Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. CEO. 11. HEAIEY, ii. and Pab. JtKNSSELAER. INDIANA.

TELLS STRANGE TALE

MAN HAS EXPERIENCE UKE HERO OF FICTION. Lecac; Start* Train of Romaaiie Brent* that Sound Almost ImprobaUc—Maine People Abstain from Meat on Account of Extortion. ' ** ’ When Fred C. Dorway, late of Sudbury, Ont., arrived at the Palmer House in Chicago the other day, swathed in a blach frock *oat of clerical cut and wearing a mild manner and a pair of eyeglasses, he brought a story with him which be didn't expect many people to believe. The plot centers about an inheritance of SIBO,OOO left him by a benevoient old •woman, one Mrs. 3. 11. Jam"*, who died 'hbout two ytvirs ago -in New York LLa •uocorod her in a train wreck at Moose Jaw, a small station near Rush Lake, Manitoba, •where, he said, he was stationed in the winter of 1905 as chief train dispatcher for> the Canadian Pacific railroad. Her entertainment cost him $25. He sent her a bill after her return to New Tork. “Inside of a month I received a letter from some New York lawyer telling fare" that she had left me SIBO,OOO. Right there my 'troubles began,” he explained. Dorway said that be procured the services of a lawyer named J. J. Dunlop at Kansas City and met him later by arrangement at the FifthAvenue Hotel in New York. Here a stranger called on him one nigat and offered him a box of chocolates. “I ana sot a drinking man,” said Mr, Dorway. “but I do like chocolates. 1 ate ono and fell from my chair. I do not know what happened immediately after that.” When he came to himself, he heard the waves slapping against the side of a vessel, he •ays. For about eleven months, as ncally a* he eonld gauge, he stayed in the bold of the vessel, not knowing whither It was bound. One morning he knocked over a few of his guards and escaped at • port. From the conversation of the natives, who wore black skins, he inferred that he was in Mexico, and at Vera Cruz. After divers and trying experiences he ■walked from Vera Crua to Zacatecas, where he took a ship for San Francisco. After working as a telegraph operator in San Francisco and Salt Lake, he reached Chicago, where he met bis wife by appointment. BASE BALL STANDINGS. Came* Won and tost by Clnba In Principal Lraguei. The baseball season is ended, and the pennant in the National League goes to Chicago, that in the American League to Detroit The final standing of the clubs Jaugs follow*. NATION At LEAGUE. W. L. tV. IObicago ...107 45 Brooklyn ...65 83 Pittsburg ..91 63 Cincinnati ,’.66 87 Phii’delphk 83 64 Bo*ton .....58 90 New Y0rk..82 71 St. L0ui5....52 101 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L. W. t Detroit ....92 68 New Y0rk...70 78 Phirdeiphia 88 67 St L0ui5....69 83 Chicago ....87 64 Boston .....59 90 Cleveland ..85 67 Washington. 49 102

MEAT WP| PEOPLE TO STRIKE. Rise in Prices in Ansnatn Starts Plans for a Bis Revolt. A novel effect of the rise in the price of food stuffs, {particularly meat, U raking place at Augusta, Me. Nearly 1,200 people of Kennebec county are in open revolt against the high prices demanded for meat and have pledged themselves to abstain from all meat for ten days. It is hoped by this method to force prices down. The date on which the strike will become effective has not yet been announced, but the fasting will begin in Augusta. Gardner, Ilallowell, Winthrop and several of the smaller towns at the same time. Mob Wounds Forty Policemen. Seditious agitation led to serious rioting in Calcutta, in which forty poljcemen were wounded. A meeting was being held in honor of the students recently punished for assaulting the police, and harangues were delivered advocating the establishment of self-government, the meeting of opposition' &y force, etc. These speeches worked on the crowd. - Robbers Kill Alabama Officer. One of the most daring and successful crimes ever recorded in the South was committed in Seddon, Ala., Saturday night when four masked robbers looted the First National Bank of $575,525, murdered Sheriff John Williams, who was endeavoring to stop them, and escaped with their booty, —; Mast H«b( Man) Jodge Faalnts. When about to sentence Peter Mathie•on, who had been found guilty of murder In the first degree, Judge McClen&ban, collapsed and was carried from the court room in Bemidji, Minn. lie revived within a few minutes, however, returned to the fburt room and sentenced the man to hang within ninety days. , ' *— • Blast Whitlock Renominated In the city convention the Democrats of Toledo, Ohio, nominated Brand Whitlock, present Mayor, for another term. Robbers Get »S,»00 from Bank. The State Bank of Dickey, Lamoure county, N. D., was robbed early the other morning by bandits, who aacured $3,900 from the aafe. / Mob Drives Hindoos with Shots. At Danville, W»*h., an angry mob drove a entail jmrty of Hindoos across the line Into Oamuk, sending a shower of missiles after them. A few shots were discharged at the Irefqiasaera, but non? was injjurbS, it W believed. The nindoor had found shelter in, a cabin at Danville, dodowhtg their escape from Panada

