Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

KILLED IN HER BED.

CHICAGO WOMAN’S BODY FOUND AFTER MANY HOURS. Neck Shown Mnrdcr W«« Work of S(nnKlrr —Robkrry (he Probable Railroad Companion Mulcted for Delay luk Mail*. A ronrdor, with robbery for its motive, which promise* to ,be baffling to jhe police, was discovered in fashionable Hyde Park, Chicago. The body of Mrs. Lillian White Grant, aged 40 years, was found on her bed Tn tlie lioine of thcJiev. Inward S. Arnett, pastor of the Hyde Park Christian Church. About the woman's neck wak a chemise with which site was •trangled to death. Iler roOip had been ratjsacked_and what money and valuables she is known to have had are missing. The murder was committed some time Wednesday night and was not discovered until Friday morning, when two students of the University of Chicago, who POSni •t the Ames home,- discovered the body. Suspicion is directed toward a negro who had been employed a few days ago by Mrs. Grant to assist her to pack, preparatory to moving.--. J. E. Simms, an oxpressman, and James Dunn, his helper, •re under arrest at the Hyde Park police station. From them the police have a 3 good description of the negro, who has disappoa red from his usual haunts. BASH BALL STANDINGS. Games Won and I.ost. liy Clubs In Principal Lcaanea. NATIONAL LEAtJUE. ~ r—. W. L. r J W L. Chicago ...100 40 Brooklyn ...03 70 Pittsburg ..84 54 Cincinnati . .5S 'B2 New York..Bo 01 Boston 54 83 Pbil'delphia 73 02 St. L0ui5....43 07 A W ERICA N I.EAO VE. W. L. W. L. Phil* del phia 84 — 53 New Y’ork. . .03 —72Detroit ....83 50 St. L0ui5....5!) SO Chicago ....S3 58 Boston 58 82 Cleveland . .80 GO Washington. 44 02 LOSE! Bid SUM BY LATE TRAINS^ Railroad Companies Mulcted of SBOO,OOO for Delaying- Malls. Delayed mail trains cost the New York Central Railway nearly $37,000 during the quarter ended March 311 Practically •very railroad in the country was similarly mulcted. The Pennsylvania came in for its share, losing several thousands from its mail-carrying pay on one route alone. One division of the Southern dropped about $7,000. AH told the railroads of the country lost over SBOO,OOO —lnf yrar through uawatioftetory handling of the mails. '■"’"'"'"■"Army Captains in >Tst Fight. Capt. James R. Lindsay nnd Capt. Henry S. Wygant, both of the Thirteenth Infantry, have been arrested by Col. Loughborough, their commanding officer, on the charge of engaging in a fist light Bboard the army transport Logan, lying J - in quarantine at Mariveles, P. 1., en route to San Francisco. Collision on Mexican Central Line. Thirty persons were killed and many others were injured seriously in a collision between a passenger and a freight train on the Mexican Central road at Encarnacion. near the City of Aguas Calientos. The passenger train was an •xpress running between El Paso, Texas, ITHI thA of Mexico.

Knocks Oat Two-Cent Karo. The 2-eent fare law, recently enacted t»y the Pennsylvania Legislature, was adjudged invalid, unconstitutional and void In its application to the Susquehanna River and Western Railway Company, which Punonnon and Bloomfield, In an opinion delivered at Bloomfield by Judge Shull of the Perry County Court. Lake Steamer Goea Down. Captain Randall and five sailors of the •teamcr Alexander Nirnick lost their lives when their ship stranded on the south chore of Lake Superior and went to pieces in the heavy northwest gale. The remaining eleven men of the crew succeeded in making their way safely through the surf to the shore. Cjrclone Hit* Grand Stand. A grand stand upon whiefr several hundred at t he Schuylcounty fair at llegins, !*•» w '^ s blown down by a windstorm of clonic force. More than fifty persons were Injured, five es them probably fatally. Slain by Secret Society. Tony Naick was murdered by unknown persons on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio. Friends of the murdered man believe the crime can be traced to & Macedonian secret society. Uakn Mother-In-Law Wife. James Parsons, a millionaire wool merchant of Boston and leader in exclusive Brookline, Mass, society, has married in Denver Mrs. Augusta King, mother of . Jttl desd Wife. Yo»s Heater Fatally Shot. Charles Maxam, a farmer near Jamestown, N. D, was fatally shot while hunting. Three yeung men were driving in • hay rack ever rough ground when the fun fell and exploded. British Labor Trouble*. Croat Britain is threatened with a •trike on all cf its railroads because the employes demand and the directors of all of the big companies refuse recognition es trades cniisneL Bay* Drinks for Whole City. The King of Siam was host to the whole City of Honshurg, Germany, the Btber day, providing' free wine and txjer for all. but as his pay is f 10.00Q.0U0 a pear and be can increase it, the expense does not bother him.,

OKLAHOMA GOES DRY.

