Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — KILLED IN HER BED. [ARTICLE]

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.,