Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1907 — LOSS ON CRIMINALS. [ARTICLE]

LOSS ON CRIMINALS.

LAWBREAKERS CAUSE EXPENSE $1,200 A YEAR EACH. .~V' * mrlng tor VlHotti~~«ram ranpcr dnsM‘> Coxta M«w than Nation*# -Wealth Grown-VfW York Mnr- ’ Jereaa U MberattJ. ~

“This country spends annually on the criminal, lmine-r and —•yiriotis classes, and oiut-«Jijtaa.LJj»d3jlg , -‘_ of wealth is only $3,000,000,000. Poo* not that look as if the public were bankrupt?*’ This statement in a lecture by l)r. Charles J. Rushncll. who lit conducting a .model public playground In Washington. He is jt, graduate of Heidelberg university nftd an authority on civic matters. Dr. liushnell’s figures are taken. lyj says, froth reliable sources and represent years ob-o-Hrriul study. He challenges anyone to disprove their accuracy. He and his wife have made a -special study of wlrnt they call the "social illness*’ of the United States. Continuing, Dr. Bushnell said : “Why, the $6,000,000,000 that this nation spends every ye.tr on Its criminal cases equals the amount sjß'nf on all churches, public libraries, tie Young Men’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, public hospitals, asylumafor thC insane and all benevolent instiju—tiens. The average factory baud e.tmss44o a year, while it is estimated that the average Criminal costs the public at least $1,200 a year.” BASE 11 A 1.1, STANDINGS. Games Won nn»l I.o«t by Club* la Principal l.eaijne*. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. 1« Chicago ....61 21 Brooklyn ...3$ 43 New Y0rk..48 30 Boston 33 43 Kittshnrg ..4S_:-24~CiScinnati ..32 40 •Phil'dclphia 43 ’3l St. Louis.... 19 07 - " ifyl AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....53 ,31 New York...3S 42 Cleveland ..48 33 St. L0ui5....34 48 Detroit ....46 >32 Boston 31 40 Phil'delphia 45 34 Washington. 25 51 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. * W. L. Toledo 53 33 Kansas City. 43 44 Minncanolis 51 39 Louisville ...30 40 Golumbus .y 49 39 St. Paul ... ,38 -53 Milwaukee. ,'45 43 Indianapolis 37 55 /western league. W. L. W. L. Omaha ..54 36 Denver 40 41 Lincoln ...MS 48 Sioux City.. 33 50 Des Moines. 44 3S Tueblo 31 49

HELPED K.ILL GI ! tDE>'SCPPE. Ken York Authorities Release Kirs. Ksck After Nine Years in Prison. Mrs. Augusta Nhck, who was implicated in the murder of William Guldensuppe In New York in 1597, for which Martin Thorn was put to death, was released from Auburn prison the other day. She had served nine years and five months in prison. Mrs. Nack, together with Martin Thom, a barber, was charged with the murder of William Guldensuppe on June 23, 185)7, in a cottage at Wocxlside, L. I. Mrs. Nack turned State's evidence and confessed all the grewsome details of the crime which .she and her sweetheart. Thorn, had perpetrated. The murder arms a. brutal .affair, tha victim's "body having been dismembered, the parts wrapped in oilcloth, and disposed of at various points."" Kills Frlenil with n Rite. John Kelly .of Minneapolis is dead as the result of being bitten by a friend and theJatter is in jail, facing a murder charge. In the meantime lawyers are puzzling themselves to decide whether or not a bite which may result fatally is a causa: for prosecution for murder. The two men got into an altercation on July - 4 and the bite was inflicted. Blood poisoning set in with fatal results. Con (raiiei Coal I.and Fra nit*. W. W. Raipe. a mining man of Milwaukee, who was arrested on a federal grand jury indictment charging him and five others in connection with the Federal Coal Mining Company with alleged land frauds in Routt county, Colo., has given m signed statement to United States District Attorney Cranston, in which he goes into the details of the whole conspiracy to defraud the government. Horrible Per* Marquette Wreck. Thirty-on* excursionists met death and over seventy more were injured, many of them fatally, when an excursion train on the Fere Marquette Road, carrying almost 1,000 employes of the Fere Marquette shop* at lonia and members of their families, collided with a local freight tain at Washburn Crossing, about two mile* east of Salem, Mich. Thread la to Coat Tea Cents. . Cotton thread, until a short time ago "the mqst stable in price of all th* staples, selling the country over for 5 cents a spool, Is to be advanced again, so that the [etail price will be 10 cento. On May 29 there was an advance which brought the market price to 0 and 7 cents. Cotton thread for domestic use is manufactured almost exclusively by the combine. Slav* Three and la Slain. Henry Scutcheon, a farmer of Nunica, Mich., erased by financial troubles, killed his wife, son and fatber-in-law and was himself slain by a neighbor. Attempts Salclde on Grave. Mrs. Mabel Parrctt, said to be an old ■weetbrart of Fred H. Msgill, who, with hi* bride, 1* a prisoner at San Diego on • murder charge, was found unconscious on the grave of Mrs. Fet Magill, his alv ictim, in Clinton, 111. She had I taken strychnine, and her attempt at suiCJds may be successful.