Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. - ...J” RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

BIG FINE IMPENDS.

RAILROAD AND OIL CORPORA. TIONS INDICTED. B«ld in New York for Glvlhk ««><l Receiving; Illegal Concession* in Oil Shipments—Shock Restores Deaf Man** Hearing. Sour big corporations were indicted by the federal grand jury for the western I district of New York, which reported to Judge Hazel!. The report was only a partial one, but it included ten indicteients. Two pf those were against the •Standard Oil Company of New York, one of them containing 188 counts and the ether forty counts: two were against lhA Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester and containing 188 and forty counts y respect tively; two were against the New York Ontral and the Pennsylvania Kail way companies, jointly, and two more were against these two companies separately. In each of these the counts were similar, 188 and forty. The indictments against the oil companies charge receiving and accepting illegal concessions in the shipment of oil, and those against the railway companies charge illegally giving and granting such concessions. , BASE BALL STANDINGS. Game* Won and Lorn by Clnbs In 3 Pel nelpalLen g nes. NATIONAL LEAGUE. —W. 1 W. IChicago ....75 28 Brooklyn ...47 55" Pittsburg ..58 39 Cincinnati ..45 57 New York. t SS 40 Boston .. .. .38 62Pliirdelphia 53 43 St. L0ui5....28 78 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. I. Detroit ....58 37 New Y0rk...45 52 Phii'delphia 58 .‘IS Boston .....42 56 Chicago ~. .01 42 St. Louis... .4'o 57 Cle’. land . .57 43 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. I- W. I- - Toledo ..... 68 n Milwaukee ..52. 58 Columbus ..62 4!l .Indianapolis 54 62 Minneapolis GO 55 Kansas "City .53 61 Louisville ..58 55 St. Pau1..,..45 6S WESTERN LEAGUE. W. L. W. 1.. Omaha ....65 46 Denver 52 4!) Des Moines. 53 46 Pueblo 45 56 Lincoln .... 57 50 Sioux City •• 40 65 MAN’S HEARING RESTORED. Hurled Fifty Feet by Bolt of LightKing, .Defective Sense Is Cured. A stroke of lightning has restored the bearing of William B. Chase of Deadwood, S. D., who has been stone deaf for seventeen years. Chase was out in the -Mils—whemt .fearful ~ storm-arose.—He ran for the shelter of a tree, which he reached just as lightning struck it, -learning it to pieces. The man was thrown fifty feet, and when he was picked up he remarked in a dazed sort of way : "Say, I heard that crash all right. Guess 1 can hear anything now.” He was correct in his guess, for he could hear the faintest whisper twenty feet away. Doctors say his hearing has been completely restored, and that he never will lie deaf again.

Body of max fol nd. Skeleton I* Dug from Colorado Grave Located by Steve Adam>« The >kt Irton .of W. J. Barney, the timberman employed on the SthitgglerUnion mine. who mysteriously disa=pi>eared in the month of Juno. 1901. was exhtijned the other day twelve miles from Telluride, Colo,. by Bttlkeley Weils, manager of the Smuggler-Union Millihg Company. The location of the grave was pointed out by Steve Adams, now in jail in Idaho awaiting a second trial on the charge of murder. He is alleged to have confessed to the assassination of Arthur Collins, formerly general manager of the fitnuggier-rnion .mine, and also told how Barney was murdered because Ito hid incurred the ill will of the union. Dr. Lord, a who had performed certain dental work for Barney, was unable to identify the skeleton from this. CAN FIND Tl BERIVLOSIS GERM. Method Diacovered for Aaccrlniuing Pmeaee of Dlaraar. A method by which the' presence of tuberculosis can hr detect ml has been made known to the French Academic des Sciences in Paris. According to advices received at the State Deppftmcnt. it consists in inoculating the patient with h few drojw of the tuberculin of Koch. If tuberculosis does not exist the little incision heals rapidly, but if the patient is affected the incision rubbed with the tuberculin becomes inflamed and a pustule similar to that of vaccine appears. General's Grandchild Elope*. Julia Jackson Christian of Atlanta, a 1 granddaughter of Gen. "Stonewall” Jack•on, eloped with W 7 J. Alexander, a young lawyer of Charlotte, N. C. Toadstool* Fatal Food. ' XUw dead and four dying is the result of a family party eating toadstools for j mushrooms at Deep Valley, W. Va. Cracker Men to Combine. Plans are said to have been completed for the organization of a big cracker bakery combine, which will be known as the General Biscuit Company, and which will take over.about one bundrad of the leading independent cracker bakeries of the country. Orders Hl* Leg Cat Off. His leg pinned under the engine, Chas. Sbudle|, a Brakeman on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road, gave ore ders to have it cut off so that be Could fcs liberated from his oerllous nosition.

