Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. ■ ... QEO. B. MARSHALL, Pabllsher. >' , ■ ... ■■ - RENBSELAER, - * INDIANA.

EKES OUT SMALL PAY

LETTER CARRIER TRIES TO OOME OUT EVEN. Poitofflec Employe rnable to Sop* port Family on 930 a Month Steal* Money from Letter— Kill* Herself Betide LoTer’i Corpse. “ t Because be stole n dollar from a special delivery letter bo that be could buy food for hie hungry wife and grandparents, Frank Robbins was arraigned in Philadelphia before Commissioner Craig and held for trial. Robbins was employed by the Post office Department at S3O a month. He was married a few months ago. On his meager salary he undertook to care for his Wife, mother and grandparents. “Wo would get along until just about the end of the month and then-there would be nothing left,” he said, “I frequently went to work hungry. One day I was given an envelope to deliver by special delivery and I opened' it. In it were $7 m bills. I took only $1 and bought four pounds of beef, four Idaves of bread. 5 rents’ worth of tea, some flour, a cake of yeast-and-some potatoes.” Robbins’ story made such am impression on the postal authorities that steps will be taken to get his release on bail. A collection to stock the larder of the Robbins home was taken up. KILLS HERSELF WITH ACID. Colomtim Woman End* Life a* Did Infatuated Vrtßth. In Columbus. Ohio. Mrs. Lucy Kelly, 42, for love of whom Howard Rhodes, '22, killed himself with carbolic acid at her •part inch ts the other night, has joined bim in death, using the same deadly poison. She ended her life in tie undertaking rooms where body lay, as she stood looking down at the .corpse, weeping bitterly. The suicide wap committed in the presence of Rhodes’ father, -who granted the woman’s request to take a last look «t the body: her sister. Flora Kittrell, who saw Rhodes kill himself, and Lillie Schille. The women were watching her closely, as she had threatened to kill herself, but she escaped their vigilance.

BASE BALL STANDINGS. Gtnn Wan and Lost by Club* in Principal Lragvei. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. W. L. Chicago ...102 42 Brooklyn ...Go 78 Pittsburg ..88 50 Cincinnati ..01 84 New Y0ik..82 05 Boston 50 S 7 Phil’delphi* 75 65 St. L0ui5....47 90 __ * AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. L Detroit ....87 56 New Y0rk...00 77 Pbil'delphia 83 55 St. Louis. .. .04 81 Chicago ....86 00 Boston .....58 87 Cleveland . .83 63 Washington. 47 95 Meat Mast Be Kail Weight. Food Commissioner Johnson of Nebraska has announced that packages of meat must hereafter have the net weight ■tamped npon them. To start his campaign Johnson ordered the county attorney of Douglas county to institute proceedings against the South Omaha packing houses, where it is found that packages of bacon and ham are wrapped with paper and cloth untiT 5 or 0 per cent of the stamped weight is thus accounted for.

, ' Com pa u y Accept* tut Kn re*., Announcement lias been made by the Lincoln (Neb.) Traction Company that it will comply with the order of the State Rail way Commission that it sell sdx fares school children for 25 cefats, to be used during certain hours of the day. The commission’s recent ruling places a valuation on the plant olf the traction company and the Citizens’ Railway Company and limits their earning accordingly. Murders Father. Tlte.n Kill* Himself. In Medina. N. Y., Bert Lewis shot and killed his father. Jerome Lewis, and then fired a bullet through his own heart. Father and-.-sun had been quarreling'nll d-.y. _ i

Trunin Drtnern \olahlr*. President Roosevelt and the lord bishop of London had. an '“international” tennis match on the White House grounds, the President obtaining the advantage in a bard contest. Money (or Folitlclana. A ‘‘yellow dog” fund of $1,000,000 or more is discovered to have been used by the insolvent New York City raiKvay. many lawyers, politicians and legislators having been paid money. Cost of Chirago'a Streets. An expert engineer figures it will take twenty-seven years to pave Chicago streets. at a total cost of $200,000,01R), and to keep them m condition will cost $0,000,000 annually. Frost Damage In lowa. A killing frost d.d considerable damage in lowa to corn still in the milk. Opinions vary as to the extent of the damage, hut much corn is out of the p - ay. .... ...Aotaliles l.n>- t'orner Stone. President Roosevelt and the lord bishop Of London assTslc*4 tn Tfae~ ceremony - <*flaying the corner stone of the great Episcojtial cat hcJra.l. at Wtffh^nytop Rail Bafldftnir Stopped—Hill. Addressing the inland waterways commission in James J. Hill asfd the period had arrived at which ruil- „ Seay building in the country had stopi>el, . i because the companies have not the funds with which to carry forward planned* iing>rovcni<nM. jeer-.". Advance Price o( Coal. An advance of 10 cento a ton on coal la made by the operators of the Ho -king . valley in the October price list. Heavy demand and the shortage of cars: are said go be the reasons for the advance

LAKES-TO-GULF WATERWAY.

