Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. CEO. B.iEAIfY, CiMdrab. ■ I f MR" 1 " 1 ' '-P JtENBSELAKR, - - INDIANA.

CONGRESS ASKEDFOR WORK.

Mie Men tn. Cincinnati Appeal to law Makers for Employment. An appeal to Congress for work on highways, buildings, or other public enterprises was made in an open telegram by Nicholas Klein, general secretary of the socialist party of Ohio, on behalf of the unemployed of Cincinnati. In part the telegram reads: “During the recent financial flurry the United States government came to the aid of the bankers of this country with a loan.of $25,000,(XX). without interest, to save the bankers. Let Congress and the Senate enact the following for immediate relief of this nation’s workers, viz.: Resolved, That the United States government issue money without interest, on bonds, to States, counties and cities, to be used for the purpose of building public highways, schools, bridges, municipal tenements, and public utilities, this work to be done directly where possible and at an eight-hour day and living wage standard.”

MISS GRIGSBY WITHOUT FUNDS.

Mechanic®’ Lien Filed Agatnat Her, New York “House of Mystery.” The “House of Mystery” at 660 Park avenue, New York, where the romance of the late Charles T. Yerkes and the beautiful Emilie Grigsby is said to have begun, has been placed under a mechanic’s lien. Milton Schnaler, the plumber who filed the lien, says Miss Grigsby has declared herself impoverished and cannot afford to pay his bill of SB6SXX>. The plumber said: “ T haven’t anything left in the world, Mr. Schnaler,’ Miss Grigsby Would say to me. ‘The tupenny tube stock Mr. Yerkes gave me I tried to sell to English investors and couldn’t. I’ve got it yet and I can’t realize a cent on it. All I’ve got in the world but the. clothes I have on is this house.’ ”

ADMITS MATRICIDE, SAY POLICE.

Woman la Fonml Brutally Murdered * and Sou la Arrested Mrs. John F. Hazel, wife of the master mechanic on the Shore Line Railway, was found dead in Toledo by her husband when he returned from work, and, according to the police, Harvey Hazel, the 19-year-old son of the couple, has confessed the murder. It is said that the mother refused to give the youth money. The woman's head had been beaten to a pulp with a hammer and the house had been ransacked, but so far as has been ascertained nothing of value was taken.

SALOON JURORS DISAGREE.

Deliberate Nearly Twenty-Four Hours in Sunday ClosinK Case. The third Sunday saloon closing jury has disagreed in Chicago. The twelve men were discharged in Municipal Judge Heap's court after they had been out nearly twenty-four hours considering the case~oF Hugh Daly, a saloonkeeper. Although the failure to convict was a severe blow to the Chicago Law and Order League and its hopes, the prosecution of the saloon cases will continue, at least for a time.

SON-IN-LAWS FOR $50,000.

Hold* t.osa of Wife's Love and Whipping Received of Same Value. Roy M. Smith, recently of Chicago, has begun action in the Superior Court of Marin county, Cal., to secure $50,000 damages from his father-in-law. Alfred Morgan, a wealthy clothier, and tW' latter’s wife. Here is the bill Smith asks tirecourt to uphold: For loss of wife’s affections. $25,000: recompense for one thrashing, administered by Father-in-Law Morgan, $25,000. Drowns When Ice Breaks. o An unknown man, who is believed to have been insane, has frightened wom°n and children in Orange township, near Cleveland, Ohio, during the past fe.v days. The other day a posse of farmers was formed to capture him. He el air'd his pursuers, but in attempting to cross the Chagrin River broke through the ice and was. drowned._ His body was recovered. East of IrotiMla ( Judge Windes of Chicago has quashed the indictment against George Williams, former building commissioner, indicted in connection with the Iroquois theater fire. The action was entirely on technical grounds. Judge Windes’ decision disposes; of the last of the cases growing out of the Iroquois fire. Not one of the persons indicted in connection with the fire was ever convicted. i .. Fears Insanity) Ends Else. Charles Krail, who graduated from high school last June, commit ted suicide in Cleveland because he feared ■he was going insane. Krall, who has been in poor health lately, placet! the barrel of a revolver in his mouth and fired. He died Instantly.. Says Dukes Get Famine Fund. Ralph Cattrall, history professor at Cornell University, who spent last summet in Russia, in a late interview dedates that American money for the famine sufferers aent to the Russian Red Craas, Lfoca.into the pockets of the grand dukes and the bureaucracy. Safe Blower, Get *N,OOO. Robbers wrecked the safe in the State Bank of Quenemo at Quenemo, Kan., with dynamite and escaped with SB,OOO. Bandits Raid Minnesota Hotel. * A daring hold-up rook place at Inver Crave, Minn., the other night, when •ml of the guests at J. E. O’Leary’s ho tel wore robbed of considerable money Olid valuables by four bandits with drawn revolvers, who escaped. Manar Millians <v Family. MemlH-rs of bis family are the cnly beneficiaries under the will of the late Henry 0. Havemeyor. bead of tire American Hagar Relining Company. Mr. Haveraryer's estate is variously estimated at tram >15,000,000 to >25,000,000.