Klecllon Return* fr.ua New Slat* * Indicate Sncec** «f PrnlilbjHon.ee Oklahoma has ratified the enabling act ind'JuH'oine A State so far .as Oklahoma and Indian Terr.jory nr«i,concer *d. Re.urn* from the largest cities and chub.ies of Oklahoma and Indian Territory up to midnight Tm’Sday mtik-eeed-tlttU the cons;itt;tion of t-We proposed State has been adopted by a large majority; that the prohibition clause of the constitution has been adopted and'that the I democratic Slate ticket, beaded bj C. X. Haskell of Muskogee for 'Governor. lias been elected over Frank Frantz, the present, territorial governor of Oklahoma, who was the Republican nominee. In the enabling act Congress provided for prohibition ip Indian Territory for twenty-one years from Jana 1, i 960. -The prohibition clause voted on applies the satfie provision to the Oklahoma side of the new State. V All of the"elements of a national campaign were at hand in the canvass. Secretary of War Taft was the chief representative of the Republican side and William J: Bryan was brought in to answer Secretary Taft and to lead tlie lbaiiocraAic TigbT for the constitution and the Democratic ticket. , ..The election . was / held under the terms of the act of Congress granting joint statehood to Indian Territory’ and Oklahoma Territory. The statehood bill was passed at Washington after a strenuous fight which was carried through several sessions of Congress. President Roosevelt intervened on behalf of the people of the territories, and, while each territory was anxious for separate statehood, a com promise was affected by which the friends of statehood accepted the joint bill rather than have none at all. Immediately after the statehood bill was signed by the President the battle for the po lilicaTcontroFoFtEe new State opened.

NEW CHARTER BEATEN.

Chicago’* Proposed Measure I* Defeated Two to One. Chicago's proposed new charter was defeated at the polls -Tuesday by a .vote of more than two to one. The measure was Snowed under in many strongholds of both parties alike, losing in all but" four of the thirty-five wards. Fifty per cent of the registered electors turned out, and their ballots killed the act by a vote of 59,581 for to 121,479 against. Knowledge had hardly been obtained that the charter wns dead than, a -movement was on foot to secure another instrument that will contain the good features of the defeated measure while holding none of. the alleged defects that led the voters to turn it down. An analysis of the vote, shows that the campaign made by the United Societies bore much fruit in the shape of ballots against tho measure. A survey of the situation indicated that the defeat of the charter was due most largely to the contention that taxes would be raised under the instrument, and that the Sunday closing laws would be put into force. On tha North and West Sides hundreds of small property holders turned out to register an adverse vote because of the taxes argument, while in the thickly set- ' tied foreign sections a heavy vojte jwyyust the act was tallied because of the! _ sonal liberty” appeal. The ward gerrymander, too, undoubtedly played an important part ip the defeat. The political aspect it gaYQi to the charter led many an independent voter to show his resentment by marking an adverse ballot. - " .

STANDARD OIL PROFITS.

Barninga from 189!) to 1900 Shown to Be $-190,315,934. Sensational disclosures regarding the fabulous earnings of Standard Oil were brought out In New York at the hearing in the suit of the United States government to dissolve the corporation. Adroit questioning drew from the reluctant lips of Clarence G. Fay, resident comptroller of the Standard Qil Company of New Jersey, theTadinission that fn seven years Standard Oil's total prdfits amounted to 541>0,313,1)34, or something over $70,000,000 a year. Mr. Fay was also forced to admit that in 1 SOD the profits were nearly $80,000,000 instead of $34,000,000 as set forth on the books of the company. The Standard Oil managed to cover up its great earnings in that year by deliberately failing to cyedit the earnings of nineteen subsidiary companies that contributed vast sums fO the parent corporation. This is the first time the company’s earnings have been made public. Figuring on the capital stock now outstanding—s9B,339.3B2—this Is an annual profit of something over 70 per cent.' Figon the basis of the Standard Oil trust, which had a capitalization of $lO,000,000 when it was dissolved and reorganized into the present comjߣe without any additional investment on the part of Mr. RockefeH.tyv' an( j his associates, the annual poifeffs something like 700 per the basis of the original Standard Oil Company, with a capitalization of $1,000,000, the annual profit is a little more than 7,000 per cent. On the basis of the little refiuery Mr. Rockefeller had when he started out, with an Invested capital principally of nerve, the percentage of annual profit is—well, the statisticians haven't figured that out yet.