Flan* for n Series of Canal* Leading from New York to New Orleans. There will be things doing down in Memphis and the noise W4II be heard throughout the land wheii thiMpg bunch of boomers from all ovcr the middle-Weat gathers there for the second Lakes-to-tbe-Gulf Waterway convention. Special trains will carry President Loose volt and the Governors of twenty-five States to the scone, and with the inspiration of the Big Stick the hundreds of delegates will get busy. According to Kdwin 8. Conway, head of the Chicago delegation, it will be the' beginning of the triumphal march of the canal enthusiasts which he expects to end

LAKES-TO-THE-GULF WATERWAY ROUTE.

this year in the appropriation by Congresa df funds sufficient to meet the pro l ject. The completed plan of the waterway enthusiasts, whicli seems almost like a dream, is a series of canals and dredged channels that will make it possible for a battleship to go from New York by way of Chicago to New Orleans and back by sea to New York again. The map shows the proposed deep waterday route, including, $200,000,000 canal across lower Michigan. This system, when completed, would accommodate a warship for any part of a defensive war scheme. The portrait is that of J. H. Davidson of Oshkosh, Wis., who may be the new leader of the river and harbors committee. The convention is to consider the improvement of all the water courses of the United States, and especially those of tbe middle West. One of the important links in the lakes-to-gulf plan never before mentioned' is a canal to connect Lake

KILLED IN RELIGIOUS RITES AT ZION CITY.

Five persons, members of the sect of Parhainltes, were arrested in Zion City, 111., accused of torturing to death Mrs. Letltla Greenbaulgh, 64 years •Id, to show their belief in the rellglbn they profess. Those arrested are Walter and Jennie Greenbaulgh, the son aud daughter of the woman, Harold Mitchell. Mrs. Harold Mitchell and a Mrs. Smith. AH of them are charged with manslaughter. Mrs. Greenbaulgh had been for twenty years an invalid, Buffering from paralysis and rheupmtism. The sect of Parhaniltes was founded about a year ago by Charles F. Parham and numbers about 200. The members originally belonged to Dowie's church and believe dn the gift of tongues and especially In diabolical possession. It is the/r theory that sickness is an evidence of the possession of tht h y ntftl The condition of Mrs. Greenhaulgb convinced her son and daughter and the three persons arrested with them tbnt she must be possessed of the devil and they determined to exorcise the evl 1 spirit The five gathered. It Is said, at the bedside and after prayer, commenced tbelr work. The jirms of Mrs. Greenbaulgh. stiffened by rheumatism, were jerked and ftflfSed about in order that the devil might be driven out. The cries of the aged woman were considered to be those of an evil spirit and were greeted with triumphant abouta After a course of this violent treatment Mrs Greenbaulgh not only became so weak that she could not use her limbs, but l>ecame incapable of making any matioa. Tbs five wwrkod ever the victim mW she died. After that according to Greenbaulgh, Mrs. Smith became the leader in a “resurrection scene.” In this, efforts were made to rertore the dead woman to Ufa Thaw the announcement of her death was made.

Erie aod I-oke Michigan by cutting across the lower part of Michigan. Surveys hav* been made for a canal to run between a point just below Detroit to a point near the mouth of tlm St. Joseph river on Lake Michigan. These surveys will be presented so the convention. - -j: “-Such a canal,” said Mr. Conway, •Vdonr bo of incalculable advantage to the whole country and to Chicago especially. It would cost about $200,000,000 —a small sura when compared with some railway projects and appropriations of land and money given railroad interest* by Congress. Its chief advantages would be a saving of 500 miles in route between Chicago and Detroit and a gain of two months in the shipping season.” The routing of ships from New York to New York should the gigantic

LETITIA GREENHAULGH

plan of the waterway men ever be realized," would be: From New York up the Hudson through the improved Erie canal to Lake Erie, down Lake Erie to the contemplated Michigan and ..Erie canal, across Lake Michigan to Chicago, down the backward flowing Chicago river and the sanitary canal to Joliet, through the proposed extension of thTf'canaFfo the* Illinois river, down the Illinois to the Mississippi to New Orleans and around through the gulf and the Atlantic to New York. That is something of a dream, but the canal enthusiasts say it will be accomplished. Chicago delegates see great possibilities in this canal, but they will let the project rest temporarily and join with the whole Mississippi valley in a demand that Congress improve the great river and the Illinois and complete the twenty-eight miles of ditch over the divide from the canal begun by the sanitary district of Chicago to the Illinois river.

