Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER. . - INDIANA.

ROUTS SIX BANDITS.

CRIPPLE PUTS STAGE ROBBERS TO FLIGHT./ pMWiirm from Colorado Stare Are Lined Ip for Robbery When Horseman Dashes I'p and Saves Them—Latest Intelligence. v__. Six masked men. armed with rifles and L revolvers, attempted to rob the Boulder*. 1 Nederland stage about 6 o'clock as it seas returning from the Tungsten Camp,to Boulder, Colo., filled with passengers. Brave before unarmed mnn. the whole sang was put to flight by the timely ap—pea ranee of R. B. lluggert, a cripple, the, riding boss of the Colorado Eastern Power Company. Drawing his revolver, Huggert charged the bandits and drove them in flight up the rocky walls of the cAnyon. The daily Nederland stage, driven by J. T. Carmack of Boulder, was coming down filled with passengers, all carrying a large amount of cash, The horses rounds ed a bend at a gallop, when six masked men stepped out from behind the bushes and, surrounding the stage, ordered the driver to hadt and the passengers to disembark. All complied with alacrity and lined up with, their hands above their heads. It was just at this point that Huggert appeared on the scene, and the robbers fled in terror.

BASE BALL STANDINGS. Games Won and Lost by Clubs In Principal Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....53 17 Boston 28 37 New Y0rk..40 25 Cincinnati ..29 40 Pittsburg ..40 26 Brooklyn ...29 41 Phil’delphia 37 29 St. Louis.... 16 57 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ... .44 23 New York.. .31 34 Cleveland ..44 26 St. L0ui5....28 43 Detroit ....37 28 Boston .....25 42 Phil’delphia 37 31 Washington. 22 41 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. W. L. Toledo 46 29 Milwaukee ..35 41 Columbus ..44 2S Louisville ...34 40 'Minneapolis 42 32 St. Paul. .31 44 Kansas City. 36 3S Indianapolis 32 48 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Des Moines.4o 27 Denver .....33 32 Omaha ....42 S 3 Sioux City. .28 42 Lincoln ....38 32 Pueblo .... .27 42

Foretold His Own Death. Benjamin F. Zercher, nged 80, the wealthiest land owner and farmer in Wayne county, Ohio, died the other night. Zercher six months ago, although in excellent health, told his family that he was going to die within six months, and as he did not want his heirs to have trouble over certain property, went to work and gave to each of the four children living and two grandchildren lands and cash to the value of $20,000. Throws Gasoline on Flames. In a frantic endeavor to save a windmill at Pemberville, Ohio, from destruction by fire, Harry Hobart, aged 7, flung a pailful of gasoline, mistaking it for water, upon 5-year-old George Hobart's biasing cap, which the latter had hurled from his head to the floor of the mill. Folly half of the contents of the path splashed upon George, enveloping him in flame. He died. Fish In Lakes More Plentiful. The present season promises one of the largest catches of fish recorded in many years. The usual output of the great lakes for several years past has been close to 150,000,000 pounds annually, but this season fish seem to be more plentifnl and the catch will be much iSrgerthanusuan Wreekers Get Prison Sentences. The tellers of the defunct Enterprise National bank of Allegheny. Pa., convicted of making false entries and misapplication of funds, were sentenced to prison in the federal court, as follows: Edward P. MeMillen, six years and six months; Charles Menzemer, five years and six months. Consequence of New Law. Railroad passengers traveling between points in Illinois and lowa are forced to leave their trains at the lowa State line, and besiege ticket offices in a .wild scramble to get transportation at the 2-eent rate, as provided for by newly enacted laws. Do Not Like Exclusion Law. Washington has heard that Japan will “insist” that the United States strike the exclusion clause frdm the next treaty, and considers the movement of battleships to the Pacific an indication of how the government will reply to the demand. Two Dio from Treatlo Collapse. John Sacuski, aged 31 years, and George Koeki, aged 24 years, died at the Emergency hospital in Homestead, Pa., as jGie result of injuries received by ths edrapse of a trestle at Unity, Pa. Two Drown In Ohio. A. C. Thompson and Newton Gavltt of Alton, tea miles east of Columbus, Ohio, wers drowned in Big Darby creek aa ths rssult of ths capsizing of a boat. Teller’s Steallagi Recovered. Betrayed by a woman on whom he lavished money, the defaulting teller of a New York bank was arrested in a flat in that city and $54,000 of the money hs Stole was recovered. Famous Bandit Is Released. Emmet Dalton, serving a life sentence la ths penitentiary in LeavenworA, Kan., for his participation in ths famous Coffeyville raid of the Dalton gang, was released by Gov. Hoeh on n temporary , parole that be might undergo an operation on his dm.