SHIPS SHELL A CITY.

MOORISH TOWN OF CASABLANCA , BOMBARDED.French and Spanish Cruisers Open Fire Following; Battle with Trlbesnen—Holy War Declared to Be Begun—Two Nation* Land Troop*. French and Spanish warships bombarded Cnsablanioa as the result of Moorish tribesmen tiring ujkid troops landed to protect tihq French Consulate. Many casualties are reported. The French Admiral ordered 150 sailors co go ashore from the cruiser Galilee to protect the •“ French consulate. The Moorish troops and tribesmen looked upon the landing of the men as an invasion and opened fire upon them. Besides many casualties among the Moors, it is reported that five French officers and six sailors fell In the opening of host! 1 itles. __— , When the shells began breaking over the town, the Moors quickly fell back and the French sailors were able to rake up the wounded and care for them. The Moors are aroused as they never were before, and, spurred on by their fanatic fears that invasion of their —. . A-- . -. L. ct A 1* .-v /-..S zl tjotn.trry oy rnrri^u*»s ihvuils me. euu jtf their rule, they are preparing themselves for a stubborn defense of what they deem their rights. A dispatch from Tangier describing the bombardment of Casablancasays that the French cruiser Du Chayla and the Spanish gunboat' Don Alviara de Bazan participated with-the Galilee in the bombardment of the villages surrounding Casabla noa, which were destroyed by the fire-of the warships. During the bombardment large relnforeements of tribesmen came up. and

A view looking toward the Atlantic Ocean of Casablanca, Moroccan town, where the fanatical Moham-. madans declared a holy war and slew with horrible torture a dozen European whites.

many of them killed or wounded. The Casablanca battery Joined in the Oring on the foreign warships, whereupon the guns of the French and Spanish cruisers were turned on the battery, which soon caused the Moorish cosntnander to send a messenger to the French admiral requesting his pardon. This was refused, ami the admiral sent a peremptory order to the Moorish commander to surrender himself to the French consul. Morocco lias warned all foreigners to leave Rabat, the seaport on its west coast, as a massacre is believed to be Imminent- Eurojieans are terrorstriven because of the throat of the Mbors that all Christians are to be massacred in what is believed will be the greatest holy war in the world's history. ■ -» Orßica in Holy War. The declaration of war such as has just broken put , iri T'asSUlabea, Morocco. with the murder and torture of a number of Christians, or Nazarenes. as the Mohammedans derisively call the whites, is a periodical event in northern Africa. It is always attended with fanatical orgies of the wildest kind, and the life of a Christian falling int<y the Jiands of the religion's crazed mob is not worth a straw. Death is not enough, either, aad the most atrocious indignities are visited upon the bodies of the "intid ’l." Travelers who have witnessed the beginnings of "holy wars” say that the scenes attending them are weird arid thrilling. The white-robed fanatics, with coal black faces, blazing eyes and bared, white teeth, dash hither and thither through-the narrow streets, sometimes •bricking curses at Christians and their religion, changing to a ehaut of passages from the koran and finally throwing themselves to the ground with their faces to the oast, and praying to Allah and Mohammed bis prophet. In these frenzies there is no deed that they will not perform: a holy war enthusiast,would alone charge a regiment of white soldiers and die. with a smile of Joyous happiness.

Greek-American Steamship Line.

The establishment of the first steamship line operating between Greece and the United States was signalized by the recent arrival in New York harbor of the Greek ship Moraitis of the Hellenic Trans-Atlantic line. She is said to be the first passenger steamship to visit New York, and, incidentally, is the largest merchantman under Grecian colors. She has cabin accommodations for 100 passengers and steerage 'Tqnojfters for 1,000. "Her capacity is 6,000 tons and her speed about fourteen knots. The intention is to add two m«r« vessels to the line so as to give a tea-slay sailing asrvice in the near future.

KILLED MOTHER; ISN’T SORRY.