BIG OIL TRUST PROFITS.

New York Hrarlng Show* Profit of •/9490,315,034 In Seven Year*. The hearing before Special Federal Referee Ferriss of Missouri in the government suit to dissolve the great oil combination was begun at New York, with Attorney—Frank-B. Kellogg representing the government and John G. Milbum and others as counsel for the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Kellogg submitted in evidence statistics compiled by the Standard Oil officials, showing that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey had earned profits in the last seven years aggregating $100,315,034,7 and that during the •me time dividend? had been paid to the amount of $308,339,403. These profits came from the plants owned by the parent company, as well as from those of the subsidiaries., controlled by it. This was the first time in the history of the oil trust that a record of its earnings entire had been made public. Acting Controller Fay of the Standard said there were nineteen subsidiary companies, and gave "theft names. The evidence is being taken for use in the Circuit Court at St. Louis, where the dissolution Suit, under the anti-trust law, is to be*fm>secuted. Mr. Kellogg, among other things, wanted the company to produce the minutes of the various meetings- at which the absorption of smaller companies was arranged, but the counsel for the company was inclined to resist. The examination of Charles M. Pratt, secretary of the trust, brought out the ,fact that the parent company bad transferred its $4,000,000 holdings in the Waters-Pieree Oil Company of Texas to a son-in-law of Vice President Archbold from 1904 to 1907, during the ouster proceedings brought against the subsidiary by the State of Texas* and that only $125,000 dn cash was paid for the stocks, the remainder being in the form of a note ■which was never fully taken up, tho profits of the Waters-Pierce company going toward the payment of the note. Mr. Pratt admitted that this transaction did not appear on the books of the Standard, the accounts being kept under the title, “C. M. Pratt Investment.” Mr. Pratt explained that by this arrangement he held ‘the stocks for the trust merely as a convenience, and when asked if it was not done to avoid the anti-trust laws of Texas he replied, “Not that I know of.” Tabulations were also verified, showing enormous earnings of subsidiaries, among which those of the Standard Oil Coigpany of Indiana appeared ost remarkable. This corporation on a capitalization of $1,000,000 made profits in 190(i amounting to $10,510,082, and last year paid to the parent company $4,495,500. This amounted for at least one year to the remarkable profit of 1,000 per cent. Mr. Kellogg also brought out evidence showing how the New York branch had been systematically drained by saddling upon It enormous liabilities at the same time that its assets were greatly increased. Counsel Milburn disclosed one line of defense by giving notice that the trust would object to any testimony bearing upon acts committed prior to July 2, 1890, when the Sherman law went into effect.

BIG CORN SHOW.

More than 10,000 Entries for tl»e Exposition to Be Held in Chicago. That there "will be more than 10,000 entries fbr the National Corn Exposition which is to be held Tn the Coliseum at Chicago, is the confident belief held by the management, based on the hearty response that met the first appeal to the farmers in the corn belt. Within a few days after sending out the list of the classifications for the entry of corn to contest for the SIO,OOO cash prizes and the $25,000 in special premiums offered, application for 1,500 entries were made. Quite apart -from the educational end of the exposithsttpif will be especially strong in attractive shmv features. While the most striking of these doubtless will be the lavish decorative scheme "which has been completed at an- expenditure of $30.000, a number of specialties have beeD arranged.