SECOND TRIAL OF HARRY K. THAW IS ON

Young Millionaire Who Shot Stanford White Again Face* the ‘ Charge of Murder. SCENE IN NEW YORK COURT. Evelyn Will Repeat Her Story, but “Unwritten Law” Will Not Be Belled On. - r; • -- —_ KThe second trial of Harry Kendall Thaw, the young. Pittsburg swell and spendthrift, for the murder of Stanford White, the New York architect and man about town, is again under way. It was tedious vyork securing a jury. The first trial was reported so completely and was so widely read In all Its-sensational and nauseating details that an attempt to secure twelve men who had not read of the case and formed more or less of an opinion was hopeless. The most acceptable jurors then, were those who could swear that despite reading an opinion they eould judge Thaw’s guilt or Innocence purely on the evidence submitted to them. As to the actual commission of the deed, of course, there Is no question. The defense Is not to combat that palpable fact. Neither Is it relying, as Delmas did In the first trial, on “the unwritten law.” Martin W. Littleton, Delmas’ successor as chief counsel, depends entirely bn the plea that Thaw was-Insane and irresponsible at the time of the shooting. The prosecution is devoting itself to proving the commission of the crime and to controverting the evidence for the defense. Littleton will put Evelyn Thaw upon the stand and she will tell her story all over again. This is neces---sary in order to demonstrate that there was reason for Thaw’s attack of ‘brainstorm” or insanity, but the young wife will not be handled as tenderly by the prosecution in cross-questioning as she was before. Jerome lias had one of his assistants follow out the European tour, mile by mile, which Thaw and the girl took before marriage and will be able to catch up the witness at every misstatement as to that trip. Evelyn has so far been in daily attendance on the trial and is putting up the same bluff of appearing in the simple garb of an ingenuous school girl, though she is a mature woman with ex-

OF COURT ROOM AND CHIEF FIGURES IN THE THAW TRIAL.

periences enough back of her to till several lifetimes. Her girlish, almost infantile, appearance and her counterfeiting of confiding Innocence at first trial had a tremendous effect. It is doubtful If they* will be much of a lever this time in moving public opinion or in Impressing the Jury. Judge Victor J. Dowling is doing all be cun to expedite the proceedings. There has been at this second trial no great crush to attend the proceedings, though there is a dally assemblage outSlile to see Evelyn pass from tier automobile to tiie court room or to see Thaw cross the ''brWgCof&igJlß".oUhb way back to the Tombs. Thaw Is In good health. Regular hours, plain food and forced decency of life have had a good effect on bls physical condition.

Photos Sent by Wireless.

Pascal Berjonneau. an inventor, recently exhibited before the Postmaster Gen era! st Paris a new telephotography apparatus which can be adapted to the wireless system or to the ordinary telegraph wire system. He transmitted the picture of the posttnaater without the aid of wires from one eud. of the ball to the other. The inventor claims that distance does not Interfere with the effectiveness of his method. Photographs, he says, can be aent by it between New York and Baris. - ’

SAMP., THE CHAMP., BITES DUST.

King of Bronx Zoo Monkey House Knocked Out. Samson turned his face to the wall in the monkey bouse at the Bronx zoo last night and would ndt be comforted, says the New York World. Samson is a heavy-weight mandril and his black fist had put down for the count every male occupaiit of the cage. There came to the cage three days ago a week-faced monkey from China. The other simians sized up his three feet of stature, his well-muscled arms and cleanly knit legs and agreed that he looked good to them, though he was plalply in the light-weight class. He said iu answer to questions that he was of the Rhosus family and that his

EVELYN THAW.

name was Li Hung Chang. Samson overheard Li and remarked superciliously : “When I-was iri the circus and took 'boxing lessons, I knew several Rhesuses. They never went back to China. They were nothing more than mixed-ale fighters. I’m Samp., the champ., and this is what I did to the Rhosuses. Bing-o.” Samp.'s right shot out, but instead of alnding on Li's jaw it found only space. Li. had side-stepped with amazing ease. The chimpanzee could not restrain an ill-timed guffaw, which averted Samp.'s attention from Li. There was nothing more doing in the pugilistic line until yesterday. Eight rounds had been

fought furiously .when Li feinted with his left and shot his right to Champ’s jaw. When Champ woke up he wns nlongju a corner, whither he had been dragged.