TRIBUTE TO M’KINLEY

Roosevelt Takes Part in Dedication of Monument. AT IIIE CANTON TOMB / - Mausoleum the Finest Ever Erected for Any President. THOUSANDS ATTEND CEREMONY.

Memorial Is Nation’s Gift to Memory of Martyred Executive. Canton, -Ohio, never.-before placed the host to such a large number of "distinguished Amorterms-aod -so-maay-thousands of other guests as came Monday to participate In or witness the ceremonies attending the dedicatlon of the McKinley memorial on Monument Hill, in West Lawn cemetery. President Roosevelt arrived abort ty after 10 o'clock on a -speclaL traln, and was greeted at the station by a crowd that blocked the streets In every direction. Other special trains rushed thousands Into the city, including governors of States, Senators and -Congressmen, mayors and other civic authorities from all over Ohio and adjoining States. The leading feature of the day’s eelebrntion was the dedication of the beautiful granite structure In whiclT the bodies of the murdered President and his wife will lie. From the speakers’ stand at the foot of the broad steps leading up to the monument President Roosevelt delivered his eulogy of McKinley before a throng of people that filled every'lnch of the open space and overflowed far into the adjoining part of the cemetery. Justice W. R. Day, president of the memorial association, and Governor Harris also made speeches, and James Whitcomb Riley read a poem. The heroic bronze monument of Mr. McKinley was unveiled by Miss Helen McKinley, his sister. The parade through the streets of Canton was the most impressive ever witnessed in the city. For miles the marching ranks passed in a narrow lane through solid banks of spectators, sweeping past the reviewing stand in West rublic Square, where stood President Roosevelt and other distinguish ed visitors. Shawl ASmUob of PeopU. The McKinley tomb, around which centered the Impressive ceremonial of the day, is the most elaborate monument erected over the last resting place of any of the country’s Presidents. It typifies both the affection of all the people and the devotion of hie personal friends, for its cost was defrayed by the general public, while those close to the President in his lifetime collected a fund of SIOO,OOO, which will assure the maintenance of the mausoleum in perfect repair for generations. West Lawn cemetery, where the monument stands, is on the outskirts of Canton, and the lofty structure, on the-emst of a hill, may he seen for miles, and'from the passing trains which carry travelers to and from the “home town” of McKinley. It was not long after Mr. McKinley’s death that the movement to erect a mighty and impressive tomb was launched. As the first step the McKinley National Memorial Association was formed and $600,000 was raised by popular subscription. With a part of the fund twenty-six acres In the cemetery was purchased. A number of architects were invited to submit designs for a mausoleum, and that prepared by 11. Van Buren Magonigle of New York was selected. The structure that is the result rises to a height of 108. feet and at the base is seventy-nine feet In diameter. The exterior is of pink Milford granite. Within, the walls are faced with light gray Knoxville marble. The structure is lighted only from above and the Shaft of sunlight which penetrates the twilight of the mausoleum and falls upon the great sarcophagus adds beauty to the solemn, 6ilent room. The double sarcophagus which holds the bodies of Mr. McKinley and his wife is constructed of brick and cement, with an exterior of polished black marble. The two caskets, exactly alike, are of brouze and are of great weight The mausoleum stands in what is In reality a park of its own. , From its facade on the edge of the hill a broad granite stairway sweeps downward, broken by four landings to the “long watejc” which stretches from the base of the bill and mirrors the glistening tomb and long white stairway. The hill Itself has been cut Into four terraces, and at its base Is a broad plaza encircled toy * low parapet walL

Notes of Current Events.

John McLaughlin, who had been a keeper on Blackwell'* island for thirtyseven years, died in St. Vincent’* hospital after an operation. He had direct charge of William M. Tweed when Tweed was in the penitentiary. \ A complete set of the signatures of (ha signers of the Declaration of Indepemdeace recently sold in New York for *2.850. A Bortsmouth (N. H.) man has a ■early complete set and which tmaiwdes that of Button Gwinnett, which is very

MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT WILLIAM M’KINLEY DEDICATED AT CANTON, OHIO.

