Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — COAL TO BE PLENTY. [ARTICLE]

COAL TO BE PLENTY.

RAILWAYS WORK TO PREVENT FUEL FAMINE. Two Million Tona Are at Head of Lakes to Supply Tributary Territory—Records of Shipments Are Broken. *> < There will be no coal famine in the Northwest next winter if the roads entering Superior, Wis., are able to handle the business, and it is believed that they will be. Coal receipts up to the present time have broken all records, and there is actually on the docks abput 2,000,000 tons. Meanwhile shipments are good for summer and the prospects are that before the close of navigation more coal will be sold from Superior and Duluth docks than ever before during the same season. For the fbree months previous to Aug. 1, this year, the Superior and Duluth docks ■hipped into the Northwest more coal than ever before in that tame period and nearly double .the amount sent out in the ■ame three months of 1906. This year from May 1 to Aug. 1 a total of 48,944 cars have been shipped, as against 28,549 in that period a year •gQ-, 1 - The roads are rushing in new trackage and yard facilities, and the Great Northern will •oon have in operation its big new freight transfer shed in Superior, which, it is calculated, will relieve that road of the congestion of general freight experienced last fall. •

BASE BALL STANDINGS. Game* Won and Lo«t by Club* in Principal Leagues. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ...*.79 29 Brooklyn ...50 58 Pittsburg , .62 41 Cincinnati . .46 61 New Y0rk..61 42 Boston 38 67 Phil'deiphia 66 46 St. Louis.... 32 80 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Phil'deiphia 62 41 New Y0rk...40 55 Detroit ....60 42 805t0n.... .47 59 Chicago ....64 46 St. L0ui5....44 60 Cleveland ..61 46 Washington. 31 69 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. W. L. w. I. Toledo 71 48 Kansas City.sß 62 Columbus ..68 50 Indianapolis 56 67 Louisville ..63 58 Milwaukee ..54 64 Minneapolis 64 57 St. Pau1....47 74 WESTERN LEAGUE. W. 1.. W. T . Omaha .—7l 47 Denver ......52 53 Des Moines.sß 47 Pueblo 46 59 ..'.-."iiS 51 Sioai Citjn4o 65 Building Big Ore Dock. Work has been begun on a steel ore dock for the Iron Range road at Two Harbors, Minn. The pile foundation is to be filled With rock and above this will be laid concrete for five feet above the water line. The dock will be the first of its kind on the lakes, and although smaller than many others it will cost about 11,250,000. ' Five Killed in Collapse. An avalanche of rotten timbers, furniture and plaster crushed to death five Bleeping persons and injured eleven others, three seriously, when a two-story frame boarding house at 55 Fry street, Chicago, collapsed at 1:30 o’clock the other morning. Four of the victims were killed instantly and the fifth died a few minutes after being taken to hospital. Famous Detective Dies. Robert A. Pinkerton, head of the 4amous detective agency that' bears his name and son of Allan Pinkerton, world-known detective and one-time head of the United States secret service, died on the steamer Bremen while on the way to Germany. Fatty degeneration of the heart was given as the cause of the detective's death. Georgia Disfranchises Xcgro. By a vote of 159 to 16. the Georgia House passed the so-called negro disfranchisement bill which previously was adopted by the Senate. The lower branch of the Legislature made a few minor amendments the bill as received from the Senate, to which body it is to be returned for concurrence. Reconimrnd* Proipcution of Gratters r The Pennsylvania investigating com mission at Harrisburg has sent a report to the Governor recommending criminal and civil proceedings against eighteen persons alleged to have been concerned in the capital graft scandal. Storm Uit* Three State*. JFive persons were killed and fourteen injured in Chicago in a storm which •Wept over northern Indiana, northern Illinois and the lake region of Wiscon-, aln. Bonaparte Make* Statement. Attorney General Bona parte at Washington has made a serious statement of his policy, saying only violator* of the law will be prosecuted, and that no favors will be shown the rich. Make* War on Franchise. , The Attorney General of Wisconsin has brought suit to annul the franchise of the Milwaukee Electrig Railway and Lighting Company on the ground that it was procured by corrupt means. Boat Goea 40 Knot* an Hour. The new German turbine torpedo boat No. 137, attained, under forged draft, a ■peed of 394) knots an hour* and established the record for the German navy. Death* from Bubonic Plnarue. Five case* of bubonic plague, four of which have resulted in death, have been reported to the San Francisco health department within a week. The patient* with one exception were of the poorer class of foreigner* dwelling in the neighborhood of the old Chinatown.