Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. <wir _ r^r ,. - r i OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

ROAD IS OUTLAWED

LICENSE OF SOUTHERN REVOKED IN ALABAMA. ■ley Taken In fompliiincc with Sn» Lan to rnitih Tor Appent to I't-il-fr»l Court—Dortor Sue* for I>o*t Diploma. Alabama has entered in earnest upon the war now being waged l\v Southern States against the railroads, and Friday took a step in advance of North Carolina by summarily revoking the license of the Southern Railway Company to do business in the State, thus outlawing the greatest corporation in the South—Keiug-without-the pale of the law. the company: cannot claim police protection nor resort to the State courts for -redress. The license was formally revoked by Secretary of State Frank N. Julian, who caused to be entered upon the stub of such license in, the records of his office the eta tennnt that for violation of Senate -Lill No. -86, effective- the-SauUh_ en» railway bad been deprived oflts right to do business in the State. Act 86 provides that ."Alien any foreign corporation is sued in the State courts and removes •uch suit from the State to thw "fritrTffU court clerk of the court from which the removal was taken will at one.* cor- - tify such action to the Secretary of State, “who shall thereupon immediately cancel •aid license and make and enter upon the stub thereof an order in substance.”

BASE BALI. STANDINGS. Cantei Won mid -Lott by Clubs In I‘rlnciiinl Leagn ei. NATIONAL LEAGUE. *W. L. W. L. Chicago ....71 24 Brooklyn ...42 53 Pittsburg ..5G 35 Cincinnati ..42 53 Kew Y0rk..54 3S Boston r.... 3855 Philadelphia 49 40 St. Louis... .23 77 “AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ....59 37 New Y0rk...43 49 Detroit ....55 35 Boston 3,7 54 Pbii'delphia 53 37 St. L0ui5....37 55 Cleveland . .55 39 Washington. 28 61 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Toledo 65 40 Milwaukee ..50 53 Columbus . .56 47 Kansas City .51 ‘55 Minneapolis 58 50 Indianapolis 47 61 Louisville ..51 54 St. Paul... .43 02 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Ornaha .62 41 Denver .....40 47 lies Moines.so 43 Pueblo .....41 54 Lincoln .... 54 47 Sioux City.. 37 61. MAN SLAIN AND MUTILATED.

Body of William Gnnreth, Hit by Four Bullets, Found in Uklahomn. With ears backed from the head, the trunk and one arm pierced with four bullets, teeth knocked out, the mouth bruised end clotted blood formed upon the lips, the body of Wilbur Gunreth, formerly of South Bend, Ind., a barber, who is supposed to have come to Oklahoma City a short time ago from Seminole, I. T„ was found three miles west of the city by a farmer. This is the second body that has been found near Oklahoma City within the last week with the ears cut off and a secret society, formed to wreak horrible vengeance on its enemies, is operating in and near Oklahoma City. DIPLOMA LOSTj ASKS $20,000. Omaha Physician Snes Adams Express Company for That Amount. Dr. George 11. Whiteside of Omaha filed in the District Court a suit for $20,000 against the Adams Express Company for the loss of his diploma from Harvard University, alleging that it "is impossible for him to procure a duplicate. In August, 1903, Dr. Whiteside submitted his diploma to the State board of medical examiners at Lincoln. Later it was expressed to him by the board, but was lost in transit. Biff Fine for Rockefeller. The Standard Oil Company Saturday received the most terrific blow in its history, and simultaneously was served with notice that more serious trouble was, in •tore for it. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, in the United States District Court at Chicago fined the company $29,240,000, the extreme limit of the penalty fixed for the acceptance of illegal rebates under the conviction of last April. This fine is by far the largest ever assessed in any case in the history of jurisprudence. It was accompanied by a scathing criticism «f the oil trust's methods.

