Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN CEO. I. HEAItY, Id. and Fob. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA.

EMBEZZLER IN TOILS.

CONFESSES THEFT OF SIOO,OOO ANDIS ARRESTED. Con Aden tial Clerk Cornea <o Grief after He Appropriates Proceed* from Sale of Farm—More Dyn«ntte Ploti In DervCT. Confessing he had stolen an amount now estimated at SIOO,OOO from the stock exchange firm oi James II- Oliphant & Co., 20 Broad street. New York, for which he had been confidential manager for six years, George H. Brouwer was arrested in his home in Brooklyn and placed under $30,000 bail. The basis for the indictment was notTfrou wer’s from the Oliphant firm, but for converting to his own account the proceeds of a check for $2,750 which should have been turned over to Jay F. — Carlisle, a member of the stock exchange. Mr. Carlisle is wealthy and is a son-in-law of Robert A. Pinkerton, who died last month. ...Although there was a report that the embezzlement would amount to $200,000, this was denied by Janies H. Oliphant. When Mr. Carlisle was about to go Co his affairs to Brouwer, among them the —negotiations for the sale of a .fann_in_thfl_ Berkshires. It was the understanding that if the farm were disposed of the proceeds should be turned over by Brouwer to the Qlipbant firm and accredited to Mr. Cailisle’s account. The farm was •old by Brouwer and a check Tor the price. $2,750, was received by him. Instead, however, of turning over this check to the firm, he indorsed it and put the cash in his pocket, Mr. Carlisle did not return From abroad until recently, and it —was only a few_days.,ago that he began an accounting of his affairs with Brouwer. Then he learfied that the price of the farm was not to his credit. —When he asked Brouwer about it the truth came out. With this admission Brouwer made the confession that he had taken other money from Mr. Carlisle and that he had robbed the Oliphant firm as well. NEW STEEL BOAT GOES DOWN. I Twenty-Two Live* Lost in Gale on I.ake Superior. Twenty-two men and one woman are known to have been lost, and fears are entertained that another woman and two boys were also drowned, when the new •teeL steamshi p< Cy prus of _ the,Lackawanna Transportation Company foundered eighteen miles off the Deer Park life saving station in a heavy gale on Lake Superior. Almost dead from exhaustion, cold and exposure, Second Mate C. J. Pitta of the Cyprus waa washed ashore at Deer Park, securely lashed to a fragment of a life raft. It is feared that he cannot recover. Although unconscious or in delirium most of the time, he managed in a few lucid moments to give a disjointed but probably accurate account of the loss of the Cyprus, the first of the annual victims claimed by the storm kiug in the fall gales on Superior. The corpses of many of the lost have been washed ashore.

BARES MOKE DYNAMITE PLOTS. Denver Man Who Mailed Explosive tft <;«r»ru«r Owns to Blackmail. Kemp V. Bigelow, the young clerk from Bryan, Ohio, who mailed dynamite packages to Gov. Buchtel and several other prominent citizens of Denver.-Colo.. has confessed that he was also the author of letters mailed on Aug. 29 last to the Burlington railroad, the Moffat rwtd. the Adams Express Company, the Ikiniels & Fisher Stores Company, the Hay Shoe and Clothing Company and to Postmaster Paul Sours, demanding amounts varying from SIO,OOO to $50,000 and aggregating $190,000. These letters contained threats that unless the demands were complied with passenger trains would be wrecked with dynamite. tEe Daniels & Fisher and Hav stores and federal building in Denver would be blown up and C. M. Day, local agent of the Adams Express Company. would be killed within thirty days. Cle-ar Man and Wife of Murder. In Raleigh, N. C., the jury in the Rowland murder trial returned a verdict of acquittal. Dr. and Mrs. David Rowland ■were charged with poisoning the woman's former husband, Charles R. Strangel Alabama la After Railroads. Gov. Comer announced that the Alabama Legislature would be convened in extra sesame Nev. 7. The call will «n----brace nothing of State importance except further regulation of the railroads. Brady Make* Accusation*. Anthony N. Brady at the traction hearing in New York accused Thomas F. Ryan and four of his associates of looting the treasury oftifte Metropolitan Securities Company of $lll,OOO each. Oom milted Crime He Exposed. Kemp V. Bigelow, who revealed a supposed plot to kill Gov. Buchtel of Colorado and other prominent citizens, was revealed as an assassin when he confessed that he sent the machines. Bank in Ohio la Robbed. TTh* bank at Wharton, Ohio, was looted Thursday night by cracksmen, who. it m said, stole a large sum of money. Seversu m ores ai so v. • 1 r . Derrick's Fail Kills Three. TVree aaen were killed and several seriously hurt by the falling of a derrick where a new bridge is being erected for the New York. Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company ovdr the Cuyahoga I siver th Cleveland. * Priaoaers Floe; 17 Remail. ■b#lt padaouM hold in the eounty jail fa Afteodeea. •. D., awattfag trial Cor w rieos offenses, escaped the other nirfM. by sawing thraugh the ban st a window, fievetaea others reftwod to take ndvanfage of opportunity to escape. a

WORK AT PANAMA.