Melon-cutting time In Wall street, New York, is a pleasing function at any time, but this season the divide Is the largest In history. The July dividend and Interest payments of corporations reach the stupendous total of $180,881,849. July and January are the months when the great bulk of corporation profits are up for division. The prosperity that reached such great headway last year and Is still under way is responsible for the magnificent proportions of the July melon this

Yale Varsity eight—Auchlncloss, bow; Mayer, No. 2; Rice, No. 8; Hop pin, No. 4; Taft, No. 6; Howe, No. t| Ide, No. 7; Boulton, stroke, and Bark low, coxswain. / ~ >

Harvard Varsity eight—Tappin, bow; Fish, No. 2; Falkner, No. 3; Bacon, No. 4; Severence, No. 5; Glass, No. 6; Richardson, No. 7; Farley, stroke, and Blagden, coxswain.

THE COST OF CRIME.

la One Year It Amonnti to Move than #1,000,000,000. The detailed cost of crime in the United States presents some astounding figures. In 1297 the cost of crime in Greater New lork was $35,562,133.24. The State, county and city authorities outside of Greater New York spent for it $42,005,472.75. In 45 States (New York excluded) the expenditure was $097,080,000. Criminal losses by fire totaled $100,000,000. By customs frauds the national government lost $60,000,000. During this one year the loss in wages of 100,000 State prisoners was i $28,080,000, while the loss in wages of 150,000 prisoners in city and country jails was $33,000,000. The grand total, therefore, of the cost of crime in the United States reaches the stupendous figaies of $ 1.070,327,005.99. The cost of religious work in the United States is enormous. The cost of foreign missiotis, comprising all denominations, is $7,000,0CX); home missions expend the same sum. We spend for education, $200,000,000; for church expenses and ministers’ salaries, $150,000,000. Hospitals and dispensaries for the sick poor cost us $100,000,000; for sanatorium# of all kinds we spend $60,000.000. City missions and rescue work of all kinds demand and receive $3,000,000; humanitarian work of every kind. '512,000,000. Our Young Men’s and Young Women’s Christian Associations cost $5,000,000; while all other moral and social work in the United States requires an expenditure of $5,000,000. The total expenditure for humanitarian and religious work is, then, $549,000,000. As against this, the total cost of crime In the United States for the year reached ths incredible total of $1,076,327,005.99. That is to say we spend more than $500,000,000 a~ year more on crime than we do sa all spiritual, ecclesiastical, physical, Inmanitarian, educational and healing agencies put together.

GREAT WALL STREET MELON CUTTING.

year. The payments are $18,097,674 greater than those of last July. Some corporations that never before paid dividends come up smiling with profits for their stockholders. Others that were obliged to suspend dividends now cheerfully renew, and many companies announce an increase over their regular dividend rates. The dividends to be paid are: Bailroad, $36,750,089; Industrial, $41,017,273; traction, $7,086,675; bank and trust companies, $7,700,000; total, $92,553,037. The amount last July was $50,753,331. The Interest payments will be as follows: Railroad, $71,960,000; industrial, $11,450,000; tractions, $2,100,000; government, $3,528,808; total, $88,328,808, as compared with $83,030,840 in July last year. Among the railroads the most notable increases in dividends have been made by the Vanderbilt lines. The largest amounts to be disbursed by railroads are Chicago & Northwestern, semi-annual, $3,486,661; Lake Shore & Mlchlgafi Southern,

YALE AND HARVARD OARSMEN IN ANNUAL RACE.

Parole System tor Criminals.

