Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — BIG CRIME WAVE IN ST. JOSEPH. [ARTICLE]

BIG CRIME WAVE IN ST. JOSEPH.

Twemtjr Hold -Ova. One Murder and Three Satcldea In Single D»r- * . There were twenty hold-upe by masked teen, one man was killed and three persona committed suicide in St. Joseph, Mo., daring e recent twenty-four hours. Half of the police force has been put in dtitens' clothes, orders hare been issued to Street ell suspicious persons found an the streets after midnight and the police station is being filled with suspects. ,Be- s csose he refused to pay for a round of\ drinks James Stevens was struck on the heed by J. B. Duncan, eon of a prominent Democratic politician. Stevens folk dcsd. Duncan surrendered. While guests were assembling for a reception at the home of W. P. Hacker, Edith Wise, employed by Hiekcr,' diauk eaibulii acid and diad~a. few minutes later. TVilliam Sparks, a locomotive engineer, in spite of the protests of his wife and five children, cut his dying halfanhourlater.JL. M. Eversole, a farmer, swallowed carbolic add in the presence "of his family and ASCENDS IN BIG KITE AIRBH4.P. Lieutenant Selfrldsre Makes FUgkt la Bell’s Invention. Hie tetrahedral kite Qygnet, the airship Invention of Prof. Alexander Qrahgm Bell, made a successful ascent above the wfinrof the Brae <TOr lakes, O. 8., where Prof. Bell's summer home and experimental laboratory are located. Carrying Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge of the United States army, the big kite soared aloft with remarkable ease and maintained its poise without accident, while it " war Towed along above the water by- a email steam launch. To the group of ex- j perimentera associated with Prof. Bell this performance of the kite was regarded es entirely satisfactory. Thus 'far the Cygnet has not been furnished with a motor for self-propulsion, although a space for such a motor was provided. CAN FIND NO WORK IN TEXAS. Handmda of Immlgrantl Will Bo Sent Beck to Enrope. Tfie North German Lloyd and Ham-burg-American steamship companies have Issued orders not to ticket any more homeseeking immigrants for the southwestern 1 gateway until industrial and financial conditions in the Texas country are improved. This is the result of unloading in Galveston several hundred aliens who, not being able to find work, have become public charges. There are 600 of these scattered over the State, who will have to be returned to Europe at the expense of the steamship companies, and nearly GOO more arrived the other day. FIND PROFIT IN HIGHER WAGEB. Independent Coke Operators Decide to Rnaploy Only Americans. Independent cokemakers of the Pittsburg and Connellsville district have decided to decrease the price of producing coke by increasing the price of their workmen. The day of the foreigner has i-araed, and hereafter none but Americanborn or naturalized citizens of the United fitates will be employed about the 20,707 ovens of the independent operators. To these Americans will be paid higher wages than was paid to the foreigners, but the operators expect to decrease the cost of production.

Train Bandit Barca Theft. Peter F. Roller, who is said to have been an agent of Secret Service Agent William J. Burns and is now held in San Francisco on a charge of larceny, has secured a confession from John Worthington of complicity Tn the robbery of the Great Northern train in Montana several months ago, in which between $50,000 and $60,000 in coin and currency was stolen. Peculiar Dam aye Suit. Miss Fanny Silver alleges that a sledge hammer flew off its handle and struck her in the face, breaking her nose and knocking out two teeth, in a suit for SIO,OOO damages against the lessees of the New American theater, New York. The hammer was wielded by the heroine ©t the play in defending herself from the villain. Crime Ruin In JirwTork. TTiat more burglaries and robberies hare occurred in New York during the last sixty days than at any other like period in the history, of the city is the statement of the agents of half a dozen burglary insurance companies. The loss amounted to $15,800,000. Pmmu Race Separation Bill. . By a rote of 05 to 10, with four members absent, the “Jim Crow” measure providing for separate coaches and waiting rooms for the white and negro races was ' passed by the lower house of the Oklahoma Legislature. »h York’s Bine Sundnjr. New York has Bad its first "blue'’ Sunday, amusements of all kinds being closed. A movement is under way to modify the law. so that some forms of amusements will be permitted. Oaear 11. of Sweden Dead. Gustave V. has taken oath as King of Sweden while the whole nation is bowed in grief for the death of Oscar 11. Call for Ropaklleaa Convention. . The official call Tor tbe Republican national convention, to be held in Chicago June 16, has been issued at Washington. Kit her Taft or Roosevelt. Walter Wellpian in a dispatch from Washington says that President Roosevelt will accept s renomination by the Republican convention in case the nomination of Taft, which he greatly desires, is found to be impossible. Clmlsk of Kansas City Baak. The National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, Mo., failed to open its doors Thursday, and is in tbe hands of the national bank examiner. The bank is one tA- tbe oldest there and is the largest tfioancial institutions in tbe city.