Bl* Ditch May Be !»■» Earlier Thea the Scheduled Date. ■ Official figures from Panama khow that the work on the canal Is, being pushed with considerable rapidity. XATbile the total amount of digging on the Culebra cut was 183,000 cubic yards In 1904, 014,000 In 1905, and 2,663,000 1906, It was 4,985,000 In 197 for the seven months which expL'ed with August. Thus more work was done in seven months of 1907 than waa done in the preceding thirty-six months, and not far from double as much as was done In 1906. These records will bo particulamly gratifying to the country. Some of the immense gain In the pushing of the canal Is undoubtedly „ due to the new experience which La constantly being gained, but the greater part of It is probably caused by tha Increased efficiency of the military regime over the civilian management A large part of the civilians’ energy appeared to have been consumed in talks for the press jmd 1 n squabbles between the various members of the commission at Panama and each other, and between the heads of the comania i sion and too authorities In Waitington. Since the entrance of the military men early in 1907 the procedure has changed. The order of the day now is work and not talk. If the work continues to be left In the hands of the army the predictions about the tirne of the completion of r tfhi canal may have to be Shortened. According to the guess made recently by Secretary Taft the boats will begin to run through that short cut between tlu two oceans in 1915 or hereabouts. Possibly this consummation may come a little sooner. New Orleans was recent ly talking about getting up an exposition to commemorate the completion of the canal, and fixed 1913 as the date for it The chief reason why 1913 was selected by New Orleans was that that would be the 4Uoth anniversary of , Balboa’s discovery of the Panama Isth- : unis. He was the first white man who, from any point on the American continent, looked down on the South Sea. For sentimental as well as for practical reasons the world would rejoice to see boats run through Balboa’s Isthmus on the big anniversary. That date is only six years sway, but If the authorities at Washington do not ham- 1 per the soldiers who are doing the work, the joining of the waters of the Atlantic end the Pacific may take place as early as that your.—

A MYSTERY CLEARED.

Body of Misslnif Brooklyn Million-, alre Found in Montana Cave. After a little more than a year the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Abraham Gill, a millionaire Brooklynite, was cleared the other day when his relatives in New York City received a dispatch from Sandusky, Mont., that his I remains had been found in a cave near the ranch which he had sold the day he disappeared. The body lay in a heap of I ishee and the belief is that he was robbed Dy "bandits, who bound him and then tossed him upon a pile of faggots to which they applied the torch. Gill, who was a young man. was" a graduate of the Polytehcnic Institute and a member of many exclusive clubs. After graduation he went to Montana, where he purchased a ranch to raise live stock. In 1906 Gill returned to Brooklyn, and after arranging for beginning life anew" in New York, he returned to his ranch «nd sold out to one George Cobin. Be-, fore doing so. however. as a United States marshal he succeeded in breaking up the aipst dangerous gang of thugs in Montana. This led the authorities to believe that the gang had killed him. The day of the sale Gill rode at night to the home of a friend, several miles from the ranch, to have the deed legally registered. This accomplished, he and Cobin. who is said to be a member of the gang Gill hail exterminated, started back to the ranch with the money" he had received from Cobin. He never again was seen alive. The day after Gill disappeared his horse was found near the point where his master had disappeared from view. It was within 100 feet of the cave where the charred bones of the deputy were found.

The Comic Side The News

The voice of the coal bin is heard in the land. v This year's peach crop went before it came. This is a seven-billion-crop year, including the hayseed. There are new styles in hats, but the ame old styles in heads. A little tar and feathers is a go>l cure for marriage by “affinity.” The prevailing mode of human distinction nowadays is to have come ovjr iu the Lusitania. A Wisconsin woman died of overwork at 84. These young g.rls always do overtax their st rang th. From the way they are fbllowel. the Roosevelt children must think Amefidafiy’ are n nation of “mbbem.vks.*Now that ij is lawful in England fir a man to marry bis deceased wifes sister. we suppose that the old charm cl flirting with a pretty sister-in-lav has vanished. * Motoring imflrwes the lungs, it is said, because motorists must yell at can other when they converse. It also improves thr lungs of other people who fe-d called on to ye>l at these. A Maryland convict says his wife has disgraoed him by eloping wKh another man. Owing r> the confining nature of Mb ocenpa'ioo, it la hard for a convict to in)told the fa nil? honor.