At the recent National Congress of Charities and Corrections at Minneapolis a most interesting paper was read byHarris R. Cooley, director of public service, division of charities and corrections, of Cleveland, Ohio. He described the working of the parole system, which has been greatly extended under the administration of Mayor Tom Johnson. Durihg the six years of Mayop Johnson’s term of office over 4,000 persons have beenpardoned or paroled. It is the theory In Cleveland that for a man condemned to prison for the first time there is a psychological moment in which help can be wisely given. To act too soon would belittle the wrongdoing; to wait too long would embitter and harden the individual into a criminal. Only 14 per cent of the paroled men have been returned to the house of correction. According to the statistics, this is less than the returns of those who were released after working out their entire time in prison under the old regime. The plan has been fottnd to work exceptionally good in the case of men who neglected or deserted their families. Mr. Cooley strongly opposed the imposition of a fine as an alternative to a term of imprisonment, ne claims that a man who tries to steal a franchise or a canal or a million dollars is in need of correctional treatment just as much as the man who tries to steal a ham or an overcoat. He stated that there was a growing sentiment in favor of moving penal institutions to the country, where more of ths prisoners could work in the fields under the open sky. This has been tried in connection with the Cleveland house of correction and there has hgen little trouble with escapes.

Interesting News Items.

Roy Nonkin of Peabody, Kan., wan drowned in Big Sugar creek. He had gone there with a party of fishermen. The 10-year-old non of William Lamer, living near Dill, O. T., was instantly killed in trying to atop a runaway team.

semi-annual, $2,967,990, and New York Central, quarterly, $2,689,230. The largest amounts to be distributed by industrial companies are United State* Steel, eommon stock, quarterly, $2£4V 512; Anaconda, quarterly, $2,100,0001 American Telephone & Telegraph, quarterly, $2,631,028; General Electric, quarterly, $1,304,814; and Western Union, quarterly, $1,216,757. Some of the banks and trust companies have done very well. The Fifth avenue bank pays a special dividend of 150 per cent in addition to the regular quarterly rate of 25 per cent. Th# Colonial bank pays a semi-annual dividend of 10 per cent. The New York Trust company Increases its dividend rate from 20 to 32 per cent, New York Life Insurance & Trust from 40 to 48 per cent, Bankers’ Trust from 10 to 1% Knickerbocker Ice from 40 to 50, Trust Company of America from 82 to 40, Metropolitan from 20 to 34, and United States Mortgage & Trust company from 22 to 24 per cent.

DEARTH OF FARM LABORERS.

Fall? 50,000 of Them Are Needed la New York State. Despite the establishment of agricultural colleges and the agitation for a “return to ihc land,” there are 15,000 fewer farms in the State of New York at the present time than there were in 1890. And it will possibly be equally surprising to the average city man to learn that in spite of this decrease ia the number of farms, the shortage ol farm laborers has grown to such dimensions that the State is advertising in 11 foreign newspapers for agricultural laborers. These facts have been brought out by Representative Bennett, who is the chairman of a committee appointed by Congress to go abroad to study the immigration question from the viewpoint of attracting more immigrants from the agricultural countries of Europe. In addition to this, the Immigration Commission ia to make another investigation, the scope of which will include all pasts of ths country, with a view to getting at the real facts as to the shortage of farm laborers throughout the United States, and by next winter’s session of Congress its members hope to be in possession of statistics that will materially help to improve the conditions of employing agriculturists nil over the United States. Bolton Hall, who Is a missionary In the cause of people taking up small farms near the large cities and of working’them on scientific principles, says the decrease in the number of farms in New York State U owing to two causes. One is the great rise in land values near the large cities, and the other is the creation of vast estates by rich men through the absorption of many small farmers' holdings. Within the last year alone, he estimates, 1,000 farms were sold on Long Island for conversion into building lots. In the counties just north of New York City many thousands of acres of farm land have gone to maks up great estates.

CARNAGE OP THE 4TH

MANY KILLED AND HURT CELE. BRATING THE ‘-GLORIOUS." —, ■ - . . Misguided Patriotism Makes a Long Death Roll—Deadly Lock Jaw Is Next and Many of the Injared Aw Sore to Succumb.