BLAST ON JAPANESE SHIP.

Twenty-Seven Hen Killed t>y Explosion on the Kmsfclraa. Twenty-seven of the crew were killed and many were injured on the Japanese battleship Kashima by the explosion of powder after target practice near Kure. Tbe Kashima, under command of Captain Koizumi, went to Kure, where the wounded were placed In the hospital. The dead included a lieutenant, two cadets and one staff officer. Details regarding the effects of tbe explosion are lacking, but it was terrific and tbe ship was severely damaged The blast followed an attempt to remove an unexploded shell from tbe gun. A majority of the bystanders' were fearfully mutilated The explosion is under investigation. It occurred inside of tbe shield of tbs starboard after ten-inch gun. It was not the shell which exploded, bat powder, which evidently caught fire from tbe gas emitted from the breech when spaaed ts reload the gnn. The hall of tbs Kashima is not damsMul

GETS A LIFE TERM.

Chicago Jury. Convlcta Conalaatine of Murdering Mr*.' Gentry. Frank J. Coflfitautlne was conviated In Chicago night of tnurqer ? Ing Mrs Arthur Gentry and his .Sentence fixed at imprisonment for life. After battling for two“ and one-half Lours over the fate of the prisoner the jury delivered a finding of guilty, and fixed his punishment after the shortest murder trial in the history of Cook Countjk Foreman Krogness said: “There was never any doubt about Constantine's guilt, h it owing to the circumstantial evidence the penalty of life imprisonment was agreed upon by the jury.” The verdict. It la reported, wag a keen disappointment to those in the courtroom who had followed the course of the trial. They expected a death sentence. Constantine Chewed gum and said nothing when the verdict was read. Constantine's story- on the witness stand was the most dramatic, the most sensational narrative ever recited nnder oath in a Chicago court. He weaved a .story into a manifestly weak defense. He swore he did not kilTTier, He swore that he stood by while she cut her own throat fami ear to ear. He swore that she had confided to him her unhappiness; that she had begged him to take her away—to go abroad with her; that he had refused; that she slashed herself with a razor. He

explained bis flight by the fear that he would never be able to prove bis innocence—by the panic that, seized him when he realized how all the circumstances pointful against him. The story was lucid enough, but Constantine made a poor impression as a witness. lie contradicted himself several times as to dates, seemed greatly 111 at ease at moments and was seldom convincing. A bootblack, as be admitted himself to be, he still protested from the witness stand that the blood of royalty in bis veins. And thus the curtain is drawn upon a tragedy the like of which Chicago has not chronicled in many a year. It was one of such brutality as to shock and awe society. Constantine,, almost a member of the Gentry .femiiy, who had represented. *h'ffiiself to be the son of a r&YuTonalre In New York when as a matter of fact he was a profligate ex-■bootblaek, deliberately slashed to death the woman who had befriended him and who had housed him and lent him money. Then he fled. It was a long and persistent hunt. Finally lie was captured when about to sail for Italy, tbe home of his ancestors, where he claims some of them were members of the royal family. He had gone to Italy immediately after the commission of the crime, had been swept by the winds of Idleness and the remorselessness of, glipsts into other lands, and finally. Impelled by that intangible instinct that belongs to all criminals, lnld to return to the country of Ills crime. Kinding the police determined to have him. that the memory of that tragic January day had not been forgotten. fearful lest he be apprehended and brought back to the bar of Justice, he was about to sail away again, when be was arrested. Brought to trial. In an effort to gain his liberty, he defamed the character of his victim, n bride of six month*.

Better Transit Service Ordered.

The public service commissioners for New York City have adopted a series of orders for improvements in the railroad service in the Interborough-Metropolitan and the Brooklyn Rapid Traosit systems which. wfcsa enforced, will increase the traveling facilities of all the roads la Manhattan and Brooklyn. _ t Fair shake—Old with a cfclH . * f

LABOR TROUBLES.