Freckle-Faced Boy Doe* Not Regret Fatal Scheme of Revenge. A freckle-faced lad of 11 years, the murderer of his widowed mother, has begun a sentence of ten years Ln the Btafie reform school at Lincoln, Neb. He is Calif McCoy, an little 1 lad. Calif is not at all contrite over his deed. He says he killed bis mother because she was mran td*"hiin. Rock county is up on the edge of the sandhills, and on a quarter section lived the/Widow McCoy and her three sons. It was a hard life the family led. Work all day, little pleasure, no schooling—this was the program the lad was familiar with from infancy. The widow was a hard taskmaster and she did not spare the rod. On June 6 shfe gave Calif a sound whipping for failure to perform a task to her liking. Calif told his mother he would “fix” her. She whaled him a little harder for his threat. The next day she told the three boys to come with her to the field to plant beans. Calif slipped into the kitchen and got the family revolver. Hiding it under his coat, he went to the field. While his mother was crouched down at her task he walked up to within five or six feet of her and shot her through the head. She died in a few moments. Calif made no pretense of lying about what he had done. He said she had'whipped him a number of times without cause, that she was mean to him and to his brothers and that he had but carried out his open threat to her when last she whipped him. He did not weep then, and he hasn’t wept since over her death.

SECOND COAL FAMINE.

Another Shortage Threaten* Region Beyond Upper Lake*. A coal famine far more serious than the one which caused such immense hardship and cost so many lives last year will seize the Northwest in its grip during the coming winter, according to the statement of prominent ('levelanrl .fuel Shippers. It is declared that the inability of the railroads to supptyHhe boats with enough coal, and. the great demand for ore occasioned by the closing of the strike

STREET IN MOORISH CITY BOMBARDED BY FRENCH.

Crowd of white-robed Mohammedans in a narrow street in Casablanca.

of ore handlers, will bring about a farreaching shortage of fuel at upper lake points. '<* With the best of fortune and if all the holies of vessel men are fulfilled the region beyond the upper lakes will have a shortage of from 3,000,000 to 5.000,000 tons of coal, according to estimates by prominent shippers. Ohio shippers are rushing fuel to upper lake ports in every vessel they can charter. Since the opening of navigation shipments to the head of the lakes have been considerably greater than they were a year ago.

Sparka from the Wires.

The Georgia senate passed the prohibition bill practically as it came from the bouse. Workipen excavating in Marysville, N. 8., uncovered 102 Spanish gold coins of the eighteenth century. The money ia worth about $2,000. Mandamus proceedings were brought in the Supreme court at San Francisco to ctmpeJ City Auditor Horton to recognii« Edward JL Taylor aa mayor.

Press Opinions on Standard Oil Fine

The one object of the law under which this fine is levied is to secure justice and the protection of equal rights in transportation.—Philadelphia Press. There is at present no visible golden lining to the cldud which seems to have darkened the horizon of the Standard Oil Company.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.* Whether or not the Supreme Court sustains the decision of Judge Landis in the suit against the Standard Oil Company, there can be no doubt that public opinion will sustain it. —Chicago Post. The case was plainly one in which, if the law was to be upheld and punishment for its violation made deterrent, it seemed necessary to resort to extreme penalties.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The Standard Oil Company, with its practical monopoly of the market, has only to raise the price of its commodity a few cents a gallon, and the consumers will pay. the fine. —Detroit Free Press. The people, intolerant of punishing by a method which inevitably reacts upon themselves, will speedily see to it that the individual criminals are punished by incarceration.- —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The fine levied by Judge Landis will have a valuable and far-reaching effect in demonstrating the supremacy of the iaw vover TiowerfuL and defiant aggregations of lawless wealth —Chicago News. The fact that the Standard Oil Com“pany'finds itself face= to face with‘aJaAsuflieient to stagger any corporation must have a sobering and cleansing effect upon the world of big business and “high finance.” —Cleveland Leader. The most obvious comment on the bumper fine imposed by Judge Landis on the Standard Oil Company of Indiana is that if the company deserves this maximum penalty of the law, then there are some of its officials or agents who de-

serve to be in the penitentiary.—St Louis Republic. If the Supreme Court should sustain the decision of Judge Landis we may confidently expect an advance in the price of oil. The oil trust will not pay fines out of its coffers when it can force the people to open their pocketbooks.—Baltimore Sun. Judge Landis’ action should prove a sharp rebuke to much incendiary talk that has lately been heard about the use of the federal courts as a shield for corporate oppression. Mr. Rockefeller, at least, will not to-day share that delusion. —New York World. If great corporations were as eager and industrious in observing the statutes in letter and in spirit as they often seem to be in skirting and straining them there would be little occasion for those corporations to complain that they are being unfairly treated by juries and little fear of their facing a monumental cash forfeiture like that now hanging over the Standard Oil Coaspnny of Indiana.—New York Tribura.

