Mrs. Kaufmann was a great shock to the defendant, her husband, her son, and her counsel, all of whom had confidently expected acquittal. When the fatal words fell from the lips of the foreman of the Jury, Mrs. Kaufmann’s head sank upon her hands Throughout the proceedings she sat In an attitude of extreme dejection. The Kaofmanns have resided Id Sioux Falla for about a quarter of a century and are known to practically every man, woman, and child in the city. Mr. Kaufmann for years has been prominently Identified with state politics and Is generally known throughout South Dakota and adjoining states.

Agnes Polreis, the domestic whom Mra Kaufmann has been convicted of killing, entered the employ of Mrs. Kaufmann on Feb. 18, and only a little over three months before she died at a Sioux Falls hospital from numerous wounds, bruises, and cuts. After her death in a local hospital on June 1 her remains were prepared for burial and shipped to the parents of the girl at Parkston. Wounds upon the head of the dead girl were discovered by a young daughter of William Moeller, a business man of Parkston, who was an intimate friend of Miss Polreis. It was from Miss Moeller that the first disclosures came. The body was twice disinterred and examined for wounds and bruises. The evidence secured as the result of the second examination resulted In the arrest of Mrs. Kaufmann on the charge of having been responsible for the wounds, gashes, cuts, and bruises which caused the death of the girl.

CURRENT COMMENT

There seems no doubt that, with respect to small grain at least, 1907 will be recorded in the anuals of the United States as a comparatively “lean” year. There are, of course, no signs of anything even remotely resembling “famine” conditions. Real "famines” do not occur in nations which have reached the American level of popular intelligence. There will be enough bread for everybody, but It will cost a little ibore labor to get It.

spring wheat yield, though attracting less general attention because its area of production is not so compact, appears to have suffered most from an unusually cold and backward spring and the attacks of insect pests. The following figures, selected frofn the government report for June, are eloquent: Kansas, the leading winter wheat State, expected this year on the basis of acreage to increase Its crop 6,000,000 bushels over last year’s 52,000,000. The most expected from Kansas now is 64,000,000 bushels. Nebraska expects a decline from 52,000,000 bushels to 34,500,000; Ohio, from 43,000,000 to 29,000,000; Indiana, from 48,000,000 to 30,000,000; Illinois, from 38,500,000 to 33,000.000; California, from 27,000,000 to 14,500,000; Oklahoma, from 18,500,000 to 7,500,000, and Texas from 14,000,000 to 2,500,000 bushels. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Missouri expect yields approximately equal to last year’s, but the whole country’s winter wheat crop will probably be only 369,000,000 bushels, as compared with nearly 493,000,000 last year. Bad weather has delayed spring wheat planting and slightly reduced acreage. The most favorable estimators do not took for a larger crop than last year's, which was 242,000,000 bushels. Thus it Is practically impossible that, however good the conditions from now on, the spring wheat yield should make up for the deficiency, as compared with last year, of more than 120,000,000 bushels in the winter wheat crops. Other small grains show similar conditions. Of barley, 108,000,000 bushels, or 10,000,000 less than last year, is expected now. The oat crop, greater in bulk than all the other small grains put together, with 500,000 acres more planted, promises a yield 20,000,000 bushels smaller than last year’s, which was 964,000,000 bushels. It is just possible, however, that the corn crop, the surest of food grains and the cereal foundation on which this republic was built, will make up for some of these shortages.—Chicago Inter Ocean.

Record Plunge of Oetopus.

The performance of the submarine boat Octopus, June 9. when it sank to the depth of 205 feet below the level of the ocean off Boston harbor, is unparalleled in the naval history of the world. At that ilepth the pressure of the sea was 90 pounds to every square inch of the boat’s surface, but not a bolt or a seam was disturbed, nor was there a sign of a leak, and the wonderful vessel made the trip back to Boston under her own power. During this plunge it was thought unsafe for the crew to remain in the vessel and they remained on board the accomypanying tender, lowering their craft to the bottom by means of cable and derricks. It required fifteen minutes for the Octopus to sink to the depth of 295 feet. The boat is now ready for her acceptance trial. At Rapid City, 8. D, Secretary Taft -was presented with a handsome Indian tomahawk, a souvenir of his first visit to the hills; and at Fort Meade be was gives a fine Indian bead-work bridle.

►-Cincinnati Post.

UNPREPARED FOR WAR.

