Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — UNCLE SAM NOTICES. [ARTICLE]

UNCLE SAM NOTICES.

ATTENTION ATTRACTED BY WORDS OF FILIPINO. § " “T **l»nrf Youth at Cornell Reported to Have Remarked thnt Philippine* Would Welcome Japanese lavailon. Romarica Ageaoili, a government student at Cornell University from Laoag, Philippine Islands, received a letter from the United States War Department the othre morning threatening to have him removed from the university on account «f his reported public utterances against I, the American rule in the Philippines. The ward them a copy of his speech and a full explanation: The speech referred to stated that “the Filipino colony at the Cornell summer school is considerably a cite ted over what sonny members of tbo colony describe as unrest amonc the people of the Philippines, not unlike the dissatisfaction that preceded the outbreak «f hostilities against Spain, they say. v "According to* these natives, of the Oriental islands, their countrymen are quite miserable tinder the protection of the Stars and Stripes, look back longingly to the days of Spanish rate, and would welcome a Japanese invasion Jjiat might free them from America.” The meeting at ~;ißiidl ttesr Uttersncea-were reported to have been made was held last Thursday night in Barnes' Hall, the largest auditorium on the Cornell campus. Several hundred students, members of the faculty, and a number of Japanese students were present. The meeting was one of the formal -national entertainments of the Cosmopolitan Club of the university, In whose membership some twenty-five countries are represented. According to the testimony of many jtersons present during the evening and their own statements, no indication was given by them •r intimated' in their speeches which «ould have warranted the report that' they “prefer Japanese to American rule.”

BASK BALL STANDINGS. Games Won and Lost by Club* tn Principal Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....64' 24 Brooklyn ...41 48 Pittsburg ..52 32 Boston 36 48 New Y0rk..50 34 Cincinnati ..36 51 Phil'del phia 45 37 St, Louis.... 21 71 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. U Chicago ....54 35 New Y0rk...41 45 Cleveland ..63 35 St. Louis.. .-.-36 51 Detroit ... .50 34 Boston j ... .33 52 PbiVdelphisi 49 36 Washington. 27 55 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. W. L. Toledo 57 38 Milwaukee ..47 48 Minneapolis 54 43 Louisville ...45 51 Columbus ..52 42 St. Paul... .40 57 Kansas City. 49 47 Indianapolis 40 58 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. fc. w. L. Omaha ....59 38 Denver .....41 45 Lincoln 53 41 Sioux City.. 37 54 Des Moines. 47 40 Pueblo 34 53

STEEL CITY IN CANADA. BiS Corporation Selects Sandwich, Ont., as Place for New Town. Hie United States Steel CompansJias siren op its options on property at Thorold, Sarnia, and Owen Sound, Ont., having finally decided to build its Canadian steel plant at Sandwich, opposite Detroit. It is not improbable that work will be begun by Oct. 1 on a model city of IKK) to 1,000 acres at Sandwich, which will haYe an initial population of about 8,000 people. Four blast furnaces will be erected and chief attention will be devoted to making rails which the Canadian government has subjected to a" duty of $7 a ton when shipped from the United States.

Jury Acquit* Harwood. The jury at Boise, Idaho, after deliberating twenty-one hours, brought in a verdict of not guilty in tho case of William D. Haywood, indicted for the murder of former Gov. Steunenberg. Compromise la Rate Lam Trouble. President W. W. Finley of the Southern railroad was arrested for violation of the North Carolina rate law, but was freed by habeas corpus and soon afterward a compromise was agreed on. Aau«»t Park Destroyed. A big blase at Coney Island caused wild panic among freaks and chorus girls and destroyed Steeplechase Park and other property worth a million. Nine Men Are Drowned. A gasoline launch with ten men on board capsized in Humber, near Toronto, Ont., and only one succeeded la reaching Che near by shore, during a heavy thunderstorm. _ Automobile Strikes Bridge. An outomobilist drove his car into a bridge at North Attleboro, Mass., aud a woman was killed and three others were injured. Crazed by the tragedy, he jumped into the river, but reached shore. PI re In Item York Tenement. Explosion and fire in New York lenoment Allied fourteen persons and twenty were fatally hurt. Alabama Senator Dies. Edmund Winston Pettus, Puked States Senator from Alabama, died at a hotel in Hot Springs, N. C. Death followed an attack of apoplexy. jVo PrslMi Cremate* Her*elf. Angered because her husband refused to praise her for saving money on pur chases for their stors and for recent heavy sales, Mrs. Anna Lowe of Little Bock, 'Ark., poured a gallon of coal oil on bar bead, told her little daughter to watch and see the show, and then set fire to the f - ' * '> -*- V ' - . nil*.,