Circling over London like a great bird, answering its helm like a ship In a smooth sea. the new English war bal loOn the other day gave the startled people the finest exhibition of the possibilities of aerial navigation ever witnessed. In streets below thousands watched the maneuvers too much awed to cheer. The airship started from Aidershot and traveled thirty-five miles to London. It sailed over the Thames, performing various maneuvers in a satisfactory nianner. circled the city and then returned.

Wumau Who Startled Banking W«rld Exi>lre» in Prison. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, whose finauTHTexploils at’one - ! line startled the world, died in the women's ward of Thursday night, unattended by any save the prison physician and hospital nurses. The decline in Mrs. Chadwick’s health began almost from the time she entered the penitentiary on Jan. 12, 1906, sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment She fretted incessantly over her confinement and worried about her troubles until it became almost Impossible for her to steep. Her last illness began three weeks ago. She was confined to a cot in the hospital of the women's ward from that time until her death. The financial exploits of Mrs. Chstd wlck startled Hie country in the fall -ofi 1904, when they were brought into publicity by means of a receivership suit brought by Herbert B. Newton, .of Brookline, Mass., who held some of the spurious securities upon which she had built up a colossal credit. Exposure after exposure followed The Citizens' National Bank of Oberlin, Ohio, which lost heavily in the swindle, went to the wall and President C. T. Beckwith died, it belijg rejiofted "that he had committed suicide. Mrs. Chadwick had represented herself to have close financial relations with Andrew Carnegie,

and at one time claimed to be bis daughter. His supposed signature on a note for $7,000,000 figured in the case and for some time remained ati element of mystery. 1 Circumstances indicated that Mrs. Chadwick was formerly Elizabeth Bigley of Woodstock, Ont., and that under the name of Mme. Devere she had served a term in the Ohio penitentiary for forgery. When released from prison s eh had made the acquaintance of Dr. Chadwick, of Cleveland, and had been married to hlpi. The physician, it appeared, was unaware of her financial duplicity. Mrs. Chadwick was arrested in the Holland House, New York, and was extradited to Ohio, where she was tried and convicted on March 11, 1905. To test the efficiency of balloons in warfare Captain C. De’F. Chandler of the Signal Corps made an ascens.on at Washington and was in the air al>out four hours, traveling twenty-two miles The owners of the hull of the excursion steamboat General Slocum, which was burned in the harbor at New York in June, 1904, causing the death of more than 1,000 persons, have received permission from the government authorities to change the name of the boat to the Maryland. 4 r The general federation of labor in France has distributed a manifesto violently attacking thr anny. The government will make an effort to discover and prosecute the authors.

BRITAINS WAR BALLOON A SUCCESS.

MRS. CHADWICK DEAD.

OCEAN RECORDS SMASHED.

Lusitania Croaaea the Atlantia In Four Days and Twenty Hour*. The giant turbine steamship Lusitania is queen of the~oeean. She crossed the Atlantic in a little over four days and fifteen hours, beating all records from shore to shore and wrenching from the Germans the honor of having the ship that can,ride the seas at the fastest average number of miles per hour. The new record bearer takes about nine hours and a half off her own record, made on her maiden voyage from Daunt’s Rock to the bar at Sandy Hook, and made the run at nearly twenty-five knots for each hour of the voyage. Thus in every way she Is to be accredited as the fastest ocean steamship in the world. With this achievement the Cunard Line ami England capture from Germany the eagerly sought record for possessing the fleetest ship on the Atlantic. The Hamburg-American liner Deutschland has held the record for a number of years. Steamship men also claim that the achievement of the Lusitania proves the superiority of turbine engines over the reciprocating type. The Lusitania on this trip captures practically all trans-Atlantic records. Her best day s run. «iy knots, was filne knots better than the former record held by the Deutschland. Her average speed exceeds the former record of

MRS. CASSIE L. CHADWICK.