EXCERPTS FROM ROOSEVELT’S TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM M’KINLEY.

His broad and deep sympathies made him feel a genuine sense of oneness with all ’ his fellow Americans whatever their station srwork in life. He was not only a leader of men but a helper of men. Ale Always grew to greater stature as larger responsibilities confronted him. He deserved to have his life work characterized in Lincoln’s wprds as being carried on "with malice toward none; with charity for all.” A citizen who loved peace, he did his duty faithfully when the honor of the nation called him to war. We are the best friends of the man of

VAST MEAT INDUSTRY.

Department of Commerce and Labor Issues Important Bulletin. The Department of Commerce and bor has issued a bulletin on the meat industry. The number of wholesale establishments engaged in slaughtering—and meat packing-during - the last year was I 929, with a comb.nod capital of $237.713,690. They furnished employment to 74,134 wage earners, paid $40.320,972 ’ in wages, consumed materials costing SSOS.850,009, and manufactured products to the value of $913,914,024. Although 41 States and territories contributed to these figures the industry was practically monopolized by 14 States, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Nebraska and Missouri leading. In each of six cities the value of products reported was over $35,000,000. Chicago ranked first with products valued at $209,551.480. (K. C. K-). Omaha. New York, St. Joseph and East St. Louis followed in order. For (K. G.) the value of products is not given because of so few establishments that the figures might be used to determine individual opera-" tions, and the census office adheres to the rule not to publish statistics which might be so used, it is announced. About 7,000,000 beeves, 11,000,000 sheep and 31,000,000 hogs were slaughtered for use in this industry. The beeves cost ghout $289,000,000, sheep about $44,000,000 and hogs about $330,000.000. In addition the establishments slaughtered other animals to the value of about $13,000,000, purchased about $53,000,000 worth of meat already dressed and paid abont $72,000,000 for materials, supplies and transportation expenses. The leading product of the industry was beef sold fresh, of which 3,748.055,677 pounds w'ere produced, valued at $247,090,724. Salt pork was the second product in respect to quantity, slightly exceeding hams, smoked sides and shoulders; but the smoked products were of a greater aggregate value. Each of these products and also pork sold fresh refined lard, exceeded in quantity 1,000,000,000 pounds. The value varied from nearly $75,000,000 for the refined lard to over $133,000,000 for the smoked products. The quantity of most of the more important products increased between the censuses of 1900 and 1905. For fresh beef the increase was over 800.000,000 pounds, or 28.5 per cent; salt pork, over 185.000.000 pounds, or 13.7 per cent; refined lard, over 15.000.000 pounds, or 17.7 per cent; fresh pork, nearly 3,000.000 pounds, or 2 per cent. The quantity of hams, smoked bacon, sides and shoulders. on the other band, decreased over 400.000.000 pounds, or 22.8 per cent Canned beef, sailed and cured beef and neutral lard also decreased in quantity.

property * * * when we set our facqg like flint against those offenders who do ■wrong in order to acquire great wealth, or who use this wealth to help wrongdoing. Many lessons are taught by bis career, but none more valuable than broad human sympathy. Arrogance toward the weak and envious hatred toward the rich were equally abhorrent to him. Wrongdoing is confined to no class. Good and evil are found among rich and poor, and in drawing the line we must draw it on conduct and not on worldly possessions.

CURRENT COMMENT

Although only six States elect Governors this_fall,; for an off year the November elections will have unusual interest because of their bearing on national politics and the presidential campaign of 1908. Mississippi and Kentucky may be conceded to the Democrats. But in Maryland, which the Democrats carried for -Warfield in 1903 by 12,685, the following year the presidential vote was so close that one Roosevelt elector was chosen. The Rhode Island Democrats last year elected Higgins Governor by 1,318, but they lost the State to Roosevelt in 1904 by 16,766. Of the two Representatives in Congress elected last year Granger is a Democrat and CaproD a Republican. In 1904 the Republicans carried New Jersey for Roosevelt by 80,598 and for Stokes for Governor by 51,644. Guild was elected Governor of Massachusetts last year by 30.233; but the tariff-revision issue, if the Democrat* are capable of taking advantage of it, may be a determining factor in the pending election. General significance will also attach to the election in New York of two judges of the Court of Appeals, the Assembly and possibly of the State Senate. Among the State officials elected last year Gov. Hughes was the only Republican. Nebraska, Mr. Bryan’s State, will elect only minor State officials. In 1906 Sheldon, Republican, defeated Shsll.-nberger, Democrat, for Governor by 12.973. The Roosevelt administration and the Taft presidential candidacy are directly involved in the Cleveland mayoralty contest because of the open indorsement of Representative Burton by President Ituosevelt and Secretary TaNt. Because of the uncertainty of the result and the importance of the issue none of th* State elections will command a more general interest than the Cleveland contest, remarks th* New York World.