DclrcatCi to Trn»t Conlrrrnrr. Delegates from forty-one States have been named by Governors to take part in the National Civic Federation conference on trusts and combinations to be held in Chicago in October. Alarm (or Mnnalleld. Alarm is felt for Richard Mansfield, whoso recovery from a nervous breakdown is slow. Hie actor, who ia in the Adirondack#, has lost flesh, is pale and weak and suffers pain. Workmen Die t> Old Coin. « Workmen excavating in MarysviDe. .■oar Fredericton, N. 8., have uncovered 102 Spanish gold coins of the eighteenth century. The money is worth about $2,000. To Meet Crisis la China. That the trip of United States warships to the Pacific is to be on hand in cane of a threatened internal crisis in China and has no connection with Japanese affairs is the opinion of well-in-ffnrmed circles in Washington. vx'' i , S

LIVES LOST AS BOAT BURNS.

Women ftnd fTillUren Jump Into Water In Now York State In Panic. S' Notable examples of heroism, as well as a few examples of cowardice, attended the burning and sinking of the steamer Front, nac on Cayuga lake. New York, Saturday. The death list is- believed to 'dJS _ lTnmed to eight, the number first reported. A feearch along Cayuga lake TmcTTn 'niiil underneath the charred hulk oFthe steamer failed to reveal any more bodies, and the officials think that no more lives were lost. No inquiries have come in to Ithaca or Union Springs for persohs not accounted for. The accident happened about two miles south of Union Springs. Just before the boat reached Aurora about fifty persons were ready to go aboard, but the high wind prevented the boat from landing. This undoubtedly saved mapy from death. Tht fire was started by throwing a cigarette or match into the companionway.

One of the most pathetic incidents was the death' of little Grace Abel. Her grandmother jumped with the child held close in her arms. She wrns rescued while at tbo -point of death and'lief first exclamation was, “I am ao glad the baby has been &aved.” Yet the child had been dead for some tthi&j Notable examples of heroism were prevalent on all sides. Little Frank Alcott, 12 years old, towed his grandmother ashore on a life raft with the simple remark, “I paddled my hardest to save my grandmother, because she was alone and eouM.-BOt-.swhu.**- Roland Genung, sot) of Sheriff Genung. absolutely refused to leave the boat, without liis mother. Both were saved. Mrs. TYithi 11, a woman ter andLboth reached the shoro in safety. Although there were many stirring deeds of heroism, it must be "that here and there in the gathering there was a cowardly heart. For there were men on the steamer who thought only of their own safety, and apt only refused to nssist the helpless women and children, but actually thrust them ruthlessly aside in a mad endeavor to reach the side of the steamer.

SENATOR PETTUS IS DEAD.

Alabama Ilna Its New United States Senator Already Chosen. By the death of Senator Edmund W. Pettus at Hot Springs, N. C., Saturday, former Gov. Joseph F. Johnson practically becomes Senator from Alabama. lie was elected .second alternate Senator at the recent primaries and his election by the Legislature is a mere formality. Senator Pettus’ death at the age of 86 was caused by an apoplectic stroke, suffered at breakfast. He had been in poor health for some time. Edmund Winston Pettus was the oldest man in the United States Senate. He also enjoyed the distinction of being one of the few survivors of the Mexican war. He was born in Limestone county, Alabama, in IS2I, being dsseended from a Revolutionary soldier. He graduated from Clinton college, Tennessee, and studied and practiced law in Alabama until the Mexican war, when he went to California, but returned to Alabama and was elected Judge in 1855. He resigned in 1858, moving to Dallas county, where he resided at the time of his death. In 1861 he entered the Confederate army as major and was promoted gradually until he became a brigadier general. At the end of the war he resumed the practice of law. In 1896 he was nominated by the Democrats and elected United States Senator. He waa unanimously re-elected in 1903, his term expiring March S, 1909. Senator Pettus ha# missed only two Democrats national conventions since the war and has generally been chairman of the Alabama delegation.

Medical Colleges Condemned.