In Conlllct with Japan Uncle Sam Might Loae Islands and Alaska. The war-like attitude of Japan is pausing considerable anxiety among officials of the government and officers of the navy who are familiar with the absolute lack of adequate preparation on the part of the United States for liostil.tles. It is said that a declaration of war by Japan would be followed by the immediate loss of our Philippine possessions, Guam, Hawaii, Alaska and the menacing of our Pacific coast. The United States is to-day less prepared to meet Japan In the Pacific waters than Spain was on 1898 to meet the United States. All the strength of our fleet Is at present in Atlantic waters, and the small ships in the far east would l>e as junk to the powerful mnl well concentrated Japanese navy. The story is summed up in the bare

WHAT JAPAN HAS AND WANTS.

ship ou our Pacific frontier, that at Bremernon. The new dock at Alongapo, P. 1., which was towed from Solomon's Island, Maryland. Is still without shops on shore sufficient for repairs and can be used only for painting and scraping. For some reason not easy for the average citizen to discover there is not an American battleship between San Francisco and Manila. One by one they have been withdrawn from Pacific waters and joined to the Atlantic fleet, where they rendezvous at Newport and Jaiyestown, until there remains in tlie far east and on the Pacific coast only light armored cruisers and second and third class ships of the cruiser type, any and all of which would be no more than good target practice for a squadron of modern battleships. It is privately admitted, according to a Washington correspondent, that the Navy Department hesitates to order battleships to the Pacific waters at this,time. While having every possible right to do so without question, it ( s well known that such a mpve would be seized upon by the Japanese as an Indication of hostile Intent, and it might easily be made the subject of diplomatic Inquiry—a thing which would not for a moment be tolerated by our Secretary of State and which might itself provoke a quarrel.

THE FIRST FIRECRACKEE

Thirty-Fourth National Meet Is Held In Minneapolis. , The thirty-fourth National Conference of Charities and Correction ended its week of daily sessions at Minneapolis. Amos N. Butler, secretary of the j Indiana States Board of Charities, presided, and 2,000 delegates attended, representing the principal cities and towns throughout the country. The opening address was that of Senator Beveridge on child labor, and in the course of the week papers on almost every topic touched by organized charities was read.

One of the most interesting sessions was that devoted to the promotion of health in home, school and factory. In this meeting the question of clean milk, house-cleaning, house-to-house teachers of cooking, visiting nurses and home life for hospital patients were discussed. Dr. Knopf of New York told of the different examsuggested the possibilities of schools eo-operating with churches and other relief societies. Dr. Owen Copp, of Boston, and others spoke of an im-

proved system of public care for the insane. A long program was devoted to the National Children's Home Society, which has branch societies in every State, conducted by inen and women who give their time without pay to the work of finding suitable homes for orphans. Each State association conducts its work through local interdenominational boards.

O. F. Lewis, of New York, estimated that more tramps are killed ou American railroads yearly than the combined total passengers and trainmen. He contended that our present method of treating vagrants are neither sufficiently repressive.,to the real vagrant nor sufficiently helpful to the accidental wayfarer. Woodyards and lodgiug houses do not diminish the national army of tramps. He believes that preventive measures must be based upon two principles. First, that the ableboditMi vagrant must work for what he receives; and, second, that the punishment for intentional vagrancy must be more severe. The prevailiug i>olicy of causing arrested vagrants to move on from one town to another should lie abandoned. He advises sentencing professional vagrants to hard labor. Dr. Lindslay R. Williams, of Columbia university, speaking of the alleged army of 100,000 breakfastless school children in New York, said that the Committee ou Physical Welfare, after investigating 4.000 families, had found that only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the children of those families went without breakfast to school.

Charles C. Vogt, local manager for the American Tobacco Company, committed suicide at Louisville, Ivy. 11l health was the cause. Five men were killed by an explosion in the plant of the Sinnemahoning Powder Manufacturing Company at Sinnemnlioniug, Pa. Alleging misapplication of funds, former State Senator F. W. Dallinger of Cambridge, who is receiver for the American Birth Insurance Company, brought equity action in the Superior Court in Boston against the officers of the company. The government and the railroads are taking steps to avert a fuel famine in the West and Northwest next winter, by laying in a large .supply of coal at an early date. The jury in the case of the Uncle Sam Oil Compaqy, in which H. 11. Tucker, Jr., sought t it-have tW fecei ver removed, decided against Tucker at Leavenworth, Kan. The State Department has decided to find another post for John Jenkins, American consul at San Salvador, and will send Samuel EL Magill. present consul at Tampico, Mexico, to San Salvador.