Lists of killed and wounded published the day after the Fourth tell only part of the story of slaughter. The dreadful after effects of hurts slight in themselves, but harboring the tetanus germ and resulting in lockjaw and death, are still to add horrors to the grisly Stray bullets did the usual amount of killing. Fools with cannon crackers and other deadly weapons used them where they would 1 do the most damage. The premature explosion was much in evidence. So the hospitals were crowded and the procession to the cemeteries began. From returns compiled on the sth the roster of dead throughout the country held 78 victims of misguided patriotism. The lists of the injured were swelled largely when final inventories of the wounded were taken, and the totals received show that more than 2,900 persons spent the sth in sorrow and tribulation. The totals are far from complete, for nearly every remote hamlet In the country has its martyrs, and months will elapse before the final statistics are gathered. The experi- | ence of former years has demonstrated that the full death toll of the “glo’rl’’ous” Is never completed until several weeks have passed. Many Killed and Hart. Pittsburg heads the list of cities for loss of life, fifteen deaths being reported. In Philadelphia there was only one death, but the wounded numbered hundreds. In the hospitals of the , birthplace of independence G4B persons i were treated for injuries during the ’day. Late reports from Los Angeles ‘ show that four deaths occurred in that ’city as the direct result of the noisy celebration.

In Chicago the death roll reached seven. Several victims were claimed in post-Fourth celebrations. With fireworks marked down, Young America, and in many cases Old America os well, simply couldn’t resist the temptation to buy, and The sth of July pyrotechnics added a large number to the already large list of injured, dead, and dying. At Peoria, Therrold Rogers, 18 years old, tried to bore out the muzzle of a cannon which happened to be loaded. When the steel bit struck the powder the young man was hurled thirty feet and seriously injured. In Beloit, Wis, an Italian, who had been in the country only fifteen days, was shot in the head by a boy who supposed he had only a toy pistol. The man is expected to die. Reports from Cincinnati were to the effect that the entire business section of the town of Moscow, Ohio, was wiped out on the Fourth by a blaze that started from the explosion of a torpedo near a 200-gallon tank of gasoline, The tap of which was running. Early in thfe morning a fire started at Decatur City, lowa, that burned eleven business houses and other buildings. The loss is $27,000 and the fire is attributed to smoldering cracker stubs.

Many Fires Are Caused. In many cities there were other blazes as the outcome of the fireworks! In Pittsburg the O’Neil Building, at 806 Fifth avenue, burned and several persons were rescued only by spectacular heroism on the part of the firefighters. In a race riot in New York during the final hours of the celebration Policeman Edward Conrad was probably fatally injured. The trouble started when the oflieer seized a negro who was discharging a pistol on the street At once hundreds of negro celebrants rushed up, and, seizing the policeman, slashed him with razors. A riot call brought succor, aud the fight that ensued lasted half an hour. Lower Salem, Ohio, was the scene of a pitched battle between two whole villages during a celebration of the Fourth. A picnic had been arranged at Salem, and the whole masculine pop. illation of Elba turned out. Unfriend* ly rivalry between the two towns started a row, the town man&al was unable to preserve the peace and the melee ceased only when the participants sank from exhaustion. Hundreds were hurt Another “joker” appeared at Gladden, Pa. He gave a pound of black powder to seven small children for a plaything. They are in the hospital. Dangerous fireworks are made to be exploded. If their manufacture were prohibited under penalty, if their sale were made a serious offense, if harmless substitutes for deadly toys were generally used by sensible persons, the Fourth of July soon would take on an air of sanity and th£ pleasures of the day would be multiplied. Public opinion must deal firmly with this matter. The slaughterous holiday must be reformed.

The noises of the Fourth drove Mrs. Johanna Evert to insanity, and after frightening her neighbors she hanged herself from a bedpost in her home in Jersey City. At Waukegan, Ill* Henry Meyers, 11 years old, met death while returning from a Fourth of July picnic. The little boy stood on the tracks of the St Paul Railroad within 500 feet of his home watching an exhibition of fireworks; when an express train bora down upon him, kliHng him Instantly.