THE RAILROADS

Freight traffic is reported tp be increasing at an. abnormal rate in New Eng-f. land. Reports from California state that the Southern Pacific road is preparing to run its trains in that State by electricity. The fortieth annual number of Poor’s Manual, recently issued, places the gross earnings of the railroads of the United States during 100(5 at $1,124,500,390, an increase of $204,'442,516 over 1905, in spite of increased wages and cost of materials. There were 815.774,118 passen- ! gers carried last yea s, and 1,010,099,829 tons of freight moved. The average receipts per passenger per mile was 2.011 cents, as against 2.028 in 1905. The average revenue per ton per mile on freight decreased from .781 cents to .706 i cents. The total assets of all the rail--1 roads amounted to $17,534,381,033. The total funded debt of the roads is $7,851,r 107,778, being a slight increase over the previous year. The increase in capital stock was $304,452,151. the total now being $7,J00.405,970. The total increase of liabilities of all kinds was $1,199,015,307. The construction of new road durThsTtfiiT year~waß 5.510 miles, making a" total at the cud of 1900 of 222,035 miles. The Erie railroad has received an allsteel passenger coach, which is practically non-wroekable anil will not burn. There Is less than 300 pounds of wood or other inflammable material used in its construction and ail of that has been treated with a preparation which, it is claimed, renders >t immune to an ordinary degree of heat. The car looks like the standard passenger coach in general use, but its weight is much in excess of the wooden car. lhdng nearly 100,000 pounds. The car is so strongly built and so well riveted ahd bolted that it will stand almost any shock that railroad service will give it. •

IMMUNITY FOR THE ALTON.

In Re»en(lne Slnr on Hl* Court Standard Oil Is Hit t>>- Landis. Another broadside was directed against the Standard Oil Poinpany by Jddge Landis in the United States District Coubt at Chicago Tuesday. AltLiong 1j immunity wap granted the Cbicago and Alton Railroad by Judge Landis on recommendation of Attorney General Bonaparte, both the railroad and the Standard Oil Gom pirny were scored from the bench and a subpoena was issued by the court fbr James A. Moffett, .president of the Standard Oil COjUipaiij of Indiana. Mri’Moffett was directed to appear before the. special grand jury that was to have investigated the Alton road and “make good” charges made by directors of the New Jersey corporation. The court’s latest action is regarded as one of the most drastic moves that

JUDGE LANDIS.

have been made against officials of the oil, corporation during the entire litigation. Judge Landis’ denunciation of the tactics employed by the directors of the New Jersey corporation after the imposition __of_ the $20,240,600 fine on the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was couched in language that could not be mistaken. Sarcastic reference to the Alton’s position regarding rebates given the Standard Oil Company were made by the court. —ln 4he—pan i phleL-distributed -broadcast throughout the country, the Standard Oil Company takes the position that it is being persecuted rather than prosecuted by the government, and the flat statement hTmade that other corporations are just as culpable of the practice of rebating as is tbe oil concern. This is what Mr. Moffett has been given an opportunity to prove.

WU TING FANG RETURNS.

Restoration of Chinese Leader as Minister at Washington. The reappointment of Wu Ting Fang to his former post as minister of China at Washington is reported from Pekin. Mr. Wu represented China at Washington for more than five years. He was recalled in November, 1902., Wu is a dignitary of importance, lie represents the progressive element among his countrymen. He studied law for four

WU TING FANG.

year* in London and was admitted as barrister in the inner temple. He soeabs English with ease and fluency, and asks many questions of everybody he meets. The minister has hosts of friends in Washington and throughout the United States. ‘

Finds Remains of Mastodon.

Word has reoaatiy bean received from Prof. C. W. Gilmore, whe. accompanied by Prof. W. T. Shaw of the Washingten State College and a party of scientists from the East, is now in central Alaska, that they have found a specimen of the mastodon frozen intact In the great Muir glacier, near the Chiikoot Pass. The party set out on this particular errand and their hopes were more than realized when th"ey discovered this large and perfect specimen imbedded in the great ice field in very much the same position as when overwhelmed by the frigid elements. On some portions of the animal the hair and flesh Were still fresh, but crumbled when exposed to the air. It ia estimated that die length of the mastodon from the end of its trunk to the tip of the tail was about. 75 feet, and that when standing on all foun the height must have been nearly 40 feet _

Short News Notes.