News of Minor Note.

Methodist foreign mission schools hart over 70.000 pupils. Niagara Falls as a power generating plant is worth $46,000,000 a year. Car repairers struck at Galveston, Texas, in sympathy with the Southern Pacific dock workers. .. t The cotton crop of Egypt, which exceeds 7.000,606 cantam (a cantar being a Ik tie over ninety-nine poo nos >, shows a large increase over all records of the past decade. It is estimated to be worth" $150,006,000.

GTJO HE dedication i|i Canton, Ghio, II of the magnificent MeKinley mausoleum, the the nation to the memory of, the martyred President, took place before 50,000 men and women assembled from all parts of the United States. Many of the foreign countries were officially represented. The formal exercises of the dedication ceremonies were begun bv Justice William R. Day, Mr. McKinley’s Secretary of State, who delivered the opening address 'in his capacity as chairman of the Memorial Committee. Judge Day explained that upward of 1.000.000 persons had contributed to the mausoleum fund, representing every State in the Union and every civilized country in the world. The invocation was pronounced, just before Judge Day’s address, by Rev. Frank M. Bristol, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church of Washington. Following Judge Day’s remarks, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was sung by the entire assemblage of 50,000, accompanied by the Grand Army Band of Canton. Governor Harris of Ohio was then introduced and delivered an address, which was followed by the unveiling. - Then Miss McKinley slowly drew back the American flag and disclosed the bronze figure of her brother, represented in the attitude of delivering the last speech of his career on tin? day of his assassination at liuf-" falo. Sept. 6. 1901. After the reading of Mr. Riley’s poem on “William McKinley” and the giving of President Roosevelt’s address the program was closed by the singing of “America” by the vast throng and the bestowal of the benediction by the Right Rev. Ignatius Horstmann, Bishop of Cleveland. Immediately upon the finishing of the formal ceremonies President Roosevelt and his party visited the interior of the tomb. The invited guests followed, and then the general public was admitted.

THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.

Congreai on the Subject to Be Held Next Year in Washlacton. Next year an international congress on tuberculosis is to be held at Washington and the most prominent men in that specialty of the profession of medicine from all over the world will attend. To bring these men to this country and entertain them while here will enquire SIOO,000. $40,000 of which has been subscribed. During the congress the delegates will be .divided into groups and these groups of men will visit every large city in the United States and give popular lectures upon this subject, trying to put before the public the awful ravages of this most atvful disease, teaching them how to so care for their bodies that they may not contract it, or having contracted it, if in its first stage, teach them how to recover from tt: " -iT As a prominent bacteriologist says, “consumption is a disease which the people must cure; doctors alone can’t do it and any attempt to eradicate this disease must be a social as well as a medical movement. Therefore, great good is expected to result from these popular lectures, given by the delegates.” Comiqittees have been appointed in each State in the Union, and Mayors and health officers of every city of any size have been asked to participate in this congress to awaken interest and to diffwee knowledge all over the country regarding the dangers of tuberculosis, its care and the best methods of preventing its spread. The American people some way caa’t be made to realize the Inroads this disease makes yearly. Over 150.000 persons die in this country every year of tuberculosis and over 1,000,000 are affected with it in the United States to-day. Pure, fresh air in our home* every minute of the day and night, perfect cleanliness of our bodies we must have if we would be surely safe. In many States already State hospitals have been built for the care of early cases of tuberculosis among the poor, arid in lowa they have a State lecturer, who goes from city to city, from hamlet to hamlet, delivering lecture* of instruction in this diseas* and its prevention.

Weyerhauser on Lumber.

Frederick Weyerhauser of Muscatine. lowa, the bead of the lumber combine, who is said by some to be richer than Rockefeller, in an Interview, criticised Judge Lendls for fining the Standard so heavily, and said Rockefeller would never pay a cent of the fine. As to the lumber tTade, be denied that there la a trust and insists that the high prices are due to the growing scarcity es lumber, and that prices will go still higher. He thinks it an owsrage the way the weaHby men ts the eeantnr *‘ar« being attacked.” He neks: "What do they mean?” and “Wha* have ere done?”