To Explore South America.

A imrty of Boston scientists, under the direction of George Melville Boynton, has organized an eX|>edition to explore the wilds of South America. A .Gloucester fishing vessel has Iteen bought and will lx* christened the Diacovery. There will be about thirty-five men in all and the trip is expected to last five years. Qp< rations will be confined chiefly to the unex-' Dieted regions south of the A mason river, but the expedition will eventually follow the Amazon to its* source and cross the Andes, coming out at Punta Parjjre, Peru. In the party will lie botanists, miaerologists, ethnologists, taxidermists and photographer*.

Odds and Krals.

In Austria no less than 44 out of every 100 doctors die of heart disease. Grain's arc still trodden with the bare fret in many of the vineyard* of Spain and Italy. The Berlin police are nlxxit to adopt color photography for the identification of -criminals. . Statist few recently compiled in regard to Orman university life show that men arc dropping medicine ns a profession, while women are turning to it.

CARE FOR EX-PRESIDENTS, IS PLEA OF GROVER CLEVELAND

Urges Duty to Make Provision for Men Who Have Filled Highest Post in Nation. Referring to the poverty of Jefferson when he left the presidency as a blow to national pride, Grover Cleveland, writing in the Youth’s Companion under “Our People and Their eXPresidents,” argues that definite and generous provision should be made for the maintenance of chief magistrates at the expiration of their terms. He deals with the subject at length and explains that he feels he can do so without his sincerity being questioned, since he Is beyond the need of aid from the public treasury. “The condition is by no means met,” Mr. Cleveland writes, “by the meager and spasmodic relief occasionally furnished under the guise 1 of a military pension or some other pretext, nor would it be best met by making compensation dependent upon the discharge of senatorial or other official duty. Our people ought to make definite and decorous provisions for all cases alike, based on motives of justice and fairness, and adequate to the situation.” Mr. Cleveland describes the limitations that his former high office place ‘on a retired President in his choice of occupations and means of livelihood, and how popular conception of him as a repository of national dignity enforces a scale of living that may not be within his private means. “There is a sort of vague, but none, file less imperative, feeling abroad in the land that one who has occupied the great office of President holds In trust for his fellow citizens- a certain dignity which, in his conduct and manner of life, lie is bound to protect against loss or deterioration. Obedience to this obligation prescribes for him only such work as in popular judgment is not undignified. This suggests without argument a reciprocal connection between the curtailment of opportunities and a reasonable obligation of indemnification.” One division of the Cleveland article is devoted to the “Occupations of an bx-President,” and- in it the former President reveals the multiplicity of things which persons endeavor to bring to the attention of the retired statesman and the class of affairs he is asked to engage in.

Novel Treatment for Insanity.

Dr. Henry S. Atkins. superintendent of the St. Louis Asylum for the Insane, has been testing an entirely new course of treatment for mild eases of insanity among the woman patients; tt "being noth-, ing more or less than a Chrisfmas shopping expedition. It is his theory that anything which occupies the mind pleasantly without causing too much excitement must be beneficial. —He therefore

sent about twenty of his patients under the charge of trained nurses, and each supplied with a moderate amount of money, to the department stores. The entire party was ro.dressed and conducted that no intimatjdn jvas given of its real nature, and this was not suspected by the othey shoppers, the unfortunate women deporting themselves in the most conventional and natural way possible. Luncheon wns eaten at the restaurant, which ail enjoyed, and it was with reluctance, but no attempt at resistance, that they returned to their quarters la the asylum.

Many Air Ship Blds Received.

Gen. Allen of the Army Signal Corps hi receiving a lot of letters daily containing bids for the proposed airships to be tested next spring. Most of them, however, are from irresponsible dreamers anjl the bona tide proposals arc still few.

Flexner Transfers Vital Organs.

A paper read before tire American A»sociation for the Advancement of Science in the University of Chicago reveals the fact that Dr. Simon Flexner of New York City has succeeded in transplanting arteries from one animal to another suercsafully. The experiments have thus far been confined exclusively to the lower animals, but the favorable results in this field are believed to point the way to a succeeMful application of the practice ta human beings.