A special committee of the American Medical Association, which was appointed three years ago to Investigate AheAnstmction and standaads of the various medical colleges in the United States, has now submitted Its report which condemns about one-half of all the so-called medical colleges. Among the members of the committee are: Doctors Bevan of Chicago, Frazier of Pennsylvania university, JVitherspoon of Nashville, Councilman of Boston, Vaughn of Ann Arbor and Colwell of Chicago. The committee finds that there are too many of these schools In which preliminary education is insufficient, and in which the course of instruction is Inadequate and the lack of trained teachers evident. It appears that there are now in this country 160 medical schools, or as many as in all Europe. The report holds that the great advance in the sciences in recent years has made necessary a much broader and more thorough course of medical education than formerly prevailed. It insists that a four-year high school course is required; a year of physics, chemistry and biology; two years of practical laboratory work; two years of clinical work in hospitals, and a year as interns in a hospital. To proviso adequate equipment, medical schools must be endowed. It Is found that many of our medical schools are still conducted solely for profit, which is contrary to the spirit of true attainment.

Use of Chemicals in Food.

Th« Department of Agriculture has promulgated regulations governing the use of benzokte of soda and sulphur fumes as preservatives of fruits and other foods. In accordance with the provision of law that food products shall not contain substances which lessen their wholesomeness, orders were issued that no drag, chemical or harmful • or deleterious dye of preservative should be used. These regulations were temporarily withheld, owing to strong protests from certain quarters. The statement now issued permits the use of common salt, sugar, wood smoke, potable distilled liquors and condiments, and, pending farther investigation, the use of saltpeter.

Report Favorable.

Hie impression that we have entered on a period of business contraction was n'ot confirmed by the semi-annual report of the H. B. Cl&flin dry goods house, which is generally regarded aa a good barometer of trade conditions. Hits report showed that the first half of the year had been one of the most prosperous in the company’s history, and that sales booked for future delivery were larger thaa on the corresponding date la any previous pear.

STANDARD OIL COMPANY FINED $29,240,000

- Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of the Federal District Oojnrt in Chicago on Saturday fined the Standard Oil Company $29,240,0001 for having violated the Elkins law pertaining to rebates, on 1,462 counts. It was the maximum penalty permitted by the statutes. And it is the largest assessment for an infraction of law that is recorded in all history, for all governments. This vast sum of money is not to be paid without protest, however. Attorneys for the oil corporation announced their intention of perfecting an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals. From there It is announced the case will go to the Federal Supreme Court. Judge Kenesaw M. Landis of the United States District Court, who inflicted the unprecedented penalty, did not stop with the imposition of the fine. He directed attention to the “studied insolence” of the legal representatives of the corporation to the court of which he was the representative and commented forcefully upon it. After denouncing the methods of the oil company, which lie declared imposed burdens ui>on every class of citizens and wounded society more deeply than open depredations of criminals, the jurist expressed regret that only a fine could be imposed for violations of the law under which the company was indicted. While this regret was being voiced it was recalled that there still are pending against the oil corporations seven Indictments like the one just disposed of, containing 4.422 counts. Should there be convictions on all these counts there would be possible additional fines *K)f $55.440.000. Sprtnira Second Senuntlon. While occupants of the crowded courtroom leaned forward in amazement at the drastic arraignment of the corporation and the gigantic penalty meted out to it. the jurist stirred them anew. Judge Landis had no sooner mentioned the amount of the $29,240,000 fine than he caused a second tremendous seusatton that he would call a grand jury to investigate the relations of the railroads to the big rebate conspiracy. In view of his remark that the penitentiary was the place for the and that Congress at the last session passed an act under which they may be sentenced to serve tfane*. the effect was electric. . “Rockefeller and his associates, together with the officials of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, might be want tn the penitentiary ns the result of this new Investigation,” admitted one of the attaches of the District Attorney’s office. "This could only be done If the offenses have been continued since Congress made conspiracy in restraint of trade a penitentiary offense.” It was a dramatic morning In court What Judge Landis had to say to John D. Rockefeller's trust will live as on* of the most remarkable utterances coming from, the bench. Twice Judge

