Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1907 — BIG FINE IMPENDS. [ARTICLE]

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.