WILLIAM J. BRYAN DEFINES THE ISSUES

Hi* Fight-in Full Blast Following Speech at Chicago Jackson Day Banquet. STICKS TO 1896 PLATFORM. Praises Roosevelt for Adhering to What He Calls Tenets of the Democratic Party. William J. Bryan spoke at the Jackson day banquet in Chicago. The Nebraskan praised President Roosevelt for having ehcroacJjqjl on the Democratic platform by indorsing many of the .principles of the Bryan party, and political wise ones have since declared this looks as if the Democratic standard bearer were outlining his campaign with the idea that his opponent will be a candidate who will not reflect the Roosevelt policies. —— Mr. Bryan reaffirmed allegiance to the platform of 1896, pblntlng out how Democracy had grown stronger in th/ advocacy of the principles enunciated then. He did not refer to 16 to 1, but declared that the Democrats at that time advocated “qualitative currency,” and then added: “The men who despised the ‘SO-cent dollar’ in 189(1 are now hungering and thirsting for the dollar without any cents in it.” The Nebrastan at the outset of his remarks signified his willingness to lead the Democracy again when he said: I shall ask no editor of a subsidized press whether I shall ever be a candidate or not. I shall ask no trust magnate whether he prefers some other candidate. There is only one body to which I shall submit the question, and that is that great body of voters in the Democratic party, and these voters know better. than any self-styled or constituted leaders what they want done by the Democratic party. Taking up the platform adopted at the Chicago convention in 1896, when he was first nominated for President, Mr. Bryan said: > Did we not denounce the trusts in ’96 and is not our position stronger to-day than it was then? Did we not demand regulation of the .railroads then and is not our positjon stronger to-day than it was eleven years ago? Did we not demand tariff reform them and has not the sentiment continued stronger now than then’* Did we not demand arbitration between labor and capital? Who denies’ that on that subject is not stronger now than it was eleven years *go? . Did we not then denounce government by injunction as an attempt to destroy the laboring man’s right to triakhy jury? Who denies our position is stronger upon that subject to-day than it was then? A Republican President has indorsed our platform on the railroad question. A Republican President has accepted our platform on the trust question. A Republican President has indorsed our contention on the subject of arbitration, and a Republican President has said in his last message that if things get much worse he will have to indorse our position on government by ifijunction. Our position on imperialism is stronger now than it was seven years ago, when it was'announced. I repeat that there is not-one single Democratic doctrine that is not stronger now than it was then. I will go further than that. There is not one single Republican doctrine that is as strong now as it was then. Are you surprised that I am happy? Who has more reason to rejoice than I have? Some Democrats have criticised me because I have praisetTthe President where lie has done things Democratic. What else could I do? It was only justice to praise him when he took his place upon a Democratic platform and to announce to him 'fhat he couldn't drive me off of the Democratic platform by getting on it. ,

Present Cost of Panama Canal.

According to the report of the Isthmian. Cdnal Commission, which brings the record up to July 1 last, there lias been appropriated for canal construction the sum of $79,608,508 and expended $48,285,110. These figures, however, do not include the >40,000,000 paid to the French Canal Company in relinquishment of all its rights in the canal and the property there, and the $16,000,OIK) paid to Panama for the right of way. The expenditures to date include $39,452,499 for construction and engineerding work, $2,318,277 on account of the expenses of the civil government. $5,550.2()8 on account' of sanitation, and $955,126 for miscellaneous purposes. The balance available July 1 was $31,823,458. During the fiscal year 1907 20,884 men were brought to the Isthmus of Panama in connection with canal construction work. They came from the United States, Europe and the West Indies. The skilled force at the end of tha fiscal year 1906, approximately 2.500 men, had grown to 4,404. by the end off the following fiscal year. The total force of skilled and unskilled laborers of the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Panama railroad on June 30 last was 29,440.

Cleveland's Big Hippodrome.

The largest plnybpuse in the United Rte tee outside of New York is the new Hippodrome, which wssojniied at ( levels n<L It sente 4.5tX) persons and coat $2,000,000. The stage floor is 4n sections. operated by hydrautt? lifts, ahd under it is n 455,000-gallon tank for aquatie exhibitions. The proscenium arch extends 41 feet Iteyond the stage and 1 acts as a megaphone. The stage is IQO feet wide and 104 feet deep. The house was built by local capitalists and will be run as an independent one. ’□h r-