23.58 knots held by the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. of the North German Lloyd Line, and her record for the trip across the ocean beats that of the HamburgAmerican liner Deutschland, which crossed from Cherbourg, a much longer course, in 5 days 11 hours and 54 minutes. The Deutschland’s average speed was 23.15 knots, while the average of the Lusitania’s first trip, which ended at Sandy Hook Sept. 13, was 23.01 knotsi or 5 days 54 minutes, for the trip. The Lusitania’s first trip gave her the record for the Queenstown course formerly held by the Lucanla of the same line, which made the voyage in 1894 in 5 days 7 hours 23 minutes. The Cttnard line captured its first record for the voyage across the ocean when the Europa, in >1845, made the' then remarkable time of 11 days 3 hours, beating the former record of the famous Great Eastern, made In 1838. of. 14% dajra-Z- -

The Supreme Court of Tennessee has affirmed the constitutionality of the Pendleton act, which in effect estends the provisions of prohibition to all but five cities of the State. The same Legislature which passed this law abolished the charters of ' five citieb —Knoxville. Bristol, Clarksville. Columbia and Jackson—and rrincorporated them under the new law, which prohibits saloons withia their bardem. The five cities where Mgoer eea be sold after Jan. 1 next are: Memphis, Binghamton, Chattanooga, NeshviHe and La Follette

Prohibition for Tennessee.

CUBS ARE CHAMPIONS

WIN DECIDING FAME BY SCORE OF 2 TO 0, ». - * t. Chicago National League Leader* Win HiftheKt Honor When They Shut Out Detroit Team—Change’s Men Make Clean Sweep. ' ifHiicagb’s world’s champions as well as twice champions, and for the first time in baseball history the big pennant, symbolic of everything that is best in the nation’s great-est-sport, will float over Chicago’s National League ball park next season. For thenisetvee world lieaters lieyoud all possibility or mischance in Detroit by winning their fourth straight victory over Detroit’s American League champions. The score whs 2 to 0, and that puts four knots in the Tiger’s tail that never will come out, besides drawing the claws from all four of the wild beast’s paws. -. , . Never before has a team gone through a world's series without losing a game. The Giants came nearest to it in 1905, when , they lost only one battle in five with the Athletics. Never before has a Chicago National League club won a world’s championship. The nearest the Tigers came to a victory was in the opening clash, when they stood off the world beaters for a twelveinning tie. Eye* -of AH on Toa-ma, When they went into the arena, Tiger and Cub, the eyes of 80,000.000 people In the United States were upon them. Besides the sport-loving people of other countries were watehTng the outcome of the combat which was to decide the supremacy of the greatest sport in the pastime of nations. Confronted in the Chicago ball park by more than 23,000 persons, the Cubs and Tigers met in the first game. It was a Titanic struggle. Both soughs wi th all the courage and determination that they possessed. The Cubs had ~Been once beaten in arsttuggle for the world’s supremacy, and it is seldom that either a whipped man or beast comes back to resume combat with a rush and determination which will carry them to victory. I The Tigers were growling savagely and were openly charging that the I Cubs, magnificent baseball team as they ■were, did not have the courage and stamina to carry them through a grueling cont^Trdfehffmprongfilp hohois. The Cubs growled their defiance and the first battle was on. It was a magnificent struggle and ended in a tie game. This is the best that, the Tigers got during the entire series. Four in Row for Cuba. The next four games went to the Cubs, who would not be denied. They simply played with Jennings’ dreaded menagerie. They cuffed and kicked them about as they pleased. They outran them on the bases. They outthought them. They outhit them, and they played in such a whirlwind fashion that the Tigers were utterly bewildered and forced to admit that they could not stand the onslaught. It is seldom that a team is beaten in such a decisive manner as Hugh Jennings’ Tigers were. While the Cubs have won the championship of the world, Jennings should not be robbed of the credit which Is due him. He took a team which was only a fair team before his advent and made it a contender for world’s honors. Chance did the same thing with his team. He traded and strengthened them up until thej- were the best in the National League. He tried for world’s honors, as has Jennings, and lost. Nothing dismayed him and he tried again, and now’ has won. There is hope for Jennings, because his career follows that of his younger rival Chance.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The Roumanian delegate to The Hague peace conference spoke in favor of allowing the Czar to summon the next convention. Vancouver, in its efforts to have Orientals barred, circulated a petition praying the Dominion government to take drastic steps. Protests against Judge Wilfley by the Chinese were silenced by United States authorities, who upheld the Judge in his course. It was announced that the maneuvers of the British fleet, to take place in the North Sea, will be secret to all but the Japanese. The Dowager Empress of China issued a decree inaugurating political reforms in her empire, and paving the way for a constitution. r Political unrest and diasatisfaetioa among the laboring element spread through Cuba. Western Europe was swept by a severe storm; rivers in southern France leaving their customary confines and drowning many peasants. . Countess Modtignoeo's brother, who has renounced his Imperial ''privileges, an-, nounced hia intention of marrying as h enable Silesian girl. Unusual honors ware paid by the high eat officials of the Republic of Mosdco U Secretary Root, who is soaking a trij through the land od the Mooteaußias.

