Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — ROAD IS OUTLAWED [ARTICLE]

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