THE FOMAMCOAL

CHICAGO. While the curtailment of production in various industrial branches continues, there are evidences of a fajprable nature for steady improvement to take place Soon. With the banks now virtually back to specie payment and discount operations extending, it is net surprising that the volume of business, as reflected 1 by bank exchanges, makes the best exhibit in nine weeks, the comparative decline being the lowest in that period. Following the extra time taken to make necessary repairs to plants, resumption became general and quickly reduced the number of workers made temporarily idle, and the indications now turn for the better at the furnaces, mills and forges. Some substantial bookings appear in iron, steel and wire, and fair orders come forward in furniture, boxmaking, footwear and vehicles. Little change is expected in prices of finished products, but a feeling that costs may be lowered is to some extent causing hesitation where much capital is involved. Weather conditions advanced the January clearance sates in retail lines, stocks undergoing satisfactory reduction, and a r conshlerabTetnci‘eased number of visiting buyers attended the wholesale markets for staples, textiles, boots and shoes, clothing and food products. Mercantile collections throughput, the West are irregular, some sections remitting promptly, While at others t|ie defaults indicate weakness. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 36, against 28 last week and 26 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 7, againstllast week and 8 in 1907.—Dun’s Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Financial affairs show further and marked improvement, and money is'more plentiful and easier to obtain, bift the gain in trade and industry proper is still" largely one of sentiment, because business is quiet, the country over, railway earnings and -bank clearings are below a year ago, collections are slow, though better than a month ago, and industry is as a whole on short time, with the larger centers reporting a great number of unemployed. In trade lines the general report is one pf backward business. Mild weather is still if bar to the widest activities in seasonable goods North and West, and retailers are stimulating lagging demand by reduction sales. Southern trade w shows little more life than a week ago. Some lines report after-holiday collections as better than those of December, and in some cases better than anticipated, but they in few cases are better than slow to fair. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Jan. 9 number 434, against 345 last week, 283 in the like week of 1907, 286 in If XX), 295 in 1905 and 313 in 1904. Failures in Canada this week numbered 63, against 27 last week and 24 in this week a year ago.— Bradstreet’s Review.

THE MARKERS

Chicago—Cattle, commdn to prime, $4.00 to $6.45; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $4.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.02; corn, No, 2,58 cto 00c; oats, st aada rd, 49c td 50q; rye, No. 2,ißfe hay, timothy, $9.50 to $10.00; prairie, ss.oo to $12.00,7 biHter, choice 24c to 30c; eggs, fresh. 25c to 30c; potatoes, per bushel, 50c to 00c. ■ Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $.3.00 to $0.00: hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.00 to $4.05; sheep, common to prime, $ 5.00 to $4,50; wheat. No. 2,98 cto 99c; corn, No. 2 white, 55c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 49c to 51c. St. Louis— Cattle, $4.50 to $6.00; hogs, s>.oo to $4.60; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.04; corn, N<>- 2, 55c to 56c; oats, No. 2,49 cto 50c; rye, No. 2,75 cto 79c. Cincinnati—-Cattle. $4.00 to $5.35; hogit, $4.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.02 to $1.04; corn, No. 2 mixed, 55c to 57c; oats, .'fef 2 mixed, 30c to 51c; rye, No. 2,82 cto 85c. Detroit—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.25; hogs, $4.00 to $4.50; sheep. $2.50 to $4.50* wheat, No. 2, sl.Ol to $1.02; No. 3 yellow, 61c to 62c; oats. No. 3 white, 51c to 58c; rye, No. 2,81 cto 83c. Milwaukee—\\ heat, No. 2 northern, $1.09 to $1.11; corn, No. 3,57 cto 59c; oats, standard, 50c to 52c; rye, No. 1* 83c to 83c; barley. No. 2, $1.03 to $1.05; pork, mess, $12.47. Buffalo—( attic, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $ to >4.75; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $ >..>o; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $7.85. Naw York—Cattle, $4.00 to >5.05; hogs, >3.50 to $5.10; sheep, >3.00 to $5.0;); wheat, No. 2 red, $1.05 to $1.07; corn. No. 2, 07 c to 69c; oats, natural '■white, 340 to 3Ge ; butter, creamery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 24c to 28c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SI.OO to $1.02; corn. No. 2 mixed, 50c to 60c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 537? rye, No. ‘2, SOe to 82c; clover seed, prime, $10.50,

Business Is Business.

•'You butchers certainly have a snap,” remarked the grocer. -■ “How do yon tlgure that out?” queried the man behind the meat block. “Why,* answered the -grocer, “yon weigh the bones with the mat and charge meat prices (Or them.” “Well,” rejoined ’.be butcher, “I don’t see where I get the bulgjon you. When you act 1 cheese don’t you ’wvtgb the holes and get cheese prices for them?”