As a result of the gathering of Wisconsin Republican politicians at the State fair at Milwaukee it Is positively asserted that Senator La Follette will be a candilate for the presidential nomination next year. Frank C. Barnes, conductor of a Lake Shore Electric railway oar, and Amos Mlwti ad Ernst., ©too. wow Hied sal Samuel Jones, the motorman, and thirty passengers were Injured when the car ran Into an open switch at Woodville road, near Toledo.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. Activity in the leading producing industries discloses 110. diminution, although the aggregate of new demand* has fallen below tbe_/exceptional bookings at thistime last year. Delay in agre.unent upon the new rail specification holds np many contracts for steel mills and lessens the demand for pig iron, but indications are good for an early lifting of kuis temporary embargo. •.. Other heavy manufacturing lines maintain steady drawing upon capacity and absorb large quantities of supplies, and current deliveries of finished products r-re remarkably large in machinery, hardware, ears, furniture and footwear. The course of prices affords some relief to consumers of raw mxterial and receipts of the latter continue ample, while values of leading outputs of the factories remain unchanged. Financial conditions are paramount in considering new enterprises and, while no decline in the cost of borrowing may be looked for soon, thejre is a better feeling in the money market, -which begins to have a salutary effect upon business. A most encouraging feature is the sustained enormous marketings of grain and the rapid conversion of these and other farm products into cash, all making sub* stantial addition to the circulation of money, which must- eventually stimulate commerce and widen confidence. Buying of necessaries reflects satisfactory headway, trade in the leading retali departments being seasonably strong and much augmented by liberal purchases of many visitors from the interior. Forwardings of stable merchandise exceed those at this time last year, and country merchants operate freely. Western advices indicate prosperous conditions throughout tte agricultural sections, and country stocks of Merchandise under gratifying reductions. Collections at most points are reasonably prompt, while the record of defaults again makes a favorable showing. Freight movements by both rail and Jake are much in excess of those a year ago, and the calls for cars to rush breadstuffs, coal and lumber begin to overtax equipment. The total movement of grain at this port aggregated 16,977,681 bushels, against 9,791,691 bushels last week and 9,627,011 bushels a year ago. Bank clearings, $246.904,950, exceed those of corresponding week in 1906 by 18.5 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 16, agaaosfr23 last week, and 19 a year ago.—Dun’s Review of Trade.

NEW YORK. -.Retail trade feels the stimulus of long awaited cool weather, as does also filling in order business from jobbers.On the other hand, regular house trade has decreased in volume, now that the first rush of fall trade is over, and shipping of goods on orders is engrossing jobbers’ attention to a large degree. Advices as to the real proportions of autumn trade vary with the sections reporting. Collections are still a matter of complaint at many markets east, west and south, the latter section noting that the recent freer movement of cotton has only made for partial improvement. Conditions in the shoe and leather industry are irregular. The restriction of output of sole leather is reflected in firm prices for desirable grades. Some dealers claim concessions 4n side leather in the Boston market. Shoe shipments from eastern Massachusetts are 4.4 per cent less than a year ago. Business failures for the week ending Sept. 26 number 160, as against 179- last week, 165 in the like week of 1906, 185 in 1905, 179 in 1904 and 153 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 36, as against 40 last week and 27 in this week a year ago.—Bradstreet’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common te prime, $4.06 to $7.25; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.65;" sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.65; wheat, No. 2,00 cto 970; corn, No. 2,62 cto 03c; oats, standard, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 2,89 cto 90c; hay, timothy, $12.00 to $17.00; prairie, $9.00 to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 28c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 21e; potatoes, per bushel, 55c to 00c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 to $0.55; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,93 cto #se ; corn. No. 2 white, 01c to G2c; onto, No. 2 white, 49c to 50c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.20; hogs, $4.00 to $0.70; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No, 2, SI.OO to $1.01; corn, No. 2,62 cto 63c; oats, Na. 2,47 cto 48c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 83c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.65; hogs, $4.00 to $0.95; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,98 cto 99c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 88 cto 90c, Detroit —Cattle, $4.00 to $5.19; hogs, $4.00 to $0.45; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; , wheat, No. 2,97 cto 98c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 08c to G9c; oats, No. 3 white, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 2,88 cto 89a. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 serthertr, SI.OB to *1.10; corn. No. 3, 61* to ,62c; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye, No. J, 89c to 90c; barley, standard, 99e to $1.01; polk, mess, $15.50. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to cbniw, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to ehoice, $5.00 to $8.25. Neyr York —Cattle, $4.00 to $6.45; hogs, $4.00 to $6.70; sheep, $3.00 to $5.60; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.06; corn. No. 2, 77 cto 79c; oat* ■•rural whit*. 96c to 68c; butter, swiss, «c to 28c; eggs, western, 18c to 23*. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 97c to 98c; corn, No. 2 mixed, (He to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 51c to 53c; rye, No. 2. 87c to 88c; clover seed, prime, $10.70.