CHARITIES CONFERENCE.

All Around the Globe.

COMMERCIAL FINANCIAL

tsmeapo. Sustained improvement in the prominent industries imparted a more buoyant tone to current activity. Mnch of this is due to the favorable weather transition, which is not only proving highly beneficial to the crops, but has also injected unprecedented strength into the leading lines of retail trade here and throughout the interior. Stocks of seasonable goods now sharp and widespread reduction and the fear of tarrying over too largely is a diminishing factor. Wholesale dealings for for ward deliveries steadily gain in dry goods, footwear, clothing and hardware. There is also an unusually large number of visiting buyers in the markets for general merchandise, and orders by the road salesmen indicate that country storekeepers in the Chicago tributary region do not curtail in their selections of fall and winter needs. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 22, against 14 last week and 25 a year ago.—Dun’s Review of Trade.

NEW YOKEL Long awaited seasonable weather has further improved retail trade -and -crops, slightly enlarged reorder business with jobbers and made for more confidence in the placing of orders for future delivery. In some sections also collections have responded in a measure to more favorable influences, but payments are still backward. Taking the wholesale trades generally there is a rather more quiet tone perceptible, part of it due to the smaller than expected reorder business and also to the advance of the season of midsummer quiet. There is a, disposition this year, more perhaps than in recent years, to await clearer indications of the outturn of the growing crops, and there is less assurance as to booking ahead in many lines than was quoted at this time in 1906, but the trade situation proper unquestionably shows a more optimistic feeling than was possible a few weeks ago. Business failures for the week ending June 20 number 163, against 161 last week and 173 in the like week of 1906. Canadian failures were thirteen, against twenty-two last wpek and nineteen a year ago. , Wheat, including flour, exports from the United States and Canada aggregated 2,850,222 bushels, against 3,376,962 last week and 1,760,609 this week last year; for the last fifty-one weeks Of the fiscal year 167,172,082 bushels, against 132,716,964 in 1905-6. Corn exports were 988,832 bushels, against 783,455 last week and 552,967 a year ago; for the fiscal year to date, 70,520,313 bushels against 109,380,293 in 1905-6.—Brad-street’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.17; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.90; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn, No. 2,51 cto 53c; oats, standard, 44c to 45c; rye, No. 2,86 cto 87c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $22.00; prairie, $9.00 to $15.50; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, .per bushel, SI.OO to $1.15. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.30; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $6.10 ; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,89 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 white, 52c to 53c; oath, No. 2 white, 45c to 47c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $0.75; jogs, $4.00 to $6.20; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 92c; corn, No. 2 r 50c to 52c; ohts, No. 2,43 cto 45c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 830. Cincinnati-—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.27; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 46c, to 47c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 84c. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,90 cto 92c; coca, No. 3 yellow, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 3 white* 46c to 48c; rye, No. 2,86 cto 87c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 99c to $1.00; corn, No. 3,53 cto 54c; oats, standard, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 1, 86c to 87c; barley, standard, 75c to 76c ; pork, mess, $15.60. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.55; 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 $6.60; hogs, $4.00 to $6.60; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2,60 cto 62c; oats, natnral white, 51c to 52c; butter, creamery, 22c to 24c; eggs, western, 13c to 16c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 91c to 93c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 2,78 cto 80c; clover seed, prime, $9.30.

Brief News Items.

Smith, Garbut' & Co.’* large sawmill, near Lyons, Ga, was destroyed by fire. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The Goethe and Schiller monument presented to the city of Cleveland by German citisens was dedicated the other day. Fire at Willow City, N. D, destroyed fifteen business places and' practically wiped out half the business portion of the town. Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman, wife of the Presbyterian evangelist, was operated on at South Bend, Ind, her right leg being ent off at the knee. She is reported to be doing well. Prescott Keys of Concord, Mass., has withdrawn his contest of the will of his ancle, Henry Milliken of Boston, which gave nearly $1,000,000 to Harvard university, Tuskegee institute and Waltham hospital.