Landis was applauded. But he halted the demonstration himself, rapping fiercely on the wooden desk in front of him with his bare knuckles. Backed by the cohesive forces of the United States authorities, it is expected that Judge Landis will proceed against the railroad companies that gave to Mr. Rockefeller's oil trust Illegal rebates. And he.will attack the individuals of both the oil and the railroad corporations instituting and permitting such preferential rates. The railroads are likely , to be indicted on lines identical with the procedure in the Standard Oil cases fined by Judgq Landis. The individuals will be prosecuted under the conspiracy act under wlilch, after conviction, there Is prescribed a penitentiary sentence. Thus John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, John D. Arohbold, 11. H. Rogers, J. A. Moffett and other officers of the Standard Oil Company, together with the contracting freight officers, auditors and other executives of the offending railroad companies are to be Indicted with the end tn view’ of placing them In prison. The session was declared by many of the lawyers to be an epoch-making one In national history. From the Federal bench and with the co-opera-tion of the States Government prosecutors tlw Standard Oil Company had received commensurate with the vastness of its hold Inga If the parent body of New Jersey does not come to the assistance of its subsidiary branch It is considered likely the Indiana company will succumb. From the bench it has been denounced as lawless, Insolent and menacing to the nation. The accepting and granting of rebates has been declared to be the chief cause of Its wealth and the reason for the death of Its rivals. The Infliction of the maximum fines has established a precedent that Is taken to mean the elimination of rebating and the probable prosecution of railroad officials on charges of conspiracy to violate the Interstate commerce law, punishable Uy penal Imprisonment.

FEATURES OF THE DECISION.

To lake from a corporation oue-iliirfi of its net revenues accrued during a period of violations is not as much real poweras is employed when sentence is imposed taking from a human being one day of hrs liberty. It is rhe business of a judge to administer the law as he finds it, rather than to expatiate upon the inadequacy of punishment authorized for its infraction. Common honesty among men ought not to be altogether ignored in business, even in this day. It is the substance of the thing and hot the mere form with which the law is concerned. Waiving the question of the studied insolence of this language, in so far as it may be aimed at the present occupant of the bench, the court can, of course, only leave to the discretion of the Standard Oil Company the wisdom and propriety of a $100,000,000 corporation gratuitously inaugurating agitation about the “mob.” If a carrier enters the field for traffic destined to points beyond its line and a shipper turns his property so destined over to it, such transportation is as clearly subject to the requirements of the interstate commerce law as would be the case if the carrier owned and operated the line through to destination. Motive is not material in a case where the proof is clear that it was the defendant who committed the crime. The court is not impressed by the doleful predictions of counsel for the defendant as to the hardships upon the honest shipping public to be anticipated from the enforcement of this rule. The honest man who tenders a commodity for transportation by a railway company will not be fraudulently misled by that company into allowing it to haul his property for less than the law authorizes it to collect. Under the doctrine insisted upon by the defendant, the railway company might give the Standard Oil Company a very low transportation rate and,-by contract, obligate itself to withhold the same rate from the very man the taking of whose property by condemnation rendered possible the construction of the road. It is novel indeed for a convicted defendant to urge the complete triumph of a dishonest course as a reason why such course should go unpunished. The conception and execution of such a commercial policy necessarily involves the contamination of subordinate officers or employes, even looking to the time when testimony will be required for the protection of the revenues of the offender from the exactions of the law for its violation. We might as well look at this situation squarely. The men who thus deliberately violate this law wound society more deeply than does he who counterfeits the coin or steals letters from the mail. Where the only possible motive of the crime is the enhancement of dividends, and the only punishment authorized is a fine, great caution must be exercised by the court lest the fixing of a small amount encourage the defendant to future violations by esteeming the penalty to be in the nature of a license.

NEW BLOW FALLS.

Oil Monopoly Charged with Unlawful Methods In Raising Prices. Following close on the track of the $29,240,000 fine imposed by Judge Landis in Chicago on the Standard Oil Company for violation of the Elkins law in unlaw-i fully swelling its profits by accepting secret rebates from the, Chicago and Alton Railroad, significant revelations are made public in a report submitted to President Roosevelt by Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Corporations, concerning the operationd of the Standard company. In a previous report the means and methods of the Standard were explained. The present report sets forth the results of those methods and the effect they have had on the consumer of oil and on the profits of the Standard Oil Company. It deals with profits and price, showing just how the manipulation of the oil industry by the Standard has affected the pocket-* book of the American people. The report is accompanied by a letter from Mr. Smith to the President, in which the commissioner makes a scathing summary of the facta found in the report Three men killed In collapse of concrete building In Philadelphia.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

