Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — LOAN CHURCH FUND ON SALOON. [ARTICLE]

LOAN CHURCH FUND ON SALOON.

Director* Thun Invent I’rc»b>terl*n Ministers’ Imuriitice Money. He cry of "tainted money’’ is stirring the ranks of the Presbyterian clergy, cal’ ed forth by the alleged fact that $50,000 of the ministers' insurance money—the Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund —has been invested in a saloon property on Market two years. This saloon property is owned by a wholesale liquor dealer. Indignant protests against the transaction were voiced at the meeting of the Ministerial Association, and it is probable that those responsible for the investment will be compelled to cancel it- J. C. Neff, the treasurer of the Presbyterian ministers’ fund, who made the loan, declared that be hesitated and had his own misgivings ..■When the investment was first offered to Elio, but that as" a business proposiiion Uw transaction was so sound that heTiad laid it before his finance committee and clearly explained all the features of the case. BLAMED FOR OWN DEATH.' Hold Careless in Getting in -War of Prominent Youth’s Auto. “James "Grinnell came to his death on Nov. 28 from a fractured skull, due to being struck by an automobile driven by Flank Brown, Jr. Wo deside said death to be an unavoidable accident. due to the carelessness aim negligence of slid James Grinncll." His was the verdict brought in by the coroner's jury in Baltimore exonerating the son of the former Governor of Maryland from responsibility for the death of the colored porter, whom he ran down in the enrly morning hours of Thursday last. I’oung Brown, who had at first strenuously denied having struck a man, finally admitted that he had. lie admitted that he had been drinking, hut said he was far from drunk. After the accident, he said, he became frightened and, putting on speed, burned to his hotel. RAILROADS TO RESUME WORK. Bsrrtua Lines Will Continue Construction Dropped Month Ago. Construction work all along the line of the Harriman railroads, which was suddenly brought to a close a month ago when the financial flurry began, will start up again with renewed vigor. Advertisements appear in western papers for thousands of men. They are inserted by tie contractors who are engaged by the Union Pacific to complete the work which was brought to such a sudden close a short trnae ago. MEANS DOOM FOR SUNDAY SHOW Federal Injunction Protecting Kansas City Theaters Is Dissolved. Judge McPherson in the United States Circuit Court in Kansas City dissolved the injunction recently granted to local theatrical managers prohibiting count/ officials from closing the theaters on Sun days. Judge McPherson asserts that he has no jurisdiction. The decision is farreaching in that it practically seels the fate of all Sunday amusements in Hannas City. Town of Cody Nearly Wiped Out. Meager advices received from Cody, Wyo., state that all of the business district of the town was destroyed by fire early Friday. This information was imparted by the telephone operator at Cody. Her last words were to the effect that the telephone building bad caught fire and she was about to leave. Judging from the telephone message, the da mags will approximate SIOO,OOO. Michigan Mayor Is a Suicide. Mayor John Van Fossen shot himself through the bead at bis home in Ypsilanti, Mich. No hope is entertained for bis recovery. Mayor Van Fossen was 50 years old. A number of years ago he was an inmate of an insane asylum for a year, and of late it is said that he had been fighting hard to ward off a recurrence of his old trouble. Iron Mill Suspends Work. Owing to the financial situation and its deterrent effect upon the : ron trade, some of the departments of the Reading Iron Company. Reading, Pa., have been closed down. About GOO hands are thrown out of employment. -< Old Man to Marry Girl. Henry Gassaway Ha vis, candidate for Vice President in 1904, is to marry a poor girl. His daughters will lose their expected portion of his #30,000.000 fortune. Leaps to Kscnpr Husband. Mrs. Anna M. Begin jumped from a •ecood-story balcony of her home in Minasapolis to escape from her husband, pursuing her with an ax, and was fatally injured. | Bandits Hold TTp TruluT” Three masked and armed bandits held tip an Erie train in the depot in Cleveland and robbed one of the passengers. Baaing aa a policeman appeared. Ckloago Schools Bar Bible. The Bible ia barred from the public ■cbools of Chicago hy action of the school management committee of the board of education, taken Friday. Chleeso Revival Eads. Dr. R. A. Torrey ended bia big evangelistic tent campaign in Chicago and claims 3,000 converts as a result of his eight weeks’ effort. $25,000 Fire la Colorado Town. . AAn which started from the overturning oi « lamp in a barber shop destroyed three-fourths of the town of Granite, a small mining station, twenty miles east of Leadville. Colo. The total loss is estimated at $25,000. They Were Bad Bargainers. The canal scandal inquiry in Illinois developed the fact that the commissioners refused $75,000 from the sanitary hoard for rights similar to those bartered to the Economy Light and Power Company of Joliet for $2,200 \