BANK THEFT EPIDEMIC.

It Ila* Lei to an Espionage Which' Distresse* Financial Employe,. The recent bank defalcations which culminated in the sensational robbery of the Wihdsdr Tsmsf Cbmpany m New Yofk by its model teller, Runyan', have resulted in bringing into public notice the fact, already known to men versed in the ways of Wall street, that thefts by employes of the great fiduciary institutions of the city have become so common as to be of serious concern to the controlling interests of these institutions. Despite the most elaborate precautions taken by bank officials to check the raids upon the funds Entrusted to their care, the record of embezzlements committed since last February shows that in that period there have been 100 per cent more defalcations in New York than in the preceding six months. Several of the large banking institutions which have heretofore exacted bonds only from those of their employes to whose care large amounts of cash were intrusted have within the last few months required from every clerk a guarantee of his honesty. In the case of a clerk who does not handle funds a bond of about $5,000 is now required, and the amount is increased in accordance with the responsibility. The surety companies, for their own particular reasons, are co-operating with the banks and other institutions which have called upon them to make good losses from theft. So strict a watch do they keep upon the men for whom they have given bond that scores of detectives are being employed to scrutinize their most Casual actions. Bank clerks in New York City are being watched as they have never been before. They »are being followed from their places of employment to their homes and from their homes to places of amusement. From information furnished by one of the detective bureaus, reporters have ascertained that stealing has become eo common in the financial district that practically every man handling funds is. now under surveillance. And the chieT" reason for this suwsion is said t* be the knowledge that men in such positions are tempted—here more than in any other American city—to speculate in stocks.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The alumni advisory board of Yai* university has recommended a moderate advance of the tuition charges in those departments where expenses have been considerably increased. At the same time the board has urged the adoption of a uniform system of loans to students, payable at reasonable periods after their graduation. TII9 trustees of Williams college have announced that President Henry Hopkins of the institution has tendered his resignation, to take effect in June, 1908. Prof. Harry A. Garfield, son of the late President James A. Garfield, a Williams alumnus and at present occupying the chair of politics at Princeton university, has been chosen to succeed President Hopkins. The Experiment Station - Record announces that the Massachusetts College has established a department of agricultural education, its work to include both instruction and research. Normal courses will be offered to prospective teachers, and studies will be made of problems confronting agricultural teaching in colleges and schools of various grades, and of agricultural extension, with a view to introducing agriculture into the elementary schools, establishing agricultural high schools, and correlating and unifying the agricultural instruction given in the State. The work will be in close co-op-eration with existing educational agencies, especially the State Industrial Commission. The declaration of principles made by the recent semi-centennial convention of the National Educational Association at Los Angeles indorses;, the growing insistence upon the special preparation of teachers; favors the advance in salaries to “a living ; approves the spread of rural high schools; says that commercial and trade schools should be added wherever possible; urges free evening schools and the use of buildings and grounds “for the relief of the poor of the crowded districts in the summer”; asks the harmonizing of child labor and truancy laws; regrets “the Revival of the idea that the common school is a place for teaching nothing but reading, spelling, writing and ciphering,” and declares (hat the object is “to teach children how to live righteously and happily, and that to accomplish this object it is essential that every school inculcate the love of truth, justice, purity an# beauty through the study also of biography, history, ethics, natural history, music, drawing and the manual arts. It also expresses the belief that interschool games should be played for sportsmanship and not merely for victory. It commends the tendencies of cities and towns to replace large school committees or boards with small boards, which determine general policies, but intrust all executive functions to salaried experts. It also approves in a qualified way the efforts of the simplified spelling board; urges the call for greater facilities for the bigfier education of women, especially in the South and West: gdvises the abolition of secret societies and fraternities in all secondary and elementary schools; approves the merit system of promoting teachesg, and filling vacancies; presses the- need of better facilities for the practical preparation of teachers; indorses The Hague conference and peace associations, and reflects somewhat vaguely upon the spirit of trades unionism among teachers. The School Board of Pittsburg, Pa., has decided to install a system of baths in one of its pnblic school buildings. This will be for the use of the school children during the day, while the mothers will be permitted to bring children after school hours. This is practically the first bathing plant established in the Pittsburg schools, for while one other was Instituted some years ago, it was for the use of kindergarten pupils only. Sydney Talbot, American in Txmdon, put Osler theory to shame by living and working until 99 years of age. (7