What Secretary Straus Ha* to Say on Important Subject. Oscar 8. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, has nothing to say concerning the status of the telegraphers’

OSCAR S. STRAUS.

between capital and labor can be adjudicated. “The importance of establishing good relations between capital and labor,”’ he •says, “is recognized in all civilized lands. Economic conditions within a country, especially such as arise between industrial forces, have a far reaching effect and are often the cause of embarrassing international relations. More than one-half of the troubles in this' world arise from misunflerstandihgsi Especially is that true when classes are concerned, such as are brought about through labor disturbances growing out of disagreements between employers and wage earners. No one has recognized the importance of promoting industrial peace, both with a view of preserving continued peace at home and avoiding conflicts abroad, better than

President Roosevelt, who devoted the world’s peace prize awarded him last year for the promotion of industrial peace.’ Secretary Straus believes the trouble between Japan and America on the Pacific to be more, economic than racial. He says that what might be called a Japanese situation docs not exist.

All Around the Globe.

Theatrical combine of $100,000,000 capital formed. The world’s population is estimated at 1,480,000,000 persons. 'Die decline of the tea trade is viewed with alarm in China. Ten million people have opened accounts with the postoffice savings banks of England. Nevada seems destined* to forge to the first place in the production of precious met sis. *— ■ - The government bureau of plant Industry finds that ground granite makes excellent fertilizer. y Colorado, Mon Una’ and UUh have shown •* decided decline in tbe production of precious metals. India has owes «f belated land in tbe Punjab, aa increase of 453,561 acres In one year. The erope are mainly wheat, eagar mute, grain and winter oil need*

strike,..but he ex-, presses him%elf plainly as not regarding compulsory arbitration as the solutioh of difficulties between capital and labor. He belyieves that differ- ' ent cases require different remedies, ’ and that there is no hard and fast rule by which differences that arise

WAR VETERANS CELEBRATE.

Only 520 of Gen. Scott’s Mexican War Soldier* Are Still Alive. There are in the entire country just 520 veterans of the Mexican war, and these recently celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the fall of the City of Mexico in San Francisco. On that occasion the grizzled warriors recalled the trage-

MAJOR E. A. SHERMAN.

dies that gave to the United States a vast portion of her territory. Major Edwin A. Sherman of Oakland, Cal., is the president of the veterans’ association. In speaking of the Mexican war Major Sherman said: “Gen. Winfield Scott, the Amerioan commander, fought and won the battles of Contrasty Gkurubusca. BJ Molino de Rey, Castle of Chapul tepee, Vera Ortiz, and last the City of Mexico. The total American loss was 3,204, equal to onehalf of the army that captured the City of Mexico. “By the treaty that closed the Mexican war, a territory over 700 miles north and south and 900 miles east and west, or 030,000 square miles, were ceded to the United States, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico were added to our national domain and California saved from becoming a British province, by sale for $50,000,000 to pay the Mexican debt. “For these reasons as well as others the 520 survivors of the" Mexican war celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the crowning victory of our arms directed by our matchless general, Winfield Scott, under whom we fought and achieved such glorious results.”

Candy and Alcohol.

Dr. A. C. Abbott, health commissioner of Pennsylvania, ias advanced the theory that^*the^appetjj|g

petite for candy are fundamentally the same, the choice of one or the other indulgence being determined by the temperament of the individual.” In support of this, the fact is cited that there has been a falling off in the amount of alcohol consumed per capita during the past few years, and a material increase in the consumption 6f sugar in Its various forms. It is further stated that chemically sugar and alcohol are similar, and their physiological action is in part, the same, and both to some extent supply the demand for a concentrated and quick acting fuel for the body. Much of the prejudice which formerly existed against the use Of candy has disappeared, and it Is now used, especially in the form of chocolates, by exhausted business men, and even by soldiers on the eve of battle.

San Francisco Briber Convicted.