Indiana State News

TOWN TREASURER IS INDICTED* C. E. Merer of Michigan Cltr I* Held tor Embesslement. The grand jury of the Laporte Circuit Court returned four indictments against C. E. Meyer, city treasurer, charging him. with embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds. Meyer was arrested and gave bonds for SSOO on each count. indictments were Based off street assessments and license fees which, it is alleged* had not been accounted for. The action, of the grand jury is a result of an investigation that was commenced more than a year ago. A shortage of $3,000 was found in the accounts of C. Miller, predecessor of Meyer’s, and Miller recently paid that sum Into the treasury. UNWRITTEN I.AW BARRED. Frank Howland Goes to Prison forShooting Man Found with Wife. Frank Howland, whose parents live in Grand Rapids, Mich., was found guilty of intent to murder in the Elkhart Circuit Court and must serve a prison term of two to twenty-one years. His victim* Charles B. Carroll of Marcellus, Mich., whose physician testified that he eoujd not survive a year, unwillingly gave tho evidence which convicted Howland. Carroll is carrying three bullets in his body. He is alleged to have been caught by Howland with the latter’s wife, and theshooting followed. Judge Dodge instructed the jury that the unwritten law should not be considered in their verdict.

EATS TILL, STOMACH BURSTS. . Hearty Meal Kills Indianapolis Mam —Coroner .Finds the Real Cause. Carl Schuster, a young German in Indianapolis, ate heartily the other night and a few moments after he had risen from the table complained of intense pain in his stomach. Ten minutes later ho died. The coroner held an autopsy under the supposition that Schuster might haveeaten poisoned food, but instead he found that he had eaten so much that his stomach had burst. The organ was not diseased, but appeared in a perfectly healthy condition. There was a long rupture* which, the physician said, was the result of the hearty meal.

DARE BY GIRL COSTS A LIFE. One Youth Killed and Another Fatally Hurt to Show Bravery. While a party “of young people who reside in the vicinity of Lovett were returning to their homes late on a recent night from a singing school, one of the’ young women of the party dared Charles Dawson and Fred Ochs to remain on the railway tracks a longer time than herself in the face of a rapidly approaching train. The challenge was accepted. As a result jured. The girl escaped with a slightly torn dress.

WOMAN CAPTURES BURGLAR. Brave Housewife Looks Up Marandet and Calls Police. At a late hour the other night Mrs. Samuel Vickery discovered a negro burglar in her house in Evansville, going: through a dresser drawer. Mrs. Vickery was alone and caught the burglar in theact of picking up a pocketbook. She commanded him to drop the purse or she would kill him. The negro let go the purse and Mrs. Vickery locked him in the room and telephoned for the police.

- Gets Drank | Shoots Up Town. Charles Douglas, game warden, drunk and dressed up, was in possession of Mexico, a town of 300 population* near Peru, for an hour the other day. He paraded tb* streets, firing revolvers with both hands, and drove everybody to places of safety. He was arrested after he bad fired forty shots and broke* a score of window panes. Kills Hta Daughter. Robert Jolly, aged 45, living in Indianapolis, killed his daughter Gladys, aged 9, by forcing carbolic acid down her throat. The child’s screams attracted Anna Peters the housekeeper, who witnessed the act. Jolly escaped. Roller Explodes; One Killed. The boiler in the sawmill of the Andrews Novelty Works in Wabash exploded, killing William Mote and seriously injuring Henry Mote, William Gift, Leo Burson and Philo Willis. Alleged Cattle Thlof Arrested. “Oak" Compton, said to be wanted at Columbia, Mo, where, it is Said, he broke jail and escaped with a stolen team while held on a charge df stealing cattle, was arrested in South Bend. Nephew of Pitcher Cnppy Drowned. George Cuppy, nephew and namesake of the former National League pitcher, was drowned In the Wabash river at Logansport.

Brief State Happenings. Mrs. Yetta E. App died In Evansville from the effects of the heat, having been overcome a few days ago. The executive board of the United Mine Workers of America, eleventh district, has issued a strike order calling on about 5,000 miners to leave the mines. The strikers have eight or ten grievances which they insist must be adjusted. Goshen College is receiving propositions from Chicago hospitals in regard so establishing a training school for Mennonite nurses and missionaries In connection with some hospital where practical experience may be given cadet nurses. Anna Rader of Chicago was sued for divorce by her husband, Robert Rader of Goshen, In tht Elkhart Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleges that his wife is not conducting herself with propriety in Chicago. The parties are well known in Goshen. The plaintiff also alleges that Ms wife attended wine portlee and laughed at hie remooetraacua.