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. The highly sustanied volume of commerce centering here is attested by aggregate payments through the banks during the past month and this week, which exhibit striking gains over a year ago. LeSs pressure for money and few business failures make easier conditions for capital investment, and with continued profitable returns for farm and range products the indications appear brighter for a lower discount rate to mercantile borrowers. Trade responds to the better effect of favorable developments. Preparations reflect renewed confidence among the leading producers and little capacity remains to be booked up for this quarter. New demands equal expectations in iron, steel and railway equipment, and the orders for future deliveries are satisfactory in forge work, machinery, heavy hardware, wire products, furniture and footwear. Country merchants come from nearby points in increasing numbers, and their selections of fall and winter fares stimulate expanding activity in wholesalebranches. Shipping rooms work overtimeand the forwardings to the interior compare favorably in quantities with this-'' time last year. Mercantile collections throughout the West occasion little. trouble, and, notwithstanding tight money, the defaults carry no special significance. Bank clearings, $263,309,209, exceed ■ those of the corresponding week in 1906 by 17.5 per cent. Choice commercial paper is quoted at Q l /, per cent, and currency withdrawals to move crops make a smaller total than last year. Failures reported in the Chicago, district numbered 25, against 16 last week and 25 a year ago. Failures with liabilities over $5.000 numbered 4, against 7 last year.— Dun’s Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Collections, while still dragging, in consonance with the tightness in money, appear to have improved at a number of centers. Some orders for early spring arebeing placed, but the volume of business done as yet is rather light. Many industrial lines are less active on new business, and working forces in such lines as iron, steel, car manufacturing, electrical goods, shoe manufacturing and copper mining are being reduced. Lumber is less activeand new building is lighter, due in part: to the approach of the closed season, but* more particularly to the stringency in Business failures in the United Statesfor the week ending Oct. 3 number 117, ugain.yt 166-last week. 136 in the likeweek of 1906, 189 in 1905, 195 in 1904 and 197 in 1903. Canadian failures number 32, as against 36 last week and 22 in this week a year ago.—Bradstreet’e. Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime,. $4.00 to $7.30; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $6.70; sheep, fair to ehoiee, $3.00 to $5.90; wheat, No. 2,97 c to 98c; corn, No. 2,61 cto 62c; oats, standard, 50c to 51c; rye, No. 2,86 cto 87c; hay,, timothy, $12.00 to $18.00; prairie, $9.00 to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 27c ro 30e ; eggs, fresh, 19c to 23e; potatoes, per bushel, 50c to 60c. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, choice heavy, $4.00 .to SG.SO ; sheep, common to prime,- $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 90c; com. No. 2 white, 01c to 83c; oats. No. 2 white, 50c to 51c. St. Louis —Cattle, $4.50 to $7.15; hogs, $4.00 to $6.80; sheep, $3.00 *to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; corn, No. 2,60 cto 61c; oats. No. 2, 48 cto 51c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 83c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.00 to $8.00; hogs, $4.00 to $6.85; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.00; corn. No. 2 mixed, 65c to 06c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2,88 cto 90c. Detroit—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.10; hogs. $4.00 to $6.45; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,98 cto $1.00; corn, No. 3 yellow, 66c to 67c; oats, No. 3 white, 52c to 53c;' rye, No. 2, S9c to 90c. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.10; corn, No. 3,61 cto 62c; oats, standard, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 1, “SCc to 87c: barley, standard, $1.04 tc.. $1.06; pork, mess, $15.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steersr. $4.00 to $6.50; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.10; 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 $6.60; hogs, $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, s3.oo'to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.04 to St.OG; com, No. 2,73 cto 74c; oats, natural.white, 56c to 58c; butter, creamery, 23c to 30c; eggs, western, 18c to 23c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 00c to - 97c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 64c to 60c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2,98 cto 99c; clover seed, prime, $10.40.

All Around the Globe.

The retirement from the French army of Major Alfred Dreyfus has been gazetted in th£ form of the nomination of :n officer to the poet last held by him, that of commander of artillery at St Denis, _ : A project to establish a large colony of negroes in southern California is being promoted by an association which is about, o seek State incorporation. Several million dollars is said to represent the wealth of the negroes back of the movement. Stuyveeant Fish, in a reply to the '•barges of President Harahan of the Illinois Central, declares the road never lost i dollar through his borrowings. He <ays Mr. Harahan misses the point of iia (Fish**) charges—that B. H. Harrinan controlled the road as a feeder foi he Union Pacific. h ,