COMMEPCIAL AND FINANCIAL

General conditions indicate that commerce is sustained at an unprecedented volume and without impairment of confidence in the outlook. Payments through the banks are now risen to a daily average of almost $50,000,000, surpassing all previous records, but there is no symptom of unusual financial pressure, credits being satisfactory and statistics as to defaults during the last six months shotting decreased numbers and liabilities. Mid year inventories and repairs to machinery caused but slight cessation in operations. Production is maintained close to the limit of capacity in the leading manufactures, while the weather far vers distribution and has appreciably stimulated widespread demand for seasonable merchandise, stocks of summer goods undergoing rapid reduction'. Raw material markets remain sharply drawn upon for fresh supplies, and prices stand at a higher level than a year ago, although hides, leather and brick exhibit recent declines in cost. Building work is unusually extended and calls for heavy absorption of lumber, quarry and planing mill outputs. Bank clearings, $248,652,065, exceed those of corresponding week in 1906 by 21.9 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district for the six months ending June 30 number 534, against 688 for similar period in 1906, and those with liabilities over $5,000 number 151, against 198. Dun’s Review of Trade.

NEW YORK. Continued favorable weather conditions have made for further crop development, expansion in retail trade in light summer goods, and notable stimulation of hitherto lagging' reorder business. One of the most favorable developments of the week has been the improvement noted in collections at many markets. The future outlook as to prices of goods is now having the attention of manufacturers and wholesalers. Business failures in the United States for the week ending July 4 number 135, against 150 last week, 134 in the like week of 1906, 127 in 1905, 172 in 1904 and 154 in 1903—Bradstreet’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKERS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 97c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats, standard, 41c to 42c; rye, No. 2,83 cto 85c; hay, timothy, $14.00 to $21.00; prairie, $9.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, f9c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, new, per bushel, $1.15 to $1.25. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.65; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $6.05; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 92c; corn, No. 2 white, 52c to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $6.90; hogs, $4.00 to $6.05; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 96c; corn, No: 2,53 cto 54c; Oats, No. 2,42 cto 44c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 83c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30; sheep, $3.00 to $4.65; wheat, No. 2,95 cto 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,86 cto 88c. Detroit—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $6.15; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,93 cto 95c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 54c to 56c; oats, No. 3 white, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,86 cto 87c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.02 to 1.05; corn, No. 3,51 cto 52c; oats, standard,'42c to 43c; rye, No. 1, 86c to 87c; barley, Standard, 75c to 70c; pork, mess, $15.92. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, ” fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.90; hogs, $4.00 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2,60 cto 62c; oats, natural white, 50c to 51c; butter, creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs, western, 13c to 16c. Toledo —Wheat," No. 2 mixed, 96c to _ 98c; com, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 55c f oats, No. 2 mixed, 44c to 45c; rye, No. 2,79 cto 81c; clover seed, prime, $9.30.

Bones of Prehistoric Bear.

Director W. J. Holland of the Carnegie museum at Pittsburg, afte£ a thorough examination of prehistoric animals fouud in a cave near Holidaysburg, Pa, announces that the bones were those of <n Immense bear, unlike any now in existence, and which must have lived 20,000 years ago. The smaller bones found in the cave, and which supposed to be the offspring of the bear, Dr. Holland says are those of the mammoth’s yonng, which the peat bear must have captured in a raid upon the mammoth herds. Heretofore it has been assumed that no animal wis powerful enough to prey upon the mammoth. Besides these bones, there were in the cave the bones of numerous gigantic squirrels and other animals which are now extinct. Another similar care has been found near Greensburg, Pa, and it is to be dynamited.

News of Minor Note.

The Kansas penitentiary twine plant is to be shat down temporarily betauae of the shortage of the wheat crop. A surplus of twine is in store there. Two golfers and their caddies were stunned by lightning at East Liverpool, Ohio, while holding umbrellas over themselves on the golf links there. Viscount Hayashi, Japanese minister of foreign affairs, declared the rumor that Ambassador Aoki would be recalled from Washington was totally without fa tnda- - tfou.