President Lewis Class of the Pacific States Telephone Company has been convicted of brib.ng the city supervisors to grant bis company franchises. This ta the first conviction of a wealthy bribe giver in Ban Francisco. The trials of President Calhoun of the United Railways and of other officials are to follow. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company claims In court bill that fodertl and not State authority b in ooatrol of common sarriers —gaged in kitsrktate reuarawte

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. While js a more conservative tone permeating business eireles, fall activity in the leading indimaaies Is more defined and of encouraging magnitudeProduction reflects no appreciable falling off, but operations would be conducted with greater ease were the tension less in money and cost of supplies. Transportation facilities by both rail and lake are severely tested by increased gaaerxl freight •ferfegs and marketing of crops, and with this gratifying condition in evidence it is not clear that commerce's undergoing shrinkage. New demands continue strong for factary materials to complete contracts which run far ahead, especially in steel, forge, car and machinery construction. The most active branch at present is that of staple merchandise, the absorp- _ comparing favorably with a year ago in textiles, footwear and food prsducts. The attendance of visiting buyers includes many from distant points, and their liberal orders indicate sustained confidence for satisfactory sales throughout the agricultural communities. Local retail distribution is of seasonable extent. Mercantile collections in the West occasion little complaint, and defaults compare favorably with last year in both nnmbers and liabilities. Marketings of crops indicate that growers are disposed to secure the current! -3 high returns.- The general demand for breadstuffs is well sustained and the shipments run heavier than a year ago. Live stock and provisions are in ample supply and the absorption is good for both domestic and ioreign needs, jBank clearings, $243,013,097, exceed those of the corresponding week in 1900 fey 15.8 per cent. ; ■; Failures reported in the Ghieago district numbered twenty-three, against twenty-three last week and twenty-two a year ago, those with, liabilities over so,000 being only two in number. —Dun’s Review.

NEW YORK.

Whether attributable to the improvement in the general financial situation or because of favorable weather allowing of additional crop development, there is.a perceptibly better feeling in general in commercial lines. Retail trade has hardly been as brisk as desired or expected, because the warm weather while helping crops, has not stimulated fall buying to any great extent. Reports as to jobbing trade so far this fall are, in the main, favorable, though the undertone of conservatism Is still perceptible. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Sept. 19 number 179, against 172 last week, Iff! in the like Canadian failures for the week number forty, as against twenty-two last wee/ a'nd twenty-six in this week a year ago.— Bradstreet’s Report.

THE MARKETS

(Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4j,00 to $7.10; hog 9, prime heavy, $4.00 to i $(5.30; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to wheat. No. 2, Otic to 98c; ~corii, No. 2,61 cto 63c; oats, standard, 53c (to 54c; rye, No. 2,89 cto 90c; hay, timothy, $12.00 to $18.00; prairie, $9.00 to ST\S.SO; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 27c\ eggs, fresh, 18c to 21c; potatoes, per bushel, 50c to 60c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping 53.00 to $15.85; ' hogs, choice Heavy, SI.OO to $6.40; she/ep, common to prim?, $3.00 to $4.75;/wheat, No. 2,90 cto 02c; corn, No. 2 tv'hite, 61c to 62c; oats. No. 2 white, 49c to 50c. St. (Louis —Cattle, $4.50 ts $7.10; bogs ," $4.00 tt> $6.60; sheep, $3.00 to *-T»(90; wheat, No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn, No. 2,60 cto 61c; oats, No. 2, 47 cto 4Sc; rye, No. 2,82 cto 83c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 ta $5.75;. hogs, $4.00 to SG.7O; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2,94 cto 95c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 65c to 66c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2,88 eto 90c. Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75 ; wheat, No. 2, 93 cto 94c; corn. No. 3 yellow, 70c to 71c; oats. No. 3 white, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, 84 cto 85c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.04 to $1.06; corn, No. 3, ftls to 62c; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; vy% No. 1, 89c to 91c; barley, standard, Bis ts 92c; pork, mess, $15.50. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.85 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $0.80; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.25. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.45; hogs. $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.60 ta $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.06; corn, No. 2, 74 cto 75c; eats, natural white, 06c to 58c; butter, creamery, 25« to 27c; eggs, western, 17c to 22a. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 04* ta 96c; corn, No. 2 mixed, Km to «7c; oats. No. 2 mixed»_.slc to 53c; rye. No, 2,86 cto 87c; clover seed, prim* $10.02.

Notes of Current Events.

A Hindoo prince Is a candidate for thafootball team at Cornell. 1 j\ Hetty Green’s son has become a lVd, ing oil operator ip Texas and proposes/ to be known hereafter as E. H. U. Oreen.l The Morning Sun of Cambridge; Wiliam J. Bryan will make a speechmaking tour of New York ander the huepices of the Progressive DeaHarhtio League. started last June by Senator fseaker ta advocate his policies, has bced ioeoed to ■as pend. Fire ia the "Parker block ia Jfisw Haven, Conn., caused a less of ffKkOKXX The fire was started by rate getting into a case of matches