Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — EKES OUT SMALL PAY [ARTICLE]

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