■ - CHICAGO. - Midsummer quiet is more in but no loss of strength appears in the general conditions supporting the business outlook. The recent ratio of gain in the volume of payments through banks is not sustained this week and the record of trading defaults again compares unfavorably in numbers with those a year ago. —Tire leading industries disclose mo- special change. . Satisfactory weather permits factory production to "run. without hindrance, and the volume of distribution of finished products and general merchandise makes an increasing "exhibit,, although there is smaller movement of grain, due to decreased marketings. New demands in iron and steel aggreeate no less than expected at this time, but there are more bookings of contracts for cars and other equipment, and inquiries increase for rails and plates to be taken next year. Furnaces work close to capacity: Operations at the mines are now rushed in the effort to overcome the setback caused by the strike. A further decline is established in copper, but other markets for raw materials continue steady. Building activity retains a good outlook. The wholesale markets for staples advance in activity. Agricultural affairs are seen to be much better than a month ago, and the returns obtained for grain and live stock steadily enrich growers throughout the West. Harvest reports indicate seasonable progress, w r ith winter wheat and oats making good yields. Corn improves right along and spring wheat sections send in more encouraging advjfes.~ Supplies of live stock fail to measure up adequately, and this brings the highest values recorded this year for choice beeves and, further rise in hogs, products of the latter also making a higher average cost. — Dun’s Review of Trade. NEW YORK. —Crops, particularly, corn and —eetten?--haye shown further improvement, there is. freer buying for “fall at leading southwestern markets, shipments of fall goods are expanding and there is evident a more optimistic feeling as to distributive trade generally, based upon the active trade done of late at retail. Relatively most activity is noted in the larger southwestern markets, at few central western centers, and at the larger eastern cities. In the South midsummer quiet rules. In some lines of wholesale trade, such as cotton dry goods, the activity manifested is still notable. Spelter, copper and lead are weaker, and business is light. Raw wool is notably strong. Business failures for .the week in the United States number 142, against 155 last week. 170 in the like week in 1906, 178 in 1905, 179 in 1904 and 164 in 1903. — Bradstreet’a Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.50; hogs, prime heavy, SI.OO to $6.85; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.70; wheat, No. 2,90 cto Dio; corn, No. 2,53 cto 55c; oats, standard, 46c to 47c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 82c; hay, timothy. $14.00 to $21.00; prairie, $9.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 24c; eggs, frcsli, 14c to -17 c; per bushel, 80c to 90c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.10; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $6.55; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,85 cto 87c; corn, No. 2 white, 52c to 56c; oats, No. 2 white, 45c to 46c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $7.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.45; sheep, sj.U>o to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,87 cto S9c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats. No. 2,45 cto 46c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 84c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.85; wheat, No. 2,90 cto 91c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2. 86c to SSe. 11 Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,91 cto 92c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 56c to 58c; oats, No. 3 White, 49c to 50c; rye, No. 2,79 cto 80c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 3,53 cto 54c; oats, standard, 45c to 47c; rye, No. 1, 85c to 87c; barley, standard, 69c to 70c; pork, mess, $16.27. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.90; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $6.75; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.00; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to SB.OO. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.85; hogs, $4.00 to $6.80; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 2,59 cto 00c; oats, natural white, 53c to 55c; butter, creamery, 22c to 25c; eggs, western, 16c to 20c. Toledo—Wheat, No.. 2 mixed, 89c to 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No. 2,74 cto 75c; clover seed, prime, $9.45.

News of Minor Note.

Public meetings are being held in Chile, in opposition to the education bill, which it is feared would give the clerical party control of the schools. An earthquake that rocked the tall buildings was felt in Santa Barbara, Cal. Several women attending the-Potter theater fainted. John D. Rockefeller told the Euclid Avenue Baptist Sunday school of Cleveland the secret of happiness. He raid it lay in self-sacrifice and doing good ta others. >' An attempt was made t> wreck ;he ttaittcn which Grand Duke IVter N’u-’so-licvitch. cousin of the Czar, was traveling from I'eterhof to St. Petersburg. A i-e----tard exploded on the track, but tnc ‘.rain wes not derailed.