COMMERIAL AND FINANCIAL

CHICAGO. The prevailing tendencies afford further encouragement in the outlook for sustained confidence m trade. In the crop re-. port this week, the decreased growth of cereal# is made clear, but an offset isfound in the greatly enhanced values -and almost certain markets abroad 1 for'' surplus products. Less pressure is evident in money and, witffltuFrapid conversionof grain into cash, there should follow /a ’substantial addition to deposits w-ith th-j banks and some easing of the discount rate. Current activity reflects seasonable progress, production in the leading industries equaling that of a year ago, while the distributive branches and transportation have become more extended. Aside from the halt In - new demands for railsand pig iron there are satisfactory contracta in structural steel, wire and pipe, — and deliveries of finished materials have again risen to an enormous aggregate. Bank clearings, $249,645,775, exceed 1 those of the’corresponding - week in 1906by 14.8 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district numbered 24, against 25 last week and 22 a year ago.—Dun’s Trade Review, NEW YORK. Stringency in money market conditions, delay in movement of some leading crops to market and unseasonably warm weather in some sections have operated to check the fullest development of wholesale 'tracer for next year and of retail trade in seasonabje goods. It is worthy of note, however. that western, southwestern and southern jobbers report an increased volume of recorder business, indicating that country merchants have had a prosperous fall season so far, and that early conservative buying neewssitatas repair of broken stocks. Collections are irregular, some improvement being noted in the South, where the cotton crop has moved in good volume. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Oct, 10 number 192, against 177 last week, 192 in the like week of 196 and 18£L in 1905, 196 in 1904 and 208 in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 24, as against 32 last week and 18 in this week a year ago.:— Bradstreet’s Commercial Report.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.35; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.90; wheat, No. 2, sl.Ol to $1.03;. corn, No. 2,62 cto 64c; oats, standard,. 53c to 54c; rye, No. 2,87 cto 89c; hay, timothy, $12.00 to $.18.50; prairie, $9.00 to $14.50; butter,. choice creamery, 27c to 29c; eggs, fresh, 19c to 23c; potatoes, per bushel, 45c to 55c. Indianapolis—Gattie, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $5.00 to $6.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; corn, No. 2 white, 62c to 64c; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $7.35; hogs, $4.00 to $7.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.05 to $1.06; corn, No, 2,61 cto 63c; oats, No. 2,49 cto 51c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 88c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.85; hogs. $4.00 to S7XX); sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.07 to $1.08; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to 65c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, BSc to 91c. 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. 2,89 cto 90c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern,. $1.14 to $1.16; corn, No. 3,62 cto 64c;. oats, standard, 52c to 54c; rye, No. 1,. 88c to 89c; barley, standard, $1.09 to$1.11; pork, mess, $15.50. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.60; hogs, fair to choice; $4.00 to $7.30; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice,, $5.00 to $8.75. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $6.50; hogs. $4.00 to $7.10; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, SI.OO to, $1.11; corn, No. 2,73 cto 74c; oats, natural white, 57c toddle; butter, creamery, 25c to 29c; eggs, western, 18c to 23c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, $1.02 to $1.04; corn, No. 2 mixed, 64c to 66c oats, No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; rye, No, 2,89 cto 91c; clover seed, prime, $lO.lO,

May Carry Typhoid Long.

Dr. J. H. Townsend of the Connect!cut Board of Health reports that the bacillus of typhoid may be carried for years after an attack of the disease with* out any apparent inconvenience to the patient and without his knowledge of tha fact. Kutscher, a German expert, ia quoted as saying that about 4 per cent of the typhoid patients become chronic carriers of typhoid bacilli. Although such, persons may be in good health, they may infect those with whom they come in contact. All this is confirmed by the recent case of a cook who had served in several New York families. In every family her presence was followed by an outbreak of , typhoid. It was known that the cook herself badjsuffered an attack of the sain* disease formeWy and an enforced examination showed that she still carried the bacllU. Z_2—,—... .

All Around the Globe.

Attorney': General Hadley filed with Chief Justice Gantt of the Missouri Supreme Court an information alleging that sixty-nine fire insurance companies and forty-eight lumber companies have entered into u pool to control prices. /Xbe San Francisco authorities have broken the hum unity contraots giwea the former board of supervisors, and three of M. Wilson, S. R. Nfckol«ou and Michael Codey, were indicted on <*arpae of accepting and agreeing ts accept bribes.