Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — FINDS ROTTEN TIES. [ARTICLE]

FINDS ROTTEN TIES.

KANSAS RAILROAD COMMISSIONER MAKES INSPECTION. Personally Walks Over Stretches of Missouri Paollle Tracks nml Announce* Discoveries Nnrlhrrn KcSNm Not Waaled as Teachers. Railroad Commissioner Charles A. Rjkcr of Atchison, Kan., and a repre* •entative of the press walked over the Missouri Pacific tracks between Hutchinson and Yaggy, the first station west of there. In one mile, between mrle posts Nos. AS and 49, 807 rotten, broken and weakened ties were found in the track. In one rail length there wrre nine bad ties out of seventeen, and hundreds of •pikes could he pulled out on a mile of track. Commissioner Ityker walked over some of the Missouri Pacific it racks near Anthony on the Kiowa division and found conditions worse than on the Hutchinson division —two or three ties out of five twin? bad. Ilyker says the rondbeds of both this and the Kiowa divisions are very' unsafe for heavy tonnage or for train*. BASE BALL STANDINGS. Games Won and I.oat by Claba la w- ■- Prlßctjal LeagnM. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. U W. L. Chicago ....47 HI Cincinnati ..29 35 New Y0rk..30 21 Boston 2G 32 Pittsburg ..34 25 Brooklyn ...23 38 ' Phil delpbia 33 20 St. Louis.,. .10 51 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. - W. L. Chicago ....40 21 New Y0rk...27 30 Cleveland ..39 24 St. Louis... .27 37 Phil’delphia 33 26 Boston 22 39 Detroit ... .32 20 Washington. 18 37 : AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. V. L W. L. Toledo 40 20 Louisville .. .30 35 Columbus ..40 24 Milwaukee ..30 38 Minneapolis 39 27 St. Pau1....28 38 Kansas City3o 33 Indianapolis 20 43 WESTER N LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Des Moines.3o 24 Sioux City..2o 30 Omaha ....38 2S Denver 23 37 Lincoln ....33 31 Pueblo 25 40

NORTHERN' NEGROES BARKED. Kukvlllo Ttwlew P«tUr« tions’* CUt Them (or Work. A tacit conclusion has been reached by the Nashville, Tenn., board of education that only negroes born, bred and educated in the South need apply for election as teachers in the colored public schools of the city. This action was taken because negroes from the North have “notions” and “are not familiar with southern traditions and sentiment.” Manual training is to be introduced into the negro schools, and among the applicants for the position of supervisor were graduates of Harvard and other eastern universities. One other applicant, a big aouthern-bred negro, was given the position. _ Shaken hr Earthquakes. Earth tremblings that shook houses perceptibly were felt at intervals in Portsmouth, N. H„ Saturday. Windows •book and rattled and bric-a-brac clattered from the shelves. Sometimes half an hour would elapse between the vibrations, bat before sundown 100 shocks had been ~:*atr Americans la Fatal Clash. During a dash with the police of Holguin, in the province of Santiago, Cuba, resulting from the alleged refusal of four American soldiers of the Eleventh Infantry to pay for drinks. Corporal P. J. Green was shot and mortally wounded and his companions were placed under arrest Alabama Fire Caaaea Bis Loaa. Fire which broke out at 1 a. m. destroyed the Chalifonx building at First avenue and Nineteenth street, Birmingham, Ala., entailing a loss of $300,000. It was a five-story office, building and as all space Was occupied, the loss will affect many persons. The origin of the fire is unknown. Country's Moat Prosperous Year. The fiscal year just closed has been the most prosperous of all in the nation's history. Uncle Sam’s income was $070,000,000. _ New Lawe In Effect. The new immigration laws which went Into effect July 1 are expected to put several million dollars annually into the United States treasury. Hope to Dominate World. Optimistic trust builders in England have formed a steel combine of companies capitalized at $130,000,000. with which they hope to dominate the world. f 18,000,000 Coffee Loan for Brasil The Brasilian chamber has approved the guarantee of the Sao Paulo coffee loan of $15,000,000. Unwritten Law Upheld. A Jury at Huston, Va., acquitted fortner Judge Loving of the charge of murdering a man accused by his daughter. Wife Slayer la Excreted. James Cordelias, the Canton wife raurdeter, who was reprieved three times by j 4Jov. Harris, was electrocuted in the annex at the penitentiary in Columbus, O. ■ He killed his wife Sept. 17, 1900, by crushing her skull with a window weight. She bad sued for divorce. Jamas Duke to Wed Ayala t It Is reported that James B. Duke, president of the tobacco trust, who recently was divorced, is to marry Mrs. Inman, a beautiful southern widow, in Curoos next month.