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. In the disturbing developments of the week, dearer money, weakness in the security markets and the more embarrassing telegraphers’ strike, there are rea-’ons for conservatism in business undertakings. Aside from these drawbacks trade maintains a steady course, with preparations for fall activity more in evidence, new demands equaling expectations at this time in the manufacturing branches and the buying of general merchandise being stronger. Crop reports carry additional encouragement, seasonable weather having brought rapid progress in corn and spring wheat growth, and this increases confidence among the agricultural interests. Transactions make a satisfactory exhibit Tn the s|eel industry, especTally for rails, plates, wire and miscellaneous shapes, while, specifications cause further pressure upon capacity of rolling mills. Furnace output is yet in rapid consumption and bookings run well ahead'in this district, but commitments for the last quarter show hesitancy, buyers awaiting price concessions. Some shading in quotations of iron for future delivery is reported and copp< r is easier without bringing out important deals. Distribution of the necessaries and heavy materials is seen to be remarkably active and freight earnings of the t'hi"cago roads surpass the high records made a yeatmgo. Large numbers of interior buyers crowd the wholesale market for staple wares and the general buying makes substantial gain in dry goods, clothing. boots and shoes and food product';. , ~ The markets for live stock and provisions touched the highest—average-veiues — recorded this.year, owing mainly to smaller supplies of the former, but spot grain and flour were in slow request. The markets for live stobk aud provisions touched the highest average values recorded this year, owing mainly to smaller supplies of the former, but spot grain and flour were in slow request. Bank clearings, $221,560,168, exceed those of corresponding week in 1896 by 13.4 per cent. Failures reported in the jChieago district number 26, against 30 last week and 24 a year ago.—Dun’s Review. NEW YORK. ’“'"‘Cross currents in crop aud trade developments render generalization difficult. Dispatches to Bradstreet's point io -further favorable progress by leading crop-, notably corn, cotton and spring wheat, but excepting oats, reports from which are not favorable. In the Southwest, Northwest and at large eastern e. nfe -s sentiment as to fall trade has been help<-d by these developments, and fail buying is becoming more noticeable, as country merchants are coming in increasing numbers. In some of the large industries, however, there is quieter trade in some branclvs with prices easing. Business failures for the week in the Tinted Slates number 157, against 142 last week, 137 in the like week of 1906. 166 in 1905, 167 in 1904 and 160 in 1903. Failures in C.inndt number 18, against 16 last week nrrft 19 in the week a year ago.—Bradstreet’s Commercial Report. .

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle. common to prime, $4.00 to $7.50; hogs, prime heavy. SI.OO to $0.12; sheep, fair to choice. S3.(H) to $5.85; wheat, No. 2. 85c to 86c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 55c: oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2. 74c to 75c: hay. timothy, $14.00 to $21.00; prairie. $9.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 24c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 17c; potato's, per bushel, 75c to 82c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. $3.00 to $7.15; hogs, choice heavy, $4.0'0 to $0.30; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,81 cto 83c; <•< rn, No. 2 white, SBc to 54c; oats, No. 2 white, 47c to 49c. St. Louis—Cattle. $4.50 to $7.40; hogs, $4.00 to $6.40; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,84 cto 85c; corn, No. 2,53 cto 54c; oats. No. 2,47 cto 49c: rye, No. 2,76 cto 78c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $4.00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $6.30: sheep. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,81 cto 88c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 50c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 2. S6e to SSc. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.25; sheep, $2.50 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2,87 cto 88c; corn. No. 3 yellow. 57c to 59c; oats. No. 3 white, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 2,75 cto 76c. Milwaukee—WhetC, No. 2 northern, 97c to 99c; corn. No. 3,53 cto 55c; oats, standard, 49c to 51c; rye, No. 1, 80c to 82c; barley, standard, 70c to 72c; pork, mess, $16.43. 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 $5,25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.25. New York —Cattle, $4.00 to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.80; sheep. $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 94c J corn, No. 2,59 eto 60c; oats, natural white, 58c to 60c; butter, creamery, 220 to 25c; eggs, western, 16c to 20c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed, 85c to 80c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 54c to 56c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; rye, No, 2,74 cto 75c; clover seed, prime, $9.45.

Told in a Few Lines.

For the last three months the tropical Island of Jamaica, surrounded by a warm sea. wh re the evaporization is great, haa suffered from a drouth ns severe as any which visit the inland deserts, far away from any large body of water. Marcelin Albert, leader of the recent revolt in the Midi. France, who was releas'd from jail, r,delved 'a cold welcome uren arrival at Montpelier. His late admirers reproached him for not f returning sooner after hi* release and hooted him antil be entered his house.